us, the news continues next. fears of reprecautions as shia militias help take on isil in the hotter land. hello, i am lauren taylor, this is al jazeera live, also coming up, malaysian investigators dig up the remaining of dozens of people thought to be trafficked migrants. the oil flows again as agreement is reached in the fuel dispute but power shortages continue. and the financial black hole that's cast new doubt over russia's space program.

hello, iraq's military has launched an operation to drive the levant from anbar province the soldiers will be supported by shia militias who have played a key role. the militia leaders say they don't think the anbar offensive will take very long. however, their involvement is raising fears of tensions because most of the pop larry is sunni. an bar province takes up much of western iraq, sharing borders with jordan, and saudi arabia, and while the capitol fell just over a week ago. the city is only 150 teen kilometers away from the capitol baghdad. on the outskirts of the province. iraqi security forces gather preparing to retake the city which fell to fighters from the islamic state of the iraq more than a week ago p

it is likely to be a long operation, there are reports of fighters preparing to meet the government forces. they will lead the operation with backing from shia militia, many of which are supported from iran, and air strikes led by the united states. the iraqi army is also gearing up for other operations with the full of ramadi and isil in control from syria into anbar it's feared isil fighters can push into baghdad. to prevent that from happening this man is securing the outskirts of the capitol. the town just under 30-kilometers from baghdad is being ft.fied. >> we are fighting a psychological war isil has an effective campaign against us we have been accused of retreating we are not we are now backing up our troops here and preparing the ever the fall of ramadi. >> the forces here are mainly

shia. each militia has it's own identity. >> fort fying baghdad comes with a unique challenge. this is the bridge, the last safe place into baghdad. it is likely we will see more scenes like this, fears of what comes next are common here. >> as long as we sunnies are marginalized the fight will take a long time. there are sunnies willing to fight, and i will join it if the government accepts us. >> countries that fighters will enter disguised as displaced people. >> there's no doubt that iraq has a huge challenge on it's hands in securing western an bar province. it is also securing baghdad as well. that isil at once, they are

all hoping other significant challenges that including finding homes for these people that are flying the violence and making sure they get back home eventually. al jazeera. on the outskirts of the province. and it says the opening code name given to the new ramadi offensive is unhelpful. >> the air force has carried out an attack on an isil held military base, the state news agency said 140 fightingers were killed at the air base in isil strong hold. ice skill seized the base in august. al jazeera cannot independently verify these reports. >> activists say several people have been injured after the government planes attack add refugee camp. the government forces reportedly dropped six-barrel

bombs on the refugee camp, which is home to some 6,000 refugees. isil fighters also attacked last month. saudi arabia says one civilian has been killed in the city, which is near the yemen border. five others were injured wile in northern yemen, seven members of one family were killed by saudi led air strikes. two-thirds of the population do not have access to clean drinking water and are at risk of life threatening doeses. around 13 million were without drinking water. before the fighting started. >> people are resorting to any means. some people have been digging wells in the courtyards and trying to find whatever water

they can. which is everywhere and some people also resort to buying watt fresh water trucks. the price has gone up and up and up, and now most people can't afford to do it. water born disease has been present for some time, but i don't think we have got ton the point until now where we are really at risk of a really horrific outbreak. that can effect the population on a long scale. woe have been in the country now for more than 30 years and have works with local communities to pump and treat, and make available water supplies.

>> there are almost 30 grays in the area, they don't know who these people are or how they died but they are likely to be migranted who have been trafficked into malaysia. about 200-meters from the site is a camp. it's inhabitants long gone. >> authorities say they belief this camp has been abandoned for at least twoer yeahs now much of the structure is home run in ruins but you can tell it is big enough to hold 200 people. all around the camp, there are signs that people lived

here. plates crockery, basins thrown into a pit. possessions of cloth that may have been curtained and crudely built cames where trafficking syndicates kept the human cargo. to prevent any escape, they used barb wire. the camp is on a hill less than 500-meters from the border. it's one of 28 human trafficking camps found by the malaysian police over the weekend. less than a month after thai authorities made a similar discovery in their territory. these camps are where traffickers hold their prisoners while they demand ransoms from their family. the majority of refugees are thought to be an ethic minority persecuted inny mar. they escape by sea and then are brought overhand through thailand. thousands of them are thought to be adrift at sea. after police in thailand started cracking down on human trafficking. malaysian police at first denied the existence of these camps but now they say they are investigating what

happened. these camps in malaysia may be abandoned but there's no indication that human trafficking has been broken up. lawrence lee, al jazeera malaysia. >> for decades ethnic have been persecute which had doesn't consider them as citizens but some have managed to escape and find better lives. as wayne reports and new zealand. these mention and their families have come a long way. they escaped 20 years ago. they were granting residency in new zealand but the people they left behind are never far from their thoughts. >> it is like they are living in the open space no rights to study. >> if they had stayed in their hometown, this is where they would likely be. with four of their brothers

and sisters in camps. since 2012, more than 100,000 people mainly muslims have been forced from their houses. because of attacks led by buddhists and comfort go back home. >> there's been tension for decades but the issue has hit the headlines again because of a new wave of refugees escaping in boating and earlier this month researchers from the memorial holocaust museum went and found what they termed early warning signs of genocide. >> we are talking about the 1948 convention, u. convention on again side, and what talks about specifically is group targeted violence, and targeting a population based upon their religious ethnic, or national characteristics. >> others agree. and believe there appears to be enough evidence to take legal action against the government and individuals. there needs to be political action and direct

ramifications to myanmar in terms of the change. so i am not just talking about dealing with the people who are threing now but in terms of a long term strategy. there are no doubt his friends and family, who believe those still there are in a lot of danger. >> this is a big toast for the international community not just for the neighbors and southeast asia wrote have been reluctant to criticize each other, but also for western nation whose have rushed to engang with the government. after it returns to partial democracy 12 years ago. two plight shows just how far it has to go. >> wayne hay al jazeera. >> a fire that went through an elderly rest home.

this is all that remains of the home. almost all of the billing was destroyed suggesting cheap materials were used. the evening meal has been eat and most of the residents has gone do bed some were very frail, so would have had little chance of escape from the flames and smoke. many did make it so safety, by by tuesday night to recover bodies that in the most part have been burned beyond recognition. it is only two years since 11 people dies in a fire at another home for the elderly the cause is not known but china's president has order adden in investigation the police have now quartered off the area. survivors have been telling

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top stories here. to take back control of anbar province. being supported by shia ma will asias who helped bush out the armed group from other parts of the country. 140 fightingers are reported to have been killed. and forensic teams have begun exhuming bodies from shallow grays. they are believed to have the grays of bodies of people that were trafficked. european union has promised an additional 76 million-dollars in aid to address the crisis in central african republic. as the country's president warned there's a meeting today, much more help is needed to promote security and stability. jackie reports. the extra money pledged by the european union is a recognition that the crisis in the central african republic is far from over.

the money will be spent on humanitarian aid and on promoting security and stability. question are not at all ashamed to ask for this, because we don't have the means. we have begun to give hope to the people of the central african republic and we need to take that through to the end with the support. of the international community. it may no longer be in the headlines but the central african republic remains volatile, fresh and african troops overaa peace between rival militia. nearly half a million people are now homeless christians forced out and muslims forced out by christians. the minority in particular is pacing the price of the violence. another half million people have fled over the border.

here they are living in refugee camp entirely depend on international aid. this is the lean season in central africa and food stocks are dangerously low mothers and their children will most at risk of starvation. health workers say infant mortality has reached crisis levels and it is still several months until the next harvest. when there's a lack of food and other basic supplies people tend to move to where they believe they can get access to the things they need. this kind of competition over scarce resources in a tense place like the central african republic, may lead to further conflict. some of the groups have begun releasing children they recruited to fight with them. but the risk is never far away. the central african republic has few natural resources so it isn't high on the international agenda, without

coordinated action this may rumble on, claiming more independent lives. jackie roll land, al jazeera. a policeman has been killed by suspected fighters four others were injuries in the attack. he says insuring that the entire country is secure is a huge challenge. and that they were ambushed by the militia. and rescues them and also common strait that what has

happened inside the time also on a daily bases almost on a daily bases the kind of war we are dealing with, it is not a war that we are dealing with only one of two. so you can't have all corners of the country but what is recommended is the air force to groups in the area, and they are quite a number. >> antigovernment protestor has been killed by police in the capitol. the president has refusing to bow to pressure from inside and outside the country. against his bid to remain in power. they know this won't protect them from bullets and tear

gas, but they say they have little they can do, so they keep going. and then in a matter of seconds they are dispersed. >> they haven't gone far they are waiting for police to move on. >> the police are shooting at us. they are shooting at us. >> they sing and are running towards the third term. >> we say no to him. the police seem to know what the protestors are planning. they announced slowly coming back on to the streets they say they want to march into the city center, but the police are stopping them. >> it's been a month of back and forth it seems the protests are spreading beyond

the capitol, at least one person was shot and killed during a protest in the south. the president says he won't gi up plans to run for a third material, which is against the institution. the agreement has been reached in nigeria that can end a serious energy crisis. the crucial end of the examinations are here. they must up their grade in order to progress. with no electricity at all they are forced to revise their notes in an unusual environment. under streetlamps on a major highway. >> i am here, in order to read my notes because there is no electricity in our area. here there's enough

electricity because we are facing the activities of computer but there is no electricity. >> a chronic power shortage is pushing students like him to take desperate measures. >> a wrong turn by a truck could be disastrous here. >> the students remain here to read, despite the risks and distractions but the crisis energy sector they are not sure how long it will be before these poorly lit streets are plunged into darkness. >> students grades are falling. along with the education sector. >> it effects the ecology of education they are getting and it is also effecting the output coming from the students. it has impacted in such a way that it has effected the research most of which the teachers are teaching the students is coming from --

conduct bed the teachers themselves. >> africa's biggest oil producer imports most of it's refined petroleum. just last week, electrician generation hit an all time low, of 1,300 megawatts for a population of 117 million people. it blames sabotage after oil and gas pipelines as well as oil worker strikes. most places including hospitals are finding it difficult to deliver services. in a few day as new government will be sworn in, it will then have to deal with many challenges from corruption to an energy crisis. security, to infrastructure decay. yet still many nigerians are hopeful of change. al jazeera. nigeria.

hundreds have been stranded by floods that the state governor likened to a tsunami. more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed. twisters struck on monday, hundreds of homes are damaged or destroyed. the russian president vladimir putin hopes of resoaring his country's space program have suffering a new blow. about $1.8 billion worth of financial irregularities most of the problem relate to the troubled construction of a huge new space center in the far east. it follows recent launch failures that have shaken the faith in russia's space industry and commercial contracts in jeopardy. charles stafford has more. >> another huge set back, and the attempt to reform and

rebuild it's aging space program, the state odd tor here saying that it has evidence that the misappropriation of around $1.8 billion in state money by the federal space agency now it says the majority of these allegations are being focused on the building of a new drone in a place east of the country. which is one of the pet projects it was hoped lit have around 300,000 people, there will be hotels and in the future, even the ability for tourism to be conducted at this plant. he pledged an additional $1 billion but it came with a staunch warning and it looks like that warning has not been heeded. this has huge implications for the future of the space industry. already saying that it is to be disbanded, it is a huge embarrassment for president putin and it has massive

implications for just how much can really be done in cracking down on those corruption here in the space industry, and accord dog the state auditor, and why the government across the country. >> $1 trillion that's how much is owed in student loans in the united states. people in their 30's and 40's are most heavily in debt, but some are figuring ways to ease the burden. john explains. >> melissa found a way to beat the student loan system. she did it by following a piece of simple count ever intuitive advice. >> more expensive schools have more money to give away. >> so as a strong student from a low income household she qualified for grants at the most expensive private university northwestern university as a undergraduate and the university of chicago for graduate school at a cost of nearly $50,000 a year. >> i came back to chicago. >> now 32 years old she still owes act $35,000 in student loans but they are deferred while she is earning her phd in sociology at the

university of illinois, but hers is a rare story. >> for many students big loans are the only way they can make it on to a campus like this. but once they leave those loans can become crippling a statistically the older they are, the harder it is to pay those loans off. even creasingly students are paying off their loan later and they are owing more. the federal reserve while those in the 20s owe just under 20,000, those in their 30's owe just under 30,000. that also holds in canada and the u.k., the reason can be explained in two words. >> compound interest. so the old ever you get and the less able you are to pay your loans that compound interest is going to build and build and build. which makes eight lot harder. >> his company sponsored change.org links skill graduated in pittsburgh, washington d.c., and chicago with companies that pay off their student loans directly

companies like blue 1647 a nonprofit technology center. >> we have a lot of students that are really talented but they are one small scale away from being highly employable, and what we try to do is work on that side, making them more employable, we want to make sure we try to reduce their debt so they can start companies so that they can take on more risk. >> with one in four graduates in the u.s. behind on their loans melissa says her loans will impact her lifestyle for years to come. the combination of growing up in a low income household plus learning how to manage a small budget, like -- there are certain things that can continue to do without. >> and the job she takes after her latest degree she says will be determined largely by how it helps her pay off her student loans. al jazeera chicago. >> a volcano has erupted threatening a unique species of pink iguanas.

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