♪ the death toll in iraq rises as i.s.i.l. continues to use suicide car bombers with devastating effect. ♪ hello, you are watching al jazeera, also on the program, malaysia announces 6,000 job cuts in bid for survival after two fatal plane crashes. smoking ban in beijing as china introduces tough new laws to stamp out the habit. plus i'm in south bangladesh where the effects of climate

change are causing the country's islands to disappear. ♪ we begin in iraq where the government says it has killed 35 i.s.i.l. fighters in beji following a suicide attack leaving 42 members of security forces dead north of the city of fallujah and in anbar, 33 iraq fighters were killed east of ramadi, the largest city in the province and 40 others injured in the attack and that comes as iraq's prime minister says his military lost over 2000 armored vehicles to i.s.i.l. and the group over ran mosul last year. and we are live in baghdad and what more do we know about the latest fighting on the ground right now? >> well one of the latest attacks took place at 3:00 a.m. local in the region in anbar

province and this was an attack against a police station where iraqi federal police forces were based. an i.s.i.l. humvee allegedly i.s.i.l. humvee drove to the gates of the base and exploded deadly cargo and because there was an armed cache there the death toll was quite high and 42 iraqi police forces lost their lives this the attack and keep hearing about the humvee and armored vehicles that i.s.i.l. are using for suicide bombings and the reason for that is the humvee is a very large vehicle and you can pack it full of explosives and you can also drive it quite slowly up to iraqi security force positions and there is confusion from security forces to whether it's one of their own or whether it's i.s.i.l. vehicle. also 2003 100 of these vehicles were lost when mosul was taken over and the figure is high

according to american contractors who supply humvees but they are continue ed to be used and are powerless against it. >> atrocities committed by shia malitias and what more do we know about that and what the government is doing about it if anything? >> well what we are seeing across social media is videos going viral now and happened over the weekend in the last 24 hours where one particular video showed alleged i.s.i.l. fighter being burned alive by shia malitias have very many people angry and scared particularly wihis man was not an i.s.i.l. fighter and allegedly a farmer and was captured by shia malitia. i have spoke to an mb and he said that if these were happening, these atrocities were happening they were individual acts and people responsible would be punished and not a

reflection on the good job the shia malitias are doing and they have taken the lead in the fight and they were invited in by the anbar and a sunni without revenge attacks but videos are popping up and 2-3 over the weekend with shia atrocities and the government is trying to address this and they brought them in the fold of security forces and is controlling them much more than they used to be controlled and there is the government trying to do something about it but the individual acts and the shia party say are happening and those need to be dealt with otherwise sunnis will lose track of the forces. >> reporting to us from baghdad. now intense fighting for control of parts of northern syria including aleppo and syrian

government forces are bombing from the air while i.s.i.l. are making gains on the ground. other rebel groups ally to syrian opposition are losing ground and death toll continues to rise as carolyn malone reports. >> reporter: most major forces in the syrian war are now involved in fighting for parts of aleppo. rebel groups lost the towns to i.s.i.l. i.s.i.l. used a car bomb on an attack before moving in. i.s.i.l. has released this video said to be its fighters in control of the town north of the province near the border with turkey. these advances by i.s.i.l. are blocking opposition supply routes between turkey and northern syria. kurdish fighters have made gains against i.s.i.l. further east near raka and hasaka.

the government is fighting in aleppo too with troops on the ground but have advantage with the airforce and this is the aftermath of attack in the city of maria and government bombs are killing civilians too and they have to focus on the front line with i.s.i.l. or dash with pushing for new ground against the president assad's government raising questions about help from the international community. >> international coalition is supposed to be meeting tomorrow again, the big question is where are the jets of the international coalition? i think this won't wait until tomorrow to be frank, those air strikes really have to start today otherwise syrians will really feel that they are really in this alone. >> reporter: for now syrian opposition groups have to focus on defending themselves from i.s.i.l. attacks by sending reenforcements into key parts of aleppo rather than consolidating in the games they made against

assad in the last few years, carolyn malone al jazeera. owner of the rana plaza factory complex in daka with murder after it collapsed and killed more than 1100 in 2013. and 41 other people have also had murder charges filed against them. the collapse of the garment factory was the worst ever disaster and if convicted of murder defendants could face the death penalty. a trial of two al jazeera journalists in egypt has been adjourned until thursday and prosecutors failed to produce new evidence against fahmy and mohamed and we sat down with their colleague, peter greste to hear more about the case. >> reporter: four months since peter greste was released from jail and deported but his ordeal is not completely over because technically he is still on

trial. >> we all thought once i was released i would be taken off the case and it would be the end of it but the first hearing the judge named me as a defendant and the last hearing is when the judge said i had to appear or risk declare being in abstantia and if you are then you automatically get a conviction. i cannot go back because i was ordered out of the country by the president but at the same time the judge is demanding that i appear. the solution that i've got, that we have come up with is possibility of appearing by video link and we don't know if the court will accept that. it would involve breaking new ground for the court but if the first principle of a judicial system is to get to the truth of the matter then i see this as a solution that might work and demonstrate to the court that i'm not on the run, i'm not a fugitive. >> reporter: what would conviction mean for you

personally? >> the main concern is the other two and personally it would be incredibly difficult and would mean i cannot go to a country that has an extradition treaty but it's a bigger issue and we were supported by literally millions of people around the world and they supported us partly because of our personal circumstances, what we were going through at a personal level but also because of what we came to represent and that is freedom of speech issues. so if we do get a conviction and even if it's on a simple technicality it would be a repudiation of everything those people fought for. >> do you have any blame to al jazeera as a network for what happened? >> al jazeera has questions to answer and we have to look at mistakes that were made along the way and inevitably there were mistakes but egypt arrested us and egyptian authorities that made the allegations against us and that is where we need to

fight the case. >> reporter: right now what is your focus professionally and personally? >> everything else in my life hinges on the outcome of this trial and so we really -- it's all about keeping the attention and keeping the right person and doing the right kind of work to make sure that the court understands there is no evidence against us and that the only conclusion they can come to if it's following due process is to acquit all of us, everyone involved in the case. a burundi president ziza says he is going ahead with june election despite calls from neighbors for a delay and he chose not to attend the summit in tanzania where he was called to postpone votes and 90,000 people fled burundi because of violence ahead of the polls and harry has the latest from the capitol. >> reporter: there are no protests on monday that is because opposition leaders have told people monday is a time out, they will ask people to open their shops, the markets to

open and told people on the streets buy what food you need because tuesday will be a big protest and not happy with this and say they are disappointed and the issue for them was never about delaying the polls, the issue for them is they do not want the president to run for a third term which violates the constitution. the man brought in to save malaysia airlines says it is technically bankrupt new ceo says more than 6,000 jobs will be cut and the airline has been suffering years of decline and experienced two plane disasters in the past year. lit be rebranded and mae cut some routes. anthony davis is an aviation journalist and says the new ceo needs to keep core long haul flights that are profitable. >> let's be clear and you can't rightly say may the airlines has been struggling and not only

suffering financially due to the increased cost base but there are less passengers willing to fly on malaysia airlines so in terms of solutions i think with the introduction of this new ceo they will have to start again so i think what the new german ceo will do is certainly restructure, simplify the routes and focus on regional destinations as well as keeping the long hall routes some of which do make money, the route they fly to london and heathrow on large air bus and despite they are for sale and not finding a buyer that is a profitable route for them and i believe they do have what it takes but they need someone in charge who is commercially minded and maybe that is where they have gone wrong in the past. a quick break but stay with al jazeera and when we come back. >> translator: if i go back they will kill me. >> reporter: we meet one of the many children who have escaped

gang violence in latin america and now wants to stay in the u.s. ♪

hello again, reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, killed in suicide attack north of fallujah and a car bomb planted in an armored humvee vehicle and on sunday 8 suicide bombers attacked an army hq in the city. intense fighting for control of parts of northern syria including aleppo and hasaka and

syrian forces bombing from the air and i.s.i.l. are making gains on the ground. bangladesh police charged the owner of the rana factory complex in daka and 41 people with murder, it collapsed this 2013 killing 1100 people in the country's worst industrial accident and if convicted of murder the defendants could face the death penalty. and saudi arabia says efforts are being made to find a political solution to the crisis in yemen. saudi foreign minister says there will be meetings in geneva but no date has been set as yet. inside yemen there are no signs of the fighting easying and we report report. >> reporter: yemen civilians are running out of safe places. this is a contested stronghold of pro-government tribes fighting against houthis and forces loyal to the president

saleh and houthis and allies targeted several neighborhoods with rockets and tank fire and some believed they are punished for taking part in the up rising which resulted from president saleh stepping down in 2011 and this is densely populated neighborhoods continues for weeks and civilians are dying and supplies and food running short and fighting means aid cannot be delivered. it's not just for control on the ground saudi-led air strikes are targeting areas under houthi control and planes targeted areas including the capitol sanaa. this is what remains of what once was an futbol stadium. >> translator: we hear the first strike by the swimming pool and the second and third air strike in another building and a fourth air strike and led residents to flee entirely. >> amnesty international says aircraft weapons are causing

most of the casualties in the capitol sanaa and says the saudi-led coalition is contributing to civilian casualties by bombing weapons depos near residential areas. attempts to negotiate an end to the fighting have so far failed and reports of talks in aman and riyadh hope the u.n. can navigate a political solution. >> translator: there are now efforts to return to the negotiation table in order to find a solution for the situation in yemen on the basis after the immediating in riyadh there are meetings in geneva which are being arranged and there is discussion between the u.n. and the legitimate yemen government about setting a place for this meeting. >> reporter: but as powerful groups continue their battle for control the civilians can do nothing but watch their country being torn apart. i'm with al jazeera. israel says it has placed a jail commander of hamas wing in solitary confinement and

authorities say he gave an interview to hamas radio from being smuggled in and he is the commander of the bra game the military wing of the palestinian group. travel ban on several former afghan guantanamo bay members and released from the u.s. center and sent to qatar last year and free in exchange for u.s. soldier bowe-bergdal and they will stay in qatar where they are being monitored. laws that allow spying has expired and monitoring millions of telephone calls and e-mails and temporary lapse and won't stop america spying on the rest of the world, from washington we

explain. >> reporter: senator rand paul is running for the republican nomination and unlikely he would back down on his pledge to allow section 215 of the patriot act to expire at midnight on sunday. >> it's the tip of the iceberg what we are talking about here and realize they were dishonest about the program until we caught them. they kept saying over and over again we are not doing this we are not collecting your records and they were. >> reporter: preventing the freedom act from passing in the senate and it has passed in the house of representatives and president obama could have signed it in law sunday nights and allows a few more months of mass bulk data collection while a new system is prepared leaving the records in the hands of the telecommunication company and the government allowed to file secret court orders for any information it feels it needs and there will be oversight over the process. ran paul and civil liberties say

they still contain provisions that have unacceptable turn into privacy and they warned if 215 was allowed to expire without any alternative being passed it would be a blow to counter terrorism efforts. >> these authorities are important. >> do you think terrorist elements will take advantage of this? >> i think terrorist elements watched very carely what happened in the united states. >> reporter: the problem is federal inquiries found section 215 has not contributed to antiterrorism in any way and they have other ways to keep collecting the data of americans. >> there are other parts of the patriot act that can be used to pick up on some of the losses they might have under section 215 and they have national security letters which they can use to get some of this information and there are all kinds of other programs that we just don't know about. >> reporter: the government ability to spy on citizens is largely intact and version of

the freedom act may pass in the senate later in the week but further debate may be needed in the house with no guaranty an agreement will be reached. in previous years 215 passed with barely any debate at all but since the leaks from national security agency whistleblower edward snowden all that changed and should be noted that all of this congressional scrutiny will have no impact on the u.s. mass surveillance of the rest of the world communication revealed by snowden, al jazeera, washington. hundreds of people have marched in mexico city marking eight months since 43 students disappeared in the state. the families of those missing say the police are not telling the truth about what happened to the students. they are calling for the creation of an independent body to take charge of searching for disappeared persons. in the u.s. thousands of child migrants facing an uncertain future and fighting to stay in the country after a wave of

unaccompanied children and families arrived at the u.s. mexico border last summer and rob reynolds reports from los angeles. >> reporter: viktor's mother cries for her son and worried how he will fair in the hands of the u.s. immigration system. victimer is 16 shy and bright and his attorney asked us not to use his full name. he traveled alone from el albow el salvador and a gang had him in their sights after he refused to join them. >> translator: they held a knife to me and told my aunt they would bring me back to her in a garbage bag cut up into little pieces. >> reporter: this is the main immigration court in los angeles where viktor has already had one asylum hearing and the case

rejected and his lawyer works for a migrant legal aid organization. >> we will have one last court hearing before the judge and attorney and i will have to defend his case and if the judge does not find him eligible he will have to be deported from the united states. >> reporter: more than 50,000 central american children and teens cross the u.s. border last year fleeing violence in their home lands and most have now been settled with family members and meanwhile a legal process is underway to determine which migrant minors can stay but many do not have legal help. >> if we are able to get them to court with proper representation then we have a really decent chance of getting some relief for them but the majority of the cases were not being able to get to. >> reporter: viktor wants to stay, go to college and become a computer engineer. there is nothing for him back in

el salvador. >> translator: if i go back they will kill me. rob in los angeles. >> reporter: 200 countries are meeting to discuss a global deal on the environment from global warming to pesticides in farming is up for discussion and we report from the bangladesh island from bola. >> reporter: as long as he is in the water he is just like the others. he drags his net and moves by intuition. for the blind fisherman it's a welcome relief from his troubles on land. this island is not exactly friendly towards people with disabilities and his island home is also disappearing fast. he had to move five times already because his homes have been eroded by strong river currents. >> translator: it's humiliating, every time your home gets destroyed by the river you are left with nothing, if you need anything at all you

have to ask for help and people are very kind for me but i already have to depend on people because i'm blind and now i will have to depend on them for housing and bedding and it's just too much. >> reporter: monsoon is months away but a large storm approaches. on the front line of climate change this island take shelter in a mosque many other say they have lost their homes to the waves. half of the land has been eroded away in the past 20 years. but people like he and his mother can't afford to move further inland they end up living perpetually on the edge. >> translator: it takes 3-4 months to find a new place to stay each time the river takes our house away we stay here or there for a month, we have to do anything and everything to get by. >> reporter: after a campaign by residents the government set up erosion barriers two years ago to keep them safe. but not all sections of the

barrier are equally strong. here at his house this right here is the erosion barrier and there are no cement blocks and you can see that without that protection some of these sand bags have already fallen apart, as the rain nears he and his mother worry not just about flooding they are concerned that even the high tide could one day sweep away the little security they have. i'm with al jazeera, bola bangladesh. smoking in public in china's capitol beijing has been barned and china has 300 million smokers and a million chinese people die from smoking-related illnesses every year and correspondent adrian born reports. >> reporter: china has long been a smokers' paradise and bans failed because of lax enforcement now the government is trying again. children at the forefront of the campaign leading up to this ban,

since they are considered to be most at risk from passive smoking. antismoking campaigners say there are now clear signs the authorities appear serious this time. >> for the first time the regulations very clearly spell out what happens if something doesn't adhere to the regulations and not only the smokers themselves will be fined, very important the managers and owners of a business will be charged quite hefty if they do not comply. >> historic sites including the great wall and forbidden city are off limits to smokers, but in beijing the risk from passive smoking can be the least of your problems. some doctors say breathing the city's air on a particularly polluted day can equate with smoking a whole pack of cigarettes. antismoking campaigners say the

ban is a start that doesn't go far enough and want a significant rise in tobacco tax pointing out a pack of cigarettes in china costs just $1.50 and the world health organization hopes that can change. the more expensive cigarettes are the less people will smoke and for us the more expensive the better. >> reporter: but the industry is unlikely to be squeezed too hard. the taxes it pays accounts for 10% of all government revenues. china has more smokers than the population of the united states and on monday we found one of them openly violating the new law. and the restaurant owner openly telling us to leave. adrian brown, al jazeera, beijing. a solar plane attempting to fly around the world making an unscheduled stop because of bad weather and the impulse aircraft was 36 hours into his flight across the pacific when the decision was made to land in

japan. and he took off from china on sunday on what was to be the longest leg of a journey a six-day over 8,000 kilometer flight to hawaii and more on our website as always al jazeera.com and get the latest on all the stories. >> key parts of the patriot act now expired after an emergency meeting ends with no deal. >> this is a debate over your right to be left alone. >> kentucky senator rand paul leads the charge to limit the government spying programs, but some say it's all about politics. >> storms end in texas and oklahoma but swollen rivers are still threatening to overrun their banks. >> a travel ban