>> battles between isil fighters and the iraqi army as fighting intensifies in anbar province. heavy casualtyities on both sides. >> this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. scuffles break down in southern germany. a special report from nigeria on the millions suffering mental health problems and why they're

relying on traditional cures. and the crowds come out in bosnia. hear the pope's message of reconciliation. >> let's start in iraq first where battles have been taking place between government forces between islamic state in iraq and the levant as both sides try to gain the upper hand in anbar province. that's west of baghdad. it's been the main target. 2 were killed in an isil attack. meanwhile in sama ra iraqi forces say they've killed 25 forces. >> the aftermath of an attack on the air base anbar province.

it shows that their advance to ramadi has not slowed down. 22 people have been killed. most of them iraqi soldiers and shia militias who fled ramadi. the u.s. which has been carrying out airstrikes to help the iraqis says even though the strategy won't change. and so the plan continues. to the west of samara it's entering what military commanders call the second face. iraqi soldiers and shia militia continue. >> we reached the strategic pocket of terrorists. we untense presence of terrorists west of iraq. we are sized control of the area that we're standing in. we'll provide a security for the residents. we'll back up in the operation

by army jet fighters. it was a surprise that we managed to accomplish the mission in a few hours. >> the task now includes patrol. isil attacks have killed dozens in the past few days. isil has shown it's ability to advance on several fronts when iraqi forces appear distract: so iraq's bid is key before the focus on ramadi. >> it's one for the control of its roads and it's smaller towns and villages. now the iraqi security forces have had some success in taking back those roads in the smaller towns and villages. they're using those towns and villages as a staging post in a battle to retake ramadi. there are two major border crossings from syria anbar province and they're using those for great affect for reinforcement. that's given the iraqi security forces a serious challenge.

>> in syria the group army of conquest is consolidating it's hold on the highway leading to the cityial takia. it's also captured positions along the highway. the group said their aim is to take latakia the home of bashar al-assad. the government is increasing it's airstrikes on the province of aleppo. fighter jets are trying to wipe out rebel groups, and they are battling each other for control of the area. nothing is being spared, not even aleppo's hospitals. >> with no help and no equipment, these syrians in northern aleppo dig to find survivors. they're picking through the rebel after government airstrikes on friday that killed at least three people.

while civilians face bombardment in the air on the ground they dodge fighters. in the latest several fighters on both sides were killed in the aleppo countryside. the province has become a focal point. the different armed groups all operating within it, and ollavingall vying for control. in aleppo the flow of wounded doesn't stop. patients are treated anywhere there is space. on tables, on the floor. exhausted medical teams work for free with the constant fear that they're the next target. >> hospitals in aleppo are suffering from a shortage of medical supplies and appliances which are needed to treat civilians. the shortage of medical staff are worse. needless to say the working crews are not getting paid. >> field hospitals are under pressure as the city's main

hospitals are in ruins. this used to be one of the four largest hospitals in aleppo. it is now reduced to republic, medical commitment venue strewn across the rooms. >> this hospital was really significant as it provides most of the surgical and medical specialists. over the past year and a half there have been 11-barrel bombs three other hospitals in the city came under similar attacks. >> with no form of protection and no health system, the makeshift hospitals are the only help they can get. >> thousands of people are protesting in southern germany. demonstrators are demanding actional climate change and they're expected to try to disrupt the talks between world

leaders. 22,000 police officers from around germany are on hand. dominic kane now joins us from the town. so how is it looking there already, dominick? >> well, you have to forgive me raising my voice because helicopters are landing around me here. normally this time of year it town of around 26,000 people would be preparing for the summer high tourist season. but instead this weekend the invasion as it were, is of thousands of police officers, as you said, of protesters and of the media who have all been drawn here of the g-7 summit. nestling in the mountains of bavaria it is seen as a retreat for germany's wealthiest. but for the next few days it

will host the leaders of seven wealthiest countries. it will discuss the flash points notebly the conflict in ukraine. in recent weeks the fighting has intensified particularly near donetsk. this summit is the second such that russian has been excluded from. the g-7 group said that russia's role in ukraine makes discussion impossible. leaving one political commentator to say excluding russia is a strategic error. >> the situation is getting from bad to worse and it is very dangerous, indeed. the russians seem to have started just these days a new affront, really serious offensive, and i really mean the russians. it's not the donetsk people, no, nothing would happen there without the pushing of the kremlin. >> the continuing threat of the

islamic state is also high on the g-7 agenda. the group has advanced further into iraq in recent months. the u.s. president barack obama is hoping to hold a series of bilateral meetings about isil on the fringes of the site. >> there is no joint strategy to deal with. apart from the military campaign that may be right or wrong. politically what strategy do we have of syria. >> as host of the g-7 summit, they're hoping to find agreement with other leaders on issues such as climate change and the fight against ebola. but some campaign groups say this represents a missed opportunity. >> the ngo world vision says lowering infant mortality should also be a high priority. >> we've got an opportunity to get to zero on preventable death for children. this is a real possibility in the next 15 years. it's not just a pipe dream.

g-7 leaders can be catalytic. they can put on the table strong commitment to what they're going to do to make that happen. that's what we're hoping to see this week. >> then there are thousands of protesters who are promising to disrupt the proceedings as much as they can. the authorities have put on a show of force to try to to prevent them. >> well, this evening here there have been reports of success scuffles between protesters and place. the police have secured the area the venue of the g-7 summit with so many police officers that it would be difficult for any protesters to penetrate that ring of steel as it were. and tomorrow, the leaders will be the hard nosed negotiation

if you want to put it that way. abraham willbarack obama will be in the morning to have a meeting with angela merkel. there will be a breakfast between the two and then the world leaders will come together and thrash out the issues that have been raised, that have been put on the agenda and address concerns that we've heard earlier on. with peace of mind that other issues should be put on the agenda here. that is to be seen tomorrow. >> thanks so much. dominick kane there. to the war in yemen, saudi arabia said it has shot down a missile fired into the kingdom. it was fired by houthi rebels from inside their province. and egyptian appeals court has thrown out the decision that puts the palestinian group hamas on the terror list. in january a court ruled the

armed wing is a terrorist organization and then extended it to the entire group a month later. hamas is an off shoot of the egypt's muslim brotherhood. cairo accuses the group of carrying out terror attacks in the peninsula. launching a major assault in afghanistan's province taking care of the yamgan district. it's thought that 2500 fighters took part in the attack. afghan forces are trying to regain control of the area. nicole johnston sent this update. >> the yamgan government has started it's campaign to take control of yamgan district. special forces have been dropped in via helicopter into kabul and bringing in security forces sent in to the district as well. it's not the first time that the

taliban has taken control of a district but they usually can't hold it. they tend to a lot members and vehicles that have been left behind. this bring season we're seeing the taliban shift its focus from fighting in the south of the country to the north. in may we saw heavy fighting as well as. >> the final day of election campaigning in occur at this read of the parliamentary vote. although turkey's constitution requires the president to be above politics, president erdogan will you nobody allowed to change the constitution and transfer the prime minister's palace to the president's. covering the election in istanbul this has been seen as the personal test for the popularity of erdogan isn't it?

why? >> simply because erdogan is calling for a new system to govern this country. they want to win this clear intention of changing the constitution and changing turkey from a parliament parliamentarian government. this is a crucial point for this country because the opposition says that if the ruling party manages to get enough votes needed then there is a shift and tendency to turn it into a dictatorship. the ruling party said that the other side of the argument, if you will, said that it will make turkey stronger since erdogan was the first president to be

directly elected in a popular vote. >> explain some of that for us. >> yes if depends on the people's democratic party and how much of the vote they will get. meaning they need to surpass the 10%. because in kurdish areas the party always got the number of kurdish votes in those areas. if the kurds wins, and the ruling act party will get less votes. basically there are 500 and 50 parliament seats. the party needs 130 to allow the party to propose a referendum on

the new constitution, or if they want two-thirds majority then they won't need the referendum and they can change the constitution in the new parliament. >> thanks for that. still ahead patrolling and protecting, the team at the forefront of europe's migrant crisis.

>> welcome back. let's recap the headlines here in al jazeera. there has been heavy fighting in iraq's anbar province between isil and iraqi security forces

at the al habbaniyah air base. in syria the army of conquests is consolidating it's hold in the city of latakia. thousands of people are protesting in southern germany ahead of the g-7 summit. an estimated 20 million nigerians suffer from mental illness but many go without professional help. there are only 130 psychiatrists in nigeria with a population of 174 million. the world healthiest mates only around 3% of the health budget goes to mental health. treatment is so expensive so many patients have no choice but to turn to traditional healers. >> hearing voices telling her to

harm herself. her family handcuffed her and brought her here. a traditional doctor just outside of the city. here she is believed to be demonized. she has been given ingredients to treat here. >> when people come and they tell me that they have a problem with their head, i pray, and god tells me the cause of the problem. god shows me these are the issues in the person's life. through that i know what kind of herbs and leaves to give them. when i give them such herbs, god heals them of the problem. many who suffer from depression and schizophrenia go to traditional healers. that's because there is no treatment in conventional hospital. some are referred to the national hospital in abuja but it's a long way to travel for

people who live in you are an areas where most people live. >> less than 10% who deal with mental health ever get to sigh medical help whether it's a nurse, doctor, let alone a psychiatric. >> there are 130 psychiatrists in nigeria while there are thousand who is suffer from various types of mental illness. dollars in nigeria ghana and south africa are starting a trial that combines conventional traditional treatment funded by the national institute of mental health in the united states. they believe it will help improve the services of traditional doctors. >> they believe in them, that's why they go to them.

at the same time we they have to decide what to do. >> you during the trial conventional doctors nurses and community health workers will visit patients there are worries that this program may be too expensive. al jazeera niger nigeria. >> for more we look at how mental illness is recognized in hong kong. that's at 10:00 gmt on sunday right here on al jazeera. the death toll from the chinese cruise ship disaster has risen to 196. they have searched the yangtze. only 14 are known to have

survived. the outbreak of middle east mers in south korea has increased. india's prime minister narendra modi has signed a historic land agreement with the president of bangladesh allowing people who live on the board to choose their nationality. they've been stateless for decades. trying to cross the mediterranean this year many were rescued by anti-smuggling units. >> their mission is to control and protect the borders of

italy. but a for a few years now it goes well beyond that. they are at the forefront of the migrants. >> saving human lives is really terrifying. once there was a baby who showed no signs of life. his health was tilt:ed. it was emotional. >> we have to bring them on board as quickly as possible. all of them were singing old and young. >> a state of the earth vessel, the newest in the fleet of the border police. it's on board camera can zoom in up to 10 nautical miles an away. but finding the fishing boats used by the traffickers is much

more difficult. the searches happen in international waters south of italy where other e.u. nations are patrolling. this is a ship of the british royal navy. we're about 24 nautical miles off the coast of libya in front of the tripoli area. this is where most of the migrants get rescued. so any boat that is in the area needs to identify itself. otherwise it gets searched. further away the german navy. it's carrying out a rescue. later it was destroyed by fire. for a while they're all part of an agreement. >> it consists of joint sea patrols that assist the italian naval forces. we had to call upon commercial

ships to help. if there are lives to be saved we'll go wherever they are even beyond the area. >> beyond is the area on the map dubbed safe area. here the italians are in charge of coordinating all search and rescue operations. it's here that we saw the crew rescue nearly 250 people in little more than an hour just a few days ago. and while the e.u. politicians look at the influx, unsung heroes continue to receive search for lives to save. >> pope francis the leader of the roman catholic church has held mass for thousands of worshipers in the bosnian capital sarajevo.

he has called for people to leave behind their troubled past and memories of war. >> pope francis arrived at the sarajevo olympic stadium there was a call for peace and harmony with muslim neighbors. so a serb orthodox choir sang. the pope was given a bomb that was given great significance. >> children, women and the elderly in refugee camps it means forced displacement of peoples. it means destroyed houses, streets, and factories. above all countless shattered lives, you know this well, having experienced here how much suffering, how much destruction how much pain.

>> they've had had good reason to reflect on the importance of this pay papal visit. he is is a muslim. he was forced to dig trenches around the town as they attacked the muslims here. yet his marriage to his catholic wife did not fail. it's the kind of love story across the ethnic divide that would make the pope's heart burst with joy. >> we dwayne strength from staying together through the war. today we live happily together despite our ethnic differences. >> all the people from bosnia are thrilled with the pope coming to visit. his message of peace is going to make things much better. >> now president of the local

association for hundreds of survivors of the war camps. it's the only one in bosnia which caters to victims from all the ethnic groups. they have not received a penny from any political party. >> bosnia's old political divisions hold the country back. there is still segregation inside parts of the education system. and some want greater autonomy for their own communities inside bosnia. through all that many boss my i can'tbosnians say that they're ready for integration. >> the pope met with bosnia as these presidents who again call for greater understanding. there will be more of this when former president clinton comes here to mark the 20th anniversary of the massacre.

you would never know now that ever was a war and children will now will have a chance to build on what has been accomplished. it won't be easy, though, the divisions have not gone away. in bosnia. >> and if you want to get more on all those stories head over to our web address there for you on the screen. www.aljazeera.com. . >> i'm russell beard in barbados meeting the islanders who are buiding a green ecomomy.