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europe. plus. >> reporter: i am john hendon in knoxville, tennessee driving the world's first 3d printed car. ♪ ♪ first to the fight against the islamic state of iraq and the levant. iraqi forces backed by u.s.-led coalition air strikes have opened supply lines to the town of beiji and is the nearby oil refinery. the battle for country's biggest refinery has been raging for months it's located at the strategic crossroads north of tikrit. despite the advances. the pentagon says it isn't ready to declare the refinery or the town as fully under iraqi control. president obama says the u.s. doesn't have a complete strategy in its fight against isil. the u.s. president met the iraqi prime minister on the sidelines of the g-7 sum knit summit in germany.

>> when a finalized plan is presented to me by the pentagon i will share it with the people people. we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the iraqis as well. >> zeina khodr has the latest from you are bill. >> reporter: it's been a month since ramadi fell to isil. at the time iraqi officials u.s. officials played down the significance saying it was a tactical setback and that there were good days and bad days in iraq and it was a bad day. they even them today recapture the city. but it's been a month. and in fact, ice immaterial still remains very defiant attacking could are at this forces on the ground in anbar evening targeting the military base the staging ground for the counter offensively. and the iraqi government is not using the army to lead this

counter offensive against isil in anbar it's using shia military forces because the army is too week. now a month later we are hearing the u.s. president barack obama saying the strategy is still not complete they are formulating a stray j at the same time he's saying the iraqis have a role to play in the strategy as if telling them that they share the responsibility. obama now saying that they are going to speed up the training of iraqi forces, but at the same time urging the baghdad government to include sunnis in the fight against isil. and this is key because the community needs to feel that would they are part of this country. because it is quite dangerous. a few days ago the most influential tribal members in isil-controlled fallujah pledged allegiance to the armed group whether they did so out of force or con vick it's debatable. at the end of the day it shows who is the force on the ground. that is isil. very dangerous times with many frontlines in the country. dividing communities and really

threatening iraq's unity. meanwhile the u.n. envoy on sexual violence says teenage girls ab doesn't by abducted by isil are being sold in save markets. we spoke to women and girls she says in the markets girls can be traded for for as little as a pack of significant roast i u.n. team is due to travel to discuss how to help victims. the u.n. has left israel and hamas off countries that violate children's rights in be conflict. northern 500 palestinian children were killed in israel's aerial bombardment last year, our diplomatic editor james bays reports. >> reporter: the evidence is overwhelming. aftermath of much of the destructs and children last summer in gaza was recorded on video. in total the u.n. says 540

children were killed. yet u.n. second general ban ki-moon in his annual report on children in armed conflict around the world to the security council has not included israel on the damning list of countries and groups that kill children. al jazerra understands israel and armed palestinian groups were on the original list drawn up by the u.n. special representative. the draft report had israel and palestinian groups on it. >> yes. >> reporter: the report you said upstairs. >> this is a draft. >> reporter: when it came back downstairs it didn't have them on anymore, is that true? >> yes. that is the decision of the secretary general. we are supposed today prepare the decision of the secretary general. we are not the one who decides. >> reporter: al jazerra has learned there was high-level lobbying by israel and the u.s. to persuade ban ki-moon to keep israel off the list. >> there is really no explanation for it other than it's a political decision,

because the overwhelming documentation really should trigger a listing. >> reporter: so did ban ki-moon bow to political pressure. >> member states have never been shy until expressing their opinion to the secretary general, about what should be in or out of the report. whether it's this report this year or in the previous years ultimate matily it's the secretary general's report. he stands by it. >> reporter: you just need to read the full report to city the obvious contributions. the report says the number of palestinian school children killed in 2014 was the third highest anywhere in the world. it says the number of schools damage or destroyed was the highest anywhere in 2014. and then you look at the an ex, the list that is suppose today summarize it all listing among other things, parties and states that kill or maim children or engage in attacks on schools and israel's name is not there. james bays, al jazerra, at the unite nations.

let's go live to imtiaz tyab who is live from west jerusalem. what's the response been to the fact that israel has been taken off this report? >> reporter: there has been no formal israeli response and we are not ex-edging to hear one from the israelis. they normally don't respond to situations like this, particularly when they have, for lack of a better word, won. they are not on the list as we have been hearing from james that is very much because of lobbying from the united states and indeed from israel itself. but we have also not heard from the palestinian leadership as well. and that's notable because groups like hamas and other armed groupings aren't on this list as well. and it's very clear that the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon has wanted to distance himself from this ongoing conflict. but, again as we have been hearing in james' report, when you look at the numbers, it is

quite baffling to many campaigners who are in the occupied territories, when you look at the number of dead, when you look at the number of schools that have been damaged many are questioning why israel is not on the list. >> yeah, i mean, i was going to ask you about how israeli pan stain vinnie activity affects children and the impact it's having on the region. what is going to happen now? >> reporter: the pact of the matter is you will have palestinians calling on international bodies to in their words brings israel to justice. the fact of the matter is the situation for children, particularly palestinian children in occupied territories is very grim. 2014 was very deadly. in gaza alone. over 500 chirp were killed. that doesn't include the children who have been killed in

fair incidents with the israeli in the occupied west barely, that doesn't include the number of children detained aura rest by the israelis and doesn't include the number of children injured either gaza or in the west bank. and when you start tack stacking up the numbers it's extraordinarily high. but, again, it would appear at least with the u.n. secretary general, the lobbying by israel and indeed the united states was persuasive enough for him to not include israel or any palestinian group on the list. >> imtiaz tyab, thank you very much. to south korea now where seven people have died from the middle east respiratory syndrome or mers, schools is across seoul have been closed in a bid to contain the outbreak. it's the largest outside saudi arabia where mers was discovered and the outbreak is affecting the economy as he can imagine hairy fawcett reports from one of the seoul's wetheyest areas. >> reporter: we have come to the fast iest street for a walk in

the sunshine, usually we would be joined by plenty of well to do local residents and plenty of foreign tourists as well keen to sample the style. bull while we don't have the place to ourselves we -- this is pretty much as close as you can get in the conjected city lie seoul. local tour guides a 30 to 40% fewer visitors are coming here than normally. and that's been the case across the leisure sector in south korea. cinema chains are reporting 45% fewer customers. baseball games are seeing about the same drop in attendance. even for more essential things like the weekly shop we are seeing a falling off in numbers the two biggest supermarket chains report aid week other week drop in custom of 12% at their stones, but the online grocery shopping sales have gone up 50% people are staying home and trying to avoid unnecessary travel. all is having a significant economic impact. the government says the president says the first priority of the government is to address this as a public health

concern and irradicate the virus, that irradicating the mers crisis as a whole she says will only happen when the economic impact has been addressed as well. benjamin cowling is an associate professor with the school of public health at the university of hong kong saying despite the outbreak in south korea it poses a huge risk still in the middle east. >> i think the biggest concern is still definitely in the middle east, i think the south korean epidemic should be under control at the at the moment and i don't think many more infections willow can i although we'll see her case as peer from people who have already been infectedded and are now inc. baiting the inc. incubateth disease and will go to the no, sir a week or two. there are hundreds of cases across the middle east and they travel and taken following the accidents back to their home runt countries and as we have seen it just takes one he can

ported case to a country that's not prepared to start a quite large outbreak south korea is he is very well well developed. but he can imagine worse scenarios in other countries in asia or other parts of the world. still ahead trying to stake strike a deal. libya's war being factions once again at the table to peace talks. can this find consensus on 34r57bz for aplans for a new constitution after years of delays? was really a possibility. >> to becoming president of the us tennis association.

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♪ ♪ hello again the top story on his al jazerra iraqi forces backed by u.s.-led coalition air strikes have opened supply lines to the town of baseball-y and the nearby oil refinery. it comes as barack obama has admitted that the u.s. has no complete strategy against the group in iraq. the u.n. has left israel off the list of countries that kill children. the number of people who have died from hi middle east respiratory syndrome or mers has reached seven. more than 2,000 people have been quarantined. nepal's main political party have his reaches an agreement on that i new constitution that could lead to it being signed at

years there plays. protests earlier this year while debating the draft constitutioning nepal will have eight federal states under the new deal. official commission will decide on the region's exact borders the contusion was supposed to be draft ed in 2010 but the process has stalled because of political divisions. the associate editor of the times newspaper and the author of the balance battle of the new republic joins me from new delhi. alley breakthrough at long last. talk us through what happened and what this now means? >> it is indeed a big coup of some sort because as you mentioned nepal has been stuck in this. [ inaudible ] 2008, the collapsed and could not reach an agreement because of the. [ inaudible ] the second consequence. [ inaudible ] in 2013 and for

the past year and a half we have had a deadlock on the question of federalism. now, one of the things that the natural disasters do have political consequences and. [ inaudible ] nepal suffered a devastating earth quake as you know. the it seems to have generated pressure on the political parties to reach some kind of accommodation and they have. having said that -- >> sorry, excuse me for jumping in here. nothing gets resolved in this country because of the political deadlock that the country has been under for so many years. >> you know, you also have to understand it for what it is, this is not a complete constitution it's a partial constitution the fundamental parts in the contusion was the question of. [ inaudible ] and the political partys have abdicated their responsibility by post pointing the question. they have given a commission to decide the boundaries. many people are asking.

[ inaudible ] the contusion of nepal which is in force right now has. [ inaudible ] what the parties have done is come up a number. nepal would have eight provinces but how have they come up with the number without deciding where the boundary will be it's putting the cart before.horse, there are significant social groups and political forces out of the process and. [ inaudible ] political dead lot. >> okay, good talking to you thank you. representatives from rival governments in libya are considered a unity leadership as proposed by the united nations they were given a draft peace agreement to consider during talks in morocco caroline malone reports. >> reporter: they have met in

morocco, al year i can't and bell yum and not yet agreed on a unity government for libya. >> today the people of libya have the rights on this gathering for new in the hope that you save your country and your people from protracted conflict. >> reporter: delegates at hawks in morocco including mechanics of the rival triply government and the tobruk national government recognize ised by the national community. they have time take the proposal back to libya for closer secure any. >> translator: he's not wait for this answer now before after each stakeholder has had time for consultations. >> translator: we will do our best to bring country out of the crisis. and that's why we will study today and tomorrow this draft and we hope that this draft will be the last one. >> reporter: the proposal calls for a government to be put in place for the prime minister two

deputies and a council of ministers based in tripoli. it would require a ceasefire disarmament of armed groupings and a unified military. four minutes since muammar qaddafi was removed from power numerous armed groups are fighting for control of the country. the oil business has been badly affected sapping the country's economy. many are hopeful this could be a turning point even if a peace proposal is agreed upon a long way to go before stability returns to libya. caroline malone, al jazerra. this the party of yemen's former long-time president has welcomed u.n.-brokered peace talks due to start in a few days but saleh's party says it hasn't been invited for the negotiations it supports the houthi fighters. saleh was president for more than 20 years. in ukraine several firemen have been killed in be explosion at a fuel depot, at least nine

gasoline tanks are on fire outside the capital kiev. they have been burning for several hours through monday night. u.s. iranian journalist jason has appeared in court in iran for a second time on spying charges. he's facing up to 20 year old in jail. as we report. his mother says he's guilty of nothing more than report on the ground a country he loves. >> reporter: mary doesn't know what is going to happen to her son. he's been in jail in iran for almost a year. jason is the bureau chief of the u.s. newspaper the washington post. he was arrested with his wife and two photo journalists in teheran in july last year. the others were later released on bail. >> he is very tired. very distressed because he doesn't understand why he is being held. as you know, as journalists, you have very, very little access to sensitive things.

>> reporter: jason has been in court twice in the last month. closed-door hearings on charges that include espionage and prop propaganda against iran. mary says she doesn't know how the trial is progressing. jason is a duel citizen of the united states and iran and spent most of his life in in the u.s. but moved to iran in 2008 to learn more about the country. >> he is being accused of being a master spy. when all he was doing was report on the ground a country that he loves, so it's very hard for him. very very hard for him. >> reporter: the washington post has criticized jason's attention -- detention and human rights groups have demand the had his release, there is speculation he's being used as leverage as a time of nuclear negotiations. for his mother it's a time of anxiety and i worry over the fate of her son. all u.s. federal judge has ordered the release of a man kept in solitary confinement for

43 years. albert woodfox was convicted in 1972 for the killing of a prison guard at the louisiana state penitentiary in the town of an goal, a he was in prison for armed robbery when the guard died. hundreds of people in the u.s. state of texas are calling for a police officer to be fired after he was filmed throwing 18 age girl to the ground at a pool party. dozens of protesters marched while chanting let's go swimming. in the video the officer is seen waving a pistol at a group of black american teenagers he's been put on leave pending an investigation. european navies have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the mediterranean sea over the weekend and taken to detention centers in isly where they face an uncertain few i. we met of them on the italian

island of lamb par deuce 56789 they didn't know where they were tired hungry and very relieved they left war behind them. this is the center they were brought to on that night when they got off the ship. so we came back a few days later for check on them, see how they are settling in and see whether they are still all here or some have already moved on. many women rescued a few days ago have already been relocate today sicily to another center. she hope to his join them soon. it's over she says, thanking god god. >> translator: in the sea i was really tired. the water was coming in and the boat was rocking. >> translator: i went my eyes closed the whole time. i had a headache.

and i was dizzy. >> reporter: they had been strand odd the rubber dinghy for 20 hours, they were terrified and disoriented when the rescuers found them. in the men's quarter we face he and his travel companions. he has been smiling ever since he saw the italians come to his rescue. at the time he said he would celebrate drinking 10 pepsis. >> i shall have a pepsi. >> reporter: he didn't. but is happy anyway. they were very scared in libya. they were forced to drink fuel and sometimes had food once every three days. he shows us the marks on his back, he was repeatedly beat with an electrical rod by the smugglers during his transit through libya his friend has marks on his stomach. cigarette burns by the guards at the libyan detention center. aid workers say they have seen

several similar cases. he says he did not have a shower for 40 days, soon they will move again. but he wants to stay in italy in rome. >> translator: i still don't know what freedom means exactly. i have to discover it. i need to learn the language. the laws of the country. its traditions and how to treat people. how to respect them. and how to be respected. >> reporter: he left his wife and two children behind. he hope to his bring them over soon. by plane not across the sea. ♪ ♪ fate brought these young men together their draw 3459 i can ordeal created a bond they say can never be broken, one that

gives them strene to this face the uncertainties of the future. al jazerra lampedusa. the first car to be made on a 3d printer has just been built in the u.s. the body took just 44 hours to complete. the car is still being tested but as john hendon reports customers may be able to get behind the wheel in 2017. >> this could be the shape of things to come. but the point is it could be any shape at all. except for its wheels engine and suspension the car is created entirely out of carbon infused plastic on a 3d printer like this had this is why jay rodgers believes he's in the midst of transforming the auto industry as dramatic as hen are henry ford did. >> henry ford never had an internet. or fedex or a 30 party logistic intra structure, nobody had the idea to design with cat tools

the way we had today. if you had those tools back at the time when they created the industry they would have created it totally differently. >> reporter: this car with a motor and suspension based on the renault is expected to sale for somewhere between $18,030,000. it's not yet approved for public roadways and face some big speed bumps on the road ahead. >> reporter: including being taken seriously by critics. >> it seals a bit more like a toy. i have seen the car being printed out. it definitely is a czar size and something you can drive around in, i don't know how many people would be lining up to do so. at least out in opener environment. >> reporter: they say that misses the mark, the whole thing of 3d printing it's is a a watch speeding up designing sign and marching this is design is one of infinite possibilities. the advantage of having a 3d printed car is it could be anything a four saturdayer car you could change the cup holders and power train and the manufacturing process is faster

and when it's all over, it is recyclable so you can melt it down and build another one. rogers the grandson of the head of the indian motorcycle company scare former u.s. marine officer fore sees an expanding array of styles. >> we are quick at making a single unit and the next unit we can roll them off the line every 17 seconds takes 24 hours to make through the whole line from start to finish. we are add that go tool in to the kit back to make it so that instead of seven years, we can change the model line time to changeover down to four months. >> reporter: if that happens perhaps one day individual car owners could be able to customize not just the options inside but the design of the car itself. john hendon, al jazerra knoxville, tennessee. incredible. the launch of a flying saucer in to space has come to an abrupt end. nasa released the sci-fi looking space craft with a helium balloon from a u.s. navy base in

hawaii. it was designed to test landing systems for future mission today mars. but the pair chewed failed to inflate and torah way from the space craft. next time. our website the address there at the bottom of your screen. provider offers products to people with no cable subscription, another company is offering viewers the option of creating their own channel line-up and millions of households are cutting the cord, dropping cable. once must-see tv - is cable television now unplugged from