♪ battle against i.s.i.l. in iraq the group keeps gaining ground while the u.s. admits its strategy is incomplete. ♪ hello from al jazeera's headquarters in doha i'm jane and forced to drink fuel beaten and burned and we talked to just some of the thousands of migrants flooding into europe. people take the south korean capitol off their travel list because of concern about the mers outbreak plus we take a ride in the world east first 3d printed car but some say the trend won't take off.

♪ let's begin with the battle of i.s.i.l. in iraq and it appears the group is continuing to gain ground and iraqi forces backed by u.s. coalition air strikes made progress in one key area, that is the beji oil refinery and can only be described as a minor gain and i.s.i.l. controls vast areas of iraq and it has taken ramadi the capitol of anbar province and thousands have been displaced and military malitias trying to take control and since last year it held this one including capitol mosul where i.s.i.l. leadership in iraq can is believed to be based and made advances in the north and dehook and kurdish forces backed by u.s. air strikes held back i.s.i.l. fighters from taking more areas. one of the resent advances by

iraq forces forced i.s.i.l. to retreat from the province including strategic city of tikrit and spor sporadic fighting there continues. no complete strategy to help iraq deal with i.s.i.l. and made the comment on the sidelines of the g 7 summit. >> when a finalized plan is presented to me by the pentagon then i will share it with the american people. we don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of iraqis as well. >> reporter: so no clear u.s. plan. as for iraq it is marred in divisions and dana reports from northern iraq. >> reporter: she grieves for her husband and oldest son, it has been a year since they were killed by the islamic state of iraq and the levante in mosul

but time has done little to ease her pain. she is among the millions of iraqis who have been displaced over the years. she says she is tired. she like others here have been displaced from mosul and many feel the government is not serious about recapturing their city from i.s.i.l. >> translator: there is a conspiracy against mosul and a conspiracy against the sunnis, the baghdad government is not helping us get back our city they won't give us arms to fight. >> reporter: iraq sunnis say they are unfairly treated, looked upon as supporters of i.s.i.l. not just by the shia government but even here by many kurds in the north. >> this is a check point in the capitol irbill in northern iraq and sunni arabs need a guarantor and face restrictions with the

capitol baghdad and authorities here and the iraq capital are justified for security reasons but the people feel they are singled out as a community. many front lines in iraq and the divide is not only sectarian, northern iraq it's ethnic arabs on one side and kurds on the other. kurdish peshmerga share 1,000 front line with islamic state of iraq and levante and kookie was a speaker of the kurdish parliament and says iraq no longer exists and it should formally be divided into sunni, shia and kurdish states and believes this new border should become permanent and speaking to him we hear evidence of the miss trust. >> this is the region with i.s.i.l. fighter member and this

is with i.s.i.s. and not came from the sky. >> reporter: they have been here many years and there is a defacto on the ground and one that separates communities and one that separates the country immunity. u.n. envoy on sexual violence say teenage girls abducted by i.s.i.l. are being sold in slave markets and dana visited them and spoke to women and girls who escaped from captivity in i.s.i.l.-controlled regions and says in the markets girls is be traded for as little as a pack of cigarettes and will travel to the region soon to discuss how to help victims. egyptian court have a deadly riot in port siyade and hundreds

injured when they tried to escape in 2012 and many of them were crushed to death and some witnesses say they were thrown from teraces and it was the deadliest in futbol history. migrants from bangladesh were rescued at sea last month and put on trucks and handed over to bangladesh bodyguards and a bridge linking the countries and thousands of rohingya are there and many have been abandon on the boat and european navies rescued boats in the mediterranean see and taken to detention centers in italy where they face an uncertain future and mohamed met some of them on the italian island lampadusa. >> on the soil and arrived in the dark and not knowing exactly where they were tired and

hungry and left war behind them. this is the center they were brought to the night when they got off the ship and we came back a few days later to check in and see how they are settling in and see if they are still here or some have already moved on on. many of the women who were rescued just a few days ago have already been relocated to sicily to another center. and he hoped to 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 rock ing ing. i kept my eyes closed the whole time. i had a headache and i was dizzy. >> reporter: they had been stranded on a rubber dinghy for

20 hours and they were tired and disoriented when they were found, in the men's quarter we meet isil and travel companions and smiling since he saw italians coming to his rescue and at the time he said he would celebrate drinking ten pepsis. >> have a pepsi. >> reporter: he didn't but is happy anyway. >> pepsi. >> reporter: they were very scared in libya. they were forced to drink fuel and sometimes had food once every three days. and shows the marks on his back and he was repeatedly beaten with an electrical rod by the smugglers during his transit through libya. his friend has marks on his stomach and cigarette burns by the guards at the libyan detention center and aid workers say they have seen several similar cases. and 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 and 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 and hopes to bring them over soon bi-plane not across the sea. ♪ fate brought these young men together. their dramatic ordeal created a bond they say can never be broken and one that gives them strength to face the uncertainties of the future. al jazeera, lampadusa.

south korea recorded another death by middle east respiratory syndrome or mers and brings the total killed of 7 and 2000 schools in the capitol seoul have been closed in a bid to contain the spread of the virus and nearly 3,000 people have been placed in isolation. tomorrow outbreak is the largest outside saudi arabia where mers was discovered and effecting the economy as harry faucet reports from one of seoul's wealthyist areas. >> a lovely day, one of the fancy district and the fancy street for a walk in the sunshine. usually we would be doing it by plenty of well to do local residents and foreign tourists came to sample a bit of the style but while we don't exactly have the place to ourselves, this is pretty much as close as you get in a congested city like seoul. local tour guides say 30-40% fewer visitors are coming here than normally and that is the case across the large sector and

reporting 35% fewer customers, baseball games are seeing about the same drop in attendances, even for more essential things like the likely shop are falling off and the chains had a drop in custom of 12% at the stores and at the same time the on line grocery shopping they provide has gone up, sales going up 50% as people stay home and try to avoid unnecessary travel, all of this is having a significant economic impact the government says the president says that the first priority of the government is to address this as a public health concern and eradicate the virus and eradicating it as a whole will only happen when the economic impact has been addressed as well. the capitol of indonesia has a controversial curfew on women and won't be served in restaurants, r sport centers, internet cafes or tourist centers and prohibits them

working after that hour and attempt to reduce sexual violence against women but they say it's discrimination. announced 50,000 job cuts as part of a global restructuring problem and europe large bank plans to refocus on asia and cut annual costs up to $5 billion in two years and considering moving headquarters out of london and also reduce the size of its investment bank pulling out of turkey and brazil. that is it on al jazeera and still ahead the dangerous job of being a dangerous job in burundi and many say they fear for their lives. plus digital libraries popping up in nigeria and we will show you how they work without the internet. ♪

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hello again and the top stories on al jazeera, iraqi fores backed by u.s. led coalition air strikes opened supply lines to the town of beji and nearby oil refine aand admitted the u.s. doesn't have a complete strategy against iraq. the u.n. envoy on sexual violence says teenage girls abducked by i.s.i.l. are being sold in slave markets and say in the markets girls can be traded for as little as a pack of cigarettes. migraines rescued in the mediterranean sea said they were beaten by smugglers and guards and rescued nearly 6,000 people from stricken boats in the past few days. the u.n. has left israel and

hamas on a report on countries and armed groups that violate children in conflict and 500 palestinian children were killed in gaza last year. and james base reports. >> reporter: the evidence is overwhelming. the aftermath of much of the destruction and the deaths of children last summer in gaza was recorded on video. in total u.n. said 540 children were killed and yet u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon in his annual report on children and armed conflict around the world to security council has not included israel on the damning list of countries and groups that kill children and al jazeera understand that israel and armed palestinian groups were on the list drawn up by the u.n. special repetitiveresent representative. >> it was on the report you sent up stairs and when it went

downstairs it didn't have it on any more is that true? >> yes, this means the decision of the secretary-general we are supposed to prepare the decision of the secretary-general. we are not the one who decides it. >> reporter: al jazeera has learned there was high-level lobbying by israel and the u.s. to pursued 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: and ban ki-moon vowed to political pressure. >> member states have never been shy in 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, ultimately it's the secretary-general's report. he stands by it. >> you just need to read this full report to see the obvious contradictions, the report says

the number of palestinian school children killed in 2014 was the third highest anywhere in the world and says the number of schools damaged or destroyed was the highest anywhere in 2014. and then you look at the annex of the list and listing parties and states that kill children or engage in attacks on schools and israel's name is not there. james base al jazeera, the u.n. we have more from west jerusalem. it's very unlikely that israel will make an official statement with regards of not being included on that list that the u.n. secretary-general releases every year. israel of course is very sensitive when it is included in such terms and it's very clear that the lobbying we understand that is going on by israel and the united states was successful so the government is no doubt very pleased in saying that

childs rights campaigners who are in the occupied territories are very up set at the news and you only have to look at statistics to show israel in their view is a repeated violator of children's rights and safetys and say if you look at the statistics in gaza alone during israel 50 day bombardment of the strip 500 children were killed and hundreds more injured and they say that alone would warrant israel being put on that list but again as we have been saying it would appear the lobbying by israel and the united states on the u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon was successful and the government no doubt is very pleased at that success. part of yemen's former president is welcome to u.n. brokered peace talks due to start in switzerland in a few days but general congress party of saleh says it has not been formally invited to the negotiations and the houthi

rebels fighting the government of abd rabbuh mansur hadi. israeli journalist appeared in court in iran for a second time on spying charges and he is facing up to 20 years in jail. and as we report his mother says he is guilty of nothing more than reporting on a country he loves. >> mary doesn't know what is going to happen to her son and he has been in jail in iran for almost a year. jason is the bureau chief for the u.s. newspaper the washington post and he was arrested with his wife and two photo journalists last year and the others were 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 little access to sensitive things. >> reporter: jason has been in court twice in the last month and closed door hearings on

charges that include espionage and propaganda against iran mary says she doesn't know how the trial is progressing and jason is a jewel citizen of the united states and iran who spent most of his life in the u.s. and in iran in 2008 he moved to learn more about the country. >> he is accused of being a master spy when all he was doing was reporting on a country that he loves. so it's very hard for him. very very hard for him. >> reporter: the washington post citeriticized attention and demanded released and speculation used as leverage at a time of nuclear negotiations between u.s. and iran but for his mother at the time of the anxiety and worry have the fate of her son. i'm with al jazeera. burundi's opposition objected the electoral position to delay the presidential vote to next month and say they will continue protesting until the

president ziza gives us vote for a term time and says it is unrest and others remain silent and we report from there. some of these journalists have been accused of burundi government of sympathizing and say the radio and t.v. stations were destroyed by police officers and working online from another location. >> it means being in danger. it means being hated by the government by the policeman, being hated by those who are supposed to protect you and to let you do your job. which means also being at the risk everyday to be killed at any time. the station was close to the shooting which rival army during the attempted coup in may and government officials accuse independent journalists of inciting opposition members to

protest against the president's third term bid. it's now relatively calm here but you can still see battle scars. that is the radio station that was destroyed. the police are not allowing anybody inside and some journalists have left the country, others are in hiding. government says things are different now and journalists shouldn't be afraid. >> we really want to let everybody know that the government is ready, you know to allow them to do their job as they used to do before the media outlets were destroyed. we continue to believe that this is a country for all of its citizens including journalists. >> reporter: other independent media houses were targeted before and after the failed coup, most people especially in royal burundi the president stronghold can only access it from the state media. independent journalists say they won't be silenced hoping people with access in burundi can get

the other side of the story. hundreds of people in the u.s. in texas are calling for a police officer to be fired after he was filmed throwing a teenage girl to the ground at a pool party. [whistle] dozens of protesters marched charging let's go swimming and in the video eric is seen waving a pistol at a group of black american teenagers and he has been put on leave pending an investigation. u.s. federal judge has ordered the release of a man kept in solitary confinement for 43 years and albert wood fox was convicted in 1972 for the killing of a prison guard in louisiana state penitentiary in the town of angola and these are helping students to learn and what is special about them is they do not require an internet connection and we report from

zarai in central nigeria. >> reporter: internet connection at the university is down but mohamed is not bothered he is a law student and comes here to do research using something called the egrenary a digital library that doesn't require an internet connection. egranary stores books on his computer so everyone within the institution can have access even when there is no internet. >> it gives me an up to date information unlike the normal library whereby you go, you read textbooks and sometimes which are very outdated. and this gives me opportunity not only to access libraries in nigeria but also libraries outside the world. >> reporter: the idea behind the digital library began here in nigeria. and american nonprofit organization called wider net gathers millions of books and

other educational materials that can be accessed offline and at little or no cost. >> resources like this are helping institutions with no access to the internet and providing up to date material especially for developing countries where funding for education is falling behind and our students like these can look at millions of books and other research materials off line. >> reporter: access to e resources is improving learning for students and teachers alike. >> let us use it to conduct research and writing journals and projects and sometimes we meet on the screen and sometimes we save some of the pages and print them for later use. >> reporter: still traditional libraries remain relevant and this is not changing any time soon. >> some software that really are

not to much technology and they would rather flip through the pages and then they feel much more comfortable. >> reporter: founders here have poor developing nations in mind where internet access can be a challenge and from laptops they want to expand the services to easy to carry memory sticks that can plug in a computer and only it will increase the popularity. mohamed with al jazeera, nigeria. u.s. company wants people to make room in garage for the next auto innovation the 3d printed car and customers may be able to get behind the wheel as early as 2017 and john hendron took a test drive. >> reporter: 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 out of carbon plastic on a 3d printer like this. and that is why jay rogers believe he is in the midst of transforming the auto industry as dramatically as henry ford did with the model t100 years ago. >> he did not have an internet or fedex or a third-party logistic structure and nobody had the ability to design with cad tools as we can today. if you had the tools back at the time when they created the industry they would have created it totally differently. >> reporter: the motor and suspension is to sell between $18-30,000. it's not yet approved for public roadways and it faces some big speed bumps on the road ahead like being take end seriously by critics. >> it seems a bit more like a toy and seen the car being printed out, it definitely is car size and something you can drive in but i don't know how

many people would line up to do so at least in open environments. >> reporter: motor shops like this say it misses the mark and the point of 3d printing is it's a way of speeding up design and manufacturing and this design is one of an infinite possibilities. this is a two seater electric model and the advantage of a 3d printed car it could be anything, four seater car and change the cup holders and change the power train and the manufacturing process is faster and when it's all over it's recycling so you can melt it down and build another one. rogers the grandson of the indian motorcycle company and former u.s. marine officers foresees an expanding array of styles. >> we are pretty quick in the auto industry today making a single unit and the next unit and roll them off the line every 17 seconds and takes it 24 hours to make it through the line from start to finish and we are adding the tool in the kit bag to be able to make it instead of seven years we can change the model line time to change over

down to about four months. >> reporter: if that happens perhaps one day individual owners could be able to customize not just the options inside but the design of the car itself. john hendron, al jazeera, knoxville, tennessee. check out our website. >> police question prison workers in new york as the manhunt continues for two convicted murderers who broke out of a penitentiary. >> i asked what the hell are you doing in my yard. >> the neighbors who saw the men as police try to track the convicted killers down. >> the last of the so-called angola three ordered to be released in louisiana after four decades in prison, but the