>> sudan's president bashir flies home flouting the direction is of the international criminal court. hello there i'm felicity barr and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up: chaos on the turkish border, as thousands of syrians flee fighting between i.s.i.l. and kurdish forces. talks over yemen in geneva.

and jeb bush confirms he will run for the republican presidential nomination. will it be bush against clinton once again? hello, sudan's president omar al bashir back in country after fled an arrest warrant in south africa. arrived in khartoum. flew out of the johannesburg earlier on monday. searchg's highsouth africa's high court is launching an investigation why he was not kept in the country. want ed by the international criminal court claims that he committed atrocities during the darfur conflict. more details from johannesburg. >> the south african government has seven days to respond to a

request by the high court. the president went to a south african summit and was ordered to stay in the country to allow for his arrest by the south african government. despite that bashir left earlier on monday and since then a high court has said south africa's flouted international law as well as the order set out by the high court and this is in line with south africa's sentiment as well as with the african union to get away from the international criminal court where bashir is wanted for crimes against humanity. >> earlier a representative of the international criminal court told barnaby phillips that it is

looking into south africa's requirement to be follow their orders. >> which they have being ignored with impunity. >> now it is up to the icc to make a legal determination whether indeed there was a noncompliance by south africa and whether if such a finding is made it should be communicated to the parties for the council and the assembly to take any measure they deem appropriate to assure this cooperation. >> but sudan's foreign minister ibrahim handel was critical of the icc. >> these attempts are meant to disturb our harmony and we believe that the sudan government will have a firm, strict instance against any country taking such, it is a

matter of sovereignty. we are a sovereign state. the president is elected 50 people of sudan. and you have been all following all these statements of lame and meaningless. >> joining me live is an international criminal lawyer and senior researcher at the institute for security studies in pretoria, thank you so much for being with us on the program. south africa previously indicated it would hand over bashir but he decided to go anyway. does that suggest he had no fear of being arrestin south africa? >> immediately prior to the arrival that it was not likely they would arrest him. >> how much of this is being the case then of the south african government lineing up completely

be opposite to the south african judiciary? >> it's unlikely that the president was involved in the final decision however it is a huge shift from south africa's own position in the past where they did instead tell al bashir not to travel to south africa because he could risk being arrested. and in not complying with the decision of the high court is the south african government through its various departments actually can be found in contempt of court if such a case is brought forward. >> so just how embarrassing do you think this is for south africa? >> i think on many levels it is embarrassing because they haven't been consistent on their point of view on international governance. they would have told you they are in full support of the icc

and full support of international criminal justice. less than seven days later we are herring a completely different story. so there's a tale of inconsistency and perhaps it will be embarrassing for them when they do appear in be the international court. >> the african union has repeatedly said it believes the icc is biased against african nation. it sounds that the south african government is siding with the african union. do you agree? >> absolutely. led to a decision this was a decision that the au not only supports but in fact encouraged. and so south africa in many ways decided to align itself with the african union on this and not with the international criminal court. >> an authority that anyplace

now in african as a continent where bashir can no longer go or is he safe right across the continent? >> well, the sense this is something that we have to take is if and when it comes. he has traveled to a number of member-states to the african union, as well as to the icc. at the same time several meetings have been moved to zambia an international conference to the great lakes region was moved because zambia is a state party and so not help bashir. moved to malawi after malawi refused to invite ba sthoir attend. there are some countries where he's unlikely to be able to travel. that being said, with the recent au position and the south

african be be position, be thoughts may be changing. >> thank you for joining us live on al jazeera. where. >> thousands of syrians have fled across the border, to r cushedz ypg fighters say they have most of talabyad, be close to the i.s.i.l. stronghold of raqqa. where. >> reporter: for 14 months i.s.i.l. controlled this syrian town on the border with turkey. not anymore. these are fighters from the syrian kurdish ypg. their flag now flies over this

border crossing. forced thousands of people to cross. u.s. led coalition air strikes have helped the ypg pushing through. the price these people have paid are homes turn to rubble. >> we lost our home ten days ago. fierce fighting forced us to leave to save our fighting. before that life was okay. >> reporter: >> translator: we were terrorized by i.s.i.l left because of heavy bombardment from both sides. i will never go back, there you die 100 times a day. >> strategically important connection between the turkish border and i.s.i.l.'s effective capital in raqqa 80 kilometers away. they have now lost control of the road to their city. most of these people have been waiting at least 24 hours to get through, they're carrying

everything they can manage. for most part they look relieved to have gotten through. they will now be processed by the turkish authorities and allowed into turkey. beturkish authorities caught these trying to be blend into the crowds. northern syria and for the kurds it means for the first time chrome of an increasingly large area of syrian territory along the border with turkey. burnd smith, al jazeera turkey. talks over yemen started in geneva without the houthi delegation. they have been delayed in be djibouti.

>> reporter: the united nations secretary-general was hoping to meet all sides of the yemen's beyemen's conflict. houthis missed, their plane was refused permission to fly to switzerland. an opportunity to pull yemen from the brink of disaster. >> today yemen's very existence hangs in the balance. why parties bicker, yemen burns. the responsibility to end the fighting and begin the real process of peace and reconciliation. >> ban ki-moon called for two week truce.

the saudi arabia delegation blamed the houthis for the continued fighting. >> withdraw from all the be unless they stop all fighting on the ground. unless they release hostages, prisoners. >> reporter: meaningful talks will start when the houthis arrive in geneva. for now neither the houthis nor the government seeming to win to make concessions. >> translator: we are not happy with this version of taking the security matters in our hands. who is going to fill in this vacuum this state institution police and army are not able even to protect themselves. >> reporter: fighting continues across yemen. in the city of ta'izz, forces loyal to president hadi said they repelled a houthi

offensive. the united nations fears all out civil war if the talks collapse. yemen's neighbors and key international players are here. they don't seem to have a united approach on how to solve the country's problems but all agree the humanitarian crisis must end. be be be hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera, geneva. >> still ahead on the program. australia's prime minister under fire from claims that australia bribed peoplebribed people smugglers.

>> welcome back. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. sudan's president omar al al bashir has returned back to sudan be attempt to have him arrested and sent to the international criminal court on war crime charges. thousands have fled over the border with turkey. kurdish forces have reported taking most of the border town of talabiat. >> peace talks in geneva, houthis have been delayed in djibouti. talks are expected to resume on tuesday.

claims that australian navy bribed people smugglers to take be migrants back to indonesia. from sydney andrew thomas reports. >> did australia pay smugglers to return these asylum seekers to indonesia? on monday, australia's prime minister was asked repeatedly to confirm or deny the allegations. he refused. >> the consistent position of this government has been not to comment on the operational details of what -- >> be silent on my list. >> what has been done to stop the boats. >> reporter: but stopped by bribing smugglers? the allegation is that six crew members on a boat carrying asylum seekers were paid $5,000 each to turn around. >> they did confirm to us that the australian authorities can pay money to the boat crew and

if that in fact was the case and they were alternated back away into the open seas it would go against everything that we are advising and urging states to did in this type of situation. >> reporter: turning boats around means not helping asylum seekers on board and paying people smugglers not to smug could encourage others to start. >> translator: such payment if true could become a incentive to fishermen to get into a race for cash for helping smug asylum seekers. >> paying someone to smug asylum seekers anywhere, it's not likely to happen. >> the question of legality but also a question of what's right or wrong on any face of it, this would be wrong. >> indonesian government leaders are demanding answer he and

summoning ambassadors in jakarta. >> i need the opportunity to talk to him directly because we are really dpernd it is true. >> indonesia has launched its own investigation too. would australia's government really pay criminals not to commit a crime? last week the very idea seemed ludicrous. but the prime minister's nondenial and mounding concern in indonesia has many feeling they must have done. for now australia's government is standing firm, the relationship with indonesia and to widespread dereiteration at home and abroad. where andrew thomas, al jazeera sydney. internal report investigating sexual abuse and exploitation. regularly pay for sex with local women using cash and local goods. currently has 125,000 troops and

police with deployed in 16 operations around the world. in 2003 it placed a ban on peace keepers paying for sex. earlier we spoke for stefan durac, the spokeman for u.n. secretary-general is ban ki-moon. >> those soldiers go back home after they they may be expelled. it is incumbent on those countries to help us track down what has actually happened. have they gone to court have they gone to jail have they paid a price for the crimes they have committed. it is the secretary-general's intention to name the countries of origin of troops who have committed sexual abuse in his next report that's coming out next year. but again the relationship

cannot be adversarial it needs to be a partnership and a lot of the responsibility falls on member states. >> believed to be responsible for attacks in which 60 people died last year. attack happened near coastal town of pecatoni. be catherine soycatherine soy has the report. >> people in pecatoni queue for a view of the be bodies. attack started in pecatoni. thomas evans converted to islam when he was 19 and came to fight

alongside al shabaab four years ago. >> thousands of people have come to view the bodies. the air is thick with the stench. the reason the public viewing is going on so people can help in the identification but also to boost public confidence in the ability of security forces to zeal with al shabaab. symon's brother was shot dead during the attack in pecatoni. >> killed our loved ones last year. today we came to see for ourselves and now we go home feeling that we are being protected. >> reporter: government planned to carry out with -- government felt shabaab planned to carry out multiple attacks. >> on going we cannot relent, we can't sleep and we can't even

say we are calling off the cooperation. >> esther could not bring herself to view the bodies, instead she came to the memorial plaque put up to honor those who died in last year's attack. her husband for 30 years was found in his car. catherine soy, al jazeera pecatoni somewhere. >> suicide bomb on motorcycles simultaneously attacked two buildings. one went off at a police academy. so far there's been no claim for responsibilities. pope francis has offered his personal help in the colombian peace process. juan manuel sanchez met with the pope in rome. peace negotiations for two and a half years have been ongoing.

>> the former florida governor jeb bush is launching his campaign to win the republican nomination for the 2016 presidential election. both his father and brother were presidents and he is among the favorites to win the nomination. he is understood to raise a record amount of money to fund his campaign. let's join al jazeera's andy gallagher life where he's waiting for jeb bush to speak and what is he likely to say nbs his speech, andy? this was the candidate that was supposedsupposed to suck the oxygen out of the room. the man with the huge war chest that things haven't really gone according to plan. just a couple of weeks ago he

tripped over a question about iraq and when he would have done in the situation, in which bush was in and just last week many of the key members of his campaign team were fired and replaced with other people. but of course this is the early days. other critics of course are pointing to the campaign slogan here jeb no sign of the family name there so where critics say he's separating himself from the family. this is early days. he wasn't to have raised the money he said he would have done. >> there is an extraordinary amount of money that is spent on these campaigns. as you say what, a total of i think it's 11 now isn't it other competitors he faces all of them of course having to hin diser

him on his campaign. many of the other candidates returning for the nomination of younger be fresher and more conservative than jeb bush is, when he was governor in california he was considered conservative. the party has moved over to the right making him more of a moderate these days. says he can reach out to the voters that republicans don't get, hispanics and african americans and that could win him the nomination but there's certainly a long way to go from now and that nomination. >> andy, yes we could be seeing another bush versus clinton campaign in the states.

is. >> many people in this country saying that's a shame bush potentially in 2016, there are plenty of analysts i've spoken to who think potentially neither of these candidates could be arnld at that point. there is more than a year to go before the primaries come around. all sorts of people all sorts of candidates in this field anything could happen. more than ayear, well it's a lifetime. >> andy gallagher live in miami thanks so much. an arctic bound drilling rigs has left the u.s. city of seattle surrounded by protesters in boats. greenpeace said 13 protesters in kayaks were arrested when they tried to stop the rig from leaving. is a spill would be almost impossible to clean up. now one of the aviation

industry's most important events has just opened in paris. the paris air show is the place where deals are done between planner makers and airlines. on monday qatar airlines signed a deal to buy 17 boeing 777 jets, worth more than $5 billion. have rivals airks and boeing will focus on the challenge of building the $1.8 trillion of jets they've already sold. airbus believes demand from airlines will rise 4%, al jazeera kamal santa maria is in paris. >> if you own planes, have anything to do with planes want to buy planes chance he are you'll be here at the salon de

borget. , the sample here the you a-380 the behemoth of the air. the emirates of dubai is expanding, new orders for this plane are in single figures and there's question whether the plane can be fuel efficient enough. this plane boeing sphaifn 787 dreamliner. garuda wants 30 of these. intent to buy 30 of those again it tells you about the hesitation in the market and saudi airlines from the kingdom of saudi arabia says it wants to buy 20 regionals.

the big stuff is just not coming through at the moment. however we do have to remember it is just 75 months to the next big air show in du by. >> much more ondubai. >> much more to talk about. the address is aljazeera.com. ps 100 billion usd in reconstruction money spent here intended to forge a peace after more than a decade of blood shed. so where is it? >> nobody was in charge. nobody was held accountable for basically wasting billions of activity. afghanistan.