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been paying bribes to keep migrants off its shores in more than a decade. ♪ ♪ al qaeda in yemen has confirmed that its leader, nasir al-wuhayshi has been killed in a u.s. bombing. al-wuhayshi founded the group in 2007. it merged with the saudi braun of soon after. they have named its former military chivas its new leader. we are now joined on the phone by yemen analyst in in sanaa. thank you so much for being with us. just how stphraupb stphra*upb hal was al-wuhayshi within al qaeda? >> reporter: well, al-wuhayshi was a consensus leader. he he's escaped from prison in

2006 and was seen as a consensus leader. the more dangerous leader is the leader replacing him. [ inaudible ] it was announced. [ inaudible ] and now that -- you will be seeing more aggressive al qaeda. >> you say he's more dangerous. we will see a more aggressive al qaeda, talk to us about his history. where does he come from? >> well,. [ inaudible ] he comes from. [ inaudible ] he is a more consensus leader teen saudi arabia and yemen. which is different than the person replacing him. he was from the -- [ inaudible ] he's the military minds of al qaeda. behind the operations like the shoe bomb with the u.s.

he was the mind behind the assassination attempt against the deputy defense minister in saudi arabia against the u.s. embassy attack in 2008 in sanaa and against assassination attempts against military officials here in generally. and that is why i say he is more dangerous. >> in a time where isil is making significant ground in syria and iraq, where does al qaeda lie in the ring none. >> well, you have to remember the islamic state's leader was also killed a month and a half ago there. so al qaeda. [ inaudible ] the branch in yemen competing for dominance here in yemen. but isil is not making that much

gain on the ground like al qaeda. al qaeda more established in yemen. al qaeda has seven times issued statements that they do not have an alliance with isil. that they are actually competing with them. that they are not as vial. they actually used that word they are no, sir at vial as isil. they do not follow the same message as them. but, again isil is gaining some ground now. especially in the past two months as a reactionary movement to the houthi expansion in the region. >> thank you, sir, for being with us. speaking to us in sanaa. now, also caroline malone has more on the life and death of one of al qaeda's most powerful leaders. >> reporter: nasr al-wuhayshi was among four al qaeda members who launched al qaeda in yep then 2007.

two years later they merged. in december of that year a man tried to blow up a u.s. plane with explosives hitting in his under wear, aqap said they treated him. they added al-wuhayshi to their most wanted list in 2010, describing him as a specially designated goble terrorist whose lead wears responsible for approving targets recruiting members and allocating resource to his terry out attacks. including this one in 2013. they claimed responsibility for the attack on charlie help toe headquarters. they rejected calls to joined

isil. he had spent many years with osama bin laden and remained loyal to al qaeda to the end. caroline malone, al jazerra. in syria kurdish forces have cut off the main supply line to isil. they say they were take are they have retake able down. thousands of people have fled the violence heading to the turkish border town from building bernard smith now reports. >> reporter: for 14 months isil controlled this syrian town on the border with turkey. not anymore. these are fighters from the syrian-kurdish y.p.g. their flag now flies over this border crossing. the three-week assault by the y.p.g. forced thousands of people to cross to turkey. u.s.-led coalition air takes have helped the where. p.g. push through. the prize these people have paid

are homes turned to rubble. >> translator: we lost our home 10 days ago fierce fighting forced us to leave to save our children, before that life was okay. >> translator: we were terrorized by isil we left because of the heavy bombardment from both sides. but i will never go back. until there you die 100 times a day. >> reporter: the y.p.g. has had that town in its sides as a strategic points were turkey border and isil's capital in rack a isil have now lost control of the only main road to their city. this is the fourth time that turkey has opened this border most of these people have been waiting at least 24 hours to get through. they are carrying everything they can manage. for the most part they look relieved to be let through. they will processed and allowed in to turkey.

turkish police caught these isil fighters trying to escape amidst the crowds. losing it. al abyad is the most significant did he fees since it swept through northern syria two years ago. for the kurds it means for the first time control of an increasingly large area of syrian territory along the border with turkey. bernard smith, al jazerra, in turkey. eight female students have been killed in a bomb attack in iraq, two more injured by the improvised explosive device. the attack was in baquoba northwest of baghdad. there are allegations that that australian has been paying for years to keep migrants out. they are refuse to go say whether they paid people smugglers during their time in government.

the currents prime minister won't confirm in the australian navy paid strugglers to take asylum seekers back to indonesia. let's get more from andrew thomas. any clearer if these payments were made and, of course, their lee gal at this? >> reporter: well, the murky story that would already was is just getting murkier and murkier, isn't it? as to whether these payments took place, tony abbott was again asked tuesday whether these payments by australians to people smugglers to turn their boats around and sends them back to indonesia whether they have taken place he didn't so much as not answer the questions o'donnelled it entirely and answered a different one. he said the only moral thing that answered was that the boats had stopped. he didn't engage in the question whatsoever beyond that. as for the legality. that's a very interesting question. we are been talking to lawyers on tuesday and they have been

saying it basically a amounts to paying people to toll move these people. but the question is who will prosecute it. the australians will not mounts a prosecution against their own officials. there are laws within australia if it was intelligence officers, security service people who made these payments, then they are if you like, absolved from guilt they can't be prosecutessed for poe tethering the national interest. while it may be technically legal it will not be prosecuted that way. >> certainly a very complex issue and it's become more confusing now because yesterday we saw the opposition attacking the current government on the issue today they are in the same figurative boat shall we say. what are they sawing now about the allegations against them? >> reporter: as you say on monday it was the opposition

making most of the running saying the government needed to answer this question as to whether they paid people smuggleers to turn boats around at sea. on tuesday an allegation emerges that under the previous labor government payments were made to people smugglers on land for people to not put out boats in the first place. or to get information from people smuggleers in indonesia. now, labor the labor party has gosaid that they are not going to comments on anything to do with intelligence matters. because the law prevents them from doing so. they is a no payment were made at sea. bits the new government's policy to do so. nba new allegations that his other payments were made on land. and labor now is refuse to go answer those questions. so as i say what was merck on

monday was become even murkier on tuesday. >> thank you very much andrew for that. andrew thomas speaking to us from sydney. still ahead on the program stocks to try to end the war in em request en enter its second day. we'll have all of the latest. plus leaving behind misery and dezdespair, villagers in senegal are deserted as thousands try to seek a new life in europe.

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al qaeda in yemen has confirmed its leader nasser al-wuhaishi has been killed. kurdish forces in syria have retaken the town cutting off the main supply line of the islamic state of iraq and the have levant. this is their only leak to their self did declared capital rah raqqa: there are allegations that the australian has been bribing smugglers for a decade. they are not confirming if they paid. posey description president mohamed morrisey is expected to receive the final rule on his death sentence tuesday. he have sentenced to death along with dozens of others over a mass jail break during the 2011 uprising the court has been considering the recommendation of egypt's highest religious

body whether the verdict should stand. rob matheson has more. >> reporter: mohamed moore say was sworn in as egypt's first elected civilian leader and fifth president in june 2012. a leader member of the muslim brotherhood he won from backing of his supporters and voters who didn't want on the president like mubarak he promised a government working for all egyptians. but politically and economically the following 12 months were tough. morsi's opponents accused him of being a puppet of the muslim brotherhood, failing as an international statements and allowing small things to become crisis. all of that led to his removal by the military. in the days leading up to morrisey being ousted millions of supporters lined the streets of cairo. morrisey's supporters said his role was legitimate because he had been voted in to offers.

the opposition response was he was a total failure and polarized egyptian says. some estimates say there were more than 9,000 protests nationwide in the 12 months after morrisey election. hopes that the economy would improve were dashed. inflation soared. food prices skyrocketed and fuel shortages became part of every day life. sectarian tension rose to the surface. morrisey was praised for reining in the military but criticized for throwing out rules imposed by the supreme council of armed forces which restricted his powers he decided to give himself authority to overrule the judiciary it was supposed to be temporary but judges went on strike until morrisey was forced to tear up the decree. in a speech almost a year after his election when morrisey considered he had made mistake but for many egyptians it was already too late.

millions rallied across-y jump calling for his resignation the days later the man he appointed as defense minister led a coup that removed him from power sisi was now the running the country. interrupt authority launched a contract talk on morsi supporters, more than 1400 people were killed. morsi and many of his followers began a long wait in jail. rob matheson, al jazerra. houthi rebels have arrived in geneva for u.n.-brokered talks to end the war in yemen. >> they had been delayed in djibouti. the u.n. secretary general opened the talks on monday calling for an immediate ceasefire, our correspondent is live for us now in geneva let's cross to him. now, we have several opposing sides here that are coming together in geneva. will all of the parties meet face-to-face? >> reporter: the chances for both parties to meet face-to-face are slim because of

the huge political divisions between them, but we do understand that the united nations are meeting later today with representatives of the houthi delegation which arrived today to geneva. and basically they'll try to tackle the biggest issue which is basically come to an agreement on a ceasefire to be implemented in the coming days that would pave the way for the international aid to flow in to generally. >> explain to us then, we know this is not a peace summit. it's talks to try to implement some sort of ceasefire, what would be the basis for the ceasefire. >> reporter: well, basically this is the problem that you have for the time being. the representatives of the government say these are not political talks. these are representatives of a legitimate government meeting with the international community, trying to convince the houthis, who they accuse of staging a coup against

legitimacy, to step aside. to put out from the areas that they control and to disband. this is something which has been so far rejected by the houthis. saying that they are the ones that have the upper hands on the ground. and when you look at the map of yemen you see that forces loyal to the houthis and president saleh, control a huge swath of land that stretches from sadder to aidan and despite the air strikes launched by the saudis they still manage to maintain momentum across the country. therefore they say we are the ones that have bigger political representation. this is a problem that the i international community is trying to overcome. force all the factions in to significant concessions so that they can start political talks about how to move forward. >> thank you. on the progress of the talks on the yemen conflict in geneva. now, bangladesh's highest court has upheld the death sentence of a high-profile

politician. he was found guilty in 2013 of war crimes committed in 1971. he was the secretary general of the islam-y part, it is one of bang losbangladesh's largest opposition parties. and one of the largest rebel groups in the philippines is starting the first phase of the decommissioning process, they will hand over weapons and fighters. it's all part of a peace deal that was signed with the government last year. let's get more on the issue with stephen ru. d who is the philippines representative for the asia foundation and joins me now from bangkok, thank very much for being with us, steven of after decades of fighting and negotiations, what explain to us what has prompted this group to hand over their weapons now. >> they were are they are part

of a conviction to move to electoral politics. of course you can't have an armed group taking part in normal follow ticks. so they are believing in the sincerity of the current government and trying to demonstrate their sincerity by this did he commissioning of weapons . >> sill the decommissioning of 75 how ohio-powered weapons and 145 fighters out a larged armed group doesn't seem like much progress. >> sometimes they refer to it as symbolic decommissioning the first time they do it. the plan is to do thousand of fighters as the decommissioning boding has storage not weapons. there are guards for the weapons and socioeconomic programs for those that turn in their weapons. >> now, where does this then leave the pursuit of self determination for the people? after all that's the issue you that was central to the

conflict. >> absolutely. there is a peace agreement that has several components one of which is the decommissioning of weapons and amnesty and redeployment of the armed forces of the philippines. another is development that goes along with it. the third component is the political aspect where a law is working its way through congress unfortunately rather slowly to allow them to govern their own region. >> thank you very much, sir, for being with us and your insight. stephen rood the philippines country representative for the asian foundation. >> thank you. the families of many young men who attempt the journey from senegal to europe never ever hear from them again. 700 migrants, among them 200 senegalese died while trying to cross the mediterranean sea in april. nicholas hack reports from a major transit point for

migrants. >> reporter: the silence is haunting. almost a year without a drop of rain. there is an eerie sense that something is terribly wrong here here. at a stall we immediate mohamed we ask him where all velshi all the farmers gone? at first he won't say. but once behind closed doors he shows us the picture of his brother. he's gone to europe he says, like all the others. last year's harvest was bad. >> translator: we spoke to him just before he embarked on a boat from libya to italy. after that the smugglers told us that the boat had a problem and he made it across, it's been weeks and we still haven't heard from immaterial had. >> reporter: 700 people drowned the night his brother tried to cross the mediterranean. it was his first time at sea. more than a month later, they

have had no word from him. no one else has contacted them either, not the government, not the aid agencies. the smugglers just a few kilometer as way are their only point of contact. it took weeks of negotiation for us to talk to them. on the other line the smuggler says he's responsible for the traffic of most migrants from senegal and neighboring country to his our think i couldn't say if his brother made it or not. i asked him if he felt responsible for the 10s of thousands who die attempting to go to europe. >> reporter: those migrants for wake it to italy send money back. they are the lifeline of this village. but countless fail to make it. on just one night, an estimated

200 people from this area have gone missing. no signs of life after boarding a boat that was meant to take them to europe. a sense of guilt has descended on this village. and this silence he and his family still dare to hope. but he might never really know whether his brother is alive or deep under the mediterranean sea. along with all of the other young men who once farmed this land. nicholas, al jazerra, at the sen graham-gambia border. more mers cases in south korea has people questioning the government's control measures. there has been a further four new infections bringing the total number of cases to 154. disinfection operations are underway in public spaces like this internet cafe. pakistan says it has managed to sale its first ever fighter jets

at the paris air show. it's not known which country made the order or how many have been sold. the jf17 jets were developed with help from china. it's official, jeb bush is running. the former governor of florida has officially launched his bid for the white house. bush is a republican contender and his brother and father served as u.s. presidents. but jeb bush is now distancing himself zell from his political pedigree andy gallagher explains from miami. >> i present to you the next president of the united states of america jeb bush! >> reporter: john bush better known as jeb is no strange fore florideans, he served two terms as the state's governor and comes from one of the north america's foremost political families. he hasn't been governor fore nearly a decade but apparently he's been watching from the sidelines and as anticipated now wants to take center stkpwhraeupblg here is what it comes down to. our country is on a very bad course. and the question is, what are we

going to do about it? the question for me -- the question for me is what am i going to do about it? and i have decided i am a candidate for president of the united states of america. [cheering and applause] of. >> reporter: the 62-year-old promised a brighter future declaring that america deserves better but he's had a difficult few weeks questions over whether he would have supported the war in iraq revealed an apparently unprepared jeb bush initially he called the questions hypothetical. days later he said he wouldn't have supported the war knowing what he knows now but none of that dampen the spirits of his supporters. >> god is the one choose jeb bush right now. it's the time of jeb bush to become the president of united states. >> on people rising up. >> reporter: it's reported that jeb bush has raised close to $100 million. but his plans to offer a path to

citizenship for undocumented workers may alienate him from the party's more conservative voters. he's also a politician that could help the republican party win hispanic votes businesses in the latino community say they will be watching his campaign closely. >> he's one of several candidates on the republican primary. and several on the democratic side. more that enter the more the information takes place and hopefully the conversations always revolve around, you know, our economy. >> reporter: no notably absent from his official announcements were his father and brother both former presidents. and his campaign posters don't carry the family name either. critics say the bush legacy is something that could hold jeb bush back. over the past few weeks jeb bush has continually insisted that he is his own man but his family name is both a help and a hindrance. team jeb say over the next few weeks and months they will show that this candidate is the best republican to win the

presidential election in 2016. this is the beginning of a long road for jeb bush. he has promised to run a positive campaign but now one of 11 candidates vying for his party's nomination. andy gallagher, al jazerra miami, florida. more on our website at al jazerra.com. thieves, and spies. plus, digital warfare. how the enemy half a world away lurks a click away from your family online. hackers have twisted the internet into a weapon that threatens the security of individuals, companies, and nations. the latest victims are current and former u.s. federal