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digital addiction. ♪ let's begin in syria where kurdish fighters say they have driven out i.s.i.l. from a base nothing of the group's stronghold the kurdish people took control of 93 base and backed by u.s. air strikes and observatory for human rights say they pushed i.s.i.l. back to the outskirts and it's important because it links it to other outposts in aleppo to the west and fighting is still ongoing in the i.s.i.l. heldtown 50 kilometers north of raqua city and says syrian kurdish fighters are well coordinated with the

local coalition and brigades. >> not as much progress in a continuous manner that is largely because the leadership and commanding control is not well and don't want in state. this is something that is very controversial and something that the turkish government is very worried about. but i think that at least at the moment the kurds are saying they want to have an an a atonomous rule and it will plunge the area in more disarray. since the city on the turkish border and liberated by the kurds last week we saw a steady stream of people returning and these are the very people that islamic state were accused of ethnically cleansing and we need to be very careful not to let anything go here. i mean there is a lot to be

optimistic about here and we just need to watch very closely and show that the kurds do hold true to their word. a u.s. air strike in iraq has killed an i.s.i.l. fighter linked to an attack on the u.s. consulate in the u.s. city of benghazi and the pentagon said he was killed in a strike in mosul last week and u.s. ambassador to libya and three other americans were killed in a 2012 attack. fighting in libya has killed at least 17 forces loyal to the u.n. recognized government of tobruk and they have been launching attacks north and west of the city. troops have withdrawn from their positions in the west leaving behind weapons and ammunition. libya has two rival governments, one in tobruk and one in tripoli. the death toll now surging to 450 and most casualties in

karachi with temperatures reaching 45 degrees celsius and hospitals are swamped and people having dehydration and power outages leave no air condition conditioning and no running water and we have more from the capitol. >> government announcing 450 have been killed by the ongoing heat wave that has affected the province of pakistan's fourth largest city and also home to 20 million people. it was already saturday when people started feeling symptoms of heat stroke many were rushed to the hospital putting a severe strain on the city's hospital systems. according to some reports a few thousand people were admitted in the hospital and morgues overwhelmed with bodies brought to the morgues and saying to

bury the dead as soon as possible. the government also announcing some relief measures by instructing the natural disaster management authority to set up relief camps. also the pakistan rangers which is a para military forces in charge of the security operation in karachi also announcing they will set up relief camps and metrologist department has good news saying the monsoon season has now ended and temperatures are likely to go down and will mean some relief to the city's population. euro zone leaders are hopeful a deal on the bail out could be sealed saving the country from economic disaster and greece submitted a new budget giving it access to desperately needed funds and the ball is in the course of european authorities and phil has more from brussels. >> reporter: the perfect way to

start the day and greece's prime minister had a lot to grin about first thing, this was a man with a plan to get his country that next chunk of bailout cash it desperately desperately needs but smiles did not last and showed up 45 minutes late and said they could not accept the country proposals yet because they had not been given enough time to digest them and the euro group president put it as positively as he could. >> it's a step in the positive direction so i think it's also an opportunity to get that deal this week and that is what we will work for. >> reporter: two people at that press conference but christie stayed behind the scenes the boss of the imf, the international monetary fund one of those greece has to pay. at the last meeting on thursday it descended into something more heated. she kept out of sight this time. officials were keen to play down

her no show. as evening fell the euro zone leaders arrived, they had to, the cameras were waiting and catching up over dinner they will not be about to toast a deal. >> translator: what greece presented today is a certain progress but the discussion made it clear that there is still a lot of work to be done. >> translator: we need to continue the negotiations for a few days a few hours, the next two days and that is precisely because we don't want a fragmented, short term agreement and seeking a comprehensive and viable solution. >> reporter: this is about showing solidarity being slightly bullish and convincing the world the euro zone is strong. this waiting second platers from pulling out of greece, phil with al jazeera at the european council in brussels. jane is a senior currency

strategist in london and says if a deal is reached greece still has a lot of work to do. >> the proof is in the puddling and a long way to go. this is a short-term fix for greece and whether or not it's a long-term fix is very dubious and likely greece's problems will keep coming back in the headlines for the next five years and maybe beyond that. what this program is aiming to do is trying to get greece in a budget with 1% of gdp and 2% next year and 3 after that and if it has a budget surplus that can go to paying down the debt and paying off creditors. once again if we look at the greek economy a lot of damage has been done in terms of greek growth. a lot of investors put off by the the shanannigans this year and it's crippled for a 1% deficit is quite a big ask and consider

the u.k. economy has growth but the budget deficit is 4-5 and that is a contrast and to grease and it's very likely the problems will extend for some years to come. foreign minister calling the arrest of the country's spy chief an outrage and acted on european arrest warrant forward crimes and he is accused of appraisal killings after the 1994 genocide and expected in court in london on thursday. u.s. retail giant walmart says it is removing all items promoting the confederate flag from its stores and website and it's brewing over the flag after the killing of nine people in charleston and patty has more from washington d.c. >> the issue of the confederate flag in south carolina has been an issue for decades and what is different now is dylann-roof the

shooter of people in a church in south carolina has been shown in posts holding the confederate flag directly linking the crime to the flag and they say it's time for the flag to go and ceo said there was a huge social media campaign and here is what the governor of south carolina says should happen. >> the murderer locked up in charleston said he hoped his actions would start a race war. we have an opportunity to show not only was he wrong but that just the opposite is happening. my hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us we could move forward as a state in harmony and we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in heaven. [applause] now, the governor says she wants legislature to take this up immediately, if not she will call all special sex but do have to vote and agree to move the flag. not clear if that is going to happen and u.s. president barack obama is making an issue with racism and did something unusual and did an interview with a

comedian in his garage for a podcast and it was released on monday and here is what the president had to say. >> racism we are not cured of clearly and it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say niger in public that is not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. >> reporter: the white house said the president wasn't trying to be provocative or spark debate but that is what happened and a lot of people are talking about what the president had to say. still to come on al jazeera violence and claims of racism in bangladesh, 20 years after a peace agreement and japan's internet addicts hooked on line for 15 hours a day. ♪

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into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. welcome back and let's recap the headlines on al jazeera, kurdish fighters driven out i.s.i.l. north of the stronghold and 93 base is important because it links it to other outposts in the east and west. death toll in pakistan is now surging towards 450 from a scorching heat wave. most of the casualties have been in the southern port city of karachi where temperatures reached 45 degrees celsius and the hospital are swamped with people with heat stroke and dehydration. moving closer to reaching a debt deal with greece and discussing a proposal and the cash-strapped

government needs to pay $1.8 billion by the end of the month. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu flamed the war in gaza as flawed and bias and both israel and palestinian groups may have committed war crimes during the conflict and james base reports from the u.n. in new york. >> reporter: should war crime charges following last summer's gaza war, that is the key question posed by the release of a report by the u.n. commission of inquiry into the war, a conflict that killed well over 2000 people. the panel's findings criticized palestinian armed groups for extra judicial executions of those claimed to be collaborators but there was particularly strong condemnation of israel's indiscriminate bottom boardment. >> attacks on homes and families which led to large numbers of family members dying together

when their homes were struck in the middle of the night or as they were gathering for the meal and these attacks had particular consequences for children and approximately 551 children died last summer. >> reporter: israeli parliament prime minister benjamin netanyahu attacked the commission. >> the united nations human rights council has an obsession with israel and passed more resolutions against israel than against syria, north korea and iran combined and more against israel than all of the countries of the world combine so israel treats this report as flawed and biased and urges all fair-minded observer observers to do the same. >> reporter: criticism from hamas. >> all the time they tried to be bias and tried to make kind of equality between the killers and the victims and this is

something that is not currently accepted. >> reporter: the latest report comes two months after another internal u.n. report which said israel was responsible for attacks on seven u.n. buildings. the timing of all of this is significant, earlier this year palestine became a member of the international criminal court. chief prosecutor has already launched what is called a preliminary examination, a process to decide if it's a launch of formal investigation and in the next few days she will have more evidence to sift through as palestinian diplomates are expected to hand over a batch of documents to the court in the hague. james base al jazeera, united nations. senior research in the africa division of human rights watch and says the big question now is what happens next. >> the report is very strong and i think that you know viewers who are interested in what it

actually says should read it. it's publically available and they shouldn't listen to the denunciations by prime minister netanyahu who i kind of doubt has gone through the report it's extraordinarily strong in terms of evidence, the number of cases it looked at are documented in great detail and that evidence backs up those conclusions which are that you know despite the sort of attempted white washing of israeli violations of the laws that may amount to war crimes the report takes all of those executions and potential justifications into account and really shows that they don't work and it's the same on both sides of a very fair and very strong and hard hitting report. what we have seen over the last year since the major conflict in gaza in 2008 2009 which israelis called operation cast led there were only a very small handful of low-level soldiers prosecuted for wrongdoing and saw the deaths of hundreds of

civilians in the want offensive yanukovich property in gaza. the longest sentence was for a soldier who stole a credit card and impunity on israeli side is really bad and this report by itself can't change that. this is just a report. the real question is what does the international community do with this report how much weight do they throw behind the report and how much weight do they throw behind the international criminal court which has an ongoing examination of hostilities and also israeli settlements right now. jewish ethiopians in israel fought with security forces against police brutality, at least 17 people arrested during confrontations in the center of tel aviv and regular demonstrations after video emerged allegedly showing an israeli being beaten by police in april. china angered by japan's involvement in navel patrols in

disputed in the south china sea and philippine is carrying out military exercise with the u.s. and japan on an island not far and the maritime standoff comes as senior officials in china and u.s. hold diplomatic talks in washington d.c. japan's prime minister heckled while leaving a memorial marking the world war ii battle of okinawa and told to go home during the event to mark the 70th anniversary and protests mounting against building a new u.s. air base in the bay. the vice chairman of south korea samsung apologized for failing to do enough to stop middle east respiratory syndrome and half of the 175 mers cases in south korea have been traces to the samsung medical center in seoul. >> translator: our sample

samsung center was unable to stop the spread and concern to the public i bow my head in apology. the tracks in bangladesh has been disputed territory since 1977 when an armed group of people began fighting with the army, a peace deal was signed in 1997 but the area remains tense. many residents feel oppressed and we went to hear their story. for decades the people of the hill tracks have been resisting occupation. by the bangladesh army and by increasing numbers of bengoli customers and conflict continues to flare-up regularly. and muslims here have repeatedly attacked buddhist villages and temporals and we spoke to victims and would only meet in a safe house because they are too scared to be seen being interviewed in their homes.

>> translator: i could barely seen, my eyes full of tears and this is my home and father's home in flames and my life was burning in front of me. >> translator: it was shameful when they mobbed my car and the army stood and watched while the mob beat me up me an elected official. >> reporter: the army denies it had any role in the riots. just near the other side of this border is the area in myanmar where buddhist from the state are accused of persecuting the rohingya which they say are from bangladesh. over here what is happening is the opposite. and ethnic been bengoli are accused in the city. and settlers deny they played a part over indigenous groups. >> they attacked our farms and we merely staged a protest

against this. >> reporter: he says it's the bengolis here who need more protection. >> translator: the so called indigenous people here are terrorists. the whole world know they have loads of illegal arms and use force to extort us bengolis and attack us. >> reporter: government order say they cannot talk freely to researchers and al jazeera contacted several ministries about this ban but did not receive a response. activists say it adds weight to their claims that the hill tracks are in a state of occupation and settlers continue to arrive in greater numbers the problems here don't look like they will be solved any time soon. al jazeera, hill tracks bangladesh. over 750 leaders of oil has been recovered after a massive oil spill in the u.s. state of texas. authorities are investigating the cause of the accident. it has forced the closer about

182 meters of coastline. the spill was discovered three days ago by the coast guard. tech giant apple has reversed its policy on music royalty payment after award winner taylor swift wrote a letter criticizing the company and we report from los angeles. >> reporter: pop music mega star taylor swift took a bite out of apple denouncing the plan to pay performing artist nothing for the first three months of the new apple streaming service and swift said she would not allow ap toll play her new up coming album on the service explaining in a blog post saying this is not about me it's about the new artist or band that just released their first single and will not be paid for its success. three months is a long time to go unpaid. >> her letter was saying wait a minute, there is something here that is not good for artists and

i object. >> reporter: one of those artists is patrick mcrath who is trying to scrape by in the hub of brooklyn new york where emerging artists try to break in the big time. ♪ he describes himself as a needle in a hipster hey stack. >> i don't think people really see the big picture like some of your favorite bands for instance. they need to make money they continue to do that. >> reporter: swift's outcry got a swift response sensing a public relations disaster apple music capitulated saying it would pay artists during the three-month introductory people and spotify and pandora pay record labels and artists and song writers royalties but the amounts are very small, a few fractions of a cent per listen

and most artists know they will not get rich from their music. >> if you are not at taylor swift income level it's a stressful dance and interplay of what they must do as artists, whether they can make money, how are they going to get paid and i think realistically many artists realize the record industry has been really, you know pummeled by digital technology. >> reporter: digital technology has given artists an unprecedented avenue to reach a worldwide audience but the technology companies see that art as mere content and pay artists as little as they can get away with. how that will affect music going forward remains a work in progress. rob reynolds al jazeera, los angeles. european space agency launched a new satellite to take color images of the earth and carrying the two-way satellite

took off from french as part of the project which aims to provide detail picture to monitor natural disasters and forecasts. more than half a million japanese teenagers are thought to be addicted to the internet and now the government has begun the first digital detox program to deal with increasing problem and therapists say japan has been slow to recognize the harmful effects on the young on being constantly online and rob mcbride reports from tokyo. >> reporter: at an internet cafe in tokyo the booths are largely empty during the day. the manager tells it's at night the place comes alive and when the arrows of gaming or surfing have taken their toll customers can exchange this capsule for one in a capsule hotel downstairs never leaving the premises that is if they can sleep.

inability to sleep is a symptom of internet addiction that he has to treat. his clinic here is one of a handful in japan treating internet addicts. >> translator: in the worst cases kids drop out of school and not able to catch up with curriculum and kids like that will have problems like not being able to sleep which needs to be tackled in addition to the addiction. >> reporter: the district is on a busy weekend and offers the latest devices for a gadget obsessed generation. views here very on what counts too much online time. >> translator: if you use it too much it's not good for you. >> translator: i'm online about ten hours a day which is okay. >> translator: i don't think it's wrong because it's just the way we live. >> reporter: as with any addiction part of the problem is failing to recognize it as a problem and the government now estimates more than half a

million teenagers may be addicted to the internet and in need of help and for some extreme cases the solution may be the tough love of complete digital detox. advertising their services online of course are centers to treat addiction with complete internet fasting. leaving your device at the door can be a wrench. at the height of his add december shun -- addiction would be online 15 hours a day and digital dependency let him write a book encouraging others to love offline time. >> at weekends when you are meant to be resting if you are connected online you are not resting. people need to take time away from digital gadgets and disconnect and then you can have an imagination and encourage face-to-face communication. >> reporter: advice from someone who has been there to a

generation increasingly connected to the world and disconnected from the person next to them. rob mcbride, al jazeera tokyo. if you want more on the stories you know where to go head over to our website at al jazeera.com. as our machines got smarter and smarter technologyists said hey, don't worry, they on the know what they tell them. when certified smart guys like physicists steven hawking says wait a minute, you are playing