not traditionally what broadcast journalism does... >> the new home for original documentaries al jazeera america presents only on al jazeera america >> u.n.e.s.c.o. world heritage site in danger. i.s.i.l. blows up shrines around the syrian city of palmyra. hello from dae hoe. this is the world news from al jazeera. hospitals and morgues in pakistan struggle to cope. the death toll from a heatwave keeps rising. anger over electricity price hikes leads to the biggest price hike in armenia for years

not for sale amazon set to pull confederate merchandise from their sites. >> hello i.s.i.l. destroyed two islamic shrines close to t syrian city of palmyra, a u.n.e.s.c.o. world heritage site. amateurs photographs show the shrines being blown up. smoke can be seen rising from the hilltop tomb of mohammed bin there were reports that mines were laid in the city raising fears that more art factors would be lost. i.s.i.l. vowed to destroy statues and shrines, which it regards as idol worshipping. we heard from a former director at syria's department of antiquities. he said i.s.i.l. usually carries

out attacks like this. >> we no that i.s.i.s. where it does intend to commit atrocities whether it beheads people or blows them up or destroying cultural heritage it does so in a purposeful manner it demonstrates the ability of i.s.i.s. to act or respond. we have not seen this with this preparation, and it's not part of i.s.i.s.'s mo. we saw the videos released by i.s.i.s. associated with the executions. those were classic hallmark i.s.i.s. acts of atrocities usually these atrocities are committed well before and they are filmed and they are released at a specific time when i.s.i.s. needs to deflect attention from any setbacks on the battlefield. we have seen this with i.s.i.s.

when they suffer setbacks they release these atrocitiesful i think they'll save palmyra for a big setback. the importance of palmyra as a site and the attention it will attract will be tremendous. australia parliament is debating a law that would see foreign fighters with duel nationality stripped of their citizenship. the government says it's aimed of reduce numbers travelling to syria and iraq. anyone that joins the armed group that the australian government divines of a terrorist organization, and strips relatives who travel with them houthi rebels launched rockets in aiden. women and children have been injured in the anbar area as army forces loyal to the exiled president seizes a border

crossing. thousands trying to flee the fighting gathers in the province after it changed hands. in pakistan, more than 700 people have died from an intense heatwave. medical workers fear the death toll will climax patients are rushed to troops. soldiers are handing out water, but many are not drinking during the day because of the ramadan fast pakistan's commercial hub is in a state of emergency, a searing heatwave has stretched medical services in karachi to their limit. morgues are overflowing and hospitals struggling. >> translation: people get fever and weather. >> army and paramilitary set up

camps to treat people and to hand out water and dehydration assaults. >> translation: when we heard the name of the pakistan army we left everything and rushed here. we were sure that treatment and care would be better than anywhere else. >> it's not just about the weather. power cuts are common and electricity grid collapsed when the heatwave was at its worse. fans and airconditioners were inoperable. muslims observing the ramadan fast were foregoing food and water from sun up to sun down. opposition parties from criticizing the federal government's slow response to the crisis >> the federal minister for water and power gave a fantastic statement saying karachi is not his mandate. karachi is part of the pakistan federation. the whole of the pakistan no part is exempt. >> the frustration is echoed on

the street. tuesday night people in one neighbourhood burnt fires to protest against another outage. >> and this update from kamal hyder, our correspondent in the capital islamabad. >> the death toll from the heatwave crossed the 700 mark. most of those casualties in karachi, home to 20 million people. there's criticism that the government should have been informing the people about the heatwave in that area giving advisories on how to prevent heat stroke. there's an attempt to do damage control. within parliament the opposition and government are accusing each other over what happened in karachi, over the last few days not a single politician turned up at a hospital to so far support. the government has to take some

of the blame for the high casualties. however, the provincial government declared a holiday. that of course itself entails problems. a lot of people rely on daily wages. there's no compensation and most of the people are at the mercy of the radar hundreds of protesters spent a night on the armenian capital. the country's power grid is owned by a russian firm. rob matheson with this report. >> reporter: the water canon knocks him off his feet. he comes back for more. again. and again. protesters stage a sit in monday night, angry over a decision to allow a russian-opened power company to increase electricity

prices by 22%. tuesday morning, riot police moved in. they arrest more than 250 people. more than a dozen are hurt in the skirmish. the demonstrators regroup, joined by thousands more in freedom square. >> we cannot be stopped. it's not the first time we are beaten in the street by police officers. this time they were brutal. i don't know why. >> today i wouldn't allow them to touch the men with one finger. >> that's why i came here even though i'm not that healthy. >> earlier in the day the opposition walked out of parliament over the reactions of police. they demanded the release of all those detained. crowds moved on. this time about 7,000 strong towards the residents of the president. once again, those stopped by riot police but this time not

confrontation, but negotiation, support for the protesters growing. as the sun goes down. the authorities invite protesters to send a delegation to see the president. the officers considered and turned down. the sit-in continues into a second fight. those arrested are released from custody, but there's no sign of a solution to the most serious civil unrest in armenia in years. train services through the channel tunnel are back up and running a day after being shut down. the crossing was closed when striking ferry workers in calais set fire to the train tracks on tuesday. migrants tried to take advantage, jumping on to trucks waiting to cross the sunnel greeks's prime minister alexis tsipras is heading to brussels for talks. he needs to secure a debt deal by the end of this month to

avoid a default. european leaders are optimistic. as john reports, people are not convinced. >> they have heard the latest news from brussels, and they don't like it. after five months of tense negotiations. leaked documents suggest that the government is proposing to take 8 million more from a shrinking economy this year and next. pensioners are no longer convinced they are safe from fruther cuts. workers face higher taxes, making the consequences -- proposals of a deal difficult. they do not want to bring down the government after 5 months in office, but promised not to pass more austerity measure, greece's choice is between a bad deal and no deal. syriza's leading backbencher is likely to scuttle party unity if there's a whiff of austerity,

in whatever deal the government brings pack for parliament. for him the fight is about ideology and numbers. >> europe is a liberal europe. it surrendered to markets. it feeds and cultivates inquality and stagnation. this europe needs a change. people need hope for the future. greece is fighting this battle to bring the liberal cabal. if greece succeeds, all of europe succeeds. >> syriza could pass the measures. with the opposition help. divided, the government is likely to usher in new measures. that stopped the government in its tracks this year. there are decisions and conflicts elsewhere. a day earlier, in downtown athens, greeks clashed with leftists, frustration with the government increasingly obvious in the last days of talks. >> they promised our lives would change for the better. for five months we are living on the edge of our seats. we cannot plan for the future or feel hopeful.

>> syriza's approval ratings are high. it might well risk an election without a deal and no financing from its partners, that would likely lead to default on the last day of the month the followed by capital controls. an exodus from the euro may be closer than ever plenty ahead on the programme, including this... >> i'm katherine soy in western kenya, where scientists and researchers are focussing on fishing communities like this to help with malaria. i'll tell you how. and how a plan to help japanese women return to work is raising questions about traditional values.

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back with your headlines here on al jazeera. i.s.i.l. fighters in syria destroyed two ancient islamic shrines near the city of palmyra, which is a u.n.e.s.c.o. world heritage sites. mistake can be seen rising from the mohammed bin ali time cousin to prophet muhammad a heatwave in pakistan killed more than 700 people. hospitals are struggling to cope with mostly elderly patient suffering sun stroke and dehydration.

fighting in the philippines have affected generations of filipinos. 150,000 killed millions homeless on the island of minedan ou. many women kought are afraid of being kidnapped by rival clans. >> reporter: sameera's world is torn apart by shame. in 2013 she was abducted with other female members of her family. they were taken at gun point and held hostage by the capt tors for a week. the details of their capture too painful to share. >> translation: where do we go first. the military, the police we fear for our lives because we are kidnap victims. we are women in the war, this is part of our culture. >> reporter: it was a dispute

between warring clans, a century's old practice. this is an island in the southern most part of the philippines, long-held back by war and poverty. family squabbles over land and politics can escalate into armed conflict and can last for generations. women and children are at the heart of it. abduction of women is one of shame. women are used as a bargaining ship forced into memories or used as dowry. the process in the courts are slow. and women find themselves more polarized. the abduction taboo and difficult to discuss openly. instead families choose violence as a means to solve disputes. blood money is exchanged and

women left to cope with the trauma on their own. >> we need to make work in communities. one way, of course is as we said educating them. informing them about their lives and how to avail of it so they can promote these rites. >> there are those in the field helping women caught in the conflict. they are willing to provide counselling. women must not be een as a comoddity. change may not happen son. until then women are bound to suffer. burundi's ruling party boycotted u.n. led peace talks. opposition politicians and civil society attended the talks.

the it is over the president's controversial bid to stand for a third term. >> with the parties signed up to the peace deal the implementation phase must begin. james bays sat down at the u.n. in new york. >> this is a time when everyone has to celebrate hard work. perseverance efforts that have been put forward. by algeria and the united nations have paid off. all signed into an agreement. this is hope and caution that there are plenty of obstacles, and forces that do not wish to see peace and stability in mali. >> isn't the problem that the armed groups in the north, who are attacking peacekeepers on a regular basis are not the people

who signed the peace deal. >> the groups are what you refer to as terrorist groups and criminals, and narco traffickers of drugs. they are the ones that try to attack us. or try to derail the peace process. peace and stability is not good for their business. that is why they are making all efforts to derail the peace process. the main groups the main political groups coordination and the platform the main moments of what they call moments, the arab movements, all of them have committed oems to this piece process. they are fully behind them and the government. >> easily preventible. endemic in many parts of the world. a new technology to fight the

diseases. we report from an affected region. >> reporter: it's strange not to see people suffering malaria. they have one of the highest malairians. >> we have people at the community level, 100% coverage. but using that 56%, which means that people are not using that. these health workers from the international control for sneght ecology is here to install a solar powered trap. it's one of 4,200 that have been installed in the last three years. the project was a first globally. this trap has nylon laced with a human scent that trapped

mosquitos before they get into the house. we are seeing mosquitos reassistance. and soloman is using the system to prevent technology existing technologies. and education. they are more excited about the new light in her house after a lifetime. the solar light is a bonus to entice people and researchers to carry out the study. >> i'm still alive but facing health problems. if there's a way to protect my health it's not bad. >> reporter: not far from where she lies this fisherman on the showers are fishing. that's when the chances of catching malaria is highest.

the focus is shifting to amounts of malaria. many are convicted of mosquitos, out fishing at night or going about daily business. >> they are constantly mutating and eventually resist insecticide. so they have to be sa step ahead. they say they are winning the war, but there's a long way to go. in the yate a leaked autopsy report says the death of freddy gray was homicide. the baltimore sun newspaper said he died after a high number spinal injury in a place van and police failed to adhere to safety procedures. six police officers will stand trial. gray's death in police custody sparked days of riots and looting. tom ackerman with more.

>> the autopsy report reasserts the points made by the prosecutor when she ordered the indictment of the six police officers more than a month ago in that in fact freddie gray's injuries had been sustained as a result of either an acceleration or deceleration of the vap in which he -- van in which he was placed, and because he was shackled by the angles and wrists, he sustained the fatal injury and there were not sufficient safety measure implemented by the police. particularly not putting a seatbelt on him. whether this helps the prosecution or the defense, the release is questionable because effectively it shows that the authorities based only on the autopsy report will be hard to prosecute, particularly the most serious case or the serious charge, a murder charge against the driver of that pan

google and amazon are the latest companies to join the boycott of products displaying the u.s. confederate flag. the former emblem of the slave-owning south as become a modern-day symbol after the shooting of nine americans last week. alan fisher with this. 24 hours ago you could by flags, mugs and t-shirts with the confederate flag from some of america's biggest retailers. not any more sears joined wal-mart. ebay also stepped in . this trafficked to amazon, sales of its with the flag shot up by 3,000 per cent. it joined the boycott. visitors get this message.

the decision coming after dylann roof brandished the flag in several pictures, after nine worshippers were shot dead. in a church in south carolina. it led to the boycott of a flag, with opponents claiming it was a sign of racism and intolerance, and a flag used to abolish slavery in the u.s. the white house welcomed the decision from retailers. >> obviously it's a decision for individual businesses to make. the announcement from wal-mart and sears is consistent with the presitent has taken when it comes to the confederate flag. all the retailers confederate its >> all saw the confederate flags is a tiny percentage of sales. the carolina governor called for the flag to be removed. >> it's time to move the flag from the capital grounds. 150 years after the end of the civil war, the time has come. >> the u.s.'s biggest flagmaker was going to stop making the flag.

other retailers deciding if they, too, would drop the making the historic relic a thing of the past, rather than the present the japanese government is trying to encourage women to return to work after having a baby. it's dubbed women-nomics. rob mcbride with this report. >> reporter: running a nail salon from her living room. this woman is lucky enough to find a work-life solution. she can earn a living whilst raising her sun. customers, man of them working mothers as well can bring along their children. >> i wanted to work. i also wanted to raise my children. so running my salon from my home was the best way. >> reporter: other working mothers are looking for their own solutions. on a sunday afternoon, women

that left work to have children attend a catch-up course, trying to return to the same positions in the companies they left. >> translation: japan has the worst income disparity between men and women of any of the developed countries. women that leave to have children are worse off. >> reporter: faced with an ageing population, bringing women into the workforce is seen as a way to revive the economy. in doing so the government is trying to overturn an economy of discrimination. >> it's wonderful no one will ask you why you are working in the japanese tradition, where women are supposed to be stay at home. that has changed the situation and the conditions not catching up. that's the problem the policy of so-called women-nomics is good in theory, but is hampered by a lack of

child care facilities across japan. that scarcity and the cost, combined with lower wages means it doesn't make financial sense for a woman to return to work. this is a pioneer in the fooled -- field of childcare. the non-profit organization has 13 daycare centers in tokyo, and he has become an advisor to the government as it looks for ways to provide more. >> translation: this is the first prime minister to do something about working conditions for women. many spoke about it before. he is taking practical action. >> reporter: working mothers are waiting to see if the action could finally translate into a real change in their position in today's japan let's take a quick look at what is making headlines on the front page of aljazeera.com. the latest on the pakistan heatwave, as you see, heading to

800. down the left-hand side. the grey column. the team posts the news reports and social media comes up on the feed and all the indepth reports on the front page. the editor's pick at the bottom. you get it all whenever you want. aljazeera.com. n.a.t.o. troops practice repelling a russian invasion. the united states sends weapons to eastern europe. russia's leaders cultivate and support american enemies with high-profile visits. sounds a lot like the bad old days of the cold war, but it's really right there in today's headlines. could it be cold war ii. it's "inside story".