this is al jazeera. >> hello there. and this is the news hour. live from london, coming up. south africa's president said the police were too quick to open fire on striking miners. 34 people were killed at the mine in 2012. fighting back, isil suicide bomber attack the city close to the border with turkey. edgingrd twos the abyss european leaders

fail to agree on a deal on greece's debt. >> on the sports news, hussein bolt mysteriously missed the trials. as the host for the quarter final against uruguay. >> hello a long awaited report into the shooting of striking miners has just been released. 34 miners were shot dead in a confrontation in august went 12. today's report is the result of a three year long inquiry. the south african president said the police were too quick to reach for their guns. >> the commission has found that it would have been impossible to disarm and disburse the strikers without

significant bloodshed. on the afternoon. the police should have waited until the following day when the originals and settlement plan which was substantially risk free could have been implements. we have been following this story. what else did the president have to say about the shootings? >> well, a number of parties could have been held responsible for the shootings that happened almost three years ago and the president addressed that based on the findings of the commission one of those was the employers of the miners and

so far the it is indicates were their fault was that they didn't deal with the inmooers needs specifically housing and social issues. ultimately the issues that led to strikers -- miners going on strike during that period, also the president began his address by dealing with various ministers including police, as well as the mining and resources minister saying none of those people are responsible, he has exonerated them, and layed blame at the feet of the police, saying they shouldn't have fired at protestors so quickly and they could have employed different methods to deal with crowd control, is what the government now wants is for police to be trained in order to deal with crowd control in a better manner, say they shouldn't have fired on them on that day and what he is also calling for is

that a separate commission by held under the national director of public prosecutions around the fitness to hold office of the national police commissioner, as well as the police commissioner of the specific province, with this took place, so what we are likely to see going forward are perhaps called for the national police commissioner to possibly resign, we have not seen any suspensions and for that reason, the parties involved may still be unhappy, however, we are likely to see claims going forward from families of those who lost their lives as well as those who were injuries three years ago. >> it's taken three years for this report to be put together and relebanese what is likely to be the reaction who have waited so long for this? is so many of the families we spoke to said they just wanted accountability they want to whoa who is

responsible, in terms of their role in the number of people that were killed, of course, says that could have been handled better. so the response will be released that there is some understanding that the police should be held responsible but looking at the role of the unions in this particular case, the workers unions, had a role to play as well as in terms of provoking violence, possibly families may still want to hear more from the mining company the unions as well as how far up this went in term of the order who said that the police could go ahead, and handle the protests in such a manner, which ultimately led to the death of 34 people on that day, but throughout that period, 44 people killed three years ago in those strikes. thank you very much, inteed. the islamic state of iraq has launch add counter attack on two fronts in northeast syria, where the group has

suffered recent defeats. fighters entered the border town for the first time since they were driven out in january the syrian observatory said 35 people were killed. the ypf has been gaining ground in recent weeks taking. and cutting off the group's main reach from turkey to it's de facto captor. in the a separate attack further east, isil has driven forced out of the district of the city which is partly government held and partly under kurdish control. injuries after another attack by the islamic state of iraq, there are also reports of villages being executed after fighters stormed in they struggle to fight office

fighter whose disguise themselves also known as the ypg, fighters have been fighting isil for control since last year, back bid the u.s. air strikes and they are under attack yet again. isil also launch add simultaneous attack on one of the last remaining towns in the north under the control of the government. there have been clashing against the his lattic state it is home to many that came here this comes as they enter territory the government denied they crossed the border and say isil fighters crossed inside syria. >> claims that dash crossed are just lied. we strongly deny that, it is just not true isil has had

serious set backs. they have taken control to the edge of racca province the capitol isil has lost supply lined as well as influence. isil needs to show that it stills ha influenced and that is why it is on the offensive again, also we have the regime itself retreats from some areas and this is given isil a big opportunity to advance, and finally we have the anniversary of the so called coming up on monday, and isil also needs to show that it is still very influential and powerful on the drowned. including syrian families displaced the kurdish families have also been forced to leave their homes. around 8 million have been. as for the various groups that say isil has been pushed on the the back foot.

it is a cause for concern. al jazeera. oven isil and is the military strategies he joins me now live, thank you for being with us on the program how do you think that isil has changed as a military force since it first began taking part of iraq? >> . >> isis is -- it is an effective war machine at the technical level. the commission with the techniques and second is the mission which seeks to create a sort of global mobilization for the cause for now. and some extent of it.

and started to services and that's -- isis is an ideology for those people and the images and the identity of course, and motivation, and group psychologists. so i have to emphasis this important point, isis is terrorist organizations but i think it is a new bridge, it is a new bridge, so we have to go beyond our tools what isis is and what it is not and then tailor use about it so we need about isis, that's why i want to emphasize this. >> how should the coalition be dealing with isis today the basic problem right now

is the askceps of drowned force. the cooperations at the battalion, and brigade level right now it is broken -- the militias cannot do this, and the syrian -- some -- success in military terms. >> that situation. >> the problem is the u.s. has made it clear it doesn't want to put boots on the ground. >> yes. >> any members of the coalition forces the problem also comes when you are dealing with syria where iraq asks the forces to come in and help defeat. >> yes. >> syria would require the forces to be cooperating with president asaad, not many of them will be prepared to do

that, are they. >> yes, that's right. what the coalition forces need is a two way strategy. question need to sort of talking strategy, by the force, by talking to those people, and to encouraging who is -- i mean the coalition forces but the missing point at that level is who is doing to talk with those guys and how should we synchronize. this is the first dilemma we have to address, and the operation level, as i said before, we need a cooperation, that covers both syria and iraq, and this is provided also supported by air support.

which we need to marginalize isis and unfortunately in contrast to the increasing optimism, after the capture in the rest of the world, one assess the real picture on the ground, i tend to classify myself in the caution optimistic camp at least for now. >> appreciate your time and your analysis, thank you. and still to come on the news hour, a special report on the new generation of child soldiers in the southern philippines. plus thousands of home on the island evacuated as the mount volcano continues to erupt. and chili goes through to the last cup we will show you how they do it a little later in the program. but first, a solution to the greek debt crisis seminose

closer a meeting of euro zone finance ministers breaking up again without an agreement. al jazeera lawrence lee has been following the day's developments for us and he joins us live now lawrence. >> another day of failure between greece and the international monetary fund to reach any sort of agreement, and hugely frustrating as you say for europe's finance ministers who keep having to break it without any sense of where they are going, and the worst thing of all this close to deadline day next tuesday where greece is supposed to pay back all this money is that no one seems to have any clear idea whether greece's place inside the euro zone can be saved. >> crunch time and in this talk was epic, to meet the

creditors to which they owe so much money for now it is clear they are looking for their pound of flesh making people work until they are old they could not break them down, and so they all left, with no deal done in athens it seems many were admiring the will of their lead tore stand up to institutions they regard as having impoverish them. >> i think he must not back down, when people have been suffering for five years now the prime minister who goss elected so recently, must not back down, it is not fair. >> he should drop it and walk away, when they say cut the money, what is the point of getting an agreement? what do they want from us? is the situation is is you take one step in front and fall off a cliff one stem back and you fall in the river. >> the finance ministers were left to work out how they

could find a way of creating a bridge between a rock and a hard place. in the end they couldn't do it, pushing the talks back until the weekend. >> we have been working for two days and two nights we were given a proposal by the greek parties of the last hour and we need to do more work to exam the proposal to see how kit be reconciled the door is still open to come with new proposals or to accept what is on the table and but i am going to inform the government leaders first now the prime minister turned up again talking about compromise, in truth, many in his party feel they are being set up to fail by the credit ever toes. the view from the party says that some of this is deliberate, they believe the creditors want to put them in the impossible position of

having to accept the cuts rather than facing leaving the euro zone because they could create a new government, more amenable to the creditors way of thinking what happens mow is people in greece with money in bank, all the threats have suggested that greece would be on it's own if it defoughts and the banks may run out of money no agreement by monday, would provide the ultimate test. are prepared to let freese fail. how is greece likely to respond. >> well, it is what is considering because on the face you may think that greece is in a weak position faced as you can imagine with expunge from the euro zone. all those things, but just think about what happens if this happens to agrees, where would they go for emergency funding? it would go to moscow.

moscow would love nothing more, than to try to destabilize it slightly by backing a country like greece. the other thing that is worth bearing in mind as well as that, they are talking about immigration refugees here many countries are have this real fear of these refugees from syria andar cacoming across and moving into the european union, and they won't be able to agree on how to deal with that, you see these pictures turning up in little tiny boats greece thinks it has been badly dealt with is expelled from the euro zone, they can say to all the refugees off you go out of our country, into the european union, this is what these e.u. countries don't want to have happen. i am sure it must be on the minds of countries like germany if they are left with a consideration do we accept the proposals given

1.5 billion euros to keep them in the club, that might be better than the consequences they may face. >> now the u.s. supreme court has upheld packs crucial to the healthcare reforms sup is porters of the a.c.a. cheered outside the court, as the announcement was made it is a big victory, and is the second time in collie years the court has ruled against major challenges to the healthcare act. al jazeera joins live from outside the street this must be a huge relief to the president. >> it means in the legal realm goes away but the police discussion about whether became care will continue between republicans and democrats.

so what happened at the supreme court, well, essentially, a case was brought by critics of obama care that 13 states and washington, d.c. have set up their own exchanges that's where people can go and buy health insurance but for states not involved in that, they rely on federal funds established by the state exchanges established by the state, and the critic said, well, if there's not a state one, then you can't give them subsidies. rather than the exact words but a majority of six to three what would it mean if it went the other way? 6.4 americans would have to lose the tax credits to get from these exchanges and that would have meant many of them would have to give up insurance, you can see why this is a huge win for barack obama, and why an hour or so after the supreme made it's decision, he was out in the

rose garden calling this a great day for america. the affordable care act is here to say. this morning the court upheld a critical part of this law the part that has made it easier to have health insurance regardless of where you live, for the challenge to this law had succeeded millions of americans would have had thousands of dollars worth of tax credits taken from them. for many, insurance would have become unaffordable again. many would be uninsured given, ultimately everyone's premiums could have gone up. america would have gone backwards. and that's not what we do, we move forward. so victory for the president what sort of reaction? is. >> well, the candidates have all criticized it pretty strongly, in fact, one of the candidates described it as

judicial tyranny. others are saying we have to repeat obama care, what exactly that will be they have never managed to detail in the four or five years that they have been fighting against it but as we move closer to the presidential election, then candidates will be under pressure when they say we want to get rid of something, that could have provided insurance coverage for millions, what they will replace it with. as for the democrats they couldn't be happier, they are all delighted with the decision that the court has made. they said every time it has face add challenge then it has managed to defeat it, but every time, it is john roberts has considered to be a conservative judge who has sided with obama but certainly going to be the president who is celebrating later today, he believes america should be celebrating with him, given this is the second big win he has had and certainly keeps him in place, the key domestic achievement, then he will be very pleased with this indeed. >> thank you. >> one of the vice presidents

had fled to belgium, saying he fears for his life. he says he was threatened after denouncing the bid to run for a third term in office, at least 77 people have been killed in the two months of violent protests sparked by the announcement. which his opponents say is on the constitutional. this update from the capitol. >> government officials here say the vice president has no reason to run away, they say he is perfectly safe, thises what we hear happened. the vice president wasn't heard from for a couple of days with retold his sympathizerred were hatching out a plan, trying to get him out of the country safely, that happened. when the fighting was able to talk, he said the reason he ran away is because he criticized the bid to run for a third term. he was afraid for his family, and afraid for other people close to him that's why he left. now people are suggesting

that means on thursday, with another grenade was thrown into the city center, at least six people were injuried and some of them are in critical condition. students who were part of the opposition is marchs to try to stop him from running for a third term have been sleeping outside the embassy for some time now they say they are afraid they will be targeted and they feel safe in the dip lo t maic community, the police moved in, and they are trying to remove them they closed the gates. the police could enter. you have a situation where you have hundreds sitting inside the, paing lot the police are outside trying to get them, but they obviously can't get into the compound. people are wondering what will happen the next few days as we head to the parliamentary election on the 29th of june. on the 15th of july.

>> treatment centers have been set up in the teaching hospital, and a clinic at the u.n. site housing civilians. the world health organization is carrying out a vaccination program in vulnerable areas. targeting nearly 107,000 people. the southern region of the philippines has been plagued by violence for decades. there are several armed groups operating in the area, and they are recruiting children in the second part of our special series from the southern philippines. reports on the battle to save a new generation. of child soldiers. >> he has been living a quiet life, but he says his past remains just as vivid.

encouraged by his four brothers who were part of the first recruits an armed group operating in the southern philippines. years later he is still too agrayed to show his face. >> what happens to me is done i can't go back to it now but i don't want my children to go through what i went through he group up in an island of the southern most part of the philippines. >> the number of child soldiers recruited here is still unknown, the government admits the problem has remained in the back burner for too long and as a result, a new generation of rebels has emerged in this exclusive video obtains by al jazeera a new group of fighters is presented. and they are getting younger. they are called sons of

martyrs that's because most of their fathers were also members and were killed fighting the government some of these recruited are as young as 14 years of age. >> according to the philippine military, they are involved in kidnapping, extortion and terrorism and they are far more violent than the previous fighters because they are also involved in drugs just like the fathers they are uneducated poor, and marginalized. they say there is no escaping. they grew up in war, what way are trying to do is cut the psych and try to save this ensyrian observatory ration. from experiencing war, and giving them hope.

these children also come from the villages, but for these boys from warring communities, football has now become a unifying symbol. most of them are also back in school this has been organized by the community. for the first time, children here have a semipresence of what it is like to be a normal child. they hope this means their children will grow up with toys instead of guns. southern philippines. >> more than 10,000 have been evacuated from the area around mount. the volcano has been erupted for weeks and shows no signs of subsiding. al jazeera and her team witnessed one eruption first hand. >> the the army has come to the villages to hand people living here masks and these are supposed to protect them from the area which is quite

thick with ash here, and quite hard to breathe, and you can see it if you look down some of the areas. which is usually rush green everything has turned very sandy dull color. >> as we were interviewing the military commander something seems to happen. it was quite an intimidating sight. and so we decided we would leave the area. it is even screed bly scary when you see this cloud move towards you, and it does move fast and highlight the power of mother nature and it makes you reallied there is nothing you can do but try to get out of it's way 10,000 people

have been evacuated from their homes. no one knows when the mount will go pack to sleep. stephanie decker, al jazeera. the cars have been overturned and satellites in the streets of paris as taxi driver pros test against the transport booking service owner. frenching cab byes claim the low prices are undercutting their business. al jazeera reports now from paris the streets of paris in places are significantly quieter, the metro noticeably busier because of this a major strike by the cities official taxi driver whose have come out in force blocking what is normally a very busy intersection in the heart of the city they are angry with preorder companies line owner, they feel are taking their jobs and not paying their taxis. what we have been seeing here, are running battles between the police and taxi

drivers, certain cars that have been parked around here, bore the brunt of their anger, there have been suspicions that they have been preorder taxis and many of them have been upturned some of them smashed. owner has no business here in france we have regulations up to here. >> police rah here on stand by for any further signs of trouble, almost some concerns that this will be a repeat performance when french ferry workers held a strike there the owners now is on the government whether or not they make concessions to these workers or run the risk of further transport chaoses in heart of paris. >> still to come, as the war continues. the united nations warns the country is one step away from famine. plus in the occupied west

bank, as palestinian officials submit their first complaints to the international criminal court we will get the key issues. and in sport, it was a great day for a spinner full details coming up. >>

>> documents handed to the i.c.c. allege crimed in the occupied west bank in last year's war when thousands died. this is as close as they can get to land his family has owned. when israel began building this, considered illegal under international law and electrified fence was also built. he shows me how it prevents him from accessing his property, but says he hasn't lost hope. >> we heard of this lan from our grandparents and we want to cultivate it. i want a solution that will put an end to the israelis occupies my land. >> the settlement make up a key component of the cig mission to the international criminal court dozened have

been built and are now home to more than 600,000 the coo argument is based on article eight section two of the rome statute, which states that the transfer of an occupied power civil january population is illegal. >> the file is broken down into three main categories of complains, the first is deals with these illegal settlement which is you can see here, the second deals with the status and treatment of palestinian citizens, and the final last summer's war with gaza. israel is also accused of seriously breeching the rules of war of the gaza strip more than 2,200 palestinians were killing mostly civilians palestinian foreign minister delivered the submission to the i.c.c. the document

alleges dozens of violations of international law includes homes being demolishes attacks on sites and settlers and soldiers attacking palestinians the submission shows the commitment and the redness of the state to cooperate with the court. >> the information that we have submitted indicates that israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. which is an important step, israeli officials have refused to provide information requested by the i.c.c., the court has no authority to investigate palestinian complaints, because in it's view palestine is not a state lit be up to the chief prosecutor to decide if there's enough evidence to order an examination and then a full criminal investigation into the allegations a process that will be long and complicated.

>> al jazeera in the south hills. and the international criminal court has spoken to al jazeera. explains the next step for the court saying she wants to hear from both sides. >> i am encouraging everyone, all sides to the conflict to provide my office with information. it is a phase that i need information. to be able to make a determination. either way on the determined the next phase. so i am just calling for that, it is important that this information is provided to my office. let's return now to our top story, that is the report into the death of miners at the americana mine in south

africa that were shot by police. let'ses take you live and speak to deputy public protector of south africa, and was the spokesperson of the judicial commission if you can start by explaining your involvement in this. >> good evening to your viewers around the word. i basically was initially the state advisor for this commission. when this incident happened we were dispatched quickly to set up the commission to we drafted the regulations and got it off the drowned and then the commissioners were appointed and we got it runs. >> to you agree with the main finding ass with i have so seen that the police, and the mining unions were mostly to blame for the deaths of the 34 miners. >> some of them were expected

the involvement of the police certainly was always everybody's gripe and i doubt the report could have gone any other way the commissioners are sure thorough and bright people the commissioners and the other commissioner, basically have applied themselves quite significantly, and of course, one was clear is that the police were very ill prepared and even if they were, they didn't stick to their original plan and could have avoidedded casualties which certainly shows -- it is a criticism that has been going on over the years of the police service that the policing hasn't been very

good we have had tragedies such as people dying at the stadium, in a football match and of course it is just a jennifer of the police and a fear that they are a bit more brutal and so forth and so on i won't go into details but some of the things may come as complaints to my current. >> is sit strange to you that given the police ultimately given to the south african government, that no one is taking any of the blame for what happened? well, i guess it ultimately is the police, and of course unfortunately as well, there's been changes in the incumbency, the sense that people have moved on the police commissioner who is effected the provisional commissioner she has since

retires, and of course, will probably never have to answer to this. i suppose it falls on the national police commissioner as to what happens but of course what should really be the crux of the issue is the improvements by the commissioners because it is all well and good to focus on individuals and people to get rid of one person, but the problem may still remain so next time there's a public order policing challenge the problem might come back again, so i think we need to pour out of the report more we need to pull out the recommendations more than anything else. and pull out the needs of the report rather than the side shows and so forth. because long term i think what has to be tone is prevent, and then, of course, what is also critical is the

fact that the mining companies need to deal with the frustration out there. that is financial frustration. what i didn't see coming out is the issue of the miners. obviously we have to read the report, pause the president gaves us a synopsis of the report but a lot of frustration, basically living from hand to mouth living for death, and so forth and the frustration was high, so i think that the true particular casualties if i am used the word advisory of this particular report would be the south african police service and the actual company that the miners worked for. >> a final thought and a brief one from you, the president earlier this week came out before issues the report and defended the police saying if self-defense, should he have done that.

>> i won't be able to comment on that, pause currently the protector of the south africa we deep with complaints of government and we investigate that, so i may have to deal with that so it is possible there may be an investigation into the statement made. >> no, no, i am just saying that something like that is really pending obviously it would be ill advised of me to comment on something that has not been determines and of course, we haven't even determined the veracity of the statement, in h question, so it would be ill advised to comment at this time. >> question appreciate your time joining us there thank you the saudi led coalition has launched attacks against houthis fighters in the southern province.

meanwhile the envoy is warning that it is close to famine the streets are pitch black at night. power cuts leave the capitol in darkness. the citizens say it has never been this bad before. this is the first time that the people are going through a period where there's lack of water electricity or petrol. the humanitarian situation is dire, there is no running water, and many rely on the country. it is off hours before one arrived. petrol is also difficult to get, motorists wait hours in the sun to get a refill.

before the war more than half of the population, now the u.n. is warning of famine. we are one step further from program min. we have over 31 million. it was 7 million only two years ago now we are 31 million. a step closer to starvation, al jazeera. and the reaction, as the women of the tennis world prepare for wimbeldon.

i feel happy behind the steering wheel, i am proud and i share this with other women, i want to give them more courage. it is bet tore drive with her that with a strange man. sara borrowed money and bought her first taxi. she was determined to support 15 people in her family. many male taxi drivers tease women or girls they give them their phone numbers and check them out. so other women encouraging me to become a driver it is hard to imagine it, but 30 years ago, there were women in kabul driving electric public buss. now it is great to see a woman behind the wheel of a

car, let alone a taxi. >> she is given driving lessons at least 20 women have told her they want to learn. >> my mess sag is they should allow us. how long do women have to sit at home in dark houses? >> changing society's attitude won't happen quickly. there are security problems. >> still, sara says nothing will stop her not even threats. they punctures four tires scratch the car and stole my registration, other drivers cut in front of me. >> if she is afraid, she doesn't show it, and anyway, sara is too busy picking up passengers.

nicole johnston, al jazeera. catch one all the sport now. >> thank you very much. well, south america football officials are going to investigate with chili defender it worked he was the first of two uruguayans to be sent off that i won the gave 1-nil a bad tempers game in santiago. >> heading into this, chili has scored twice as many as anyone else. as a best third place team. although the hosts didn't have their shooting boots on, it was goalless at the interval they have the star struck since just after an hour, the they reacted after being provoked who fell to the ground, theatrically, the

man advantage in the eight sect minute. stealing the 1-nil victory. uruguay would exit with nine men, for a challenge on alexis sanchez. it seems so me this was well won by chili, it was against a very hard team that never gave up hope and the possibility we play add good match, without the usual deepness of other matches. we were having a good game, and it was a bit harder. al jazeera.

chili will now face the winners of the quarter final that takes place on thursday. peru came second in the greek behind brazil and ahead of columbia, they reached the semifour years ago but the captain is suspended for this match. they may be forced because of a cash flow problem because of the fifa bribery scandal. according to the treasurer has paid less than half of the $80 million owed that's because the accounts have been froze and two of the executives are investigated bety u.s. department of justice. the organizers have admitted they have yet to pay the price to all eight teams that qualified and the verb hourer says they need at least $20 million to pay prize money and ore costs. neither the copper america

finals are at risk, it is true that these companies literally disappeared i understand that this is of high concern because for the future there are major important tournaments ahead there is no immediate threat. >> a mystery over the absence of the world's biggest athletic star from the national trials. he was withdrawn at short notice although his agent claimed he was never confirmed to run. >> bolted could fall back on a world entry as defending 10200 meters world champion. there's been a lot of activity over the bidding of a 2024 summer olympics. now the still council has voted 38-6, in favor of the italian capitol bidding for the games.

after paris announced it's candidacy, the bidders are boston and ham burg, with budapest also expected to join the contest, they will select the host city in 2017. well, it looks like it would be a good day for pakistan correct. the icc for a one year term, the current team has an office first day three wickets during the early damage and came a five wicket hold, now in the second match, five for 42 for him, and that included the final of the innings a great catch in reply they have already managed 70, so the hosts are in a good position to square the three match series one win apiece. the week before the wimbeldon

tennis tournament, and 2010 finalists is through to the tournament, she beat in straight sets the 26-year-old pole is ranked 9th in the champions. the opponent 16-16. the top seed left, but the wrights earlier marcus was the first man to reach the last four, they have broken the very first game against simone never look back, in the fifth game of the second set, and secured 6-4 6-4 win, went down to the wire. one of the third set tie breakers to reach the semifinals in the match. and that is all the sport and some quick tennis for you. >> it was good, thank you and that's just about it from me and the news hour team, thank you for watching but please don't go far away, back with more news in a couple of minutes see you then, bye bye.

>> hello, there. and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. after a string of defeats isil strikes back in syria attacks the curds. and the army. deadlock in brussells talks on the greek debt crisis grinding to a halt with no deal and no progress. plus.