boko haram kills more than a hundred people in multiple attacks in northeast nigeria. ♪ you are watching al jazeera. coming up in the next half hour yes or no? huge rallies expected in the greek capitol in the last day of campaigning for a crucial vote on a bailout deal. the dispute on the border syrian activists accuse forces

pushing people out. and thousands are falling ill and many are dying from fake or expired medicine. ♪ boko haram gunmen are being blamed for the killing of 140 people in northeast nigeria. several mosques were attacked on wednesday night. 97 adults and children killed there. two others were also attacked in another area and on thursday a bomb went off. our correspondent has the latest from the capitol. >> reporter: some more details are coming out about the nature of these attacks in the northeast. we now know a suicide bomber was behind the attack. and apparently the blast happened a few millimeters away from a mill chair check point.

vigilantes who have been supporting the military in operations against boko haram tell us on friday morning, a contend gent of solders left borno state heading to the area to try to investigate what happened. eyewitness accounts are also emerging, and what we're getting is a picture of extreme violence that took place. when boko haram attacked they stormed a mosque where they killed men and boys who were praying, and wenting on to burn the corpses of those they killed. they then attacks women and children mainly in their homes, in some cases gunning down these women and setting ablaze many homes and businesses in the area. this will be a huge worry to the new government who came to power on a ticket of eliminating boko haram. there has been much diplomatic effort by the new president to try to work out a strategy to

defeat the group, which is involving regional partners like chad and niger, but obviously reportsover these attacks will make many feel all of thef fort -- the efforts are not being felt on the ground if boko haram are still able to launch these kind of attacks. >> boko haram appears to be focusing on smaller towns in northeastern nigeria. the nighian army pushed fighters out of borno state. now the group was also -- carried out a series of suicide attacks at least 20 people died when a 12-year-old girl blew herself up at a marketplace. while in march boko haram released a video showing the beheadings of two men they accuse of being spies, and they are also believed to be behind the slaughter of 400 people,

including children. we are joined by a nighian senator. he says boko haram's new tactics are challenging the nigerian military but progress is being made. >> it's too early to judge the administration. he is just very few weeks in power, and he has done a number of things to address the problem, one of which is reaching out to neighboring countries, and also given confidence to -- to the people. he is prepared to fight, and also doing all we can to see that he boost the morale of the military and provided them what they need to fight. it is unfair to expect results within the next few days. this is something that has been entrenched and going on in the

last six years, it is very much impossible to expect him to perform magic within few days when he has taken over power, but i believe this strategy he has taken will certainly produce result. it is a last day of campaigning in greece for a referendum that will decide the country's future in europe. those in the yes kamp believe greece should accept bailout terms. those who are voting no are against the bailout and the austerity measures that come with it. the prime minister says a no vote doesn't mean greece will leave europe. >> translator: what chose we make on sunday there will be nothing to divide us the following day. no to a viable solutions means a

continuation of negotiation on better terms for the people. i call upon you to say no to the ultimatums and the fear. i call on you to say no to though that want to cause panic >> and jonah hull has more now from athens. >> reporter: this district looks much as it should be at the start of the tourist season. yet this is a country in full-blown crisis. there are reports of businesses and big industry preparing to shut down. the banking sector is perilously close to collapse and the tourist industry risks being hit hard and hotels and restaurants run short on supplies. >> there have been people who have talked about it but it hasn't impacted our day-to-day travels. our landlords have said make

sure you have enough money, but because they have warned us we have had no issues. at cash machines the 60 euro daily limit is falling short itself. some machines are only dispensing 50 euros at a time. it is widely believed the cash reserves of the big banks are so low that there is almost no chance of them reopening next week. one man in the queue says he feels ashamed of europe. sunday's referendum was called by the left-wing government with the aim of securing a stronger negotiating position. a united no vote would have allowed the government to demand a better deal. that was before the banks were forced to shut now the vote looks more like a referendum on greece's continued membership of the euro zone and a yes vote being actively campaigned for by

a number of senior political figures could spell the end of this government. do you believe this is about the engineer of greece's membership to the euro zone? >> no. i think that is a question to fear us to make us fear and vote under the fear. >> reporter: do you believe in what your government is doing at this moment? >> yes, i think they are doing the best. i have some thoughts -- second thoughts, but it's not good time, i think. we must support them. >> reporter: in its recent failed negotiations for a new deal the country suggested the debt mountain is unsustainable. this week the international monetary fund endorsed that view but not in time for a deal to be done. there is a helpless feeling that greece is slipping off of the precipus, about to fall into the

unknown. the muslim brotherhood in egypt says another of its members has been killed by security forces. he was in charge of the brotherhood development committee. he disappeared more than two weeks ago. his family said his body has torture marks and was returned to them by the government. his death follows the funerals of 13 muslim brotherhood leaders killed in a flat outside of cairo on wednesday. one of them was a lawyer and former mp. the government says the men fired shots, a claim the muslim brotherhood denies. now a group of egyptian activists meeting in london is calling on the international community to stop supporting sisi's government. they are accusing the government of committing human rights violations. >> for an investigation by the united nations and human rights organizations and the human

rights council of the united nations, into the extra judicial killings that have recently taken place as well as the early massacres that took place in 2013, which we repeat in the last few days some extra judicial killings have happened of innocent opponents in egypt. the [ inaudible ] egypt's call is inciting people to exterminate a particular political group, namely the muslim brotherhood. the anti-government protesters have rallied in several egyptian cities marking two years since the military coup. the muslim brotherhood has called for more protests on friday, unauthorized demonstrations are banned in egypt. the syrianer army has carried out air strike and launched raids in the city of aleppo. activists say rebels fired hundreds of rockets and missiles into government-held areas

friday, but a syrian military source says the attack has been repelled. the syrian kurdish fighting force is now 50 kilometers from isil's de facto capitol. the kurds are the coalition's only partners on the ground but syrian arabs are questioning this cooperation. zana hoda reports from the syrian turkish border. >> reporter: they have been expelled from their homes. they are no longer welcome in isil capitol city. families move north. living under isil these kurds were forced to pledge allegiance to the group. after the kurdish fighting force, the ypg advanced towards the town isil accused the kurds

of cooperating. >> translator: they gave us 24 hours to leave, or else they would behead us. they are afraid of the kurds. and they are worried about losing their city. isil has been digging trenches around the city's perimeter. >> reporter: the ypg along with air strikes closed the main route from turkey. but it's main strong hold is far from being unser siege. the ypg has no plans to advance towards the mainly arab city they said any future battle would have to be lead by arab forces to avoid ethnic tensions. those in contact with a network of activists believe isil can be easily defeated if the coalition cooperates with syrian rebels. >> translator: there are main stream syrian opposition groups in the area who are ready to fight, but they need air

support. and the coalition doesn't seem willing to support them. the coalition only supports the kurds. >> reporter: many syrians have started to question the cooperation between the coalition and the ypg, they accuse the kurdish force of cleansing areas they capture from arabs and only fighting isil in territory of what they call western kurdistan. for now the kurds are being treated by the west as the only viable and reliable partner on the ground in syria, which is angering arabs. zana hoda, al jazeera, on the syria, turkish border. still to come on al jazeera, china's left-behind children. we report from one village where abandoned children are committing suicide. mexican fishermen affected by the gulf of mexico oil spill

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>> we've got the final agreement within our sites. >> many who think that the united states should not be sitting down with iran at all. >> there is possibilities of a conflict all around the region. ♪ welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera. boko haram gunmen are being blamed for killing more than 140 people in northeast nigeria. the muslim brotherhood in egypt says security forces have killed another of its leading members. the 14th this week. he disappeared more than two weeks ago. his family say he was tortured.

in greece it's the last day of campaigning ahead of a vote that could decide the country's future in the euro zone, the imf says greece needs an extra $50 billion euros in the next few years. in total, greece owes lenders about 242 billion euros about $271 billion. one man has set up a campaign called chip in a few euros to help with the debt. so far it has raised more than 1.6 million euros. it was set up by a 29 year old londoner, and this is his story. >> i first decided to set up the crowd funding campaign because i was fed up with european politicians of going around in circling and dithering on matters that every time that there's a delay then there's real people in greece being affected. i'm trying to raise 1.6 billion

euros. the way that crowd funding works, is that if we don't reach the full amount anybody who has pledged money will get it back. but this isn't just a straight donation. if people do put some money towards the complain for three euros they'll get a postcard from greece 6 euros gets them a salad, and 10 euros gets them a bottle. i have been amazing donations have come in from around the world. the u.k. is the highest contributing country, but there are people from germany, france and they are the second highest contributors. so i think that would be really great for the greek people to know that there are people around the world, particular around europe that care about them. we only need 3 euros, 19 per person in the e.u. which here

in london that's about the price of a cup of coffee. i'm sort of a digital native but i find it astonishing how fast this has spread. there are still unresolved questions around iran's nuclear program. a diplomatic edder to james bayes is following the talks in vienna. >> reporter: negotiators have already been working arrange the clock here. we understand there was one meeting with the lead u.s. negotiator, the lead e.u. negotiator, and two deputy foreign ministers of iran that went on 4:00 a.m. some have left but the words of the french foreign minister as he left i think is significant. he said he will be back with his colleagues on sunday evening, and what we're hearing is that it's likely that the foreign

ministers from the p5-plus-1 the six countries negotiating with iran will probably stay here from sunday working through, trying to get a deal. remember the interim deal has already been extended. extended only until tuesday. so time here is running out. certainly european diplomats saying that don't see any prospect for negotiation beyond tuesday. we really are in the final part of this very long process of negotiation, to try to find a final deal. a deal for ten years first, and then beyond ten years to deal with iran and making sure on behalf of the p5-plus-1, their aim that iran has only a civilian nuclear program. counterfeit and expired medicine are killing thousands of somali people every year. the government says stopping the illegal trade is one of its priorities. our correspondent reports from the capitol mogadishu, and how

the drugs find their way pharmacies. >> reporter: this woman has serious reactions to medicines given to her in the hospital. she now says she will never to go hospitals in this city. >> translator: the medicine they gave me nearly killed me. i can't feel anything even if i stepped on fire. >> reporter: doctors here say thousands of patients are given fake or expired medicines every year in sew mollia. this doctors has seen what these drugs can do to patients. >> translator: expired and fake medicines have killed more than bombs and rockets. they continue to kill thousands. these drugs are silent killers. they are worse than bombs because a bomb kills ten or 20 people. but these drugs can kill hundreds and no one will hear about it. >> reporter: everywhere you look

there are pharmacies and clinics like this one. >> translator: first when they come us to and tell us they have a problem, we tell them to go see a doctor. and only after that do we sell them medicine. we sell them medicine only if they show us a doctor's prescription. >> reporter: most people here go to these pharmacies without a prescription. the lack of clinics and hospitals have made it difficult to get proper treatment. the few private hospitals operating in the country are either too crowded or expensive for many but the government says that will soon change. it has built this new warehouse where donated medicines are stored before they are distributed. a new bill to punish those involved in the illegal trade of fake drugs is also in parliament. >> translator: we recently made it compulsory for all of those importing medicine and those who

sell it to patients to register. we also have a drug policy bill which when passed will all of these issues. >> reporter: many have welcomed the government's intervention and attempts, but for this woman and many other patients like her, it may have come too late. a minute of silence has been held to remember the victims of though tunisia beach attack. the ambassador later read at the beach memorial in sousse. he says he is working to improve security after what he called an appalling cowardly attack. 30 of the 38 tourests who died were british. the car service uber is suspending its service in france. the company hopes the move will diffuse an escalating legal

dispute with traditional french taxi drivers. in china the suicide of four siblings last month has raised concerned. adrian brown traveled there to find out more about how mass migration is leaving countless children in desperate situations. it's a landscape that offers some of the most beautiful scenery in china, but it's also a region now synonymous with tragedy and poverty. this is the house where police say four young children, three sisters and a brother committed suicide laos -- last month after being abandoned by their parents. they swallowed pesticide, the youngest was five. the death has highlighted the plight of china's left-behind children. >> translator: those four children what they a ate was

worse than the food you give to pigs. no one took care of them. >> reporter: she is vague about why no one here seems to have raised the alarm sooner. this case is about more than just poverty. it also concerns the issue of child welfare in china, and raises a number of troubles questions, how is it possible for four children to live in this house for so long without anyone. a neighbor a teacher at the local school the police local government officials not realizing what was going on. >> one of the reasons? there is simply nothing unusual about children living apart from their parents in today's china. the two grandchildren live with her, because her son works hundreds of kilometers away. she says their mother left five years ago to escape the poverty all around them. >> translator: she went back to her hometown. she thought life was too hard

and poor here. she doesn't want to come back. >> reporter: poverty is a sensitive issue in china, which is why local officials were soon on to us. they were worried because the president had been in this same province a few days earlier, telling people that poverty was nothing to fear. we were though allowed to visit the village school. out of its 93 students we were told around 20 live with their relatives, grandparents mostly. strict rules to control the flow of people mean they only see their parents once a year. before we talked to the teacher, our [ inaudible ] spoke to her. >> translator: it is not a big problem, because most of the children can talk to their parents by phone once a day. in the worst case it's once a week. >> reporter: a poster with an

urgent message, build up confidence to battle poverty. in this city they are constructing new factories and offices that in theory could one day provide jobs that could help keep local families together. the deaths of four children last month is a reminder of why such an investment can't come soon enough. 25,000 fishermen in mexico are suing oil giant bp after the company agreed to the biggest environmental settlement in u.s. history. mexicans say their livelihoods were also ruined by the explosion in the gulf of mexico five years ago. >> reporter: fisherman heads out to sea, but he doesn't expect to catch anything. and predictably his net comes up empty. >> translator: no all of my 50

years of fishing, i have never seen anything like this. there have always been plenty of fish, but since 2011 we have seen a dramatic decline. it's a disaster and enough to make you cry. >> reporter: this is what he and tens of thousands of mexican fishermen blame the shortage on the bp oil spill. u.s. fishermen have received $1.8 billion in compensation. mexican fishermen, zero. now 25,000 mexican fishermen are suing bp in a u.s. court, asking for $50,000 each. it's the first lawsuit against the british company by someone outside of the united states. >> translator: we're asking the judge to treat us the same. we feel they are giving priority to those affected in the united states. >> reporter: bp refused to comment on the case but

fishermen say there is evidence everywhere. >> translator: the see dead fish turtles and dolphins with oil all own their insides. >> reporter: they have long shared these waters with the national oil company. they admit there has been contamination before but it never affected their catch. they say these waters were once so rich that they could go out for a couple of hours and bring home tons of fish but now it is so bad some don't bother to go out at all. this man's wife asks him every day if he has caught anything or brought home food. >> translator: she gets upset and says what is wrong? we're not going to either what? as much as i would like to have something for her, what can i do? >> reporter: he has two disabled

grandchildren to care for. he heads out every day looking for something to bring home. adam raney al jazeera, mexico. you can catch that story many more as well as the latest news analysis, and opinion pieces on our website. that's at aljazeera.com. the nation's police on high alert, a warning from homeland security and the fbi this holiday weekend. talks intensify in vienna. round the clock negotiations are planned throughout the weekend. and free at 50 the tough life middle age inmates face when they are released from jail. ♪