the leader of the banned group lashkar-a-junkiv shot dead. they targeted shia muslims in pakistan hello, welcome to al jazeera, i'm not martine dennis in doha. also to come - n.a.t.o. says it supports turkey's fight against i.s.i.l. but warns it not to forget the peace process with the kurds. hundreds of migrants why rescued as it crosses the

mediterranean, hundreds storm the tunnel in france and u.k. >> i want a kitty. >> i want a pup. >> reporter: what pet should i get. we tell but a posthumous book by dr seuss pakistani police say they are shocked at the death of a leader behinds a group responsible for hundreds of killings, he's killed in a shoot-out with security in punjab. 13 others were killed and clearly two of his sons. he is on the list of terrorist organizations in countries including the u.s., britain, india and russia. they claimed responsibility for attacks on muslims. malic was accused of blocking the attack on the sri lankan team in lahore. he faced several murder trials

but has always been acquitted. >> let's talk to our correspondent in the pakistan capital, islamabad. this must be welcome news for the pakistan security forces. >> that's right. pakistan security forces have been launching a large campaign against these groups since september last year when we had the attack in the army school. it's a significant figure to have been taken out. this happened actually he was rearrested only a week ago, and the security forces had been moving him from his detention center to a weapons attache where he was given some information about weapons stores and then on the way back to the detention center members of the group attacked the party trying to free him. they did succeed for a brief time escaped on motorbike and security forces and police who

happened to be en route intercepted them as they escaped, and during that firefight he and 11 others and two of his sons were killed. >> and the question has to be what does this mean for lashkar-e-jungi, which is a prolific attacker of the shia muslim sect. >> yes, it's a powerful organization group inside pakistan one of the top four, so this is the significant blow for the group. they haven't announced yet who will replace him as leader. it's unclear whether they'll play out a retall itry action. they would expect it. they could carry out an attack against shia muslims. they had two large attacks in 2013, in quetta, balochistan,

and the exing plogss were so loud more than 80 were killed. they carried out brazen attacks against security forces one where they went inside the army head quarters police will be waiting to see when and what kind of action they launch in attack in response. now this they've had the leader of the group taken out. >> thank you so much. nicole johnson live in islamabad. >> turkish jets have been bombing fighters in the south-east. this is the first time p.k.k. fighters have been attacked inside turkey before they were targeted in irish. tuesday, n.a.t.o. says it backed turkey's fight against i.s.i.l. but urged it not to abandon the peace process against the kurds. >> reporter: turkish f-16 fighter jets don't have too par to fly to hit new targets

i.s.i.l. over the border. this was last week. they don't have further to go to target an old enemy many kurds are angry and frustrated that the turkish government seems to equate the threat from i.s.i.l. with the threat from the p.k.k. here a mainly kurdish city representatives from more than 18 non-governmental organizations have been meeting. they are working out a joint response to what they fear is a threat to the fragile peace protest between the p.k.k. and the government. >> translation: we call on the people, the kurds and the people of turkey to show soled ardy. the only -- solidarity. the only way to do it is to stand up against the policies. >> last month most of these people were celebrating the electoral success of pro-kurdish a.p. p.

now turkey's president was to lift the immunity of m.p.s suspected of being linked with what he called terror groups. they were questioning whether talks with the p.k.k. can carry on. >> i don't think it's possible to continue a peace process with those that take aim at the national security and brotherhood in this country. >> recep tayyip erdogan says having embarked on an offensive against terrorism, turkey will not back off. the government officially said the peace process was over. one newly elected pro-kurdish mp told us that the launch against the governments hope that talks can work. >> the turkish government has said that it has detained more

than 1300 are00 against operations in i.s.i.l. the p.k.k. and what it calls illegal leftist groups. police have been carrying on across the country. we have our correspondent explaining the fear levels in the country. >> an upsurge in violence across the country. people are worried. they are scared anxious. we understand in istanbul the authorities closed the subway over the past two days it seemed that they received intelligence information that there would be a bomb attack. security forces taking pre-emptive measures and the people bracing for the attacks. >> syrian rebels took control of the game. they'd been attacking towards this particular area since monday. in the countryside of western hummer. 12 were killed in government

shelling. >> an emergency meeting held in london on wednesday, about the migrants that stormed the tunnel. one man was found dead after 1500 migrants tried to enter the terminal at the french port town of calais. monday night 2,000 migrants tried to enter the site. thousands tried to enter calais. the british prime minister called it concerning. >> we are working closely with the french. the home secretary worked with the interior minister. we invested money in the fencing and put fencing around the entrance to the tunnel. we do everything we can. the home secretary has been chairing a meeting this morning to make sure that everything that can be done working with the french is being done.

>> a navy vessel carrying 450 migrants arrived in the city of messina. they are some of 46,000 people that the u.n. says tried to cross the mediterranean. most of them are escaping violence and poverty in africa. and the middle east. now we can speak to leonard doyle, a spokesman for the international organization for migration. joining us via skype from geneva. let's start with what's going on in the u.k. and an emergency meeting taking place. what do you hope comes out of the meeting. what policy do you hope the british government comes up with. >> we think it's terribly important that they treat it as a security issue. this is apt the end of the day, what humans need to remember. as we see in the broadcast. we are fleeing violence economic misfortune.

they are protected under international law, and deserve all the respect and protection they can give them. treating them as criminals is not the way to do it. we suspect and hope there's a range of activities. once it's explained they are not refugees those that do not qualify as refugees. we can't treat it as a security matter. >> so who is at fault, would you say, because we are seeing yet another sad, very tragic wave of people humanity crossing - every which way they can, it would appear. who is at fault. is it - is it the individual migrants who believe they have the inalienable right to move where they choose or the governments that are by and large refusing them entry? >> if the individual migrants are at fault, we are all at

fight. human being have been migrating for millennia, it's the the strategy against hardship human rights abuses - let's blame all of us. in the reality of the world, when trades and services move easily, people are moving. businesses need people. in germany, it's the lowest birth rate in the world. it needs a young workforce. not necessarily the people coming assure in an uncontrolled way in lampedusa but we need processes where there are opportunities for people to come and get jobs. and we need to show dignity and report for those trying to escape from poverty and corruption. barring the door forcing them into the hands of smugglers is not the way. >> thank you very much indeed. thanks. still to come on the programme -

chaos in the streets. i'm adam raney. gains killed more than half a dozen bus drivers, disrupting the transport and spreading fear. >> plus we need the cambodian farmers who say they'll run out of the food if it doesn't rain soon. soon.

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hello again. let's have a look at the top stories on al jazeera. pakistani police shot dead the leader of a banned group.

it has carried out many attacks on shia muslims. he had faced several murder charges but was acquitted because witnesses refused to testify. >> jets targeted the south-east. this is the first time the p.k.k. fighters have been attacked within turkey. it backs turkey's fight against i.s.i.l. it urged it not to abandon the piece process. the u.k.'s home secretary shares an emergency meeting over the migrant trying to storm a tunnel. one man has been found dead as 1500 might rants tried to speaker the tunnel overnight. >> the israeli parliament is due to vote on a bill legalized for speeding of prisoners on hunger strike. u.n. human rights experts urged

m.p.s. >> palestinians held without charge can be targeted as stephanie dekker reports. >> it was 35 years ago that this man remembers what it felt like. >> it tied me down shoved a tube down my nose and pushed. i felt my head exploding down to my stomach. >> our stomach was empty. it hurt they did it again. >> it was part of a hunger strike in prison protesting against prison conditions some were force-fed, two died. that was the last known case of force-feeding. >> it is a huge controversial issue. it could be law if it gets enough votes in the parliament. supporters moderated the language to get it to pass. it faces strong opposition from the community. this is a social media campaign

by physicians for human rights. they'll never execute a law telling them to force-feed prisoners. this is one of them. >> this is whether to save life or not. the discussion shouldn't be whether to - whether it's dangerous or not, but whether it's ethic am. whether it commands from a musician to do something against his belief his religion against his medical ethics. >> we put that to the team drafting the bill. >> our law is not about force feeding, but medical treatment. we wanted to be provided as necessary. it will be at the doctor's discretion. we will not force the hand of any doctor. thereby they will begin force feeding, but rather with lighter treatment. if they need to force-feed. it will be after they come to the medical conclusion that it will save the patient's life.

>> no prisoner died from hunger strike in israel. there'll be little prisoners can do if it becomes law and they are force-fed. >> they have to take us be patient. resistance has many facets. we don't expect mercy from the earn my. it's been 35 years and days since then. >> he said force feeding is not about saving lives, but breaking spirits. others could become a real and legal future. >> cambodia is suffering its worse drought for more than 30 years. farmers in many parts of the country are facing an imminent crisis. we report on one of the worst affected provinces. >> reporter: the people here are worried. by now these farmers should have

finished planting their rice but the rains have been week and there's not enough water to cultivate the crops. like many here this person is concerned that she will not be able to harvest anything this year if the drought continues. >> we have never experienced this. even last year the rain stopped for a few days and started again. this year we don't have any rain. the well we use for drinking is trying up. >> this man and her mother is trying to plant rice seeds. they need it to feed the family of nine. the land is porsched and the crops are dying. community leaders say 30% of farmland in this village is currently cultivated because the water shortage. like much of cambodia this village has no irrigation system to water its fields. farmers dug this hole to store water, but as you can see, it's

quickly drying up. weather experts say it's the worst drought to hit some provinces for more than 30 years. >> they believe it is caused by el nino referring to warmer than average temperatures in the pacific ocean, that affect weather pattern, including in the mekong region. >> the last few years have been bad. this one when you look at how poor the vegetation is and the satellite imagery - this is really bad. >> the government has been criticized for not doing enough to support farmers. they have deployed pumps to funnel waters to reservoirs. officials admit that a long-term strategy is needed. >> translation: first, we need to build irrigation systems and manage the water supply. we need to have a lot of canals

and ponds. especially during the dry season. but these programs may come too late. she says her supply of rice will run out in less than four months. and then they'll have nothing to eat china says it's recovered more than $6 billion in money and assets lost to corrupt officials, part of a drive by xi jinping, who promised to tackle the problem at all levels. government. >> riot police in argentina fought. bus drivers who have been blocking a highway into the capital. protesters throughbottles as police forced them off the road to the north-west of venezuela. bus drivers have been protesting. they want sacked colleagues to get their jobs back. bus drivers in el salvador

walked off the job because of an escalation in gang violence. the strike leaving thousands stranded for days. the drivers say it's too dangerous to work. adam raney reports from the capital el salvador. buses stopped, people crammed in trucks and a morning commute disrupted out of fear. the gangs are there for all to see. they order the killing of bus drivers from prison cells, bringing chaos to the seats. it seems there's little the government can do. >> reporter: it's a hardworking people that build the country who are the victims of these attacks. >> the gangs showed that they have the power, if they didn't they couldn't have paralyzed transport. the government says the 18th street gang ordered the buses to stop or people would pay the price.

pressure from the gangs to force negotiations from the truth. more than half a doze in bus drivers have been murdered since sunday. some buses are going out on their route, but only with heavily protection. the drivers and their riders fear for their lives. >> this bus driver says he's afraid of being murdered but work is scarce and he has to feed his family. >> the president dodged our question about who controls security - the government or the gangs, and left it to his spokesman. >> it's not part of our strategy. we are not going to negotiate, communicate or make a pact with the criminal groups. it's terrorism, sabotage against the public transport system. it's not just bus drivers, this year dozens of police officers and members of families have been killed. the government is facing a

crisis worse than the still war. >> the government has to be humble to recollection what everyone sees in the open. >> what they have done has not worked. >> reporter: a gang leader told al jazeera the solution lies outside el salvador. >> the international community has to play an important roll. in military conflict the international community can analysed for the best. we are caught up in national politics and it blinds us to reality. >> stranded amidis the violence a population that knows the scale of the problem a group of leading scientists signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous weapons. the physicist steven hawking and apple cofounder steve wozniak

are among those concerned that the government is developing records that think fors themselves. daniel schweimler reports from venezuela. >> reporter: this is the human intelligence of the developing artificial intelligence around the world. now we are in obama care for the conflict. there's huge potential to come. conscious machines robots that the humans can interact with. like in the movies. that's some time away. i think we will. it's plausible that that will happen. we'll get plenty of indications that it will happen before we see conscious machines it's not something that happen overnight. >> reporter: we are seeing the benefits of artificial intelligence in every day lives. this is only the beginning. >> the technology is developing rapidly.

every now and then we need to stop and ask important questions. where is the technology going, limits if any, who controls it and what are the potential dangers. >> along the potential dangers is the use of artificial intelligence in weapons of war, which is why more than 1,000 of those signed this letter released at the conference warning. potential pitfalls. but there are dangers, and we don't want society to stumble into situations in an uninformed way. i mean - so what this letter is about is really about autonomous killing machines about equipping machines with the capability to decide whether to take a human life. >> hollywood films have put out fears about the dangers, the evil ones harnessing technology to take over the world. >> many have an apocalyptic vision about this believing we

should be careful because computers could become better than us and we should see a danger. >> reporter: we have been warned. these are the good guys that believe society will bern fit that a short time ago we could only dream about. >> two buildings in an illegal israeli settlement in the occupied west bank are currently being demolished. following a supreme court ruling. now, this is the beit-el-settlement comprehensively demolished. a couple of buildings. israeli settlements are illegal under international law. the government fought it and tried to legalize the complex. now rks a recently discovered

unpublished work by the late children's author dr seuss hit the book stores. kristen saloomey has the story. >> reporter: first there was one child, then there was four, then came some parents, and then even more. they came to dr seuss garden to get a good look, not at the sculptures, no, at a new book. a new dr seuss book, how could that be, a new dr seuss book, they found it in a box you see. >> looks like dr seuss nearly finished it back in the late '50s, early '60s, but put it aside, never submitted it for publication. that means we are lucky enough to have another book to read and treasure. >> reporter: it's called "what pet should i get". >> dad said we could have one... dad said he would pay. >> reporter: a tough choice for this brother and sis. but not these kids, they are all set. >> reporter: what pet would you get?

>> a kitty. >> i want a kitty. >> a puppy. >> reporter: still the message rings true, decisions are hard, but there's something we all must do. dr seuss was born in spring field, it's his home town. you might have guessed from all the sculptures around, there's the cat in the hat and horton known for hearing a who, not to mention these guise, wait, take a closer look, all around town you'll find things in his books >> what we find interesting about his experience growing up in springfield, many of his creative ideas appearing in the books later on came from his experience in springfield as a child. >> reporter: and know what else is true, parents like his books too. >> always seems to grab their attention, they love to read it over and over. they thing they are fun. we keep going with them. >> i think the kids like the simple text, the rhyming, the characters.

you know, they are so excited to see them out here. >> when all is said and done, it's another great dr seuss book, no matter where you are from and aljazeera.com is where you can keep up to date with all the day's development. evelopment.