the cost of war, the u.n. says 5,000 afghan civilians have have been killed or injured in conflict this year alone. ♪ hello, i'm martine dennis in doha with the world news from al jazeera. a protest in ammon against the possible closure of schools that could affect about half a million palestinian refugee children. flash goods and land slides kill 69 people in myanmar. and an abuse of power, outraging guatemala, after a

video showing the military beating up two teenagers goes viral. ♪ let's start with some news just coming in from the mediterranean, news of a rescue that is ongoing to try to save migrants from a boat that has capsized. now the irish navy is saying that it spotted a vessel off of the coast of libya, and it is thought that there could be 600 people on board. let's get the latest now. talk to journalist who joins us on the line from the mortese capitol. >> we can confirm that the irish vessel has arrived on-site and is assisting in the rescue together with the [ inaudible ]

vessel which is also coordinating, and it is true that there are reports with regards to as many as 600 and 700 migrants who have been on board this vessel which have capsized. from twitter messages which are arriving via different vessels out at see from various government vessels who are assisting, are talking about the possibility of an estimated 500 meme dead. a tweet sent out a few minutes ago by robert young peloton who is close to the organization called [ inaudible ], and is saying there is an estimated 500 dead and 200 survivors at the moment. the maltese government is look going this incident and assisting in any way they can. the incident is reported to have happened off of the coast of

libya, which is a known place migrants are leaving to the european shores. this is another incidenting in which the european union is being called upon again to look at the situation in the mediterranean as countries like malta and italy are not able to cope but they are asking for solidarity for more commitment from the european union to take in as many as they can to offer respite from the suffering of these migrants. >> thank you very much indeed. updating us on an ongoing situation in the mediterranean which could involve perhaps 6 to 700 people. meanwhile up to 5,000 migrants are camping in the northern french port town of calais. they want to get across the english channel to the u.k. charles stratford has been talking to some of these people. >> reporter: we see more and

more injured people in the camp these days. men, women, and even some children who left their homeland months if not years ago. most say they are determine life-threatening risk, so get through barbed wire fences and cling to the side of a train for a better life. most won't speak on camera. one of them says he injured his leg as he ran to leap on a train weeks ago. he describes what it life used to be like in darfur. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: he knows the risks he takes every night here in france. >> some people die, some of them broke their legs and sometimes, like they fall in the ground. >> reporter: it's difficult to know exactly how many people are

trying to cross every night, or even make it to thor side but medics here say they are treating an increasing number of people for hand and leg injuries every day. we weren't allowed to film patients being treated. this french charity says doctors are treating around 40 people aday for injuries they get trying to break through the fence. >> every night they try. it's difficult. their health is not the first -- how do i say it -- it's not a priority. it is not a priority. the priority is to cross. >> reporter: the police have bolstered security around the tunnel entrance in the last few days. fences are been put up to stop people from jumping on trucks. are policemen on guard and sometimes helicopters above. >> translator: the tunnel site is 650 heckers were a

22-kilometer perimeter fence. the migrants know it's really difficult to patrol it. that's why they focus on the tunnel and why the site has become such a flash point. >> reporter: a place where men and women like these return to every night. charles stratford, al jazeera, calais. now to afghanistan where fighting is continuing to kill and injure large numbers of civilians. the u.n. says nearly 5,000 have been killed or injured so far this year, and a growing number of them are women and children. in the new report the u.n. says almost 1,600 civilians are were killed between january and june. that's an increase on the same period last year. ians were wounded and that is already surpassing last year's figures. a growing number of victims are women and children. 23%

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out now. 15 iraqi soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack believed to from isil. as the anbar offensive continues, attacks against iraqi security forces in the area also intensifying. on wednesday two notable attacks that happened earlier in the day. one in the northern part of ramadi city. this was on isil suicide car bomber. 15 iraqi soldiers killed as a result of that bomb going off. and ten more severely wounded. there one was foiled in the southern part of ramadi also

another isil suicide car bomber. this bomb attack was foiled. the bomb went off, but no soldiers in that attack were wounded or killed as a result. also happening east of fallujah targeting hideouts those strikes killed at least nine isil fighters and decimated two armored weeks that belonged to the islamic state of iraq and the levant. all of this very much underscoring just how sense the situation remains always how tough it has been for the iraqi security forces even backed as they are by the coalition to try to retake anbar province and cities there from isil. now this -- this offensive has been going on now for over two weeks. when it first started, iraqi officials stated they believed they could retake ramadi within a few days. no it has been over two weeks, many questioning the effectiveness of iraq eye

security forces. in the last you days we have heard there more iraq officials who say this is slower than they planned, but they say they are trying to limit civilian casualties, because there have been mounting civilian casualties. iraqi officials saying isil is hiding behind human shields, that the government want to make sure that think only continue to take out isil targets so they can effectively take back those provinces and get them under iraqi government control. u.s. fighter jets and drones have begun arriving in turkey to prepare for a offensive against isil. turkey granted accesses to it bases along the border last month. the foreign minister says the battle will begin soon. turkey has plans to create an isil-free buffer zone in

northern syria, while washington has committed to providing air cover to syrian rebels in the area. still to come on this program, from land owners to laborers. farmers in nigeria are pushed off of their land by a campaign of violence. and hiroshima has cleansed it's a of radiation, but it is still a battle zone for the survivors of the atomic bomb.

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the mediterranean. information of a rescue operation that is ongoing. we understand that the irish navy got their first and hundreds of migrants were on a boat, they think about 600 people were on the boat. maybe 150 people in the water, in the sea, in the mediterranean, so they say this is just off of the coast of libya. and this is a rescue operation that is ongoing. and we'll keep you up to date with developments as soon as we get the details on this ongoing situation. another of our main stories is the u.n. saying nearly 5,000 civilians have been killed or injured so far in afghanistan. a growing number of women and children are among the victims. a cash crisis which could cause the closure of schools in the capitol. it may have to cancel classes

for half a million palestinian children. aid workers in myanmar are struggling to reach remote partsover the country hit by floods. unusual heavy monsoon rains have caused flooding and land slides killing 69 people. hundreds of thousands of others have been effected. and swollen rivers are threatening new areas. the united states says it will provide an aid package after myanmar's government appealed for help on monday. >> reporter: this area has largely escaped the flood that has hit other parts of the country. but the flooding has moved people here. on wednesday the u.s. said it is preparing a aid package for myanmar. japan and china are already

assisting. in comes a day after the government appealed international help. aid workers are still having difficulty reaching some of the more heavily flooded areas. flood warnings are in place particularly in the delta region. the concern is that flood waters from the north will flow into rivers that run into this area. state-run media reports say the government is already moving some people to evacuation centers. meanwhile the u.n. has raised concerns that because this area is a major rice-producing area for myanmar there may be food security issues in the future. >> reporter: the remains of 17 people missing since the earthquake in nepal have been found. they were retrieved from landslide debris in a hiking destination north of kathmandu. it's not clear yet if the remains were of local people or

trekkers. rescue teams are searching for survivors which were trapped in the wreckage of two trains. at least 27 are confirmed dead. another 300 were rescued. now the trains were traveling in opposite directions when they derailed within minutes of each other. they were crossing a bridge hit by flash floods and some carriages fell into the river. government investigation has started in guatemala after a video showing soldiers beating two teenagers in the street went viral. now the army says the teenagers were linked to gangs. there has been an increasing military presence on the streets since the president came to power in 2012, promising a crackdown on violent crime. dave mercer has more. >> reporter: they are images

that have shocked guatemala, soldiers savagely beat two young men 80 kilometers west of guatemala city. the soldiers asked the adolescence why they were running and warned them this is how they were trained. the video went viral, and has called into question the militaries role in helping to police the country. human rights workers says the video shows a clear abuse of power. they have requested police protection for the young men and their families. >> translator: using violence against violence isn't the way to resolve things. that's why they are laws proceed urs and laws that need to be respected and human rights also need to be respected by all people. >> reporter: in the department capitol, people were shaken by the video. maria says the soldiers acted

like drunks fighting in the streets rather than government authorities. >> translator: i felt their pain inside me. i have children and it makes me think, what would i do if something like this happened to them. it's wrong. they were doing it for fun. >> reporter: street sellers like francisco are often victims of extortion, but rumors that the young men might have been part of a gang hasn't hardened his opinion. >> translator: this is not the correct way to treat a person. we all have our rights. even if they are delinquents, they should be judged according to the law. this is not the way to resolve anything. >> reporter: while the people we spoke to here say they condemn the violence comments on social media show some agree with the soldiers actions. here in a country with one of the highest murder rates in the world, an iron fist to crime is

a welcome one. for a country still recovering from a brutal 36-year civil war, many people still view the army with suspicion. and while the military has identified the soldiers and say they are continuing their investigations images like these will be hard to forget. david mercer guatemala. now to northeastern nigeria where attacks by boko haram are hurting many people including the region's farmers. some land owners have been forced to become farm laborers as the armed fighters impose their version of islamic law. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: earning a living as a farm hand this man earns less than $2 a day, working on someone else's farm.

before boko haram fighters overran his village, he used to farm 50 heckers of his own. >> translator: you can't compare the times. look at me now, i am just a laborer, who doesn't make enough a day to feed their family. >> reporter: thousands of farming communities have been displaced by boko haram fighters. their farm lands idol and income in ruins. at the market the supply chain has been torn apart. this is the market one of the busiest in the northeast. it used to be much busier for buyers and sellers, but years of boko haram violence have displaced thousands of rural families in neighboring states effectively cutting off most of the supplies. this person has three small factories producing edible oil. two have shut the third only

operating occasionally. >> which run out of raw materials because of the insurgency, which is seriously affecting our productions. >> reporter: now when a few supplies aren't enough to run the factories, and it's the same story of this cluster of milling factories. the economic impact of this violence is becoming clear. >> the commercial activities are substantial. i feel more concerned that we are doing a lot of investment on one hand and that -- which takes time, because investment takes time to do and you just wake up one day and the investments are being destroyed. >> reporter: everyone here is hoping for a quick resolution to this conflict. the long process of recovery can

then begin. for now, hope is what everyone in the region is hanging on to. now the 70th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack is on thursday. the united nations air force dropped an atomic bomb on hiroshima in japan. harry faucet has been seeing how they have recovered from the nuclear war. >> reporter: rice, cucumbers grow in abundance here. locals put it down to the purity of the water. they call this downpour a blessing of heaven. but 70 years ago these fields were a flow of blood. when the u.s. air force dropped

atomic bombs, radioactive debris was swept up into the air and fell as black rain. this village lays outside of the black rain zone. he and dozens of others have launched legal action to have their medical conditions recognized as stemming from the attack. >> translator: i hope we can he >> r are more than 180,000 designated survivors still living. this year their average age rose above 80. the blast happened about 150 southeast of a hiroshima's iconic dome. first you have to prove that as anned a anned a anned a -- an adult or child,

you were exposed to large numbers of contaminated fellow survivors or you are living in a government designated fallout zone. this professor has studied the long legal battles that have resulted. >> the initial radiation is within two kilometers. the [ inaudible ] will spread more wider area in the -- depend on the age and the sex of the infants, it will be different. >> reporter: this person was 4 kilometers from the center of the atomic blast. he has battled ill health including two rounds of cancer. and new a newer heart problem. >> translator: i can't silently watch my friends die one after another. i have to carry their feelings inside me and fight on in court.

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