>> palestinian burial, a 32-year-old father laid to rest one week after israeli settlers fire bombed his home. >> why iraqi's feel that the year long anti isil strategy isn't working. >> haitians get the chance to make their voices heard in national elections. >> one year on from michael brown's death, how much has really changed in the u.s. city of ferguson?

>> it was an attack on just one household but has brought thousands together. palestinians in the occupied west bank buried the father killed in an israeli settler attack. the house was fire bombed last week. his 18-month-old son also died while his wife and 4-year-old son remain in critical condition. we have a report from douma. >> anger that another member of the family died after the fire bombed home just a week ago. palestinian and israeli investigators believe the attack was carried out by jewish attackers from a settlement considered illegal under international law. >> we don't trust israel, the occupation supports settlers in doing these horrendous acts and we don't expect any good from

the israeli government. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his security cabinet have come under intense pressure to crack down on far right jewish groups since the attack. the government has since announced it would start detaining israelis suspected of political violence against palestinians without trial and allow for harsher interrogation of what it calls jewish extremists. both measures have been used against palestinians for years. >> amid the grief and anger are questions, questions as to why more than a week after the fire bombing of the family home, why there have been no arrests and no meaningful movement in this case. >> he was 32 years old when he died. his youngest son was just 18 months when he was burned to death on the night of the attack. his wife remains in critical condition in hospital with burns to 90% of her body. their eldest son ahmed suffered serious burns.

the 4-year-old has regained consciousness and has been calling out for his parents. his cousin works as a doctor and visited the surviving members of the family just hours before the funeral. >> we hope this is our last tragedy. we hope god saves but as long as they're there this is critical. >> sortly after the attack on the family, palestinian penalty abbas submitted a request to the international court to investigate the fire bombing and what he calls terrorism. al jazeera douma in the occupied west bank. >> it's been a year since a u.s. led coalition began airstrikes against islamic state of iraq and the levant in iraq and later syria. the group's rapid advance prompted iraq's government to

ask for international help to flush them out. the u.s. coalition includes bahrain, jordan, qatar the united emirates and saudi arabia. on the ground, 3,000 u.s. soldiers are training iraqi troops. as of may have, the combined operation have cost the u.s. $2.44 billion. on average the u.s. is spending almost $9 million a day on its fight against isil. many doubt the strategy is working. >> with hopes as faded as the pictures that surround them, it's a mournful atmosphere for the patrons of the cafe. here, they sit and smoke what small comforts are provided. not even these decaying mementos of iraq's glorious past are enough to counter all the reminders of its dangerous present.

the majority, they didn't think they see effects on the ground, nothing on the ground. >> a political analyst tells me that in the year since the u.s. led coalition began its airstrikes against islamic state of iraq and the levant, many iraqis have grown more distrustful than ever of their government's alliance with the united states. >> they think the exercise, they have global policy and they want to use this war for their global policy. >> a short walk away, the mood is livelier, but not much happier. during the recent record heatwave, though, anger and anxiety seemed to rise faster than the temperature. >> here in baghdad is a real sense of concern about the effectiveness of the airstrikes against isil, especially at a time when the group has a stronghold just 90 minutes away from the capital. >> rich with history, this is where the city's intellectual

elite have traditionally come to buy books, discuss issues and debate ideas. on this day, many express their concerns over the coalition strategy to defeat isil. >> throughout the year, we haven't seen any tangible results and it leaves us with a very big question mark about whether the coalition is serious about fighting isil on the ground or not. we asked them to review their strategy and actually dealing seriously with iraqi forces to help them fight isil. >> others blame sectarian politics constantly playing out in the ranks of iraq's government. >> i think the problem in iraq is mutual trust, and everybody knows what we're talking about. there's lack of mutual trust. >> with so much at stake, this man has this warning. >> if this is not resolved, isil is going to be walking around baghdad in no time. >> in a city where writers once

reigned on a street where poets once ruled, artistry no longer alleviates dread. amid these volumes of fiction and non-fiction, it's fear that's being expressed most vividly now. al jazeera, baghdad. >> a member of the iraqi parliament doesn't think enough is being done to defeat isil. >> from the beginning, we say the air campaign is not enough to fight isil and now after one year, we find isil, they have more ground, they have more power, they get more cities in iraq and we are facing a very organized criminal organization, >> former egyptian president mohamed morsi deposed in a military coup in 2013 complained he is being given food he

suspects may have been tampered with. he made the comments in a court in cairo where he and 10 others appeared an charges of espionage and leaking qualified documents. he said there were five attempts that were life threatening. his son spoke through a translator and said his father has stopped eating because of fears over the prison food. >> my father, president mohamed morsi said there are certain extra judicial measures with regard to the bad health care and food he receives in jail. the contents of that food could represent a threat to his life. we have not been allowed to visit him since november, 2013, so are reliant and what he said in court. he's not allowed to have food sent in and only eating food prepared by the egyptian authority. my father suffers from diabetes,

a condition which requires continual medical care which is not available in the prison. >> more migrants have been brought to italy. the 800 or so, including women and children were taken to southern italy. they were rescued in several operations on thursday, 24 hours after 200 migrants were feared to have drowned in the same area. most of these latest arrives are from africa and syria. >> the mayor of paris said migrants illegally occupying an unused school can stay for now. they took over the building after weeks of living on the streets. charles stratford went to meet them. >> he fled libya five months ago. he wants political asylum in france. >> i find myself in france. before i was in italy, but now it is france. i speak a little bit of french so that helps.

>> he is one of 250 men, women and children that took over this disused school building in paris. most are migrants from africa, syria and afghanistan say they had no choice to open the building, because police kept forcibly removing them from makeshift camps. local people bring food and volunteers are helping them with asylum applications. >> if you have no pity for asylum seekers, next time no pity for poor people, next time, no pity for handicapped people no pity for handicapped people next time, no pity for women, et cetera, et cetera. i think the way we treat asylum seekers is a barometer on our level of democracy. >> the mayor's office is willing to enter into dialogue with respect to eventually finding the migrants somewhere to say. the situation at the former school not only highlights the migrant crisis in france, but in widening europe, also. >> nationalists and anti e.u.

parties have seized on the migrant issue across europe. french national front party leader says france can't afford to take in more migrants. the party's popularity has grown because of her position on immigration. around 60,000 people apply for asylum in france each year. >> france is not the only place for asylum seekers. automatic the figures have increased slightly, less than two applicants out of 10 actually succeed in their asylum seeking when the average in europe is 35% of successful applications up to 60% in scandinavia. >> every says europe must not cave in to demands to automatically deport asylum seekers. there is a system proposed based on economic rates in each

country. not all member states want quotas imposed on them. he has made it to france, but it is unlikely that he or others sheltering here or elsewhere will be allowed to stay. charles stratford, al jazeera, paris. >> train of thought a novel approach to housing in mexico. >> this tank is a relic of the soviet past. russia's army is in the middle of a much trumpeted expensive modernization program so why are yuck contract soldiers abandoning their posteds? i'm in southern russia with a story of the country's army deserters.

>> a reminder of the top stories, thousands gathered in the occupied west bank for the funeral of a palestinian man who died from injuries of a suspected arson attack by israel settlers on his home. >> it's been a year since u.s. led airstrikes in iraq and syria, but many on the ground say the fight is not being won. >> former egyptian president mohamed morsi has complained his prison food happen tampered with. he made the comments in court. >> haitians will begin voting sunday in the first of a series of elections after four years of delays. senators deputies, local officials and president before the end of the year. we have more from

port-au-prince. >> at this talk radio station in port-au-prince, it's all politics all the time. in a country so poor that televisions are a luxury, and where more than half of all adults can't read or write radio holds the key for politicians. >> radio is the best medium in haiti, and you have to use them with a lot of capability to assist in politics. >> running for office is expensive and candidates say there is a lot of dirty money floating around. >> a lot of people use bad money, like drug money, things like this, because in this election, we squabble in haiti. >> and money talks. >> money talks, unfortunately.

>> we caught up with a would-be senator and we asked about shady campaign funding. >> i've got people calling me every day, offering me money but i refuse. i want to be able to show the public exactly who is financing my campaign. >> several of the people at this campaign rally confirmed their attendance was motivated by cold cash, spread around by the candidate. >> some of the people here already got their money, but me and my boys, we are just waiting until after the rally to get paid. >> along with drums and horns go fear and violence. late last month, a group of supporters of a local candidate was gathering right here at this street corner when a motorcycle pulled up. the man on the motorcycle began shooting. he killed three people, and then escaped. a memorial banner names the murdered men. >> i have three close friends killed and i saw four others wounded.

>> political analysts say as in past elections, the threat of violence is high. >> looks like violence is part of the equation now, because currently, we've heard a lot of examples of violence in so many places. the more people that are interested, the more violence is an issue, and the more explosive it is. >> the commander of the u.n.'s international police force says enough haitian national police and foreign officers will be on hand to prevent violent incidents from getting out of control. >> hundreds of people have been marching frog ferguson in the state of missouri marking the one year anniversary of the shooting of teenager michael brown. he was fatally wounded by a white police officer. his death prompted violent clashes around the country and national debate about race and alleged police brutality. we are in ferguson with more now on what has changed since then.

>> many events taking operation around the city of ferguson to commemorate the one year anniversary of michael brown's death and call attention to the issues it raised of race and police brutality here and around the country. earlier today was a memorial march with mike brown sr. that started from the scene where michael brown was shot to the high school. there are some calls for civil disobedience. we've been talk to people here about whether or not they think things have changed for the better and it is a mixed bag. everyone you talk to acknowledges there is still work to be done to mend relations. there are a lot of people in town who think ferguson has been unfairly painted by activists as a racist community.

these conversations are continuing and if there's one thing that has come out of mike brown's death, that is an elevated conversation about this issue taking operation not only here, but around the country. >> she was speaking to his father. >> we have been dragged left and right. we still haven't had a chance to just mourn so saying that, it's like it just repeated itself, it just popped back up like it was fresh from last year, trying to crucify my son with an incident of him getting killed, so me standing up and putting out the truth, and letting it be known that his backbone was strong. my son is a legend. the truth is just out there and i'm just standing up for what is

right for my boy. my biggest thing is keeping my son's name alive. this happened in ferguson. it's a lot of work that needs to be done in missouri, period, city county, if you just talk about missouri, but we can talk about the whole world. in west africa, doctors are striking. patients have been lining up at medical facilities hoping the strike won't affect their care. the medical association threatened mass resignations if its demands are not met. >> the organization in charge of fighting ebola in sierra leone hopes to wipe out the disease in the country. the national emergency response center says there are only four cases recorded at the moment. more than 11,000 people have died in the outbreak in sierra leone, liberia and guinea, the international committee has been criticized for the slow

response, which was declared a global public health emergency 12 months ago. >> the first case of ebola from the west african outbreak was contracted in december, 2013. researchers believe it came from the southwestern border forest of guinea. it spread quietly until march last year, when the world health organization declared it an outbreak. by the end of the month, at least 60 people had died and there were suspected cases in neighboring liberia and sierra leone. in april, the charity doctors without borders warned this outbreak was unprecedented, but the world paid it little attention. poor health facilities and governments who struggled to take action made it worse. the virus spread and so did the fear. by late july, it reached nigeria. in august, two american missionaries contracted the virus in liberia and were flown back to the u.s. now it was not just a west

african problem. now more foreign nationals got infected and suddenly the world was seeing the scale of the outbreak. >> this morning, i am declaring the current outbreak of the ebola virus disease a public health emergency of international concern. >> the world health organization stepped up its call for work on a vaccine, but medical teams on the ground in west africa struggled. doctors without borders admitted they were being overwhelmed. >> if you look at the history doctors without borders have given regularly alarm signals. >> we already started to think in april to say this is not a normal ebola outbreak. more needs to happen. the w.h.o. needs to take this more serious. more resources need to be allocated. our messages are getting more and more urgent up to the end where we more or less want to scream at the world to say things need to happen here! >> by september, five countries were affected by the outbreak and the virus was killing around 50% of victims.

in just nine months, 3,000 people had died. the world health organization admitted in may this year it was unprepared for the scale of the outbreak. >> i do not as c.g. of w.h.o. ever again want to see this organization faced with a situation that it is not prepared and not staffed and not funded to do the job. >> with education, better government programs and a global response, the virus is now far better contained. while the west african outbreak may have started in the forest of guinea, experts warn we're still not out of the woods yet. >> recruiters are approaching russian soldiers to get them to fate in ukraine. defections are casting a light on the severe conditions russian soldiers face, some that lead them to abandon their post.

>> alexander is a young man who doesn't like the direction his life has taken. the enlisted soldier faces 10 years in prison for two charges of going absent without leave. he insists he'd been left with no choice. the beatings, the bullying, the abuse had become too much to bear and the army was ignoring his resignation letters. >> if people want to leave they're asked for money. we're openly told this on the parade ground. we submitted our tenders but were told if you want to leave pay your commanders. >> alexander's isn't an isolated case. at least five soldiers from bases here in the city are being prosecuted for going awol after they were transferred to the ukrainian border. the statistics are murky and the real figure probably runs to at least 60, maybe more. one of the things we've heard repeatedly here is that bullying and abuse are not the only

reasons why contract soldiers are running from the russian army. people say that unidentified recruiters have been working the army bases, offering cash to soldiers to go and fight in ukraine. understandably, it's something alexander isn't that keen on talking about. >> people were intimidated they're locked up now, guys came, i don't know who they were, and threatened them with 13 years in jail if they didn't take their words back. >> acting for alexander and five other soldiers, she's being dismissed in russian media hassled by police and her phone is both blocked and listened to. >> about the recruiters, he was in prison and he spoke out about it first, but he's been forced to retract and admit his guilt. he's out now, but he's a completely broken man, naturally the other guys are afraid.

>> we asked the russian defense ministry by phone and letter at both national and regional levels for their response to all this. they said they had no comment at the moment. russia's defense spending is soaring from a military modernization program. despite money spent, conditions for serving soldiers remain perilous. last month, 23 young men died when a section of their siberian barracks collapsed in the middle of the night. this is an increasingly militaristic country which reveres the service of soldiers past, a respect it doesn't seem to be giving to those serving now. >> strong winds and scorching temperatures helped a wildfire

spread in spain. around 1,000 have been ordered to leave this town and two nearby. >> mexico's can'tal is one of the most populated cities and affordable housing hard to find. one of the poorest districts has found an unusual solution. >> a usual mexican school day, in a very unusual classroom. this is the country's only railway wagon schools. >> it's great, because when you are in here, you feel like you are traveling to other countries. >> the school is the heart of 40 separated and abandoned residential train cars in a poor mexico city suburb. elizabeth cordero gives us a tour of her train car. >> here is my kitchen and my living room, which is small, but comfortable. this is the bathroom and shower, and as you can see, we have internet, phone line and cable

t.v. >> elizabeth's husband, like many here, work for a state rail company, and the family lived and traveled in wagons. when the company wound down, they simply moved into these abandoned ones. they've raised a family here and now her son, alan, teaches in the school. >> all of the families in these wagons have known each other for years. we're very united. if someone has a problem, we solve it together. >> the community's biggest problem has been the attempts of mexican authorities to move them on. they've always resisted. many simply can't afford a house. mexican mortgages have high interest rates. if you're not well enough off to buy a house outright, that covers many, including the people here, your chances of owning a property are slim. the community continues to expand with a new generation

growing up in these unusual living spaces. it may not be perfect, but it's home. al jazeera, mexico city. >> you can catch up with all the stories we've reported on at our website at aljazeera.com. >> i'm russell beard in the sea of cortez mexico to explore the future of fish farming >> and i'm gelerah darabi in kapama park south africa where a specialist team of