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>> hello. the iraqi prime minister has unveiled a range of new measures aimed at changing the way the country is run. it follows weeks of demonstrations over claims of corruption and inefficiency. does it risk unsettling the sectarian balance? among the six government posts is that of former prime minister now vice president nouri a al malika. >> reporter: iraq's government shocked the country with its announcement: that the prime minister and council of ministers would seek to cancel the positions of some of the top leadership, a decree garnering strong reaction on the streets of the capitol. >> this is a real test to the political blocs in parliament. if they refuse, that means they are the enemy of the iraqi people. they will be singled out and held accountable. >> the 3r50i78 primaryts

position cancels three vice presidents and three deputy prime ministers. just one of the measures he is proposing is to cut wasteful spending. at a time of growing national protests, abbadi has been under mounting pressure to clean up a government its critics accuse of not providing citizens with the most basic of services. on friday, tens of thousands protested in several cities demanding electricity, air conditioning, clean water and, most importantly, an end to corruption in parliament by sunday, hours after the announcement, that sentiment had grown stronger. >> i would like to present a gift to the politicians those who have been so corrupt over the past 13 years, just like you complained have been playing with us like puppets this past 13 years. now protesters are emboldened. and more sdmonstrations are being called. >> while the heat may have

reached record levels, activists are insisting they will keep coming out on to the streets. the prime ministerts cabinet has metaphor an ency session and already approved his proposals. it's not clear when members of parliament will take up the issue. >> what i mean a semblance of hope is apaint, it's cynicism in ample supply at a time when iraq is low on so many resources, it's patience >> outposts are different from

settlements in that they are also considered illegal under israeli law, not just international law. the people who live in these outposts are typically there for ideological reasons, and that lends to what we have been hearing from theitsisi government in that they are, quote, cracking down on what they describe as jewish extremists. whatever the case, although we understand that these people have been taken into custody, we also hear that some are already in the process of being released and now, in the background of all of this, of course, is the case of this family which was attacked in the palestinian village known as duma, in which an 18 month old baby was burned to death. his father died just a day ago and two other members of the family remain in hospital in very serious condition. we hear that there has been no meaningful progress in that case, and so it really does beg the question that while israel is again, as they have been saying, cracking down on jewish extremists, they seem to be making no headway on the case of

two palestinians who died from very serious burn injuries. >> voting is underway in haiti after nearly four years of delays. there are concerns over security as well as fears that low voter turnout could harm the lex's legitimacy. around half of haiti's population is registered to vote but preleaks surveys suggest turnout could be as low as 15%. rob reynolds reports. >> in the haitian countryside, life is hard. money is scarce. government services are nearly non-existent. people here in the village of tomazo fetch drinking water from the same stream their animals wade in. flores ramon has six children with a 7th on the way. the family scrapes by on the meager earnings of her husband a day laborer.

>> government doesn't provide any services for us. >> the head of the government that the leaves her to fend for herself was holding a political rally nearby. making promises and asking tomazo residents for votes. >> decades of misrule, corruption, foreign intervention and natural disasters have left haiti a hollowed-out state with functions like the military, healthcare, and education largely run by outsiders. u.n. agencies and non-governmental organizations or ngos. >> many harris resent this. >> the international community takes it, those guys, they cannot help themselves. let's help them. the mistake is they always want to fix for us, to design for us, to do things for us. >> haiti's prime minister admits there is a problem. >> we are conscious of it, how it has affected the sovereignty of our country. it's a consequence of a long,

continuous crisis of instability. >> this university student says haiti would be better off on its own. >> you i think they should go. they brought us cholerra. they brought us mezre. >> without foreign help like these volunteers with doctors without borders working alongside haitian physicians, the health system would get worse. >> education, too, depends upon outsiders. 90% of schools are operated on funded by churches and foreign organizations. one bright spot is policing. the head of the u.n. police operations says the haitian national police or hnp is doing the job of law and order. >> it's a myth to think that the hnp is not doing it now because i see it every day. my officers are not involved in managing the security across the country as much as the hnp is. >> officials say sunday's elections, if successful, will be a major step for haiti toward

reclaiming its sovereignty. >> rob reynolds in port au prisoners. how it's been going where you are. >> well, the main problem here has been that some people are saying their names are not on the list of eligible voters. we can show you people checking their names like this lady here looking at that printed-out list, if her name is not on the list and she can't find it anywhere, then she is not eligible to vote. this is the customary voting place of a lot of these people and they are feeling in some cases quite upset and disenfranchised. one person who wasability vote, not surprisingly, was haiti's president, michelle marteli who arrived here at this location not very long ago with a phalanx of security guards and armed

men. we tried to shout a question. and he ignored it. so, mr. martelli, the president of haiti who has been ruling by decree now for the past six months and more, not answering any questions about the voting problems taking place here in port au prince. five, at least five. there may be more voting places have been completely shut down because of these problems and two voting places were essentially vandalized and trashed, all of the ballots strewn on the floor and all of the voting booths wrecked. so, it has not been racked with violence but it has not been without incidents of voting here in haiti. >> remind us why it is so important for this process to be legitimate or to be recognized as legitimate? >> reporter: well, these elections have been postponed so many times. part of the problem was the

earthquake, of course, five years and a half ago decimated the government. elections were held that year in 2010, but then they were postponed repeatedly. so much so that all of the instittorics the parliamentary instittorics the senate, the chamber of deputies, be everyone's term essentially expired and twherptability function. so that vital arm of government sort of just stopped and that's obviously not a good thing for democracy. a politically unstable haiti is also bad for development in haiti. there are so many outside agencies, non-governmental organizations, u.n. agencies. they are trying to do redevelopment work, trying to feed children, build schools. all of this sort of thing. and political instability haley hampers that, makes it virtually impossible. we talked to the head of one of the ngos a short while ago and he said, you know, you can't function if the government is in chaos. so, there is the democratic

element, and then there is the practical element and they kind of go hand-in-hand. >> rob reynolds, thank you very much indeed for bringing us live there from port au prince. >> approach pro-government forces have taken the city of zinjabar from howe howe rebels. they used tanks provided by the saudi-led coalition to launch their offensive on the capitol of the southern province. pro-hadi forces retook aden last month. an influx of people who have headed into yemen's southern province to escape violence in other parts of the country. even those who find safety there still struggle to survive. as caroline malone explains. >> reporter: people living in madia town have to travel long distances to get water. there is a limited supply from water tankers but it's 10 times the price it used to be. fighting in the southern region of yemen has limited access into and out of madia. there is not enough food to go

around. >> it we call on international humanitarian organizations to accelerate the supply of aid as people are in dire need of the basics including food and medication. diseases are spreading. we need urgent intervention to save lives and stop suffering. >> among those suffering are the many internally displaced families who have come here to escape from fighting in places including the nearby city of aden. they are living in temporary camps with no resources. but they are at least under the guard of local resistance fighters who protect the town. the influx of people into madia is putting pressure on an already struggling medical system. >> this is the only hospital in the prove incident. we also have to the take care of the displaced people. they have come from aden. the hospital is already full but more people keep coming. >> the u.n. says 80% of yemen's 21 million people need some kind

of aid or protection. according to the international committee of the red cross, 1.3 million people have also been displaced by the fighting. >> there are thousands of wounded and dead people. there are a lot of displaced, a lot of destruction, but there is the indirect impact, the fighting also leads to the fact that vaccination programs cannot grams cannot take place. >> men and women's remains are being laid to rest in peru decades after they died.

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>> a reminder of top stories here on al jazeera. after weeks of protests, the iraqi prime minister says he wants to abandoned six posts. security forces have arrested a number offisi settlers after overnight searches in the occupied west bank. voting is underway in haiti's elections after nearly four years of delays at least 37

people died in the attack targeting syrian rebel headquarters in the town of u um al oosh. this shows the attempts to defend the village before the isil takeover: strategy of the sdmrus backed coalition against isil there is not working. it might even backfire zein zeina khodr. >> reporter: these men are from raqqa, isil's capitol for almostfo years. they hide identify tuz to protect families and colleagues back home. some have been killed. this hasn't stopped them and their informants from continuing what they say is a campaign to save their city. their information suggests that u.s.-led coalition airstrikes have done little damage to isil inside the city. these activists tell us the

coalition's overall strategy that's solely relied on the kurds is working in isil's favor. u.s. sport has caused anger among airabs. they push the airabs out. many we want south to raqqa some of the are saying they fear the kurds more than isil. >> the is trying to put together an army of its own to fight isil, what it calls the new syrian forces who will partner with moderate rebel faxes on the ground. there are those who warn against this. sirians will see there is there is a war. the u.s. won't work with them because they are religious. >> they are supposed to lead the ground assault. some of them have been killed and captured by syria's

al-qaeda-linked nusra front. >> issue is engineer rebel groups among them, the revolution itch brigade who consider the government and isil as enemies. >> there won't be any solution if the coalition doesn't fight t they need to seriously target isil because it's the main base. from there, it can move freely. >> now, the focus is to clear is ill from the northwest. if it succeeds t would end the armed group and stop the flow of th foreign flighters. this won't defeat is ill. the coalition's choice of partners may create en needs on the ground. al jazeera, southern turkey.

police says neil 300 children were sexually abused by a gang of 25 men for a number of years. seven have been arrested. the families are calling for a full judicial inquiry. they say they don't trust the police to inrest gate properly. they are calling for military courts to hear any cases of the accused. nicole johnson has more from islamabad. >> pack sflooens are saying some 280 children were sexually abused and assaulted by a gang of 25 men over a number of years. so far, seven men have been arrested. there are reports that some 400 videos were made and thousands of these ended up on the local market sole for as little as $0.40 each. the parents are also saying these videos could have ended up abaud in the u.s., u.k. and europe. reports are starting to come out from the parents and the victims say that children had been drugged and the families forced

to pay a money and jewelry to these gains, essentially, they were blackmailed by the gangs. the families of the victims are calling for a scrolled usually inquiry. they say they don't trust the police to properly investigate this. they are also calling for military courts to hear any cases of the accused. this has created a great controversy in pakistan, a great deal of outrage and disgust amongst the public in a country where the protection of children's rights is very poor and many people have little faith in the judicial system which they say is arrive with corruption. >> sunday marks a year since a white police officer in the u.s. city of ferguson shot and killed the unarmed black teenager michael brown. a demonstration was held in the missouri city on saturday to remember brown and the weeks of protest his death sparked. the shooting also promotes a debate about race and police brutality in the unites states.

christian sal e-mailey is in ferguson and sends this update. >> reporter: we are at the location where michael brown was shot and killed by a while police officer one year ago today. supreme gather earl for a moment of silence and will be head to go a local church for a memorial service to remember mike brown and the movement that he spiernd nationally. it's just one of many events that have been scheduled in ferguson this weekend. the city is calling this a unity weekend. as you look at the crowd behind me here, i am struck by just how diverse it is black families, old, young, coming together to mark this event. the city has undergone many changes in the last year, including a new police chief, a black police chief. the pace of change hasn't been fast enough for many of the people i have spoken to in the community. there are people on the other side who feel that ferguson has been wrongfully pour tried as a

racist community but overall, i think there is a sense of optimism here on this some bell dare as what has happened as a result of mike brown's death not only here in ferguson but around the country, raising the conversation about race and police issues in this country. >> kristen saloomey, the. investigation to find out who was in a hotel siege. 5 u.n. workers were killed when government troops stormed the hotel. no one has claimed responsibility for the assault which has coincided in a surge in attacks in the region. thousands of people died or were listed as missing in the civil war in peru which lasted 20 years. now, after years of investigations, the remains of victims are finally, being returned to their loved ones. a report. they have waited more than 30 years for this day. victims of two decades of internal conflict in peru

received the maine of 57 men, women, and children recovered from mass glyphs in clandestined sizes. >> forgive us for the violent rights. forgive the state for not being there to assist calls for help. forgive us because public servants committed atrocities against their lives. >> in 1980, the shining path launched a 20 year war against the state. nearly half of the victims died here most were among peru's poorest andeans. they carried out brutal killings. a forensic team worked for years to identify victims. now, families have a chance to verify the remains of their loved ones. dennease pregnant mother, siblings, granted parents died. the military killed 16 family members and disappeared most of the remains. only her father and brother survived. now, after 30 years, their little sister has been

identified. it's so painful to remember that time the killings of innocent children and pregnant women. it hurts to have no family. >> 2800 remains have been given up by the ground and half of them returned to the families. but thousands of peruvians are unaccounted for. >> many people know where remains are buried but they are afraid to get involved in the legal process and fear for their security. if they could give information without a legal process, the invest combings could speed up. >> the united nations says the state doesn't know how many people remain disappeared, doesn't have a map to locate the mass graves and it doesn't have a policy to search for the disappeared. that's why families are demanding that the government passes a law that will help thousands of families like this one to find their loved ones. >> the family is one of 70 families in the tiny village of

gispichanka who have been looking for their dead for years. >> we are happy. now, we are together with my mother and stepfather. we can visit them in the cemetery and will always remember them. >> for this family now, there is some relief. one of the very few who says after decades of pain, they can find some peace. al jazeera, peru. >> japan's commitment to passvism is at risk. that's the warning from nagasaki's mayor who spoke at a ceremony marking sent years since a bomb was dropped on the city. he the government is pushing bills through parliament which could see japanese troops deployed in conflict for the first time since world war ii. >> country, there is a debate in our beverly parlor over laws that will change the nature of our national security. there is growing worry and concern that our resolve from 70

years ago, the ideal of our peace constitution is starting to waiver. i ask that the gorment government and parliament listen to the worries of the people and use wisdom in a careful and sincere manner. >> north korea's government has cut food wraths after drouth conditions destroyed crops. the u.n. says 2/3 of people are facing chronic and place it on government mismanagement and abnormally warm weather. >> singapore is celebrating independence. tens of thousands of people attended the extravagant celebration. the city state has achieved rapid economic growth and become one of the world's wealthiest country. there has been criticism from some for limiting free speech and political expression. >> inap afghanistan, nearly half of all children under 5 have stunted growth because of malnutrition a new addition of the afghan provide may provide the answer to this yonnic

problem. jennifer glasse explains. >> mohammed arisaki said he tripled his soybean crop because the soy flower from last year's crop was such a success. >> our neighbors persuade them t people liked it. it kept the bred fresh for a longer time and had lots of protein. soybean high in protein and other vitamins and a cheaper option than beef, chicken or eggs. malnutrition is a fwhooiingsd problem here despite billions of dollars in aid. four out of 10 afghan children are stunted and almost 1/5 of women of rereproductive age doubling the protein content. this is where soy could make a real difference here bread is a staple in the afghan diet. thousands of bakeries in kabul alone only 60 use soy flower. >> the owner soyur.

>> the owner soy. >> he started added soy to his bread six months ago. >> it is for your children, for family, for all. >> a lot of his bread goes to hospitals and orphanages. an american charity subsidizes farmers giving them seeds and buying crops to supply four factories around the country. >> soybean is a new concept in afghanistan. we have soy cook ishingsdz soy milk used in afghanistan. >> their only kabul store doesn't have many customers. soy is a new product here around the country, an estimated 12,000 farmers grow soy beans on about 6,000 acres of land. >> that's a frarnings fraction of what could be cultivated a much more land than that is used to grow opium poppy.

farmers like this are making a start. an area that was once dominated by the taliban could be on a new front line in afghanistan's battle against malnutrition. jennifer glasse, al jazeera, kabul. you can find plenty more stories on our website. the address of that, aljazeera.com. hello, i'm richard gizbert, and you are at the listen post. here are some of the media stories, politics, and problems with the coverage of immigration in europe. it's reached a point where it's