ahead, russia hits syria with more airstrikes for a 5th consecutive day. a second stabbing attack in israi jerusalem as israel bans for from the occupied city. the search for survivors in guatemala. hundreds still missing after a

landslide killed 85. >> the taliban have retaken the main square in the northern city of kunduz. that's according to residents who have been speaking to al jazeera. afghan forces sport by u.s. air power have been seek to go drive the taliban out of the city since monday. live for us just south of kunduz city, this comes as a bit of surprise, doesn't it? we have been hearing for days the afghan officials saying they are making progress in kunduz. what went wrong? >> reporter: sammy, this morning, afghan security forces were advancing in kunduz city center. they could manage to capture the center of the city, but taliban was fighting in the residential area around the city. i talked with afghan official

forces commander who was based in the square kunduz city. he told us that they arrived there. they cleared the area. taliban were quiet and people come to welcome them. suddenly taliban attack. one of their humvee vehicle, armored vehicle, now we are getting report at least two soldiers were killed in this attack and afghan security forces had to leave the square back to the taliban. we are hearing from other part of kunduz city that heavy fighting is ongoing. afghan security forces have to call spore for support of nato. >> at the same time, we are hearing a bit of a crisis has been developing outside the hospital which was the target of an airstrike. tell us what the situation is like now. >> well, we are getting information from the central hospital, the government prove initial hospital of kunduz city

three nurse, one doctor is helping over 500 injured that arrived in the hospital. i talked before with the head of the house department was telling us that at the kabul airport with supplies and medical teams to get to kunduz and to go to the airport. there is a shortage of food and medicine at the airport now, seeing the heavy fighting going on, it might be hard for them to reach the hospital. >> while that is going on, where is that leaving the humanitarian situation for people inside the area, inside the city? >> people keep complaining, telling us there is fofood, there is no water, no electricity. and they cannot even move. i talked with a resident who was just in the past few minutes telling me that they were happy the government forces have

advancing. they might get out of the measurable situation now but he said that fighting, heavy fighting has started back and they have to hide with no mood, no medicine and even in some houses, he is telling us that injured and dead bodies cannot move them to the hospital. they are complaining they using heavy art artful. that's what makes life harder for them there? >> we can't forget the horrible scenes following strike on the hospital. any explanation being given by officials as to how a hospital whose coordinates were known could have ended up hit in this manner? >> reporter: no explanation from nato but afghan execute is telling us taliban were hiding

12k3467 seem to have lost the connection with our correspondent there. we will try to get back to him for the latest on doctors without borders have withdrawn from the afghan city of kunduz. the decision was taken after 19 people were killed by the airstrike i was talking about on hospital on saturday. something the u.n. is describing now as a possible war crime. the says a strike at 2:15 a.m. local time on saturday could have resulted in, quote, collateral damage to the hospital. afghan forces say taliban fighters were hiding in inside. doctors without borders rejects that, though. they say only staff and patients were there. the hospital was hit repeatedly for over an hour. staff called u.s. and afghan officials while the attack was happening and they say they had supplied precise gps coordinates. one man who was in the hospital with his two children at the time of the booing gave

al jazeera his account. >> on the first day of meeting, my two songs were injured and two other nephews were killed. i brought my injured sons to the msf hospital. they were getting better day by day and last night suddenly in the middle of the night, the hospital was being bombed. i grabbed my sons from the bed and we hid under a table. bombing of heavy and continued until morning. the building was on fire and the roof clasped. the hospital was totally destroyed. thank god, we survived. the u.n. has called for a swift, if you will, and transparent investigation. the u.n. high commissioner for human rights said the event is utterly tragic, inexcusable and possibly criminal. international and afghan military planners have an obligation to respect and protect civilians at all times and medical facilities and personnel are the object of a

special protection. these obligations apply no matter whose air force is involved and the respective of the location. at least 85 people are dead and hundreds more are missing after a massive landslide covered much of a town in guatemala. rescue user are still looking for survivors. hope of finding anyone alive e david mercer reports. >> it's guatemala's worst natural disaster in years. part of this pointanside collapsed late thursday, bearing 125 homes under 1 million cubic meters of earth. rescue workers and volunteers race against time shoveling through mountains of dirt in the search for survivors. today, all they found were lifeless bodies, a hard reality for many here.

>> six much my family members are missing, my parents and four siblings. i haven't bent able to rest. asking to seem them alive is a lot. they are buried under 15 meters of dirt. >> the landslide hit around 9:30 at night when many people were at home. it followed days of nearby constant rain. those who could, ran out of their homes but many didn't escape. >> may neighbor's house was here. they are digging here but haven't found any survivors. >> machinery was brought in by the army. rescuers have joined the search motivated by signs of survivors. every 20 to 30 minutes, hear a whistle blow and everybody stops working. >> means somebody thinks they have heard a voice flu underneath at a time mud and rock. but with this layerred up 45

meters on top of the houses. many here say they are run out of hope. >> rescue workers have no plans to stop the search but the moment the rain falls again, they could suspend the operation. >> we could see the hill runs the risk of a landslide. there is a fracture that could bring down more earthly in 2008, authorities warned local politicians that this ravine was a risk zone and that no one should be living here david mercer, al jazeera, santa catari inform a pinula, guatemala. >> the u.s. president declared a state of emergency in south carolina after heavy rain. a persistent band of raid has caused massive floods in charlton. homes and businesses have been evacuated. three have died in road

accidents across the state due to the weather at least 16 have died in flooding along the french rivera. over two months of rain fell in just two hours. more than 27,000 homes have lost electricity. some people drowned in a retirement home when the river burst its banks. >> reporter: the water was up to here. somebody came to get me. i couldn't walk because of the water pressure. it was horrible. i can't talk about this any more. >> there has been a defendant new wave of russian airstrikes in syria. it's the 5th successive day of bombing. let's go straight to zeina hodr who joins us from beirut. what happened this morning? >> reporter: according to the russian defense ministry, as they carried out a number of airstrikes targeting 10 isil targets and they mentioned that eight of the isil facilities hit

in idlib, in the northwestern province of i hadlic where he is ill does not have a presence. as you can imagine, the opposition is asking a lot of questions saying whether or not this aerial campaign is, in fact aimed at fighting i see ill or whether they are targeting groups opposed to the government of the babar al-assad. what we understand from activists is that there were airstrikes in homs in towns like reston and telvisi. they uploaded video showing people trialing to leave the area in panic, and showed the aftermath of what they are calling russian airstrikes. there was no mention in the defense ministry's statement of targeting this area. it's not the first time the homs country side has been targeted. there have been a number of civilian casualties there. sammie, the opiniposition is asg what isil targets is russia hitting when most has been concentrated in areas controlled

by rebels opposed to the government. >> on that point, i ask you to stay with us, zeina as we look at the pattern of strikes. the itstitute for the study of war has been trucking the russian airstrikes. the group says most of the strikes have been targeting rebel groups, not isil. this is the region where the syrian government still has control. the opposition, that syrian groups which include el nusra front plus kurdish fighters hold sway in these areas. >> isil controls large stretches of territory in the northeast and southern corridor. russia says it can you tell me airstrikes in the 4 days before sunday. the isw has identified 12 locations where it says with a high degree of quanfidence, russia carried out its air campaign of those 12 russian airstrikes, the isw said 10 2u8ing hit opposition targets. two hit isil territory. both were al raqqa where oil

assets are located. looking at that, the opposition must be worried that they are the real targets of this russian air campaign, not isil. >> reporter: that's whatever they are saying but if we look at the map, these airstrikes are not indisriminate. there seems to be a strategy. russia has a strategy because the areas that they are targeting form an arc around the proof ince of latvakia. it is a government stronghold, part of the strategic territory. as of late, rebels have been making advances, pushing towards this area. now, with these airstrikes, the plan may be to push the reynolds further back because this area was under threat. hitting shohur, the government lost it a few months ago. it's a strategic area located on a crossroads that links latvikia

to aleppo. if they plan to sent reendorsements, they would need this road. others are important why it overlokdz latvakism a. many believe russia's intervention came to help the sir kwan government unable to stop the rebel advances, threatening the most strategic area of syria. >> thank you, hodr. stay with us here on al jazeera. still to come: the media focus may have shifted. you may have thought that this was all over. far from it. i am jonah hull on the macedonian/serbian border. plus why protecting south africa's bow tancal bounty is threatening the livelihood of traditi traditional bush doctors. ♪

is the lions gate behind me here a length, walk away from the traditional point access to the compound. great anger mounting among palestinians. groups gathering outside lions gate watching the trickle of tour itself who are able to flow in unfetterred past the police who sealed off the old city to palestinians. >> france is boosting security at its entrances to the channel tunnel. it's the under sealing between the french port of calais and the u.k. the new execute measures come after more than 1 refugees entered the tunnel in an effort to reach britain. hungary says russia is key to endings the war in syria and stemming flow of refugees into europe. it's foreign minister told the u.n. moscow's cooperation is necessary in fighting isil. meanwhile as jonah hull reports, the refugees stillflowing in to europe. >> pick a point the a random on

the route through europe, the last train station en massedonia on the serbia border. nothing has changed day-in and day-out. they keep coming. the weary, the relieved, the hopeful. we have afternoon eight trains per day. sometimes we have more. sometimes we have less in 24 hours. >> do you see any sign at all of this flow of people slowing down, coming to an end? >> people are saying okay something going to be slower but we are not seeing anything like that. >> this young man is an english teacher from raqqa in issue is i can't. >> do you feel your spirits are high? do you feel strong? >> yes. i think my moral is still high to travel to another country. different places and different people and like my friends, they are having a honeymoon.

>> they are on their honeymoon? n newly married. >> yes, bride and groom. honey moon with different sights. train, bus. >> a very active site-seeing honeymoon adventure there. you are happy office you are happy? >> yes. yes. they are very happy. >> congratulations. i want to ask you about the russian activities now in the last few days in your country. do you think that it's going to help to end the war? >> no. i don't think so. it will be worse. just get worse? >> yes. get worse. more and more. >> after a few kilometers' walk people are now arriving in serbia. the media may have largely moved on from this story for the time being. the spotlight is on syria. it's about the russian bombing of syria now of course. there aren't many people here who seem to think that is going to make much difference.

this miserable journey goes on. a lot is said in parts of europe about these people, who they are, what they want, the threat that they pose. most are ordinary people beginning new lives in a world that has changed beyond recognition. on the macedonia/serbia border. >> raising the poverty line from $1.25 to $1.90. if people exist on less than that per day, they are said to be officially living in poverty. what will the readjustment mean for the millions living on the brink. from al jazeera's counting the cost program looks at the numbers. >> the poverty line, level, threshold. it goes by many names but it is important to remember it is more than just a turn of phrase when we say people living below the

poverty lane, it has been officially defined. different countries have different thresholds but it is the world bank which comes up with the did he haefinitive one in 1990, it was a dollar. if you lived on a dollar a day or less you were blow the poverty line. in 2008 there was a reef vision but based upon 2005 data. it raised it to $1.25 a day. in 2015, we are looking at $1.90. in people terms that will reclassify for the 148 million people as living in extreme poverty joining the 800 million already living below that level today. the numbers do sounds concerning. but the view from the united nations at least is that it's all part of a wider correction. >> i don't think we should be too alarmed at that shift. in fact >> if you look at the first goal in the stg agenda, it talks about $125 as currently

determined. so even this agenda we are establishing leaves flexibility of revising upward the extreme poverty line because it has to be statistically rigorous and correct. i think it's part of that exercise it should be normal and expected. all of the baselines are changing. prices are changing. inflation takes its own toll and as long as we get the same consumption basket as when it was 1.25, i think we are doing fine. >> i mentions did the sdg, sus tapeable development goals which to be fair have been something of a successful for the united nation. the millennium goals saw the target of addressing extreme poverty met 5 years early. above a billion people saw they

get above that poverty line. the hugely ambitious of endings extreme poverty by 2013, just 15 years away and in theory, now, are more difficult task. >> faz jamil has been to delhi to see how people there live when they are below the poverty line. >> cramped together, stacked haphazardly on top of each other. this is what many of india's urban poor call home. siad's family struggles every day and says corruption and bureaucracy says her family doesn't get the ration cards or other bids they are entitled to. >> reporter: these are my kids. they live like this. today, there is bread, but maybe tomorrow, there is not. if we don't have work, where will the money come from? >> with little outside help, this daily struggle has become a way of life for most people here. >> this situation for the poor is xhoven in many parts of the country. both rural and urban areas.

even if the poor here met the world bank's poverty measure of $1.90, many say it won't be enough for them to live on. even earning less than $2 a day is tough. said's husband is well aware of his family's plight but says there is not much he can do about it. >> i don't have work, so obviously we are poor. we are just managing to survive. somehow, i manage to get work to feed my children. i am not trained or educated to go and get a proper job. all i can do is manual labor. >> these are common complaints. >> poverty levels are increasing. >> it's made worse according to those who work with the poor by some basic services being privatized driving up costs even further. >> you are thave the poor havin access high costs be it in education indication, hospitals or water. that that is the reason even if

people get $2 a day, they are still poor because you can't access basic services. you can't get decent jobs. >> experts say india's rapid economic growth is another reason why artificial poverty lines don't reflect realities on the ground. people are just trying to survive. >> fez jamil, al jazeera, new delhi. >> herbable medicine has a tradition along south african tribes. strict rules in parks are thread anything harvesting of herbs. one bush doctor has come up with a problem of protecting south africa's rural heritage. tanya page explains. >> reporter:nitial comes to the cap town to be inspired. he is a bush did you. the healing powers of these plants have been used for cents trees. unlike his ancestors, he is supposed to have a permit to pick herbs.

we have been picking herbs through generations without permits. >> the restrictions mean herb sellers like dorothy williams struggle to get enough stock yet demand is high. >> it's a lot youth coming to the city. so they know where the knowledge is and where to get the right stuff. >> joaih abraham's grandmother is one convert. she says the pain relieving oil is better than the cream prescribed by the doctor. within. >> we started using the oil he recommended to us. we started to see she was not like restless at night complaining about the pain. >> the challenge is how to keep ancient traditions alive in a modern world full of regulations. >> the u.n. recognizes this national park as one of the richest areas for plants notice

world. it should be protected. preserving nature and tradition is difficult. >> a compromise. a herb guardep in the heart of the township where the people need it most. it has all of the herbs bush doctors need. >> it is good for chest complaints, cold, flu. people used to use it for high blood pressure. >> by moves sheshz close kerr, he is keeping an increasingly urban people with their healing roots. cape town, south africa. >> now, u.s. space agency nasas has uploaded more than 8,000 photographs taken by apollo astronauts during trips to the moon in the 1960s and '70s. the images are high-resolution versions of original nasa photos taken during those missions. every photo taken on the lunar surface by astronauts with their

chest-mounted cameras can be viewed. it includes blurry out-takes and candid shots of austronauts shaving during their three-day journey between earth and the moon. no see more as well as follow-up on the stories we have been telling you about, it's aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ >> hello. you are at the "listeni