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scientific research. >> special troops fighters. ash carter stole the committee in congress, the u.s. is to send a specialized expedition force to iraq, he said the deployment is being coordinated with the iraqi government, and the force would help kurdish forces retake ground from the isil. it would be able to free hostages gather intelligence and capture leaders that might also be in a position to launch operations in syria. rosalyn jordan is live for us, we are seeing i guess you can call an intensification. >> you can very well call it an intensification.

>> before this special expedition force, what has been happening with the 3500 military advisors already inside of iraq. >> american special operators bring a unique sweep of capabilities that make them force multipliers. to help us garner valuable ground intelligence, further enhance our air campaign and above all enable local forces that can hold territory occupied by isil. >> the question during tuesday's hearing, but this hasn't been enough of a robust discussion about this really because even though the administration said at the end of october, that it

was looking at taking these sorts of steps to increase it's -- it's actions against isil, there hasn't really been a full throated public debate about it the way we are seeing, for example, in the united king come. so with the announcement that mrs. going to be this force, essentially, for all intents and purposes is going to be working very close to the front line, if not right on it. you may see more people talking about it, and questioning whether the administration strategy is instead correct bun. there is certainly a very vocal and supportive. particularly one where republicans for increase action against isil. but this' also been a lot of the administration has been deatherring, so perhapses in the next several weeks we will see more of the discussion about whether or not this is the way the u.s. should be going, or whether it should be as it says it is

doing, putting more pressure on it's allies to increase their military contributions as well as focusing on other parts of what they say has to be a whole of government or holistic approach towards defeating isil. >> lye from washington, d.c., ross, thank you. >> well, nato is planning to send patrol aircraft, and missiles to strengthen the defenses on it's border syria. diplomates say the measures are going to send more ships in the eastern mediterranean. in the base and more missiles defense batteries. it follows turkey shooting down a russian jet last week. hi there, nadine, what have nato foreign ministers been saying about turkey. >> julie, we know as they arrived, a lot of them did

repeat that like to see a deescalation in the situation between russia and turkey, after the shooting down of that plane, that call was repeated by the secretary general of nato. at the same time, we are actually expecting to hear what some of them have done in the talks which are just ending over syria over isil, and what to do about the border with fur question. we are expecting some members to perhaps come up with suggestions for the future of how they can help turkey defend it's air space, as spain has done. based in turkey itself that's something that the secretary general said we should look out for. at the same time, of course, we are hearing calls from many many sides for turkey to keep contact open, with russia, that contact isn't happening right now, the gentleman foreign minister

said suggested the reactivation of something called the nato russia counsel. the dutch foreign minister backed him up on that, they say at time ascariasis like this it is equally important to keep talking. >> nadine, what ideas have been thwarted around solutions for syria. >> well, i think the person that sums it up best was the german foreign minister says everybody knows this will be no military solution. purely military solution to the conflict. and he has been talking about his hopes that the opposition groups various opposition groups from syria can get a united line, but he is also said he has referred to his own cabinet, agreeing to back france in the fight against isil, in syria german troops involved in even combats, but it will help the french aircraft carrier, there will be planes and so on.

and i think that he is hopeful that more countries will come onboard, of course the u.k. will debate whether to stop bombing isil. but many are quite aware as well, that russia play as crucial role, of course, it is said it is bombing isil. some are claimed of bombing many others apart from isil, but it is a crucial part of what they are trying to call a broad coalition against isil. that's why the deescalation is so crucial right now. >> joining me live from brussells thank you. >> .

>> back in the arms of their families, 16 soldiers freed by the front, the result of a dedicate prisoner exchange which took a year to negotiate. they were captured in the northern city, after fierce fighting broke out between the group and the lebanese army in august last year. pea thatching all those that helps our release. 13 presidents associated with the front, the syrian rebel group links have now been released by the lebanese government. in the all, 13 lebanese security personnel were captured in the summer of 2014. four were executed, one subsequently died of injuries, nine others remain in captivity. they are being held by isil, a group that is at war.

the lebanese government says it is doing all it can to secure the release of the remaining. >> we have a target a big target, that is real challenge. we need to free them, the ever the sake of lebanon, and for thization of our nation. >> among those released was the former wife of isil leader, she insists though she had nothing to do with it. >> they said i am the wife, i have been divorced for seven years. he was not back daddy at that time. i want to go to turkey. i will go once i get my passport issues. i will be in beirut, then i will go. >> meanwhile, the families of those released some of whom

have been camped for months spoke to al jazeera, about their release. i can't with hold my happiness, thanks to god for their safe return, we hope we will see them soon. they are return was a dream, we thank everyone who works to secure their release. >> the release will ease pressure, which has come under increased credit 6, since the sols within captured. it may also boost the standing presenting them as a group that can potentially strike deals with. al jazeera. >> have elected a new president, in the first civilian leader in almost half a century. rock mark took more than half

the votes from sunday's poll, mohammad reports now from the capitol. celebrations. the moment results of the elections were announced. from a prime minister it will become the country's first civilian leader in almost five decades. in his victory speech, he promised to follow through on his campaign promises. >> we owe to those that sacrifice their lives. the restoration of our constitution order, peaceful governance that strengthened question mocksy, and national reconciliation. >> citizens tonight celebrating the hand off of the political turmoil in their country. it is many here that the election of the new president, will usher in a new era. this democracy. the president of the national

assembly. and from the opposition party, the movement. not everyone is happy with his election. >> he was not my candidate, and never will be. i don't -- the elections and the transition of the administration, in h support in a popular uprising last year. he has power by force, and warn fur elections all of which were disputed. he tried to change the constitution, to extend the ruling. >> no politician, no political party, will from now come and impose an idea or a practice of government to them. this is -- this is the biggest achievement since the

resurrection of october 2014. comfortable in the knowledge of months or turmoil are now behind them, they continue to celebrate, their countries new status. al jazeera. >> end do they shall sean investigators say a faulty part put subsequent crew action caused the air asia plane crash that killed 162 people it is the first official explanation since the passenger plane came down into the sea. more than 11 months after the crash investigators have revealed the final minutes of the flight. when the alarms kept going off for a small technical failure of the computer system, the pilots took the unconventional decision to turn off the aircraft protection system, this forced the pilots to fly the plane manually.

without any computer protection. which is where it all went wrong. the airbus started rolling sharply left, and right, and almost flew versicle. the co pilot was flying the plane together with the captain, failed to take control during this system failure. and so called upset condition. >> to the airbus, first, for the pilot to be trained with the -- and the second recommendation -- basically, to -- something out. >> what he did. >> yes. that's what happened. >> a very serious message. the pilots have more training to fly their planes manual, in a so called upset condition.

tradition nally they point fingers at crews to plame for the air crash, but the message to this pilot is clear. >> she lost her 24-year-old son who worked as a flight attendance, his body was recovered five days after the crash. to her, the outcome of the investigation doesn't make any difference. >> i can not blame anyone, no human being would deliberately make this mistake. he must have done his best. >> following the accident, airbus has included recovery training for pilots and their manuals. also the technical failure that caused the alarms to sound during the flight, has been solved in all airbus planes and investigators are insisting that air asia should improve the way the

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>> welcome pack, a quick reminder of our top stories here. the u.s. defense secretary,

congress a specialized troops will be deployed to iraq to fight against isil. was also prepared to expand the role of the special operations forces in syria. lebanon's prime minister has welcomed 16 soldiers released in a prisoner swap deal. and borders have elected as their new president. have begun an investigation into a security drill at a university, which descended into chaos. one person dies and more than 30 were injured. kathryn sawyer reports. >> esther died on monday, she is sustained head injuries while trying to escape what she thought were gunman at the university. martin is recuperating in a nearby hospital, also thought students were under attack. she jumped from the first floor window and fractured his legs.

>> ur see four men, wearing white, something red. and something red behind the gun. this is not the first floor. and fear kicks in, and it was just panic. >> but the university was not under attack. it was a security drill, gone wrong. >> the students legs and hands are broken, she juries off the second floor balcony, and is still too traumatized to talk to us. two other people one with a spinal injury, are in intensive care, in all, more than 30 people were injured. >> many of the students who are the students in the security drill started they say they were not informed they panicked and some of them jumped off the window ledges. >> the university administrators said they told police about the drill, but these spokes men said they did not inform the relevant

security forces. >> it was an incident. defending specialized units. and that would find in a very awkward position, where you find security fighting on their own, and that is where we are staying the highest level. must be followed. >> kenya is on high alert follows a series of attacks. gunman killed 148 people, and the attacks in the university in northern kenya earlier this year, since then, several units across the country, have been carrying out random drills to prepare everyone for potential attacks. >> when you are doing training you inform people. they have to be informed. well, not the details of the timing, was what is actually bound to happen. i saw students hanging on roof tops and they were -- so it ended up looking like a realtorrist attack. >> martin says test lucky to

be alive, but also angry they were not warned and that someone died and another might not be able to walk again. al jazeera. nairobi. >> anticorruption protestors have been tear gassed with the demonstration in kenya. around 200 took to the streets on tuesday. and they were marching to the supreme court, and parliament, but were disbursed by riot police, 26 people were arrested. >> france has promised to given countries $8.5 billion over the next five years to invest in renewable energy and increased access to electricity. as a meeting on the sidelines of the conference, the french president said although africa is only responsible for greenhouse gases it is sufficient erring the consequences. african leaders want to commit more money to the green climate fund. climate change is effecting people all over the world, some ones are already seeing the effects of global

warming, our environment has been to the pacific nation which lies no more than three . to see how people this are coping. from above, it is evident how narrow the island is, yet this is where 50,000 people live, it is has a population density similar to tokyo, or hong kong, and it is growing fast. wherever you look at things there are children, and you can only wonder what the future holds for them. >> more water on the other side, in the millions of open ocean, no where to go up or side ways. there is nowhere to go at all. >> we put to shore the village where the wall has been destroyed.

there is now open water. people are being forced to abandon houses relocated to already crowded areas. >> there is still some of the stuff here, shoes there's books showed me a house vacated just a month ago. too much, we are losing communities in this place. because of this while we were there, the president post add conference on the trouble some issue and the climate. also there the prime minister, highlighting the challenges they face. >> no history of human kind. has ever faced this situation

we are facing. >> president tom has long campaigns for urgent action, he vine ited me to join him at home where he enjoins time with his grandchildren, a generation whose future depends on the actions now. >> i have always referred to climate change as the greatest moral challenge for humanity. because if these people knew that this is happening to us, why do they continue to do it? i cannot understand it. how can you pretend to be moral, if you know what you are doing is effecting people. >> there is no doubt that risen sea levels threaten the existence of these communities, perhapses with massive investment, the islands can be built up, to defend themselves against the encroaching ocean. the time is running out. >> this huge ship lost it's moorings in a recent storm, and it smashes into a sea wall near the port.

the ships name transports as good luck, something i am afraid these children desperately need. nick clark, al jazeera, on south tarot. >> japan's whaling ships are returning to the southern ocean after a 2014 international court of justice ruling. forced them to halt the hunt. four vessels have left for the whaling season that runs from the end of the year until march, the fleet is set to kill 300 whales. environmentist activists harry faucet has the latest from japan. >> two from japan left the town, earlier on tuesday, they will meet up with two other vessels including the mother ship, and a fishing agency patrol boat. the whaling will resume from the end of december and carry on through until march the

mayor told the crew there was nothing happier than this guy, after last season during which time they took no whales whatsoever. that was the march 2014 ruling by the international court of justice, ruling that japan's scientific whaling had no scientific basis whatsoever, there was no need to kill the whales in order to monitor their population, their eating habits and their reproduction, however, japan has always said that it wants to do commercial whaling that's why this research as it calls it is necessary. and it will continue it says to take a reduced number about a third of what it used to take 333 whales every year between now and 2027. the government has said that it does not agree at all with the concept of killing whales for research, and it is been examining it's legal options and as well as that pressure group says it too will be sailing towards the ocean, to resume the confrontational

tactics that is used against these japanese whaling vessels in the past. hundreds of women are running for election, it is the first time the campaign gave them the right to run for office. a small celebration of the first in sawed uh arabia conservative history. >> one of the 100 women running for office. >> she and the male members of her campaign team are lunching the election. >> they have been waiting to be given this opportunity, as ladies to participate in the political and social decision making? the country. since the door opened for us, i was one of the first females actually able to participate in decision making. >> granted the women to play a part in politics. but women are only allowed to

run for office activists say any changes are miner they are discouraged from driving and have to get the approval of a male guardian to travel abroad to go to work, or to open a bank account. i think there are limitations so i decided to go to malls so i can meet with the community this is what prompted me to focus on social media, where everybody can communicate. we can get the largest number of voters. it was difficult in the past to communicate with men, but with the presence of a woman now i can speak to her directly. >> it is a step towards

greater freedom for women, but critics say there is still a way to go. al jazeera. you can find out much more www.aljazeera.com. is often found in the creatures that live in them. but the most rare and precious of animals are increasingly falling prey to poachers. the u-n now classifies the trafficking of exotic wildlife... as second only in scale to the illegal drug trade... so vast and lucrative is this black market underworld.... that authorities say its driving more species than ever into extinction.