♪ a deal for libya. opposing sides reach an cinitia agreement. questions remain on what it can deliver. >> good to have you alone. i am david foster. you are watching al jazeera live from london. in addition program, isil claims responsibility after the govern of aden is killed by a car bomb. 'ssential political change in venzuela. opposition gains are expected in parliament parlorary elections plus. >> in the triangle in the republic of the congo, one est

most remote places and where endangered great apes can prosper. >> the trip lee based leaders in libya have described a deal signed with their rivals as a major breakthrough in efforts to end the political dead long in that country. final sees agreement between the rival parliaments in tripoli and the one recognized by the u.n. in tabrook. it is a deal that stipulates an election will take place within two years and calls for the two sides to form a committee to the choose a government of national reconciliation. the general national congress has called it the historic moment libyans were waiting for. victory i can't gatenby has more. >> a libyan initiative for the first time in the country's long-running political crisis, an initial agreement to work together. these are representatives of the

two rival parliaments. the deal calls for the two sides to form a 10-member committee to help choose a government of national reconciliation. >> this is a purely libyan meeting arranged by libyans. now we call on the united nations to endorse this move which will provide a swift, prompt solution to the libyan crisis. >> it was a national, sincere and constructive dialogue. each party accepts the other party with an open-heart. >> we are not all ridesed to make decisions on behalf of the parliament but i call on all parties to support it. >> some are against the deal. the u.n. has welcomed it. it says isil-linked fighters have taken advantage of the power vacuum in libya and the country needs to unite before the ideology spreads. >> the threat of daesch and the

courage of terrorism is he can up and downtion. we have the situation where the international community is fighting against daesh in syria and probably fighters pr-syria come to where the execute vacuum is to libya. it is a matter of days and not weeks to sign this agreement. >> violence and rivalries have polarized libya. the country has fallen into chaos since the 2011 uprising. the deposed leader t gadaffi. it is one of two rival administrations. the other is the u.n. recognized government based in the city of tabruk. each is supported by armed groups engaged in daily fighting. former libyan general took charge of a growing army which eventually allied itself with the tabrook government. the kay okay has been made worse by militia who don't follow the main political groups. some claimed allegiance to isil stepping into a crowded

battleground. he elections will be held within two years, and interim president and deputy are expected to be named within weeks. later this month. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> the govern of the yemeni port city of aden has been killed, major general mohammed saad was on his way to work when his convoy was hit by a car bomb. he was alleluial an ally of had >> this is the spot he was killed. the car he was traveling in is engulfed in flames. sworn in as govern two months ago. he was a close ally of hadi who returned to aden from exile in saudi arabia. >> appear convoy of about five cars was heavily secured.

he knew he was going to be targeted. he knew an attempt was inevitable. so, he moved cautiously over the past two weeks multiple militia groups blocked him from entering his own office in aden so he knew the situation was precarious. >> so the alleys launched a military campaign in march. they have been targeting houthi rebels taking over the capitol with support from forces loyal to former president. although the conflict began with airstrikes, al compliance of houthi fighters backed by troops from the uae out of aden. security remains a challenge. groups affiliated with isil in yemen have. it is a rival of al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula which has been the mained armed group.

analysts say the presence of al-qaeda, isil and traibl malitias with aleak answers will create a bigger security threat. >> isil is here. aqab is here. more other faxes here in aden and aden is surrounded, controlled by isil. so unless president hadi addresses the lack of security quickly and swift ling, things will deteriorate. >> the latest comes an effort to bring eight months of conflict to an end. mohammed adow, al jazeera. >> united nations backed peace talks to end that conflict in yemen are set to take place next week. the president has reportedly agreed upon to attend after meeting the u.n. envoy in aden

on saturday. al jazeera's gerald tan reports. >> on the outskirts of taez, battles are raging. houthi fighters and those loyal to the former president still hold their ground in yemen's third largest city but pro-government forces are undeterred. >> we will continue our march, all that's left of the rebels here are snippers and land mines. >> similar seens are playing out to the northeast. groups fighting to fullie restoreh hadi to power are getting sport but there are no easy victories. eight and a half months of war is taking a punishing toll on civilians. yemen was one of the most difficult places to access food. now, the united nations warns half the population is on the brink of famine and is appealing for help.

>> it's a binings of both in terms of availability of funding for the coming year and of course we seek the support of all parties to be able to give us the froomd of movement to reach out to the people that are in absolutely crisis at the moment. >> planned glun-brokered talks in geneva have hit several turlings hurdles and delays. both sides say they are open to n negotiation but have areas the other won't or can't accept. >> at least 32 isil fighters have reportedly been killed in raqah. the u.s. says a total of 29 strikes were launched in syria and iraq on saturday. syria's presidents warned airstrikes will increase the risk of attacks in europe unless there is a concerted effort to destroy isil on the ground. he's dismissed two claims from britain's prime minister that

there are 70,000 opposition fighters inside syria who could be part of a political solution. david cameron having presented that figure to the u.k. parliament before it endorsed airstrikes on syria. >> about the statement that there are 1e67b89 moderate opposition fighters in syria, that is not accepted anywhere in this world. there is no 70,000 there is not even 7,000. there is not even 10 of those. enter the national coalition's airstrikes are doomed to fail. britain and france don't have the will and they don't have the vision on how to defeat terrorism. >> turksey in a glomatic dispute with iraq al jazeera's imran khan reports. >> reporter: you don't have to go far to find out how close the ties are between turkey and the kurdish region trade is the big

one. arrang ankara imports a lot. the relations between baghdad and ankara are strained going back a decade. with further turkish troops, tensions have risen further. gazi writes regularly on political affairs. said other things lie behind to, helping to train the militia. in particular, the iranian role in the region. turkey wants to maintain good relations with kurdistan and it wants to help the kurdish regional government but baghdad and iran opposes that. sending in troops is just one way to maintain good relations within the region. but knows good relations have angered others a leading shiia politician issued a warning. >> in case these forces didn't get hit by iraqi air force, it

would be followed by air forces, american, saudi, qatar and other islamic countries. therefore, it's a beginning and that's why there should be a confrontation by the parliament. i ask the parliament to hold an emergency session to take the right decision to back our government. >> i maybe say this is a proposal to force turkey troops out of the country. turkey says it was invited around 2000 have been training there. this training has been launched upon the request of the governor of mosul. it has been coordinated by the iraqi defense ministry. >> what this shows is that iraq is divided or the central government controls baghdad in the south, the rest of iraq is divided between the kurdish region, territory controlled by isil and areas disputed by kurds and arabs. >> turkey supports the iraqi kurds because of oil and trade. however, it doesn't look at turkish kurds and syrian kurds

in the same way and views them with suspicion. baghdad says turkey is allowing the kurdish government to remain independent and it can't maintain a control over the whole country. that's a real issue. the latest spat between bagdaleddad and ankara is only going to make that worse. imran khan. >> stay with us. we have this coming up: france's far right made gains after the paris attacks. voting underway to elect key regional leaders. how mali is trying to convince tens of thousands of people displaced by fight to go return

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>> it's good to have you here. you are watching al jazeera live from london. these are the global headlines. libya political rivals have signed an agreements aimed at resolving the country's deep political crisis which has ripped libya apart. the governor of aden has been killed in an explosion along with six of his bodyguards. a local affiliate of isil said it carried out the attack. the syrian president has warmed the attacks on his nation will increase the risk of attacks in europe in this there is a concerted effort to destroy isil on the ground. people in venzuela are voting in parliament area elections with the country's economic troubles putting pressure on the socialist government. they could get a majority for the first time in 17 years.

it's unclear how those votes would translate into seats the president's critics accuse him of rigging the districts in his favor. madura has agreed to let the jailed opposition leader vote in that election, lopez was sentenced to 14 years in jail last year after being con convicted of inciting violence in anti-government protests. his supporters say he is a political prisoner who is innocent. the vote is one of the closest in recent years as lucia newman reports. >> reporter: >> this man was venzuela's congregaling leader 17 years ago, the last time opposition parties controlled the nation's congress. now, former opposition presidential candidates says he can taste the end of the socialist government's domination of legislative power. >> translator: venzuela is in

an explosive situation. we have to realize venzuelas will be voting for change and for solution to the situation we live in. >> situations like the need to queue here from 5:00 in the morning in front of after pharmacy for medicine, naeps and champ pooppies and champ poo. nearly drijt inflation and one of the highest crime rates people here say they want change. before i voted for the government. no more. knowledge chavez, the left wing government gained control of every state institution, with the jude inc.ary, the armed forces and the legislature to inlism a revolution that has had majority support. >> the eyes of chavez are looking down on his country men on top of the national assembly administration building as though reminding them of what's at stake.

that's the until now the unthinkable prospect of having to work with a group that could win the majority much seats. >> the air sembly has to have it what many would regard as a return to a the healthy balance of power is viewed by president nicholas maduro as a threat. >> we will not hand over the revel lucien. the revolution will answer into a new phase. >> the rule issue is whether an opposition victory could finally, oblige the political parties to negotiate and reach a consensus to halt a spiraling economic and social crisis. or as many fear, would it lead to an even deer power? lucia newman, al jazeera, karakas. >> they are voting in france

where people are choosing regional leaders with the far right national front expected to make significant gain. the elections so soon after the paris attacks are expected to father the national front and its anti-muon let me, aernts immigration rhetoric. this on how the vote is going. >> these elections do give a kind of -- like take the temperature much public opinion in a period where obviously the attacks of last month are still very, very much prominent in people's minds and every day on television, there are images of playing of french aircraft carrying out airstrikes against syria. there is this concern about security which has often been linked to a concern about immigration. infact, neither of those issues will be alleged by the outcome of these elections because the regional counsels don't have any power to legislate over security or immigration. they have very limited powers. the only way in which they might

[applause.] in to these bigger issues is that they do control funding subsidies for some local voluntary organizations and at least one national front politician has said that he would cut off fund to go a local organization in his area which does work for refugees. so that's the way in which they could potentially affect the atmosphere here but certainly, these elections won't have any impact on national policy as far as security goes. >> authorities in mali are trying to persuade tens of thousands of people forced out of their homes by fighting in the north of the country to go back home after more than three years of violence, a peace deal in june between the government and tuareg rebels offer some hope bi many civilians are still too frightened to return to their towns and vilinglages. >> a shelter for donkeys used to be a school in northern mali. many buildings are home to

animals now because tens of thousands of people have left for places such as the ambra camp. many are tuareg tribesmen from timbuktu. a separatist group tried to declare independence. following the signing of a peace deal. this will man used to be a merchant. he set up a small farm alongside the camp. politicians are trying to get the desperates people to return. >> the conditions, we left our homes, all of our property was looted and we came here and started from scratch. what should we go back for? vote for those who had forced us out in the first place? aid agencies with more than 50,000 people are still sdmraipts. fighting between separatists and the government has eased. but people don't feel secure.

refugees have started a new life and have no desire to return. >> we cannot go back to our homes. we have nothing left there. we started a fresh life and a new business here we lost the trade here, too. >> schools are among the basic services miss from areas they fled. in this camp, children get liquid meals with lessons. ibrahim rungs the school and asked displaced people it must not return unless efforts are made to protect the next generation. >> to say the children can return to the damaged schools without them being fixed, that for me would be catastrophic. first of all, we need to repair these sites, fix the schools, create conditions for learning and prevent interruptions for our students. an estimated 800,000 children have had their education disrupted by fighting in mali. unless people are confident about resuming life where their homes used to be, many children

will continue to live in refugee camps. al jazeera. >> india is stepping up relief operation. he mergency workers are rushing to get food, clean water and medical supplies in the worst affected residents of india's fourth most popular city. neil 300 people in the state of tamal since record rainfall began last week. >> a billion dollar su are rogacy market is under threat. the government wants to ban others from using surgon mothers are it, a check on an exploitation, there are surgat mothers who say they are losing their only source of income. al jazeera's fez jamil reports from anan in the indian state of gujaran. >> rene and rami hudson are meeting their baby daughter for the first time. a joyous occasion, especially

for couples like them who can't have children on their own. rene is from new disagree land and her husband is american. this is their second child born in india through a surgat mother. but the government wants to stop local women from having children for foreign couples. >> i am really so passionate about the fact. look at the heaviness it brings to us. >> rene brings it helps surro surrogate women improve their lives. housed in this dom tory style building, these women say the money they get helps pay debts to sends their children to school and build houses. >> barma a, a surrogate for the second time said she could never earn this much money with another job. >> it's not they take the babe and that's it. they call us when my own children have a birthday, sending them gifts. when i am in trouble, they are

there. i prefer the foreign couple any day. >> surrogates here say without foreigners, this won'ts have the same opportunity to prosper these women say the generosity of foreign couples helps their families back in their own villages. here in anan, several shops, hotels and businesses profit from the increased business brought byphones which owners say will suffer greatly under the ban. >> doctor patel, who has one of the most well known fer 'til ty clinics says there is no need for a ban to make sure women are protected. >> this arrangement could be wonderfully regular laid. tlkdz a place where a surrogate could complain if something is going wrong. >> the government and some women's groups say regulation won't prevent an exploitation. >> to find a woman offering to be a surrogate for payment.

it's usually a poor woman. wherein lies the danger of misuse? >> a law banning foreign couples or strictly regulating them is still being drafted and will go through government committees before its presented to parlorpal. these mothers say with no other opportunities to earn this much money, they fear this will be on the losing end of whatever is it decided. fez jamil, al jazeera, anan. >> as world leaders continues to talk about climate change in paris, environmentalists have thes highlighted the threat that it's posing to some of the world's most endangered wildlife, it is safe. john hendron made the journey to this region to discover the problems being caused by climate change. this is the view from atop the most isolated jungle on earth. >> this is cool. we've got fiona, an adult champ

pansee. she doesn't have children. ela with her youngster. >> it remains an unspoiled haven for wildlife, home to endangered chimpanzees and pieces flourishing in this refuge. how remote is it? to get to the triangle, it's a 2-day road trip first you take the highway and you are 50 kilometers away. from there, it's an hour's drive down a dirt trail you paddle al canoe down two more rivers and hike for five hours on elephant trails. >> this is it? >> yeah. this is home sweet home. that's how you do it if your guide is dave morgan, an ape expert from lincoln park zoo, now he is concerned climate change could spoil the most pristine environment on earth

for en dangered great apes we believe there could be subtle changes with dramatic impacts on and others it need particular food items to survive development and hundreding have already taken their toll. it's not good with the wildlife. there are not many lift. there is a lot of hunting and animals have gone very far away. >> this is the most remote corner. no one lives here they have not nor are hunters or tourists, no one but researchers and guests. our al jazeera crew is among only about 20 outsiders whoever seen it. it's the ideal habitat for en dangered great apes but minor changes could alter that. >> it is among the last homes for so-called naive champ pa

chimpanzees. >> having an elephants or a chimpanzee and not know you are a human being and, therefore, dangerous, that world of innocence that only true wild place it can offer is so rare and valuable. if they disappear from the earth, we will be i am more issued not only ecologically but spiritually. >> bliss fufully unaware of the dangers. where they are protected from hunting, logging and development, they might not be safe in the climate that makes this unique. the triangle t republic of the congo. >> nasa sent us a spigot in july, we see a wide variety of

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