their strikes they killed what the command center for u.s. forces in africa describes us fifty two militants the somali army says the total is higher. we managed to kill at least seventy five militants after they attacked us and many more were injured we are telling people about that victory today the airstrikes came hours after fighter stormed a somali i mean base three hundred seventy kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu. somalia commanders say six soldiers were killed in that attack then two others died when a booby trapped vehicle blew up as the army bottled for hours to pick up to the base u.s. military helicopters were sent to help the pentagon has increased the rate of strikes in somalia and recent tease partly because president donald trump has loosened restrictions on when the u.s. military can take action against what are described as terrorist targets the number of u.s. forces in somalia to delete increased in the past two years al-shabaab fighters who

are linked to al qaida retain a strong presence in parts of southern and central somalia they also regularly attack targets in neighboring kenya after it's and troops to somalia as part of an african union peacekeeping force al-shabaab says it was behind tuesday's hotel attack in nairobi where four gunmen on a suicide bomber killed twenty one people five suspects appeared in court on friday in connection with that attack police say all but one of the five gunmen who carried out the hard cock and something that is raising the threat of homegrown terrorism mohammed at the world visitor nairobi of de la haye is a horn of africa security analyst he says striking al shabab will not stop the group from carrying out further attacks. we cannot bowl them all our way out of soling the crisis that is shabab right. for quite some time now

with up on the drawn by african union forces from the air by the us security forces also bob has been under kush but not hasn't prevented the group from crying about some of these you know low take high visibility and high because it's at odds not just inside somalia but also outside in places like kenya political and military force so it's about is fairly weakened but that doesn't mean that these group doesn't have the capacity to inflict the kinds of damages that we've seen the group being capable of doing it inside kenya our shabaab ha's been able to top into the you know the the long ranging and marginalise ition discourse both you know margin and real they have been able to recruit they have been able to equip they have been able to what the group also publishes an online magazine called a guide even tinier which means terrorists. terrorists in which you know sections

of that report of the magazine is dedicated to the kenyans and it's done in swahili language in some of its videos increasingly the group is also using kenyan so kenya has suddenly become an effective called in the groups propaganda to cortlandt and also allows a cuts. still ahead on al-jazeera the runner up in the democratic republic of congo's presidential election calls a nationwide protest against the results. hello the winter storm is canada's band this is a fairly obvious hook here and all the weather is going in that general direction significant snow some freezing rain of course an awful lot of proper right but there it goes and so it disappears probably through newfoundland to leave behind

much colder weather the high temperature in new york on mondays it's strictly manas nine in washington d.c. minus five huge drop in temperature this and that's the cold nights over here and the next storm that's come across british columbia then down across the high ground the rockies is shown here is coming straight across the plains states into that cold so it will generate yet more snow particularly guns into the upper midwest and that line in stretches then towards colorado south of that is all gone quiet and it's substantially warmer those to a subzero do york come tuesday the front that led to that winter weather is still visible here it is giving a few showers a texan kay carlson cuba and increasing the rain likelihood in honduras and nicaragua once again and it's still hanging around for tuesday so this could be a particular disappointing spell if you're on the north coast of honduras for example if you're anywhere else apart from passing showers in most of the caribbean

islands it's not about time the. rewind returns i can bring your people back to life i'm sorry with brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries in liberal i was the global plus and i'm like and the others through the rewind continues with children of conflict we'd love some peace in this world especially. children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera top stories this hour the israeli military says it's carrying out air strikes on iranian forces in syria syrian state news is reporting that hostile targets and shot down on sunday israel said it intercepted a rocket in the golan heights. turkish president. says he's ready to take over control of man beach spoke to president about the u.s. withdrawal from northern syria they agreed on the need for a negotiated settlement and joint steps against isis. somalia's government says it is planning a major attack against the bab that's just a day after u.s. military said it carried out an airstrike killing fifty two fighters. police in athens have used tear gas to prevent angry protesters from entering greece's parliament building tens of thousands of people rallied against

a proposed name change deal with neighboring macedonia johnson reports. it took only an hour as peaceful protest before a small group of demonstrators clashed with police detonating fireworks over the. police responded with volleys of tear gas clearing crowds off the square in front of parliament but most of the thousands of demonstrators who were peaceful including families with young children many had traveled overnight from far flung corners of greece to oppose a government that last week survived a vote of confidence with a razor thin majority one hundred fifty one m.p.'s in the three hundred seat legislature that's majority is likely to pass the message name change deal by the end of the week not. to write out one hundred fifty times there is only macedonia and its is key. can i get an amen. my grandfather force in macedonia

we cannot allow it to be sold out we are losing our values some people of the shoeing a new order they want to access the sea through the port of cecille any truckie will be the next to go then will lose a chunk of greece to albania. greece is original position was that it would not allow a neighboring state to use the name of its northern region of macedonia a decade ago it agreed to allow use of that name along with an adjective and last year recognized north macedonia but that country has now ratified the deal and it is now greece's. but the agreement has angered many here because it allows the people of north macedonia to call themselves macedonians rather the north macedonians and recognizes their language as macedonian with the preface agreement to have. it where the north macedonia. and at the same time we give their rights to the citizens of these states to mono polis the word macedonia for the citizen if

he nationality if you give the long words this is called identity. and we demoed want to walford to one of the states of the area that i to monopolize the macedonian and then. the agreement is a bitter pill for most greeks some have decided to swallow it but many have not these demonstrations have reverted to the original hard line position and they want prime minister alexis tsipras to declare a referendum is unlikely to take that route he knows the deal is unpopular but vows to push it through parliament with his one vote majority by the end of the jumps are open less al-jazeera happens. a riot police in sudan have fired tear gas to break up the latest protest against the president security forces were deployed to a student demonstration in the cap. hard to rallies calling for the end of on one of the sheers thirty year rule were also held in

a city of on dormant rights groups say at least fifty people have been killed since protests began over a month ago for over the rising cost of bread president bashir is blaming his political opponents for inciting protesters. some young men wanted to express themselves in protest following but there were some infiltrators and separate service who took the opportunity to put their way they are the ones who are burning and destroying public property so they are the ones who infiltrated these protests to kill demonstrators mohammed vall has more from hard to more protests broke out today in khartoum and also in the city of man protesters have been planning to converge on the parliament and once again demand the government to step down and the president omar al bashir but soon they were dispersed by security personnel using heavy tear gas or other passive in demand in the forty third street where i was there have you tear gas how has been used and

a cameraman working for dizzier has been as a freelancer has been apprehended and that's a part of a systematic crocodile on journalists particularly if they used t.v. cameras and t.v. cameras are not allowed in these protests since the beginning and today also president omar bashir once again reiterated his accusation to certain elements who he said are infiltrated among protesters and he accused them of being the ones who killed the protesters he said the bullet that has been used to kill dr bao because of the heat on thursday doesn't belong to any of the government a party says and certainly it has been it belongs to those infiltrators he said some infiltrators who are prevented recently said they belong to the darfur rebel leader abdul wahid and that they have been sent particularly to do this type of things and to put blame on the government. a strange shell fire in libya has killed in news cameramen who work for engineer and other leading media organizations

thirty five year old mohammed bin khalifa died on saturday while on assignment with a libyan militia fighting between rival militias there has killed an injured hundreds zimbabwe's president emerson manana will skip the world economic forum and return home the number of demonstrators killed by security forces there continues to rise activists say at least a dozen people have been killed in protests against rising fuel prices police have arrested more than six hundred the government doubled fuel prices just over a week ago it is trying to fix a currency crisis that has caused nationwide fuel shortages appear p.q. is a senior consultant for southern africa at the international crisis group is concerned after the president's spokesman warned the crackdown is a taste of things to come it is a disturbing statement and it comes on top of a range of other statements that we've seen in the last couple of weeks look at

a couple of days especially from zanu p.f. yesterday accused of the m.d.c. civil society groups in business of pursuing a terrorist agenda in zimbabwe so the situation is not looking good at all on that front there is a number of of new stories circulating at the moment talking about splits within the party between the military and the party and so forth and there is a lot of confusion as to actually where the center is in terms of the extent to which zanu p.f. is marching in step and the government is marching in step of course is a good question some people say there are these huge splits others say a good cop bad cop approach is being pursued but that certainly is one of the big burning questions at the moment that many of us are trying to look into. the african union says it's perspiring a high level visit to the democratic republic of congo opposition leader martin for you who is challenging a final ruling from the top court the clearing is rival felix just

a caney the winner of the presidential election the media miller has more from kinshasa. the highest court in the democratic republic of congo announcing the next president felix. constitutional court judges dismissed an appeal by his rival martin for you who alleged widespread vote rigging on polling day last month for you accused the security of making a power sharing deal with the outgoing president joseph kabila both deny that by you lose refusing to accept the court's ruling and is urging everyone to reject. i consider myself the only legitimate president of a democratic republic of congo i call on the congolese people not to recognize someone who would take on that role in legitimately nor to a by orders coming from him. well for you know call for peaceful protests the

streets of the capital kinshasa appeared as they would on any other sunday calm and quiet. unlike the celebrate two scenes by security supporters that greeted the final ruling by the constitutional court. some of service say despite the allegations of vote rigging the promise of a new face of the presidency may be enough to allow for a smooth handover of power and that it's both a victory and loss for congo's opposition for them to stay all concerns joseph kabila will wield power when he leaves office is behind the scenes is behind the decision but it depends the way just a kidney. during a disturbed youth can cut. their relationship with god but the system. is not yet finished still there despite the allegations and denials of murky deals to get elected just

a kid is due to be sworn in on tuesday there's been a mixed reaction from the international community the southern african development community has welcomed the results appealing for everyone to accept the court's ruling while the european and african union say that serious concerns about the final result what they have to say may be of little importance for many congolese who want to separating change from their new leader from either malaria al-jazeera kinshasa. of the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar has arrived in cox's bazar in bangladesh to assess the plight of refugees more than nine hundred thousand have settled then natasha her name is there. the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar has been shut out by me in march the government won't allow her access to the country and is not cooperating so her work is confined to neighboring countries and bangladesh factors in greatly the u.n.

says there are now more the nine hundred thousand world hinder refugees living here the bulk of them came during a spike of violence in august twenty seventh and now they are spread across a mega i can't here in cox's bazaar now it's the dry season the monsoon rains are behind people and life has become a little easier but as you can see sanitation lack of access to clean water and latrines can use to new to be concerned if you look here there are workers trying to prepare the can for floods that are inevitable in this part of the world there is also concern about a lost generation of children two to the lack of schools the mood here has improved considerably since last november that is when the bangladeshi government abandoned a repatriation plan in an undisclosed agreement with the government of myanmar bangladesh had hoped to return about twenty two hundred refugees to me and bar the

un warned that that could be a violation of international law there was a real outcry here and that play on it was halted so now the un special report her is shifting her attention to an island called bastion sorry it's a remote island and the government is hoping to shift a significant portion of the rohingya refugees here to that island it is in the path of typhoons and site phones it's prone to flooding it's literally called a floating island it's comprised primarily of silt but the bangladeshi government has already begun construction on housing and human rights groups say that refugees might not have access to basic services they've even called this island like live. prison so the u.s. as a reporter is hoping to go to beslan chart but no word yet on whether or not she'll be allowed access.

it's going to round up other top stories the israeli military says it's carrying out air strikes on iranian forces in syria syrian state news is reporting that what it calls hostile targets have been shot down on sunday israel intercepted a rocket in the golan heights it says it has hit thousands of targets in syria in recent years herefore said has more from southern israel but in a highly unusual move the israeli military is confirming that strikes have been taking place against targets inside syria as the operation has been going on these removed for you saying that it's striking iranian quds forces targets inside syrian territory and it is warning the syrian armed forces against striking against israeli military targets or against israeli territory the syrian state media is saying that its forces have gotten what it calls hostile targets over syrian air

space a turkish president richard type one says his forces are ready to take over control of man beach he spoke on the phone to president trump about u.s. withdrawal from northern syria they agreed on the need for a negotiated settlement and joint action against isis somalia's government says it is planning a major offensive against the group in the next few days as just a day after the u.s. military said he carried out an airstrike killing fifty two fighters. fighters linked to al qaida say they carried out an attack on u.n. peacekeepers in mali group says it was a response to a visit by the israeli prime minister at least ten peacekeepers from chad were killed twenty five injured on sunday police in sudan tear gas at the latest protests in their security forces were deployed in khartoum. rights groups say at least fifty people have been killed since protests began a month ago of

a rising living costs the government says the number is much lower those are the headlines rewind is next. on this week's counting the cost prime minister's brigs appeal is rejected as britain's towards exit why zimbabwe's government wants people to buy less fuel. make those worries about the trade. counting the cost zero. welcome again to rewind. since we know what's to al-jazeera english back in two

thousand and six library of award winning documentaries has been growing year by year and tear on rewind we're revisiting some of the best of them today we're rewinding more than ten years to a series that looked at the day to day lives of children in conflicts. we've picked a particularly moving episode in which the filmmakers traveled to gaza where today forty five percent of the population children under fifteen all of whom have firsthand experience of the machinery and consequences of violence. the children you're about sony's been traumatized by their days had a lives in gaza but as you'll see they are somehow immensely inspiring from two thousand and seven children of conflict. gaza. one of the world's biggest news stories.

but one of the smallest and most claustrophobic strips of land on earth. a virtual prison with no way out and hardly any way in. the years of conflict with israel have left gaza in ruins. late grannie's search for fires tears. and blue state. and i will recruit others children here for martyrdom. today gaza feels like a population living on life support machine there's not enough of anything any money water food or medicine i know what this means i know what love means i know what they're what war and meals i'm scared i think we're going to die death is

coming. this tiny strip of land is bordered by israel egypt and the mediterranean sea entry to gaza is three checkpoints all of which are controlled by israel. gaza makes up only six percent of the palestinian territory it contains nearly hoth of its population around one point two million and. fifty percent of children under the age of ten. roughly twice the size of washington d.c. gaza is. of the most densely populated places in the world. fatima al natur was a grandmother to twenty three grandchildren these are just some of them she had a tough life two of her children had been killed and others were in prison and her

own house had been destroyed forcing her to live with relatives. when she died all she had was a room with a wardrobe a bed and a nail to hang things on she lived in dire poverty. oh i oh but she chose to dummy in desperate and in the. last november at the age of sixty seven fastener became the oldest female palestinian suicide bomber. she approached a group of soldiers and detonated explosives strapped around her waist. and. two weeks before her death fatima went on a winning protest in the town of beit hanoun. while she was there she witnessed the massacre of thirteen children and the death of one of her friends her family say it

was the to. be an american to have she went but you knew when to break the most siege she was the first woman to confront the israeli soldiers and right between the tanks we were surprised she came back to us alive after that . we thought she would get killed. fashion his grandchildren say she came back from beit hanoun a changed person she was unusually quiet and she chose to spend time with each of the children individually was to call them so that stood on. this she moved my address that was worth thirty chicago's and i hadn't been able to pay her back she said to me a little of the debt if i die today but i didn't take her seriously i mean she was normal she was helping us to bake the bread before she went out to die i suppose she may have been trying to tell me and directly that while her words were full of

for those. the grandchildren insist they had no idea what she was planning to do. the bank has money we're astonished at what happened we'll miss her dearly. the little ones cry for her and call her name at night they really loved her a lot and they keep visiting her they go to her room and knock on the door as if she's still there they sit on her bed and reminisce about they keep calling her name and asking her to come back i wish i could have said goodbye and then i would have got her last words of advice on how she was going to do this who drove her to this ideology and i have dealings with the movement but they are saying very little to me and i'm trying to find out the address of other person to talk to i want to do the same i want to know how to do this are you serious that you were fourteen years old seven years yes if you look at it from a view that life is just

a passage then age is not an obstacle and if you have to as a matter of fact i'm trying to raise my little sister to think in this way this wouldn't worry me and i will recruit other children here for martyrdom isn't it. it's not life is a passage it's not a sad thing that i was asked why do you become a master or not to die and we're all going to die anyway. that the band yes clearly said of course that my grandmother will be a very good example for the children to follow she will give them the passion for martyrdom and raise them in the love of their land and when they grow up they will learn to defend palestine and they will revenge their grandmother. do you ever think about the kids in israel do you ever wonder if for example the children if that are old do you think that they might be suffering too. yeah numa yeah but

yes of course but just like our children live under constant fear their children should also experience the same fear and terror that's a normal reaction i refuse to accept that the other children of the world can live in peace and security while the children of palestine live under terror versus rubble. children are growing up thinking that this is is normal not being able to move around having difficulty getting to school. violence for siblings brought friends being killed. and palestine and engineer it looks like a prison when you want a girl from here gaza dora mother for example you have to go through that checkpoint and. you have many questions. although it's our land

there's no place to go because every good place. israel's and israeli and destroy it. here they know what to do what one means what their way that what this means and they know if they see blood they will every think to call it a day is they just live in a fully political situation all end in schools they took it all for they when they play you can see them shooting other vital voices. i'm a child i know i know what this means i know what love means i know what they hear what war means for as little as they know i know and all the children how is the feeling of of not having a mom. or dad or brother the democratically elected government of the palestinian

territories is how much but the west regard hamas as a terrorist organization and have frozen aid to both go there on the west bank. the economy has collapsed and civil servants haven't been paid for over a year. it's beyond people's coping mechanisms they can't cope anymore and that's really what we're seeing here in gaza people have sold anything that they might have to know. to get by and they're just not making ends meet anymore we're saying poverty rates really get much worse people are living on less than two dollars a day population and now at that rate of poverty which is comparable with some of the poorest places in the world. the sea a source of food is patrolled by the israeli military. gaza's fisherman can only fish safely in shallow polluted waters they say these days they are lucky to catch a handful of sardines. so mostly the boats don't bother to go out anymore.

the land here is first tile and gaza used to have a thriving agriculture industry. but with the sealed borders these farmers console their crops. many children have had to drop out of school to support their families in these fields i saw children as young as five spending backbreaking ten hour days picking carrots. they earned just thirty shekels that's about five dollars a day. this is al shoka a village overlooked by gardner airport the whole area was destroyed by israeli tanks in august two thousand and six during a military incursion. israel says it has to carry out these incursions

to protect itself. the people here didn't do anything wrong. houses and the family then them were simply in the way. this mother told me she used to have a three bedroom house with two bathrooms a washing machine and a t.v. . now all she has is a few dusty blankets under some plastic sheet. and boulders just opened. and they came to show they told us to get outside i was scared from the sound it explodes i left all the toys were the bulldozers were they broke my toys they are under the house what they did tell us anything except one tree when they were over there. living conditions like this.