mohammad adow, al jazeera erbil in northern iraq. >>> more than 100 people have been killed and dozens of homes seized by boarm. boko haram. hundreds of people are fleeing the area to get away from the violence. boko haram controls large parts of northeastern nigeria. al jazeera has learned the international criminal court may be close to opening an inquiry into last year's incidents in gaza. >> very little option but now to launch a preliminary examination into the events of last summer's gaza war. you remember on the last day of last year, president mahmoud abbas signed the rome statute the statute that governs the international criminal court but also this declaration palestine asking for the court to be retroactive going back to june the 14th, 2014, that means it would cover the whole period of the gaza war. if you look at the guidelines, this is the policy paper of the chief prosecutor. it says she is obliged to launch initial examination if she gets such a declaration. that is not a formal war crimes investigation, she needs to ask certain questions whether she believes certain w

al jazeera erbil. another iraq. >> in egypt university faculty members could be expelled for participating in campus politics or carrying a weapon. >> one of al jazeera's journalists who has been behind bars in egypt for more than a year now has asked canadian prime minister stephen harper to intervene. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were accused of broadcasting false news and helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. the court has ordered a retrial. they have been in jail for 385 days now. >>> in china they are trying to recover bodies from a tugboat that capsized in the yangtze river. at least 22 have died. we have more from beijing. [ sobbing ] >> reporter: as heard as they heard the news that the tugboat had sunk many came to where it happened to wait for news. but their despair soon turned to anger when they felt that not enough was being done. they were frustrated by what they thought was a slow recovery effort. >> what are you doing hire? mythere, my family. >> we're here to brin

al jazeera erbil. >> just over a week until greeks go to the polls. people there are skeptical about the anti-austerity promises made by the opposition. there is anger in china after a boat capsizes killing 22 people. and the host australia handed over a major set back. we have details coming up in 20 minutes. >> timing to through the global headlines. the international criminal court has opened what it calls the preliminary up wirery into whether or not war crimes were committed against palestinians last year. israel and the u.s. have criticized the icc decision saying its scandalous and calling it a tragic irony. >>> belgium has put troops on the treats to protect targets of terrorist attacks. this is after a series of anti-terror raids across belgium. >>> refugees are trapped inside the yarmouk camp, aid has not been delivered for six weeks because of fighting. >>> details are emerging from one of the two procedures who attacked the french satirical magazine charlie hebdo earlier this month. they were french citizens born in france to algerian pare

mohammed adow al jazeera, erbil in northern iraq. >> those who have fled the violence face another kind of danger. in the cold of winter, there aren't enough supplies to keep them warm and keep them if he had had. there are more refugees than there are lebanese. >> reporter: abdul is nine years old and does what he can to help. his small feet crunch through the ice. he tells us that every night, the tent is covered in snow. some people complain they don't have enough heat. others say the problem is food no. one seems to have enough clothes. at the edge of the camp abu slayman's slayman'stent is cold and damp. he shares one room with nine people, including his mother. >> i live at the highest point in the camp. when the storm hit, the wind and the snow blew through the door. everything got wet. look at the ground. all of it was frozen. my sick mother and the kids. we can handle it, but they can't handle the cold. all we are asking for is help from anyone. >> reporter: there are around 70,000 syrian refugees here the local population is only 40,000. what makes life even more difficult for

mohamed with al jazeera, erbill. >> let's look at the history of the iraqi army and set up in 1921 whens governed by the british and the senior ranks were dominated by sunni arab and a majority shia population when it gained independence in 1932 the army was divided with those who wanted to continue british presence and those who did not and it was over thrown and assassinated in a coup in 1958 and then under saddam hussein it grew in size and strength and one million by 1990. when the u.s. led invasion removed removed hussein there was a vam with a country with sectarian tension and today army faces difficult challenges like fighting insurgencys, i.s.i.l. and internal corruption and live from baghdad on skype is iraqi member of parliament and great to see you there, thanks for joining us on this important issue, do you think the iraqi military will ever have the capability of running itself without outside help? >> absolutely. there is no doubt in my mind iraqi security forces are much more suited for this fight and for an intervention will make things worse, but the foreign help is co

l mohammad adow, al jazeera on the outskirts of erbil. >> al jazeera continues to demand the release of its three journalists imprisoned in egypt for more than a year. peter greste, baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy retrial could begin within a month. after months of political uncertainty, afghanistan has finally turned a corner. the government has revealed its full list of cabinet ministers for its unity government. a spokesman for president ashraf ghani, inaugurated in november. ministers will go before parliament for approval. >>> the u.s. is investigating allegations that money it sent to afghanistan to pay police salaries ended up in the pockets of ghost workers 20% of the police force may not be getting their full paychecks. the u.s. secretary of state has arrived in pakistan, to hold talks about terrorism. school in peshawar, a scene of one of the is worst attacked. walls have been raised and electric fencing to increase security. kamal hydir reports. >> the mood is defined they say they want to go back to school no matter what the risk. but the apprehension are also high becaus

fighters now repulsed from gwer, erbil the capital of kurdistan's region, the peshmerga tighters say they will never let gwer fall. mohammad adow, al jazeera on the outskirts of erbil. >> also to come on the program back to school under tight security. people who survived the peshawar attack return to class for the first time. >>> and the report from latte on the political crisis overshadowing the commemorations of the 2010 earthquake. been fun stuff. [[vo]] mind-blowing discoveries & >>it's on the edge of impossible. [[vo]] terrifying near-death experiences & >>if it had been higher, it'd hit us. [[vo]] and an exciting future that's closer than you think. >>go from being an air traveller to being a space traveller. >>you see it as the future. >>i see it as inevitable. [[vo]] every monday, join us for exclusive, revealing and surprising talks with the most interesting people of our time. o >> hello again reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. the u.s. military's twitter and youtube needs appear to be hacked biislamic state of iraq and the levant. the names of u.s. jedges generals and e-mail addresses have been posted. not a securi

erbil. al jazeera continuing to demand the immediate release of journalists in prison in egypt for more thanear greste and fahmy and mohamed were wrongly convicted of broadcasting false news and helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood which is denied and on thursday they ordered a retrial that could begin within a month and lawyers for greste and fahmy have fired requests for them to be deported from egypt. much more still to come here on al jazeera including anger in response to a school attack that left 148 dead and said to decide to try suspects in military courts plus exhibition of everyday objects transformed for tools for protest and social change. ♪ ♪ let's take a look at the top stories on al jazeera, to saudi personnel have been killed on the country's border with iraq and happened in a border patrol area near irar and police say one of the two attackers detonated a suicide vest. syrian government forces have launched more air strikes and shelling east of the capitol damascus. people in rebel held areas trying to establish a homemade air defense system to protect themselves. and sy

erbil. al jazeera travelled to a town lineally to be a launch pad against attempts to retake mosul. we have this report fromgwer. >> this has been the scene of fighting between kurdish peshmerga and islamic state of iraq and levant. the river is the boundary. the river on the ordinary side and anything beyond is i.s.i.l. territory. they cannot afford to lower their guard. >> translation: we are fighting a strange enemy, one that does not care about death. they attack not with guns. it's not easy to see them. we don't have night vision. >> reporter: from their positions on the other side i.s.i.l. fighters are on the peshmerga lines. they return fire. they complain they are more effective and have more modern weapons with them. due to a shortage of heavy weapons, they have been forced to improvise. this is for their ground offensive against i.s.i.l. fighters. the gun itself is 20 years old. the peshmerga are short of experienced fighters with a 1,000km frontline they are spread. they are getting volunteers from far and near. this man returned from sweden. >> translation: i came to fig

erbil. we have just revealed on al jazeera that in afghanistan forces there say isil has set up bases. >> tens of thousands of hectors of farmlands have been wiped out by floods that many rely on for survival. we report from where many farmers have lost everything. >> she is devastated. she was hoping to have her maize in april. she had enough in storage to last her until then. then the floods came. she lost everything, including her home. >> i'm lost. i don't have any plans. i don't know what i can do. to be honest, i'm stranded. >> she and many other farmers in this agricultural district in southern malawi now have to rely on food handouts. >> the water from a nearby river swept away everything on its path, more than 16,000 farmers in this center lost all their crops. those we talked to said that they've never witnessed this kind of flooding before. >> the floods are unprecedented affecting areas that have never been flood-phone. climate change and deforestation are blamed. more than one third of malawi is classified as forest land, but the rate of deforestation is one of the highest in sout

erbil. the fear of a strong isil command base that is close to the regional capitol could drive more peshmerga fighters into the battle to take over mosul. al jazeera gwer in northern iraq. >> still to come on al jazeera, what is ahead for sri lanka after friday's surprise win in the presidential elections. stay with us >> it's a chilling and draconian sentence... it simply cannot stand. >> its disgraceful... the only crime they really committed is journalism... >> they are truth seekers... >> all they really wanna do is find out what's happening, so they can tell people... >> governments around the world all united to condemn this... >> as you can see, it's still a very much volatile situation... >> the government is prepared to carry out mass array... >> if you want free press in the new democracy let the journalists live. >> today on "the stream". >> a surge in predatory lending targeting our nation's military with the interest rates as high 300 to 1000 percent. what's being done about it? >> "the stream". today 12:30 eastern. on al jazeera america. >> here with us on al jazeera, these are the top stories this hour. french media reporting that h

erbil. the fear of a strong isil command base that is close to the original capitol could drive more peshmerga fighters into the battle to retake control of mosul. al jazeera gwer in northern iraq. >> a south africa man has turned his obsession for motorbike parts into a $1 million a year business called the bike hospital. they say it's the largest scrapyard in the southern hemisphere. we have reports from johannesburg. >> from the highway the engines engines, pistons seats and exhaust fights form an eye-catching massive metal two stories high. parts are dangled from above and fill storage containers. >> if we can't help you you're not going to find it. >> biker eric coetzee says he has millions in stock. new and parts dating back to 1970. people come here looking for parts because they can often find them cheaper and quicker if the dealership does not have the parts in stock. the bike hospital's customers are as diverse as its parts. police officers, delivery men and a member of the woman's biker club to name the few. >> i'm looking for a part for a bike that is over 30 years old. >> coetzee says he has little interest to build a cline teal over the inter

erbil. the fear of a strong isil command base close to the regional capitol could drive more peshmerga fighters in the battle to retake mosul. al jazeeragwer in northern iraq. >> now those in iraq who have been forced to escape the violence as a result of violent activities are now facing a terrible winter. >> if it looks bleak that's because it is. in this mistake history tent city hundreds of families are trying to stay warm. the winter has started to bite. just look at this. we only have the small stove. please let the world see this. >> at night the temperature drops to zero degrees celsius. they came to the camp after three of 12 children were killed by isil fighters. he brought what was left of his family here. >> it can't get worse than this. we're suffering from the cold. everybody got money from the government except for us. >> around 19,000 people are living in the camp. most of them have come from the sinjar region, which has seen some of the heaviest fighting between peshmerga forces and isil. but the flimsy tents are not enough to insulate them from the bitter cold. >> we wait for one hour for the heater to warm up, then m