the african union has played a huge attempt to push al-shabab out of mogadishu.they had a 20% cut in their budget though. it comes at a time when the african union and somali government have a moral and financial issues while al-shabab is trying to use that as a boost of moral for the soldiers. about 50 kilometers south of mogadishu there was a raid by foreign troops on al-shabab base. what we know is there was a heavy fight between the foreign troops and al-shabab fighters that was in this small town. what we know is there are prisoners at this base but we don't know if there was - if the operation was successful or the reasons behind this attack >>> thank you. a court in japan has ordered the two nuclear reactors should be closed over safety concerns. that ruling comes days before the fifth anniversary of of the fukushima disaster. tell us more about what was behind that particular decision. >> reporter: that's right. here we are nearly five years on to the day from the triple disaster, the earthquake, stumani and-- tsuna mooshgs i and meltdown of the plant. th

into a train then goes back to mogadishu.in to on and off the first trip is that i arrived on the day that the workers were kidnapped. my original plan was to live in the camp. and it has been to avoid that. but that was very quickly squashed in the un forbade me from doing that. because then the u.n. shuts down and everybody suffers. and then i did go around with security. but they were ted kilometers outside the town itself but there are a lot of people who would tell you otherwise. it to go to people's houses. and then to sit down and chat with people for an hour to. bid with the time window and then my window was down to half an hour. and then to ask the questions again. it took a long time but it works in the and. in the people's willingness to talk. it with the release from the kong go. if you arrive in a place and have nothing to hide it and then had a very different experience in to look after in those circumstances. it in the human rights you are in the convoy. in the fund rates after we talk about i remember one par

want to be heard, sufis in mogadishu. they have been driven underground, their leaders killed or driven out of the cub. even the zed were not spared, more than a thousand sufi graves were december rated in the last -- desecratein the last decade. there is agreement, the security situation has been improving. >> the war in snal yah affected us. there are -- somalia affected united states. they celd the people and desecrated the graves of the dead ones. but thanks to god's mercy they are not here today. we have existinged before any group in somalia and we will remain here. >> reporter: al shabaab which is fighting to overthrow the government, deems them legitimate targets for attacks. while al shabaab fighters control large part of mogadishu, sufi mosques remaining empty. now the call for sufi to return is loud and clear. >> the youth must work hard to follow this path, the correct path. they should make time to return to their mosques and support their religion. that is our call to them. >> it may take more than a cause t

this was north of mogadishu about 150 miles-plus north of mogadishu as the congressman just said, a trainingamp in a fairly remote area. they believe there were about 200 al shabab terrorists there. the drones and aircraft moved in, killing, they believe, 150 of them. a very significant operation. the u.s. had the camp under observation for some weeks we are told. so what they were doing clearly, u.s. special operations, establishing a so-called pattern of life. keeping eyes on the camp through satellites, through drone imagery, however they could, to see how the fighters were training, how they came and went, where they were. by all accounts, it was when they on served the final stages of this training and then the fighters preparing perhaps to leave the camp that they moved in and decided to begin the air strike. the u.s. says that these fighters were in the final stages of carrying out what they called, the u.s. calls, an imminent threat against u.s. troops and african peacekeeping troops. in mogadishu it is well known, amongth those who follow it, there are indeed a small number of u.s.

al jazeera's correspondent has details from mogadishu. >> around 7 a m here in mogadishu there was acar bomb in front of the city. we know that three police officers were killed and at least two civilians wounded. the explosion happened at the shop in front of the police station and it happened as police officers on their way to the morning shift were trying to get this t-shirt. al-shabab claimed responsibility for the attack and said the target was the police officers. also about an hour before this explosion there was a small explosion to the district of the area, a small motorbike was left on the side of the road and it was detonated but nobody was injured. i have spoken to the mogadishu police chief who told me that they have a young man in custody in connection with the first explosions. he told me that the suspect is serious s seriously injured and is in hospital. what we also know is around 1am last night there was a raid on al-shabab base 50 kilometers south of mogadishu. it was conducted as we understand by foreign troops using two helicopters. there was a heavy extended fir

in february, a laptop bomb smuggled through airport security in mogadishu blew a hole in this jetliner shortly after take-off. one man was stuck out of the plane and killed. the terrorist group al-shabaab is suspected in both explosions. but the devices have the hallmarks of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in 2010, aqap tried and failed to use bombs embedded in printer cartridges to blow up cargo planes. counter-terrorism analyst muhammad fraser rahim. >> terrorist organizations work together for mutual purposes. if they have one limited capability on one end, they work together on another end so they can build their forces together. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence officials point to october's downing of a russian airliner in egypt as proof of a renewed effort by terror groups, including isis, to target airplanes. since the summer of 2014, passengers flying to the united screening of their electronic device, but in the u.s., a government study last year found mock explosives routinely made it through security checkpoints. that undercover investigation led to a shake-up at t.s.a., and

>> reporter: scott, pentagon officials say they have been 120 miles north of mogadishu for weeks. about 200 fighters for al-shabaab appeared to be preparing for major attack against an african peacekeeping force, which includes about 50 americans as advisers. the strike was launched on saturday. armed drones and armed aircraft caught the fighters lined up out in the open for what appeared to be their graduation ceremony and according to pentagon estimates, as many as 150 of them were killed. if that estimate is correct, that would make this one of the single deadliest strikes against terrorists ever. one defense official said they were sitting ducks. >> pelley: david martin at the pentagon. david, thanks. in iraq, there is fierce fighting outside mosul, a city of two million, the largest city controlled by isis. iraq's army and kurdish forces, trained by the u.s., have been planning to retake mosul, but they have been delayed time and holly williams went to the front lines. [explosions] >> reporter: 20 miles from mosul, these kurdish soldiers are jumping. this was the response whe

in mogadishu. they had been driven underground, their leaders killed or driven out of the country, their shrines destroyed. even the dead were not spared, graves were did he say created in southern sow male i can't in the last decade. there's been a series of bomb attacks recently, but in general, there is agreement the security situation is improving. the mystics are increasingly being seen in public. >> the war in somalia affected us. there are men who everybody knows who they are, they kill the people and did he also created the graves of the dead once. thanks to god's mercy, they are not here today. we have existed before any group in somalia and will remain here. >> al shabab fighting to throw over the government deems them a legitimate target for attacks. while al shabab control large parts of mogadishu, their areas remained empty. >> the youth must follow the correct path. they should return to their mosques and support their religion. >> it might take more than a call to fill this mosque. >

the group has also staged suicide bombings in and around mogadishu, but a al-shabab in is turns formhe latest organization to battle for control in somalia. one of the world's most impoverished countries it has not had a stable government in more than 20 years, al jazeera's john terrett has more on the fight against al-shabab. >> reporter: this week u.s. involvement against al-shabab appears to be been stepped up. two incidents were made public. the u.s. said monday that american drones and fighter aircraft attacked an al-shabob training camp in somalia. 100 fist fighters were killed the pentagon says, there are no pictures not even cell phone video but the white house said fighters slated to depart the training facility posed an immediate threat to u.s. interests. >> the removal of those terrorist fighters degrades al-shabab's abilities to meet their objective somalia. including yes routing new members and establishing bases. >> reporter: they spoke of the further movement against al-shabab. u.s. help comes flew somali forces on a mission, they didn't continues on the attack but two

of course we have the attack on the somali airliner that occurred as well as an hotel attack in mogadishuthe position of the united states is that it is attempting to dismantling al shabaab and will do so through financial,.diplomatic or military means. >> thank you very much kimberly halkett. >>> two years after the mh 370 disaster, families file lawsuits in beijing. >>> first u.s. band to perform in havana since the renewal of diplomatic ties with washington. >> welcome back. let's take you through the top stories. turkey has asked the european union to double the $3.3 billion it originally offered to it deal with the refugee crisis. eu leaders are 60sing proposals from turkey aimed at curbing the flow of refugees into europe. but the flow of refugees shows no sign of slowing. greek officials say more than 2,000 arrived in the aegean islands on monday. off of.lesbos. of lesbos. somalia officials say u.s. raids killed 27. >>> at least 53 people have been killed after a gun battle between an armed group and security forces in the tunisian border town of ben gardan. they target ed an army

the explosions happened northwest of the capital mogadishu.bomb exploded outside a restaurant. it was followed by a suicide bomb nearby. the militant group also claimed responsibility for a friday attack near the presidential office in mogadishu. at least 14 people were killed. somali troops and african union

he grew up in the district in 2010 he was a 16-year-old going to primary school in mogadishu. one day in his job seven armed men showed up the back of the school and pulled off seven students. it was very brutal and in fact at the time it was covering the abuses. i want them to the details but he has an opportunity to run away. he went 7 miles to no man's land between the camp it's not just a question of walking to the refugee camp even to get there is an incredible challenge because from the border very hostile to refugees. you have a cup of tea and a bus ride to the camps will you have to do is make your own way across the land because as you get in in the meantime the most likely thing that is going to happen is that the police will lock you up and shake you down and take you back again so you have to reach the camps. you get registered and have a car and you can then begin your life as a refugee which is by no means rosie coming from a difficult situation and then entering another. but that journey formed the first few chapters to show you what it takes to actually reach t

our correspondent has more details in mogadishu >> >> there was a car bomb right in front of a police officer and in this area of the city. what we know is three police officers were killed and at least two civilians wounded. the explosion happened in front of the police station and it happened as police officers were on the way to their morning shift were trying to by their tea. it was the target was the police officers. about an hour before this explosion there was a small explosion in the describing of the area. a small motorbike was left on the side of the road. it was detonated but nobody was injured. i have spoken to the moroccan police chief who told me that they have a young man in custody in connection with the first explosions. the suspect is seriously injured and is in hospital. we know around 1 a marks last night there was a raid on al-shabab base 50 kilometers south of mogadishu. it was conducted by foreign troops using two helicopters. there was heavy fire between foreign troops and al-shabab. one al-shabab was injured. we know that prisoner $were kept here but we don't

the explosions happened northwest of the capital mogadishu. a car bomb exploded outside a restaurant. it was followed by a suicide bomb nearby. the militant group also claimed responsibility for a friday attack near the presidential office in mogadishu. at least 14 people were killed. somali troops and african union peacekeepers have been conducting operations against al shabaab across the country. >>> egypt's president has addressed the japanese diet. he stressed the need for the two countries to work together in the fight against terrorism. the first egyptian president to speak before japan's lower house. he acknowledged japan's efforts to stop attacks by the islamic state militant group and other extremists around the world. he said it is important to address terrorism in a comprehensive manner and not only through the use of military and security forces. he said international cooperation is needed in order to fight terrorists by economic and social means. he also called for more japanese investment in egypt, which is facing rising prices a

it has staged suicide bombings in and around mogadishu. the current form is just the latest organization to battle for control in somalia, one of the world's most impoverished countries. >> reporter: this week u.s. voechl against al-shabab appears to have been stepped up. two incidents were made public. the u.s. said monday drones attacked a training camp. 150 fighters were apparently killed. there are no pictures, not even cell phone video, but they posed an helped threat >> the removal of those terrorist fighters degrades the group's objectives to meet their goals. >> reporter: by mid week they spoke of further involvement. this time u.s. special operations helicopters flew forces on a mission. they didn't continue to the actual target did you two dozen al-shabab fighters were killed in that operation. although al-shabab says it was only one >> there were u.s. forces in the train advising the company mode as they had been in the past in somalia. there was a small number of u.s. forces. >> reporter: al-shabab means the youth is affiliated

. >> mogadishu has been the target of many al shabab attacks, but not today. it's not known whether the capital was of the intended target, but the pentagon said it thwart a major al shabab offensive by using drones and other aircraft to attack an al shabab training camp. >> the fighters who were scheduled to depart the camp posed an imminent threat to u.s. and african mission forces in somalia. their ravel, the ravel of those terrorist fighters degrade al shabab's ability to meet objects i have somalia. >> the camp is 120 mill meters norse of the the capitol, a remote location to try to escape constant surveillance by u.s. aircraft. that doesn't appear to have worked. the pentagon says the camp has been monitored for weeks and surveillance indicated a major attack was being planned. al shabab confirmed in a phone conversation to al jazeera that they had been an attack on its training camp buff said the u.s. figure of more than 150 dead was exaggerated. in a statement, the somali government told al jazeera it welcomed the precision drone attack on the al shaba

while al shabaab fighters controlled large portion of the mowigadish mogadishu. notice the call to return is loud and clear. >> translator: the youth must work hard to follow its path, the correct path. they should make time to return to their mosques and support their religion. that is our call to them. >> reporter: it might take more than a call to fill up these mosques. they was once in somalia. sufi religious groups are slowly filling up. this one has more than 100 students of religious studies. the teacher can't accept more children because it's so popular. >> translator: we teach only the koran with a wood tablet and charcoal ink. most parents want their children brought up the same way they were. >> reporter: the feeling is that somalia's dark days are a thing of the past. the sufi just want to be left in peace and return to their own ways of practicing islam. >>> the level of winter sea ice in the arctic is a r at a record low. nasa and the u.s. national snow and ice center data say average sea ice cover was the lowest since records began in 1979. air tem

: scott, pentagon officials say they had been watching the camp located about 120 miles north of mogadishu for weeks. about 2300 fight 00 fighters for al-shabaab preparing an attack against a peacekeeping force, and 50 americans as advisers. the strike was launched saturday. armed drones caught the fighters lined up out in the open for what appeared to be their graduation ceremony. according to pentagon estimates, as many as 150 of them were killed. if that estimate is correct that would make this one of the single deadliest strikes against terrorists ever. one defense official said "they >> david martin, thanks. >>> in iraq there is fierce fighting outside mosul, a city of 2 million. the largest city controlled by isis. iraq's army and kurdish forces trained by the u.s. had been planning to retake mosul but they have been delayed time and again. holly williams went to the front lines. [ gunfire ] >> reporter: 20 miles from mosul, the kurdish soldiers are jumpy. this was the response when they spotted two suspected isis gunmen approaching their post. the day before isis managed to in its b

hamzeen mohammed, al jazeera, mogadishu. >>> petition was filed 28 years ago to challenge the religion's status. government authorities say that while islam will remain the official religion, equal rights for other religions are guaranteed by the constitution. but criticism for lawyers who filed the case, they say their clients weren't allowed into the court for the hearing. >>> laos is said to become a net exporter of electricity, hoping to challenge the energy of the mighty mekong river. the billion dollar dam is ahead of schedule but conservationists are worried, about the environmental impact from the facility. al jazeera was given access to the site. >> in the remote part of laos preparation are underway to harness the mighty power of the river. the communist government wants to become the battery of southeast asia by exporting expg electricity. >> we want to develop hydro-power as fast as possibility but we will be respectful. >> sendment could be carried downstream. the developers of this project said they developed many adaptionatioadaptations. >> that also affects.fisheries, it

we have the details. >> reporter: around 7am local time in mogadishu, there was a car bomb in front of a police station in that area of the city. what we know is three police officers were killed and two civilians wounded. the explosion happened at a tea shop, and it happened as police officers on the way were trying to buy people. al-shabab claimed responsibility and the the target was police officers. also about an hour before - there was a small explosion. a small motorbike. it was detonated. no one was injured. we spoke to a police chief. they had a young man in custody, he told me that the suspect is seriously injured. what we also know is that there was a raid on an al-shabab based 50km south. it was conducted by foreign troops. there was fire between the foreign troops. we understand one fighter was injured, and what we understand is that prisoners are kept at this case. al-shabab are saying that it was foreign troops. they will not disclose further information. >> there's more to come on the newshour. >> north korea makes a claim. al jazeera gains access to a french prison to f

was watching the site. 120 miles north of mogadishu. the strike was not in defense, and if m defense of the african mission. we used a mix of manned and unmanned platform. >> the removal of the terrorist fighters. degrades meeting objectives, including recruiting members and planning attacks. >> the u.s. designated al-shabab a terrorist organization and has a number of special operations forces in somali, aimed at tripling it. they want to create a strict islamic state and is thought to have thousands of fighters, including children and foreigners. >> u.s. strikes killed the top leader in 2014. in the past two months al-shabab stepped up attacks killing more than 150 people, bombing a restaurant and hotel in somali, and kenyan soldiers at a remote desert out post. u.s. officials say strikes on al-shabab are a step forward in efforts to weaken it. this is a good example of how united states military can use resources and capabilities in partnership with forces on the ground, to counter-extremism, and to protect the united states and our

the pentagon says a training camp used by the armed group, about 120 kilometers north of mogadishu, was attacked with bombs and missiles. responsible for numerous attacks in east africa, including killing 67 civilians in a shopping mall in the kenyan capital, nairobi. that was three years ago. let's go to kimberly halkett. live if washington, d.c. this has been alive for about an hour right now. tell me kimberly what the pentagon has foicial officiallyn saying. >> as you point out it occurred at a training camp for al shabaab fighters. we are told there could be more than 200 fighters present and according to u.s. intelligence, there was training away to launch an imminent attack against u.s. as well as somali and african orion union resistance. a decision was made to launch a drone strike, 150 we are told by the united states as the number of fighters killed. the u.s. saying this was as a result of intelligence that they received that the u.s. acted on, in training for an imminent attack. to put it into context, the u.s. has been conducting these strikes for a while now, september 22nd

keeps a small number of troops at an airport in mogadishu and they go other places in the country to conduct assistance efforts, working with the african forces there. that presence is very well known. what the imminent threat was against those u.s. troops, the pentagon isn't saying, but they are saying this was a drone attack, unmanned drone, firing missiles at a training camp killing, they believe, 150 on the ground. this would be unusual and striking. drones carry precision missiles that go against very pinpoint targets. training camps, as you know better than anyone, to be dispersed personnel out in the open, moving around or sleeping in dispersed areas. sos it's not clear in this initial report from the pentagon how they used drones to kill 150 people at a dispersed training camp. we hope to learn more about this, but ail shah bab is a real signal the u.s. believes al shabaab is a target they have to go after, that it does pose an imminent threat in this case to u.s. troops in somalia. >> a lot of attacks they claimed responsible for. they have been a force. let us know when you

a mix of unmanned drones and manned fighter jets attacking this training camp 120 miles north of mogadishu, according to the pentagon, about 150 militants on the ground. but this is an unusual place for al shabab to operate and unusual for them to put that many people in one place. the pentagon says they have been watching the camp for several weeks and the intelligence showed them, at least, that these people were in the midst of planning an attack and they believe they ended an imminent threat against the small number of u.s. troops in somalia and the african peacekeepers also there. a bit of a surprise because al shabab has been back on its heels in recent months and years, however more recently, of course, al shabab, the group said to be involved in the recent attack that brought down a commercial airliner. also other attacks in and around somalia. this is a group that is quite capable of causing instability across east africa and total misery, of course, to the people of somalia. the details, however, it has to be said still remain very murky. the u.s. says it killed 150 militants on

claims responsibility for a bomb that exploded at an airport checkpoint north of somalia's capital, mogadishu. the bomb was hidden in a laptop computer. two other explosives were found and defused. three people were hurt. >>> a chicago man is charged with first-degree murder in the police say 22-year-old dwight boone-doty was already held on unrelated gun charges when he was connected to the shooting of tyshawn lee. he was lured from a playground in november and shot in the head because of his father's gang ties. >>> sportscaster erin andrews is thanking her family and lawyers for her $55 million court win. andrews cried monday as the nashville jury's verdict was read in the lawsuit over a nude video. jurors blamed the owner and operator of a nashville hotel plus her stalker who made the secret recording. the hotel may appeal. >> we believe, and we continue to believe, that this was not foreseeable. that what mr. barrett did was unforeseeable to industry, had never occurred prior to that and again, as i said has not occurred since then. >> andrews gave tearful testimony last week saying relea

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capitol mogidushi and were trying to get it on a plane going there and mohamed you are still from mogadishu whether or not there has been a claim of responsibility. >> there has been no claim of responsibility. if we start with the bomb plot at the airport it is actually the second time a bomb has been just last month a bomb went off on a flight to jibuti and the security situation is tense and comes at a time when the european union cut the funding for soldiers by some 20% and the african union says it will not just affect relations with el shabab but effect the moral of the soldiers and el shabab sees it as a moral boost for its soldiers and it has as a result appears to have increased its attacks. just in january this year it attacked an african union base run by the kenya soldiers and it killed dozens of soldiers so these latest developments is not it appears as if the united states is carrying out these drone or air strikes as reactions to el shabab attacks in south and central somalia. >> thank you for that update from mogadishu. let's more ahead on the al jazeera news hour including

spokesman acknowledged militants were killed in saturday's attack on the training camp north of mogadishu but it said the number had been exaggerated. washington said the group was planning a large-scale attack and post and imminent threat to u.s. and african union forces in somalia. how significant they blow is it? that is a question we put to an international terrorism analys.s guest: without a doubt, if the figures are correct, one hundred 50 of their operatives have been killed and this has graded their capability severely in that region. it is not just in that region, there've been a number of eu citizens who joined al-shabaab over the years, so there's a potential for that to spread. this is a group responsible for the siege in nairobi and even earlier this year, they did an attack on the air of union forces, so this is a dangerous group in that region and i think it has a good capability. brent: an international team of investigators says it has no idea what happened to malaysia airlines flight mh 370. the plane disappeared two years ago today in room from kuala lumpur to beijing.

we have this report from mogadishu. >> this is the image that somali's government wants you to see. hidden away from the public, soldiers who have been wounded in the fight against the armed group. they are struggling to make ends meet. no longer able to fight the soldiers have been abandoned. >> translation: i was wounded by al-shabab in 2010. i was badly injured and left on my own. my rights have been neglected. i paid for the hospital bill. they stopped paying me. i need to be taken abroad for treatment. i can't afford that. >> today i was injured. it was the last time i heard from my stars. i was not able to walk. my wife left. i could not provide for them after they were injured. >> government troops pushed al-shabab out of most towns and cities. >> many of the soldiers come knowing they have not returned alive. most are bread winners. they know they may not receive their salary at the end of the month. these soldiers tell us they do it for the love of their country many families say they have left on their own. >> translation: no one came to check if he had a family. we would