. >> narrator: khalil al-dakhi is returning to his village in northern iraq eight months after isis overran the area. he is a yazidi, a religious minority targeted by isis. in august 2014, isis massacred hundreds of yazidi men. and as they stormed the region they took an estimated 3,000 women and children captive. (horns honking, men shouting) thousands of other yazidis who survived the isis rampage fled to the nearby sinjar mountain, where they remained stranded for weeks. (people conversing) >> narrator: khalil's whole village vanished. >> (translated): all the women from that house have been taken. all the women from here are in the hands of isis. this house, that house, they took everyone from these houses. they only left one person behind: an old man who'd had a stroke. isis left him for dead. >> narrator: khalil, his wife and daughter had moved out before isis overran the town. >> narrator: isis believes yazidi women can be enslaved under their interpretation of islam. >> (translated): this video was shot by an isis fighter. they're in their compound buying and selling girls. (video p

so confirmation coming from the turkish prime minister's office of those hits on pkk camps in northern iraq. >>> turkey does have a long history of battling fighters from the pkk or kurdistand workers party. more than 40,000 people have died in the conflict. created in 1978, the pkk demanded an independent state for kurds in the region. the group began their violence in 19846789 in 1989 he was captured and sentenced to death. this was commuted to life in prison. after secret talks eventually declared a unilateral cease fire in 2013. we have the detector of the american information network. he says turkey should try to resolve its problems at home before intervening in other countries. >> last month there was an election in turkey. and the president wanted 400 deputies to be elected for his party. and then he would become the president with more authority more privileges. and he lost that. and since things have not gone well. even during the election things have gotten out of whack. he accused -- he wanted to get the nationalist vote and he said he didn't have a peace process going when ther

double offensive the air force launches more strikes with isil and syria and kurdish positions in northern iraq. >> fay we reaffirm that we stand united in the face of terrorism. >> the u.s. president pushes for closer cooperation for al-shabab. and how tens of thousands of nepalese people are living in devastating conditions following the the earthquake. hello, the saudi-led coalition that has been bombing houthi rebels for months have announced a cease-fire the airstrikes will begin on sunday might the during the five day pause they will still respond from any military aggression from theys. >> we hope that this truce will lead to a solution because there are many people who have put a lot in the last four months for lack of everything we help that this will an cushion to a political solution. whether there is a truce or not we will want to be on the ground delivering aid and food wherever we can and we're targeting the most vulnerable people in yemen. now we'll go to work with all the warring parties first to ensure that all the supplies will enter the country and then to ensure that we will

in northern iraq. they targeted i.s.i.l. fighters in syria. and president obama head a national address to the people of kenya. it came on the last day of a trip to the nation where meal be the first sitting president to agrees the nation. >> air attacks have been lunched at a military recruitment center. it followed bombings at a military camp. less than 11 hours since a ceasefire begins. let me remind you who is in control of what. the houthis are stronger than the north. a large part contest the by al qaeda. let me warn you that some may find the images disturbing. >> saudi-led coalitions are arriving in aden. after four months of fighting the airport is under the control of fighters. it's after taking this city from the houthi rebels that a 5-day pause was announced, saying the truce comes at the request of president abd-rabbu mansour hadi. >> the goal of the new truce is to lift the siege and impose on cities and reach the areas with much-needed humanitarian aid. it's a much-needed move for the houthis. >> reporter: the houthis say the su

some towards northern iraq. if that proves to be true, then it would appear as though turkey would be launching more attacks on both isil and possibly pkk targets in northern iraq. as you mentioned in your lead in turkey today saying they will make no dysfunction to fight on terror. they will go after groups like isil as vigorously as they go after groups of kurdistan workers party. this has been a real game-changer of a day when it comes to turkey. there has been a lot of he escalation as far as their fight against isil. >> the turkish president urged his country to trust his country and his government. >> these are the steps against our national security. our state and government will take needed action against any attack no matter what it is. it is not only for last night. we'll take the necessary precautions for our nation's security and peace. last night was just the start of this. and we'll keep going on the same way. >> we're a different struggle for now on. we'll do whatever is needed in this struggle. o

they've also hit areas in northern iraq. targeting camps belonging to the kurdistan workers party or the pkk. >>> the president signs economic agreements with kenya during his four-day visit to the country. he praised president ke nyetta's attempts to root out corruption in kenya. >>> rescuers found the bodies of 24 people in pakistan on saturday. half million people have been effected by the floods triggered by monsoon rains. >>> tens of thousands of people are still in need of food and clean water in nepal. exactly three months after the devastating earthquake there. the government has promised to relocate them, but that has not happened yet. >> in visits just outside of kathmandu more than hundred people have camped out in a school ground. they're from a village in nepal all of them have lost their homes. landslides have destroyed most areas around their village the river has been eroding whatever remains of their land. this woman thought she escaped the worst of it until she got here. >> my sister gave birth here in the

>>> pkk camps in northern iraq. ♪ >>> in doha with the world news from al jazeera.lso in this program: >> >>. >> a greeting it in swahili. barack obama tells africans africa is on the move with opportunities. three months after a huge earthquake shattered much of nepal thousands wait for food and clean water. thanks for being with us. within the past hour turkey's prime minister has confirmed its military has launched more airstrikes against isil in syria. it's also hitting areas in northern iraq, but the targets there belong to the kurdistan worker's party or the pkk. it's considered a terrorist organization by turkey. >> i have said that the massacre was an attack against turkey against democracy in turkey and against public order in turkey. isil was behind it, and they have been reacted to appropriately. there are some circles who wanted to create chaos in turkey and they were supported by the pkk. and their actions were targeting fundamental rights. mohammed jamjoom is following developments for us in killis on the border with syria. mohammed, it seems very clea

turkish jets have been bombing the kurdistan in northern iraq and kurdish fighters in northern syriaed positions near the count of tobani and denied by the turkish government and says w.p.g. could have a part in future if it cuts ties and no plans to send ground troops into syria and we will go to bernard smith in istanbul and tell us more about what the turkish government is saying. >> reporter: well nick the turkish military put out what seems to be a clarification of claims from the syrian kurdish fighters. a village has been shelled by the turkish military just near kobani and the turkish military says he is looking into this but pointed out in the statement they are not targeting p.y.d. syrian kurdish fighters and their aim and targeting i.s.i.l. positions in syria and p.k.k. and kurdistan workers party positions in northern iraq what the turkish military says the ongoing military operation seeks to neutralize threats to turkey's national security so looking into what happened in that incident where the p.y.d. says twice a village near kobani once on friday and once on sunday ni

turkey going after isil targets in syria and pkk target did in northern iraq.urkey today effectively lumping isil and the pkk together. officials here saying both of those groups comprise a huge terrorist threat to the domestic security of turkey. the prime minister gave a call to the president of iraqi kurdistan n which the prime minister said that so long as pkk kept attacking turkey that turkey would take any measures necessary to protect itself from that threat. this is a huge shift in strategy. for a long time now turkey has resisted getting further involved in any conflict here in the region especially when it comes to syria. now, turkey finds itself involved in a two-pronged attack, in iraq against the pkk and in syria, against isil at a time when this region particularly is fraught with so much tension between the kurdish community and the turkish government. the kurdish community continues to say that they believe that turkey's government is a more insistent upon countering the advances of kurdish fighters in this region than they are in countering the

in turkey, the military has carried out its heaviest assault on kurdish militants in northern iraq since air strikes began last week effectively ending a two year truce. turkey has launched combat operations on two fronts. one against the self-proclaimed islamic state in syria, and another against the kurdish worker's party, or pkk, inside turkey and in northern iraq, where the pkk has been fighting against iso-for the past year. during an emergency session in brussels tuesday, nato offered support for turkey's military campaigns, although some member states expressed unease over the crackdown against the kurds. we'll have more on turkey later -- after headlines. president obama has wrapped up his historic visit to kenya and ethiopia with an address to the african union. in his speech, obama called on the continent's long-entrenched leaders to step aside, saying quote "nobody should be president for life." the address marked the first time a us sitting president has spoken before african union. president: i think i am a good president. i think if i ran i could win -- president obama: i t

goal. >> one of turkey's complicated relationships is with iraq's kurds, who have autonomy in northern iraq. turkey fought an insurgency on its own territory, taking the lives of 30,000 people. over the past few years turkey forged a relationship with iraq's kurds, yielding 6.2 million barrels of oil, worth $600 million through a pipeline. the iraqi kurds in turn use that money to finance kurdish peshmerga fighters battling i.s.i.l. forces. >> it provides an economy for the kurds, it provides a benefit to turkey, which has a big oil need, of course. and it's also a way of the putting the - you know, the dampers on kurdish ambitions within turkey itself. the kurds in iraq will not encourage that. >> in the latest development turkey has agreed to let u.s. war planes use the american air base to strike at i.s.i.l. targets in northern syria. the stated goal is to create a safe zone in syria along the turkish border. free of i.s.i.l. fighters and controlled by so-called moderate syrian insurgents. the turks hope it can be a new00m for the estimated -- new home for the estimated 1.7 million syria

northern iraq. ankara has stepped up attacks. kurdish forces have kaefshd out three strikes on syrian and iraqi soil. first on thursday night, the strikes in iraq targeted kurdish camps belonging to the pkk, a group considered a terrorist group by ankarat inside turkey moj raids. they say 590 isil and pkk suspects have been taken into custody in two days. let's go live now to the turkish city of kiris on the border of syria. mohammed jamjoom is there. what has the government had to say about the latest strikes, mohammed? >> adrian, this is a huge shift in military strategy for turkey. turkey has made it clear, they were reluctant to get involved with the conduct. they have gotten involved in a two-pronged conflict. what they have done now is they have lumped isil together with the pkk saying essentially that those two groups both are the same type of threat to the domestic security of here in turkey. prime minister abadaba tola held a press conference. he talked about how turkey will not allow publi

in northern iraq..g. said they she would their positions near the town of kobane. the prime minister says the y.p.g. could have a plays in syria's few officer it cuts all ties with the assad regime. he also says turkey noose plans to sends ground troops in to syria. let's go live now it zeina khodr in southeastern turkey. zeina, talk us through the statement by the prime minister, he says that they could work the y.p.g. yet the y.p.g. claim they have been attacked again by turkish forces what, does that suggest is going on? >> reporter: yes, a new development. accord to this y.p.g. the syrian kurdish force as well as the syrian observatory human rights, the turkish military she would their positions west of kobane. we still have no independent confirmation, but we did speak to a spokesman from the froome and, in account far, he is issued a warning to turk saying this should not happen again he said this is the second time, it's a potentially dangerous development. why? because of the growing tensions b

fighters took over his town in northern iraq. >> translator: told us how to de decapitate people and h their minds saying we wouldn't go back to our families in iraq. >> reporter: in june last year tens of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes in northern iraq after their towns were seized by i.s.i.l. fighters and some survived what the u.n. calls attempted genocide by escaping to singar mountain and thousands of others captured and the men were killed and women and traffic were trafficked as sex slaves or in prison and some boys were forced to convert to islam and sent to i.s.i.l. training camps. >> translator: once they showed us the be heading video of the pilot pilots and videos of attacks and saw how they were shooting and brought it to us every week and showed us. >> reporter: this boy sent to a camp in the city of raqaa a stronghold and told to practice be headings on dolls. >> translator: they brought dolls and they told us how to hold the sword and how to chop off the head because they said these people are not good. >> reporter: after five months at the camp h

it is unclear if these planes will have actually gone into syria or northern iraq because earlier in the day there have been reports that the bombing raids that happened last night those turkish planes had entered syrian air space when turkey's government has maintained that they carried out those bombing raids from turkish air space. >> thank you very much, indeed, for those updates. >> thanks. >> well, a little earlier the turkish president urged his to trust his government. >> our state and government will take needed action against any attack no matter what it is. it is not only for last night we'll take necessary precaution force our nation's security and peace. last night was just the start of this, and we'll keep going on the same way. >> we're a different struggle for now on. we'll do whatever is needed in this struggle. our nation should trust their states. >> al jazeera's roslind jordan sent us this update from washington, d.c. >> the obama administration is welcoming turkey's decision to allow the u.s. military to use two air bases near the turkish border with syria. that'

in northern iraq. journalist says a skeptical turkish public simply wasn't prepared for this. >> there are too many questions. like if isis is attacking us, why are we fighting the p.k.k.? which is fighting isis in any case. and on top is turkey strategically speaking, and in terms of our spirt are we capable of fight two wars in two different countries simultaneously? >> reporter: when it comes to renewed hostilities between turk and it's p.k.k., she believes both parties are very much to blame. >> the military, turkish military has been seeking a confrontation with p.k.k. for sometime now. of course p.k.k. is also to blame and it's very important for them to realize that their legitimacy their increasing legitimacy vis-a-vis the international community that's coming from the fact that they had stopped military confrontation. >> reporter: during the past few days, raids weren't just conducted from the air, on the ground security forces fanned out across dozens of provinces and arrested more than 600 p

in northern iraq, they have also targeted isil.yrian observatory human rights says villages north of aleppo have so far been targeted. it says the border town was also struck. northern iraq airstrikes hit the headquarters of the p.k.k. in the mountains. from turkey zeina khodr reports. >> reporter: tuck i is at war on two front. its jets are now hitting tagger he's cross the border in iraq and syria. a day after beginning an air campaign against isil in syria turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting p.k.k. or kurdistan workers party positions in iraq's mountains. the p.k.k. immediately declared the already strained 2013 ceasefire with turk at dead. turkish officials are not fazed and talk about a long-term fight. >> translator: whenever we see a decrease in or the fan irving of the threat, then, of course, we will make a reassess think. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> reporter: this is a major shift in policy. for turkey, isil declared war when it bombed a cull tar center in the border town on mond

. >>> a suicide attack in northern iraq killed at least nine people and wounded dozens of others. officials say two bombers blew themselves up at a sports club in a city north of baghdad. the first attacker detonated his vest inside a pool area and the second targeted the entrance to the club. residents of the city are mostly shia turkmen. >>> a cease-fire is set to begin at midnight on opportunity. it's an opportunity to get food and medical aid to people who desperately needed. 12 tons of humanitarian supplies have been delivered to the city of aden. the u.n. says at least three -- 3,000 people have died since march. >>> colombia's president has suspended air raids against the farc rebel group in an effort to move forward with peace talks. they are trying to end five decades of war. the decision to suspend shelling comes days after the rebel declared a unilateral cease-fire and the release of a colombian soldier who has been held hostage. >>> hillary clinton is back on the defensive. on the campaign trail on friday she denied claims she sent classified information on her private

it's also hitting areas in northern iraq. targets belong to the kurdistan's worker's party, the pkk. it's considered a terrorist organization by turkey. >> i have said the massacre was an attack against turkey against democracy in turkey and public order in turkey. is ill was behind it is. there are some who wanted today accurately chaos and they were supported by the pkk. their actions were targeting fundamental rights. >> mohammed jamjoon is following developments prime prime. >> the kurds in the southeastern region specifically. they accused the turkish government much collaborating with is ill. these are accusations turkey denies. they call them nefarious lies. like i said, it's a tricky situation right now. clearly what we are seeing several turkish high level officials coming out very much aligning their messages, creating the narrative they want the public to see turkey is engaged in a in a serious war on ter error. >> that's why they are going to let air basis be used by coalition forces. they have started bombing tar

and possibly p comfortk targets in northern iraq. as you mentioned in your lead-in turkey saying they will make no distinction in their fight on terror that they will go after groups like i.s.i.l. as vigorously as the kurdistan workers party. really not a surprise that this is heapg although this has been a game changer of the day when i.t. comes to turkey. there has been a lot of escalation as far as their fight against i.s.i.l. >> mohammed jamjun there. turkey has had a long history battling pkk or kurdistan workers party. created in 1935, the pkk demanded an independent state for kurds in the region. group began a violent campaign against the turkish government in 1944. 1949 he is captured and sentenced to death but later commuted to life in prison. after secret talks the pkk declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2013. be american kurdish information network he says turkey should try to solve its problems at home before intervening in other countries. >> last month there was an election in turkey and president erdogan wanted 400 depu

in northern iraq. fighter jets targeted isil fighters in syria. >> el salvador is one of the worlds deadliest countries its murder rate has risen this year. 600 people were murdered in june alone. police blame powerful street gangs that returning nailed in the u.s. we have this report. >> a common sight in el salvador, a police funeral. at least 33 officers were killed this year, some on the job, most targeted while off duty, just some of the victims in a wave of killings unseen since the civil war ended in 1992. june saw nearly 700 murders in a nation of 6 million. the vast majority blamed on criminal gangs. the government's response, more guns, more police, more patrols. for so long, police were the hunters in this violent gang-infested country. now they're the prey. this female officer buried a close relative on the force. she was 27, the first police woman ever to be killed in the nation's history. >> she still walks the beat, caring now for two families on her one salary. in an exclusive interview

launched a new round of bombings today on militants with the kurdistan workers party or the pkk in northern iraq. ground troops also attacked isis in northern syria. this comes after turkey's first air strikes on isis targets within syria on friday. >>> police in trinidad and tobago are searching for two men who pulled off a brazen prison escape on friday. those inmates along with a third used hand grenades and guns in the breakout in the caribbean nation's capital. a police officer tried to capture them leading to this shoot-out that you see. the officer and one of the inmates were killed. >>> the gunman in a mass shooting in the united states at a movie theater was estranged from his family. police in lafayette, louisiana, also say that john russell houser had a history of mental health issues and posted extreme opinions online. two women were killed and nine other people wounded in thursday's attack. houser then killed himself. two teachers were inside that theater that night, and not only did they save each other, during the chaos, they were somehow able to pull off the fire alarm that likel

positions in syria and the military also hit areas in northern iraq but the sites belong to pkk a terrorist organization by turkey. mohammed jamjun is following the details. mohammed, tell us about the attack with the pkk in the process. >> reporter: jane, this is a very serious escalation that turkey has engaged in. they have effectively lumped in the pkk with i.s.i.l. they are calling them all terrorists at a pose a threat to the security in turkey. turkey will say the reason they are going after pkk targets as well as i.s.i.l. is that the pkk killed some of their officers this week, the armed wing took responsibility for killing two police officers on wednesday the pkk said that was in retaliation for the bombing in which 32 people were killed that suicide blast the start of a very intense week in turkey. many areas inside turkey is very angry with the turkish government. toourng blind eye to siel and for endangering lives inside turkey especially in the southeastern region, really, this is calling into question whether or not the ceasefire the very fragile tenuous ceasefire that turkey

in northern iraq air strikes hit the headquarters of the pkk in the mountains. >> reporter: turkey is at war on two fronts. its jets are hitting targets across the border in iraq and syria. a day after beginning an air campaign against isil and syria jets began hitting pkk in iraq's mountains. the pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 cease fire with turkey dead. turkish officials are not fazed and talk about a long term fight. >> whenever we see a decrease or vanishing of the threat, then, of course, we'll make a reassessment. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> reporter: this is a major shift in policy. >> for turkey, isil declared war when a bombed a cultural center. but many believe turkey's decision to engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battle field in northern syria. the government is concerned about isil threatening syrian opposition groups in their strong holds. it is also worried about what it sees as the growing strength of syria's kurds. syria's kurds are the ypg linked to the pkk now controls half of the border

in northern iraq. many kurds are angry and frustrated that the turkish government seems to be equating the threat from isil with the threat from the pkk. mainly kurdish city in southeastern turkey representatives of more than 18 non-governmental organizations have been meeting. they're working out a joint response to what they fear is a threat to the fragile peace process. >> we call ther on the people of kurds and people of turkey to show solidarity. the only way to do it is to stand up against these policies. >> i don't think its possible to continue a peace process for those who take aim at our national security and brotherhood in this country. >> erdogan said that having embarked on an offensive against terrorism turkey won't be backing off. neither the pkk nor the government has officially said that the peace process is over, but it's never looked more fragile. one newly elected mp has told us that the reason that the pkk has averaged a major offensive against the government is that they still hop

one called the pkk in northern iraq, a terrorist organization. the u.s.led for them to renounce violence and the turks have been striking them. the u.s. pretty much would like to stay out of that. they want to keep focusing on isis. but the kurds known by their translated name, the ypg, these are the most capable fighters in northern syria that have been pushing isis back. that have been having success in putting isis elements on their heels in northern syria. so the u.s. doesn't want to do anything to lessen the support for that group of kurds in northern syria because they think they're effective against isis. how this will all sort out with the turks, what exactly the turks will let those u.s. warplanes do still remains to be seen wolf. >> michael weiss, give us perspective on what's going on. as barbara and nick pointed out, it gets complex over there. >> look the pyd -- the pyd is the syrian arm of the kurdistan workers party which is a terrorist organization. so what you have wolf, is this operation inherent resolve consists of the u.s. providing cl

fighters took over his town in northern iraq. >> translator: they told us how to decapitate people. they told us about the koran. they showed us how to carry out an attack and how to use weapons. they also played with our minds saying they wouldn't go back to our families in iraq. >> in june last year tens of thousands of yazidi people were forced to leave their homes in northern iraq after their town was seized by seel i.s.i.l. fighters. some escaped to sinjar mountain. thousands of others were captured and yazidi men were killed. women and children were either trafficked as sex slaves, forced into marriage our killed. some boys were sent to i.s.i.l. training camps. >> once they showed us the beheading video of the pilots and other videos where they carried out attacks and other executions everything was there. we saw how they were shooting. they brought it to us every week and they showed us. >> this boy was sent to a camp in the syrian city of rah raqqa. he and other prisoners were told to practice beheadings on doms. >> after five months at the camp he escaped along with his bro

. >>> meanwhile turkey has carried out more air strikes aimed at the pkk in northern iraq. fighter jets have also targeted the isil in syria. the syrian observatory says villages north have so far been targeted. it says the border town was also struck. in more than iraq air strikes hit the headquarters of the pkk. from turkey, we have more. >> reporter: turkey is at war on two fronts. its jets are hitting targets across the border in iraq and syria. an air campaign turkish jets hit in the mountains. the pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 cease fire with turkey dead. turkish officials are not fazed and talk about a long-term fight. >> translator: whenever we see a decrease or vanishing of the threat, we'll make a reassessment. the third wave of operations are a part of this. >> reporter: this is a major shift in policy. isil declared war when it bombed a cultural center. many believe the decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. the government here is concerned about isil threatenin

want to be identified, was taken to a camp like this after isil fighters overtook his town in northern iraqhey told us how to decapitate people and showed us how to carry out an attack and how to use weapons. they played with our minds by saying we wouldn't go back to our families in iraq. >> in june last year tens of thousands of yazidi people were forced to leave their homes in northern iraq after towns were seized by isil fighters. some survived what the u.n. calls attempted genocide by escaping to sinjar mountain. thousands of others were captured and yazidi men were killed. women and children were either trafficked as sex slaves, forced into marriage, or imprisoned. some boys were forced to convert to islam and were sent to isil training camps. >> once they showed us the beheading video of the pilot and other videos where they carried out attacks and other executions everything was there. we saw how they were shooting. they brought it to us every week they showed us. >> this boy was sent to a camp in the syrian city of raqqa an isil stronghold. he said that he and other prisoners were

kurdistan workers party assets and locations in northern iraq. all of this is a ramping up of turkey's military posture and is a more aggressive way for turkey to go after what it sees as terrorism, which includes isis but also includes the kurdistan workers party. the offshoot of that group has been fighting in syria against isis. turkey really is in a very difficult position of going after multiple fronts of what it perceives to be terrorism. and right now domestically this fight against terrorism is not just being carried out internationally for turkey but also domestically. there have been huge operations by police that have been carried out in turkey across 22 provinces with more than 5,000 police officers taking part in the operations just in istanbul and rounding up terror suspects. but again, it's not just limited to isis. those operations are also going after kurdistan workers party militants and other marginal leftist groups. so far, 320 people have been detained. we don't know the breakdown. we don't know how much of it is isis and how

bombing both isil in syria the pkk in northern iraq. this turkish journalist it is a skeptical turkish public wasn't prepared for this. snoo there's too many question. if isis is attacks us why are we fighting the pkk fighting isis in any case? on top is turkey strategically speaks scompl in terms of the spirit are we capable of fighting two wars in two different countries simultaneously? >> reporter: when it comes to renewed hostilities between turkey and the pkk, they believe both parties are very much to blame. >> the military turkish military has been seeking a confrontation with pkk for some time now. of course, the pkk is also to blame, and it's very important for them to realize that their legitimacy their increasing legitimacy vis-a-vis the international community comes from the fact that they had stopped military confrontation. >> during the past few days raids weren't just conducted from the air. on the ground security forces stand out across dozens of provinces and arrested more than 600 people with ties to what are striebed

targets across the border this northern iraq. syrian kurdish fighters also known as the y.p.g. who are battling i.s.i.l. say they shell their positions near the town of kobani and that is a claim denied by the turkish government and says the y.p.g. could have a place in syria's future if it cuts all ties with the assad regime and turkey has no plans to send ground troops into syria and we have been following events live from istanbul and we will talk about y.p.g. in a moment but tell us a little more about the arrests we have been seeing. >> reporter: well those 15 arrests on raids in ankora were all foreigners according to kurdish security services and they are the latest in the series of 900 people arrested so far in raids going on really for the past weeks and months but they stepped up just sort of in the last week or so after that suicide bomb attack in near the border with syria. turkey showing it seems a new willingness and determination to try and pick out potential i.s.i.l. supporters sympathizers and supporters living in turkey and arrests also included people from th

in northern iraq. fighter jets have also targeted isil fighters in syria. >> palestinians and israel police fought outside of the most sensitive holy sites in jerusalem. jewish workers were operating on the holy day of mourning and repentance. police used stun grenades to clear palestinian protestors. >> aid agencies said israel's bombardment have gaza last year has been catastrophic for the health care system. many injured are losing hope. >> spending time with his 2-year-old daughter i also the happiest part of his day. he struggles with depression after he lost his legs in an israeli strike on the united nations school he and his family were sheltering in during last year's war. his brother and father were killed in that strike and she has bits of sha rap necessarily in her skull. >> i've lost my legs, i've lost my job. i can't leave gaza. we are under siege on all sides. i want an artificial limb to feel like a normal person again. >> once a week, he travels to this clinic in gaza city. it's where

targets across the border in northern iraq and also known as the y.p.g. who are battling i.s.i.l. thern syria said the turkish army shelled north of kobani and denied by the government and says the y.p.g. could have a place in syria's future if it cuts all ties with the assad regime and turkey has no plans to send ground troops into syria and court reporters covering the story near the syrian border and bernard smith in istanbul and let's go to turkey at the moment and first of all let's talk about these arrests. >> well, yeah these arrests, the latest arrests are 15 people picked up in raids by turkish police, all of them the turkish authorities tell us they are foreigners and brings to 900 people the government has either links to i.s.i.l. or links to p.k.k., the kurdistan workers party and have links to an extreme left wing group and turkey lumping them together and part of a series of raids going on for several weeks and months now and certainly picked up in the last week or so after that suicide bombing down near the border with syria, laura. >> turkey called a nato meeting to

in northern iraq.y kurds are angry and frustrated the turkish government seems to be equating the them from i.s.i.l. with the threat from the p.k.k. and mainly kurdish city in southeast turkey representatives from 18 nongovernmental organizations have been meeting and working out a joint response to what they fear is a threat to the already fragile peace process between the p.k.k. and the government. >> translator: . >> reporter: on land most month of these people were celebrating the electoral success winning 80 seats in parliament for the first time. now tushish president wants to lift the immunity of mps of what he called terror groups and erdiwan are questioning whether the talks with the p.k.k. can carry on. >> translator: . >> reporter: he says having embarked on an offensive against terrorism, turkey won't be backing off. neither the p.k.k. nor the government have officially said the peace process is over. but it's never looked more fragile. one newly elected pro-kurdish m.p. told us the reason

in syria and in northern iraq.l, it does seem that that is happening in the wake of last week's attacks but it comes with a caveat which is turkey is of course also going after p.k.k. bases in northern iraq and there lies the rub because for the west the kurdish forces in northern and in eastern syria have been an important ally and so to what extent can a viable military relationship with turkey against i.s.i.l. be productive without alienating kurdish forces in syria and that is going to be a very tricky diplomatic question. >> indeed, the turks are saying they are not targeting syrian kurds despite accusations being levelled against them that they have indeed hit them as targets but it says that it does have the right to go after the p.k.k. domestic kurdish force which is based in northern iraq. it's saying to nato it doesn't need any weapons. what does it really want then in this rather ambiguous battle? >> i think crucially what will happen today is that both sides, nato and the sorry the remainder of nato on

trump, isis northern iraq his plan for isis bomb the hell out of the oil field take the oil. when present with criticism by a former top general. trump said he would be a better general than him. more on that tonight. the veiled suggestion mr. trump made about an in end enddependent run if he does not win the republican nomination. dana bash from laredo texas. obviously quite a scene when donald trump arrived. how much of it was actually substantive and how much was it a photo-op? >> honestly it's hard to answer that question. like anywhere donald trump goes there was definitely a lot of theater. some that he encourages. some that just happens like what happens when any celebrity shows up some place. but when you have somebody like donald trump arrive on his very large plane with his name emblazoned across the side it will draw attention especially to people in a town like where i am right now, laredo texas where they're not used to somebody look him coming. have to say we saw people at a gas station, they thought the was a rumor and jek heoke he was coming. they couldn't bel

>> turkey has launched a new wave of airstrikes against isil fight necessary syria and pkk in northern iraq. pkk said that the government ended the two-year-old peace fire. we take a closer look at the kurds making turkey's government nervous. >> since the islamic state in iraq and the levant turkey has increased it's military activity along it's border with syria. but that's not the only reason, the kurdish force ypg has been gaining mortar tore. >> the u.s. coalition is doing a lot of help. the ypg is a threat to all people. the arabs turk men. >> they are straddling the borders of turkey, iraq, syria from iran and armenia. turkey has had had a difficult relationship with its kurdish population who wants greater autonomy. the pkk began to dole with the struggle. it began to use guerrilla tactics,. the turkey government still considers pkk and ypg terrorist organizations. >> they're asking for greater rights. if turkey wants to be the model of the region. it needs to practice democracy at home. >> generations under attack. but kurds say that the government is not doing enough to protect th

took over his town in northern iraq. >> they told us how to decapitate people. old us about the koran they also played with our minds by saying we wouldn't go back to our families in iraq. >> reporter: in june last year tens of thousands of yazidi people were forced to leave their homes in northern iraq after their towns were seized by i.s.i.l. fighters. some survived what the u.n. calls attempted genocide, by escaping to sinjar mountain. thousands of others were captured, men were killed, women were trafficked as sex slaves, murdered or imprisoned. >> once they head us the beheading video of the pilots and videos of attacks and executions we saw how they were shooting they brought it to us every week and they showed us. >> this boy was taken to the syrian city of raqqa. he says he and other prisoners were told to practice beheadings on dolls. >> they brought dolls and brought swords and told us how to behead because they were not good. >> victims of this seemingly never ending conflict. victoria gatenby. al jazeera. >>> four italian construction workers have bee

. >> turkey's government has carried out airstrikes on targets in syria and northern iraq. ankara has stepped up its attacks. the government said that 590 isil and pkk suspects have been taken into custody in the past two days. >> turkey is at war on two fronts. it's jets are now hitting across the border in iraq and syria. after beginning a air campaign against isil and syria turkish jets for the first time in years began hitting pkk in iraq's mountains. the pkk immediately declared the already strained 2013 cease-fire with turkey dead. turkish officials are not phased and talk about a long-term fight. >> whenever we see a decrease or vanishing of the threat, then of course we'll make a reattempt. the third wave of operations are part of this. >> this is a major shift in policy. >> for turkey isil declared war when it bombed a cultural center in the border town on monday. but many here believe that turkey's decision to actively engage in the fight against the armed group has a lot to do with the battlefield in northern syria. the government here is concerned about isil thr

they don't have much further to go to target an old enemy the pkk in northern iraq. many are angry and frustrated that the turkish government are equating a threat from isil to a threat from the pkk. representatives from more than 18 non-governmental organizations have been meeting. they're working out a joint response to what they fear is a threat to the already fragile peace process between the pkk and the government. >> we call on the people of turkey and kurds to show solidarity. the only way to do this is to stand up against this policy. >> only last month most of these people were celebrating the pro- pro-kurdish winning 80 seats in the parliament. for the first time president erdogan discuss whether talks can carry on. >> erdogan says having embarked on an offensive against terrorism turkey won't be backing off. neither the pkk nor the government has officially said that the peace process is over, but it has never looked more fragile. one mp has told us that the reason the pkk has launched a major offensive against the government is because they still hope tha

as an enemy of my enemy situation but they bombed some pkk kurdish positions in northern iraq. it's a confusing and complicated situation there. >> again, the problem is that the kurdish fighters who have been fighting i.s.i.s. have been complaining for quite some time that turkey is allowing more and more i.s.i.s. fighters to flow inside to kill kurdish fighters and as a result they had to deal with that problem themselves. they had to appease the kurdish government out of erbil but killing their own people. because of the very large kurdish population inside turkey was not quite happy to see the number of kurds that were being killed by i.s.i.s. they finally had to do something against i.s.i.s. and suruc provided the catalyst for that action. >> you are in iraq, defense secretary ash carter have ited this week. how much progress are iraqi forces make right now especially in anbar province trying to retake it? >> well, we're starting to see the first of the coalition trained iraqi forces being introduced into the fight around ramadi and habanea. it's still too early to say the

in northern iraq they hit the headquarters of p.k.k. zeina khodr has been following event for us. describe for us where you are, and the significance of where you are. >> you mentioned a syrian boarder town behind me controlled by islamic state of iraq and levant, the last stretch of territory is that it shares with turkey this has been the reality for a year and a half. it's been a quiet border until thursday. when i.s.i.l. attacked a turkish military outpost and turkey retaliated and started to bomb i.s.i.l. target inside syria. turkey declaring war on i.s.i.l. we fear that i.s.i.l. may carry out a retaliatory attacks. they believe the turkish army will not be able to stock that. we have seen controls along the border. it's doing little to calm the fears of the people here. turkey didn't just declare war on i.s.i.l. it declared war on the p.k.k. >> turkey is at wore on two fronts the jets hitting the target across the border in iraq and syria, a day after beginning an air campaign in i.s.i.l. and syria. jets began hitting p.k.k. or working progresses. the pkk declared the alread