has known to have its camps training ground, lots of its commanders lots of its fighters in northwest nigeria. it may are another attempt by boko haram the expand its territory. we have seen how boko haram has launched attacks on seized territory, and kept that territory. it may also be trying to do the same thing in cameroon and expand a base into there into cameroon probably into chad and into niger. >> thank you. >>> rescue operations continue after a ferry caught fire on friday. checked by local medics. 115 people are still on board the vessel. simon mcgregor wood explains. >> essentially an airborne rescue operation greek and italian force he, the operation is now speeded up because of the arrival of daylight. it is very cold and it is extremely windy. one cargo vessel, the spirit of piraus was able to reach the port carrying 48 passengers. that i ship was meant to come here but the wind conditions were simply such that it wasn't able to get into this port. gives you an idea how difficult the conditions are. over 300 have been lifted off the vessel leaving about 150 but every 15 minutes

another example was the attack on 200 school children abducted in northwest nigeria. at the time other governments pledged their support to assist in the hunt for those children, what can the prime minister offer in that regard? >> what we do in all these cases is see what expertise and assets that we have that we can help bring to play too help the governments trying to combat these problems. in nigeria, we did for a period lend the expertise of our fighter jets with the raptors in order to provide imageling to help find the girls. we continued to work with the nigerian government in any way we can. with pakistan, we believer they must confront terrorism in all of its forms. it is taking steps to do that. i think today is the day to redouble our support and efforts. the whole world should do the same. to say if the pakistan government wants to root out terror and none of this can be justified, it has the support of the whole world. >> will you join me in thanking the businesses, the schools, my team, the demredge organizing a week-long festival of manufacturing and e

you got isis you got problems in yemen, libbia boka haram, nigeria, where they kidnapped those girls, yesterday, there were people in northwest xinxang and coin the biggest problem we have in the u.k., security terms now, france, germany. understand, this is going to be on the president, the prime minister. it will last for a significant period of time. i was going to say western civilization, against civilization itself. >> absolutely. it's very interesting they immediately criticize saudi arabia because they want to turn it back, say you guys are leaning up with the infidel and islam. this is a mod iraqis vs. extremism. >> it also puts us in a position where we have to knock down buildings in london and walk and new york and who doesn't? assad does not, isis does. assad is a terrible person. at the same time, assad running syria is preferable to isis. >> these regimes aren't going to stay if power. assad has killed people if power. there are more refugees since the second world war, possibly including the second world war. these old regimes are not going to stay in power. the issue is, when you get rid of the old regime, th

northwest of africa. and more wet weather coming through and high ground there for tuesday, that rain across in northern areas of nigeriaoing east as we go on through the next couple days and morocco bright ending up nicely and good news and heavy rain in place in the northeastern parts of nigeria and tunesia and showers in africa as one would expect showers a possibility into the gulf of guinea and wet weather to the south and getting wet weather in southern africa at present and heavy rain in mozambique and that has caused some flooding and wet weather slowly makes its way slowly eastward over the next couple of days. >> still to come on al jazeera anger or education law in mianmar and the uk insists on transparency for pay rates for men and women and this is coming up, in sport lebron james leads to the sixth home one in a row and we will have this later. ♪ ♪ you're with the al jazeera news hour and hello again the top stories, pakistan taliban attacking an army-run school in peshawar and more than 81 children are dead and over 100 injured, the fighters say this is in response to on going military operations in pakis

northwest of pakistan in the past five years. schools are considered soft targets because they are seen to promote western values and unislamic teachings. it's a trend seen in nigeria's northeast where the group boko haram regularly attacks schools, most famously this one where they kidnapped hundreds of girls earlier this year, most of whom are held by fighters. the taliban in pakistan are warning of more attacks. sheila mcvicker, al jazeera. >> to further the discussion on the situation in pakistan, we turn now to daniel markey who is author of "no exit from pakistan" and senior fellow on the council of foreign relations. let's talk about this notion of soft targets and why this group would perform in this way. after all, they have a beef with the military. why not make a military strike? why go after children? >> i think the speculation is they can't. the military has attacked them in their home territory, and they haven't been able to fight back very effectively. this is a weapon of the weak. go after the soft underbelly of the pakistani military and kill their children. >> you say that in your close analysis and that of other analysts of this particular region i