community in a crisis meeting. >> going back to somalia is not an option for us. even the leaders of the somalia government are not safe and have to traveling tanks belonging to the appeals keepers. if kenya is tired of hosting us, then we request the international community to resettle us. >> it's not the first time the government that called for the repatriation of somalia refugees. an agreement has already seen 2,000 refugees return in the past year, the latest calm by the kenyan government is its boldest so far the threat that kenya will forcelily remove the refugees if the u.n. doesn't is what worries the refugees most. >> if we are returned then thousands of young men us will join al shabab. they will have no option but to join the group. >> u.n. officials say it will be impossible to move the camps and any decision to relocate the refugees must be agreed upon by the kenyan and somalia authorities. >> results from nigeria's state elections are starting to come in. president-elect's party has retained the post. >> turkey has summoned the catholic church envoy

in somalia, he said there is no happiness, only al shabab. what he experienced at the hands of the people traffickers was even worse. >> the problem we faced in libya was mainly around the fact that we had our money taken and we were beaten badly. some individuals died of starvation. the traffickers didn't allow us to speak to our families. we weren't given food and were constantly beaten. the one time the trafficking was uncovered. he blamed a woman and he beat her severely. she came back to us crying. >> he was herded on to the traffickers' boat for the journey that would turn into disaster. he said the boat was so crowded that at one point, he fell overboard and had to be dragged back in. >> when we were on the ship, we had no food or water. i only had one fish. we traveled for a day with no water or food then saw the ship from europe. >> just as he thought they would be rescued disaster struck. >> i was with a friend who was hungry so shared my fish with him. after yelling for help, we overturned and he died. i was underwater for five min

. >> kenya launches airstrikes against al shabab in somalia after a deadly school attack. >> i'm reporting from ukraine where more than 100 children have been caught up in a tug of war between the two sides in this conflict. >> we begin in yemen where the war is taking its toll on people there. saudi arabia has given the red cross permission to provide aid but logistical problems delayed a plane landing. it can land later monday. hundreds was been killed since the saudi-led strikes began. dozens of fighters have been killed in the latest violence between houthi rebels and pro government fighters in aden. yemen's president adou rabbo mansour hadi has sat three of his top military officers including the head of the special forces. he has asked for help, which could include troops. we have more on the latest fighting. >> a huge crowd pores over a sea of mangled steel in sanna. this is no longer a search for survivors. this is body recovery. for the most part, the work is all by hand. the saudi-led coalition said it targets areas controlled by the houthis and that rebel fighters are now hiding

giving the u.n. 12 weeks to shift to somalia, itself.ays if the deadline isn't met, forces will dismantle the camp. paul brennan, al jazeera. >> live to mohammed adow where the al shabaab took place last week. an extraordinary demand by kenya to move that huge refugee camp. what is expected?? >> felicity the kenyan government is under intention pressure to show that it is acting against insecurity that has engulfed the country leading to the deaths of 148 people on thursday last week. in the attack in garissa was the most deadly since the u.s. embassy bombing in nirobi in 1998. the government is being asked very tough questions by members of the public. for example, why did they take so long to respond to the situation of the university and the government has been taking taking a number of steps in which it is trying to appease the public anger against it and this is seen a one of them. whether this is just for public consumption or whether kenya is going to carry out a threat of it actually using forces to move the refugees from the cam

an agreement between kenya somalia and the u.n. has seen the voluntary turn of almost 2,000 refugees in the past year. the latest call by the kenyan government is its boldest so far. the threat that kenya will forcefully remove the refugees if the u.n. doesn't is what worry the residents most. they have this warning for the kenyan authorities. >> if we are returned against our will, then thousands of young men among us will join al shabab. they will have no option but to join the group. it is the only thing be that will give them relevance. >> u.n. officials say it will be impossible to close the camps and any move to relocate the refugees must be agreed upon by kenyan and somalia authorities. al jazeera at the dadaab refugee camps in northern kenya. >> kenya's united nations country representative joins us live from nairobi. thank you for joining us. we've been waiting on you to speak to the government about this situation. i'm wondering if you have spoken to the government and what are they saying? >> we have, yes spoken to the g

unless kenya withdraws its troops from somalia. leader of the national assembly says he wants to see more troops deployed. >> we are against the withdrawal of kds we support the deployment and their presence until they achieve the desired goal and ofnts. objectives. but we further recommend that the kenyan government engages international community and deploying kdf in alt the sectors along the kenya somalia border. >> live now to correspondent malcolm webb who is in nairobi for us. malcolm, reiterating the campaign against al shabaab are those air strikes directly connected to the university attack? >> reporter: well, the kenyan military do use air strikes as part of their ongoing operations in somalia. it wasn't retaliation it was part of their ongoing military offensive there. he said that they were bombing two al shabaab hideouts that were in two towns that are not populated, civilian populations have already fled and it was just al shabaab there. the kenyan military has come under criticism for not doing enough to prevent this

town on efforts to stop al-shabab. >> reporter: between kenya and somalia, this is a malitia of theated administration, part of an international effort to build somalia from the grass roots up. they are on the look out for out of under growth by smugglers and armed group to cross back and forth between kenya and somalia undetected undetected. >> translator: the border is 700 kilometers long and cannot patrol it on foot and lack vehicles and try our best to cover all smuggling routes. >> reporter: they are a few kilometers from the border and over the years they suffered a point for those coming from far and near who want to join al-shabab and the group lost control of the town three years ago but still operate in the thickest outside of it these men are trying to shun the image of the town for al-shabab and they arrested some al-shabab members and he is a kenya national and al-shabab member. >> translator: i was arrested while buying food. i was in charge of logistics and conduct role calls for fighters and distributed uniforms and recruited in al-shabab a year ago by a relative onc

on patrol of the border between kenya and somalia. s this the militia of somalia's newly created. part of an international effort to build somalia from the grass roots up. they are on the look out for roots out of the undergrowth and armed groups to cross back and forth between kenya and somalia and the territories. >> the boardser long, it is 700-kilometers long, we cannot patrol it on foot, we try our best to cover all the routs. >> the militia men are paced in the town a few kilometers from the border. other the years they have suffered for those coming from far and near, who want to join. the group lost control of the town some three years ago but they are still afraid. >> these men say this trying to shun the image of their town being a rout for al-shabaab. in recent months -- no ma'am had is a kenyan national, and an al-shabaab member. >> i was arrested while buying food. i was in charge of logistics i also used to conduct role calls for the fighters and distributed uniforms. i was recruited into al-shabaab a year ago by a relative once again i had no way of backing out as a

over the border from kenya into somalia within three months. if it doesn't do that kenya said it will take action itself. one of the world's largest camp shelters largely somali refugees who face civil war in their own country, but kenya has 600,000 people are possibly there. and the decision to say you got to get out follows an attack by somali fighters in a kenyan university that killed 148 people. it has deeply wounded the kenyans in more ways than one. confirming the motive speaking on saturday saying that they said we have asked united nations high commissioner to relocate the refugees in three months. failure to do which we shall relocate them ourselves. they went on the way america changed is the way that kenya will change after garissa garissa being the place of the university where all those students died. this is extraordinary. if it's actually going to happen. >> well, this, is the boldest statement from the kenyan government yet. >> this is going to put refugees in more difficulty. they are not ready to receive them because of the m

. >>> kenya military jets have targeted al-shabab territory in somalia.ng last week's university massacre in nba which 148 people died. the air force says it destroyed two camps in the ghetto region but al-shabab says the bombs fell on farmland. the somali armed group has threatened to carry out more attacks unless kenya withdraws its troops from somalia. one of the four gunmen who cared out the university attack was the son of a government official. his father had reported him missing last years ago. our correspondent malcolm webb has met one mother in nigh robe whyin nairobiwho fears she may have lost her son to al that shabach. >> reporter: they are son left with men from the local mosque in 2012 when he was 22. these certificates show his conversion from tris kris at this anti-to islam two years bench she believes he's joined an extremist group likely al-shabab. he recently called her in the night to check on on her. she asked him to come home. >> he told me he can't because he's wanted by police. i told him nothing is impossible to god so instead of

this is the militia of somalia, part of an international effort to build somalia from the grassrootsp. they are on the lookout for groups passing back and forth between the countries undetected. >> translator: the border is 700 kilometers long. we lack vehicles. we try our best to cover all of the smuggling routes. >> reporter: the militia men are based in a town a few meters over the border. the group lost control of the town some three years ago, but they still operate in the thicketed outside of it. these men say they are trying to shun the image of their town being an route for al-shabab. mohammed is a kenyan national and al-shabab member. >> translator: i was arrested while buying food. it was in charge of logistics, i was recruit into al-shabab a year ago by a relative. once in i had no way of backing out as anyone who tried to escape was killed. >> reporter: he used to operate in the al-shabab training camp. the camp is under the command of this man. the man kenya says masterminded the recent attack in which al-shabab gunmen kill 148 people. >> translator: it's a huge camp. th

we fear that yemenis would be forced to seek in somalia. this is a twist of what happens over the years. over 1 million somalis came to yemen, seeking help or seeking shelter. now it was the opposite. hundreds of yemenis have already evacuated yemen for fear and now in somalia, the opposite of what happened years ago. >> so i'm sorry, i mispronounced your name earlier, if the red cross does manage to get in for the first time since these bombing raids began, what chance of its aid workers actually being table to reach people with the supplies they so badly need. >> they will reach people but only limited amounts of people. the crisis in yemen cannot be solved by the red cross alone. we're talking about these countries and to have this food crisis above it it does not help. you need more support. and this cannot happen only with the dialogue in the political parties in yemen. if there is dialogue then that oppose the door for a cease-fire, opens a door for more international aid. open the door for more foreign aid as well. but without a ceas

, this is the malitia of somalia part of an international effort to build somalia from the grass rootshey are on the look out for routes by smugglers and armed groups to cross back and forth between kenya and somalia undetected. >> translator: the border is long and it's 700 kilometers long, we cannot patrol it on foot, we lack vehicles and try our best to cover all the smuggling routes. >> reporter: malitia men are in the town a few kilometers from the border and over the years they had a transit point those coming far and near who want to join al-shabab and the group lost control of the town years ago but still operate in the thickets and are trying to get over this for al-shabab and have members and mohamed abraham is a kenya national and al-shabab member. >> translator: i was arrested buying food. i was in charge of logistics and used to conduct role calls for fighters and distributed uniforms and recruited in al-shabab a year ago from a relative and once in i cannot back out as anyone trying to escape was killed. >> reporter: mohamed used to operate in the al-shabab training camp

. >> on patrol between kenya and somalia. part of an international effort to build somalia from the grassroots up. they're on the lookout for groups of smugglers and armed groups that cross back and forth between kenya and somalia undetected. >> the border is long. it's 700 kilometers long. we cannot control it on foot. we lack vehicles. we try our best to cover all the smuggling routes. >> over the years the group lost control of the town. this men say they're trying to shun the image of their town being a route for for al-shabab. >> i was arrested while buying food. i was in charge of logistics. i also used to conduct role calls for the fighting of uniforms. i was recruited into al-shabab by a relative. once in i had no way of backing out as anyone who tried to escape was killed. the camp is under the command of 9 man kenya said backed garissa in which al-shabab gunmen killed 148 people. >> it's a huge camp. there are about 300 fighters. almost all of the activities of the camp are geared towards carrying out attacks in yes

we are sharing a porous border with somalia, with al-shabaab headquarters. andrew: as families went to identify the dead, kenya's security challenges are deepening. andrew harding, abc news. -- bbc news. katty kay: i spoke a short time ago with the retired general who headed africa command. i want to pick up on what andrew harding was saying about al-shabaab spilling over the borders. what is the impact? >> it can have a significant impact as we saw in the report. uganda now has threats, which is not surprising. uganda has been attacked before by al-shabaab. also bob's ability -- al-shabaab's ability to extend attacks beyond the border is worrisome. katty kay: how organized do you think this attack was? how much of the chain of command was behind it? >> it appears to have been well-planned and specifically targeted because of the bone ability -- vulnerability of the college and students. about 800 students in the university and its proximity to the border and the fact the town is largely populated by ethnic some of his. -- somalis. katty kay: what does this

a come dwighting refugees fleeing the civil ward in somalia.ce of this camp now remained in doubt. kenyan government witness all refugees rez located within three months, it's a position supported by leaders from northeast kenya who themselves are ethnic somalis. >> today all security forces cannot enter the camp. guns are formed, al shabab cells are there what we say to this, we have had enough. we want them to be relocated 30-kilometer on his the onside of somalia. >> reporter: the refugees deny accusations, al-shabab cells operate in their camps. over the years the camps were meant for 9,000 people have received waves of refugees fleeing conflict and drought pushing the population in the camp to his almost a half a million people. despite the tough conditions here most refugees see them as a better alternative to life in somalia. we mel ellingers from the community in a crisis meet. >> translator: going back to somalia is not an option for us even the leader of so knowledge that are not safe they have to travel to camps belong to go the peac

the ministry says he disappeared to somalia last year. it's important when we use phrases such as "mastermind" they are using the most bake means as possible to kill as many people as possible. back to you. >> all right. important point. thank you very much for that. so al shabab may sound like a new group, but they have been targeted be i the u.s. for years. that raises an obvious question is the strategy to combat the terrorist group working? let's go to barbara starr joining us from washington with more. >> reporter: first of all you talk about strategy, you have to talk about the threat. what is the threat to al shabab and americans. the top u.s. military commander for africa said about al shabab a few days ago on capitol hill. general david rod zbazing and i am quoting, al shabab remains a persistent threat to the u.s. and regional interests. al-shabaab has broughtened its operations to conduct asim met trek a trick attacks. this group is trying to kill as many people as it can. the u.s. strategy has been to assist the african forces

and met the refugee community at a crisis. >> translator: going back to somalia is not an option fors of the somali government are not safe and have to travel belonging to peace keepers, if kenya is sick of us we ask the community to say to us in their country. >> reporter: not the first time kenya government called for somalia refugees and agreement has already seen more than 2000 refugees in the past year. the latest call by the kenya government is the biggest so far and the threat that kenya will force to move them if u.n. doesn't have the refugees worried most and have a warning from the kenya authorities. >> translator: if we return then thousands of young men others with al-shabab and no option but to join the group. the only thing to give them a way. >> reporter: impossible to close the camps and any move to locate refugees must be agreed upon by kenya and somalia authorities, i'm with al jazeera, refugee camps in northern kenya. >>> joined by professor of history and international relayings at the u.s. international university in nairobi and good to have you with us and what

from somalia's border. about 380 kilometers from nairobi. and you can see the close proximity. there has been a lot of talk sense westgate and how security forces need to talk together, need collaborate, there was a lot of confusion in westgate who should be in charge, who's watching what. according to this on the ground and according to people who have been interviewed and there are quite a few with proper information, saying the situation is being dealt with better. you can remember according to a few media houses during the westgate mall attack and other attacks, there have been claims that attackers have been able to escape pretending to be victims. this time the students or victims coming out are being recorded, their names, being registered, being interviewed before they are released. the situation, according to a few people, being held better. there are reports there was an eminent attack that is going to happen in a university in kenya. this as people were complained wasn't handled well. there were

used to run large parts of neighboring somalia. since kenya moved into the country in 2011 al shabaab has promised to strike at kenya and kenyan targets. they have done so often. the most infamous the hideous attack on the westgate mall in 2013. if you look at the video based on the information i am seeing, it is similar strategy. go in with several gunmen and takeover parts of the installation and hunker down and create panic for the longest period of time. the police and military have been criticized with how they deal with terrorist attacks because of lack of coordination. this is not the only attack in recent times in kenya. there have been several hideous attacks on civilian targets in the region of kenya. if you say there is a possibility, they are separating muslims and christians this has been done before. a terrible attack on a bus and they pulled people off the public transport and tried to get people to recite a part of the koran. if they could not, they were executed on the spot. al shabaab wants to create panic. in ken

three months to move one of the world's biggest refugee camps into somalia. ♪ hello there. watching "al jazeera live from london. also coming up. >> i apologize. i even apologize to president obama and others. >> a debacle for yemen, the saudi-led installations and aid arrive

began assassinating al shabaab leaders in somalia in 2008.laced, carrying out attacks on soft targets such as the westgate shopping mall in 2013 in kenya and now the christian university students. kenya has a 450-mile border are somalia. and al shabaab fighters move across with ease. the kenyan military has been part of a u.n.-backed peacekeeping mission in somalia that's targeted the al qaeda-linked al shabaab since 2011 when the kenyan military first crossed into somalia after several foreign tourists and aid workers were kidnapped. >> tell us more about the attackers, jen. >> reporter: well, in a shocking revelation, it of revealed this weekend that -- it was revealed this weekend that one of the four gunmen was the son of a kenyan government minister. abyou do r abdu rahim awlacki was a student who had a promising career. his father reported him missing. he is kenyan but ethnically somali from the region bordering gedo where the al shabaab training camps were hit in the past 24 hours by the kenyan air force. kenyan government officials ha

gunmen have stormed the university in kenya's northeast near its border with somalia.say two guards were killed in the attackers are now hold up in student hostiles. the red cross says 32 people have been injured. saudi-led air strikes are forcing houthi rebels to pull back from the yemeni southern city of aden. the sought i-left coalition wants the rebels to vendor and for president hadi to be reinstated. >>> marathon talks over iran's nuclear future are continuing in switzerland two days past their deadline. france's foreign minister says negotiations are close to the finishing line, but the final steps are the most difficult. world powers are trying to reach a ground-breaking deal aimed at blocking iran's capacity to build a nuclear bomb in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. our diplomatic editor james bays joining us from lausanne where the talks have been taking place. so when france's foreign minister james says that the final steps are the most difficult. what are the final steps that are not allowing them to come out and make the announcement of some sort o

. >> kenyan air forces launched airstrikes on two towns in somalia. on thursday the armed group attacked an university in kenya killing 148 people. the leader of kenya's national assembly said that he would like to see more kenyan forces deployed on the ground. >> thewe support their deployment and presence until we achieve the desired goal and objectives. we recommend that the kenyan government engage the international community in deploying kds in all the sectors along the kenya border. >> we may have heard from some politicians talking for more forces to be deployed been the ground. but that's in contract to what we're hearing from the former prime minister under whose tenure kenyan troops were sent to somalia. tell us about how that may be provoking debate in the country. >> absolutely, sammy. the continued presence of kenyan traps in somalia is a forecast of debate again we know that al-shabab leaders have been saying that the reason why they are attacking kenya is because of the troops in somalia and they want those troops we drawn. now a lot of

jets have targeted the camps in a region and somalia close to the border of somalia with kenya. shock in the news that one of the gunmen on the university was a kenyan law graduate. he was one of those who shot dead 148 students. the former straight a student is the son of a local government official. duncan is in nairobi. we are starting to hear more about these airstrikes. what can you tell us? duncan: the information is limited. what we have is a newswire report. the air force jets did bomb those camps in southern somalia close to the border. a military source is saying it was difficult to distinguish how much damage was done. it does not bode well for a targeted strike. >> the military invaded in 2011 in response to al-shabaab's alleged activity in kenya. a peace enforcement mission is sponsored by western powers and that has drawn kenya into the front line of the war against al-shabaab. we are seeing blowback here in kenya. there seems to be a strategy underway now, they are trying to flush christians out. annette: thank you. in other news coming in, the french military say

the civil war in somalia.xistence of this camp now remains in doubt. the kenyan government wants all refugees relocated within three months. it's a position supported by leaders from northeast kenya who themselves are ethnic somalis. >> today our security forces can not enter the refugee camp. gangs are formed. so what you have we are good enough, we want them to relocated 30-kilometers on the other side of somalia. >> reporter: the refugees deny actionaccusation that his al show bob cells operate in their camps. these camps were initially meant for 90,000 but have received waves of refugees fleeing conflict and drought pushing the population in the camps to almost a half a million people. despite the it have conditions here most refugees see it as a better alternative to life in so ma i can't. we meet people in a crisis meeting. >> translator: going back to somalia is not an option for us, even the leaders of the somali government are not safe. and have to travel in tanks belonging to the peace peacekeepers.

we have an exclusive report from the somalia town. >> this is the militia of somalia's newly created administration, part of an international effort to build somalia from the grassroots up. they are on the lookout for roots hacked out of the undergrowth by smugglers and armed groups to cross back and forth between kenya and somalia undefect. >> the border is 700 kilometers. we can't patrol it on foot. we lack vehicles. we try to cover the smuggler routes. >> they are based a few kilometers from the border. over the years it has suffered from those coming far and near to join al shabab. the group lost control of the town three years ago but still operating in the cricket outside. this man said they are trying toion the image of their town being the root of al shabab. muhammed is a kenyan national and al shabab member. >> i was arrested while buying food. i was in charge of logistics. i used to conduct role calls for the fighters and distributed uniforms. i was recruited by a relative. once in, i had no way of backing out, as anyone who dried to escape was killed. >> he used to operate

why did the military target these particular areas in somalia? al shabaab said it was only farmland that was destroyed in those air strikes. >> this out of reliable that now target who are done before the camps were taken out. >> you say it was reliable intelligence. you do periodically carry out attacks, air assaults on what you say are training camps in somalia. how effective though are these air strikes on camps? it does appear to be the fact that al shabaab fighters can and do cross the border between somalia and kenya at will. >> what i'd like to say that the rest of the somalia sector, through sector 2 by some troops, yet there is an area that is open, it is responsibility of sector 3. and it's in sector 3 and therefore it is an open area, where because of lack of troops, we have, therefore kenya has to protect our borders by cares out preemptive strikes. >> do you think you need more troops guarding that border, stretched along this border? >> not concession of troops but between amazon troops and kdf on our side of the border to be able t

i'm a somalias and my farts have hints of oak." seth then said about this?ucks to get the hell away from my table. he then drew a twenty dollar bill into the air, folded his arms, and said "the seth man is all about the jappoons." [ laughter ] immediately regretting his decision, seth then picked up the twenty and flattened it back out before returning it to his pocket. at which point, seth hurried back to his desk, turned to the camera, and yelled, "hey somalias, don't talk to me about the bouquet. bouquet?" a joke that made him so happy, that he high fived himself. desperate to clear the audience, one of the second producers pulled the fire alarm only to realize that seth had removed the handle. "looking for this?", seth said like a psycho. seth then discussed at length how the only people who use bold are somalias and doritos. after which, he brought out a glass of merlot from beneath this desk and chugged the whole thing in one go. upon finishing the glass, seth said, "you know what this wine tastes like? what they all taste like. [ bleep ] grapes. nbc w

the majority are somalia refugees. in 2013 an agreement between kenya, somalia and u.n.h.c.r. agreed a plan of repatriation back to somalia. there has been tensions in the past. kenyan forces have been taking action against militia for several years, and the camp has been used as a hide out by members of al-shabab. al-shabab gunmen killed 400 in kenya in the past few years, including 67 victims. during the attack in 2013. the tipping point was the killing of 148 students in garissa. an attack which kenya's deputy president described as a game changer, comparable to the way 9/11 attacks changed u.s. policy. kenya's government issued this eviction notice giving the u.n. 12 weeks to shift the camp and residents across the border into somali itself. kenya says if the deadline is not met, its forces will move in and dismantle of the camp >>> staying with kenya, one person died and up to 100 students at the university of nairobi were injured during a stampede. it happened after a transformer exploded. the student panicked thinking it was an attack by al-shabab. >> u.s. president oba

somalia is not so far away from garissa, from the border between kenya and somalia. this is your hometown. tell us about it. >> garissa is about 150 kilometers from the border. there are many checkpoints between garissa and how to close all the checkpoints and the border and come all the way to their university college. and people are even asking on the number of guests at the university call it a week after there was an a lot of imminent attack on the education institution in kenya. so people in garissa are actually -- people are shocked, people are surprised this is driving a wedge between muslims and non-muslims in that part of kenya. were running away from parts of kenya, following previous attacks, where six people were killed. a attack where 28 now people are trying to tract non-locals to come not area and work. and again, this attack is a shock to them. people are surprised, they can't believe it. but more so many people we've been speaking to eyewitnesss are blaming insecurity operators for such kind of attacks ss in that part of kenya. >> and before i let yo

the governments have an agreement already for the relocation of refugees voluntarily back to somalia and so far in the last 20 years it has taken back up to 2,000 refugees who wanted to go back to their country. >> at least one person has been killed and 100 students injured during a stampede at the university of nairobi. it happened after an electrical transformer exploded. the students panicked, thinking it was an attack by al shabab. >> italian and merchant ships rescued around 1,000 migrants near the coast of libya rescued from three overcrowded bolts after sending out a distress signal by a satellite phone. they've been taken to ports in sicily. at least 480 migrants lost their lives in the mediterranean during the first three months of this year. >> turkey has lost trust in the vatican after pope francis described a massacre of armenians at genocide. the leader of the catholic church made the remarks at a church service attended by the armenian president. historians believe up to 1.5 million people were systematically killed by forces in 1915. turkey admits airmenians died but

among those on board were some 350 people from syria somalia sierra leone mali, gambia, ivory coast and ethiopia. >> italian prosecutors say that this man, a tunisian was the captain of the boat. he was taken into custody charged with reckless homicide and causing a shipwreck. another suspected member of the crew has also been arrested. accused of assisting illegal immigration. and more details are emerging as how so many people died. >> migrants were crashed inside the fishing boat. it was at least 23 meters long. a few hundred migrants were forced into the hold at the lowest level. they were locked and prevented from coming out. another several hundred were close into the second level while on top under a cover there were another 100 migrants. >> here in sicily and across europe there are lots of sympathy for the victims of this disaster and there is widespread outrage at the actives of the ruthless smuggling gangs. but they have discussed for years of ways to prevent these disasters at sea and at ways to prevent more people from risking the perilous journey. and the problem goes beyo

it was formed in 2006 to defend the islamic courts union the then-governmental in somalia was pushed out of the capital by enafricanafrican union forces. droanl strikesdrone strikes on it leaders that suggest the group is now on its back foot. malcolm webb is there. al shabaab has just released a statement, what has it said? >> claims it's from al shabaab we're trying to verify. the statement says that kenyan military has been in somalia since 2005, accuse them of rapes and atrocities there says that they are trig to avenge these deaths that are in the attack. they spared no muslim -- muslim blood is in invie in inviolable. say their actions have consequences against the intervention of somalia their statement says the kenyan government fails to deliver security and will never be delivering security, it serves western masters. that's probably what they're getting at there. >> thank you very much. >> and it says our message will be written with the blood of our people it says, kenyans should prepare their grave and prepare their coffins because it says there will be many more attacks.

i'm worried about some warlord in somalia saying hey ngo you are coming to somalia, let me protect you was obviously the governance there is much more less so. so i agree with you that when we think of the types of companies that have been used for the u.s. government in the last 10 years that is not my concern. it's not my concern that one of those companies is going to invade a country and take over the oil -- and sell it to some houston wildcatter. it's the countries that we don't think about who are involved. that's my concern. on the issue of taxonomy there are those that think that raising the military is different somehow than killing people and of course that's true but in the military world only an infantry unit can take and create another infantry unit so it's the same moral universe for me and if you are a military enterprise or you have the skill sets to become a mercenary. in no way am i suggesting that they will do that or want to do that but it's a slippery slope. it's not even a different category. some disagree. there is a difference of opinion. >> i know work for dync

if you want to try to denied against somalia coming across the border from somalia token ya and you wanto tell me that's easy, look at texas, california and new mexico and trying to keep mexican cartels out. not only is that organization that is al shabaab, well organized, you can presumably bribe the border guard, i don't care how many people you give me. that's virtually impossible. >> take me inside american intel on this situation if you will. most recently they made to call threatening lone wolf attacks op malls in the united states, on soft tarkts in the united states. that got a lot of headlines. we haven't seen anything come from it. what is american intelligence looking into this? >> i think both. i think that statement they made about attacking the united states was to gather attention. any time you have a group that has two characteristics that i look at as an intelligence professional. do they have the capability to hit the u.s.? of course they do. they have american recruits in the u.s. people have the capability to come back to the west because they have good documentation.

fbi investigator found an fbi truck that was tracked by the fbi to somalia to kenya. they are militants with al-qaeda and yemen and one of the top commanders was among them and so comfortable in his new freedom there are tweets with him relaxing in what used to be a presidential palace. and the ranking house democrat said the chaos is playing to al-qaeda's benefit. >> al-qaeda has had a resurgeiance and taking over the fifth largest town in yemen. and sprung al-qaeda operatives from prison. and they've also taken over part of a bank. >> the cia drone strike was in midfebruary and they had no commenting for our reporting, john. >> disturbing stuff there. >> and kenya is retaliating and launching air strikes in somalia after a terrorist attack in a university that left 140 people dead. >> the kenyan air force pointed out air strikes in the board in somalia. and kenya president is offering a 225 this happened reward about the information of this man, the proposed master mine. and kenya plans to compile a list of citizens suspected of joining al-shabaab and radicalized by

is that going to have any impact at all on kenya's positioning with regard to somalia? >> it's interesting, following this attack which is in terms of numbers, the biggest al shabaab attack in kenya, there's been a lot of comments on social media, either saying we should boost the kenyan military presence in somalia to try to crush al shabaab altogether or you get many kenyans saying we should get out of somalia, because this is why we are now almost their principle target. >> and that's what makes it look like al sma babb are achieving something when they do this. >> exactly. al shabaab, they say that the reason why they attack kenya is because kenya has declared war on them. and they also get more support from kenyan muslims, who have been increasingly targeted by the security forces who blame them who associate them with al shabaab, even if they're just normal, everyday muslims who have nothing to do with al shabaab at all. >> mary harper there. another big story for you here because there is a deal concluded on iran's nuclear program and on an easing of the sanction

a tripartite agreement between kenya somalia and u.n. hcr repatriation back to somalia. kenyan forces have been taking action against somali issues. during kenya's westgate shopping mall in 2013. and the attack at garrissa. a comparison to the 9/11 attacks in new york. kenya's government has now issued this eviction notice giving the u.n. just 12 weeks to shift the dadab camp from kenya to somalia it's. if the camp conditions are not met it will start dismantling the camp itself. >>> ned parker and two colleagues had written a report detailing human rights conditions in tikrit. still to come on al jazeera. >> hillary clinton! >> the clinton campaign begins. hillary starts her long awaited second run for white house. >> and i'm ml fisher. racked by allegations of corruption, it's time to go. o. >> the peninsula, in arabic, is aljazeera. our logo represents courage. fiercely independent quality reporting. >> to take as much aid as possible... >> and standing up for the voiceless. when you see this symbol respected around the world it means you too can now count on all the

al shabaab has shifted from trying to create islamic state in somalia. they are becoming a classic terror group. targeting soft targets in kenya. they obviously, you may remember threatened to attack u.s. malls in recent months. a threat that many people did not take seriously. what we can see, they are greatly reduced as an operational force. they can strike the soft targets like university and strike fear into kenya. >> a university soft target for sure. also its young people and education and it is young men and young women and garissa is relatively close to a porous border with somalia. >> reporter: that's right. about 90 miles from somalia. this border is very easy to cross both ways. that has been a difficult scenario for kenya. since the kenyan military invaded in 2011 it opened itself up to the threat and the reality of attacks by al shabaab. most infamously in 2013 when al shabaab took on that mall in nairobi westgate mall and held people hostage for hours. it would appear this is a similar sort of operation. they try to drag this out, of course

an international effort to build somalia from the grassroots up.are on the look out for armed groups who pass back and forth between kenya and somalia. >> translator: the border is long. 700 kilometers long. we cannot patrol it on foot. we lack vehicles. we try our best to cover all of the routes. >> reporter: the men are based in a town a few kilometers from the border. over the years they have suffered from those coming far and near wanting to join sal shabab. they still operate in the thickets outside of the town. these men say they are trying to shun the image of their town being a route for al-shabab. they have arrested some al-shabab members. this is a kenyan national and al-shabab member. >> translator: i was arrested while buying food. i was in charge of logistics. i all thes used to conduct roll calls for the fighters. i was recruited a year ago by a relative. once in i had no way of backing out as anyone who tried to escape was killed. >> reporter: mohammed used to operate in the training camp 60 kilometers from a port city. the camp is u

somalia.across the gulf of aden in crowded boats and ships. they expect 100,000 more refugees to arrive in somalia and up to 30,000 more to arrive in djibouti over the coming months the u.n. says 600 people have so far been killed in the conflict. >>> the hugh humanitarian situation is getting worse the world food program is saying it will need to distribute food for over 100,000 displaced people in the city aden over the next few days. before the fighting began in yemen, the w.f.p. estimated that over 10 million people were already short of food. but it now says that the escalating violence has left more than 12 million yemenis in need of assistance, and we are just getting news of a new fund that has been launched by the united nations, an appeal for $273.7 million to help the people of yemen. so a new fund has now been launched by the united nations for yemen. >>> let's go to the situation now in syria because security council ambassadors have been shown graphic pictures of the suspected ch

. ♪ let's bring you some breaking news coming into us first out of somalia and people from al-shababe ministry of education in the capitol mogadushu and people are on the scene and perhaps one person has been killed and we will have more on that as soon as we get it. let's go to yemen now where the saudi-led coalition is intensifying air strikes on multiple targets in yemen south where houthi rebels made gains in some areas, jets have pounded the port city of aiden including the presidential palace which is in houthi hands. and saudi arabia is also reenforcing security along its border with yemen and more aid has arrived in the capitol sanaa, these are pictures of a plane from doctors without borders delivering supplies. the situation deteriorates the u.n. security council is going to talk about a new reservoir escalation on the situation. expected to vote with jordan and demands houthi stop fighting and withdraw from positions and resolution calls for an arms embargo and new sanctions against rebels and russia's demand for immediate ceasefire and arms embargo on all sides have been

they're planning or talking about building a wall between somalia and kenya.ut also bumping the security personnel saying we have a shortage of security personnel. but as talking to the community to be more participating in issuing and communicating with police. and also requesting international community to assist in sharing intelligence and the somali president has come out saying they are willing to incorporate the level of intelligence, incorporation with kenya just so they're able to fight al shabaab. >> soni, i wanted to ask you a very quick question about the people they've taken, the suspects. the five people they've arrested, what more are you tell us? >> reporter: well we do know that the forces that had died, we showed you before that all the suspects have died and it was only four. but now it's coming out would other suspects were found hiding in the dormitory, one is said to be hiding under the bed. we're also hearing that one was trying to flee during the siege, what was the end of the siege. i don't have much information, but we'll keep bringing

what we know is that the border between kenya and somalia is very poor. they are 800 kilometers away from the border, and this is one of the reasons why there are suspicion that is the camps are aware-- >> tell me if i misread this or whether or not this is an urban myth or country side myth in this case. but kenya is building a wall the entire length that have border. >> the wall's construction has already begun. and yes it is one that many feel that is going to stop the flow of people who want to come to cause harm in kenya. but many believe that it's not going to be anything as long as the corruption within the police forces continues and the police force continue to receive bribes from people who want to cross the border, and as long as this war is not manned properly, both airlinely with helicopters as well as soldiers on the ground. then it's going to be an exercise in futility. >> thank you. mohammed in northern yes and no. >> ground fighting between armed factions still battling a lot of country. targeting the number of houthi gathers, and militar

the air force there has carried out bombing raids across the border in somalia, and that's following last thursday's attack by al shabaab militants on garissa university in which nearly 150 people were killed. two raids took place, we're told, in the gedo region close to the border. more details when we get them on that breaking news. >>> now, the first aid flights into yemen have been held back by landing difficulties, according to the red cross. two flights were scheduled to deliver doctors and supplies to the capital, sanaa, after an agreement with the saudi-led coalition. that coalition has been bomb rg shia houthi rebels in yemen for the past 12 days. katarina has this report. >> reporter: it's a desperate situation for those who can't escape yemen. in the city of aden people risk their lives journeying to this distribution well. there isn't enough water, two major districts are without power, and many shops are running low on food. this boy says they've been without water for five days. the international red cross says after nearly a week of negotiations, they're now able to st