. >> reporter: a strategic city north of the capitol is now in the hands of houthi rebels.ran all government buildings, seized weapons, tanks, and arrested officers. the top military officer was killed in this the attack. the houthis now control -- [ technical difficulties ] >> the capture has been condemned by the un [ technical difficulties ] [ technical difficulties ] >> false rumors over his ethnicity and religion helped his popularity. the 51-year-old is seen as a clean leader without a history of corruption. the rival is a formal general and son-in-law of the late president. he was fired from the military because of alleged human rights abuses. here is our report. >> reporter: the governor is celebrating victory of the presidential election held in indonesia today. the man was called the man of the people, has said he has won this election based on early results that have been proven very reliable in past elections. but meanwhile, his contender, the formal general says it is too close to call and we should wait until the official results come out. it is very important

city of donetsk. that's the strategically important city. for month it's been the capital for pro russian rebels. it's a city that's important but also if the ukrainian army -- big if, we don't know when if they do. we think they could be mounting something in the future. if they take that city, it would be a propaganda coup. we think they're trying to maintain roads that link the city with russia to the east. the ukrainian government in kiev say those roads are essentially supply lines from russia to donetsk. of course russia denies supplying those pro russian rebels. it says actually the united states, europe is guilty of a propaganda woar when it comes t their role in this. >>> going to brussels where ambassadors are trying to agree tougher economic sanctions against russia over actions in ukraine. >>> a war crimes prosecutor says former leaders of the liberation army should face charges of crimes against humanitarian. a small amount of people seem to have been killed to harvest organs. >> this practice did occur on a limited scale. a sma

. >> reporter: a strategic city north of the capitol is now in the hands of the rebels.cular drone attack, shiite fighters overran the base, all government buildings, seized tanks, heavy weapons and arrested officers. the top military officer was killed in the attack. they now control huge areas that stretch from the border of saudi arabia north to mountains near the capitol. this is their leader. he says his fight is mainly for political and religious freedoms. worried that they might establish a shiite state along its border, saudi arabia launched an offensive against the rebels there 2009. the capture of the area by the rebels has been condemned by the un and the gulf countries. weakened by years of instability and currently fighting al-qaeda in the south. the army may not be able to send reinforcement to retake the area. sunni tribes warned in the past against military programs, if they choose to join the fight, yemen might plunge into sectarian war. >>> let's bring in the chief editor of the yemen post. joining me 50 kilometers away only from where the rebels have s

there has been fierce fighting in this part of eastern ukraine the cularly around strategically important city of donetsk. the ukrainian government forces making advances toward flight mh 17. of >> again today the fighting investigators and european security observeers from each being the site on with armed guards. >> we are sick and tired of gun fights upted by despite the fact we have agreed there should be a cease-fire. >> but it appears the crash site is not the main objective for ukrainian borders. they want to take ground and main roads to the east of that link that city to russia. eanwhile, life for those who still live here is anything but asy in a war zone people wait for the essentials. as the fighting goes on. >> more on the fighting in i'm joined by steven hadley. he was the white house national from 2005 until 2009 under president george w. bush. if russia is indeed escalating conflict in eastern ukraine as the u.s. says how should the white house respond? the statement today of coordinated sanctions with the step.s a good first there needs to be response. responded to the demands

in the direction of donetsk, the second-largest city, a strategically important city heading in that direction, or if they are around in between the two points that the separatists held for weeks on end. that is left to be determined. the president ordered that the flag fly over slovyansk. if that's happening right now we are sure that's about 90, 80km away from our position. we can tell you that these fourses, separatist forces, are on the move. are they gearing up for a fight. it has not started yet. donetsk is the second-largest city. how the ukranian forces are going to deal with the situation if the separatist most is going there and bunkering themselves in there, that's left to be determined. it's a much more fortified city, than where we saw the last fights in the last couple of hours. >> that would be my next question. >> what about in donetsk. what posture or government forces are taking place there. >> we have not seen anything yet. we see the number of six armoured personnel car yours coming down this road. there's a checkpoint about 100km. they stopped traffic. they stopp

he's confident he can recapture more territories after the military takes control of several strategic cities over the weekend. president says he's ready to launch major too fast in donetsk and luhanz. there are international calls, including from u.s. senators for an election audit. both presidential candidates have made allegations of foul play in the polls. in our next hour, we are live in kabul for the latest. >> there are reports the rebel group the islamic state has forced more than 30,000 syrians from their homes, seizing an eastern town from an al-qaeda affiliate. iraqi officials are still trying to confirm the validity of this video. the man is believed to be the leader of the islamic state. he calls on sunni muslim to say rise to action and follow him. we are live in baghdad this morning. i understand you have some new reporting for us. >> that's, just as i was wait to go come on area, there's smoke rising in the background, we heard two large explosions, lots of police sirens. we've been hearing gunshots ring out. all of this happened in the last two or three minutes. i don't know

thirteen people including two children died in god of god during sunday's bombardment of the city as a strategic importance for the army providing a clear path to major flashpoints that you have done here the local residents account of what has been happening. what order it was a strike on the city most likely from grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shell fell into it there were a lot of customers there another fellow in a residential yard and another near the city's maternity home causing a lot of windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising this to the ground. self-defense forces meanwhile say they have gained control over the nearby town of. this video posted online is such a show and to government fighters some of them driving through the town in times ukraine's national guard was there area because taking over have thought would give care of control of a major highway connecting the two main conflict zones the danielle ski and we've gone through regions it's also an ar

thirteen people including two children that died and got up budgeting sunday's bombardment the city is obvious strategic importance will be providing a clear path to the major flashpoint city i'm done yet to marry again as a local resident account of what has been happening. we will go there was a strike on the city most likely from a grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shell fell onto it there were a lot of customers there another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. and these pictures are from lugansk which is also being relentlessly bombed or the latest assault claimed at least six lives and one thousand others were killed on saturday your local authorities say food and water supplies are running low because the city is located and this is the damage left by an atlanta shell which is. at a crowded bus stop a local told us how we don't have to look. almost. you know it is jus

thirteen people including two children died in got off guard during sunday's bombardment the city is our strategic importance for the army providing a clear path to the major flashpoint city after any of his local residents account of what has been happening. and will go out of order it was a strike on the city most likely from a grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shell fell on to it there were a lot of customers that another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. self-defense forces meanwhile say they have gained control of a nearby. ask this a video which they posted online is said to show and to government fighters driving through the town in tang's but others are saying on social media that these forces are still battling against the queen's that god taking over us are tossed go would give a queue of control of a major highway connecting the two main conflict zones the

said, is this proxy war and they're not after cities, even though they're going city by city, and very strategically started in iraq. they want to spread sharia law and their sunni influence. >> and that is the alleged picture of the leader there as you pointed out. they're in mosul giving a speech, you have to think of taking this guy at face value if that's what he wants to do. as bleak as the picture is, it is good to get that view of it. lisa, thank you very much. >>> a deadly terror attack in kenya. gunmen killed 22 people on the coast. it is the same place where militants linked to al qaeda took responsibility for killing 65 people last month. the attacks come as tensions rise over a planned mass protest by the opposition on monday to urge the government to address security concerns, the increasing cost of living and government corruption. >>> fox news can confirm that six jewish suspects have been arrested in the abduction and murder of a palestinian teenager in east jerusalem last week. police discovered the charred remains of the 16-year-old and police say it's a revenge killing. it's also

: from afghanistan tonight, word of taliban gains in what are described as several strategic areas near the capital city of kabul. this from the new york times. the newspaper says the taliban has moved beyond its traditional strongholds in rural areas and now controls territory near crucial highways close to kabul and in other strategic provinces. the newspaper says the recent gains cast doubt on the afghan army's ability to stave off the insurgents after nato forces leave. more troubling news about that ebola outbreak in west africa that has killed approximately 670 people. one of libera's top doctors who has been treating the disease has died of it. and an american doctor there has also been infected and is receiving intensive medical treatment. he is said to be in stable condition. and from genoa, italy tonight pictures of the shipwrecked costa concordia after tugboats pulled it into port. the cruise ship, which ran aground in january of 2012, killing 32 people, will be sold as scrap after a final search for the last missing victim-- a 33-year-old waiter. nissan is recalling another 226 thousand vehi

city. it is a long process that involves assessment and strategic planning and monitoring over a three 3-year period. they intend to have older adults and adults with disabilities involved in every step of the process. areas of assessment and planning will include housing, employment and transportation. hopefully it was expressed that this will also include efforts to enhance the community's willingness to employ the disabled who are chronically unemployed. there was no meeting in may. the council met on june 12th. a presentation from the mayor's office on housing community development was about changes of the san francisco housing administration and it's financial health. a fund for maintaining the building was created. services for residents will be included on-site. there was some concern about whether there will be enough for younger people with disabilities and also an update on the living fund. clf, services that help people in the community so they are not institutionalized. it did you tell -- does that at a very low cost. members asked supervisors for additional funds for the cls whic

city's ellis act evictions and whatnot. we need immediate specific and more strategic strategies, more efforts. [speaker not understood] activists and community members have endorsed an excellent action for solid first step in addressing the homeless crisis. we need to fund the homeless [speaker not understood] proposal. we need to halt preventable evictions and ensure tenants have equal access to counsel. we need to rapidly rehouse people through subsidies and nonprofit housing. we need to shorten our grotesquely long wait list and rehabilitate the housing authority's 200 vacant housing units. and we need to eliminate waiting lists for shelters. we have a lot we need to do. so, we need to continue the effort towards housing and homeless -- housing and homeless that the mayor has already pro supposed but we also need to make sure we allocate an additional $11 million toward reducing unnecessary evictions, and making housing truly affordable for low-income family. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon. my name is julia [speaker not understood]. i'm a san francisco native and

makes san francisco better and better for everyone our city must condition continue to have the spirit spirit of engagement i'm launching a strategic partnership of offices to work with organizations and nonprofits and the private sector to do more good for more people. in addition to creating more heirs for low and middle income residents i believe our housing is safe for families is one of the best investments we make. in this investment you'll see building on and a expanding the panhandles of hope sf but to get tens of thousands of homes built faster we have to reduce the blocks and that's why in my budget we're nrs building inspectors to cut through the red tape to finish those projects. i'm proud of your work with senator leno's to get the state help we must continue to do what we can locally to prevent people being forced out of their homes and that's why this budget will continue the funding as well as is successful right to civil go council private program but on our streets there's still too much people without a place to call home this includes new funding for veterans and families and traditional age youth as well as inv

insurgents beat the country but entire territory village sits on a strategic road from mosul the next several of the provinces the cityreally wanted to access to a benchmark lost soldiers have been able to clear bits of it but there are still clashes ongoing and that's what we're having right now. at the base commanders take us to an outpost overlooking an area controlled by militants this is the very first defensive position against the isis militants currently occupied just two kilometers that way every single day there's been sniper fire attempts by the hardest to enter this territory if they can push through the defensive position that they would potentially take your coop and move into the territories and that could be a massive battle just waiting to happen moments later we have to leave we just got word that the isis just might be moving forwards all the soldiers have been told to evacuate this area we're going to get out before things get intense we know that there was clashes last night and we don't want to be here about what and again it was apparent just how who would have conflicts this was the front lines

damaged in the intact but not for the first time in that area is of strategic importance for me which claims it has and circled the city here as a local residents account of what's been happening. what it was a strike on the city most likely from grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shelf loans which there were a lot of customers that another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing all the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. the u.s. state department has sent out e-mails with satellite images it says proves that russia has been firing across the border into ukraine washington's ambassador to kiev also put the pictures on twitter citing u.s. intelligence as the source according to washington the images show ukrainian military units have been fired on with heavy weapons which only russia could have used also denies the allegations the russian defense ministry says inspectors from various countries including america have been on the ground

the target of some towns and cities for their production capacities and others for their strategic locations. others simply happen to be any the wrong place at the wrong time, they certainly path of armies. most urban ruination was targeted, focusing on the manufacturing and business district, but of course fire cannot be controlled. fredericksburg, charleston, morebia, and atlanta lost than one third of their buildings both commercial and domestic as a result of union military strategies and occupation. confederate soldiers did their own share of burning. sometimes they destroyed their own cities as a defensive strategy. hampton, virginia, arts of atlanta, and most of richmond's business district got the torch as the confederates evacuated the cities, retreating before overwhelmingly large union army. the thought was that they would destroy their own war material before the union's inventing armies could get at it. the confederates also burned some towns and cities in the offensive maneuvers. during the 1862 and 1863 campaigns into maryland and pennsylvania, during cavalry raids on southern

the target of some towns and cities for their production capacities and others for their strategic locations. others simply happen to be any the wrong place at the wrong time, they certainly path of armies. most urban ruination was targeted, focusing on the manufacturing and business district, but of course fire cannot be controlled. fredericksburg, charleston, morebia, and atlanta lost than one third of their buildings both commercial and domestic as a result of union military strategies and occupation. confederate soldiers did their own share of burning. sometimes they destroyed their own cities as a defensive strategy. hampton, virginia, arts of atlanta, and most of richmond's business district got the torch as the confederates evacuated the cities, retreating before overwhelmingly large union army. the thought was that they would destroy their own war material before the union's inventing armies could get at it. the confederates also burned some towns and cities in the offensive maneuvers. during the 1862 and 1863 campaigns into maryland and pennsylvania, during cavalry raids on southern

were attacked as well not for the first time in that area itself strategic importance for kiev's army which claims it has and circled the city here's a local residents account of what's been happening. it was a strike on the city most likely from grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shelf alone to which there were a lot of customers that another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing all the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. or to stay with us here on r.t. international for the very latest updates on ukraine you can also get more news and analysis via our website ality dot com and still ahead a low income families getting kicked to the. people always and people can get a job we'll tell you how tenants in washington d.c. of being told to come up with more than eight hundred thousand dollars or evacuated their homes. this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motions to. your party there's a poll. shows that no one is ask

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the city of 1 million residents is extremely important in this economically and strategically crucialion. >> unarmed australian forces are also near that crash site and today, their prime minister said they will help european officials recover bodies from that flight. >> our objective is principally to recover the bodies. >> that's what the australian people expect of us. >> that's what grieving families around the world deserve. our intention under the auspices of local people is to take over the site, to ensure that the recovery of remains can go ahead and swiftly and as effectively as possible. >> 28 australians were on board when the plane was shot down more than a week ago. >>> over in boston, dozens of protesters gathered at the statehouse for an anti-immigration rally just yesterday. the demonstrators are upset by a decision from governor deval patrick to offer shelter to unaccompanied minors. in texas t they are dealing with migrants on a daily basis. in brooks county texas. >> a land rover in a gray 300. >> a dispatch call on a remote stretch of highway 70 miles north of the

ground assault be preceded by airstrikes against the enemy strategic facilities artillery and mortar teams now we know that a number of cities and villages in need to ukraine were shelled by ukrainian air force including blue gone so force the administration building in lugansk many civilian casualties there and just a few days ago the village of. near lugansk seven people were killed there including a five year old child now the stage story of this document says the area of the anti-terrorist kemp campaign she'll be made often. it's to foreign media and we know how scores of russian journalists have been have been barred from entering ukraine to cover the war in the east including our teacher at least and three russian journalists were killed there again we cannot independently verify the authenticity of this memorandum and whether the ukrainian government is actually following the advice of the rand corporation but much of what we see happening there seems to follow that plan all right thanks for bringing us up to speed on what we know so far so good a copy of part of what we think is this leak to dock in front of me as we

completed that final drafts the space and strategic plan for the museum space and finally, there's it's negotiating the term of a long-term lease with the city and county of san francisco today two grantss have been authorized under the former agency known as ocii and the mexican museum they're requesting a third disbursement in the amount of $1.3 million for continuance it's efforts those funds will be used for staffing and the consulting needs including the completion of the implementation and the administration of the capital campaign including hiring the council and the perplex of the strategic plan and business plan and completion of the basic concept design and the nutrition. under the proposed agreement 9 funding will be realtime 2, 3, 4 two bubbles the museum will account for the fund. the proposed agreement also clusz clutsdz included all the small business enterprise program. to date the museum has worked closely with the compliance staff to achieve the lbe participation of the total fees 59 of the firms are locally here and 44.5 percent a woman owned business entrepreneurs. after the funds are disbursed the remaining funds under t

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the city of one million residents is important in this economically and strategically crucial region. >> a solemn ceremony for the victims of the malaysia airlines flight mh17. the last of the remains arrived in the netherlands, and more than 200 forensic scientists are working to identify the bodies. words of praise from the ukraine president, petro porashenko, congratulated his troops for forcing pro-russian rebels. petro porashenko handed out rebels to members of the newly formed national guard. the fighting forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. barnaby phillips reports from donetsk. >> the people from donetsk are abandoning their city. they feared the war. boarding the train for kiev, some, like tania, don't want to live under separatist control. >> this came to our town, just to occupy the territory, just to take our business, and to spoil our life. i want to continue my business in different cities, and leave to have a future. outside donetsk, they are also on the move. only these people are fleeing the government army. what they say is indiscriminate shelling. this is

it would be a cue for the ukranian forces, a city of 1 million residents important in the economically and strategically crucial region. >>> breaking news for you on the gaza story. we have word from the reuters newsagency that hamas has agreed to a new 24 hour humanitarian truce in gaza, which is importantly due to start at 2:00 pm local. that is 1100 g.m. t or in 40 minutes time. that's what we are told. we are trying to confirm it with our people on the ground. if this that happens it would be a fresh humanitarian ceasefire for a period of 24 hours in gaza. we'll keep you posted with what happens with that. >> 54 people have been killed in benghazi. two power stations were targeted in the latest round of violence. rival groups have been fighting for control. the libyan government warned of a break up of the country as silence continues. >> two soldiers and 10 attackers have been killed in car bomb attacks. it took police on army checkpoints. officials say dozens of affiliated fighters were there. >>> three al jazeera journalist spent 211 days in an egyptian prison. last month mohamed fadel fahmy and

city of donetske. slovyansk also in the east of the country. the strategic part of the country has been under control of pro-russian separatists. turning point in the three month conflict. >>> al jazeera's scott heidler joins us live. now that the ukrainian forces have won slovyansk what exactly are they doing there? >> reporter: we just returned from slovyansk just in the last hour or two. what they're doing up there now is, actually there were officials from the interior ministry, convincing people they will get back to normal but it will take some time. we came through a couple of checkpoints that clearly saw very hard fought battles but one thing that was very interesting, on that road that comes south from where we are now and there are hundreds of are separatist fighters in this city now . there was olarge column of ukrainian army vehicles, vehicles soldiers as well as weapons. so obviously something is around the corner. they have moved on from slovyansk because now they gained control of the sphral ofl government. but the battle is what they are focu