live for us in istanbul, also in turkey, electricity supplies are slowly being restored after the worst power blackouts in 15 years. turkey's prime minister says all causes are being investigated. >> more on the top stories the declaration that has won nigerian's presidential election. the outgoing president has called him to congratulate him, let's go live now and al jazeera's and i guess very significant, that president good luck jonathon has called to congratulate his opposite number perhaps conceding that he has effectively lost this election what's been the reaction there. >> they are also saying wow. they can't believe that the government who was in power was democratically removed by the vote. this is a country that is not used to military coupes over the last couple of decades so they are like -- they are surprised but also surprised -- even more so also another surprise, another sigh of relief, people who are really concerned about violence. i can say at the moment we aren't hearing anything about any incidents at the moment, in fact, we have heard the total opposite. people ar

stops along the way to prevent the individuals from reaching isis territory. >> arwa damon for us in istanbulerhaps turning over a new leave. the turkish government. thank you. >>> new developments in the shooting of two police officers in the protests in ferguson, missouri last week. jeffery williams is charged with two counts of first degree assault. officials say they caught him with help from the community and williams said he was not trying to hit the two police officers. he claims apparently, he was aiming at a demonstrator. cnn's stephanie elam has more. >> reporter: 20-year-old gel jeffery williams was the man who shot outside the ferguson police department. he accidentally shot the two police officers. here is what else he had to say. >> the charge is assault in the first degree for striking the officers. a weapon recovered which has been tied to the shell casings that were recovered there. weapon recovered from him. he has acknowledged his participation in firing the shots. >> reporter: the prosecutor says that will will was a known protester in front of the ferguson police departme

bernard smith reporting for us there in istanbul >>> also in turkey electricity supplies are slowly being restored after the worst power blackout for 15 years. istanbul and the capital were among the areas hit and public transport systems shut down. the reports suggest a transmission line in the agean region is to blame >>> the iraq prime minister says forces have reached the center of tikrit and are now in control of the main hospital and government headquarters. tikrit was seized last june by isil fighters as they seized territory across northern iraq. >>> in syria, isil fighters have killed 30 people including women and children. fighters carried out a raid on the regime-held village of hana. people were burned beheaded and shot. syrian state television says government forces blocked the attack and did not report any casualties >>> a donor's conference in kuwait has pledged nearly $2 billion to ease the humanitarian crisis in syria. the united nations had appealed for $8 billion from eight nations to help in the catastrophe in syria. >>reporter: this means syria's war is nowhere near o

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. >> turkish authorities detained the teenagers when they received in istanbul. with uster: the reason why there was so much criticism, you probably remember a few weeks ago three teenage school girls, two 15 year olds and 16 year old landed in turkey and spent two days there before they crossed over into syria and they are now believed to be in the isis stronghold of raqqa. there's been a lot of criticism but it seems in this case of the three teenage boys, better communication. as soon as we went missing, british police contacted turkey counterparts and that's why they were able to quickly arrest them they have now been released on bail. and they do have to come back in for questioning in about a month's time. but one of the questions that we'll be looking at as to why these -- if these teenage boys will be treated differently than the teenage girls who are already in isis-controlled territory. but the police say they will not be prosecuted. >> interesting in how they treat kids basically is the issue right now. thanks so much for being with us. >>> ahead for us at thi

us more about the power cut. >> i'm in a shared taxi. it's impossible to get individual taxis. the public transport network has gone down. that is one of the ways istanbul and the country uses the power. shopping malls, homes, factories, all down. when the power was cut mid-morning today. it's not exactly known what caused the incident. the prime minister says it may be down to a line connecting mainland turkey and europe. they were investigating a cyber attack or terror attack but at the moment there's no indication that has been the case. we are getting information 15% of istanbul has power restored. in the meantime flights have been delayed. >> if power has been restored that is positive if that's the case. would that indicate it's not a deliberate attack? what sort of back-up is there, do we know. >> reporter: we don't know. a back up system has swung into place. whether that could negate the reason for it. at the moment the website has been down much of the morning, phone lines and information scarce. authorities were taken by surprise. turkey suffers sporadically from cuts, this nationwide power outage seems to affect 40 provinces in turkey is unp

in a hijacked bus police used force to stop it. later in the day, mass protesters attacked a police station. >>> the city first known as constantinople and now istanbul is working to transform. little is being done to stop it. >>reporter: it's a shop from a bygone anal pay age paying bygone rent. just under $200,000 a month. the shop could fetch more than $20,000 a month on the open market. he says he's being forced out. >> they say you will go. >>reporter: this is the shop. we've been here for the past 80 years. everyone knows us here at 125 c. if i leave here where will my customers find me? how can i rent a new place and set up a new shop? costs are so high you burn your hands. >>reporter: his landlord is taking advantage of a new law that means tenants tenants of ten years or more can be evicted without reason. >> this is the heart of the city and is now shaped by -- spent lots of money and moved to shopping malls. >>reporter: this former cinema is next to a new and controversial shopping mall. a few blocks away another istanbul district is being renovated. home to some of the city's poorest people is almost all in ruins. talibashi is just part o

in the battle against isis. richard engel joins us live from istanbul turkey. ates find itself aligned with iran in iraq but yet against iran in yemen here. break down the complexity especially when it seems it contradicts the alliance. >> reporter: it is actually more contradictory than that because in syria you have the u.s. fighting both with iran and against iran in the same country. so there's an incredibly convoluted dynamic under way now where the u.s. is negotiating on one hand that's probably the biggest story right now that the u.s. is negotiating in switzerland to come up with some sort of comprehensive deal with iran which would see iran put brakes on the nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions. while we are negotiating in one country, we are fighting or supporting a fight against iran in yemen, the fight that's now led by saudi arabia. we are fighting both with and against iran in syria and fighting with iran in iraq. so there are many people who i have spoken to many in the military, many policy analysts who say what we are seeing here is

the young men were detained in istanbul and quickly return to the uk where they're being held on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks. nbc's bill neely joins us tonight from erbil, iraq. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, peter. two 17-year-old boys from london and a 19-year-old british man were detained in istanbul after a tipoff from britain that they were planning to go to syria to join isis. they were deported back to the uk yesterday where they were arrested by british police on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism that police would really like to know a lot more about the network that recruited them. so far none of them has been charged, but this comes weeks after three other british teens, two 15-year-old girls and a 16-year-old girl left their homes in london went to istanbul. they were pictured on cttv on a london airport. also in istanbul boarding a bus for the syrian border. it is now thought they are with isis in raqqa. nobody stopped them. there was a huge row between british and turkish police about who was responsible for that. they're still missing. their families are distraught. but in the case of the three boy, the

in the election campaign as we near that polling date. >> diplomatic editor updating us from switzerland there. three british teenagers arrested after stopped from joining the war in syria and they were intercepted at istanbulport in turkey and flown back to london where police talk to them on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. fighting forced palestinian refugees in exile and most moved to laboring lebanon to join tens of thousands already there and dana reports on the tight restrictions they are under. >> reporter: she is too old to take care of her mentally challenged daughters but she has no other choice. there are palestinian refugees who came to lebanon when they neighborhood in damascus became a battleground two years ago. they say they are barely coping with the little help they get and alone when the oldest daughter died from lung infection. >> translator: no one was next to me to help her, she died in my arms and no one came in time to bring her a doctor. >> reporter: she and her daughters live in the largest palestinian refugee camp in lebanon is over crowded and people are poor now they are sharing this space with thousands of palestinians who escaped the war in syria. >> translator: we have

in this vision of the future. bernard smith, al jazeera istanbul. >> that brings us to the end of this news our back with another full bulletin of news. stay with us. >> tonight. you know his music but what about the man? >> i was given a gift. >> up close and personal. behind the scenes of the biggest hits... >> she was a troubled girl. >> brightest stars... >> kids don't want to "own", they just want to "play". >> and the future of music. >> the record business is in trouble. >> every sunday night, >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. tonight, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> saudi arabia continues to pound houthi targets in yemen and said it destroyed all of the group's airplanes. hello, welcome you to al jazeera. live from our headquarters in doha, also ahead people head back to the polls in nigeria after a technical glitch extends voting. negotiations between the u.s. and iran over tehran's nuclear program enter the final stretch. >> split between two continent

in yemen. nbc's chief correspondent richard engel joins us from istanbul.s breaking news that a ground offense by saudi arabia and egypt seem imminent. >> reporter: well, it is a threat that is coming from saudi arabia that is combined with action that is already taken. there has been for the last several months an internal conflict in yemen with the iranianbacked rebel movement taking on the u.s. and saudi saudi-backed yemeni government. the rebel movement again, backed by iran has been having the upper hand has the government on the run and then we saw a dramatic escalation in the overnight hours here in the -- in the islamic world in the middle east with saudi arabia mobilizing its armed forces, sending tens of thousands of troops to its border. a saudi official told nbc news that this operation, which is now mostly just to reinforce the border involves around 150,000 saudi ground troops and then saudi arabia began air strikes attacking rebel positions in what had been government-controlled positions, and now egypt also says it is sending warships to hel

in what was once the commercial capitol. >> we're voined by the vice president of the syrian national coalition joining us live from istanbul heard the united nations has failed to protect civilians. where do you think the blame lies for the fact that the war in syria is now entering its fifth year. >> first of all, good evening for you. i would like first of all, i would like to say the medical report issued by the doctors without borders have a mission that the international community did not care about the syrians. really what they said touch our feelings, because that is going on every day. every day we suffer from killing and the international community issues a lot of security council resolution, but none of them has been achieved or implemented. so we have bigger question mark on that. we would like what -- what the stated in that -- the resolutions to be achieved. to solve the problems in syria and survive our people there. >> okay. let's talk about what it will take tend to this conflict. it was recently said that president assad leaving power is no longer a precondition for talks. that seems to be a pretty big cha

let's go to arwa damon, live in istanbul for us. i think it's ben weidman. ben, what's the latest?re about 1 mile to the east of tikrit. just about an hour or so ago here there were a lot of troops firing rockets in the direction of tikrit. what we saw was the entire force has moved forward. the goal today is to retake the town just on the outskirts of tikrit. with the taking of the town they believe they will now have tikrit completely surrounded. it's just a matter of days the commanders here tell us before they can retake the city. while we were here we had the opportunity to talk to the head of the organization. he said yes there's no -- we're hiding nothing we have help from iran in the form of advisors and some leadership on the ground providing guidance. he insisted, he stressed this is purely an iraqi operation, they're receiving assistance from the iranians but being fought and led by the iraqis. he also had harsh words for the united states saying their assistance has not amounted to what people were hoping for and he said at this point, the iraqis iraqis with a little he

in the world. and abc's martha raddatz is just back from the syrian border not far from where jihadi john is supposedly hiding. she joins us from istanbul, turkey. what are the odds of finding this guy? >> reporter: well, the real problem, dan, is we don't really have any intelligence assets on the ground in syria. nothing. we have the drones. we have the reconnaissance aircraft. we have surveillance. as brian said, jihadi john practices operational security. he doesn't use a cell phone. he doesn't use a satellite phone. unless you get somebody infiltrating, it will be hard to find him. on the other hand officials i have talked to say, eventually, we'll find him. i don't know how. they seem somewhat optimistic that eventually they'll find him. >> let me ask a bigger picture question. you have just been to the syrian border. near the town of kobani. where a major battle was fought with isis. what did you conclude about how difficult it will be to take this group on and perhaps take them down militarily? >> reporter: it's quite stunning. you look over the border and you can see kobani. there's so much destruction. you think, they took it

used the energy from people's footsteps to repower the eiffel tower. paris is due to host the u.n.'s climate change summit in september. global deal to limit carbon emissions. >>> the city of istanbul also went dark acknowledge 1500 institutions taking part in the campaign. people lit cannedless to observe the hour. this was the scene in -- candles to observe the hour. >>> to raise awareness for climate change. >>> dozens of kite enthusiasts have taken part in the celebration of the japanese cherry trees. the festival will run until april 12th. night. >>> hello, i'm ray suarez, good news, a local billionaire wants to keep your sports franchise in town. there's a hitch - he wants you and your neighbours to find the bill for the shiny new luxury boxes and expressway exit and doesn't want to pay much rent. may not sound like a great deal, but over and over cities are muscled into municipally funded sports facilities over threat of

in istanbul. a british counterterrorism officer says police have tried to reach out to the girls using the turkishmedia and social media to persuade them to go home. the girls' parents have also publicly pleaded for them to return home. >>> isis has reportedly released 19 assyrian christian hostages. the syrian observatory for human rights says all but one of the hostages are part of a group kidnapped during isis attacks on villages in northern syria just last week. the fate of the remaining hostages more than 200, is not clear. the human rights group says almost 2,000 people have been executed by isis since last june. >>> jordan's king abdullah has called for a strong response against isis since the horrific murder of a jordanian pilot. his country of shot boy the kill -- shocked by the killing of the king by the group. >> this is the first time you're speaking to the world since the death of the jordanian pilot in that brutal video. tell us what was your reaction when you first saw the video. >> well in actual fact i didn't see the video. and i -- many of us refused to what i think is propaganda

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us in ferguson. >>> two british teens accused of trying to join isis back home and out on bail. they were apprehended in istanbulman mohyeldin -- is here in new york with a breakdown on this story. >> british authorities have identified the three teenagers. two 17-year-olds and a 19-year-old who they believe was from northwest london trying to make their way to syria. in the past. the teenagers have been trying to fly to istanbul. and in this case they flew to spain and then turkish authorities stopped them and returned them back to london. this is the second high-profile case of teenagers trying to make their way to turkey. there was obviously the case of the three teen-ager girls. but they made their way into isis controlled territory. in this case there was surk ses because -- success because they were identified and they were able to arrest them and return them to the united kingdom. but the appeal of isis is very strong. a big part of that has to do with the propaganda is multilingual and they have an aggressive presence on social media and trying to exploit the use of media to get them to the battlefield.

us. >> also in turkey, we want to tell you about electricity supplies slowly being restored after the worst power blackout for 15 years. istanbul and the capitol were hit and public transport systems shut down. early reports suggest a fault with a transmission line in the agean region is to blame. >> tuesday's deadline is about to expire. more than 40 countries have signed up to join the bank. it's seen as a challenge to the world bank and monetary fund heavily influenced by the united states. the u.k. and rising asian powers are among the new bank's members. brazil russia and germany applied for membership, as well. the bank's designed to target infrastructure projects that are not funded by the i.m.f. and world bank. it hopes to fill a funding gap of $800 billion a year, but the says the initiative will fall far short of international banking standards. in a moment, we'll hear the view from jakarta and beijing but first from washington. >> the chinese initiative is not seen as least officially as a competitive threat. the american president of the bank says it's already in deep discussions about cooperating on infrastructure

us. >>> breaking news to bring you out of istanbul and turkey. turkish news agencies say a band group has taken the chief prosecutor hostage in his office inside a istanbul. he is the prosecutor investigating the death of a teenager who was hit by police gas canister during the nationwide antigovernment protests we saw back in 2013. a dramatic scene at the courthouse. police have eptntered the building and the courthouse has been evacuated. as soon as we have more details, we will bring them to you. >>> time to catch up with business. aaron is with us. we are waiting if the final states to declare in nigeria. implications. >> massive economy with lots of problems. whoever wins a lot of hard work. hello there. let me explain this. we don't have the full results as we have been explaining yet. early signs from the election shows the ex-military leader has a slight lead on the incumbent president, goodluck jonathan. nigeria has been one of the world's fastest growing economies the past 15 years. the country is certainly facing tough times ahead of it. whoever wins the election will have their work cut out for them. going back to the oil, it's the b

in this vision of the future. bernard smith, al jazeera, istanbul >>> we have another full bulletin of news coming up. stay with us tonight. you know his music but what about the man? >> i was given a gift. >> up close and personal. behind the scenes of the biggest hits... >> she was a troubled girl. >> brightest stars... >> kids don't want to "own", they just want to "play". >> and the future of music. >> the record business is in trouble. >> every sunday night, >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. tonight, 6:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >>> joining forces the arab league announces a unified military force to tackle threats in the region. hello, you're watching al jazeera. i'm jane dutton live from doha. also coming up in the next 30 minutes, a march in solidarity about the victims of a deadly attack in the museum. nigerians get an extra day to vote after the elections were extended because of technical

a few minutes walk away, another istanbul district is being renovated, home to some of the city's poorest people, it was almost in ruins. >> the local council tells use it has to strike a fine balance between preserving the culture and history of an area and creating a modern living environment. it is part of $100 billion that the national government is spending on infrastructure projects in istanbul. >> istanbul's former mayor and now turkish president is the driving force behind an ambitious scheme to turn the city of 15 million people into a modern global metropolis. some including ilia, will struggle to find a place in this vision of the future. al jazeera istanbul. >> today's top stories straight here on al jazeera. see you in just a moment. he ♪ >>> they are calling it the final push. iraqi countries edge closer to taking tikrit back from isil. nigerians get another chance to have their

the rebels launched a new offensive in the country president obama once hailed as a model for fighting the war on terror. richard engel joins us live from istanbul turkey. richard, you have been reporting on this all weekend as well as today. this coalition, arab coalition formed as you reported out of distrust potentially of the negotiations with iran. >> reporter: there was a lot of frustration in the arab world now, in the sunni world. people are watching the administration's policy vis-a-vis iran they're confused by it angry because of it. they think the u.s. is accommodating iran by negotiating, by allowing iranian militia to operate with a freehand in iraq giving the militia air support in the case of tikrit by supporting iran on one hand in syria and fighting iran on the other hand also in syria, countries like saudi arabia and egypt say that they have to form their own military alliance because washington effectively can't be trusted to play a fair game and to contain iran. that's on the political front. i think that's why you saw the arab states in egypt over the weekend come out, form their own alliance form their own standing arab arm

in istanbul. arwa turkey has been criticized for not stopping people trying to join isis. >> reporter: it has. turkey has said you can't just blame us. europe needs to do its part as well. is pointing to how the events over the last few days unfolded as an example of how things work. when the british intelligence provided us with information, we acted on it immediately. we were able to capture the three teenagers at the secondary airport trying to cross into the country. we detained and deported them. turkey says europe is not sharing enough information. turkey has compiled what is called a pool list. these are various different names from different countries and nationalities that have been brought to the attention of turkish authorities. anyone on the list is barred from entry into the country. the names on the list have increased which turkey has says is in part due to greater intelligence cooperation. at the end of the day, there needs to be more that is done. when it comes to the case of the three teenage girls, john if you remember that were able to make it into syria, turkey says if they were alerted about this earlier, perha

in istanbul. richard, what can you tell us about this effort to take back tikrit led by iraqi forces? >> i think led by iraqi rs tos but you have to look at the makeup of the iraqi forces to understand what's going on. they are some iraqi army there is a large portion of a relatively new group, described as the m shaabi popular mobilization forces. that's how you translate it. it is a shiite militia with close ties to iran and there are some sunni arab fighters. you some -- three very different groups. all three groups that are united more or less with the objective of destroying isis and pushing them out. but the sunni arabs and the shiite militias do not have the same kind of goal, longer term goals for iraq and there are real concerns if the shiite militias do enter tikrit they could commit some human rights abuses as they shiite militias have done in other sunni areas that they have quote, unquote, liberated. the offensive is none the less continuing. s with irstrikes taking place on the si of tikrit and troops more or less with the shiite militias on the outskirts of tikrit. they

us it has to strike a balance between preserving the culture and history of an area and creating a modern environment. talabashi is part of $100 billion that the government is spending on infrastructure in istanbul. istanbul's former mayor and turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan is the driving force behind an ambitious scheme to turn the ski of 15 million people into a modern global metropolis. some including ilia will struggle to find a place in this vision of the future >>> after her 14 second victory in her last fight undefeated u.f.c. champion rhonda is becoming a big sport star. bringing mixed martial arts she and her sport are inspiring women, including in malaysia where we are introduced to the first successful female muslim caged fighter >> reporter: is mixed martial arts too violent for women. don't argue with anosmon about it as -- ann osmon about it. she's smashing stereotypes as malaysia's first successful female cage fighter. >> people say she's just an eye candy for the show. that hurts. >> the 28-year-old earned her share of critics, a country known for religious conservatism. >> i may not be the perfect muslim but i try my best and, you know sometimes to me what i do is just

used to watch "keeping up with the kardashians" and stuff like that. there was nothing that indicated that she was radicalized in any way in our home. >> the girls boarded a plane from london to istanbulfebruary 17th. they're believed to have crossed the turkish border into syria within a few days. turkey has been under enormous pressure to try to clamp down on isis fighters crossing into syria. our senior international correspondent arwa damon has this part of the story. >> reporter: four years now the porous turkish/syria border has been a well-traveled highway for refugees fleeing the violence and fighters intent on joining the complex battlefield. and turkey has long been accused of turning a blind eye to the flow of jihadis and their weapons. allegations ankara has consistently denied. in late 2013 cnn was taken by a smuggler along the route he used to one of the illegal crossing points. he claimed to have shipped hundreds of fighters across in just a few months many to join al qaeda-linked groups. under increased international pressure and as isis gained in notoriety and power, turkey has tried to crack down. at airports across the country, additional screening measures have bee

istanbul. we've had cases where isis recruited people to fly from barcelona. there are moroccans who go into spain to go to isis and use barcelona. >> the white house in their statementerrorism, but, peter you're very familiar with how these investigations go. and remind our viewers -- i don't want to cast dispersions on the pilot or pilots -- they're looking at the backgrounds of both right? >> absolutely. when you have an event like this, you dig into the background of the pilots. it's not unheard of that pilots occasionally do irrational things. and they will check and see if they had any financial difficulties, any psychological challenges that had revealed themselves prior to the accident. they're going to look at every option. >> i remember you i believe were part of the team that investigated that egypt air crash, right? >> we looked at egypt air in which the co-pilot flew the plane into the ocean on purpose. >> you concluded after all your evidence this was suicide by the co-pilot. >> yes, we did. that was not the first time. there was also a silk air in accident in the '90s where we saw suicide. >> it's so mysterious in the final six or seven minutes or so t

virtual war on us will cause a real war on you, according to state tv a new offense everybody is under way to flush isis out of saddam hussein's hometown tikrit. we go to richard engel in istanbul turkey. explain the credible threats, how much credibility is there that these are related to isis terror groups and how can law enforcement respond? >> reporter: it's hard to know from information that i have how credible they are. they have apparently come from accounts that have been used by isis or isis supporters in the past, whether isis is in the position to make good on these threats is unclear but what we've seen since isis began, isis taking social media very seriously. it's become the main tool that the group uses to bring in recruits to december sem nature its videos and what we haven't seen as much very quickly after isis puts out these sites, the companies take them down. it's a game of cat and mouse. they post them and twitter takes them down and isis supporters post them to a different account, sometimes they'll create an account and just do one tweet with it. and twitter has been chasing after them. obviously this is frustrating isis and gets in the way of their propa

use the word deliberately. a trip that she and i made it to istanbul when we were talking to a french diplomat that was the time of gary hart's running for president and getting in sorts of trouble because of personal activities and we were chanting about it and he said to me we don't understand why you're making such a big deal about who gary hart has sex with. our prime minister has a very complicated personal life. compared to the first amendment law france has the more complicated law with respect to this area as the last presentation makes it clear it is a country that the leaves and treasures the freedom of speech in the limitations on the speech of certain sorts that we do and sometimes those limitations make for very difficult decision-making. after world war ii france passed legislation basically abolishing all the legislation and reinstating in 1939 the law that prohibited the racist and anti-semitic speech. it did that for obvious reasons. france is one of many european countries that makes it illegal to engage in the denial of the holocaust. french law basically distinguishes and i'm reading here because it is so difficult and complicated to draw the