karim wasfi: this is the only approach to resolving this agreement. this is the only way to resolve disagreement. it is an endless killing machine. doubts, yes. but i overcome those doubts with hard work. am i hopeful? i don't want to comment on that. reporter: an evening game of dominos and lively discussion in a local cafÉ. wasfi tells us that iraqis are simple people and don't need much to feel satisfied. he asks us why iraqis should have to constantly fear for their lives. he rejects accusations that he's naive. he says he's escaped 33 bombings. karim wasfi: a bomb is made to explode. so it's becoming what it is when it explodes. so escaping or avoiding or not being within the perimeter of such an event, i thought had a meaning and still does. reporter: he says people could surrender to the terror, and that's an obvious concern in baghdad. his message -- it's possible to choose differently, for culture, music, and life. kate: well, as karim wasfi shows, the smallest gestures often have the biggest impact. to beat global warming, we're going to nee

on thursday a rocket wasfied at an egyptian naval vessel. an armed group in egypt's sinai peninsula said that it launched the missiles. it came two weeks after a major battle between the egyptian army and the self-named sinai province, which killed 100 people. but the violence has spread to egypt's capital. a car bomb hit and last week a car bomb hit the italian consolate in cairo. several activists have been jailed but the instability and violence continue. al jazeera. >> fighting continues in aden. gun battles have been taking place between saudi backed yemeni fighters and houthi rebels in the city streets. al jazeera's correspondents in aden said that 5 fighters have been killed in the mountains of taiz. a local armed resistence group said that they managed to stop infiltration to areas in the north of the city. >>> and dozens of houthis have been captured in yemen's province. a local group said that they launched an attack where the houthis were holed up. >>> syrian state tv has shown footage of bashar al-assad visiting a mosque in damas