Pakistani police say they have shot dead the leader of the banned group which is behind hundreds of killings in the country. He was killed in a shootout with Security Forces in the punjab region, 13 others killed. Including two of his sons, his group is on the list of terrorist organizations in many countries, including the u. S. , britain, indian and russia. The group has claimed responsibilities for many attacks on shia muslims. He was accused of plotting the 2009 attack on the slow lan can cricket team. He has faced several murder trials but has always been a quitted after witnesses refuse says to testify. We can talk to the author and pakistani analyst joining us from islambad. How significant then is the deniesdemise of the leader of this group. Will it mean that the group will now founder . Yeah, it means quite a big as far as this development is concerned, you can see it from two ways, one is, of course, the personality of him he was the leader as you have told and also the part
One man has been killed as over 1,000 migrants storm the channel tunnel in calais but first turkish jets have been bombing kurdish fighters in the mountains of southeastern turkey. This will be the first time in this offensive that the kurdistan workers party, or the p. K. K. Have been attacked inside a county. Previously theyve been targeted inside iraq. Now n. A. T. O. Says it backs turkeys fight against i. S. I. L. But urged it not to abandon the Peace Process with the kurds. Bernard smith has more now. Reporter turkish f16 fighter jets dont have too far to fly to hit new targets i. S. I. L. Over the border. This was last week. They dont have further to go to target an old enemy many kurds are angry and frustrated that the turkish government seems to equate the threat from i. S. I. L. With the threat from the p. K. K. Here, a mainly kurdish city, in southeastern turkey, representatives from more than 18 nongovernmental organizations have been meeting. They are working out a joint re
Dropped an atomic bomb on at the end of the second world war. He is not expected to offer an apology, so what will he offer . Good to have you with us. To sin, to slim, after decades of downsizing, germany has announced plans to expand its armed forces. It is a paradigm shift, 25 years after the end of the cold war. Back in 1990, germany had 600,000 soldiers in the armed forces. Today, they are just shy of 180,000 left as a result of a strategic shift toward a lean, tech savvy and mobile, modern army. They were significant cuts at the same time. The military commitment abroad has grown, around 3400 german soldiers are currently deployed in more than a dozen conflict regions around the world. We are talking about afghanistan to iraq, to the balkans and to south sudan in africa. Germanys defense minister wants to add another 14,000 soldiers and 4000 civilian personnel. Not everyone here has welcomed the plans. Reporter the defense minister visited nato maneuvers in poland. New challenges
A Kenyan University where alshabab killed nearly 150 students reopens amid tight security. North korea says it has detonated a Hydrogen Bomb. The u. N. Body which monitors Nuclear Testing has described it as a grave threat to peace. An emergency has been called of the u. N. Security council. Now, this test was announced on north korean television. Translation we will not give up a Nuclear Program as long as u. S. Man obtains its stance of aggression adrian brown is in beijing and has this report reporter a short time ago the Foreign Ministry here in beijing gave a briefing to foreign news journalists and it was quite interesting, the rebuke they issued to north korea was actually quite mild. They anticipated to north korea to assess its provocative action and urged north korea to return to the sixparty talks. Now, china, of course, is about the only friend that north korea has right now. They have, in the past been idea logical allies, but there have been deep strains in that relations
Democratic rights. In the fight against i. S. I. L. The battle for kobane is gaining momentum now that kurdish peshawar forces have arrived. People watched and cheered as war planes flew over kobane, loud booms echoing, black smoke billioing over the area. Al jazeeras jamal reports from the turkish side of the border. We are a few kilometres away from kobane, where the sound of shelling and fighting persisted throughout saturday. Behind me is an interferes, miratelik, where the kurdish peshawar forces crossed over on friday into saturday, bringing reinforcements for the Syrian Kurdish fighters that have been combatting i. S. I. L. The peshawar forces when they entered stationed themselves in the western part of the city. They brought with them the semipickup trucks carrying heavy weaponry like antiaircraft guns and rocket launchers, bazookas, and tonight. These are weaponries that the forces require from the army, and they had been calling for several weeks to say that they needed to s