♪ 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 and parcel of the defunct organization. [ inaudible ] he was banned in 2001 but still it is working in different names whether you name it. [ inaudible ] or other different organizations. so the killing of a big name say big development as far as pakistani activities are concerned against terrorism. he was also known to have associations with district al qaeda elements. so both ways you can see his associations with the terrorist outfit and all the sectarian chillings, he was accused to be involved in the killings in 2013 and later in the 2014. against the shia minorities. but on the other hand, it also indicates the resolve the government of pakistan, particularly after the operations started and also the army public school attack. and after that, the government had come up with national action plan. and this is a part of this activity that is going on. by the way, he was given bail in 2011 and later on he was put under house arrest on the pretext of the peace ordinance that is use there had to put such element under restrains so he was already under restraint. >> you have highlighted the fact that he was a very influence small figure but does it mean that his group will continue with its work particularly in targeting of pakistan shia community? >> will, of course this is a big dents he was their leader and this is a big dents on their organizational activities. we still have it see because it's just a developing story. we haven't heard anything from them as yet. but they may strike back. they may regroup. they maya tack against the shia elements in different part of pakistan and they may also hit back on the security agencies, but jerk it's a big dent and we have to see that how do they reemerge and regroup themselves after him. no other name has been mentioned as his deputy to lead this organization as yet. >> okay. thank you very much indeed for talking to us live from islambad. now, turkish jets have been bombing kurdish fighters in the southeast of the country. this is the first time in this currents offensive that p.k.k. fighters have been attacked inside turkey. previously they have been targeted inside iraq. on tuesday nato said it backed turkey's fight against isil but urged it not to abandon the peace process with the kurds. bernard smith has more now from the kurdish majority city. >> reporter: turkish f-16 fighter jets don't have too far to flight to hit their any tearing he had of ice nil syria. this was last week. they don't have much further to go to target an olden my positions of the kurdish separatist p.k. in northern iraq. many kurds are angry and frustrated that the turkish government is equating the threat from isil to a thread to the p.k.k. here that i mainly kurdish city. representatives from more than 18 nongovernmental organizations have been meeting. they are work out a joint response to what they fear is a threat to the already fragile peace process between the p.k.k. and the government. >> translator: we tall on to the people the kurds and the people of turkey, to show solidarity. the only way of doing this is to stand up against these policies. >> reporter: only last month most of these people were celebrating the success of the pro-kurdish h.d.p. within 80 seats in parliament for the first time. now turkey's president wants to lift the immunity of mps suspected of being linked with what he calls terror groupings the erdogan is questioning whether talks with the p.k.k. can carry on. >> translator: i don't think it's possible to continue a peace process with those who take aim at our national security and brotherhood in this country. >> reporter: erdogan says that having embarked on an offensive against terrorism turkey won't be backing off. neither the p.k.k. nor the government have officially said that the peace process is over. but it's never looked more fragile. one newly elected pro-kurdish m.p. has told us the reason the p.k.k. has launch aid major offensive against the government is because they still hope talks can work. bernard smith, al jazerra. syrian rebel have his taken control of the western countryside near the city of idlib. they have been attacking and advancing towards the area since monday. and in the rural parts of western at least 12 people were kid in government shelling. now, an emergency meeting due to to be held in london later today that's wednesday about the migrants trying to storm the tunnel that connects britain and france. one man has been found dead after 1500 me grant tried to enter the euro tunnel terminal at the friend of port town of calais overnight. and on monday night, 2,000 migrants tried to enter the site. thousands of migrants are camped out in calais hoping to get in to the u.k. the british prime minister david cameron has call the situation in calais very concerning. >> we are working very closely with the friend. the home secretary met yesterday with the french dwriern your minister, we have invested money in the fencing around cal lay and putting money in to the other fencing. we are doing everything that we can. the home second will be chairing a meeting this morning making sure that everything can be done to work with the french is being done. and a navy vessel carrying 450 rescued migrants has arrived in the italian city of messina. they are just some of the 46,000 people the u.n. says have tried to cross the mediterranean so far this year, most of them are running away from violence and poverty in africa and the middle east. israel's parliament is due to vote on a bill that would legalize force feed of course prisoners on hunger strike. u.n. human rights experts have urge the them to reject the law calling the practice cruel. stefanie dekker now explains. >> reporter: it was 35 year old ago but he still remembers exactly what it felt like. >> translator: they tied me down and brought all tube and shoved it down nigh nose and push i felt nick head exploding down to my stomach. there is nothing you can do to resist. our stomachs were empty. it hurt, then they did it again. >> reporter: he was part of a communal hunger strike in israel's prison in 1980. protesting against prison conditions some were force fed and two men died because liquid got in to their lungs. that was the last known case of force feet but that could now change. force feeding is a hugely controversial issue but could become law if it gets enough votes in the israeli parliament supporters of the bill have moderated its language to try to get to it pass. but crucially it faces strong opposition from israel's medical community. this is a social media campaign by physicians for human rights, these doctors say they will never execute any law which tells them to force feed prisoners. he is one of them. >> the discussion in the parliament should not be weather toyota save live or not. the discussion should not be whether it's dangerous or not. the discussion should be whether it's ethical. whether you can demand from a physician to do something which is completely against his belief against his religion, against his medical ethics. >> reporter: we put that to part of the team draft the bill. >> translator: our law is not about force feeding but about medical treatment. we wanted to be provided as necessary. it will be at the doctor's discretion. we will not force the hand of any doctor. therebuy we tell notice begin with force feeding but lighter treatment. if they need to force feed it's only after the medical conclusion that it will save the patient's life. >> reporter: but no prison has ever died from hunger strike in israel. he says there will be little prisoners can do if it becomes law and they are force fed. >> translator: to have to take it, they have to be patient. resistence has so many facets don't being peck percent frit enemy. it has been 35 year old and five days since then of he says force feed is not about saving lives but about breaking spirits and from as he has managed put those days behind him for others they could soon become a very real and legal future, steph if i decker al jazerra west jerusalem. still to come on al jazerra. >> reporter: chaos in the streets. i am in el salvador with gangs has killed a hazardous en bus drivers disrupting transport and spreading fear. hopes for those that disappeared during co bomb leah's conflict has they await the excavation i've mass grave. ♪ ♪ held going, i am martin dennis and these are the top stories here in al jazerra. pakistani police say they have shot dead the lead he go of a banned group that's carried out many attacks on shia muslims he had faced several murder trials but was always acquitted as witnessed refuse today testify. turkish jets have targeted kurdish fighters in southeast of the country it's the first time in this offensive that p.k.k. fight verse been attacked inside turkey. nato says it backs turkey's identifies against isil but urged it not ban done the peace process with the kurds. the british home secretary will chair an emergency meeting over the migrants trying to storm the tunnel connecting britain and france. french police say one man has been found dead as 1500 migrants try to enter the euro tunnel overnight. the bangladesh i supreme court has upheld the death sentence giving to an opposition. he was found guilty two years ago of abducting and killing hindus during the 1971 war of independence. a report now from the cap 256789 for a man that used to be i trusted and powerful adviser to a minister it's been a hard fall from grace. he was sentence today death in 2013 for helping the pakistani army during bangladesh's war of independence. but those defending him say the charges are all about politics. >> pakistan army killing the men if that is so, how he was elected several times in the parliament by par lahr vote. >> reporter: the 1971 war was brief but brutal. several people that collaborate with the the pakistani army are accused of orchestrating mass murders and mass rapes, it wasn't until 2010 that the war crimes trials began. but most of those chargessed are senior leaders of opposition parties, their supporters have clashed violently with police, claiming the trials are a way to get rid of the government's enemies. hundreds of opposition activists have been killed since thousands have been jailed. but the trial has it's a own vocal set of supporters. >> in 1971, he himself with his auxiliary armed forces and the pakistan army, he abducted, tortured committed killings, murder and genocide. >> reporter: in the midst of the politics, the issue you of justice for victims has often been overshadowed. everybody in the rain, several visitors come to this memorial site where there is a mass execution in 1971. >> translator: those who did commit war crimes should be punished. everyone wants that. however, rich or powerful they are they should be punished but we should make sure it is actually the people who committed the crimes. >> reporter: even after 44 year old, the past continues to haunt the bangladesh i public and those here. the government says that these verdicts are necessary in order for bangladesh to move on from previous tragedy. but as long as suppression of opposing voices here continues questions will again be raised about how fair these trials are. al jazerra. trade ministers of 12 pacific rim countries are meeting in hawaii for four days of secret talks. they are trying to finalize the ambitious trans pacific partnership trade block. but even after 10 years of negotiations major differences remain. from maui, andrew thomas reports. >> reporter: hawaii, famous for sun, sea sands and surf, now the scene for what could become the biggest international trade deal ever. negotiators from 12 pacific rim countries are here for four days of talks. >> we all recognize the benefits and what it will deliver for our region and people, jobs, growth, wages, its platform for binding our nations more closely together. if a deal can be reached say sorters it should grow the economies of all the countries involved. an increasing clothing exports from vietnam the country that stands to gain the most could raise its g.d.p. by 14% gains for other countries would be more modest. for the united states, about 0.4%. opponents say the benefits are outweighed bite costs. job losses in higher paying countries. environment damage as countries lower standards to compete with rivals. more expensive medicines as pharmaceutical companies are granted longer copyrights over their drugs and corporations giving powers able to sue them if they change the laws for raise prof. >> it's it's all forcing under the circumstances to compete against each other and give up the protection that his we have all worked so hard for the environment and workers rights. >> reporter: another complaint that the talks are secret. access given to government and industry representatives but nothing revealed publically. the doors here are firmly shut. there is politics involved too. one country absent is china. for japan that's significant. >> it's not that much of a big deal in materials of numbers but if you look at it in the geopolitical context it's quite significant for japan because nits meant to be a counterbalance to the rising power of china. >> reporter: the united states too wants to set the framework and rules for regional trade without chinese influence. the trade ministers involved in these talks would like to backdrop to announce a deal. a press conference is scheduled for friday. but with talks as complex as these there are no guarantees and anything agreed here would have to be sign offered by national governments and in the united states congress too. andrew thomas, al jazerra. maui hawaii. riot police in argentina have been fighting bus drivers who have been blocking one of the main highways in to the capital. protesters threw bottles as police forced them off the road northwest. bus drivers have been frosting for a month they want their sacked colleagues to get their jobs back and better working conditions. meanwhile, bus drivers in el salvador have walked off the job because of an escalation in gang violence. the strikers have left thousands of commuter stranded for days but the drivers say it's too dangerous to work, adam raney reports from the capital san salvador. >> reporter: buses stopped people grahammed in trucks. a morning commute dislinted out of fear. -- disrupted out of fear. the power of gangs is there for all to see. they order the killing of bus drivers from prison cells bringing chaos to the streets. it seems there is little the government can do. >> translator: it's a hard working honest people who build this country who are the victims of these attacks. >> translator: the gangs have shown that they have the power because if they didn't they couldn't have pairized transport. >> reporter: the government says the 18th street gang ordered buzzesbuzz bus to his stop running or people would pay the price more pressure from the gangs to perhaps force negotiations for a truce as the government tracks down on them. morning half a dozen bus drivers have already been murdered since sunday. some business buses are still going out on their routes but only with heavy police protection because the drieferls and riders say they fear for their lives. this bus driver says he's afraid of being murdered but work is scarce here and he has to feed his family. the president dodg our questions about who really controls security the government or the gangs. and left it to his spokesman. >> translator: it's not part of our stray i didn't. we are not going to negotiate communicate or make any pact with these criminal groups it's terrorism, sabotage against the public transport system. >> reporter: it's not just bus drivers being targeted, this year dozens of police officers and members of doubles' families have been -- judges' families have been killed. this opposition leader says the government is facing a crisis worse than the civil war and is in denial. >> the government has to be humble enough to recognize what everybody sees in the open, that what they have done has not worked. >> reporter: one opposition leader told al jazerra the solution lies outside here. >> the international community has to play a role. it's the international community that can analyze the things the best because we are caught up in national politics that & that blinds to us reality. >> reporter: stranded amidst the violence. adam raney san salvador. excavation of what could be cocoa local bee a's biggest mass grave. they are looking for the remains of as many as 300 people that disappeared around 13 years ago during a crack down on left wing opposition groups. from medellin, we have this update. >> reporter: on wednesday workers will begin to clear up the first excavation site ridding it of overgrown grass and plants over then heavy machinery will be able to move in and will have to dig up years of construction waste. finally once they reach the natural soil, it will be the time for the forensic teams to move in and do their manual work looking for the bodies or the remains. nonenonetheless it will be a difficult task despite calls from families to shutdown the landfill nothing has been done until now. >> translator: we began reporting the forced disappearances in 2002. he tried to get the i want american commission on human rights to intervene but nobody listened. in part, we think it has do with the fact that high-level officials of colombian army remember involved. if they would have listened we wouldn't be dealing with this mountain of remains and impunity impunity. >> reporter: relatives of the victims think this is an important step but it will take tame. operations just in this first plot of land will take up to five months. the white hospital has rejected a petition to pardon the former nsa contractor edward snowden the obama administration maintain that his he should face criminal charges. the petition had almost 170,000 signatures. and asked for a full pardon for the whistle blower, he leaked seek yet documents showing details of surveillance programs ran by the u.s. government. an american sentence today life in prison for spying for israel is set to be released later this year. jonathan pollard has spent almost 30 years behind bars but all his previous requests for parole were denied. patty culhane reports on why this time he may walk free. >> reporter: it was the case throbbinged the u.s.-israeli relationship and shocked the your honor intelligence community a navy analyst jonathan pollard sen steps to life in prison in 1987 for selling israel thousands of close identified documents. >> it was indeed a serious effort by the israeli government to penetrate our intelligence community and it was successful. and i don't like it. >> reporter: that is former vice president dick chaney used in a training video telling u.s. surprise to keep an eye on their owe co-workers because of poll ahead. i issue hardly faded with time for three days decades there have been protests in both countries. songs of support and every u.s. president to visit he is rail was greeted with signs like this one that met president obama. now as pollard completes 30 years of his sentence the parole board has decided to free him next november. the u.s. government didn't object which could have kept him in prison but officials are denying the link between his pending release and any attempts to apiece israel over the island deal. >> it's extremely far thinking of people 30 years ago to sentence mr. pollard and set this mandatory release date to coincide with the iran deal and if they were able to pull that off, i would being quite impressed 78 it's unlikely his release will do anything to stop israel's fierce lobbying to congress over the iran deal. but past presidents have considered using had i release as a bargaining chip and the president shill has some leverage and it's this. as parts of his relieves, he has to stay in the u.s. for five years. his backers are calling on the president to release him now and let him immediately fly to israel the place he considered home. patty culhane, al jazerra washington. the man who is accused of killing the zimbabwean lion cecil says he thought his actions were completely legal. cecil the lion was first is not shot with a bow and arrow then with a rival in the national park. and this is three weeks ago. his killer, has been identified as walter palmer a u.s. dentist. who says he paid $50,000 to hunts the lion. he says he relied on his hunting guides to make sure he was hunting legally. world travelers as president of born free foundation and he says lion numbers in africa are falling dramatically. >> the news was absolutely buzzing with this particular story. not just because of the questionable legality of the killing of cecil lured out of the park as your report suggests then killed, shot, but not killed and followed up for 40 hours can you imagine the suffering and then dispatched. the piece of land that the lion was lured onto did not have a trophy hunting license for lions and so it would appear that both mr. palmer and the two other people involved are going to face criminal charges. but the situation facing lions across africa is extremely dire. 30 years ago there were about 30,000 -- sorry 80,000 lions and now there are between 25 and 30,000 lions it's a precipitous decline and trophy hunting is one of the causes of that decline. al jazerra do dot come is where you can keep up-to-date with all the very latest news.

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