ping-pong - a library redefining what it means to be bookish. a ceasefire is holding in eastern ukraine after pro-russian separatists and ukranians agreed on a peace agreement. it ends 5 months of fighting. they agree to pull back units from the east, a prisoner swap has been agreed, and it could happen soon. russia is allowed to enter the east with humanitarian aid. the organization for security cooperation in europe monitors the truce. while the fighting seems to have ended for the time being, separatist leaders will seek full autonomy from ukraine. paul brennon joining us from donetsk. it appears to be quiet. let's concentrate on the details. the prisoner swap, what do you know? >> well, we have been speaking this morning to the leadership, or the officials in the leadership building of the donetsk people's republic here. what they are tells us is that the self-proclaimed prime minister of the separatist region is not returning from minsk until monday. we tried to press as to details of the fine print of the deal hammered out in minsk, the officials were struggling their soldiers and not able to illuminate it. essentially what they say will happen is there'll be a prisoner swap. there are pockets of ukranian forces who, while not strictly prisoners are surrounded by pro-russian forces in the east. there'll be a negotiation for their status. will they be allowed to remain or pull out, will a safe corridor be arranged for them to do that. there has be there's has been an issue over that in the past. the fine print is yet to be revealed. the details is up in the air. >> there has been questions in the past when the russians send in humanitarian aid. this could prove tricky. >> it certainly could. we know that the - well, obviously the last time russia sent in humanitarian aid they did it without the permission of the kiev government, the ukranian government in kiev. they blasted across the border, and said that the end justifies the means, we don't have time to await official permission from kiev "we'll go in anyway", there was controversy over that. there's a convoy that has been prepared, waiting on the other side of the russian-ukranian border, inside russia, and it will try to make its way into donet donetsk, the region where i'm standing, perhaps reaching here later on this afternoon. what we are not hearing is firm details as to its route or timetable. it will be necessary - i mean, that's huge humanitarian difficulty in the border zones. the people that we are speaking to in the last few days had no water, no power, no food. they've been suffering severe hardship while the conflict intensified over the past two weeks. the need is great. how that will be alleviated - that is, as i say, open to question. we are barely 20 hours into the ceasefire, and the full arrangements have not strictly been finalised. it's a broad framework, the meat to be put on the bones. >> any talk on how it can change from a ceasefire to the end of hostilities? >> well, there are different visions of how this will go forward. although we have not seen the s of the agreement, there's a well-placed ukranian blogger, and he has given a list of the believed terms that have been agreed. there's no mention of federalization. there's an acceptance of a degree of decentralizition from the central kiev administration. that said, how much decentralizition is president petro porashenko of ukraine going to grant the region, i suspect it will not be as much as the separatist leaders in this region will like. yesterday, after the talks finished, we heard from the self-declared prime minister of the luhansk region saying, "this deal is very well, but it will not dim our demonstrates for independence from ukraine, they believe their future is closer to russia, perhaps as part of russia. >> the deal is struck and gives respite. there's a lot of negotiations going forward. >> paul brennan there in donetsk and eastern ukraine. >> n.a.t.o. revealed the details of what it calls a new force din dine -- designed to react to threats. the focus will include the middle east. jonah hull reports from newport in wales. >> reporter: as the nato summit closed, rehabilitation to news of a ceasefire in ukraine was cautious. >> at the same time we strongly support president petro porashenko's efforts to pursue a peaceful resolution. the ceasefire announced today can advance the goal, only if there is follow through on the ground. pro-russian separatists must keep their commitments, and russia must stop its violations of ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity. the general announced plans for a rapid reaction force that would be able to respond within two to five days. >> this decision sends a message - n.a.t.o. projects all allies at all times, and sends a clear message to passengers aggressors, should you think of attacking one ally, you'll face the whole alliance. >> for those on the former soviet front line, it was a message that seems to have stuck. >> as one of the states bordering russia, members of n.a.t.o. do you feel your security is assured. >> yes, it's clear that collective defense brings the police there. everyone knows it, and there are practical steps should increase the psychological feeling. >> not on the summit agenda, but key to discussions that have taken place are efforts to carve out a coalition and strategy in a fight against the islamic state and iraq and syria. on friday, foreign and defence ministers met to form what the u.s. secretary of state called a core coalition. >> key n.a.t.o. allies stand ready to con front the terror threat through military intelligence, law enforcement and diplomat uk -- diplomatic efforts. secretary of state john kerry will travel to the reason to help to allow us to destroy and degra degrade i.s.i.s. >> reporter: it is hoped from the summit, billed as the most important since the end of the cold war, a new n.a.t.o. will emerge - better offended and more able to respond to turbulent times. >> so while washington outlined plans for a broad international coalition to defeat the islamic state group, kurdish fighters are running out of weapons. countries are sending assault rifles, antitank missiles, but the kurds say they are failing to make it to the front line because of bureaucratic delays in baghdad. islamic state group is fighting to preserve its hold. it is also using car bombs to attack cities under government control. >> it's a bloody return to a time-worn tactic. in areas they control, islamic state fighters carry out pitched battles against kurdish peshmerga and iraqi troops. increasingly, in areas they don't, they detonate car bombs, with deadly effect. >> this photo shows a would be suicide bomber disguised as a woman, captured by turkish-peshmerga troops. >> translation: the car came, parked here and the driver climbed into another car, a black toyota. they left. suddenly it exploded. i was injured by the glass. >> reporter: in kirkuk a black opal detonates leaving a landscape of rubble and several injured, including this 1-year-old upstairs. >> translation: a bomb. >> reporter: the glass. >> translation: yes. >> reporter: the shop might have been targeted because it sold liquor, and also because it was owned by kurdish yazidi serving a crowd of customers. >> on a recent day in kirkuk, three simultaneous bombs killed 33 people and wounded 127, including peshmerga troops inside the building. devastating the neighbourhood. >> translation: our family came from those provinces. islamic state came to our village, they attacked and took everything. we fled from there. >> translation: we came for security. where is the security? we hadn't found it. we fled because of explosion, came here, and there's more. >> reporter: the opener will not open again until the islamic state fighters have left iraq. with insurgents in control of vast swaths of iraq, and unleashing attacks elsewhere, that is likely to take time. sierra leone's president ordered the country to go to lockdown to try to contain the ebola virus. the world health organisation says 4,000 people have been infected across west africa since the start of the year. ebola spread in guinea, sierra leone, liberia, senegal and nigeria. the death toll rising to 297. erica wood reports. >> reporter: wheeling out on to the tarmac the third american aid worker to beinfect with ebola since the outbreak started. a doctor, working in liberia, when he was found to have the virus. >> he has a serious infection. it can be associated with mortality. we'll aggressively support the patient and hope for the best. >> he'll be treated in a secure isolation unit in nebraska. the other two americans survived, the west african strain of the virus had a mortality rate. hospitals are struggling to find enough staff to street ebola personalities. local staff fled in fear, and it's been difficult to educate the public on how to keep themselves safe from the virus. the u.n. secretary-general repeated his call for 600 million to help contain the outbreak. >> the goal is to stop ebola transition in the affected counties for in my opinion months. this can be done if the urgent and necessary mobilization is done and held in the affected countries and by the international community. >> reporter: in switzerland, around 200 experts have been discussing a roadmap for tackling the virus. the world health organisation has approved the immediate use of the blood of those surviving to treat new patients with transfusions. >> translation: two vaccine candidates were identified one is a chim pan zee, and the other is vsv ebola. safety studies are under way in the united states of america, soon to start in europe and africa. >> reporter: there has been animal trials, but as for humans, but information will not be available until november. >> this is a huge challenge. we are organising to meet it. i'm convinced we can succeeded. >> reporter: the message from experts and leaders is there's no quick solution. containment and widespread treatment is still months away. still to come on this programme. rival protesters fill the streets, houthi rebels will step up the campaign against the government. plus... >> 200,000 sudanese crossed the border because of conflict in their countries. i'll be telling their stories. a time to recap the global headlines. a ceasefire in eastern ukraine seems to be holding. pro-russian separatists and ukranian forces agreed on friday. united states and fine key allies agreed to take on the islamic state group by squeezing financial resources and going after them with military force. the u.s. outlined plans for a broad international coalition to defeat is in iraq and syria. sierra leone will go into lock down for four days to try to contain the ebola virus. shia houthi rebels in yemen called for protests to remove the government, a day after holding a mass rally. government supporters came out in force on friday. from sanaa, we have this report. >> reporter: government loyalists on the streets of sanaa. they say they are ready to die for the republic, accusing the hutus of manoeuvring to create a religious state. >> translation: i feel sad because in 2011 the hutus will be with us, now they are allies, and will never accept that. >> reporter: this gathering is main reply sunni. thousands of people, and a preacher who attended prayers on friday denounced sectarianism, but reiterated willingness to fight the rebels. >> weeks of political divide divided yemenize, and raised concerns about abuse in the country, especially to press ahead for more political representation in the government. another rally and another friday prayer, led by the hutus, whilst escalating their process - dismissing an effort by the government to cut fuel prices. hutus insist that their campaign is peaceful. >> translation: i would like to reassure people that we will not let yemen slip to civil war. violence will meet violence. >> reporter: discontent spreads to the streets, back channel talks are under way. hutus, who control the north, boost their chance for the president to make more concessions this the coming days. south sudan's conflict displaced more than 1.5 million. hundreds of thousands fled to ethiopia, home to more refugees than any other. katherine sawyer visited a champ in campbella -- kambala. >> reporter: south sudanese children at a camp, trying to make the best of their education, after it was disrupted by the conflict. it's the only school in the camp, taking in close to 300,000 children, between five and 12 years old. classes are few. they learn in shifts. morning and afternoon. >> the children that are more and there is 100 students in one class. >> reporter: a majority of children are out of school. many are waiting to be registered. this girl was separated from her parents when fighting broke out, on the day she was supposed to start school at home in south sudan. she a waiting for the chaa chan get into a classroom. >> reporter: we were told to wait for the construction of more classes. i keep coming here until that time. >> reporter: in another part of the camp refugees have their biometrics taken to ensure they get full u.n. protection. >> this camp is full, taking no new arrivals. there are 60,000 refugees here, most of them women, and the children. >> over 100,000 south sudan crossed into ethiopia since conflict broke out in december. >> every day we receive 1,000 people on average. if you look at the present moment, we have almost 190,000 refugees who have arrived here since the beginning of the crisis. that's a large number of refugees by any standard. >> back at the camp, they live with a foster money, meeting as they fled. >> i had to take her with me. if i had of left and she decide it would be a caste to my children. they both wait. mother for a husband, and for a mother not seen or spoken to since may. one of those who have been closely involved with all this, casey copeland from the international crisis group, normally in juba, talking to us now from kampala. we are hearing about 1,000 refugees every day. there's a limit to what you can do with such vast numbers. >> it's true, and the situation is getting worse because some of the ones crossing over now are actually walking within south sudan to reach the ethiopia border. they are in terrible shape by the time they arrive. >> we see children dying of malnutrition even though a famine has not been declared. >> what is often not understood is that many, many thousands of people tend to die before phammins are declared. that's what we are seeing, children and adults dying of malnutrition, awaiting the day when the famine will be declared and greater funds will be released to prevent the deaths. >> what about supplies to those people who need them the most. it's difficult in areas of conflict. when you see people leaving homes, walking for weeks to get to what they believe are places of safety, that must make it more difficult. >> it is. the aid operation inside of south sudan, and the refugee areas - it's bad, terrible difficult [ inaudible ] the worried parties stole human stairian supplies. which is why assistance is not available inside south sudan, why people are leaving to get basic things such as food, let alone the security. the situation in the refugee examples in ethiopia is the same. for the civilians, there's no place for them to go. >> the harvest is down, is that because people are not there to tend the crops, or because of weather conditions or a bit of both? >> it's largely because of the war. it's displaced people. we have seen delivered destruction, burning. pockets have been destroyed and looted. the chain of how people feed themselves has been devastated by the war. >> we got 95% of what you had to say. it's on skype, it's difficult to get everything. we appreciate your time and hope the work you are doing is allowed to continue. casey copeland there. the united states and somalia governments have confirmed the killing of al-shabab's top leader. godane and some of his commanders died on monday. he became the leader in 2008 after his predecessor was killed in another u.s. strike. australia overseas immigrant detention center facility in papua new guinea is accused of gross negligence after the death of an asylum seekers. the asylum seekers died after developing an infection from a cut on his foot at mann use island. refugees say he didn't receive adequate attention. human rights activists say dozens of teenagers have been tortured and sexually abused in an egyptian prison. 52 detainees were arrested for demonstrating against the egyptian government. the geneva human rights foundation said the abuses took place in the kumal dekker prison. the allegations have been sent to the rapator on torture in the united states. al jazeera is demanding the release of three journalists etained in egypt for 252 days. peter greste, mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed received long sentences after a trial seen by many observers as politically motivated. the convictions are being appealed against. the case has been raised by the u.n. secretary-general in a conversation with the egyptian president. you can join the campaign to get al jazeera journalists free by using the hashtag free aj staff and more on a special page on the website, aljazeera.com. with the popularity of e-books and newspapers, many say that libraries do not appeal. a library in birmingham, england proves that theory wrong. >> reporter: drawing dragons, wings, and other mythical creatures may not inspire every child to read a book. that's the hope at the library of birmingham. >> we encourage them to go down to the library after doing this task. >> books, yes. the library is more. the award-winning design why the dreary square has brought new life to the city. >> we've never been about building a library. it's about people's pride in the city that they live in, a sense of community, a sense of place. >> reporter: it's clearly a hit. nearly 3 million visitors would have passed through the doors, when the library marks its first year. the traditional pursuits of reading is there. ping pong, strategically placed bianos and music practice rooms bring other visitors. >> i come often to take out books, comics, music notes, and, yes, i like it. >> the princesses in the string bog... >> reporter: lunchtime poetry draws crowds. books are still at the heart of the building. but the library is all about the new - new use of space, new technology, activities to attract new visitors. the library is looking for new ways to engage the community. singles nights, yoga and a drop in health clinics. reinventing the library. you can keep up to date with all the news on the website. aljazeera.com. that's aljazeera.com. >> after job gains, the u.s. added a less robust 142,000 jobs. that's the inside story.

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