special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has been laying out his assessment of the situation in yemen he says he has a framework for negotiations working towards peace he said there was good news and bad news on the good news front he said there can be a political solution possible to end the conflict he said he's spoken to people from all groups in yemen as and they too want peace he said no peace in yemen unless the south of the countries involved he said ending the war isn't the same as building peace he did talk about the bad news though from a pragmatic sense saying that the war in yemen is louder and more pressing of recent weeks he said there's concern about the number of missiles being fired toward saudi arabia and he said there's concern about growing civilian casualties let's go live now to the u.n. and bring in mike hanna who's been listening to martin griffis mike so martin griffiths there laying out his assessment of the situation in yemen what more did he have to say and how significant is it. well it's important to put in some background here darren martin griffith was

yemen is on the verge of a farm in their outbreaks of outbreaks of disease there are. millions of people who have been affected by this terrible conflict but unfortunately many people are perhaps not aware of the risks of going to yemen and one of the things that we are doing and we started doing this in february last year is a come pain to inform people in the horn of africa of the dangers of going to yemen with the hope that they will think twice before taking these dangerous routes but at the same time we're working with the authorities eve yemen. to try to sensitize them to the rights of refugees and migrants to advocate for the release when they are detained and also to make sure that they are registered and that we can find out what their protection needs are so that we can respond to those needs william spend their spokesman for the u.n. refugee agency joining me in geneva sir thank you some bob was a celebrated their first independence day without robert mugabe as leave their god he had been in paris and zimbabwe broke away from british rule in one nine hundred

aid agencies in yemen a warning they may not be able to contain the spread of diseases. as more people become resistant to lifesaving antibiotics yemen's a fragile health system has been devastated by years of war and the country is battling major outbreaks of cholera and diptheria doctors say the over use of antibiotics coupled with poor hygiene and a lack of access to clean water could help diseases spread beyond yemen's borders those are the headlines i'll have more news for you in half an hour coming up next counting the cost thanks for watching away. and.

hundreds of thousands marched on the streets of yemen's capital scooty rebels mourn the killing of their second income on. as i'm speaking this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up for dead and more than nine hundred people wounded during the latest dolls' of protests hospitals are stretched to breaking point. north korea's state media call friday's historic summit with the south a new milestone focus now shifts to kim jong un's upcoming meeting with donald trump. and moving to their own be tao a new generation of somalis are defying conflict and religious conservatives. a lot of saudi arabia says intercepted for missiles fired from yemen targeting the city that's hours after a saudi led coalition air strike reportedly killed two leaders and dozens of fighters in yemen's capital city state television says. high level meeting was targeted at the who these interior ministry in santa earlier this month the rebel second in command sala his semite was killed in a saudi led air strike a large crowds have gathered in seven square to pay tribute to sam i'd heard the leaders call for a one

already yemen's already fragile health system has been all but destroyed by years of war with assad led bombing campaign resulting in sounds of casualties previously manageable diseases have now reached epidemic levels last year one million cases of color would reported that's the worst outbreak in modern history meanwhile the period that's usually a treatable infection has killed at least forty eight people across the country doctors are concerned about the overuse of antibiotics in the region when coupled with thousands of injuries for hygiene and the lack of access to clean water they fear diseases and antibiotic resistance may spread beyond that yet it well and unary is the medical coordinator for doctors without borders in yemen she says it's an issue that's emerging in war torn countries across the middle east. but received here in our hospital in yemen is that around sixty to seventy percent of the patients samples are either infected or colonized by with the resistant organisms these are the same organisms one would find in major western hospitals but what's surprising is th

watching all of their lives one headquarters here in also coming up a so-called million man march in yemen following a saudi led strike that killed two rebel leaders. also a roaster without a host the u.s. a president donald trump abandons the white house correspondents dinner for the second year. of the korean summit was presented on opposite sides of the border. well with the program newly appointed u.s. secretary of state mike has arrived in saudi arabia as part of a three day trip to the region now he's held talks with the saudi foreign minister before having dinner with crown prince mohammed bin rather expected to discuss the iran nuclear deal following donald trump's threats to pull the united states out of the agreement next month. was sworn in on. his previous as a rex tillerson left office last month kristen salumi has more from washington d.c. the state department says a strong u.s. saudi partnership is crucial to peace and prosperity in the middle east so perhaps not surprising that might pompei i would make a visit to saudi arabia part of his first official trip as secretary of

fears yemen's health crisis is getting worse as more patients become resistant to antibiotics. and online anger promise china's version of twitter is to reverse its ban on all gay content. a warm welcome to the program russia says chemical weapons investigators will enter the syrian city of duma on the way state this after it was accused of denying them access the kremlin has also rejected u.s. accusations that its tampered with the site of this is that did gas attack on april seventh earlier representatives of the global watchdog that's the old p.c. w. held an emergency meeting in the hague about the lack of access moscow says the team can't enter duma just yet because of saturday's airstrikes by the u.s. u.k. and france and fighting on the ground well despite that the syrian government has a lot of journalists and to do as part of an organized media tour they were given access to a field hospital where medical staff told reporters that no patient suffered from toxic gas symptoms other residents recalled a strong chlorine smell but blamed the attack on rebel fighters to or did

the scene for us where online what is a very nice time in yemen peace is possible but it's not because the situation is. because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that are choosing between buying medication and eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is the one who has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. president trump confirms his spy chief has held top level secret talks with north korea's kim jong un in pyongyang. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up castro's successor miguel diaz kenya is named as the sole candidate to take over as cuba's president. turkey's president calls surprise early elections bringing stronger powers for his office. zimbabwe celebrates its first independence day without robert mugabe in charge how much has really changed . i know u.s. president donald trump has confirmed that his spy chief made a secret visit to north korea and met its leader kim jong trump tweeted that the meeting with cia head might compare went very smoothly and a good relationship was

the struggling yemen. speeches it's been awesome. and i want to tell you. scott i'm over. now to tell you that expect that we will target. and why these strikes happening now. three years most three years into this. war is it because of improved intelligence or let me what's behind the timing of this change in strategy that she can talk. to your leadership or killed. for george to. the memorial of those. given by me. we're not sure. you know but that's not a view they all deserve. to be easier. on the average. every now and then. and you get the sense that. these are unmoved by by all of this in a sense in terms of their control of yemen or at least the capital sana'a i mean how much real control do they maintain in the yemeni capital the moment. on the chain. for all the extras. and the leadership. of. the billboard people to use the song. right now it's one sided but george. mitchell. is that we are. grateful to some odd. governments so much. of the last couple of months. heck even the most modern life for us there in santa thank you jacki. ah still ahead on al-jazeera a

citizens obstructed from saving their families as the crisis in yemen worsens some have fled the horror of war only to be entangled in bureaucratic limbo with their lives and dreams of a future with on call. phone lines explores the all too real effects of trumps immigration policies. between war and the ban on. iran wants the u.s. of severe consequences if it pulls out of the nuclear deal with the visiting french president tries to convince donald trump to stand by the agreement. again peter here in doha you are watching al-jazeera also coming up. dozens die in separate saudi led air strikes in yemen all details emerge about the most senior rebel killed so far plus. he just started hitting everybody man here in every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would it to run to police search for a motive after a driver plows into a crowded pedestrian killing at least ten people also it. will stamp their mark on armenia and now the protesters are forced out an unpopular prime minister. the iranian president has warned the u.s. of severe consequences if it was calls from the twe

the murder of muslim clerics raises the specter of new rivalries in yemen is deepening civil war. and how donald trump's pick for secretary of state could be rejected by the u.s. senate. hello the rains gathering again in iraq all this cloud came in from the eastern mediterranean which is banked up against the iranian mountains of various factors means that i think the sequel over a phony of the sky here it will cross the border tail off during in kuwait leave baghdad dry this of course is a full cause for monday twenty degrees here it's already five anyway further west twenty two in beirut the breeze much lighter remarked fine rain reach up to azerbaijan certainly is going through the southern caspian and towards the northeast and it'll be hanging around for about twenty four hours and then disappearing fading away or rejuvenating itself or recently like afghanistan or turkmenistan leaving to run the sunshine now the winds were a big thing and to the south on the day also been interesting breeze across the arabian peninsula but it's weaker than it was the meeting of the winds rou

a new framework for negotiations to end the war in yemen will be presented to the un security council within the next two months that's the assurance of the new un special envoy in yemen martin griffiths he was appointed in february he also briefed the council for the first time about the humanitarian crisis in the country where eight million people face famine mike hanna reports the message from the special envoy that a resumption of political dialogue is essential and he maintains that all parties in the conflict that he's spoken to in the past four weeks agreeing but the portrait to of a nation on my third one in which a single violent event could consume attempts at conciliation and our concern is simple that these that any of these developments would at a single stroke take peace off the table the us ambassador picked up on her recurrent theme that iran is waging a proxy war in the region through the opposition in december she displayed the fragments of missiles fired at saudi targets that she maintained were supplied by iran and this year is caught at the entire security council

forces the killings focus attention on a new layer of complexity developing in yemen civil war the her things control this area in the north including the capital sana and are supported by iran they're fighting forces loyal to exiled president hadi whose power base is here in the self and includes aden al-qaeda controls these areas and black three years ago the saudi led coalition stepped in to back hetty's forces a coalition that includes the united arab emirates from that time the u.a.e. has concentrated on growing its influence in the south and large part by funding and training to yemeni groups each with different agendas and which appears to be at all those with the saudi led coalition. one of them is the shabani elite forces they're a mix of hardline groups census ation ists who want the south to break away from the rest of yemen completely something saudi arabia as opposed to another is the security belt forces in aden they've been openly fighting had these forces the very group the saudi led coalition stepped in to support the forces don't necessarily want the same thing and it

as a call the million man march in yemen following a saudi led airstrike that killed two rebel leaders and thousands in northern me and maher flee some of the worst fighting in decades between government forces and catching rebels. the south korean government says north korea will dismantle its nuclear test site next month and invite foreign experts to oversee the closure south korean president moon and welcome the move saying it shows is sincere about the unclear is ation on the peninsula kathy novak has more from seoul. south korea's presidential blue house has given a briefing on the historic meeting between me and the north korean leader kim jong un on friday we're told that kim jong un told mungy ensuring that meeting that north korea intends to shut down in nuclear test facility and invite u.s. and south korean experts and journalists to inspect it last weekend ahead of the summit north korea announced that it would stop nuclear and missile tests and shut down and nuclear test facility in the declaration that was signed between lindsay and kim jong il and there was a broad refere

says the conflict of yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and it wants the world to pay nearly three billion dollars to help the people of the middle east poorest nation caught in the conflict saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have already pledged nearly a third of that money to help the victims of a war they are heavily involved in in march twenty fifteen they launched a military campaign after hutu rebels took over the capital sanaa forcing the president to flee the coalition's blockade in yemen sports last year cut off lifesaving aid for millions of people and sparked one of the world's worst manmade food security crisis nearly three quarters of yemen's population now in need aid that's three million more than last year crumbling infrastructure a broken economy a blockades by warring parties have choked supplies driving millions more to the brink of starvation according to the u.n. every ten minutes a child under five dies of causes that are entirely preventable hundreds of health facilities are closed because of fighting lack of funding and no doctors about sixteen million yemeni

a senior political leader with a twenty million dollars bounty on his life is killed in a strike in yemen plus. the president's been extremely clear that he thinks it's a bad deal that certainly has not changed a tough job ahead for the french president to soaping to change donald trump's mind on the iran nuclear deal during his u.s. visit. also at a question of copyrights why also since south sudan. struggling to benefit from their work. our top story the police in toronto are questioning a suspect after a van was driven onto a crowded sidewalk killing ten people and injuring fifteen others officers say it appears to have been a deliberate attack but so far there's no link to any organization or to a wider plot daniel lak is there. bystanders watched in horror as a rented van was driven at speed from a busy street onto a sidewalk full of people shoppers commuters students and residents were among the victims he just went on the sidewalk he just started ending everybody he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody who would it i saw about three or four bodies lying on the grounds on

an airstrike by saudi led forces set a wedding party in yemen killing seven people it happened in the western province of harjo more than a dozen others were injured who three rebels say that another attack on earlier in the day killed six people the un has criticized the saudi led campaign for killing large numbers of civilians at least twenty five muslim clerics have been murdered in southern yemen in the past two years most of those killed are said to be supporters of the exiled president a brother once a hardy and his allies points to growing rivalries between you u.a.e. backed armed groups at hardee's forces in the south many are harmed reports. cleric ahmed it documents death provoked an outpouring of grief in the southern city of aden he's one of at least twenty five clerics preaches and religious scholars killed in the south of yemen in just over two years most of them in just the last six months. what is the crime what is the peckish and we call on all of those who have a conscience to do something no one has claimed responsibility for the killings twelve political parties ha

criminals behind this fire should be punished yemen is one of the world's poorest countries. the three year war between iran backed with the rebels and the saudi backed yemeni government in exile has left more than ten thousand people dead there are also outbreaks of cholera and diptheria. this warehouse fire is a further setback for those trying to help civilians in what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis culture dirge on al-jazeera the governor rushes central cannot overreach and has resigned over the shopping center father killed more than sixty people last week and i have said that it was the right conscious and only true decision and investigation found that fire exits at the mile had been illegally blocks the public address system was not switched on and the fire alarm system was broken many of those who died with children and investigators say that some of them had been locked inside a cinema. but has inaugurated c.c. as the new president of former vice president takes over from him common who stepped down after his term limit was reached elections wi

war and disease the growing fear in yemen as more patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics. russia's foreign minister has rejected u.s. claims of attempted with the site of a suspected chemical attack in duma representatives of the global chemical watchdog holding an emergency meeting at the hague inspectors from the organization of a prohibition of chemical weapons or the o.p.c. w. still haven't been granted access to the site of the alleged toxic gas attack russia denies it's responsible for the hold up it's blaming south by western countries really challenge has more from moscow. the o.p.c. w.'s fact finding mission to do may be highly contentious from the start and as the days tick by it only gets more and more acrimonious there have been accusations from the united kingdom's delegations the o.p.c. w and the united states delegation that the russians are stopping the o.p.c. w. from actually going to the site in duma and also the americans are saying that perhaps the russians have already tampered with the area now this is getting pushback of course from moscow the russia

also coming up a senior political leader with a twenty million his life is killed in a strike in yemen also ahead. he just started getting everybody in every single person on the side of anybody in. toronto police search for a motive driver plows into a crowd of pedestrians killing at least ten people plus. going back to. school thousands of syrian children displaced by war find new classrooms enjoy. our top story the iranian president has warned the u.s. of quote severe consequences if it withdraws from the twenty fifteen nuclear agreement donald trump has until may the twelfth to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on the country that were eased in exchange for curbs on tehran's nuclear program hasan rouhani says that would be a bad idea. an attack on a i'm telling those in the white house that if they did not live up to their commitments the iranian government will react that will react firmly if anyone betrays the deal base should know that they would face severe consequences well that iran nuclear deal expected to dominate the state visit of the french president emanuel macron to

the political leader is killed in a saudi led air strikes in yemen. police in canada questioning a suspect after a van drove onto a crowded sidewalk in toronto killing ten people and injuring fifteen other officers say there's appears to have been a deliberate attack but there's no link to any organization or wide applause daniel lack reports from toronto. bystanders watched in horror as a rented van was driven at speed from a busy street onto a sidewalk full of people shoppers commuters students and residents were among the victims he just went on the sidewalk he just started ending everybody he had every single person on the sidewalk anybody in his they wouldn't i saw three or four bodies lying on the grounds on the people were getting c.p.r. and i have to go back and like really enter from a distance and i just got lost and i saw the you know what you just. want to know so many people just. stopped the car not even just a couple. in this cell phone video alone policeman confronts the driver who waves an object perhaps pretending it's a gun he's hea

mediator on yemen offers hope of ending the three year old conflict which has claimed over ten thousand lives. japan and ourselves are locked in we are very unified on the subject of north korea the u.s. president six common ground with the japanese leader on dealing with north korea's nuclear challenge. stepping up the pressure massive protests continue in armenia to stop the former president's pledge to stay in power. and the former u.s. first lady who said she looked like everybody's grandmother has died barbara bush was ninety two. so his own boss added to the u.n. says chemical weapons inspectors will enter duma on wednesday if it's safe enough he says a u.n. security team is at the site and will make an independent decision on access phone o.p.c. w team the investigators will look into a suspected chemical attack on april the seventh but they won't assign blame they arrived in damascus on saturday and they've called for access as soon as possible so the state media have been reporting earlier that the weapons experts have entered the former rebel on klav. well you know. i mean tod

but receiving in our hospital or in yemen is that r.l. sixty to seventy percent of the patients samples are either infected or colonized by with the resistant organisms these are the same organisms one would find in major western hospitals but what's surprising is the prevalence and widespread situation we are seeing here in yemen we do believe that the big reason it has come out now is because. the agencies are focusing of course on the verge of the response so there are few humanitarian actors that are working in this cycle of issue so you have a system that has been able to offer proper secondary and primary care so this patient they have different types of needs they also have for a long safe way in our hospital instead of saying five days refuse to be the average they say up to six weeks four weeks sometimes even more isn't that to complete their antibiotic treatment also they require high risk for lover of stories but there's big sections to be sexist and strange love or a theory stuff which is another they'll avoid the country and

conflict in yemen many people are falling into the hands of criminals who are exploiting them. still ahead on al-jazeera housework is a stretch by the injured from the still a voter syria's government accuses them of helping rebels and the probe into what caused a crack in the plane's engine leading to the death of a passenger partially sucked out the window. from a long flowing mine in winds to an enchanting desert breeze leave. or the weather settling down nicely now across much of the middle east as one would expect sorry a cloud will bring some rain some plate and some snow into the higher ground over the next couple of days in between is to me fine in try with some warm sunshine baghdad thirty three degrees celsius by a rate of around twenty six degrees as you can see is generally settled close at least the saga of the medics right in but as we go on into friday there will be some west of weather just not seeing its way in spite say little cloud of rain just drifting down across southern parts of the northern areas of syria with a bit of wet weather between the black sea a

a so-called million man march in yemen following a saudi led airstrike that killed two rebel leaders. and a roast without the host the u.s. president abandons the white house correspondents dinner for a second year. korea has announced that it will dismantle its nuclear test site next month and will invite foreign experts to. oversee the closure of south korean president and welcome the move saying it shows chung it's sincere about denuclearization on the peninsula for more let's go live now to kathy novak who is in seoul so kathy what else do we do we know about this huge announcement. well this is coming right now from the south korean presidential blue house the office of president mungy in that has been briefing journalists following that historic meeting between president monday and the north korean leader kim jong un on friday and in that briefing we are told that kim jong un told monday in that he intends to close the north korean nuclear test facility and invite experts from the u.s. and south korea as well as journalists to inspect it he seemed to refer to the speculation tha

large crowds gather in yemen's capital for the funeral of a leader saudi air strikes killed more rebel commanders. and has i'm sick of this is as you see it on live from also coming up more than nine hundred people wounded by israeli forces during the latest gaza protests the pressure on hospitals already at breaking point. un urges world leaders not to forget about north korea's human rights record up to friday's historic summit plus . going to their own beat how a new generation of somalis are defying threats dancing away their fear and boredom . our saudi led coalition air strike has a four to be killed to the leaders and dozens of fighters in yemen's capital sana'a meanwhile large crowds have gathered to pay tribute to the hooty second income are solid as samad who was killed by a strike last week saudi arabia and its arab allies have been fighting against the rebels since twenty fifteen when they intervened to support the exiled government victoria gate the report says. he supposes descend on the center of center there protesting against the death of the most senior official to be

secretary general has condemned an airstrike on a waiting party in yemen more than thirty people were killed in the attack by saudi forces in the western province of hunter late on sunday also the details are emerging of another airstrike last week which killed who sees second in command salah al summit who had a twenty million dollars bounty on his head from the saudis mike hanna has more from the u.n. in new york. the wedding hall which was to have been the scene of joyous celebration was turned into a death trap this video which al-jazeera cannot independently verify shows the up to math of the airstrikes believed to being carried out by the saudi led coalition local officials said the first missile detonated in the men's section of the wedding party moments later a second one hit the side on which the females were gathered this footage released by the rebels shows the horrific off the math. a young boy screaming and crying next to what appears to be the lifeless body of his father dozens of people were treated in the nearby hospital and they have no mercy towards children they've

the scene for us where there are online what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there. choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. oh i know what you're al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has canceled a deal with the un's refugee agency which would have seen thousands of african migrants resettled in western countries. replaced a previous plan to forcibly send thousands of people to countries and africa. the former leader of the catalan paul amount could soon be sent back to spain as applied for college extradition arrest that last month he's facing charges of rebellion in spain after spearheading independence. tributes of being a. campaigner played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa

hello martin elisha without you there live from doha also coming up a dozen members of one family in yemen a killed in saudi led airstrikes seven of them a children. israeli prime minister suspends a deal with the un over african asylum seekers just hours after he announced it on television. the strength in numbers a thousand central americans cross into mexico on a journey that seemed raged the u.s. president. but first tributes are being paid to winnie medical. the anti-apartheid campaign and played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she had been married to nelson mandela the nation's first black president throughout his twenty seven years in prison mourners have gathered outside a house in silhouette and katherine sawyer. a vigil for we need. to wait till the very heart of the idea apartheid struck president. to pay his respects as we say in african culture. a gigantic three has fallen this is the women mandela three provided shades. for the people of south africa he told the wilder that south africa has lost a giant and has sent off the great legac

mediator on yemen offers hope of ending the three year old conflict which has claimed over ten thousand lives. we need a scientist infected with malaria a child who is now leading the fight against the disease. let's begin this news hour with news out of the korean peninsula it's been confirmed that the u.s. secretary of state nominee mike. has met north korean leader kim jong un in north korea's capital pyongyang senior u.s. officials said the former cia director went there as the u.s. president's envoy over the weekend it was there to prepare for a possible meeting between trump and kim expected in may or june north korea has also began has been on high has been high rather on the agenda in talks between japan's prime minister and the u.s. president in the u.s. . this here is diplomatic editor james bias joins us now on the phone from north korea's capital pyongyang so james you're having a rare look inside the north korean capital what is the official line if any on this reported meeting between the u.s. secretary of state nominee and north korea as they do obviously i've been asking

jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up dozens die in separate saudi led airstrikes in yemen while details emerge about the most senior rebel killed so far. you just start hearing everybody man here every single person on the sidewalk anybody in israel you would it toronto police search for a motive after a driver plows into a crowd of protesters killing at least ten people. welcome to the program the official welcoming ceremony has just finished at the white house for the french president emanuel macro is on a three day state visit to the u.s. the first of any foreign leaders since donald trump took office well the twenty fifteen iran nuclear deal is expected to dominate talks urging the u.s. president not to pull out of the obama era agreement ahead of his deadline on may twelfth to decide well earlier on tuesday iran's president warned the u.s. dire consequences if it withdraws from a twenty fifteen nuclear accord. an attack on i'm telling those in the white house that if they did not leave out today commitments the iranian government will react firmly if anyone betrays th

we have you are in the region the situation in yemen . how to support the. contras on the african goes and the crisis and the problem in libya as well and we have identical viewpoints and we were eager to condense our efforts and to deal with these matters and as i said before. saudi arabia is supporting the policy of president from. iran. and also we support the efforts of. those related to the iranian nuclear file and we need to minimize. this. nuclear file of iran also we need to see a lot of more inspection on the iranian nuclear sites and i think the problem with iran should be sorted out posing more sanctions on iran for violating the international low and violating the ballistic missile. calls and for all the interference in the neighbors countries also have identical viewpoints regarding so many other topics i'm looking forward to working with you call britain with you rex those in the future and welcome to our country thank you for your visit. good afternoon. all it's great to see you again. and it's wonderful to be back your president trump came to

the un's new special envoy for yemen says he's working on a plan for talks to end the three year civil war which is led to the world's worst humanitarian crisis watching griffiths will present the plan to the security council within two months and insists all sides are prepared to negotiate an end to the fighting but he is worried by unconfirmed reports of increasing troop movements inside yemen which he says could ruin any prospects for peace. i'm concerned about the increased number of ballistic missiles launched towards saudi arabia and i note that this council has already pronounced on this in addition i'm concerned about intensified military operations in governor military confrontations and the strikes have continued in numerous other areas of yemen including sunnah tice job my read of who data. by and large governorates the clashes continue without major changes in the front lines but with disturbing reports of civilian casualties armenians parliament has voted to appoint the country's former president as prime minister and that's the spy pressure from tens of thousands of prote

coming up in the program a dozen members of one family in yemen and killed in saudi led airstrikes seven of them children. the israeli prime minister suspends a deal with the u.n. for african asylum seekers just hours after he announced it plus. the. u.s. demand better pay joining a global trend for educators why all of the world's teachers paid so little. tribute to being paid to winnie mandela the anti-apartheid campaign and who played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she had been married to nelson mandela the nation's first black president throughout his twenty seven years in prison mourners have gathered outside her house and. catherine soyuz there was. a vigil for we. in soweto the very heart of the anti apartheid struggle president cyril ramaphosa came to pay his respects as we say in african culture. a gigantic three has fallen and this is the winnie mandela three that provided shame for the people of south africa he told the wilder that south africa has lost a giant and has sent off will suit her great legacy mandela will be given a state f

the un's new special envoy for yemen is working on a plan for talks to when the three year civil war martin griffiths will outline his proposal to the security council within two months he says all sides are prepared to negotiate an end to the fighting. for our top story now reports of high level contacts between the u.s. and north korea robert kelly is professor of political science and diplomacy at national university he says mike pompei is trip to pyongyang demonstrates how keen the u.s. is to arrange a meeting between donald trump and king john. i think it's a sign of progress i mean the the sea was direct to the sea at the time i mean this is pretty high up right this is this is kind of thing that hasn't happened in many years a good ten years or so since officials at this level in the states have talked to the north koreans. i mean this is this is pretty new so i think everybody's kind of assuming it's pretty important soon when they're laying the groundwork doesn't have to go in there completely do it all by himself and we know that my compare was highly trusted by the preside

better but it is conveniently close to yemen where it's part of the city led coalition fighting iranian backed both that rebels the divide based company d.p. world is also taking over the port in but better some relatively small pool to exports livestock to the middle east and imports food and other items all that set to change now as d.p. while say six prepared to spend up to four hundred forty two million dollars to develop the port for somaliland the dubai ports deal is not only a financial windfall but also a vote of confidence that is a major problem for somalia which view somaliland as its solvent at a three hundred zero zero plus also to come here not just here including our u.s. trade tariffs on china could affect its recruiting beef industry. lawrence lee in manchester where scientists are using the one the material known as graphene to help find a solution to the world's water crisis. hello the rain in the last four five days has moved south through china and the big white tops which is discrete areas of thunderstorms that they've been moving through as well so near hong kong

conflict in yemen many people are falling into the hands of criminals who are exploiting them. the united arab emirates has suspended operations of the hospital it ran in somalia's capital mogadishu comes amid growing bilateral tensions that have seen business as band of amorality diplomats searched in somalia mom of the dough explained. the u.n. a year and ship desired hospital in mogadishu and now close to the public staff there say they received orders to stop operations in definit. we met the u.s. ambassador at his residence and we asked him about the hospital status and if it had been closed he told us that funding for the first stage of operating the hospital had run out and that they were forced to shut the hospital until second stage funding were available he said reopening the hospital could happen at any time without preconditions the facility offered treatment mainly to poor and displaced people in the somali capital medical workers also performed lifesaving surgery on those injured in mogadishu as frequent car bomb attacks can follow how they are this is basically a

saudi arabia to end the war in yemen talks in paris with saudi crown prince but had been salmond. expressed concern at the humanitarian situation in yemen facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has testified for nearly five hours in the u.s. congress says he's sorry about the privacy data breach at the social media giant talk about the way facebook connects with ups it wasn't designed well and panama has banned all venezuelan allies from flying there for the next ninety days it's a response about putting a three month ban on keep out of many and businesses including from operating within its borders there are other headlines we're back with more news after the street. getting to the heart of the matter if. you today let's have to would you accept the realities what do you think reunification would look like there are two people the peace corps unification is the only option for prosperity of south korea hear their story on talk to al-jazeera.

the war and disease the growing fear in yemen as more patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics. the u.s. has accused russia of tampering with the side of a suspected chemical weapons attack and. representatives of a global chemical watchdog are holding an emergency meeting in the hague o.p.c. inspectors are on the ground in syria but they haven't been allowed access russia says the visit has been delayed because of saturday's airstrikes by u.s. u.k. and france where a challenge is live in moscow so we what do we know about this this o.p.c. w. meeting at the hague what do we know about it and what has russia been saying so far. well according to the british delegation to the o.p.c. w. arrived in damascus by saturday still waiting to be allowed to visit the scene of last week's chemical weapons incidents in duma now the brits say that they're not being allowed to go by the russians and the syrians and the u.s. delegation to the o.p.c. w. has already said things that perhaps russia has been tampering with the scene in duma so we're having pushback to both of those accusations from

huge crowds gather and yemen's capital for the funeral of. a saudi air strikes killed more rebel commander. is a problem also ahead. hundred people wounded by israeli forces during the latest gaza protest pressure on hospitals breaking point. three of the biggest players. and one of the virtual reality is getting film fans closer to the action than ever before. the saudi led coalition air strike has reportedly killed. dozens of functions and yemen's capital sama that happened as large crowds filled the streets to on a high ranking rebel commander. was killed in a strike last week. have been fighting against the whole thing since two thousand and fifteen when they intervened to support the exiled government. reports. these supporters descend on the center of santa they're protesting against the death of the most senior the official to be killed by the saudi led coalition in yemen's three year war. died in an airstrike on the coastal hey day to provence last week. you will get revenge for the death of the president of the republic. and i have a

a dozen members of one family in yemen a killed in saudi led as strikes seven of them children. strength in numbers a thousand central americans crossed into mexico on a journey that's in rage the u.s. president. tangled up in debt tallow in shops are preying on tremendous most vulnerable communities. tributes are being paid to winnie mandela the anti-apartheid campaign and he played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she'd been married to nelson mandela the nation's first black president throughout his twenty seven years in jail more news of gathered outside her house in silhouette to katherine sawyer. a vigil for we need. in soweto the very heart of the anti apartheid struggle president cyril ramaphosa came to pay his respects as we say in african culture. a gigantic korea has fallen and this is the winnie mandela three that provided shame for the people of south africa and i will be given a state funeral next saturday and before that will be memorial services and across the country she has been one of the strongest women in our struggle w

a fire has destroyed fifty tons of you humanitarian aid in yemen x. believes a short circuit sparked this fire at the warehouses in the rubble help port city of the data. botswana has inaugurated a new president and a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power about same assisi took over from him comma who stepped down on saturday. a deal has been reached to evacuate the wounded from the besieged syrian town of touma opposition fighters are holed up in the eastern ghouta on clay which borders the syrian capital damascus duma as their last stronghold in the area where government forces conducted a major onslaught over the last few weeks thousands of rebels had to surrender. u.s. media say president has ordered the state department to phrase two hundred million dollars of funds to help rebuild syria trumpets eager to end u.s. involvement thursday he said troops will pull out soon outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson announced the recovery funding in february during a meeting of the coalition fighting eisel. many christians in iraq

yemen is one of the world's poorest countries. the three year war between iran docked with the rebels and the saudi backed yemeni government in exile has left more than ten thousand people dead there are also all breaks of cholera and diptheria. this warehouse fire is a further setback for those trying to help civilians in what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis cultural dirge on al-jazeera. the governor of russia russia's central kemmerer of a region has resigned over that mall fire that killed sixty people last week a month said it was the right conscious and only true decision russia's investigative committee says fire exits at the mall were blocked and that serious violations had been discovered most of the victims were children who were using entertainment the celebes on the top floor when that fire began. botswana has an auger rated a new president in a ceremony designed to highlight a smooth transition of power but what same a c c is taking over until elections next year he was formally the vice president

the scene for us whether online what is american sign in yemen that peace is possible but not what happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people the little choosing between buying medication and eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera. shot running away from israeli cyprus for the on our palestinians targeted by troops who kill seventeen people and injured more than fifteen hundred. were shot here and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.s. and south korea kick off their largest annual military exercise following a month long delay. botswana swears in a new president after the leader steps down. plus living in the shadow of radiation we look at the dark secrets of one of russia's most polluted reverse. video has emerged which palestinians say shows a demonstrator being shot as he ran away from israeli israel's border with gaza it was filmed on friday as thousands of p

massive crowds on earth who see commander killed last week in yemen now reports of more who's the deaths in saudi led coalition airstrikes. you know i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up the new u.s. secretary of state arrives in saudi arabia with the iran nuclear deal likely to dominate the agenda. as anti-government protests continue in armenia the ruling party says it won't put forward a candidate for the role of prime minister. and why this could be evidence of the largest child sacrifice ritual in the world. a saudi led coalition as strike has reportedly killed. thousands of fighters insana large crowds filled the streets of the yemeni capital on saturday to on a high ranking rebel commander. who was killed by a strike last week. reports. he supposes descend on the center of santa there protesting against the death of the most senior official to be killed by the saudi led coalition in yemen's three year war salah the mad died in an airstrike on the coastal hood data province last week. you'll get revenge for the death of the president of the republic

i sounded like coalition air strike has reportedly killed dozens of yemen's who's the rebels including two key commanders thousands of hoofy supporters gathered in the capital sana'a to pay their respects to salah i'll sum up who was the head of the supreme political council and second in command victoria gates and. he supposes descend on the center of center they're protesting against the death of the most senior official to be killed by the saudi led coalition in yemen's three year war salah died in an airstrike on the coastal hood data province last week. you'll get revenge for the death of the president of the republic. and i have a message for the saudi aggressors you bring invaders here from all over the world we will kill them and we will burn them to move you the leaders and dozens of fighters were killed in another saudi led coalition air strike on saturday saudi state television says the strike targeted a high level meeting at the these interior ministry in santa after three years of fighting and no end to the war in sight analysts say the saudi led coalition is trying someth

the top political leaders killed in yemen in a sound. french president arrives in the united states on a mission to urge donald trump to save the iran nuclear deal. and some breaking news out of canada a number of people are feared dead after a van run into pedestrians in toronto. the driver of the van has been taken into custody but so far i haven't given any further details of the spokes person so the van apparently jumped the curb and images from the scene show several people being attended to by medics. i just are standing us all to yourself why try just go to the. sun coming out not so many people just shouting stop the car but he did just documenting and he did something home and nursery people lived on the verandah you know at all so the car just kept hitting people do you think it was on purpose or did it look like it was on purpose i think it's on purpose because if the car doesn't work he should like hit the car or something and stop but he just goes for the first time. a short time ago the canadian prime minister gave this rea