drone strike in yemen. nashir al-wuhayshi was the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, the group's yemeni affiliate, and a former personal secretary of osama bin laden. the confirmation of his death comes as uncertainty remains over a u.s. attempt to kill militant leader mokhtar belmokhtar in libya. al qaeda released a list of people they say were killed in the u.s. airstrike over the weekend, but belmokhtar is not on it. a delegation of houthi rebels have arrived in geneva for the second day of u.n.-backed peace talks on the conflict in yemen. seif al-washli, an advisor to the delegation, said the expectations for the talks are low. >> expectations for these meetings are not great. at this point, saudi arabia seems determined to continue this war the desire to continue their aggression. there's no signs that any intentions to stop this aggression. amy: we'll have more on yemen with sharif abdel kouddous on the ground in sana'a after headlines. bahrain has sentenced a leading shiite opposition leade

secretary-general call today for immediate humanitarian ceasefire in yemen? >> maybe he has difficulty hearing. >> to begin with i regret to say the security council has not handed down any resolution to put an end to the aggression. we had hoped this council had handed down such a solution on our part and we demand the aggression come to an end and we are prepared to observe a ceasefire, however, we are facing al-qaeda in yemen and the two ideology is based on violence we demand an end to aggression and if there sis a head of the malitias we are prepared to have a ceasefire. we demand a ceasefire on all fronts. >> so you say there is no u.n. security council resolution there is one, back in april specifically against the houthis demanding they withdraw from territory they have taken. >> with respect to that resolution that you mentioned, it is unjust resolution. this was natural for the first time the security council is handing down a solution to the party paying higher. this is considered a paid resolution and the yemen people can can not accept this unjus

a year ago there was a prominent video out of yemen showing nasser al-wuhaishi in yemen and gathering with several al qaeda lead these as well as other tribal figures and having an open meeting. there was something done in broad daylight and filmed and then up loaded to the internet. it went to show that this is somebody that felt like even though they had to hide and they were on the run a lot of the time. they felt like they were powerful. they felt like they were an aggressive group and were going to continue to try to target the west from inside yep glen his success or, we know he was a former mel tear military commander. what else do we know about him? >> he's very well respected in the al qaeda high arc i. thehierarchy i when he ascents to the leadership, will he be able to galvan size support the way hess prove leadership there has. now, indications are that he will be able to do so because al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is a very top down organization that takes its cues from the leadership there. he is a very respected figure. he's the top military commander in yemen. so h

so al qaeda. [ inaudible ] the branch in yemen competing for dominance here in yemen. but isil is not making that much gain on the ground like al qaeda. al qaeda more established in yemen. al qaeda has seven times issued statements that they do not have an alliance with isil. that they are actually competing with them. that they are not as vial. they actually used that word they are no, sir at vial as isil. they do not follow the same message as them. but, again isil is gaining some ground now. especially in the past two months as a reactionary movement to the houthi expansion in the region. >> thank you, sir, for being with us. speaking to us in sanaa. >>> now, also caroline malone has more on the life and death of one of al qaeda's most powerful leaders. >> reporter: nasr al-wuhayshi was among four al qaeda members who launched al qaeda in yep then 2007. two years later they merged. in december of that year a man tried to blow up a u.s. plane with explosives hitting in his under wear, aqap said they treated him. they added al-wuhayshi to their most wanted list in 201

all the groups inside yemen and this is how we work every day on the ground. >> okay. the icrc i understand has a ship with about a thousand tons of food and a number of generate nurse to yemen in the last cup days, give us an idea of how far that goes. >> yes, thanks to our dialogue with the parties, we have been able to negotiate this ship you know 1,000-tons and this will be -- now we are working on how to distribute this to the different places because as i said impartial delivery of aid is extremely crucial and that's what we are trying to do. we are now talking to the parties, the greatest needs are in aden, there is no doubt about it. but then aden is not the only place where there is a severe shortage of food. and then the generators, the only way get drinking water in yemen is through pumping stations and because there is almost no electricity in yemen anymore, the pumping stations can only run on generators. so that's what we brought these generators, and then we will also give fuel to the local water authorities so that they can continue spying drinking wate

as fighting continues across yemen talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. in the progress here in geneva yemen's only hope is in agreement between the region's key players and the international community with a humanitarian truce and have all the parties in yemen accept it and stop the suffering of people. al jazeera geneva. >>> houthi fighters in yemen have been accused of targeting residential areas in thai and backed by troops loyal to the former president saleh and bombed areas near the ancient citadel, a mosque was hit during the shelling and fighters also pounded a hotel and homes in the nearby mountains region. tens of thousands of palestinians are pouring into occupied east jerusalem for the first fry prayers of ramp done -- ramadan and it's a good will gesture and allowing men over 40 and women of all ages to visit without permits and we are at the damascus gates one of the main entrances to the old city of jerusalem so tell us about the larger numbers that we sho

al-qaeda leader in yemen is killed by a u.s. drone strike. allegations for australian government has been paying off people smugglers for the past decade. >>> i'm julie with all the sport including the chicago blackhawks win stanley cup trophy for the third time in just six years. ♪ former egyptian president mohamed morsi has been sentenced to life in prison espionage charges and against the muslim brotherhood they describe the year presidency as one long night that didn't end until he left office and accused him of pursuing satanic goals and signing for hezbollah and iran and the court is still to rule on whether to uphold a mass jail break in 2011 and we will get more from an egyptian journalist and the former editor of the newspaper and joins me now from our doha studio and we have just heard there mohamed morsi and other other members of the muslim brotherhood has been handed a life sentence based on this and we are waiting for the jail break case which a initialn initial jail sentence has been handed down and we are waiting for the fin

secretary-general ban ki-moon calls for immediate humanitarian serious fire in yemen as talks get underway in geneva. the sky is the limit at this year's paris air show and find out why airlines are keeping their purse strings tight. ♪ we begin in south africa where the high court is about to decide if the bashir should be handed over to a criminal court and expecting a victim at any moment and attending the summit in johanesburg is acruised of crimes against humanity and they say he should be arrested by the government is saying he should be allowed home. >> yes, of course president yuma declared this that president bashir is our guest in south africa and he can stay whatever time he likes and can leave whatever time he wants and he is under the protection of the south african authorities. >> reporter: al jazeera is live for us in johanesburg and it may be academic but there are reports that president bashir may have already left south africa. >>> adrian, they have indeed been unconfirmed reports he may have left the country in the last hour or two and we are talking about the military

as fighting continues across yemen, talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. in the absence of progress here in geneva, yemen's only hope is an agreement between the region's key players and the international community when a humanitarian truce and have all the parties in yemen accept it and stop the suffering of people. al jazerra geneva. >>> houthi fighters in yemen have been accused of targeting residential areas in the city of taiz they are backed troops loyal to the former president is laugh. they bombed areas near the ancient citadel. witnesses say a mosque was also hit and they pounded a hotel and homes in the mere by mountain region. >>> prayer vigils have been held across the united states for nine victims of the charleston shootings, candles cards and nowers were also laid around the church in sacramento about the black worshipers were shot during bible class a 21-year-old white man is being questioned about the hate crime. barack obama is condemning what he calls t

yemen has catastrophic consequences as is libya. we have gone in and no follow-up and not hitting the states directly on that but i'm simply saying none of the other stuff that should have should have been bubbled around that is going in. david cole colon was one of the architects of the surge in iraq. and david has described drone strikes for the obama administration as as addictive as cap net. in david's view and many counterinsurgency experts is there is this easy option. we are not taking the hard options. and we are storing up more and more -- to ourselves long-term. but also to go back to the battlefield of the cia conduct did back in 2002 killed an american and i say in the book there's a lot of evidence on the table suggesting that he was knowingly targeted terry at andy go back and you look at darwish at that time it was darwish that was on the fbi's most wanted. it was not a rarity. the guardian read a story a few weeks ago in yemen special forces about to go in. i got a u.s. marine stationed in djibouti to going in to spe

they have exploited power vacuums in yemen to their advantage, taking over large parts of yemen targeting officials and bombing yemeni installations in the years since. in 2013, an attack on a hospital at sanna's defense ministry compound killed dozens and wounded hundreds, carnage that had wahayshi's fingerprints all over it. when wahayshi claimed to be behind the charlie hebdo attack it reinforced to the west how often political instability in yemen may provoke the group further. aqap is attempting to carve out even more space. just an hour after aqap declared wahayshi's death the new leader was announced. >> talks aimed at ending the war in yemen are underway in geneva buff with a mood of mutual distrust are questions over what they can achieve. we have a live report from geneva now. are they actually sitting down and in talks right now? >> they are. the united nations envoy is meeting now with a houthi delegation and also representatives of the former president ali abdullah saleh and melt with members of the ali abdullah saleh party and houthis who said that despite the saudi-led airs

>>> government delegations in geneva are heading back to yemen, after failed peace talks. ♪ >>> hello there, i'm shiulie ghosh. you are watching al jazeera live from doehadoha. the suspect arrested for the church shooting in north carolina has reportedly confessed. >>> and a noble cause or meaningless gesture, business leaders in south africa spend the night out in the cold to raise awareness about homelessness. ♪ >>> talks in geneva to end the war in yemen have collapsed. delegation members from yemen's government in exile are currently making their way to the airport. the foreign minister has told al jazeera that the houthi representatives never left their hotel room. let's go to hashem ahelbarra who joins us live from geneva. a lot of frustration clearly over there, hashem. tell us what happened. why did the talks collapse? >> reporter: there has been some fresh developments over the last few minutes, there was a last ditch effort by the united nations envoy to convince the delegation to stay. but after the meeting came to an end the minister of foreign affairs came out and said

existence hangs in the balance and why parties bicker yemen burns. the parties have a responsibility to end the fighting and begin the real process of peace and reconciliation. >> reporter: yemens foreign minister responded to ban ki-moon's plan and says there won't be a ceasefire until houthis withdraw from captured areas but a houthi spokesman says that is unlikely to happen. >> translator: we are not happy with this version of taking the security matters in our hands, who is going to fill in that vacuum? the state institution, police and army are not able even to protect themselves and when they speak about laying down arms giving up arms to whom should we give arms and we should hand over their arms to the state authority, yet, the state authority is absent. >> reporter: to geneva and al jazeera is there and a lot of optimism surrounding these talks. >> well you have the statement of the yemen foreign minister who said it's not going to be any ceasefire any time soon unless houthis pull out from areas they control and houthi spokesperson saying t

war in yemen. he says it is complex, but remains optimistic that an agreement can be reached. let's speak to our correspondent, hashem ahelbarra who has been at those talks in geneva. and the u.n. envoy hopeful that a ceasefire can be achieved soon. given what you know about what happened at those talks and the fact that the houthis didn't even join the table, do you share that optimism? >> reporter: well shiulie, there has been a huge trust deficit between the warring factions in yemen, particularly between the government in exile, and on the one hand the houthis and the former president on the other. it was extremely difficult for the international community and the united nations to bring them together and tell them you have to set your differences aside, and just focus on the need to implement a ceasefire. for the government a ceasefire means the houthis have to pull out from areas they control, and stop shelling civilian areas. the houthis say we have a different narrative. a ceasefire means t

as fighting continues across yemen, talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. in the absence of progress here in geneva yemen's only hope is an agreement between the region's key players and the international community when a humanitarian truce and have all the parties in yemen accept it and stop the suffering of people. al jazerra geneva. >>> denmark's center right opposition party has won thursday's parliamentary elections. the block led by the former prime minister won enough seats to defeat the coalition government. the prime minister says she will step down as leader of her party. >>> still ahead, in a rare move, israel allows some palestinian to his enter east jerusalem without a permit. we'll be live in the old city. >>> plus remembering the battle of waterloo and how it changed the course of european history. striking in mexico... >> all that tension is about what's happening right now. >> unlivable wages... >> you can work very hard and you will remain poor. >> what's

this during peace attacks talks for yemen. >> car bombs hit a houthi stronghold in the yemen capital as iraq. houthi headquarters were locate there had. this was not the only attack targeting the houthies since they took over sanaa last year. in march islamic state claimed responsibility targeting houthi mosques. more than 100 people were killed. the attacks come at a time when crucial talks to solve yemen's crisis are under way in geneva. the united nations has been urging the warring factions to agree on a humanitarian truce. but each party has pre-conditions, and there has been little or no progress. the houthis and forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh say that the saudi-led strikes must stop. they insist they must stop shelling the cities. the saudi-led coalition said they'll stop bombing the houthis and allies once they pull out of the cities they control. in the meantime, the united nations envoy is on the offensive. he has only a few days left to salvage a deal. if yemen's rivals fail to make progress fighting will continue, and the humanitarian crisis will get

nasser al-wuhayshi's death is the latest in yemen. and the parties come together to form a united political. this at the european parliament.

drone strike in yemen. and sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi was in charge of al-qaeda in the arab peninsula and u.s. regarded him as one of the most dangerous people in the world and we have the story. >> reporter: the meeting of al-qaeda in the arab peninsula was held last year in the open and during daylight hours and despite the drone attack the leader seemed to be saying we are not afraid. clearly mocking the u.s. and yemen governments who for years have vowed to get rid of aqap and a target for well over a decade has been eliminated but is the threat still alive? >> al-qaeda, the original al-qaeda has by and large been neutral iezed in the last several years and al-qaeda and arab peninsula has not and is probably the most significant to the west in terms of both capability and intent to conduct terrorist attacks. >> reporter: [bomb sounds] aqap under the stewardship has been considered the active and dangerous wing of the al-qaeda network, formed in 2009 after the merger of the saudi and yemen branches of al-

the gathering is a crucial opportunity to pull yemen from the brink of disaster. >> today yemen's very existence hangs in the balance. why parties are bik -- while parties are bickering yemen burns. the parties who have responsibility to end the fighting and begin a real process of peace and reconciliation. >> reporter: exphoobimeub called forcomeub called for aban ki-moon called for a be two week truce to allow the humanitarian be be organizations access. >> reporter: meaningful talks will start when the houthis arrive in geneva. for now neither the houthis nor the government seem to be willing to make concessions. >> we are not happy with this burden of taking the security matters in our hand. who is going to fill in this vacuum? this states of institutions, police and army are not able even to protect themselves. >> reporter: fighting continues across yemen. in the city of ta'izz, forces loyal to president hadi said they willpower a houthi offensive. yemen's facebook and key international players are here. they don't seem to have a united approach on how to solve the country's probl

layers of four are breaking yemen. in the last week there have been car bombs outside mosques in san aa. since the bombing started, al qaeda has taken more territory. many civilians have died in the bombings. here, because they lose a little ways away from a senior command center. this is the shrapnel that destroyed their homes. this is a damaged copy of the koran next to his damaged house and car. >> they were on the ground, cut open, their brains were out. no words can describe what i saw. jeremy: how many dead kids were there? >> 5. a five-year-old, his cousin, a six-year-old, their two sisters one of them was beheaded. right now, everyone hates the saudis. >> they say they have a political ejected. to send a message to the iranians that they cannot metal in saudi arabia's backyard. the question is, is this the way to achieve that? at the hospital in sanaa, dr. say the dowdy blockade stops them from getting all of the drugs that they need to treat people who have been burned in airstrikes. this 2-year-old will survi

they tell us that those in yemen are struggling this year. the market used to be so crowded that people struggled to walk. now there are hardly anything. >> they don't have enough goods. we could not get enough goods for this year. the imports are closed. that has increased the prices. there is a 35% to 40% hike in rate. >> people are coming here, but not like the previous years. yes, we see some people coming to do some shopping but it's not just for affordability. there are people who can forward to leave and they've left. many have bin displaced because of the fighting with. >> the situation is different this year. i think this is due to the fact that several families have been displaced the seen imposeed. >> we don't see people shopping here. the markets are empty and not like previous years. >> the cost of doing business has gone up because of lower electricity and limited fuel. shoppers say they're afraid of the bombings in fighting but they can't stay up doors. >> we're struggling in the holy month of ramadan. we hope things will get b

secessionists from the south accused the houthis of killing people in southern yemen. as fighting conditions across -- continues across yemen, talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. >> in the absence of progress in geneva, yemen's only hope is an agreement between the key players and the international community on a humanitarian truce, and have all the parties in yemen accepted and stop the suffering of people >>> u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon refused to answer questions about why israel was left out of a list of violators in a report on children in conflict zones. more than 500 children died during israel's military operations in gaza. our diplomatic editor james bays reports from u.n. hours. -- headquarters. >> the u.n. secretary-general reporting on children in the conflict zones to security council, it's a controversial document league israel off its list of worst violators, despite detailing how the israeli operation in gaza caused the death of more than 540 children. later, ban ki-mo

talks over yemen in geneva. and jeb bush confirms he will run for the republican presidential nomination. will it be bush against clinton once again? hello, sudan's president omar al bashir back in country after fled an arrest warrant in south africa. arrived in khartoum. flew out of the johannesburg earlier on monday. searchg's highsouth africa's high court is launching an investigation why he was not kept in the country. want ed by the international criminal court claims that he committed atrocities during the darfur conflict. more details from johannesburg. >> the south african government has seven days to respond to a request by the high court. the president went to a south african summit and was ordered to stay in the country to allow for his arrest by the south african government. despite that bashir left earlier on monday and since then a high court has said south africa's flouted international law as well as the order set out by the high court and this is in line with south africa's sentiment as well as

negotiators are urging direct talks to end the conflict in yemen. all sides are meeting in gentleman neave actual but they are negotiating through mediators high on the agenda is an immediate ceasefire. >> reporter: the are the houthis and allies of the deposed president saleh. they are in geneva for crucial talks aimed at stopping violence in em yemen the united nations has called on all the parties to agree on a two-week humanitarian truce. >> the fighting on the ground is an issue think but the biggest problem is the saudi-led air strikes the different sides can agree on a ceasefire but we want the u.n. and international community to put pressure on the saudis to stop the air strikes. >> reporter: the houthis and forces loyal to saleh have the upper hand on the ground in certain areas. they have recently taken new areas on the border with saudi arabia. >> translator: yemen has been destroyed by all sorts of weapons. children and the elderly have been killed. this is why we want the war to stop and the blockade to be lift the. people are starve. t

breaking news from yemen. a series of car bombings in the capital of sanaa has killed and injured dozens of people. that as the foreign minister said that peace talks in geneva are failing to make progress. they're blaming the houthi rebels. >> syrian doctor who calls for a no-fly zone being implemented to prevent chemical bombs from being dropped. >>> and more dealing with the flow of migrants crossing mediterranean see. >>> north korea is saying that it's suffering from the worst drought and a third of its rice paddies have dried up. >> all is not well. this government official said that we're establishing and carry out counter measures against drought damage and despite pictures of lakes, fields full of crops, hillsides covered in trees, north korea is facing it's worth drought in a century. people working on cooperative farms like this one where the rice fields are almost bare, it's a very worrying situation. >> this is the first drought in my 20 years of farming experience. normally the rice should have f

this car bomb attack in yemen's province killed eight spanish tourists. fighters claimed responsibility. be uh this man says there is much more to the story. and it may involve the former yemen president. he was a member of al quaida until 2004. and jailed until 2006, he was released and began his work as a paid informant for the yemen government. he claims he warned security agencies one week before the attack and provided details on the day itself. just over a year later a daring assault on the u.s. emmassey left 19 dead. he again says he warned the security services three months before, a week before, and three days before. his handler as an iranian formant was colonel amar. he says he did not just ignore the attacks he went so far as to hand over money for the explosives used against the u.s. embassy he then arranged for the materials to be given to the military commander al jazeera has verified his background within al quaida, we have also established that he was a bomb maker. that's how he gained detailed knowledge about the attacks. he lost his rig

i have been in yemen twice now and know yemen from before. i'm optimistic because i think as from day one the only solution is a peaceful solution. we believe that the only way to get this war stopped is by the yemeni coming around the table agreeing to be a ceasefire and agreeing on discussion, what we have been describing from day one. we have been saying that the national dialogue and its outcomes and clear solution. we have been clear about this since day one. when they come together, they will be able to find definitely a solution to this terrible war. >> now it's great that they're coming and they are saying not having they preconditions. what is each side bringing to the table. >> we see what we know is as i said earlier what is the guiding now, i will say factor for coming together is the suffering of the population, which you report has well described and the level of the suffering that we witness today in yemen. for me, what i think has been a god development is during my discussion with the houthi, i have seen some flexibility abou

drone strike in yemen. he was known as the man who ran the most violent and dangerous branch of the terror network and he had been plotting attacks against the west for years including the "charlie hebdo" attack as well as the underwear bombing plot that almost happened. this is the second u.s. attackinent terror suspect. paul cruickshank is joining me. he's the co-author of the book "agent storm, my life inside al qaeda." paul thanks for being with us. give us a sense of how this impact aqap. this is a group known for sophisticated bomb technology. does any of that ability -- is it degraded at all because of this? >> well unfortunately not, because you still have this master bomb maker ibrahim al-asiri at large and it may be al qaeda in yemen decide to launch some kind of attack against u.s. aviation to avenge the death of nasir al-wuhayshi. wuhayshi was beloved. he had a very impressive jihadi resume. he was a close confidante of bin laden in the years before 9/11. then he moved back to yemen and built up

. >> talks in geneva to end the war in yemen have collapsed. the foreign minister of yemen's government in exile told al jazeera the houthi representatives never left their hotel room. the delegation plans to leave the negotiations and return to riyadh on saturday. hashem has been following those talks. clearly a lot of frustration in geneva right now. what happened? >> basically it's been almost a week that the international community and the united nations have been trying to bring the war be factions to agree on a political settlement or ceasefire that would be implemented across the country. that didn't happen. as we speak, they haven't been even able to sort of initiate talks with the houthis and have them onboard for the time being. most of the talks have been basically as follows. the united nations envoy would shuttle back and forth go to the hotel of the houthis and the hotel of the yemeni government in a desire to try to see how to move forward. this is exactly why the yemeni foreign minister is skeptical about any break in the near f

we have reports now from geneva. >> car bombs hit the yemen capital. in sanaa one of houthi's headquarters are there. in march the islamic state claimed responsibility for a string of attacks targeting houthi mosques. more than a hundred people were killed. this comes at a time when crucial talks to solve yemen's crisis are under way in geneva. the united nations have been urging the warring factions to agree on a humanitarian truss. but each party has pre-conditions, and there have been little or no progress. the houthies and forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh said that saudi-led airstrikes must stop first. they'rethe saudi-led coalition said that they'll stop bombing the houthies and their allies once they pull out from the cities they control. in the meantime, the united nations envoy met only has a few days left to salvage a deal. if they fail to make progress fighting will continue and the humanitarian crisis will get worse with every passing day. al jazeera. >> there has been a scene of carnage with bodies strewn across the highw

we have to understand that the amount of food that used to be imported to yemen before this conflict was up to 90% of the whole food that you could find in the country. over the last two months or since the air strikes have started only five to 10% of this food has entered in yemen. so you can imagine how difficult it is for poor people to find food in the first place but that's not the only problem, you know whatever food that is available inside the country it's very difficult to distribute it to areas where there are greatest needs for a number of reasons first because there is a very severe short i'm of fuel. which makes it extremely difficult, nearly impossible to transport food from one place to the other. and secondly, because orb times you know, impartial distribution of aid is not able to happen in yep. our convoys are stopped by different armed groups who do not want us to deliver on the other side because they are the enemy. gets being access on the ground is extremely crucial for us, that's why the icrc keeps talking to all the parties in em vinnie. the coalition, all the

it's situated right on yemen's board with saudi arabia. >>reporter: saudi arabiaen 's special forces in training deployed along the border with yemen where coalition air strikes against the houthis continue. the oil-rich kingdom used the houthi rebels of destabilizing the region. saudi arabia insists its military campaign will end only if the houthis pull out from yemen's cities. >> saudi arabia definitely when they started this track in yemen, that he are in it for the long haul or the long term or to achieve the goals. however, achieving goals meaning for civilians and casualties. the houthis should pull out from the cities and capital, stop blocking governments, release political prisoners including the defense minister. >>reporter: but those conditions have been rejected by the houthis and allies of the former president saleh. this is where there could be more fighting. the houthis have gathered forces on the outskirts of an area rich in oil and gas. >> we know that the houthis are planning a major offensive to take over the province.

. >> well delegates of yemen's exiled government have now returned to yemen. as the war continues on the ground the u.n. now appealing for $1.6 billion to help millions of yemenis avoid a humanitarian disaster. victoria gatenby reports. >> forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh in the southern city of ta'izz. before the fighting started yemen was already one of the world's most impoverished countries. now u.n. is warning that all services are collapsing. >> this is supposed to be the holy month of ramadan. look at us. >> my god i tell you it is horror. >> reporter: the u.n. has appealed for $1.6 billion to help the 21 million people who need aid. >> on the evidence of our own eyes i'm deliberately raising the arm about the looming humanitarian catastrophe facing yemen, 21 million yemenis 80% of the country's population are in need of some form of need to protect their fundamental rights. >> reporter: the situation in yemen is dire with supplies running low and fears of an outbreak of deg gay gen gay fever. people have no longer access to fresh wat

. >> suffering in place of celebration this is ramadan in yemen. we're supposed to feel joys, to relax with our families. but look at us. the holy month starts with a string of car bombs and dozens dead in sanaa. we're living in pure horror. we are terrified. in geneva peace negotiations between yemen's government in exile and the houthis were supposed to yield a cease-fire. instead, they resulted in successful. at the talks ended with an agreement to stop the fighting. the situation is so dire that the u.n. launched an appeal for $1.6 billion to help civilians in yemen. >> on the evidence of our own eyes i am deliberately raising the alarm about the looming humanitarian catastrophe facing yemen where 80% of the country's population are in need of some form of aid to meet their basic needs. >> severe water, food and medicine shortages are but a few of the many reasons that the country's health system is close to collapse. millions of families no longer have access to proper sanitation, which means that a recent outout of dengue fever may put more p

as fighting continues across yemen, talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to nah owe differences narrow differences between the rival factions. in the absence the progress here in gentleman neave a yemen's only hope is an agreement between the key players and the international community when a humanitarian truce and have all the parties in yemen accept it and stop the suffering of people. al jazerra geneva. >>> still to come here on al jazerra, taking on the why peace could be a distant prospect in northern mallee. and german calling for new rules to get asylum seekers on the fast track to employment. more on that, stay with us. arrested... >> ground breaking... they're firing canisters of gas >> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome back, a quick reminder of the stop stories here on al jazerra

he needs the support of the international community, and yemen's neighbors >>> the u.n. was hoping to announce a cease fire before the talks but that seems unlikely- >>> we still don't know that they will to create a climate conducive to moving forward. >>> yemen is concerned that the consultations might drag on, exlead to more violence. >>> in regards to the you want n. brokered talks, we hope that something positive will come out of the meeting between the parties because we want the war to be over. >>> i believe the u.n. talks arwaste of time, because the u.n. was behind the unjust resolution, and they are behind a major failure in safeguarding the security in yemen. saudi arabia launched airstrikes, in march. the oil rich kingdom accuses them the de stabilizing the region, the u.n. resolution passed on april called a houthi fighters to withdraw from all yemen cities, and they insist that the campaign would end only if that happens. >>> when they started, they are in it for the long-haul and however, achieving goals meaning more civilians and more casualties, and i th

start with yemen y. is yemen so important in the war on terrorism? >> the proximity that it holds to the interests of the suez canal why it's such an important place. but let's also remember that you have country that is geographically very difficult. high mountains in the north the shiites supported by iran. al qaeda, kind of everywhere into the west. and -- or to the east. then you have what the remnants of whatever is left of the government which i believe saudis and other allies of ours are trying to support. going to be a long, drawn out civil war. >> al qaeda that is there the u.s. drone strike killed number two in al qaeda there. also the bomb maker of al qaeda who is there. in terms of central place. >> aqap has long been one of the number one high value targets of our in tell generals services and our military. and thankfully we were successful with our counter terrorism operations this week. >> i want to ask you about that there seemed to be confusion of what the drones hit. this is not the first time that happened y. is the intelligence so

as fighting continues across yemen talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. in the offices of progress here in geneva yemen's only hope is an agreement between the region's key players and the international community on a humanitarian truce and have them accept it and stop the suffering of people. al jazeera, geneva. >>> tunisia says it will close the consulate in libya following the kidnapping of ten of its staff, seven of them were freed on friday while the other three released a day earlier and the prime minister says they are back home and release after a tunisia court talked about the libya dawn malitia allied with the tripoli government. prayer vigils across the united states for the nine victims of the charleston church shooting, candles and cards and flowers in south carolina where the black worshippers were shot during bible class, a 21-year-old white man questioned about the hate crime and barack obama is condemning what he calls a senseless shooting andy reports t

his fighters and troops loyal to the former president have a growing influence in yemen and he is on an offensive saying he's here to talk about peace until the chapter of war. >>> we are committed to dialogue and, political agreement between all the facts and we don't want to exploit them. >>> the government in exile remains skeptical, they are buying time. >>> we hope they join it, and hand rise it. >>> four presidents, and his ali control the republican guard and, the unit blamed for shelling civilian areas and they have been firing rockets to repel a push loyal to the president. the envoy says the army should stay in act to protect yemen. >>> the military establish men's which is being pounded by the saudi led coalition against political vacuum, and the army is the backbone of any transitions, and if there's no army and police, and the next government will be undermined. >>> it turned into a scuffle and, they accused them the killing people in southern yemen, as fighting continues across yemen talks are stalled and the u.n., hasn't been able to far low differences, between the ri

plus, under armour investigates -- yemen is onr in everyone's mind. the special interview you do not want to miss. erik: investors trying to digest effect of a potential greek default and the possibility of that is growing more likely. a hedge fund manager is not too worried, here's what he told us. >> greece defaults on public sector, no big deal. decided 1.6 trillion. the greek default is about 120 billion. governments have issued a response. olivia: shorten it off. incredible to hear him say that. erik: that is only in the event of a default, not in the event of a greek exit from the euro. of the this is part instability which will re-fence the european economy. olivia: without a default automatically met a quick exit from the euro, and no longer means that. now we hear about capital controls without a default. erik: they will bring in capital controls just as sippers did and he has been able to shed those off. olivia: iselin guarded of theirs. we also hear from janet yellen tomorrow. for more, i want to bring in kelly boss and carl riccadonna. car

chuck: what is it about yemen? why so much focus on yemen? why is so much terrorism taking root in that country? yochi: yemen is ravaged by a civil war and proxy war between saudi arabia and iran and there's chaos and the c.i.a. and u.s. special operations command pulled personnel out of yemen so if you're al qaeda, you're pressured by the yemeni government and the u.s. it's an open ranged and terror groups it's like plants getting water. chaos to them is what water is to a plant. once it begins around them, the group grows. gwen: we have numbers from an annual report from the state department that came out about terrorist activity. what did it tell us? yochi: 32,000 people died from terror attacks in 2014. the number of wounded is up 35%. most of the deaths are in afghanistan, iraq, pakistan, but 33 -- 33,000 people. gwen: how do they quantify that? there's so much war about numbers -- amnesty international counts differently than the t pakistani government counts. how do they decide what qualifies as a terror attack and a victim? yochi: the

though they are largely subdivided over the future of yemen. the united nations has been trying for years to reconcile differences between yemen's key players. that didn't work. its hope now is to start a new process based on a ceasefire as the first step followed by a houthi pullout from the main cities then negotiate a power sharing deal but that might take years. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera geneva. >> the devastating earthquake that hit nepal in april was so big it actually moved mountains. mountain everest the world's highest peak was moved south by three meters and another mountain moved north by two meters. >>> in the main square in kathmandu, sabina shrestha reports. >> back to business. that is what nepal's government is saying as the country opens up its heritage sites damaged by april's earthquake. more than 1700 monuments were damaged by the quake 33 of them were here at dabar square. >> we have to open the site and welcome tourists who want to share our sites to them. >> since the earthquake tourism has come to a standstill. large

-brokered talks to end the fighting in yemen break down. why the yemeni government in exile says waiting for a peace agreement is a waste of time. >>> and has greece received enough to hold off a debt default. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. it is 10:45 eastern, taking a look at today's top stories. in new york legislators have come to a temporary agreement on rent control as lawmakers continue to fight over the protections of renters in the city. >>> the obama administration is proposing a major new regulation meant to make trucks more fuel efficient. it would call for 24% less fuel consumption in heavy duty trucks. it is the latest in the series of moves by the epa to reign in carbon pollution. >>> the man on a roof was a stow away who fell from a plane. a second person suspected of being a stow away was found alive on the same flight. he is in serious condition at a hospital. >>> talks to end the war in yemen have collapsed. yemen's foreign minister telling al jazeera, his delegation plans to leave geneva as early as tomorrow. u.

we are crossing to beirut and speak to ambassador yemen's ambassador to lebanon and live from beirut and thank you for being with us and they are expected to hold talks in kuwait and saudi arabia on a draft piece of proposal and what are you hearing about that proposal what is in it? >> thank you very much. this made the raging battles and ongoing violence and humanitarian situation in yemen the all parties in yemen and said that secretary-general initiative for consultation and only yemeni factions should constructive engagement in this consultation. >> but you sound pretty confident that there will be constructive dialog. where does that confidence come from considering the peace talks that broke down in geneva earlier this month? >> as i mentioned i'm very optimistic that the parties will go back to the consultation because they should look to the humanitarian situation in yemen and they should take their responsibility in front of the yemen people to find the solution for this crisis. also with the united nations, only appreciate coming from the united nations to present the sens

so they are supporting their enemy. >> reporter: this kind of chaos has yemen worried. it's the battle ground between america and saudi arabia on one side and iran on the other. it's a fight that is bringing yemen to its knees and threatens to destroys everything in its path. for pbs newshour, this is jane ferguson yemen. >> wooduff: russia's president vladimir putin today blamed nato expansion and the united states for fanning the flames of conflict in ukraine. he did that at an international economic conference held in st. petersburg. part of the program featured an interview with putin by pbs' own charlie rose. >> wooduff: seated in front of an audience of business people political leaders and journalists, the russian president blamed the west for the conflict in ukraine. >> help us understand as you see it where are we how did we get there, and where do we go from here? >> ( translated ): why is there a crisis in ukraine? i was quite confident after the bipolar system went into oblivion and after the collapse of the soviet union certain western partners of ours part

fighting continues across yemen. in the city of taiz forces loyal to president hadi said that they repelled a houthi offensive. the united nations fears all out civil war talks will collapse. they do inwhile they do in the have a talks talks, but all agree that it should end. >> in south korea students are back in school. plus, 800 years after magna carta a community still fighting for justice. and in sport we'll have all the actions on the nba finals as one team moves close for glory. >> four leaders stand accused of a shameful failure. amnesty international say that millions of people face the worst refugee crisis in our area. more desperate people over 13,000 syrians crossed the border in the past week fleeing fighting between isil and kurdish forces. amnesty's report said that four million syrian refugees are struggleing to survive in turkey , lebanon, jordan, iraq and egypt. there are more than 3 million refugees in sub is a harrah's africa. 3.5000 people die crossing the medicine in 2014, and almost 2,000 have

while parties bicker yemen burns. the parties have a responsibility to end the fighting and begin a process of peace and reconciliation. >> ban ki-moon called for a 2-week truce to allow aid delivers to the needy. the chairman blamed the houthis for fighting. >> there'll be no ceasefire or pause unless houthis withdraw from all, unless they stop all fighting on the ground. unless they release all hostages, prisoners. >> meaningful talks start when the houthis arrive in geneva. for now, neither the houthis, nor the government seem to be willing to make concessions. >> translation: we are not happy with this version of taking the security matters in our hands, who is going to fill in this vacuum this state institutions police and army are not able to protect themselves. >>> fighting conditions across yemen. in the city of tiaz forces loyal to president abd-rabbu mansour hadi said they propelled a houthi offensive. the united nation fears all-out civil war as the talks collapse. >> yemen's neighbours and key players are