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soil. a day after a group of western and african couldn't trees declare tounite, nigerian residents say they may launch their search party to help find girls. mohammed adow has more. >> they have warmly welcomed the declaring of war on boko haram. they say boko harammez will have nowhere to hide in cameroon, chad and nijer. the long and porous border, they have been picking up supplies. france is crucial to the implementation and brings together former colleagues that

are neighbors of nigeria, particularly camerron which doesn't have a good diplomatic relationship with nigeria. people fear the threat would not accident happen as long as the government does not deal with the core issues. this include grinding poverty, unemployment and the unfair distribution of the country's wealth. >> the husband of a pregnant sudanese woman who has been sentenced to death says he will appeal that ruling. she was convicted of abandoning muslim and marrying a christian. the judge rules she should be hanged to death. her husband says he is an american citizen but says he hasn't received any help whatsoever from the u.s. government. >> considering i am an american citizens, i am disappointed with

the american embassy was position at the whole case. at the start of the issue, i reported it to them. they didn't take much interest. they came late. they intervened when they saw it was getting press attention, but the entintervention was late. >> the woman was raised an orthodox christian because she grew up without her muslim father who left when she was 6. he bra hem's case is the first to be heard in sudan. a final ruling will be announced on thursday. >> the government of yemen has launched the largest defensive against al-qaeda in years but now they are struggle to go pay for the latest operation and calling on the west for support. al jazeera's hashira al abara spoke to thephon minister. >> yemen's southern provinces are now battle grounds, a large military operation against al-qaeda is underway. the army is making gains. it has recaptured some areas like azan where these fighters

established a state of their own with a leader, a judiciary and an army yemen said the government will not let al-qaeda destabilize the nation's political transition? >> al-qaeda has created a threat for the transition. >> that's one. second, of course, as it has always been a threat to the stability of yemen as far as from point of view of economic development, investments. the government could not just stand and watch. >> reporter: these soldiers are celebrating recent victories. the army has been divided by instability conflicts. it's now under pressure to win the latest battle, but that requires huge resources which

impoverished yes, ma'ameps cannot afford. >> look at the budget and the military. it's beyond really yemen's abilities. yet we are continuing with these actions really to preserve the safety of our citizens and security of the country. we hope is that knowing it the magnitude of the challenge we face that we will get more support. >> the fight is mostly led by these fighters, but neighboring saudi arabia and the u.s. say they are stepping in one way or another. yes, ma'amep's president says his country is in an open war with al-qaeda, a war that in turn very costly if the fighting continues for a long period. officials here are very frustrated. they have been expecting the international community to deliver substantial, financial

and military support at this very critical moment for the country. al jazeera. >> mexican authorities say they have caught a notorious drug lord. police arrested nava, the head of a gang known as los brojos. accused of trafficking drugs to the united states and police think he murdered eight army soldiers back in 2008. several other suspected drug lords have been arrested or killed by security forces since the president was elected back in 2012. thousands of chinese nationals have been evacuated from vietnam has tensions he can late over an oil rig in the south china sea. beijing chartered two flights and it meanwhile, hanoi deployed hundreds of police on the streets just to break up those protesters. at least two people have been killed and more than 100 others injured in a wave of anti-chinese riots. adrienne brown has more. >> reporter: the fact that china is sending in its warships to

evacuate nationals is an indication of how serious this has become. the first of the war ships is due to arrive in vietnam in the early hours of monday morning. the other vessels will follow. each vessel, we understand, can accommodate about 2000 people. potentially, we are looking at the evacuation of around about 10,000 chinese nationals. the last time we would have seen an evacuation of foreign nationals on this scale would have been when the united states gain began its speedy withdrawal from vietnam just before the fall of saigon in april, 1979. 3,000 nationals have been evacuated in the last few days. >> began after chinese easy businesses, in fact, any symbols of china, were attacked by mobs in the north and the south and also the center of the country. in all, 22 out of vita nam's 63

prove convinceset nam's 63 prove convinces. now, the authorities have been doing what they canetnam's 63 prove convinces. now, the authorities have been doing what they can. there was a small demonstration outside the chinese easy embassy in hanoi. >> was broken up by the authorities journalists and protesters were pushed away. china is doing more to protect nationals. we have seen no more and that is pretty simple. the chinese ease don't want any spontaneous gatherings on the streets as the sensitive june the 4th anniversary approaches. of course, china has disputes with two other nabors, japan and the philippines and i don't think to its people it wants to be seen as the bad boy on the block. >> ukrainians are preparing to vote in next week's presidential elections. there isn't a lot of support for those elections at least in the east. at a pro-russian rally on tuesday, the self-declared leader of donetsk said a

presidential poll won't wathapp on his watch. >> in the russian speaking east, cam papering ahead of the presidential election is well underway. separatists who have de-claried an independent republic say people aren't going to vote. the newly appointed prime minister said those tasked with organizing the vote are quitting. there is no pressure on them. it's simple. these elections are not interesting to anybody. he asked he won't use troops to stop the vote but according to one election monitoring group, they are trying to do that. >> six out of 10 people come to

the commission it is the territory of donetsk republic and it's illegal to organization the presidential election of ukraine. >> 6 out of 22 electoral offices have been shut down. we found one of them. >> the sign says the electoral commission responsible for the city's polling district is not working the gate isn't locked, but there is no one inside. >> while looking for someone to speak to, we found a sign with a flag of the donetsk people's republic that says the offices inside have been seeldz. -continues as you don't recanor it isn't going unnoticed. fears of next sunday's vote aren't easily voted away. >> i am worried about safety at

the polling station. there could be provocations, some people using force. this doesn't make sense. >> the let's go commission says it's prepared with thousands of monitors on standby and is urging people to vote. but one poll shows that in the east, more than 32% of people plan on staying home and another 31% aren't sure who they will vote for or whether they will vote at all. >> that's stalking fears unrest could continue past election day by fueling calls the outcome isn't representative. kim vinnell, al jazeera donetsk. >> eighteen people have den detained in connection with last week's deadly mine collapse in it turkey. executives from the mining people and 303 people were killed when an explosion caused that mine to collapse. the incidents have caused outrage from the government and the mining industry all due to a lack of safety measures.

>> tens of thousands of protesters gathered in seoul voicing outrage of how the government handled last month's ferry disaster. during a candle ite villagial ill, many chand take responsibility and give our children back. they want the government to find 19 passengers who are still missing and to figure out exactly what caused that ferry to sink killing 270 people, many of whom were high school students. >> raising the minimum wage continues to be a hot button issue right here in the united states, but voters in switzerland today rejected a proposal to raise the minimum wage to $25 an hour. al jazeera's nazu mojiri takes us to the front lines of that debate. >> on the shores of lake zurich, this restaurant is one of many new businesses that have opened up in recent years. employees here already earn around $3,700 a month. the owners say they can't afford to pay people more.

>> the question we ask ourselves is if the customer would be ready to pay that price we have to pay for a cup of coffee. >> when many are struggle with unemployment and debt, switzerland, which is not in the eu remains an island of prosperity. with unemployment at only 4%. the debate exposes not everyone is enjoying the benefits. >> a single ticket for the tram costs about $5. there may be lower taxes but the high cost of food, of respect and insurance make this one of the most expensive countries in the world to live. in zurich's poorer suburbs, life can be difficult.

many are paid less than the proposed minimum wage. small businesses like this would have to make cuts if its introduced, most people agree it would be a fairer system. >> is hard to buy clothes because everything is getting from year to year more expensive. everyone needs to get a good salary. >> right now, a lot of people who don't make enough money have to go to the state v to collect benefits just to pay their rent at the end of the month and that's basically taxpayers subsidizing the companies who don't want to pay their employees enough. ♪ >> reporter: there will be another referendum on a basic income for all swiss whether they work or not. n nazani mashir, zurich. >> heavy gunfire is being reported where an outlying general is claiming responsibility for an attack on parliament. this follows violence in

benghazi on friday between forces led by former general kalifha hafta. 79 people were killed in attacks on two religious militias. he is charged with carrying out a coup. he says he is stacking parliament and tripoli to away extremists. >> we have launched satellites, but many aren't operational. we will tell you about an amateur effort to bring one of them right back to life. plus after three months and days of torrential rain, the bal kaningz face the worst flooding in more than a century.

at least 25 people have died from the worst flooding in a century in the bal kaningz. thousands have been forced.

>> . >> reporter: with more than 25,000 people being driven from homes as the flood waters from the saba river continue to rise, the priority for the rescue crews is the evacuation of the sick and elderly. but many of the most vulnerable remain trapped. they are running out of food and drinking water. it is a massive logistics operation that's threatening to completely overwhelm serbia's emergency services. helicopters shuttle ferrying those too weak to walk. a lot of people are in their apartments. there were a lot of people who didn't want to leave their homes. they stayed behind. on saturday, more than 4,000 people exhausted, carrying nothing but a few belongings boarded coaches for the emergency shelters, set up in schools and sports arenas.

it could be a long time before they will be able to return home over stretched local rescue teams are being backed up by civilian volunteers. >> people call us from all over the country to offer help. i hope that stays the same over the coming days when people in the affected areas will really need all of the help they can get. >> the country's biggest power station cited on the very basics of the saba river is now under threat. capacity at nikola tesla power plant has been cut. waters have reached the basement of the plant. a total shutdown would blackout the reaming on at the height of this national emergency. peter sharp, al jazeera. tens of thousands of california residents evacuated due to those raging wildfires are now preparing to return home. fire fighters near san diego are trying to guard the area, hoping to prevent flames from reigniting. but the winds that fueled the

wildfires are expected to pick back up today. crews are focused on fires at camp pendelton marine base in san markos and fires are being blamed for one death and has bund through more than 20,000 acres and destroyed many homes. right now, for the latest on that area, the forecast, those fire fighters can expect today, we turn now to our meteorologist, eboni dion. >> temperatures are trending cooler. winds are expected to pick back up. >> could at at least a few problems to some areas. at least the wind direction is certainly helping. it's coming in off of the pacific, transporting a little bit more in the way of moisture. notice the relative humidity values in san francisco. even los angeles with sent % relative humidity. we are picking up on a little bit more in the way of moisture. >> southwesterly wind flow isn't transporting that moisture in our interior sections of the southwest. it's from las vegas into phoenix and into albuquerque where it is just really too dry and that is why we do have red flag warnings

up because these areas will stay not only dry but, also, very hot with temperatures climbing well into the 80s, 90s and triple digital over the next couple of days. we are dealing with the winds gusting possibly as high as 40, even localized areas could see winds upwards to 50 miles per hour. notice here across southern california, we have a wind advises occurs occur in effect about 40, 50 miles per hour. but it is just a little bit further inland from the sanl marcos area, hit hard with wildfires. there is some light at the end of the tunnel. with that, high temperatures are coming down at least a good 10 degrees in some locations. so we dealt with 90s even around san diego. we will see temperatures cooling off into at least the low 70s and eventually getting into the upper 60s. so a nice cooldown on the way and that will help us out tremendously. where we will find rain in the west, merrill here across the northwest with an area of low pressure that will continue to rotate inland. a developing frontal boundary

that will trigger not only showers but a few thunderstorms. we are dealing with a slight risk of strong to severe storms here into eastern areas of montana, could see an isolated tornado but the main threat will be the strong damaging winds as well as some heavy rainfall and hail. keep that in mind. also in other area dealing with the rainfall across the southeast, raining pretty much all day long, we will watch out for some areas across central georgia for stronger storms. morgan. >> thanks, eboni. since the soviets put putnic into orbit in 1957sputnik into hundreds are operational. many have long since run out of power or burned up in the earth's atmosphere. one enterprising group of amateur space enthusiasts has a big plan. our science editor jacob ward explains. >> there is a forgotten satellite out there. a few every day people want to get it back. in 1978, nasa launched the ic 3

satellite to study the points where the earth and sun cancel out each other's gravitational pull, the langragian point. nasa repurposed it to be the first spacecraft to intercept a comet, an amazing piece of engineering improvisation. but then it was forgotten and drifted farther from earth and was given up on. later this summer, the satellite is going to orbit back to earth, and this week, a volunteer team of space enthusiasts is going to try to establish ongoing contact with it and control of the spacecraft. think of them as a sort of salvage team. if they can get ic-3 up and running again, they will be in possession of a fullly functional satellite for educational purposes. but getting that done is no joke. first of all, the volunteer team has to figure out how to build a simulation of a computer language that naings used to control the pacific craft in the 19 sentence and 80s. the telemetry data alone looks

like a taxi receipt. it is gibberish. if they can speak this satellite's language, the rest is straightforward. as of 2008, most of the instruments were function can. there is enough power left to achieve a course change of about 40 meters a second. >> that's what they will need to get it into a stable orbit around our planet. at that point, they will have a public science lab up in the sky ready for any student that wants a glimpse of our planet or what's beyond it. >> interestingly, the third commercial resupply mission to the international space station undocked a few hours ago. the vehicle arrived at the station about a month ago and is on its way back to earth with a load of science samples and other equipment. space x also known as space exploration technologies have a contract with nasa for a total of 12 cargo flights. two down and one to go for california chrome as he makes his bid to become racing's first triple crown winner in more than 3 and a half decades. on saturday, the horse won the preakness race.

>> california chrome reaching for the wire. another 16, from the outside, california chrome. has won the preakness. >> look at him go. now, he is in position to be the first horse to win the triple crown since "ample" did in 1978. the next test is the belmont stakes on june 7th. coming up next, a beach far bigger than -- a beast bigger than california chrome, what may have been the largest diep sawyer that ever lived. you are watching al jazeera america.

good morning and welcome back to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford. here are today's headlines. today after a group of western and african countries declare to unite in their fight against boko haram locals say they may launch their own search party to find the missing girls. a dispute over oil,

thousands of chinese nationals have been evacuated from vetnam all in the wake of violent anti-chinese protests. devastating flooding in serbia and bosnia where tens of thousands of people are packing buses, boats and helicopters to get out before more water is expected to rise today. tonight, al jazeera america will debut an 8-part series examining the u.s. legal system. it's called "the system" with joe berlinger and in part one, he talks become false confessions? >> i have done a lot of cases but this one has a special twist to it. >> in this case, there was not even a false confession. there was not a confession at all. kir sten did not confess to this crime. >> instead, labodo claims she was raped in las vegas and defended herself by stabbing her

attacker. she told a counselor about the incident. when a homeless man named duran daily was found dead and mutilated in a dumpster on the other side of to, the counselor called las vegas homicide. >> when the detectives came to her house, she thought they were questioning her about her being a victim of a rape, attempted rape, a violent crime, not a suspect in a murder indicates. she was led to believe by her silence they were talking about the same case. >> that's one of the biggest travesties we are dealing with here. >> "the system" with joe berlinger premeerpz at 6:00 p.m. pacific. finally, those jer jurasic park dinosaurs are no match for one found in argentina. they foundbones of seven that they believe were the largest creatures ever to rome the earth. it's estimated they stood at 130 feet tall and weighed more than 14 adult he will fans or 180,000

pounds. thanks for watching al jazeera america. i am morgan radford. "listening post" is coming up next. for news throughout the day, always go to al jazeera amerial aljazeera.com. i am richard ginzberg. if you want to pick a side in the ukraine story, pick a channel. there is something for everyone. protesters in thailand want just one side of that story told. so they have given journalists marching orders. we will drill down into the coverage of the economic story in greece