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♪ welcome back and reminder of stories in yemen and gun battle between soldiers and fighters and across the capitol sanaa and reports the president has flown from the palace and a convow has been attacks and minister told al jazeera the capitol is in chaos and could be a new yemen by the end of the day. here is what she told us earlier. >> the president is in south it's very tense and we can hear fire exchange and random not as much as the morning, random explosions or gunshots. there is there was a meeting around an hour ago at the president's house that included the prime minister and high-level representatives of the houthis and they agreed from this meeting that the ceasefire will happen and there will be a

field committee which is supposed to go around the streets and ensure that the ceasefire does happen. however, once the members of the meeting including the prime minister left the meeting at the president's house they were shot at and hopefully they can make it to their residence but we know that the prime minister is still fine and know the leaders are fine. >> where is the president? sorry, where is the president? >> the president is in his house. >> he is where? >> his house, he is still in his residence in sanaa. >> the president is in sanaa. >> yes, this meeting did not include any diplomates. there was news that this happened but it did not. the meeting was of many and in charge of the defense was

supposed to meet with the houthis to start the calming the streets and ensuring a ceasefire and they could not meet so the ceasefire has not started and it's very dangerous in the streets. >> the agency and state news agency has been taken over by the houthis and you have said this is an attempted coup. >> the attempted coup is not with the t.v. it's actually this morning when there were attempts to enter the or take over the presidential palace, and the takeover of the t.v. actually happened gradually and it was through the popular communities and starting in november were spread in all public and state-run organizations or establishments including the media establishment. what happened is that they were there as monitors and saying they were there to fight

corruption but by this time they refused to acknowledge the state authority in the state t.v. and the state radio so that news agency and so i have no authority over those organizations and i tried to pass instructions. i tried to tell them to publish this and broadcast that but they have refused to acknowledge authority. >> you are saying there was an attempted coup when the houthis tried to enter the presidential palace. what is the situation now? were the houthis successfully repelled? repelled? >> no, there was just one casualty and three injured so there was a lot of fire exchange but not many people were actually killed and eventually with mediators they managed to meet at the president's house and the meeting resulted in an

agreement to ceasefire, the ceasefire has not been able to -- they couldn't get it to the t.v. because the committee going the street could not start operations. there is a third-party. >> sorry who is in control of sanaa now? >> to be honest i don't think any single party is in control of sanaa. there are places where the state security is in control, places where houthis are in control and there is a third-party who is also in control of several places. >> who is this third-party? >> well i think there were some people who came from the tribal areas surrounding sanaa and armed men last they came in. we have news also of people affiliated with the republican government because they are wearing the military uniform of the republican which is

affiliated somewhat with a former regime and there are people who are bandits i mean like people who in their best interest to create chaos. this is a very vulnerable situation. i'm very worried that al-qaeda or other terrorist organizations are going to use the lack of order and target anybody. this is why we have been instructed to lay low and all of the foreign diplomates and everybody is taking guard. >> have you yourself a government minister been instructed to leave sanaa, to leave yemen? >> we have been told to stay put in our homes and see how this develops. but we are all staying in the same place where we were before nobody has left the country and the president himself is still in sanaa. >> what is the president's plan to try to regain control?

>> well that was the plan yesterday because he instructed his commanders and military from ministry of defense and interior to spread in the city and ensure that there is control, there is state control after his office manager was abducted a few days ago ago. now, i think his most important security is to have the city safe. >> and how is he hoping to achieve that? is the yemen army still responding to his command? >> not all of it. some of the yemen army are responding to his command and this is why the both ministers of defense and interior were on the committee but there are people who wear the uniform and they do not obey the orders of

the superiors. >> it sounds as though sanaa is in a state of utter chaos. >> at this point, yes. it's a very -- this story is developing so quickly i think by the time i finish this conversation something new is going to happen. we may probably have a new yemen by the end of the day in terms of maybe a new system altogether. i still don't know what is happening. what i know now is there are attempts for ceasefire and there are people or bodies who are trying not to allow this to happen. ♪ welcome back to the ongoing situation in yemen a little bit later in the program, let's move on to other news education activists in kenya calling on government to improve education and address the issue of complimentary schools and schools in slums and rural areas

not part of the formal education system often in bad condition and lack resources. we report from the capitol nairobi. >> reporter: this is not the source of classroom the government wants for children but this is all that is available to them. they attend care takers education center in one of the slums in nairobi and known as a complimentary school and survives mainly on donations. the founder of the school says they provide more support to the children than a government school could. >> translator: if i compare us to the government's cause we address more needs because a child could come to their school without sandals and uniforms and some students need medicine during the day and we give it to them, this would not happen in the public schools. >> reporter: many are orphans or have parents sick with hiv, aids. the facilities are simple but the school is serving a need.

if these children were not here they would be on the streets, easy prey for criminal gangs and there are 2000 schools like this in kenya but analysts say the figure is probably much higher and he has been researching complimentary schools for the past six years. what are some of the challenges? >> one, lack of structure. these schools are managed by owners who see only the profits and not able to talk about how to manage the schools and we have few teachers and the teachers are not well trained and are poor and therefore high teacher turn over in the school and dissolution and the government is providing solutions answer the police are piecemeal and addressing specific areas and we need schools in islam and high-capacity schools with the large population we have in the slums. >> reporter: the government says it's committed to improving access to school and introduced

free primary education and also supports some of the alternative schools financially and with books and other classroom materials. it's a complex issue with no easy answers and analysts say they need to consider what is best for children in the long-term, al jazeera, nairobi. >> post traumatic stress disorder or ptsd is major for soldiers who have been through combat and in afghanistan with come flint for 40 years there is a cultural sigma attached to the condition and jennifer glasse explains. >> reporter: in the specialist military ptsd unit this soldier wants to go back to the battlefield. you're in a hospital not a prison the doctor tells him. tell the commander to come get me out of here or i will kill myself he threatens.

the doctor tells a nurse to give him an injection and assures the patient it will make him feel better and also tells him suicide is forbidden in islam. medicine is the standard treatment here not psychiatry. >> translator: there are lots of ptds cases in the west because there is a surge in statistics but have no way to measure it here and this cases are present here as well. >> reporter: only a small fraction end up here. there is a cultural stigma to admitting any kind of mental problem especially in the military, this 47 bed ward was built for soldiers with ptsd and used more for addicts and those with depression. doctors say there are so many betz here not because there are not cases of ptsd but in the filed soldiers or commanders don't know how or are reluctant to report them. this is the case in konar on

front line with taliban and al-qaeda, no guidelines or doctors to diagnose troubled soldiers. >> translator: the commander and i and other officers on the look out for any problems and if we see a problem we do our best to solve it. >> reporter: for a young afghan soldier it's too late. no one hearsay signs of trouble the day he put on his combat gear walked out of his quarters and shot himself in the head. he was like all the soldiers here under tremendous pressure facing danger while on base and threatened by enemy fighters when traveling home. >> translator: they have to work here. they can't leave the job and they can't believe the family anyone of them could develop mental problems. >> reporter: back at the hospital the patient has grown restless again and doctors let him take that walk to calm down and not going back to the battlefield any time soon.

jennifer glasse al jazeera kabul. two bodies from the crashed asia plane recovered from the java sea and it's 53 and sent to be identified. in bangladesh opposition leader is now free to leave her office security was stationed rounds the office in daka for 16 days to prevent her from initiating protests and the barricades in front of the office have been removed, local police told the former two timer she is now free to leave. and it's time for a short break now and more on the ongoing situation in yemen after the break and stay with us here on al jazeera. ♪ presidential palace, then his house and now in almost every street around sanaa.

live in doha with coverage in ♪ welcome back reminder of the main story on al jazeera, it's yemen where gun battles on going with houthis in the capitol sanaa and the prime minister earlier been attacked and minister of information says the capitol is in chaos and could be a new yemen by the end of the day and more today joining live from the southern port city of aden and omar the information minister telling us we possibly could see a new yemen by the end of the day and bring us up to date with sequence of events happening in the capitol as it unfolded. >> darren around 7:30 this

morning there were reports of heavy gun battles around the presidential palace. we were told that the guards were engaged in clashes with some shia houthi fighters then we didn't know exactly what triggered those clashes and we had two versions one coming from the presidential guard saying they were provoked by the shia houthis and therefore opened fire and houthis on the other hand were saying that because a day before the some of the army in that area were deployed on orders by the president and they thought this was aimed at them and that triggered the clash then the events quickly developed and it was chaos, there was at some point a ceasefire, that didn't last for more than 45 minutes before heavy clashes resumed again, people who are living in

that area were fleeing the heavy fighting and then there was a statement made from the president's office that he has called for his advisors to come also some representatives of the houthi movement were also present and they agreed to form activity. the information minister thinks this is an attempted coup aimed at the president haidi and complicated and the situation is fluid and we are told the situation is a bit more calm, however the fighting is sporadic darren. >> what about the president, haidi and prime minister omar what reports are you hearing where they are and what they are doing? >> initial reports told us that the president remained in his palace, that information was confirmed by the minister of information that the president remains in his palace. however, later there are other

reports that suggest that he was, he flew out using a helicopter to an undisclosed location but we know he is safe. what happened with regard to the prime minister he was present at the meeting i mentioned, after the meeting he drove off with the presidential guard to an area central yemen and there his convoy came under fire and initial reports we got and confirmed by government sources it was fired on his convoy by the houthis. now, nobody was hurt. the prime minister escaped. that fight, that was out and he is sound and safe darren. >> you were saying earlier, omar that the president has come under increasing pressure for not doing enough to stop houthis from extending influence through the country and in particular the capitol sanaa, what is likely then to be his next step can he regain control, can he do a deal where is he going to go from here?

>> i think he is trying to find a deal and that is why he met with the his advisors within the advisors there are some senior houthi members in the advisory board and did form a field committee and how they describe it of defense and interior minister as well as two other senior houthi figure heads and they say everybody agreed on a ceasefire however there is a third-party who is trying to make that ceasefire unsuccessful. where the president will go from here i think he took his decision a day earlier when he met with his defense minister and decided to deploy some of his army soldiers that are still loyal to him because remember darren over the last 48 hours the chief of staff of the president was kidnapped by the houthis and perhaps this triggered the president's decision to deploy his troops. he wants to restore some

credibility for the state and for some of the prestige of the state because his image is dented up when houthis took over the capitol last year. >> in the southern part city of aden and we will come back to you a little bit later throughout the day omar and thank you and let's talk to hussein on the phone for us from sanaa and a houthi supporter and yemen activist and just talk us through where you are in the capitol and what is happening there. >> i'm just where the fighting is on the hill and the hills are a part of the presidential palace and i can see it now with my eyes they have been taken by a committee and fighting i can still hear the fighting from sanaa but in the area we are close to the presidential palace. >> sorry, can you explain to us

who the popular committee is. >> popular committees were formed from ordinary people who took on the streets. >> you mean the houthis. >> the government and houthis and gbc and islam and tel aviv and people from the central government and took to the streets against the rise increase and they are the public committee so they were just houthis as your colleagues say the shia and the yemen and are part of it but the main party of the committee. >> what are you seeing on the streets at the moment hussein, what about the security situation, do you see army and police or are you seeing people from the popular committee and houthi fighters on the streets armed? >> this area is almost under the control of the committee and there are cop cars that belong to the community because they

already took this area and talking about the fighting to the committee opposition. >> you are an activist and a pro-houthi supporter, how do you want this situation to unfold? >> i think what they gain the community will make on the ground today and it should put on the table for negotiation because as you all know haidi and islam party and all allies they never it's access on the outcome and didn't implement it so the national agreement is with the community and i think we we are saying they must use their gain today to force haidi and everybody else to obey and

follow the agreement we have signed because it's like that every time have an award so they have to obey the agreement they have signed and basically by force. >> houthis agreed to leave as part of this national agreement, this u.n.-backed agreement, the houthis had agreed to leave but they haven't. >> yeah i know but they have agreed to leave there as mentioned in the national outcome and leave the street and at the same time when they are taken into the government bodies because during this they were kicked out of their jobs and let down by the government so nothing happened from the other side. so the other side has to do its part and then we can ask about that. >> hussein a yemen activist and thank you very much for talking

to us. and we will go back to yemen also later and let's catch up on honduras and 95% of killings unsolved and majority of cases not investigated and one human rights group says it fuels more violence in a central american country and we report from the capitol. >> reporter: everywhere he goes he watches his back. he is a prosecutor in corruption cases. he asked us not to show his home or his car. to protect his family and himself afraid someone will try to kill him again. >> translator: a police officer friend warned me his own police chief asked him to find two hit men to eliminate two prosecutors, one of them was going to be me two months later at a stop sign two men stood in front of my car and shot me six times. >> reporter: and he was wounded but survived however legal

professionals here have not been so lucky. the inter-american commission for human rights says since 2010 at least 86 legal professionals killed lawyers, judges and prosecutors targeted for any one who wants to silence them. one of the busiest courts in the country and there is security but lawyers do not respond to phone calls they do not recognize and many fear safety and left the country. and he says he is not taking some cases any more as a safety measure. >> translator: crimes like extortion and drug trafficking obviously make me afraid. >> reporter: these professionals have become targets of retaliation, and violence says 95% of all killings in honduras remain the result and lawyers have received death threats and travels with a

body guard says judiciary is part of the problem. >> translator: in general violent death cases are not investigated to begin with because there are great flaws in the ministry investigation department and if a case is investigated it hardly ever makes the court because of obstacles. >> reporter: in a december report the inter-american commission for human rights said the government must urgently approve a law sitting in congress to protect defenders, journalists and legal professionals, after attack on his life he found a safe haven in spain and back in honduras and travels with two body guards and not a guaranty but he is determined to fight corruption and impunity in his country even if he is putting his life at risk al jazeera, honduras. stay with us here on al jazeera, i'll be back at the top of the hour with another full bulletin of news stay with us thanks for watching. ♪

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live in doha with coverage in yemen and sanaa and intense fighting between houthi fighters and the army, we also have other news, funerals expected for six hezbollah fighters in the golan heights, tightening grip on power and turkey chairs its first cabinet meeting. after six weeks of no new infections mali is free from the ebola virus. ♪