@ajconsiderthis and defeat me @amoratv. @amoratv. >> a cease-fire in yemen between houthi fighters and yemen soldiers. this is al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. also coming up, hezbollah buries it's fighters killed by an israeli airstrike inside syria. it confirms that one of its generals died with them. hundreds of protests against the

charlie hebdo magazine. this time in chechnya and a sewage dump becomes an oasis for flamingos. hello, it's been an environment and tumultuous day in yemen after it's gospel says it has faced an attempted coup. earlier nine people were killed near the presidential palace. the president is safe in snaa, but earlier the prime minister's convoy came under fire. we have more from yemen. >> reporter: the fight something being hit from blocks away. government forces and houthi forces have been battling against the presidential palace in sanaa since earlier in monday. the information minister

describes the scene as utter chaos. >> there are places where the state security this is why the ministers of defense but there are people who wear the uniform and they oh do not obey the ministerry. >> houthi fighters took control of the capitol and nine other provinces last year. many see them as the real of yemen. sanaa was toppled in 2012, but monday's fighting has made the situation worse.

>> nothing like this has never been seen before. this is the first of its kind. even the attack on sanaa months ago was nothing close to this. the attacks months ago by houthies focused on certain areas of the capitol. there were no attacks by the president or prime minister. >> they have taken control of the state television and are gathering forces outside of the capitol. the prime minister's convoy was attacked by what is being described as a third party whose identity has not been confirmed. the declaration of a cease-fire earlier in the day has largely been ignored. the information ministry say some security forces are refusing orders. hadi's decision to deploy troops in the capitol was triggered by the kidnapping of chief of staff on saturday. it is not clear if hadi will win what has been seen as the last battle. some say what happened on monday

could lead to a new yemen. it could lead to the resignation abd rabbuh mansur hadi. from al jazeera,. >> let's go over to yemen and speak with a visiting scholar at the middle east center where his research focuses on yemeni and gulf politics. so what makes this cease-fire agreement this time any different than the past ones? >> it is not not at all. i wish it was different. ultimately, i think it would be

one of the cease-fires that would not end up houthi part of the cease-fire agreement. >> will the situation unfold on monday in yemen force the international community to act more act more decisively and act more quickly with regard to the regional powers. >> it has not been effective as it thought, it's not as effective as it should be. but there is right now a chance move for a move. i know for a fact, however that

saudis have removeed because houthies have taken over. if the cabinet or current government remains with this much focus the houthies will expand. >> even by supporting the cabinet the houthies have proven over the past couple of months and definitely on monday after what happened in sanaa, they are a force to be reckoned with. >> a force to be what? >> a force to be reckoned with. they are a powerful political party in the country. >> absolutely, absolutely. but in the cabinet it gives houthies more power to them. right now the negotiation to add

military advisory board to the council. at the same time even if the houthies are more powerful the government is actually weak. the houthies have the ground in yemen. most of the action is social and they are filling a vacuum. >> i'll have to leave it there. thank you very much for speaking to us from sanaa giving us an update on the situation there. iran has confirmed that a

general from the revolutionary guard was killed in an israeli airstrike on syria on sunday. he is said to have been advising president ash har quaraishi's troops. there are reports that an israeli helicopter fired in the israeli-occupied golan heights. six hezbollah fighters also died in that attack near the israeli-occupied golan heights. among those killed was a 20-year-old, the son of a former hezbollah commander who was also killed in an israeli attack seven years ago. >> hundreds of people have turned out for the funeral. he was a rising star inside hezbollah, someone who was being groomed for a senior position. he's important because of who his father was. his father had been a senior commander in the group.

now the attack is significant because it is the first time that the group has been targeted in this way previous attacks on weapon stores and convoys. the real question here in lebanon is how will hezbollah react and when will they react. what sort of retaliatory reaction will they take against israel for this? most people say that they expect some kind of reaction to have something that is not large enough to cause a war because at the moment hezbollah is deeply mired in the war in syria fighting on the side of syria's president bashar al-assad. >> at least two civilians have been killed and a number of others injured in shelling in ukraine's embattled city of donetsk. one person died when shells fell on a market in the early hours of the morning. another person was killed when a park was hit. fighting has increased in

donetsk. more than 4,700 people have been killed in ukraine's east since april. meanwhile the ukrainian president petro perishing co-said that he's waiting to hold a cease-fire deal. to make a schedule to implementation the minsk agreement. >> in russia's chechnya region hundreds of thousands rallied against the depictions of islam islam's prophet mohammed in france's publication charlie hebdo. peter sharp has the latest from

moscow. >> this was without doubt one of the biggest demonstrations ever seen in the chechnya capitol of gross any. hundreds of thousands of men and men women heeding the call against caricatures of the prophet mohammed. it called for a million people to go out on the streets in peaceful protest and the appeal was answered. it was an opportunity for the president to remind the kremlin that he enjoys widespread support not just in chechnya, but neighboring rubles where tens of thousands of people people. they said they would never allow the prophet to be insulted, and to a roar of approval, said we're ready to die for this. european journalists are

insulting in the guise of free speech and are only interested in provocation. the russian government only too well aware of the depth of feeling against the charlie hebdo publication quickly moved away and reinforceed the ban of religious caricatures. it shows how widespread is the support for that move. >> still ahead on al jazeera after six weeks of no new infections mali declares itself free from the ebola virus and a prosecute center argentina is found dead under suspicious circumstances. details coming up.

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workers in greece delay your retirement? i'm here to make the connections to your money real. >> hello again, the top stories on al jazeera. houthi rebels and soldiers say that a cease-fire is holding in yemen's capitol hours after fighting in sanaa. at least nine people are dead. iran has confirmed that a revolutionary guard general was killed in an israelis airstrike in syria. six hezbollah fighters also died in the attack on sunday. >> i think hezbollah is a

calculating organization. they'll take their time before they act. symbolic person the revenge will come, but i think that will be at the time and place of the political leaders of hezbollah. they will not be hesitant to take any military act but they will take it when the time is a right time. obviously this is what they take into consideration the situation that has taken place in lebanon and syria. you have to remember that we have nation of hostility in lebanon, but also in syria where the assassinations took place. hezbollah in my estimate, his

revenge will not be very long from happening. >> well, al-qaeda's syrian wing al nusra front shows a wreckage of an army cargo plane that it said it shot down over idlib on saturday. human rights groups say 35 people had died on board that play. the turkishexercising his constitutional right to convene a cabinet meet something seen by some as the clearest situation so far that president erdogan is remodeling his presidency from ceremonial to executive. normally the turkish prime minister sits at the top of the table, but this time he had to

move over. on monday erdogan was in charge. >> these two politicians have been working has worked long enough to know the real power of their position position. they always exercise the leadership of erdogan. >> opposition parties say the president is trying to grab power. >> the president could act arbitrarily if he could get away with it. it looks as though under the circumstances he can. the political environment is such that he can play such a role in violation of the constitution. >> institutionally turkey's president is supposed to be a neutral figure above party politics. you are do wan said that the first president-elected by the

people he has a mandate to exercise more power. now he wants to change the institution constitution to create an executive presidency. to do that erdogan's ruling has the challenging task of winning enough seats in the elections to push through a new constitution. bernard smith. al jazeera istanbul. >> the european union's foreign policy chief said that the block needs what she calls an anti-terror alliance. speaking at a meeting between european foreign ministers league in brussels. they spoke about how to improve security after the recent attacks in france. at the top of that against is intelligence sharing. the ministers discussed how passenger records in europe could be used to prevent potential attacks. also on that agenda, the we have the details from brussels.

>> before the meeting of the e.u. foreign ministers got under way, the foreign policy chief of the e.u. met with the secretary general of the arab league. now they have been stressing the need for greater coordination and sharing information with arab and muslim nation stressing they are the first to suffer from the jihadi terrorism. many ministers have made it clear that they don't see the ultimate solution in bringing in tougher legislation across the e.u. but aware in trying to deal with so-called jihadists who go to places like iraq and syria and return the e.u.'s anti-terror coordinator stressing people who do come back should not be jailed unless in his words they have blood on their hands. other words they should be put into some kind of program for deradicalization at the same time many ministers are stressing that the real solution is also to be found in the

internet trying to crackdown on hate speech and people who try to recruit fighters through social media and the internet. now all of the measures that have been discussed in brussels will go forward to a summit meeting to be held in three and a half weeks from now. but at the moment i think the general message is we need to share a lot more information before we start to bring in much tougher laws. >> well, in egypt 75 alleged members of the outlawed muslim brotherhood have been given lengthy prison terms. the men were sentenced between three years and life in prison. the men were convicted on multiple accounts for inciting violence. many have protested in front of the u.n. office of cairo. they were taken earlier this month. many egyptians travel to libya for employment opportunities in

the oil sector. meanwhile al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three colleagues who have been imprisoned in egypt for 387 days. mohamed fahmy, bader mohammed, and peter greste were falsely accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood charges they deny. an appeals court in cairo has ordered a retrial. indonesia said it will continue to execute drug traffickers despite appeals by foreign governments and the possible diplomatic fall out. two ambassadors were recalled from jakarta after indonesia executed five foreigners on sunday. we have reports from jakarta. >> they were killed by a firing squad shortly after midnight on sunday. they showed no mercy on drug

traffickerings. indonesia said it's only up holding the law. >> we don't see a fall out in the diplomatic sense. we hope that other countries back international law. >> the focus is now on two australian prisoners who are among the 58 still on death row for drug-related crimes. australia is trying hard to stop the execution. >> what we'll continue to do at this point is make representations where we can how we can, and i know this is a bipartisan position, and it's been a long-standing position of successful australia governments. the government is no doubt where the australian government stands on this issue. >> while in the past the death sentence was imposed but excuses

rarely happened. but now this seems to have changed despite concerns about possible impact of international relations many in indonesia believe the government should not back off. even if this means many more will be executed in the near future. >> indonesia should be strong about this. they have to ask the public to understand that australia takes strong measures against indonesia because of the executions, for example if a certain product will not be exported to indonesia. it is difficult but less difficult than suffering from international drug gangs in indonesia. >> they say it is an important weapon in the war against drugs. criticism is growing abroad but it's president is asked not to

give in to international criticism. >> in argentina, a prosecutor who accused the president of corruption has been found dead. he was found in his apartment with a gunshot wound. argentina's top security official says that all signs point to a suicide. 80 people were killed in the 1994 bomb, that took place in buenos aires. here is more from andrew simmons who is there. >> he was found in his apartment only a day before he was due to dress the congressional hearing on what he claimed was evidence which implicated the president and foreign minister and a number of other officials over perverting the course of justice, trying to cover up the evidence behind a bombing in 1994 of the usual community center in which 85 people died.

now a shell case was found by the body, a handgun but there is no indication yet as to what exactly happened that has to be an autopsy although prominent opposition members are already saying that this was not suicide. so a major political candle is developing here. and what has been said, he was under pressure because the presidential office said quite a categorically that he was trying to initiate an investigation without judicial control. and the argentinian cabinet described as ridiculous and unconstitutional. he was claiming that the president was trying to' range a deal whereby oil was supplied to argentina in return for grain because of the massive crisis in the energy sector here with a major shortfall in funding.

so was it political motivation? was it suicide? there is a major political crisis going on in argentina. >> and the summit to address water shortages and energy challenges around the world is underway in abu dhabi. >> you wouldn't think water was in short supply given the amount that is used to make things grow where nothing should. here's is the primary near source the arabian gulf. vast amounts of seawater is sucked in by environmentally destructive desalination plants. the fact that this is as close you can get to a desalination plant without identity processing speaks volumes how crucial these installations are to these region. without them there would be no

drinking water the taps would run dry and life in the gulf could not exist the way that it does. in this parched air rid land you don't expect this, a business selling $4 million cut 4 million cut flowers a year. the problem is the ancient aquifer it comes from is nearly depleted thanks to overextraction across the country. >> the population is expecting high rates for the upcoming years this can be a big problem if we don't use the available water in a reasonable way. >> now that piloting is soil free farming. believe it or not this is

another source of water. raw sewage. it comes from a worker's camp where they are utilizing a specially designed tape. >> you can see millions and millions of micro perforations. this is given what happens in nature, a perfect environment to do in our concrete tanks and containers. >> the process ends with water running into an adjacent farm giving life to new growth. more and more sewage plants are being built in qatar. recycling article that could be used for irrigation. these trucks are dumping raw sewage into deserts where it lies untreated evaporateing into the desert air. the thing is nature takes its

course and the water becomes clean enough for a flock of flamingos to take up residents. >> much more on that story that nick clark filed on our website www.aljazeera.com, and there you'll find the day's other top stories we're covering here at al jazeera. it's all at www.aljazeera.com.