s diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. this u.n. threatensthe u.n. threatens actionagainst the houthi rebels in yemen. you're watching al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. i'm fauzia ibrahim. pushing for peace in ukraine. preparing to take on i.s.i.l. but sectarian divisions delay plans for an offensive for the iraqi still of mosul. and we'll tell you how this satellite could give scientists advance warning of solar storms.

we start this program with the coup this yemen and the u.n. is warning of further action against the houthi rebels who have taken over the government and dissolved parliament. they have set up an interim council which will replace parliament selected in 2003. the council will consist of 551 members, rule the country and appoint a new transitional government. but the real government power will being in the head of the houthi rebels. the houthis will also head the defense pharmacist. the rebels say they will hold power during a two year transitional period. but the u.n. security council has asked the houthis to immediately return to the

negotiating table. >> the members of the security council express graich concern atgrave concern ofthe announcement by the houthis to cut off talks to dissolve parliament and to take over all of yemen's government institutions. the members of the security council call in the strongest terms for all parties in particular the houthis to abide by the gulf cooperation council initiative the national dialogue conference outcomes and the peace and partnership agreements which provide for a yemeni led democratic transition. >> and just in the last hour a bomb has exploded near the presidential palace in the capital sanaa. two people have been injured in the attack. major protests in the cities across yes ma'am.

no political legitimacy. let's go to jamal el sayal. jamal, give us the reaction of what is already a divided country. >> well, there has been widespread opposition in the central and southern cities of yemen. the protests took place almost as soon as the coup announcement was made in stiff city of tais and madlib which is the main source of energies energy in the country. there's a lot of opposition expressed on the streets opposition of the houthi has been rather muted because in recent weeks when people have taken to the streets protests by

young people and so forth they come under attack by houthi fighters who have shot at them, killing several and the houthis represent a shia minority in jim yemen for them to unilaterally decide, that they were going to take over the government was not going to go down well in the larger portions of society. houthis have good ties with iran and different analysts, has been delivered to the houthis from iran just recently a shipment of fuel because of like i say the oil production in yemen is still controlled by those opposed to the houthis and therefore fuel

was being cut off to them. and allegedly an iranian shipment was delivered to them. this is going to cause a lot of alarm with gcc countries particularly saudi arabia, but yemen has to host some of this blame arab spring essentially he and his people were allies with the houthis qatar bahrain and others who have been at odds with iran or not so comfortable with them, hear statements with what's taking place. >> all right jamal speemg to speaks speaking to us from aden. >> angela merkel and francois

hollande riefned arrived in russia to have a ultimate with vladimir putin. rory challenge has the outcome. >> five hours of discussions between angela merkel, francois hollande and vladimir putin. all we know what went on in that room is contained in as tight-lipped a statement, what happens next is a document which takes in all of the suggestions and that will be forwarded on to the different parties in this conflict. the negotiations themselves will be picked up again on sunday. in a phone call that is going to be conducted in the normandy format. that means it will involve all

the people who are here in moscow this afternoon and it will also include petro poroshenko the ukrainian president. so obviously these talks have not been particularly fruit-bearing. very difficult. we know precious little what was going to be talked about going into it, we know precious little what was discussed going out of it. not many things reached so far. some of the things they talked about probably was the demarcation line between the separatist areas and the rest of ukraine. things already talked about would be the border between russia and ukraine and also how much autonomy could be granted for the separatists themselves. >> ukraine and its battle with pro-russian rebels, ukrainian

prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk. >> i am convinced that no one in europe wants to see russian tanks on the border .1european union. >> meanwhile the truce began on tuesday night pnl meant to allow civilians to leave through a humanitarian corridor. ukraine's military and pro-russian separatists have been fighting for weeks. killed at least 41 fighters, the military says air strikes targeted military from the group calling itself the sinai

province. fighters from the sinai province group killed more than 30 personnel in attacks in northern sinai over a week ago. a member of parliament has been killed in kenya the capital city nier. nairobi. the white house says it can't confirm if an marn woman american woman held by i.s.i.l. was killed. kayla mueller was captured in august 2013 in aleppo while working with doctors without borders. in iraq hundreds of sunni muslim fighters from mosul are preparing for a fight to take back their town.

the closeness to a dam that carries most of iraq's water. who will control the area once i.s.i.l. has been forced out. >> they hide their face because their families have been living under the islamic state of iraq and the levant.these men are being trained a few kilometers outside the city they want to recapture. they call themselves the sons of mosul. some of them have never been in battle. crifnts, yazidis awsh kurds they come together to saif their city and the lives of its people. >> mosul is a microcosm of iraq. the people are waiting for us to liberate them and we're going to fight together.

>> this man served as a general in hussein's army. bitter the way they were treated after the fall of saddam. those grievances were exploited by i.s.i.l. but these men say the armed group doesn't represent them wult neither does the shia militia on behalf of the iraqi government. the fight to push out i.s.i.l. may be a while away. it's not just the question of being ready militarily the battle will require a political decision. these men represent many communities but are not among them. sunnis want the authorities to speed up plans to create the national guard. the u.s. backed plan involves establishing an armed force in

each district. >> the sons of the city know who are good and who are terrorists. they won't treat everyone badly the way the army used to treat us in mosul. we were all terrorists or at least suspects. >> reporter: commanders here, say the mainly sunni army may not be trusted. may be the beginning of the end for the armed group but military progress without unity could be the start of yet another contract with iraq. zeina holder, al jazeera iraq. peter greste was returned

home earlier this week, baher mohamed and mohamed fahmy are still in prison. al jazeera is demanding their release. still ahead a referendum of india's ruling party an the prime minister. and a new movement draws people pack to china's country sides.

>> the death toll could be much higher than anyone'd known. >> posing as a buyer to get in there. >> 10,000 people are already dead mr. president, who should answer for those people? >> welcome back. a reminder now of our top stories. shia houthi rebels took over the

government of yemen and dissolved parliament. southern city of tais, a coupe with no political legitimacy. french officials say talks on the construction of the campaign in ukraine have been helpful. negotiations will continue on sunday with the aim of producing a joint document to bring an end to the fighting. in the white house says it cannot confirm if a female american hostage has been killed in a conflict in syria. the 26-year-old was buried under rubble after a raid near raqqa. >> 30 mill mil people are eligible to vote in what's being seen as the first real test of prime minister narendra modi's

leadership. fez jamil is in new delhi with more. >> elections here in new delhi has come to a two horserace, ar arman kedeval who launched his own party the human man party a couple of years ago taking on the delhi police. he lost a lot of support after he stepped down after 49 days. that lost him a lot of support in the middle class but he is still popular among the working pure.

kieran babi has a reputation of being tough on crime and corruption and getting things done. although this is only the a sedate election, there are national consequences. the bjp winning the capital delhi would be seen as a prestige win a jewel in the crowd. it would be a test of narendra modi and his promise of technical reforms. a loss would be strong voice of opposition right here in the capital. this election is also time for the common man party to reinvigorate itself. the dark horse in the whole thing could be the congress party. they led the last government at the center and several state governments in the past. now if we win enough seats they could keep any one party from

winning an outright majority and could potentiallien the king or queen maker. >> 30 years of strong economic growth in china has led to millions of people leaving the country side for cities. this has led to several villages being abandoned. unemployment that means a lot of people are not left in the businesses, and services are then cut and lust money is then spent. those who to do stay see their quality of life fall. that prompts them to leave and the cycle begins again. adrian brown traveled to the fall rural village of bisan meeting two people encouraging people out of cities and back to

the country side. >> reporter: so much of modern china looks like this, choking on their own success. no matter some people have had enough of urban life. the village of bichan is more than a thousand years old and now the focus on luring people back to the country side. >> if you want to understand this country go to the country side. >> fet up with the pollution and traffic since then he has been trying to revive the feelings of the village. in addition to the cafe he's also paying for construction of a new art gallery. for the first time in year laborers are actually finding

work here. >> i hope the village will be satisfied with their income. everybody you can net more money. >> the hope is that tourists will come. if they do, he will make money on his investments. are last year he established the area's first bookstore then it was a barn. 80% of the country's population lived in villages like this one. but in the dates following are tens of million followed transform taking place. of course i hope young people can come back. fewer people fewer commerce. >> being a fashion editor from

shafng high, drivenshafng high. shanghai. >> their first request was how are you going to make a living? i try not to look at that. >> last year xi jinping said acknowledge labor among the peasants which means around now this back to the land movement would find the support. >> british spice exit illegally it says, a domestic spellings agencies called unlawful and it didn't tell the milk what it was doing. barnaby smith has more. >> the gchq contravenes

specifically it's saying that the gchq acted imper accept reply, without telling the general milk is owrn to, is because various human rights groups chald the for the gchq. >> in the course of this litigation they have been forbesed to clean up their act improve the responds policies. we're still not happy with the state of play and that's why we're going to continue to appeal parts of this up to the european courts of human rights. >> here at westminster the

british government has put out a statement that it is committed to the standards. the judgment does not in any way suggest that important safeguards protecting privacy were not in place at all relevant times. it doesn't require gchq to change what it does to affect the national security at all. fully adequate at all times. it is simply about the amount of detail about those processes and safe guard that needed to be in the public domain. this whole processing calm through the forced exile in russian. the united states can share

skype and e-mail and will be sharing that with the people here. fest. >> sharing private security information in the interest ever private security. barnaby flips wisconsin minster,. the e- >> cream tomorrow has been closed for nearly a year. companies stores had been occupied by sources since tuesday, accused of creating shortages by taking,. >> keep order and all this simply to buy groceries.

there's a desperate shortage of provisions. now the government is taking over a leading supermarket chain whose stores have been round by soldiers up until the next few weeks. >> the pedoval network services on all surfaces of this chain. >> the venezuelan director, was jailed on friday. >> of when you needed a product you would go and buy it. thousand we have to hunt like people before who had to go out and hunt. >> the lines for public or anything else in this country.

they start early in the day whether this dee dia dia. >> venezuela is in the milt of an economic crisis. its revenues has been hit-k forcing thousands of people to spind their days waiting in line line. jerald tan, al jazeera. >> scientists in the u.s. are plairg to launch a satellite could cause significant damages to power grids and something else. dominic kane explains.

>> a begin of gas mass and energy erupts from the surface of the sun. while it looks particular, the the mobile communications, computer systems and power grids. consistency have long wanted to develop an advanced warning system. now, they think they have. a satellite called the deep space climate observatory oar discover will be launched on sunday and sent almost 3.1 kilometers from the sun. >> this is all about environmental intelligence. that lets us provide environmental intelligence to decision makers, or are are taking those moments that might limit the limit the damage that

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