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yemen's deposed president manages to love the capital after being held by houthis for weeks. this is al jazeera, i'm david foster coming up in the next 30 minutes... >> we are beginning to be co-authors in our destiny greece giving concessions and has to stick with the bailout for now. >> behind me are 30,000 refugees
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crossing over and besides me chinese soldiers trying to prevent us filming touring inferno in dubai as a tall department building went up in flames former libyan president abd-rabbu mansour hadi left sanaa after being held for weeks by houthi rebels. abd-rabbu mansour hadi is in aden, in southern yemen, where he has a huge power base. we have this report. they reported from yemen on the set in the studio. how he got away is irrelevant. it is in the south. we'll sit between him and supporters, and the houthis in the capital.
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>> exactly. now he is in his power base his stronghold. he is the legitimate president of yemen. he can easily rise above it. he says i'm here to fight for the southern ses session. he has his support in the south. in both cases, they saw a political comeback. >> the houthis - you said this backed by the other former president sala - are we going to have two former presidents vying for power? >> definitely. in northern part of yemen,
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suiteies sala called the shots because of support he had. the houthis and the president sala will look into al-tern tyce. this brings it to square one, the development that they had been managing to leave the capital. it's this face today. they are the legitimate leader of yemen, you see many political factions. the party and the sunnis. >> and one final thought in this programme. the houthis have their own forces in sanaa and the strong hold in the north. who would pose president in the south to military confrontations. >> there are unit of the presidential guard which has been trained by the americans, based in the south. there are thousands of fighters
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with popular pro-government ventures in the south. we have seen them trying to get behind. abd-rabbu mansour hadi is in a comfortable zone in aden. he has thousands of fighters ready to die for him. >> it depends what he says next. thank you for now. hashem ahelbarra. thousands of protesters demonstrating their opposition and some their support for the rebels demonstrating that houthis are staging a coup. also there were protests by houthi supporters. they said they backed the data which dissolve them as parliament. rival factions great on a people's transitional council to govern yemen the united nations is considering publicly condemning people involved in war crimes in
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syria. reports of human rights violations continue to worsen. there's a report of bias. james bays diplomatic editor reports from new york. >> the four commissioners have been working, documenting human rights violations for 3.5 years. the situation is worse and worse, but the new report goes further than any of the previous eight ones. after meeting with the security council, they spoke of confidential war crimes. >> can i ask you about perpetrators. what impact could that have if they decide to publish? >> preparing four list which have been submitted to the area for safe keeping. we are considering today, this month and next month, whether or
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not to release the lists. >> it's clear the commissioners want more support, which has been divided. the commissioner thought the microphone was off when she said this to the ambassador. . >> the syrian government was quick to give its reaction describing the commission as bias. >> are you worried that key officials of your government and country, and the name of president bashar al-assad may be on the list. >> all this propaganda aims at misleading the public span. they did it in the past and will do it in the full court. >> the situation in syria has been asked to be referred to the international criminal court. that will not happen because
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russia will use its veto. for the first time it's asking for the urgent idea of setting up an ad hoc tribunal. a special court for syria syrian refugees have more miserable conditions. snow storms have hit the mountains where 500 families are trapped. victoria gatenby has the story. >> reporter: it's freezing cold in the mountains, they are trying to keep warm. without wood and fuel. it's hard. >> translation: it's very cold. we don't have enough oil or wood. >> reporter: at least 500 families are living in freezing conditions. close to the border. there's not an international aid agency here because the
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lebanese government glasses the area as a war zone and banned visitors from coming here. >> the young children the tents can't withstand the snow storms. we cannot afford to protect ourselves. we cannot even afford blankets or covers. the heating fuel for a week. >> these are some of the 7 million people inside syria who are displaced, forced from homes. they continue to fall the refugees in the mountains are trapped, and the long brutal war continues. well greece has struck a deal with other eurozone members. it shouldn't last forever, but all sides are happy at least for now. germany said in return they'll
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be able to have their own reforms. a reform plan will be ready by the deadline on monday. many managed to avoid, but if the eurozone doesn't like the plan the crisis begins again. >> reporter: it's a greek and european nightmare. raised from the dead destabilizing the zone. if a preliminary agreement reached in brussels holds, it's part of a graphic artist's ma'am nation. leaders are careful not to oversell the deal depending on greeks under take the reforms. >> the first step the greek
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authorities agreed to present the first of their reform ambitions. reform measures basements on the current rate and also using the flexibility that is in the programs. >> supporters of the left wing government gathered before peerment parliament to cheer lead it to victory. >> we combined two things that are meant to be separate. we combined logic and ideology in the way that we bargained. we combined respect and respect for democracy. >> reporter: the greeks scored important successors staving off austerity and renet the existing ones. crucially the debt repayment schedule which greece cannot
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meet. they didn't get a truce with no strings. the germans forcing them to pick up the programme that the previous government left off. they still need to meet austerity targets. >> the main achievement is it call off the french warfare. they've been digging themselves in. they can claim that they secured positions. >> it's a small step but in the right direction. he has to prove it will work the tallest building in dubai - hundreds of people were evacuated from the block as molten glass and metal rained down after a fire broke out. we have this report. >> reporter: buildings called the torch, but for many in it at the time it was certainly
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scary. >> we didn't think much of it. then they came around pounding on the door telling us to get out. asking us to leave. >> 86 floors the torch is one of the symbols of wealth in a futuristic skyline in the marina distribute, a part of town popular with expatriots and tourists. this markets itself as a place for people who want to be rich. it has the world's tallest building busiest international airport and a property development in the shape of the world. leaders are protective of it. they would have us believe nothing news worthy happens here. when a skyscraper catches fire with people in it it goes viral. when news of the fire broke out, social media lit up with
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interest. dubai likes what it is known for, but will hope the record does not include having the world's highest residential fire. next on al jazeera, the battle of the mind. soldiers mentally scarred by war. plus plus... >> i'm phil lavelle in los angeles. hollywood's agency faces a new threat. it costs money, but executives are reluctant to take to court.
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this is al jazeera, these are the headlines. yemen's former president abd-rabbu mansour hadi has left after spending weeks under house arrest. he's arrived in aden where he has a power base among sunni muslims. eurozone's foreign ministers have extended the massive bailout to greeks by four months only if they spell out reforms with respect the next 48 hours. fire has gutted the top of one of the world's tallest apartment buildings. 100 people were evacuated from the tower called the torch there has been shelling near the border between myanmar and
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china, between the army and those that want autonomy for ethnic chinese in myanmar. about 3,000 have crossed the border to safety in china. adrian brown reports from the border down. >> several times we heard the thud of artillery. the fighting on the other side of the border it tends to ebb and flow. here on the chinese side. what we don't know of course is how many civilians have been killed, caught in the crossfire. one journalist i spoke to able to get to the town says that he saw the bodies of at least 20 men and women laying in the street. we can't verify that.
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>> reporter: this is a center of economic hopes for this region. mooeften escaping with a handful of possessions. like those on this side of the border, they are ethnic chinese. with cts of brutality. >> translation: they got me and hit me again and again. just like this on my own head. >> reporter: this farmer arrived nine days ago. >> we only have a few left. it's a big mess too dangerous to go back. we are afraid they may kill us. >> reporter: elsewhere families squat in a row of shops. taking care of themselves as best they can. the military is in charge of this humanitarian operation. a soldier shouts at the refugee
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to go inside. he count want us filming them -- doesn't want us filming them. behind me are 30,000 refugees crossing in the last few days and chinese soldiers trying to prevent us filming. it's a sensitive issue for china, they are providing food shelter and water, but it's a tricky situation for china. tricky because some refugees want china to support the campaign for autonomy beijing insists it doesn't impair the policies of other countries. today the border was quiet. it's a crossing point normally between countries, but the fighting is going on in an area visible in the distance.
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you don't get to choose your neighbours, china has 14 and the one causing it the most anxious is myanmar, a country it considers a property. that is trained by what is hping across the border security forces are battling muslim rebels on one front and communist rebels in another. on part of our series addressing soldiers' physical wounds. >> reporter: this is it war 25, rarely seen often whispered about. where soldiers go to be evaluated. the stigma of needing mental or emotional help is much for some. this corporal has been here
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after his unit came under heavy fire. >> it felt like new year's eve. you didn't know where the explosions were coming from. since then i haven't been able to sleep. maybe from thinking too much. >> the military has been fighting two of the longest running conflict in the world. 90% of its troops saw combat. it is not just the fighting that can trigger anxiety disorders. there's also loneliness from being away from the families boredom during the quiet months. >> there are 120,000 men and women in the philippine army. it's the only clinic dedicated to their needs. all the beds are full and there aren't enough doctors. despite the clinic running at capacity psychiatrists say there are fewer patients than before, and they put it down to having institutionalized methods. >> one way of stigmatizing is
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through education we have knowledge on anxiety, depression. >> the second lieutenant is grateful for his stay here. he has been able to process what happened to him, and is recoveringful. >> i thought my men were going to harm them. it was some in my head. >> reporter: most of the patients want to leave service once discharged. for some it's out of a duty others feel it's the only option to earn a living. all though that stress comes with the job, and they have to learn so they don'tened up back in 25 mexico's economy could suffer. it's a country living off energy profits from a third of its
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income. >> reporter: oil it's the flood of mexico's economy. energy profits pay for a third of state's spending. amidst the drop in prices mexico is slashing the budgets. that downturn comes at the moment the sector is controversially opening up to privateforms for the first time in 80 years, posing opportunities for the oil-dependent country. we travelled out to mexico's deepest waters to game and the future may hold. many are upbeat about their prospects. >> at the moment money is spend to find out where the formations are, the oil is. the future once complete that's when the money flows in. the shallow reserves has been
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slow. >> the deep water exploration platforms cost a lot of money. there's four in mexico. the hope is the new reform allows them to have more platforms looking for oil in the waters. they are now on hold due to the $4 billion in company budget cuts. and when the details are, the state-opened company has been hit by fresh ports of corruption, over contracts worth billions. >> we are fighting corruption. the punishment include examples of the past. >> reporter: no specific examples were held of people held accountable for corruption.
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the prosecution of crimes is rare. they need to wean the government off. >> the government acknowledged it has to cut back on the oil dependency. it's the proper steps. it carries it through good and bad times, with estimates pointing to reserves of $100 billion there are millions in the united states suffering frigid companies that no one has seen. sleet freezing rain will come in the days ahead. climatists warned us to expect
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major event to multiply. there has been extreme whether from the mid west deep south to the north-east of the united states. cities where new lows have been met on friday morning. the cold was enough to break a 120 record low. an ice palace was created. ice caves have formed on lake michigan. the extreme cold is the result of a shift southwards part of the arctic weather, the polar vortex. researchers studying the effects say it may be linked. >> the challenge the polar ice cap of a planet to behave differently. >> snowy expanses are deceptive.
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this winter has been the sixth warmers since records in the u.s.a. began. as the east digs out of the snow. the western half is experiencing mild weather. some cities are on track it's oscar times thousands are making their way to the biggest red carpet in hollywood. on the eve of the ceremony phil lavelle explains. >> reporter: you could say three file downloads starred it. you remember the industry. the down loads is the future. that teems to be giving hollywood a bit of a headache. here is something you do. you pay your monthly fee,
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download as much as you want. job done perfect. they stream pirated music. watch them. as for the people that sit at home, are they acting illegally? that's a tricky question. >> it's not illegal to view a movie that streams on your compure, as long as the copy that streams does not make a duplicate on the computer. exclusive rights that the copyright holds. >> to speak to another, they'll tell you something less. you are copying to a server. it's koupt. material that you have a licence for, or you don't pay for. >> there's a list of things you are not allowed to do. uploading a movie is on the
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list. that's making a copy. just watching it beak a viewer that is not allowed. >> reporter: the industry haven't gone after the sites. the u.s. has no legal jurisdiction. it's the independent films, you could say are hit hard. 20 feet. finance by individuals. they've not paid for it. the maker is unhappy but optimistic. google earth comes in showing me where it streams, and each one represents a theory if they would have bought it. it's technology allowing us to make movies like this or improve the way we make movies and distribute them. >> one source told me that the studio is unlikely to go after
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individuals, because they are worried. they are worried they'll be forced to adapt if it wants to beat the pirates you can stream our programming for free at aljazeera.com. weekend i'm ray suarez, every kid that picks up a high school diploma in june will have taken some version of american history, the gathering debate over a demanding class shows that we are not sure what we wanted to do for students that take a class. do we teach american history to transmit an ideal version, create young patriots or teach a story, warts and all. we'll have that debate with jim grossman from the historical association, and ian from the