backing the president hadi the u.n. security council describes him as the legitimate leader of yemen. ♪ ♪ hello there welcome to al jazerra live from doha. also coming up on the program. more spy revelations how south africa is spying on russia over their joint satellite projects. following the death of a leading prosecute, he argentina's president reveals the changing face of the national spy agency. and as the french president presses for action to combat climate change, we look at how rising sea levels are damaging

malaysia's coastline. ♪ ♪ u.n. security council says it's backing hadi as yemen's leader. in a statement released on wednesday, the u.n. described hadi as the legitimate president. he's now in the southern port city of aden after fleeing from sanaa where he was held under house arrest by the hugy the houthi rebels. the secure thank you council has urged all party to his resolve their differences through talks. the u.n. support for hadi is a significant step, but the houthi houthis' concerns also need to be addressed. >> i think it's an important move both for yemen's international standing and current crisis it's going through, hadi benefits from the

u.n.'s voice of support. i think the houthis themselves, you know, this is an opportunity for them to kind of demonstrate to the world that it's not just, you know, a religious sectarian shia movement, but it can responds with criticism to the you were's report with, you know a bid toward saying, look, . the u.n.'s call is a point for further negotiation and we understand that international commune atcommunity wants progress and we can step up to the plate as welch the u.n. has committed to a broad-based political movement and currently hadi represents for i think international audience as well as in yemen the brightest hopes.

certainly the houthis have credible complaints with the current corruption with ongoing human rights abuses with the kind of, you know, persecution of religious minorities including the shia in the north. but, you know, hadi has support. both in the houthi northern areas as well as in the south including prominent tribes in the south. yemen is going through the ringer. but it has had this experience before and yemenis are used to hard knocks along the road toward peace. yepyemenis want unity they don't want separation. i think that this is a step in the right direction. meanwhile, there have been rallies across the country in support of hadi. he has met the secretary general of the gulf corporation council. saying hadi also has the backing of the g.c.c.

>> translator: i talked with his excellence i the president on how to make sure yemen doesn't become a place for terrorists and stringsist organizations. as for our support it will continue as before. the g.c.c. is very happy for his excellency's escape. a car bomb killed two people. another person injured the bomber targeted a building in the turkish embassy in kabul. it's the first target on a turkish target in the afghan capital. 124 people have died in a series of avalanches in northeastern afghanistan. homes, schools and mosques were all buried. rescuers expect the death toll to rise. the provincial governor describes the avalanches as the worst in 30 years. south after scan agents are spying on russia for details of their own joint satellite project. that's according to a top secret

cable obtained by the al jazerra investigative unit of the plan is so secretive even the spies aren't sure what's going on. >> reporter: high above south african government buildings a sat site watches it's a joints south african and russian project code named condor. while it monitors all of africa, its creators are struggling to monitor it. few in government even know what project condor is or what they are paying for. opposition politician and shadow defense minister david has spent five year trying to find out. >> the government are trying to hide a massive procurement irregularity. it's been very difficult given the fact that this is a top secret or secret defense intelligence project to really get any information. >> reporter: the spy cable shows south african military

intelligence has also kent state intelligence in the dark. in fact, so little is known al jazerra can reveal this state security agency is spying on its military counterpart. relying on a spy in russia. agent africanist is said to have direct access to the russian government. this top secret cable records information he provided in 2012. according to him russia has 30 technicians working on the satellite. and they hope it will allow them to spy on all of africa. potentially right up to israel. but the secrecy surrounding the satellite and the confused accounting of almost $100 million has sparked conspiracy theories. >> it wasn't long before i came across the theory that a former secretary of defense was assassinated because of his involvement in this project. people are talking to sources is it was suggested to me by one individual that this is the kind

of thing that i should perhaps not be looking in to. and it was a warning. >> reporter: for years the status of this satellite program has been unclear. south africa's defense minister recently said that it was ongoing and that it would now cost over $100 million. but with revelation that his south africa is spying on russia, to get information about its own initiative, it appears that not even the government here fully understands just what is going on with project condor. clayton swisher, al jazerra johannesburg. the islamic state of iraq and the levant has kidnapped more than 100 men and nine boys in iraq. the hostages belong to the sunni tribe one of the largest in the country. the defense minister is a member of that tribe. they all come from a village east of tikrit. government troops are fighting with isil for control of the area. about 200-kilometers from the capital baghdad. jayna half has more from baghdad. >> reporter: there is no word on the fate of these men and boys

who were taken away. the sheik of the tribe tells us 127 tribes men remember originally cat nipped. this is three days ago. the news just filtering out now because of difficult communications there. it's a village east of tikrit where fighting has been going on. when they took the men they also took nine boys. they are between nine and 10 years of age and they continue to be held. the sheik tells us that he believes it's in retaliation for relatives of the men and boys fighting either with iraqi forces or tribal forces against isil. the tribe was also involved in another attack by isil 10 days ago in which isil set fire to more than 30 police officers and tribal fighters in the town of baghdadi in western anbar. and it's there where the iraqi army has launched an evacuation

to remove civilians trapped by fighting there. that town is just a few kilometers from the air base where u.s. marines soldiers and other western forces are stationed. and it's the scene of some of the fiercest fighting. iraqi military says that they have now opened a corridor to the town. they are taking people out and airlifting some of them to baghdad. >> and the iraqi government forces have pushed isil fighters from two villages. the army says the villages will be used as launch pads to recapture the city of tikrit from isil. they are preparing for a major operation there with the support of around 2,000 shia fighters. the f bit. has arrested three men in the united states and charged them with conspiring to support isil. two men were take then to custody in new york while planning to fly to syria to join the group. the third man is believed to have helped organize the trip from florida. they are also accused of threats en to go launch attacks against

u.s. president barack obama as well as law enforcement officials. >> it is alleged in the filing the idea that it was made quite plain based on their own statements that if they were not able to go, that they would seek to acquire weapons here, hand guns, machine gun and seek to attack very specifically police officers and so that those aspirations were made quite clear by their own statements. egypt's state news agency says members of libya's u.n. recognized parliament are in cairo for talks on the future of their country. they are there with a high-level delegation. he's expect today meet egyptian president abdel fattah el-sisi. the government is competing for power with a rival parliament in tripoli was recognized by libya's supreme constitutional court.

a public spat between the u.s. and israel over iran's nuclear. iran is accusing u.s. and other countries are rolling over to allow teheran to build nuclear weapons. he's expected to make his case against a nuclear deal next week when addresses the u.s. congress. a fellow for the institute of policy studies in washington d.c., she says this is a core disagreement not just between obama and netanyahu but more broadly between the u.s. and israel. >> there is a very specific divide between the u.s. and israel on what their position is vis-a-vis iran. they put their red lines in a different place, if you will. it's bad enough having red lines but when you have a red line it matters where you draw it. and the israelis have drawn their red line at the point where they say they could not accept iran ever having the capability to build a nuclear weapon any time in the future. i think that he was taken aback

perhaps, by the degree to which this meeting which i think he probably imagined would be smoothed over by the power of the pro israel lobbies in the u.s., and by the republican leadership that had initiated this invitation. and he didn't expect it to become as partisan as it has. it now is a very partisan issue with republicans supporting netanyahu and essentially democrats supporting the president of the united states and the u.s. position in the negotiations. that's a very serious position for the israeli prime minister to be in. and it's not a normal one. the u.s. senators vote today move forward on a bill to fund the homeland security department. the move has prevent aid partial shutdown of the department which might have happened if the bill hadn't passed in time. the standoff was over a migration policy that had been link today the bill. those provisions will now be voted on separately. still to come here on the

program, including nigeria's president promise to go create 2 million jobs if he's elected. how credible is the claim. the high hopes from a climate change later this year. stay with us.

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control of the capital sanaa. south african agents are spying on russia for details on their joint satellite project. according to a spy cable. it shows south african military intelligence has kent state intelligence in the dark. the islamic state of iraq and the los angeles vand has kidnapped more than 100 men and nine boys in iraq. belong to go a sunni tribe, one of the largest in the country. now, argentina's congress is expected to pass a law to create a new intelligence agency. the death of a prosecutor who was investigating the action of the president. the president suggests argentina's old spy service had al bare toe let man killed to discredit her, as our latin america editor lucia newman reports questions date back much further. >> reporter: it's an old photo.

one of the very few of former intelligence cheese. a man said to have moved in the shadows. from this building, located next to the presidential palace, he effectively controlled the nation's all-powerful spy agency for decades. information is power. and for years president christina kerr, never adly used and abused what he surprise. >> translator: the president liked to receive not just the transcripts of illegal wire taps but also the tape to his hear people's tone of voice, she controlled not only her political ahead sraer terries but per minutesters. >> reporter: he should know. he is a former intelligence agent himself. the 1992 bombing of the jewish cultural center as the agency black box. a former investigator says five

years ago he ordered his abduction and had the words carved on his back. he was responsible for revealing that the spy agency had paid $400,000 for false testimony to did he hail the rail the -- derail the original investigation. >> today we don't know what line of investigation to follow of the intelligent agency raised or contaminated the evidence to cover its own tracks. >> reporter: in december the president fired him and after the suspicious death of the prosecutor she asked congress to create a new more accountable intelligence serve it's. >> reporter: friends and foes of the president agree that the dismantling of the intelligence service was long overdue. the question is why now? sources close to the presidential palace say that it's because the president had discovered that the spy agency had turned against her and was leaking damaging information to the media. 14 months ago the president

named this general a season intelligence officer accused of human rights abuses as heads of the armed forces. creating what many regard as a parallel spy service more loyal to her. now the president is asking her countrymen to believe that a new federal intelligence agency will be more transparent given the histories of their esme imagine services, many can't be blamed for having doubts,. dozens of people in venezuela's capital have protested over the death of a teenager killed by police, demonstrators rallied in caracas, they say they want pope francis to intervene. the 14-year-old student was shot in the head during a confrontation with police at a protest. the french press francois hollande has arrived in the philippines at the start of a two-day visit he's joined by a

delegation of u.n. officials to president for urgent action on climate change. the trip is part of a campaign ahead of a global conference on climate change to be held in paris in december. the meeting is called cop 21. its goal is to create a legally binding agreement to cut greenhouse emissions by 2020. at the previous cop talks in pa crew last december a game work was set. but experts warn trying ideal will not be easy and the paris talks are likely to see fierce debate. marga or ortigas has more from ma nil 5678 it's an historic visit from the president of france. it's the first time a france president has visited here. he will be meeting with government leaders and industry and business men but also visiting one of the most damaged communities by tropical sporpl haiyan from nearly two years ago. now that storm was the strongest on record to make landfall and greatly it is put down to

climate change, storms have always come across the philippines but never one as strong as high i can't haiyan, it's expected storms in the future will only get stronger if nothing is done to cut down on the carbon foot prints of the global community. so the emphasis here of president ho ho land's visit is that this is a collective responsibility. not just developed countries but to work together with the most vulnerable nations such as the philippines, pretty much a small carbon footprint for the philippines but it's receiving the brunt of the climate change crisis. storms are just going to be getting stronger, the country is struggling to cope with the evenings of such typhoons basically the presidents of both nations perhaps and philippines wanting to emphasis climate change is real and the global community has to go to action now to basically try to avert a more press organize a worse disaster in the future. another country with high

hopes for the climate change conference is malaysia, coastal erosion has taken a toll on the country's wildlife and communities and it's a problem shared by many asia pacific nations. let's go live now. is it a good time for malaysia to be raising issues like this? >> reporter: jerk it's a very good time for malaysia. they are sitting on the united nations security seat a two-year rotation but also chairing the association of southeast asia nations an economic block that includes indonesia thailand, cambodia vietnam pill fines and several others. with those two very important seats that they have they are hoping to get their message across at the cop 21 conference as you mentioned later in the year but also at the united nations security council as of when there is an opportune moment. malaysia also want to listen to what the international community

has to say about their issues and concerns about climate change. for malaysia it's the sea water here, miles and miles of beautiful beach. but how long will it last? rising sea levels of course a concern not just for the government and the public at large, but for those who depends on the ocean. i have been meeting one group of fishermen who want to make sure the sea remained their friend and not their foe. 70 years ago the coastline used to be there. now it's here. this is the effect of rising sea levels it has caused coastal erosion, the the for fishermen times are touch i earns a living in the inland water ways, sea levels rise, it weakens coastlines and sand and soil fall in to the sea. then more saltwater enters the waterways, fresh water fish die.

>> translator: i have been fishing for over 20 years. i used to be able to catch two-kilos of fish in two hours i barely catch one die low in four hours. >> reporter: erosion is a major threat to coastal villages that depend on a balanced ecosystem for living. rapid urban development along the water's edge is another factor affecting the environment and paralyzing economic activity. according to official figures 30% of the country's coast is at risk. coastal erosion is predominantly at a critical level according to the authorities this the east of the country along the shoreline. yet with two very unique monsoons that affect malaysia from the north and the south areas such as where i am and further south are causing concerns for those that have to deal with the problem right on their doorstep. over 20 million u.s. dollars has been pledged by the government. for some, the solution is simply balancing urban development while being mindful of the

environment. >> any development that is proposed must incorporate and insure that. [ inaudible ] still exist. so that you have both wetlands as well as the sea of. >> reporter: main groves act as a nursery protecting fish within their roots it's also a food source for wildlife above and below the water line. a shoreline management plan has been in place since 2010. replanting mangroves in vulnerable areas where they once thrived has become an urgent matter for fishing communities. >> translator: mangroves reinforce the soil and sand and strengthen it against the force the coastal water, we have planted nearly 300,000 plants in that character the 30 years ago the water never game this far. >> reporter: he feels the same way, but wants to get his message across to those who can really make a difference when it comes to climate change, especially president hollande.

>> translator: world leaders have to remember that we are the poor. your decisions affect us directly and i don't want my home livelihood and memories to disappear in to the sea forever. >> reporter: the fishermen in that report and the community at large have been spreading their experiences to many of the community as cross malaysia that have come to see what they have been doing about those mangrove forests here in panang, but wider and further afield from where i am, climate change, whether it's melting polar ice caps or burning fossil fuels is a general topic that people are concerned about. malaysia saw devastating floods in the north of the country at the end of 2014. eforestation was an issue there. is that all part of climate change too? people want to see these issues addressed here and by their government as at the very high level. >> thanks very much indeed for that.

nigeria's president goodluck jonathan says he will create 2 million jobs if he's elected. but that will be no easy task. >> reporter: they were clammerring for seats to take an aptitude test for jobs at the immigration service at the national stadium in march last year. moments later, there was a stampede and 16 people were killed. over 700,000 had shown up at venues like this to apply for just 4,500 jobs. he has three children and lost his wife that day. the government promise today give him and others like him a job as compensation. something he says the government is working on. >> i feel like it's an accident that of course not an intentional act so i believe that nobody invites people to kill in the name of inning uni

give you job. so i believe it's an accidents. the federal government has promised to recruit the three members of the family so that they can fill in the gaps. [ inaudible ] the loss. >> reporter: the government is now advertising more jobs. moses has decided to apply. he survived last year's stampede. >> i have to survive so i look for a place and stayed there. after the stampede, after everything calms down, i moved out with the friends some of the friends that i went there with. >> reporter: the stampede at the jobs fair shows unemployment is a serious problem. around 1.6 million students graduate every year but there are not nearly enough jobs for them. and so when the government advertised advantage sighs literally millions of pima ply. the government says safety has been improved. >> crowd control will be put in place now. we take in to cognizant that

mistake and therefore only people duly selected and invited at this point in time will be allowed to attend. >> reporter: moses is hoping that will be the case. the. >> i almost lost hope in the scheme of things in nigeria. i almost lost hope. especially looking at the disease of africans, i almost lost hope. but i was able to pick up and say, okay, i don't have to lose hope like that. >> reporter: but the impact of new government jobs being offered is expect the to be minimal. nearly 25% of people here are without jobs. al jazerra abuja nigeria. south korea's constitutional court has struck down an adult are you law that criminalized extramarital affairs for the last 60 years. the 1953 statute was aimed at protecting traditional family values but the court ruled it's

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