meets humanity. only on al jazeera america. yemen's former president on the attack slamming the crippled government as it tries to regain power. ♪ from al jazeera's headquarters in doha i'm sammy and also ahead a relationship that has gone from bad to much worse, the u.s. declares venezuela a security threat. iran slams an open letter from u.s. republicans as propaganda. standing up for women's rights we talked to the afghan artist forced to go into hiding.

let's begin with developments in yemen and al jazeera has learned the special envoy is traveling to saudi arabia for talks. he is trying to broker a solution to the country's political crisis all of this going on as the ousted president tries to put together an administration in the southern city of aiden and we go to mohamed who is following documents for us from yemen and we will start with where you are mohamed, how are attempts faring to try to put together a government there? >> he has been trying hard since he arrived a couple weeks ago and today there was a meeting expected by the members of cabinet making it to aiden and i understand there are at least eight of them here already and some of them are still on their way and houthis tried to blocked

them. they did not give them passage and put some of them under house arrest and five of them are under house arrest including the prime minister and hadi trying to get most of them to arrive here. the minister of defense came here two days ago but there are problems and now the meeting is postponed, probably it's going to be held after tomorrow. one, because some of the ministers have not arrived and minister of defense one of the most important among them are still in his house not far from here but he is willing to come to meet hadi and willing to attend the meeting and we have conflicting reports and some say differences with hadi and some say, no because he lost his daughter in a car accident during his esskad and some of his aids are still missing probably at the hands of the houthis and he is in the state of mourning and not in the mood to come to these meetings yet. >> at the same time the former

president has been speaking out and tell us how that is going down in yemen. >> this is one of the rare occasions since he was removed from power when he came with president hadi he gave a statement saying hadi should leave the country and first time saying that. he said h ashgsahadi destroyed the country with unefficiency and described hadi in an illusion to the 1994 war and described the present situation as similar to that of 1994. he said those who escaped in 1994 to aiden were forced out of the country and gave them several passages and gave president hadi an escape out of the country and people who rule yemen and you see these are very strong words and the former president for the first time will take a tremendous amount of power in his words and i mean

people are saying that he has and what it means because he has a big chunk of the army loyal to him and a lot of funds in his hands from the time of his presidency in yemen and they say he can still shape things in yemen and still create problems for the president. >> thank you in aiden. ivory coast former first lady sentenced to 20 years in jail 65-year-old simone charged with under mining security in her role in violence stemming from the 2010 elections, more than 3,000 people died in fighting after the disputed poll her husband former president bagbo is awaiting trial at the international criminal court. 25 policemen have been wounded in an attack in egypt. the suicide bomber targeted their camp in the sinai peninsula, one civilian was killed in the blast. fighters have been active in the

sinai for years but attackers have intensified since mohamed morsi was ousted in 2013. venezuela's president latched out to the united states for imposing sanctions on top officials and declaring venezuela a security threat. nicholas maduro described the move as the most unjust aggressive and poisonous step the u.s. has ever taken against caracas and jordan has more from washington d.c. >> reporter: demonstrations against the worse economy in venezuela and the government of president nicholas maduro and security forces cracked down on them and in light of the arrest of political opponents and death of some protesters, one just 14 years old, u.s. president barack obama ordered sanctions against several government officials on monday, no travel to the u.s. their assets seized. >> there certainly are restrictions against individuals, separately we put out last week some information

about what will be required to travel to venezuela in terms of visa's given restrictions put in place so there are a couple of things happening at once. >> reporter: maduro accused the u.s. of trying to over throw his government and saying the late president chavez and with the oil falling and the economy collapsing people are questioning maduro's effectiveness of president and them and government forces has alarmed washington and u.s. senator who wrote the law authorizing sanctions praised obama, quote in response to the culture of tim punty these targeted actions are long over due step for accountability of the victims of president maduro's campaign of state-sponsored violence. washington has been fighting over the number of u.s. diplomates in venezuela, the maduro government says they are spies and wants most of them to

leave and washington says the diplomates help them build business and personal ties with the u.s. roslyn jordan al jazeera. >> find out why the u.s. targeted the seven venezuela officials we spoke to danielle political science at webster university. >> from the u.s. point of view these are officials who in some sense were guilty of repression. the incident the u.s. specifically points to happened in february of 2014 47 people were killed but it's important to know those were split almost evenly between protesters bystanders and security officials themselves. and several security officials in venezuela are going to have to face trial for deaths of protesters. from the other kinds of why has to do with the venezuela decision to insist that the united states reduce its embassy staff from 100 down to 17 the reason for this being that venezuela charges the united

states with babbling in internal affairs and trying a coup in the country. i think the other thing going on here is you are seeing these two countries, the united states and venezuela pulling on opposite end of a rope if you use that analogy from the cube end missile crisis but this is not as difficult or severe the knots getting tighter and as each side pulls on the rope it's going to be harder and harder to undo the knot and get back to normal relations. the group of u.s. republicans senators has written an open letter to iran saying any luke particular deal would not last after president obama leaves office the foreign minister criticized the move and says the politicians don't understand their own constitution and called the latter a piece of propaganda and patty reports. >> reporter: the lower house tried nuclear negotiations inviting a foreign leader to

criticize the policy to a joint meeting of congress. now the upper house is giving it a go releasing this open letter to iran leadership 47 republican senators giving a kind of specifics lesson telling iran they are making a deal with the current president, not the united states writing president obama will leave office in january 2017 while most of us will remain in office well beyond them perhaps decades and warns the next president can kill the deal with the stroke of a pen and future congresses could modify the terms and president obama accused opposition party of trying to kill the deal. >> i think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hard liners in iran it's an unusual coalition. i think what we are going to focus on right now is seeing whether we can get a deal or not. >> reporter: republicans have made it clear they don't want a deal if it leaves iran with any

nuclear capable. >> you give them an industrial size enrichment capability the u.n. fails to contain it and one day they get one when they say they are not trying to build a bomb i think they are lying. >> obama administration says it can go on its own and give a deal and sanctions relief without the approval of congress and congress is trying to push a deal to change it but it's not clear to make the votes to make that a reality. patty with al jazeera, washington. hundreds of police in myanmar have charged its student protesters with stuffing them on their march and began the march in january but blocked from police for more than two weeks. students want changes to be made to a new education bill they are calling for the right to form unions and want lessons to be taught in ethnic minority languages. philippine military says against the islamic freedom movement will continue until the group is

eliminated, a week of fighting forced 20,000 people from their homes and we have more from the province. >> reporter: comes from a long line of displaced families and generations they have been refugees seeking shelter in make-shift homes when fighting breaks out in the villages in the southern philippines, it's a story of displacement that a local is used to describe them. people living their life on the run. >> translator: we have been living this life for so long. every year we lose our homes and rebuild all over again, just want to be able to stay sleep in our betz and tend our farms, this is tiring. >> reporter: over a million people have been displaced since armed rebellion began in the late 1960s. violence has plagued the region for decades and more than 120,000 people have been killed.

there has been relative calm over the last few years because of ongoing negotiations between the philippine government and southeast asia biggest rebel group, islamic liberation front but last week the philippine government declared all out offensive against islamic freedom movement a known group known to coddle the man and bomb maker in the south and one of the country's most wanted man. and he says such operations are crucial in weeding out rebels in the area but admits it can also put a lot of strain on communities. >> it's very hard in a sense that we are trying to balance the objective and the concern with this issue as soon as possible time. >> reporter: more than 50,000 people are displaced here alone. they are living in evacuation camps like this one with not

enough food and decent shelter and their number keeps rising. if they accepted this to be their life a vicious cycle of fear and disposition but what they cannot accept they say is that their children may have to suffer the same fate too, al jazeera, southern philippines. much more to come on the show hidden sometimes in plain sight, at the u.s. border with mexico where heroin smuggling is the biggest challenge. plus i'm rob mcbride with the coffee kick that is good for the environment. ♪

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♪ welcome back you are watching al jazeera and reminder now of our top stories, the u.s. special envoy to yemen is travelling to saudi arabia for talks, he is trying to broker a solution to the political crisis there, the embattled president hadi is struggling for power in the southern city of aiden. ivory coast former first lady sentenced to 20 years in jail and she is charged with under mining, state security stemming from the 2010 elections. venezuela's president says he will ask congress for more power to fight imperilism after they declared it a national security threat and put sanctions on several officials. in syria more people have been killed by government barrel bomb attacks, two civilians died and many more were wounded in idlib

one of many locations targeted by barrel bombs despite a u.n. security resolution banning them. also in syria a camp for palestinian refugees has been hit by government shelling, at least four people in the camp have been killed and more than 20 others wounded and it's near the center of damascus and under siege from assad forces for more than two years. armed group in syria like i.s.i.l. and al-nusra front made of jordan fighters and most will not return home and those who do face years behind bars and we report from the jordan city, one of the main recruiting grounds for fighters. >> reporter: 19-year-old fought in syria for five months and when he returned home to jordan he was sentenced to five years in prison. he was with a rebel group allied with al-nusra front. last september a jordan court

found him guilty of joining a terrorist organization his father says he came back once the armed groups started fighting each other. >> translator: he called one day and said he wanted to come home. his mother and siblings had been insisting he return. he said he wanted to come back because the different rebel groups like the free syrian army and al-nusra front were fighting each other and decided he wasn't willing to die for free other than a purpose of jihad against the government. >> reporter: it shocked his family and it was through facebook from his home in zarka he connected with a syrian fighter and used money his parents had given him to pay his university fees to buy a plane ticket to turkey. from there he got into syria. but when he returned to jordan he was arrested at the airport. although more than 2000 jordan fighters in syria come from across the county one-third are from here the most from any

single area. it's the hometown of former al-qaeda and also been home to other fighters like him for many years. and poverty and unemployment have pushed religious men who feel marginalized to leave for foreign battlefields many also decide to leave their stable lives and their families behind motivated by their belief in establishing an islamic state. many people who are religiously conservative see syria as a launching pad for their project to erase borders in the region and impose islamic law and for men growing up here and fighting in conflict is a potential career path. others blame government policies that have made zarka home to many foreign fighters. >> translator: zarka is mother of poor people and most people have no jobs and no education and suffered social unjustice

and many residents are deprived of jobs and with no future jihad are the goal and priority of these men. >> reporter: they hopes a court appeal will reduce his prison sentence and says his son was exploited and mislead in the ever changing battlefields next door, al jazeera, zarka. a stockpile of weapons found in southeast tunesia and rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles were discovered and interior ministry says it's the second store of weapons found there in many days. libya neighbors are worried that violence will spill across borders. french police have detained four people including a policewoman of suspected links to paris attacks in january, suspected of having ties to the hostage taker who killed five people at a jewish super market and no word on any possible connection to the brothers who killed 12

people at the office of the newspaper charlie hebdo. french swimmer and olympic boxer have died in a helicopter crash in northwest argentina and the stars were among ten people who were killed when two helicopters collided filming a show and the weather was good and the cause of the crash is being investigated. it's one of the biggest challenges facing drug enforcement authorities in the united states, how to control the surge of cheap heroin from mexico, mexican drug cartels are now to believe all heroin smug nlg the u.s. and using routes for cocaine and crystal meth and marijuana and sales have tripled in five years and border agents tell al jazeera it's a fraction of what gets past undetected and

heroin is easy to get through because it can be carried in smaller amounts and adam reports from the u.s./mexico border. >> you can put in a lot of heroin in here. >> reporter: a trophy room where border officers teach new recruits how to spot drugs in cars on the way to the lucrative u.s. market. >> look at the extent they went through. soft drink bottles and firewood is used to statute heroin and on the job officers have a few minutes to decide if a vehicle should be searched. it's clear to those who guard the gates to the united states that heroin coming from mexico is their biggest challenge right now. >> we have seized double the amount of heroin that we did the entire year last year. and we are only what six months in the fiscal year. >> reporter: alerted to another drug seizure, this time on the road into the united states.

>> we are rolling on the scene. >> reporter: a special agent with homeland security his task to dismantle smuggling rings, he is seeing the same pattern with heroin. >> in 2012 we had five kilos and 2014 we had over 200. a weapon inside the vehicle, narcotics are inside. >> reporter: his team intercepts drugs everyday like they did when we rode with them but doesn't stop the flow of heroin that top officials say has swapped towns and cities feeding a book in addiction and with so much money in play the cartels are watching too. >> that is mexico separated by the border friends. but as you can see those buildings, the houses the residence cents have a direct line of site to port of entry and can see who is coming in and who is leaving. >> reporter: smugglers said there are many ways to get the drugs past the wall and

sometimes tunneling under it and sometimes walking right across and heroin is so valuable even in small amounts you don't have to take it over the border in cars, more and more officials are seeing people walk it from here in mexico over to the united states. sometimes they are seeing it strapped to old people's bodies and young children. customs, homeland security and local police just three of over a dozen agencies tasked with stopping the flow of heroin and other narcotics. still some on the front lines admit the battle cannot be won because the market is insatiable. >> every pound we get are 100 pounds we don't stop so it's a drop in the bucket. >> can i see driver's license. >> reporter: the deputy says he is on the last line of defense before drugs get past the border area and out on u.s. highways a route that delivers heroin to users across america.

adam with al jazeera, arizona on the u.s./mexico border. >> more signs the conflict in eastern ukraine is scaling back ukraine president says pro-russia rebels withdrawn a significant amount of weapons from the front lines part of a seize fire deal signed last month and fewer attacks but both sides still accuse each other of violence. artist in afghanistan has gone into hiding after a daring protest against sexual harassment, and he walked through the capitol kabul with a suit resembling a naked woman as we report he since received death threats. >> reporter: he was just four years old when she was molested by a stranger. it was the street and the first of many such attacks. she remembers wishing her underwear were made of iron. 20 years later she is making the point in the most public way

possible. walking through a part of kabul where she says she was sexually harassed as an adult, many were outraged by the protest. >> slap her, slap her, somebody said words and ashamed on a motor bike and ashamed. >> reporter: some in the crowd threw stones the artist who is now in hiding says many afghan women endure a lifetime of being pinched and prodded by strangers and by the u.s. abuse in afghanistan is common and 8 out of 10 afghan women experience physical psychological or sexual abuse. women's rights have improved since the fall of the taliban a decade ago although not quickly enough for some. like this group who last week demanded an end to sex crimes.

>> we take care of afghan women, your mom and sister don't accuse them. don't treat them badly. announcer: they don't have to hide. kubra on other hand received debt threats and reported to left her home in kabul out of fear i'm with al jazeera. a nonprofit group in cambodia has come up with a novel first, solar powered three-wheeled motor bike common in cities and come at a high environmental cost but not this one, rob mcbride explains why. >> reporter: early morning at the organization behind the unique initiative and the coffee makers prepare their load. ready to dispense more than a fresh brew they also bear a message of hope while helping the environment. with a regular schedule, the regular customers are already lining up by the time the

vehicle is open for business. for employee winn this offers her a real alternative employment other than going through dumps trying to earn enough to feed her five children. >> translator: life is a lot better. before i would have no time to spend with my children. now i have regular hours and there is more food to eat. >> reporter: as the sun comes up, so this comes into its own. the solar panel on the roof recharging the batteries that will propel it to its next destination. able to do up to 100 kilometers on one full charge it is a welcome wiff of innovation in a city choking on its own exhaust. no pollution and no noise, the electric difference means this vehicle at the moment is running completely silently silence you would be able to hear if it wasn't for the thousands of other vehicles it has to share

the road with. with the congested roads getting more choked with motor bikes and tuk-tuks this nongovernmental organization has a bigger message for the city. >> day-to-day the traffic is increasing and it costs to the air quality, you know. and it is just creating the problems to the air so we want something that reduces the pollution in the city you know. >> reporter: come the rainy season the gathering clouds may slow things down but until then this coffee service is full steam ahead. rob mcbride, al jazeera. the first solar powered plane going around the world is on a journey and touched down after taking off from abu-dhabi

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