police look for those responsible for shooting two officers. ♪ welcome to al jazeera live from our headquarters in doha. coming up in the next 30 minutes: this is out of hand. >> a warning about a bleak future for yemen. we speak to the u.n. envoy trying to get rival sides to agree to an ideal. foreign aid is life and death and now it's hard earn ever to

get supplies into war higher torn syria. and we enter the dark world of the late designer alexander

in the region original way i felt and the way i felt people were talking to people are nervous something like that could happen again?

we have also seen individuals who have tried to infuse violence in movements to degree rail their focus. anything could happen throughout the year from august until now. there are moments in a sense, concern for my safety individuals but we believe that our fight here is just and that even in the risk of violence or our own personal harm we believe we are standing on righteousness and it's worth any harm or danger that may come to us fighting this fight. >> the last 24 hours, we have seen the resignation of the police chief the city manager step down two police officers have stepped down. what more do you want to see moving forward? >> reform in our municipal court system. the report from the department of justice outlined that we want to see individuals vote in this

area. >> that's going to protest or need to go out and vote as well. going to approve the new chief of police that came in so that ferguson can be the community we want it to be where everybody can still love feel supported and be safe at night. >> refer ends jones, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> tense but determined sense of activists here outside of the ferguson police department headquarters continuing to chant and hold signs and demonstrate less than 24 hours after those two police officers were shot. thankfully not seriously hurt. released from the hospital earlier today. back to you. >> kristen salomey, thank you. the u.n. special envoy to yemen said the country could

descend into civil war. houthi rebels dissolved parliament last month. a report. >> reporter: this video appears to show shots being fired at a demonstration against the houthi coup until yemen. according to protestors one man was killed and five others wounded. demonstrations like these have become frequent after shia shia houthi fighters took over last month. this was this man has been meeting all powers as well as regional powers. he said there is a real danger of yemen breaking up. >> it can get out of hand. if there is no agreement, the prospects are very bleak. it's a combination of scenarios, syria, libya and iraq. a horrible scenario. >> that's why. everybody is aware that every

effort should be made to promote a peaceful way forward. >> but the houthi reanalyze don't seem convinced about the u.n.-brokered talks. >> we see a positive position by the u.n. the u.n. security council, the regions. why does the gcc have a negative stanchion when it comes to the popular revolution? >> the houthis have launched exercises near the border with saudi arabia and been strengthening ties with iran which is seen as a driving force behind the rebels. on thursday they agreed to expand and develop yemen's streetegic seaport. developments like this yemen's ousted president is trying to rebuild his power base from the eastern city of aden. the elected parliament has been thrown out. many mps are being held by the

houthis. the u.n. is calling for their release. >> we are asking them, you know to play a positive role first by releasing the ministers who are still under house arrest. second, you know, by safeguarding the human rights of the yemenis. >> as more meetings on the country's future continue both inside and outside their country, thousands of yemenis took to the streets demanding the restoration of democracy. al jazeera. the u.n. says it needs another $29,000,000,000 to help syrians caught up in the conflict. the war is entering its 5th year. the u.n. says there are millions of people in the hard to reach areas in need and desperate need of aid and the throat of isil is making it even harder for help to reach them. bernard smith reports. >> reporter: from the moment they are born most syrians are

now reliant on foreign aid. here, it means the difference between life and death. but now as isil has emerged to take command of some areas in syria, security concerns make it difficult to get aid through. >> we say it's a shrinking humanitarian corridor you know, a common phrase. it's just more difficult to get supplies from here to there. and for sure going deep inside syria where we were able to get -- failure easily get into dorzor and the governor on the east side of the country. now, that road is treacherous. it's very very dangerous. >> but it's not just fighting that stops aid getting through. many of the governments and larger chair at this that supply will not allow help to be sent to isil controlled areas. they feel it will be diverted to

isil fighters. hand-in-hand is one group whose warehouse hints at the mammoth scale of the aid needs of this country. set up at the start of the conflict, the group's founders thought they would be needed for just four or five months. >> like really basic help aid or bandages. they needed cotton or baby milk. sometimes, just basic needs. >> it's going from providing cotton and bandages and baby milk to what? >> complete hospitals now. >> now hand-in-hand is preparing for the next 10 years. an alarming prospect not least because of the costs involved p this year the u.n. is appealing for $29,000,000,000 to help 12 million syrians. >> that's more than half the population. the deliveries will cross borders here in turkey and in iraq and jordan into territory

that's become some of the most difficult in the world for aid agencies to operate in. last year the u.n. only got half the money it asked for to help syrians. donor fatigue is a real concern, but without those donors and the aid groups they help syria's next generation would have no chance. bernard smith, al jazeera, on the turkey/syria border. >> we have full coverage on the conflict in syria on our website at aljazeera.com. just click on the syria broken nation link on the front page for in depth reports and analysis and video. sri lanka's president said he would set up an inquiry into war crimes during the country's civil war. saying u.n. investigators won't be involved despite international pressure. the sri lankan army defeated the tamil separatists ending a 26 year conflict. eng modi the first indian lead

tory visit sri lanka in more than 25 years. modi is due to hold talks with the new president there. trade and investment are expected to be at the top of the agenda. let's go to our correspondent live from the capital and, modi returning a visit that was paid to him last month. we are seeing a strengthening of relations here? >> reporter: very much so. relations between sri lanka and indian india had been on the back burner due to the various sort of close relations of the previous government here in sri lanka had chosen to keep can china, obviously in terms of the region and strategic importance there were tensions. as a result, they had sort of an arm's length sproechlt since the new government, since zena has

come into power, we have seen relations, offering to make delhi his first stop taking office and we see modi having returned that visit. he is just here at the presidential sec tree tear accurate when he arrived a few minutes ago, receiving a warm western carolina on his first state visit, the first stiffedvisit by an indian leader in more than 25 years. very much a lot of hope in terms of this warming relation. it is not something that's new. the relationship does go back for many centuries and even as far back as a few decades, a few years ago, there has always been a high level of trade and contact culturally. this is something even though china, in the period china remains its greatest partner as we see in this report. >> indian influence, baliwood

style. imran teaches over 600 students to move like indian film stars. >> we have created some kind of a little ballywood. we had a party. everyone dressed up and ate indian food. it was a amazing. >> ties between the neighbors date back many centuries. those relations became strained in recent years as sri lanka was perceived to favor china but indian india cannot be ignored. >> china has been very generous in giving financial assistance for the development activities. still, from the economic perspective in regard to trade and investment india still dominates over china. it's the largest trading factor. >> one fact pushing the government to rethink relations with the giant neighbor. >> sri lanka has to perform a

developing balancing act. china and india after years of leaning towards beijing, the new government is work to go repair relations with new delhi and it homes prime minister modi's visit will help achieve that. >> india's oil country has invested in sri lanka's pettrome annual industry. the report national airline and tourism industry also benefit from indian patronage. it's not just one-way traffic. a number of sri lankan quants trees have broken into the indian market. the picture is not all rotesy. there are issues on which both countries have strong views like the treatment of the island's tamin mine -- tamil minority. if fresh thinking can come tote table, relations should improve.

. >> as seen the new relations very much part of the two new leaders in those two countries, wonder if this will bode well for both countries, the prime minister having a pretty tightly packed schedule. he will hold talks with the president, with whom he has gone inside behind me. he will have talks with the prime minister address parliament later on this afternoon and pay respects as a memorial to the peacekeeping forces being sentence to sri lanka during the late '80s in the war against the tamil tigers tempt. tomorrow another historic visit by any indian leader where he goes up north to the peninsula, very much part of india's sort of commitment to look after and speak for the rights of the tamils. it's sort of packed in a compact trip with many things important for both countries.

>> minelle, thank you very much. minelle fernandes in colombo. a cease-fire in name only. both sides in the conflict say they are bracing for a new military offensive nu-ukraine.

good to have you with us. these are the top stories on al jazeera: the u.s. demonstrators are back on the street in ferguson missouri less than 24 hours after two police officers were shot and wounded. protesters are shouting: no

justice, no peace. after last year's fatal police shooting of unarmed teenager michael brown. escalating violence is threatening to plunge the country into civil war and split it in 2. talks between rival political parties, trying to end the crisis. >> india's prime minister has arrived in sri lanka for a three-day visit, due to held talks. expected to top the agenda. libyan t.v. channel has played a leaked recording suggesting that the egyptian government may have provided illegal arms to libya. the deal said to have taken place when egyptian president sisi was defense minister. it suggests egypt provided weapons to malitias fighting forces loyal to the gnc. it would have broken a u.n. arms

embargo after the fall of my marched gadaffi. he is alleged to have held secret meetings. the leaks also suggest that the uae backed egypt's actions in libya.

sisi's office about the islamists gaining power any place in the region and, of course there have been you know, there have been indications that the gnc government is teaming up with some of the so-called islamist groups. >> bangladeshi authorities are searching for survivors after a factory collapsed killing at least 7 people. about 150 were working on the building kwht roof caved in. the cement factory was under construction at the time of the accident. after 30 people are feared dead after a fire in russia. the building in the city of kaz kazan collapsed. rescuers are searching for survivors. >> reporter: for several hours they not to control the flames. about 4,000 square meters of a

shopping center an area almost as big as a ball pitch is burning. rescuers pulled carpets, anything that can catch fire from the collapsed building. terrified shoppers watched helplessly. 600 are said to have escaped. some have been trapped inside. >> my friend was probably left behind inside, too, under the rubble. >> and anger grows at the official response. >> it all collapsed on them. we are standing here to clean the mother's wounds because she has wounds to her head and leg, and they are moving aimlessly about here, and there is only one ambulance. >> some witnesses say the roof collapsed. others say it folded like an accord accordion. this shopping center is just four years old. witnesses say the fire began in a cafe. eventually, the fire was controlled. but with smoke still rising from the wreckage questions are already being asked about the safety of the center's electrical wiring.

rob mathson, al-jazerra. the european union has called the killing of russian opt vision boris nemtsov. the sglu wants an investigation into his death. he was shots outside the kremlin. one of the founders. donetsk peace's republic has told access the conflict on the country is on a knife edge. he blames ukrainian forces for breaking the cease-fire but ukraine is pointing the finger at rebels. john hendren reports from donetsk. >> reporter: as daily bullets and mortars break the silence of a fragile cease-fire both say they are bracing for an offensive that could come at any time. the ukrainian side has not withdrawn heavy weapons and now we are balancing on the razor's edge of a new military conflict. >> the head of the separatistly

parliament says ukrainian troops would likely be to blame for provoke agnew onslaught. >> in this conflict it is ukraine that is pullculpable. any fire toward residential areas of donetsk would lead the situation to explode in an instance. do you have reason to believe that that might happen? >> yes. certainly. it we have had many civilian casualties casualties. >> reporter: so all it would take is for one more martyr to land here for rebel forces to feel justified in launching an assault. not far away on the front lines, ukrainian troops, too, tell us they expect an assault. they are convinced it is pro-russian separatists who will launch it. >> in this village, there are spotters for the so-called rebels and mortar operators from the russian army. now, we are strengthening trenches preparing to respond

to their attack. >> each side accuses the others of violating the cease-fire and the ban on heavy weapons. both seem to agree it is rebel forces shown here training this week that would launch a new offensive while the rebels say they want the cease-fire to hold, there might be military reasons for them to launch a new battle. the u.s. intelligence firm strat four seize three scenarios. they could take maripoul and create a land bridge from russia to crimea. or they could take ukraine's entire southernco coast connecting russia with maldova where 2000 russian troops are stationed. the most ambitious, pro-russian could take it to the river a plan strat foresays would require 90,000 russian troops. >> they might break the cease-fire because they were

winning moment where the government forces in kiev have more to gain now by focusing on the economy rather than focusing on so much on the eastern part of ukraine. >> a renewed conflict would further rattle the traumatized residents of eastern ukraine and an international community that has loudly lamented the conflict but otherwise done little more than watch the crisis unfold. john hendren, al jazeera, dondon eastern ukraine. >> costa rica's volcano has had its biggest eruptioin in 20 years, spewn gas and ash and reached san jose. local residents have been evacuated. >> a giant of the fashion world and five years after his death, alexander mcqueen's work is being celebrated in london. the exhibition is called savage beauty. tickets have sold in the tens of thousands.

jessica baldwin took a look. >> reporter: the world of alexander mcqueen where fashion meets art. the creations stretch across 10 rooms, all with a different feel, from driving intensity to eerie speakiness. the theatrical catwalk shows were what made the designer transcend all others. angry, raw motion coupled with impeccbly made clothes. fashion expert ama zakaria came along to the show to explain what was happening. >> people in the audience wouldn't be able to see inside the box. only see themselves reflected as we are seeing ourselves right now >> what happened? >> when the light changes like it does right now you can see into the box the people on the inside of the box can't see out and that's when you look at the clothes. >> in sort of -- what was the team? what was going on? >> it was about asylum and san

toryiums so you can understand it's a padded cell. you can see that. >> the materials may be unorthodoxed, but the clothes are taylored perfectly. >> were those dresses made of tiny pheasant feathers sewn together and you can see here how nature andnate and do you recall were key themes in his work. >> savage beauty was first staged in 2011 in new york. about a year and a half after mcqueen's death. 650,000 people saw the show. the appeal goes beyond fashion lovers. it's art as a tortured medium created by a tortured genius. tickets have been sold all around the world to see this show. visitors are coming from the middle east from asia. i have been told of a couple in moscow. they queued for five hours to see the show in new york. they didn't get in. they are making a specific trip to london for this show.

>> it's hard to see the show without contemplating the potential: where would mcqueen have taken fashion if he had lived beyond 40? jessica walledbaldwin, al jazeera, london. >> on "america tonight," it was the moment sunny brownmiller had been waiting for. a chance to tell hugh hefner on national television. >> women are not bunnies. >> still calling it as she sees it. this feminist pioneer shoots straight with young women. >> i always stress the warning women are still in denial. >> for obsessive compulsive disorder had taken control of her life. she had worn gloves all the time, 24/7.