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koreans celebrating a holiday. and reaching a conclusion. let's start in yemen where houthi rebels have taken over the airport in ta'izz. that is the third largest city. the fighters are pushing south from the capital sanaa in the direction of aden. that's where the president is trying to hold on power. meanwhile, the united states has pulled out its last of special forces. giving this special explanation. we reemphasize our support for his efforts to lead yemen through crisis. natasha guinane reports.

>> reporter: people in ties gather to protest prohouthi rebels in the city. >> translator: they want to drag us into war and we refuse. >> a helicopter flying over a military convoy below was the sign this pro-houthi courses might be closer to a collision course with abd rabbu mansour hadi. since he was forced to flee the capital. ta'izz puts them on the course of least resistance to aden and to the president. >> they are not armed they are not al qaeda they won't protest against the houthis but they will not fight the houthis. so it is a big difference. >> reporter: as the people grapple with the mosk bombings that killed 140 on friday, he said, and he needs to ensure the security of yemenis.

>> translator: my job as a president is to do that. and to invite all the political powers and components, including those who carried out the coup coup d'etat. >> reporter: al jazeera has learned the u.n. envoy has left the country. saudi arabia has offered to host peace talks. but houthis say they will only agree to talks in sanaa. >> translator: we need to ask what is the result of the talks in riyadh? who will implement these talks? >> reporter: the question is whether escalation is inevitable.

natasha guinane, al jazeera. the u.s. withdrawal from an air base comes after 20 yemeni soldiers were killed in the same province on saturday. u.s. military personnel had been training yemeni fighters. against quap aqap, a to attack a u.s. bound plane. he had a bomb hidden in his underwear which failed to detonate. weapons training in yemen and during their stay there in july 2011 they met anwar alalaki martin riordan is senior vice president of the soufan group.

he joins us here in doha. marty, that the u.s. pulled out special force he from yemen they might nt have not have known the u.s. had special forces in yemen. >> this makes all the sense in the world limited number of troops there specifically to take on the war or the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they don't want those forces being caught in what may become a full blown civil war. >> because the axes of conflict are multiplying day by day. >> almost by the hour. >> the number of participants was getting too great. >> exactly. and this does not mean that the u.s. will stop conducting

attacks or strikes against aqap. in all likelihood, those units will be relocated to another country in the region where they can operate from there if necessary. >> how account u.s. pick and choose if you like who it decides to fight against within the yemen context given that you have got i.s. operational now operations of the mosques on saturday, who does the u.s. decide to take on who not to? >> again the u.s. presence in yemen is really in the fight against quoop. i don't see the u.s -- against aqap. i don't see u.s. taking sides with or against president hadi or with or against the houthis. >> president hadi is calling for urgent military assistance one seems. is there a lot of pressure on the united states given that it's got a direct military

relationship with the yemeni authorities, to intervene now to get more involved? >> i don't think there's going to be pressure on the united states for that. again the united states is going to be careful about taking sides in a civil war. the hadi government is the government the united states, the united nations and most of the european countries recognize. it is the letting government there but i don't see it's taking sides in that. >> martin, thank you very much indeed. >> ouryou're welcome. >> between the rival parliaments in libya are on the ground whilts there's fighting in and around tripoli. hashem ahelbarra reports.

>> as negotiations in the moroccan capital tries to stitch together a government on the offensive to recapture the capital tripoli. but one of its senior commanders was killed. the united nations envoy brokering the talks in rabat is concerned. >> we had a military operation against tripoli. precisely in a decisive moment in the talks our resolve is as strong as it was in the past. this is not only military activity undermining the situation in libya and provide

undermining the unity. >> fighting in the capital. >> translator: the gnc top military commander gave orders to defend capital. tripoli is safe. >> reporter: but the delegation for the government in tobruk insists a deal is still possible. >> our biggest concern now is to stop violence the fighting and air strikes. there are those who want to undermine dialogue. what we hope to achieve we are determined to go ahead with talks. >> reporter: after weeks of talks and months of fighting, libya remains deeply divided. in the east there is a government backed by the international community. in the west a government reinstated by the government's supreme court. talks in rabatat have been

undermined crisis could lead to a full blown civil war. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera rabat. >> teunsan officialtunisian many officials prosecutors say they have detained 20 people in relation to the attack. aa neighbor of yasin labidi has expressed her shock. >> translator: he wasn't poor. he was educated. how did the extremists reach educated people? before we were saying there were only those hungry without work. he wasn't starving, he wasn't out of work. what pushed him to do that?

>> the hacking division of i.s.i.l. have posted the photographs of 100 military personnel online. calling on people in america to hurt or kill them. andy gallagher has a report from washington d.c. >> this is a group called islamic hacking division. they have clearly identified 100 u.s. military personnel their names in some cases their ranks and their addresses. they are doing this so they can encourage so-called lone wolf sympathizers to kill them. kill them in their own lands stab them to death as they walk their own streets. something very concerning to officials here and the group itself the islamic state hackinghacking division, said they

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>> hello again. let's have a look at the top stories here at al jazeera. in yemen houthi rebels have taken over the airport at ta'izz. moving south to aden where president hadi is trying to hold on to power. fierce fighting, in tripoli. one of the military commanders is among the dead. and the tunisian government has released security footage capturing the moment gunmen entered the museum killing 21 people and injuring 40 others. u.s. secretary of state john kerry is playing down reports of division between the u.s. and france over a nuclear deal with iran. mr. kerry met his european counterparts at heathrow airport. now returning to washington

d.c. bp before negotiations resume next week. our diplomatic correspondent james bays. >> an effort to reestablish a unified position. u.s. secretary of secretary of state john kerry. it's been reported that at one point during intense negotiations in switzerland he called his team urging them not to allow any further concessions. before he left switzerland however, mr. kerry insisted that there was no division among the members. >> this remains a p-5 plus one negotiation with iran, i emphasize we are united in our goal our approach our resolve and our determination to ensure that iran's program is entirety

peaceful. the european union has continue to play a pivotal role in facilitating the talks. >> reporter: in iran it's the biggest holiday of the year to mark naruz the iranian new year. president hasan rouhani said the deal was within reach. >> translator: god willing we'll reach an agreement that will benefit all regions iran, the european union and the world. >> raising the biggest sticking points in the negotiations. >> translator: negotiations with the u.s. are on the nuclear level and nothing else. we do not negotiate with the united states on regional issues. the objectives of u.s. are on

opposite directions than iran. >> framework agreement at the end of the month. one senior are femp diplomat no says that deadline is counterproductive and dangerous. adding a deal has to have concrete guarantees to stop iran from getting the bomb. james bays, al jazeera london. >> renewed calls for fighters to end their fight in turkey. >> reporter: in the hard of kurdish turkey, celebrations to mark the start of spring. the jailed worker of the kurdistan workers party pkk to end a three decade long conflict with the turkish state. >> translator: we regard it

necessary and historic for the pkk to hold a congress to end the armed struggle against the turkish republic and to decide on their strategies and tactics in line with the spirit of this new era. >> the call for congress is an attempt to kick start a stalled peace process that began two years ago. amongst other things, arjulan wants a new notion of citizenship. >> here for sure and we will actually in the post-conflict stage, and the politics has replaced the conflict. and reference this way and for now on we will have a competition based on politics rather than.

>> 40,000 people have been killed in the armed conflict between the turkish state and the pkk. few believe they will restart that fight. giving up weapons or burying them because the kurds are fighting i.s.i.l. in syria. the turkish government which wants kurdish support to change the constitution. believe this will endure. al jazeera sufnt sowfnt southeastern turkey. mohammad adow reports.

>> on a good day the city's water company supplies 945 million liters of water. that is where the water vendors come in. to fill a void and supply the rest of the city's population. >> translator: it's a hectic job as the demand for water is high. have to walk long hours but it pays well. >> reporter: their customers are far from happy though. juliet is a housewife. she states she spends precious dollars every month for water from the vendors. >> i feel bad i help very very bad. we are not bietion any water buying any water again. not easy for us. >> another group cashing in on the water shortage in lagos

water bottling plant. this factory produces 1.5 million bottles of water a day. there is no end in site for sight for the water shortage in lagos its population is expected to hit 30 million in just five years. and the demand for water by 2020 is expected to rise by a billion liters a day. the city water company says it can't afford the massive cost of improving and expanding its plants to satisfy demand. >> we have put in case the master plan to develop about eight large water schemes to be able to support a mega-city. to execute the master plan, we are looking at an investment portfolio of about $3.5 billion. that is an investment that the state government cannot solely fund. >> reporter: the lagos state

government is now looking for private investors. without them, the government will keep struggling for safe and clean water. mohammad adow. al jazeera lagos. >> corruption charges against carr i'm wad to be the democrat party's candidate. wad is charged with amassing $200 million while under the ruling of his father. trading drug for sex with asylum seekers. center has been criticized for years by human rights

organization he for its poor conditions. the australian government ordered and inquiry last december, the review said it was aware of three allegation he of rape including one against a minor. it also looked into claims that staff members employed by save the children encouraged refugees to sex-harm or exaggerate abuse allegations. matt tirchg her tinkler says the report vindicates save the children. >> what happened was the claims of self harm and abuse to further some political agenda. the report found that was not the case. there is a litany of evidence of he incidents of self harm and

rape our staff don't need to make up those things if they're occurring. that is what the report found. it vindicated our position and the action he of our staff not to make up claims of political agenda. ultimately ending the practice of prolonged immigration detention. we know this is an environment that causes lodge term harm to people and drives them to these kinds of acts. failing that there needs to be far greater transparency, there is a culture of secrecy of operations and that is in the heart of its problems. there needs to be independent oversight of those things and ultimately the government needs to move away of this practice which is causing significant harm to people. >> now to the island of jindo in south korea, where a festival celebrating a rather unusual

natural phenomenon. alal jazeera's rob mcbride is majors them. >> as the sea recedes people move from the shore line, cautiously at first but then finding themselves on a strip of land. and then the fun starts. collecting whatever unlucky creatures got left stranded by the departing tide. >> translator: i just found it now, it's an octopus. >> reporter: the story goes that a family left behind their grandmother when they werd chased away fromwerechased away from

the island by tigers. grandma prayed to be reunited and the land bridge was born. a festival around the event that grows in popularity. >> we are getting more and more international tourists and we hope one day this will become a national event that represents the whole of korea. >> reporter: just half an hour ago this stretch of sea bed was below the water. half an hour from now, it will be submerged again. for her and her three children this is the first time they've come here. >> it's really amazing and the

children it's good for them. >> then as quickly as they departed the waters return, this time the people receding. rob mcbride gindo island. 40-10 victory over scotland, a massive celebration for the irish team. disappointment for england who entered the finals as leaders but couldn't rake in enough points from france. >> i think it's special because of the way we hit the rebound from last week. i think it's special because it's been so long since we've put back to back six nations together and i think after last week the disappointment of missing a record maybe and particularly on paul's 100th

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