♪ angry protesters houthis take the airport of the third biggest city in the push south toward the president's stronghold stronghold. >> i am lauren taylor. coming up: libya's peace talks on the verge of collapse after fierce fighting in and around tripoli. nigeria's presidential election debate goes ahead without the main opposition contender. the national front party come out on top in france's local

elections. south koreans celebrate the parting of the seas. ♪ hello. we start in yemen where houthi fosz have seized control of the airport of the third largest city, taiz. they are in charge of the capital, sanaa and a large swathe of the rest of the country. a aden is where hadi has certain ref eugenia. he is calling for urgent international help. the u.n. security counsel is due to meet at 1900 gmt to discuss the crisis. in a sign of how much the security situation has deteriorated, the united states has withdrawn all its remaining personnel including special forces from the country natasha gname reports. >> tear gas, gunshots and anger on the streets of taiz. protesters are angry about

forces arriving in their city. the protesters say the houthi forces surrounding the barracks of the local security forces. >> we refuse reject and announce these malitias. we will surround the police barracks with our bodies in the they leave. >> first the houthis overtook sanaaa forcing the president to flee to aden. now they are moving toward the president. aden is a short distance away from taiz. the president has been trying to hold on to power. >> i stress the following: firstly, the evacuation of all armed malinc. as. secondly, withdrawal of all gunmen from sanaa. >> the united states seams to agree it shut down its embassy and pooled troops from the air portion base in the south of the country. the u.n. will try to see if it

can find a solution before things deteriorate i don't a full-blown war in yemen. natasha gname, al jazeera. >> the former advisor to the last three indian ministers joins me now. thank you for coming in. sir, if the houthis were able to take taiz so easily are they close to moving on to aden? >> no. it would be a different game completely but it's worrying. they have bridged the former line between north and south yemen. it looks like it would be moved easily but we are not surprised because of the coordination, complete coordination between the remains of the army which is controlled by the former dictator and the houthis while the malitian have been given at a time addresses of the army. the stability in the city is threatened as well in taiz, itself. it's a very big sort of turning

point now arrested it's quite worrying because this might take us down a sliding steep slope towards confrontation and who knows? knows? civil war and the disilitigration of yemen. >> that's the plan of the former president and the dictator and houthi, to control the looks. i don't think they will be moving south. they want to get the old north yemen into their hands and pushing and saying we've got al-qaeda terrorists in the south. that's what the former dictator has played a big roam in that. two days only ago, the commander of the head quarters of the project or the special forces security forces, left the headquarters for people.

>> okay. >> people got hands on many many weapons. that's foe mitting al-qaeda and terrorism. >> we have had hadi the current president he has asked the security council for urgent intervention from the u.n. meeting at 19 gmt today. what do you think he is hoping for when he says, "urgent intervention"? and what do you think he is likely to get? >> yemen isnd chapter 7, resolution 2140 which was issued last year february of last year put yemen under chapter 7 of the charter, u.n. charter. and it did say it was going to take steps toward anybody trying to derail the whole political settlement. this is pushing the country into chaos and an arkansasy it's the request, i think, of our brothers who feel very much threatened now the garden is

being, you know, sort of tan over by the iranians who might reach now, they are in control of fasail and the whole security in the area certainly, e job descriptions will feel very much threatened because of the entrance of the red scene and the gulf of aden closes the suez canal. it is getting messy and worrying. >> thank you very much indeed for coming in to talk to us about the crisis in yemen. thank you. our hope that libya's warring properties lap reach an agreement. peace talks in morocco on the verge of collapse after fierce fighting in the ground in and around tripoli. the libya's u.n. recognized government, killing a senior commander loyal to the rival assembly. controlling tripoli since august sending them to the

east. >> hasham we have talked about them being on the verge of collapse. is there any way they can be saved? >> since today, early today, the united nations have been trying to bring all of the parties to ume talks but the problem is that the delegation from the tripoli tripoli-based government is still waiting for a word from the their own government in tripoli about whether to continue the talks or walk out. they have voiced concerns about many issues particularly about the escalation of violence and the attack by forces loyal to general halif hafta. they don't seem to be comfortable with the way talks are going until they get guarantees that there will be no violence no attacks this be they won't be able to take part.

they are trying to convince them to join in the coming hours. >> is it particularly surprising? quite often with peace talks, people try to grab territory at the last minute. do you think that this is any more than that at this stage? >> well, lauren this is a very delicate political process. this is a nation that has come out of decades of dictatorship and then it was -- it sunk in to civil war between two rival fafrpingsz one which is based in the east recognized by the international community, and one which is in the west particularly until tripoli which has been reinstated by the supreme court. they both say they have legitimacy. until they overcome the issue of who is going to represent libya, the possibility of a political settlement is going to be distant, but at the same time,

they have reached a part where they are trying to think about the arrangement. i think this is what the international community is trying to have in the coming hours or days have an agreement about a national unity government and security arrangement. if they have that in hand they are confident with time they will be able to narrow the differences between the different faxes. >> thank you very much indeed for the-up data there. tunisia's president said a third gunman is still on the run. the enter ministry is asking for help to locate the suspect, he was seen on surveillance with ..2 other gunmen killed at the scene. >> the president is asking anyone with information to contact the. >> there were 3 we identified and filmed with the surveillance cameras. two were executed but one is on the run still.

he won't go far. we are vigilant. we need to pay trib utility to the tun easeian police. they were on site within 10 minutes. we have asked the people to help because people are interested in this. >> kenyan and somali have retaken a key port town from al shabaab. a strong hold from the armed group and their operational hub. it was taken in a major beach assault launched sunday morning. several al shabaab fighters were killed. six days until nigeria's presidential elections. some of the candidates have just taken part in a televised debate. president good"goodluck" jonathan took place with other candidates. his main rival abstained from the debate claiming it would not have been fair or balanced. joining us live is our correspondent: how did it go? >> well it was well for president "goodluck" jonathan."

i said one of the maven issues would be the security situation in the northeast. it appears i was wrong. the big issue for nigerians was corruption and the president did answer questions head-on about what he intends to do if he wins this election taking place next saturday about corruption. i said he had put in preventible preventative measures, fighting corruption was about strengthening institutions and he talked about examples of what he had done in the ruling party in the sector offing a culture, for example, where there has been corruption issues. he talked about the government payroll system where you have this massive problem of those workers, people who don't shop for work but will get paid. he had tried to plug that hole. also said there needed to be a mindset shift amongst nigerians. he said many nigh yearerians wants big money, large houses very quickly. and that was a part of the problem fueling corruption. however, he didn't actually take questions on the corruption scandal that have hit his own

government since he took power six years ago. there are quite a few examples. but one of the big ones is an accusation by the form ter central bank government. $20,000,000,000 was lifting from oil sales. the government always denied it was $20,000,000,000. excuse me. a vereview was done by price waterhouse which said $1,000,000,000 couldn't be accounted for. that's still a huge amount of money. he also talked about the security situation. that's now the second big issue. obviously, the focus of much of the media has been on boko haram and the situation in the northeast. there are security challenges that don't get reported much. you talked about those in particular in his own regions, the niger delta militancy, people feeling they have this resource oil but they don't get money from it. that's quizzing problems there. kidnapping in the east of the country. bank ronary in the southwest of the country. he said he had sunk billions of dollars into nigerian execute agencies to try to better equip

they want. the final issue was the petroleum sector controversial seccor, huge amounts of money made from nigeria from oil, the main export but very little of it trickling down to ordinary people. so overall, i think he took on the issue that was good for him to be seen sharing a platform with those he is competing against. remember the main candidate boycotted the debate and i think the feeling is that this looked good for jonathan and it didn't look good for buhari. the fact he wasn't there but you saw jonathan as i say, taking questions from the public. >> okay. thank you very much indeed. still ahead this half hour: israel's president calls for the country's next government to focus on healing after a stormy election. >> a mayor in peru wants to paint over every mural in this historic city center.

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iraqi ministry of defense has released video of airstrikes targeting the islamic state of iraq in the levant in areas north of baghdad. according to the ministry more than 70 isil fighters were killed in the strikes in samara and salihadin. isil continues to hold parts of tikrit and u.s. led airstrikes to retake the key city. activists say syrian rebels have captured several airmen after their helicopter crashed in the northwest. a picture is posted social media said to show the helicopter going down near idlib prove incident. they say the helicopter had a mechanical problem. lashingsz was given rare access to a military front line. >> reporter: each day with the

board border with syria, the lebanese army is looking for any sign of movement by the enemy when soldiers spot it, they attack we are concealing the identity of this captain to protect him. >> we are not armed very well. we are doing the best that we can and we are sacrificing and given life on this mission. we will keep doing that until the last drop of blood. >> . >> reporter: the lebanese army is trying to ensure that fighters with isil and the al-qaeda nusra front don't expand their war front across the border. this military post is just a few kilometers from where armed groups have staked their positions. >> they are dangerous because they work in small groups they used to use covers like farmers and shepherds. it was very hard at the very beginning to distinguish between civilians and terrorists.

>> but at least for now the lebanese army says it is making gains one strategic post at a time. the stakes are high. lebanon has its own share of political trouble and doesn't want to get sucked in to the broader sectarian conflict in the region. >> it's not about only infiltrating or actually crossing the borders inside the leb an ease city. it could be also again, a hybrid country. it could be creating instability inside inside. >> military leaders say while lebanon may not divided politically, it's trying to put on a united front when it comes to protecting its boundaries. al jazeera. israel's president ruben rivlin said the next government will have to bring the country together. it's holding talks to, to see if a coalition party t netanyahu

won nivlin said whoever was chosen would have to serve all. >> we have been through a stormy and passionate election season. this is the time to heal israeli society. the government was chosen by the majority. it will have to answer to all of israel's citizens, jews arabs, left, right, north, south, center and periphery. >> in west jerusalem with the latest. >> consultations with israeli president with rivlin is expected to last into monday. he is holding consultations with the three political leaders who's parties have scored the most votes in the march 17th polls. those leaders include the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the opposition leader herzog and odai who heads the joint list, a grouping of political parties, israeli/palestinian who

joined together in a pollanding managed to do very well. in fact, coming in third mr. rivlin will decide who amongst them he will .to form a government. it looks all but certain that he will ask mr. netanyahu, who performed extraordinarily well in the election surpassing anybody's expectation, but mr. netanyahu has a bit of a difficult choice ahead of him. made some controversial statements in the final days of the election and the final hours of the poll. those statements have caused a bit of a rift with the united states. so mr. netanyahu needs to decide if he wants to have a more hawkish government forming the coalition with far right political parties and religious political parties which are hers normallies or he can do what the president wants, which is to form a unity government with the opposition leader t icic herzog

and perhaps present a more dovishitionisi government. whatever he decides, we won't learn any time soon. he has six weeks to effectively cobble together a coalition. so, a we have been saying, it will be some time before we see the shape of israel's 34th parliament. >> an afghan woman lynched by a mob after being accused of burning pages of the quran. the parents of the 2 jooefrnld woman said their daughter suffered from a mental illness. afghan officials say they have found no evidence against her. 11 people have been arrested in connection with the murder. >> the northwestern region where soldiers have been fighting the talibantable. general rahil shareve convicted the hospital on sunday. at least five army soldiers and more than eighty taliban fighters have been killed over the past few days the french far right party, the national front, is expecting to make make big games in local elections voters

are electing candidates in 101 government areas most recent poems show the national front is winning around 30% of the vote. the party's leader is thought likely to be a serious contender for the presidency in two years time. head to go germany for the first official meeting with angela merkel. it doesn't stop media speculation about both countries over the greek debt crisis. a report from berlin. a meeting in brussels to try to solve the greek debt crisis event agreeing a deal to allow greeks more money and more time some analysts in berlin believe neither side had any realistic alternative. >> it's another step on this path of muddling through. this has been the strategy from the very beginning. there is no clear-cut solution that would be.

otherwise, you would need a system where you really cut the system, call it dead and start a new one. many germans do not want agrees to have more money. >> i don't want -- don't want greek did to have much money? >> they have received too much over the last years already. >> i think it's bad. i would say they should be more cooperative. that's my opinion. there are some in the political class who disagree with that to the entirely. here, there are those who say what greece needs right now is not just more money but, also a move away from eu-i am posed austerity. >> people like stefan livish from the linker party? >> our party was and isstrict against this policy. if you look at the past we can see that it was not heaven for the economy and agrees. it was not helpful for the

budget in grease but it causes a lot of damages, a terrible social situation in grease. >> the meeting at the german chancel occur will give alexis alexis cipras one more chance to plead his case. al jazeera. berlin. clouds have flocked to the south careeran island to celebrate a phenomenon low tides cause a strip of land to merge creating a temporary pathway to a neighboring island. rob mcbride was among them. people move forward then finding themselves on a strip much land to the much smaller modo three kilometers away. then the fun starts.

collecting whatever unlucky creatures got left stranded by the departing tide. >> i just found it now. it's an octopus. >> the story goes that a family left behind their grandmother when they were chased away from the island by tigers. grandma bong prayed to be reunited and magically the seas parted creating a path across the sea bed that her family used to come back for her. so, the legend was born. playing on both the natural phenomenon and local folklore, the community created a feltstival around the event that grows in popularity. >> wir getting more and more international tourists. he we hope one day this will become a major event that represents the whole of korea. >> it translates as miracle sea road. just half an hour ago, this stretch of sea bed was below the water.

half an hour from now, it will be submerged once more and the miracle will be over. >> all more reason to enjoy it while it lasts. k kim gee's son and her children this is the first time they have come here. >> it's really amazing. and for the children, it's good for them. >> as quickly as they departed, the waters returned. this time the people receding. back to try land until the next time. rob mcbride, gendo island south korea. >> artists in peru are outraged because the mayor is threatening to paint over every mural in the historic center part of a political battle with his predecessor. from lima marchiana sanchez reports. >> tupac used to spend days painting. now, this street artists wants others like him to confront the mayor over the desconstruction of the murals. he painted "i used to dream"

during an art festival. now it's the red wall of a parking lot. >> it was a collaborative peaceiece done in four days interacting with people walking by. >> his is one of more than 30 murals destroyed. many were part of an art festival organized by the former mayor in 2013. she gave permits to local and foreign artsists who created works of art as tall as a building. tupac says they are the scapegoats of political wrangles. >> we have nothing to do with the political disputes between the mayor and his predecessor and we have become the excuse of his political revenge. >> he recently elected said he wants to preserve lima's cultural heritage under provisions created by the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization or unesco. unesco says it has nothing to do with them.

critics say he is bent on destroying everything created by his arch rival. >> aggression. it's a policy that begins by destroying everything. it's closed the metropolitan museum museum cancel all cultural activities including children readings in the museum. >> citizens like he are furious. >> the mayor is wrong by this. he should have taken into account the people's opinions who now are crying out for the murals to be valued. >> critics say instead of having a political battle the mayor should focus on walls like this if you will of graphisttiti and they hardly have any artistic value. >> the mayor hasn't backed down. he has allowed only two memories muslim one depicting one of the most famous singers. meanwhile, tupac and others have taken their case to the government's intellectual agency

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