saudi arabia and its allies pound yemen with a third night of air strikes. two pilots are rescued from the sea by the u.s. i'm fauziah ibrahim from the news headquarters in doha. coming up. diplomat plus visitors are killed in moaftiondz mogadishu hotel.

we report on a record-breaking ride through space. saudi led coalition has bombed houthi rebel targets in yemen for a third successive night. two pilots were forced to eject into the red sea when their planes experienced problems. overnight, three strikes have hit the city of hudida, on the red sea coast. second largest port taken by the houthis in october. targeted the group's main stronghold of sada, where rm the the

air strikes on the third night of the saudi air strikes appear to be on sa fa. omar saleh has more. sanaa. omar saleh has more. >> the air base is under the control of the yes ma'ami army. weyes,the yemeni army.until we clarify the area that they are controlling now. >> reporter: in the meantime, yemen's president abd rabbu mansour hadi appeared in at the

arab summit. will probably seek more military and political support from the arabs. they stormed his presidential palace in january he resigned in protest and was put under house arrest. he then escaped to aden and retracted his resignation. the houthis say hadi is illegitimate mat. they want to form a provisional presidential party then hold elections. former long time president of yemen, ali abdalla saleh. consider saleh as the make orchestrator of the situation in

yemen. he released a statement through one of his aides. >> translator: an honest return to the negotiating table under the u.n. the dialogue should be moved to the uae or any other location. >> that dialogue could come a little late. signed a u.n. backed peace and partnership deal on the same day they controlled sanaa. many accused the group of backtracking on the deals they've signed. the houthis aren't showing many signs of being open to dialogue either. houthi controlled television is running pictures celebrating what they say is downed coalition drone. they remain defiant. >> translator: we tell the gulf nations and their treacherous agents that we will be coming after them. god willing we will avenge for our dead. >> president hadi and his allies

could be open for dialogue but not after weakening the houthis and forcing the group to recognize hadi's presidency. omar sale hrvetion adges. h, al jazeera. only possible under the legal head of state which is the president and not under the rule of fighters who call themselves revolutionaries. >> and charles smith is a political analyst specializing in the middle east including yemen. he says these may not stop the houthi advance. >> they are making preparations to counter the air strikes. air superiority for the coalition forces may not be enough to bring -- to hurt the houthi enough to bring them to the negotiating table. they were born out of an insurgency. they were born out of facing an

unequal battle and they are better arnld now than they armed now than they were before. i'm not sure they will want to negotiate yet. we have seen demonstrations in ta'izz in the south in support of the air strikes. in madeb they also support the air strikes. there are a lot of people who are against the houthi but also don't welcome the air strikes. the yemeni traditionally have been subject to a lot of form intervention in their country and they prefer not to have foreign intervention. so the fact that hadi would come back to power if he did with saudi support with the saudi air strikes, it would not sit well with a lot of yemenis. >> saudi arabia has decided to return its envoy to sweden.

earlier, riyadh decided to withdraw its envoy. when it criticized the monarchy's trim of women and dissidents. al qaeda has moved further into idlib if taken it would be only the second syrian city in rebel hands. this video came to al jazeera and cannot be independently verified. at least a dozen people killed and more wounded at a mogadishu hotel. osama ben javid has more. >> witnesses say some people jumped out of windows. survivors said gunmen killed

everyone they could find. it all started with a bombing armed men then entered the hotel and the firefight began. >> translator: a suicide car bomber went off at the rear entrance of the hotel and then gunmen attacked and that caused more injuries. i saw injured people taking to the mogadishu hospital. >> security officials suspect the attackers are still hiding. just a day after the government announced the capture of al shabaab gunmen involved in attacks and assassinations. officially al shabaab was pushed out of mogadishu in 2011.

until somalia's western backed government assisted by african troops can assert its own control it may not be able to stop attacks like these. osama ben javi al jazeera. an italian court has over overturned amanda knox's conviction. former boyfriend was also acquitted. 21-year-old kercher was found dead in an apartment she shared with knox in 2007. german prosecutors have found doctor notes excusing andreas lubitz from work ton day he flew his plane into the french alps. dominic kane reports from lubitz

home town of montevar in germany. >> a president pays his respects. germany's head of state joins hundreds of people in this church at haltern. killed in the french alps as they returned from a school trip to spain. >> translator: i came out of the church in the midst of people who have lost the most precious thing to them, a child a loved one. i sat among the crowd and heard the sobbing of people who mourn their loss and i wanted to mourn with them. >> reporter: in germany many people are struggling to understand why andreas lubitz flew the plane into the mountain side on purpose. he suffered a serious bout of depression in 2009 for which he received treatment and now prosecutors say they found important evidence in his

parents house and in dusseldorf which shed more light on his mental state. >> medical documents were confiscated pointing towards existing illness and corresponding treatment by doctors. the fact there were torn up sick notes even as recently as the day of the crime the deceased hit his illness from his employer and his professional colleagues. >> at the crash site in southern france they are still going through debris trying to find human remains. when they do they'll be brought to the u.s. for dna analysis and then there's the question of accountability. >> translator: should it be the case that the colleague who signed off sick then i have to be very clear. someone with a sick note has no business being at work.

she have stayed home. i can't understand that. some of the victims mostly germany and spain have lost left their own memorial near the spot where their loved ones died. dominic kane, al jazeera. >> still to come, the military claims a big win against boko haram. house a town in the u.s. is struggling to cope with the spike in hiv cases.

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>> welcome back. let's take a look at the top stories on al jazeera. the saud i led coalition has launched a third night of air strikes against yemen meanwhile two pilots ejected from their planes because of technical problems. dozen people killed and dozens of others have been injured, in a hotel in mogadishu. al shabaab fighters have taken some people hostage. >> the suspicion that andreas lubitz was hiding an illness before the crash that killed over 150 people. air strikes in yemen yemen

yemen's prime minister? iran's position this a complicated coming flict. >> reporter: my enemy's enemy is my friend. an ancient conflict, but still explains the alliances in the middle east, in yemen an ongoing military operation led by saudi arabia, one of the u.s.'s closest allies, against houthis a group that now control large parts of the country and that has close links with iran. yet turned to iraq, and iran and the u.s. find themselves on the same sides iran iranian units are fighting i.s.i.l. alongside iraqi forces while u.s. planes simultaneously bomb i.s.i.l.

forces. iranians provide direct military assistance to president bashar al-assad while washington remains one of his most ferocious critics. in the swiss lake side resort of lausanne u.s. secretary of state south carolina is negotiating also with iranian foreign minister moasmed javid zarif. after six months of protracted negotiations that have been going on for months and months, both sides have made it clear that their negotiations are involved strictly to the iran nuclear file. but people talking and living in the same hotel other issues are also being discussed in the sidelines. a break in the talks foreign minister zarif went for a walk on the lake frond. he confirmed to me that yemen

has been discussed. >> any two diplomats sitting in a place will discuss that issue. doesn't mean we negotiated about it. our negotiations are confined to the nuclear. >> any deal here could have wider implications. so far the only person to state that publicly, is the u.n. policy chief fredericka margarini. >> certainly as far as the western powers are concerned and iran is concerned what it doesn't do is change attitudes behaviors and suspicions particularly in the middle east. both israel and most arab governments are very suspicious of iran. and they're not very keen on this deal. >> reporter: the u.s. has long standing alliances with major nations in the region like egypt, saudi arabia and turkey. it may privately hope a new

nuclear deal will bring leverage with iran too. but the middle east remains a combustible area where every action has a reaction. james base, al jazeera. >> from the capital abuja yvonne ndege reports. >> the nigerian military says it has captured the boko haram stronghold of gwoza. we have no way of knowing for insure. >> several of the terrorists have died and many have been captured in the process. a lot of guns and ammunition have been recovered, of the terrorists have been completely destroyed.

>> reporter: it can't be verified because huge restrictions have been placed on civil society human rights organizations. ahmed idris and ally mustafa have been detained in their hotels. >> the al jazeera news crew has been very prominent in reporting ing events in the northeast of the country, and a few of the sources of news from the northeast. an expectation that we would be getting reports from the al jazeera journalists who have worked there aall along and reported on the on the military

situation. >> the close the main candidates imlj goodluck jonathan and muhammedu hokari. >> as i said before i think the fact that there's been such a healthy discussion about violence over the next year would be highly possible. >> the electoral commission has had a hard time passing out voter cards. it is a logistical problem. but they say they're ready

yvonne ndege, al jazeera abuja. >> three day lock down to stop the spread of ebola. the president has ordered everyone to stay inside from morning until night. volunteers will go doosh to door to educate the people -- door to door to educate the people about the virus. killed more than 10,000 people in west africa. >> the u.s. state of indiana is suffering an outbreak of the hiv virus. john hendren explains why. >> in rural indiana health officials say hiv virus has

caught them unprepared. >> we have to do something drastic. >> reporter: but this rural environment,. >> i do get threats ail the time about going back inside not letting them do their deals on the corner or in front of my house. this is my home, my kids home, we're not going to tolerate it in this country. >> scott county usually confirms five cases of hiv a year, so far it's 79 and counting. this time it's intravenous drug use. >> if they don't do something about it it's going to be 400 cases of hiv p the governor says it's an epidemic and it really is an epidemic.

unless they have a spoons it will continue to grow. >> giving free needles to addicts. >> i do not support needle exchange as public policy but this is an emergency. >> that tends to correlate with high rates of hiv and authorities say they don't expect the outbreak is over. they feel they'll find more cases. >> when we moved here the neighbors told us there were prostitutes in the area, i was like oh my gosh you got to be kidding me, there was a used needle next to one of our pushes and i was like oh my goes. >> reconsidering time worn approach of taking on a growing

epidemic. john hendren, al jazeera indiana. appointing a bishop suspected of covering up for a pedophile. as you can see lucia newman has the story. >> in the world's most clique region enraged protesterrors in anymoreprotesters. >> the pope has said be wary of evil and never commit sin remaining silence in face of it.

>> jose protested at the cathedral and continued to ask the pope to remove baros. >> each testimony we have given as were concerned in time. what shocks me is that's still necessary to convince some people of the truth. >> reporter: scores of chilen priests. >> nok everything we know the only explanation were that the facts were presented to the holy father in a different light. otherwise this is incomprehensible. >> reporter: many priests and catholics want a full

investigation and say,. >> because of anger over the hierarchy's rferral to willing to wage the battle from within the church. nevertheless the case is testing the pope's commitment to stamp out sexual abuses in chile and beyond. in a church that has already suffered so much dr.. discredit. lucia newman, al jazeera. >> two of the men who lifted off will spent a year in orbit. scientists are also looking for useful information for

future expeditions to mars. chris hadfield tells us what it's about. >> human outpost on the edge of the, to have a little star get bigger and bigger and bigger and grow into this huge human structure orbiting the world. it is a gift to be weightless, it is magic you can take this wrist watch which when i first got to orbit i noticed it was floating and flying, almost like i have a living snake wrapped around my wrist. i keep it loose all my life because it reminds me of being waitless. this was not how the body was

devolved. in weightnessness everything floats you don't even have to hold your head up. we fight it by exercise two years a day resist resistive resistives exercise. a matter of a few years to grow your skeleton completely back. it is through exploration that we understand the world and we understand ourselves. space exploration is no different. it is just fundamental to human nature. it is how we get to know where we are how it's interdpenlt and interdependent and how to distinguish. >> italy has decided to

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