ph... inspirational real life stories >> all these labels the world throws at you, that's what drives me >> intense fighting across yemen after a fifth night of airstrikes by saudi-led forces. >> hello there you're watching al jazeera live from london. also coming up on the program. >> we're working hard. >> world powers work to reach a deal as the deadline approaches. the counting continues in nigeria, and we're in the philippines to meet the

grandmothers bringing solar power to remote village >> thank you for joining us. there has been more fierce fighting in yemen after a fierce night of airstrikes. one airstrike hit an camp can camp of refugees. the houthies have launched a fresh offensive on the southern city of aden. >> reporter: yemeni tribesmen and shia houthi rebels engage in fierce fighting around the in

eastern yemen. many houthi fighters have been killed. the houthis are trying to move through this area to the oil-rich province of marib. but they're not the only ones determined to stop their advance. this attack is by the saudi-led coalition targeting positions around marib. airstrikes have already hit houthi fighters. dozens of houthi fighters have been killed and jets have bombed positions in the northern province of saada considered the houthi's main support base. the saudis have deployed thousands of soldiers along the border they share with yemen. but saudi officials continue to say that there is no plan to send troops, at least for now. >> we will attack for the militias, but there is no major

land operation. >> the saudi-led airstrikes seam to be weakening houthi fighters who started to retreat from areas in the south. tribesmen are on the move to recapture areas they lost in the last few weeks. >> i believe if this military operation had not happened on time the price would have been higher. it came at a suitable and critical time and through expert military men. >> the arab league summit in egypt has been dominated by yemen's deteriorating security situation, the saudis and their allies say the airstrikes will continue until the houthis and deposeed president disband their militia. they assist that abd rabbuh mansur hadi, who has fled the country, is yemen's legitimate leader. >> hashem joins us live from

doha. now we're hearing this news of 45 internally displaced people being killed in this camp housing them. how damaging would this be for the saudi-led coalition? >> it is going to create problems for the saudi-led coalition and stoke anti-saudi sentiment among people in in the northern part of the country. the yemeni foreign minister said that. he laid the blame on the outies saying that they have been moving fighters from that area,

and was spotted by the saudis and launched a airstrike targeting them. some of those fighters managed to flee inside the camp. that's the reason why we have a high number of casualties. they're reporting non-stop and there is definitely going to create problems for the saudi-led coalition. >> hashem, it's the fifth day of airstrikes against houthies in yemen. the saudis are putting a good spin on it, they're manageing to defeat and push back the houthies. how successful have these airstrikes been? >> well, the saudis have made some specific targets. they say the top priority for the time being, the first phase of their military intervention is to destroy the military capabilities for houthies and forces loyal to ali abdullah

saleh. they want to destroy warplanes long-range missile launchers and they say to a great extent managed to neutralize some of those capability. they're confident that the houthis have been severely undermined. but the houthies still manage to deploy fighters from different parts of the country. we've seen them moving to the south of the country. they're pushing through to the southern city of aden. but i think that the plan of the saudi is to continue to hit targets and level the playing ground for all the factions in yemen. >> hashem ah, elbarra thank you.

>> the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has told al jazeera foreign ministers are working very hard to reach a deal with iran on its nuclear future. russia's foreign minister has announced he's leaving the high level meetings and will only return if there is a chance of a deal being reached. sources say iran refuses to budge over the continuation of its nuclear research. well, one western diplomatic source says there are three big sticking points. they include the duration of any deal that's reached. the detail of the lifting of u.n. sanctions and how the u.s. would go about restoring those actions if iran does not comply with a deal. james bays is in lausanne, switzerland, where those talks are taking place. >> there was a big meeting that lasted just over an hour with the p5+1, the five permanent members of the u.n. security

council and germany on one side of the table and iran on the other. the first time that all those involved in the negotiations sat down together. it's clear from that meeting that not every believes that a deal with be had now. as for the u.s. u.s. secretary of state john kerry took a break from his hotel headed out to lunch on the lake where we questioned him. >> is it going well, secretary kerry? >> we're working very hard, working hard. >> the clock is ticking towards that deadline for framework deal, which is supposed to be on tuesday at midnight, the end of the month. there are still sticking points who believe that iran's future research and development is one and the other is the lifting of those sanctions on iran, particularly u.s. security council sanctions. >> james bays reporting there.

nigeria is waiting for the result of the presidential election. there have been allegations of voting irregularities. the u.s. and u.k. have warned that counting may be subject to deliberate political interference. >> this woman worries about the next few days. she works the market in lagos. now that the presidential and parliamentary election is over, she wants one thing. >> i want peace. i don't want fight. i want peace. no fighting. that's what i want. >> people in lagos appearing to getting on with their life. the streets look busy but residents tell us it's quieter than usual. the next few days are rush. people don't know what is going to happen after final results are announced. mean nigerians say they don't

want the violence. they want their country to move on. >> for more people remain calm saying they will only believe official results released from the head of the electoral commission. >> okay, let's take you straight now to riyadh to get an update from the saudi military about those airstrikes against the houthi in yemen. let's listen in. >> we're showing the targets of those. also we have attacked all the locations of ammunition and supply stores used by the houthi militias. we're continueing on the roads leading to aider aden and against the advance of houthi forces towards aden and towards

the capital, current capital which is aden. also, work continues around the clock to attack all areas of yemen and in the briefing we shall cover them. >> now the air operations as you will see, we have focused--we have focused on the operation of air control now the focus is on transport of supplies and vehicles the work continues at this rate to target and prevent

houthi militias to move in any way possible. here we have command control centers and their fort any anycations and ammunition storms ammunition storage in the attack. we mentioned in a previous briefing that there is a large number of weapon stores. there is a large number of ammunition stores. we're working on locating them and destroying them this is another weapons ammunition store

this shows us the amount of ammunition acquired and reflects the intention that were intended by the militias by attacking either the yemeni people or the neighboring countries. this is anti-aircraft on site that was completely destroyed. this was a tank used by the militias targeted and suffered a direct hit. you can imagine that the work, the pilots are doing to follow all these because they fly around the clock.

they will not have any safe place in the next few days. the pressure will increase, and the operations will escalate to prevent them from moving or damage or arm the yemeni yes--harm the yemeni people. the operations also trying to to--they are trying to attract the planes to attack residential civilian areas to cause considerable collateral damage. land operations have targeted any movement or attempt to consolidate forces north of yemen or south.

today there was an attempt to target one of the border centers using mortar shells. we located the source and destroyed it. they are preventing these groups from any launch bases to launch on the naval side. today we had all the naval practice needed for coalition operation to monitor and prevent any egress or deagrees from any

use of ports. the ports are prevented from anything going to or from, whether it's weapons or human or any kind of transport from the yemeni ports and no one was permitted to go or leave the ports. before i take questions?

[ question in foreign language ] >> we're watching the news conference from riyadh, listening to the spokesperson for the saudi-led coalition basically giving an update on the attack of the last several hours and trying to stop houthies advancing the current capital of aden, preventing houthi militias from advancing. we're showing some video of targeted attacks.

we're also listening to news conferences in doha. hashem what did you make of what the spokesperson had to say? >> well basically they say they're committed to continue until they undermine the capabilities of the houthies, as we see in the display of the footage, they're bankly trying to target anti-aircraft battery batteries, tanks command centers, and he leaves them focused this time on the fact that they are now trying to target the hide out of houthi top leaders and also their military commanders, and they said that the coalition is taking into account movements of houthi fighters backed by forces loyal to ali abdullah saleh and

they're monitoring the routes to try to to prevent further deployment in those areas. they also said that this is a delicate military operation because he said that houthies are moving some of their weapons into urban areas into urban areas. which makes it extremely difficult for the saudis to target those areas because of the concern of civilian casualties. >> hashem ahelbarra live for us. thank you. >> as you heard earlier count something under way in nigeria. let's go speak to al jazeera's

yvonne tell us what the process is. >> we're in for a very long night. the results have been announced in several states across the country. but there are 36 states to get through, and it is a a complicated process. the number of people registered to vote has to be announced in each state. also the number of political parties in each of the presidential candidates who took part and there were 14 presidential candidates. how many votes each of those candidates scored have to be announced. then they have to announce the number of rejected ballots. now on top of that, each of the candidates must get more than 25% of the vote in two-thirds of nigeria's 36 states to get to the next level of the race. and the incumbent president

goodluck jonathan would pull through that and bringing up the opposition candidate buhari, they have to get two-thirds of the vote plus one. we spoke to electoral officials who have taken a break. they're still waiting for many of the results to come down to the capital. what we're seeing here is an exercise in which the representative of the election commission takes to the podium just mind me and announces those results. we're being told that it could be several hours before results in will come through. we're told to be peeped to be here the whole night. >> we'll wait for the result in a few moments. thank you. well it's nearly a week

since the nigeriaen military detained two al jazeera journalists in the north. they've been held in their hotel in maiduguri. al jazeera is demanding their release. germanwings co-pilot suspected for crashing a plane in the alps had been treated for suicide tendencyies. germany's state prosecutor said that investigators have yet to find any clues as to andreas lubitz's motivation, but confirmed that he was in therapy up until the crash. >> several years ago the co-pilot under went psycho therapy for suicidal theories. after that until the end where the doctor's visits led to

suicidal tendencies or aggression mentioned in them, that was it. >> the vehicle ran the the gates at the national security agency. a guard shot and killed one person and wounded a second in the incident. it's suggested that the two men were disguised as women and driving a stolen car. the fbi does not believe it was a terrorism-related incident. let's get more on this story were roslind jordan in washington, d.c. they are saying it's not terrorism related. what could it be, or is it too early to tell. >> a lot of the reports that have been circulated on local media here in the washington area have been filled with a lot of speculation frankly. the fbi does say it is interviewing witnesses at this gate which is supposed to be only used by ncaa employees. it's all a secondary highway

northeast of the washington metro area. and it's marked for ncaa employees only. every so often someone gets a bit confused and does take that exit. they're usually turned around and put back onto that secondary highway. but at this point there is no confirmation that anyone was shot or killed, at least coming from government sources and there is no indication about whether or not there was any particular motive. however, the fbi was relatively quick to say that it does not consider this an act of terrorism. >> roslind jordan with the latest from washington, d.c. roz, thank you. let'slet's go to iraq where security forces are leading an assault on a hospital in tikrit. they believe fighters from the islamic state in iraq and the levant are hiding there. the government is struggling to recapture the city, which has been an isil control. as we have reports bombs and

boobie traps are making their fight even more difficult. >> another barrage hits targets belonging to the islamic state in iraq and the levant. government forces and militias are closing in from the southern and western side of tikrit, the hometown of saddam hussein. the military makes up a 30-strong force. they've been saying they're close to taking control of tikrit for weeks. >> god willing we'll enter tikrit today. we hope that it will be today. >> the operation was launched on march 2nd but progress has been slow. >> our advance is slow because of the ieds and boobie-trapped roads. it's mainly due to the boobie.- boobie-trapped roads homes and

government facilities. >> they say they do not need help from the u.s. army, and now many are back, reportedly incorporated into government security forces taking credit for when they push isil out of tikrit is important both for iraq's military and shia militias. >> it's not just tikrit that we're talking about. we're talking about the future of iraq and the united states and it's partners does not want to see it become dominated and controlled by the shias. >> the distrust is not just between the u.s. and militias. there have been accusations that shia militias are carrying out human rights abuses. this shows an explosive charge being lit in a house reportedly in a sunni area taken over by shia fighters. the video was posted by users linked to the iranian-backed coalition of shia militias. the fighters say that he's with the brigade. al jazeera cannot independently

verify these images but human rights groups have reported these tactics in sunni areas controlled by shia forces. iraqi army continues to say that a win in tikrit is not far away. but peace remains a distant possibility. al jazeera. >> a group of grandmothers in the philippines are turning the idea of the twilight years on its head. retrained engineers to provide their village with solar-powered lighting. we go to where the grandmothers are being hailed a heroines for bringing light to their people. >> in the philippines the oldest tribe of the country, they farmed and hunted in these lands for thousands of years with little change. now the tribe has a new hero. she does not know how to read or write, but the once shy

grandmother of ten is now the engineer, the bringer of light. >> it get very dark here in the mountains, so it's good we have found something like this to help us help the others. >> she has just come back from india with three other women part of a group of similar women from around the world who were invited by a special college to learn how to harness solar energy and build their own lamps and battery panels go we could not understand each other. so we had to do everything from sign language. >> after six months' away they returned to their community to share what they learned. >> it's villages like this that the lighting project aims to help improveism impoverished and unable to access resources.

another trained engineer said she's happy to be able to make fire of a different kind. >> when there is light there certainly will be joy all around us. >> they still call this new arrival fire. they're not sure how much this will change them exactly but they know it will transform the future of their tribe. >> al jazeera, northern philippines. >> well, australia cricket captain michael clark has dedicated his team's win to former teammate phil hughes. clark and the rest of the team has been celebrating the world cup win. watched by more than 93,000 fans. >> i think the fact that there was a lot of expectation and added pressure put on us at the start of the tournament was something that we embraced from the first of the tournament. the boys should be really proud

of what we've achieved. we've had tremendous support and throughout every game in the tournament we feel like we've been at home, and it's been such a big difference. >> much more on all the stories we've been covering on our website. the address on your screen now www.aljazeera.com. >> one person is dead and others hurt after shots were heard at the front gate of the national security agency. new information about the co-pilot accused of crashing a jet into the alps. he was treated with suicidal tendencyies.