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>> saudi jets target houthi weapon stores and air defenses in yemen, as attack on internally displaceed people camp kills dozens. hello there good to have you with us, i'm jonah hull, this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. >> we're working very hard, working hard. >> the deadline approaches talks on iran's nuclear program but major divisions remain. counting continues in nigeria as the result of the presidential election draws
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closer. more revelations about the co-pilot of the crashed germanwings plane as it's revealed ahe was treated for suicidal tendencies. also. >> i'm daniel schwindler in bolivia, where we're seeing a very colorful renaissance of indigenous architecture. >> saudi led forces have expanded their campaign against houthi fighters in yemen. egyptian ships have shelled houthi fighters advancing on aden. it's the first time naval forces have been used. but one strike hit a camp housing internally displaced people. the camp is in the northern haja province. at least 40 people have been killed there doctors without borders put that number at 29. a saudi led coalition has been bombing houthi positions.
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backed by forces loyal to ousted president ali abdullah saleh. southern city of aden attack was repelled. tribesmen around the town of bahar in the central province of shabwa. houthi weapons stores and air deferences were targeted, al jazeera's hashem ahelbarra filed this report. >> these are the victims of a camp dozens were killed or injured. highest death toll since the start of the military intervention in yemen. the houthis say the victims were civilians who were forced out of their villages in the past and sought ref umg in refuge in this camp
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in yemen. say the houthis or the blame. >> we stress we do our best to prevent civilian casualties. we reply to a source of fire, we have no confirmation, this was a refusingrefugee camp. >> targeted houthi fighters, the aim is to prevent them from advancing to the sea port city of aden. ammunition depots, antiaircraft batteries were also hit as was this command center run by the houthis. houthi supporters took to the streets of the capital sanaa to denounce the air strikes. >> this aggression does not effect us. it only increases our determination and our strength because we are a strong people. >> reporter: the coalition says its military campaign will
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continue until houthi fighters and soldiers loyal to deposed president ali abdullah saleh hand over their weapons and join talks for a political solution to yemen's crisis. hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera. >> denied that the attack led to camp deaths. >> they are always trying ohave what's called a human shield. houthis they are going to places where there is some population, or reservation houses. they are putting their resistance there. also some airplanes coming they are hitting the residential places or refugee camp or whatever. >> with me now to talk more about developments in yemen is
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yemeni journalist anu bakar el shami. the grimmest development of the war so far dozens of people killed allegedly displaced people in a camp in northern yemen, both sides blaming each other. we heard the foreign minister there, saudi foreign minister. an aid tack, if it is the responsibility for the coalition who have the jets of course in the air what is that likely to do to the integrity of the saudi led coalition and the operation at a whole? >> i think it would be a propaganda victory for the houthis and the forces. i guess this shows the rest of the world that yemens, this is a foreign congregation against yemen that they are at risk. yes it will have the effect on
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locals in yemen especially places like sanaa yet not as many civilian targets being hit they will be next, they will have the fear of getting struck by these strikes. >> it is the collateral damage that is common in any conflict. is it do you think a tactic of the houthis to store their weapons and arm amounts in civilian-pobtedpopulated areas? >> there have been numerous reports over the last few days of antiair craft stores in civilian areas. it is not beyond the realm of possibility. in the capital itself there are many, many bases army bases security installations in
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residential areas. so any attack like this brings on the fear that attacks on military targets or potentially security targets could therefore then strike civilians and meet civilian deaths. >> couple other big developments in the day egyptian war ships firing on houthis marching towards aden in the south and pakistan the first nonarab nation to offer troops to the coalition. what does this tell us about the operations of the saudi led coalition at all is it succeeding or likely to succeed? what is next? there is word of ground troops. >> if there are ground troops in my own opinion that would lead to a quagmire. from experiences of the 1960s. these places are very dangerous for foreign forces to come into. it's very hard for them to come in. i think any incursion like that would lead to protracted
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conflicts. >> we'll leave it there, thanks so much. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has told al jazeera that foreign ministers are working quote, very hard to reach a deal with iran on its nuclear future. last full day of talks before tuesday's deadline. foreign minister sergey lavrov will leave unless there's a possibility for agreement being reached. james bays is in lausanne. >> is it going well secretary kerry? >> we are working hard, working hard. >> reporter: u.s. secretary john kerry is spending most of his time here in lausanne trying to turn out an agreement.
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joined by pfn countries china the u.k. france germany and rugs russia it was an important meeting but showed there's no deal yet. sergey lavrov arrived less than 24 hours ago and decided to leave again. the chinese foreign minister wang yee went for a jog beside lake geneva. later he told reporters positions are narrowing i'm cautiouslycautiously optimistic we can reach a deal. the other foreign ministers aside from mr. lavrov met to try work out a deal.
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kerry and hamed took a walk. hammond took a walk. >> it is not unusual for brinksmanship to continue. i think the negotiators understand very clearly that they are running out of time and this process is no longer sustainable. >> reporter: talks are continuing on the main problem areas, the future of iran's nuclear research and development and the lifting of international sanctions but time ahead of that deadline is fast running out. james bays. al jazeera lausanne. >> nigerians are waiting result of the weekend's election. the apology polling passed rather uneventfully. in a moment we'll be live in the
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nigerian capital with the latest on the vote count but first here's a report from haru mutasa. >> reporter: grace worries about the next few days. she works at a market in the commercial capital lagos. now that voting in nigeria's presidential and parliament elections is over she hopes for one thing: >> i want peace i don't want fight. i want to initially have peace and no fighting and to stay at our seller market. that's what i want. >> people in lagos appear to be getting on with their lives. the streets look busy but relatives tell us it's quieter than usual. the next few days are crucial people don't know what is going to happen after final results are announced. nigerians don't want election day violence they just want their lives to move on. saying they will only believe
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official results. >> any one they want, rule this way. let the nation feel good about that. >> reporter: many know the threat of postelection violence is very real. more than 1,000 people died when the main opposition leader, mohamedu bohari, four years on it's deja vu for nigerians now it's also the continent's largest economy so people wait. they will find out soon who has one. haru mutasa, al jazeera lagos. >> yvonne ndege joins us. yvonne, early results trickling in, it's perhaps too early to get a clear idea what's going on. bring us up to speed.
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>> jonah you're absolutely right. eight states including the set has been announced at the international conference center in abuja by the head of the nigerian electoral commission. we know the presidential candidate there muhammedu boharu is winning. there are still another 28 states for which the results are to come down here to the international conference center and there are a lot of statistics to get through and numbers for the electoral commission to make public the number of voters who are registered in these 36 states of nigeria have to be announced the number of accredited voters. each of the presidential candidates and exactly how many votes each of the 14 presidential candidates scored. also the number of spoiled and cancelled ballots, the number of
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rejected votes have to be announced and once that process is through then the tabulation of which candidates got more than 25% in the 36 states have to be announced. and to win this race, the candidate has to get more than 25% of the vote, in at least two-thirds of nigeria's 36 states. now i asked the electoral commission boss earlier when he was here, how long is this process going to take? and he told me quite frankly be prepared to spend the night here. because the numbers from the biggest states in nigeria like lagos in the south like karno in the north which have populations anywhere from 15 to 20 million are supposed to arrive. nationally we know that at least 60 million people took part in this election. in over 150,000 polling stations across the country. so we have a long way to go before i think an official and definitive result is announced. >> complicated staff and a long
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night ahead with you yvonne. we'll be back in the next few hours, thanks very much. still to come on al jazeera a man is shot dead, outside the national security agency, after as vehicle tries to ram the gates. >> patients rally for their right to try developmental drugs.
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on al jazeera. a strike on a displaceed camp in yemen has killed dozens. and john kerry says they will be working into the night to try to get a deal down. high level talks in switzerland before tuesday's deadline. allegation with some voting irregularities warning that counting might be subject to deliberate political interference. the germanwings co-pilot september of crashing the plane into the alps has been treated in the past for suicidal
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tendencies. an access road is being built into the alps, and no clues as to andreas lubitz motivation. but confirms he was in therapy prior to the crash. confirmation of something that the media in germany has speculated about for some time. we had known that mr. lubitz had suffered a severe bout of depression in 2009 for which he did receive treatment but now we know at that point he was also experiencing suicidal tendencies. that is important because his company germanwings and its parent company lufthansa has always stressed that mr. lubitz went through assessments physical and mental assessment tests and passed them and they
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considered him to be 100% able to take the controls of the plane. now of course we know he took the controls of the plane locked out his captain and plunged that plane in its fatal dive into the alps. and this comes at a time when the french president francois hollande will be meeting angela merkel the chancellor of germany in berlin to discuss this and other measures, to talk about this disaster to confirm there had best fatalities on tuesday of last week. we know also there will be a memorial to be held in cologne germany. on april the 13th. the chancellor and joakuim gauch will be in attendance. to memorialize the victims of
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the plane andreas lubitz plunged into the alps. rebels accused the government of launching a chlorine gas attack on the city. idlib was recaptured by rebels on saturday. it's the second provincial capital to fall into opposition hands. and the united nations says syrian refugees need urgent aid. caroline malone. >> in 2014, united nations appealed for $7.7 billion in aid for victims of syria. but only 62% was collected. some of the worst offenders include australia japan, south korea and russia. this year even more people need help. an estimated 18 million people
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require a total of $8.7 billion. that would provide each person with only the absolute minimum more than the equivalent of 1 u.s. dollar a day. so far only 10% of that amount has been pledged. countries neighboring syria are overburdened with refugees, more than 4 million refugees are in turkey iraq and northern egyptian andegyptand iraq. oxfam says countries that have signed the convention to support refugees need to offer more openings and the charity also says that gulf countries like saudi arabia, qatar uae could help more syrians seeking asylum and by relaxing visa restrictions. >> at least five people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the iraqi capital baghdad. the blast happened near the
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entrance gate of the predominantly shia neighborhood of husseinea. two men in a sports utility vehicle were shot by guards and at least one of them killed, the fbi says it doesn't believe this is a terrorist related incident. al jazeera's rosalyn jordan has this update from washington d.c. >> reporter: we do know from the nsa authorities at fort mead maryland that one person was killed and another was injured in this incident which took place shortly after 13 gmt on monday. it's not clear exactly why the two were trying to gain access to the floridato the national security agency or nsa but they were using an entrance ramp reserved for nsa and official contractors. apparently according to multiple
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media reports here in the washington area they apparently did not want to turn around and leave the premises, and apparently the nsa police, that guard that particular entrance, apparently opened fire. the fbi is now the lead investigating agency and trying to figure out whether or not criminal charges should be filed against the surviving person in this incident. >> the u.s. government is under pressure to speed up the way new drugs are approved. there are terminally ill patients who said they will be dead before potentially lifesaving drugs are tested. kimberly halkett has this report report. >> kerry of a music tfnlg company whentechnologycompany when he was diagnosed smith's disease is progressing. >> in this year we started that
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teeing and slurred words. a year later we're in a wheelchair. the hands aren't working. the speech is going. >> reporter: so the smiths have joined dozens of other als patients to lobby the u.s. food and drug administration, the authority that administers approval of the drugs. so patients can access developmental drugs before they're approved. >> we are telling the fda today that the status quo is not good enough. they need to do everything in their power to speed the search for a cure. >> the fda approval process can take more than a decade. the average als patient lives just three years from diagnosis. so a movement has been formed in the u.s., fighting government
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for the right to try experimental medications. the right to try association is lobbying the government, for lifesaving developmental drugs to be fast tracked for the patients who need it. ten states have already granted terminally ill patients access to developmental drugs without approval. 23 others are considering other laws already in place in other countries. >> in europe drugs tend to get approved earlier and in this country they could be approved earlier for serious life threatening illnesses because it would save so many lives. it's doable. >> reporter: the u.s. government last year allowed ebola patients to receive lifesaving experiment am morrison. experimental medicines. the smiths hope for the same.
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>> if i have to wait i won't be around. >> they are already in the fight of their lives they don't want to fight their government too. kimberly halkett, al jazeera. >> bolivia is facing a architectureal renaissance. daniel schwindler reports. >> there is no mistaking it. there's something different. something changing in el alto. it is a new kind of building. some call them chaletettes. a mixture of a chalet and an apartment. andean architecture.
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>> i've come up with a new tendency. breaking old rules. they don't teach us this. so for me i'm proud to present this new style. >> reporter: it may be new but it's very much rooted in traditional tastes and colors. freddy was influenced by the preincan ruins. a style between 500 and 900 ad. his order book is full. el alto's emerging middle class soon to be the proud owner of this property. >> translator: it's very bolivian. we're bolivian so we wanted the house to reflect that with lovely bright colors so my children can enjoy it. >> reporter: the colors and design reflect taste among bolivia's indigenous community which make up over thafl half the
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population. symbolized here in bricks paint and mortar. it may not be to everybody's liking perhaps too brash for some but very bolivian, incorporating styles and colors from a rich indigenous heritage. the buildings cost two to three times more than traditional structures and take more time obuild. a party salon is another indigenous factor. >> to create a modern full of colors. >> some would argue that el alto closer to the clouds and a decent sewage system could only improve but now it's surprising many with a very assertive and bolivian style of architecture
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changing the skyline. daniel schwindler, al jazeera bolivia. >> top story on aljazeera.com: nigeria as election results trickle in. i'll be back in half an hour. the stream is next. and fresh-water rich country. back in 2010, the canadian province of new brunswick granted a texas-based company, southwestern energy, licenses to explore for shale gas - in exchange for investment worth 47