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breakthrough to change the way obesity is treated. ♪ hello, the saudi-led air offensive on rebel targets in yemen is in the 7th day and north and south have been hit and coalition says it has now secured the country's air space. the u.n. says it is alarmed by the growing civilian toll and at least 23 people have been killed by strike on a dairy factory and we have the latest. >> reporter: a dairy factory became an inferno after an air strike in the western port city on tuesday evening. about two dozen employees were killed according to medical sources. witnesses say there is an army camp nearby with forces helping the houthis. the houthis are blaming the saudi-led coalition for some of the deadliest attacks on

civilians. on monday evening an air strike hit a refugee camp killing at least a few dozen people. >> air strikes bombarded. >> reporter: u.n. condemned the attack calling it a violation of international law. intense ground fighting moved in the sport city of aiden. a succession group has helped take over the city's international airport and the surrounding area. the succession are one of groups fighting the houthis on the ground. each has its own agenda. the players include forces loyal to president haidi and various tribes. saudi foreign minister says regaining control of yemen will not come easily but the region stability depends on it. >> translator: we are not war mongers but when they beat the drums of war we are ready and security is part of icc and arab national security. >> reporter: in the meantime those who can are getting out of

yemen, 350 indian citizens left aboard an indian navy ship overnight and all those who remain there are growing concerns of a humanitarian crisis and no sign of a ceasefire any time soon. natasha, al jazeera. nigeria new president says it's time for the country to feel heal its wounds and celebrations across the nation after they officially claimed muhammadu buhari as the winner of the closely fought election and thanked the outgoing president goodluck jonathan for not challenging results and told people to be respectful and peaceful in his transition to power power. >> emotions were high. we must not allow them to get the better of us. this is not the time for

confrontation. this is a moment that we must heal the wounds and work toward a better future. [applause] we do this first by extending a hand of friendship and reconciliation across the divide. we hope and pray our friends and other parties. >> reporter: the pressure on muhammadu buhari to put words in actions and nigerians want better standard of living under the new leader and harry reports now from legos. >> reporter: some nigerians call muhammadu buhari the incorruptible politician and saying that because of his seemingly squeaky clean character he will do a lot to tackle corruption and wait and see how he does that and other people it's about the economy and standards of living and a typical scene in legos commercial hub in nigeria and

you have paved roads and that is nice but most don't have paved roads and how people live in densely populated areas and lots of poverty and unemployment and crime and want to do more to improve their lives and another key thing is we want electricity and power. you see that power station over there, most people in the country don't have access to electricity. only a privileged few and then it'ser erer erratic and rely on generators and when muhammadu buhari is sworn in the end of may and starts his term he does a lot to improve conditions of the poor on the ground and not just for a privilege here. >> more than a week since the nigerian military detained two al jazeera journalists in the north of the country and they were embedded with the military before they were detained last tuesday. they have been kept in the hotel since then and al jazeera is demanding their immediate release. acvisits in syria say fighters

from islamic state of iraq and levante stormed a refugee camp in damascus and became the focus of heavy fighting in 2012 when opposition groups moved in. a government siege there last year saw camp residents pushed to starvation and violence prevented the groups from doing their work for aid. dozens of people have been killed in an attack in the village in the central province of hamas and human rights say villages including women and children were beheaded burnt and shot. six syrian soldiers also reportedly died. several people are still missing and unclear whether they escaped or were kidnapped. and in the northwest syrian government jets targeted the city of idlib which was taken by rebels saturday and hit a hospital where bodies of government soldiers have been kept. coalition of rebel groups including al-qaeda al-nusra front seized the city.

iraqi prime minister abad said the city has been taken from the city of iraq and levante. [gunfire] the fighters driven out of the central city at least three neighborhoods remain under their control. iraqi interior minister has been speaking from tikrit. >> translator: today most of tikrit is liberated, only a small portion remains to be cleared, god willing we will eliminate the remaining pockets and a few coming hours. the enemy has been totally defeated and has lost all its ability and moral and the battle will end god willing. >> reporter: talks on iran's nuclear future are continuing in switzerland after tuesday's self imposed deadline expired. diplomates say they are making progress but some key issues still need to be resolved. it includes centerfuge with iran wanting to continue research on

machines to enrich uranian and restrictions on missile program which iran refuses to discuss and then there are crippling sanctions over the nuclear program and wants all sanctions lifted immediately and u.s. argued for a gradual easing. a deal is likely to see activities restricted for ten years after that they want it removed and the countries they are negotiating with are not so sure and simon mc-greger woods is next where the talks are taking place. >> reporter: it's clear the talks which stretched from late tuesday and well into the early hours of wednesday morning have made progress on a number of key issues. but it's not clear there has been enough progress for a full framework agreement. leaving the talks the iran foreign minister spoke of his optimism. >> we have been working since

7:30 in the morning and it's been a very long day for all delegations and we have accomplished quite a bit but people need to get some rest and start over early in the morning. i hope that we can finalize the work on wednesday and hopefully start the process of drafting tomorrow. >> reporter: the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov was also upbeat as he headed out of the hotel in the early hours. he and both the chinese and french foreign ministers are no longer directly participating in the negotiations. on wednesday morning there was a greater degree of caution from the british foreign minister and a warning there is still difficult work to do. >> i think we have a broad framework of understanding but there is still some key issues that have to be worked through and some of them are quite detailed and technical so there is still quite a lot of work to do but we are on it now and we will keep going at it.

>> reporter: negotiations to conclude some kind of framework agreement have continued on wednesday and secretary of state john kerry met one on one with his iran counterpart with the sense that talks are entering their final crucial hours. seems on balance the sides will fall short on the kind of agreement they wanted to achieve here. iran deputy foreign minister speaking to his media indicated the sides are working towards release of some press statement by the end of wednesday. but he also said there are key differences on things like sanctions and on iran's right to research and development of key nuclear technologies. simon mc-greger wood al jazeera, in lozan. the palestinian authority is now officially a member of the international criminal court. it's part of a move by the palestinians to increase global pressure on israel. and we report the process will be neither quick nor simple. >> reporter: the palestinian authority foreign minister emerged from a formal welcoming

ceremony at the international criminal court in the hague on wednesday. palestinians he said were a step closer to justice but it will not be quick. >> we seek justice because it is the anchor in which the future of the peace and stability can be firmly established. >> do you accept this might take a long time to bring any action against israel here to international court? >> well, we are not going to alter the work and the mechanisms established by icc, what we want to do is incorporate with icc to provide whatever information is available in our hands in order to facilitate the process of investigation done by icc. >> reporter: in a preliminary examination of the facts on the ground the prosecutors are looking at to potential areas of concern, first israel's settlement building on occupied palestinian land considered illegal under international law and second the actions of israel's army in the gaza war

last year. it will be for chief prosecutor to decide whether a formal investigation should be launched and much later whether charges should be filed with the political weight of israeli palestinian conflict but the court will want to be absolutely certain of itself before proceeding. >> i think it's very premature to speculate on the outcome of the legal analysis of the prosecutor and what i think is important at this stage is to allow the prosecutor this possibility of analyzing all the relevant information, all the relevant arguments that the crimes and gravity of the crimes and alleged perpetrators. >> we will interrupt the report to bring you the latest press conference from the saudi-led coalition on the air strikes in yemen yemen. >> translator: having considerations to our fighters

soldiers pilots who are defending us on the front line that is why we entered this 7th day and apologize for summoning you and stated in the previous days the campaign will continue until all the abobjectives are achieved. the airforces of the coalition continued to target the already laid out targets namely the ballistic missile and air defense missile, the weapons and ammunition and also the movement on the ground. we emphasize that the operation have been intensified over the roads leading to aiden have

brought in very positive outcomes. i would like to emphasize and this is a message by the command of the coalition to our fellow fighters and brothers in the yemen armed forces within the past 24 hours and operations were concentrated on the bra -- brigades and these brigades had other assaults from the coalition sources and are fully aware most of the officers yemen officers, soldiers and troops are obligated to obey orders from the houthi malitias and the other commanders and officers for the ousted

president. and we reiterate it is not our target to attack them. that is why from our position here we polled on the yemen officers soldiers and troops to refrain from cooperating with houthi malitias to listen to the voice of reason and listen to the officers under the legitimate authority and presidency of yemen and to join forces defending the yemen citizens and yemen territorial integrity. again, it's those subversive of yemen and should continue to defend yemen. those from among them who have fallen we call to accept this and those are a speed recovery

and command of the coalition are fully aware of their respective duties and possibilities to the military operations carried out in yemen. yet mainly steering away from civilians and as you are fully aware that the houthi malitias are under the brunt of continued assault from our campaign are seeking to shift the battleground inside the cities and villages making the task more difficult yet, we cannot allow them to achieve this goal very positive outcomes have been achieved over the past 84 hours. based on in the coalition forces are fully aware of their responsibility and international alliance being informed on the basis of a nobel goal and

salvage the yemen people in response to their legitimate authority and the pinpointed targets and we are close contact with the nobel, honest men of the yemen armed forces and popular resistance on the ground in order to ensure that the targets hit are military targets under the control of the houthi malitias. again, the coalition is a nobel and fully aware of their responsibilities and regional and international levels and also send out a message to the release of people who are waiting to provide assistance on relief aid to the yemen people. the coalition forces mentioned today and we repeat today that

one of these status of this operation is to allow the release of aid into the yemen or the yemen citizens of all walks of life without discrimination with those affiliated with houthi and not fighting with houthi malitias or other walks of life. and again the current conditions mandate that we should provide the necessary and positive environment for aid to have access on the ground. we are now in close contact and coordination with relief aid in order to provide access and set schedules and assign the rules through which they can act in

line with the military campaign to ensure relief aid is reaching the needy person not the fighting malitias. from the very first day of the operations the u.n. tried to affect their subjects, the planes were already on the ground yet it was the houthi and the supporters who obstructed the eviction process. during the -- throughout the course of the day was reported in the media that certain victims have fallen in a daily product mill or a refugee camp. i emphasize that the coalition forces mentioned on a number of occasions that the houthi malitias are playing as expected taking human beings

civilians as shield. and also bombarding them. this is a clear indication of their despair to achieve any military goals. secondly they are trapped inside residential areas. we have crippled their movement on the access roads, that is why we have been trapped inside residential areas and using civilians as human shields. as we speak fighting is racing between the houthi malitias and the popular resistance fighters. the information we receive from the ground proves that it was alternative borders and rockets from houthis that is the fact. again, we know that the houthi

malitias are manipulating through their media outlets in order to instigate the people and they are fully aware this operation is going to restore the serenity attacked by the houthis. again, it was targeted by the houthis malitias and, again the coalition forces cannot attack the cap or the factory. our intelligence operations that we are conducting before launching the military operation have pinpointed the targets clearly. we have formed a coalition to rid the yemen people from the

domination and manipulation of the houthis and cannot and will not target such targets. our operations continue to target houthis buckets. the video shown demonstrates weapons people. this is one of the few stations. this was targeted not the building. we targeted the fuel pump. not the building. this was a pinpointed target as we meant to target the pump not the building as we are here and the operation is meant to cripple the houthi movement. again, the pump itself was targeted, not the building.

one of the military has weapons and ammunition was directly targeted and hit, intelligence information confirmed that there are military gear weapons and ammunitions inside. our operations yesterday focused on two axes first to hit the target and hit them with military gear, weapons and ammunitions that have been hidden by the houthi malitias. also, we continued our operation to prevent the houthi malitias from reaching aiden. this this, what you are seeing are weapons depot and man centers

and pockets of houthi fighters. this is the 7th consecutive day of the campaign and we are still at the weapons depot and clear amount of military gear weapons and ammunition. the houthis are in position especially those seized following the coup. throughout the operations carried out throughout the seven days, we have not targeted any residential areas and those demonstrated yesterday were at the outskirts of aiden, not inside the residential

gatherings. as a matter of fact with respect to ground operation the artillery of the royal saudi forces are carrying out duties preventing houthi malitias from coming near the borderline. what we have noticed so far is isolated incidents, a group of three or four houthi fighters and they responded to it. maritime operation is also underway. the coalition forces deployed battleships for maritime seas. the ships have been deployed as planned, monitoring and surveilling the port and all the islands located in the local and

all this under surveillance. also the helicopter taken off from the battleships are mostly monitoring the coastal lines and we will prevent the arrival of any support or assistance to the houthi fighters. the final point i would like to demonstrate is that today the popular resistance managed to force out the remnants of brigade 33 and houthi malitias at the outskirts of aldada city the entire city is now under the total control of the armed forces and the popular resistance. fighting is still underway yet we have positive indications this is living proof that we are

gaining advancement on the ground in favor of the yemen forces and popular resistance. the coalition will continue to assess targets around the clock, minimizing any possibility of error. also minimizing any possibility of targeting civilians and again we raise the goal to the organization order to coordinate with the society organization for further coordination. now i open the floor for questions questions. >> thank you what about the houthis ability [too low to hear]

. >> houthi and free iran. >> from day one of operation -- [translation in native language]

we seem to have a break in translation and you have been watching a long press conference there for spokesperson for the saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes for seven days on houthi targets in yemen and we have a little time left on the program but i want to speak to richard white director for the center of political military analysis at the institute at the washington d.c. base think tank. clearly the spokesperson there is very keen to point out the successes so far as he sees it of this particular campaign pointing out targeting military and not civilian targets but i wonder how you see as an outsider the offense at the moment and it appears to me the air strikes don't appear to have that much effect on the houthis what are your thoughts? >> yes, i would put out to comments. first it's hard to be sure for

anybody in the americans british as well as the society and they have air strikes that they will avoid civilian casualty particularly in this case it will be interspersed and related to the question of the effectiveness. i mean air strikes are great if you are going to battle with for example saddam hussein's army to kickoff the tanks and sand launchers and so on but in this case with small bands of fighters interspersed with civilians fighting in all sorts of uniform it's really hard to be effective without some kind of strong ground force and it's the same problem in the united states is facing in iraq and syria that air strikes alone don't get you much without a good local ally. >> bear in mind a spokesperson said it will continue until all objectives have been achieved. does it appear to you that some sort of ground force will need to be