only on al jazeera america. >> part of al jazeera america's >> special month long evironmental focus fragile planet ♪ [cheers] celebrations in iran after world powers reach a break through deal on the program but israel warns that the agreement threatens its existence. ♪ hello you are watching al jazeera and i'm jane from headquarters in doha and also coming up, in the next 30 minutes saudi t.v. says houthi rebels abandoned the strategic compound in aiden they had taken a day earlier. [gunfire] kenya vows it will not be

intimated after al-shabab attacked a university killing 147 people. china's former security chief is charged with corruption plus. i'm tim friend and what is described as the most desperate town in poland where the best prospect for many is the road out of town. ♪ u.s. president barack obama says agreement restricting iran's nuclear program will make the world safer. the framework was agreed in switzerland after talks that called for iran to reduce the number of the centrefuges to 6,000 and agreed to limit its nuclear program to one facility and enrichment of uranium will be suspended until 2013 in exchange sanctions against tehran will be phased off and agreement is a start of tougher

talks to a final deal but people in iran celebrating at the prospect of what it could mean for daily life as gerald tan reports. >> reporter: a hero's welcome for the iran foreign minister he arrives home after securing what is hailed as a triumph for diplomacy, framework agreement aimed at curbing iran's nuclear program sets the stage for the gradual lifting for some international sanctions. >> i hope at the end of this process we will although that true dialog and engagement and dignity we can, in fact resolve problems, open new horizons and move forward. [cars honking] a carnival atmosphere took the streets in tehran as people came out late in the night to express joy at the announcement. >> translator: i think the

economic pressure people have endured because of iran's nuclear program will be reduced. >> translator: i was very happy when i heard the news many things will definitely improve. relations between iran and europe and other countries will greatly improve and the pressure on people will ease a little. >> reporter: years of sanctions have crippled iran's economy making life difficult for many the once thriving automobile industry has dropped by 40% in just four years. and short supply because of restrictions on banking and shipping and one and four people are out of work as living costs rise and the stakes of the international agreement are high. >> if sanctions are lifted and iran is part of the world economy and integrated to the rest of the global political system you can risk losing all of that if it starts cheating and suddenly we have incentive to stay in the framework and that is very critical.

the way to make sure the deal is durable to make sure both sides feel they won. >> reporter: months of grueling negotiations are expected before final deal is struck. but for many iran people the first battle is one. and celebration is in order. gerald tan, al jazeera. a commentator for the international, a state run newspaper and says the deal is good for iran people. >> shouldn't blame the hard liners and didn't have a say in this and did not pull the shots and did not sign the deal so they are not happy and we should not be surprised if they play games and come up with last-minute executions like the devil is in the details but at the end of the day this is what the nation wants and this is what the leader asked the negotiation team to do and we are more than happy to see a breakthrough. we owe this success to the

international community because they give us a chance to sort out our differences with the west diplomatically but remember this is just the beginning, we have a long way ahead of us we need to prove reactions that we are serious that we don't have anything from a nuclear program except for peaceful applications like producing drugs and stuff like that. but, as i said this is just the beginning and those who are not happy with this the hard liners in iran should get along with this because this is what the leader said, that he is happy that the negotiation team is doing a good job and everybody should support them. >> houthi fighters and allies have withdrawn from a strategic hill top complex in the city of aiden according to saudi arabia. the coalition carried out more overnight air rides and u.s. military has been given authority to provide aerial refueling support to saudi war

planes and turkey said it too will provide logistic support to the operation. u.n. estimates 519 people have been killed over the past two weeks. more than 90 of those were children and tens of thousands have been forced from their homes and are living with friends and relatives all in temporary shelters and we have the editor and chief of the yemen post and joins me from sanaa, good to have you. can you confirm houthi forces have pulled out of that part of aiden, the complex? >> it's not that simple. saudi arabia was only seeing half of the troops. the houthis did evacuate because of the air strikes but that does not mean they lost control of it. it's not taken over by the southern militants and they did evacuate or leave because of the strikes but is not out of their control so i cannot confirm that and that's not true as of now

and saudi arabia is saying because of the strike they evacuated but it's still under their control and that is why we have to be specific in details of how to explain it. the houthis right now are in aiden in 12 different fronts and it's a long war and not over but as of now the majority of aiden and they have already infiltrated into all parts of aiden and that is why it's very hard right now for saudi arabia to conduct air strikes inside aiden because the houthis are not as a group any more and are inside the city and inside residential areas hiding secretly so to ensure they cannot be attacked by the air. so it wouldn't matter if they evacuated from the palace or not if it's not under the opposing side of control. >> warfare is incredibly difficult, isn't it and dangerous and the amount of innocent people killed will certainly increase. do you think it will make a difference that turkey says it

cannot get involved in a certain level? >> very complicated. right now if both sides don't sit together and discuss it on the table no side, whoever it is, who is involved can stop this war in yemen. yemen people are very worried because last week when this first started it was only in sanaa and now it spread through the country, the majority of the provinces in the first days of the war 42 civilians were killed and next four days until today 124 civilians were killed so this is gradually going in the way of saudi arabia or hatred to saudi arabia because of the increasing death toll especially towards civilians. >> i was going to ask you about that. obviously this is a long way off but reconciliation is going to be increasingly hard isn't it? >> very difficult and the houthis, yesterday their top sue

supreme leader and i said are you planning on that and he said we are waiting for only one thing that it's the order of the houthi and up to leaders to give them the green light to attack and i asked it clearly that there has been confrontation in borders with saudi arabia and he said those are only defending ourselves when saudi wanted to attack and wanted to attack the border in saudi arabia it would be easily known and results would have been a big difference. >> thank you very much for that update. a china former security chief has been charged with bribery and intent to reveal state secrets. this sets the way for him to become one of the highest ranking officials to be prosecuted since the 1980s. he was seen as a prime target and president ping's

anticorruption crack down. and we have a professor of history and chinese politics and joins us from hong kong with a collective gasp when people found out about these charges? >> well these charges were actually made last year when the first formally arrested him so in a sense that is no surprise even though people have been waiting impatiently for the trial to take place and we finally have information it will likely be within the coming month or so. >> what do you make of the charges? how important do you see this as being for the future of china? >> yeah, this is a major watershed in his effort to sensitize the government and no one has been prosecuted with an economic crime and looking ahead the anticorruption campaign may

pick up further speed and substance and we expect at least two or three more former people to be prosecuted so i think this is a big victory for him and after this his power and authority will reach his climax and he will be considered as the second most powerful. >> i know that there are concerns that political opposition or political threats could well become targets, is that justified? >> well even though he deserves a lot of credit for staging this thorough and efficient anticorruption campaign nonetheless, it is also true that he is using a time tested kind of a technique using corruption as a weapon to take

out this and two predecessors have done before. so the criminalzation and prosecution prosecution, again, has focused the discussion among chinese intellectuals about real political reform real institutional reform because unless china changes its political system and unless there are meaningful checks and balances in the system then corruption will be very difficult to irrat -- eradicate and it's still in a way that corruption will be an entrenched part of the public arena. >> thank you very much. more news coming up. going home at last after years of being forced to work as fishermen without pay we will have the details.

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♪ the top stories on al jazeera, iran foreign minister set a deal of his country's nuclear program is a win-win for both sides but hard liners say it was a bargain for the west and a disaster for iran, u.s. president barack obama says the deal will make the world safer. houthi fighters and their allies have withdrawn from a strategic

hill top complex in the city of aiden after overnight strikes from the saudi-led coalition according to saudis and they are calling for safe areas to be established in the city to deliver food to civilians. china's former security chief has been charged with bribery and intent to reveal state secrets and one of the highest ranking officials to be prosecuted since the 1980s. the kenya president has vowed to quote crack down on terrorism after a attackn attack have the lives of 147 people and the group al-shabab attacked in the northeast and people are wounded and curfew is in place in the region and they said kenya would not bow to threats and he said kenya's government will not be intimated by the terrorists who have made killing innocence people a way to humiliate the government. this is just the latest episode in kenya's struggle with

al-shabab. in late 2011 the kenya military crossed border in somalia and the group vowed to retaliate and in 2013 the fighters besieged the west gate mall and killed 67 people and raids against villages and vehicles left 100 dead and in november al-shabab shot 28 people andimald malcolm is here and what have you heard about the attacks. >> reporter: got to the university just now this is the gate where the attackers entered yesterday morning just before sunrise and killed two armed guards here and hundreds of hostages and held hundreds of students hostage and killed many more of them died by the end of

yesterday in a heavy fire fight and now soldiers standing at the gate and ambulances coming out one by one and they are removing some of the bodies through the night and taking them to the morgue here in town. we understand most of the students who were killed were not from here not from this part of kenya, many of them are from other parts of kenya and families are traveling now and beginning to arrive to claim the bodies of their loved ones who were killed yesterday. >> i believe you have been talking to some of the victims. what do they say about what happened? >> we managed to speak to some of them on the phone and they say one young lady spent the day with six of her friends and i understand it was in the residence to explain that her bedroom doesn't look like for some reason the outside door doesn't look like a bedroom but looks like a plumbing room and they were in there all day and

hearing people being shot and killed in the next door room of their neighbors in the dormitory and very luckily throughout the day and holding together and realized it was more than the bedroom with people fighting inside and when the battle finally finished and she was stepping over dozens of bodies more than she could count before she was taken out and we have spoken to her today and she was better and relieved and dozens of friends were killed yesterday and she was lying in hiding as she went through that experience. >> malcolm the security forces are being criticized for not providing enough security in the country. what has been said about that? what do people believe they could have done? >> well a couple of people said the government were alerted to basically vulnerability of this institution and another

institution in the training college because there was a lot of people living together in accommodation and relatively little security and also said that the target because of lots of people here from all over the country and in some of the attacks that al-shabab has done in kenya some cases they separated christians from muslims in northeastern kenya and means they are killing people who are from other parts of the country, people who are not acting so inging and it seems people who died are kenyans from other parts of the country and for that reason because there was a concentration of different people here from all over the country people believe it was vulnerable and ask the government to increase security here but that wasn't done and indeed it proved that the university was very vulnerable indeed because of attackers and may be four or five or perhaps

six and killed 100 people and keep military and fighting for many hours and killing dozens and resulting in this tragedy. >> thank you for that malcolm. at least five people have been killed in an explosion in northeastern nigeria and happened outside of a bus station and a representative from the driver's union says the blast was called by an explosive by the bus and 15 were injured in attack. al jazeera has taken legal action to declare detention of staff by nigerian military as illegal and unconstitutional and they were embedded with the military when they were arrested for allegedly reporting on boko haram without clearance and have been held in the hotel in the city since last tuesday. indonesia government announced hundreds of men forced to catch seafood with little or no pay will be allowed to go home, a year-long investigation by the

associated press saying fishermen held against their will on the island and some were kept in cages and we were sent this update. >> reporter: excitement here in the far east of indonesia and seen by the government just announced to all these people from cambodia and tie -- thailand and say they are not safe here and the stories they are telling are horrific and talking about abuse, about very bad labor conditions and working on the ships for many many hours and many days without hardly any rest hardly any food and even worse hardly my pay and there was no salary and got hands out and they are really excited to go home and you can see here this is all what they have been gathering when they heard they were going to go home and went to the boat and this is what they took from the boat and

what they have been living on for the last few years and some have been here for five or ten years and wanting to go home for all that time because when they were sent to indonesia they mad no idea they were going to work here they were applying for jobs in myanmar and thought they were going to send to thailand and contacted an agent and sent to the fishery company in indonesia and the government says after speaking to them it was clear they were used as slaves forced labor and this group is here from cambodia and they also are going to go home. people from myanmar, thailand and international organization said they estimate around 4,000 of them are in this whole region in the east of indonesia and this particular part and this particular company there is a few hundred and the government is going to take as many as they can to another port closer and

then they will hand them over to the government of myanmar, cambodia and all the countries they are coming from. >> the populations of some polish cities are shrinking at alarming rate and the bank says dwindling birth rate and lack of jobs are having a devastating mark and we go to the southern pollish town. >> reporter: emotional scene that is played out daily at the bus station, another young worker is leaving town one of thousands said good-bye and the town shrunk by 50,000 and 23-year-old samantha is on her way to london and a job in a hotel. sad to leave your friends. >> leaving friends. >> reporter: it's very hard. >> we cry.

>> reporter: quite tough. >> yes. >> reporter: some of samantha's friends say they plan to follow her soon. samantha sets off for london, she is among thousands of young polish people who are flooding out of the country and the politicians don't seem to be able to do anything to stop the flow. as a result the birth rate is plummeting and the children's playgrounds are often empty and a short distance away is a reason why it is slowly dying and used to be six coal mines here and now just one is left to compete against cheaper far eastern competition and local look for scraps of coal and the old mine settlements in disrepair. church congregations like the town are aging, more people are dying here than are being born. so who will care for the

elderly? this family is typical. the daughter now lives in germany with her husband. they are only back for a short visit. >> translator: it's the town of mines and if we don't live they will notice. >> reporter: u.n. has a massive aid package of the reason of more than $100 million and the hope is to attack more high-tech industry but if that fails the town could lose another 60,000 people in the coming decades. >> translator: the situation is very difficult. all we can do is to slow down the negative trends but we cannot stop them. >> reporter: in the meantime there will be more good-byes at the bus station and more polls contributing to other countries' economies but not their own tim friend al jazeera, poland.

really computer crash killed three passengers and pilot and went down by south palo and no one in the building at the time of the crash, looking into what caused it and the aviation company who owns it said it was sound and the pilot had 30 years of experience. the u.s. state of california is entering the fourth consecutive year of drought and some say it could run out of water in a year. the governor ordered residents and businesses to cut water use by 25%, legislation has also been fast tracked to provide $1 billion in relief funds, the current drought has cost the agricultural sector more than $2 billion and nearly 17,000 farmers have lost their jobs. in ghanna tons of plastic garbage are thrown away everyday but one company has a creative way to recycle but turning waste into fashion accessories and we report from the capitol city

akra. >> reporter: this is how most people buy drinking water in ghanna these plastic are cheap and convenient and often end up littering the streets and a company collects about 200,000 a month and processes them in this factory in a suburb of ghanna capitol, workers clean this and dry them and then they get creative, they produce bags and other accessories which they sell to customers all over the world. it's a social enterprise trying to raise aware of of the damaging effects of plastic on the environment. >> our bags are making sache and if people used those at the grocery store or market or stores and used that every time then they would reduce the amount of disposal thin plastic bags they use all the time here you buy a bottle of water in a store and they put a black

plastic bag around it and that is what we are trying to change. >> reporter: using plastic from discarded billboards to make more colorful products but what they are able to collect is just a fraction of the waste in ghanna. the plastic waste ends up in dumping grounds and carried to sea by the drain and washed back ashore. beaches that could be tourist at an attractions are washed backup on shore and could effect generations. the streets of long beach, california converted in a race track to host the all electric and emissions-free championship. ten teams will compete in a one-hour race that pits identical cars against one

another. the cars are similar in size and shape to those used in the indy car series. and event has been sanctioned by the governing body by the formula one racing series and find the stories and more on our website al jazeera.com. may not be the beginning of the end, but may be the end of the beginning. from lausanne, news went out that iran, the p5+1, and germany have a deal in principle and are drafting a document representing the deal begins. there are tough months ahead. but the parties are talking like they have cleared an enormous hurdle.