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only on al jazeera america >> the war in yemen and the people in harm's way houthi rebels raid homes in the capital detaining politicians and journalists. hello, this is al jazeera. live from doha, i'm adrian finnegan rallying for their fellow palestinians in yarmouk camp. loss of 148 lives on the attack on garrissa university.
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and christians around the world mark easter. we begin in yemen where air strikes against houthi rebels continue for an 11th night on saturday. targeting houthi ammunition supply lines and depots in aden. there is report that houthis have stormed homes and detained journalists. the group a day after it came out in support of the saudi coalition. the u.n. wants a 24 hour ceasefire to are bring in medical supplies, you hospitals were overwhelmed. pause in the strikes to allow humanitarian aid.
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500 people have been killed since the attacks began. >> grave concern over the situation that yemen has been facing a while. the russian federation, expressed concerns over the humanitarian situation in yemen since a long time. the councilmembers night time to reflect on the russian proposal. >> let's get a look at the situation in the l studio here, l what do you think? >> on the basis of humanitarian excuses. >> why do you say that? >> i mean, the russians, yesterday and day before yesterday, they shift they got four air flights and they evacuated people.
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but those air flights were postfor houthis. you are bringing in weapons to kill people. >> who says they are bringing in weapons to kill people? >> the foreign minister and the foreign allied forces are saying that. >> why should russia be proposing a pause in the saudi air strikes? >> they are trying to get the you hooghtshouthisshouthis to reinstate their positions. >> might allow in humanitarian aid and treatment they need and hospitals to be restocked, it will also allow the houthis to reinforce their positions. >> shifting arnls and soshifting arms and so on, the actual purpose of that is to
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give the houthis time to reestablish themselves, especially in aden, where they are facing a very courageous resistance from the people. >> speaking of aden, courageous resistance of the people, the people desperately need humanitarian aid. >> once the people stop fighting, yes i know. but still can you get aid to aden without a ceasefire adrian. they can drop supplies of medicine. that's what we need. we don't want people on the ground -- what is needed in aden the hospitals haven't got any further medical supplies. you need medical supplies to be brought down. people to be saved forward special you know group of people who are working with the resistance itself. >> the houthis have said all along they want a negotiated settlement. it looks like the negotiated
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settlement is the only way to end this violence, this chaos that is engulfing yemen at the present time. it will give people time to reflect. >> thank you adrian, you have electdirected the thing. the russian and the one proposed by the gcc the only difference, five points, the only difference is in that point. the gcc proposal does include all of the points of the russians added to it which the russians don't like, the idea of getting the houthis back to force them to get back to the dialogue table the idea of you know houthis and the former president to really comply with the previous resolutions of the u.n. security council especially two 100 and two one 0
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one -- and 2101. >> many thanks indeed, mohamed l kobas sfertioni. kobasi. l abdel fattah general abdel fattah al-sisi says the strait,. palestinians in syria's yarmouk refugee camp. calling on the u.n. to do more to help the people there. i.s.i.l. fighters have taken over most of the camp. stefanie dekker is following developments in syria for us.
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what's the latest you've got from the yarmouk camp stefanie? >> between 90, 95% of the camp, we're getting a report that the syrians have used barrel bombs there have bem a been a number dead, it is streld strel concerned and extremely concerned 18,000 since in yarmouk besieged for over two years they've been starving. very difficult oget aid in, aid has been trickling in perhaps but nothing since april 1st. it is extremely concerning.
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very difficult to glo esht negotiate the humanitarian corridor when you are dealing with i.s.i.l. >> this area in gaza what more do we know about that? >> well, a group with links to hamas, this is a palestinian refugee camp even though there are syrians in yarmouk, there are mostly palestines and palestine groups. this is a show of solidarity. the polite of the palestinians have been forgotten in the bigger scheme of things. they have been displaced from their land and besieged for the last two years. extremely dire condition. we have seen pictures of people who died, starving, extremely emaciated acknowledge complete
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catastrophe on a humanitarian level. any aid agency will tell you pfn however, it is difficult to see how any aid can treech reach the civilians. some of the injured taken to hospitals, but that an extremely difficult toosk task to undertake. >> stefanie thank you, stefanie dekker reporting. german magazine der spiegel doing something more to prevent young people from going to join seel. help iraqii.s.i.l.
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>> hoamed broken into orhomes broken into or set on fire since wednesday. mohamed javad zarif says,. >> we will prove to the world we're kitted to our promises and others are seeking pretext against us. if at any time our national interests are harmed we'll decide how to acts. any time a deal is finalized we'll definitely act. if the other side violates the agreement we'll return to our current level of nuclear activities. supposed arson attack on a building that was supposed to be turned into an asylum center,ing dominic kane reports. >> this building should have
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been housing asylum seekers in the near future. instead on saturday it was the emergency services that came. the damaged roof shows the voyages of the flames, the damaging started deliberately. >> this crime was a threat to the community of the worst crime. >> the plan to house asigh legal seekers was proposed by the mayor. the far right staged a protest against his plans outside hi house. he spoke of his shock outside the fire. >> we are here for a difficult horrible and sad reason which is unfortunately brought trogli beingstz into the spotlight.litz
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back into the spotlight. >> growing islamification. news of the fire in troglitz on friday launched penal into the street. the plan to you house asylum seekers would still go ahead. >> translator: this is not just a question of fighting crime. it's a question of democracies of our free and democratic constitutional order. our rights which we will defend. i can assure you we will not back down. >> reporter: in the last year germany has seen a rise to the number of asylum seekers it has
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campaign from the sea. targeting ammunition linings in aden. stormed homes and detained journalists and politician he. the situation at syria's yarmouk refugee camp is aing example of shame. an example i.s.i.l. can't be defeated if it continues to use radicalized foreign fighters. haider al-abadi wants the cessation ever reciting to of re crueting.
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recruiting. catherine soy is in nigeria. >> people are stilling afraid hear in garrissa. even if there's a dusk to dawn curfew people are very afraid. they are saying these attacks have happened so often they are tired of what they call empty promises and empty statements by their politicians and the government as well, they just want the government to do right by them. they blame police officers in this region, of a laxityies, they want the issue of radicalization of youth why it's so easy for youth in these areas to be
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radicalized and recruited into al shabaab they want that issue to be addressed once and for all, adrian. >> those responsible for the attack in garrissa, what does he mean by that? >> reporter: advertise statement yesterday was very hard-worded, it was very tough. and he said that most of these people who are carrying out these attacks he said that the standards, some of the standards, the recruiters and the organizers of these attacks are in the country they are kenyan, and just looking back at the attack in garrissa, the police yesterday displayed bodies of the four suspects who were killed, they wanted the public to try and identify these four. we're being told one of those suspects was already identified. of course we can't independently verify this. the mastermind, the suspected
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mastermind is believe to be a kenyan kenyan somali, a teacher in a religious school, a madrassa, you would say is said to have masterminded another attack in mandera where dozens died. the president here really saying a very complicated situation because they are doing is called, what is fashioned as home grown terrorism. al shabaab is recruiting young that needs to be taken care of, and i taikd to talked to human rights campaigners, to deal with the situation with the east to deal with the local communities here and not against them adrian. >> be catherine many
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>> en >> be. >> catherine many thanks. along religions lines we want to appeal to all kenyans all peace-loving kenyans and all human beings also the world over that as kenyans we should stand together and defeat the intention of people who want to use terror to divide our country. and we want to tell them that we shall defeat you. we shall stand united and don't use any religion. because no religion can justify the acts that they are perpetrating. >> reporter: eastern sierra leone has recorded its first case of ebola in four months. a nine month old baby boy has
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tested positive in kalahoon province, near guinea. more than 10,000 people have died of the outbreak. castro meeting a delegation of venezuela,ing the 88-year-old stood down in 2006 for health reasons and has kept a low profile ever since. indonesia's government has takentaken action against a thai country for slavery. step vaessen is in the area with the story. >> a convoy of six fishing vessels brought 315 fishermen to
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safety. men mostly from myanmar who were smuggled to indonesia who said they were smuggled there giving them thief names and documents. indonesian officials are now registering them under their real names and checking them for their health beforehanding over to the authorities in myanmar and cam bode app. cambodia. >> all of the evidence will be studied by our judicial team. dealing with all the facts this will tell us what are criminal acts have been committed. >> reporter: these people are a small part of the fishermen still stuck in the area. they wanted to go home so desperately they are now finally
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safe. but they are only a few of those others who are still out there and nobody knows where they are. many are still working on the boats. others have managed to escape. they survived with the help of local communities in remote parts of the country. some for a very long time. like this man who was brought to indonesia 15 years ago. seven years after enduring abuse and hardship at sea he escaped. he is now working as illegal logger in the forest. >> i don't know if my mother and father are still alive. all of us want to go home. every day i think about how i can get home. if it was possible to walk from indonesia to myanmar even if there were mountains we would have done this, even if i.t. would take us months. >> reporter: even though he and his frindz are not friends are
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not part of the rescue operation they hope they can leave soon and that they will be able to celebrate their return home just like these rescued men. step vaessen, al jazeera indonesia. ban on the slaughter of bulls is threatening their livelihood. the state of mae beingsstra banned the killing of bulls for meat and leather. fez jemil reports. >> the leather is made for products in export. the ban on slaughter of bulls has put that at risk. >> translator: the leather in the state was sent for finishing in other parts of the country. then came back for making of
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shoes and bags. has this government come to help us or ruin us? >> many in mumbai's leather industry say the law has hurt them. supplies run out the ban is hurting not only people in the leather industry but also poor people who eat beef. those objecting to the ban say it unfairly targets minorities who rely on beef as an affordable source of protein. those supporting the ban say it protects the animals from abuse. this group meets every saturday at this cow shelter. here they're fed and cared for. volunteers support the new ban. >> translator: leather can be made from other sources too. these workers who say they are going to become beggars are not
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telling the truth. they don't have to work in the leather industry. it is absolutely unacceptable to us hindus to kill a cow. >> most say they've spent their lives working in the leather and meat business and can't find work elsewhere. >> translator: so angry but we can't express it. if we show our anger the police will come after us. we forced our young people to sit and control their emotions, if they raise their voices they'll cause trouble. we're appealing to the government to see what we're going through. >> buffaloes are being brought in to replace the bulls. though their meat and leather is not the same quality. making things worse for some, the national government is planning a country-wide ban on cow slaughter meat and leather business is not a government
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priority. fez jemi lfertionmil, al jazeera mumbai. shunned by their villages and the party has forgotten them. but others have found new ways to survive and flourish. >> a decade ago she was a member of nepal's maoist army and had dreams of a revolution. >> 12 years is a long time and society has changed during this time and so have we. after rejecting patriarchal views of our society to go back there and live is difficult. >> reporter: starting a farming cooperative in the village, the women have managed to use the money they were given
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whether they were demobilized in 2012. former maoist soldiers most of the rest have been unable to leave home. lila was one of the highest ranking women a battalion commander in the maoist army. most women have ran out of the $5,000 given to them for demobilization. >> translator: women's participation in the war as fighters has proved the strength of women yet those yoms are in a difficult positionwomen are ina difficult position today. >> reporter: the u.n. security council has adopted a position on women peace and prosperity,
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analysts say it looks good on paper but has major problems. >> the whole focus is to get them out of the containments. so basically the counseling part the economic security part was entirely undone. >> through an ngo they can build a ftc life for themselves. pope francis urge, boldly live their faith. the message during the easter vigil concentrated on modern day martyrs, worshipers remembered
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