>> the war in yemen houthi rebels raid homes in the capitol detaining politicians and journalists. >> you're watching al jazeera live from doha. >> three killed by an explosion in cairo. >> mourning in kenya some relatives collapse in grief after being told about those killed in the university attack. >> we look at how poor transport in paris has people feeling left

out in the city of light. >> in yemen despite airstrikes, houthi rebels appear to be making gains in aden. the coalition is shelling target the from the sea. the eastern port town has been briefly overrun by forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. the saudi-led coalition jets bombed sanna for the 11th day. houthi rebels reported to be advancing in aden, one of the main strongholds of the countries embattled president adou rabbo mansour hadi. there's been fighting in the southern province. we have the latest. >> the saudi-led coalition unleashed an 11th night of airstrikes lighting up the sky of sanna the targets including

a military base and locations controlled by houthi rebels and fighters loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. this village near sanna was also affected. >> four rockets came down on our village and they said they were targeting a militia camp. where is the camp? is this a camp? these are sleeping muslims. >> overnight, houthi rebels ransacked the homes of several politicians and arrested them after they expressed support for the coalition strikes. these illegal procedures are also a result of our rejection towards what is done by the houthis and supporters against our brothers in the southern area that aden. we reject these procedures. >> the fighters control aden where houthi fighters are gaining ground. jets from the coalition have again air dropped weapons to bolter supporters as the bombing

campaign began from the sea aimed at houthi ammunition supply lines and depots. there is still no indication of whether ground forces will be deployed. parts of aden have now been without water or electricity for two days and sustained fighting is adding to fears of the growing humanitarian crisis. >> we have random shelling by houthis on homes civilians and i feel like the humanitarian crisis in aden is getting worse by the hour. we really wish there are cooperations between houthis so we can pass by with medical supplies. >> russia is appealing for a pause to the airstrikes. it's proposed measures in a draft resolution at the u.n. to allow humanitarian aid to get in and civilians and diplomats to get out. the u.n. security council has been deliberating the proposal along with another by gulf corporation council members aimed at a political solution to

the conflict. the diplomacy isn't felt on the ground. there is battling in the city, preparing with tanks and missiles for a possible houthi advance. they've reportedly regained control of the area taken over by fighters loyal to ali abdullah saleh and known to be former members of al-qaeda, all signs that yemen is strongly in the grip of war. >> three people have been killed in an explosion in cairo. the bomb exploded on a bridge in the upscale direct. the health ministry said one victim is a policeman. a journalist based in cairo has been to the site of the attack and spoke to us a little bit earlier. what happened is that all of a sudden the truck stopped in the middle of the crowded road. then suddenly, a bomb went off

and there was lots of smoke. the soldier in the kiosk was killed his body torn apart. >> police egypt say they've killed the leader of the armed group, reportedly killed in a raid in giza province. a cairo court last may called it a terrorist group. >> in syria hundreds of civilians in the yarmouk refugee camp escaped after the area was shed. isil fighters have taken control of most of the camp on the outskirts of damascus. >> the yarmouk refugee camp has been besieged for more than two years, people starving abno electricity. isil has taken control. some civilians managed to escape to neighboring areas. >> the civilians are afraid of

isil controlling the camp. most fled to local areas. they are afraid of being attacked by isil. some villages have reconciled with the regime and aid is coming to the areas. the u.n. were able to get aid to palestinians who remain there. >> thousands are trapped by the fighting. there is the added fear of government attacks trying to push isil out. the syrian observatory for human rights said that the government is targeting isil with barrel bombs. this is near damascus. other groups have joined the fight against isil but not managed to gain much ground. there are allegation that al-nusra is helping isil, even though the group say they are remaining neutral. there had been a reconciliation in the works. a deal was about to be signed where the palestinian factions would lay down arms and in

return the government end the siege. he says al-nusra doesn't want that and so fighters allowed isil to enter the camp. whatever the politician, an already desperate situation for the 18,000 civilians trapped there has now got much worse. >> the united nations has called for a humanitarian corridor to allow more civilians to leave. the people in yarmouk are fully democrat on able and none delivered since fighting began. hospitals and clinics are no longer functioning properly. with isil in control of the camp negotiating humanitarian relief seems further away than ever. >> palestinian's president abbas condemned the yarmouk attacks and said he's doing all he can to help. >> the palestinian liberation organization in damascus has formed a crisis cell to handle this tragedy. they are trying to work it out with the least losses.

we are in touch with other brothers there to find a way out and protect our people from this tragedy. >> the head of the u.n. relief and work agency for palestinian refugees wants the international community to protect them. >> i think what you have to see is that the hour has never been more desperate in yarmouk than now. a number of people have been able to find shelter and leave the camp. we have about assisted around 100 of them who of come out. our worries are and remain acutely with the thousands of people of which there was 18 house among which 3,500 children who remain in a very, very

dangerous and precarious situation. we call on the parties to refrain from hostilities that would put civilians in danger and also for actions to be taken to allow people to move to safer grounds immediately. >> four people have been killed and more than 20 wounded in a suicide attack in libya east of misrata. the suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint. a military source said four members of the same family are among the dead. >> the foreign minister of iran warns his country will not respect the terms of thursday's nuclear agreement if the west view lathes the deal. he says the agreement includes the lifting of all sanctions against iran. >> we will prove to the world we are committed to our promises, and that others are seeking pretext against us. if at any time our national interests are harmed, we'll decide how to act.

anytime a deal is final islands we will definitely acting if the other side view lathes the agreement. then we can return to our current level of nuclear activities. >> kenya has begun three days of fall mourning for the 148 victims of the al shabab attack on the university. scenes of despair as families identify relatives killed in thursday's attack. president kenyatta vowed harsh measures against thousand responsible. four gunmen were killed, five arrested. >> we spoke to multiple sources who told us that one of the gunman who was killed was indeed a resident. he's a government administrator in the border town. they say he's a law student a graduate from a very reputable

university. he is described as a brilliant upcoming lawyer. we spoke to an analyst who spoke to his father. his father say that was his son and he went into somalia disappeared from home last year and immediately he, the father informed the government of that. now people that we are talking to say that he wanted initially to travel to syria to fight alongside isis, but he could not get a passport. now, another suspected mastermind the suspected mastermind of the operation here in garissa is said to be a kenyan somali. he comes from right here, was one time a teacher of a religious school. i spoke to many religious leaders, human rights groups, they say for the government to win this battle, it must engage the local communities. it must work with the local communities, not against them.

>> mortar rounds have been fired in the north. it's unclear who fired the mortars in mali. france led an operation to drive fighters out of the region in 2012. the area remains unstable. >> still to come, we speak to people in india who say a recent ban onban on slaughtering bulls is hurting they're livelihood. >> women fighters trying to most of on from the civil war.

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>> welcome back. let's recap the headlines. houthi rebels in yemen making gains despite airstrikes by the saudi-led coalition. their now in control of the east he were town which had been briefly underrun by forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. >> three killed by an explosion in cairo's upscale district. the health. i industry says one dead is a policeman. the blast left a crater in the ground. >> mourning in kenya for the 148 victim of the al shabab attack in garissa. >> an armed attack on a bus carrying a football team.

the turkish league leaders were on their way to the airport after a win. the driver was shot and taken to hospital. no players were injured. they later returned to their home base in istanbul. >> turkey is going through difficult times but the i want you have witnessed is not a simple one because obviously this is an attack aiming to kill or injury the driver. nobody else was wounded. this coach was passing over a viaduct. they wanted to see the footballers dead. >> we have more. >> this could have been a lot more serious as the team coach was traveling through the gunshots were fired at the coach, injuring the driver and had a bodyguard not taken control of the wheel that coach could have blood pressure r. plunged over a bridge it was near and into a river below. the team have condemned this attack. there is long standing on moss

city between the clubs. in 2010, they won the league here in turkey. a few months after that, there was investigation into match fixing. the chair map was suspended as a result of that and from the champions league for two years as are result of the match fixing. the opposing team felt the title was snatched from them. turkey does struggle with fan violence. the four biggest teams here in turkey their fans aren't allowed to travel to away games. that's been the case for the past five or six years because of this problem of violence. >> the indonesian government is taking legal action against the thai company accused of forcing fishermen into slavery. more than 300 have been rescued. there are fears that hundreds

more are still trapped in similar conditions. we are on the island where some of the rescued men have been taken. >> a rescue operation this region has not seen before, a convoy of six fishing vessels protected by the indonesian navy brought 315 fishermen to safety. men mostly from myanmar were smuggled to indonesia and forced to work without salary. many say they were abused. the country gave them thai names and documents. indonesian officials are now registering them under their real names and checking their health before handing them over to authorities in myanmar and cambodia. the government in thailand denied the charges. indonesia said it present evidence soon. >> all the evidence will be studied by our judicial team. the minister has put a special

team on this case dealing with all the legal facts. this will tell us what criminal acts have been committed. >> these people are annual a small part of the thousands of fishermen still stuck tin indonesia. >> finally, they are free, after such a long time where they want to go home so desperately. they are now finally safe. these are only a few of others 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 brought to indonesia 15 years ago, seven years after enduring hardship and abuse at sea, he escaped. he and his friends are now working at illegal loggers in the forest. >> i don't know if my parents 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 all have done that, even if it took months. >> for the first time in 15 years, his hopes could become reality. although they are not part of the government's rescue operation, they hope by registering their names they, too, can leave soon and that they will be able to celebrate their return home like he's rescued men. al jazeera indonesia. >> bangladesh's opposition leader has been granted bail in two corruption cases. she'd been allowed to leave her office for the first time in three months to attend court. she is accused of embezzling money by forming a charity that prosecutors say didn't exist. >> women who used to fight in nepal's army face a difficult future. since the civil war ended many

say they've been shunned by their villages and the party has forgotten them. some are finding new ways to survive and flourish. >> a decade ago, she never thought she'd become a farmer. she was a member of nepal's maoist army and had dreams of a revolutionary change. a decade after the war ended she returned home. >> 12 years is a long time and society has changed during this time, and so have we, after views of our society, to go back and live there is difficult. >> fighters have started a farming cooperative here. the women managed to use the money they were given after they were demobilized in 2012. >> hundreds of former soldiers just over 100 joined the nepal army. most of the rest have been unable to return home and are living in clusters across the

country. >> leela was a battalion commander. she said most of the women have run out of the $5,000 given to them as a demobilization package. she has established an n.g.o. to help her former colleagues. >> women's participation as fighters has proved the strength of women, yet those women are in a difficult situation today. most are not in touch with the party. they are politically and economically weak. they need help. that is why we started an n.g.o. >> the u.n. security council adopted a resolution on women, peace and security and was a major player in the path to peace. analysts say a transition looks good on paper but has major problems.

>> the economic security part was entirely ignored. >> these once powerful women snubbed by the state and their own party hope that they can build a life for themselves. >> people in one of india's largest states say a ban on the slaughter of bulls threatens their livelihood. it was used for meat and leather. we report from mumbai. >> these are the last animal hides to be produced at the tannery. it is used in products for export. he says the recent state ban on the slaughter of bulls has put that all at risk. >> the leather from the state

was sent for finishing in other parts of the country, then came back to make jackets, shoes and bags. a lot of people lost their jobs and can't feed their family. has this government come to help us or ruin us? >> many in mumbai's leather industry say the ban has hurt them. here, only three of the 10 sewing stations are used. those may shut down, as well. at supplies run out, the ban is hurting people in the leather industry and also poor people who eat beef. >> those objecting say it unfairly targets minorities and lower caste hindus. it has led to a 10% price hike. some say it protects the animals prom abuse.

>> this religious group meets every sunday at this cow shelter. some cattle were seized from transports taking them for illegal slaughter. they are fed and cared for. volunteers support the new ban. >> leather can be made from other sources, too. these workers who say they are going to become beggars are not telling the truth. they don't have to work in the leather industry. it's not acceptable to us to kill a cow. >> others think it's not fair. these unemployed workers meet in this empty leather tannery to share their frustration with the ban. most spent their lives in the business and can't find work elsewhere. >> we're so angry, but we can't express it. if we show anger, the police will come after us. we force our young people to sit and control their emotions because if they raise voice, they will face trouble. we pray to see what the

we pray to the government sees what we are going through. >> these empty slaughterhouses are slowly coming back to life as buffaloes are brought in, though their meat and leather is not the same quality. the national government is planning a countrywide ban on cow slaughter, suggesting their work is not a government priority. >> family members of the victims of a south korean ferry accident are marching to protest. they want an independent inquiry why the sea wall collapsed kill 250 students. some accuse the government of trying to influence the investigation. last year, the ship's captain was jailed for 36 years for negligence. >> hundreds of people in the philippines returned home from shelters after the typhoon weakened. a mass was held to mark easter sunday. the priests gave thanks to god for sparing the country from the worst. the storm is blamed for at least nine deaths in micro

micronesia. >> the pope celebrated easter mass. they were asked to remember christians targeted by al shabab in kenya. easter sunday is the day christians believe jesus rose from the dead after he was crucified. >> french investigators have ended their search for bodies at the site of a germanwings plane crash. investigators say the co pilot intentionally flew the plane into the french alps, killing all 150 honored. d.n.a. samples will be used to identify the victims. >> it's been 10 years since

people in paris rioted. many feel disconnected because of poor transport links. >> it takes a long time to get to paris. she lives just a few com less from paris but it takes time to get to the city. many in the suburbs struggle to get to where they need to go. >> when it comes to work, it's a problem. employers say you live in the suburbs, i don't know if you'll make it on time. they give the job to somebody who lives close by. >> the lives of those living in central paris and those in suburbs can sometimes feel like worlds apart. nowhere is that clearer than in a suburb about 15 kilometers away. unemployment here is four times higher than the national rate.

people at times feel penned in by poverty prejudice and a lock of opportunities. poor transport only fuels those feelings. >> some people feel they litsch in a sort of ghetto, because they can't get out. they have everything here and can't access the capitol. psychologically, it's a big thing in people's heads especially for the young. >> some pin their hopes on a new transport project ear marked for the area. >> this is the extent of the building work on this new tram way linked to central paris. for many here, this is long overdue. it's going to take years to completely. >> for those here and other suburbs aren't paris time is precious. delays in improving the network could hold people so keen on moving forward back. al jazeera in paris. >> just before we go, time to tell you about the world's

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