fez jamil, al jazeera mumbai. >> just a reminder, you can find more news at our website. the address to click on to is aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com for all your international news and sport. >> intense fighting in yemen as a humanitarian crisis gets worse. the red cross is trying to deliver aid but can't find planes to fly it in. rolling stone retracts a controversial story about a rape at the university of virginia why the u.n. called the report a failure of adjournment. >> i'm jennifer glasse. shopkeepers are opposing a tax

by closing their doors. >> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm randall pinkston. a major humanitarian crisis unfolding right now in yemen a saudi led coalition is targeting houthi rebels and residents say the war is ripping their country apart.many witnesses report seeing bodies in the street. the red cross is trying to deliver badly needed aid to the country but ongoing air strikes are making that effort all but impossible. omar al sala has more. >> reporter: on days of fighting, many homes have been destroyed. homes and shops lie in ruins. civilians are also being killed. houthi rebels along with fighters loyal to ali abdullah saleh the form he president are infiltrating districts near the

city's port. these are fighters loyal to president hadi and they are putting up a fierce battle. the city is a battle ground and the locals are caught up in the middle. >> it is getting really difficult for citizens to get the water and food supplies. power is intermittent, we get power maybe two or three hours today, electric power. but otherwise everything is going downhill. the hospitals. >> reporter: people in aden say that every been without clean water for five days and stores are being cleared out of food. president abd rabbu mansour hadi sacked his chief of staff deputy chief of staff and the commander of the special forces,

accused of treason. the military is mostly loyal to the deposed president, ali abdullah saleh and fighting alongside the houthis in this war. there campaign against houthis is now in its 12th day. and the humanitarian situation is worsening in this impoverished nation. in the capital sanaa there is a fuel shortage and people are scared. >> translator: i've been here since last night. our kids and the elderly are at home. they are terrified of the bombing and the vibrations. we don't have wheat and flour. it's a tough situation. >> reporter: the air strikes are hitting houthi targets but civilians are also paying a high price. many here are searching for bodies of their family members. >> translator: this is the home of my brother hamid. they hit his home at 2:00 a.m. it was a random bombing against

civilians. we woke up to find the house in rubble. >> reporter: the international red cross says it's preparing two planes loaded with humanitarian aid. but that may be only a consolation. omar al saleh, al jazeera. >> yemen is one of the poorest countries in the world. even before this latest crisis yemen relied heavily on food aid. 90% of the country's food is imported. according to the united nations, the battle in yemen has displaced 120,000 people. the state department condemned the clash in yemen, at the same time, the u.n jamal from oakland california, hoping to bring his pregnant wife and

two-year-old daughter back to the u.s. he arrived in country two weeks before fighting escalated. past president for unrest there, mohamed kubadi says, what's happening there bears the fingerprints of ali abdullah saleh. >> the objective is to get the group to the negotiating table. but the man in the back seat, is the man mr. saleh and he wants this sampsonian option. either he gets the victory or he brings down the temple on

everybody. >> pakistan, parliament in islamabad, expressed agreement with the saudi coalition. kamal hyder has more. >> reporter: prime minister held a high level meeting with the air chief and the military chief, and now opposition speakers are speaking, they expressed their reservation about sending troops to saudi arabia and getting embroiled in the yemen conflict. however the ruling party has the ruling party in parliament and is likely to decide in favor of support for saudis. the army had left it to the

government however the army had close strategic links with the saudis. consultant in the pakistani military is also involved in maneuvers which were preplanned and coincided with the evangelists in yemen. those evangelists have been going on. there are agreements, so the military of course will take their cue from the government however, they would be favorably placed to try and help the seuth saudis because saudi arabia is a strategic partner of pakistan. the expectation is perhaps the pakistanis could send a squadron or two of bombers to saudi arabia, because they have asked for air support they've also asked for ground support. so perhaps pakistanis may involve some of their naval

devices. defense minister has already said any attack on saudi arabia would evoke a strong reaction from pakistan. and on that count he said that even the turks were with pakistan. >> in syria u.n. officials call the situation at a refugee camp beyond inhumane. thousands of palestinian refugees are trapped in the camp at yarmouk trapped between i.s.i.l. and the syrian government. i.s.i.l. has snipers on rooftops make it impossible to enter the camp. the rebel forces pushed government forces out of the city of idlib more than a week ago. carolyn malone has more.

>> reporter: an air strike by the syrian air force on one of its own cities. a scene that's become familiar with anyone who has watched fighting over the last four years. that doesn't make any hit any less destructive for every person involved. sphieferssurvivors try to rescue but are inconsolable after what's happened. >> translator: we're innocent people it's wrong the regime should direct their rockets to those who are responsible not to those not responsible. >> putting out the fires before the red crescent turns up with a water truck. rebels have been fighting for more control of the idlib country side as well. the army has camps in the area from where they direct operations in the wider region.

>> camp is the regime's command center. it is the head of the snake. we will cut this head. >> reporter: they're using weapons taken from the army, tanks and rocket-propelled grenades. but that doesn't help the civilians in idlib who have come under attack in their own homes. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> the kenyan affairs overnight took aim at al shabaab. hitting the group's positions in retaliations for an attack at a university that left 150 dead. authorities have identified one of the men behind the attack, a son of a kenyan official and former law student who disappeared in 2013. and the victims are being remembered online today. family members and friends have been posting pictures of those killed using the hashtag 147 not just a number. personal details of the lives

they lived and messages of love? including "you're not forgotten" forgotten". catherine soy is in the compound in garrissa. >> that water tower you see there is at a entrance where two security guards were killed by the gunmen who then came here, this is where it all happened, they screened and killed the students in the siege that took about 12 hours. some of the surviving students still very traumatized. this is one of the entrances to the dorms looking at the destructs. can you imagine how terrified the students were and the panic that was in there when the gunmen riebd. arrived. those are bullet holes. not allowed to go in but i can still smell blood from where i'm

standing. we're told that hundreds, about 100 students were killed here. >> catherine soy in garrissa. as greece is preparing to make a payment its prime minister is on its way to moscow moscow. patricia sabga is with us. greece is on a diplomatic tight rope. >> it is on a diplomatic tithe rope. the statement we are good for the money that was the word from greece's finance minister, greece has to pay nearly half of imfimf bailout loan. two sides haggle bitterly over the terms of a new bailout program. if you recall, greek prime

minister alexis tsipras and his syriza party were swept into office, that makes the timing of prime minister tsipras trip to moscow all the more suspect. state visit could get backs up in europe if russia agreed to lift restrictions of imports of greek agricultural products. now, if greek products are allowed to start flowing back into russia it will be embarrassing to the rest of europe. >> thank you, patricia sabga. in other news this afternoon, in afghanistan shopkeepers have closed their doors to protest tax hikes. jennifer glasse reports from kabul. >> reporter: shops are closed

across the capital. kabul's central market is like a ghost town. the reason why is clear. the shutdown means that central kabul looks like this, when it urge looks like this. shopkeepers say they had no choice when their tax bills arrived. >> translator: last year we paid $300 per shob. this year, the government wants more than $2,000. >> reporter: store owners say they can't afford that and took their complaint to the streets. the finance ministry says it is just following the law and trying to create a tax culture. >> translator: we want to pay the same tax we paid last year. we can't pay more. even last year it was hard to pay our taxes. since the beginning of this year business has been very hard. >> reporter: store owners stay they plan to stay closed until their demand for lower tax is melt. even though they support the protest, some shopkeepers like

these have opened anyway. they say they can't afford to lose an income especially in an economy when they were already struggling to make a profit. a challenge of the six month old government of ashraf ghani. to do that he needs to build a tax base. but it looks like that may not be easy. jennifer glasse, al jazeera kabul. >> the white house is answering critics of the framework nuclear deal with iran, press secretary josh earnest says for now sanctions against iran would stay in place. >> we would envision a scenario where after iran has already demonstrated sustained compliance over a -- over a long period of time then we would contemplate a situation where we would dismant it will dismantle the

architecture. of sanctions. >> it wouldn't be a good idea he says to stop sanctions on day 1. the jury in the boston marathon bombing could begin deliberationdeliberations later today. the judge spent several hours instructing the jurors. the attorneys admit he played a role but was radicalized by his older brother tamerlan. >> trying to show older brother influence and trying oshow the motive had more to do with that than terrorism. >> one expert testified that tamerlan tsarnaev's fingerprints were used on the trigger mechanism used to set off the bombs. if convicted dzhokhartsarnaev

could be sentenced to death. up next, a comedy show. tv host john oliver questions edward snowden from taking documents from the nsa. new details about why the rape on campus jury was flawed. flawed. aaare

>> we are finding out more about what went wrong with the rolling stone's reporting of the university of virginia report. the magazine failed to follow basic rules of reporting the dean stephen cole spoke last hour. he says the writer made several key missteps. >> there is a cautionary tale here about the relationship between the selection of this illustrative narrative and the

underlying assumptions that the reporter then became entangled in and it doesn't mean that that methodology shouldn't be ever used, but i think this is an example where you would really learn to be cautious about knowing in advance what it is you think you're trying to illustrate. >> the fraternity implicated in the article,ify phihi kappa alpha. >> voters could put up to three african americans on the city council for the first time in history. former nsa contractor edward snowden, sits down for a conversation that was at teems both funny and confrontational.

>> how many of those documents have you actually read? >> i've evaluated all the documents that are in the archive. >> you've read every single one? >> well, i do understand what i turned over. >> there's a difference between understanding what's in the documents and reading what's in the documents. >> well in my defense i'm not handling anything anymore. that's been passed to the journalists. they're using extraordinary security. >> but those are journalists with a lower technical skill set than you. >> that's true but they do understand just like you and i do just how importantly it is to get this right. >> so the new york times took a slide didn't redact it properly and in the end it was possible for people to see that something was being used in mosul on al qaeda. >> that is a problem. >> well that's a (bleep). >> it is a (bleep) and they do happen in reporting. in journalism we do have to expect that some mistakes will

be made. this is a fundamental concept of liberty. >> right. but you have to own that thing. you're giving documents with information you know cosh could be harmful with could get out there. >> yes. >> the interview took place in russia where snowden has been living since fleeing the u.s. >> straight ahead drinking water contaminated in california and the state isn't doing anything about it? al jazeera goes to the state capital to get answers. answers. is

>> a enthuse look today at some history deep beneath the -- a new look today at some history dean below the ground in france. scheduled by world war i soldiers they are loaghted in located two hour drive from paris. etched into the cave walls historians call it one of the highest level of inscriptions. >> toxic dumping on california's

drinking water. two weeks ago, we ran this story. now, state officials are taking action. >> reporter: you are looking at the biggest threat to california's drinking water dumping of millions of gallons of water into aquifers in the central valley of california. orchards surrounded by oil and gas wells. >> the groundwater could be contaminated. >> that is obviously as a farmer i know and i've seen what happened in this area. sad to say there's some very serious cancer causing chemicals in the groundwater right now. >> reporter: while these videos exposed the dumping these documents revealed state regulators knew it was happening and allowed it to happen. >> they allowed companies to use our drinking water aquifers as

garbage dumps. >> kathy segal. >> over 400 wells illegally dumping toxic oil and gas dumping grounds the state has shut down only 23 of those wells. >> you're saying the regulator agencies have known this all along? >> they have and what we found out is that the entire oil and gas regulatory scheme in california is a sham. >> reporter: this letter to the federal epa he environmental protect agency, sent to dogger, acknowledges that in the past, it has approved uacs. we went to sacramento to get

answers from dogger, the state water board and governor jerry brown. the governor's office has refused to comments. dogger and the state water board also declined our request saying they already answered questioned in a senate oversight hearing. during that hearing state lawmakers lambasteed. >> i found my blood pressure getting rather high. >> reporter: then a surprise admission from the agency in charge of protecting california's water supply. >> we believe any injection into the aquifers that are nonexempt has contaminated those aquifers. >> for its part, dismisses claims of contamination saying this is a bureaucratic issue over the permitting process and whaghts important is that -- what's important is that after extensive testing it's clear no water supplies have been impacted by this situation. in our search for answers we first traveled to sacramento in december and spoke with john

borkovich who handles groundwater monitoring for state water board. >> john, is big oil poisoning millions of gallons of drinking water each day? >> so you're asking me to give you a yes or no answer on something that i don't know? so i think the right answer would be, that i don't know. >> do you think you should know the answer to that question? >> um -- >> i think a lot of people are asking that question, californians are saying fracking is going and we're worried about toxic water and where that water is going. >> i think that's reasonable question to ask as a resident of california you should be. >> like farmer tom france, he believes water regulators convenient been regulating on behalf of citizens. >> so you don't think dogger is

doing its job? >> it's never done its job. the agency is in place to make sure big oil gets what it needs to get big profits. >> on the backs of farnlgers likeof farmers likeyourself? >> on the backs of everyone. big oil get what it needs. >> jennifer london, al jazeera. the two and three-year-olds were crying and crying. >> happened in sacramento this weekend. thousands of kids coming out to search for 500,000 eggs. but parents rushed onto the lawn trying to get their hands on the eggs. annual easter egg roll, the president and the first lady walked out with the easter bunny. thank you for joining us.

i'm randall pinkston. for the latest headlines you can go to our website aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >> this is al jazeera. >> hello there i'm felicity barr. you're watching the newshour live from london. coming up. millions in danger, the u.n. warns the war in yemen is driving the country towards humanitarian disaster. beyond inhumane. condemnation of the situation in syria's yarmouk refugee camp. al jazeera has given access to the university attacks last week as kenya launches air