we arewell aware of the support that iran has been giving to yemen. >> the u.s. warns iran that supporting houthi rebels at saudi-led air strikes enter their third week. ♪ ♪ hello, i am darren jordan and you are watching al jazerra live from doha. also ahead guilty on all 30 count, dzhokhar tsarnaev is convicted of carrying out the boston mayor tonight bombing. hopes for peace after rival groups sign a ceasefire deal in kenya. closer cooperation but no direct funds greece's prime minister tries to shore up his economy on a visit to mass could

you. moscow. ♪ ♪ we begin in yemen where a saudi-led campaign against houthi fighters is entering its third week. intense fighting taking place in aden where rockets have reportedly landed on houses. the world health organization says at least 643 people have died and more than 2,200 have been injured since march 19th. the first medical surprise have start ahead driving. doctors without borders say they made it to some of the hospitals in a ben tennessee. and a ryne vinnie war ship have his arrived for what teheran describes as an anti piracy operation. but u.s. secretary of state john kerry says they are supplying the houthi rebels. >> there are surprise coming from iran, there are a number of flights every single week flying in. and we trace those flights and we know this. we are well aware of the support that iran has been giving to

yemen. and iran needs to recognize that the united states is not going to stand by while the region is destabilized or while people engage, you know, in overt warfare across lines international boundaries and other countries. >> more now on the situation in yemen. >> reporter: war planes strike houthi positions in the capital sanaa. a building near a tv channel owned by the houthis was hit. the saudi-led coalition has stepped up its military campaign to prevents houthi fighters from capturing the port city of aden. street battles show in signs of stopping. forces loyal to president mansour hadi are trying to repel

a push by poo houthi fighters to control the city. but houthi fighters backed by former president saleh hold ground. the saudi-led coalition has warned its military campaign won't stop until the houthis disband. in the meantime, iran has deployed two navy vessels near yemen. it's a move that it is likely to create more tension in the region. saudi arabia accuses iran of delivering weapon to his the houthis to destabilize the region. but teheran says the ships are part of an anti piracy campaign and diplomacy is the only way to yemen's crisis. >> people of yemen should not suffer from aerial bombardment. we need to find a political solution in yemen. a comprehensive political solution lead to go an inclusive government. a true yemeni dialogue. through dialogue of pima wrong

yemen and we agree we need to put an end to the fighting and to what is happening today in yemen. >> reporter: air strikes have now entered a third week. its same according to saudi army officers is to destroy military capabilities of the houthis and their allies. >> translator: army commanders and units loyal to former president saleh have told us they have decided to join the legitimate government. they are based in a province and the coalition welcomes their decision. >> reporter: the saudis are hoping for massive action within the army to isolate former president saleh who remains powerful in yemen. on the border crossing with saudi arabia, there are still people trying to escape. >> actually, the situation is getting worse. it's really the company advising us to leave immediately. >> reporter: international aid

agencies are concerned about yemen's deteriorating humanitarian situation. the first boat carrying medical surprise to hospital in aden has arrived. doctors without borders says almost two-tons of medical surprise have been delivered to local hospitals. al jazerra,. one of the men accused of carrying out the boston marathon bombing has been found guilty by a u.s. federal jury. dzhokhar tsarnaev was convicted of killing three people at the race in 2013 and injuring hundreds more, now the same jury that found him guilty will decide if tsarnaev will face the death penalty. alan fisher reports. >> reporter: the verdict was never in doubt. as the trial began lowers for dzhokhar tsarnaev admitted he was one of the boston bombers. it was him they said in opening statements. now the jury has delivered its verdict, guilty on all 30 charges. 17 carry the death penalty.

but one of the victims said the juries decision doesn't bring this to an end. >> we are all going to move on with our lives and we are all going to get back to some sense of normalcy hopefully when this is all done. closure i don't think so because it's forever a part of our life. >> reporter: the defense knew that they would never clear their clients. their intention was to save him from the death penalty. they want the jury to see him as someone who acted under the influence of his older brother tam erlin. >> what the defense team as done is that it's allowed the jury to start building trust with the defense attorneys so that after this almost inevitable conclusion of guilt the jury will then be able to work to work through the evidence. decide whether as a cul[able to have the level of death penalty or life in prison instead. >> reporter: much of the

harrowing evidence has not been charged by the defense. the prosecution case is dzhokhar tsarnaev was a violent deadly young man who knew exactly what he was doing. with his brother he bombed the mayor tonight killing three wounding hundreds. the jury saw graphic pictures the injuries. replicas of the homemade bombs and saw pictures of the blood-stained note the defendant wrote while hide from police during a man hunt for the bombers, a police officer was also killed in that hunted as was joe czar tsarnaev's brother. once fault guilty the jury must decide on the sentence. but some are concerned the jury has already waited towards a death penalty. >> if you oppose it, you cannot be on the jury. if you are looking to have a jury that can express the conscience of the community and two-thirds of the community say they are opposed of the death penalty, most of those potential

jurors may be excused and that raises a real concern about whether the injury that ultimately get impaneled is capable of expressing the conscience of the community. >> reporter: it's almost inevitable the defense will appeal taking several years to work through the system and then boston can put its nightmare behind it. ray white sacramento police officer has been filed after he was charged with murder for fatality shooting an unarmed black man in north charleston. >> protesters are demanding an end to what she say is the targeting and killing of african americans by police. the mayor of north charleston says every police officer will now wear a body camera. barack obama has become the first u.s. president in more than 30 years to visit jamaica. he was met at the airport in the capital sting tonight by the caribbean nation's prime minister porsche simpson miller. from here a bomber supplies to panama to attends the summit of the americas there he will meet

cuban liter raul castro for the first time since wash quash ask & havana announced plans to normalize their relations. >> reporter: the caribbean an is famous for its tour cues seize it's hume trees and warm weather but one thing it's not known for is oil. it doesn't say single drop. for the last 10 years the united states has watched as venezuela has gained friends and significant influence throughout the caribbean through a generous program of oil. it's donated or old at cut rate prices to the tune of $50 billion through a program. but now the tables have turned. the price of oil has plummeted. venezuela is deeply in debt and it has been forced to cut its shipments for the caribbean by almost one half, including to its ally cuba. according to barclays bank. and that's why president obama is visiting jamaica the second largest island in the caribbean he is the first american president to visit the island

there 33 years. and he will be discussing energy. energy security, the white house is keen on trying to with wean away the caribbean an's dependence on venezuelan oil and wants to recover a lot of its own lost clout. president obama will also be meeting with members of all of the association of caribbean nations who welcome the initiative. but they are really probably more keen on securing their own fuel independence. they know that depending on either the united states or venezuela comes with a high political price tag. warring factions in central african republic have signs a peace deal in the kenyan cap alf nairobi. the deal was broken by kenya without the involvement of the u.n. or the government of c.a.r. rene o'day reports. >> reporter: the two agreements were signed in the kenyan capital under the watch of president kenyatta and his deputy. kenyatta finalized the deal by warning the two sides to stick to their end of the bargain and

avoid being thrown off track by outside forces. >> i wish to reminds you of leaders of the central african republic you must never forget and must always be dieded by the fact that your principle interest is the well being first and foremost of the people of the central african republic. it's. >> reporter: it's been a long road to a peaceful settlement between muslims and christians. in 2013 they over through the republic then the president was forced to leave and rebel leader declared himself the first muslim president of c.a.r. he announced a disallusion of the del ca. but many of the fighters refused to disband. enter the anti-group. wide lee he seen as coming to the capitol to fight them and take out the government. and a cycle of violence began.

one that was so chaotic the united nations warned the country was at risk at spiraling in to a genocide. 10s of thousands of civilians were forced to flea the country. in 2014, he resigned if a move aimed at ending the violence that has taken over the country. burr by then, thousands of people were killed. a million displaced and thousands of foreign peacekeepers were sent in. there are those that question the ability of the warring groups to actually enforce the deal. >> the problem not only does it have buy-in from the government not representing both sides. they are not unified forces. and so this only representses parts of them that doesn't control all the fighting forces in the field. >> reporter: no, sir taking part in wednesday's peace agreement it's seen as a step in the right direction, will that will help the central african recognize i can form a democratic republic that indicators to the interest

of all of its people. still to come they have been forced to leave yemen because of the fighting. but these indian workers now face an uncertain future. it's been a week since isil stormed the yarmouk refugees camp in syria, now attempts are being maids to get palestinians out. more on that. stay with us. only on al

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teheran is sending ships to the gulf of aidan they say as a parts of an anti piracy mission. but u.s. secretary of state john kerry says iran is providing support for the houthi forces. a jury in the u.s. has convicted dzhokhar tsarnaev on 30 count relating to the 2013 boston mayor tonight bombing which killed three people and injured 260. a jury will now decide whether he should be sentenced to death or spent spends the rest of his life in prison. central african republic sign a deal in kenya. the war in generally has forced thousands of foreign national to his leave. about 3,000 indians have left since march 28th. many of them are from the southern state. and as faiz jamil reports once they arrive home, the hardship isn't over. >> reporter: they can't forget what they saw in yemen. this mobile phone footage taken

by them shows just how close they were to the bombings being dropped on the capital sanaa. all of these people who had to leave are from the same neighborhood. and all saw the violence first hand. >> translator: i was working in the i.c.u. and every day i saw injuries and dead and burned bodies coming in. the whole hospital was shaking from the bombings. we all stayed in a bomb shelter and were praying. we didn't think we would make out alive. >> translator: many. >> reporter: she and her husband also made it out of yemen. >> translator: i had to leave everything and come here. i have over $12,000 in loans. i don't know what to do now. if things get better in two or three months, we both would like to go back. >> reporter: but it's unlikely the couple will be able to return any time soon. the government of india still focused on removing its people from yemen. >> whoever wants to come back we are helping them. we have evacuated people in

large numbers and we are sending them back home through planes and then we will scale down the operation. >> reporter: thousands of indians have returns to worried relatives since the saudi arabia-led bombings began. and while their home coming is a happy occasion, most left behind good-paying jobs they can't find in india. the pima driving here now are among the last said to return to india this week, many talk about the difficult situation they face escaping the conflict in generally. even though they are home now their troubles are not over. those that have returned from other recent middle east conflict zones say they are still struggling. this nurse returned from iraq last year and says she hasn't been given any help finding a new job. >> translator: when i watch these people returning from yemen on tv, i feel bad for them. i was in the same situation a year action nothing so far has happened for me and i don't think anything will be done for them either. >> reporter: these people say they still want to go back to

yemen. >> the houthis are not any problems for indians. they are very good with indians and we are afraid that there is no yemen tomorrow. after the war. there is nothing. you cannot go to anything when they start looting there houses. >> reporter: as their debts grow these people wonder how long they can survive sitting at home. faiz jamil, al jazerra. a missile attack in egypt's sinai has killed three people. houses in a town bordering garza in the sanaa region were hit. three were killed inside their homes. a palestinian man who stabbed two soldiers has been shot debt. one of the israeli soldiers was critically hurt while the other was slightly injured before killing at tacker, it happened near the jewish settlement, it's the second knife tack in a week tagger targeting israeli soldiers.

the palestinian liberation organization is trying to secure the safe passage of palestinians caught in the fighting of the yarmouk refugees camp inside syria. eights week since isil fighters stormed the camp which was home to about 18,000 palestinians, em identity he is tie ab reports. >> reporter: for days, she has been searching the internet for news out of the yarmouk refugees camp. although she now lives in the occupied west bank city, she grew up in yarmouk and still considers it her home. showing me pictures posted on social media websites of badly-damaged streets. >> translator: it makes me so sad to see the place where i was born and raised looking like this. i went to school and worked as a kindergarten teacher here. because of the war most of my family and friends have had to move all over the world and now my society vogt as been smash today pieces as well. all we have left is social media to bring us together. >> reporter: officials from the palestine liberation organization have met with leaders of arab countries and

international aid agencies to try to secure the safe passage of palestinian refugees that are caught in the fighting that has gripped the yarmouk refugees camp and while hundreds have been able to flee, many thousands more remain trapped. >> the p.l.o. del base is trying to reach an agreement that would text the palestinian people in the camp it would be achieved by opening the exits to let the refugees leave and also allowing humanitarian aid to enter yarmouk. >> reporter: the damage caused by days of the fighting between isil and other armed groupings oppose today syrian president bashar al-assad is clear to see. the intense battles only battles add another layer of misery in yarmouk for nearly two years they have lived under siege without access to basic food, water and mets with

the syrian government has reportedly offered arms to fight against isil. the violence seems likely to only increase. she tries to call a friend trapped in yarmouk. but can't get through. >> translator: i hope the palestinian leadership stands by us we built yarmouk when our grandparents came as refugees, there was nothing every building every stone tells a story from our lives. >> reporter: lives forever scared by syria's long-running, and fast-changing conflict. al jazerra in the occupied west bank. the family of a syrian-born iman shot agreed in broad daylight is appealing for help to find his killers, he was a well-known critic of the syrian government. but his friends don't believe the killing was political. >> reporter: the killing of think has left many people here mystified. we know that he was found debt

in his car on tuesday morning. apparently with gunshot wounds to the chest. the police have been busy fink printing the area and cordons off the area and launched a murder investigation but they are keeping an open mind as to a possible motive for the killing. he was a well-known critic of the assad government in syria. he had come to britain in the mid 1990s and although he continued to speak out against the regime in damascus, a prominent member of the syrian opposition here told us he didn't believe the killing was political. >> i exclude the option of political assassination because he is not a vocal activist. he is active and opposition member of the syrian community here, but he's not as active as many who are in london. >> reporter: he was 48 and he

had six children. until 2011, he was the imam at the mask mosque which isn't far from here. he leaves behind his large family a number of former students and colleagues still trying to make sense of his killing. russian president vladimir putin says the greek prime minister did not ask for financial aid during talks in moscow. ago en is his in tough negotiation with his the euro zone over its bailout program. while moscow didn't promise any direct financial help it did pledge closer economic cooperation. rory challands reports. >> reporter: he paid his respects in moscow's tomb of the unknown soldier well aware that europe is watching his visit closely. this is useful geopolitical theater for both greece and russia. greece shows europe it has options i don't understand the euro zone. russia shows the even u. its unity is fragile. vladimir putin denied a greek bailout by russia was on the

cords. though assistance in other forms was discussed. >> translator: the greek side has not addressed us with any requests for aid. we discussed cooperation in various sectors of their economy, including the possibility of developing major energy projects. >> reporter: before coming here he had been warned not to break the even u.'s line on sanctions. russia has long complained that its weakness following the collapse of the soviet union was exploited by the west. now that it senses fragility within the european union it wants to use that for its own benefits. greece is one opportunity russia but there are others. hungary's prime minister welcomed have haded mere putin to budapest in february. he's described the even u. sanctions against russia as like shooting one's self in the foot. then there are the far right european parties like france's front national, a russian bank with links to the kremlin has

leaptlent ma lynn le pen money. >> you can have an alliance with a right wing party like le pen's in france or a left week party in greece. the fact is, that these are party that his need friends that need financing. that need backing and they find it more easily in moscow maybe at a better interest rate than they do at home. europe may not like it, but russia is certainly not the only country practicing the nonideological arts of real politics. as russia tries to show it's a global power once more it's doing the logical thing making friends and influencing people. rory challands, al jazerra moscow. one of the two men accused of poisoning alexander has said the former kgb agent may have killed himself accidentally. russian businessman dimitri says

he was already ill when the two met in 2006. two venezuelan officials slapped with u.s. sanctions have been appoint today the country's cabinet. president nicholas maduro made the announcement on live tv he said they were giving vice ministerial posts last month washington posed sanctions against seven venezuelan officials accused of human rights violations. thousands of patients in peru are hoping the courts will allow them to have access to nonbranded generic drugs, they are supposed to produce the same results as more expensive versions a report from the peruvian capital leam 56789 carlos' life is on a countdown his colon cancer has expand today his liver. doctors tell him the only channels to live longer than two years may be with a biologic medicine treatment. >> translator: the problem is that i am being treated in a public hospital and, they are telling me that they can't give me the treatment because it's

too expensive. >> reporter: the 50 doses of biologic medicine he needs cost more than $20,000. but the bio similars, mainly produced in india china or south korea on cost at least 30% less carlos and thousands of cancer patients like him can't get them either because many bio similars can't be sold in peru. a group of international pharmaceutical companies who produce biologic medicine have presented an injunction in court to restrict sales of some bio similars already in the peruvian market and ban the registration of new ones. >> translator: we don't want the state to give a green light to products that have no proven safety and effectiveness. >> reporter: but critics say many of those drugs have already been certified by the u.s. food & drug administration. they say the pharmaceuticals here are only protecting their patent at the state's buyer agency try pun tribunal.

>> translator: if we were sure this agency was reliable not allowing itself to be pressured by lobbyists then we would feel comfortable. but that's not the case. it's been proven that their decisions are bias. >> reporter: as a result. peru's main healthcare system is hard hit. if they buy 75% of all medicine and treats 93% of all cancer patients in the country. the high costs of biologic treatments have pushed the system to the brink of collapse. critics say that for the first time here a health care policy is in the hands of judges and not medical experts. as a result, the state is prevented from buying medicine at low cost in order to treat more patients. a verdict that may allow bio similar sales is months away. carlos is now in to his second year with cancer. he says that whether it's by looming i can or bio similar he needs the medicine sooner rather

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