living in fear. how the airstrikes targeting yemen's houthis are affecting families across the country. notes? notes? >> good to have you with us here on al jazeera. i am david foster. coming up in the next 30 minutes, a syrian government irstrike a school in aleppo is said to have killed at least nine children and teachers. >> hello, iowa! >> the race is on. hillary clinton expected formally to announce she wants to be president. turkey some oned an ambassador

after pope francis describes the mass killing of armenians as genocide. saudi arabia says it has carried out more than 1,000 airstrikes across yemen since the start of its campaign there. eight civilians were killed in one of the most recent attacks. that was in the city of tise. it was, we are told loyal to the former president. some of the fiercest fighting in the south where the houthis are trying to take the port city of aden. there has been resistance from lob tracksman in ib and in shabwa provinces. the explanation from the united nations is that more than 600 people have been killed and more than 2000 have been injured in recent weeks. saudi arabia saying it has killed more than

500 houthi fighters. food and water supplies are dwindling. prices are rocketing. al jazeera met one family struggling in the capital, sanaa. gerald tan has this report on how they are coping with the conflict all around. >> the backdrop of the seemingly quiet neighborhood in yemen capital, sanaa. but the mountainous home is base for republican guard who back the houthis and have been targeted by the saudi-led coalition receiptedly. those who live close by say they no longer feel safe. >> we gint know the war would come. we can only leave things to god. the kids are petrified. my daughter thinks bombs will fall all the time. when the shelling starts we panic. we've got no where to go. we don't know if we will live or die. we live in a state of fear and don't leave the house. >> al mohammed lives with her

five drawers, her son, daughter-in-law and grandchild. she takes us through their bear living quarters showing where a bomb blew out the windows. >> as soon as the bombings happened the glass shattered. we were so scared that my girls and i ran to the coredor and lay on the ground. at least there are no windows there but we were afraid the ceiling would collapse. >> she shows us how happennal injured one of her children, behind her neck. another fell ill-and needed medical treatment but they faced difficulties getting her to hospital. it's not just the attacks at night that scare this mother of six. she is worried about how she will feed her family. in the kitchen, the stove lies cold and dusty and containers meant for provisions are empty. >> we have run out of supplies. we don't even have gas. we can't go out and buy anything. there is nothing in the kitchen. we have no food. schools have been closed since the shelling started. who can go out in this

kind of situation? this is no way to live. >> al mohammed said one of her daughters is showing signs of trauma. the girl asks when she can return to school and when the bombings will end. her mother has no answers. >> gerald tan, al jazeera. >> from the political standpoint, the country's president, hadi has appointed a new vice president. he is the former prime minister baha considered popular across yemen's feuding parties. it is hoped it will to some kind of negotiated solution. he was recently held under house arrest by the houthis. french more than minister is in ryad where he has pledged to support saudi arabia's efforts in yemen. >> until a solution is found that respects the legitimacy of the government on the ground and ends the bloody conflict in the country so very close to saudi arabia france has expressed

it's able to help find the right solution. >> we will have more on the conflict in yemen a little bit later this half hour when the saudi-led coalition holds it's daily briefing on the offensive it is carrying out against the houthis. a syrian government airstrike near a school has romd killed five schoolchildren and four female teachers in the northern city of aleppo.aleppo media center and syrian observatory for human rights says many children were hurt when the neighborhood a day after rebel shelling and government airstrikes in aleppo killed more than 30 people on bothsized of the divided city. the u.n. says it will work with the syrian government to ensure the safety of more than 18,000 palestinians

and syrian civilians in the yarmouk camp on the edge of damask damascus damascus. dodd today we reremain very worried for the refugees and the civilians who are inside. we are very determined to provide assistance to those who have decided temporarily to leave the camp, itself, and to find shelter elsewhere and we will take very seriously the needs, also. we are very determined to be able to respond to the needs of the people who have reached there. >> there have been two bomb attacks in egypt in the sinai prove incident. medical sources say two people were killed when what was thought to have been a car bomb went outside the main police station in the provincial capitol. earlier, a roadside bomb killed six soldiers south of the city. a group affiliated with the islamic state of iraq

in the levant and isil k4r5i78d responsibility of those. one of the worst kept secrets ever in washington, d.c. finally, hillary clinton is said to launch her campaign to be president of the united states. the former secretary of state is expected to announce later on sunday that she will run in the 2016 elections if selected by the democrats, that is. patty co hane has more from washington. >> hello, maine. >> hillary clinton has spent most of her adult life in the public eye, first as the wife of a president and then a u.s. senator and secretary of state. >> hello, iowa. >> now she will once again try for the presidency. she got close in 2008 but lost to barack obama. >> although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. >> in this campaign she's going to have to walk a fine line.

she can't be seen as being too close to president obama. he's not widely popular. but she also can't distance herself too much. >> what she needs to do is she needs to communicate to a lot of constituencyies that are very close to president obama that he has done a lot for them and she's going to do as much or more. she can't distance herself too much from the president because, yeah, she loses progressives ethnic minority voters. but she also needs to appeal to independents. >> hillary clinton. >> she could have another issue: her name with jeb bushels expected to jump into the race there are already complaints about family dynasties. >> the presidency of the united states is not some crown to be passed between two families. it is an awesome and sacred trust to be earned. >> and trust could be an issue. she heads into campaign already facing a controversy. she used a private e-mail account as secretary of state and admits

she deleted tens of thousands of e-mails. government records are supposed to be preserved. republicans claim she's covering something up. but shs she is by far the strongest democratic candidate and she is best positioned to raise the millions of dollars a presidential campaign needs. the other thing she is going for: experience. not just in the white house, but in the race for it. she's done this twice with her husband and once on her own. now she's hoping the fourth time is the charm. >> i found my own voice. patty colhane, al jazeera, washington let's go to gabriel outside of hillary clinton's campaign headquarters in brooklyn new york. i don't think we are too premature to ask you about this gabe since everybody is saying that she is going to announce it including jeb bush who may well run against her. anything happening here? well we expect that the announcement from hillary clinton about running

for president will be made via youtube or twitter. it could be any moment now david. i can tell you ms. clinton is expected to be in iowa later today, one of the first states that will be doing some of the early primary voting a very important state here in the u.s. in presidential elections. she is expected we are told to hold some very small, intimate events in eyeiowa. >> i am certain a former secretary of state, hillary clinton, will understand we will interrupt to go to more on world affairs. this time once again, we are talking about the saudi-led coalition airstrikes in yemen. this is general asiri talk okay behalf of the coalition. >> tribes have declared loyalty to sovereignty and if you will support to the president of hadi and his government. and its commitment to defend the yemeni citizens and the yes, meni resources and confronting the

malitias prevent them from achieving their heinous goals. we are now working with them to coordinate operations at and to provide them ground support so that their military operations will have effective outcomes. also of the good things that have come up that today, the humanitarian aid that has begun is being organized inside yemen. the red cross has delivered three planes who have coordinated with the houthi malitias so that they would allow for humanitarian aid to go through. and to coordinate with them and to facilitate their work and their mobility within sanaa or outside it to ensure that the aids will arrive to people and hospitals in need and everyone who needs it as far as the coalition operations air

campaign is ongoing, the folks now is concentrated of the division locations and destroying houthi malitias that have been fortified inside bunkers. and now we are -- the resistentions has been less than previous and now it is limited to groups in specific areas. or the bunkers of the yemeni army that they took over work is ongoing to support the popular committees whether it's the perimeter the aden or northern areas of yemen and i mean the sadaa territory and neighboring territories. work is focused, also on presenting these malitias, of benefitting or using the military units and the military supplies and the logistics that are mentioned --

that i mentioned to you yesterday, that there is a type of embargo by -- or curfew by the malitias on citizens in order to move -- facilitate their military operations. we have targeted more than one location where they stored fuel so they can't use it. yesterday, they had movement in northern yemen near the saudi borders. through the griefing ground forces have intensified their efforts on more than one location of, more than yemen. the units that have been targeted we have targeted division 3 of three 10 in sanaa and all of the locations where they stores equipment the division 20 task cameras camps

in raza and sanaa, we have targeted more than one location there is a consolidation of troops or equipment. we have targeted a large number of caves. we will show you a few excerpts that show you the caves that were converted into weapons and ammunition stores. they have become command centers, which we also targeted. they have a consolidation and some of the military locations where they are trying to reorganize. we have targeted locations inside the sadaa airport, the miltsdz have tried to regain it and benefit it. also we are working on targeting stores and consolidations near aden and some of the caves located in the mourpt anous terrain around aden. we will show you some of

the video access. before i begin, there is no change in the position in aden. it is basically a hit-and-run operations. there have been some moves inside -- inside the city towards the north. but the resistance elements on the ground have confronted and foiled these operations. i have mentioned more than one time that we have stopped the provision of supplies from outside into aden and, therefore, these groups are basically exhausting their resources. they are no longer able to move or continue to fight and hopefully, they will -- they will no longer be effective. this is one of the caves we have targeted yesterday in the southern territory. everyone knows that this territory is --

has very harsh topography. it's got hundreds of caves and the malitias are using them to store their supplies and their weapons. and one of the caves has also been targeted. of course we will not repeat what we mentioned, then on day-to-day information on ammunition and stores and weapons, stores is erratic but about the size and volume of the weapons that the militia controls this is one of the locations, storage on the perimeter of aden which we

targeted yesterday to prevent them from using it. i also mentioned yesterday and before that on the previous days that now we have their operations are purely for reorganizing military operations and they are being consolidated in the military units that belonged to the yemeni army so that they can repair and re-use these vehicles. we will strike them to and destroy them to prevent the malitias from using them or exploiting them whenever it becomes necessary. this is one of the warehouses or

stores. as far as ground operations there has been engagements in the nezran sector and the saudi command has given a press statement. it was an engagement with elements under pressure in sanaa. they are trying to take combat the war to the saudi borders and expanded. they targeted one of the border stations in nazran. we dealt with them as we thought necessary using artillery and apache helicopters. as a result two saudi forces were martyred and we hope god will accept them as his martyrs. at the same time we have destroyed the hostile armies. we are not

surprised that these operations -- at these operations. these are operations without any main prem is. it's merely propaganda to try to reduce pressure on what is -- what their commands are suffering, whether in sanaa or in aden. work continues on the borders to prevent these elements from undertaking any more hostilities. what's happening now is as everyone knows the topography is a harsh terrain and it's very close proximity. the villages are very close. so the saudi forces are being extremely cautious to avoid causing collateral damage with the yemeni but we will not allow the malitias or their loyalists from the yemeni army to approach the borders and we confirm, again, the saudi borders are safe and secure and these are just individual separate isolated operations. yesterday, the yemeni government

has asked from the coalition to undertake a mayor time embargo to change the operation from a complete embargo in the water but to present a mayor time movement so that the coalition has the power to search and sees any ships that approach and this will be done according to the laws that regulate this action. we will not allow whoever to provide or supply these rebellious elements of any kind of supply and coalition local apply the necessary laws and regulations and will not support the malitias. we ask everyone to adhere to the regulations that regulate these and the saudi forces will apply it in accordance with the yemeni

government. there is also international law that governs these operations. we ask everyone to adhere to the international law to present any unnecessary incidence. i thank you for your ears. i am now open to questions. >> general, yesterday, i was not here. i understand you announced that more than 500 of the rebels have been killed. i am wondering how you were able to determine that number. thank you. ? >> the announcement was announced by the minister of defense of saudi arabia. you know that when they are conducting an operation in the border they have the -- all of the systems to identify targets, to evaluate number of let's

say, persons or vehicles. they have a lot of capabilities and a matter of cameras, videos infrareds. they have the apache, which has all of the capabilities to identify targets. they collect information. they have evaluation of the number when they announced yesterday they announced just what they can yet in the border operation. they have a lot of information feedback from the artillery operation against the positions. i think they announce a number that they have the evidence that this is the number they already achieved yet. ibrigadier general akmed siri

talking on behalf of the coalition trying to answer a question from one of the journalists there about the claim that 500 houthis have died in the ire strikes so far. the general's response simply being that we have our intelligence and that is the number we think it is. with me iola craig, a journalist who spent a number of years working in sanaa. you were interested in the suggestion they would be searching ships. there is a bit after naval blockade going on, mostly i guess, around aden but all up that coast but the fact they will search ships led to you think more food could get in? >> this is the real pressing need at the moment. the naval blockade has been stretching from aden all the way up to azada has prevented food supplies. aid has been crucial but yemen imports 90 percent of its food. we are just saying there that they are now going to be searching any approaching ships. does that search then mean they are going to allow through cargo

supplies, i.e. wheat, rice very much needed on the ground in yemen? as we know there is also a food shortage and people are already struggling to get ahold of basic food stuff. it's kind of crucial that that happens almost immediately now and so if those searchs goes ahead, perhaps they will start let food in for the yemeni people. >> the general referred to a number of saudi martyrs, soldiers who aloft their life in the coalition. we believe everything he was referring to something we reported yesterday, perhaps, three saudis near the border. now these cross border exchanges, you believe, are artillery exchanges. he said they are being extremely caution with how they respond to incoming fire from the houthis, incoming in to saudi arabia. is that happening quite a bit as far as you understand it from your contacts? >> yes. there has been, you know talk aboutof actually incursions by the houthis over the border and actually clashes going on villages and towns on

the saudi side. it's very hard to verify that at the moment. there have certainly been explosions and gunfire heard but whether that is from artillery being fired over or actually houthi rebels coming in to sued e arabia and clashes going on is really hard to find out. people have been trying to get access obviously, into those areas in the south of saudi arabia as well as getting information out from the other side but it's a big propa began a war as we know it about trying to verify reports of who has died and how many people have been killed. >> we mentioned this before we went to the press conference the appointment by president hadi of a new vice president kalid baha tell us about his back background? he is in -- ? >> he was the prime minister. it seems he may be keeping that role. he will be vice president and prime minister at the same time. but it's really going to depend upon how the houthi did react to this. it could open up the door for negotiations and talks. but if the houthis reject this,

that's going to be slam that door and really closing that avenue and opportunity for maybe talks to happen and some sort of settlement be made and a possible ceasefire. >> thank you iona craig, a journalling journalist based in yemen talking to us about the saudi saudi-led airstrikes. >> one person hadv been killed. hundreds have been hurt in a stamp ped in the kenyan capitol, nairobi. it went into what appeared to be a panic after an electricity transformer exploded tig tigering fears of an attack by al shabaab after fighters stormed the university in the north of the country killing 148 students. people living in kenya's daadab refugee camp are calling on their government to reconsider the decision to close the camp. one of the world's biggest sheltering about half a

million somalian refugees. the government has issued an ultimatum through the u.n. saying you have three months to relocate the camp kick out the people from kenya. after that university attack it says members of al shabaab are hiding in dadaab. let's hear from mohammed adow. he went to the camp. he sent this. >> home to up to half a million somali refugees. some have been living here for the past 25 years. the first batch of refugees came to dadaab and were put in this camp in 1991. they say that it's called for a closure. they are saying that they have not been involved in the security in kenya and they are also saying that they absolutely have no assurance that with their relocation kenya will have peace. they are also

saying that if the kenyan population, the local kenyan populationif they say the majority of the workers of the u.n. organizations and other aid agencies caring for them a half hour from the local location. >> 1700 migrants arrived in italy after being rescue your on friday. some were picked up after a distress signal went up. a number of overcrowded boats. close to the coast of libya. many of those on board are thought to have been from aretrea and syria. about 3 and a half thousand people are estimated to have drowned last year trying to make the same journey from north africa to italy. >> turkey has summoned the vatican am batsdor to the foreign ministry after pope francis used the word "genocide" to describe the mass murder of armenians 100 years ago. it called its own ambassador to the vatican back to ankra.

pope france was holding a mass in front of armenias church leaders. armenia said one and a half million people were murdered by ottoman forces. turkey regeffects accusations that a genocide was carried out. the pope said those lost must never be forgotten. >> translator: in the past century, our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies: the first, which is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century struck your own armenian people. >> in brazil they are bracing themselves for more anti-government protests. the generalstrations, public discontinue tent with delma roussef appears to be growing. three months into her second term, her approval rating has seen a low of 13 percent. people in the streets of more than 50 cities. there is growing anger at a multi-billion

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