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record how japan has pushed rail technology once more. and with sports including a history-making goal fest by bayern munich. first time they have overturned a two-goal deficit in europe. >> the air campaign against the houthi in yemen have come to an end. saudi arabia said that it has achieved it's objective in destroying heavy weapons and ballistic weapons held by the houthies. the operation named decisive storm has ended.
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>> for their part houthi leaders say that political deal to end the fighting has been reached. we have the latest. >> saudi-led airstrikes in yemen are over. coalition forces say that military goes the houthis are no long arrest threat to yemen and the region. but they warn that any attempt to destabilize yemen will be met with force. the airstrikes may be over, but the campaign can just be moveing into a new as yet unclear face. >> you we will bring support and help with evacuations and humanitarian support. the operations regarding the three goals though they could be smaller scale there will be some military action whenever
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they command. >> initial aid agencies over the concern of the riding numbers of the casualties. they say that 944 people were killed and nearly 4,000 were injured since the start four weeks ago. >> with the casualties the saudis realize they have done everything they can. and the best thing now you can have is an negotiated solution, this was a face-saving way out for them. >> the airstrikes have come to an end but piece may an long way off. houthi fighters backed by former
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president ali abdullah saleh are still active across the country. and abd rabbuh mansur hadi will likely be replaced by khaled bahah, vice president of yemen. he was backed by the houthis. now he faces the delicate task of uniting yemenis and putting an end to decades of instability instability. >> al jazeera's monitoring developments for us in saudi arabia close to the border with yemen. what are you hearing of what is happening on the ground inside yemen itself? >> yes we've had some people from aden activists activists on the phone telling us that they are a bit frustrated with this because this happened while they were in the middle of this battle. they have also noticed some movement of attacks near the
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coast line that has just been liberated from the houthis. they were pushed back from there we don't know how many attacks we don't know how sizable that movement s but they're telling us that among themselves there they are frustrated because this battle seems to have brought to a halt ahead of time before it's achieved its goals. and we have fires that may regain positions they have lost during the last few weeks. >> saudi arabia reserves the right to target the movements of houthis in yemen. what do they mean by that? >> yes they mean the new phase is a phase where any airstrikes will be conditioned by the movements on the ground, and not
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automatically airstrikes on a daily basis like what we've seen during the last few weeks. any movement now any action on air will be defending anything that they'll deserve. the houthis trying to aggressively to attack civilians in yemen. the houthis trying to take new places on new cities in yemen. and also the campaign will continue on the humanitarian side. the saudis have called for the announcement tonight they are in control of yemen. they can closely monitor any activities by the outies and saleh loyalists. we've seen u.s. military warships getting closer to the gulf of aden. the saudis now announcing that
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they are reassured that the iranians can no longer ship weapons to the houthis and it is time now to go to a new phase, which is trying to go back to the negotiation table because for them the conditions are ripe for a solution that will be accepted by the president of yemen and the outies themselves. >> it's been 40 minutes ago since the houthi leaders spoke to the reuters new agency, saying they are were close to a political agreement which tends to suggest that we were right that there have been lots of talks, lots of deals happening behind the scenes with all the players involved. >> yes we've seen the iranian deputy foreign minister earlier today spoking about the
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likelihood of a cease-fire earlier today. almost nobody believed that. iran has been taking their own approach and asking for meet hotel of these talks. and nobody believed or suspected that there was something so close to a final deal or a kind of deal between all those sides. if iran speaks about the likelihood of a deal, then the houthis are not far from there because the two sides, according to the reports, are coordinating coordinating teeth on a diplomatic level. the fact that they talk about a close deal dates there has been athere--indicates that there has been going on. the president of has been on the
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phone with president barack obama, and oman, who stayed out of the coalition may have been playing a type of negotiation between the saudis and the houthis on the other hand. we should give this a day or two to see exactly what is going to happen and we should observe what is going to happen in yemen over the next few days, and see if the houthis and saleh loyalists are going to seize the opportunity and march tomorrow in new locations and gain new ground and attack civilians in aden and taiz, that's going to be a great indication of any kind of deal or the lack of it. >> mohammed vall live for us. thanks so much. we're joined now from washington, d.c. thanks for being with us on the program. your thoughts, first of all about why you think the saudi-led airstrikes are being stopped right now. what is behind this?
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>> well, first of 2058 they have been targeting air bases in yemen, mostly in the north as well. they've reached their goal of destroying heavy weapon depots. after that they have to target locations with civilians. we've witnessed these airstrikes get stronger day after day and it's been almost a month of continuous airstrikes. we've also noticed that these airstrikes destroyed and targeted the yemen military and yemen's military infrastructure, but they did not slow down the houthi expansion and killing in yemen. because a lot of fighting was on the ground and one-on-one. rand while the airstrikes have slowed down, we don't know how this is going to effect the houthi presence in yemen. shifting from airstrikes, though is a very good move. towards the very end the situation in yemen has been really bad with the water and air blockade. people are getting very hungry.
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and they need to have access to humanitarian aid whether it's in the form of medicine or even just electricity and water. everything was sabotaged by these airstrikes. nobody was able to move, and gas was almost impossible to find on the streets. the airstrikes stop something definitely a good thing for all yemen knees. not that it slowed down the houthi movement. >> when we talk will houthi we talk about the houthi supporters the sympathizers and then supporters of former
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president saleh. what we've noticed is that the allies of the general peoples' congress have traveled around the world lobbying for diplomatic solutions over the past two days. it seems that these negotiations are coming to be fruitful. they're talking about oman possibly becoming the negotiating settlement, and oman was suggested to be a location for these talks prior to these airstrikes. pretty of these airstrikes were just targeting military infrastructure again. and the need for talks did not stop being important with these airstrikes. from the very start they could have saved themselves a lot of time by just engaging in political talks. they're going to be very happy. it seems that they might be able to reach an agreement allowing for aden to be a peaceful area.
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i think its important for president hadi to be on the ground. they cannot rule yemen while being in saudi arabia. while the houthis are on the ground the government is in a weak position if they remain anywhere else. >> we appreciate your thoughts. thank you for joining truss washington, d.c. roslind jordan joins us from the state department from washington, d.c. is there any reaction from the u.s. as both the announcements from the saudi right saudi-led coalition. >> there hadn't been either reaction either from the white house or from the state department but in the past hour we did hear from the pentagon, which said in a statement that it welcomes the saudi coalition decision to end its current mission, and it stands and will support the coalition as well as
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the government of the current president abd rabbuh mansur hadi hadi. the statement does not say however, whether the u.s. government was alerted ahead of time, that the saudi coalition was going to end the air campaign against the houthis and whether or not the u.s. is going to be changing its assistance role in any way to the saudi coalition. of course, as our viewers know, felicity. that is included in providing intelligence, air surveillance, that's also included refueling support for the fighters jets that have been carry out these airstrikes. >> it was dispatching an air cars carrier to yemeni waters. >> that's right. that's because the theodore rose set, the uss theodore roosevelt which is in the waters off the coast of the middle east for the next six to nine months, it basically moved closer to the
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yemeni coast line as a security precaution to assist in any possible mission that might be necessary. that is not the theodore roosevelt's only mission. it is also taking part in the airstrikes against isil in iraq. and at least airstrikes were conducted against isil targets in the last 4 hours. they're basically dealing with two crises at once. >> roslind jordan live from the state department in washington, d.c. thanks so much. we've been down to the studio, thanks again for being with us on al jazeera. i want to talk about the possible political settlement in a second, but first what about the humanitarian situation. although the bombs may have
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stopped falling fighting continues on the ground, and things are very serious. >> very serious. even though--even though they said that they will stop operations by 12:00 midnight, there are friends and families that we spoke to before coming in that there is a huge silence but a few silence later 10 minutes past 12:00 a.m. 10:00 gmt they can still hear anti-aircraft and heavy gunshots. up to now there is still some sort of this is a big day. we're waiting for president hadi to make a speech. he has not addressed the people yet. and it will be very crucial for the humanitarian aid and this should be the emphasis of any
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settlement that will happen. we've heard a lot and went through a lot of political settlements and negotiations throughout the year. and many fighters did not really old ton their agreements and what they said they would do. unless there are serious negotiations followed by huge sanctions that can be made and implemented on the ground, then negotiations will just be in error. >> let's paint a picture of those who don't know yemen and who may not have followed what has been happening in the country. this is a nation that has been isolated for 27 days. humanitarian supplies have not been able to get in. what is happening to people? >> people are finding it very difficult to just live.
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insome knee i can't, sleepless nights with the heavy bombing and shelling, whether from air or from houthis on the ground and from the south and other areas. electricity for more than nine days no electricity whatsoever. water, no food. and 150,000 have been displaced but really if you see on the ground the number is much more than that. 12million need food and water. when yemenis can barely get bread to eat, what will they get now. they're stuck in their houses. private companies have been closed down. shops have been destroyed, the infrastructure as well, it's very difficult. >> and looking ahead as we see it at the moment, the immediate future of yemen, the outies do
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appear to think that some sort of political settlement is in the offing. a lot of talk has been made of current vice president bahah that possibly he is the man who could take yemen forward and unite the various factions going forward. is that a lot of pressure being placed on that man? is it unwarranted? >> there is a lot of hope placed on v.p. bahah. we really hope that he takes on the next mission that's going to be very difficult time in yemen. but as well the people have lost hope for a lot of applications. they've lost hope in parties and religious groups. so really it would be very difficult to gain credibility for any application at the moment as well as to gain people's trust.
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i think they have to focus on doing things on the ground. humanitarian aid, and having a campaign. >> it's good to get your insight. thank you for coming in. thank you. well shortly after the saudi announcement i spoke with the political analysts in sanaa and he gave me his cement of how yemenis will react. >> there is an end of a decisive storm, and move to go another phase, which is restoring hope. they didn't paint much in he details. there is no cease-fire. now when they come back to the news channels they realize there is an actual cease-fire. when they see the outies celebrating people will realize that this wash will move into its second phase. >> still to come on this news hour.
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exclusive coverage from kenya where al-shabab fighters have been given ten days to hand themselves over. and why asia's champion winners in danger of elimination in this very first stage. >> first, more than 400 asylum seekers have been rescued off the coast of italy. it's the latest of a series of distressing stories of migrants trying to sale the mediterranean. after a ship carrying 800 people sank off the coast on sunday. on monday a ship carrying asylum seekers smashed into a rocks off the island of rhodes. three people died. and coast guards scramble to respond to distress calls to
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ships carrying hundreds of people. also on monday, four children were among 44 african migrants rescued by spanish emergency services and brought to the southern port. al jazeera's barnaby phillips has the latest from catania on the southern island of sicily. >> still they keep on coming no matter how danger the journey. their wooden boat leaking. all they can do is appeal for help in the sea south of calabri. they were lucky an italian fish fishing boat found them just in time. in sicily the authorities are helping the few tritonned men who survived the sinking of an overcrowded boast in the early hours of sunday morning. the initial stories of the scale that have disaster have turned out to be horribly accurate. >> they have now interviewed most of the survivors of saturday's boat tragedy in the
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mediterranean. according to them the boat departed from tripoli, from libya on saturday morning. it had some 850 people on board. many of these were children. among those on board were some 350 people from syria somalia sierra leone mali, gambia, ivory coast and ethiopia. >> italian prosecutors say that this man, a tunisian was the captain of the boat. he was taken into custody charged with reckless homicide and causing a shipwreck. another suspected member of the crew has also been arrested. accused of assisting illegal immigration. and more details are emerging as how so many people died. >> migrants were crashed inside the fishing boat. it was at least 23 meters long. a few hundred migrants were
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forced into the hold at the lowest level. they were locked and prevented from coming out. another several hundred were close into the second level while on top under a cover there were another 100 migrants. >> here in sicily and across europe there are lots of sympathy for the victims of this disaster and there is widespread outrage at the actives of the ruthless smuggling gangs. but they have discussed for years of ways to prevent these disasters at sea and at ways to prevent more people from risking the perilous journey. and the problem goes beyond italian waters. further west off the coast of spain 44 africans rescued by coast guards who come from morocco on a wooden boat. some too exhausted to walk ashore. some so young they may not remember how they arrived here to start a new life in a new
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continent. barnaby phillips, al jazeera, sicily. >> we're getting reports of an attack on police officers in the egyptian capital. egyptian state media is reporting that two policemen have been killed by unidentified gunmen in cairo. more on that breaking news as we get it. well egypt's deposed leader mohamed morsi has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. he was the country's first democratically elected president that was toppled in a military coup in 2014. he still faces other trials. >> mohamed morsi escaped the death penalty. he has been sentenced to 20 years in prison without the possibility of parole for his role of torcher of protesters at the presidential palace in 2012. three protesters were killed. he can still appeal in conviction but he also faces
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several other charges including an attempt at a prison break in 2011 where some prison officers were killed, a verdict on this is expected next month. spying. he's accused of conspiring to committing terrorist acts. fraud in connection with the muslim brotherhood's economic and social program. he's also charged with insulting the judiciary. muslim brotherhood leader along with several other defendants were also sentenced to 20 years. it was a long road to egyptian democracy. in 2011 hosni mubarak was kicked out of office in a revolution against his rule. then in a decrysive election in 2012 morsi became the first democratically elected president, but the celebrations wouldn't last long. he anglerred many egyptians by issuing an order that prevented any court from overturning his decisions. that led to violence on the
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streets with opponents denouncing president morsi as a dictator and a new pharaoh. morsi the head of the armed forces escalateing a power struggle between the military and the president. >> i guess a decision has been made by the military before running this election, the first democratic election, fair elections. at a certain point the military would intervene and take over. >> on june 30, 2013 millions of people rallyied cross egypt calling for his resignation. three days later the man who appointed as morsi's defense
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ministry would later take over. still ahead on the program the man known as the accountant of auschwitz goes on trial at the age of 93. plus. >> the in brazil the number of motorcycle fatalities have increased dramatically in the last ten years and authorities want to bring sanity as well as safety to the sweets and. nigeria, they have picked the man who they hope will take them to the 2018 world cup in russia.
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target or if there were any casualties. and another 400 migrants have been rescued off the coast of italy. a tunisian captain has been arrested on manslaughter charges after a ship tank on sunday. for more on our top news hour, aaron baron, a visiting fellow and yemen specialist. he joins me in studio. we've got the saudi saying that the campaign of bombing has now ended even though they're prepared to target what they call houthi movements. what do you think will happen on the ground right now. our correspondent said that in aid therein were reports of movement of tanks by the houthis. >> the county attorney is what the saudis do within the next 4 hours. if we see an end of airstrikes,
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obviously, fainted airstrikes hold up then the ball is in the houthi court. and the question is whether they'll make preparations to pull out in areas of the country. the south, and even sanaa and points north. it's key to remember that if they pull out they're anxious to do this, not because they want to keep power but there is the question of who comes in. and for the houthis the idea, and this anxiety of who could come in really motivates their actions. the houthis feel that this, like the other battles they faced is more or also an existential fight. and to be honest, i think there is far more distrust than trust at this point. >> is the reality though, that neither side could carry on in this way but the saudis were clearly, obviously being criticized for the number of
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survivors in the airstrikes, but the houthis were would continue. >> you're also talking about stale mate of sorts. taking advantage of the unrest in the country. the alliance used to hate each other. saleh spent ten years waging war on the houthies. and then in addition the fact that they're getting hit consistently in some of the most--you've had areas anywhere that was seen as a houthi area is getting hit. this is just what we know of. there is the question of whether they were facing a situation why they were going to run out not just of weapons but even of
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manpower. >> clearly things have been happening behind the scenes that we've not been a party to. there obviously have been talks with many of the players involved in this complex situation in yemen. the idea of a political settlement everyone thought this thanksgiving was probably going to happen eventually. just depending how long it was going to take and how many would die. many were saying that president hadi has had his day and perhaps vice president bahah is the man to take over, and perhaps he'll bring in some of the houthi elements into a new government. that has to happen for yemen to go forward? >> i think you cannot rule yemen by treating the houthis as the enemy. if you're a yemeni the houthi have to be mainstreamed in the political process. this does not require stuff from the other parties it requires a commitment from the houthis to submit to acting as a normal political party rather than a political party/militia.
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there is an expectation that bahah will end up taking the reins from hadi. now in his appointment of vice president, it gives him the ability to rise to presidency while maintaining this constitutional continuity. but i think to a large extent so much remains unclear at this point. that being said its impossible to believe that we've reached the point where the saudis are willing to make this statement that they made earlier today without there being a great degree of negotiations and talks and agreements behind closed doors. >> good to get your perspective. thank you very much. >> yes. >> well, the saudi-led airstrikes have been the topic of much discussion at the united nations security council. we can speak now to our diplomatic editor james bays, live at the u.n. for us. the saudi airstrikes have been a great concern for those had there. any reaction?
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>> from what i'm hearing from sources here it does not look like the u.n. this stage has played. they've lost the confidence of the gulf countries so pretty clear that the brokering of any deal and clearly it's not clear whether any deal will stick has been done by someone else, and not clear who that is clearly the countries who have significance here are the u.s. on one side with saudi arabia, and iran on the other side with the houthis and one other place to look at the diplomatic frontier and i suspect has been involved in diplomatic activity is mow ma'am the one member of the gulf operation council of the gcc, which was not part of
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the coalition and has much better relations with iran than the others. but i think we're going to have to look in the coming hours for a little bit more detail of who did the deal if there has been a deal done, as we suspect and exactly what the deal is from this point forward. it's certainly clear though, that the saudi announcement did not take iran by any surprise at all, and the iranian deputy foreign minister many ours before the saudi announcements expect a cease-fire. that's not exactly what the saudis announced but it was clear that they were in the offing. >> to other news now oskar gröning is on trial for being accessory to the murder of
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300,000 people. >> he entered the courtroom a frail old man with a dark past. in his youth oskar gröning work worked as a clerk for the ss. he was accused of being accessory to the murders of 300,000 people in the spring and summer of 1944. gröning told the court he acknowledged what he called his moral guilt but said it was for the judges to decide whether he should be convicted. auschwitz was the single most murderous carp the nazis ran in the court of their final solution of the jewish question. it's thought that 1,100,000 people the vast majority jews, but also others, were exterminated at the camp during the four and a half years of its existence. oskar gröning was at the camp
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between 1942 and 1944. his role was to deal with the collection and sorting of the belongings of those who were murdered. he had particular responsibility for the foreign currency found among the possessions. one of the jewish children who survived being experimented on by ss doctors at auschwitz was in court to hear oskar gröning. eva kor's parents and elder sisters died at auschwitz. eva spoke about what seeing gröning on trial meant for her. >> it meant a lot physically and i'm sure emotionally. i think that in one respect maybe the man was functioning at that level he's doing his stress best. it's a very long day.
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>> in previous interviews ten years ago oskar gröning chose to speak about his time at auschwitz, and he put it to those who opposed that exterminations ever happened there. but now his trial has heard he accepts his own moral guilt. dominic kane, al jazeera, berlin berlin. >> at least 11 people have been killed by a car bomb in somalia capital and several others have been seriously injured. a vehicle rammed into a mogadishu restaurant and explode: somali soldiers are among the dead. kenya's government is offering a ten-day amnesty for al-shabab fighters to hand themselves in. after killing 148 people at garissa university earlier this month, we have this exclusive report from somali town.
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>> on patrol of the border between kenya and somalia. this is the newly created group parent of an international effort to build somalia from the crass roots up. they're on the lookout for roots routes of smugglers and traffickering who travel back and forth undetected. >> the border is long. 700 kilometers long. we cannot patrol it on foot. we try our best to cover all the smuggleing routes. >> over the years those coming from far and near who want to join al-shabab. the group lost control of the town three years ago but they still operate in the thicket outside of it. they say they're trying to shun the town being a root of
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al-shabab. a kenyan national, and an al-shabab member. >> i was arrested while buying food. i was in charge of logistics. i also conduct role calls for the fighters and issue uniforms. once in, i had no way of backing out as anyone who tried to escape was killed. >> the camp is under the command of mohammed the man who masterminded the attack in garissa, in which al-shabab gunmen killed 148 people. >> it's a huge camp. there are about 300 fighters both foreigners and somalis. almost all of the activities are geared towards carrying out attacks in kenya. >> we also met two youth on
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their way to join al-shabab. >> we were heading in when we were arrested. we were given a map by a recruiter and the names of the cities we were to pass through to get to our destination. we ran out of phones and decided to go on, on foot once we got to somalia. >> for now the kenyan train continue with their modest gains. they say that they will need more support to effectively secure the border and hopefully live up to kenya's dream of getting a buffer zone to shield it's territory from lawless somalia. >> the fight against poverty in brazil has brought unexpected casualties. with incomes up people are investing in motorcycles as a
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cheaper storm of public transport. but that has brought an increase of motorcycle deaths. >> it's a cheap easy way to get around. it's also very dangerous. getting a reputation in brazil, one it doesn't want. they may say that in the last ten years the number of fatal motorcycle accidents have gone up by 140%. that's because there are more motorcycles on the road, and more motorcycles being driven badly. people here use motor bikes for everything. even things that should not be moved by a motorbike. a bike taxi driver for years and for him the roads are becoming a scary place. >> i see a lot of crazy things. you think man how does he do that? he's not only putting his life in danger but others' too.
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>> this helmet i use gives you some idea of what it's like to navigate around the city. just one sunday last year the local trauma hospital treated 98 victims of motorcycle accidents. and it's running at 1200 a month, twice what it was two years ago. >> if the number of accidents keeps rising at the same rate that we had today, a health system won't have conditions to treat all those patients because they demand a high specialized treatment. >> 03-year-old francis was on his way to work when he hit another bike. he broke his leg in three places and he has lost the use of his left arm. he thinks he was lucky. >> i'm not buying a new motorcycle. i will take a lift. the bus. we need to have patience and slow down. it's safer.
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>> it has been identified as one of ten cities around the world which needs help from the global road safety initiative. it can plug into a $125 million find for safety, education and road discipline. >> these partners with different expertise will share best practices, best ideas and we can contextualize them here. that is a great thing. the city will find out shortly what programs have been approved and what initiatives it can lost. and for someone it could mean life or death. alan fisher, al jazeera, brazil. >> still to come on the program not quite as fast as a speeding bullet but getting closer. we'll tell you the scientific secret what makes this train the world's fastest. and it's barcelona at the double? we'll have all the latest news.
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>> the yemeni people quite confidently surviveed all the these tragedyies. has fought to "press the country. and all the foreign fighters that it brought with them. and i ask our people to open a blank page, a clean slate, to build a nation, united that is based on pride justice and rule. when the people decided that evil force have tried all means possible to destroy and drag the country into a civil war and they have decided to force the
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people into living such a living away live in hatred, and the conflict only killedy men any people beginning from saada and then into the capital of sanaa and then got to the south. they shed blood, they have killed people and destroyed public and private properties. they've terrorized the people and disrupted their lives and regretbly it was provocative work through military maneuvers bringing weapons and soldiers into the country. all of this was designed to
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humiliate and break the yemeni people. and to bring hostile again the neighboring countries. they have with their alogan and their oppressive regime, they have destroyed their capabilities of the country and they have spread into the provinces they must withdraw from the cities, surrender their weapons and go back to the political process and that is based on dialogue and executive including those who are dissident. the houthi militias and their allies have tried strategic destructive system. and we have set up an agreement
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composed of ten points with the houthis to share power politically and spiritually and we have spoken with them and warned them of conspiracies. and we have given many concessions, and we have undertake many initiatives. now we have absolutely no goal but to take top avoid conspiracies and destruction. but after their assistance, they have left us no other avenues except one avenue, and the the use of one language.
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and in order to stop this we have borne their actions. so i give a greeting of prize and courage to all those who have fought in deference of yemen, and i tell the yemeni people, men and women that your patience has been rewarded, and your bravery. and you have shown what you are made of. and i repeat your patience is a virtue and god will help us. i give my greetings. the strength of taiz and all the other towns and all those in
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our land, i agree greet the strong youth, who deserve all the thanks, and to the tribesmen and to the army who were loyal, and i give my greetings to the popular committees. i greet all those who fought and all avenues and walks of life who fought to keep the country safe and keep our dignity and pride elevated. this yemen is our land, and everything in it will only grow proud i greet you brave men those who gave your life for this country so he can break the
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thorn of the arrogance of the dissident. the people are with you and the future is for you. and you are both benevolent and esteemed. men's of state of all institutions and all ministries and establishments and committees and all the provinces, towns and those officials, you must look after the affairs of the citizens. you must apply the public services that the situation now demands to double your efforts and to increase your performance to maintain the state establishments to fulfill the needs of the citizens.
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your primary concern is your functional responsibility is to do your job loyally and not to follow the political occurrences. we must overcome these difficult conditions, and we must work on it vitality and assist the yemeni people as it deserves the best of us. here we are now, we have now taken a critical step and to avoid--this i'm quite confident in the yemeni government, we'll
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undertake urgent executive tasks, and to assist us with the humanitarian situation. i demand the i international organizations to cooperate with us and to give us what is necessary in terms of humanitarian aid. to help this brave people in these very difficult times. men of the armed forces and security the country and the people is looking to you applaud your bravery and today your responsibilities are great and grave and that is to keep this country and it's people and the law and order and to fight the conspirators and the dissidents i'm confident that all of you who are honorable
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won't only be cooperative and will look after the people we also applaud you. and to all those who were loyal to the sovereignty and the legitimacy of the government, and to work with the popular resistence and to fight the dissident militias and disrupt their supply lines and we confirm that we shall provide with all they need, and we tell them that we will rehabilitate the armed forces to make them better than they were. and for those who are falsely
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claim those who did not make the weapon a weapon of the army, but destroyed the cities and residential neighborhoods, and used it against the people and this was to humiliate them and cause concern everyone who fought for their country and for their leadership to build a national army and modern establishment, to be the yemen army for all of yemen
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