nswered questions, a botched withdrawal lives lost. examining the impact that still resonates today. a special report starts tuesday, 10:00 eastern. on al jazeera america. more migrants are rescued as an italian court orders two suspected traffickers to remain in jail. hello, welcome to al jazeera live from doha, i'm shiulie ghosh. call for yemen president calls for his loyalists to

withdraw. the italian coast guard says it has rescued a further tw 28 migrants228migrants. meanwhile an italian court has ordered two superintendents to remainsuspects to remainin jail. they were at the helm of the boat that capsized. barnaby phillips reports. >> mohamed ali malik from tunisian yah says he was only a passenger, other survivors say he was the boat's captain. but even if guilty he would surely only be a small cog in

the huge business of taking desperate people across the mediterranean. we traveled osyracuse to syracuse, bored frustrateplanning their next move. we were not allowed into this reception center but we spoke to julia who works for a charity inside. she's from syracuse and never imagined she would be an aid worker in her home town. >> people dying in the sea is they -- we cannot stand it. it's crazy. i mean people should have the right to move to ask for asylum. it's not possible to die just because of the need to escape from war or poverty. >> i immediate sara and saod from eritrea. they asked us not to show their faces. sar ahsara is a microbiologist who

dreams of making her way to europe. >> i think it's very big business to take from a person $3,000. >> you don't think it's a bad business -- >> no, they are just doing. >> did not mistreat you on the boat? >> to no no. >> tried to cobble together the fare to take the train north. they have no intention of staying here. they think of sweden, germany and the united kingdom as places they would like to get to. in other words sicily and italy is one stage in their dangerous journey. more are arriving at sicily's shores. bat inback in catania they face the

dangers of a continent that doesn't want them. >> hoda abdel hamid. >> we are about 25 to 30 nautical miles off the coast of libya, a good number of these boats packed with migrants depart from. now, this is a tugboat that was meant for civilian use that was taken over by the libyan coast guard and you can see here they have just adapted it, put an antiaircraft, they say this is for their own security. apart from that they don't have much. now, this is one of two vessels that the coast guard of the

responsibility over 600 kilometers of coastline. this is only thing they have at the moment. they say that the means are limited and unless they get support, there is little they can do on this side. they also raised the other issue that at the moment they say there is no consolidation with the italian navy. which is absolutely necessary. i did ask them what they thought of the eu plan to targeting the smugglers. they say it would be extremely difficult because the network of smugglers is very extended. >> yemen's form he president ali abdullah saleh houthis are

being attacked by fighters loyal to exiled president abd rabbu mansour hadi. doctors are starting to treat the injured because electricity supplies are cut off. emolu reports. >> despite no clear governance in yemen a bomb disposal unit has come to work. close by is a military base hit in an air strike earlier in the week. spent ammunition litters the streets. they have been lying around for days. >> the area is not free of chemical substances, we have examined the area with detectors. they are moved to be disarmed somewhere else.

>> reporter: it was the loudest blast people in the area had heard since the saudi led campaign began. look around and you get a sense of hubs of lost man hours. jobs on hold. and the thousands of dollars that will be needed for reconstruction. am none of this is as urgent as caring for hundreds of people hurt in that one bombing. the city's largest hospital is a 20 minute drive away. some of the most serious cases will be seen in its intensive care unit. but according to the director that may not be the case for much longer. >> electricity supplied by the government has been cut off. we're using generators but there is not enough fuel. this has been going on for the week and if it continues i'm frayed the hospital will have to close. >> reporter: this isn't the only hospital in trouble. the world health organization is warning that yemen's entire health care system is on the brink of collapse. the head of the red cross in

sanaa believes keeping the hospitals running is even more pressing than the need for food. >> if we don't find a quick solution now, it will be a catastrophe in a few days. hundreds of people can die because they don't have their medicines. >> he says that while medical aid has started to arrive, his staff face yet another pitfall. delivering them to the hospitals in places where there's fighting. emiko moli al jazeera. >> a pakistani human rights activist has been shot dead by gunmen in the city of carr karachi. are victoria gatenby reports. >> i'm sabine mahmoud. >> this is sabine mahmoud doing what she loved campaigning for

humanitarian rights. >> i think it's critical in any city but especially a city that has -- that faces so much conflict. to have community spaces where people can get together around shared interests. >> reporter: but per fight to improve the lives of others may have cost mahmoud her own. mahmoud had just left the building when she was shot at close range by two gunmen on a motor bike. mahmoud's mother was also injured in the attack and is in critical condition in hospital. >> she was leaving in her van. the mother was injured and the daughter was killed. >> mahmoud had been hughesing a talk on human rights in a southeastern province, most

recently since 2005, since them almost 3,000 activists have disappeared, some blame pakistan's intelligence agency for its disappearance an allegation in which it denied. friends say her work extended beyond a single cause. >> translator: sabine didn't just give a voice to belochis, all those people who were hurt and suffering who had feelings to express without going crazy. sabine gave me a voice. >> two weeks ago a similar talk was cancelled over security concerns. and friends say mahmoud had doubts about hosting her events after receiving a threat. but they say they never imagined she would be silented in such a brutal way. victoria gatenby, al jazeera.

>> other peter pakistani civil rights activist have been targeted. had to leave the country for speaking out against the pro sunni lashgar group. year ago spoken against the forced disappearance of the people at the hands of pakistan's intelligence services. let's speak to tahira abdalla good to have you with us tahira. i know you knew sabine well, she was a passionate advocate of human rights wasn't she. tell me what a special person she was. >> thank you i wish i could say good morning but it's not a good morning. this is what pakistan woke up

to, i don't know whether you can see this clipping. this is what we woke up to this morning and we wish we didn't have to. you mentioned hamad mees. i would like to specially name dr. farouk khan, and zora, in karachi, and federal minister, the list is never ending. but this particular issue i think i don't wish to cast aspersions i don't wish to point fingers. i don't wish to name names. but the linkages and the pattern and the trend is extremely worrying as to whoever wishes to speak up on issues which are of concern to the state and of the citizens will be silenced. she wished to unsilence

belochistan. she was brave and courageous. >> she was talking about human rights in belochistan. the nearly 3,000 people who have gone missing since 2005. allegedly abducted by the pakistani government and the isi are you saying her death was linked to that? >> i'm not saying that. i'm absolutely not saying that. who am i without any evidence, without any access to forensics or anything at all say that. all i'm saying is that -- there seems to be a pattern -- >> this handy to be before -- >> may i just conclude the thought. it is that there is a trend. there is a pattern that whoever courageously and bravely dares to speak out on these issues will be silenced or attempted to be silenced. the human rights commission of

pakistan annually puts out its report of the state of human rights in pakistan. and every year there is a section on enforced and voluntary disappearances, every year there is an attempt to catalog and talk about and analyze the issues. do you know that pakistan has not ratified the u.n. convention on enforced and involuntary disappearances nor is there a specific domestic law to enforce that issue. however, there are constitutional issues about the due process of law and about not being -- you know not being kept in enforced and voluntary detention. >> can i ask you sabine was clearly a very brave person to talk about the issues she did. do you think her murder will be appropriately investigated and a culprit found? >> it is not for me to think.

i am a activist. and to the last breast of my body i will make sure that we make enough noise that the reports of all the judicial commission we not forget salina and the others, there are so many brave journalists also, brave human rights activist, brave activists and workers we have not forgotten them, continue to raise our voice joint investigations teams shall not be kept under file and under secrecy and classified information. we will continue to raise our voice that there shall be independent investigation and the reports of these investigations shall be made public. there are people who are alive with us today and their reports have not been made public as

yet. >> sasahira thank you very much, thank you about speaking about a person you owbled knew and obviously knew and cared about very much. >> i did. >> a volcano erupts. in chile. >> i'm fez jamil. the power of rural women we'll speak to critics who say the program only enforces tricialg roles. traditional roles. traditional roles.

>> welcome back. i'm shiulie ghosh. the top stories on al jazeera. the stanley coast italian coast guard has rescued more than 200 migrants from the mediterranean sea. >> the yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh has ordered houthis to withdraw. and the pakistani human rights activist has been killed by gunmen. sabine mahmoud was killed in beluchistan province. talks in geneva next month the u.n. envoy to syria says there's slim chance of success.

in new york, the united nations security council has been urged to impose an arms embargo on syria. diplomatic editor james bays. >> the u.n. security council is briefed on the humanitarian situation in syria every month. and every month things get worse. he was told 220,000 are dead, 7.6 million forced from their homes. this was the last briefing by outgoing humanitarian chief vale valerie aim amos. >> the failure has undermined the council to take its responsibility seriously. >> she called for an arms embargo and a referral of the situation to the international criminal court. invited to the meeting the u.n. refugee agency special envoy the actress angelineie jolie.

>> i wish some of the syrians i have met could be here today. >> forcing it back into the international limelight. she and the other briefers stress that the only solution in syria can be a political one. the man charged with finding that, at stefan de masturi saying he's completely out of his depth. he announced he was giving up on his freeze or ceasefire plan and now has a completely different proposal. >> this is not a conference. this is not a geneva dream. this is a series of consultations one to one between myself my team and one each delegation from each country but also each delegation from the city and environment all of them. >> reporter: so a series of new proposals on syria but humanitarian coordinator valerie

amos's ideas will most certainly be vetoed by russia if they were put to the security council. and de mastura admits he has a nearly impossible task. james bays, al jazeera, new york. last major bastion of the regime, abdullah al-shami reports. >> this vast area of the village to the north and south once a peaceful country side it is now become a battlefield. government forces have been using it as an attack position against opposition fighters. >> translator: this area was one of the first to revolt against the regime and badly bombed and targeted. now it's time to counter-attack.

>> reporter: opposition fighters launched the attacks by firing artillery. they captured three main government checkpoints around the city, aimed by cutting the last government supply road. >> our main objective is to destroy check poots near the city. if we succeed in that we will curt all supply lines. >> in idlib a coalition group was launched. this latest push follows capture of idlib city on march 28th. buoyed by recent gains. abdullah al-shami, al jazeera. >> israeli police say a man ignored warnings and was shot

after approaching checkpoint guards. his brother said he died for no reason. britain's prince charles and tony roberts are some of the dignitaries in gallipoli to commemorate one of the most bloody battles of world war i. dawn services were held in sydney melbourne darwin and towns nationwide. 100,000 gathered tet at the aunt war memorial in canberra. the eruption of a volcano is causing many chilens to be

upsaid. >> the calbuco reminded chile that 43 years dormant is just a cat nap in the life of a volcano. the nearly 10 million year old volcano erupted on sunday. returning to the red zone to check on their homes and clear roads and roofs as bet they could. >> i came to remove the ash from the roof. we are nervegz are nervous and don't know when we'll be allowed to return home. >> translator: the volcano is very unstable and it could erupt again. actually it is still an eruption but i mean it could be larger lava flows and explosions that

could put persons' plieives at risk. >> reporter: as calbuco volcano continued to erupt volunteers distributefood and water, these could yous are sitting in what 48 hours ago were lush, green pastures. now they and other livestock are also being evacuated. >> there are at lefties 600 animals that we need to take elsewhere because there is too much ash and they will spharve they remain here. they will starve if they remain here. >> absolutely everything is dmoferred it. the worst part isn't trying to clear this stuff away, which would take mean year.

it's the uncertainty whether the calbuco volcano will erupt at any time. >> that's something the volcano only knows for sure. lucia newman ensinada, chile. estimated more than 2 billion euros could be raised to cover massive debt payments next month. >> rural india fez jamil reports, the initiative is setting examples for other countries. >> they're all in it together. shiny risks and profits. like the others vincent is from

a poor family. she began working after her husband had an accident eight years ago. >> my family's from the fishing community but gradually the work became less and less. i think it's the best thing that's happened to me. i'm getting good pay and supporting my family. >> reporter: the women are part of the state's respectful family program employing rural women in different kinds of jobs and giving them a regular income. its local leader was herself destitute several years ago. now she runs several sowing sewing programs. >> i was like them. i used to shiver when i spoke to others. now i'm very confident that's how i became the local head of this program. this was a poor village but it's now progressive. >> reporter: the program also helped local farmers. when laborers left to work in the middle east, women in the area took their place.

>> translator: this has helped a lot of people. the women who are in poverty are now doing well. they're self esteem and confidence is higher. the women are coming more into the forefront of the village. >> reporter: a accomplishment that is helping the initiative to spread. the program is becoming more successful to happen in other parts of the country. critics say the program only reinforces traditional roles. while women are being uplifted economically those critical of the program say it is not helping break social barriers. >> translator: here even if a woman is a engineer or a doctor they are still tied to the family. the women in this program are not able to break out of conventional roles to become something more. >> reporter: bat atback at home,

vincent says it last given her the emotional and moral support to become an active part of the community. fez jamil, al jazeera india. >> there's more on our website aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. >> the truth about taxes in america. politicians love to call to deep cuts to court voters but it all back fires when services are cut too. i'll talk to the man conservative power broker grover nor quist. >> what you're seeing here is