ground troops deployeded in the city of aden i'm richelle carey in doha. also ahead on the programme. bombings killed 13 in the iraqi capital. some blame i.s.i.l. for the attacks. the u.n. appeals to the government to stop targetting civilians after the shelling of yarmouk. and a number of migrants rescued in the mediterranean are soaring. 3700 are saved by e.u. boats.

saudi arabia ground troops have been deployed in yemen's port city of aden to support forces of abd-rabbu mansour hadi. we joined live on the phone. it was just a few days ago that the saudi government announced the campaign was entering a new phase, was this phase expect? >> yes, there is an element of surprise in this. they haven't been showing a lot of prepares to really be on the ground in yemen. we have seen them amassing troops on the boarder for the last several weeks. this is a surprise to many people. many inside and outside. it is a force that has been deployed is limited. we don't know if it is made of

saudis or other counties, we know that the egyptian president has been here for a new hours. also for a surprise just. and there was that was revealed about the intentions. egypt has the biggest contribution outside of saudi arabia. that's where it was talked about at the beginning of the campaign. surprise beginning and que don't know how big they'll come to that. etch was expecting the ate by the saudi arabia border. probably on the border. that's where they have more impacts. this is a developing situation, we'll have more detail.

>> i understand you do not have a lot of detail. we don't know the number of troops et cetera, et cetera. but the fact that there has been ground troops deployed at this point. what kind of conflict would this be. what i mean by that is could it be a traddizal conflict in the sense that they are not up against a traditional army. >> of course troops are fighting one another. what looks like a war. saudis are clear. shiulie ghosh shiulie ghosh -- aden must be clear. they want to shift the government to aden and said that. the prime minister and the deputy president has been clear in his statement that the

houthis, for any kind of talks or deal between them and the government, have to lee aden and they -- leave aden and they haven't done that on their own. now it has to be done they have to be forced out of it so we can have a chunk of land which the government desires to move in and have negotiations recap of breaking news. saudi ground troops beplayed. that report from saudi arabia also on the ground fighters loyal to abd-rabbu mansour hadi say they have regained control of the distribute. houthis along with forces of the former president trying to push into the port city. a popular resistant force say they have taken control of the northern part of the city after

fierce battle. the region has been under rebel control since march. as the fighting continues, the humanitarian situation is desperate. electricity shortages are making it difficult for hospitals to treat patient, patient in need of care. this is a dialysis treatment center. it's run down there are power cuts. electricity is out. many patient died. others are behind the scheduled dialysis sessions >> reporter: many patients have kidney failure and rely on dialysis to stay alive. >> translation: the lack of fuel impacted the center. namely the dialysis, and patients are beyond sessions.

dialysis has back up power stations. power is out. generators are out of order. >> there's no electricity. patients are lined up. there has been exacerbated suffering of people that are already ill. >> threat 13 people have been killed in two explosions in the iraqi capital baghdad. the bombs when off minutes apart. the first was a suicide car bomb detonating near restaurants and cafes. the second struck in the same neighbour hood.

some blame i.s.i.l. for the attacks, saying fighters infiltrated refugees. imran khan reports from baghdad. >> it's been a bloody few nights. the neighbourhood rocked by two bombs. the latest attack was committed by the islamic state fighters coming in disguised as displaced anbar province members. i.s.i.l. said nothing about fighters in disguise. those fleeing the violence wound up in camps like these. they were afraid of revenge attacks, a fear heightened after the bombings this is nonsense we came with the clothes on our backs. shi'a, muslims, why blame us. look at how we live. >> tribal leaders refuted the

allegations that the displaced are behind the attacks. >> this is a sunni leader in charge of the camp. >> this is a move by politicians to inflame hatred. look at the champ, it's women children and babies. there's no i.s.i.l. baghdad was a mixed city. the demographics changed after many left. >> after being plunged into war, much is felt today. sunni stake to their neighbourhoods and shias to their. there's. blame game and the city will see more violence. imran khan baghdad. the director of the house of iraqi expertise foundation says the government has to help the

refugees and ensure i.s.i.l. fighters do not use them as cover to infiltrate. >> there's a humanitarian crisis which is obvious for anyone in the world. there's 250,000 displaced from their homes because of the fighting. and i.s.i.s. prepared their territories, this is first. secondly it's an important issue, they must have camps or support, governmental support, for the resistance to be iraqi left on the homeland. if there's infiltration of i.s.i.s. inside the refugees it's a facility of the golf to do everything to help them and try to convince them that they must fight i.s.i.s. who are

infiltrated in them. if we talk about the whole security situation, in baghdad and iran. there's a real infiltration of i.s.i.s. in the shi'a territory. cannot be stopped by only security measurements it can be stopped by political issues and sharing security decisions inside the cabinet, inside the iraqi cabinet. that is why it started from 10 years, there's no real responsible government for the iraqis, for the whole iraqis. a member of the iraqi parliament and a former national security advisor believes there are sleeper cells working for i.s.i.l. within baghdad. >> there is a - there's no doubt in our mind in the intelligence

circles or security circles and military circles. there are sleepers and sleeping cells inside baghdad working for i.s.i.s. they have staged the exodus from ramadi to baghdad by spreading the fears of decapitation were the government to decapitate you, the ramadi people and all this. that may force people to leave in tens of thousands to come to baghdad in one go. and they managed to infiltrate the exodus notice baghdad. >> let's return to the breaking news. saudi ground troops have been deployed in yemen to pore the forces of exiled president

abd-rabbu mansour hadi. i understand that this is breaking as we speak. what do we know about this troop deployment? >> yes, not much is known so far. it's a limited source and it has apparently landed there in the port of aden what, we know now, the latest we have is they have already been in clashes with supporters of the former president and the houthi fighters so it seems they have hit the ground running because they have landed in a war zone and it will be tough for them to declare the future. the houthis dug up there. for several weeks. they know the area well and the area better and how many troops

from the coalition forces have been put there. they have ground and air support, and that is a huge advantage trying to take the new territory to help the loyalists. it is very clear from the outset. this will be a tough fight there. >> do we know how many houthi fighters are allied with him. do we know a rough total of that number. there are no estimates, and no figure or estimates about them. loyalty, as you know - by the day. among the loyalty. they've been depending on conditions. just a couple of weeks ago how one army distribute number one, in the area announced that it

is normal. it is legitimate. we have not seen the results of that on the ground. from my sources in yemen and there. these are things that you can hear declarations like this. there will be immediately and definitely on the ground in terms of numbers when the saudis announce phase one of the air campaign. many of the troops announced and changed the mask if they see the danger lessoned on the ice. it's a gloomy situation there, and it's not clear which fight of the two have the upper hand in the terms of fire power on the ground more than a month into this campaign this offensive by the saudis, i think it bears

repeating, what has the saudi government said the goals are. that would allow them to deem the operation a success. >> we have been missing and watching the army spokesman for several weeks in destroying the infrastructure and that was the primary goal of the air campaign. the second goal is to remove them from the cities and aden in the south. that is a new temporary capital of muqtada al-sadr. there are those where the main goals are at the beginning, and the ultimate one was to force the houthis to come to the negotiation table and to agree on a piece, a revolution to the conflict that adheres to the

terms of the gulf initiative leading houthis to be in control and they were able to move to other areas in yemen. we look at the situation, and we can see that it is debatable. the campaign is going on the houthis everywhere in yemen, they have not come to the negotiation table... >> and i thing that sound you heard, unfortunately is we lost our connection reporting for us were riyadh saudi arabia on the latest announcement that saudi arabia has deployed ground troops to yemen. we'll gather information for you. let me continue with the rest of the news now. the u.n. says the syrian government must stop using

explosive weapons in the yarmouk camp. the camp on the outskirts of damascus housing palestinian refugees was attacked on friday. the relief agency says it's becoming alarmed for the safety of civilians within yarmouk. the secretary-general condemned the shelling of the camp. thousands were forced to flee. more maying rant have been saved from the mediterranean sea. 3,900 were saved in 13 rescue missions in the last two days. they were spotted off the coast, adding to unprecedented numbers rescueded. now to nepal where the only international airport was forced to stop accepting large jet because of a backlog of flights. there's concern that badly needed supplies were not

reaching the interior of the mountainous counselled rip. it's been eight days. more than 7,000 are known to have died and 14,000 injured. children are often the most vulnerable in any disaster and the earthquake left behind orphans. this is a report on how a woman is met trying to make a dips in the lives of survivors arriving from the quake zone. >> tanking god for their survival the young girls live in a distribute outside the capital. the school was destroyed. >> how frightened were you? >> when the quake happened it was frightening, the teacher let us out, we had to stand in the rain. >> now they are safe in kathmandu. they can't go home, because the

roads are destroyed and parents missing. they have been looked after. this shelter for girls set up. now they are taking in survivors of the quake. given the inception. she is sleeping with them and the others were sleeping. at night if there was any big attacks, or tremor you have to go out. i showed them how to go out. i made a drill for them. >> a drop of survivors became close, spending most of their time toot. it introduced measures and taut the girls maths and science. they are tackling the arts.

it's diff for them they remained quiet and don't have the heart to join in. these girls found sanctuary among the ruins, there's bound to be more in a similar situation across nepal with nowhere to go coming up after the break, met north korean defectors easing into a new life in the south. by learning english. learning english.

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you're watching al jazeera. our top stories. the breaking news coming out of yemen. saudi ground troops have been deployed in aden to support the forces of exiled president abd-rabbu mansour hadi. there are reports that fighting has taken place between saudi troops and houthi fighters in aden. >> two explosions killed 13 people in the iraqi capital baghdad. the latest in a wave of attacks since thursday. hitting restaurants filled with customers. shia mps blame i.s.i.l. fighters saying they have infiltrated refugees. the united nations says the syrian government must stop bombing the yarmouk refugee camp packed with refugees. the camp was bombed on friday. and back to the breaking news. ground troops have been deployed in yemen.

to support the forces loyal to exeled president abd-rabbu mansour hadi. let's continue with this conversation now. we have brought in our next guest to add in context. tell me what you know about the ground troops arriving in aden. >> reports indicated that they went through djibouti. it's an african country chose to yemen. they are separated. yemen and djibouti are separated. it's an important area that links the gulf of aden to the red see, a big jump of oil. what we are hearing is that the forces - the forces made an amphibian landing on the small town which has the same name of the strait heading to aden where they are involved in the fighting. djibouti is close to yemen, and

is where the port and others were closed in yemen on the onset of the aerial bombardments we may have to pause. there's a new development in the story. saudi arabia is denying that ground troops have been deployed to aden. in the last few minutes reports that there were ground troops that engaged in fighting. to be clear the saudi arabia is denying that. we will dig and get information on this. obviously if ground troops are involved that's an escalation of the operation. saudi arabia is denying ground troops have been deployed to yemen. a televised trial began in afghanistan of an alleged limping mob. 49 appeared in court in kabul, including 19 men accused of

failing to stop the attack. a 27-year-old was beaten to death and her charred body thrown into a river. her murder triggered days of protest, international condemnation about the treatment of afghan women. this is an independent lawyer joining us from kabul. we appreciate your insight on this. this particular trial with nearly 50 people is about something horrific that happened to a woman. what is the significance of something like this going to trial in afghanistan? well i believe that it has a lot of significant things along with it. i see it as a positive sign for the judicial system in afghanistan. we have been complaining that the judicial system is not funning. this is a tart of it

functioning. the trial went for two days, and hopefully we'll have more hearings. the judge will make sure he understanding everything about the case. the judge is understanding that his duty... >> continue. >> the judge has to understand his duty. and deciding to see during the last part of the law, from the police higher ranking officials, very have a lot of respect from the courts. they come back because they were subpoenaed by the judge to appear before the court.

they are significant. >> what does it say about the future of afghanistan in the future something horrific that happened, that there's a trial about this. what does it say about the treatment of women. the government tries to make sure the law rules, not justices. so they make sure everywhere understands there's limits. they not take action, but take a step back they be aware of goneses. consequences. women about have protection that

if you go anything wrong and take the law in your hands, you face the consequences. >> what is the consequences that 49 people would be found guilty. i am sure there's a few of them. that there would be acquitted during the trial. there's evidence against a large number of the 49 that to some extend they were negligent in performs duties. or they'll be involved. >> all right. speaking to us from kabul afghanistan on this historic trial. thank you for your insight. we prooelent it. >> keep up to date with all the yours developing which is quite a bit. go to the website aljazeera.com.

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