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>> reporter: and how spiders could help produce new pain relief medicine. ♪ saudi arabia says there has been talks with coalition members over a temporarily hold in air strikes in certain parts of yemen to let humanitarian aid in and they hit several airports in the country, in the capitol sanaa air strikes hit a cargo plane and an airport worker said was used to transport supplies and other places hit despite a call from the u.n. for the coalition to hold fire. >> humanitarian coordinator for yemen is urging the coalition to stop targeting sanaa airport and preserve the lifeline so humanitarians can reach all affected from the armed conflict currently ongoing in yes,

ma'amen and-- and ocha has access to delivery of services and difficulty providing medical services because of the current situation and continued air strikes targeting sada and sanaa and food partners had to suspend assistance in the districts and hoodiada also because of lack of fuel. over the past weeks the yemen capitol sanaa have been holding out against houthi fighters and we have more on the battle. >> reporter: on patrol with his weapon at the ready he canvass the land with his men, their aim to keep houthis out. and he is defending his home and has come at a heavy price. >> translator: four of my sons were killed one was injured, we

will fight to the last day to protect our lands and our honor and to protect our county. the houthis came to our land many members of our tribes were killed and we fought them so hard and we will fight them to the end. >> reporter: the houthis say that advancing to flush out al-qaeda linked fighters but people here deny there is any such presence. still with any new territory the houthis and fighters in line with former president saleh gives them more clout at the negotiating table and the men here say they are determined not to let it fall. >> translator: i'm sending my message to the houthis you will not occupy our land and also send my message to fighters we are here to defend the fighters and not be fooled like the houthis have been. >> reporter: battles have taken place in resent weeks and yemen

pipeline passes through here and saudi-led coalition carried out multiple air strikes in the area to support tribal fighters on the ground. >> translator: my sons were martyred in the matter of an hour or two and many others martyred too and they died honoringly their land and country and we were attacked. we had to defend our country. >> reporter: it has been a fight to the death but for he and his men one to keep gerald tan, al jazeera. now sinagal is the first to join the coalition and will send 2000 troops to help back the saudi-led intervention in yemen. and nicholas hawk has more from sinagal's capitol. >> reporter: announcement made by the foreign minister to a handful of mps at the national assembly is no surprise and weeks ago the president here was in saudi arabia, he was there to try to raise funds for ambitious

plan to turn it into a middle income country. of course they have a wealth of experience when it comes to peace keeping operations but under a u.n. mandate soldiers of sinagal are in mali, drc and conflict zones throughout africa but no where does it have 2100 troops and that is a big surprise, the announcement that 2100 troops and paratroopers and armed division will be deployed with saudis along the saudi/yemen border and thus the big announcement here and the official reason given was sinagal had an obligation to protect the muslim holy sites that are in saudi arabia and no announcement to when this will take place and expecting the president to make some sort of statement to give us a precise date on when these troops will

be deployed to saudi arabia. now new zealand back talks on negotiations to end the conflict in syria will begin on tuesday in geneva and staffan de mistura will meet with representatives and the al-qaeda al-nusra front and i.s.i.l. have not been asked to take part and they are billed as low key consultations rather than high-level negotiations that will result in any solid agreement. a policy of indiscriminate fire that led to the death of innocent civilians is how one ngo describes the conduct of soldiers in the war on gaza and they have given testimonies about the tactics used in the campaign raising serious questions about israel complications to avoid civilian death and erika wood has more. >> reporter: in 50 days israel war killed 2000 people in the

occupied gaza strip and the aim was to cripple hamas but most were civilians and more than 500 were children. on israeli side 66 soldiers and 5 civilians died. the air, sea and ground offensive on gaza destroyed schools and hospital and crucial infrastructure leaving damage that will likely take decades to rebuild. the group breaking the science collected the testimony of 60 israeli troops who fought in the war. what they said paints a dark picture of israel's action and its apparent disregard to civilian lives. >> we shot at cars and ambulances and what i was raised not to do and not to kill and shoot the innocence and it's like the wild west out there and it was all approved by the commanders and i thought there was something rotten in the army to be authorized to do that because our first rule is not to

kill without reason and i was told to kill anything in your proximity. >> reporter: another soldier told how decisions were made about what they should target. >> translator: i remember that many times the chandler could decide based on his personal opinion alone what target we should hit and give us almost full autonomy and said i trust you, hit when needed and mostly machine gunfire but shells as well. >> reporter: the group that gathered testimonies said it wants to tell the real story of the war. >> what we are trying to do is enlighten the public to understand what is the moral price of occupation and what the wars look like so the public would be aware and the public would manage to understand what the real story beyond if lives they hear from the government. >> reporter: palestinians asked the international criminal court to investigate alleged crimes carried out by israel but israel has denied breaching international law and instead

accuses hamas of committing its war crimes and israeli army does his best to avoid civilian casualties but cannot deny the weight of numbers and says 7 out of 10 killed during the 2014 war was civilian. erica woods, al jazeera. joining us now is a researcher with breaking the silence, the ngo which compiled testimonies is live from jerusalem and thank you for being on al jazeera and troubling testimony we heard and tell us how you came about collecting the claims and how frank were the soldiers you interviewed? >> thank you very much. actually after the summer the war in gaza soldiers and officers started approaching to us actually starting to tell us stories and we were actually a bit shocked i have to say from the stories they told us.

the main thing i think we can tell that we heard is the amount of fire and the rules of engagement and the soldiers and officers were told by the hiring officers how to enter gaza and just to maybe understand when we are talking about huge amount of fire one of the key i would say they use artillery shells and talking about thousands fired at populated areas and neighborhoods and the thing with this kind of weapon is that you cannot aim it accurately towards a target you want and you fire a bunch of shell and fire in a radius of 100 meters and from the african sea and we can understand pictures of huge amount of destruction of houses in palestinian life. >> do they give you specific examples of rules of engagement they were told to take during the war, were they specific examples of times when they were

told you know you've got cart blanch if you will? >> so one of the stories that we were told was actually by a soldier that was armored in a tank and told us one of the morningss one of the commanders got a bunch of tanks and told them to take both and start to find some targets and start shooting them to make the presence felt and show the palestinians and neighborhoods they are there. and what happened was they each were talking about six or seven tank and each tank chose two or three targets and after that they fired randomly and what soldiers told us was that there was no one shooting them directly at that time, there was no offense of militants, the targets they chose were not based on any information from intelligence. and i think this is one example that can show us what really

happened during the offense in gaza. >> but as you know israeli leaders have insisted they took all the necessary precautions to protect civilians during the gaza war but interviews you may provide a different picture of course and what exactly are your expectation expectations by releasing the important and do you think israeli military that will investigate do you think they will be held accountable? >> so i think the israeli army they try to warn some of that some civilians and things like that. the thing is that the kind of weapons the army used was like i said artillery and huge amount of using of tanks and those kinds of weapons if you try to warn people to run away from their houses it's not an accurate weapon. when soldiers are telling us the rules of engagement they receive when you are allowed to shoot anyone 200 or 500 meters from

you, soldiers and officers telling us things like we were told there were no such thing as palestinian civilians and everyone you meet are suspected to be militants so you can shoot them to kill. so it's hard for me and i can't really understand how the army tells us now they try to avoid hurting civilian population when we know from over 60 soldiers and officers exactly the opposite that the rules of engagement actually allowed it to happen. >> very troubling testimony indeed and thank you for joining us with the breaking the silence ngo who was live there from jerusalem and thanks for your time. much more ahead on al jazeera including slipping out of the country, fierce political unrest in burundi will be about the ethnic tensions of the past and helping the people of nepal young and old, we meet a survivor who lived through the

last great earthquake 80 years ago. ♪

>> al jazeera america, weekday mornings. catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. get a first hand look with in-depth reports and investigations. start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. open your eyes to a world in motion. ♪ welcome back the top stories on al jazeera saudi arabia says there are talks with coalition members after a temporary air strikes in certain parts of yemen to let humanitarian aid in but they hit several airports across the country including a cargo plane in sanaa. dozens of israeli soldiers who fought in gaza last year have given testimony about tactics used during the 50-day campaign and ngo breaking the silence

talks about indiscriminate fire that led to the deaths of innocent civilians and u.n. backed talks on negotiations to end the conflict in syria will begin on tuesday in geneva the u.n. envoy staffan de mistura will meet with government and rebel representatives as well as regional players. breaking news this half hour and john kerry made unannounced visit to somalia and we go to jordan who is on the phone from nairobi and quite a historic visit to somalia. >> reporter: this was planned with an incredible amount of secrecy and the meeting we were hearing from some sources was being planned without even

notifying the president of somalia that kerry would even be coming for security reasons, the assistant secretary of state for african affairs linda thomas had long planned a visit mogadishu and we are expecting a meeting between john kerry and his delegation composed of political representatives and military officials and they will be meeting with president the prime minister, the foreign minister and other leaders of the somali government. the purpose according to the spokesperson is for the united states to show its continued support for somalia as it tries to transition from more than two decades of civil war to a fully functioning democracy. it's not clear how long the meetings are going to take but certainly the secretary of state was very much looking forward to

having a face-to-face meeting with the president. >> on monday the secretary of state met with kenya president in the kenya capitol nairobi and i mab -- i imagine security was on top of the talks there. >> reporter: the united states did not offer any new funding to kenya government although i think it's fair to say the government of the president would have been very happy to accept more money. but the u.s. says it is committed to helping the kenya people as they work with other members to deal with the threat of al-shabab emanating from somalia and kenya has the brunt of al-shabab reprisals and most recently the attack at the university college where more than 100 people were basically cut down by al-shabab attackers but the u.s. is putting pressure

on the government to not scapegoat the somali minority and certainly not the somali minority refugees who are living in the refugee camps in the east of the country. even though there is a lot of concern that perhaps al-shabab might be trying to recruit new members, the obama administration firmly believes that the government can fight this threat from al-shabab without violating the rule of law, without violating human rights and they are very concerned they can get a government in resent days and made comments suggesting it was prepared to do just that, the message from john kerry was we need to take the higher road and we can all defeat al-shabab but there is a right way to do it and this is not the way to do it. >> thank you, jordan on the line from nairobi with more on unannounced by john kerry the first ever visit to somali by

u.s. secretary of state and more on it throughout the day on al jazeera, thanks. burundi constitutional court has confirmed approval for the president bid for a third term but four of the court's judges who oppose the bid left the country, 11 people have been killed and injured in protests since the party announced he would run for a third term and the end of the civil war in 2006 says a president can only serve two terms and now fears of another civil war this burundi are forcing many from their homes. staying with africa and protesters in guinea have a ban on demonstrations and fought with security forces in the capitol at least 20 people were injured. it followed opposition leaders calling for nationwide protests over the timing of local elections and want local polls to be held before the presidential election which is scheduled for october.

hundreds of rescued migrants have been arriving at the sicily port nearly 7,000 migrants have been pulled out of the mediterranean sea over the past few days and number of migrants risking their lives to reach the stores continues to rise despite the dangers and hundreds of migrants have been pulled by the sea by tunisia fishermen and coast guard but they secured the borders to prevent people leaving the shores to europe and in the south of tunisia sherry reports. >> reporter: they try to reach europe by boat now they are back where they started, in africa. these people are among almost 500 rescued by tunisia people since march, the u.n. is helping those from syria, aratraia and somalia and people sheltered in the town here are west africans and registered as economic

migrants. that makes it difficult for them to claim asylum. >> our country is no good. ghanna ghanna that is where this is and we need help. >> reporter: tunisia is no longer escape route for migrants that is because the borders are securer and coast guard vessels patrol the waters but tunisia authorities say they are worried that lawlessness and fighting in libya will send more people out to sea. these fishermen are concerned too. they are trying to make a living but often end up rescuing boats in trouble. >> translator: each trip cost $5,000 and we have to stop fishing and return to shore with lost souls. >> reporter: want to tackle migration at source and mainly in africa and plans to target the smuggling rings south of

here in the sahara desert and a controversial idea is try to persuade countries like morocco, egypt and tunisia to register and process people and tunisia is one of the few organizations helping and saying europe cannot outsource its problem. >> there are limits and there is high unemployment here and most of the people are not happy to be here and want to be in europe. >> reporter: in here walked through the desert to reach libya. for some people this is their second or even third failed attempt at crossing and why they keep trying. >> there is big difference in africa and in europe. and they are displaced and when you get to europe everything will be okay with you. >> reporter: they now have a choice go home with nothing or

return to libya, risking their lives again to reach a new continent, i'm with al jazeera, southern tunisia. police visited temples on tuesday as the cleanup continues more than a week after the devastating earthquake that killed more than 7,000 people and this square is a unesco world heritage side badly damaged by the quake and heavy machinery sent in to remove debris and executive director of world food program say supplies are reaching those who need it the most and the organization wants to reach a total of 1.4 million in nepal's central and western regions. now, over the weekend 101-year-old man was pulled from the rubble al jazeera sent this report from the district from nuwakot just outside of kathmandu. >> reporter: he doesn't know what the fuss is about.

>> translator: i don't think it would matter if i lived or died i lived a full life. >> reporter: he is 101 years old and the oldest recorded person to be pulled alive from the rubble from nepal's earthquake. >> the walls collapse and the ceiling came down and on my chest and i was trapped inside and injured on my foot and arm. >> reporter: his daughter-in-law pulled him out but had to wait seven days for rescues to arrive because they live in the mountain area and he has been here before and also survived the last great earthquake in 1934. for a healthy person this village is a day's hike through difficult terrain and it was hard to reach before the earthquake and had to be air-lifted because there are no hospitals close by. his doctor says it's common for women and elderly to receive treatment last which makes

survival extraordinary. >> translator: they were finding it difficult to access the hospital because they couldn't find means to travel and they were delayed and emergency cases came first and the aged and women began to turn up as well. >> reporter: it's a story that inspires hope that there may be survivor survivors of all ages in nepal's remote villages nepal, nuwakot district nepal. >> reporter: when spiders bite they often cause excruciating pain but it may be the answer to new pain-relieving drugs and giving hope to chronic pain suffers as we report from brisbon. >> reporter: spiders are more commonly feared than admired but people think they can be more friends than foe and have a key for a future generation of pain

relieving drugs and here they are being milked. >> we put them to sleep making them cold and exposing them to outside and makes them a little bit sleepy and more amenable for them and us. >> reporter: delicate work for tiny amounts of liquid a single spider can be milked every two weeks for about five years, in that time the total venum collected is three millimeters or half a teasspoon full. >> reporter: that is all that is needed because it's potent. >> only scorpions can come close. it effects the nerve system and blocking channels to the brain and working on which molecules do it could revolutionize pain relief for people and mandy has suffered

pain for years, as far as doctors can tell it's not associated with an underlying condition, it's chronic pain and hundreds of millions suffer similar and cannot take morphine because long-term the body develops a tolerance to them and in high dosages the side effects is be debilitating and leaves people in pain with no hopes of getting better. >> to think you will live with that forever it's not surprising that people can become quite suicidal if they do not follow through but suicide thoughts are not unusual so to have some hope there that things may be better that can be enough for people to keep going forward i suppose. >> reporter: the spider research is in the early stages but scientists narrowed down a few molecules they believe target sodium channels in pain sensing nerves in the human body and talk about what does the job and signs may be able to

replicate them artificially and sufferers of pain these spidermen could be super heros al jazeera. and reminder there is plenty more news on our website, the usual address is al jazeera.com. many the neighbourhoods, in places like detroit, st. louis and chicago got poorer still. tonight as we sift through the ashes of the recent unrest we'll look beyond baltimore and try to understand why in some places poverty was concentrated and opportunity in shorter s