dozens are killed in yemen as they try to leave aden to get to safety. ♪ hello this is al jazeera live from doha i'm adrian finighan. a judge in afghanistan sentences four men to death for the murder of a woman wrongly accused of burning the quran. we meet a nepalese man who

made the difficult journey home after the earthquake. and why one of the world's largest glaciers is retreating an at alarming rate. ♪ at least 40 people have been killed in yemen as they tried to leave aden. the civilians were killed when houthi shells hit the boat they were traveling in. meanwhile houthi fighters are continuing to shell the saudi border town. three civilians were killed there on tuesday. the latest now from mohamed vall in the saudi capitol riyadh. >> reporter: reports talk about death of 40 civilians when they were trying to escape the fighting between houthis and the pro-hadi militia. they took a boat trying to reach a safer area but they were

attacked on their way by the sea, and 40 were killed, ten were able to escape. in other parts of yemen air strikes continued. at least 30 air strikes, but they are concentrated in the north. and that came after the houthis were able for the first time to strike inside saudi arabia particularly in the civilian areas in the last 24 hours, three saudi civilians were killed when the houthis shelled the city. and also earlier today, reports talking about renewal of houthi shelling, they hit a school and military headquarters in the city. this escalation comes amid calls on the internation ool level particularly by the u.s. and by humanitarian relief agencies on the saudis to stop the air strikes so that humanitarian relief can be brought to yemen and distributed to the people in need the victims of the car.

the u.s. secretary of state is coming to yemen this evening. he is going to discuss this with the saudis but it's unlikely the saudis will immediately accept a complete stopping of the air strikes in view of the recent escalation by the houthis. the saudis feel they at least need to be able to continue their air strikes so they can defend the saudi territory, but they are fleblgs about the idea of creating safe zones where the relief supplies can be distributed and stores. however, it is not clear how they are going to be able to do that because it means putting troops on the ground. a judge in afghanistan has sentenced four men to death for the murder of a woman who was wrongly accused of burning the quran. she was killed by a mob in kabul as caroline malone reports. >> reporter: the murder trial has been closely watched in

afghanistan. the trial was broadcast live on national television. 49 people, including 19 policemen were accused. four of them have been given the harshest punishments. >> translator: we have sentenced each of you to capital punishment death. our decision on these four people is not definite. they have the right to approve. >> reporter: this 27 year was wrongly accused of burning a quran. she was brutally attacked. they beat and kicked her, and then set her body on fire. many people watched on and some recorded on their phones. her brother told al jazeera that justice has not been served. >> translator: we real criminals are still free and iing don't believe it was a fair and free trial.

announcing the death penalty or imprisoning or letting free most of these people was a very hasty decision. >> reporter: however, the trial has successfully convicted some people involved in mob justice involved in afghanistan. >> it had a big influence on the public perception. this case was taken very much seriously. we have lots of cases where the women were publicly stoned and killed, and everybody just watched and nobody was brought to justice. >> reporter: a sign has been put up where the attack happened. and a shrine has been built on the river bank where she was burned. afghan women carried her coffin at the funeral, breaking tradition. thousands called for justice. many were angry not only at the crime, but that it happened in public while the police were present. some police said they called for

back upbut none came. their verdicts are due on sunday. israel's prime minister is struggling to form a new government after the foreign minister withdrew his support and left him short of the majority. benjamin netenyahu has until the end of today, wednesday to present his new coalition to the president. mike hannah has more from west jerusalem. >> reporter: israel's parliament has begun its summer session, but as yet there is still no government in place. prime minister benjamin netenyahu's party has 30 seats, but he needs the backing of another 31 members to secure support. it is largely because of this man that netenyahu is struggling. he announced earlier this week that he would not be part of the coalition. effectively taking six seats that netenyahu so desperately leaded to the opposition.

>> translator: this proposed coalition does not reflect the demands of the national camp and therefore, i have decided to resign as foreign minister and clearly we are not joining this coalition. >> reporter: the major reason netenyahu's decision to include the ultra orthodox religious parties in his coalition. they demanded the reinstatement of special privileges. state welfare payments to the ultra religious. and payments for religious students. it was for these reasons that lieberman and other members successfully fought against in the previous government. netenyahu has also signed a coalition agreement with [ inaudible ] and promised the post of finance member to the former leader. this gives him 53 seats. he still needs 8 to secure a

majority. and this man controls exactly eight seats. he heads the jewish home party comprised mainly as settlers and regarded as extreme right-wing. and well aware of his present power as king make ore, he is seeking a number of favors from netenyahu. few would have envisioned this situation 40 days ago when netenyahu pledged to form a strong government. at best now he'll have a one seat majority and a weak government. mike hannah al jazeera, jerusalem. a car bomb has killed six people in iraq's capitol baghdad. police say the bomb exploded in the central area which has

restaurants, shops and a mosque. there has been a spike in bombings in baghdad in recent days. the united nations has been able to bring help to palestinian refugees driven out of the yarmouk camp in syria. fighters overran the camp in april. the u.n. says it is a welcome break through, but some 18,000 people remain in the area and they are in desperate need of help. the earthquake in nepal is now known to have killed more than 7,600 people and injured nearly 14.5 thousand. and the effects are being felt around the world. more than 2 million people work in the middle east and malaysia. our correspondent met one man returning home to scenes of devastation and personal loss. >> reporter: less than three

months after arriving in qatar, his world has come crashing down. when the earthquake shook nepal, his house collapsed, burying his two year old daughter with it. it's a homecoming he never imagined. >> translator: the image of my daughter running to my suite is playing in my mind. i have to fight the pain of not having her and deal with the loss of a home. it has just been two and a half months since i left. >> reporter: thousands of men from his district have been working in the middle east mostly as laborers. his construction company has given him one month leave and a one-way ticket home. when he returns, he'll have to pay them back. the loss of work time and the 24% on his loan are weighing him

down. after 6 hours, he finally reaches his village. almost all of its houses have been reduced to rubble. this is his older daughter. these are his family father mother, wife and sisters. the two year old was sleeping around here when though earthquake happened and her grandmother was the only one around. it took almost two hours for everyone to gather to dig out the baby and by the time they took her to the hospital they pronounced her dead. his wife was with their older daughter washing clothes in the riverbed when the earthquake hit. she can't even bring herself to say that her daughter is dead. she just keeps saying she is

sleeping. >> translator: when i got back my daughter was in the field sleeping. it rained all day. we waited with her in the rain. in the evening they took her away. >> reporter: but even during this grief, she know she has to be practical. >> translator: he has to go back she says. they have crippling loans. he has to earn and she says she will take care of the house. >> reporter: but he is concerned. >> translator: what if the company does not call me back. my home is in ruins. i won't be able to go anywhere else to work what will i do in >> reporter: he took these pictures with him to qatar, now they are the only ones the family has. once he goes back to work he says he will be able to send enough money to rebuild the house, but he says no amount of money will help him fill the void in his heart.

still to come on the program . . . >> i'm jennifer glass in a camp for displayed afghans in kabul. some of the people who are displaced by the fighting in afghanistan. and we follow a police patrol trying to route out human trafficking operations. ♪

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people have been killed as they tried to leave the yemeni port city of aden. houthi shells struck the boat they were on. meanwhile houthi fighters have continued to shell the saudi border town to the northwest of yemen. israel's prime minister is struggling to form a new government after a former ally withdrew his support. benjamin netenyahu has until the end of the day to secure the eight seats his needs to form a coalition. and a judge in afghanistan has sentenced four men to death for killing a woman wrongly accused of burning the quran. nearly a million people are displayed because of the fighting in afghanistan. they are among 38 million people

forcibly displaced within their own countries. we'll hear from the council in just a moment but first let's hear from jennifer glasse. >> reporter: this person came to afghanistan six years ago. fighting forced him out of his village. >> translator: at least we are safer here there is no fighting. it is calm here. no one will calm us but life is very hard here. >> reporter: he says there isn't enough work to earn enough to feed his family. a common problem in this sprawling camp on the edge of the capitol. most thought this would be a temporary stop like this man who has been here five years. >> translator: i didn't think we would be here for long. i thought i would be here for month or two. we hoped our village would be peaceful so we could go back. now we don't even think about going home. >> reporter: there's no school. most of the children are

illiterate. and for many this is the only home they have ever known. 850,000 afghans are displaced because of the war. about two weeks ago this woman, her four daughters and two sons fled fighting in her town. at about the same time hundreds of taliban fighters launched an offensive. the civilians are caught in the middle. >> translator: our entire village is falling into the hands of the taliban. our houses have been burned and destroyed. >> reporter: 10,500 families have left their homes in a matter of weeks. there are no displaced camps in the city so people have moved in with family or friends. sometimes up to 20 a room.

the united nations anticipates more than 150,000 afghans will become displayed this year. where there is conflict one official said there is displacement. >> the secretary general of the norwegian council is calling for urgent action to ease the crisis. >> it is as difficult and as simple as having the armed groups and the governments sit down and -- and discuss reconciliation and cooperation. it is as difficult and as easy as to get the russians and the americans and the saudis and the iranians and the turkish for example, to discuss the conflicts of the middle east and not pull in opposition directions but pull in the same direction. it is to have people accountable for their violations against humanitarian principles and human rights. again, these are women,

children and men who are defenseless and still we see that these arms groups come back and back to displacement. congo, south sudan, are countries that have more than a million displaced last year. another 320 rescued migrants were brought ashore on wednesday. the sicilian port. they were rescued two days ago in two separate incidents by an icelandish coast guard vessel. the libyan coast guard has brought 120 migrants back to shore as thousands of people risk their lives trying to cross the mediterranean, it's often single women who face the most hardship. >> reporter: they didn't know each other before and now they are living together.

this is the only space available for women at the detention center. outside hundreds of men are roaming the corridor. the days are long. there's nothing much for them to do other than think about their lives. this 17-year-old set out from mogadishu with her younger sister. >> i need everything so -- and they killed my father. i don't know where my mother is. i have to leave to look for a better life. >> reporter: to get this far, the women have crossed several borders often without travel documents and little money. the last leg was through the desert in libya. most of them often hidden in trucks like this one. some were robbed others raped. this woman traveled with her two children from niger. she just arrived here but won't talk to us.

it is this 16 year old who explains. >> we don't eat anything. only water. not food. that's difficult. and they beat us sometimes. they think we are animals. we're not people. >> reporter: the women here have different reasons for their ordeals. for this woman, it's about getting an education and feeling safe. >> translator: i want to study and be a doctor but it won't come true. i'm 15 and i don't know the alphabet. there is no place for me in this world. wherever i go there's war. i always think time is going by and i still haven't gone to school. now i'm in prison. >> reporter: perhaps the most difficult part is not knowing for how long they will be held in this room. many complain they haven't been able to speak to their families for days sometimes weeks. they worry no one knows where

they are. >> the old ladies like me we need to go. every people have problem. every people have problem. we need just to go. >> reporter: the uncertainty these women face is enormous but they are resilient, so despite everything they will continue to wander looking for safety wherever it may be. diplomats from transnia and kenya are traveling to burundi to try to negotiate a peace deal between the government and the opposition. on tuesday the constitutional court allowed the president to run for a third term. hundreds of protesters have returned to the streets of the capitol to challenge that decision. the germanwings co-pilot accused of deliberately crashing the planes rehearsed the maneuver on a previous flight. he tried the move on the flight

previously. all 150 people on board the return flight died when it crashed in march. a former petrobras executive has blamed what he calls bad politicians for a corruption scandal. he made the accusations in a parliamentary inquiry. they are investigating several members of the former and current government for any wrongdoing. six more duties have been found buried in a thai jungle. they are expected to be muslims. it is thought that nearly 60,000 people from the persecuted minority have left from myanmar in the last few months some end up in camps in thailand run by human traffickers. >> reporter: it's a stretch of land at the tail end of

thailand. it is beautiful, but these jungles hide something more sinister. last friday a mass grave containing 26 bodies was found in a camp that held hundreds. 19-year-old is from the rohingya heartland. he spent four and a half months in this camps he said he saw two dozen people die. >> translator: there were people killed by beatings. i helped wash and bury the bodies. and i even performed islamic burials in the hills. >> reporter: the deaths are the result of a scene that is played out in numerous camps to hundreds of people. calls to families asking for more money to pay the traffickers. everybody has to pay, and if you don't pay, you can't pay, you are subject to beatings you are subject to deprivation of food

and water. >> reporter: the thais put more than 10 0 soldiers in the jungles to find the camps. this is an area they came across in the morning, and they believe just several hours before it was occupied by traffickers, and some of those rohingya that they brought along with them. they are destroying the material here that way the traffickers can't come back and use these supplies. they'll continue in this area of operation only two kilometers away from the border they will continue deeper into the jungle and continue the search operation to find more camps. the national police announced that two local officials were arrested and some police have have been reassigned. they launched a command center for the operations. >> translator: we now have a clear direction to counter human trafficking. the situation in thailand is

considered a crisis. >> reporter: but it might be a bit late for this round of the crisis. as they continue their jungle patrols, some feel that they will only find more evidence of the traffickers, not the rohingya nor the traffickers themselves. with the border so close, it's very easy for them to slip across and out of reach. scientists in new zealand have discovered that one of the country's most iconic glaciers is retreating an an alarming rate. wayne haye reports. >> reporter: glaciers are one of nature's most ah-inspires features. they are constantly changing and in this case retreating quickly. >> we're starting to see quite dramatic changes on the hillsides themselves the amount of sentiment moving into the valley and it is all happening

at an incredible rate. >> reporter: the rate of change was highlighted when a group of scientists released these series of photographs. and it shows how the ice melts, and the valley walls become unstable and collapse. now for safety reasons visitors aren't allowed to climb on the flay -- glaciers. >> we have had to adjust our business. most of our trips fly up on to the top. >> reporter: since the late 1800s, as the earth as warmed up this glacier has fluctuated greatly. at the top a clue as to why the new zealand glaciers are so sensitive to change. this like his neighbor has a very large catchment area.

combine that with high levels of know and rainfall and any changes up here at the top are magnified down below. what we're seeing now isn't unprecedented. scientists know it was about the same size in 1983 because of low snowfalls, but then it has a huge growth spurt again. what they don't know is what will happen next. >> we know these glaciers do retreat, advance, retreat, advance in a cycle, but it's possible that we won't see it readvance to the same position it readvanced last time in about 2009. >> reporter: it's a also possible it will keep retreating unless temperatures decrease and snowfall increases. a private space company has successfully launched a capsule that it hopes one day will

transport astronauts into space. the unmanned space x dragon two capsule flew for just over a minute. nasa hopes to use private craft like these to send astronauts to the international space station in 2017. secretary of state john kerry pledges millions to help yemen civilians as he headed to saudi arabia for talks over the war. four afghan men sentenced to death for leading the mob that killed a woman. there are questions over whether the trial was fair. and the city of los angeles sues wells fargo. accusing the bank of