>> saudi arabia says it's repelled one of the biggest houthi attacks in its territory since the war in yemen began. hello, and welcome to al jazeera jazeera, i'm elizabeth peranem. tariq aziz dice at the dies at the age of 79. opposition rally in turkey just days before the parliamentary election. and we go on patrol with the

italian border police as they save migrants stranded at sea.we begin in saudi arabia where state media is reporting that its army has used air strikes and helicopters to stop a major attack by yemeni fighters. taking part by houthi fighters. it's thought dozens of republican guards were killed. earlier there were clashes in the southern yemeni district, several people have been killed, many others injured. fighting also broke out in the city of ta'izz with popular resistance fighters backing houthi militias.

apparently blew up a home where houthi fighters had been gathering. upper hand before talks in jeerch thatgeneva that is supposed to start on the freant of 14th of june. >> by far the fiercest, four hours ago the houthis had set back they were pushed back to the lebanese bother by saudi military air strikes by distance into saudi arabia but over the last couple of hours the heucts have entered houthis have entered back and taken control of many this the district there. this is a war final week of a war before the ceasefire each side wants to enter the ceasefire negotiations with the upper hand and as of now i do feel the houthis are surprisingly we didn't expect saudi invasion of yemen but for

the houthis to invade deep into dazan, 60 to to 70 kilometers into dazan and still continue this is a serious issue and i feel saudi arabia must deal with this seriously before it gets out of hand. >> former middle east analysis atanalysisat the u.s. state department. he feels the issue can only end through dialogue. >> i think if the last two months has shown the world anything it has shown us that just by bombings of the yemeni people will not solve the problem there. there has to be negotiations between the various parties. if people refuse to get to the negotiating table there will be no hope. prance the world community, the united nations can find some way

to compromise so the interest of all can be taken care of. >> to other influences now several civilians have been injured in separate attacks in syria. activists say syrian army helicopters dropped barrel bombs and people in the city of sermin in idlib province failed to free a child when she was trabd in trapped in be rubble. jets have been attacking i.s.i.l. positions in parts of anbar province to retake it from i.s.i.l. five sites were reportedly destroyed. the coalition says it killed more than 65 members of the group. u.s. statement state department spokeman john kirby,.

>> we know that the most important boots on the ground in iraq are going to be iraqi boots on the ground. and prime minister abaddics has alsobaddist hasmade that clear that's the force he wants to fight i.s.i.l. our commander has made it clear there's not going to be boots on the ground. 3,000 troops are there as advisors and trainers trying ohelp the iraqi security forces go after this i do not forsee that changing but we are going to be monitoring this strategy as we execute it every single day. but i see no change in that at all for us from our perspective. i think it's really important that we don't qualify confuse tactical issues with a strategic purpose. i think that's what maybe happened here. nobody is trying to understate what happened in ramadi.

and certainly nobody is happy what happened there. it was a tactical defeat. we understand that, prime minister abadi has talked about that. but that's far from saying that the strategy is unsound that it's not working. actually in truth if you look at the last nine or ten months that we have been operating with this group as a coalition we have continued to make solid progress. >> one of saddam hussein's trusted and loyal ministers tariq aziz has died after a heart attack. the 79-year-old was sentenced to prison nine years ago. >> for many, tariq aziz was the best known face of saddam hussein's regime. he defended his boss's policies at every turn. even the gassing of halabja in 1988 which killed 5,000 kurds

tariq aziz deflected the deflected the blame. >> translator: according to the information i have it wasn't iraq. >> reporter: came to the baath party in the 1950s. by the time the baathists came to power in 1968, the former english teacher was already a prominent figure. made a part of saddam's revolutionary council. in 1988 he became foreign minister. tasked with passing communications to washington. be the u.s. responded to the kuwait invasion by declaring war on iraq. for iraq, the results were devastating. the army defeated and the

country suffering harsh international sanctions. aziz's loyalty was never shane and he was named deputy prime minister short after the war. condemned what he described as constantly u.s. hostility against iraq. but that loyalty couldn't keep saddam in power and in 2003 under the guise of searching for weapons of mass destruction the u.s. invaded. tariq aziz was the ace of spades in the u.s.'s famous deck of cards of iraq's most wanted military and political leaders. in 2003 he turned himself in and in 2009 was convicted on two different counts, sentenced to 22 years in prison. the next year he was sentenced to death by the iraqi supreme court for the% accuse of religious parties. he remained in prison on death row and loyal to saddam until his death. kim vanel, al jazeera. >> two people have been killed

and more than 100 others injured in a blast in southeast turkey. the two explosions were about five minutes apart. prokurdish democratic party leader was preparing to address the crowd. where recep tayyip erdogan. >> the fact that this incident came two days before sunday's polls cast a shadow over the election. but we will hold the election one way or the other. we are making every effort to carry out the election by stepping up the security measures. >> chinese state media set the death toll from the capsized chinese cruise ship has reached 235. elderly tourists were on board only 14 sphieivels were found including thesurvivors were foundincluding

the captain. coming to the rescue of those left to drift at sea. hoda abdel hamid last been on patrol with them. >> reporter: their mission is to protect and patrol the waters surrounding italy. forefront of the rescue operations of the migrants making the journey across the mediterranean sea. >> saving human lives is really gratifying. the baby started crying it was emotional. when the sea is rough we have to keep them calm, bring them on board as quickly as possible. once they started sing, thanking

god we found them, all were singing, all of them. >> this is a state-of-the-art vessel, the newest in the fleet of the border police. its on board camera can zoom in about ten nautical miles away, that's about 18 kilometers. but finding the tiny dinghies used by the traffickers is much more difficult. other eu nations are also patrolling by sea and by the air. this is a trip of the british navy. we're about 24 nautical miles off the shore of sicily. any boat in the area needs to identify itself, otherwise it gets searched. >> and further away the german navy. it's carrying out a rescue. see the little white dinghy on the screen. later it was destroyed by fire.

for a while the smoke dominated the horizon. they are all part of the recently established triton mission. >> it consists of sea patrols from various eu members. we had to call upon commercial ships nearby to help. there are no borders in the sea so if there are lives to be saved we will go wherever they are even beyond the triton area. >> beyond is the area in bright blue in this map dubbed mare secura or secure area. it is here that we saw the crew rescue nearly 250 people a little more than an hour just a few days ago. thousands more in the past. and while the eu politicians mum over how to deal with the never ending influx, unsung heroes

like the montesperoni crew comb the sea in search of lives to save. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera, in the mediterranean sea. demonstrations against burundi's president pierre nkurunziza. protesters want the president to abandon his plan to seek reelection. his decision to run for a third term has plunged burundi into the worst situation since 55. the death toll in the suicide bombing of the nigeria city has risen to 45. faked a fight to attract on lookers before setting off their bombs. in recent weeks suspected boko haram fighters have carried out several attacks in northeast

nigeria. victims of wednesday's flood and fire, more than 50 people died in the flash flooding in accra, and killed in a blaze at the petrol station. still to come in this bulletin. story of a man who many say changed the course of world war ii. plus. multimillion dollar film fifa has made about itself. reveals groundbreaking

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>> good to have you with us. i'm elizabeth peranem in doha. saudi arabia has reported it carried out a houthi raid in southeast saudi arabia. kurdish politics, when the blast happened. and one of saddam hussein's most trusted and loyal ministers tariq aziz, died of a heart attack. age 79. he surrendered to u.s. forces in 2003 when saddam hussein was toppled. the united nations security council is calling for the

ceasefire in cheurn eastern eastern ukraine to be fully respected. nadim ba pa has baba last more. >> this town in eastern ukraine is fully under their control after two days of fierce fighting. left nearly 30 people dead in some of the worst violence since the ceasefire deal known as the minsk agreement that ukraine and russia signed in february. ukraine's president petro poroshenko says 50,000 troops have been deployed. >> translator: is russian aggression possible or not? i can tell you the amounts of troops in the occupied territories today sun precedented. since august last year there has

not been the amount of troops deployed at our borders. >> that be the topic was taken up at a recent security council meeting in new york. >> russia's intentions to escalate the process and disrupt the minsk process. the recent insults are the attempt of the russians to concert military pressure on where the players. >> for its part, russia accused kiev of attacking areas held by pro-russian separatists. >> i will not go into a discussion many provisions of which have been violated by the kiev authorities the assault antiterrorists,.

>> addressing the session by video link, the deputy monitor of the humanitarian campaign urge to continue. >> suggest the military track has not been abandoned in favor of the political one. these events underline the need to break the cycle of violence now before further escalation takes place. >> reporter: the leader of the self styled donetsk people's republic says the latest fighting has killed about 400 ukrainian fighters. whether or not that is accurate, the so-called low level war is far from over, nadim baba, al jazeera. government is trying to explain how the records of more than 4 million of its current and former workers were hacked. a white house correspondent patty culhane reports.

>> reporter: environmental lawyer david dickenson woke up friday to find out it's likely most all of his personal sense tiff informationsensitive information has been hacked. >> i think we have naively been feeling that we were protected. governments we thought would be secure would be able to afford to secure their websites and clearly you know the next guy down the street is just a little bit smarter. >> smart enough to get access to social security numbers date and place of birth job title training and performance ratings along with current and former addresses. expert jody westby says that is particularly valuable. >> it is valuable in the black market intelligence states and communities, it is valuable in

identifying who might be on the other side, spice for us, who could be compromised through blackmail or extortion. >> reporter: as for who the u.s. government thinks is behind it there's the official on camera response. >> what i'm saying is i don't have information i can present to you as to who was responsible for this incident. >> but all over, pointing the finger at china officials there denying they are responsible. >> without thorough investigation you jump to a conclusion so quickly. we think it's not scientific. and it's not responsible. >> we know thanks to elaboration by edward snowden the u.s. does its own hack. according to this memo in 2012, they spent $225 million on exploiting computer technologies and that is just one program. that is an embarrassment of a

u.s. president asking for cyber security in 2016. he is more likely to get that from congress now that the attack has hit so close to home. patty culhane, al jazeera washington. thousands have marched in chicago, some of those who live there, is are taking owner issue with the term chiraq. >> i want people outside of cli that we are not chiraq, there are positive things going on such as this movement today. >> it happened during the beginning of the summer because that is when the violence really

begins here in chicago. 425 people killed in chicago streets and on the memorial day weekend that kicks off summer this year, just last month 12 people were killed here in the city of chicago. it's gotten so bad that flick director spike lee based list latest film film called chiraq. that's why mayor rahm emanuel is here more people will be involved to try to stop the violence in chicago. that appears to be an uphill battle. >> saturday marks the sphunlt sphunt anniversary71stanniversary of the normandy invasion. virginia lopez went to meet the

family in the tiny coastal town of chirone in venezuela. >> it's hard to imagine that this unassuming balding man was a double agent named garbo. he retired in the small coastal town in venezuela with no one not even his children knowing his secret seems to be in character. that his life was built on such a momentous lie doesn't. >> he was the best dad in the world, he was incredibly transparent. in our house not only were lies banned you couldn't call anyone a liar. >> eventually he became one of their agents, based in lisbon instead of london as he had the

nazi army believe he filed a series of bogus transmissions. for american writer bill hamilton who retired in chirone and has since been researching garbo's life this was his genius. >> i think of him as a romantic, a dreamer you think of 27 different personalities he invented living in other places in england in canada and india and places like that, and then having a complete buying reaf biography like a victorian novel. >> until the day british author and investigative journalist

nigel west tracked him down in 1984 in chirone. >> my first call was saying i was calling on behalf of buckingham palace, and if he was the double agent code named garbo would he like to come to london. >> it's hard to assess the full extent of his legacy. for some he's an undisputed hero. for others he was the greatest double agent in history. al jazeera venezuela. >> a movie largely funded by world football's fifa, as allen fisher reports after the events of the past two weeks at fifa, the timing is a surprise. >> reporter: fifa, it's a

movie that's been around for a year but with interesting interesting timing it gets its u.s. opening this weekend. funded with $60 million of money from the organization, it's gathered horrible reviews. from the u.k. the guardian called it like stalinist propaganda. the miller said unintentional comedy gold, and tedious amateurist and hilariously ill timed. its sports deals and internal politics not the usual fare of movies but with corruption charges for those at the top of fifa and resignation of sepp blatter some of the dialogue takes on additional importance. >> the slightest error. >> i don't know where the money is going.

i mean i have my suspicions. >> united passions has only alimitted cinema release in the united states, only open 11 cinemas in a handful of screens. the only sin that that's showing it in washington d.c. it's sharing a screen and a small one throughout. ones who do watch it, are filled with laster and it's not meant to be a funny movie. >> happens to be coming out in theaters the very same week sepp blatter played by tim ross, has retired in a storm of controversy and many of the top guys from fifa are being taken out in handcuffs from their hotel room in switzerland. the timing could thought be better for this movie. >> people will be able to watch

it at home as long as the files are not corrupted. allen fisher, al jazeera virginia. >> just a reminder you can keep up to date with all the news at our website at aljazeera.com. >> on "america tonight": growing up on the inside. the remarkable story of guantanamo's youngest detainee and how he would survive. >> they would tie me up to the bed. >> a canadian teenagers, his disturbing time in captivity and just how did he end up in guantanamo? also, inside a fight you've never seen up close before. an al jazeera exclusive, the