the islamic religion is killed. >> don't miss the exclusive al jazeera investigation. >> i can't allow you not to go into that because that is your job. >> only on al jazeera america. u.n.-sponsored peace talks between yemen's exiled government and houthi rebels are about to begin in geneva but with little ground for optimism. ♪ ♪ hello, this is al jazerra live from doha. i am adrian finnegan. also on the program the al qaeda commander who plotted a deadly attack on annal year vinnie gas plant is killed by u.s. striking libya says the government. the south african court will meet in the next hour to consider whether to comply with an arrest warrant against sudan's president for crimes against humanity.

and nepal reopens heritage sites in the cat man too value any a bitbid to attract tourist after april's devastating earthquake. ♪ after three months of saudi-led air strikes in generally the u.n. can't even call the meetings taking place in geneva right now peace talks. u.n.-sponsored consultations are just beginning. in yemen itself there has been more violence, 27 houthi rebels were killed in fighting. there has also been intense battles in a defense and taiz. it also adds to the suffering of civilians the u.n. says over 2,500 people have been killed and 11,000 injured in the conflict so far. 21 million people need humanitarian assistance that's over 80% of the pop lake. nearly half a million people have fled the country and 1 million have been internally

displaced. all sides are now in geneva u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon met with gulf states from the g.c.c. and members of the security council ahead. talks, he's insist that go it will be a yemeni led process. let's take you live for al jazerra. with all sides so entrenched in this conflict, it's difficult to see that any progress can be made there in geneva. >> reporter: it's definitely going to be an extremely delicate situation for the international community and for the united nations in particular. but at least they say that this is the first time that a different factions in yemen are meeting since the start of the saudi-led air strikes more than two months ago. the problem is each is coming with a different vision of how to move forward. houthis say they have signed a deal with the government when they took over the capital sanaa

in september that's the pillar for any political settlement. the government said that was a deal imposed by the will of the houthis therefore it has to be scrappedded and we have to start a new political process based on the fact that hadi is yemen's legitimate president and his government is the only legitimate government in the country. hour we going to be able to reconcile those positions, this is exactly what the united nations envoy is going to do over the coming days. >> how will these talks work? they are not at least to be begin with going to sit in the same room, are they? >> reporter: well, adrian, until yesterday the government said it was not going to attends the talks because they were angry with the houthis bringing with 40 members to join the talks. and the houthis at the same time said we'll attend the first meeting, which is about to start, and then if we are not happy with the outcome then he

will leave geneva so it's an extremely delicate situation. now, as far as the reality on the ground is concerned the concerned the houthis with the forces loyal to former president saleh. they are the ones with the upper hand and control most of the territory. forces loyal to hadi are outgunned, undermined, sidelined pushed to some areas pockets of resistence basically in the south. it's an extremely delicate situation. and the i want national community knows that they have to do business with the huge is and former president saleh because they are extremely powerful in yemen. >> many thanks indeed. live there in geneva. libya's government says that former al qaeda commander has been killed by a u.s. air strike in libya. he was responsible for ordering an attack on a gas plant in

algeria two years ago in which 800 people were taken hostage and around 40 were killed. most of them foreign workers. daniel lack has more for us now from washington. >> reporter: libya's recognized government based in tobruk which is in the neighborhood of that strike, did say that the target had been the algeria and said that it had been successful, that he had been killed along with a number of others. if this is confirmed it's quite a significant development. because he's been involved in violent activities in the sahara for quite sometime now. in the united states, he faces terrorism charges here in connection with the attack on the b.p. gas plant in south eastern al year in in 2013, three americans were among the 35 hostages killed there. lots of other activities affiliated with him as well. a caveat, it has to be said his death has been reported before on, at least four occasions so

it's important to keep that in mind as more confirmation is forthcoming. the u.s. said an air strike did take place it's first since the fighting against colonel qaddafi in 2011. and they said they believe that air strike was successful. south africa will decide whether sudan's president will be handed over to the international court. bashier is there for the african is upsummit he feels roomed not to least. but his government says he will return to sudan regardless of the decision. >> reporter: when sudan's president omar al bashir arrived in south africa late on saturday. he brought with him a political and legal storm. one of the issues being discussed at the african union summit he's attending is conflict resolution, now the host nation faces the embarrassment of a legal challenge which could see bashier sent to the hague to face war crimes charges.

civil society organizations have now taken south african government to court to insure the country upholds its obligations not international criminal court. a judge has told bashier he can't leave until the case is resolved. the sudanese are furious. >> translator: this court's decision does not have legal value. south africa issued in the public gazette 10 days ago the decision of the african union that african countries are not bound to any decision by the court. this was in the public gazette of south africa 10 days ago. it seems that the court does not know about this, which is bad. or it does know and this is worse. but this is a matter to be assessed by law. >> reporter: it's left the south african government in a very difficult position. pretoria has an agreement with the a.u. that sitting heads of state cannot be arrested. the question is, what happens now? >> who is it that can prevent al bashir from leaving south

africa? is there an official. he will have to be arrested. and he will have to be put in custody. and all of those are not the court's responsibility. the court has made a decision which according to the law is quite correct. but taillight can't enforce its own decision of the international criminal court has asked south africa at that a to arrest bashier he al jazerra causing him of crimes against humanity and genocide in darfur. south africa has signed up to the i.c.c. many south african nations between the i.c.c. is biased against them picking out their leaders for prosecution. that means the decision on monday on whether or not to arrest the man who has governed sudan since 1989 will reverberate around africa and the world. al jazerra johannesburg, south

africa. talks between greece and its european creditors in brussels have ended without an agreement on the debt crisis. european officials dismissed greece's latest reform proposals prompting fears that athens is getting closer to leaving the euro zone, greece's anti-austerity government is refuse to go implement large scale spending cuts. talks are set to resume again in luxembourg on thursday. nepal will soon reopen all of the heritage sites in the kathmandu valley in a bid to attract forrist after april's devastating earthquake. among the sites are the noble courts which were badly damaged. unesco has raised safety concerns over reopening but officials believe the necessary measures are in place. in rural nepal volunteers are helping to deliver care to new mothers and their babies. wavewe have a report.

>> reporter: she is a broken woman. she had single-handedly been taking care of more than 100 women and children's health. but can no longer evening talk about her work. when the earthquake hit nepal in april, she lost what was dearest to her her two grandchildren. a two-year-old and a newborn. >> translator: i was so happy to be working on child health. i used to go on house calls but this is what god did to me. >> reporter: she is a community health volunteer. one of the 52,000 women who insure that pregnant well, newborns and children under five are healthy. now she feels lost. community health volunteers like her are said to be the backbone of nepal's health services. now many of them are struggling with their own losses, leaving the entire health system broken.

out of the nine community health volunteers in this village of 600 houses, she did not make it. her husband tells me that she was buried with her which two children as she was run to go save them. 16 people in this village died. >> translator: i feel like i have lost half my body. >> reporter: the health post has walls that rattle and the cracks on the walls scare patients and health workers. the government says it might take at least four years to rebuild. but that is if decisions are made fast and the morale of the health workers stays high. but with so many health workers facing their own battles, and with the monsoon season expected to cause landslides and bring disease, people in villages like this expect more suffering.

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u.n. talks are underway in geneva houthi rebels are still refuse to go talk directly. more than 2 1/2 thousand people have been killed since saudi-led air strikes began three months ago. libya's government says a former al qaeda commander has been killed by a u.s. air strike in libya. he was responsible for ordering an attack on a gas plant in algeria two years ago in which around 40 people were killed. and south africa's high court is about to decide whether sudan's president should be handed to the international criminal court. he's been banned from leaving the country until a decision is made. there are growing calls for an inquire any to reports that australian officials paid people smuggleers carrying migrants to turn back to indonesia. a boat captain and two crew members told indonesian police that australian authorities paid them to turn back their boat with 65 migrants on board. let's go live now to sydney, andrew thomas joins us from

there. an due doandrew do we know whether this actually happened? >> reporter: well, it's a very good question, because australia's government is points blank refuse to go engage the question. they say matters of on sea praeugzs are entirely about national security and on that basis they won't give a yes or no, but of course that contrasts with the in addition government reaction last week when these allegations were first made. australia's foreign minister and australia's immigration minister both denied that payments have been made by australian officials to effectively people smugglers at sea. but then tony abbott the prime minister put a kata wrong the pigeons when on friday he was asked a similar question and he said he wouldn't deny it. which, implied, of course it might have happened. in the meantime there seemed to be growing people in indonesia saying they saw wads of u.s. cash passed by an australian official to the captain of the

people smuggling vote. of course those are very serious allegations. definitively did it happen? we are none the wiser but it seems the nondenials should be said that the foreign minister having last week denied it now saying what the prime minister is saying is that they won't engage in the question. it would apply that it did happen if it did happen that could have very serious implications. >> serious implications, why if it did happen, was it legal? >> reporter: well, that's a very good question as well. was it legal? under whose laws to we judge it indonesian laws, australian laws. australia has very strict laws about paying people smugglers you can be put in for jail for 20 years. if it's in international waters would australian laws apply. if it was australian officials that did it who would judge it.

the attorney general is one of those refusing to answer the questions. if he knows it seems unlikely the government would prosecute its own officials for doing something in the aim of stopping the boats as tony abbott would have it. a very good question as to its legality. meanwhile it's having serious repercussions big for relations between indonesia and australia. in the united states, jeb bush is expected to formerly launch his bid for the white house, he's a recognizable name but joining a crowded republican field as alan fisher reports. >> reporter: for the republicans this will be a contest rather than a coronation, after eight years on the sidelines having launched two election -- l.lost two elections they are ready to take back the white house. plenty of people believe that they should be the president. >> a lot of republicans look at

the field and say this is a good time to be running no incumbent him are you clinton isn't necessarily scaring republicans away. also in the republican field itself. you don't have a dominant front runner. >> reporter: by the time the deck los angeles raises end. >> i am running for president of the united states. >> i am running for president of the united states. >> i am announcing that i am running for president of the united states. >> reporter: it could be 15 candidates in the race. some believe that's a sign of strength a party where several people feel qualified to be president. jeb bush hasn't we charged yet and will and it's the name most people will know. the brother and son of former president, his early opinion pole. [ inaudible ] mike huckaby appeals to the he safe gel can christian ground of the party. >> the third agency of government i would do away with education, the -- the third one i can't sorry. [ laughter ] >> option. >> reporter: but he has emerged claiming to be parter smarter more

engaged and with a better memory. talking about republicans moving a generation, meaning him. the only woman is former computer he can executive carli fee or own i she's making little impact. mitt romney lost last time around republicans said it had to learn lessons and create new voters in groups that didn't vote for them. >> positions republicans have hurt them with the new and riding hispanic population and all the votes that they represent. so there are some lessens that they don't seem to have learned. >> reporter: after romney's loss many republicans believe they need a more conservative candidate. someone that will unite the base but that also has its problems. >> if the party decides to no nominate someone who is a little more out of the political mainstream they might a position where they lose an election that they otherwise should be able to win in 2016. >> reporter: there will be debates, they start in just a few weeks, if the field remains this large only the top tier candidates and those ragerring ragerring high mount opinion polls will be

invited meaning some of the hopefuls could fall at the first challenge. alan fish he should al jazerra washington. students have returned to class despite the mediciner outbreak in south korea which has now killed 16 people. around 2 1/2 thousand schools have reopened but 440 remain shut. students are wearing masks having their temperatures taken and being caught taught how to prevent the spread of the disease, more now from seoul. >> reporter: the outbreak of mers didn't peak or increase in numbers over the weekend so officials here in south korea are breathing a sigh of relief. they had suspected that those numbers mavin creased because of the incubation period required for mers to show itself. on monday morning confirmed cases, included 16 dead and 145 injured. five more cases have been reported within the medical facility, sam did you think medical facility. four patients, one a doctor. with four people being

discharged and 17 still described as being in an unstable position. perhaps the authorities now realizing that the outbreak has been confined to medical facilities and some outlying areas have been isolated off and they can treat these individuals in a safe and secure environment. it also means that the public at large will be breathing a sigh of relief that this has not become an epidemic that the whole country should be worried about for the moment. president herself has been to the hospital to reassure staff and to show them her support. it's very important time actually for students across the country, schools reopened, the large majority of them reopened on monday. meaning that they can now continues with the academic year which is important because the schools have to remain open over a certain number of days for students to pass their exams and school head teachers are saying they are taking recautionary scenarios in to account to make sure that students can fulfill

their academic requirements for the year. a north korean soldier has walked across the most heavily militarized border in a bid to defect. he approached a guard post it's rare for north koreans to cross the demilitarize zone the last attempt was in 2012. more than a thousand defections from north korea to south korea take place every year, mostly via china. nearly 9,000 mexicans applied to the united states for asylum last year saying they feared for their lives. of those only 124 were actually granted the right to live in the u.s. adam raney spoke to one man on the mexico-u.s. border who says that his life depends upon him escaping his country. >> reporter: the stories in this soup kitchen are all about abuse at the hands of smugglers and the police. this man said he and 30 other

migrants were robbed and beaten by federal police. most bear their mistreatment silently. afraid of what might might happen if they speak out. after year old of repeated beatings and kidnappings juan has had enough. he wants to apply for asylum in the united states. recently deported from there he says he was forced to dig tunnels like these under the border. he managed to escape, but he can't escape his fears. >> translator: i haven't been able to sleep well. my nerves are shot. i am afraid they are going to quillkill me. >> reporter: lieutenant jerry castillo can't confirm if migrants built the tunnels but he's seen many over the years. >> we found many, a lot of drugs, a lot of tunnels that have been connecting from mexico in to the u.s. >> reporter: his boss said there is only one word to describe the way migrants are treated by cartels. >> it's slavery. definitely slavery.

there is no two ways about it. what happens to them after they finish the it up is unknown, you know, maybe they disappear because they become witnesses. >> reporter: that's what juan miguel is most afraid of. he's just made a formal complaint about the abuse he says he has suffered from the police and the cartels. now he says he must leave mexico mexico. fran i am suffering persecution from the government, the police and the criminal groups they can't control. i fear approximate may life. i just want an opportunity to carry on living. >> reporter: he's about to cross from the mexico side to the u.s. side and apply for asylum. most of these cases are rejected and there is a possibility he will be detained for several months. this is what he's fight to go return to, his home in america. >> translator: it frightens me more the idea of them letting him go in mexico. because it will be more dangerous right now if he's

locked up. inside he's alive. my kids have their father there and can visible him. if you sends back across the border, his life is at risk. >> reporter: lawyers told us the best hope is for his case to go on for six months. then authorities will allow him to go home for his family until an immigration judge decides his fates. adam ably, al jazerra nogales on the u.s.-mexico border. in venezuela a jailed opposition leader and dozens of his supporters have been on hunger strike now for three weeks. some are sleeping rough. and taking only water. leo polo lopez was jail today 15 months after anti-government riots last year. the former mayor and critic of the socialist government is demanding the release of political prisoners and a date for elections. in brazil people have marched in rio.

the slum near the olympic parking built for next year's games the protesters say poor people are being moved out of way to make way for the rich. it's in one of the wealthiest areas and real estate prices are rising. cuba's 12th biannual exhibition is attracting art lovers from around the world. it's an illustration of how reforms on the islands are making it possible for artist to his earn a real living. collectors from the united states europe and the middle east are buying up cuban art like never before. lucia newman has more now from havana. >> reporter: an ice-skating rink with pretend ice in the middle of tropical havana. a face beach across the street. along the city's main coastal drive. these installations and other works of art are part of cuba's highly anticipated 12th biannual art show. it's an international events. but this year, as never before, cuban artists are taking center stage. in these times of change on the

communist sigh islands. >> translator: there was so many regulations, prohibitions and these new freedoms we are seeing are lying throwing a drop of water on a very dry desert. they are being absorbed satellite anything speed. >> reporter: 10 years ago jesus nogales barely had enough room to paints on the floor in his tiny apartment. today he has the freedom to buy and build his own studio. his latest paintings examining the seductive relationship between many cubans and foreigners especially tourists. >> she is pure, beautiful but dangerous like a gelly fish. as the jester who seems so hospitable and can greet you in five languages but end up selling you cigars and women. >> reporter: cuban art has become a booming business. auctioned at sutherby's or purchased by visiting collectors from new york to beirut. this installation is called project salvation and like so

many others in this year's show, it refers to cuba's complex relationship with the ocean and with its northern neighborhood just 140-kilometers away. of course it also refers to the 10s of thousands of cubans who are trying to cross these waters to make it to the other side. michael uses american and cuban flags with empty bullet cartridges and barbed wire to describe decades of bilateral tensions. and the long-awaited birth of a new relationship. >> translator: this is called fiesta. because that's what we are living now. preparing for a party. and waiting wait to see if it's really possible to be friends and not enemies. >> reporter: the paintings are also exhibited in his own studio showroom. and selling for 10s of dollars. further proof that cuban art like cuba itself. is becoming a focus of world attentions. lucia newman, al jazerra

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