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plus... >> i'm ron reynolds at the gaming and electronic entertainment where showcase items is one of the big items this year. is. >> we'll start with breaking news. we're getting reports from the capital of sanaa with a series of car bombings with bombings. the attacks come as peace talks and fighting extended for another day. they have been struggling to make progress since failing to start on time. yemen's foreign minister blamed the houthi rebels sitting in their hotel rooms in geneva. following three months of saudi-led airstrikes that have killed more than two and a half thousand people. let's go straight to hashem

ahelbarra who is in gee me have a with the latest news we have or the car bombs. how are they getting on? >> it will definitely have an impact on the talks. we understand that the united nations envoy will talk now and meet with the houthi delegates and representatives and asking them to start talks with different factions to find solutions, particularly about the humanitarian truce, the international community, the americans, they've been reaching out to the different parties telling them you have to have an agreement before you leave back to your country. it's a very delicate switch. if you don't have an agreement the situation will just worsen in yemen. >> neither side wants to move without the other side moving

first, is that it? >> this is exactly the problem. each side is entrenched. waiting for the other side to make some concessions. the houthis say that we absolutely have no doubt in our minds that when we're talking about a truce is that the saudis should stop the airstrikes. they say no, we want the houthi toss stop expanding and stop shelling civilians across the country. you have two different narratives. the international community with the united nations are trying to find some sort of compromise. but i can tell you from the people that i've been talking to the sources of the different delegations will be extremely difficult to reconcile some of these differences in the coming days. >> and these diplomats they've dealt with difficult crises before. presumbly their skill is to come up with a sequencing arrangement that everyone can be happy with.

>> well, the thing now is that we--we do understand that the international community particularly the group of that has influence in yemen and have been trying to find a political solution with the different factions are just willing to have the negotiated truce, a two two-week truce to be announced across yemen that could send a positive signal to the yemenis that finally the warring factions can talk together. and then there was talk about the houthis pulling out from the areas they control. if that is their wish then they're ready to talk about a political settlement, a power shelling government. setting aside differences thinking about a new chapter in yemen. but everyone agrees this is going to be a long way to go. >> thank you very much, indeed, for bringing us the latest on the protracted talks in geneva,

thank you. and crisis talks to salvage the year-old deal between hamas and fattah, and operating gaza. talks whether to reshuffle the cabinet or form a new government will begin next monday. the world's watchdog saying thatsay testifying that president bashar al-assad's forces are increasing chemical attacks. they said chlorine bombs have been used as recently as tuesday. >> in the past three months we've experienced a new type of terror. that is in the form of barrel bombs that contain chemical weapons. since march 16th of this year we have documented 31 attacks using

poisonous gas. i remember the first attack where poisonous gas was used. i left my house immediately to head to the field hospital, i could smell chlorine bleach in the air. as soon as i arrived in the hospital there were many victim who is had beaten me there. many had symptoms of being subjected to poisonous gas. many had difficulty deeing and their eyes and throats were burning and they had foam from their mouth. >> let's go to kimberly halkett. given these allegations what do the doctors want from the members of congress? >> well, these allegations were backed up by very disturbing video evidence that they provided to the lawmakers. the doctors are calling now for the u.s. to take a lead and to do some sort of startinged military action that would allow for putting the pressure on bashar al-assad to get him to

the negotiating table to really try and secure come sort of no-fly-zone that would allow for the safety of civilians so they would not be subjected to these horrific attacks that were put forward. i should point out that the doctors pointed out to lawmakers that the attacks stepped up just ten days after the u.n. security council condemning such attacks. it's been a concern to president obama's ambassador to syria and spoke to lawmakers and echoed what the doctors were saying, calling for military short-term action that would put the pressure on bashar al-assad to reach some sort of political negotiation. >> kimberly, how much support is there to take military action? >> that's the problem. there is mixed political will. some are supportive saying we

should have--the united states should have done this a long time ago. but many are saying that the american public are war weary. the u.s. does not really come out ahead whenever it does some sort of military intervention whether it was iraq or afghanistan, the u.s. ends up looking unpopular. there is no incentive. but at the same time it was very hard to ignore some of this graphic testimony. you know, i should point out that there are efforts at the diplomatic level. that have been made. secretary of state john kerry said there were diplomatic efforts at the u.n. samantha powers calling for an attribution mechanism to prove definitively who is behind these attacks. that's the real problem. the doctors say their only proof is that these barrel bombs are dropped by helicopters so it must be the assad government because they're the only ones

with helicopters but chlorine could be used for domestic purposes like creating clean water. there is some difficulty in terms of definitively proffering who is behind these gas attacks. >> kimberly halkett from washington, d.c. thank you. some of the 23,000 syrian refugee who is fled to turkey in the past two weeks started to return home. they left the town after it was seized by fighters for the islamic state in iraq and the levant. on tuesday the town was retaken by kurdish fighters supported by syrian rebels. we have reports from the turkey-syria border. >> deciding it's better to go home than to squeeze in turkey's packed refugee camps. they passed back in on wednesday. only two days ago syrian kurdish ypg fighters took control of the

strategic border town from isil after a three-week battle. >> we're at a loss. whoever we support others will kill us. i don't feel safe going back. >> we're going back after two years. our homes were blown up by isil, who accused of us of being ypg. >> we have been in turkey for three days without anywhere to stay. i'm not afraid to go back. i'm a civilian. i've done nothing wrong. >> most of the 20,000 syrian who is crossed over are still in turkey. those we spoke to about going home, some are nervous about being under kurdish control. others were indifferent and others were glad to see the back of isil. they said that human they're replacing isil with ypg. they're talking about

strengthening its presence along the border with syria. now from the euphrates to kobane and close to the border with iraq in january after a four-month battle ypg forces secure control of the syrian town of kobane, then they've been under siege by isil fighters. with the help of airstrikes from the u.s.-led coalition and peshmerga the battle left the town in ruins. bernard smith al jazeera, on the turkey-syrian border. >> refusing to comment on allegations that officials paid people smugglers to take their human cargo back to tunisia. they showed the money that they say was paid to them. we have reports from sydney. >> australia's prime minister

still isn't answering questions. >> what are your reactions prime minister? >> these are those pictures. the money shots that have given free impetus to the allegations that australia paid people smugglers to turn a boat boat around back to sea. this interview with the captain suggests that despite the australian government refusal to comment on the alleged payments, that they did take place. >> i told the australian man we needed money so we could return to our wives and children. they said okay, we'll help. >> you this new exclusive footage is of all six crew members. the saga and legality of what australian officials may have done at sea is dominating news in australia. >> getting back to the question, is he paying money to people smugglers on water or on land lawful? >> you're asking a question

based on an allegation. i don't feel the need to respond to someone else's allegation. >> if it happened was it legal? the captain of the boat claims that australian vessel it's guided his into australian waters virtually the australian mainland, and that's where the payment took place. >> this is whether the australian secret intelligence service has broken australian law by paying people smugglers in what appears to be the evidence given to police in indonesia in australian territory. >> where ever it happened, paying smugglers is not popular. people on the streets of sydney were appalled. >> you can't keep it a secret. we don't know where the money is going going it just doesn't work that way. >> and the government's rhetoric was turned back on them. >> does the foreign minister stand by his statement last

month in a people smugglers use the money they receive to fund terrorism. >> the government's position has shifted from not true to no comment, and mounding evidence has emerged from indonesia that the payment did take place. the pressure is on australia's government to come clean and explain. >> still ahead on al jazeera, the worst drought of the century, north korea admits its struggling as the rice paddies dry up. plus coming up, how this is threatening to destroy its first former star in southern tunisia.

>> our top stories here on al jazeera. breaking news from yemen. a series of car bombings in the capital of sanaa has killed and injured dozens of people. that as the foreign minister said that peace talks in geneva are failing to make progress. they're blaming the houthi rebels. >> syrian doctor who calls for a no-fly zone being implemented to prevent chemical bombs from being dropped. and more dealing with the flow of migrants crossing

mediterranean see. north korea is saying that it's suffering from the worst drought and a third of its rice paddies have dried up. >> all is not well. this government official said that we're establishing and carry out counter measures against drought damage and despite pictures of lakes, fields full of crops, hillsides covered in trees, north korea is facing it's worth drought in a century. people working on cooperative farms like this one where the rice fields are almost bare, it's a very worrying situation. >> this is the first drought in my 20 years of farming experience. normally the rice should have five or six leaves and be about 30 september meters high by now. as you see the seedling is too small to do rice planting. >> in all about a third of the country's rice paddies have

dried up. it's threatened by unusually hot weather. >> by the start of spring the temperature where's quickly. in may, the high throw in is higher than in the average year. >> the level of the river is alarmingly low. such images bring back memories of the 1990s drought here which is thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. on wednesday the south korean government held a media conference pointing out rainfall has been unusually low on both sides of the border and south korea's field production could fall if it does not rain soon. it's partly was ofa prolonged

drought could take many more lives. >> greece is on a painful course towards default and leaving the eurozone and possibly the european union. that's if talks fail. they are close to defaulting on the bail bail out. greece said the terms of the loan are too tough and on sunday the government failed to renegotiate the deal with its creditors and unlock more funds. now greece is running outs of time to get the money it needs to get its payment to the imf due by the end of this month. that's just the first payment on a long summer. another $7.5 billion will need to be repaid in july and august.

>> if it's political leadership insists they must bear the costs of development that will not be beneficial for anyone in europe. the greek government does not wish this. it wants an honorable compromise. >> nato is competing it's largest ever exercises in the balkans seas. they've taken part in a mock current attack on enemy forces. it's intended in a demonstration of nato's capability and a warning to russia. laurence lee reports from northern poland, this side of the baltic sea. >> this is what the militarization of the baltic look like. marines coming to liberate a country from the grip of the enemy. it's a drill or in the worst-case scenario a rehearsal and there is no prizes for guessing who the supposed enemy is. nato's supreme allied commander told me that russia had to understand how serious nato is in its defense of the baltic

states. >> my commander in chief made it very clear here last year that we will defend every inch of nato territory. >> we have no idea what mr. putin is going to do, i don't think anyone that would guess would be able to give you any clear insight. >> the new crisis with russia has given nato a new lease of life. we were flown out over the baltic in a helicopter, and landed on the royal navy's hms ocean. but in the operations room where the exercise was planned staff from the u.s. u.k. finland and sweden, and they aren't even nato members. from the bridge they could look out to sea the contributions from several other countries. the russian fleet is out there as well. but they're not on speaking terms with each other. >> i think russians are watching. we're neighbors of russia. russia is not that far away. it's a neighbor of poland. clearly they're watching us. clearly they're interested in what we're doing but this is

routine business, and we should not be worried about that. >> the u.s. has already said that it's shipping out huge amounts of military hardware, and next week it's likely to be announced that troops will follow. in the russian enclave, russia said that it will speed up the ballistic missiles. the question is what is defense and what is aggression. from nato's point of view this is all about openness and moral authority. it's a complicated world and it's not always easy to figure out who is a friend whoop isn't. but in all this the wednesday of the baltic states, it believes it can offer moral legitimacy over russia. is all of this unnecessary provocation against the russians? >> i think every nation has a right to exercise and make sure that they have military skills, and what you see in nato is

absolute transparency. we talk about the sizers, the objectives of the exercises. >> so you would be comfortable if the russians came conducted their exercises over the coast of the united states. >> the russians have a right to exercise in international space. >> so they would go off and in search of the red forces, which had taken the air force. russia's president putin said that madness to think that invasion is opposite the card, but when they can't talk to each other this is what you get. >> it's horror that strickens

the rate of growth is faster because of climate change and tunisia is threatened by the creeping grounds an area where every drop of water is precious. >> this area was covered in sapped. but now life is returning. they're hoping that these salt-resistant plants will mean that his three children won't have to migrate elsewhere. >> if you have sheep and camels they can eat these plants and live here. before we couldn't feed them. we didn't have this water. owe wedge had water from god. >> scientists partly blame climate change for what is happening here. every year there is less rain and more underground water the water will become dry and salty.

>> there are 8 to 12 grams per slow hour. >> it's call the"star wars" was filmed here. every year thousands of cube be meters of sand are removed from the set. the sahar ray sahara is growing every day. scientists are talking about building a green wall across the whole is a of sahara to try to stop more land erosion. here the unique irrigation assistance makes sure palm trees only get the water they need. the oasis has become a major source of fruits. these organic dates are exported

beyond creating jobs and money for the community. >> we need to stop this irration exploitation. if there is no common conscience and vision, then the it won't be enough. >> their dream is that other communities will follow their example before the expanding desert destroys more land. al jazeera southern tunisia. >> thousands of gamers are in los angeles for the e 3 entertainment expo. these days the gaming friday is big business, earning $93 million a year. showcasing the latest in video gaming virtual reality and game technology. >> the biggest video gaming and electronic entertainment show on earth is off and running to the

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