that's not what we're talking about shooting people are not a potential to burn themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem are you worried that this conflict could erupt into an outright open war that the city general of the security issue will the people who pay the price clearly their writeup been prejudiced setting the stage for serious debate absent at this time on al-jazeera. yemen's ousted president asks iran to help and fighting between his forces and

their former allies the hutu rebels. lots of obama you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up a clear message to north korea as the u.s. and south korea hold joint military exercises. warnings for u.s. president donald trump even from his own party as he offers a running twitter commentary on the russia investigation. and we'll also go inside a place described as no man's land where wrecking go refugees are stranded between me and mark and bangladesh. welcome to the program we begin with a new wave of saudi led airstrikes that have hit targets near the airport and interior ministry in the evans' capital areas which are under the control of hutu

rebels people living near the airport say so. raids have shaken their homes late on sunday night and into the early hours of monday morning and on the ground there's been more fighting in sanaa between the former allies supporters of the ousted president ali abdullah saleh he's calling on iran to use its influence with the who tease to help mediate an end to the fighting reports. a missile launching from yemen aimed dubbing nuclear reactor at least that's what who the fighters say is happening in this video uploaded by the military media center. has been a large a full range rocket of the crew towards a life military target important to the coordination of the iraqi military internally the former president. and his militias aim to create division inside yemen despite the fact that they were unable to sustain any military political or economic gains in yemen or. abu dhabi denies this video was authentic saying

there was no missile launch or interception what can be verified is fighting in the capital sana'a. five days of combat between former allies former president ali abdullah saleh and the who think he's dozens have been killed so struck an alliance with the who face after a popular uprising ended his thirty three years rule in two thousand and twelve together they took control of sana'a now they're tearing the city apart. snipers are on rooftops and residential areas tanks replace commuters on city streets the u.n. says fighting is so severe medical teams cannot get to the injured and people cannot leave their homes there's reports the u.n. is trying to evacuate at least one hundred forty aid workers but fighting has cut off the

a port wrote they have also been coalition is strikes on sana airport. the coalition bolstered by the new support of the former presidents have doubled down on the iranian backed who thinks the iranian embassy was hit by a rocket on saturday and then who think controlled territory in yemen's north the coalition air strike killed at least a dozen people. they targeted my house while there were eighteen to twenty guests my whole family was inside as well as all our cattle everything is gone there's nothing left. but tehran has told salai to rejoin the who the alliance against the coalition says he just wants a quick game to the conflict which is a volved into the world's largest humanitarian crisis whether his motivations are outer a stick or a power play or a zone clear as where the who things really did launch a missile on abu dhabi shallop bellus al jazeera well less than

a week after north korea tested a missile it says it's capable of reaching all of the united states now south korea and the u.s. have put on show of force they've held joint military drills involving around two hundred thirty fighter jets and twelve hundred personnel of war this kathy novak joins me from our soul bureau i mean the joint drills a surprise between these two countries kathy but in directly the saber rattling continues when you see the u.s. bringing in stealth fighters. certainly not backing down to hello this is the largest ever air drills between the u.s. and south korea they are annual drills there are regular exercises they always make north korea angry and these particularly ones were not planned because of the launch of the interest and intercontinental ballistic missile we saw on wednesday but of course the timing is significant and the militaries say this is part of training of improving wartime capabilities what these warplanes will be doing is

practicing precision air strikes against simulated north korean targets that's the kind of thing that they would do in the event of war but you the u.s. and south korea repeat that these drills are defensive in nature nevertheless north korea always gets angry about them in advance of them kicking off today the north korean state media was quoting the foreign minister there as saying that the trump team as he referred to them is begging for nuclear war by staging what he called a dangerous nuclear gamble on the korean peninsula and of course it's not just north korea that gets angry certainly china and russia raise an eyebrow will certainly become a little bit ago when they see these drills happening what are they saying. well we know that this is not something that china and russia wants to see continuing because even when the security council had an emergency session in response to the latest i.c.b.m.

test they were pushing again for their proposal of what's become known as a freeze for freeze that would see the u.s. and south korea stopping or at least pulling back on these joint drills in exchange for north korea freezing its nuclear development now the u.s. has dismissed this out of hand repeatedly in the past saying there can't be a parallel drawn between what is a legal defensive exercise and what it says is illegal activity from the north koreans or the u.s. in the south koreans continue to push ahead with these sorts of drills and in fact the u.s. is doubling down and it's kind of language we're hearing from the u.s. national security adviser h.r. mcmaster who says that time is in effect running out that north korea represents the greatest immediate threat to the united states and indeed to the world and he was asked on u.s. television about donald trump's reaction to the missile test when he said that the u.s. would handle it that the u.s.

would take care of it and he arc mcmaster said that if necessary the u.s. could in effect go it alone now the donald trump has referred to the potential of more unilateral sanctions coming out of the united states but of course the general consensus is there's not much more that the united states can do when it comes to sanctions at least alone what the u.s. south korea japan all want to see happen is for china to do more when pushing sanctions particularly on the oil flow that comes into north korea but that was not something that china appeared to be open to during the last meeting at the united nations so we'll continue to follow events of the korean peninsula with you can see for the moment thank you. let's reach a little east now where a meeting between foreign ministers of the gulf countries is expected to go ahead in kuwait in the coming hours ahead of a crucial regional gathering cattles a foreign minister says his country's to mean that how middle time he will attend the gulf cooperation council summit which starts on choose day the g.c.c.

is in crisis after three members saudi arabia the u.a.e. and bahrain seven diplomatic trade ties with cattle the last summit was held in bahrain in twenty sixteen and this will be the first since the blockade of cattle began almost six months ago this year's host creators be the mediator in the standoff you need to reach a level of understanding and going security principles that everybody is agreed upon and everybody should and you do and should be committed to and then from there we build on. on it on the next is the model for the cooperation also you the region the palestinian authority is calling for emergency talks over the possibility that the u.s. embassy in israel could be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem the arab league or the organization of islamic cooperation are being asked to host the meeting us president donald trump is expected to make a decision as early as this week palestinians and arab states saying moving the

embassy would jeopardize the peace process because it would mean the u.s. recognizes two resulin as israel's capital palestinians want east jerusalem to be the capital of their future state. meanwhile trump is facing more pressure on the domestic front and a politician from his own republican party has joined those warning the president not to tweet about the russia investigations on sunday trump tweeted that he never asked former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating his former national security advisor michael flynn testified in june that trump had to spoken to him about letting go of the flow of investigation flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia he insists he was asked to do so by a senior member of trump's transition team or trying to also attack the f.b.i. itself saying the agency's reputation is in tatters describing it as the worst in

history dan estabrook has more from washington d.c. . well these tweets always seem to get the president in trouble and this tweet from yesterday was especially troubling because up until yesterday the president claimed that he fired mike flynn back in february because he lied to vice president mike pence about these conversations with the russians now yesterday in the tweet he indicated that he actually fired him as well because of lying to the f.b.i. which raises the question what did the president know did he know that the f.b.i. was in fact investigating flynn and that is why senator dianne feinstein raised the question of obstruction of justice because a couple of days after aslan was fired the president asked former f.b.i. director james comey to go easy on him because he was a good guy now today the white house is saying that actually the president didn't fashion that tweet yesterday that that came from an attorney and nonetheless people

within the president's own party are telling him to go easy on the tweeting i would just say this is for us there's an ongoing criminal investigation comey may be part of it you tweeting comment regarding ongoing criminal investigations at your own peril i would be careful for you mr president watch this and lindsey graham said that he didn't think that the f.b.i. was dysfunctional although he did raise questions as to whether flynn laing to the f.b.i. constituted a crime something thousands of rank refugees have set up camp and an area known as the a man's land between a bug like this that are among the more than six hundred thousand people who cytokine be involved military profits travel to the camp a report on how families of coping. some water begum is sick and so eighteen month old baby. they fled the military crackdown on their hinge in myanmar three months ago the to move refugee camp on

a small stretch of land sandwiched on the border between bangladesh and myanmar is where they live now when refugees here want medicine they have no choice but to cross the river into bangladesh to get it. well. it gets down i'm cold at night that's why we got sick and have breathing problems and water is also ready contaminated in the camp the smallest head of the we are really suffering here we can go to man mark can we go to. the bangladeshi army says aid workers can't go inside the camp because it is beyond their military jurisdiction the army also stops people moving into other refugee camps further back from the border. on the other side of the border fence i'm e.m.r. soldier sits in the bush is only a few meters away from the camp other troops patrol the border fence

the ranger we spoke to here say they feel trapped and afraid the bangladeshi myanmar border fence is about one hundred meters behind me across the stream inside this camp which is in no man's land there around six thousand ranger living now the fact that the bangladeshi military will not allow aid workers inside that camp shows just how vulnerable these people are the u.n. says it's working with the bangladesh government on a plan to move the refugees in no man's land to camps where humanitarian aid is more readily available. you and i said look it's for all ranking officials in bangladesh to be a committed within refugee community especially for those in difficult to reach areas where so far you and i see it has a plan to accommodate sixteen thousand and those areas have to be accommodated in the extension of could have been can based on their discussion with the government that the priority now is for talks on the death ten thousand of those refugees and

they extension of could have a long camp at least six hundred twenty five thousand reinjure who fled the recent military crackdown in myanmar bangladesh has been praised by the international community for giving shelter to an ethnic group that has suffered decades of persecution in myanmar. the bangladeshis are struggling to cope the government has approved a two hundred eighty million dollar plan to move tens of thousands of ranger refugees to temporary shelters on an island on the coast but it's vulnerable to cyclons a natural disaster. bangladeshi generosity is being tested. and this means that hundreds of thousands of refugees remain vulnerable and scared especially those forced to shelter in no man's land stratford al-jazeera bangladesh. still ahead here on al-jazeera more protests at home during so we can

have the disputed presidential elections plus. you know. it's been a closely guarded state secret for fifty three years the size of china's nuclear arsenal straight after the break. however still got some rather wait to see whether in two parts of central and eastern europe of them still plenty of cloud down around the balkans down to was that southeastern corner that's all pushing its way further east which is because through the next couple days me when up towards the northwest we've got. a lot starting to push its way and nine celsius there for london just seven degrees there in passing in say the states now a little further east just pushing out of germany into poland bad of cloud of rain

down towards a southeastern corner and again that will make its way further east which has become through tuesday nothing moscow temperatures minus three degrees celsius just around for ankara there's that when she whether they're still in place just around central parts and i would say was the northwest well summarize cells just for a lot of them passed by the wind started to come in from a westerly direction a milder direction it will cloud over by the end of the weight but at least it will be. a cloud across northern parts of africa big area cloud that just coming out of libya pushing towards as we go through the next cold enough behind the winds coming in from of a northerly direction. just eighteen degrees celsius it should brighten up for northern parts of algeria. fourteen or fifteen celsius here fly dry and sunny.

the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has been awarded the nobel peace prize in an exclusive interview with the winning delegation from the award ceremony in oslo al jazeera asks whether banning these devastating weapons could finally lead to complete disarmament on al jazeera. welcome back to officer i'm still robin a reminder of our top stories yemen's ousted president. has called for iran to mediate with the hutu rebels to end the recent infighting fighting has escalated

between the hutu rebels and their former allies supporters of sellers and overnight a new wave of saudi led air strikes has had targets near the airport and interior ministry in sanaa. less than a week after north korea tested its most powerful missile yet south korea and the u.s. have put on a show of force holding joint military drills. at a meeting between foreign ministers of gulf countries it's inspected to go ahead in kuwait in the coming hours ahead of a crucial regional gathering qatar's foreign minister says the victim even have adult party will attend the gulf cooperation council summit which starts on tuesday the g.c.c. is in crisis after three members saudi arabia the u.s. . seventh diplomatic and trade ties with cattle. thousands of people have been demonstrating in the capital of. prepares to enforce a nationwide curfew for. violent protests followed last week's disputed

presidential election is yet to be declared. protesters made their way across the city of they can see on sunday answering a call by opposition leaders who have asked supporters across the country to march there are thousands of people on the streets of the city demanding the national elections commission. they're also calling for under president. to step down. demonstrators express a general mistrust of the national elections commission making the job of international observers all the more valuable. their we won the recount to be fair no matter who wins we will accept it but not with election fraud. we want to allow them to be president we want. we want to remove this repressive

government the people of honduras have woken up and we are tired of what's been done to us over the last eight years. there's a large military presence in the city enforcing a strict six p.m. curfew the hundred military's response to a wave of violence and looting that gripped the country in recent days at least three people were killed and dozens others injured it's now been a week since the general election and while peace has returned to the city the concern remains that as long as the political limbo continues violence could spark up once again. that was he got the. people around the world are risking their lives working in a legal gold mines it's dangerous work because most of them use mercury to separate the gold from the all this is one of the issues to be discussed in the u.n. meeting in kenya as catherine saw reports from nairobi. his hands can't stop shaking and she bans a mix of gold and makary in

a mining area in mcgorry western kenya she's done this for the last year and she says her body tremors and slurred speech has some of the effects of matthew pollution. the bands up can remain in there for up to one and a half years and in water that goes up to eleven years an estimated one thousand four hundred tons of my carry from small scale mining like this is released every year. but the tremors are sometimes very serious especially fine burning the stuff when it's raining and sometimes i can't even move that's why there is a global campaign headed by the united nations to stop the use of mockery in an official gold mining but alternative machines are still too expensive for miners like those who are here. from. denmark.

and one can produce a range. has managed to buy this machine and uses corn starch to extract a concentrate of different minerals found in the region he was part of a global study by a network of environmental nonprofit organizations the revealed high levels of mercury in a majority of women who live in areas where the chemical is regularly used the first thing is to create awareness among them they need to come together. so that. they can. gather to acquire some of these machines. because we are currently dying to leave because we are poisoning ourselves at the center we men go through basic tests for symptoms that all too much matter in the system could also affect unborn children. fifteen million people. have children they have to have. huge number

of people affected by mercury. from the great speeches in the. back of the mind the mind is good hundred metres down to dig out the gold or. economy largely depends on this they say they know about the effects of my career but they cannot afford anything else catherine al-jazeera. now the u.s. defense secretary james mattis is due to arrive in pakistan on monday and he's expected to push the government to do more to combat armed groups like the taliban. the first i'm going to do it it do some listening like i always do my goal is to find common ground we know we have some common ground they have lost. one hundred thousand of their troops. killed or more did by terrorists they have watched hundreds of thousands of their innocent people murdered and wounded by terrorists

so we know that there is common ground not award ceremony for the nobel peace prize will be held on december the tenth it will be handed to the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can we're looking at the nucleus status of countries in the days leading up to the ceremony in all slow china's also will is a closely guarded state secret so it's not exactly known how powerful the weapons as a brown reports. are you coming up with. it is fifty three years since china joined the nuclear club. community for. when it detonated its first atomic bomb china was poor and recovering from civil war and japan's military occupation. chairman mao said that to prevent that

happening again he needed the ultimate deterrent it was now the cold war and china is then ideological ally the soviet union was happy to help. there are no official figures regarding china's nuclear arsenal that's because it's one of the biggest state secrets of all but a recent u.s. government report estimated that china currently has around three hundred nuclear warheads and around one hundred intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver those warheads. as recently as may this year chinese leaders pledged they would only use nuclear weapons if china was attacked first what's less clear say experts is how china would respond to a conventional weapons strike china we are only used. to retaliate against a nuclear strike but we have to admit there are internal debates some people want

to see china to changes new care policy and trade commission or strike its nuclear weapons as. a new care strike. for of china's neighbors on nuclear russia pakistan india and north korea recent evidence suggests that china may have unintentionally aided the north's nuclear missile program when it sold these trucks supposedly destined for the timber industry analysts say those same trucks seen here were later modified to carry and possibly launch the long range missiles north korea's been testing china in recent years also so. having shat shut cease to north korea and in those cases north korea provided a new set of kate to china pledging that these heavy trucks would only be used

for nodding. unlike north korea china doesn't boast about being a nuclear power but a recent military parade in beijing was a potent reminder of its growing military strength a strength underpinned by a nuclear arsenal that experts say is now the world's fourth largest adrian brown al-jazeera beijing it's been a quarter of a century since the first text message was sent to a mobile phone this would go on to revolutionize not only how we communicate but modern language and technology as well paul brennan takes a look. twenty five years ago human communication changed forever in the u.k. a software engineer used his computer to send the first ever text message to a mobile phone just two words merry christmas it was the beginning of a true revolution a revolution not just in technology but also in language and the way we communicate

that first text message or s.m.s. showed that mobile phones were capable of much more than just voice calls today's smart phone apps have their origins all way back with that eureka moments of the first text of the limitations of s.m.s. inspired the heavily abbreviated new language and more recently the rise of the m o g now in two thousand and seven u.k. users sent sixty six billion text messages by two thousand and twelve it was one hundred fifty one billion but by twenty fifteen internet based tech services like whatsapp and messenger were overtaking s.m.s. in twenty fifteen what's happened messenger together handled sixty billion messages a day that's nearly three times more than the twenty three billion texts sent through s.m.s. and twitter of course a direct descendant of the original s.m.s. is now the world's window into the mind of the united states president so has the text message had its day well perhaps but it'll never really disappear because in

an emergency even if you've got no wife i know three g. connection you can still send a simple text well australian politician has proposed to his partner in parliament the chamber debated a bill to legalize gay marriage. but will you will you marry me. to wilson a member of the governing conservative coalition fought back tears as he turned to the public gallery where his party said yes australia is preparing to legalize same sex marriage this week following a national vote in which sixty two percent of respondents supported the change the bill has already passed the senate and now it just needs the approval of the house of representatives.

you're watching out of there i'm still robin these are our top stories yemen's ousted president ali abdullah saleh has called for iran to mediate with the hooty rebels to end recent infighting fighting has escalated between the hutu rebels and their former allies supporters of silence overnight a new wave of saudi led airstrikes has hit targets near the airport and interior ministry in sanaa less than a week after north korea tested its most powerful missile yet to south korea and the u.s. of put on a show of force of the joint military drills. and a meeting between foreign ministers of gulf countries is expected to go ahead in kuwait in the coming hours ahead of a crucial regional gathering cattles the foreign minister says the amir sheikh to be better however the old party will attend the gulf cooperation council summit which starts on tuesday the g.c.c. is in crisis after three members saudi arabia the u.a.e. a bahrain serve a diplomatic and trade ties with cattle. you need to reach

a level of understanding and going things are getting principles that everybody is agreed upon and everybody should and you do and should be committed to and then from there we build on. on it on the next is the model for the cooperation both to democratic and republican politicians are warning us president donald trump against tweeting about investigations into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election they say his commenting on the probe a constitute an obstruction of justice on sunday trump tweeted that he never asked former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating his former national security advisor michael flynn but earlier we testified that trump had spoken to him about letting go of the flight investigation. the palestinian authority is calling for emergency talks over the possibility that the u.s. embassy in israel could be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem the arab league and the organization of islamic cooperation are being asked to host the meeting u.s.

president donald trump is expected to make a decision as early as this week thousands of people have been demonstrating in the streets of honduras following a disputed presidential election the electoral commission is yet to declare a winner those with the news headlines will be back with more in thirty minutes next on al-jazeera its side story to stay with us. on counting the cost the goldilocks oil price is there such a thing as the perfect price of crude for consumers and produces financial bubbles and big point the future of job creation in africa the only continent where the young outnumber the old counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. for some it's a red line for others it could ignite violence across the region so why is the u.s. government considering moving its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem this is inside story.