and east at this time i now do sera. sera explores prominent figures of the twentieth century and how life already influenced the course of history that was the cuban revolution communist the way feel castro is a feudal east the not a commie east i'm just really into this country chiming to the international revolution became a point when the relationship came to an end the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. and fidel castro face to face at this time on al-jazeera. calls for an immediate cease fire in yemen's interim capital of eight enough to separatists seize government buildings in fighting.

i'm not matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkish forces take control of a key mountain in syria's african region as their offensive against kurdish fighters enters a second week. running. a call for free and fair elections thousands rally across russia against the upcoming presidential poll in march myself positionally the alexina volley is a respite plus. i'm lawrence lee with the second of all reports from the every three where refugees have accused the greek police of using violence and intimidation to illegally push them back over the river into turkey. yemen's prime minister has accused secessionists backed by the united arab emirates of an attempted coup after they took over the government's headquarters in the. of

aden at least ten people have been killed and one hundred others wounded in the worst fighting yet between secessionists and yemen's government the separatists want control of yemen southern region which was an independent country until one thousand nine hundred ninety the civil war has already torn the country apart who the rebels seized control of the capital sanaa in two thousand and fourteen president abdullah gul months or hobbies government was forced to move to aid in the south adding to the tension the u.a.e. is arming secessionist fighters despite being part of the saudi that coalition that's helping president hadi battled the whole thiis. has this report on the fighting in aden. yemen's prime minister says secessionists have. not spared the government had been based for the last few years there are reports of several people being killed in fighting between pro-government forces and separatists. this

mobile phone footage appears to show people arriving in the city thousands of protesters have been gathering against an internationally recognized and saudi backed government the demonstrators are backed by the united arab emirates which is supposed to be saudi arabia's ally in yemen. not necessarily in that situation. really. important. but you know you're. in the region. and you really. think you would know that yemen or its own you have your own. and more of. your in your country i think. the conflict in today's yemen is complicated the country used to be divided between north and south yemen until unification in one nine hundred ninety but the difference is never really went away since the fight the duties began in two

thousand and fifteen the secessionists have fought for control over here in seaports of aden last week seven forces led by the man appointed by president of the rebel months who hired me as the governor of aden and i was to overthrow hardy's government and that major general rule is to be rejected the deployment of northern forces to the south there have been calls since last sunday so it's been about a week for people to go down to the streets to protest and. transitional council has been calling on had the head of government to dissolve and for a new government to be appointed and they are calling for independence as well as we've seen on the ground the clashes are continuing and the situation is. very quickly now the future of president hadi is in question he has been based in saudi arabia along with this prime minister had been that other who struggled to control southern yemen despite support from saudi arabia. women's elected government was

pushed out of the capital sanaa in the north and now it doesn't seem to have a place in the south as well as some of the jarvey the others there. cities observatory for human rights says turkish air strikes near a freeman have killed eight members of the one family most of them children meanwhile turkey says it's taking control of a key mountain in northern syria as it steps up its offensive against kurdish fighters in the region it's accuse the kurdish group the y. p.g. of using the mountain to fire shells across the border into the turkish town of killis from where stephanie decker reports. the battle for bush i am bound to intensified. the constant rule of jackson artillery targeting this important high point along the turkish border. explosions echoed over the border town of killis during a crowd. is strange fascination watching the war on poland but for some it's

a little too close to home she didn't. even know we are hearing killis we've become used to the school has happened before when i saw it was on the other side of the buddha but i've still moved my wife and kids to another area to safety but i'm staying. turkey's offensive against the y.p. the kurdish group it considers a terrorist organization is very visible here the is also stirred nationalist fervor. was. lowered. and this is what that operation looks like inside syria turkey is backing free syrian army fighters and at the moment the main focus is pushing back from the border was the kurdish fighters say turkey's offensive has calls to. turkey says it

only targets y p g positions. but as is often the case in war facts can be hard to come was turkey's leaders stress that this is only the beginning and they intend to clear the y.p. g. from its entire border area all the way to iraq but the y.p. g. in that area further east is supported by the united states and there are american bases and military personnel on the ground their relations between ankara and washington are already tense and just another example of how complicated syria's war has become. on the turkish syrian border. and a forty eight hour ceasefire in cities rebel stronghold of eastern has expired there are reports that it's been violated several times the russian brokered truce went into effect on friday but there's been little calm with reports of government shelling and air raids at least eight people including a child believed to have been killed. the death toll from saturday's suicide bomb

attack in afghanistan's capital kabul has risen to at least one hundred and three with two hundred and thirty five others injured hundreds of people gathered for funerals and waited to hear from their loved ones i've cited hospitals and morgues the afghan president has declared three days of mourning not just for saturday's bombing but also for two other deadly attacks in the past week many afghans blame the government for failing to improve security. russian opposition leader alexina vali has been released from custody without charge after he was arrested during an anti-government rally in moscow more than two hundred fifty others were also detained for taking part in protests across the country calling for a boycott of the presidential election in march challenge reports. i knew for years it's become a familiar routine for novelli demonstration days while supporters in moscow and st petersburg slept in russia's eastern time zones they were already protesting hands

being arrested this footage is from the siberian city of camera. and in the capital police moved against the opposition leader's office is this time temporarily shutting down his internet t.v. channel claiming a presenter had a bomb from a secret location alexina valmy released a message of defiance we have of the country i want to go to the rally with and they detain me only aunt i want to make my position clear and one day i will tell my children and my grandchildren yes i was out there to say i disagree and all the bad things that happened to me happened while i was actively protesting this is what matters to me most then as protesters started to gather in central moscow novelli surfaced and his demonstration and a game of cat and mouse with the police reached its inevitable conclusion it bundled into a police van with his supporters chanting shame i. lexan of ali says that his arrest doesn't matter it's old but the people who stand out

here in moscow and all around the country are protesting for their own futures i was many in the young crowds you find an avanti rallies have been born and grown up in putin's russia and they're planning to boycott what they see as rigged elections in my. elections is unfair. and other candidates. of which in my opinion i haven't got my candidate because the money was cancelled from the election so if you have only been allowed to run in the elections you are going to see the result of course that is not true there are few here if any really think they'll be able to prevent what may putin winning another landslide election victory but as darkness fell on a cold moscow they kept their chance of protest ringing into the gloom and reach vallance al-jazeera moscow. corruption reportedly costs africa fifty billion

dollars a year it's the main focus of this year's african union summit in addis ababa man in charge of the anti corruption drivers nigerian president mohamed el behati he says it's affecting development across the continent mohamed atta has more from the ethiopian capital most of the day was spent on discussing is on financial reform of the african union african you know wants to see itself moral past and independent to find out why it's on them as it was a scheme in which it wants its member states to live a zero point two percent on imports and that money will be used to finance the programs operations and activities of the organization one president. to come over the leadership of the african union general assembly the highest position making and their high hopes a sees them on who drafted a u. reform plan it must act now to save africa from permanent

provision scare is essential we must created a single continental market integrity our infrastructure. and infuse our economies with taken already. the theme of this year's summit is how to tackle corruption in africa it's a huge problem according to the african union fifty billion dollars a lost by the african continent every year through corrupt depths now president mamadou part of nigeria a man who many praise for his and to corruption crusade in nigeria one of the most corrupt african countries has been appointed the champion of the african union and to corruption campaign for the year two thousand and thirteen the continent has made significant strides hootin in police legal and safe room without

new to really their convention on free venting and converting corruption however. the adoption of the legal and framework have not had the desired six's in this. the leaders are expected to tump their attention on the second day of the summit on monday to the issue of conflicts in africa and how to and conflict in africa the union by twenty two and the fight against boko haram the fight against al shabaab is somebody the conflict in south sudan the peace process in the central african republic and also the democratic republic of congo all on the agenda. still ahead on al-jazeera the father of flat pack furniture dies at the age of ninety one we look back on the legacy of the man who started our retail revolution plus.

building bridges through music how these performers are harmonizing the relations between cuba and the united states. from dusky sunsets if a sprawling savannah. to sunrise atop an asian metropolis. hello there is pretty cold for us in the southeastern parts of china at the moment here's the satellite picture showing this leiria of clouds here that hasn't been giving us a great deal of rain but it has been giving us a fair amount of snow these pictures from the zoo in shanghai sharing panda's there enjoying the wintery weather of the creatures not quite so keen over silly but the pandas really enjoying it as the temperatures only topping out around three degrees is the maximum a o monday for the south or so cool for us in hong kong a maximum just around ten or eleven it really will feel bitterly cold and that cold

weather extending into the northern parts of vietnam as well so our maximum over the next couple of days only topping at around eleven so rather cool force in the southeastern parts of china a bit further south were a problem with rain has been very very wet for some of us in the philippines you can see why that huge blanket of clouds right the way across us and only slowly over the next day or so will things improve so still some sharp showers in the western part of the philippines there all monday but even though should begin to clear away and it does look a good deal brighter for many of us there on choose day further south some sunshine but also some showers and forth across java looks pretty wet for much of the day if we head across towards india looks fine and dry for many of us here there's just a couple of showers in the. the weather sponsored by qatar and nice. personal stories of lebanese villages on the border with israel up to the blue line runs to their daily struggles when we go get emergency forces stop us when we go

there and then shoot at us the how to survive and peaceful protests during the interior means defines and resistance and this mealtime gets means nothing at night and feed and life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al jazeera. you're watching orders here a reminder of our top stories this hour yemen's prime minister is accusing separatists are backed by the united arab emirates of an attempted coup after they took over the government's headquarters in the port city of aden at least ten people have been killed a hundred others have been wounded fighting between southern separatists and

yemen's got. syrian activists say turkish air strikes near our footing have killed eight members of one family most of them children meanwhile turkey says it's taking control of a key mountain in northern syria as it steps up its offensive against kurdish fighters in the our free region. russia's opposition leader alexina vali has been released without charge after being arrested at an anti-government rally in moscow more than two hundred fifty others across the country were detained for protesting and calling for a boycott of the presidential election which. refugees trying to enter greece through its northern border with turkey have told al-jazeera they've been threatened and forced back by greek police violation. of international law they say it happened near the end for us river which flows from more than one hundred fifty kilometers from bulgaria to the mediterranean sea the police have denied the allegations long sleeve reports from northern greece. from the hills of northern

greece the places in turkey where refugees hide out before trying to cross easy to see the crossing countries means crossing the intimidating ever else river it's ease the greece turkey border more and more refugees are attempting this route even though they know have dangerous cities. even outside the risk of drowning or dying of cold in these huge empty spaces any number of refugees have told us they've been threatens and forcibly turned around by greek police acting in coordination with from texas the european union border agency these eighteen year old syrian was in a smugglers boat with his younger sister. then the police came up to us in the boat they told us you can't cross and they made us turn around these two traffickers claim they witnessed a boat load of passengers being shot at from the greek side and i can with part of it that again they saw the greek military they threw themselves back into the dinghy and started going back but the greeks shot three bullets into the dinghy and it started to sink one of them didn't know how to swim if his friend hadn't helped

him he would have drowned. this syrian actually got across walked miles to a village before being stopped at a row checkpoint kid in they said you're arab and you look like you're going to go to europe they looked around our whole group of nine and took us all off the bus they didn't beat us up but they took us back to the river of bushes in a boat back to the turkish military police. all of those things are illegal under international law increasingly though it looks like europe has given up worrying about such things. the european commission more grief and push back are illegal as long ago in two thousand and thirteen but since then greece itself hungary garia slovenia all built fences to keep refugees out and many other countries simply closed their borders and the european commission did absolutely nothing about its growth of the thoughts of everybody else is doing it and why can't we. the police who previously given us access to their fence and border patrols gave us a statement denying that they turn any refugees around and claim their priority is

human dignity but human rights advocates say they know pushbacks happen all the time and accuse the greek government of breaking international law is only one choice to follow the law if you start by passing a law means that your rule of law system is collapsing in these the problem with goes together with refugee crisis we call it goes into refugees garcia was in the reception crises in general of the crisis for you know the river itself is regarded as a military zone on both sides it's also so remote there is no scrutiny of law enforcement what is undeniable is the refugees have died in large unreported numbers trying to get across this intimidating stretch of the water and there is no safe route whatsoever to europe on the land border for people seeking asylum and safety from. grossly al-jazeera for the eversley. and in part three of lawrence's series he

reports on the surge of homelessness and northern greece because of refugees trying to avoid the greek islands. feynman's moderates president has declared victory in the country's general election so early in the store security another six year term winning more than sixty percent of the vote his main rival took just twelve percent the president's credited with balancing a delicate relationship with nato without antagonizing neighboring russia. catalonia his former leader colors praised the moment is expected to ask a spanish judge for permission to attend a regional parliamentary session and choose day spain's constitutional court ruled that he must be present to be chosen as the region's chief allowing him to form a government which the man has been in self-imposed exile in brussels since tobruk is wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion for spearheading catalonia secession movement look at all the openness in the legally that we have to swear in

president and that's what we have to do now and it's a complicated and difficult situation we have seen the last chapter of a process of demolition of the rule of law in spain the attitude of spain's government pushing all kinds of powers while the powers of the separatists are constantly being effected in violated hundreds of protesters have gathered outside hong kong's government headquarters after a pro-democracy activist was banned from standing for election. on. the electoral commission says agnes child cannot be a candidate because hope party's political platform violates the territories electoral laws twenty one year olds a member of a hong kong group that wants more autonomy from china. the government's move to disqualify me is telling us telling the world that the people of hong kong are not allowed to vote according to our free will we can only choose candidates that beijing favors we can only choose people that beijing accepts this

is not an election political persecution does not only affect me and demo sisto they are also persecuting the ends higher younger generation their gopalan has more from hong kong many people here say they're concerned about the wider implications of agnes childs disqualification they say there's no diggle basis for the government's decision and at stake is hong kong's rule of law now many of the speeches here i've been highlighting how the goalposts keep moving especially when it comes to closer mock you see candidates basically the message as interpreted by hong kong people is that beijing wants to crack down on the more radical wing of the pro-democracy movement which has been at baldpate didn't fall democratic self-determination or independence they say the central government in beijing has been redefining hong kong's mini constitution the basic law not just in these elections but in previous elections too to squeeze out any supporters of democracy

it's not really helpful there's no focus if you felt all about direct. suppression to us paul called the new generation at the same time it's just all call it's not a semi auto autonomy city is a semi off or how is it agnes chose just the latest in a series of young politicians to be barred from public office over their resistance to the beijing's government tightening grip in the city but the pro-democracy camp says they will not be defeated with little recourse and little chance of agnes cha being reinstated they plan to field another pro-democracy candidate and her place. the south african city of cape town is facing its worst water crisis in a century and protesters say the government is to blame the taps are expected to run dry on april the twelfth reservoirs have not been filled for more than three years because there hasn't been enough rain the city is limiting each household to fifteen liters of water

a day that's equivalent to one food boss the water ministers are urging everyone to cut back their water use. it is therefore important is that all lose us believe that plants include using want to consumption the agricultural sector has made a commitment to make sure that they explode enough they do have solutions as advised by some of the institutions of higher learning c s i as well as they would tell me what to do said commission so that did then that is that the petition to the realities of clementines family and friends of the late south african jazz legend humus held a memorial service in johannesburg by secular died last week at the age of seventy eight after a two year battle with prostate cancer again recognition for his distinctive afro jazz sound during his five decade career it was revered for his use of music to fight against white rule during south africa's apartheid era. come fried who became

a billionaire after he set up the ikea furniture chain has died at the age of ninety one he started the company in sweden in one nine hundred forty three transforming it from a small local business into a global empire famous for its affordable flat pack furniture peter sharp takes a look back at his life. his work ethic was simple to create a better everyday life for the many people involved comprende founded ikea when he was just seventeen that was seventy four years ago and sticking strictly to those principles he turned a small scale mail order business into a global furniture empire in ma was a little boy in a hurry he started selling matches to neighbors at the age of five some kids are interest from the beginning to be an entrepreneur and i was one of them and actually when he was a little boy he started to sell postcards to his grandmother and neighbors and eventually he loaned a bike and he started to fish and he was selling the fish around and the little

boxes could find in our museum is one thing one thing on this so the fish box is actually the first box that has money to get the fish box his company now pulls in a staggering sixty two billion dollars a year and this is where it all began in sweden where his first shop opened in one nine hundred fifty eight its simplicity remains at the heart of the enterprise the revolutionary flatpack found a following around the world even if far as west in yemen but it didn't escape scrutiny over its taxes last year the european commission announced it had launched an investigation into the company's tax affairs in the netherlands i kin involved come proud died on saturday aged ninety one he stepped down from the board in two thousand and thirteen at the age of eighty seven peter shop al-jazeera. relations between the u.s. and cuba have deteriorated since donald trump took office he's put limits on trade and he's made it harder for americans to visit the island but some musicians and

artists are determined to show that the two countries can get along chilean gagliano reports from havana. sharing a stage comes naturally to these cuban and us musicians if you miss best known pianist. playing alongside america. jazz legend. the saxophone player is among the u.s. artists who headline this years have been a jazz festival. musicians turned cultural ambassadors at a time of renewed hostilities between their governments it's now more important than ever that music is a common language connects this two countries again the politics of the politics but the art form is a common language and that will help strengthen perhaps some of the other areas the broader international relationship. and that relationship has deteriorated significantly since its high point two years ago today the state department is

actively advising americans to stay away from cuba but not all of them are listening even under tighter travel restrictions reimposed by the trumpet ministration and then president a number of americans visited and performed at this year's just festival here and have an hour and when asked why they're here they generally gave the same basic answer music trumps tropfest far as i'm concerned. this cuban pianist couldn't agree more playing for a tour of american jazz lovers could respect things musical overtures can have just as much power as diplomatic. ties with cuban music and culture is an explosion it's fire and that is what we transmit to the audiences beyond all the problems that exist i try to express what i am not as a musician but as a culture. and the cultural efforts extend beyond music this statue of cuban

independence hero similarity was a gift from new york's bronx of the arts to the people of cuba veiling attended by architects and other artists from both countries hope to have the start of other joint projects that's always been the artists and the cultural organizations that have really kept the conversation going there were responses. for initiating the conversation and open the doors for relationship building and greater connections between cuba and the united states' role castro attended the inaugural ceremony in what is expected to be one of his last public events as cuban president perhaps and not of support to those trying to get different nations ship with the u.s. back on track. al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the top stories yemen's prime minister is accusing separatists backed by the united arab emirates of an attempted coup fighters have

taken over the government's headquarters in the port city of aden at least ten people have been killed and one hundred others have been wounded in battle is between southern secessionists and yemen's government. there is no difference between the booties and anyone else who rebels against a legitimate government no matter who they are if he's not with the legitimate government then these rebel and against it and considered an enemy to the entire country syrian activists say turkish air strikes near freend have killed eight members of one family most of them children meanwhile turkey says it's taking control of a mountain in northern syria as it steps up its offensive against kurdish fighters in the region russia's opposition leader. has been released without charge after being arrested i don't anti-government rally in moscow more than two hundred fifty others across the country were detained for protesting and calling for a boycott of the presidential election in march. the death toll from saturday's

suicide bomb attack in afghanistan's capital kabul has risen to at least one hundred three with two hundred and thirty five others injured hundreds of people gathered for funerals and waited to hear from their loved ones outside hospitals the afghan president has declared three days of mourning. hundreds of protesters have gathered outside hong kong's government headquarters off to rip pro-democracy activist was banned from standing for election the electoral commission says agnes child cannot be accounted it because a party's political platform violates the territories electoral laws. the south african city of cape town is facing its worst water crisis in a century of protest to say the government is to blame the taps are expected to run dry on april the twelfth reservoir was have not been filled for more than three years because there hasn't been rain. the founder of the swedish furniture store ikea has died in volcom prague was ninety one the company says come from died at his home in sweden on saturday he started ikea in one thousand nine hundred eighty

three when he was seventeen and now has stores are running the world and it's made come five a billionaire. those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story i'll see in about half an hour of life enough. detained in an anti-corruption drive have been released after deals with the government which. is a key figure the crown prince has plans for his country so was the crackdown only about money and what comes next this is inside story.