to have that there on the computer. and that's the way al-jazeera is of all the true media network. more than seven decades ago a country was split into we begin with jenny and now one of the. children being my age all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled his servant who had never been to india before al-jazeera examines the violent birth of india and pakistan and asks what the future holds for these nuclear neighbors partition borders of blood at this time. heavy bombardment in yemen as the session is forces reportedly take control of the port city of aden.

along the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up. i start to russia's attempt at a peace conference on syria also. thousands of. years opposition leader takes an unofficial oath declaring himself ten years people's president. also made changes for hundreds of millions of facebook users worldwide get ready for local news feeds. welcome to the program secessionist forces in yemen her reporting reportedly taken control of the southern port city of ada now the reuters news agency says the forces which are backed by the united arab emirates have confined the government of

president of the rebel but the to the presidential palace the takeover comes after two days of fighting the. yemeni government is accusing saudi arabia of ignoring the action of the u.a.e. league forces now this is a new front in yemen civil war which has so far been dominated by fighting between president had these government and who the rebels are split has emerged in the saudi that coalition that supports had the u.a.e. back separatists have turned on the president's troops in the south. they want a separate state for southern yemen the session is say the region has been big didn't mistreated by the government south and north yemen were separate countries for much of the latter half of the twentieth century before uniting in one nine hundred ninety eight it used to be the capital of the south. has covered the conflict in yemen for the previous extensively for al-jazeera joins me now in the studio this is quite a game changer is it not to sort and certainly the events of the last forty eight

hours. because this of yemen was the last fall for the internationally recognized government of president obama's so handy to start this military operation against the who are these now he's lost control over the south i mean we can practically say that the president had these control over yemen is now over he has absolutely no control of any single part of the country he is now in exile in saudi arabia but his troops operating in the south his people his government are more of a window dressing the ones who control the south now the separatists who form this body called the south transitional body what they want they want to have a state of the own and they are backs made by the united arab emirates of course this is not the wider plan that the saudis would have had in that coalition assault on yemen since what two thousand and fifteen what sort of problems does this create now for the u.a.e. and saudi because they have been coalition partners yes in two thousand and fifteen

saudis were hands on in yemen they were the key player in the country they led the the the coalition against the healthiest they supported massive military of financial support to their own allies inside yemen over the last two years we've seen we start to see in the nie a shift which is basically the united arab emirates playing quite a significant role in the south they are training forces in the south they have provided significant financial aid to different parties operating in the south of the country now are the saudis and the emirates is on the same page about the south of yemen. i don't think this is the case because saudi arabia has been insisting that it wants to see one united yemen they ask what's happening today is an indication of that in the coming weeks we are most likely to see to yemen's doesn't that also give rise to the potential for of the groups to take advantage

of this sort of stable situation that the north and south of the regions within yemen face at the moment and that impact on saudi arabia the u.a.e. forces definitely because this is going to pave the way for more instability you would see this violence spreading to places like like how demoed like a b. and like above these are places where you have forces loyal and tribesmen loyal to president obama so hardy so you see more fighting which is going to pose a threat for the international maritime routes particularly in the gulf of aden which is one of the busiest which is also going to pay the way for groups like isis or al qaida a q a p to stage a comeback in those areas because historically speaking to them when they see violence they step in and they take control it's a very it should be really a situation to monitor particular by the international community and certainly a potential worrying development as well for the moment touching thank you. russia's efforts to host talks old syria's political future of had

a rocky start in the result of sochi its foreign minister was interrupted several times while he read a message from president vladimir putin to the delegates i. will soon opposition members yelled out at certain address your jets are bombing our people moscow is an important ally of syrian president bashar assad syria's main opposition groups and the kurds are refusing to attend the talks you should use. today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syria's history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the un backed mediation. over a challenge from russia let's start with the fact that very concerned phone calls occurred between the russian foreign minister before he spoke with his international counterparts before trying to clarify the situation of what he was

going to say rory but how is this speech gone down. well i have to say a speech went down pretty well with some portions of the audience of course we heard there from heckling a lot of rove who didn't like what he heard but russia has invited broad swathes of of syrian society to sochi to talk about the future of the country and the large portion of the people that have been invited here are people who sympathize with the government perspective and so there were a chance to thank you russia and glory to syria and all those kinds of things so it shows really that this is a divide did audience it's divided even amongst the opposition i was just in a press conference listening to a man called qadri general who is the representative of what's called the moscow. platform of the opposition he was asked a question about intimidation he said that he had. been suffering

from other parts of the opposition intimidation and not to come and he said this is mounted to you know a kind of campaign of harassment basically and that shows you that there is significant bad faith amongst portions of the opposition. the moscow platform obviously has a position that is more favorable to russia's perspective and perhaps even damascus is and this kind of division among the opposition is basically an easy way for russia or into damascus to be able to say that the portions of the of the opposition but haven't come here are essentially saboteurs to peace of course one of the main points that russia wants to take away from this particular gathering is how they can use this in the much larger scheme of negotiations whether it be in a stand or definitely geneva and therefore the importance of step and of

a store the u.n. representative attending these talks that what he's making of what he's seeing and hearing. well when russia first touted these talks and they positioned it as basically a way of giving the geneva process a kick to get it restarted again and water was decided in sochi would feed into geneva now that was never believed really by the opposition the opposition that a state away from sochi they have said that this is a way for russia and damascus to steer the peace settlement arounds to neve or to something that much more closely favors the bashar asad. and maybe that's what's the of the the u.n. representative who's come here stefan to mr a is trying to us. this is.

the opposition. dishonest process to represent russia's interests and that's the decision that he's going to have to come up with at the end of this congress to see what the final communique looks like when it happens as well really for the moment thank you. african. opposition leader has taken an unofficial. protest over last year's election but he's calling himself the people's president and says victory in the twenty seventh. from him of his supporters who park in the capital nairobi the attorney general had warned challenging president. treason. he won the presidential election last august the electoral commission. the winner but challenge the results of the supreme court agreed the result of what it called irregularities the court ordered a new vote in october which. of electoral reforms.

where thousands of people why here to witness the swearing in and it was a bit anticlimactic for many of them who left disappointed and we talked to some of them would say the reason why they're disappointed is because three of the main opposition coalition partners did not show up including. who is. supposed to be sworn in along alongside people are disappointed that did not happen they're saying the president would have shown that the opposition is really united . he is going to give details as to why those principles did not show up other people we talked to here say that it doesn't really. warn the bible to protect and serve the people of kenya as the. president so people that we talked to us saying

he supports us saying that the pegging their hopes on him that he is to change that opinion move so going forward it will be interesting to see what he died after today to law to be interesting to see and get more details about what this people's president really entails well still ahead here on al-jazeera what's expected from president trying to see past his state of the union address in the coming hours. plus the battle against bad pollution across europe which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year to stay with us here on al-jazeera. however the weather remains rather chrisman cold across a good part of central and eastern china clearing skies say that's allowed those temperatures to fall away quite sharply we've had

a good covering of snow recently of course into central and eastern parts of china it's going to stay on the chilly side here as we go through the next diot say well the temperatures will edge up in the right direction so shanghai with a top temperature of around five degrees celsius the mold leeway and packing those temperatures back to just eleven degrees there in hong kong but to start it up as we make our way through the second half of the week thursday we'll see a high of around fourteen souses in hong kong here six degrees there for shanghai that cold air has also penner for the straighted into the north of vietnam hanoi at around fifteen celsius but you come further west and it's a good til wilda sunny with some warm sunshine it's also want to showers into sri lanka over the next day or so you can see this little area of fun has making their way through so some obvious showers into eastern and southern parts off for lanka elsewhere shiny dry across south asia and basis of sunshine that area cloud his snow making its way across afghanistan the same area the pool a good covering into iran it will make its way further east was as we go through

thursday. the scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there are people there are choosing between buying medication and eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone who's an activist and she's close to the story join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching algis there i'm so ho robby the robot top story secessionist forces in yemen are reported to take control of the southern city of aden the reuters news agency says the forces which are backed by the united arab emirates have confined the government of president of the rebel but sort of de to the presidential palace. was your jets bombing our people that see accusation from syrian opposition members who rose to disrupt the russian foreign minister speech in. moscow is hosting talks on syria's political future but it's had a rocky start with main opposition groups the kurds refusing to attend. opposition leader raila odinga has taken an unofficial oath he's calling himself the people's president and says victory of the twenty seventh the vote was stolen from him the attorney general had warned that challenging the official president.

amounts to treason. the f.b.i. deputy director andrew capers abruptly stepped down weeks before his official time . the u.s. president has repeatedly criticized the cave accusing him of favoring his rival hillary clinton and joining the twenty sixteen presidential race departure comes as the f.b.i. continues its investigation into possible ties between russia and donald trump's campaign elevation reports now from washington d.c. . andrew mccabe has been with the f.b.i. for twenty years but in recent months he's been the target of repeated criticism from president bush and the deputy director played a role in the investigation in hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server his wife ran for office for the democrats in virginia and received campaign donations from clinton allies for the president that was enough for him to tweet how can the f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe the man in charge along with lekan james komi of the phony hillary clinton investigation including her thirty three thousand illegally

deleted e-mails be given seven hundred thousand dollars for his wife's campaign by clinton puppets during investigation. when mckibben knows his intention to retire in march the president tweeted again f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits ninety days to go the white house the night it played any part in his the sitting to leave the f.b.i. i can tell you none of this issue was made by out of the white house any specifics i would refer you to the f.b.i. but keep briefly ran the f.b.i. after the president fired james comey the washington post reported the president asked him how he voted in the election to keep told him he didn't vote but his departure questions among other f.b.i. agents this is profoundly disturbing it's yet another chip in the edifice of the separation of politics from the rule of law and the independence of the justice department the law enforcement bodies of united states in this instance the f.b.i.

intelligence community and frankly american democracy this is been dominating the headlines but washington's attention will soon time to this president's first state of the union speech on tuesday but the ramifications of mccabe's abrupt departure may well rumble on alan fischer al-jazeera washington. donald trump will give his state of the union address to congress later on choose day kicking off his second year in office the u.s. president is set to lay out his agenda as he seeks to rally a deeply divided nation and psyching approval ratings the white house has described is described the speech as incredible kimberly held at reports of washington d.c. . donald trump isn't known for modesty most people expect him to spend much of his state of the union address highlighting what he boasts as evidence of success from his first year in office passing a one point five trillion dollar tax reform bill drops another ploy of it and driving the historic gains in the stock market get. off the field right now out of

this fire. truck is. known for his off the cuff remarks but the u.s. president displayed none of that last year in his first address to congress and most expect the u.s. president will appear as what's been dubbed teleprompter trope veering little from prepared remarks his age to sound presidential much as he did last week in davos switzerland it has never been a better time to hire to build to invest and grow in the united states no issue is more divisive at the moment been immigration trump wants twenty five billion to build his wall along the southern border with mexico something he will request on tuesday but there's pressure on him to protect the children of illegal immigrants as well the issue is so contentious it recently shut down the government . as celebrities like pop star cash use their star

status to shine a light on sexual harassment and unequal treatment of women it's unlikely trump will acknowledge the hash tag me to movement even as his poll numbers continue to be low amongst women trump himself has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least nineteen women another president might you know make some reference to the need to move he will not for obvious reasons but i guess and i think that's a mistake in fact some democratic lawmakers are boycotting the address for that very reason at this forum analysts agreed he should play up republican accomplishments particularly when it comes to foreign policy i think you're going to see the president take quite a bit of credit for protests in iran i think you're going to see the president take credit for what has happened with those in particular it's unlikely donald trump will mention in his speech the accusations of collusion or russian interference in

the twenty six thousand u.s. election that continue to trouble the trump white house can really help at al-jazeera washington. for south asia where more than one point four million afghans are expected to lose the right to stay in pakistan after the government said it will no longer extend their refugee status their legal status officially expired on december the thirty first but the pakistani federal cabinet extended the stay i want but the reports not of a refugee camp in the show for several decades don had been home to registered and are registered out of one refugee o.m.a.c. the conflict and a country can carry here in pakistan but now because of the pressure from the international community and particularly the united states. david wants very bad creation of the refuge gate because their security trade pakistan has also been

stressing the need of that relation of refugees as their presence in pakistan helps of foreign terrorists who made in more among them however if you are these people they will tell you dead they do not want to be turned back into a country torn apart by conflict by the government of pakistan that fund them already dried out and enraged little international assistance to help the people. government has not done enough to keep the people who really normally lived in that country and for them it did once again an uncertain future hold so almost forty years we are living here and the government of pakistan must extend or city or country is still it was it one side it's the taliban in other side is the american no one forces we are stuck between the two is no once. almost one

point three million registered on the ground refugee and an equal number of unregistered refugee day legal and under thirty. january and it really be important but he waited a really big event yet another rick and sharon ford. against their will well to europe now where the european union has summoned ministers from nine polluting member states over air quality standards pollution is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths across europe every year and that's got innovators tackling the issue as double it came reports off of the german city of god. nestling in a natural bowl of the neck of valley stood guard is renowned as the cradle of the automobile several famous manufacturers have important bases here but there in lies the problem because with the car comes pollution which often lingers in the air because of the local topography to combat it the city has pollution meters set up

in many locations gauging the amount of nitrogen dioxide and minute particles of fine dust in the air a sophisticated alarm system warns people when the levels are too high but local authorities say more needs to be done the federal level needs to spend more money for the for the local level at the moment we have what they call is for programs quickstart program which is a one billion euros which is not that that few money but regarding are looking to the cities in germany which are ninety cities so we have the problem one billion euro is not that much money and given that so far in january the fine dust alarm has been triggered seven times other local solutions are being explored such as the fine dust eater it uses three applications to filter out particulates and fine dust and although it's currently a prototype the project manager is optimistic we exactly in stuttgart might be able

to on the one hand equip chorused that means everything that has to do with internal transport a proper transportation with act find us filtration systems or with a brick dust particle for the. for a city like short got is that although many of the measures it is taking or it has plans to take do reduce some of the emissions right now they're only really scratching at the surface of a problem and this is a problem right across germany. one environmental organization in berlin says the problem is so entrenched in germany that it's taking nineteen cities to court we hope. to also get the federal level moved when they see that citizens get more and more and the pressure about fulfilling their local target so to speak to. yet to protect the health of their citizens in recent months germany's motor manufacturers have been committed to cutting emissions of nitrogen dioxide by a third but the current coalition government and the likely next one have admitted

they must perspire own reaching pollution prevention targets the issue of air pollution is a developing danger in the eyes of the european commission but at the local level for people in stuttgart it's an ever present one dominant cane al-jazeera in the neck of valley. nothing's book is set to deliver more local news to its u.s. uses in the effort to curb the spread of misinformation but the changes come as the social media giant seeks to address charges that it's failed to prevent the spread of fake news the summary is a research of oxford internet in situ she says the move will help struggling local news outlets game truck should. look up the shares are wary excited at they are struggling with getting the same kind of tracking content that national international broadcasters are having and so today right now are seen as a good. bet that will boost your subscriptions and will also lose that i don't

think just as if it is about state user jump you say general let's take a step forward to have a content that is equal that it's more about friends and police i think local news and it's not targeted at actually commenting to news problem and that age you think it's important to bear in mind that we're grossly local news we're going to get a different type of content and what we're from in washington post your times because of the resources ticker winter journalism has a passionate was and it goes into do interviews and so the topics that are. the philippine government is also cracking double what it calls fake news by introducing new laws but advocacy groups say the b. was a time or free speech and publishers journalists of bloggers are publishing dissenting views. reports from the capital manila the best antidote to fake news is truth

filipino journalists are demanding accountability from president lee good it or does government they see journalism has been under siege mostly from looters to supporters and some members of his government fuels massage any rappler an online news site known to be critical of the government had its license revoked over a technicality a few weeks ago thing. in the past the turkey has said corrupt journalists are not exempt from assassination words that appear to have found a way as events with his supporters rappler c.e.o. maria ressa says to tear does presidency in two thousand and sixteen was largely want through social media and the internet has been used as a weapon since then she says some of those leading the attacks are part of the government machinery the end goal is to silence dissent when people don't know what is real and what is fake when facts don't matter then the voice with the loudest

megaphone gains more power the presidential communications agency admits it has made mistakes but denies that these were all intentional but it continues to employ bloggers who have in the past released false statements and used violent rhetoric bloggers like assistant secretary michael saw and was around five point five million followers on facebook. i told her aspirants your blog is concerned it does not reflect the p.c.o.s. views. but after decades of restrict. since and controlled during the rule of president reagan and marcos the media in the philippines became one of the most influential institutions in the country but the community to protect journalists also ranks the philippines as one of the most dangerous places in the world to work journalists in far flung villages have been shocked at point blank range cases have

been filed but these remain largely unsolved but legislators believe freedom of expression has been abused and want restrictions on the media critics say the territory is using a twenty first century playbook using the internet as a weapon journalists at the senate today i demand accountability and say they will not back down but many here question just how long they will be able to hold out or whether they can resist threats of government regulation there's never been such a for a time for the philippine media. dog and al-jazeera manila. stories that we're covering here on al-jazeera by logging on to our website at al-jazeera dot com it's updated twenty four hours a day. we want you all just there i'm sorry robin these are all top news stories assertion is

forces in yemen a reporter to take control of the southern port city of aden the reuters news agency says the forces which are backed by the u.s. can finding the government of president of the rebel but the to the presidential palace there is a small we will start to see in the new year shift which is basically the united arab emirates playing quite a significant role in the south they are training forces in the south they have provided significant financial aid to different parties operating in the south of the country now are the saudis and the emirates is on the same page about the south of yemen. i don't think this is the case because saudi arabia has been insisting that it wants to see one united yemen the asco of what's happening today is an indication of that in the coming weeks we are most likely to see to yemen's russia's efforts to host talks on syria's political future of had a rocky start in the resort town of sochi i think it's foreign minister

was interrupted several times while he read a message from president vladimir putin to the delegates syrian opposition members yelled out at sergei lavrov your jets bombing our people. will slow you've got to walk today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syria's history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the un backed mediation. kenyan opposition leader rollo dingoes taking an unofficial oath he's calling himself the people's president and says victory in the twenty seven thousand election was stolen from him the attorney general had warned challenging the official president who can yet or amounts to treason. facebook is set to deliver more local news to its u.s. users in an effort to curb the spread of misinformation the changes come as the

social media giant seeks to address charges that it failed to prevent the spread of fake news especially during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election those were the headlines of course is here with the al-jazeera news grid in thirty minutes to stay with us. this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate after front at this time on al-jazeera. hi i'm femi oke a and you are in the stream today a new bollywood film has people talking about the cost of the songs but most importantly about the message the importance of mental health and hygiene by bringing the story of one indian innovator to the big screen the film's producer director and cast they are removing stigma around periods not all superheroes waco

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