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saudi arabia says it shot down seven missiles fired by yemen's hoofy rebels targeting airports. council raman your challenges there are a lot more headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes at least fifty three people are dead and dozens remain missing after a fire consumes a four story shopping center in russia's sign bierria. also polls open in egypt's presidential election where the incumbent abdel fattah el-sisi is certain to return to office. and anger home the streets of barcelona arrested cancellara leader callus is expected to appear in a german court. welcome

to the program saudi arabia's military says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen who through rebels say they carried out the strongest targeting several airports saudi authorities say at least one person was killed in the attacks from these alexander possible. loud explosions and bright flashes in the sky saudi arabia's air force says it intercepted a series of ballistic missiles fired from neighboring yemen who three rebels say they've targeted airports in several cities including the capital riyadh and egyptian resident there was killed the hoofy leader is warning there's more to come and we'll use a long range drones which have excellent military capabilities we will activate the military institutions in an unprecedented way and open up. more opportunities to

recruit the children and men about people to fight. saudi arabia is leading a coalition that has been fighting the who things in yemen since march two thousand and fifteen like most of the us president donald trump may have been braced saudis crown prince mohammed bin soundman at the white house last tuesday but it didn't stop the senate from voting on a resolution calling for the end of u.s. support for saudi forces in yemen saudi war effort and particularly air campaign over yemen has not stopped it has only increased lately so i imagine it's normal that these are firing. to show that they are still capable and they are not to be taken for granted militarily. at least ten thousand people have been killed in yemen since two thousand and fifteen which is also battling cholera and diptheria outbreaks the u.n.

says living conditions there have reached catastrophic levels with more than twenty two million requiring some form of food assistance was the bones of this city of war hundreds of thousands of people have died because of quote it all because of starvation this means that you only heard there many civilians on zoloft the hold is still capable dogs there are stronger than before and this is another failure to the saudi led coalition in yemen numerous rounds of u.n. sponsored peace talks have failed to stem the bloodshed in yemen as the war continues with no clear path to peace plan a huge rally in sana'a on monday to mark its third anniversary diesel xander al jazeera at least fifty three people are being killed and dozens are missing after a shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of. three thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow now many of the victim's family children

firefighters say the blaze started on the top of a four story building but the course isn't quite clear yet chalons our correspondent reporting for us from the capital i mean just bring us up to speed on what we know about the situation of the blaze so far. also just to put this all in context this is now being talked about here is one of the worst four fires in one hundred years of russian history. as you said just there fifty three confirmed dead so far that's the official tally but this could well rise because there are an unknown number of people still missing and the fire it seems started next to one of the kids owns on the top floor of this shopping mall in came over and quickly ripped through about one thousand six hundred square meters. the footage that has come out from locals taken on their mobile phones etc shows thick

dark smoke pouring out of the windows from the opera floors of the mall with emergency services on trying to get access into the into the windows now we know that a number of people were evacuated so we know that a number of people were rescued as well but it seems like the damage is particularly severe around the cinema parts of this mall certain sections of the roof. of the cinema section that have collapsed and that's where it's believed most or at least a good number of the casualties are and we can see those live pictures all some of those pictures that were recorded earlier of smoke billowing from the building and the security services as well as the emergency services cordoning off the area to try and get those that have survived i mean how from your knowledge of the way security and emergency services react to these sorts of incidents what sort of infrastructure is in place is it efficient. well i mean

the efficiency of the emergency services here is i think perfectly competent in most regards obviously when you get a massive event like this a serious serious fire with multiple casualties any have to put into place all of these sort of special training programs and emergency situations we've heard from the kremlin that the emergencies minister has been dispatched to come on over to over see this operation we know the various bits of kits like robotics and drones have been deployed from moscow and also from another siberian city krasnoyarsk and there is also of course the criminal side of things that is now swinging into gear numerous criminal investigations have already been opens into this this was a new shopping mall it only opened in two thousand and thirteen it's pretty up to

date building the specs the safety the fire retardation all those sorts of things should be up to modern standards so there have been detentions already the boss of the company that runs a small has already been taken into police custody expects that there will be like a proper criminal investigation into what's happened here or we'll leave it there for the moment and come back to you with a further update us when we get it thank you. polls have just opened in egypt's election which is expected to return president of the sisi to power now the vote comes seven years after the revolution that ended the three decades long presidency of hosni mubarak looks at c.c.'s first four years in office. although opted for the has he was only named president in june two

thousand and fourteen the former army general has been in control of egypt since july the previous year when he led a coup deposing the country's first democratically elected presidents mohamed morsi since taking power sisi has made numerous promises and pledges to the egyptian people in a bid to win their support first he vowed to defeat what he described as potential violence and terrorism in the digital fleet i call in all egyptians to take to the streets to task me with preventing the potential violence and terrorism that threatens us. in reality however since sisi became president attacks and bombings appear to have increased dramatically across the country i saw which did not have a branch in egypt recruited fighters and began killing soldiers and police officers in sinai but the violence was not limited to the peninsula car bombs in central cairo and alexandria are testament to cc's inability to deliver on his promise of security another pledge made by the army general was to build

a national road network that would connect cities and help improve road safety i think i will build a world class road network within one year that will connect all of egypt for years have now passed not only does egypt have an extremely poor road network according to the world health organization it ranks amongst the ten worst countries for road safety with deaths being an almost daily occurrence. c.c. had also promised to drastically improve the economy and increase living standards there was initial hope when his government organized the two thousand and fifteen international economic conference billions of dollars worth of projects were announced until now though very little of those have been achieved even the much hill construction of a new administrative capital has seen little to no development similar to the pledge of building one million new homes with hundreds of thousands of egyptians still either homeless or living in slums one promise that was fulfilled by c.c.

was the expansion of the suez canal however the promised revenue from this project has not materialized in fact after convincing the public to help fund the project through investment bonds the government's own figures show revenue from the suez canal has actually dropped as a result of the decline in maritime traffic says he has been president for four years and in power for five in the early days he had promised to transform egypt into a world power the reality is that he presides over a country where thirty percent live below the poverty line and the vast majority are struggling to remain just above it his critics doubts that another four years will bring any significant improvement. i'll just. well of that is the assistant professor of history georgetown university here and joins me now in the studio good to have you with us contributor after contributor analyst of the

analyst in the weeks leading up to this election is that this is not a free and fair election for our international viewers briefly why is this not a free and fair election well because it's really not about a competition among candidates and there is no political process by which people can actually express their their actual political choices in egypt at this moment ever since the coup of two thousand and thirteen that broad general sisi to power and then of course he's been trying to consolidate his his control over the country over. he stifled all dissent egypt has an atrocious human rights record under sisi and so even any attempts from even within people from the regime to challenge him has has oftentimes been blocked quite severely as we've seen with the kind of potential candidates who've tried to come forward for this election we've seen sort of like one party candidates. win elections we've seen the russian election just happen recently and it's all about turnout it's all about consolidating the power base that you have of being able to say to the international community this is a legitimate election by one is it now not it not by any stretch are we

looking at something of a free election we're looking at a farcical election that's really meant far more for a consolidation of power and in the case of egypt i think the case is unique because in two thousand and twelve we did have the first open election in egypt modern history and so what this tells us is that sisi now with the second attempt to try and sensually pave over all of those experiences and basic intelligence elections aren't about actually expressing your choices these elections are about demonstrating loyalty to this regime and demonstrating the fact that there will be no future opposition to him and so this is really more about you know continuing to spread this this idea of a kind of loyalty among the citizens of who we speak to have a range of issues throughout the day let's just begin with governance and because obviously there is governance and transparency within government itself and also the security issues or the economic issues that the country faces in terms of governance i mean what has he been able to do we saw from that report that there

are many issues that he has to address if he gets in another term but what is actually achieved well i think what's what's interesting about cc's presidency first far is the fact that he's kind of failed by the the basic kind of dictatorship playbook because he's refused to really expand the base of his power in a way that actually creates institutions by which authority. regimes usually govern so he hasn't created a political party for instance all of the members of the egyptian parliament currently are so simply independent candidates who pledge their loyalty to him. nearly ninety percent of them for instance have nominated him specifically for the presidency and so there isn't mechanisms by which he's actually able to govern within society he's also maintained tremendous amount of power within the military which means that the civilian government has been largely kept out of the political process as he's been cultivating it since coming to power and so from a governance perspective there's been actually far little development in order to be able to really consolidate his control and i think this stems again from fear of

the events of the revolution of twenty eleven and their consequences to continue this conversation throughout the day with you for the moment. thanks for joining us here on the set. still ahead here on al-jazeera an adult film star goes public about her relationship with donald trump why she says she feared for her life and what the c.e.o. of facebook is doing to cummings xynthia over the cambridge i'm going to take a scandal those stories after the break. how i was still got some rather lively shall is across the mediterranean further north it's generate dry quiet weather in here because we have high pressure in place so that will keep things as somewhat more settled once the weather though that continues to rumble away across central parts of the mediterranean southern

areas of italy and see were the balkans three grace still seeing some thunder still a few showers across the western side of the med this nasty little system here that continues to bring some lively waynes and some heavy rain and we can see some of the choppy waters continuing around the bay of biscay that will eventually push its way through across the peyronie's into that western side of the mediterranean central ira still looking disturbed greece still seeing some wet weather further north quiets and lossie dry ten celsius in vienna and in warsaw double figures here double figures two into that western side of here london then paris getting up to around twelve or thirteen degrees cloud of the ray will drive its way further east which is to go through what she's day heavy downpours a possibility through the low countries across a good part of france warming up in madrid you notice that around twenty degrees celsius nice and pleasant and warm sunshine eventually coming through not too woman algiers on monday forty degrees in the cloud and right it will warm up the cheese day with a high of sixty. the

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you're going to their arms the whole rom in the reminder of our top stories saudi arabia says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen the rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes which targeted holes in the capital riyadh and three other cities saudi authorities say at least one person was killed in the attacks. also at least fifty three people are dead and dozens are missing after a fire at a shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of kenmare of all three thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow many of the victims are said to be children. also polls opened in egypt in an election that's expected to deliver a huge win for the incumbent president of the fatah and sisi the former military general is running virtually a challenge down to opponents with troops say that facing intimidation. the egyptian government has been cracking down on the media in the run up to the election hundreds of websites and blogs have been blocked but reports that hasn't

stopped the online conversation. it appears more egyptians have been busy discussing football and the arabic version of the t.v. program the voice then the presidential elections on monday but security certainly became a trending topic over the weekend after an attack on egypt's second city alexandria on saturday now at least two people were killed including a policeman in what the ministry of interior has called an assassination attempt of a local security official prime minister sharif ismail says such attacks will not affect the election process but security is high across egypt's major cities and more than thirteen thousand polling places and it remains a central issue in this campaign many twitter users outside of egypt are talking about the same thing with me sharing some critical pieces from the economist in the new york times which focused on the security dimensions of the election in the new york times asking why president sisi appears to be worried if the election is supposed to be a lock now the president has adopted

a more threatening tone in the final month of campaigning focusing on unspecified enemies while the economist says that sisi must provide security and jobs for young people if not there's a recipe for more upheaval down the road and while they like many of the supporters say that his firm hand has prevented egypt from collapsing in recent years they say he should respect the constitution and ignore his most sycophantic supporters who want to amend the constitution to let him rule for life and then you can you tell us where did give me a loser you much and while a number of famous actors and singers have helped spread cc's message to nearly sixty million eligible voters to come down and participate many egyptians are wondering if their vote will even matter the hash tag why are you boycotting the elections was trending on the eve of the vote after seven political parties and one hundred fifty opposition figures denounced the process as a farce calling for a boycott one of the most popular posts from the former sisi supporters. compares

this choice whether to boycott or not to a. football match he says if the results are known in advance and the referee is bribed the fans would certainly boycott the match so we'll have to see if these security issues and the perceived lack of choice will have an impact on voter turnout remember that the last time c.c. ran nearly half of eligible voters did turn out giving him nearly ninety seven percent of the vote now the emir of qatar is in russia full talks with president vladimir putin he's the first foreign leader to visit since putin was comfortably reelected last week the talks are expected to focus on economic ties the blockade against qatar and the war in syria. former counsel and president taylor's bridgeable is affected to appear in court in germany belgium or was arrested on sunday and is in custody waiting to hear if you'll be extradited to spain he faces charges of rebellion and sedition which stems from last year's vote and angry

protesters in barcelona called for the release of pujol police said three demonstrators were arrested and fifty people were injured in the scuffles david chaytor has this update from barcelona. the mood in barcelona has definitely changed there are many people on the streets during the course of the day calling for general strikes calling for action and the speaker of the separatist catalan parliament also said that they should form a new front a calling on the trade unions and civic society to come together to prevent any more attacks on what they call the heart of spanish democracy now that could take the form of general strikes they've been blocking many motorways leading into this area but i think in the end and the mentum will build as we see more and more pictures of colors pushed them all in germany whether he's remodeled in custody or

given bail that'll be a crucial factor to in and how much anger will be shown here on the streets of barcelona but it is expected a general strike could be called this is really invigorated the protest movement here and i think will set by the sheer number of people coming out on the streets of barcelona. the israeli government's been given until monday to provide more details of its plan to deport more than forty thousand african refugees the supreme court's at the deadline after suspending the program at a hearing earlier this month migrants and the silent seekers were offered a choice deportation or jail harry force of reports now from west jerusalem. among the inmates of saharan imprisoned deep in israel's southern negev desert are dozens of eritrean and sudanese men who have in the narrowest sense chosen to be there instead of deportation to a third country known to be either uganda or wondered what are her son says the

inmates have made the right choice he accepted a deal to leave israel for uganda in twenty fourteen but instead found himself delivered to sudan the country he'd fled now he's made it to uganda away studying law but says direct deportees from israel have their documents taken at the airport leaving them unprotected no one is willing to fight or die for this because rights in israel there's at least there's activists and there's a lot of resistance. israel's government is trying to remove forty thousand africans mostly sudanese and eritrean who entered from egypt before a border fence was completed four years ago the first phase of the detention or deportation policy targets single men but for now it's been frozen pending a decision by israel supreme court on monday the train was running very quickly we at least stop that seagull coco v.v. is one of those behind the legal petition against the policy she doubts the government has a defensible deal with rwanda to show the court and hopes the freeze will continue

but i think it's going to be very hard for the supreme court now to turn this around and say without an agreement without seeing an agreement this can go on israel's prime minister though is determined to press ahead last week he said unrestricted african migration would be more dangerous than terrorism he's long argued that israel has the right to expel people he calls illegal in. traitors where somebody is granted asylum status he can be expelled but not to the country where he cannot be returned in this case but if another country is willing to accept him it's perfectly legal under international law. it's an argument that holds little weight for to. who fled forced service in the eritrean army but how does asylum claim rejected in israel he says neither wonder nor uganda offers the safe haven that should be his right under international law let's say why do you prefer to stay in a prison to stay in a prison i prefer to stay in a body that instead of risk of death. i don't to give up also i don't

lose hope i don't we give up in the short term such hopes depend on the next decision made by israel supremes court but more broadly they rely on the outcome of what's been of a service national debate about whether african refugees now deserve the same kind of sanctuary in israel as jews fleeing europe in the twentieth century a recent poll suggested two thirds of jewish israelis supported the government line force at al-jazeera western. now an adult film star who says she had with the u.s. president donald trump in two thousand and six says she was threatened with physical violence after she first tried to go public with the story stormy daniels told c.b.s.'s sixty minutes program that she was accosted by an identified man and told to leave trump alone charlotte dallas reports i realize exactly what i'm getting myself into. in

a highly publicized television interview adult film star stormy daniels detailed an alleged six chilling concert with u.s. president donald trump more than a decade ago daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford is suing the president to avoid a non-disclosure agreement she signed for one hundred thirty thousand dollars days before the election you thought that there would be some sort of legal repercussions if you didn't sign up as a matter of fact the exact sentence used was they can make your life hell in many different ways she's already seen the links the trunk kemp was willing to go when she tried to sell his story in twenty eleven i was in a parking lot going to a fitness class with my infant daughter just taking in the seats facing backwards in the back seat diaper bag you know getting all the stuff out and a guy walked up on me and said to me leave champ alone forget the story and then he leaned around and looked at my daughter and said it's

a beautiful little girl and be ashamed of something how much her mom and then he was gone. the daniels lawsuit and two others followed by a woman in the past week are the latest distraction for a white house mired in a special investigation about possible collusion with russia former playboy model karen mcdougal is suing to be released from an agreement she says requires her to keep quiet about an alleged affair she had with trump a decade ago and a new york supreme court judge ruled some observe oss could move forward on a different nation lawsuit that claims the president six arrest her while she was on his apprentice television show there's a huge to juggle for embarrassment on behalf of the president where he could be deposed you could have documents they could be released as part of this they could be embarrassing details that could get leaked from these lawsuits that could be a problem our civil trial could be a huge spectacle accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior have dogged the president since his election campaign two months before the election in two

thousand and five tape surfaced of trump talking about groping women. to do it you can do anything whatever you want. to any of that. stormy daniels story goes one further alleging a cover up complete with physical threats allegations the white house says are without merit shall not ballasts his era. now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has taken on full page newspaper ads in the u.s. and the u.k. to apologize for what he calls a breach of trust say he's sorry more wasn't done when millions of profiles were leaked in twenty fourteen to cambridge analytical which is accused of misusing the data but he says limits of being placed on the data that apps can collect from users who sign in with their facebook. the firm is also investigating every that had access to large amounts of data so promises to do better and says everyone will

be informed when the band technology journalist mark saltzman says facebook is clearly in full crisis mode they're doing what they can to plug in the holes they need more transparency they need to review and over you know totally over you know redo their entire security and privacy protocols look them over and if they wanted to you know keep this you know what close to two billion user accounts they have to have more transparency and perhaps more importantly you know once the users leave then the advertisers are. even jump ship also so this is a big thing that they need to do so is that enough it's something you know that the silence right after this story broke by was deafening because it took them a few days to come forward clearly he was figuring out what because p.r. team how to come out so they did it enough we'll have to see they lost quite a bit of money in their market value last last week about fifty billion dollars

u.s. . you're watching al-jazeera homes the whole robin these are all top news stories saudi arabia's military says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen who the rebels have claimed responsibility for the airstrikes which targeted airports in the capital riyadh and three other cities saudi authorities say at least one person was killed in the attacks two others were injured. early fifty three people are dead and dozens are missing after a fire in a shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of commander of all three thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow that many of the victims of children firefighters say the blaze started on the top floor of the four story building also polls opened in egypt these are live pictures of the election is expected to deliver a huge win for president of the fact that al sisi the former military general is

running virtually unchallenged after opponents withdrew saying they faced intimidation critics say the vote is a sure rod and have called for a boycott. of the foreman council and president carlos is expected to appear in a court in germany more words arrested on sunday and is in custody waiting to hear if he'll be extradited to spain he faces charges of rebellion it's addition which stem from last year's secession vote angry protesters in barcelona called for the release of treatable please said three demonstrators were arrested and fifty people were injured in the scuffles. the emir of qatar is in russia for talks with president vladimir putin he's the first foreign leader to visit moscow since putin was comfortably reelected last week now the talks are expected to focus on economic ties and the blockade against qatar as well as the war in syria. adult film star who claimed she had an affair with u.s.

president all drugs that she was threatened with violence that as she tried to go public with the story so we daniels whose real name is stephanie clifford told c.b.s. that she was accosted by an unidentified man in twenty eleven who told her to leave trouble alone. and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has taken out full page newspaper ads apologizing forty falls a breach of trust he says he's sorry more wasn't done when millions of profiles were leaked to cambridge analytical which is accused of misusing the data i'll be back with more news in thirty minutes next on our desire it's inside story to stay with us there were seven candidates vying for egypt's presidency. now there are just two and with president abdul fattah el-sisi poised for his second term in power international rights groups are calling this election a vice we'll bring you the latest coverage and analysis of the egypt election on al-jazeera.