i'm a woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you know it's very challenging liberally particularly because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. the nature of news as it breaks this was a great election about it was going to win but it was about by how much with detailed coverage the syrian civil war no moves into the state of what is different is that each day some people will live until to morrow many innocent people will die from around the world the bats and balls are several years old when really good players could end up trading cricket academy and maybe one day play for the national team.

saudi arabia says it shut down the seven missiles fired by the rebels in yemen targeting its airports. the whole robin you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up at least fifty six people are dead and dozens remain missing after a fire consumes a full story shopping center in siberia. also polls open in egypt's presidential election where the income but the fact that sisi is certain to return to office. and anger on the streets of barcelona is the catalan leader college bridgeable who was arrested in germany on sunday is set to appear in. 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 strike is targeting several airports saudi authorities say at least one person was killed and examined as more. 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 will 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 u.s. 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 point of this war hundreds of thousands of people have died because of quote it are because of starvation this means that you only heard there many civilians on satellite 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. thousands a few things are rolling in sanaa to mark three years since the sandy campaign in yemen began but who the rebels control large parts of yemen including the capital saudi arabia's bombing campaign in support of the government which began in march twenty fifteen has failed to push the rebels out of what is calls large numbers of

civilian casualties sparking criticism from rights groups and the united nations. has killed at least fifty six people at a shopping center in siberia and dozens more are missing it happened in the city of . three thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow now many of the victims are parents children and scientists say the fire started on the top floor of the four story building police have detained four people wrote chalons has more from the capital moscow. just put this in context this is now being talked about here is one of the four worst fires in one hundred years of russian history it seems like the blaze started sneer one of the kids owns on the top floor the fourth floor of this shopping mall complex and quickly spread through about one thousand six hundred square meters of the building the footage that is being taken by locals

on their mobile phones shows thick smoke pouring out of the top floors with emergency services people trying to get access to the building on long ladders lower down in the building the kremlin is saying that it is being kept up to speed with what's going on to be true peskov the spokesperson for the kremlin says but the mayor putin the president has dispatched the emergencies minister to camera to oversee the operation rescue in the aftermath we know that various bits of kits like robotics and drones of also being dispatched from moscow and another siberian city krasnoyarsk there is also the criminal side of things which is swinging into gear this was a new building it was only opened in two thousand and thirteen so all the fire specs exact all that sort of thing should have been up to modern regulations we know who the detentions police attentions of be made so far one of the bosses of the company that runs this mall has been taken into detention i expect that that

side of things is going to be progressing fairly quickly in the days ahead while staying in russia the emir of qatar has arrived in the country for talks with the president vladimir putin no 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 toys the blockade against qatar turned the war in syria. large actions of started casting their ballots in three days of voting to choose a new president the incumbent of them for the c.c. is widely expected to win and her opponents with through saying they faced intimidation is a new challenge it is most of whose previously expressed support for sisi critics say the vote is a shiraz and have called for a boy he calls. looks at season's first four years in office. although

opted for the has since 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 president 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 on 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 would i will build a world class road network within one year that will connect all of egypt. four 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 developments 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 cha fic 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's another four years will bring any significant improvement. 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 it's understood 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 focus 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 of people 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 them to say we 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 sisi ran nearly half of eligible voters did turn out giving him nearly ninety seven percent of the vote well still ahead here on al-jazeera it's been hailed as a success but will the march for. any real impact on gun control in the u.s. . vote the c.e.o. of facebook is doing to calling sanity over the cambridge and lunatic a scandal those stories on the other side of the break to stay with us. from long flowing on in the winds to an enchanting desert breeze.

hello and welcome to international weather forecast now starting in europe you see another area of low pressure pushing across southeastern areas and this is likely produce more rain deede some snow and higher elevations look at the forecast again big temperature contrast athens at twenty bucharest two so that will be some thawing taking place across this region as well of snow which is previously fallen elsewhere we've got to find conditions there for rome quite across central parts of europe and across western areas looking quite moderate moment temperatures well on into the teens but we have got this frontal system pushing towards the u.k. and then through france during the course of choose day twenty one degrees the high in madrid at that stage and then dry conditions across southeastern parts of europe now as we head into north africa with a little circulation of low pressure across north africa cross the libyan desert so that could pull up some dust across into benghazi and through towards tripoli which would be quite cool and cloudy with temperatures of just fifteen degrees but further east karo well into the thirty's for central parts of africa plenty of

storm clouds brewing here at the moment across uganda through congo towards gabon some showers likely for lagos in nigeria but gonna should be largely dry and fine southern portions of africa some heavy showers like you response of zimbabwe and. the weather sponsored by cateye piece. what makes this moment this era we're living for so you know this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding a distortion even of what free speech is supposed to be about the context is hugely important we have a right to publish if you choose to be offensive or provoke if the nice people do. setting the stage for a serious debate. up front at this time on al-jazeera. welcome

back you're watching obvious their arms the whole rom a reminder of our top stories saudi arabia says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes which targeted airports in the capital riyadh and three other cities saudi authorities say at least one person has been killed. and at least fifty six people are dead and dozens more missing after a fire to shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of command of over three thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow many of the victims are said to be children. and the polls have opened in egypt's election is expected to deliver a huge win for the incumbent president of the fatah el-sisi the former military general is running virtually unchallenged after opponents withdrew saying they

faced intimidation. of the law is an assistant professor of history at georgetown university in qatar joins me now here in the studio good to have you with us again on the program we talked before about why this vote is or is not a legitimate one for the international community let's talk about good governance now that's a huge challenge for the next incoming president whoever that may be what are the challenges ahead when you have scenarios such as inflation hovering at fifteen percent subsidies subsidies having been reduced to many of the public increasing the poverty levels within the country and the minimum wage in real terms being slashed by at least fifty percent well let's remember that when when you know c.c. launched the coup in july of two thousand and thirteen in that part of the reasoning the logic but. the idea of a military takeover was the fact that the revolutionary process that had been launched a mubarak in twenty eleven was seen as being very destabilizing for the economy and

so part of his promise was to say look you know i'm coming in and restoring order but specifically i'm also restoring kind of some vision of economic prosperity and this was the promise that he he ran on as well in his initial kind of coronation as part of the presidential election in two thousand and fourteen so i think that that when we look at kind of the metrics in terms of how he's performed economically he certainly hasn't kept up any of those those pledges and in fact by lifting those subsidies in order to ensure greater financing from the international monetary fund in another international investors he's had to kind of really leave most of the most vulnerable citizens of egypt without their basic safety net and these are things these are reforms that were attempted all the way going back to the era of anwar sadat under mubarak even during this very brief presidency of mohamed morsi there was an attempt to try and think about how to encourage international investment but all of them decided in the end that they couldn't do it at the expense of the population and of course they weren't able to lift those subsidies the reason he's been succeeding in that is because of course he's also implemented

a very strong security program that has kind of left the population in fear of protesting or even expressing any kind of disapproval with these policies and some analysts do actually connects not issue of that of poverty. the downturn in the economy to radicalize ation in the way that individuals look for another alternative an alternative that isn't that of the political spectrum of the moment because of the clamping down on free speech rights and again this was kind of part of the pledge of the kind of sisi logic of coming into power as an authoritarian rule was the fact that he was going to restore order restore economic prosperity but of course having done none of those things it's only actually exacerbated the security problems throughout egypt but especially in the sinai as well and this isn't a government that necessarily enjoys the same degree of recognition or legitimacy. the part of many people from within the population who had been invested in some kind of a revolutionary transition the same egyptians of course who rose up against hosni

mubarak because precisely the kinds of abuses that sisi has now made permanently a factor in his presidency will leave that and of course continue to follow the discussion on various subjects throughout the day of the aryan thanks so much for joining us. the former catalan president is expected to appear in court in germany now he was arrested on sunday after traveling through finland and denmark he faces charges of rebellion and sedition in spain which stem from last year's session vote in catalonia angry protesters in barcelona call for pujols release police said three demonstrators were arrested and fifty were injured in the scuffles. they were cheating is live for us in boston of course those tensions we presume are still remain on the streets of barcelona what is this it's like on monday morning. well i was over night in on those streets and i think the final figures are something like ninety

injuries so of course there were just the use of police batons and twenty two policemen were injured in one stage during those skirmishes if you like to call it that the police were forced to draw their weapons and fire shots into the air to keep back the crowds now that is not an easy situation and i think that when we see the appearance of colors push them all in the german court today that will. provoke another response and so at the moment there is a great tension here that the momentum of protest is building it may have been quiet for a few weeks here but it's definitely back on the cards non it's very much a case that the protesters and the members of the catalan parliament especially the speaker do not want violence in this situation they want to keep it peaceful protests but what they're saying is essentially that the madrid authorities are

mounting a campaign of what they call repression and revenge and it's striking at what they say is the heart of democracy and there are real calls for action may be a strike throughout catalonia and the formation of a new front to coordinate this action so this is going to this is going to build during the course of the week with more appearances by by in the court and whether he's remanded in custody or not by that court in germany i will also have an impact because if everybody main the main leadership has been decapitated from the separatist movement and if the former president is actually in prison as well i think you can expect a very strong reaction here in barcelona and across catalonia and of course state i think raise eyebrows is raised eyebrows a cross in europe at the way madrid as you've just touched upon have been so quickly to reissue that arrest warrant surprisingly leading to the situation that

we've seen in the past forty eight hours. that's right i mean there is a problem with this european arrest warrant in as much as that there's going to be what they call the jewel criminality that is if the charges against puts them on which are as you said sedition rebellion and misuse of public funds do they have those same charges in germany and actually they don't they don't have anything courts edition they don't have anything called rebellion but they have something called high treason which is very similar so the judges have got to decide it's not the politicians it's the judges of the courts of law who decide in the european system whether he'll face a fair trial here and whether there is. a similarity in the court system so there's a lot going to stand on that decision in germany today whether he's put back in prison put back into a detention center or remanded on bail then he'd be very much in the same situation

as he was in belgium where he was free to move free to talk free to talk to the press and free to continue trying to coordinate the attempts against the redress authorities so a lot rests on that decision in the court in germany and i will come back to you for analysis reaction as and when it happens for the moment david thank you. south korea has secured an exemption from have to u.s. steel tariffs in exchange for revising the country's free trade agreement under the changes u.s. automakers will be allowed to double the number of cars they can import into south korea and south korea will now have to comply with a quota which cut steel imports to the u.s. by about thirty percent the agreements the south korean become the first u.s. ally to receive an indefinite exemption from the tower its people we hear from books from big amid rising uncertainties in the global market due to the united states treat actions against china the latest agreement has moved to uncertainties

the u.s. steel duty exemption and the united states korea free trade agreements before their dream into visions you know automakers in the u.s. shipped more than ten thousand vehicles a spy the three being twenty five thousands but now they are allowed to bring in fifty thousand vehicles. gun control advocates in the us all setting aside cell november's mid-term elections after saturday's march for our lives protest failed to garner a reaction from president donald trump hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the march organizers say was the largest gun reform protest in a generation and reports from washington d.c. was by any measure the march for our lives protest was a success hundreds of thousands of people came to hear from those whose lives have been touched by gun violence during decades my community los angeles has become accustomed to this violence by. around the world the refrain of never

again was heard loud and clear but while crowds gathered close to the white house president donald trump was in florida his twitter account has remained silent on the issue although the white house issued a statement that in part said we applaud the many courageous young americans exercising their first amendment rights keeping our children safe is a top priority of the president's on friday the president signed a bill that includes legislation that aims to strengthen background checks. moved to ban stops which turn rifles into fully automatic weapons are also on the way campaigners say it's not enough the fact that nobody is discussed in the bill they don't say the word gun once. what causes all these shootings what's the one thing to tie everything together there's no specific mental health problem that makes all the shootings happen is the weapon and the fact that they aren't taking any action towards it is proof that we need to keep on going my name stephen. marching from my

coach chris hicks and organizers hope that this is the beginning of a movement but translating never again into significant changes will be challenging former astronaut mark kelly whose wife survived an assassination attempt says it will be a long road ahead i would warn them not to get discouraged you know this is often two steps forward and one step back. the opportunity to talk to a few of them yesterday they have a point where this is this is not the last we're going to see these kids the protesters that came here may be gone but their list of demands remains banning assault weapons extended magazines and raising age limits will be challenging while the republicans remain in power and the national rifle association continues to wield so much influence the next revolution say organizers will be at the polls and al-jazeera washington will swing in the u.s. facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has taken out full page newspaper ads in the u.s. and the u.k.

to apologize for what he calls a breach of trust. sorry more wasn't done when millions of profiles were leaked in twenty fourteen to cambridge analytical which is accused of misusing the data he says the limits of being placed on the data that can collect from users who sign in with their facebook id the firm is also investigating every app that had access to large amounts of data so coburg promises to do better and says everyone will be involved when the apps are banned well technology journalist and author mark saltzman says facebook is in damage control 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 they may 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 us all strongly as major cricket sponsors say they're assessing their relationship with the national team as the fallout from the country's bolton print scandal continues sports celebrities on even the australian prime minister have expressed outrage after players at mid to cheating in their match against south africa captain steve smith said he plotted along with other senior players to illegally tamper with the ball in the third test in cape town the incident has been described as one of the darkest days in the history of australia's national sport you've got

a bit of a lamb is in sydney with the latest. well this is absolutely the biggest story in australia right now it's been dominating social media the airwaves morning television and of course the papers and one word keeps getting repainted and that is shame and shame of the cricket captain and of course this all the chain scandal what it has done to the nation former cricket captain greats like marco clarke have expressed their. disappointment over this scandal be a straight in prime minister came out and said it was shocking and just to give you a sense of just how important a strain in cricket is one former prime minister once said that he had the second most important job in the country and the first of course was being the captain of these trail and cricket teams to absolute shock and disappointment in australia

today. all of the stories that we're covering. program by looking at all websites of al-jazeera. these are all top news stories saudi arabia says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen rebels have claimed responsibility for the strikes which targeted ports in the capital riyadh and three other cities saudi authorities say at least one person was killed. three years since the campaign in the. rebels control large parts of yemen including the capital. bombing campaign in support of the government which began in march twenty fifth. to push the. at least fifty six people are dead and dozens more missing after a fire at a shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of quetta move over three

thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow many of the victims are said to be children and voting is underway in egypt's presidential election president of the fact that sisi is expected to win 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 and 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 another top two expected to focus on economic ties the blockade against qatar and the war in syria also the former catalan president colors this expected to appear in court in germany he was arrested on sunday after traveling through finland and denmark he faces charges of rebellion and sedition in spain which stemmed from last year's a session vote in catalonia angry protesters in barcelona called for pujols release

police said three demonstrators were arrested and fifty people were injured in the scuffles. south korea has secured an exemption from hefty u.s. steel tariffs in exchange for revising the country's free trade agreement under the changes u.s. automakers will be allowed to double the number of cars they can import into south korea and south korea will not have to comply with a quota which cut steel imports to the u.s. by about thirty percent south korea is the first u.s. ally to receive an indefinite exemption from the tower so those were the headlines about that more news in thirty minutes to stay with us up front is next. as the u.s. has withdrawn from the trans-pacific partnership deal others have committed to it first small countries countries with small populations such as yours is this actually a better deal without united states signatories of the world's newest trade bloc tools they are out.