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hello again welcome back. special extended edition of the news on. top stories saudi arabia. from yemen. three. killed. in a presidential election. they faced intimidation. and at least fifty six.

three thousand of the russian. many of the victims are children. united nations yemen's warring sides to stop blocking aid deliveries in the middle east poorest country has been facing a devastating military offensive by some of the world's richest nations. explains the human cost of a war that's now reached a grim. it's been three years since the conflict in yemen began and it's led to what's been described as the was worst humanitarian crisis in march twenty fifteen saudi arabia and nine other countries launched a military operation to help yemen's government against iranian backed to the rebels cutter was part of the coalition until june of last year in the past few years the who these have managed to expand the control from their stronghold in sold out in the north down south including the capital sanaa but after three years of war the saudi led coalition hasn't really managed to push them back during the

height of the offensive in twenty fifteen the operation was costing an estimated two hundred million dollars a day the u.s. gives to just to go and intelligence support to the coalition it is also the main supplier of arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. in the last five years saudi arabia has bought more than sixty percent of its weapons from the u.s. and the u.a.e. bought fifty eight percent of its weapons from the us as well i'm just international says there is evidence that this flow of arms to the coalition is having a devastating impact yemenis and here is why they have been more than six thousand verified civilian deaths since the conflict began about fifteen hundred of them were children the u.n. says the saudi led coalition airstrikes account for more than sixty percent of the civilian casualties the conflict has driven more than three million people from their homes more than twenty two million that's about three quarters of the population need to monetary assistance millions don't have access to safe drinking

water and only huff of the head facilities remain functional there's a heightened risk of famine across much of the country with eight point four million people on the brink of starvation and there's a cholera outbreak that's been called the worst in modern history it's killed at least two thousand two hundred twenty eight people with more than a million suspected cases and now their concern. the epidemic though contained could get worse in the coming months. i hear and rights groups are calling for a full investigation into war crimes in yemen they want perpetrators to be identified and held to account for size violations by here the rebels in the bombing campaign led by the saudi led coalition many armed groups are also operating some of whom a backed by united arab emirates i thought the end of it reports. trainees of the southern belt forces were originally being prepared to fight isis and by that in yemen the militia was formed in two thousand and sixteen by the

internationally recognized government but since then the security bill forces are operating beyond the control of the government of president of the rabbits. they're funded and controlled by the united arab emirates along with other groups in the provinces ahead remote and. already german is already divided on sectarian tribal and religious lines there is a fear that parallel security operations would endangered any attempt by the government to gain strength there's also the lack of accountability in the way these forces have been working human rights watch says security built and hundred mi elite forces have used excessive force during arrests and raids detain family members of wanted suspects to pressure them to voluntarily turn themselves in i would readily arrested and detained men and boys detained children with adults and forcibly disappeared dozens the u.a.e. as part of the saudi led coalition leads these forces as a counterterrorism effort in southern and eastern yemen that's where groups like al

qaeda in the arabian peninsula and i still have roots information obtained by al jazeera suggests an estimated twenty thousand fighters are part of these counter-terrorism militias rights groups are calling on the newly established u.n. panel of experts on yemen to impartially investigate the patterns of abuse and identify those responsible i'm just international believes war crimes have been committed there is absolutely no justification for parties to the. it to me to be using this this military targets or the fact that they're operating against terrorism or what they call terrorism to be violating these rules of the war which have been put in place primarily to protect civilians the number of those earning a living by enrolling in some security force has spiked in the last three years. with no peace expected in time soon the war machine is likely to go on with impunity along with disastrous consequences for yemen civilian population. some of

the jarvey and that there. syrian government forces have regained control of nearly all of east and the area had been the last rebel stronghold close to damascus the russian defense ministry says six thousand five hundred people were evacuated from the southern towns of eastern go to as part of the evacuation deal there now in its live only the town of duma has yet to surrender so how to reports from beirut. bus after bus arrived in the rebel controlled province of idlib in northwest syria thousands of people transported across a divided country rebel factions surrendered their strongholds in eastern huta after what was one of the fiercest offensives launched by the pro-government alliance fighters their families and members of the opposition deported as part of a negotiated with. me they've heard everything even the bunkers we were hiding in if we left the bunkers we would get killed by airstrikes i can't describe the

situation we were in it was over. almost two thousand syrians were killed and thousands were wounded in the attacks appeals for medical supplies for those trapped in a war zone went unheeded already there was a shortage of aid and medications because of a government imposed siege on the opposition area lesser from the local one unfortunately the cases we received are very critical we also have cases of malnutrition as well as extremely sick people who couldn't receive proper treatment because of the lack of medications as a result of the siege more than ten thousand people have been displaced and not all are fighters some didn't want to risk arrest or be forced to join the army they left with whatever they could carry. we left our homes behind everything has been destroyed we left our history. we left all that behind because we live a place of constant since. eastern huta has been under the control of the opposition since two thousand and thirteen not long after the government besieged

the enclave. it wasn't only under siege came under fire for years it was always an important military objective for the government being so close to the capital but the pro-government alliance was busy fighting on many fronts and it was always just a question of time when it would turn its attention to the rebel stronghold. it has been one tragedy after another for syrians caught in what seems to be an endless conflict. our lives were in danger we left after the international community let us down. it has become what some describe as a dumping ground over the years tens of thousands of rebels and their families who surrender territory to the government were sent here and there is little sign that just like those who have been recently displaced will ever return to their homes.

in iraq. become the latest targets of the turkish army so he says it's launched an operation to clear out the terrorists but iraq says there's been no military action and one can has more from baghdad. present to one as an ounce of the operation against p.k. k. fighters in sin joe has begun however the iraqi joint operations command have denied that what they've said is that the operations command confirm that the situation in of austin joe and the border areas was under the control of iraqi security forces and there's no reason for troops to come across the rocky border and into those areas now what sources are telling the reuters news agency is that the p.k. k. fighters actually withdrew from a couple of days ago now this is also being backed up by the iraqis who say there was no unusual military activity in that area and other p.k. do have a very long history in iraq there predominately based in the can deal mountain region on the border with iran and any turkish operation against that group has

taken place in that area so although the iraqis are denying this it's clear the president or the want has said to the peak of fighters that he will go off to their bases wherever he sees them but whether this actually happened or not is still a very difficult situations trying to get any truth out of the turks clearly saying that they went in to singe are the iraqis saying no they didn't there was no unusual military activity let's get you more now on one of our other top stories the presidential elections in egypt where polls i penned a few hours ago now that they say is coming seventy is off the revelation that ended the thanks again long presidency of hosni mubarak to mush al takes a look at c.c.s. first four years and 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 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 markets from traffic c.z. 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. and. israeli police are questioning prime minister benjamin netanyahu over one of several corruption cases that could threaten his political future police arrived his home in jerusalem on monday morning israeli media reports say the question relates to netanyahu his dealings with israel's biggest telecommunications company he's accused of giving regular benefits in exchange for favorable coverage on its new

website. israeli government's been given until monday to provide more details of its plans or deported more than forty thousand african refugees supreme court set the deadline of suspending the program at a hearing earlier this month migrants and asylum seekers were offered a choice deportation or jail force it reports from west to islam. 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 rates

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 a 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 cook of evie 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 infiltrators

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 protest is good on who fled forced service in the eritrean army but how does asylum claim rejected in israel he says neither rwandan nor uganda offers the safe haven that should be his right under international law let's go i do what i did 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 give up and so i don't lose hope i don't give up. in the short term such hopes depend on the next decision made by israel's supremum court but more broadly they rely on the outcome of what's been a vociferously 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 harri force an al-jazeera western. still ahead head on out of there being held at that fast but well the march on lives have any real impact gun control in the us. welcome back the cherry blossom is out in tokyo we've had some fine spring weather over the last a few days and i think that fine weather is likely to continue as the seems unlikely to be repeated in the coming days not much in the way a wind to blow that blossom away so there's a satellite imagery and you can see clear skies across much of japan at the moment and the much of northeastern asia looking dry and fine that's life continue in the forecast that pyongyang coming up to twenty one degrees tokyo that twenty and wednesday doesn't suggest much in the way of change across many of these areas but

more northerly flow the state of temperatures just beginning to fall back in parts of the northern korean peninsula heading into more central southern parts of china looking fine across the east coast there foods you hong kong plenty of sunshine but across more southern and western areas you could marry of rain which is likely develop of next twenty four hours not rain pushing into northern parts of vietnam too so down into southeastern parts of asia here we've got to find conditions across much of the philippines or at least dry conditions could be rather cloudy at times across borneo a few showers here java still looking wet but elsewhere across the southern portion of the indonesian archipelago it should be fine singapore prospect a few showers during choose a quote and push it be dry we still have one or two showers around the gulf of thailand but dry in bangkok with highs of thirty four. the consequence of. jerusalem russia will be served. actually to

mention that five that just doesn't go away. a little knot of true for the last couple years he's home as. follows a group of u.s. army veterans traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back shelter at this time zero. top stories this hour saudi arabia says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen the rebels claimed responsibility for the strikes. in the capital riyadh and

three. least one person was killed. on the way in egypt in a presidential election widely expected to return. to power. is running virtually unchallenged truth saying they faced intimidation. sixty four people are dead dozens more missing after a fire shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of kemah over three thousand at the russian capital moscow many of the victims children. two hundred million pakistanis face running out of water within the next ten years government leaders are being asked to build walls and downs and approve an extensive network of irrigation canals built by the british more than one hundred years ago. where farmers say that goods are at risk. it's another. dish on the outskirts of cheryl cole grain is laid out in the

drive before cleaning and polishing. major foreign exchange. but all that may change because of water shortage the production of cash crops such as right then we are in. the rice mill owner who. fears for the future i mean. water is very crucial both technical and domestic use but each passing day the farmers are facing border shortages which is affecting the agricultural sector. and the government should take concrete steps about building dams and reservoirs for its story it's all come the water crisis in the country experts in the government's water resources research council are warning political leaders to act no other country would run out of water wouldn't they near a major target is the population growing because the water is the same pub but the population increase requirement on the domestic side than just the agricultural

sector is going to end haas so we have to manage these problems tend to size the communities because normal individual one cannot solve this problem the goal near the end view of the private sector the communities each have to realise this situation underground water sources are often unfair to drink because dave's being poisoned by excessive use of chemical fertilizer on farmland and uncontrolled dumping of toxic waste by industry pakistan is a country that has a growing population. increasing industrialization and that has felt we did increasing need for food so therefore create a stress on the agricultural sector pakistan government leaders are due to announce border polish on. time to show our doctors should be two years of independence it may be too late too late august honored already feeling the effects of climate

change what are the experts in the country warned that if steps are not big and i had the right dime a country called faith hugh tried to get a wardrobe i graded twenty five and died of course where not only affect the concrete agricultural produce where did the backbone of the economy but also have direct conflict when change for millions of people across the country millions of pakistanis are already feeling the effects of water shortage gauge because of what critics say it's poor planning and uncontrolled open a.j. fair warning. and steps needed to work its tossed. off shelves court focused on gun control advocates in the u.s. a setting their sights on november's midterm elections office as they launch for our lives protest fail to go on a reaction from president of the trump hundreds of thousands of people turned out

to the march which organizers say was the largest gun reform protest in a generation and a guy who reports from washington d.c. i 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 frank decades my community los angeles has become accustomed to this violence. 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. moves

to ban stocks 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 these 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 merchant marching from my coach chris dixon 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 this courage 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 and this is this is not the last you'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 this pakistan says it wants to help an end to the war in neighboring afghanistan which has raged as two thousand and one the country's president is organize a two day conference the cattle tashkent thought on monday as part of efforts to encourage the afghan government and the taliban to engage in peace talks in just time purports. it's one of the largest camps for the internally displaced thousands of afghans who fled fighting in areas across the country have come here to live in relative safety services in the camp which is on the outskirts of the capital kabul are limited people here don't have much hope conditions will soon improve does a girl shares this shelter with his family after living as

a refugee in neighboring pakistan for more than thirty years he his wife children and grandchildren returned to their ancestral village in the northern province last year a short while later forces seize control of the area. i can't go back to my home village it was destroyed in the fighting my entire life is wasted because of war my life is wasted because of all this bloodshed the leaders of neighboring uzbekistan say they want to help put an end to the nearly seventeen year war president chavez. has invited the taliban and afghan governments to the capital as part of efforts to encourage peace talks afghan president a sort of gunny and russian foreign minister sergei lavrov are taking part in the summit representatives from the un e.u. and many of the world's top diplomats have also been invited but it's unclear if they or the dollar will go looking at the.

nations with. great powers. they can do it. much but a shot on the supporters of. those steps while attempts at talks struggle to get started violence continues to affect much of against them all has suffered some of the worst attacks in recent weeks several suicide bombings linked to the taliban which have killed dozens of people in february president a shotgun the offer the taliban recognition as a legitimate political. group as part of a proposed process he said could lead to meaningful talks but the offer coincided with a sharp increase in u.s. led airstrikes the white house says its strategy is to use force to pressure the taliban to the negotiating table. a strategy that doesn't appear to be working at all of on continues to control or contest much of the country and there is limited

hope the talks in respect to stand or elsewhere will change much on the ground in style al-jazeera. victims of friday's shooting in southern france have been on a palm sunday mass in the town of trey and. i. and the front row for the service four people killed in the attack including police officers. it took place of the place of a hostage it was being held inside a supermarket the gunman was shot dead investigators searching his home found notes referring to eisele sunu said the biggest little salute the self-sacrifice unique to soldiers ready to give their lives for the nation and their fellow citizens a life given cannot be lost it transcends hardship and unites us it calls to us to believe that life is stronger than death to believe in heart. twenty more of the

day's news can be found at all website code and check it out at said al jazeera dot com. top stories saudi arabia says it shot down seven missiles fired from yemen they were both of time just fronts ability for the strikes which targeted at ports in the capital riyadh and three other cities saudi authorities say at least one person was killed. voting is underway in egypt in a presidential election widely expected to return abdul fattah el-sisi to power before a military general is running virtually unchallenged after opponents withdrew saying they faced intimidation. the sixty four people are dead dozens more missing after a fire as a shopping center in siberia it happened in the city of kemah rover three thousand kilometers east of the russian capital moscow many of the victims are children. the

america is in russia for talks with president vladimir putin he is the first foreign leader to visit most cases putin was comfortably reelected last week told to expect to focus on economic ties the blockade against cattle and the war in syria. former president carter's pushable is expected to appear in court on in germany he was arrested on sunday are travelling through finland and denmark faces charges of a billion and so they're still in spain stemming from last year's expansion vote in castle lumia. the united states and south korea have agreed to revise a trade pact sharply criticized by president trump it will mean south korea cutting its still exports the u.s. by thirty percent but it will avoid the heavy tariffs being imposed on other countries the u.s. automakers will be allowed to export fifty thousand vehicles a year to south korea double the usual number. china has called on the world trade organization to take action against u.s. trade tariffs targeting china's alleged theft of intellectual property its urged

members to work together and lock this beast back into the cage of w t o rules that comes after the us president announced tariffs targeting sixty billion dollars worth of chinese goods and growing moment he regarding economic and trade issues between china and the us china is willing to negotiate to manage and control our differences on the basis of mutual respect and benefit our daughter dialogue has always been on penn. and those are your headlines of in fact with more news on al-jazeera of the inside story.