back in yemen's government and who see rebels his family was trapped starving and terrified. we spent three days without being able to go out to go anywhere the fighting was above us and from all science we did not have any food or drink or anything not even water even the red crescent car was only allowed in today this is my son i treated him on a bus after he was injured in an airstrike our kids women and elderly are stuck starving for three days without any food or drink. much of the latest fighting has been taking place around the whole day to international airport in god's will we will celebrate the feast of eat and have data that will be a double feast on our lives out of the grandest of feats of heroism accomplished but the enemy in the three year war is hitting back the who posted this video of missiles targeting saudi backed forces. saudi that advance comes amid warnings that

as many as half a million people may lose everything including their lives even more could be forced from their homes into the desert if there is the closure of the port even for just a few days many people will suffer we are also greatly concerned about the possibility that civilians may be hurt by airstrikes by shelling. the un security council has rejected a move to demand an immediate end to the fighting the council instead urged all sides to practice restraint saudi arabia says it can seize the city quickly enough to avoid interrupting flows of aid to millions facing starvation. parties proposed new humanitarian aid plans aiming to make sure the external humanitarian assistance can access human through her data about seventy percent of yemen's aid and commercial imports rely on the ports of her data and the nearby

salif and it's needed the un says twenty two million people or three quarters of the population are in desperate need of a. lure about a manly al-jazeera ok let's talk more about yemen joining me live from washington d.c. is danny who is an analyst at the center for strategic studies very many thanks for joining us on al-jazeera i want to start by asking you thank you for whether you believe martin griffiths can succeed where others have failed. yes so it depends on what we are considering success at this point you know before we have to un and boys who try to mediate peace all the peace negotiations kind of failed especially if you look at it. as a negotiation that involves every single actor who is involved in the conflict we

fail to bring them together and to kind of talk about potential cease fires that hold in place the don't fall apart within two weeks but i think when it comes to martin griffith the bar for success is different the bar for success now is to prevent a humanitarian crisis it is to allow whomever is in charge of the airport of son of a son ah the airport of data and the port of data to kind of allow the access of planes humanitarian aid and commercial goods and so in that regard what we're getting right now up to date as it seems that the day the airport fighting has finished is that the arab coalition with its local allies have managed to secure the airport now martin gryphus role would be to make sure that that airport would be operational on some level that it would serve the civilians in the sense that they have access to medicine and food of course the part of who they that would be next and all depends the humanitarian crisis lies on the fact that this war right

now is taking place in the only only part of yemen where twenty four million people get their food and medicine and other goods from that's the risky part so the longer the fighting takes place the worse the humanitarian crisis that is already in place that is manmade is going to be well used for those who so used to sing to give their. much prized good though. well you know militarily speaking the host these are being choked up they are surrounded from all fronts they have so many battles they've really exhausted them in the sense that first they had to go through airstrikes and now they're coming in through the ground from the only place like the had they the port is their lifeline it's the way that they manage to get things in or out but it's also the lifeline for all of their yemenis which is the tricky part you know you're choking the hoses but you're also tricking the yemeni population with that and that's why you have

the humanitarian kind of international groups that are working for air for you know for for relieving this humanitarian crisis saying that no food they that needs to continue to be open regardless of the fighting and so for the host these i think if they go on with the swore they can completely fight to death and probably lose because they don't have the resources that the u.a.e. and saudi arabia have they don't have that kind of backup from the international community so it could be a fight to death that would be really detrimental to the civilians or martin griffith can here step up and negotiate a process where they can be offered a portion of government or a portion of participation in the next administration and kind of save them and also save the yemeni lives at hand well let's look at it from the saudi perspective quickly because this group this plan that seeks to put this critical place or data . protection committee run by the u.n.

why would the saudis agree to do this because if they were to take the city which they claim that they can and will hold most of this war up though. so the so that's the problem from the start this war every single actor in it wanted to win the war militarily they want to clear victory all sides and i think especially since the death of former president i doubt the loss off when he was killed by the hoses i think that was kind of insulting to the arab coalition because they kind of wanted and supported sala had a sense to or they assumed that he would win the fight against the host these but then their calculations came out to be wrong and so at this point i think their reputation is on the line their egos on the line so they want to come in and fight this and have a clear victory so that they can be like me we launched this war it's been three years and now we won and i think i understand that from there you know ego perspective but when it comes to what they're doing on the ground there are millions of lives at stake and whether they win this war or not there have been

documentations of attacks that the launched in yemen that have targeted civilians and had nothing to do with the host the militia there have been sites that were targeted that were historical there were sites that were just pretty much homes weddings factories and even though they're going to win this war i think geminis are going to remember that you know this war was about them it wasn't about the yemeni people and i think in that sense the humanitarian agencies have to kind of remind saudi arabia and the u.a.e. that ok you can go win the war but we have to protect civilians and we have to protect the innocent yemenis that are living in that area. from some of the speak to us from washington d.c. thanks for your time. and there's much more to come here on the news hour including on the eve of colombia's presidential runoff we look at even even duke a candidate many fear could undo the far peace deal. spain prepares to welcome more

than six hundred migrants who were refused entry into italy but for most this will not be the end of their journey. and france get over the line to beat australia joe will have the best of the world cup action coming up in sport. rhesus government is facing a no confidence vote in parliament very shortly over the deal to change the name of its northern neighbor macedonia. police have fired tear gas at protesters outside parliament where prime minister alexis tsipras is expected to survive that vote which comes after three days of debate macedonia is to officially change its name to the republic of north macedonia if the deal goes through ending a twenty seven year dispute with greece but nationalists on both sides see it as a humiliating defeat well john psaropoulos is following events for us in athens

outside the parliament where there's been some trouble he joins us on the phone now and john opponents to the deal making their feelings felt yet again on the stand what's the situation. the situation on the square outside parliament is still tense look from now it's peaceful the police and the longest firing that tear gas there are rumors of an impending invasion by an accused who always like to clash with police that hasn't happened yet inside we're in the final stages because the debate the prime minister has now taken the stand he will face a counter argument from the leader of the opposition after that he gets a chance to speak again and after that they will vote they were very close now maybe a half away from a result i think the expectation is that the government will survive on the strength of its one hundred fifty four votes in the three hundred feet legislature

but it has been roundly criticized on the grounds that it's given away a macedonian city or nationality as the government says opponents say ethnicity. on an official document with the greek signature for the very first time in greek history this dispute has gone on for seventy years but this is opponents say electricity press prime minister's opponents say it's the first time that greece will officially recognize claims by the other side on the macedonian identity of any kind. the government has countered that in fact talks have been ongoing for twenty five years with various compromises suggested along the way but the government has been the first to actually acknowledge that a compromise has finally got to be made official is willing to bite the bullet.

told her office with the crowd outside the greek parliament where the vote is shortened to take place thank you joe. colombians will go to the polls on sunday in the second round of voting to elect their next president the voters raised fears that the historic peace deal the government signed with fuck rebels in twenty sixteen could be jeopardized whilst one of the candidates is a former rebel who's vowed to fully implement the deal the other is a conservative committed to rewriting it and gallagher is in the colombian capital bogota so and it's an election but it's also a referendum on a peace deal. it is general what we have here is a very divided electorate on the one hand you have people that want to see a return to law and order a commitment to a healthy economy those even do case supporters on the other hand you've got a great swathe of the colombian voters that want to see inequalities addressed they are the gustavo petro supporters but the one issue here as you said that really is

worrying people is what happens with those peace accords signed with the fargo is back in two thousand and sixteen about and do kate is a critic he says he may modify those peace agreements which are already quite fragile. as he would keep them in place but let's take a look at a profile of a moderately are known political force in this country let's see what his policies are and the challenges he may face. in colombia memories are a precious commodity especially in a nation where thousands of been killed by the colombian military deaths referred to as extra dudish all executions the military use those deaths to falsely claim they've killed more guerrillas jacqueline chrystia lost her brother ten years ago. and what this is sadly we can say there is a sense of indifference in society to the plight of the victims we need people to stand up and say we can't let this happen again we need to end it for good but instead people often don't seem to care. the deaths of innocent civilians are just one of the issues you will face if i'm elected at forty one he's

a fresh face in colombian politics untested and handpicked by a former president. who believes he has been accused of human rights abuses but remains popular among right wing voters critics fear duke it will be little more of a former president with a questionable past those in the business community economics policies two things that we need to keep growing we need to insert ourselves konami it international economic networks and we need to bring. economic. the biggest. among voters there was do case plans for the peace accords with the fork rebels the historic agreement signed in two thousand and sixteen ended decades of conflict but is a critic. running on the campaign slogan war hard but it's what he may do with the peace accords which many here are concerned some say the agreements up entirely other cities more likely to modify it but for the thousands of families that have

lost loved ones. could mean they won't get the odd justice they said desperately seek kamens or gomez lost one son to an extrajudicial killing or other was murdered when he tried to find out what happened she tells us the possibility of a duke a presidency makes her angry and will see no justice he says no truth colombia's voters remain deeply divided on sunday they'll find out who the new president is and what the future might look like. for the polls open on sunday morning and all indications are as it does have something of a commanding lead but it's also worth noting that gustavo petro is the first leftist candidate in this country's history to get this close to the presidency so by tomorrow night sunday night colombians will have a clear idea of what their future holds. and we go again speaking to us live from bogota colombia. and there's more to come in this news hour. we meet the

palestinians fighting to remain in their own homes ten years after an israeli court transferred their land to a jewish trust. and iceland's vikings back against argentina though we'll have the latest from the world in. and i was about fifty degrees in the middle of pakistan a little bit less than that in iran despite the strong sunshine just because the grind is high any relief from the heat should come in the form of shahs amount of precious few so it's middle forty's like that for example to a northern turkey in the caucasus certainly you get showers here want to spinning off the eastern med towards beirut but i wouldn't promise them to be honest there's

a pleasant twenty seven here it's all a big surprise this time the year is going to be hot obviously we're almost in the middle of summer and i forty three degrees and darren forty six and neck are about where they should be quite a strong breeze still blowing the show off the next day or so and his heart of not in the middle of a probably in near the fifty mark actually away from where people live side of it all the commercials to create and i have to just give you the story of cape town well you don't see a huge about going on here there's only hundred millimeters of rain fell the other day just the north of cape town of course this is the area that was waiting for a daisy to win over water run out this is very good news mind you you may not like the weather very much seventy degrees added north westerly breeze as the rain approaches the western cape of the next say and you could get a significant amount once more.

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back here's a quick look at our top stories. at least twenty six people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack at a gathering of taliban fighters and afghan security officials in the eastern city of. i still says it carried out the attack. yemen's who sees who see rebels are denying claims that they've lost control of the airport in the city of saudi and a mirage the ground troops have surrounded the facility part of a larger offensive to take the entire city. police in athens and fired tear gas at protesters opposed to a deal greece has struck with macedonia over the country's name the greek

government is facing an imminent no confidence vote in parliament over the agreement which will see macedonia become the republic of north. france has agreed to take in some of the migrants on board the aquarius rescue ship which is currently on route to spain the vessel which is carrying six hundred twenty nine people has been at the center of a major migration between european union member states france accused italy of being irresponsible after its new populist government refused to allow the vessel to dock at any of its ports call pay and all reports now from the spanish port city of violence. this will be their safe haven end of an odyssey. a key side of the activists are already preparing to greet the six hundred twenty nine migrants due to dock this weekend. arrangements to

give a warm welcome to these people who have been passed around like a football europe is trying to turn a blind eye but we want to respect their rights and offer them a whole our land is their land. red cross teams offloaded rations and hygiene kits the migrants will get a health check to be registered by police in cases especially pregnant women and children who head to hospital most will go to a shelter for a square meal and a clean bed. spain's red cross assists thousands of undocumented migrants each year. for them in the us some of you have to understand this is a huge drama these are people who need help and we must find a solution for people who are just like you and me cannot be floating around for days without knowing where they're going in these conditions they just have the padlock to be born in a place with more complicated political or social situations. volunteers of volunteers food bank. something for every hungry mouth regardless of religion

or dietary requirements the charity already feeds ten thousand of the city's neediest each week and says there's plenty to go around for a few hundred more. found a highly sierra grew up in an orphanage himself and he's passionate about helping those less fortunate. but in view of the real people in valencia are kind and want to stranger arrives we ask them to sit at our table and so i'd like to say welcome and that they will get our love and support you've come from far and had a tough time but now it's time to sit down and share with us. the spanish government says those landing this weekend will be processed like other asylum seekers no preferential treatment these migrants may still face a rocky road ahead based on last year's figures spanish or florida is a likely to grant refugee status to only one third of the new arrivals the others

could get right back to where they came from. this may be journey's end for a lucky few but it's just another chapter in the ebb and flow of europe's unresolved migration crisis call pinhole al-jazeera the lindsay of spain. russian president vladimir putin has been accused of using the world cup to bury unpopular economic reforms as many russians were watching their national side beat saudi arabia the government announced controversial plans to raise the retirement age the report the proposal raises women's retirement age by eight years from fifty five to sixty three while men would retire at sixty five two years above average life expectancy will critics say any money saved has already been spent on hosting football's showpiece tournament. let's talk more about this now and joining me in the studio is animate we have an expert on russian politics thanks very much for

joining us what do you make of the timing is it fishy at all it is an overtrick of course drawn badly used in the pool of good mood but having serve that function reform has been on the books for years and years we also see that it's going to been incremental process this is quite to peer old within twelve to sixteen years with a timetable kind of delaying reform for each age group because the russian population is aging in other european countries now if this one point eight working person put each one the trials out point to continue russia retirement age is live to close it low to fifty five is hardly controversial is it to be raising it from fifty five nobody returns in fifty five on a national basis yes well in the rushes your bill of have to retire if you reach a time and age people continue working so that's also quite possible the other

thing is that life expectancy in russia has been growing but if there's a considerable gender gap so it probably is unfair on men that they retire should retire later than women while there is almost eleven years gender gap between life of women which is now nearly seventy eight in line with the european average a male life expectancy. putin has signalled hasn't he the need for increasing austerity is there a sense though that he's got to be careful about how he implements it so as not to reveal too much about the state of the economy whilst trying to pretend to a public that sanctions and other things have a very little effect is there any of that what would we have done in his place yeah so quiet on the stand the book the tactics that. your project of course the image of strength because you want to take people with you there if there has been the

paul assist since two thousand and fourteen a combination of oil prices and official says sanctions all sorts of things coming together but also very force which have been fought there are diversification. investment in agriculture about started to pay off there is more there's growth russian public birth is very low they don't want to lie and boring so they have achieved a marker economic stability but people have been squeezed there was a huge controversy wasn't there over the sochi winter games about the amount of money that was spent on it the amount of corruption that went along with it is there any truth in what opponents say that much of the money being raised now has already been spent on the on the world cup there is no way of knowing what is quite typical for russia there is an acute perception that you cannot trust the government with money whether they're strong or. about the much further the been

targeting of the people they would suspect the government over the actu was the wrong door rather than what actually is it isn't possible tim where chill approach if of that scale without some kind or for a month but the result is that the action made it thus far there's been some protests already in novosibirsk over these measures do you see any possibility of more people becoming more. angry russian pensioners are quite proud to say they are remember fairly young they're quite capable of taking direct action there have been press of those because the government withdrew. kind of some in kind benefits before and replace it with a kind of financial compensations which pensioners felt that they were cheated so. no there there well the way men are hitting bus come back that's what trying to

charge them a bus fare so yes we are going to see some of that but this is this is hardly a population loss the threatens the government it's a problem. that. you won't see the elderly people who are perhaps more politically active and for quite the big base all four of those homeless party which is the main opposition party so we should all try them all of them on a month to have a thanks so much for your thoughts. egypt has increased the price of fuel and cooking gas by list at least fifty percent in a bid to boost the economy the rise is expected to save the government more than two point eight billion dollars it follows increases to the cost of drinking water and electricity the measures are part of an economic reform program produced to qualify for a twelve billion dollar loan from the international monetary fund the country also hopes to lure back foreign investors after the economy crashed following the revolution seven years ago. more than seven hundred palestinian residents of

a neighborhood in occupied east jerusalem are awaiting a decision from israel's high court which could determine their rights to live in their own homes they're challenging a ruling that transferred ownership of the land under their homes to a jewish trust more than a decade ago many of them have already been subject to eviction notices or a force that reports. the steep slopes of civil war on an occupied east jerusalem have in recent years become ever more dotted with jewish settler homes now one palestinian community within this neighborhood is coming under further pressure so here as are these family has lived in but on the howard for more than fifty years his father bought this house he has the documents that he says prove his claim but since twenty fifteen he and his family have been living under the threat of eviction. we were shocked we had lived here i was born here grew up here and married here me my brothers and my kids we're all here the whole family is here

a jewish trust claims ownership of the neighborhood citing a deal struck in the late nineteenth century providing homes here for yemeni jews in two thousand and two the justice ministry rewarded the land to that trust now controlled by a process and organization that buys and builds homes in occupied east jerusalem now palestinians with homes here have petitioned the high court the state's attorney in the case admitting procedural failings in the way the land was transferred the residents argument is that the ottoman era law which is being used in the attempt to a victim has been misinterpreted that it should have implied ownership only over the buildings that were once lived in by jewish occupants here not ownership of the land it still remains and they point out that in a separate dispute over land elsewhere in east jerusalem the government ruled that land ownership was not conferred by the law judging in that case that a muslim trust shouldn't be awarded the rights to it or get it locks our problem is that we oppose the jewish claims that this area is

a jewish in and even the court has issued a verdict against the arabs the right wing jewish organization involved a terror at car name declined our request for an interview on the court case but it is generally happy to promote its work increasing the jewish presence in east jerusalem so here roger b. has placed security cameras around his home for evidence of his own in case of disputes with acetylene neighbors the larger dispute over the ownership of this land will be decided in israel's high court harry force it out a zero occupied east jerusalem at least four people have died and nineteen have been arrested in southern turkey after election campaigning erupted into violence. the clashes began when a politician from president. ruling party campaigned in a kurdish town near the syrian border there are conflicting reports about what happened next but state media says a little yield is and his supporters came under attack from opponents armed with knives and sticks opposition groups say the politicians security opened fire after

he received a hostile welcome seventeen people have been killed in the venezuelan capital caracas after a tear gas canister was detonated in a nightclub during a student graduation party the interior minister says the device went off during a fight between several students the incident which happened in the early hours of the morning set off a stampede for the exits seven people have been arrested one of the world's top schools has been gutted by fire destroying four years of restoration work following a previous brought blaze a macintosh building at glasgow's school of art in scotland was due to reopen next year after a multi million dollar refit it's the second time in four years the building has been damaged by far. you see all of this with the building and the cvs but i think it's too early to join lesions from that so it's it's had big concession we have to think the words given what happened four years ago the fact that it was forced

being you can deaf to the way station that this is happened again. stay with us on this news out because we've got more we visit the nigerian steel plant a took fourteen years and eight billion dollars to build yet to produce any steel. and a big birthday surprise for egypt's biggest star that's coming up in sports. a . very big stories generate thousands of headlines collaboration with different angles from different perspectives. this is the only evidence that russia was responsible for this separate the spin from the facts that's why on god's. the misinformation from the journalism the issues here go far beyond one data mining

company and one election with the listening post on al-jazeera and monday put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbeds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war.