in the studio i suppose the first question is what is the rationale behind holding the meeting on a step in the red sea because initially they started over the past few weeks to meet in the data it didn't work the. convoy came under fire and creating a huge political crisis that eventually at the end led to his quote to his resignation about how to implement the modality of the deal when it comes to the presence of united nations monitors but also who should pull out from those areas and this is a you know well another the bottleneck of the of the negotiations now are the host is willing to put out from the data and who is going to take over they say that they will not allow the government or present our global muscle hardy to take over data and these these wars and this is why we have a huge problems as we speak now about that agreement so do you expect any momentum then to take place as these meetings happen well from when you see the statements

coming from both sides the hoses are saying that the u.n. has failed the yemeni people they seem to be very critical of the united nations all voicing that they have not been delivering all the promises made to the streets with an agreement government representatives of the same time they are saying that they are not happy with the u.n. and they were expecting to see the who these pullout from who these are and the support of her data and for the government to take over the whole things are saying that they are only willing to hand over the control of the city and the port to local authorities you know another people beholden to the who are these themselves because there is absolutely no way to hold these would pull out hand over control to the government because that would pave the way for the government to launch an offensive and take over the city of santa and this is something this think is a red line and one of three minding our viewers also the importance of her day there when it comes to the humanitarian crisis that we see in in the country now indeed it is most of the food imports we're talking about eighty five percent of the food. comes to human comes from her data and you control her data you control

the future of human therefore the horses are now willing to seize control of the port of the same time the un and the international community is concerned if there is no deal how the spokesperson by the way said yesterday that had been three thousand violations of the cease fire that hey this is the start of the agreement in december as we speak there are clashes on the outskirts of her data that is fighting it has there is fighting on the oscars of a couple of. strikes targeting her three positions inside the province you're not talking about an environment that could be conducive to any political settlement if the if this deal collapses there are strong indications indications are we getting for our own sources that this could collapse it just would mean that millions of yemenis would have to face more adversity in the coming weeks less food will be trickle in to words used to affected areas across the country and the focus has from the past few weeks and ever since that stockholm is agreement has been on what

they've done but how key is what happens if the day there are bigger political agreements and bigger political settlement it has become the. pivotal moment now for the talks fortunately they have been three attempts by the u.n. to salvage a deal three united nations all voice. will just say and then martin gryphus of the all faced the same problem which is they were trying to focus on one single element of the of the puzzle when yemen is an impressive was a year of different political landscapes it's not only about her that's all you have to grapple with a different problem which is a day in southern part of the country but then again you have to grapple with the issue of the secessionist movement which is saying that it's completely just the whole political establishment and wants to break away from the north that he would have to struggle with another issue which is the who the stronghold where the hoses are saying we are the only legitimate authority in yemen and then you would have to struggle with the government of double so how do we says that it came to power in free fair elections in two thousand and twelve the u.n.

is hoping to solve the problem of who are they that that would pave the way for comprehensive political talks with all the indications suggest that the confidence building measures are so far fails right to have someone better thank you now the democratic republic of congo's main opposition leader martin for you is urging supporters to embrace what he calls peaceful resistance he believes their rival colluded with the former president to steal december's election victory again be reports. show support for martin for you live by those who believe he is the democratic republic of congo is legitimate president his message is a rally in the capital kinshasa was uncompromising and. nothing can work when they've tried to steal victory from us we will peacefully continue with our resistance without end you voted for me and this is your victory. last month the highest court in the democratic republic of congo dismissed in

a pill buy for you live he said the december thirtieth presidential election was rigged. argued that felix chase a key day had made a power sharing deal with outgoing president joseph kabila a charge both men deny. the message of martin for you president is very clear we must resist peacefully until we get back out victory our country must be controlled by someone who is voted in not by a nomination who's. the lead up to the pulse of violence and controversy over the decision to delay voting in some areas for health and security reasons which in effect meant that more than one and a quarter million people from an electorate of almost forty million were excluded the african union as well as the french and german government raised doubts about the outcome of the election. as the people around the country voted for for you the result is clear he is the winner people who have rigged this election will be

responsible for what happens next we will not accept a victory that was stolen from us she said he was sworn in as president last month called for peace and security but feel you and his supporters say they are determined to fight for what they believe is justice victoria gate and be al jazeera once more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including scars of war after enduring years of violence syrian ampere teens face a long waiting line for prosthetic limbs and they persevere kyle a nation that's looking at legal action against big polluters thousands of kilometers away the fastest man in the world makes a run for it ahead of the super bowl has more on the same boat coming up a little later in sports. but for a syrian state media says u.s.

led air strikes have targeted the syrian army near the border with iraq u.s. warplanes reportedly attacked a syrian artillery position in the data area of eastern syria sources say two soldiers were injured and guns destroyed an apartment building has collapsed in the syrian city of aleppo killing eleven people including four children the five story block was damaged during years of war one child was pulled out alive by rescue teams many other buildings around the city are also on the brink of falling apart well demand for artificial limbs remains high in syria despite the lull in fighting in the eight year war hundreds of thousands lost arms legs or both especially during the bombardment of opposition held areas many of the maimed are children osama bin. near the border with syria. that had said. when i think about what happened she says i cry

this is. like millions of other syrian children she struggles with the painful memories of how she lost her leg and her brother. we first met her three years ago when she got her first breast leg she started school since then and made new friends but now she tells us she gets bullied as well for having an artificial leg and for being a foreigner as she grows older the artificial limb needs to be replaced with a bigger one this is also true for other patients whose bodies outgrow their prosthetics whatever as i did sometimes my classmates just leave me alone other times the children can call me things like hey you with the leg keep walking like this so what young child has been telling me is that she wants to go to germany her father tells me that their case has been pending with the authorities for the last three years now that the situation in syria is karma the cases at this center

continue to pile up in twenty sixteen they had three hundred people who required prosthetic limbs now that list has grown to two thousand but with more restrictions on who can cross the border into turkey they've opened a smaller workshop inside syria which has its own set of challenges because after eight years of war find qualified technicians difficult it cost somewhere between three to one thousand dollars to make a prosthetic limb costs depend on injury and whether it's a hand or a complete a foot or a leg. man to head the war is still happening patients who require limbs are chronic and with time they need more care many of these cases appear after the fighting has finished people need to continue their lives regardless of their disability with rising inflation and winning help it's difficult to keep producing high quality prosthetics every time the exchange rate in turkey changes it means fewer limbs can be many factored but for children like donor fatigue rising prices

and border problems don't mean much all she dreams of is to overcome what hinders her from being treated like all the other children in her school simon job it out of the era. for the people of two rising sea temperature is intense the rhotic weather patterns are becoming part of daily life they're being forced to spend more not just to protect themselves but also to keep businesses afloat the pacific island nation is now exploring the possibility of legal action against big polluters thousands of kilometers away as andrew thomas reports. warming seeds have killed the fish which used to be plentiful around by the water so people are building bombs in line and instead it is very frustrating cost to build one fish farm is around fifteen thousand u.s. dollars and who do operate the program over there break the farm for one year

with course that are on the same amount the other costs of climate change here more frequent and intense like claims mean cleanup and repair bills with a geisha an improper ration for disasters and rising sea levels also have big costs . own contribution to global climate change is small even so it's doing all it can to reduce it further the result of bombs and coconut plantations the trees absorb carbon dioxide as they grow the coconuts themselves a harvest it can squeeze for the oil it's a biofuel replacement the diesel they get power generators to make electricity one coconut we'll give you one liter of oil and with what we've got yeah it's a fun hour a for t.v. program definitely for one coconut but a few coconut powered televisions will make little difference to the global climate

vanuatu's government believes the world's big polluters should compensate it for the damage that climate change does here and that if they won't voluntarily through treaties and agreements and they'll try to force them to through the threats of legal action the government is considering how best to sue big policing countries and fossil fuel companies so at this stage we're investigating the options doing our background work we're working with a number of lawyers in different parts of the world who are also looking at our evidence base that we're going to need to prove in court that. it would be hard suing a company needs to happen in the company's national court giving them the home advantage taking legal action against the country means going to the international court of justice it only considers cases where the country being sued agrees to the case be heard but there is another avenue that can take and that is to ask for an

advisory opinion and that isn't legally binding but it does set the direction and gives the world a sense of exactly how. the legal issues. is hope the possibility that countries will companies might have to pay compensation one day will increase the potential financial liabilities now scaring off investors unless they take action to minimize those risks so those legal action is the threats. would rather settle out of court thomas al-jazeera. on a few moments we'll have the weather with stuff but still ahead right here on the al-jazeera news our. changing his story what a u.s. governor at the center of a racist photo scandal is saying now to save his political career and still are defying threats and when dealing demand to keep selling pieces of baghdad's golden era and rocked by roache the west indies hero and trusting test cricket when.

coming up in sports. the flooding in queensland is still getting worse if we look at the satellite picture we can see this world of cloud that's been with us for days now and it's continuing to bring us very very heavy downpours if we zoom into. in the region we can see that the blob of cloud is just across many parts of queens and just about making it in to the northern territory as well but it's around the coast where we've seen some of the heaviest of the rain townsville has seen another one hundred seventy two millimeters of rain just in the last twenty four hours bringing the total in five days of the seven hundred eighty eight and that's what you'd expect or more than you'd expect in january february and march combined and those are the

wettest months of the year so clearly this has been a phenomenal amount of rain but it's not actually the wettest part of the state just to the northwest we've seen one point six meters of rain in the last month and that's approaching what you'd expect in the entire year so clearly this is a very unusual incident in fact it's called a once in a hundred year scenario so this is what we're expecting over the next few days you can see the doppler is where we're expecting the wettest of the weather and really the worst of it is between mount through townsville and into makhaya there that's where the heaviest of the rain will be and some of us could see over three hundred millimeters more rain just in the next thirty six hours. faced with growing financial burdens i have to separate money for student loan pay this chase credit card leaves me twenty nine dollars and thirty one cents. i don't

have a husband left me a pension my future scares me because i don't want to struggle as the dream of retirement fades away and we're clear we got to do something try to keep it above water hold. on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks to different news about to blast wall to this awesome floyd was that authentic in the roots with the this time both with truth to sleep. with detailed coverage why bill has already said that he's ready to take over as interim precedent and call for you elections. from around the world volunteers are doing what they can and that's not the point behind the government's decision to criminalize homelessness it hundred.

hello again the top stories on the al-jazeera news hour venezuela's president think it also has offered to hold early parliamentary elections as he fights demands to resign but his rival and his supporters at home and abroad are demanding a presidential vote it's a peace deal has been agreed in the central african republic and that ending six years of conflict between muslim and christian fighters government leaders struck a deal with fourteen armed groups after a week of talks in sudan backed by the united nations on the african union. and a group of politicians are pressing for a constitutional reforms that would. create a second chamber of parliament their request will also call for the appointment of one or more deputy presidents. al-jazeera has been seeing how corruption in

romania's public hospitals is harming the survival chances of patients romanian children suffer the highest mortality rates in europe and no no government hospitals have been built since the fall of communist rule thirty years ago where it's the reports from pickle rests corruption kills people and in romania hospitals do not necessarily make people better because wrests children's hospital was built in one nine hundred eighty two and much of the equipment doctors and nurses have at their disposal looks like it hasn't changed in the thirty seven years since inside the hospital lies one year old valentino to mr diagnosed by a doctor he's now in a coma his young parents are living in the hospital as his body breaks down in front of them they look completely destroyed. he's made no recovery since he came here his lungs are starting to collapse and his little heart is as well he's on life support they've killed my son. images obtained by

al-jazeera of the conditions inside some of romania's public hospitals are barely believable this is the pathology units where human tissue was stored inside the hospital in one of remaining as biggest cities clues the european union offered one hundred seventy million dollars worth of funding for three new hospitals a full five years ago but the work hasn't even started the crisis like carmen and on are from a business woman to launch a crowdfunding campaign to build a new hospital in the capital stepping in where the government has failed they already raised nearly twenty million dollars is there will bottom of the garden lawyer be there remain a state in the face or showing them it's possible in a country where impossible is what you're always told regarding the first hospital in the country for children with cancer after thirty years of incompetence from the rumanian state so this is it's the first new hospital to be built in romania since the fall of communism paid for by the public it'll be finished years before the government gets around to building them you may well ask yourself how it can be

that so a group of business women with no health care background can build a hospital from scratch in romania while the government apparently colt's wall on so is that corrupt officials don't want seems european funding because they have to account for it and can't simply stick the money in their pockets the other theory is that they're all just completely incompetent probably the truth is somewhere in the middle no doubt there are politicians who want to do something about all this but they're up against a huge wall of corruption the current health minister run a relatively successful hospital herself but she admitted to us the system is broken with officials stealing money from public funds you know. i had bought an m.r.i. scanner for five hundred thousand but here they bought one for two and a half million the exact same one this explains a lot it didn't need explaining someone stole two million euros on the pretense of buying medical equipment we both understand the reasons. you have to say it's

hardly a great indorsements of the current president of the european union to admit to the things it won't be able to build a new hospital for another five years anyway it'll all be too late for florian and denise are they watching their baby son die in front of their eyes killed by corruption largely al jazeera book or rest for back to egypt we were telling you a moment ago that some politicians there are planning to push for a major changes to the constitution including the creation of a second chamber of parliament and the appointment of one or more deputy presidents very request follows some citizens demanding changes to presidential term limits let's make sure all men are sure he is in the associate professor security studies in middle east that politics of the institute for graduate studies joining us here on set thanks for coming in what's behind the proposed changes and why now i think mainly it's about the article one forty in the constitution which prohibits the

presidential term. limited to only two terms and does not allow an election for a third term think the main aim is not true the second chamber that was the case during mubarak there was a shura council the council dative council which was the upper chamber and then the people's assembly or lower chamber concerts so that was an old in twenty fourteen and it became only one chamber of one chamber of the parliament the house of representatives the design supposedly in a democracy the upper chamber would control or review or act as a watchdog on the lower one in authoritarian system both the upper end of the war system the chambers more or less of each other in terms of loyalty to the authoritarian leader and i think part of what's going to happen is that you will create in the upper chamber which will be our bidding that will change that in the of the president and then also all the targets will be article one forty and article two two six both of them article one for. the limits the presidential term

only two times an article two to six also prohibits any amendments in article one forty so these two articles will probably will see them both. modified or amended and when you talk about the modification for the presidential term limits what sort of modification modifications are being proposed. the now the if you look at the media is focusing on the idea that eighty years are not enough and not enough to deal with the economic political or security challenges of egypt face and therefore the current president needs more time to fix the political economic and security challenges if you look at the actual what happened between twenty four thousand to now it's a t.d. addition on multiple levels with the economic political or security or human rights values it doesn't really matter the constitution is violated on an hourly basis not on daily bases in terms of the human rights situation in terms of even you know some changes within the regime you know the you need the approval of the supreme

council of the armed forces for example to sack the minister of defense the president sec the minister of defense without the approval of the supreme council but when it comes to these changes it's important to note that this is just a request submission that's being put forward on sunday so then this needs to go to parliament it needs two thirds approval of parliament then it's put to a referendum so by no means is it a done deal as of now it's a done deal because you control the parliament the parliament is composed of loyalists basically outbidding each other the elections were not free and fair and you have a parliament in many ways it's a done deal in a sense that no one will oppose in the parliament that kind of amendment and there's no no one is even voicing any concerns or any sort of opposition so that's on one and the other thing is the parliament is going to to actually vote or amend the articles that empowers the parliament so article four seven and article one for six both of them say that the president cannot sack the prime minister or the government without the approval of the majority of. parliament i think these two

articles will be probably amended so that the president has a complete try to remove the government and the prime minister without the approval of the parliament and just briefly what sort of reaction can this garner in egypt of course you have some who would support this and for those who oppose it what would be their concerns so far of the voices voice of support like in the local media in the official circles even the group of independent citizens you know saying that this should happen and the president should have more time and so on so they having an independent petition between petitions. the voice of the opposition we know where is the opposition the opposition is either in exile or in jail you know or even the opposition within that is figures like the chief form of chief of staff general synod and has been sentenced for five years in prison for just you know trying to run against sisi in the presidential elections so we know what is the opposition exile so voicing from abroad voicing opposite of all rolled in jail very few figures who would write something critically in egypt are risking

basically their freedoms or their lives all right thank you for giving us your analysis now algeria is a leading eighty two year old president is expected to seek reelection the ruling coalition has named. as its candidate for april's votes but the leader has yet to officially confirm if he'll run in power since one thousand nine hundred nine with a fake i was partially paralyzed from a stroke six years ago he's rarely seen in public james dorsey is a senior fellow at the s. rajaratnam school for international studies and he says with a freak out as a front man who doesn't have much power. essentially. does he want to flee because the convenient. formal figure as a symbol if you wish which allows the powers that be in algeria to update having to jockey for a new contract ended that at a time that the country is facing economic issues social unrest as well as

a security threat and obviously if any of these threats come to the fore and the government does not prove to be well in handling it he also could be a fall guy he served with his health problems for the last five years six years now obviously he is not in full control in many ways he is a figurehead and the country is affectively run by those who are supporting him. and there is no reason why that could not continue in the sense that it has until now now that is also part of the problem it is also why he is also the as perceived by many in the country to not have to live in the last for child refugees held in an australian run detention center on the pacific island when the rue have been are being resettled in the u.s. so they'll go with their families under a deal struck with the administration of former president barack obama australia's

government says it won't send any more children to no room their suffering has been a major criticism of the government's hardline policy to send asylum seekers who attempt to reach australia by boat to what is effectively an offshore prison camp david moran is the executive director of the refugee and immigration legal censor he says the resettle children will need counseling to monitor the trauma they've suffered in detention. medical experts who have a novel to carsley examined the health of the health and the impact of. these policies on children ever overwhelmingly reported very very significant levels of oppression of anxiety. and other very serious very serious medical conditions the trauma the suffering has been very jaded and a lot of the prognosis really for for the suffering and the long term for the last

year many guises that is the damage to have very profound and lasting effects on children so we can only heart that are now being resettled society that these children can be given the help they need good counseling mandate and to be able to rebuild their lives after such trauma a member of an armed group suspected of carrying out last week's bombings in the philippines has spoken exclusively to al jazeera i saw it claimed responsibility for the cathedral attack which killed more than twenty people but the military says it was the work of a smaller group called junk mail and don't get reports on the island of holo where the bombing happened. who noted that. he got in a car nervous and defiant he claims he doesn't have a name just like the more than twenty other members of the a junk junk group in sulu province on the island of mindanao. the big island was

done we want to kill christians this is our goal we don't want them it's a look even if you build two pieces that is the best way to get the better days. are you trying to say you want to become a suicide bomber. we will do whatever we can because that estimate that was given to us by the arabs you know mom it says we must get read the piece chance the agenda john is an offshoot of the armed group of which has been operating in the area for decades i so claimed responsibility for the bombings at a cathedral in law a week ago but the military dismissed that and blamed john for the attacks the group was originally called lucky nine when it was formed in two thousand and nine by children and orphans of abu so your fighters later on the group renamed itself a junk a junk which means lost command. when there's ten million vessels

from kidnapping we keep the two million for our group we also extort money from rich families if they don't give it to us even if they are muslims we kill them too . it's a rhetoric that shocks many here despite previous attacks on places of worship the mindanao region was never sharply divided by religion days after the cathedral bombs there was another attack in a place of worship this time a mosque in the city it happened at midnight eleven people were asleep here when a grenade was thrown inside it killed people instantly this is a second attack in a place of worship within just a matter of days and according to the philippine government it seems as though there are efforts to cause the divisions between the different religions but people here reject it they say they will never let that happen muslims here tell us they

are hurt and differing with. christians and muslims are more than just neighbors here. we intermarry we all grew up together we all love one another. there's concern here that last week's bombings will be denounced. but in a heavily guarded mosque preachers for some hope love the same is stronger than violence jim duggan al-jazeera seduce southern philippines a u.s. state governor has changed his story about a coup klux klan photo which is causing a racism scandal twenty four hours after ralph northam apologized for being in the photo now the democrat from virginia says it's not him the photo taken in one nine hundred eighty four has provoked increasing calls for his resignation my belief

that i did not wear that costume or attend that party stems in part from my clear memory of all the mistakes i made in the same period of my life that same year i did participate in a dance and in san antonio in which i darken my face as part of a michael jackson costume i look back now and regret that i did not understand the harmful legacy of an action like that it is because my memory of that episode is so vivid that i truly do not believe i am in the picture in my yearbook. antique shops used to do a roaring trade in baghdad's but years of conflict and threats of kidnapping of force sellers to shut their shops in the markets and go online matheson met one trader who is determined to keep this store and all the pieces of history it holds . selling history in baghdad. has owned his little antique shop for twenty

five years these to be dozens of stories like his crammed into baghdad's back streets and the mud in the. iraqis have their history and culture and twined people in turn for the past.