bomb was attached to his car in a crowded marketplace killing one of his men and badly injuring him the people here are scarred and scared by eisel the group launches regular attacks from mountain hideouts and bloodshed is a constant fear to goals nine sons were killed by eisel one was hacked to death with an axe. i don't have power to take my revenge otherwise i would have hammered him all over his body from head to toe i would keep him for a week and then let him die slowly because that is what he deserves with the afghan army overstretched in the fight against the taliban militias are the first line of defense in one the hard province where some good as i learned they are tough and not far from here if we leave this area they will come back to destroy this place again but we will fight again until we die then they are back use these militias have only basic arms and equipment they say is insufficient to really fight i still

they need more and us air power alone is not enough to destroy eisel bases or prevent their operations that needs to happen on the ground the network of tunnels and i saw hideouts in the tora bora mountains are easy to defend and almost impossible to attack from the ground commander zeitoun points out the spot where the americans dropped their biggest non-nuclear bomb containing ten thousand kilos of explosives to try and destroy eisel positions the militias say it made no difference. if the u.s. paid the amount they spent on this mother of all bombs we could have finished deisel. local commanders say that eisel here has men from chechnya turkey and pakistan in its ranks but communities fear that if i saw he's pushed out of syria it will rebase to afghanistan it. is and this was the foreign fighters a very cruel and don't have sympathy for anyone the local i saw have at least some feeling for afghans but foreign eisel are cruel or their hearts are made of stone

on the battlefield i still may be contained for now but it's taking ground in the propaganda war last week afghan security services arrested a cleric and a professor who are alleged to be eisel spies western diplomats report that afghan universities have become fertile ground for eisel recruitment one car university in jalalabad was closed for a time last year so recruiters and sympathizers could be cleared out. of this. but there's not people who are using unless a deal of politically thought against god and no one can bring that ideas to work again the interest of the country in the remote militia outpost facing eisel positions the hope is they get western support and weapons before they have to encounter the battle hardened men who will lose syria but not a cause tony berkeley al-jazeera eastern afghanistan. still ahead on al-jazeera the african union summit has drawn to a close we'll have a report from adults about glass flying into extinction scientists want to end sex

good vanish within the next one hundred years why that's catastrophic for the wild . heller's a useful winter rains are falling now in iran the whole system is quite a big one spreads out through afghanistan turns back towards the caspian it's not the first it's maybe the most active of the last couple of weeks so more rain is to come on tuesday snow depending on your height above sea level so a good part of afghanistan to medicine will see it as snow and sleet study east was not in towards the west into baton plot so leaving sunshine behind for a couple of days and that's true all the way back to the levantine coast if at least in that isn't quite as stormy as it has been recently now the effect further south is this is the tail end of it swings through the gulf states in the next few

hours and we go following wishes go off and dusty but certainly a bit colder feeling twenty two is max in doha nineteen in riyadh generally speaking fairly so you're fine weather and that breeze continues to blow through following the cloud rain briefly across a man come wednesday now you can almost imagine that joining up to the call of africa which is where the active weather is and that line then continues just in the top of your screen dancer process zambia towards our goal of to clean wet recently and go to the showers also on the eastern side of south africa cape town's enjoying twenty three degrees a moment in the sunshine. with the low stakes billion people in the world production is under increasing strain educating nation with a growing global population down to zero as environmental solutions program it

discovers new ways of feeding the world sustainably. eighty thousand earlier just from this bit of liquid that's unbelievable to see there's the vegetable of the scene right there. on al-jazeera. land. man. back i'm back here watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour venezuela's president has rallied troops and says they are ready to fight the u.s. and other enemies opposition to one wide or and south dakota interim president is warning nicolas maduro against blocking aid saying that's almost genocide.

iran's president hassan rouhani is following to continue the expansion of his country's ballistic missile program is addressed tens of thousands in tehran on the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution and the acting u.s. defense secretary is on a surprise visit to afghanistan patrick shanahan says government involvement in peace talks with the taliban is crucial to ending the nearly eighteen year war the taliban regards the government as illegitimate. iran's president says the country will continue to expand its ballistic missile program has some rouhani made the comments during his address to mark the fortieth anniversary of the islamic revolution as in a harder has a report from tehran the it's an honor will rally held since nine hundred seventy nine iranians converge on a saudi or freedom square in central to run to celebrate independence from us

dominance this neighborhood public is marking this year's anniversary engaged in the latest standoff with the united states and the message remains the same one of defiance. it was made by the man who had pushed for engagement with the west iranian president hassan rouhani sealed the two thousand and fifty nuclear deal with world powers which the u.s. withdrew from a few months ago and really imposed sanctions mug the united states and israel they impose sanctions on us putting pressure on our nation a massive turnout means the enemy won't attain their goals so we will continue treading the path we chose forty years ago today in order to make different types of missiles we are not getting permission from anyone and we will not ask anyone for permission to build them our military power will continue. the revolutionary guards have made it clear that iran is not ready to bow or compromise they have

been showing off their military might displaying what are said to be to reinforce iran's defenses the west sees it differently pressuring iran to curb its missile development program the iranian leadership says that is not negotiable the years of sanctions and hardships we were able to handle it able to pass this crisis the event is a chance for those in power to show that they can mobilize supporters to show that the revolution's ideals remain and able to project strength but there is no doubt iran's leaders are facing both external and internal pressures the trumpet ministration is squeezing in ground to change its behavior in the region and stop supporting proxies in syria yemen lebanon and iraq iranian leaders say the current us administration is the most hostile that the islamic republic has faced in four decades iran's supreme leader says this is. part of the official discourse

until the united states changes what he calls its. anytime soon. says. the pressure what trouble calls the radical regime in iran. some american officials. predicted that the islamic republic would collapse before its fortieth birthday they were wrong but many iranians who are facing what were honey has described as the worst economic situation since one nine hundred seventy nine on the anniversary at least their voices are drowned out by those of the ruling elites core supporters. we are here to prove to divorce that even support our lead their common name no matter how hard the situation and the backers of the clerical establishment are promising loyalty to the system and resilience in the face of their enemies center for their. and al jazeera zain bazarov he has this report now from mashad. here in motion the iranians have braved

a cold windy day to attend one of the most hotly anticipated events of the calendar year it was on this day forty years ago that the beginnings of change the upheaval that ayatollah ruhollah khomeini had envisioned for iran had taken hold and towns and cities across the country began to shift into the hands control of those towns and cities began to shift into the hands of khomeini supporters while the event is to mark a serious historical moment victory day is a public holiday in iran and here in much of the rally is a family affair and has the feeling of a fairground complete with balloons live performances and carnival games you could only find in a role and here is it is in cities across the country the act of remembering the events of forty years ago is about more than just an excavation of history it's an annual opportunity to live in fortune actualize slummy ideals answering question sentiments of that time connecting the past to the present as

a way to live force the shoshu and political status quo in iran today we met one woman who said she loved the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini more than her own husband who was standing right next to her at the time perhaps a testament to the supreme leader's charisma but more likely an example of how people in this part of the country subscribe wholeheartedly to the idea of an unquestionable supreme islamic leader overseeing the affairs of the whole country people here revere a common a as a kind of sajjan of a family of revolutionary elites often downplaying the significance of iran's elected political leaders and if anyone has any doubt about the level of support for a slow mic system of government here in iran they need only look for decades after . evolution at public shows of support like this you know ron's religious hard.

fought. professor of international relations at tehran university he says president rouhani has taken a more militaristic approach to diplomacy as a result of u.s. president on trance decision to break the nuclear agreements i think when he came into office about six years ago his main goal in foreign policy was to improve relations with the west what trump did to him has caused him to speak in terms that you heard today expanding iran's missile program and threatening united states back given the fact that u.s. has certain to attack iran so i think you see a shift not only in rowhani but people around him people like zarif foreign minister here and others and the whole generation of iranians that thought that maybe reducing tensions with the rest was something that could happen during their lifetime and i don't think they believe that anymore the europeans have done little

things not not anything serious the terminology too little too late i think applies to europe and. rouhani is administration thought that europe would actually be able to offset some of the negative effects of u.s. withdrawal from the nuclear agreement in europe hasn't done that much so when we say that the rest lost an opportunity to improve relations with iran we include europe in that and i don't see anything serious coming up in the next few months so if europe continues to activate they do i don't think you see any improvements there. the today african union summit has wrapped up in ethiopia's capital egypt's president abdel fattah el-sisi has taken over as chairman of the group from wonders for me this year's focus was on refugees and internally displaced people malcolm webb has this update from them as the summit draws to a close we are expecting

a statement relating to the theme of the summit which is refugees and displaced people of which there are more than twenty million in africa but that statement won't include anything binding probably something like a declaration of intent who also expecting more details on a plan for the african union moves the u.n. to promote what they've called reconciliation talks in libya ahead of elections that are meant to happen there later this year also some more details on the steps that have been taken forward in the african union's plan to try and fund itself it does depend on funding from countries outside of the consulate at the moment and the unions trying to make itself self-sufficient. a fourth successive day of anti-corruption protests have been held in haiti demonstrators are demanding the resignation of the president priyanka go to has the details was a test as in haiti's capital port au prince i'm not giving up for the fourth successive day they marched in the hundreds torching cars outside government

offices. and demanding the president juvenal maurice to resign the brother of the doubt was really going to burn the country down if he does not step down. protesters say the government is corrupt and is ignoring the hardships beat worse by earthquakes hurricanes and a cholera epidemic haiti relies on imports for vital commodities such as oil rice and wheat the rate of inflation has risen fifteen percent over the past two years while the value of the currency the coward has fallen against the dollar people in one of the world's poorest countries simply can't afford what they need. yet we are tired of these killers down with juvenile we're tired of these drug dealers and all of the people in power. are appalled by haiti's auditor's last week accuse several former government ministers and officials of embezzling development venezuela over the possible of india's protest to say the government isn't doing enough to mess to

get a company headed by marie said the time after two years in power he's resisting demands to step down instead he's calling for national unity. we went to elections are part of the population voted i am president i am ready to speak to all my brothers and sisters over the difficulties the country is facing to my brothers and sisters in the opposition the doors open so as to reach a solution his critics say those are just empty promises this is why. the government makes the budget just for them this is not how you provide change the government took their money and spent it on themselves on people who don't deserve it. he is the poorest country in the western hemisphere protest to say their corrupt leaders must face justice until then they will not stay silent priyanka gupta alexander. the world's insects are on the road to extinction and

could vanish within one hundred years that's a finding of the first global review of decades of research into insect populations scientists say the findings are frightening and a catastrophic threat to our. systems mariana honda has more. they're beautiful sometimes bothersome but without in six scientists say life on earth is under three a global review of studies in two and six population shows they're declining eight times faster than mammals birds and reptiles at that rate the will in six could disappear completely within one hundred years as. maize proceeds then is built in six and nine six these appear in the hole. if the insects disappear we're going to disappear too the whole agricultural system depends among other things on the insects that are most vulnerable to extinction to control the other insects which

compete with us for our crops so this is a a brilliant paper but at the same time one that scares the pants off of any biologist who understands how the world works it's not just the place of in six in the food chain that has scientists worried that poland that plants purify the soil and waterways recycle waste and have an important role in paste control and their numbers are declining by two and a half the same to every year while climate change and zation are affected as scientists point to the intensification of agriculture as the main culprit the report's authors say in sick decide to have little real bearing on food production part of the solution is the art of all of how the will grows its food to be more environmentally friendly it's an overly optimistic paper because it mentions the things that we should be doing in order to avoid the

extinction of the insects the point is we're not doing any of them. this isn't the first time scientists from around the world have issued a warning about three to humanity the first was back in one nine hundred ninety three the second was just last year the problem is they say too few up paying attention made in the homeland al-jazeera now from songs with political messages to speeches on mental health and race these were the themes of the sixty first grammy music awards. that your. childish gambino made grammy history for a song and record of the year becoming the first rap song to win the procedures award in a female first kacey musgraves one album of the year and while singing joy is there now a war a below the war gown bob saw a communicable performance of havana had a hidden message against the u.s. border more.

clear again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera venezuela's president has rallied troops and says they are ready to fight the u.s. and other amany enemies opposition leader and self declared interim president one guy dough is a warning nicolas maduro against brocchini aid saying that's almost genocidal traceable has more from caracas. there's going to be an enormous demonstration expected to take place in venezuela this coming tuesday in and demanded by one why though and members of the opposition to allow be aided piling up at the border between venezuela and colombia to be allowed into the country the government would only thing that they won't let that aid into the country they say that it will have enough in order to supply it that is anything but in spite of that what we have been able to pin on him now that there is many many people in this country in

desperate need the acting u.s. defense secretary has been on a surprise visit to afghanistan patrick shanahan says government involvement in peace talks with the taliban is crucial to ending the seventeen year war the taliban regards the government as illegitimate america's top diplomat has denied the u.s. is covering up for the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi secretary of state my full pale was speaking at the start of a european tour he also said the u.s. would take more action to ensure those responsible for the killing are held accountable this comes just days after president donald trump missed a deadline to report to the senate on whether the white house believes saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon ordered the journalist skelly meanwhile saudi arabia says it doesn't know where. body is in an interview on u.s. elevation the minister of state for foreign affairs says the kingdom is still investigating also accused turkey of not sharing intelligence. football

r.v. is expected to get a hero's welcome when he lands in his adopted home australia the twenty five year old was freed from jail in thailand after bahrain dropped days extradition request the thai government has faced a growing international outcry since it is a restaurant on honeymoon eight eleven weeks ago and iranian president hassan rouhani is vowing to continue to the expansion of iran's ballistic missile program he addressed tens of thousands in tehran on the fortieth anniversary of the revolution those are the headlines on al-jazeera inside story stocks now.

is the world failing to yemen it's eighty years since of revolutions hopes for a change instead years of war and the good words to monetary crisis so what parts of their teams this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm elizabeth piron millions of yemenis saw an opportunity for change and twenty eleven protesters inspired by the arab spring demond the resignation of president ali abdullah saleh he eventually relinquish power after three decades autopsy of democracy soon faded four years of civil war have led to what the united nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis with famine disease and suffering widespread on the eighth anniversary of yemen's revolution priyanka gupta reports. these graves of protesters killed and thais

are reminded of a time when yemen got to prefer glimpse of hope. separate twenty eleven the city's freedom square the birthplace of the evidence arab spring. it was an important moment for the people of yemen from the streets of aden to the squares of sanaa thousands of men and women rose up against a thirty three year rule of president ali abdullah saleh a call for political and economic reforms morphed into a rage against his government after peaceful protests faced a violent crackdown in the end sali was forced to resign in ties protesters have gathered again in freedom square to mark the eighth anniversary of the uprising activists like twenty eight year old dubai jaffa are hoping to keep the revolution alive. to him the revolution is like a flame once parked in

a man's heart cannot be smothered hour of illusion has not been perverted rather came to a standstill halfway through have him a new revolution completed its course would have achieved what we aspire to. instead yemen is now in the middle of a war and tires is under assault from different armed groups after salis resignation of the rebel months are hardy took over a process of reconciliation began but that was short lived. in twenty fourteen who the rebels stormed into sanaa from the stronghold in the north assad the u.a.e. coalition began a military campaign in support of the yemeni government led by harvey. the man protest as deposed first aligned with the who these and then was killed by them in twenty seventeen thousands of yemenis have been killed in the war many of them children the conflict has pushed the region's poorest country to the brink of

famine twenty million people don't have enough food to eat but some activists say the revolution gave yemenis something bigger the idea of to more crecy. we'll uproot all the corrupt or those plotting to undermine the achievements we made believe the revolution is still moving forward we believe in its principles and the family succession the rule toppling the corrupt traitor ship of three decades. a political and diplomatic solution to the war in yemen seems on certain a un brokered cease fire agreement has not brought peace to her there the port city is a crucial gateway for much needed humanitarian aid priyanka gupta for inside story . well let's bring in our panel now joining as on the phone from santa is hakimullah mehsud mahdi he's a political and military mediator in amman we have college schembri he's a regional media advisor in the middle east and in the wage and refugee council and

in washington d.c. is some of hamdani a visiting fellow at georgetown university very warm welcome to all of you mr must money we've spoken so many times over the past eight here is what happened to the yemeni revolution ali abdullah saleh was removed but why wasn't he replaced by democracy that was a plan democracy was a plan even the revolution was called. a peaceful resolution a place where hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered what was culturally where they were. democracy those which are. not the case. that. he rejoined his. power he started. ensuring that the. personal by courts and the lion is. by that time the control of.

our government. other military. war because of that. revolution. and it is because of those thousands and fact millions of yemenis who are suffering and the various ways that yemen is of course called the world's worst humanitarian crisis mr schembri i know that you've been in and out of yemen over the past few years we call it the world's worst humanitarian crisis but what does that look like when you're in yemen what is life like for people there. well it's

massive i've just returned from the it affects yemen across the board all sectors from professionals who haven't received salaries for the last almost two years now to people who are extremely mild marriage children on the brink of death to displaced families who have been hit more than once and then go up in the line of fire their houses destroyed they move they flee and they get in the line of fire again the fighting reaches them and they're forced to be displaced again absolute poverty that is now reigning supreme across across the country i've seen doctors who haven't been paid their salaries and they still go on with their jobs they're saving lives teachers professionals the yemeni economy has been brought down to its knees it's not that food isn't available but it's that it is so

expensive it isn't accessible for the ordinary yemenis out there that they can't afford to to eat it i've met a little girl aged who has been displaced four times over the last four years and was telling me last week how they go at night hungry not not having eaten at all. like every other day they have to eat their meals every other day because they can't afford any more than that so it's it's really hard to give the full picture accept that this is just deteriorating it's a country that has been through color are. on the brink of famine most of poverty and the most displacement of people all the time and despite that scale of suffering it's also called you know one of the world's forgotten crises valley why is that. why is that one of the most forgotten crises in the world. well for many reasons first of all there is no international interest to kind of listen to

the voices of the yemenis on the ground just because of how un powerful they are again like they mentioned before yemenis are not wealthy they're not powerful and then on top of it the yemeni political elite at the moment are taking one side or the other in this conflict which is making things difficult for the average yemeni on the ground who's paying the price for this you know the average person is starving while the political parties are competing for power on the top levels and of course this this war is is you know some people would say it's not the forgotten war some would say that it's the unknown war of course the. assassination has changed all of that and brought a lot of media attention on yemen however we have to remember that powerful countries that could stop this conflict sure are in fact the country supplying the weapons to this war and are part of the you know there are countries that are now taking sides in the iranian saudi proxy war and it's not becoming about yemenis

it's becoming about regional head ramoni while the average yemeni citizen who's poor who's starring is the one paying the price and ultimately we have to remember that we're not getting a lot of footage from the ground and it's been really difficult to cover this war in a regular way with competing crises happening across the middle east and so it makes it very difficult for the average human the citizen to have a voice or a say in what's happening mr mess my as you know it and yemen is of course one of the poorest countries in the region and it is being bald by some of the richest you know the saudi and mirage the caller and and again as pointed out by miss how they are being by you know a superpower as the united states the u.k. . but what impact would you say that the saudi and the rocky coalition entering the war on the side of the yemeni government has had all new. forget about the saudi and your problem though about the changes that happened i wasn't sleeping in

december the peace talks i just arrived and i couple days ago in the last two months the difference that i saw in poverty. and seven or eight i find. or i did not only hundreds of thousands or millions of families and as your guest said it's not a problem of having a no money has not been paid for over two years now. inflation prices have increased three hundred percent over last year and a half the clinton has collapsed over two hundred percent in the last. right now i'm alone and to what extent has that suffering being exacerbated by the fact that this is not a war that involves only yemenis we have the and russia coalition supporting the many government we have supporting the whole face of how much has that

international events really made things so much worse and probably long to the war over possible but we're only. almost close to signing a deal. we're . gaining. financially. it's not possible. in the. war and it's not on the one side that you. have

one leadership. well despite all of those divisions and so much to say we did have some good news as you're mentioning there was that ceasefire agreement for the crucial city of hyundai that was signed in sweden. is that agreement holding. well we as a humanitarian agency we don't monitor the actual fighting what i what we can say is that the there is artillery fire going on almost on a daily basis and one day that i could hear it last week at night the air raids seem to have stopped inside who they does city but there is fighting that is raging on and people are still being displaced and they are still coming. in the line of fire so. it's a very specific agreement that has so far stalled it seems to have stalled the

frontlines from developing further inside who they don't but the areas around today the city outside the port the port area. there is there is extremely active war zone that parts of them are inaccessible to my colleagues who need to get aid to the people and i would add another point. to the pertinent point made before earlier about the coalition countries that are have an influence on this war. as humanitarian agency we call on the top donors. they happen to be the top donors of the yemen response that is the united states saudi arabia the united arab emirates and further down the united kingdom we want to see an end of the play city of the hypocrisy of with one hand feeding keeping keeping the yemenis live and at the same time destroying their country it is yemenis need much more than aid

they need an end to this day and they need the lifting of the blockade and they need all ports on their ports open so that they can resume with their lives and that takes us to the point that miss hamdani was making earlier which is that these super powers that are giving aid to yemen yes but they're also arming. you know the saudi and the rotty coalition who are complicit in the killing of civilians so you know you have various countries saying that they want the water end but you have many of the same countries continuing to arm the warring parties so. can any u.n. efforts to end the war be successful while superpowers continue to the warring parties i believe that that is very possible because yemenis are armed to the teeth and not just the saudi and the t. coalition have also have had all the weapons and all the support that they can get

and it feels that all the sides are exhausted from fighting and of course that's not to say that one side is more dangerous than the other of course when we saw what's happening in yemen we see that they're all exercising some form of criminality and to touch base on what the previous speakers said before yemeni's don't just deserve the end of the war they deserve much more than that if we are going to talk about the arab spring and the uprisings in yemen what the people of yemen had demanded was you know it looks such a such a high bar compared to what is what their demands are today for instance then they want to dignity and they wanted freedom and they wanted a democratic practice and that was quickly hijacked by political parties but today the demands of the emmy people is to have access to food electricity and the demands of change drastically and to kind of touch note on the arab spring anniversary it's important to note that who started the revolution were the youth

and independent woman and of course the youth today are the weakest faction that you barely hear voices coming out from the youth the been a lot of them have been absorbed by political parties or feel like they have to ally themselves with some political entity in order to have a say of some sort and that's really tragic and when it comes to women of course woman were such an important component of the arab spring they took to the streets they were alongside men and then today when you look at the yemeni government there is barely any female representation in the government and of course the role of women on the ground. become very militant which is very unfortunate and then all peace efforts that have to do with woman are organized in the mentally and so that's very tragic when it comes to that and then of course both sides on the ground are dictating independent voices whether they're use and women and just most recently we have missed. me and missed my hand or may see have been detained by the

who these and we don't know why and how long they will be today and we know that it was sentenced to death and of course on the other side similar practices are happening and it's it's all not building towards confidence in the peace process it's just showing that yemen is sinking further and further into a darker place you know miss hamdani is making some very good points talking about the people of yemen the juice the women which we don't actually talk about enough because we constantly talking about the whole things in the saudi iraqi coalition in the yemeni government and when we when it comes to the yemeni government and the people do the people of yemen see president had the as been the day he's the internationally recognized leader but if we get to the point where you know the fighting comes down and we can have negotiations about peace is he the person to represent the youth the women the people of yemen. over the last four years the majority of president. has been in

a real. question if you have any people for president. you cannot come to an end because. the security apparatus you run. we had no. these are not in control. only those who are. the ones president and they are getting from him but the tens of millions in yemen. not seen anything and do not even consider him as a man that because. they don't care about the president or not right now they want to die from hunger they want to manage in a they want medical attention they want to come to work and they want to live and survive. that no one cares if the president is alive or not because their life is on the line. and right now. it has never been with

a bright democracy tens of thousands of prisoners are in prison all of the. newspapers have been closed and have been blocking the takeover by those who are in control of. what's happening right now and. it's not an issue. you can through him. and the sangram show you agree with what mr mehsud i was saying that president had is not the issue here and that is the situation for yemeni. absolutely i mean the. practically every yemeni i talked to over the last two weeks was telling me that they all want to get back to their normal lives they want to love their country they want to get back to their jobs they just they they want not to need to to beg for aid they've been reduced to a dependency from the ambitions of the arab spring to to this to starvation and

being on the brink of famine for for so long so of course they are pleading for the world's leaders and the sides to the conflict to take a step back a loud them to go back to their normal lives they've lost so much relatives friends houses as it's drops. it's now how long can they go on with this we keep saying and the humanitarian world yemen is on the brink of yemen is is just on the brink and we think it can't get worse and it does and it does and it's this is what is now a really prolonged crisis that needs immediate immediate ending and miss hamdani why do you think it won't take everyone involved to actually hear the pleas of they get many people that mr schembri is talking about i mean you say you speak of a fatigue by all sides but the war continues. the work continues simply

because there is a war economy and so the. easiest way to dismantle this war is to stop the flow of income that goes to benefit this war whether it's through smuggling or financing political parties from outside parties or whether it is you know the weapons economy of itself and so the minute you dismantle that and you start funding the processes of peace the business is going to shift from somehow so how do you dismantle that it's going to how do you just mental that and who does it. unfortunately while we talk about this war being a yemen yemen conflict in origin it's now become a regional conflict and nothing can happen without the say or will of international actors and so once they put their foot down very seriously on this war then we'll see a difference so the say has to kind of come from a top down approach from the regional actors saying this is enough this is what we

would like to see and we're just going to begin face to of course we've seen a lot of times that when the regional actors are prepared for this we have to hope is on the ground who would go ahead and ruin the peace process these but that's just the way that it's going to have to be you know you're going to have to sign a peace treaty and you're going to have to make you know you're going to have to sacrifice the fact that political parties are not getting exactly what they want because there are always going to be spoilers but you have to just go ahead and do it because yemenis are suffering and of course we've talked about the looming humanitarian crisis for many many years and everything that we've predicted to happen has happened and you still see very little reaction to that and almost like it's a political strategy to to kind of just make yemenis suffer towards the end you know and to assume that that some sort of victory would be incorrect and so like i said earlier it takes international actors to kind of put their foot down. say hey we're

not going to support different parties in this conflict just because we have interests at the stake we're just going to support peace from now on and we're going to make friends with everyone missed a mess my way at that point where international actors are going to say ben no longer supporting the school. with some other opportunities yemen was already at work. just last year imagine how it is right now i mean millions of more probably. added to that list the poverty. we have hope yes. but the baby steps they have the complications and that's why we're trying to look upon. a core you have a group. with you all to be involved in trying to solve. a national figure. and try to solve this problem at a regional it's not a drunkard with problems obviously getting solved with congressional support it

would be a positive result it's not support either. side water. in the peace talks both sides who are helping or i. missed a mess and i thank you as always for your time we do appreciate it i want to thank all of our guests that was talking must money joining us on the phone from sana we also have college schembri he's an hour mon and hamdani in washington d.c. and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion to go to our facebook page that facebook dot com forward slash inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter. and five stories from elizabeth and a whole scene. now. delta state one of nigeria's largest producers of oil is gradually becoming

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latest developments coming up later in the program. thank you for joining us we begin this news hour in venezuela where the political crisis shows no sign of ending as a new week of opposition protests begins against the leadership of president nicolas maduro trade unions are taking to the streets in the capital caracas total separate protests planned by teachers and hospital workers opposition leader one guy do has called for a major rally on tuesday he wants to pressure the military to defy president mentors orders and allow an aid convoy to cross the colombian border into venezuela that says a large scale military drills are expected to continue throughout the week the government is describing them as preparations to repel a possible u.s. invasion. sameas here. today the most important military

exercises that our republican history recalls have been successfully initiated throughout the national territory the most important because of the situation we are living in of real threat from the imperialist government of donald trump against the peace of venezuela the head of the empire has threatened us and that is generated indignation rejection by all the people of venezuela and of the world public opinion. well let's get the latest from al-jazeera today several in qatar forests or more opposition protests planned on monday and tuesday what exactly is the opposition strategy right. well that's correct what we're seeing this monday several small protests or around the city outside some universities outside some hospitals on the roads but nothing matthew of the big demonstration is going to be happening on tuesday when the opposition and you go and who is he named his interim cabinet are supposed to take

to the streets to demand that the entrance of aid that right now at the border between colombia and venezuela they're saying at their strategy has been mostly to be talking to the soldiers on the streets saying that that aid is not only for the venezuelan people but also for their families and this has been the strategy you know to try to make the military year in venezuela reach a breaking point right now the leadership of the military remains very very loyal to the government and that's why the opposition has been talking to the military trying to convince them that they need to rebel against mother would go you know to and force the government to call for general elections which is basically the ultimatum objective that they have right now as you say the military remains loyal to my dural and that's perhaps why we're seeing him remain defiant throughout this crisis despite the internal pressure despite external pressure but is that likely

to change anytime soon the military support for the need or. will it what it seems right now when we have been able to see is that that's not going to change anytime soon believe your ship is it was precedent in fact the minister of defense was just speaking just a few hours ago saying that the united states will force any type of change in the country that they won't allow the. aid to come into the country because it's a strategy in order to intervene here in venezuela we also saw for example the minister of defense earlier this week week giving away in some but talian air conditioning ice chest someone god the things that this is a force and i kept to quell the disenchantment that exists especially among the middle and lower ranks we can see in some small rebellions against the president all of them have been controlled and till now so that's not expected to change anytime soon there's been some interesting tweets from senator from the united

states marco rubio where he's been talking directly to some key military officials here in venezuela telling them that this is the time for them to step aside to give a step further in venezuela for democracy guaranteeing them that there's the not going to be a purge within the venezuelan military and that's why the opposition has been calling for an amnesty or so that in a way challenge their their military to rebel against my will to resign as this crisis drags on of course is the venezuelan people who are paying the price so it's a hard economic crisis what do they make of this you know political crisis dragging on and also what do they make of the fact that external powers countries like the united states are increasingly involved in this crisis. well let me tell you i've been coming to venezuela for many many years and this is the first time that i've encountered in traditional battery also neighborhoods most

of them poor that supported president who are lots of people that are disenchanted what we have seen in the latest protests is that about it neighborhoods that were strongholds of a chevy small for what chavez socialist movement have turned against the president and the reason why is the economy crisis people are telling us that this is a time to leave ideology behind that they need to survive they need to be able to find food medicine something that's very very scary here even though if the government does. not to want to recognize that of course most of the people we have spoken to say that and i mean they are not thinking of any type of military intervention most of them won't support any type of military intervention but yes they want some type of change because basically they cannot make ends meet and this is about survival that's what they're telling us thank you for that to resettle reporting live from venezuela's capital caracas in other world news america's top diplomat has denied the u.s. is covering up for the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi secretary of state my phone palest speaking of the start of

a european tour it comes just days after president donald trump miss a deadline to report to the senate on whether the white house believes saudi conference mom had been silent ordered the journalists good americans not covered up for america's taken more action in response to the tragic murder of jamal khashoggi i will continue to take more actually continue our investigation we're working diligently and that we will president's been very clear couldn't have been more clear as we get additional information we will continue to build all of those responsible accountable as speech on to ghana in washington for sunday just how much pressure is a trump administration under from congress to take more action concerning the. i mean the trump administration is under a great deal of pressure from congress and from the international community they missed a deadline on friday on the magnitsky act which requires the president to answer

a specific question that question whether it was where the saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin sound man was directly responsible for ordering the death of jamal khashoggi that deadline passed that led to some pretty senior democrats accusing the trumpet ministration of turning a blind eye and in essence covering up jamal khashoggi murder you heard mike. speaking there in budapest saying that is not the case the trumpet ministration will continue to investigate all avenues and hold people accountable of course the saudi arabians are saying there are eleven people that have already been accused and indicted five of whom face the death penalty at the same time you've got a special rapporteur from the united nations carrying out her own investigation the results from which will be available apparently in june so the pressure is all around on the trumpet ministration to keep investigating what happened in october in saudi arabia's embassy in istanbul and just yesterday

a senior saudi diplomat or senior saudi official appeared on an american news network here saying they don't even know where the body is at the moment so the pressure is continuing from all sides what happens next we're not quite sure but you heard mike pompeo there saying america does not cover up these kinds of murders thank you for that gallagher life or a scene in washington. the united nations special envoy to yemen says there is an urgent need to try to access grain stores in the port city of her day where he says food is at risk of rotting one graph it says the world food program stores in the city have enough supplies to feed three point seven million people for a month but the food has been inaccessible for more than five months because of the store's front line position. the acting u.s. defense secretary and afghanistan's president have met in kabul patrick shanahan says it's crucial that afghan government leaders are included in peace talks with the taliban fighters resist that idea because every guard the government as an

illegitimate us puppet tony berkeley has more from kabul mr shanahan spent monday meeting u.s. and nato military leaders and members of the afghan government including president . it was a two fold mission to assess what is happening on the ground although the peace talks are being going on with the taliban they are still fighting and still carry out missions and also to reassure the government i think that they have not been sidelined or least peace negotiations or number that the u.s. taliban talks go or excluded the afghan government this is something that the taliban have always insisted that they would never talk directly to the afghan government if they don't call them a government they call them added ministration that is a stumbling block so mr shanahan was at pains to say that the afghan government should be part of the negotiations he also said that the overall peace solution lies in the hands of the afghan people but he also said there were no instructions to withdraw any of the american forces this fourteen thousand on the ground at the moment the taliban which was releasing.