essentially this constitution is not just not in keeping with democracy and human rights and the root of the arab spring it actually does solidify military authority and rule in egypt france's president emanuel my car has vowed to rebuild. within five years he is planning for a global architectural competition to rebuild the destroyed spire of the gothic church donations to help restore it have reached nearly one billion dollars from paris spanish smith reports. it was a hellish scene inside one of christianity's most important cathedrals. burning cinders rained down on the center of the cathedral such was the danger from falling debris that a robot firefighter was used. knocked her down as legendary gargoyles overflowed espousals of liters of water was pumped on to the flames more than eight hundred years of history but taken just eight hours to go up in flames the altar what's

left of it is now exposed to the heavens. such as the importance of not to the french that the president addressed the nation. what we saw last night in paris is this ability to mobilize unite and when during our history we've built cities ports churches many have been burned or have been destroyed by wars revolutions by our own fault each time we rebuilt them the fire of our lady reminds us that our history never stops and that we will always have tests to overcome. had been undergoing renovation when it became engulfed in flames more than two hundred thousand kilos of lead and thousands of mediæval open beams in the roof court fight easily and fast. four hundred year old paintings hanging high in the cathedral have been damaged but firefighters and staff formed a human chain to save other artifacts. thrones golden candelabras gem incrusted

crucifixes and other relics will be transferred to the louvre museum for storage but this united nations world heritage site will need to go through a careful lengthy and expensive restoration process it's really a site that it is geared to or not all the regions but it's the whole of france but also the whole of humanity because it's a symbol or not only for the christian world it's a symbol for the unit. of it is accurate tactile language is so unique in the world there's only one. before the fire broke out the catholic church was asking for around one hundred seventy million dollars to fund restoration work the state offered about forty five million dollars now money is being pledge from across the world but it will cost many hundreds of millions of dollars more to restore not a down to its former glory twenty four hours after the fire and there is still

a sense of shock to believe what you did when you were i felt it out of the emotions last night with my children as we were watching t.v. so here i am now. i'm sad but at the same time very happy to see the french people united we needed that so we should get to see i'm a catholic but even if you're not it's part of your life it's unimaginable it disfigures paris the. people prayed and marched through the streets. messages of support came from other faiths france's chief rabbi offered friendship and support the french counsel of the muslim faith called for donations to help restore what it called the heart of the history of fronts. al-jazeera parks. donald trump has vetoed resolution passed by congress and u.s. military assistance to the sound coalition that's fighting in yemen's war congress has gone an easy what's trumps close relationship with saudi arabia as the want

drags on and civilian casualties increase many politicians are also upset that hasn't condemn saudi arabia over the death of john mr. crossing jordan as well from washington. at least two democratic u.s. senators are calling for congress to override the veto issued by donald trump on tuesday night the u.s. president is vetoing a joint resolution passed by members of the senate and of the house earlier this month of measures that would call of the u.s. military to stop all support for the saudi air coalition if the civil war the supporters of this measure say that the u.s. is on the wrong side of history that the saudi air war against the fighters has instead created a bass of humanitarian catastrophe in that country which has been under civil war for more than four years the bevers of congress are also angry that the tropic

ministration is continuing the pattern of never ending war gets a complex around the world without getting the express permission of congress first . and they're also trying to express their disapproval in the light of the fact that in their view no what has been held fully accountable for the birder of saudi writer. back in october it is widely assumed that the saudi crown prince while been sold on be have been behind the plot of murder is so for those three reasons congress said that it should have some sort of limit placed a u.s. military action in yabut however the us president says that he has the constitutional right to deploy the military wherever he sees fit both for us national security purposes every us foreign policy purposes he said that if he approved this joint resolution number subud it would set a very bad precedent for u.s.

policy going forward the question now can congress figure out how to reverse the veto and have this resolution take effect in a couple of weeks top of the administration of ethiopia's southeast and some region state has announced plans to turn a recent details phrase in into a museum the old den jail in the regional capital you got was use for more than ten years to systematically abuse and kill political dissidents to relatives and other inmates mohammed abdul has a story. i met joe hubbell spent four years in this prison in appalling conditions and all for criticizing the regional administration. it's a place he comes back to with great reluctance. no less aid into us on what it did four years i spent here what the doc to see in my life most of them was spent in this room which was of a crowded with inmates we were beaten and tortured several times every day. the

former original president abdul muhammad is accused of using to go to central prison also known as daily to dump his opponents. he used the hated lou police forces set up to our arrest and then torture the inmates human rights watch says that rape and murder was routine for the former inmates showed us that tiny rooms where they were held and where most of the torture took place they were forced to sit they say in roll see which sometimes for days in these underground bunkers. twenty five year old junaid muhammed was held at the prison for a tease. doctors have told him he will never walk again because of a severe spinal injury. and the line where i was arrested while holding camels and within days was sentenced to life imprisonment then the torture began they would hang me from the ceiling and beat

the soles of my feet and bang with sticks and plastic pipes and they broke my spine but that didn't stop them from continuing to torture me. the jail also had a woman swing well former inmates a great pause an intrinsic tool of torture there was no saddam had given them a dime for money a moslem was held here for ten years later that they will call for some of the girls in the middle of the not only for them to come back to the cell shaking shivering and crying we knew it was going on it was right for much describe see people buying sometimes in their dozens due to the monster torture and abuse went on of the day and they say there was little oversight or scrutiny during the decade the former president was in. the former president is now in jail in the capital addis ababa on placing charges for crimes committed while in office the region's new president a former employee of the united nations close the prison

a few months ago and as part of a package of changes this was a systemic problem and most of the people who committed these crimes in some ways were in some ways new to themselves low level. police officers were told to do this that's not excuse what they have done but the point is we don't want to. spend our time choosing. the level he says but at the highest level people who are responsible green the president of the really no need to. the plan now is to turn the prison into a museum but even before the top and people have been flocking here to see for themselves the facility that's become a symbol for one of the darkest periods of the region's history one hundred odd to all to see it or did you go through your piece.

hello again i'm fully back to deal with the headlines on al-jazeera libya's un recognized government says it will take warlord money for half time to the international criminal court for targeting civilians at least five people have been killed by shells overnight and rockets have been fired at residential neighborhoods after launch a military offensive this month to take the capital tripoli from the un recognized government. why it has this update from tripoli. the government says it's a bare beric brutal attack targeting innocent civilians and a just that it will collect evidence is to prove that the warlord who for have is a war criminal also the government has to submit all collected evidence is to the international criminal court it says that those who are involved in targeting innocent civilians will be brought to justice meanwhile tenacious defense

minister says thirteen french nationals with diplomatic passports and weapons were stopped on sunday crossing from libya enter tunisia the french embassy in tunis says they were security guards for the ambassador and. sudan's military leaders have arrested dozens of former officials who are part of deposed president omar bashir is government they have issued a new decree to crack down on corruption and review the flow of funds from accounts in central bank of sudan since earlier this month. accounting is under way in indonesia's presidential and parliamentary elections nearly two hundred million people were eligible to vote it's a repeat of the twenty fourteen election with president djoko we don't know facing another challenge from former general proposals will be until at least one hundred fifty people are missing after a boat sank in the democratic republic of congo it happened on lake kivu on the

country's eastern border with one about thirty three people have been rescued so far you're upset with headlines on al-jazeera inside story is next do stay with us . does the west house blood on its hands in yemen do you have it is that just the sand in their attic coalition is using american and french weapons on civilians have war crimes been committed and is the international community turning a blind eye this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. four years of war in yemen have killed thousands of people and created what the u.n. say is the world's worst humanitarian crisis new evidence is linking some of those deaths to weapons made in the west at least military reports says arms sold to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. may have been used against civilians investigative journalists in the u.s. and france analyzed the classified document which was prepared for the french government is contradicted public claims from friends and the u.s. that their weapons was only used for defensive purposes and not on the front line many nations including france are part of a u.n. treaty banning the sale of weapons that fuel human rights violations and war crimes these are the main findings of the document the sandy led campaign in north yemen

relies on three types of aircraft american british and european fighters. it also reveals that french made weapons artillery tanks ships and fighter bomber jets may have been years in the war it says assad is and iraqis have used french warships to enforce the blockade or the port of her data french long range artillery and armored vehicles capable of firing into northern yemen are stationed along the side of border hundreds of thousands of civilians live under the threat of these arms between march two thousand and sixteen and december last year thirty five civilians including children were killed in areas within the range of those weapons the report criticizes the kingdom's military capabilities in yemen it says the saudis are operating in effectively and their efforts to secure their border with yemen has been a failure. so let's

bring in our guest joining us from london mohammad jimmy who is a member of the yemeni national dialogue conference peter is a senior research in the arms transfers and the military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute and he joins us by skype and in boston we have link on a former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats on the u.s. national intelligence council welcome to you all mohammed the classified documents of the french military intelligence along with the investigative journalism done in friends and in the u.s. revere is what the american and french officials have been denying for many years that the weapons that they are selling to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are not for offensive purposes purposes in yemen. of course we've been listening to all of these statements for

a long time from both countries on from their cars run that all these weapons are used in yemen or by the borders of saudi arabia with yemen. in according to the policies followed in these so countries or to countries including they were ok. the problem is it's not that these weapons are used in in both size or in in the border by yemen and saudi idea about there are also weapons came from other countries such as iran as the united nation mentioned and many statements that have meanings of the weapons found in yemen and and some parts of saudi arabia are similar to the iranian missile manufactured in iran so. of course we are going to listen to statements denying using these weapons but i think most of the statements are encouraged by or. they

are because of the a strong relationship between so they had to be a and they were as from one side on between saudi arabia on counts from the other side so i think the political economy relationship between these countries and start at a b. and m. and it is their priority in front of the politicians in these countries and not. the reports by human rights organizations he said this was supposed to be a highly classified. documents burned for the senior members of the french government now that he has been leaked how damaging is it to the french in particular. i think the first thing to say is that the document basically confirms what many others have already said before what images from the war has already shown us before several n.g.o.s and also for example the panel of experts that has been appointed

by the united nations to investigate what's happening in the war in yemen they've already confirmed what is happening there and that the weapons which are being used they are primarily from the west from the u.s. from the u.k. and also from france in a number of part of europe in states so in that sense their report is not new the new thing about it is of course that it is very clear that the french government has asked its channel ten ten ten digits service to supply such a report claims received it they have received clear indications that french weapons are being used in the war or very close to the war and still there haven't really taken any action such as for example germany has done because germany has decided to put an arms embargo on saudi arabia for the time being and so the

question will be will this report be sufficient let's say ammunition for the n.g.o.s to force the french government to rethink arm sales or policy to saudi arabia glenn is a support likely to. spark more fireworks in the united states of america which is the main supply of weapons the sod is only an artiste. well it may have some effect i mean the report really is a bit like discovering that gambling is occurring in a casino in that sense it's there's no surprise whatsoever it also is i was interested to see that the french functioned very similarly to the united states which is you stated earlier our colleague of ours stated a moment ago that the economic interests were predominant and i would push back a little bit on that if the political decision were taken that it were not in the

interests of france or or the u.k. or the united states to provide weapons then then there would be a change in policy so i would say the political military reasoning takes priority first but the economic one of selling weapons is is quite important then to expect that weapons not be used and not go astray in a civil conflict and in a war setting is almost impossible to conceive so the challenge then becomes for the governments always how do we stop if possible use by unintended parties and that's almost impossible so there is the legal obligation to try to and then there is the political obligation to try to appear to be stopping that and then there's the public relations one of what do we do want to come in fact this is occurring that's where we are now doesn't this report pose many challenges for the

government of president little muscle hard to his back by the size of them as he is on some of those wait weapons were used in military bases in areas controlled by the government so how do you could just further raise the narrative in different parts of yemen that he is responsible for what is happening to the civilians. well i think it is very complicated when you talk about who is responsible in that area because that somehow the government sent some indications that it is not responsible for the actions of some military groups of some militants in down or in some areas in the south because they are not under its control but on the other hand of facially they are part of the of the government of the government police or security forces or of the government armed forces

but i think it is not to me to decide is that are not responsible for these actions in. the war fields but the problem in yemen and the problem of the civilians in men is that all these concerns about weapons sales to put that aside at abia or to the in monarchies this is not the consensus in the yemen in yemen but the whole concern in yemen is to end that warm and i think. the negotiation is facing a very difficult time nowadays because both parties are not willing to go to negotiation and i think that with these as specially when they refused for the last few weeks as they stated they defused to withdraw their troops from one data according to so-called agreement peter when you look at the details of the or

the a confidential document it talks about laser guided missiles provided by the west to the saudis use in that attack some of them were responsible for the death of civilians first vessels taking part in the naval blockade which the us saudis are saying is crucial to prevent any smuggling of weapons into yemen but the report is saying that this is also affecting the supply of food into yemen and. we're talking about mortars used on the border provided by the fence that targets hundreds of thousands of visitors on the border with saudi arabia is that the something that should in theory raise an international concern about the need to at least put into place new rules about war in yemen. i think that the report shows that the weapons are being used to report shows that western countries

are supplying them and as a result we can conclude that its logic to ask from western concurrent kona countries to either consider to stop those flows of arms to prevent the war or to have to as as one part of preventing the war in yemen will continue for a long time that's one part of it the other one is that western countries are going to use their leverage which they have because they do supply arms to saudi arabia that they're going to use that leverage to convince saudi arabia to take a step back when it comes to the use of force to try to end this war i think there is widespread. agreement among many analysts and others that there is no military solution for the war in yemen so this is i think a very important role for the western suppliers to play here glenn do you think that this report along with the outcries of the hill rice act.