against a u.n. security council resolution he did say that he believed in his view that president trump did want to come to some sort of new deal but he said there wouldn't be a new deal because iran really had given everything with the existing deal that was the best they were going to get and he was not prepared for iran to give up on its dignity he said although he believed that president trump didn't want war he thought there were those around him including his national security adviser john bolton and other influences the israeli prime minister the king of saudi arabia the ruler of the u.a.e. who actually wanted regime change in iran possibly even to destroy iran as a country. there for the first time the u.n. in afghanistan has found that pro-government forces have killed more civilians than the insurgents from january until march this year the afghan and u.s.

military contributed to more than three hundred civilian deaths the u.n. says taliban i saw as well as other fighting groups killed two hundred twenty seven people although the number of suicide bombings and other attacks has fallen so that bears reports from kabul. in the village of to local province there are thirteen mounds of they are fresh graves thirteen children two women and one man killed in their home by a u.s. airstrike. when the bomb dropped i was told back into a wall in the house when i opened my eyes i couldn't see anything but dust pulled myself after the rubble it was raining and i just thought please don't let me be the only one to survive and. we filmed with this family exactly a month ago the day of the strike the family piled the children's bodies into the back of the truck traveling ten bumpy kilometers into can do so. looking for

accountability now they may have got it i think. a u.n. report has revealed that in the first three months of this year the leading cause of civilian deaths was airstrikes the majority by the u.s. military in total the afghan government and its supporting forces were responsible for killing more than three hundred civilians more than the taliban and eisel combined it is counterproductive this is just going to create more enemies and more taliban this is not going to help needed because of the afghan government nor the cause of the u.s. led coalition in iraq and afghanistan the u.s. military has defended its actions in afghanistan we hold ourselves to the highest standards of accuracy and accountability we strive for precision in all of our operations we reserve the right of self-defense of our forces as well as the afghan security forces. and search operations all night raids by afghan

intelligence units and a militia known as the haas protection force killed another seventy two civilians they target taliban suspects in a supported by the us but are outside of the afghan government's chain of command. a consequence of that is that their unaccountable. we have now repeatedly called for them to be brought within their command and control structure after appropriate vetting. or disbanded their report also found that the total number of civilians hurt or killed has fallen to its lowest level since twenty thirty in the low eighteen hundred that is due to a drastic drop in suicide bombings by the taliban and i saw. back in condos that's of little comfort this family had fled fighting in another province and were just passing through looking for a safe place to rist until they could return home charlotte dallas al-jazeera kabul

. still to come here at al-jazeera arriving in bloody bus stop north korea's leader gives every interview to foreign media ahead of a meeting with vladimir putin. and a show of unity by british and irish leaders at the funeral of the journalists shot last week in london very. normal service resume across the middle east now largely dry lots of warm sunshine and getting warm a lot of clout the still in place just around the western side of the head alas the lasts moving out of the way wintry showers places of rain and snow will clear through a couple it to twenty degrees celsius right the skies as we go on into friday

central areas you can see back up it was back that get up to thirty degrees now temperatures on the rise well into the mid twenty's there just around the levant by rich a very slim twenty three twenty four degrees celsius and fine and sunny weather coming through here from the sites across much of the arabian peninsula but it came away and still continuing to blow to get up to thirty celsius and rising will get up to thirty two as we go through friday section as a saudi arabia over towards the west could just catch one of two spots of rain there so that's something to watch out for as we go on into the weekend also keeping our eye close some very heavy rain windy weather this is trouble cycling kenneth pushing towards northern parts of mozambique southern areas of tanzania well mozambique in particular could see some really heavy rain possibility of flooding hit damaging winds as we go through thursday on into friday pushed by the south is twenty dry the eastern cape.

in two thousand and eight just zero documented a groundbreaking skiing. preparing some of india's poorest children for entry into its toughest universities. ten years on we return to see how the students and the scheme a helping change the face of india. super thirty announces iraq. time to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera. a new video has emerged showing two

suspects with but packs going into the shangrila. in the sri lankan capital just moments before an explosion it was one of three luxury hotels and three churches targeted on easter sunday as president has asked the chief of police and the defense secretary to resign. sudan's transitional military council's invited the opposition coalition of freedom and change for a fresh round of talks earlier the opposition movement said it had ended talks with the military after it refused to immediately hand over power to civilians. iran's foreign minister says keeping the strait of hormuz open is in the interests of a rainy and national security the reef speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew sanctions waivers to china for india as well as other major customers of iran. the north korean leaders arrived in neighboring russia for thursday's

summit with that image putin kim jong un is in the port city of light of all stark two months after the breakdown of the second summit with donald trump in their mom came and told reporters he's keen to discuss the future of the korean peninsula with the russian president. will i came to russia with a warm feeling of our people i hope this visit will be successful and rewarding and that during the talks with esteemed president putin i will be able to specifically discuss issues of resolving the situation on the korean peninsula and development of a lot of the relationship. well mark fitzpatrick is director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for strategic studies he says there are limits as to how much help moscow cannot see often north korea the russians are getting back into the game you know they used to be a major player in the korean peninsula they were part of six party talks those

ended ten years ago. russians have some small amount of trade investment in north korea but nothing like what china has north korea always wants to play off russia and china but but they read russia really doesn't have that much to offer so it's a way of for kim to show that he has other partners but russia isn't really that big of a partner for north korea but you know it's the united states that holds the main cards in terms of the kind of security guarantees that north korea needs or wants the lifting of the sanctions that north korea desperately wants russia really can't affect either of those things except with regard to the sanctions they can provide some loopholes to north korea they're already doing that by allowing north korea to send cold dumping it in russian ports and then it's exported under a different name so they can do that kind of a minor way of allowing some trade with north korea but they really don't really

have the infrastructure to do a lot more. their criticism is increasing at the latest round of executions in saudi arabia thirty seven men were beheaded in six cities on tuesday and one was later crucified the u.n. human rights chief is urging the kingdom to halt the executions of three men who are currently on death row michel better less is concerned about fair trials and confessions obtained by torture state media said they were convicted of adopting extract missed ideology and forming terrorist cells to spread chaos and provoke sectarian strife some were convicted of killing security personnel in a bomb attack on the sea international says most of those executed were from the shia minority more than one hundred saudis have already been executed this share last year's total was one hundred forty nine what ravine shamdasani is a spokeswoman for the un human rights chief michelle better less and she says the

un is pressuring saudi arabia to put an end to its executions. you know thankfully the worldwide trend is towards abolition of the death penalty we're seeing an increasing number of states either abolishing the death penalty establishing a moratorium on the use of the death penalty or having a de facto moratorium which means that even though there is no official moratorium in place the hand down debt sentences but they don't actually carry out executions we have several countries where this is the case where for decades they have not executed someone so there is progress in cases like the one in saudi arabia we look into the facts we verify the information we contact the government we try our best to engage with them to persuade them when that does not work we have to apply public pressure which is what i'm doing right now we are condemning utterly condemning the execution of thirty seven people in saudi arabia yesterday and we

are urging the authorities and reminding them that they are obliged by their international human rights law commitments to number one not execute children under the age of eighteen number two to ensure that any trials are carried out in line with the fair trial guarantees for the the defendants in particular when it comes to capital crimes the funerals were held for lyra mckee the journalist who was shot dead during riots in the not and last week families and friends paid tribute to the twenty nine year old while a priest told the congregation her death must be a turning point for move niland police say they're treating the shooting as a terrorist attack the dissident republican groups the new ray has admitted responsibility saying she was shot accidentally well other vigils have been held for lyra mckay across the land and great britain nadine barber has more from outside one of them in london. while at the same time as they were mckay's funeral

service was happening at the cathedral in belfast there were similar events in other. cities including dublin glasgow and here in london at this church which they call the journalists church and now we're in the keys photo sits besides those of other journalists who died in the line of duty as it were she was actually the first journalist to be killed. while at work in the u.k. for twenty years and several dozen people gathered here to pay their respects there were tributes from the national union of journalists who've set up a crowdfunding appeal for her family and there was a message from a leader in the keys partners say or a well as her family who thanked the n.u.j. now the service in belfast brought together bits of political rivals there was the british prime minister. treason may and jeremy colvin the leader of the labor opposition as well as the irish t. shirt leo varadkar but also the site of the leader of shin fein mary lou mcdonald

sitting next to the d u p leader ali foster now this killing has actually increased calls for them to work together to get back that stormont power sharing government in northern ireland which has created this political vacuum which some people say is part of the reason why we've seen dissident republicans take up violence put in the place where literally he was killed in derry itself many people have actually protested against the dissident republicans and their political allies they're very angry about what's happened and even though little murky has been killed many people hoping that through her writings and her work her message. urging people that peace and dialogue is the way forward but somehow something good will come out of this tragedy. uncertainty surrounding the u.k.'s

plan for leaving the european union has prompted renewed calls a scottish independence scotland's first minister nicola sturgeon. is pushing for a second referendum to be held before twenty twenty one she says voters should be given a chance to choose between brix it and making scotland an independent european nation the country voted against independence in two of the fourteen. new zealand and france are joining forces to stop social media platforms from broadcasting atrocities as they happen sure rankers government blocks social media to stop the spread of false information following sunday's bombings new zealand's prime minister and the french president are due to has a summit with the tech companies in paris next month the israeli military is set to demolish the house of a palestinian in the occupied west bank israel accuses omar. of killing an israeli soldier and

a settler in march who died after what israel said was an exchange of fire rights groups say the demolition is a form of collective punishment need abraham reports now from the occupied west bank. palestinians who he is home after a month in israeli jean. kasem has been detained and her other son saleh was killed by israeli forces in december. this really army says and asked them killed two of its soldiers and injured a pregnant woman who lost her baby during two separate shooting attacks in the occupied west bank. but she says she knew nothing about her son's intentions and her rest was a way to pressure the family. they threatened to kill my sons and portis my husband said that me being in jail doesn't even compare to everything else the family has been through and that's because the family has already seen both also homes being demolished by the israelis their militia of houses against those israel accuses of

committing attacks against that as a few units of measure is not a new policy however human rights organizations say that other forms of collective punishment their eyes in the search for also the israeli forces that as did several of his friends and family members. the army says the detention is for interrogation during which they submit a secret file to the judge only those arrests are often meant to put pressure on the wanted person and once that person surrenders the detention of the hostage so to speak and. fifteen year old candidate she was arrested in september after the israeli army traded house looking for her brother he was wanted for throwing stones. but think i'm his only sister so i'm his weak spot that will give him no choice and he'd have to turn himself in. this name was allowed to return home after her brother turned himself in never remember such pressure of detaining family members when the israeli army couldn't find him in his

house he says they took away his mother and sisters he was arrested a few weeks later in two thousand and sixteen we don't have a thought although of course it affected me they are holding my family and i know how they'll be treated and we all know how it works it's psychological blackmail so you turn yourself and follow their orders we asked the israeli authorities for their response but said no comment lawyers say such as could be legally challenged but because israel often detains palestinians without charges the pressure tactic of a testing family members will likely continue. the occupied west bank. time for this is a collect at the top stories here at al-jazeera new images of a measuring two suspects with backpacks entering the shangri-la hotel in sri lanka as capital just moments before an explosion it was one of three luxury hotels and

three churches targeted on easter sunday sri lanka's president's also the chief of police and the defense secretary to resign. what also i can say is that this group. some of the suicide bombers most. educated. come from maybe middle upper middle class. financially quite independent and. their family is quite stable financially so that is a boring activity. because some of them have i think studied. in various other countries they will degrees. l.l.m. you know but really to cater to people. then the military leaders in sudan of invited the opposition from all told softer the coalition of freedom and change

said it ended talks with the transitional military council for refusing to transfer power to civilians immediately iran's foreign minister has said keeping the strait of hormuz open is in the interests of iranian national security jevons a reef was speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew waivers which had allowed for some countries to buy iranian oil iran responded by again threatening to block the gulf which is the world's main oil shipping route north korea's aid as arrived in neighboring russia for thursday's meeting with vladimir putin came jonah's in the port city of bloody vostok two months after the break down of the second summit with donald trump in vietnam came told reporters he's keen to discuss the future of the korean peninsula with the russian president the funerals been held for lara mckee the german the shot dead during riots in the old nun and last week police say they're treating the shooting as a terrorist attack the dissident republican group the new ira has admitted responsibility

saying she was shot accidentally. all right inside stories coming up next i'll be back with the news the top of the hour. a child dies every twelve minutes in yemen the wars killed more than a quarter of a million people and a u.n. study says that development in one of the world's poorest countries has been pushed back twenty years so how can we stop the world's worst humanitarian disaster getting even worse this isn't.

welcome to the program on iran come on the fighting in yemen now in its fifth year appears to be no closer to an end peace efforts have made little progress and the united states and some other western powers continue to support the saudi u.a.e. coalition against the rebels every day brings horrific stories of civilian deaths including women and children from violence famine or disease the u.n. says yemen is one of the greatest preventable disasters a u.n. study identifies forty four million yemenis nearly forty percent of the population as living in extreme poverty one point six million children are facing my nutrition more than a third of them of school age cannot attend classes the war has cost the economy

eighty nine billion dollars. i. let's bring in our guests from yemen hakim a political analyst and editor in chief of the yemen post in london mohammed juma a member of the national dialogue conference in yemen and from amman call schembri regional media advisor in the middle east for the know we counsel thank you all for joining us let me begin with you hakim. asuna not only have you been covering this conflict but you're a resident of yemen for the last five years this has been a worsening conflict to the point now where the u.n. is calling it the world's worst humanitarian disaster what's it been like for you. it's unbelievable it's sad when you see the family suffering and it's not just one family our neighbors it's nation of thirty million people whether in the north or in the south so it's not only those who are living in the run areas the suffering

is nationwide this war has killed so many. civilians has made so many children. being child soldiers have made so many. big spread by the millions families tens of millions sleeping hungry it's unbearable and the problem is that this this this suffering has it's been like this for the last few years and the u.n. has always been saying that it's the worst humanitarian crisis but every time this never still continues and the problems are barely solved that's mainly because of the obstacles that are happening. by both sides or due to the war but again this war needs to come to an end to help not the sides who are clashing but the civilians who are in the millions who are paying the price of this war how came the seems to get your voice do you see any resolution to this conflict.

i'm a bit optimistic to be honest not by the u.n. efforts but they are mediation efforts happening right now there are. calls for a direct talk between the saudis and the who in this way they can and this is the obvious war easier though these are willing to get into some of the salary demands to back away their territory. territories and on the saudi border etc so there are there is hope but again they are also sides who are making obstacles to end this war and this is why. it's very sad that there are still some people who are seeing the something that's happening in yemen while on the same time. not trying to end it so there is hope hopefully by the. by the end of this year we are very optimistic about. the tactics of mediators of talks of peace talks look what change the u.n. has basically. tell on its knees for months they could not implement. the how they'd a cease. fire agreement so they will be

a change and twist in the ways to change the way that this peace talks are happening and i'm pretty sure the next step will be optimistic especially if they give the saudis the. direct channel communication to end this war easier rather than to have the mediation. and mediation. in london very knowledgeable about the saudi role in all of this the saudis when they first started this wolf five years ago well they're expecting it to last this long and what is the end game why is the saudi led coalition still in this war. well i think the war in yemen if we want to say started in two thousand and four before the actual recent war started in two thousand and fourteen. is sort of the world two thousand and four against the former. regime the last or him. the former president and

it now continues. the saudis the immoralities other parties are now involved because of the there was an inside war like a sort of civil war inside the country before many is so many years before the saudis and immoralities and others getting involved into this warm so i think with our with looking at the main reasons inside the country before this war we are just hoping for having peace as a sort of dreams and you cause we are not negotiating we're not discussing the real reasons of the war which is mainly inside the country and there is like a civil conflicts inside yemen and houthi that have this sort of geology and really just thought that they have the rights to rule the country with our. getting it by the right way by elections they didn't they don't think about

elections aren't all and without having the whole with these coming to a negotiating table with very clear willing that they are going to implement this agreement they signed with the government then there is no hope for example they went to stockholm for four or four months ago more than four months ago and the last week or the week before i wrote he said we are not going to withdraw our troops we are not going to withdraw from what they them and. you are. an envoy to yemen mentioned last week that there is no negotiation political negotiation before an implement in an achiever in the agreement the government says the same thing as well so i don't look at the issue as a war from outside only a man yes it's some aspect in some aspects there is a war from our side. and that is

a war which is face inside the country and which cause the the the outside world there is no war i think the main reason is inside the main cause for this war is between them unease and without with the yemeni is getting to get to negotiate their differences into the country inside in real political process then i think the other parties from outside from the regional aspect international aspect will get would have gotten involved in this war but i haven't many would disagree with you they would say that the reason this war has gone on so long is because it is a proxy war between saudi arabia the u.a.e. and iran and the those three players have backed different sides in this war and it's just continued on surely it's not about what's going on inside yemen it's actually the regional implications as you say the real reason for this war. i

think my insult the war started even the actual war which started in two thousand and four team started six months before the saudis and the martys got involved in this war so what i'm saying i'm not denying that there is a regional aspect of this war but what i'm saying is the real reason is inside the country because the civil war inside the country started when the forty's attacked son arm in two thousand and fourteen getting the president to be exulted in riyadh and even using the cross against the presidential palace in our then when he left sanaa to our them so there is a real problem inside the country we need to discuss this problem we need to find solution to this problem inside the country and then we can so say it with other parties outside the country with the regional are international some of this war but i think looking at the war as

a war between yemen and saudis our yemen immoralities is just getting getting like a vague image about this war the war has some aspects inside the country outside the country regional and international that's not on same and yes iranians of their saudis are there images of there you can look at the war are sort of proxy brock's you want yes brought it is still a civil war inside the country and without coming to an agreement between the legitimate president the legitimate government and the whole theists who are considered until this moment as a coup they are committing a core crime in the country without with getting any sort of agreement between the horses and the legitimate government then there is no hope of having any peace agreement in the country let me bring in a man here and call schembri from the norwegian refugee council you were in yemen in february the reports i've read the report makes for. damning reading the essence

of the report suggests that yemen has actually gone backwards it's d. developed what are you saying on the ground here i guess one important point that the report makes which is quite a no brainer really that the longer the war goes on the more backwards the man will be will be forced in years they don't quantify the exact years and also the billions of dollars that are will be required to to rebuild them and so that's that's that's a very important point which is quantified for the first time shocking figures as you said we always get shocking figures from yemen they have always been shocking and they got more shocking every time that a new forgot comes out what i've seen on the ground britta much reflect that i've seen this was ultimately is the poorest country in the region thrown into even further abject poverty i've met people queuing and our food distribution

lines who until a few months ago had their own businesses that have been destroyed more people dependent on aid and now they are twenty four million yemenis in need of aid over there people displaced over and over again they flee to an area which they would hope is safe leaving everything behind losing their houses all their perceptions and then forced to flee again because the fighting creatures them the fighting has reached even displacement camps camps where people civilians have fled from the fighting they were under attack people have been killed in displacement camps children out of school children who are forced to work to help their families children who are attacked in schools until a few days ago we saw the latest despicable attack on a school where children were killed in their classrooms people who have lost their jobs people have been paid haven't been paid their salaries and public sector. for

years now we're talking about teachers doctors professionals who still go on with their jobs and thankfully that they do because most of them are doing that on a mission it's a mission for their own country but they are themselves now struggling to even have a meal a day. or two to put some food on the table and. i've met. the father of four daughters. actually six daughters four of whom were killed in what they'd only last november. on his house and he is absolutely still shell shocked he can't understand why the daughter of a teacher like him would come under attack why would why would his house come out come under attack. our goal is talking with. children we've been just over twelve minutes now according to the u.n. another child has died in yemen in the period that we have been speaking i want to bring in hakim. again the figures are there everything is shocking but our guest in

london says this is an internal conflict that this is a civil war that needs to be sorted out which wien the two parties it's not a proxy war the regional elements are the saudi arabia the u.a.e. and iran however it's up to the yemenis to sort this out themselves you agree with that. you can't deny that i completely agree with what my friend mamadou said about the internal parties need to get together and solve this problem as well from the roots and it makes a lot of sense and this is what's missing in many of the the analysis that's coming out of yemen yes there is international intervention regional intervention there is a proxy war etc blah blah blah but this point is very important that the sides need to meet need to get together need to try to solve this problem the roots and sadly over the last five years this has really happened and this is one of the main reasons why this war has been continuing for so long it's easier for yemenis to get

together and solve their own problems under the. umbrella whatsoever but decided to be together and this is i think will be or should be the next step and i'm pretty optimistic that it will be the next step that the sides will finally get a chance to meet. and try to solve these. problems and try to lead again it's not who wins who loses yemen loses if they don't deal each side needs to get into certain demands and need to compromise if they really care about yemen this is where he should go that they care about him and are not is either willing to get in to put a city in or not. is that possible can there be a complete cease fire and the all of the many sides come together and talk or is that to fall. well unfortunately not optimistic as my

friend in. to say that by the end of the sea there would be and to. this war. first of all the two parties went to still call them to sign an agreement and this agreement. says that the government troops should be withdrawn from the borders of the city of and there with the should we draw their troops from the inside or data and from the part of the city until this moment the withdrawal hasn't happened and as i said i hope these last. few days mentioned that they are not going to withdraw from the city or from the post or from any other part of the whole province of what they done the united nation invoice said there is no political process or political negotiation until the so-called my government is been employment it which is not until this moment

employment at. so i think with our two parties inside yemen. regardless the saudis and the monarchy and the iranians and even the western countries without the emmys themselves come to an idea that they cannot defeat each other. that there is no winning no losers in the country. and they have to find a way to keep to resolve their country their legitimacy we have a clear way and we have three offenses for the political solution in yemen the national dialogue outcomes and before that the u.c.c. is an initiative and we have the u.n. resolutions concerning gehman so. the their differences out there it is easy to get the political solution but it is difficult because there is no willingness within the yemenis themselves to implement and to comply with the with

the agreement if they signed the agreement in stockholm and now we have about five months with our employment in the agreement then. why and the in boy martin griffith. is saying like every remarks of him to the united nation that we are getting better we are getting more involved and the parties are getting more involved women are getting more involved children and you are getting more involved in the political solutions i think this is not the way to talk to the united nation unless martin griffith says clearly to the united nation that there is some parties in yemen who are making obstacles making a difficult to employment the so-called agreement then there is no way i norm that is trying to use political language he is not trying to name who is making differ.

culti is on the political way but i think he should come to a point that he has so mentioned he has to be very very frank about how many you seem to be. difficulty what you seem to be saying is that the un is almost to blame here because they're not using the right kind of language cole let me just bring you in hey you deal with the un you deal with various yemenis both inside and outs of yemeni outside of yemen on all of sides is the u.n. role a problem. i think that would that would be missing the wood for the trees because ultimately it is the two warring parties and their sponsors who need to agree the one can only facilitate to remind them of the laws of war which are which they need to adhere to. what what i would i think in a bit of divergence from from the other colleagues on the panel what i would say is

i can never underestimate the outside influence of the u.s. of the u.k. france on this conflict and of course iran on the other side we've only just seen a few days ago the president trumps veto to the u.s. congress this resolution trying to stop the war support in yemen to the south that coalition that was vetoed that is not going to help in any way in boost in confidence on the ground is only going to create more suffering and more that. i think where my i think the pertinent point to be made here is that the top donors of yemen's humanitarian response that is the us saudi arabia and the u.k. among others are also the top culprits of the among the top culprits of where yemen is right now they are feeding yemenis with one hand and destroying their country

with the other and this is a place that is game which is which is which is their fault it is their decision they are they are promoting this together with obviously the other side iran and supporting ansara law known as the who these this can be stopped this is entirely manmade it cannot be stopped by the u.n. and it cannot be stopped by humanitarian agencies we are we can only be there to try and save lives but ultimately there has to be a political negotiation settlement that is that is. for for all parties and that will spare the millions of civilians that we are seeing either dying by bombs on their strikes or dying a slow and painful that being. hungry sleeping hungry at night call thanks very much for that we all running out of time but i do want to come to my guests and in london very quickly because you already answered on going to ask you both the same question firstly. saying the u.s. the u.k.

saudi arabia the united arab emirates are playing a game on the one hand they are helping the emmys on the other hand the bombing the yemenis and that's the real problem. yeah you can't deny that. a lot of sense and that is true yes that. complicates matters but i was also told by a washington that the u.s. is pushing very much including london and the e.u. to end this war this year so obvious there's a lot about pessimism. right now in the air but there is optimism that this should go forward and and will succeed and again what i said while i was in sweden during the peace talks in yemen if you want to be loved by the people it's not who wins who loses who gives in to the yemeni people who shows the yemeni people that he gives or cares more and now to try to compromise or get into certain demands for

the sake of the millions of people who are suffering it's not who is more aggressive so. that tension right now in the area is because of this and i do agree with your guest in london and. their guest that the u.n. should be. i'm really sorry here we are running out of time and i do want to bring in mohammed in london here is it a duplicitous game on the one hand the west saudi arabia the u.a.e. a bombing yemen on the other hand they helping them. well we could ask another question what why why they are doing that if this is the case what is the benefit phil these countries to do that i think. these countries we cannot deny you know there is there is a war there are casualties there are destruction there is a section in the country there is no one can deny this children civilians are killed schools hospitals so many civil. buildings in

yemen are destroyed but again we are asking how can we come to an agreement to solve this problem how can you go to a negotiation there is no one talking about what the inside conflict inside aspect of the conflict there is no one talking about what these and their war against them unease again very jeems different regimes different governments since two thousand and four until now no one discussing that because they are broken to the war as a war or ne'eman not a war inside yemen thank you very much for your perspective thanks to all our guests hakim on this mari how many juma and call schembri and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website i'll just dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j.

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coming up in the next sixty minutes new images of two of the suspected suicide bombers emerge as the sri lankan president calls on the defense secretary and the police chief to stand down. the united states should know that when they entered the street took almost how. people are protecting district in. iran reminds the u.s. about who controls a crucial shipping lane. i'm barbara starr in london with the stories from europe including the u.k. is set to snub the u.s. and allow huawei to be part of building the country's five g. network despite warnings of a security risk. and arpita similar though your support rafael nadal moves on to the next round of the boss' aloma open putting on a cool named after him. but

first sri lanka's president is also the chief of police and the defense secretary to resign after the security forces failed to act on warnings ahead of the easter sunday bombings now it comes as a clearer picture is emerging of who exactly carried out these attacks new video as a measuring two men with large backpacks said going into the shangri-la hotel in colombo the capital and this is just moments before a bomb exploded in the restaurant and other bomb is attacked another two hotels and three churches in total we're talking about three hundred fifty nine people having been killed or more than five hundred injured the state minister of defense has blamed an affiliate of the local national tower we'd gemma and t.j. he described the group as islamist extremists possibly allied to an international

network but also i can say is that this group. of some of the suicide bombers most. educated. and come from maybe middle of the middle class so they are financially quite independent and by you know the family is quite stable financially so that is a boring activity. because some of them have i think studied. in various other countries they all agree is. ill and you know this like well well educated people. well the president serious center has vowed to overhaul the security following what amounts to the worst attack on sri lankan so for at least a decade i saw his claimed responsibility eight of the nine suicide bombers have now been identified but the prime minister has warned that other attackers may be

on the run florence larry has the latest now from colombo. he has offered to the police chief to resign and that just because constitutionally he has no power to demand the resignation of the police chief so he's done the next best thing which is os the police chief to resign now he can sack the defense secretary he has also asked him to resign this is the confirmation that we are getting from the president's office it's worth remembering however that the president is the commander in chief he's also overall in charge of the police but he has said that the information that was passed on to security officials to intelligence services warning them that the attacks on catholic churches may happen was never passed on to him just merely is a clamoring for some sort of clarity on says as to how the security lapse could have happened was it because of the rift between the president and the prime minister these two home allies to and could it have led to the communication

breakdown and you know there was a debate in parliament today politicians trying to get on from the ministers from the government from cabinet ministers about how this could have happened there is a little bit more of a mixed reaction on the streets of sri lanka got people saying that really this should not have happened if we can't depend on our ministers who can we depend on but then you've got also got people who are a little bit more. a little bit more sanguine about it saying things like well you know we don't think they could have prevented the attacks these attacks would have happened so really there's a lot more mixed reaction coming from the street but certainly politicians are demanding says from the minister and more now from another of our correspondents in colombo the now from london is. here in colombo i'm standing in the commercial capital of the wholesale market district the mortars somewhat subdued there is a certain feeling of uncertainty just over here there's

a lot of burned parts of the road where police are called in to detonate suspected explosives does it turn. out to be nothing actually but this is a reflection of the fear that is there among the people investigators moving fast to apprehend the suspects and get to the bottom of who was behind sunday's attack and why the. nine. card. clouston an out of nineteen. has identified. things are a standstill as you can see around me here with all the shops shuttered elsewhere schools closed universities until the authorities can tell them that they have got a handle on the situation for many people the fundamental problem is the uncertainty. no one expected something like this to happen everyone who's inside or

even the nature and scale of sunday's carnage people are worried especially as there are an increasing number of alerts where people do not want to take the risk of having explosive devices a lot of suspicious packages being called in it's a case of a heightened state of awareness and just making sure that you don't take the risk with anything any more uncomfortable reminder that at the moment sri lanka is going back to the stage when it was on the conflict that it lived with uncertainty . sudanese security forces have arrested mohammed ali he's the head of an opposition political party and this comes as the main opposition group the coalition of freedom and change forces have agreed to rejoin talks with the country's military now they'd previously pulled out of negotiations because they

were demanding an immediate transition to civilian rule thousands of demonstrators are continuing their. city in the army headquarters in khartoum and african union leaders angered the protests is by giving the military council an extra three months to hand over power all right let's go live to khartoum and speak to him of them our correspondent. in the first instance the arrest of this man mohammed ali sooty who is he and has that led to the resumption of talks between the protestors in the army. what martin mohammed and it is really is the head of the state of law party a local party here in sudan which is part of the opposition coalition now he was in a debate at the sudan news agency the government news agency building earlier and he spoke about how his party is siding with protesters on the ground and in front of him in front of the army headquarters he's

a party has also been calling for civilian military rule which means that he thinks that the transitional government should be shared between the military and the but that's probably not what got him arrested he was arrested right after that debate but a couple of days ago he did speak about the interference of foreign powers and foreign governments with the military council he has specifically criticized the aid that has been given by saudi arabia and emirates the two countries had donated the sum of three billion dollars to sudan's government saying that it is trying to prop up sudan's economy and that is something that he had criticized along with protesters on the streets so from what i understand from his people is that is what got him arrested today from in front of the sudan news agency building and is there any connection there between that the arrest and the fact that the protests is of agreed to resume talks with the military council. while the party is not part of the coalition of the clinician of freedom and change we spoke to the declaration of freedom and change coalition and they said that they have not resume

talks what they have done is they've accepted the invitation from the military council to listen to what they have to say to see what new offers they have that would make them resume talks obviously we know that they suspended talks a couple of days ago saying that the military council has members of the former regime and the former ruling party and is not keen on handing over power over power to civilian independent transitional council which is why they pulled out and they're also saying that the go the government or the military council is not eager to hold to account members of the former ruling party so the rest of it has nothing to do with the coalition resuming their talks and they're saying that they have not resumed yet but where they're willing to do is to listen to the military council to try to find a way out of the impasse that they currently stuck in so talks about talks thank you haven't moved them. to well i've been speaking to someone here el mubarak who's a member of the city's professional association and she says the people of sudan

are ready for an immediate transition the current military council. it's just an extension for the previous regime three of the members of the military council are previous members of the n.c.p. government which are there which are members of the previous regime and this this this shows and this is an indicator that they've been an obstacle the political committee has been an obstacle for a four week change and for reform and for negotiations the street is ready for change people are out and ready we're demanding the handover to a civilian transitional authority this is the major demand in the street right now we want to hand over to civilian transitional authority the military council cannot cannot oversee the formation of a government what we're demanding is that a civilian transitional council be formed immediately that's presented by the forces of the collation of freedom and change iran's foreign minister has said

keeping the strait of hormuz open is in the interests of iranian national security jevons the reason speaking in new york after the u.s. withdrew waivers which allowed for some countries to bahrain you know without being subject to sanctions imposed by washington iran responded again threatening to block the gulf which is the world's main oil shipping route it is in our interests are not it's our national security interest to keep the persian gulf open to keep the strait of almost open we've done that in the past if we continue to do it in the future but the united states should know that when they enter the straight talk almost they have to talk to those who are protecting the straight talk much and that is iranian. more now from a diplomatic editor james phase well he says that iran has done absolutely nothing

wrong iran entered into what he describes a treaty formally it wasn't actually a treaty with the international community including the united states and it's the u.s. that are.