and he will meet the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei on thursday morning he will be discussing regional security and this attack will most likely be at the very top of the agenda ok. and i thank you very much indeed let's say with this scandal is a senior research fellow coach university of oxford she joins us now from geneva elizabeth campbell is this a significant turning point in the film going to war in yemen would you say i think it's a significant ramp up of the conflict yes it's a turning point it's very disappointing given that everyone was least cautiously optimistic that agreement was reached last summer just like there was some kind of peace but subsequently that is the very difficult moment and we've seen. on the run . this however is that change.

why has this agreement been so difficult implement. some agreement was very. it was reached in a rush to talk to. the details of the local forces to. take. the. surrounding area or one best buy. for and reaching an agreement between the 2 credits a difficult one mailing out that details the united nations redeployment committee could barely get the 2 sides together to even talk about the details. trust and not just worsen. in mid may it like something positive were happening when the feces claimed to withdraw from the data just for the united nations security

council meeting but unfortunately the saudi yemeni government side has declared that a bit of a sham doesn't have any trust in that withdrawal and so things have started to birol out controlled they certainly have viewers just joining us a reminder of the recent events that have happened we have had confirmation that a civilian airports in the southern side of the arabia have been headed young just bands that have been some 26 people wouldn't say it's the n.c.c. rebels targeting that airport where we're live at the kenzo a senior research fellow is joining us from geneva. elizabeth kendall what's the significance of the fact that we are now seeing a deliberate attacks on civilian installations. of course

positioned by did you see. revenge for what it is to be on that territory inside yemen and indeed at the weekend on sunday the spokesman did issue a tweet which pretty nicely just. said. unless we see movement from coalition government in trying to implement agreement we should try to do unless you open. then we will close your we will ensure that your. big. and would you say civilians might become fair game in this conflict. to really difficult question yes i think i would have to say that. and why why is this the case because this is the for and because this is the not the 1st time but it's certainly quite a dramatic incursion into. territory that we have had an analyst on here saying

that the civilian casualties are only coming from one side which you back that up i think that there is you see lying i wouldn't agree with the language these civilian casualties would be legitimate given that after about 20. strikes. on yemen about the 5th civilian target now we do know that. weapons and military personnel in civilian areas are granted areas but nevertheless that doesn't mean on principally bob it is again who of war and i guess this is now happening the other way around to. in terms of the fact that the targets within saudi territory have been a hades does this suggest that the seas are gaining in confidence so are gaining in

. military progress does this suggest that they are becoming a stronger fighting force the fact that there have been so many recent incursions in society territory. yes i think the just that the few feet have become stronger if i can fall and that could be because that now receiving great help propel of those who have always vocally supported by. iran what i would say. that the wall that is being waged in yemen back fired from. the saudis the original warring saudi had 3 original warring one was to safeguard itself in borda its southern border very katy states now 2nd was to prevent yemen from fragmenting and to restore the heavy government neither common practice and the heavy

government is more popular than ever and the such would to contain the influence of the wrong that's just pointed out i don't see that the influence of iran may be increasing not decreasing i'm so so what what kind of grief or words do you see then elizabeth console do you do you see these events pushing both parties back to the negotiating table i see these events as being highly potent writing and actually the longer the ball goes on the longer it takes implement. the more difficult and tractable comps that must be an. international push out to get. them to do. no way. to implement but. actually have right now or i think that you like a brother and the concept could escalate and with true safety recommendation would in the chain made or die hard liners and they would piece fell in.

love ok elizabeth kendall thank you so much for your thoughts and analysis that those with kendall senior research fellow rather joining us on the phone from geneva let's just quickly check back in with what is happening in yemen our correspondent mohammed is live for us in sana mohammad's just quickly if you would what's the very latest i think you're hearing it's of the yemeni capital. many did not in the because of the continuation of the war as a dimension but it is now it's back fire back fire to saudi arabia then in many many many especially in the capital and also in the areas under the control of the hokies have been. has been doing during saudi arabia and other strikes for over 4 years which has killed so many civilians

and. this is this brutal war has even targeted ratings plurals the markets hospitals and saudis say they did for the kinds of attacks. have been a mistake sometimes the methods attack but the tax and also the beginning story of the wrongful specially these attacks started to to reach civilians in into internal international courts even though that we say that this kinds of attacks in revenge of the saudis for years long of attacks on civilian areas. even though these are the rebels started its war in yemen to try to target in the yemen yemen on the side of the capabilities but now does the

prove that the saudi arabia's. first goal to destroy such a missile capabilities. will be that's why we are calling the united nations to play a major role and also with the help of the international community to to to put an end to this developing war which started now to affect and impact americans in saudi arabia we would know now we are witnessing that the over a dozen missiles or good of. versions are being carried out by these now the started to civilians because in addition to complete 300 missiles that have been promised by the hold these 2 competing we lost to. also other. countries involved in the in this war including the united. united nations to. possible see. all the world bodies

in concern about saving the lives of civilians ok mohammad. thank you very much for correspondents mommas joining us from yemen after those developments there we understand. airports in southern seiji arabia civilian terminal was targeted by the rebels 26 people were injured in that attack. let's take you back to our other breaking news story that's coming to us out of hong kong where police have moved in on the phone sounds of protesters who have been surrounding the legislative council the police have used tear gas and pepper spray on the demonstrators in a bid to clear that area where earlier to be on a controversial proposed extradition law how it's been delayed as acts of us

managed to successfully block politicians from entering that building since then as you can see from the images you're bringing you things have deteriorated a riot police are now filling the streets of hong kong let's check back in with a reporter sarah clarke who is in hong kong for us just bring us the latest from where you are what's been happening. there we can confirm that rubber bullets were also used on the protesters 2 people have been injured and taken to hospital as a result of that you mentioned the tear gas has also been fired and we also have what was called beanbag bullets described by the place they were firing on protesters as you can see behind me the whole area cleared very quickly when the police fired the tear gas on those protesters they came from all sides there are a number of entry points into government headquarters and the legislative council building which is directly behind me for 3 or 4 access points and the police moved in on those areas in

a very loose staggered way we can say that the students now have retreated a lot have disappeared dispersed within the city we can see i believe some in the tower behind us on my right hand side some of retreated into some of these buildings are trying to escape the police fire the tear gas as well as the police pursuit we also have some i believe in pacific place which is another building on the right hand side so at the moment we have a clean up we do still have a place on the streets we've got some one in front of me some on my left hand side we've got ambulances we've seen a number of ambulances moving in with stand tree at least 3 protesters being. out on stretchers they did look young as to what injuries i don't know but certainly we've had no fatalities but we've had a lot of. tear gas by and behind me as i said there's no one left directly around that area which was blockaded for hours since about 6 am this morning we were here about 6 am and that's when the barricades started to be moved in the protesters got them barricade up the streets they blocked the street so this part of central hong

kong has been paralyzed in a standstill all day and it's serious this does come of course after that 1000000 man march the process against the bill certainly the numbers not as not the same as the march over the weekend but certainly a significant amount of people on the streets today certainly before they were clear it's just tell us a bit more about who these protesters are and what they've been calling for. well certainly the demographics of today's gathering was a lot younger i mean we were talking students we spoke to a number of law students we spoke to a number of them students who were some students at school but mine at university for the 20 to 35 year old age group as opposed to the 1000000 who came to the streets on sunday clearly it's a much bigger number it was on a weekend so other people could come families students children and a lot of areas representing different sectors from the business sector from the

legal fraternity but today we're certainly students and younger protesters and i came in this morning it was some that camped out overnight but certainly from 6 am the numbers started to build and they've been gathering all day and there has been a police standoff for much of the day but certainly the softer noon after the bill was suspended it didn't with the bill reading was suspended the students and the the young protesters gave the government a deadline they said they want the bill withdrawn pm this afternoon of course that didn't happen and about 4 pm is when the police moved in and about $5000.00 police were deployed for today's protest knowing that it was going to be a very big day and there would be some confrontations and clearly effective use of tear gas says as worked for them it's clear the street and the government doesn't want this part of the city which is the central business district they want to get back to normal they want traffic to resume and the congestion to aides and sarah just quickly mean her realistic a proposal is this to have business as usual returned to the streets of hong kong

and spirit speaking where we are seeing more dramatic live images we're seeing young protesters who certainly briefs for more action from the police wearing ice shields and helmets who are also equipped with the masks to try and deal with the with the tear gas that has been used they certainly the protesters may have been cleared from one part of the entire in hong kong but certainly these young protesters do not loot quite they're ready to give up the process just like that one higher how realistic a proposal is it that the streets of hong kong will be reopened by to morrow as the authorities would quite like. well i mean that the they all the students of the protests as we spoke to certainly indicated that they did want to stand the streets way yet to see what their next tactical strategy might be as much

before they disperse they may not be around the area behind me but they've dispersed across parts of the city this is a same tactics that we use the other night when we were here after midnight when there were some violent clashes between police and the protesters they moved in and they dispersed them and pushed them out of the main thoroughfare of the main areas around the government headquarters so for now i can imagine there will be civil confrontation the government does want this bill to go ahead they want the 2nd bill reading to happen obviously it didn't happen today because a lot of politicians couldn't access the government building but no doubt tomorrow they'll be pushing for that bill reading to go ahead and then there will be 60 hours of debate and the government has indicated it wants a vote 1 as early as next thursday and whether or not it can stick to that timeframe given the delay of today if the government certainly will be updated tomorrow but as for the protesters no doubt they'll be putting together their next strategy but certainly for now around this part of the area which again as i mentioned is the main government headquarters it's clear but we can still hear movement on the other side it's

a very very big building and there are 4 entry points at least so they started this side and they're moving around so we'll have to see what happens next we certainly will set apart for now thank you very much in seeds with the government in beijing all of this very closely let's bring in our china correspondent adrian bring in very dramatic pictures that we are seeing coming out of hong kong has there been any reaction from the leadership in beijing to these events. well as you say very dramatic pictures coming out of hong kong on wednesday and not a single image of those protests has been appearing on television screens here in china that is a measure of just how nervous the central government is about the events now unfolding in hong kong what the leadership doesn't want its people to see are pictures of chinese students protesting on the streets of a city where of course there were protests just 4 years ago now china wants this

extradition bill to become law because it feels that hong kong has become a haven for justice for all for criminals and they want to try to plug that loophole and china has been pointing out again today that it currently has you know trade extradition agreements with more than 30 other countries that hong kong should be no different there's nothing sinister in any of this on wednesday we heard from gong show on he's the foreign ministry spokesman he wants more stress that the central government has full supporting kerry lamb and efforts to introduce this new extradition law but he dodged questions as to whether in fact it was china who was pushing the hong kong government to ensure that the former british colony now has an extradition law but let's listen more to what gunn showing had to say about the events that unfolded in hong kong on wednesday. could you tell me the chinese central government firmly supports the hong kong government in advancing

the amendment i can tell you that any behavior that undermines the prosperity and stability of the region will be opposed by the mainstream public opinion going in and hong kong. well as we were listening to that adrian certainly more dramatic images have been coming through to us from hong kong and say we've heard many analysts and commentators throughout the day commenting on how similar this appears to be to the umbrella protests one thing that has been markedly different however has been the speed of the clump and of course the umbrella protests were allowed to run and run it seemed that beijing was waiting waits in the markets but a very short change in direction happening this weapons day. yes that's right you sensed it in fact this particular group of protesters a much more hardcore in many ways than the protestors of the occupy movement of

october september november 2014 and i think that's a reflection of the fact that it's not so much the extradition law that has upset him and they're seeing this as one more freedom that's being taken away from them another initiative that's being forced on them without any real sort of consultation by the government in what you hear the protesters saying again and again and all the interviews that we've been hearing on al-jazeera on wednesday is that you know it's not independence that they're asking for so much it's the issue for them is one of identity they don't want hong kong to become just another chinese city and in fact that point has been touched on by the foreign ministry today saying that they want hong kong to remain you know a prosperous part of china but the worry amongst ordinary people in hong kong right now is it's going to become just as i say another part of china and one of the ways actually the chinese government is trying to in

a sense dilute dissent in hong kong is to talk about this new greater bay area where they want to try and connect hong kong to other cities in southern china so that in a sense one day 1020 years from now hong kong will be in many ways just a very smart suburb of southern china but not the hong kong that we know today and that's what the people really fear and i think that is perhaps partly behind what we're seeing on the streets right now and also i think you know a resignation but sickie among young people that they don't really have much of a future in hong kong i mean the the system that sort of governs hong kong at the moment there's one country 2 systems where hong kong is allowed to have the freedoms it's always had until 2047 well that's just another 20 years from now so these are. young people you're seeing on the streets today will be middle age then and wondering you know what sort of future they will have after 2047 ok adrian brain great start see it but for now thank you very much let's return to some of

the upper day's news now after a 3 day nationwide strike in sudan process leaders have reached an agreement with the military to suspended talks and if european envoy says in exchange the military has agreed to release political prisoners that reports. this fire in darfur was retribution for allegiance to the protesters nationwide strike according to the sudanese professional association the group says on monday about 10 people were killed and stores and homes were torched by a peer a military group called the rapid support forces or r s f amnesty international says it has evidence proving the r.s.s. is committing war crimes in the region and internet blackout and reports of electricity outages in the capital mean information is slowly trickling out tuesday

it was the 3rd day of a nationwide strike intended to show the transitional military council that protesters may not have weapons but they have power. protesters say last week's military crackdown that killed almost 130 people only fortified their resolve the good thing that the syrian community are going to buy anyways. neighbor and then there will be much of the border food providing water for for the neighbors when needed with an ethiopian delegation mediating the 2 sides reached an agreement to return to negotiations or guarding a future government. agreed to take confidence building measures including the police when it's going to be. on its part. to. protest leaders are also demanding the

transitional military council restore access to the internet lift restrictions on journalists and ultimately allow civilians to determine the next phase of governance in sudan experts say it won't be easy for the military to relinquish power after decades of dictatorship and they very much fear accountability thank the. control over elections they fear onto corruption commission and they fear being told to get out of their war in yemen which is where the new. people may return to work shops may reopen and cars may once again fill sudan's streets but protest leaders say life will not resume as usual and they reserve the right to return to their campaign of civil disobedience until their demands for civilian rule are met natasha going to aim. well best nominee has a professor at the university of waterloo and

a senior fellow at the center for instant governance of innovation she says despite ethiopia's mediation efforts the opposition still lacks international support it's certainly could host to the if the o.p.'s for doing this frankly and the fact that you had the entire arab league unable to to help and frankly complicit in the military is really problematic to say the least but i think the professional association may be just realistic about the fact that they're not getting the international support they need it is a is a shame i think they can always go back to the civil disobedience is working it can be used again i think continue transparency by the opposition to its followers its key but some of the very basics of allowing the prisoners to be released some sort counts ability of who is behind all of these murders is helpful but make no mistake sadly the professional association is really i think the one with the shorter the shorter stick so-to speak. these prime minister has described seeing the bodies of

children shots in the back and see visited a village where almost 100 people were killed in a massacre who says the attack in the same region of central mali simply perfect gunmen also burned houses to the grinds in an escalation of ethnic violence has been getting worse for months. into tragedy what happened here is a tragedy it's a tragedy for mali and a tragedy for humanity it was important for us to come in the name of the president to present our condolences and to show compassion to those who lost their loved ones but it is important that no one forgets this it is a horror that we have witnessed here. on the close hawk reports from bamako just south of the sea region and a warning this reports contains graphic images what the silence is deafening what the smell of dead bodies hangs low in the air the

attack on the doggone village of sudan who started at dusk and went on deep into the night if you survived hiding as their loved ones were being killed now at the turn they immediately circled the village and shot everything don't move so every were people who were screaming trudeau war screamy who tried to run were shot down the survivors believe they know who the killers are it is they're following the neighbors they say both communities have been fighting each other for control over land. armed groups have called on full on these to join their ranks accusing the government of backing doggone militias ethnic tension is at breaking point with each community calling for avenge attacks in this spiral of violence both communities are fleeing their homes it is in this open air slaughter house on the outskirts of the capital that some full on these have sought refuge. all of the

people living under this tent share one bowl of rice and millet children show clear signs of malnutrition there's not enough water to go around so there's a threat of water borne diseases this is where they sleep eat and despite the calls for peace one is continued to be the victims of violence president. says the country's national unity is under threat. i would like to call on all our brothers to keep calm and stay rational more than ever while the 14000 u.s. soldiers and 1000000 forces on the ground failed to prevent these killings don't go to hunters call this latest attack on their community a declaration of war were saying revenge will come nicholas hawk al jazeera bamako mali. syria's state news agency is reporting the government's air defenses have enforced sets it and israeli missile attack that targeted the town of our

how-to it's considered a strategic point over the occupied golan heights and this province elsewhere the world food program is warning of a catastrophe in the northwest only weeks of a syrian government offensive the u.n. agency says it's been unable to reach at least 7 people in the area of. where there's been intense fighting neighboring hama province the syrian government and russian air strikes have killed at least 27 civilians most of them women and children. u.s. presidents donald trump has waved around a piece of paper in front of journalists what she said was the text of an agreement with mexico 2nd migration across the u.s. border. there's the agreement there's a very simple agreement. washington had threatened to impose tariffs on mexican products if the government failed to act on u.s.

the months mexico says it will send troops to its southern border with somalia more highs each year castro has more from the u.s. border town of el paso in texas. 60000 children are among the migrants who crossed into the u.s. in the last 40 days some came alone others with families fleeing violent homes in central america to walk thousands of kilometers north to now test whether the united states will receive them this is a place where you can historic pretty. violent and persecution you come in you will get some kind of protection i mean people is coming with that they would that you from entirely think that they're going to come in they're going to brace claudia some more left what amala with her 11 year old son 18 days ago. there was so much violence where we lived many games it became too dangerous but the u.s. government says this cannot continue president trump has pressed mexico to deploy

troops to stop central americans from advancing toward the u.s. they're moving right now 6000 soldiers to their southern border whatever it is that you think we had that do we go to weeks ago tell you what we had we had nothing but as migrants seek more remote routes to evade capture the danger increases here at the rio grande river that marks the boundary between the united states and mexico 5 bodies were recovered in 3 days those migrants who make it across the waters alive are then arrested and detained in squalid and overcrowded conditions 6 migrant children have died in u.s. custody as well as the children are the ones who suffer the most we can take it but they suffer more the trumpet ministration says children are being used to gain entry into the u.s. and that human smuggling here has grown to a $3000000000.00 business but these families say if it weren't for their children

they would never have wrist coming castro al-jazeera el paso texas. the nicaraguan governor. says releasing dozens of political prisoners arms of a controversial amnesty law it's an attempt to free those detained last year but there will be government protests and ses the country's political standoff has minimal republic with the details. of the anti-government protesters and you can i well were reunited with their families on tuesday many of these former political prisoners had been jailed for months the government agreed to the demands of opposition leaders to release political prisoners by june 18th. the news director for an independent media outlet critical of nicaraguan president daniel ortega was just released after 6 months in prison his news channel was shut down but i wasn't i don't think and that is the reason they shut down my channel the wealth of the news source is its credibility it's being close to the people and telling the truth

that's what how t.v. channel has and if they steal our infrastructure then we will simply start again from the bottom but of course we will continue we will continue to inform the people and. the freeing of political prisoners was announced as part of a controversial new law which grants amnesty to anyone who participated in last year's unrest the amnesty law has been criticised by dozens of human rights groups who say it makes it difficult to hold pro-government paramilitary groups and security forces accountable for the deaths of more than $300.00 people since the start of the country's political crisis more than one year ago no i really that they cannot be amnesty for crimes against humanity these are crimes that remain and no law signed by the government to protect those who perpetrated these crimes and we know many former political prisoners expressed relief for having been freed but said they would continue to demonstrate against the government and demand justice for the killings of hundreds of peaceful protesters was look we will continue to

fight we are united as political prisoners this government wants to divide and conquer but we are united for free nickelback you are. negotiations between the government and opposition groups continue to barely drag on since the political unrest began some 800 people have been thrown in prison or thousands of others have fled the country it remains a criminal offense to hold a public protest against the nicaraguan government when lit up a little. before we go here's what we know about that breaking news out of saudi arabia city state media say at least 26 civilians of different nationalities something wounded in a cruise missile attack on the kingdoms of airports official reports say the arrivals line was hits saudi arabia is accusing yemen's rebels off being responsible as in that they also hits the airports control tire well that's it for now i'm sorry raman takes over in just

a moment with much more on that breaking news out of saudi arabia and also this protest in hong kong don't go away. after decades of being programmed with instructions data.