airports official reports say the arrivals line was hey it's saudi arabia is accusing yemen's rebels off being responsible as in that they also hates the airports control tire well that's somehow raman takes over 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 on greek computers can only on their own identifying bachman's and predicting human behavior. artificial intelligence can monitor our movement. and decide the future of the big picture decodes the world according to ai and exposes the bias inside the machine to on al-jazeera business updates brought to you by qatar airways

going places together. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. examining

the headline and scientists are telling us that we have just 12 years to make unpressed any changes unflinchingly journalism i have moved toward leave toward complete. absolutely sharing personal stories with a global audience we see people making sacrifices this is what i want to see explore in abundance of world class programming the world is watching on al-jazeera . this is al-jazeera. alarms the whole rahman you're watching the observer and use on live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes 26 civilians have been injured in the latest to theatre from yemen aimed at

a saudi airport several saudi airports are being targeted over the past year including the kim carr international airport in the capital riyadh. in other news hong kong's police fired tear gas and scuffle with demonstrators as mass protests force leaders to delay debates on the contentious extradition ball. and the bowler in uganda a 5 year old boy dies after crossing the border from the democratic republic of congo but the virus has killed hundreds on pole race for the sports caster semenya always up her victory in the courts with a win on the track as she continues her fight not to take testosterone reducing drugs. welcome to the program the saudi a morality coalition finding in the amman says at least $26.00 people have been

wounded in an attack on saudi arabia's port in the arrivals hall saudi state media says those injured after passengers yemen's hooty rebels say that they are responsible for hitting and disabling the airport tower. now that these have been escalating attacks on some of the airports in recent months on may the 26 the saudi military said they shot down a bomb ladened drone deployed by hugh t.'s the drone was targeting the port which is close to the southern border with yemen that same week on may the 23rd the who targeted john paul 2 also near the yemeni border with an explosives laden drone says the attack the 3rd agaves the nerve john airport in a 72 hour span was intercepted and last year on march the 25th saudi military say they intercepted 3 missiles over northeastern riyadh to the

daybreak from the missiles landed on a residential area killing one person. hooty rebels say the attack was aimed at the king international airport in riyadh but you for hearing is director of the gulf studies center at qatar university and joins me now here on set a significant turn in events just your initial reaction to start with before we get into this detail of how when what and where this was basically changing the namik of the whole confrontation between so these and whole thesis basically in the last few weeks the focus on drones now they are using cross missiles and basically it's a heavy missiles and they can target easily a lot of headquarters you know reports important pieces military bases so basically that is a changing dynamic of the this kind of go in war in yemen in terms of the on going

targeting of southern saudi arabia from northern yemen we've seen the who tease continually trying to target strategic locations mainly airports is this just another he shot or is this a change in the sophistication of the weapons that they house. is important to put things in a context of the end of the day who. are an under state actors that they are not behaving as a state despite the fact that they are kidnapping the government in yemen so basically they are behaving in a way that you know they have access to the military there is no doubt they have support a state support. everywhere known in the region and they have also access to buy weapons and they have access to train people so all of this together did help hold these to build on also in the in many military capabilities which they also control

that in that instance 2015 so basically all of this to that help truth is to have all of this military capabilities. more important they actually did. announce that they are they have a list of targets in saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and they said they have 300 targets and they're this kind of targets they are going to start you know target all of those gradually and they basically in the law before this event they were talking about $295.00 you know target is still remaining and the list so basically it's very it's very clear the plant it's well planned actually the list is ready they are targeting they are choosing the time that i time to do so and more important they focus they put things in a context which is basically a yemeni war and the war on yemen basically in particular and of course you know one can't expect saudi arabia to sit back and allow this to happen i mean what sort

of retaliation can we expect as usual in the after the few petition done by drones their target some of the cities around and some good number of of of casualties actually of civilians were killed and different places so busy that is a normal reaction from the coalition the iraqis so the coalition yemen and we expect the same actually action to continue as long as these kind of attacks from the a minute from the holy site while the. focus the attacks all military military installations and military targets we see the reprisals from saudis that we hitting very close to civilian areas we don't see the international condemnation of those attacks on yemen as such but nothing seems to happen in the long term those attacks condemnation and it all is a vicious cycle that there is going but is it is

a change what's happened today i'm not sure this will change but this is not for get so the idea being that either of our states. state actors the action of some international community absolutely different you will be more tough on the state rather than non-state actors because the state actors as we know in the literature they don't commit themselves on any kind of. respecting any international law they are behaving as an honest 8 act that they they have to achieve their goals they have to be tough they have to show their you know enemy that they are capable so they expect this condition to continue but as long as houthi is controlling yemen and as long as they have this kind of access to the military capabilities and to behave nothing as a state i think this kind of violence and the actions will continue in terms of the geo political snorri that we're seeing we have the japanese prime minister arriving in iran. on wednesday he is there to try and mediate some sort

of negotiated settlement being it with the the saudi arabia or mainly with the u.s. in the rising tensions in the gulf such an incident is going to play into that conversation i'm sure the end of the day so the. blame iran of being responsible of that saudis and their moralities how these are not acting without the iranian support and this will be conveyed to the japanese to the americans to the russians to every you know a country that so that it has contact with so i think the focus of japanese prime minister visit it's on this kind of ongoing crisis between washington and tehran about the nuclear issue and i do expect that japanese have interest to reduce the level of tension in the region and to push to sort of you know negotiation you know closed door negotiations sort of a solution to calm down the situation because japan has

a lot of interest in the region when it comes to energy and more attention more confront. and will affect the economy of japan and also other asian countries i think japan hours of playing an important role there would be and or sacca the g. 20 conference would be on end of this month. i'm sure there would be sort of discussion about whether rouhani would attend this conference and this would be a good occasion so he can meet european leaders and maybe trump behind the door and talk about you know this kind of woman crisis between washington and tehran in terms of the current situation you know the geopolitics to one side now you know international viewers might be looking at the situation and thinking yemen is near to being what is a failed state and yet you have this grouping of who t.f. who are able to manufacture or produce a weapon that gets into saudi air space and can hit specific targets where are they

making these weapons are they being imported into the country if so from what i mean of course everyone knows in the region that. in no way supported by iran this was not earth another the not the allegations from one expert can say this is sort of. reports communal confirm such thing and i think both these. as other non-state actors in the region they all enjoy state support and by the way since 2001 middle east has witnessed all of those wars and cold and this kind of violence because of another state actor and the support of the states turn a state actors and that's interesting to see that this is going on despite the fact that all of this condemnation and the criticism to the role of the state and the state actors who it is like others without the states of course they will not be able to continue where they are doing which is that what happened certainly what

the reaction is michel story from qatar university thank you for your analysis. keep on message because we can join moment live for us in santa just your reaction or what you're hearing about this attack into saudi arabian territory what of hooty saying. the hope is according to the spokes person of the army he says that these kinds of attacks are really just meant targets because of the in revenge of the saudi arabia's scale asian and also its attacks on civilian areas for over the 4 years in the during the 4 years of the saudi arabia has targeted busy hospitals. public pub public companies and also civilian areas the civilians here in the country have borne the they have went through difficult situations and memories civilians have lost their lives due to

such acts on civilian areas so many people here in the in the areas under the control of the whole of these have suffered enough during the 4 years of saudi war on the whole fees but the situation. now the fire the fire back to the saudi arabia now now civilians have become also victims of the retaliation of the whole of the somebody and i just interrupt you there mohammed yeah we know about well how the civilians are affected but we really need to know what hootie is saying about this particular attack they have been targeting southern saudi arabia for nearly a year now and one of their missiles has finally hit a significant target they they must be quite in bold and what are they actually telling you about that attack. as i mentioned to the the spokesperson of the whole thing. says that the tags are legitimate

targets and also the. kind of messiah which is a cruise missile that have been used in this. target successfully according to their plan so we are talking about now over to a $200.00. dollars 95. that are still in the waiting list to saudi arabian also other countries are involved on this war and yemen these kinds of risk lation it's it's also and another to the united nations and also other international community to 10 closer and also to stop the vicious violence that continues to impact civilians yemenis have endured a long time of the war and also the blockade the continues also to kill civilians silently because of the severe shortage of medicines and also other essentials we

hope that the reviewer had one of your guests talking about why had one of your guests talking about the the the the these are being 4 of votes here in the in these areas but there in a matter which is to the south of the country there is still also a school ation by these between the saudis and the united arab emirates and oman we have this kind of a division in this in these areas where the how these are not do not exist in these places so it's not only only about who these here and the and then in yemen also it's a war in yemen it is especially in the southern areas which are and under the control of the saudi arabian the united arab emirates also they are suffering from such attacks from the escalation of violence there so the the united nations has to do to do something serious to end the this kind of. this kind of. front ages between fighting factions and to bring them to the negotiating table to resolve their differences their we understand and of course i will come back to you for more

analysis as we get it thank you i'm going to look up the. let's join us and he's a journalist and joins me now also from senator good to have you with us on the program sir now as we've been hearing you know and listening to and getting reaction from the who tees have been targeting the southwest of saudi arabia and as these reports seem to now confirm they've hit a major target it is a significant success for forces and yet there is this threat we've been told and that as many as 200 other targets are being lined up i mean what more can you tell us. many army on the committee. a lot of the called the most all of those these have declared about 6 to 7 months ago that they have 300. targeted saudi

arabia in good including vital infrastructure this needed doesn't need to be a fully military target because. they say here in sanaa we came to a stage that an eye for an eye of the saudi blockade in yemen and the continuing closure of the port of any force here in sanaa decided to target. ports they started it with the nearest airport to they have anybody that what they did on airport then days on airport then. military base now is. port and that's all we can actually stop that in a matter of minutes they should stop targeting yemen investor knocked out open and so forth for here many kadian need that's all ok mr because you let's also then talk about the actual missile that was used there are 2 confirmations that we

have via reuters one from dubai and one from cairo to reporters saying that a missile was used another reporter saying a cruise missile was used can you confirm what type of missile was used. it was closed. that was used the fairest test of this was successful test when i think about when you had on a holiday when to get a nuclear power station a night out of that busy stage it was still like they were still building it and then i got a game out of has delayed a video but in all of that they said this is the 2nd attack using this type of missile so this means that. the forces here in sanaa still have many.