this range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. a warplane from the saudi led coalition crashes in yemen the hoofy say those who shot it down. down jordan the saudis iraq live from doha are also coming up qatar's foreign minister says efforts to resolve the gulf crisis have been suspended. the world health organization urges countries to step up their efforts to deal with the coronavirus is the 1st death unsupported outside of asia. and the gruesome murder of a woman in mexico is drawing attention to the country's why is infanticide. a

series of airstrikes in northern yemen by the saudi led coalition has killed at least 31 civilians the attacks brought a rebuke from the un's humanitarian chief for yemen whose call it shocking the strikes happened after saudi arabia confirmed one of its planes crashed in the same region who the rebels say they shot it down because. this is the mormons yemen's who 3 rebels say they shot down a saudi air force fighter jets the rebels in this video on saturday the saudi u.a.e. led coalition confirmed one of its planes went down in government in the country's northeast who these also broadcast vision of what it says is the aftermath saudi led in strikes in the area followed which the rebels claim were retaliate tree attacks the saudi coalition released a statement saying there was a possibility of what calls collateral damage to civilians this show you that the

us and our forces has been able after they have shut down. several of the. american drones over the skies of yemen in the last 3 months now it seems to be that they are able to slow down those fighter jets and they can say that if they start at this stage this means that we are going to and that the new stage of the war the who these claim the plane was downed with an advanced air to ground missile some analysts say if that's true it would be a very significant development in yemen's long running war this is a big deal knowing that already the partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left another saudis are in there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in capable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war. the conflict in yemen has

killed tens of thousands of people and brought millions to the brink of famine it's estimated more than 91000 yemenis have been killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting there's no sign yet when it will end because a gauge al-jazeera. cattles foreign minister says recent efforts to end the blockade against the country have ended without success saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt cut all political trade and transport ties with qatar back in 2017 so hot as this report. from un says been speculation that the blockade of cattle by its neighbors could be nearing an end the foreign minister announced at the munich security council that talks to ease detention came to an end last month in 2017 saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt cut all diplomatic and economic ties with cats we are open to any

genuine intention to resolve this problem and we have been we demonstrated this in fact when there was an opening. here and november and of last year. and unfortunately these efforts didn't succeed and spears suspended at the beginning of january but. remain at the same position that we are often before blockading countries accused cats of supporting terrorism which it's repeatedly tonight it's also rejected a list of 13 demands which include closing a turkish military base downgrading ties with iran and shutting down the al jazeera media network. in december cats are sent its highest representation since the blockade then prime minister. to the annual gulf cooperation council summit in saudi arabia at the time capsule had said that been positive talks with sound. his attendance came after the national football teams of saudi behind and the u.a.e.

all took part in the arabian gulf cup in cats on november reversing an earlier decision not to participate. katz all is home to the largest u.s. military base in the middle east and gulf region the us has called on its gulf allies in the future fearing it might undermine its efforts to contain seize iran's growing influence in the region normally the united states should have been involved in pressing all the countries involved. saudi arabia the u.a.e. bahrain egypt and qatar to come to some kind of day talked we have very very extensive relationships with all 4 of these governments all 5 of these governments and really it's a failure of u.s. diplomacy 3 years after the blockade began the 6 nation regional bloc is still struggling for unity so hideouts al jazeera. the head of the world health

organization has warned countries against complacency over the corona virus which has now killed more than 600 people more than 69000 the non-infected most are in china on saturday the virus claimed its 1st victim outside of asia an 80 year old chinese tourist died in a hospital in paris. it's impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take we are concerned about the level of rumor and misinformation that hampering the response we're concerned by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports from china yesterday about the number of health workers who have been infected or died. an american woman from a cruise ship that docked in cambodia has tested positive for the virus the 83 year old woman flew to malaysia on friday along with 144 other passengers from the ship

then miss west of them had been turned away from 4 countries before being welcomed by cambodia away hey joins us live now from the combo capital phnom penh when so what's happening to the rest of the ships passengers now that one of them is tested positive. yes well this long and frustrating journey continues for many of the passengers on board the westerdam some of whom are in various states of transit back to their final destination some of them have completed those journeys back home others are now stuck yet again we have 256 passengers left on board the ship which is docked in sihanoukville 747 crew members as well according to reports from some of those passengers the captain of the west of them has told them that no one is allowed off this ship for the time being until the results from the woman in malaysia can be clarified we have many people stuck here in the capital phnom penh as well this is where people have been coming to from seeing a pool to then catch charter flights out of here to cities like kuala lumpur to

more charter flights were to leave on saturday to kuala lumpur they did not depart and we've heard a tweet from one of those passengers here in phnom penh saying that the cambodian health ministry has told them to stay in their hotel rooms until further medical checks can be conducted on those people and then in kuala lumpur there was a flight that was due to depart to amsterdam a k l m commercial flights at least 11 passengers on that flight were not allowed to board it out of concerns that they may have come in contact with the 83 year old woman so we have the the cambodian health ministry and also the operators of the ways that i am cruise ship have said that they need to get further clarification perhaps more to. 1st out from that result in malaysia before we can go to any other stage the cambodian health ministry has written to their counterparts in malaysia

were questing for the clarification when thank you. meanwhile chinese authorities say president xi jinping knew about the corona virus outbreak much earlier than previously thought adrian brown has more on that from hong kong. what's been happening this weekend is that state controlled media has been publishing details of a speech that president xi jinping gave on february 3rd almost 2 weeks ago now this speech was delivered to the politburo standing committee that's like china's cabinet the most powerful political body in the land and jury in that speech president xi jinping concedes that he knew about the virus as early as january the 7th this is 2 weeks of course before the 1st cases of human to human transmission were confirmed then on january the 20th the president said that he issued special instructions to try to contain the virus and we now know that 3 days later the city

of was put into lockdown measures that were lauded by the world health organization now analysts say what seems to be happening is that the leadership is trying to cover its back in response to all the flak it's taken over its handling of this crisis now a lot of people have called this sort of china's show noble moment referring to the nuclear accident in the former soviet union in the mid eighty's i'm not sure we've reached that tipping point quite yet it's still possible of course that the party will control this virus will contain it and that way it can spin it as you know a victory for the party for the people but i think it's too soon to say that at the moment whether the party is going to be able to do that soon as it wants. ending almost 2 decades of violence in afghanistan has been high on the agenda at a security conference in munich where now a provisional agreement between the u.s. and the taliban aims to reduce violence for a week i was there as diplomatic editor james bays reports. some of the war in

afghanistan continues to claim lives here villages prepared to bury those killed in the u.s. airstrike the un only started counting civilian casualties in 20098 years into the conflict but in the decade since then over 100000 civilians were killed or injured. in munich the u.s. was explaining the deal its now struck with the taliban an effort to try and end the war we have on the table right now a reduction in violence proposal that was negotiated between our ambassador and the taliban it looks very promising we have now been for a few days now in the process of consulting 1st with our congress i've had many conversations and then secondly concurrently with our nato allies in brussels now the u.s. has done it steal its partners must follow other nato countries still have 8000

personnel in the country serving alongside the 12000 u.s. troops we are not leaving afghanistan but we are prepared to adjust our force level if the taller bar on them assert their will and the ability to deduce violence and make compromises cut out of the negotiations with the taliban that they've gone on for over a year with the afghan government president ashraf ghani had demanded a ceasefire be put in place before any deal in the step the taliban have only agreed to what's being called a reduction in violence the critical test is going to be will be will be exempt in election as the mechanism the crucial mechanism of referring to that plan people in the still have the you've come of course afghanistan's last election is still not been formally decided ashraf ghani has the most number of votes but

he's not been declared the winner that is going to make things difficult in the coming days because afghanistan needs to choose the delegation for those talks that it now needs to have with the taliban james bays out just 0 munich. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back why the busiest migration path in the world is also the most dangerous and desperate journey. and we head to the south american country that's fast becoming a breeding ground for the world's top cyclists stay with us. welcome back we'll stop by looking at weather conditions across the arabian peninsula and here's a large we find pictures most of the cloud is further towards the north and this

area of low pressure has been given some pretty nasty weather across eastern parts of syria we've had snow we've had freezing rain still the risk of snow across these areas but that's also going to move into iran and iraq over the next 24 hours here in doha we've lost the wind which is blowing down through the gulf a couple days previous it was really quite cold here but looking at sunday's forecast 23 degrees with light winds it should be a very pleasant day indeed heading on into monday you can see the area of snow really developing across northern parts of iran once again baghdad to also see the risk of snow that should clear later on and then coming south those fine conditions from mecca with the high olds 32 degrees that's head on into central parts of africa here you can see this circulation moving in towards parts of kenya and tanzania it should weaken it does so but for coastal parts of tonnes it could be quite wet at times heavy showers elsewhere much as you'd expect we'll look at the also looking quite wet across parts of the angola and about 6 back to to continue

as we head on through into monday for the south it's a largely fine picture for southern parts of africa highs of 27 in cape town. gives you an feel dead and did you get the peace prize too soon. is this going to hurt or help donald trump's reelection chances in a very free money face to somebody on 5th avenue and not have any consequence this is not a muslim issue this is a human colony issue join me many hot sun as i put up from questions to my special guests and challenge them to some straight talking political debate here on al-jazeera.

welcome back had to come out of our top stories here on al-jazeera air strikes by the saudi led coalition in northern yemen have killed at least 31 civilians saudi arabia confirmed one of its war planes crashed in the same region who the rebels say they shot it down. qatar's foreign minister says recent efforts to end the blockade against the country have not succeeded in saudi arabia the united arab emirates bahrain and egypt cut all political trade and transport ties with qatar and 2017. and china's government says the death toll for corona virus has exceeded 1600 head the world health organization has warned the international community it's impossible to know which direction the epidemic take. to the u.s. now where democrats are casting to early votes in the vod as presidential caucuses the crowded field of contenders has been campaigning in las vegas head of the

nominating contest next weekend a lot of the chaos of the iowa caucus results pressures on nevada to do better it's also the 1st test of candidates appeal in a state with a more diverse population. in washington d.c. he describes the significance of ethnic minority voters in nevada. it's about a 30 percent latino population here 9 percent african-american or an 8 percent asian american that might help explain some of the figures we're looking out in the 1st poll we've had for ages from from nevada but the soul is in the lead 25 percent he has a really strong latino base in nevada and now actually by the way that that leave that he has right now does that is reflected in the national polls we're going to last national poll we had on thursday he had a double digit lead over joe biden he was at 29 percent joe biden at 19 percent but he said it is looking very good at the moment joe biden 18 percent in nevada he has to do well now after his disastrous performance in new hampshire and iowa where

he's going to continue to say that he's the electable one he has to start winning or at least vaguely doing well in elections he's hoping that the african-american base that he's always hoped for will come out with as evidence in the polls that even that is declining now as what we were told in the pose of the main reason why the african-american community is. coalescing around that is you know maybe they do prefer other policies from someone else but they feel that he can beat trump but if that is the priority and if you call and win elections it's not good for elizabeth warren for 13 percent told in style and now this is the really interesting one as well make or break for him perhaps as well so we haven't heard off much before. is another 1000000000 a businessman and his pitch is i can beat trump because i can be the sort of centrist front than and i can beat him on his own on his own ground and so on he's put huge amounts of money in nevada if he doesn't do well here he's probably going to be out of it and then peter amy clover 10 percent each this is that opportunity

these are on the on the right of the democratic party it's their opportunity to perhaps or that they have any support whatsoever amongst ethnic minorities because certainly if they don't then it doesn't look good for them moving forward so i think the evidence right now is that they have minimal support amongst the democrats diverse base. south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromises aimed at meeting the deadline to form a unity government so the care is cutting the number of states from 32 to 10 that's a major demand of the opposition to formally end the civil war care and rival rick mashad a week left to agree on a joint government of the world's youngest country at the 2 failed attempts the decision was reached by the presidency after several options and we thought these latest compromise will preserve the unity of the country

and move the people of south sudan out of these imposed senseless conflict we have at it the livelihood of many of our citizens libyan fighters loyal to the wall orderly for have to have again shelled residential areas on the outskirts of tripoli the latest bombardment and a half dollars 10 month campaign to take the capital and civilians are constantly in the firing line as chance transferred now reports. this is one of the southern neighborhoods of tripoli an area that has seen some of the heaviest fighting in recent months we've heard in the last few minutes or so sounds like outgoing and incoming shelling we've also heard what sounds like small arms fire despite this push for a cease fire there is ongoing fighting here we heard last night one civilian was killed very close to here the majority of this area now is completely clear of

civilians they have left of the what the u.n. says around 160000 people that it is being displaced by this conflict many of them staying in schools in other areas of tripoli the been a number of schools that have been hit by shells as well according to the u.n. around half a 1000000 children have been affected by this conflict now we spoke to one of the field commanders operating in this area and this is what he had to say this but. the situation is that we are maintaining our positions on these sporadic shelling from have to post his denting in residential areas and killing civilians in a neighborhood we are steadfast on the front lines we had gone to the last couple of days in a number of areas for now we are waiting orders to advance again. so despite those efforts by members of the international community to try and get both sides to sit down and agree on a last things things far those efforts of thus far failed the commander was also

telling us reminding is that many of the 4 inches here all volunteers they are not being paid any money by the u.n. backed government in tripoli the united nations is very concerned about what it describes as on registered or uncontrolled weapons in libya trying to hold that supply of weapons they say that there could be up to 200000 tons of owned controlled munitions in libya. meanwhile yesterday friday general huff despite these these efforts to try and forge a last thing cities vowed his forces would continue until in his words he took control of of tripoli now for the 2nd year in a row the world's busiest route from migrant smuggling is from north africa to yemen the u.n. migration agency reports that 138000 people made the voyage across the gulf of aden in 2019 hoping to reach saudi arabia that's 28000 more than crossed the

mediterranean sea to europe 9 out of 10 travelers through yemen were ethiopian all crossed from djibouti and somalia in smugness boats risking kidnapping torture exploitation and trafficking and many face deportation if they do manage to get to saudi arabia even in vegas is a spokeswoman for the international organization for migration and she says despite being sold a dream of a better life many are being exploited. there is a lot of reporting about the 10s of thousands that we see crossing the mediterranean trying to get europe but in this part of the continent there has been an exponential rise in the number of migrants trying to get to the gulf countries normally as you said in the intro possibly to the small country of djibouti in the whole of africa crossing the gulf of aden taking the dangerous shit a perfectly go and trying to paul to yemen and into saudi arabia many of the people

are young people from countries like ethiopia looking for opportunity many of them spent a week walking through the mountains and dead from hunted out food sometimes without water like you rightly said sometimes they are confronted by smugglers and traffickers some do go along the way and all again in pursuit of this better life for this to see better life and in the last year well so there has been this exponential rise we estimate anywhere between 135108000 clippings that to place well that is the horn of africa just last year and we also estimate around every single month around $11500.00 try to make the crossing now the publication of doing some pictures of the body of a young woman murdered in mexico has drawn attention to what activists say is an epidemic of gender based violence money or appollo reports now from the mexican capital. hundreds of women continue to demonstrate on the streets of

mexico city. their anger ignited by the case a 25 year old indeed ischemia brutally murdered by her boyfriend on february 9th. the national palace is one of the targets of the crown he said the government hasn't done enough to address the issue of violence against women it's estimated that 10 women are killed in mexico every day. so when i'm in there we're going to i'm sure people will say look at these crazy women spray painting this historic door from there who lucian but what they should do is read what we've written how many women have been killed how many have been raped how many are being discriminated that's what really matters. there's also been a backlash against mexican media after photos of mutilated body be published. and. i'm asking the members of the press before you publish a fight before you write a story think think this could have been your sister this could have been your

daughter that this could be your mother. more than 1000 cases of femicide were recorded across mexico in 2900. women's rights advocates are demanding that all murders of women be automatically investigated as femicide when the to investigate something mean c.d.o. when a murder is investigated as a femicide it automatically sets off a series of protocols recognized internationally through this documentation a statistic is generated making it possible to recognize the scope of the problem so public policy can be developed. outside the apartment building where indeed ischemia was killed neighbors joined demonstrators in a vigil for all victims of gender based violence while it was the death of anybody that has come to you that support these latest demonstrations protests against gender based violence are becoming louder and more frequent in mexico more than 20

different organizations have signed an open letter against gender violence in mexico. with emotions still running high more demonstrations are expected when. mexico city. hundreds of russians are voice their anger against plans by president vladimir putin to change the constitution to testers and moscow ranging from ultra nationalists to communists and doesn't have the right to make the change presidents proposing giving extra powers to palm and critics say it's an attempt to stay in power in life. some of the world's best cyclists to be racing towards the finishing line in a few hours time after the tour of colombia clue this is toward a france champion happy homecoming in the capital bogota. following his progress. the 2nd to last stage of the tour arrived at the hometown of tour de france winner . sits at more than 2600 meters of elevation yet the rarified air

did little to stem the excitement of fans waiting to see the city's most famous son . i met him when he was riding with his 1st started winning pan american bases and then i followed him when he went to italy it's very exciting to see him here because people adore him and this is his 3rd edition of the world tour competition has attracted the roaster of cycling greats and is positioning itself as a premier race in latin america for overseas riders it's an opportunity to compete at the beginning of the season at high altitude with each stage averaging above the highest peaks of the tour de france while for colombians it's an opportunity to shine at home. i think. for me pretty special. for this country. over.

the long after training area when you speak really well of the country despite being a cycling loving country until recently. you see. the traditional. long. infrastructure and accusation of widespread. the tour 6 stages are in colombia straight dition was cycling regions of. also home to night . cycling expert says colombian riders score going from strength to strength after. one. you know. drips and drabs but now trying to. very fashionable very very successful. nearly all the world. and. so latin america is really changing the face of. the last stage will reach the capital

and its most emblematic climbed the. at 3266 meters alison. part time for a quick check of the headlines here on the al-jazeera air strikes by the saudi led coalition in northern yemen have killed at least 31 civilians in an attack the u.n. is calling shocking comes after saudi arabia confirmed one of its war planes crashed in the same region the rebels say they shot down the aircraft qatar's farm minister says recent efforts to resolve the gulf dispute were suspended at the end of january mom had been on the rocks and author told a security conference in munich discussions began in october tried to end the blockade of qatar by 4 arab states. i think now it's been almost 3 years since the crisis started we were not the perpetrator of for fear of that crisis and we've

been very open and very clear that we are open to any genuine intention to solve this problem and we have been straight at this in fact when there was an opening. here in november and of last year. and unfortunately these efforts didn't succeed and spears suspended at the beginning of january but would remain at the same position that we are often. the head of the world health organization has warned countries against complacency over the corona virus which is now killed more than 1600 people more than 69000 and now infected most are in china on saturday the virus claimed its 1st victim outside of asia an elderly chinese tourist in france it's impossible to predict which direction this epidemic will take we are concerned about the levels of rumor and misinformation that hampering their response we are

concerned by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports from china used the number of workers who have been infected or. yes democrats are starting to cost early votes in the vod as a presidential caucuses the still crowded field the contenders has been campaigning in las vegas out of the 3rd nominating contests next weekend after the chaos of the iowa caucus pressures on the vada to do better south sudan's president says he's agreed to a painful compromises aimed at meeting the deadline to form a unity government solve the case cut a number of states to 10 as a major demand of the opposition to formally end the war those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after upfront watching. the whole d.n.a. of al-jazeera is to deliver news of people who are subject to the plate by the pound but you will have should feel about the general election in december the 12th result anything when you see big groups of people walking through your they're all

individuals with children. in the back story this place has become a complete trust. or simply nowhere to put all these people you have to deal with them to treat those who did you expect. is bollywood cozying up to them and their mo these far right hindu nationalist government i lost 2 of the indian film industry is best known creative figures elite. ily. ily. ily. i made the house and with the indian government targeting of minorities demonstrations against them in the road these increasingly authoritarian rule have sprung up across india so why is bollywood being so silent india's powerful film industry afraid of modi and the b j p i'll scream going to job after.