it's a very challenging place i think you're always going. spirals and yemen's marriage provinces government forces tried to save their last stronghold in the country from who's the rebels. and this is. coming up presumes president threatens to cut in the to states imposing lockdowns we'll have a live update on the pandemic and lots of america. paying for his defiance mean mars u.n. ambassador is fired by the military genter are denouncing the coup and calling it

to the trail. an anxious wait for parents in nigeria's north west more than 24 hours after $300.00 schoolchildren were kidnapped by an armed group. we begin in yemen where the government is making an urgent call to end the fighting in marion province to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. the area east of the rebel held capital sana'a is the last remaining stronghold of the yemeni government in the central region who these resumed an offensive to seize marriage earlier this month both sides have described saturday's fighting as the fiercest since the operation began firing on my stomach when the yemeni government is really into fighting it's not a sign of weakness we make these calls out of responsibility but regarding the fighting taking forces with fewer numbers and they were defeated. front is one of

the hottest war fronts since the beginning of the aggression on yemen this is been the situation since the beginning and except for a small period it is the most dangerous front so let's take a closer look at the situation in marib it was a sparsely populated region before the conflict began in 2015 but since then thousands of internally displaced people have sought refuge there aid agencies say it houses close to 400000 people who lack basic amenities well the region is strategically important for the who these as its control gives them access to oil fields barb's capture is expected to help the armed group extend its influence further towards the east so let's bring in the bill curry is a senior researcher at the atlantic center for studies and a former u.s. diplomat in yemen he joins us live from washington d.c. no bill good to have you back on the program so we see the worrying increase in the fighting in province over the last few days how significant do you think this latest violence is and why is it happening now. this is

a very critical battle that's taking place from a city gypped point of view each side thinks it will make great gains if it takes a little bit or the city and therefore the entire government itself. for the healthy is who have been making to me and power to take this gov they will be and if there is some 3rd position not only will they acquire significant resources and oil but also when they were in a position to cut off connections between the north all the way to solidarity and south potentially all the way to the coast it would put them into a very strong position. it looks lie both sides would like to be in a stronger bargaining position and dissipate the peace talks the problem of course

is that these short term gains they are thinking are good actually there are a lot of the peace process launched by the new u.s. administration yeah that's an important point you make in the u.s. president joe biden recently dropped the foreign terror designation for the who things without securing any concessions from the rebels is that likely do you think to have embolden the who things. possibly but they would be mistaken if this is the reading of the vi then administration developing that terrorism list thing was necessary in order to. talk to the to the who you cannot really have negotiations with someone you're classified as the parents you know was also a sign of goodwill but. this is it this is not that it wasn't

a concession the listing was a mistake to begin with may correct that this mistake now the hokies must accept to come over to new york. without any preconditions they are trying to say yes we will talk but you have to lift the siege 1st now ok just a final thought to you i mean meanwhile the un recently warned that the fighting we're seeing in america when only worsen the humanitarian crisis on the ground so where does all of this leave the prospects of peace an end to the war that when they need the humanitarian most will be transshipped in order to 15000000 people in magic city most of these people have already been displaced once or twice longer for and about to zones in yemen. and many many will die if not from their next turn a shooting now and for all on their end visit he is now with humanitarian assistance

on a bill to get their mission this will worsen the political environment all the way around and if they continue it will surely the other end of the peace process and may get peace much more difficult again maybe occurring great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to al jazeera. brazilian president jacob bolton r.-o. has threatened to pull emergency aid for any state's re-introducing lock down he says any governor who destroys jobs won't receive any support from the central government or the region of brasilia where he lives shut down for 24 hours on friday well tomorrow who has himself had coded 19 hours been strongly against most covert pandemic restrictions he's often dismissed the virus as a little flu even though a quarter of a 1000000 people have died. come for

a few more months and from now on to close down the states and governors who destroyed jobs will have to provide for their own emergency. elsewhere in latin america ecuador's health minister has quit tough it was found several people connected to him jumped the 2 to receive the doses of the vaccine only $42000.00 doses of the size a biotech jobs arrived in ecuador for workers in health care and old age homes despite that his mother and 7 others close to him and received the shots well dan simon joins us live now from when i was down here also the ecuadoran health minister has been accused of the regularities in the country's vaccine rollout program what more do we know. what we know that he would the 1st x. a nation's arrived in ecuador in january at that stage the former minister. shows without the airport welcoming them in saying that the 1st people in line to

be vaccinated would be health professionals and the elderly he was quite specific about that and then what happened was i came to light in the last few days that the 1st people as far as he was concerned to be vaccinated would be members of his family and close friends when that came to light you offered his resignation to the president and the president accepted his resignation so we're seeing similar things is really the 3rd scandal of this nature in latin america week or so ago we had a similar situation here in argentina and a few days before that we had a scandal in in peru where the health minister. said he was asked to resign after it turned out 500 people were there close associates of the government were given the vaccine weeks before the vaccination was rolled out in peru so right across the continent we're seeing similar scandals this lee consternation anger indignation. from people here in weather sorry as you can see behind me yeah and

daniel meanwhile the brazilian president jebel sonera seems to be courting yet more controversy over his handling of the pandemic what's he been up to. that war yet down as you say a boy yet more this is being going on pretty much since the pandemic broke. has a particular view on the pandemic he's always put the economy 1st doesn't think it's as serious as many people make out as you mentioned he himself had the virus and a number of bravado saying it was no big deal and yet we're seeing an increasingly polarized country as more and more brazilians are infected by the virus of course of a 1000000 of resilience have died so we're seeing increasingly governors of the various states standing up to job also in our own launch you know they the province of the state of south paolo has more than 40000000 inhabitants and the governor there. has

had to launch his own campaign in the absence of any kind of help from the federal government really we're now seeing a radio polarize ational that president posts on the roads threats to the governor to see where how they're going to respond to the fact that they might not receive every more state funding the truth is they have received a great deal of state help anyway but really just the polarization of that situation all right to daniel sharma live for us there in the lodge in time capital daniel thank you. now mean mazi u.n. ambassador has been sacked for denouncing the military to he made an emotional appeal to the un general assembly on friday in the international community to use any means necessary to restore democracy. for myanmar. and civilized society. now is not the time for the international community to tolerate the war crimes and crimes against humanity can committed by

myanmar military the international community must ensure that has no place in the modern world as bound by in the un secretary-general in that regard we the committee representing our c.r.p. duly are the united nations the united nations security council an international community that aspired to build peaceful and civilized global society to use any means necessary to take action against them are military and to prove i say 50 and security for the people of myanmar what are diplomatic editor james bays says it's unclear if the ambassador would actually step down. well the ambassador would have known what was at stake when he made those words he would of very carefully judge that he knew the the possible repercussions against his family he knew that the military would try to sack him and recall him the big question now is is he going to go is he going to give up his job or is he going to say that he is the

legitimate representative of the people of myanmar and of the rulers of the country who are currently jailed it's worth reminding you that at the same general assembly session the special envoy the secretary-general special envoy on myanmar christine shawna bergen said it's important the international community does not lend legitimacy or recognition to this regime so will they recognize the decision of the regime to sack the ambassador i'm sure that the military will now strand send a new ambassador that will reflect their views but which one is the united nations going to recognize it will go to a rather obscure body part of the general assembly known as the credentials committee if there is a dispute it has 9 members interestingly among those 9 members of the u.s. is one as are china and russia which of made the point that this is largely an

internal affair they will come up with a recommendation and then it will go to the general assembly for a vote so it's although the military is saying they've sacked the ambassador is not a tall clear whether he'll be losing his job or after a protracted fight will actually stay in the job. well inside me and massa curative forces have intensified their crackdown across the country troops have chased protesters from the streets using tear gas and stun grenades to disperse crowds demonstrators are demanding the release of elected leader and sensing she teletech reports. police in the amman southern city of daraa way employing more aggressive tactics to disperse protesters. advancing behind the cover of their riot shields they fired tear gas into the crowd forcing people back into the city's small alleyways. in yangon on more aggression 2 from the early morning on saturday security forces occupied areas the protesters that claimed as their own charging

forward they pursued protesters relentlessly throughout the day those who didn't flee were detained not just protesters several journalists were also arrested. but the mood on the streets remains defiant behind improvised barricades to keep the police at bay and the protesters happy to see their cause raised so publicly at the united nations the call of the online we got so much encouragement to protest by seeing me and mars' ambassador to the u.n. that's why we're protesting with lots of energy and as much effort as we can have we feel so thankful and got so much courage to see that the u.n. representative stands with us while we're trying to protest and get our state councillor and president released. and memo 2nd city mendeley protest when led by monks in this majority but this nation it's regarded as to boo to attack a member of the clergy but myanmar's military has shown in the past it has no

qualms about cracking down on monks and it's unlikely these protesters will find sanctuary behind their saffron robes tony chang al jazeera. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back armenians political crisis deepens as the president refuses an order to dismiss the army's chief of staff we'll have reaction from the air of an unfamiliar faces gathered a u.s. conservative conference to try to reshape the future of the republican party will be live in orlando. however we got some rather heavy rain pushing across the great plains over the next couple of days little area cloud here just spilling through the southern plains sinking further south which with some very wet weather to come could cause some localized flooding elsewhere we've got some rather wet and windy weather pushing up

towards the pacific northwest through western parts of canada tightly packed ice over towards california got some pretty strong winds coming through here as well santa ana winds so that does mean the wildfire risk up here as we go through the next couple days as that wetter weather that we have across the central and southern plains and lively storms are rumbling away his severe storms could cause some problems that we want to watch out for possibility of your tornado that wetter weather pushing up through the tennessee valley up towards that northeastern corner and notice some snow to the north of that snow then through new england to the eastern side of canada and we'll see that wetter weather draped all the way back across the carolinas throughout abana right the way down through louisiana and on into texas i some very wet weather to come over the next couple of days not say much but by the coming in across the caribbean over the next couple of days here it is 5 and trials of pleasant sunshine rolling through life that's one of 2 showers for the east and islands and also into central america.

in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families back to the most terrible thing in syria is to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship for sometimes a thought you can do better to die than continue to be sure you really have to talk to. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. route.

welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here at this hour yemen's government is appealing for an end to fighting in marin to avoid a humanitarian crisis tens of thousands of internally displaced people are encircled in the fiercest fighting since who the rebels launched an offensive 3 weeks ago. may and must military has fired the country's ambassador to the u.n. after he made a defiant appeal to the general assembly on friday the urge the international community to use any means necessary to restore civilian rule. and brazilian president jalal tomorrow as threaten to pull emergency aid for any state's re-introducing lock down he says instructions threaten jobs and the economy. now new zealand's biggest city oakland is in lockdown after a new coronavirus case was found in the community it's been confirmed as the more contagious and you take a very into schools are non-essential shops are shut while all but essential travel in and out of the city is banned the rest of the country's under a slightly lower level of restrictions including limits on the size of public

gatherings the government's plan against the pandemic has been hailed in the past for quickly imposing strict measures and barring foreigners. the 7 days in this case relative to you will recall a shorter period last time was the length of infectious period we have had this case in the community across a wide range of sites and effect that we must assume it is the more infectious variant that we continue to deal with. the level 3 remains the same as you recall from earlier in the month that means the main thing we are asking people in or clint to do is to stay at home and u.s. president joe biden's 1.9 trillion dollars coronavirus aid package faces a final but more challenging approval from the senate on saturday it passed in the house of representatives which is controlled by the democrats next week debate is expected to begin in the senate the package includes direct payments of $1400.00 to most americans but will not include an increase in the minimum wage to $15.00 an

hour now now the middle moves the united states senate where i hope will receive quick action. we have no time to waste if we act now decisively quickly and boldly we can finally get ahead of this virus we can finally get our economy moving again and the people of this country have suffered far too much for too long we need to relieve that suffering the american rescue plan does just that relieve the suffering and it's time to act i thank you all for being. the fates of $317.00 schoolgirls kidnapped in nigeria on friday is still unknown they were kidnapped in the town of jang debbie on friday in the latest of a series of mass abductions in the country's north. the government has ordered all boarding schools in the area to be shut down the police say they have information the girls have been moved to a nearby forest parents are hoping for a swift recovery i bought thinking this one can be the same tune with the to book

case because it's a bogus had been abducted by. boko haram with militant downloads thinking for also this one. that would opt out also so i know i believe. that 2 of them do indeed to release. the photos. well in a separate incident in northwest nigeria dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school in kadar a 10 days ago have been released they've arrived in mina in central nigeria gunmen raided to guard a school in niger state and some of their relatives and staff members one of the students was shot and killed. by all rescue teams. from going to science college and have. it in mumbai. he will do one good in the hospital something from excessive exhaustion. on board. but it was peacefully. being.

medically. checked. and they believe. the medical team when he told them. for a few more days. now the former u.s. secretary of state has praised his former boss and his legacy at a major gathering of american conservatives speaking on the 2nd day of the conservative political action conference might bump aoe said he was proud of the trump administration's achievements the future direction of the republican party and what place donald trump and his supporters have and it is the key topic of discussions at the meeting in florida in the last few months we've been called clowns and deplorable and ignorant rednecks. because the evil resistance the new york times think i'm the worst secretary of state of all time.

yes since i last saw you the chinese to sanction me the iranians don't think so much of me either. but but i'm proud of our fight and i'm proud of our accomplishments and that we have truly been the status quo thanks will join hands on joins us live now from orlando florida john so former secretary of state mike on peo speaking than donald trump talks tomorrow what sort of message are they hoping to convey john. as i pump aoe and trump are kind of the bookends with the pump aoe being the appetizer in front being sort of the main course will be the final speaker on sunday and they're both essentially sending that same message the message is we're not going anywhere and when it comes to that party divide between the moderates and the trump wing they want to continue the legacy of donald trump and the interesting thing about this

convention is it is a conservative convention but it's not really for all republicans the moderates are not here by and large liz cheney the congresswoman who voted to send impeachment on in the case of donald trump she's not here the senate majority leader who excoriated tromp mitch mcconnell he's not here either and the vice president who disappointed trump when he declined to overturn his certification in the senate of the election of joe biden as president those people are here because this is really the pro trump side of the party and if you look through that convention what you'll see are a lot of trump pats there trophy cases there are masks that people wear that say trump on it there's even a gold statue of trump inside there so there's going to be a straw poll on sunday for who people favor for the presidency in 2024 and so far. we expect that to be donald trump although. also pump ale might be a contender for that that's the one part where they leave that is not by the way if

you can hear it that is not the truck train but if he were you can bet that the members of the facts would be jumping on it all right there john hendren live for us day in orlando florida john thank you i mean as president is refusing to fire the country's top general even though the prime minister has publicly called for his dismissal michael passion jaan that uses the army of attempting a coup he's faced growing calls to step down since november well been forced to walk i reports from the air about. the pressure is growing on prime minister nicole pressure with the president on saturday refusing to sign his letter dismissing the head of the armed forces saying it was unconstitutional for the opposition it's a sign things are going their way and a good one would you hand a letter salute the decision of the president our people are standing with the army the army standing with the people and now the president of the republic stands with the army. the opposition accuses nicole of treachery

over his handling of the war over to go to care about. the peace deal he signed in november ceded huge territory to azerbaijan at the cost of over $3.00 and a half 1000 armenian lloyd's and the war isn't the only reason why many armenians have lost faith in nicole pushing the promises he made when he came to power 3 years ago remain unfulfilled that was easy expectation that only he stayed months will allowed to arrest or corruption there's or may judges on the stand the professional about the no practical efforts were done for that people so that is nobody is really punished for misdoings they they they lose their optimist and trust in possibility of the progress of the

country with pushing on as a leader on. the street protests demanding mr passion yan's resignation have been bolstered by support from the army generals the church and now the president of the republic. the prime minister's response on saturday evening was to return a decree dismissing the head of the armed services back to the president asking him again to sign the document or take the matter to the constitutional court robin 1st to walker al jazeera. for some breaking news out of the us now it now has a 3rd coronavirus vaccine after the food and drug administration the f.d.a. approved the johnson and johnson job the f.d.a. advisory panel had endorsed the single dose vaccine for emergency use after a vote on friday 4000000 doses are ready to be shipped now hundreds of people marched in the ukrainian capital on saturday to protest the jailing of a right wing blogger and activist. they threw flares at the

prosecutor's office and demanded judges reconsider so he's standing close case he was convicted this week for the 2015 kidnapping of a local politician but his supporters say he was targeted for his anti corruption campaign. in bangladesh hundreds of marched in a 2nd day of protests over the death of a prominent writer in prison. protesters the streets of dhaka condemning the government's treatment of mushtaq ahmed as well as other dissident writers and journalists and activists demanding the law he was arrested under be scrapped they say the digital security act has been used to crackdown on government critics since it was introduced back in 2018 well bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina shrugged off criticism of her government's human rights record. whether the law is being misused or not depends on your point of view i think the

law is taking its own course and it will continue to do so if someone does not commit a crime he will not be punished in a trial nor does the sire down rest will be created. 4 testers in the french overseas region of martinique have called on judges not to throw out a long delayed case of a pesticide poisoning the insecticide protocol and was used for decades in the caribbean island even after it was banned on the french mainland it's been blamed for high levels of cancer in the region people are now demanding compensation. even for those who have already reported our ancestors slaves to our ancestors who they want to poison us want to see us it does appear enough is enough now it's just time for the fight to resume. and what's believed to be the roman equivalent of a wedding limousine has been uncovered under the ruins of pompei this 4 wheeled chariot was perfectly preserved for more than 2000 years before being found by italian archaeologists last month not only survived the eruption of mount vesuvius

in $79.00 a day but also discovered by more recent looters whose tunnels were found nearby experts say the chariot was too big an ornate for everyday use it was for festivities and parades newlyweds then you have. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. regulators have authorized the johnson and johnson single dose vaccine the food and drug administration has approved for use making it the 3rd job available in the country $4000000.00 doses are ready to be shipped on monday yemen's government is appealing for an end to fighting in marriage to avoid a humanitarian crisis tens of thousands of internally displaced people are encircled in the fiercest fighting since who the rebels launched an offensive 3 weeks ago 4 of them.