political freefall people in power travels across the country to find out what's next for the trouble states lebannon the state to collapse on the. saudi arabia's biggest oil port comes under attack from yemen's who the rebels riyadh says the attempt was thwarted with minimal damage. down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least 15 people are killed and hundreds injured in equitorial guinea after 4 large explosions at a military base in the city of data. after 5 years in custody british iranian aid worker nazarenes

a gary radcliffe was released in iran but now faces another trial. on the highly anticipated interview with prince harry and his wife meghan where they explain the reasons for their split from the royal family. saudi arabia has confirmed another attack on its energy facilities by who think rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at all facilities in iran on sunday evening but was intercepted and destroyed when earlier in the day a drone hit rust a new report it's one of the world's largest oil shipping ports riyadh says there was minimal damage in both attacks who the rebels are they say it was much bigger. was the last heard of joe it was a all the artillery and drone divisions were able to conduct a wide offensive in the depths of saudi arabia with 14 drones and 8 ballistic missiles we targeted around cole in ras

a port and other military facilities in the mom more military sites were targeted in a serious and design and the strike was precise. well in response to the attack on the port the saudi led coalition launched airstrikes on santa monica top us more now from the yemeni capital. we can see columns of small can fire still raising up in the sky of the capital sanaa the saudi fighter jets a military compound that is under the control of the whole these in the north west of the capital it is called the maintenance military compound there are no casualties that have been reported so far but the. spread told around film on the civilians in this area people still remember the occurrence of the saudi bombing the city of sana'a. according

to some observations and also i would was over 5 a raise have been carried out on this military compound and also on the another military side or military position to the south of the capital sanaa there are more than 15 aires have been carried out in specially in the region of mughal where they hold these are trying to advance towards the city of my they believe that the world can take control of the city in order to gain the supply of gas and fuel they say that the saudi royal it quality has father tightened their instructions on the floor fuel anger as to area under their control well our senior political analyst marwan bashara believes international pressure will eventually force both sides to end the conflict. if this really continues to escalate as it is in such a dick it is within yemen itself and as the humanitarian situation gets worse and

worse and as we see the saudis being attacked in more rapid rhythm than before i think so get a bit cannot afford even without it. suffering major losses in terms of its oil installation or in terms of its civilian population even without. getting you know hits in a serious way the nature of the confrontation now and the capacity of the house these to reach various parts off so you know to be a true will that are rising basically the population of saudi arabia if you will down the road that is not tenable and that's why i think probably we're going to see some pressures and the pressures would be on not only the how things they would be also on their sponsors or on their helpers or in their patrons any which way you would want to take it into iran and there would be a lot of pressures on so again

a view that we've seen it already started by the by the administration so let's bring in hussein alba katie he's a political activist and pro who think commentator joins us live from the yemeni capital sana'a and hussein saudi arabia disputes the who these accounts of these airstrikes on saudi oil installations they say the attack was not as big as the who with the say why is there such a different version of the fence from the who things do you think. i mean saudi they will. play in the attack against them because. the normal port is one of the largest ports in the world on one of the main oil infrastructure in saudi arabia that's why they will try. to do it to make it feel to the international community that that the. vaccine is under control they. detected there but i just want to remind you that a member of that the attacks on. oil field. has denied that those i think as an

example they say they came from yemen but on the other hand you have seen many attack against the odds against the mom and sorrow the admitted that those that came from yemen have actually mentioned before here don't know that that's the nora will come under attack soon. still have been located in yemen have not stopped its war against him and. the increasing their attacks recently both externally on saudi arabia and internally in places like mara province what's behind this filthy tactic of escalating the violence is this to gain leverage in future peace talks. no i didn't think so because the white house thought of the don't modest 2015 and saudi has not stopped but the attack actually they have become more again so yeah they be and one of the main reason is just that the saudi has actually blocked

a fuel tank that in her day died just this time if anyone can check the date that abi you going to see that 17 to 20 fuel ship in front of j's on post and allowed to get into the day that's why we've seen this yet i talk against the idea because some be able to link those attack with the iranian nuclear deal but to be honest with you it's all connected to what is blocked for them in yemen especially do it in the few months of foot by the administration so he has blocked shit that they have not actually done that and this is like 17 percent ones not to allow them to do it in but they used to allow it. to week one shipload to ship to enter data the fact is as the violence gets worse meanwhile millions of people are saying are starving in yemen the un has described it as the world's worst humanitarian

disaster how do the who plan to bring an end to the war and the suffering of the yemeni people. i think now they have heated stock come to a conclusion that the only way to. undo all that or to try to help get many civilians is by to get in the main invest in the structure of the area inside saudi arabia because. saudi is not willing to talk but this war they aren't willing to live to the bouquet and hate us and they are left with only one choice is to try to get the idea if so would you want any peace they should stop the blockade on of the world that that of their what's called in sanaa the liberation of mud it is because we've seen that the only field on oh yeah to find that a 85 percent to 90 percent of yemen income came from this is under the control of the idea that's why it is one of the reason to liberate not it to get fuel at the

hospital depends on fuel yemeni economy if your present ok thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you for staying with me emma none of these people have been killed in a fire at a migrant detention center in the company's sunnah un says another $170.00 were injured the cause of the blaze is known the detention centers run by who the rebels who have controlled the company since the outbreak of yemen's conflict. in equatorial guinea the government says at least 15 people have died in a series of accidental explosions more than 400 have been injured in the blast at a military base in city resident to adore a young says the explosions were caused by mishandling of dynamite local television are showing people searching through rubble to find survivors people are being urged to donate blood and hospitals in the area are overwhelmed the explosions tore apart houses around the base let's bring in william lawrence a former u.s. diplomat and regional security officer in west africa he's also a professor at the american university joins us live from washington d.c.

william good to have you back with us now look the president has said these explosions were caused by negligence how shocking is this incident because the destruction is clearly very significant highly shocking traumatizing many hundreds injured which means there's probably significant larger number that aren't even accounted for yet and people are pretty clean looking should rubble for bodies in some ways worse than a day boots lotion at least in terms of carnage and so this is going to have quite a devastating effect on many levels and which are a guinea as you know this is one of the richest countries in africa with the least distribution of its oil wealth and most of the you know many coup attempts since independence so this is going to rock the boat in the short term they're just going to have to account for what happened and so far it looks very bad yeah you talk about accountability william because conflicting reports about the number of people

killed and injured do you think there is an issue of transparency here about the real extent of the casualties and the damage. yes this is one of the press freedom blackhole countries it on a worldwide scale it's one of the countries that reacts to almost every crisis spited media clampdown so it's curious today because the the press coverage all day long showing the explosions so they're not covering an explosion but i'm sure they're going to cover up the extent of the explosion to a degree i think the only solution here is going to be an independent outside inquiry into exactly what happened in the causes i have to from everything i've looked at it doesn't look like terrorism it doesn't look like a military attack for a number of reasons i could lay out to you but it looks like negligence like the beirut explosion and you know it might be easy for the government to just fire a few people but are they going to compensate the hundreds of families affected are they going to rebuild this very poor area and all that remains to be seen yeah and

we understand the president has called now for help from the international community is the government of equitorial guinea equipped to deal with a situation like this. i don't think so most of the resources are in the capital which is island off the coast not in the areas where this occurred they're building a new capital city on the mainland but it's not really fully equipped on the u.s. has done a lot of training over the years of of military force things that for example but it's been focused on things like human rights which was the big concern of theirs i don't think there's a lot of disaster preparedness training on this scale so i suspect that a lot of what's going on today is waning and already the country's health services are hit quite hard by covert 900 so this will be an added burden that frantic calls for glug donations gone out so i may have pictures of people lying around in hospital floors just not being treated when immigrants always good to get your

thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to us i think. now both sides have claimed victory in ivory coast's palm entry election despite polls showing a win for the ruling party early results show a 58 percent majority for the r h d p but the main opposition party has also claimed to have won the vote saying the results are riddled with irregularities the wind would strengthen president alassane ouattara position he won a 3rd term in the vent in an election mob by unrest that killed at least 85 people . a lot more still to come here not just here including president biden's administration outlines its strategy on afghanistan calling for a greater role for turkey and the u.n. in the peace process. and students in england have to go back to school in the 1st stage of the u.k.'s road map out of coronavirus lock down but some say it's too soon for that stay with us.

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welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here at this hour saudi arabia has confirmed another attack on its energy facilities by hoofy rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at all facilities in dust earlier a drone hit rust and a report on the world's largest oil shipping. the government an editorial guinea says at least 15 people have died in the accidental explosions at a military base more than 400 been injured president says the blasts were caused by the mishandling of dynamite. now that you have prime minister is demanding the permanent release of a british iranian woman who was jailed in tehran on spying charges now as many as

a gallery radcliffe's 5 year sentence has ended she spent the final year of her term under house arrest and her uncle tag has now been removed but her lawyer says she's been summoned to court next week on another charge after the big reports from tara. after 4 years in prison and one year under house arrest as an insult the radcliff's ordeal looks like it's almost over on sunday her electronic ankle tag was removed but she's not yet completely free her lawyer said he doesn't know if she will be allowed to leave iran while welcoming the developments the british prime minister criticized iran's treatment of her. nazanin holds the jewel in reining in british citizenship she'd gone to iran with her young daughter in april 2016 to visit her parents on the day she was meant to travel back to the u.k. she was apprehended by members of the iranian revolutionary guard at the airport she was sentenced to 5 years for plotting to overthrow the iranian government evidence against nazanin has never been made public

a trial was held behind closed doors and she always maintained her innocence the lack of transparency around her case has led some to believe that iran may have other motives holding on to the people who are in the uranium regime are absolutely . about the west about america about you know big states and little states some folks think that we will stop at nothing until there is regime change and it is frankly i'm very very hard to get them to trust us and so that is the challenge of trying to deal with iran wants the u.k. to return money it paid for tanks purchased in 1986 but never received iran denies that nazanin case is linked to the ongoing dispute given all of the sensitivities around. the media interest in this case is not only sees this. as or going to be able to. all russia certainly on

britain in order to get more. now than has been summoned to court on march 14th to face further charges of spreading propaganda against iran her husband richard has led her campaign for release from the start and throughout it all the daughter gabriela has been counting the days and tell her mother is freed i said big al-jazeera the arab world dr roxana from a family on is from the university of cambridge she says nazarenes full release now depends on how flexible both sides are willing to be. the majority of cases in the past where prisoners that were dual nationals such as not. when they were released and their term was finished they were still not given permission to leave iran in the majority of cases for up to a year so it is very unlikely in any event that she will be able to go back and

we have to look back at the time when iran and the signatories of the iran nuclear deal were pretty together the original deal. was in prison at that point each and nothing really moved on chase even as many nuclear deal was was put together and adopted on our all sides so it's possible that it will not have a great deal to do with her case on the other hand it is good timing in the sense that the. sides are in the process of trying to find an opportunity to sit down and negotiate and i think it would be quite likely that the british negotiators who would make this an issue as they try to hammer out the aspects of the nuclear deal that the opportunity is there the u.s. secretary of state has written to afghanistan's president outlining the biden

administration's strategy to end the conflict and 3 blinken has made several proposals one of which involves a leading role for turkey is a diplomatic at a time james that it's. some of the american troops now serving in afghanistan weren't even born when the u.s. 1st went to war there in 2001 the united states currently has 2500 troops serving in the country under a deal negotiated in doha between the trumpet ministration and the taliban they're all supposed to leave by the 1st of may last week zalmay holyfield's. the u.s. special envoy appointed by president trump but retained by president biden was in kabul for meetings with officials including with the afghan president ashraf ghani the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken has now written to president garny outlining a new fast track diplomatic process he says we will loss the government of turkey

to host a senior level meeting of both sides in the coming weeks to finalize a peace agreement we are considering the full withdrawal of our forces by may the 1st as we consider other options even with the continuation of financial assistance from the united states after an american military withdrawal i am concerned the security situation could worsen and that the taliban could make rapid territorial gains i'm making this clear to you so you understand the urgency of my tone by not taking them a the 1st date off the table the u.s. is clearly trying to kickstart a very fast diplomatic process it says it will come up with its own proposals on a ceasefire and a negotiated political settlement which it will circulate to the taliban and to the afghan government it's also asking the u.n. to convene a meeting of foreign ministers in envoys from russia china india pakistan iran and

the us james al-jazeera at the united nations in england nearly 7000000 school students are heading back to class on monday many parents and teachers are relieved after more than 2 months of disruption but things are still going to be a long way from normal paul brennan reports from a school in the town of one again. preparing for. it's been a long hard winter in the u.k. is education system but the banners are going up on the students are going back a horse will see the junior school friends and classmates who've been separated since the start of january already to be reunited again and i feel a bit strange seeing all my school friends again because i mean i haven't seen him in might fix me and i'm most a feeling pretty excited to see them again and i'm going to get back to for no more seen school in the be. more flow because we have will have more and then some people in the classroom and it's going the be. it's

going to be more exciting many parents are just as excited this is what we're waiting for honestly i'm with kids all the time my husband he's working all our days how everything is on my child there so i'm really glad they coming back to school is that good for the future because it's not but their place their school you know and that for education so is amazing here i think through just tied to emotionally exhausted and we're on our last little nothing all about 2 years kind of of energy so looking forward to getting back to normal so it had to make a lot of changes to go mrs wand they had teacher here has been finalizing her reopening plan so every class 3 house new equipment senate to make sure the children are safe and secure there's been classes run throughout lockdown for the children of the workers such as health care staff but more than 80 percent of the school's pupils have been absent since january the 5th these empty classrooms are going to suddenly fill again for what promises to be an overwhelming return

children need to be happy and settled and for some children especially this last bit of luck it's been really tough they've been stuck inside they haven't happened or contact with white or friends and family so i think it's going to be quite difficult for those children to come back and reintegrate into school but we've got lots of things in place for them. in scotland or wales children won't all return to full time schooling until after easter another month from now but in england nearly $7000000.00 pupils are returning on mass the u.k. government has opted for a big bang return to school bringing all the children back on the same date subject to the school's ability to conduct tests but teaching unions have expressed concerns while the prime minister resisted calls for children to go back after the febrile half term and the extra 2 weeks of closure has allowed the u.k.'s 7 day average to drop from 12000 new cases a day to just 6 and a half 1000

a day but amid all the excitement of friends reunited at the school gates the government's scientific advisors face a nervous wait to see what impact the school's reopening will have on that crucial infection data paul brennan al-jazeera will kick. now year after prince harry and his wife meggan step back from royal duties the world is about to hear the back story to their split from britain's monarchy in an interview with the us broadcaster oprah winfrey the couple are expected to reveal more about what they've previously described as racism and bullying but allegations have also been leveled at the duchess may barker reports from london. i just want to make it clear to everybody is you know subject that's off limits free from the confines of the crown they can markel isn't pulling any punches accusing the british royals nickname the of a smear campaign i don't know how they could that that after all of this time we would

still be silent if there isn't after that the firm is playing in perpetuating falsehoods about us with my wife when the full interview airs expect huge audiences massive revenues and lots of shouting at the television these are wrong comfortable topics for the royals from the death of princess diana to racism my biggest concern was history repeating itself. back in britain a swirl of rumors surrounds the royal palaces with 12 staff members reportedly queuing up to take part in a palace investigation into accusations making mistreated her former aides something she denies but royal watchers say there's no palace conspiracy to take megan down ahead of the interview discounted staff it's claimed of fueling the fallout they are low paid loyal servants of the crown who work away and expect in return for their duty is to be treated with a a level of respect they feel clearly from what's been said they want to call it

respect they also felt the palace was swept back complaints under the carpet. meanwhile the royal family has activated a tried and tested tactic say nothing. strategy use. after the explosive tell all with prince harry's mother princess diana in 1995 when she revealed details about her and prince charles's marital affairs and her eating disorder decided not. to say absolutely. not. continue the discussion. 2 years later pursued by pavarotti diana was killed in a paris underpass and the boy princes aged 15 and 12 followed their mother's body through the streets of london. there's a tension between the royal family's public persona as representatives of the 1200

year old monarchy and their private lives the tabloid media often argues that all the attention they get is completely warranted because they are public figures like celebrities station just simply deal with it they also receive a huge chunk of money $93000000.00 a year from british taxpayers meaning every aspect of their lives their joys their woes and indiscretions are in the spotlight. parallels have been drawn between meghan and harry and the abdication crisis of bed with the 8th who gave up the throne in 1936 to marry american divorcée wallis simpson. into the popularity of the netflix series the crown has fuelled people's appetite for the real royal drama now unfolding on both sides of the atlantic with many of the us coming down firmly in support of team meghan. especially after the scandal surrounding prince andrew's questionable ties with convicted sex offender geoffrey epstein no palace investigation for that despite 99 year old

prince philip harry's grandfather recovering in hospital after heart surgery there are no plans to delay airing the interview behind palace walls the royals are bracing for impact leave barca al-jazeera london. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera saudi arabia has confirmed another attack on its energy facilities by hoofy rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at old facilities and ron earlier a drone hit rust on a report of the world's biggest oil shipping ports riyadh says there was minimal damage in both attacks but who the rebels say was much bigger. for joe when we say all the artillery and drone divisions were able to conduct a wide defensive in the depth of saudi arabia with.