cueing books from the rubble they build a refuge for freedom and democracy. a secret library of hope from which they endeavor to rewrite their story and that of their country. to witness. bombs on al-jazeera. and then i meet the. mayhem at a military base over a dozen people are killed in equitorial guinea after a series of explosions. good morning from doha everyone come out santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera. for the 2nd time in as many days yemen's hooty rebels attacked saudi arabia's energy facilities the kingdom retaliates with air

strikes on sunday. also in the news the by mid ministration considers a full troop withdrawal from afghanistan by may and an active role for turkey in the peace process. i was silent. were you silent or were you silence. the latter and suppressed within the palace prince harry's wife meghan reveals reasons for their split from the british royal family. so a series of explosions at a military base in equitorial guinea of killed 15 people more than 400 others injured and the government says negligence caused those blasts in city. after the 1st explosion that it was going to the 2nd one didn't meet the then

a 3rd and 4th each stronger than the other. this is where the blast took place inside the nick what go in my barracks one of the country's largest military bases . people ran for their lives. others rushed the injured to hospitals still going to live on national television the reporter asked is the baby dead no she replies but her mother and. we don't know what happened to this man says everything is destroyed. the barracks were home to hundreds of families in the rubble people try to pull out survivors many are feared dead including detainees trapped in the barracks prison cells. hospitals quickly became overwhelmed and called for urgent blood donations. i'm asking for your

excellent susan assistance from abroad the countries and international organizations to help the republican guinea in this lamentable situation we have we already have the coronavirus health emergency and adding to that this tragedy in the city of boston on national t.v. the anchor read out a statement from president. he says negligence in the dynamite depot located on the base caused the explosion causing it and given the scale of the destruction and in these times of lower oil prices made even worse by the cave in 1000 pandemic i call on the international community to provide all the help and assistance necessary. being has been in power for the last 42 years amassing half a $1000000000.00 in personal wealth in this oil rich country but according to the world bank 80 percent of the population live on less than 2 dollars a day his son is the country's vice president in charge of the military and the barracks where the explosion took place last year french court charged him with

embezzling state funds with a court seizing his 100 $7000000.00 paris home critics of the regime see in these explosions as yet another example of the family's continued neglect of the people of equitorial guinea. pig liz hawk al jazeera on to other news saudi arabia confirming another attack on its energy facilities by heard the rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at oil facilities in the. drone hit rust on a report one of the world's largest oil shipping ports riyadh says there was minimal damage in both attacks apparently rebels claiming it was much bigger. was he learned joel was say 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 or a port and other military facilities in the mom more military sites were targeted in a serious and resign and the strike was precise and the saudi led coalition responded to the attacks. had hurt the rebel targets in the capital sanaa a residential area of the structure in the operation and there are reports of casualties more from mohammed who is in the yemeni capital. we can see columns of small comfort 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 santa. according to some of those and also i would was over 5 a raise have been carried out on this military compound and also on the mother military side or military position to the south of the capital sanaa there are more than 15 aires have been carried out in a marriage especially in the region of montreal where they hold these are trying to advance towards the city of moderate 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

a senior political analyst is now in bashar he believes international pressure will eventually for sports sides to in this cause. if this really continues to escalate as it is in such a dick areas 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 big 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 hate it 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 federal 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 there 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 saudi arabia that we've seen it already started by the by the administration. still with yemen at least 8 people killed in a fire at a migrant detention center in santa the u.n. says another 170 people were injured in the course of the blaze is not yet known the detention center is run by the rebels have controlled somehow since the outbreak of yemen's conflicts at least 18 people been killed in 2 landmine explosions in the central syrian province of hama dozens more were injured in those blasts the syrian observatory for human rights as the victims were farmers explosives left in the fields along roads and in buildings have killed hundreds of civilians in syria's decade long conflict. the u.s.

secretary of state's writing to afghanistan's president outlining the buy and then ministration strategy to end the conflict and bring in his made several proposals one of which involves a leading role for turkey washington plans to abide by the full troop withdrawal by may as announced earlier by the trumpet ministration more from a diplomatic editor james pace. 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 that 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 kick start 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. the

afghan government it's also asking the u.n. to convene a meeting of foreign ministers and boys from russia china india pakistan iran and the us james zerah at the united nations police in senegal say the opposition leader will be released after his court appearance later on monday opposition party and civil society groups have called for 3 days of mass demonstrations over his arrest they said charges against him a politically motivated. custody has been lifted but he remained at the police station overnight it's both sides claiming victory in ivory coast's parliamentary election despite the polls showing a win for the ruling party early results show a 58 percent majority for the r h d p party but the main opposition parties also claim to have won the vote saying the results are riddled with irregularities the win would only strengthen president

alassane ouattara as position he won his 3rd term in november that election that was marred by unrest that killed at least 85 people. protesters burned barricades on the streets of port au prince on sunday is haiti's political turmoil continues demonstrators say president jovial moyes is an illegitimate leader and are calling for him to resign moyes maintains his term lasts until next year opposition says it actually should have ended 3 weeks ago health workers joined sunday's protests angry at him over security concerns following a string of kidnapping or relations between haiti and its wealthy nabi the dominican republic have been historically difficult on the caribbean islands that they share now the dominican government has announced plans to build a wall between them to end illegal migration and or schapelle explains. this neighborhood is known as little haiti. it lies in santo domingo the capital of

the dominican republic on the eastern half of the island of hispaniola about half a 1000000 people from haiti on the western side live here but since the pandemic they have fewer jobs especially in construction and farming many like residency permits or access to employment services and health care and now the dominican government says it will build a border wall to keep migrants from haiti out it'll plateau they will find us in just 2 years we want to put an end to the serious problems of illegal immigration drug trafficking and the movement of stolen vehicles and achieve the protection of our territorial integrity while some people from haiti who've lost their jobs now sell whatever they can on the street tens of thousands have returned home the dominican republic is one of the fastest growing economies in latin america while its neighbor is the poorest nation in the western hemisphere much of the dominican public supports the move to increase security along the border but obviously important time to put their feet i think it would be important because it would control migration from one country to another that there wouldn't be as many

problems as they could be if the wall is built and if it's critical dimmock hated it's been official for both countries. when border gates opened and in this past friday hundreds of people from haiti were able to cross and sell an exchange goods at a border market it's one of 4 official crossings where many people's livelihoods depend on informal market trade but there are dozens of unofficial crossings along the 380 kilometer border critics say the wall won't solve underlying problems need us measures such as increased border control should ideally be complemented by measures to promote regular and orderly migration the international organization for migration or i.o.m. and other rights groups are calling for a humanitarian corridor for those from haiti who are in need during economic and political crises and who left the money and there is a permanent persecution we really regret that a government that claims to be a government of change is not respecting the dignity and rights of immigrants in

the dominican republic. many in haiti say that despite the shared ancestry and history on the island they've long suffered persecution and they are concerned the wall will only create further division and are schapelle al-jazeera. in the news ahead after 5 years in cost of a british iranian aide worker and in cigar iraq that is released in iran small faces another trial excitement and caution millions of students prepared to go back to school in england. hello there we've got a lovely plume of warm weather across north america now just coming a rod out of the deep south up across the plains and just pushing up into west central pass kind of into manitoba rashly you see the the southerly winds that are

coming in here and that's been lifting those temperatures up to what 11 celsius there in winnipeg still on the coast sod over towards the northeast for a sunday afternoon temperatures no higher than 4 degrees celsius but it's a warming trend as we go through the next couple days 6 ounces in new york by monday and we could touch 14 as we go on into cheese i said lots of pleasant sunshine also fine and dry weather coming through over the next day or so i thought monday does look like a lousy dry day north of the border we have some snow just pulling out of ontario into quick back making its way further a swiss we see that drifting off as we go on into a choose day clear skies coming in behind but again a little bank of snow just making its way through the mountain states now in place for the prairie's and easing over towards that eastern side of canada meanwhile some wet and windy weather just rattling into the west coast of the u.s. the snow coming in over the high ground little bit of wet weather meanwhile into our southern parts of mexico over the next cubicle to see some of that wet weather as well showers through the great francis but dry further east.

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here with al-jazeera and these are the top stories the government in equitorial guinea says at least 15 people have died in accidental explosions at a military base and 400 others injured. the president says the blasts were caused by the mishandling of dynamite. saudi arabia's concerned another attack on its energy facilities by hutu rebels in the yemeni government as a ballistic missile was fired at the coal oil facilities in the earlier drone hit the us to note which is one of the world's largest oil shit holes. in the us sectors states written to afghanistan's president outlining the biden administration's strategy to end the conflict the. good man to be thinking called for a 90 day reduction of violence and has asked turkey and the un to host talks. reports out of me in ma that the police have raided young guns general hospital and arrested several people shots and stun grenades are being heard in several areas of

me and miles largest city security forces so they are quote maintaining all hospitals and universities and violence against those protesting the military coup has only been escalating scott hi liz keeping an eye on things from bangkok in thailand anything more on the. more raids we're hearing of the hospital. yeah the joint is saying they're doing it to uphold the law protesters and residents of yangon saying that this is something dangerous president moving forward because obviously when you have the protests continuing we're going to see a big strike today and more people coming out to the streets in yangon other cities across the country so there is the potential for injuries from the ongoing conflict we've seen with the crackdown by the security forces so it's concerning for the people there that if the military and the police are maintaining hospitals what's going to happen if some of the protesters are coming in who've been injured during

the protests because they view them just to view those who are out protesting in the streets to be illegal so it's a very concerning move by the judge the protesters saying they're still going to go out major strike has been called for today monday 9 trade unions have said that they're calling their people out to not go to work and to go out to the streets across myanmar still amazed skulled that we are talking about this over a month later the fact that there is this much resolve amongst the protesters when in the past it's just not been that way then the military has been even harsher. yeah it's true and when you look at historically there have been social movements like this in myanmar but they were brutally cracked down upon and this one has to but i think what really is kind of fueling this is you're dealing with different generations obviously you're dealing with a situation where the international community is more plugged in than previous

times that there have been mass protest movements in mar 20071908 so what we're seeing i think is the fact that there is international pressure being applied to the gentiles so that's possibly why we're still seeing the protesters coming out possibly why we're still seeing the gentle moving in different ways they are still you know it's a very very severe crackdown particular scene maybe in the last week plus but the international community is engaged some some might argue not enough in the of the u.n. security council they had a 2nd session on this and came out with nothing on the regional bloc of nations they have met on this to the foreign ministers have met on this too they really have come out with nothing concrete either so while the international community is applying pressure it really hasn't done anything officially yet its regional players or even international big players haven't done anything yet but i think what separates this kemal and answer your question why we're still talking about

this now why this is still going on i think it's because the world is watching more than they have in previous episodes like this. with the updates and some context as well for us from from thailand thank you the u.k. prime minister is demanding the permanent release of a british iranian woman who was jailed in teheran on spying charges. cliff's 5 year sentence has finally ended she spend the final year of her term under house arrest and rankle tag has been removed but their lawyer also says she's been summoned to court next week on another charge us a big reports and on. after 4 years in prison and one year under house arrest now as an insult the radcliff's ordeal looks like it's almost over on sunday 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 a 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 or they've maintained her innocence the lack of transparency around her case has led some to believe that iran may have other motives beholden 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 once the u.k. to return money it paid for tanks purchased in 1986 but never received iran denies that nazanin scase is linked to the ongoing dispute given all of the sensitivities around. the media interest in this case that. 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 until her mother is freed said baik al jazeera the. demonstrations of start of the head of the trial of a white police officer charged with killing george floyd thousands of marched in

the u.s. city of minneapolis demanding justice for the black man's death which sparked protests right around the world the jury for the trial is set to be selected on monday floyd died after an office in kneeled on his neck from nearly 9 minutes. in england nearly 7000000 school students are heading back to class on monday and the parents and teachers are relieved after more than 2 months of disruption but things are still going to be a long way from normal woodburn reports now from a school in the town of walking. preparing for. it's been a long hard winter in the u.k.'s education system but the banners are going up and 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 like 6 we and i must have been pretty excited to see them again and i'm going to

go back for no more seen school in the be. more flooding because we have we'll have more and then people in the classroom and it's going to 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 on our day so everything he's on my child there so i'm really glad they coming back to school is that good for the future because he's not but i plays the school you know and for education so he's amazing here i think through just how to emotionally exhausted and we're on our last little not at all but 3 of kind of of energy so looking forward to getting back to normal so if i have to make a lot of changes to the school this is want i had to change here has been finalizing her reopening plan so every cost 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 sets old 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 contacts with white or friends and family so i think it's going to be quite difficult for those children to come back and reintegrate in. school but we've got lots of things in place for them. in scotland 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 says 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 problem is there 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 woking megan markel says the british royal family was concerned about how dark her son's skin color would be the do you conduct as of sussex were interviewed by oprah winfrey for a 2 hour c.b.s. primetime interview comes after harry and megan decided to step back a senior members and members of the royal family last year in those months when i was pregnant all around the same time so we have in tandem the conversation

we won't be given security is not going to given a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born there are several conversations a conversation with you you with harry about how dark your baby is going to be. potentially and what that would mean or look like. and you're not going to tell me who had the conversation. i think that would be very damaging to them like i'm certain that if you were to brow that that would be a problem are you saying. i wasn't able to follow up with why but that if that's the assumption you're making i think that feels like a pretty safe one and i'll go also says she realized soon after marrying prince harry that the british royal family would not protect her i mean that's the sad

irony of the last 4 years i have advocated for so long for women to use their voice and then i was silent. were you silent or were you silenced the latter it was only it was only ones who were married and everything started to really worsen that i came to understand that not only was i not being protected but that they were willing to lie to protect other members of the family but they weren't willing to tell the truth to protect me and my husband. let's take you through the headlines on al-jazeera the government an ecuadorian guinea says at least 15 peace.