and a list of abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's lady cox. and i'm just. going to meet the. c mayhem at a military base over a dozen people killed in equitorial guinea after a series of explosions. hello i'm come all santa maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera. for the 2nd time in as many days yemen's hooty rebels attack saudi arabia's energy

facilities the kingdom retaliates with air strikes on sunday are also the by the administration 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. and suppressed within the palace prince harry's wife megan reveals the reasons for their split from the british royal family. everyone a series of explosions at a military base in equitorial guinea have killed 15 people and injured more than 400. the government says it is negligence that caused those blasts in but a city nicholas has the full report. after the 1st explosion.

it is. the 2nd one and then i meet the then a 3rd and 4th each stronger than the other. this is where the blast took place inside the. barracks one of the country's largest military bases. people ran for their lives. others rushed the injured to hospitals the scene of live on national television the reporter asks 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 ex and sees 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 obiang he says negligence in the dynamite depot located on the base caused the explosion. given the scale of the destruction and in these times of low oil prices made even worse by the cave in 1000 pandemic a 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 $107000000.00 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 hawking al jazeera. in other news saudi arabia has confirmed another attack on its energy facilities by hutu rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at oil facilities and the earlier drone hit one of the world's largest oil shipping ports riyadh says there was minimal damage in both attacks but the who these claiming it was much bigger was to learn and joey 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 targeted around cole in ras port and other military facilities in the mom more military sites were targeted in a serious design and the strike was precise. the sunday led coalition responded to the attacks. by hitting the rebel targets in the capital sanaa a residential area was struck during the operation and there are reports of casualties mohammed a lot up has more from santa. we can see columns of small can fire still raising up in the sky of the capital sanaa the saudi fighter jets bombed a military compound that is under the control of the whole of 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 toran

fear among 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 all over 5 and a raise have been carried out on this military compound and also on the arm of our 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 marjah they believe that the world can take control of the city in order to gain the supply of fuel they say that the saudi royal it quality has father tightened there is structures on the floor. as to area under their control

still with yemen at least 8 people have been killed in a fire at a migrant detention center in santa. the u.n. says another 170 people are injured the cause of the blaze not known this detention center run by hutu rebels who have controlled somehow since the outbreak of yemen's conflict. the u.s. secretary of state's written to afghanistan's president and outlined the by their ministrations strategy to end the conflict and made several proposals one of which involves a leading role for turkey washington plans to abide by the full troop withdrawal by may the 1 announced previously by the trumpet ministration more from our diplomatic editor james bass. 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 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 taleban. and to 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 out zira at the united nations there are reports a 1000000 miles police have raided yangon's general hospital and arrested several people shots and stun grenades are being heard in several areas of main mars largest city security forces say they are quote maintaining all hospitals and universities violence against those raising their voice against the military coup has been escalating 59 protesters have now died since february 1st military

takeover here is scott hyla monitoring things from bangkok in neighboring thailand tell us more scott 1st of all about the situation apostles and universities. yeah what it is is this is really the military taking position in certain facilities around the country across me m.r. obviously when you look at the hospitals that is of concern because as you mentioned these protests have turned violent against the protesters security forces are using actions posture tactics that are injuring and killing the protesters so if you have soldiers and police officers in medical facilities that obviously is a major issue for the protesters because any any type of protest any type of gathering now under the situation with the joint in myanmar is illegal so if you have someone who is out injured out protesting they go to the hospital they could get arrested there so obviously that's

a big concern but it's also part of an ongoing and expanding intimidation campaign by the security forces in myanmar yes it's universities and hospitals maintaining that meaning they're basing themselves there but it's also what's happening at night commom and that is patrols around neighborhoods and essentially harassing the neighborhoods firing flash bang grenades just big loud bang in the middle of the night taking pot shots into buildings in the residential building so it's of great concern when you look at these tactics that the security forces are are using but particularly when they are maintaining or occupying hospitals and universities. the diplomatic side of things that would sort of loosely but we just heard from the australian foreign minister about actions that are taking that says have a listen to them. we have reviewed our military engagement and i announced yesterday that those activities would be suspended we've also reviewed our

development assistance because one of the things that i do not want to do and the distributors not want to do is to penalize the people of myanmar the people of myanmar who are amongst the poorest people in as eon and who have been dealing with significant challenges for a long period of time so it's a bit of action there scott because there is a lot of talk and you were saying to me last hour how there there is if not pressure from the international community then at least they are continuing to to notice the situation and not let it fall out of the headlines. right and that's moved by a stray and we've seen other nations do that in the last several weeks and it's interesting that with the story the way she was saying this the foreign minister there that you know obviously they're pulling back any kind of military. cooperation between the 2 nations that's an obvious one why one thing is interesting the way she said about the aid that they've been supplying australia's

been supplying to me and mark that's going to be a challenge because this is happening with other nations as well and other international bodies because you have have had so much international aid flowing into the myanmar to the mia more people through projects international organisations state funded country funded organisations but now if all that money is usually filtered through the government now controlled by the military you have to figure out other ways to do it because you don't want the military these nations bodies don't want the military getting those funds and so that is going to be a challenge moving moving forward you know the world bank took a step because there are supposed to be payments to me and they held those back but you know obviously you're holding that money back from the joint to but what's happening to those services that that money was supposed to be going to the myanmar citizens so that's a challenge and it sounds like trying to figure out a way that that aid can still get there to those to the citizens that need it without it getting into the jump his bank account ok thank you scott hardly. any

reporting from bangkok in the news ahead excitement and some caution millions of students prepared to go back to school in england's search and kill mission for drones and why they have been used to target. this. time for the perfect journey. sponsored plan qatar airways. well i once again the weather slightly fine and dry across the middle east lots of the sunshine coming through but some places of travel little further north because see some rain sleet and snow just rolling out of that eastern side of turkey just around georgia maybe into armenia as well possibility of wanted to wintry flurries over towards afghanistan but elsewhere was fine and dry temps just here in doha getting it very pleasant 26 celsius and rising could touch 28 celsius as we go on

into tuesday the fine weather comes down across southern parts as well through saudi arabia the u.a.e. oman and into yemen and across the other side of the gulf of aden stays fine and dry and ethiopia into somalia show some showers though some lively showers that that's into southern parts of uganda as we go on through monday those showers gathering around the rift valley burundi's seeing some heavy rain then from time to time some showers there into towns and a widespread across a good part of tanzania malawi could also see some wet weather as we go through the next couple of days thick cloud there just making its way in sioux were more than parts of mozambique northern areas of madagascar still looking a little unsettled over the next but further south is fine and dry. sponsored paul cuts at ways when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges

of suggestion and the state line becomes the default the media in england about new games or images that lead to that magic if you get these guys that just how did he create and use it just makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream to shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. deal with 0 these are the top stories the government in equitorial guinea says at least 15 people have died in accidental explosions at a military base 400 of those injured the president says the blasts were caused by

the mishandling of dynamite. saudi arabia has confirmed another attack on its empty facilities by the rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at the around the world facilities in the earlier drone hit. one of the world's largest oil shipping ports and the u.s. secretary of state's written to afghanistan's president outlining the by the ministration strategy to end the conflict there and can call for a 90 day reduction of violence and has asked turkey and the united nations to host talks. the u.k. prime minister is demanding the permanent release of a british iranian woman who was jailed in tehran on spying charges. 5 years sentence has ended she spent the final term of the final year of that term under house arrest and her ankle tag has now been removed but a lawyer says she's been summoned to court next week on another charge or so because the story from tehran after 4 years in prison and one year under house

arrest now as an insult i read radcliffe'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 welcome in 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's 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. people who are in the uranium regime are absolutely.

west about america about you know big states and little states some folks think 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 case is linked to the ongoing dispute you may call it the sensitivities around. the media interest in this case. or getting. 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 arab . police in senegal say the opposition leader son sancho 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 the rest they say charges of rape against him are politically motivated or for he say some cause custody has been lifted and he did remain at the police station after night. protesters burned barricades on the streets of port au prince on sunday is haiti's political turmoil and he continues demonstrators say president of the now moyes is an illegitimate leader and a calling for him to resign moyes maintains his term lasts until next year while the opposition argues it should have ended 3 weeks ago. china is rejecting claims that its treatment of ethnic minorities in amounts to genocide

a government is facing mounting criticism over the detention of more than a 1000000 a muslim week is in what it calls re-education camps the foreign minister one uses the complaints a baseless politically motivated. younger children the climate there is genocide mentioned jane could not be more absurd is just a room a fabric a did with ulterior motives and it's a complete lie. some western politicians choose to believe in the lies made by a few instead of listening to the voices of $25000000.00 changing residents of various ethnic groups they would rather cooperate with the clumsy performances of a few anti china forces rather than face up to the basic facts of development and progress and enjoying this can only prove that they don't care about the truth but a keen on political manipulation. the president of paraguayan is expected to name his new cabinet soon after earlier

asking all ministers to resign. beneath his face from growing pressure from protesters over the government's handling of the pandemic including the slow vaccine rollout paraguayans been seeing record numbers of cases more than 8000 in the past week. in england nearly 7000000 school students are heading back to class on monday many parents and teachers relieved after more than 2 months of disruption but things are still a long way from normal paul brennan reports from a school in the town of working. pairing from. it's been a long hard winter in the u.k. is education system but the banners are going up the students are going back at wholesale see if 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 and i mean i haven't seen him in might fix me and i must have been 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 help. 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 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 then school you know and for education so it's amazing here i think road 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 the school this is want i 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. al-jazeera. voters in switzerland have now really approved the controversial ban on face coverings in public the proposal was approved by just over 51 percent of those who voted in sunday's referendum the measure did not mention islam specifically but it is known locally as the burka ban opponents describe it phobic and attack on personal freedoms once put in place the ban will have many. including for protection from coronavirus.

is the head of the women's rights at amnesty international in switzerland and says very few women in the country actually wear full face coverings we don't have official data about it but a recent study is showing that they are only about 30 women wearing the niqab in switzerland so they are very few women concerned this is the 2nd time populistic committee is launching that is story getting one very just minority in particular they started in 2009 was the banning of building of minarets which has been successfully approved by swiss voters and this time they attacked again religious symbol and they instrumental ised remain to advanced populistic agenda according to opinion surveys people have been convinced by

misleading propaganda that banning full face veil would help protect the rights of muslim governments which is of course not the case on the contrary despair can have a negative impact on the women in question they can be marginalized and excluded from public spaces. bacon michael says the british royal family was concerned about how dark her son's skin color would be to do you can do just of sussex were interviewed by oprah winfrey for a 2 hour special on c.b.s. the interview comes off to harry and megan decided to step back as senior members of the world family last year. all around the same time so we have in tandem the conversation he 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 michael also said she soon realized after marrying prince harry that the british royal family would not protect him. i mean that's the sad irony of the last 4 years i've advocated for so long for women to use their voice and then i was silent. were you silent or were you silence the latter it was only 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. now in the netherlands small drones are being put on a search and kill mission against malts

a dutch startup firm is behind the technology which is being deployed in greenhouses to protect crops from caterpillars which are produced by molds the drones are directed by cameras which can distinguish between different insects even bees and the other good critters alone. all the intelligence is actually in an external little box with a camera you can see here in the greenhouse so it's a moth flying by the nose where the drones because it's there and then it just directs the drone to work and it has to do that in a super super fast fashion. how funny tennis legend roger federer says he has no plans to retire former world number one is making a comeback here in doha qatar open offer a 13 month injury and the 39 year old says he's raring to go i'm really here just to test it all out see how it goes and go day by day my 1st goal is really from now all the way to wimbledon use this time the best i can to build up step by step i

don't know yet what i'm going to play on the clay i basically don't know what i'm going to do next week yet so i'm just going to really take it one day at a time i have not had any setbacks the last few. months and that's been really positive for me and that makes me believe that you know good good times are ahead but. you know matches are different to practice or go a long way to go. through the headlines the government in equitorial guinea says at least 15 people have died in accidental explosions at a military base about 400 others were injured the president says the blasts were caused by the mishandling of dynamite explosions which tore apart houses around the base in other news saudi arabia is confirmed another attack on its energy facilities by the hutu rebels in yemen the government says a ballistic missile was fired at.