you look at it. this is day eight of a new news line from a fragile truce in yemen hangs in the balance the u.n. special envoy is urging rebel leaders to respect the cease fire war and famine have left millions facing starvation in one of the world's poorest countries also coming up you know easing of tensions in hungary as thousands take to the streets to protest the country's so-called slave law union leaders a calling for a national strike stepping up pressure on hardline prime minister viktor orban.

i'm rebecca rid his welcome to the program the u.n. special envoy to yemen has arrived in the country to try and shore up a ceasefire agreed last month since then they've been reports of repeated violations of the truce which applies to the port city of head data a crucial entry point for age shipments yemen's civil war began in twenty four tane in a saudi led coalition intervened in the conflict a year later in fled to a devastating humanitarian crisis with millions on the brink of famine. he hopes to save what is a fragile cease fire un special envoy martin griffiths knows that the longer they can keep the guns silent the more precious aid can be delivered to the destitute country. yet both sides of the conflict report that the other has already violated the treaty with gunshots a daily. durban's in a round hole data. and

a dispute over the wording of a ceasefire could be its downfall the deal says the port should be turned over to local authorities the yemeni government interprets that to mean their own authorities the rebels however say it means the officials currently running her data as port their allies. at stake are the lives of millions of yemenis who depend on aid to survive like the young patients at this clinic in her job in the northwest abraham is struggling to survive. my pleasure that i am none of the aid gets to us none of the organizations aid or food supplies reach us. and love them even when they stopped at the registration we didn't get anything. the war in yemen has resulted in the world's worst humanitarian crisis a short term ceasefire say aid groups is only the first fragile step in pulling the country back from the brink. since two thousand and fifteen the huth the rebels

with backing from iran have been fighting against the yemeni government which received support from saudi arabia. the u.n. hopes the kings can be ironed out of the current ceasefire in the next few days but what small progress has been made since december is threatened by the constant sound of gunfire. well for more on this let's bring in his i'm a senior political analyst on yemen he's currently in cairo thanks for joining me as we just heard there the u.n. special envoy martin griffith is in yemen he wants to implement that pay still reached ration and swayed one of the hopes. well there are a lot of hopes there's a lot of international pressure on all the parties to respect to see this but that's going to redeploy in sweden and for a lot of violations by all factions equally by the who are these and it's actually more than just gun buyers have been air strikes that have been shot across the city

. which is basically that any progress patrick is there that you know the servers are there and now patrick is uncertain how it's not trying to salvage the truce. and if he if he succeeds in this and getting this peace deal to be added to activate is it likely to end the conflict no actually the sweden accords were first up it's not going to end the conflict the conflict will likely continue here for a few people here it is you have to remember it's not just for data you have twenty one governorates there are having conflicts across yemen today that is just a first step and it's just the court and even him today they're the this is that the peace talks were specifically about three areas and who they don't know even the holbourne or it's so it's just a first step it's not going to end the conflict but head data is a key point city and it's crucial for age shipments how drastic is the humanitarian situation in the country right now well the humanitarian conditions are

cash drop back on the eighty per cent of the population need aid and supplies for data goes almost seventy percent of the aid can into yemen comes through today that it is a lifeline port and that's why it was the priority. for the to commit this for the time to come they needed to secure the data as a neutral zone so that the aid could flow at least for the peace talks to progress unfortunately. it has not been going well and had enough for the past few weeks there's been a letter is strikes up in a lot of fighting and there's a lot of looting for of eight which is why i could have written but i was i'm certain all the units are approved and senator salvaged this first step. to. hisham melhem a scene cairo thank you very much. now to some

of the other stories making news around the world and egyptian police officer has been killed while trying to defuse a bomb near a coptic christian church in cairo several other people were injured when the device exploded the incident comes just two days before the orthodox coptic christmas no one has claimed responsibility. for thora he is in brazil have sent hundreds of military police to end a wave of gang violence in the northern city of forth. there have been dozens of attacks on banks shops and vehicles security chiefs say organized crime groups are trying to block government plans for a crackdown in prisons. in the united states the pentagon's chief of staff kevin sweeney has stepped down saying you plants returned to the private sector his resignation comes just weeks after defense secretary jim mattis denounced his departure both resignations following president donald trump's surprise move to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. talks aimed at ending the partial

u.s. shutdown in a government shutdown in the u.s. are expected to resume later on sunday president donald trump says the standoff could go on for several months or even years if he doesn't get funding for a border war with mexico they feel very strongly scores when union leaders in hungary a calling for a national strike later this month stepping up the pressure on hardline prime minister viktor orban opponents have again taken to the streets in protest to protest a so-called slave law the measure would allow employers to demand hundreds of hours of overtime for workers. braving icy conditions thousands returned to the streets of budapest with a message for hungary's president stop obama they want his right wing government's new overtime laws to be repealed it allows a massive increase in how many extra hours employees can ask the staff to work from two hundred fifty to four hundred hours it also lets employees take up to see. three years to pay the overtime maybe and say it's slavery. we hunger ian's work

too much already we just can't bear it anymore ok the problem is if the company goes under or if you quits then you lose all your overtime pay. hundreds overtime laws been hugely controversial ever since it was proposed when it came to a vote in parliament the opposition blew whistles and made noise to try to stop it from passing without success since then thousands have gone out regularly to protest accompanied by an overwhelming police presence and one protest opposition politicians were thrown out of the state television station. people gathered outside for hours calling for free speech and freedom of the press the opposition of joined labor unions in calling for a year of resistance in hungary they hope to increase the pressure on the rightwing government until something changes. and here in germany the agency responsible for

fighting cyber crime is defending its handling of a mass data breach affecting hundreds of high profile figures critics say the government failed to make public the scale of the bridge scandal raises questions over whether germany's adequately adequately protected against online attacks. still reeling from the latest cyber attack with papers dominated by the fall out but some voices have been pointing out that the data breach really shouldn't come as a surprise. for us was this is something that can happen every day to anybody active on the internet it doesn't make headlines when. but it does when celebrities and politicians are affected but it can happen to anyone with can get into. the real scandal is unfolding in bonn the seat of the federal office for i.q. security the b.s. i. it's known for weeks that somebody was putting sensitive data from politicians on line such as mobile phone numbers and private photos. we

spoke earlier with individual lawmakers who were affected back in december and we took appropriate countermeasures. but officials at the b.s. i assume they were dealing with isolated cases and kept quiet about the matter lawmakers have criticized the b.s.i. for not informing them one of the hacking victims constantine's notes says he found out via twitter then this because he. has really known about this since early december and the others affected that's truly a must for gunk or we have to get to the bottom of it. germany's federal criminal police were also out of the picture the agency has sent a letter to all members of parliament stating that they only learned of the data leak late thursday night even though authorities are supposed to be sharing information which is one of the reasons why the cyber defense under was set up with

the b.s. i found wanting the hacking attack is raising questions about whether german government agencies are up to the task of protecting people from dangers lurking online. but as to football now in the asia cup is underway this is tournament features plenty of political side stories one of them is syria's game against palestine which kicks off later today with the turmoil in the palestinian territories and the continuing conflict in syria players from both sides would be forgiven for struggling to focus on football but instead they using those issues as. sometimes football and politics simply cannot be separated the asian cup match between palestine and syria sees two of the most troubled and controversial teams at the tournament faceoff several of the palestinian players were born outside of the territories they see the asian cup as

a chance to show solidarity with people in their ancestors homeland and a recent day when we. get something very nice to defend the people. to represent these people that are in a constant battle out on the pitch i think it's good that we'll be out there to defend them. likewise the syrian players are focused on bringing a small sense of relief to people in a country ravaged by civil war. we have to keep going with sports in order to put smiles on the faces of the syrians whether in football or any other game of sports bring syrians together in spite of their suffering during the crisis . syria's german coach ban she is avoiding talk of politics he wants his side to concentrate entirely on the sporting task at hand it's a great challenge for all assume football players and for our friends for the syrians to play the greatest asian cup with twenty four teams and for at least two

of those squads they know how much more these matches mean to the people watching back home. while the bundesliga may be in its mid-season break but that doesn't mean that the teams can put their feet up and relax most have already started training camps with the title contenders at dortmund and. temperatures as they prepare for the second half of the season. on spain sunny southern coast is a great excuse from the dreary dortmund winter though the newly arrived two league leaders will likely be pleased with the weather they're not in spain just to catch some rays and sign autographs. head coach lucien fava and his squad have their work cut out if they want to stay on top of the table they're just six points ahead of a chasing byron munich a serious injury to stalwart dortmund defender manuel the conjuring may mean the team will already have to dip into the sixty four million euros they received for

selling christian pulis sic to chelsea to the sick head still london at the end of the season which could prove a distraction as i hope you know people understand and you know my decision and i also hope that you know they understand that i'm here one hundred percent and i'm very focused you know finish out the season with or they're really excited by and munitions are calling qatar home for the midseason brick it's been an up and down start to the campaign for the defending champions it was only a few weeks ago that coach nico was under fire for his team's struggles but an up tick in form to end twenty eight team has biron now in second place and coach back in the good graces of the club and its fans. the camp is also an opportunity for an eighteen year old canadian whiz kid alfonso davies to show his stuff after arriving in munich he's aiming to break into the first team but if by and keeps up the momentum it won't be easy for him. you know watching t.v.

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