this going on as the ousted president tries to put together an administration in the southern city of aidennd we go to mohamed who is following documents for us from yemen and we will start with where you are mohamed, how are attempts faring to try to put together a government there? >> he has been trying hard since he arrived a couple weeks ago and today there was a meeting expected by the members of cabinet making it to aiden and i understand there are at least eight of them here already and some of them are still on their way and houthis tried to blocked them. they did not give them passage and put some of them under house arrest and five of them are under house arrest including the prime minister and hadi trying to get most of them to arrive here. the minister of defense came here two days ago but there are problems and now the meeting is postponed, probably it's going to be held after tomorrow. one, because some of the ministers have not arrived and minister of defense one of the most important among them are still in his house not far from here but he is willing to come to meet hadi a

the focus is not just on houthi strongholds but also on protecting the port city of aiden.s the main base of president haidi supporters and air strikes in the south targeting convoys of row enforcement and what they say are command centers like this one. coalition forces control the skies, navel forces are moving to block yemen's ports in a bid to stop rebel forces from rearming and they deny they are backing the houthis but yemen is continuing to make accusations. >> translator: there are a number of iran's guards that were on the ground but recently started upraiding more in the open. there are many advisors who are supported by iran mercenaries and some from lebanon, syria and other places all operating under the guidance of iran. >> reporter: coalition says the military campaign will continue until houthi fighters and soldiers loyal to deposed president abdullah hand over weapons and join talks to find a political solution. kim with al jazeera. >>> al jazeera's has reported extensively in yemen and today then the saudis having to deal with this allegation that one of th

. >> reporter: 12-year-old aiden fog isn't going with his family. he'll be traveling with his teacher. >> definitely excited but a little nervous. i know i'll be away from my family for about two weeks but they're coming down the meet me in argentina. >> reporter: this will take aiden to antarctica alongside his teacher robert swan. the founder of 20141. an organization that is dedicated to educating future leaders about the environment. >> there's going to be an e base this which is net -- there which is net zero energy base. basically a classroom that runs only on renewable energy. >> reporter: and when he returns, he has big plans. >> my teacher and i are planning on making one once we get back here. once we come back. >> reporter: aiden is the youngest ambassador selected to travel with the group. he applied through swan's website. his teacher who was there in 2012 says seeing it through aiden's eyes will be a totally different experience. >> nonstop adrenaline. it was beautiful. it was like -- there were moments when it was like being in a dr.

it is between tiaz and aiden in the south. the u.s. has pulled out forces from the air space. >> a political analyst and editor-in-chief of the yemen "post", and explained why the forces are stationed in tiaz. and how it is important. >> the easiest way to aiden is through tiaz. there's two ways for the houthis to go through aden. number one is to go through one area that they can't do because they are al qaeda strong holds. they'll have a lot of hard time going through from the two provinces. the easiest way is through tiaz which has no confrontation, few obstacles. it's 10-20km to aiden. but there's a big difference going through there. there are hundreds if not thousands of militants. in tiaz there are those that oppose the houthis, but are not militants. they are not al qaeda. they will protest and will not fight the houthis. it's an easy way to reach there. from our information as of now. hundreds reached tiaz secretly. but their goal was not tiaz it is aiden >>> libyan peace talks in morocco are close to collapse after both parti

. >>> we have the deputy editor and chief of the newspaper on the line now from aiden in southern yemen thanks for being with us and tell us more about the explosions at the arms depo there in aiden today. >> well, a bunch of youth tried to reach the arms depo and led to the explosions today around 2: 2:15 in the afternoon and latest casualty reports we got 45 killed and 61 injured. the explosions subsided around 3:00 p.m. and now in the past half an hour have come back again throughout the city. other than that the -- during the two hours people were able to retrieve some bodies but not all of them. >> looting the past few days and what is it people were after there? >> the people are generally unarmed so with tell least armed in yemen so they told them they have been left to fend for themselves after the malitias so they were in fear they would have to carry on with the homes and that would be the main reasoning behind using that camp. >> and do we know whether the explosion of the arms depo as a result of a strike or was it an accident, something that was triggered by the people who

. >>> yemen the president hadi was forced to flee from his residence in aiden after two jets launched strikes on palace and heavy fighting in the city international airport and we report. >> reporter: in many ways this is a battle not between two rival groups but between two men. forces loyal to president hadi retake the airport from special forces loyal to the former yemen president and it was a battle lasting four hours and passenger planes within range of the bullets. special forces unit fighters refused to give up arms and fought it by themselves with their barocks and they attacked the airport. the fighting got so intense the airport was taken down and passengers taken on planes and back to terminal and people loyal to hadi surrounded them and chief of the yemen post says more violence like this is inevitable. expected houthis are now in control of the north and want to make sure the clashes and fights are happening in aiden rather than sanaa and taking the fight to hadi directly. later on thursday unidentified airplane hit his base and according to aids he is unarmed and he fled

mohamed is following developments for us from the southern city of aiden, strong words from the formerr who is listening, mohamed? >> reporter: well, everybody is listening in yemen and seeing what is reemergence and if i speak now we have reports coming from hundreds and perhaps thousands of supporters came to the center to show support to the son demanding him to be in the next election of yemen so you see this happening in sanaa and we see also sanaa coming with these strong words for the first time asking hadi,, in fact, to leave yemen, describing him as a man who failed in ruling the country, a man who destroyed the country and comparing the situation now after his escape to this situation in 1994 when several of hadi's men left for aiden and began a war to separate the north from the south and is a than described the men and hadi as separatists and said you should leave yemen because there are people who could rule yemen more effectively so two incidents at the same time and reurging and loyalists showing up every where around yemen, here in aiden, next to the doorstep of the pre

and if they were able to take control of aiden's airport it would have weakened hadi and declared they as the temporary capitol. >>> it is billed as a tech friendly way to hail a cab but will it bum uber on the road to success. and they talk about sony and tax exchanges for features in its latest bond film. ♪ >> we will be able to see change. >> gripping. inspiring. entertaining. talk to al jazeera. sunday, 6:30 eastern. >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. ♪ again i'm jane and these are the top stories, u.n.-led talks between rival factions will take place on friday in an attempt to end the violence and libya's new army chief warns that fighting in islamic state and levante will take the war to europe if no one stops them. security is stepped up in tunisia with troops deployed following attack on a museum on wednesday, nine peop

. >> the houthis - instead of attacking through the air from sanaa to aiden, they can attack aiden through tib. which is minutes away. >> the president who fled to aden is trying to hold on to power. >> i stressed the following. firstly, the evacuation of all armed militias secondly the withdrawal of all gunmen from sanaa and other cities. >> that is unlikely and the united states seems to think so. it's pulling troops out of an air base in the south. a set back for the fight against al qaeda, with an off shoot based in yemen. >> this makes all the sense in the world, a limited number of troops, specifically to take on the war for the fight against al qaeda. they don't want the forces caught in what may become a full-plon civil war. that may be a conflict with the houthis, backed by i.s.i.l. and various factions. a nightmare scenario for washington's neighbours. it gave a glimpse for what a civil war could many. yemen is dogged by security with the third highest ownership and is faced with a security challenge. >> to libya. hopes of nailing down an agreement in morocco are looking unlikely

what happens next for major general macmood, the president haidi is unclear and aiden is now the centerations for president haidi who was also forced to flee the capitol sanaa last month after houthis put him under house arrest. the capitol is now under control of the houthis. they are attempting to run the country in place of the elected government. and many yemen people are outraged, on saturday thousands of people protested in the city of ib south of the capitol and shouted slogans blasting the armed is shia group. in the absence of a central government yemen has become a dangerous place and concerns the country is slipping towards anarchy, the houthis held a meeting to discuss the sde fence minister di part from sanaa and yet to have a speech and they offered to mediate but president haidi will not negotiate until houthis leave the capitol and the group shows no sign of doing and with each day the impass continues, life is getting more difficult for yemen people. i'm with al jazeera. >>> the situation in yemen is likely to be high on the agenda as arab leaders meet in cairo ahead of

the battle forced the closure of the international airport in aiden. forces loyal to the former yemeni president, and those backing the counter president abd-rabbu mansour hadi, fought around the security forces base close to aiden's airport. abd-rabbu mansour hadi insists he is the legitimate leader and is trying to build a power base in aden >>> an international coalition fighting boko haram drove the armed group out of a town in in north-eastern nigeria. the area that borders niger was retaken from the group over the weekend. it 228 boko haram were reportedly killed. for from abuja. >> reporter: there has been reports about mainliour towns being captured by boko haram. it could mean the beginning of the end of the boko haram insurgency. according to the military various towns have been recaptured. like baga the scene of at least two massacres in which hundreds were killed. and now damask. two days ago a spokesperson tweeted that other areas are free. borno will soon be free. the three states in the north-east have been worse affected by the boko har

we can't let the same thing happen in aiden. regarding security in the north, the committees were open to the idea of anti-houthi offensive. >> we limit ourselves to the kouth, and welcome the president. we are not ready to go with him to fight the houthis in the forth. >> some say it isn't their fight. >> we will mobilize forces for war, once we have military order, as well as an agreement between all tribes and provinces. >> right now, there's no plan to make a military move on the houthis in sanaa. and people say they are concerned the brens of political players from the capital may turn the south into a playground for instability. al qaeda operates here and only the committees are here to protect the south >>> when the circus came to town, it used to be the greatest show on earth. now a famous american company. ringling brothers are retiring a star performer after shocking video emerged of elephants being beaten. you may find some of the pictures disturbing. >> reporter: for more than a century in america, the elephant parad

how close are they, then, to securing control of aiden? >> i think they're going to have a fight on their hands for aiden. hadi has managed to pull together a lot of popular committees, and also there are people within the south, within aden who would be fighting purely because they see the houthis as a cover for ali abdullah saleh. so their loyalty would be to themselves in fighting that battle but there are been people who have heard fighting on the edge of thecy of the edge ofcity it seems imminent that that battle is going to take place. >> thank you. >> the leaders of france, germany, and spain are speaking in france after visiting the french alps close to where a passenger plane crashed on tuesday. all 150 people on board were killed. these are the latest developments. the recorder from the airbus has been recovered. the box is now in paris. investigators say they managed to recover all useable data from the box but the investigators warn it's still too early to draw conclusions from those recordings. the other black box, it's flight

close to the airport and hadi says he is the legitimate leader and trying to build a power base in aidencourt in myanmar sentenced journalist two months in prison after finding guilty of defamation and the myanmar post were charged in february last year and the newspaper published remarks made by an unnamed politician about the level of education held by military representatives in parliament. and they may be out of prison but the legal case continues for to al jazeera journalists in egypt and is set in cairo and peter greste was deported last month and we report. >> reporter: they have been in this egyptian court countless times before and they are hoping this time things will end differently and their names cleared and since fahmy and mohamed retrial began in february the all to familiar frustrations have resurresur -- resurfaced and then the judge said peter greste had to be present, after a year behind bars greste was deported to native australia last month and as a citizen of canada he is hoping to be deported there and they were released on bail last month but must check in with th

is why president haidi relies on them now for his own protection and keep security in the city of aidenranslator: we saw the illusion and aggression that took place in sanaa and libya and northern provinces and we cannot let the same thing happen in aiden. >> reporter: regarding security in the north the commanders appear divided and some are open to the idea of an anti-houthi offensive. >> translator: we limit ourselves to the south and welcome president haidi but not ready to go to the north to fight the houthis. >> reporter: some say it isn't their fight. >> translator: we will mobilize our forces forward when we have a fascia and military order and agreement between all tribes and provinces. >> reporter: right now there is no plan to make a military move on the houthis in sanaa and people here say they are concerned the presence of political players from the capitol may turn the south into a playground for instability, al-qaeda still operates here and only the committees are here to protect the south, mohamed with al jazeera, aiden. >>> more to come here on the al jazeera news here

their forces are moving at the moment towards aiden. >> reporter: there for the ball is back in thene would imagine of the g.c.c. would the g.c.c. suggest then that talks take place within yemen borders? >> why the yemen borders, they are not safe in yemen or sanaa and they are all controlled by either parties of the conflict so it has to be in a natural place and since the initiative came first from the gulf, the g.c.c. countries and since the headquarters of g.c.c. country is in rhea and ryheeah and specified hyheeah as the place and accepting this except houthis and g.c.c. members are calling for faster procedures to have the talks as soon as possible, time is running out. >> for now thank you very much indeed for giving us the very latest on the yemen situation from the saudi perspective, thank you very much. right wing parties have won the most votes in france's local elections and former president conservative party and allies are leading in the first round and far right is in second place and leader is hoping to build on the momentum for a presidential bid in 2017. let's go l

to flee home and 13 people were killed when president forces took control of a military base near aidennt renegade and fighting for control of yemen. in pakistan four injured after an explosion at a mosque at the area and the blast went off during friday prayers. thousands of families forced to flee a military offensive in northern pakistan and starting to return home and for the next few months they will go back to south wizirstan tribal regions and pakistan army waging a campaign against taliban since june of last year and we have more from a town in the area. >> reporter: government of pakistan has allowed for the return of some of the internally displaced people of south wizirstan in a major document and allowing 86,000 families who fled the agency and particularly which was home to the leader of the islam and also a strong faction of the taliban in pakistan and the government of pakistan is offering $100 which is about 10,000 for transportation and giving a one-time cash advance of another $25,000 which is about $250 and the government says it is now rebuilding the facilities once

that being said the gulf states have all moved their embassies down to aiden and i think this is the opposite of the best thing for yemen at this point. there needs to be talks and reconciliation. i think you're seeing vulcanization of the country. there is hope there can be some sort of peaceful end but what you're seeing right now is different international actors picking sides when in reality, right now -- say what is truly necessary is for there to be some sort of peaceful power sharing arrangement. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you >>> now a teenaged girl has been beaten to death and set alight in nigeria by a crowd who thought she was a suicide bomber. witnesses say that when she refused to be scanned by a metal director bottles were found strapped to her waist. girls as young as 10 years old have been deployed as suicide bombers recently. this suicide bombing last week killed ten bystanders >>> the president of nigeria has denied mishandling the boko haram crisis in an interview with al jazeera. he expressed fears about violence during the upcoming presidential

he fled ferv after shia fighters took control of the capital and is trying to build a power ways in aiden. it would have weakened him who has declared the city as the capital. >>> the obama administration says it is re-evaluating its role in the israeli palestinian peace talks following -- that again he supports a two-state solution. >> today in washington many people are asking at what cost. fresh from his election night win benjamin netanyahu -- so long as he was prime minister. >> united states to -- relationship using the speck or the of palestinian voters -- >> to be the prime minister of all of israel's citizens arabs and jews alike. >> but the white house was having none of that. the tactic was a transparent effort to marginalize citizens. thursday president obama called netanyahu to congratulate him on his win a call many expected to be made earlier. in a statement the white house said the president and the prime minister if plan to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict. >>> republican support for netanyahu is holding firm. the speaker of the house lauded netanyahu as the best

the aircraft the prohouthi aircraft are still roaming the skies of aiden right now. president left the presidential palace just minutes after the first air strike. there were two one in the presidential palace and one in downtown aden. the president left to an unknown location, but according to a senior aid we talked to he is safe and unharmed there are hundreds of militants on the streets from both sides, majority prohadi, they are trying to make sure they are control on the ground though they are not in control of the skies of aden right now. >> this is the first time we have seen fighting in the south. why did the houthis take their fight to aden? >> the houthis know that the negotiations and talks over the last couple of months have been stalled by allies of hadi and they have gone nowhere. the houthis are set up and feel it's time for them to enforce their decisions whether the political actions agree or not, whether the international community is supporting them or not, and since they have the military and air force under their control, just three days ago, the

they continue to make a push for the port city of aiden. are also new reports of heavy clashes between shiite rebels and sunni tribal fighters in the southern part of the country. u.n. officials and diplomats from several countries including saudi arabia fleeing the important city of aiden as the fight intensifies there and in egypt, the deposed president told the arab league summit that the rebels are iran's puppets and he called on sunni arab countries like jordan and egypt and morocco to help defeat them. the u.s. has said it will provide additional support. it has already provided some intelligence to the saudi arabian government, but it will also provide some additional support including possibly logistic support and also maybe even possibly weapons. right now it isn't clear if there would be any type of ground invasion by the saudis. they seem to be backing away from that right now and relying instead on air strikes. and even if the united states does provide more support there's really no talk of u.s. troops troops being part of a gr

parties protested against what they call heavy-handed tactics by houthi rebels in sanaa and we are in aideneading back to the table and what is likely to be on the table? >> yes, the first two points they have been discussing over the night are where to move the talks because president haidi demanded it to be moved to aiden or in the middle of the country. and haidi talked to media and says he wants to be moved to saudi arabia because that is the seat of the corporation headquarters and the gulf corporation council has been supervising the roadmap in yemen and think saudi arabia can provide the international and regional guarantees for all the players in the political formations in yemen, but the houthis we understand have been refusing this so i'm talking about the first point. the second point they are discussing is who wraps represents haidi and he was a general congress party led by the former president ab abdullah but a few weeks ago he was ousted when haidi had cooperation with oppositions to slam them with sanctions and haidi doesn't have a repetitiveresent representative in talks an

the cities of taiz and aiden have been targeted. sanaa has heard explosions which have been under houthi control since september. the rebels seized power in a coup. we have more. >> these pilots are part of the saudi-led lcoalition against the rebels. it had military conditions in the capital. as the operation continues, saudi officials say there's no plan to send troops at least for now. >> reporter: we should be ready for all the circumstances. our forces are ready for the air or ground set. for the time being there's no operation. if need we'll be ready to face this threat. so far the strikes crippled the air force. >> what do they expect us to do - surrender, announce a defeat. to act like cowards. do they expect us to walk away? absolutely not. >> houthi fighters are not the only ones hit. a dozen civilians were killed on thursday. during the day there were pictures of supporters held since last year. they are not the only ones on the streets. this was taken out in favour of the flights of the yemen has been unstable. the houth

his escape follows that of yemeni president abd-rabbu mansour hadi who fled to aiden >>> represents tifs of libya's rival factions have agreed to form a unified government. we have this report from morocco where the peace talks took place much >> reporter: libya rivals meeting face it face for the first time taking place in the presence of the united nations envoy, and senior moroccan officials. it's a step forward in a long process started by the united nations to end months of fighting among the guided government. one base in tobruk and the other in the capital tripoli: we have dom an agreement, a step bringing libyans together. we can move forward. >> two feuding fashions agreed to form a government. disbanded libyas, and build an army. our biggest problem is the political nature. once you solve it this is why they form a government. guaranteeing that all the parties are agreed upon. we want a government. a political settlement may take time to fully implement. parts of country are under the control of warlords or groups affiliated with i.s.i.l. it's very complex. i think expectations

the focus is not just on houthi strongholds but also on protecting the port city of aiden.the main base where president haidi supports and air strikes in the south targeting convows of reenforcement and what they say are houthi command centers like this one and coalition forces control the skies naval are blocking ports in a bid to stop rebel fighters from rearming and tie ran says they are not backing them but making accusations. >> translator: there are a number of iran revolution guards on the ground and started operating more in the open and many advisors supported am mercenaries all operating under the guidance of iran. >> reporter: the coalition says its military campaign will continue until houthi fighters and soldiers loyal to deposed president hand over their weapons and join talks to find a political solution kim with al jazeera. >>> we are bringing in a reporter from yemen and you have been to this particular camp in the providence near the border of saudi arabia what can you tell us what you know about it and what you have seen there and who inhabited it recentl

claimed responsibility for attack and houthis responded ataking aiden in the south and president whatis in saudi arabia and recognized by the saudi-led coalition and world powers as the legitimate elected leaders and alliance endorsed by arab league nations proposing a unified military force to face growing regional threats. the saudi-led intervention in yemen is seen as a message against iran's influence in the region but yemens caught the conflict hopes of a peaceful solution are dwindling, gerald tan with al jazeera. >>> arab league are among supporting the saudi-led air strikes on yemen and had participation in offensive and military action announced in a joint statement signed by saudi arabia and bahrain, kuwait and qatar and say planes have been involved in the strikes and sudan say air and ground forces will take part in the operation and turkey says it may provide low logistic support and sending people to saudi arabia to see what islamabad can provide. airlines around the world introducing new world that create two crew members to be in the cockpit at all time, measures after

that could be some way off >>> yemen's defence minister safely arrived in aiden, after escaping house arrest in sanaa. five of the body guards were killed when his convoy was ambushed. houthi fighters surrounded his house months ago. and he followed in the foot steps of abd-rabbu mansour hadi, who fled to aden from sanaa last month >>> as the conflict between abd-rabbu mansour hadi and the houthis continues, the fight for media is a new battle ground. this is yemen's official tv station. but since the houthis took out an ad, the focus shifted in favour of the houthis. it was open with the meetings and speeches of the militia leader and the revolutionary committees. after their coup the houthis controlled yemen tv the newsagency and the newspaper. here in the aden office, we continued to publish the material, we only do administrative work. >> the president is left with an option. aden tv is the only channel in southern yen. president abd-rabbu mansour hadi gave orders that it should be considered the official tv channel for the country. it's an enormous challenge for the staff. the tv

here he is, 12-year-old aiden fong will be making the trip with his teacher and famed polar explorer robert swan. he is the youngest ambassador ever chosen to travel with the group. >> there's going to be an e base there which is net zero energy base. so basically a classroom that runs on renewable energy only. >> by the way, he's very smart too. bright kid and aiden and his teacher plan on building one of those renewable energy classrooms at their school when they get back. >>> all right, drivers in san jose may have noticed some bumpy commutes but an independent auditor says the city has some of the worst roads in the bay area. the six month investigation also found that in the few years, 38% of san jose roads that are currently fine to drive on will fall into poor condition. the taxpayer cost to fix the problem? about half a billion dollars. >> big potholes. okay. >>> let's move it to liz. she is s she's got a traffic alert. >> we're trying to figure out the very latest right now. i mentioned this big rig that spilled a bunch of fuel into the roadway. the first live pictures right

that's just from the january with abd-rabbu mansour hadi going under house arrest and into aiden. in september, when the houthis came into sanaa. they were welcome by most peep. they were seen as a stabilizing force, nonideological. they were not i.s.i.s., and the government, abd-rabbu mansour hadi's government signed a partnership plan with them. there was a new technocratic cabinet that came in, that most thought was an improvement. power-sharing, and it looked like it was about to work. and then the houthis probably overreached, i think, is probably what happened. and we went from a september, october, november where a lot of us thought this might in its own way work to all of a sudden house arrests, and abd-rabbu mansour hadi leaving, and as you say, the houthis are running sanaa, but don't know how to govern. and abd-rabbu mansour hadi is in aden, with no territory. someone described it has a firing squad. you have the former president sort of in a calition with the houthis, really playing their own power game, and they are all able to negate each other, but none of them are

they have overrun the military base, and they are closing in on the port city of aiden, where hardy fled in february. volunteers have signedp to fight with the yemeni army. they are on their way to defend the city and the president. but not even he seems to believe they have a chanc hardy has called on the u. an asking you for international military intervention to hall the advance of the rebels. >> tonight sees the first soccer international of the year. world champions germany will host austral in kaiserslautern. >> but the air crash is casting a cloud over the event. >> the crash is weighing on players as they prepare for the big game. a moment of silence will be held before the kickoff. >> we are deeply saddened as stunned at what happened. our thoughts are with the victims' families. >> some players have tweeted their condolences. among them, defender benedict. he comes from the same town as a group of students and teachers who died in the crash. he said this -- he says australia is a serious opponent. >> they are the new asian champions, and they are riding high. they are going to

our correspondent sent us this update from aiden. >> reporter: the former president is very clearly aiming a strong comeback to the political scene, probably he doesn't want to be president again, but he has his son. we have seen thousands rallying inside sana'a asking for his son to run for president in the next elections in yemen. we have seen also loyalists to saleh everywhere around the country showing their presence and power. one of them was here in aden a general who refused orders to leave his post. saleh has called on hadi to leave the country. he says he destroyed the country. he compared the situation to 1994 when a civil war took place for yemen because the south decided to secede. and listen now to some of the justificationings saleh expressed. >> translator: the people cannot afford to either drink. you have gubled up their dues. suspended their salaries. brought their livelihood to a stand still. investment to a halt and tourism too. is this what you call the modern civil state? where universities faculties and schools are ruined. we ruined them all, and claim it to be a mod

there are two ways for the houthis to go there aiden. they cannot do that because those two provinces are the stronghold. they'll have a lot of time. the easiest way is through the tires. they have no confrontation and they'll have few obstacles. >> excuse me jumping in here anti-houthi, aren't they? that could cause problems? >> but there's a big difference between going through and going through tiaz. there are hundreds if not thousands of militants opposing the houthis, but they are not militants, armed or al qaeda. protesting so it's a big difference over there. they are using the easiest way to aden to reach there. for our information, hundreds of militants have reached tees secretly. their goal was right now aden. there was a fine interpretation only if the army or the military react and confronts them. but the people will confront them in other places. >> you talk about them the houthis, trying to avoid al qaeda, and i wonder how their forces compare. who has the strongest hand yet. we know around the same time al qaeda stormed lo

the houthis responded attacking aiden in the south. the president is in saudi arabia recognised by the coalition and world powers as the legitimate leader. it has been endorsed by arab league nations, proposing a unified force to face regional threats. a saudi led intervention is seen as a message. for yemeni's caught in the conflict hopes are dwindling >>> the arab league is among those supporting the saudi led air strikes. egypt publicly stated its support and participation. the military action was announced in a joint statement. bahrain, kuwait and qatar. jordan egypt and more okayo have been involved in the strikes. saddan says air and ground forces take part. turkey says it may provide logistical support. pakistan is sending military officials to saudi arabia to discuss what if any support islamabad can provide. nicole johnson is in the capital. >> saudi arabia requested that the pakistani government help it against its war in the fight against yemen. pakistan released a statement saying anything that threatened the integrity from

southern yemen the president has put local militias in this charge of all government institutions in aidene groups are known as the popular committees and are responsible for security at its palace. our correspondent mohamed vall has been to meet some of those protecting the president's interests. >> reporter: these are the men in charge of law and order in southern yemen. the popular committees militia has been patrolling the city for months, but now they have replaced all regular security personnel. >> translator: i think the popular committees have become a key factor of security and stability. they were able to defeat terrorists more efficiently than entire countries and governments. >> reporter: on the president's orders the popular committees now guard the presidential come poundings, airports and all public institutions. >> translator: we welcome the committees among us because they are very useful. we had a lot of weaknesses, and they helped us tremendously. >> reporter: the popular committees were created in 2012 by president hadi and the purpose was to help fight against al-qaeda

houthis over took the capitol of sanaa and now are closing in on president haidi and his stronghold in aidenunday they called on a houthi to halt their advance. >> translator: the security council condemns the ongoing elections taken by houthis which undermine the political transition process in yemen jeopardize security stability, sovereignty and unity of yemen and express deep concern by the insufficient implementation of resolution 2201. >> reporter: the u.n. both cooperation council led by saudi arabia as well as the u.s. are trying to broker a peace deal but a houthi leader on sunday seemed to reject those efforts. >> translator: the security council usually supports the offender against the victim. it meets only when it sees that the evil conspiring and criminals are in a dangerous situation. >> reporter: security council did leave the door open to take further measures in case of non-implementations of resolutions on yemen but did not specify what those measures might be. so far no actions by diplomates here at the u.n. has halted or even slowed the political or security crisis facing

recommend eningsz diminish another sister in aiden under house arrest in sanaa after yemen's president that. natasha gname reports. reporter: >> reporter: this is the yemeni defense minister arriving in the southern port city of aden after escaping from a hostile capitol under the dark of night. his rivals the shia howthies were on his trail looting his house after discovering he was already gone. then ambushing the defense minister's execute guards who were following behind him and injuring two. what next for major general and his ally is unclear. aden is now the center of operations for president hadi also forced to flee the capital sinaa last month. the capital is under control of the howthyuthis. they are attempting to run the capital in plates of the government. as manyyemenis are outraged. thousands protested in the city of id south of the capitol, shouting slogans blasting the armed group. in the absence of a sentence tral government yemen has become a dangerous place. there are concerns the country is slipping towards anarchy. howtis howtis, have yet to release a statement. hop

. >>> a candlelight memorial is being held for aiden tall student found dead in her albany apartment. he's being remembered by students faculty and staff where a student. albany police have no motive and no suspects in the death. >>> passenger in a taxicab was killed when that cab flew off a troy in fairfield early this morning. another passenger is in the hospital. the cab went off the road, rolled over where interstate 80 and 680 intersect. not clear exactly what caused that crash. >>> vladimir putin made his first public appearance in over 10 days. he came up for air in st. petersburg today and joked about the speculation of his whereabouts. rumors were swirling that he was unwell or isolated by a palace coupe. >>> sierra at tahoe is being forced to suspend operations today. all because of a lack of snow. the resort says conditions have deteriorated so much that it can no longer deliver a product that meets its standard. even snow making equipment couldn't make up for what mother nature was lacking. >>> it's not the first one to have to close. there have been others shut down opera

before abd-rabbu mansour hadi fled to aiden, and before that when there was no were the or government. people still went to the markets, people still had their weddings people still tried to make a normal life. there were not cases of crime rates or robbery in spite of the absence. the yemenis want to life. iran saudi arabia - what they are doing is turning it into a war zone where nothing but revenge will cultivate. the one thing that the u.n. should have done was in 2012, 2013, to listen to a point suggested by the dialogue conference and committee, the 20 points would have built a base for dialogue. the one right thing that the u.n. can do is stop dealing with yemen as an agenda listen to experts, instead of expats looking at yemen as a war zone. there's more into yemen and yemenis than fighting al qaeda. and what happens makes al qaeda bigger creating more militia and hatred. you can only imagine if you lose a relative how you would grow feel and how in the middle of all of this poverty and there would be no option to join one militia or the other. >> the u.s. national security co

hadihu held the sunni muslim government wednesday as the hutis advance on stronghold in tn port of aiden. appeared yesterday arriving by plane yesterday in riad according to saudi state tv. the military greatest concerns about oil supplies because saudi arabia is one of the greatest producers of oil. bill richardson the former energy secretary. >> whey worry about, this yemen conflict two things. a dramatic effect on oil prices if something goes bad for the sa what happens if the saudis start losing? >> the governor's second concern, a potential escalation to a wider regional conflict. foreign policy experts call this a proxy war. the government of yemen is sunni and supported by saudi rab ya. the rebels are shia and supported by iran. this is essentially now a war between saudi arabia. and also in syria, iraq and lebanon. the minister condemned the sidelines of the attack on the iran negotiation. >> they have to stop and everyb has to encourage dialogue and national reconsideration in yemen rather than making it more difficult for the yemenis to come together. >> reporter: those nuclear

traveling on a boat to -- or from or to aiden. the capital of yemen is sar nar.e was our man in yemen, if you will, doing our counterinsurgency. we had to pull out our special forces over the weekend. (?) we now have a devastating situation in which iran or proxies of iran contr half the country. and al-qaeda controls half the other. they won't annihilate each other. they'll turbo charge each other. >> and just across is the saudi oil fields. >> and the saudis have to be worried. they see iran encroaching on both sides of the arabian peninsula. >> have you seen a policy fall to pieces as our policy in the middle east? >> the president was citing yemen as an example of a success in the middle east. here you have a president not only is his strategy falling apart but he's basically misinformed on what's happening on the ground in the middle east. >> extraordinary. brett stevens, thank you very much. here's what we have for you on varney & company. more possible proof of crony capitalism. google and the obama administration very much together. i'll take a victory la

all the gulf coiloil producers in that area have to go by the gulf of aiden over to the suez canal.cide the oil revenues and the market driving regions why they did that we all know that iran has supported the houthi rebels, and i think that's the conglomerate, the dominating force there, having the shiite, an iranian backed -- >> the houthis are being -- it seems like we're playing both sides of the equation and by the way we're trying to do a nuclear deal as well. >> i think the president has shown that he's willing to sacrifice just about anything to ensure a deal, and i think whether or not it's one of substance i think is to be debated. i think my overall concern is that they're certainly signaling he're not going to put any deal path congress for approval first. there's no doubt about it i think over the last 60 years, we have spent something over $300 billion in that region, and where are we? >> sergeant bowe bergdahl facing military charges including desertion, some who served with him in afghanistan say he but if you're going to have second guesses about what you're doing,

right now aiden is last bastion to those loyal to saudi backed president. who fled last week. 150,000 saudi troops are ready to march in yemen egypt has deploy warships to the region. pakistan today entering his ill ties it is -- hostilities it is sending troops to saudi arabia to give military support to mainly gulf state coalition over the week, leaders of arab league alling for -- calling for creation much their own military force. >> should we expect arab sunni nations to coexist with the icra ayatollahs and their ambition. >> and latest on the airbus coby if a denture were to be put under a microscope we can see all the bacteria that still exists. polident's unique micro clean formula works in just 3 minutes, killing 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. for a cleaner, fresher brighter denture every day. congratulations. you're down with crestor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor

we've seen the rapt advance of the houthies, the military take over in aiden which forced president hadi to flee. so in that situation saudi arabia has explained the reasons for their decision to take military action in response to president had di's request and so they've sign the partnership agreement along with a security annex which called for them to withdraw from institutions to return seized military equipment. that's just one example of the stages where the houthis have decided to continue an armed campaign and seize control of additional territory rather than abide to the efforts. >> how does the u.s. see itself returning diplomatically if it's currently supporting a campaign to target inside yemen? how does it see that it's building a receptive situation for it to return? >> well again, this is similar to the question that was asked earlier. will we want to see a return to the dialogue process. >> but there are actions countered to that-- >> i would say the houthi's actions, which came before the saudi militariy actions are the reasons we've got this unstable and chaotic situat

media in "washington post," they have been talking about how the houthies have been making advances in aiden and in another town not far. can you confirm that with all of these strikes? >> yes, they have airstrikes they're moving on the road to aden. we know that 15 tanks have been destroyed in that airstrike. around aden there is a fight controlled which is now the remaining unharmed, undamaged area of the country. in aden itself they're fighting. and they gain the upper hand. >> all right, thank you so much for bringing us the information you have. the deputy editor in chief at the al ayyam newspaper. given the developments we're hearing occurring on the ground, this conflict is going to go on. it's going to be a very tough fight, indeed, to try to push back the houthies into their northern enclave if that is, indeed, the end game of this. >> well, unfortunately, this might be the case. although there is a shorter path to going back to the dial dialogue. it presumably has gone on, but the houthies did not respect. there is a chance today without really agonizing yemenis any further for the

and places in the south after the embattled president was forced to escape from his strong hold in aiden. iran is calling a a dangerous move. we have kevin cork live at the white house but starting with conner powell who is live in jerusalem. conner? >> reporter: that sunni/shiite divide is going and the united states is caught in the sectarian division. in yemen they are targeting the iran backed revels who over through the saudi arabia government there. the united states is not part of the airstrikes in pentagonyemen. the united states is providing intelligence. several other gulf countries are threatening to take action in yemen including turkey. there is no talk of ground troops. we are seeing the sunni countries relying on airstrikes. in iraq they are trying to push sunni isis militants out. we were on the sidelines because of the iranian involvement but it has stalled so they are helping out with just reporting intelligence from the drones. the united states is essentially on the side of iran-backed shiite militia in iraq and in yemen they had helping back the iranian rebels. it is