instead, abd rabbuh mansur hadi said they'll be discussing an u.n. resolution which calls on houthies to stop violence. [ explosions ] >> saudi-led coalition forces continue to bomb houthi forces in yemen. this shows planes carrying out aerial attacks in aden and sanaa. this video shows the aftermath of fighting after pro hadi fighters took control. more saudi soldiers have taken up positions on the yemen border. two saudi soldiers were killed by rockets fired from yemen. almost 5,900 migrants were rescued from the mediterranean sea over the weekend. nine pregnant women were among 475 migrants brought to the italian port on monday. 60 children were traveling out a parent and it seems that the rescue ships would come to shore. we've been covering the story from the city of catania. extraordinary numbers just this weekend alone. >> extraordinary numbers and again we were talking about record numbers. well that record was broken over the past two days, and they said more than 5,900 migrants. now we're here in catania because the ship from the british ro

instead, abd rabbu mansour hadi abd rabbu mansour hadi says they will be talk about a resolution that stops violence. the president of the houthi resolutionary council mohamed al houthi insisted that no foreign sides should influence the decisions that would result in building the new yemen. we want the yemeni people to decide for themselves what they want. >>> meanwhile saudi led coalition forces continue to bomb houthi force he in yemen. these photographs claim to be of bombing of a aden and sanaa. >>> more saudi soldiers have taken up positions in nazran on the yemen border. earlier two saudi soldiers were killed by rockets fired from yemen. >>> it's estimated almost 5900 migrants were rescued from the mediterranean sea last weekend as they traveled from nor africa to europe. 62 children were traveling without a parent. there have been similar scenes at other southern italian ports as the rescue ships come to shore. al jazeera answer hoda abdel hamid sent us this update from the italian city of catania. >> it's taking hours for the migrants to get off the ship. more than 1100 that

in compile.compilein exile abd rabbumansour hadi abd rabbu mansour hadi end to the fighting and civilian suffering are are growing. richard martin, al jazeera. >> trying to escape fighting twin i.s.i.l. and kurdish forces. 13,000 have crossed the border into turkey in past weeks. who is already giving shelter to 1.8 million refugees. this is a strategically important town because it is only town on the route with the i.s.i.l. capital raqqa in syria. >>> video of this incident shows a soldier swinging a rifle at the palestinian protester before more soldiers wrestled him to the ground. it happened on friday during a demonstration. >>> a british newspaper says crack many revealing secrets from the u.s. national security agency. the sunday times says that files he revealed contained intelligence techniques which would allow foreign governments to identify british spies. hillary clinton has held her first major rally since announcing her candidacy for the white house speaking from new york she addressed concerns of her age saying she would be the youngest ever female president. kimberly halk

president hadi and his cabinet had to leave for saudi arabia.ing escalated in march when isil-linked group carried out a major attack. two suicide becoming targeted shia mosques in sana'a killing 137. then the saudi-lead coalition began air strikes. then on friday after three days of negotiations, the government announced it was leaving the talks without an agreement. -- yemen's foreign minister told al jazeera that the houthi representatives never even left their hotel. >> i can assure you there is no progress for the time being. this is due to the houthis refusal to respond. we didn't receive any proposal to discuss. i think until now the opposition is at a stand still. >> we can go to geneva now where the u.n. envoy for yemen is speaking after those collapsed talks. >> translator: questions. start with [ inaudible ] and then go to [ inaudible ]. >> thank you. [ inaudible ]. sir, you just said that there is ground to declare a ceasefire with the withdrawal, could you be more precise about that? thank you. >> translator: thank you very much. wh

they are plenty of them, prime minister, abd rabbu mansour hadi hadi says they used them, but not usually as suicide vehicles. this is going to be a very controversial tactic. their own weaponry being used against them and indeed american weaponry that they bought from the americans used against them. it is the first time in a very long time that we've seen a tank being used as a delivery vehicle for explosives. >> i.s.i.l. also making gains in syria, aleppo and hasaka provinces. the united states national security agency has lost its power to collect phone records in bulk from american citizens, as the senate failed to extend the patriot act. the republican presidential hopeful rand paul led the attack but now what's known as the freedom act more targeted kind of data collection. which critics argue doesn't go far enough to prevent government snooping. more discussions on the freedom act getting underway, let's get the latest from kimberly halkett. tell us why the patriot act was not renewed and what it means to the average american citizen. >> well, it wasn't renewed because there was w

. >> yemen's president hadi says he won't be talking about reconciliation with houthi rebels at u.n. brokered meetings on sunday. instead head says they will be calling onabd rabbu mansour hadisays they will be calling on houthi forces for cessation of violence. >>> almost 5900 migrants were rescued from the mediterranean sea over the weekend as they traveled from north africa to europe. 60 children traveling without a parent. there have been similar scenes at italian ports as the rescue ships come to shore. al jazeera's hoda abdel hamid is in the italian city of catania. how are the italian authorities coping? >> reporter: well, the short answer is that they are overwhelmed. just this ship alone the hms bullwark has docked just afternoon hour ago with 1900 migrants. they have to go into be be these services, about 600 of them will be flown to mainland italy today, after they go through this process here, which means that they get some treatment if they need, they get shoes they get water and they get fingerprinted, and immediately they will leave sicily. the rest will remain here. a

yes, ma'am's president hadi says he won't be talking about reconciliation with houthi rebels at u.n. brokered meetings on sunday. instead discussing a u.n. resolution which calls on houthis to stop violence. senior houthis have confirmed they will be attending. the president of the houthi revolution council mohamed al houthi insisted that no foreign sides should influence the decisions that would result in building the new yemen. we want the yemen people the decide for themselves what they want. meanwhile, saudi led coalition forces are continuing to bomb houthi rebel forces in yemen. these pictures are said to show coalition planes carrying out attacks in aden and sanaa. >>> this video shows the aftermath of fighting, after progovernment fighters took control of houthi rebel base he. >>> meanwhile more saudi soldiers have taken up apologies on the yemen border. earlier, saudi soldiers, two were killed because of houthi rockets from yemen. >>> list of violators of children's rights, our diplomatic editor james bays is at u.n. headquarters in new york. >> behind the scenes there has b

thousands trying to three to saudi arabia after forces loyal to hadi took over a border crossing andis and alleys control the other side and half a million people have been displaced since the saudi-led air strikes began in march. >> translator: we are working around the clock to ease off the pressure and over crowding thankfully it's getting better and people are showing up without any documentation and now the crossing is functioning better for people going both ways. >>> south african commission recommends an investigation be opened into police over the deaths of 34 striking minors three years ago and officers always claimed they were acting in self-defense when they opened fire on the miners but they say video evidence shows police heavy handedness and we have more. >> reporter: a horrendous tragedy that has no place in a democracy. those are the words of south african president jacob zuma describing the deaths of 34 striking miners at americana almost three years ago and taken that long to determine who is responsible for deaths and zuma set the blame on police who opened fire o

put out and recognize that hadi is yemen's sole legitimate president.s is the issue you, this is why the international community is trying to convince the party to his come to an agreement. but they know this is going to take some time. >> representatives from the saudi-led coalition as i understand it are not directly involved in the talks going on in geneva. right now. what if any is their role in the talks when one of the conditions being set is for an immediate ceasefire? >> reporter: they met with the unites nations secretary general ban ki-moon here in the talks in gentleman neave actual the president and they are talking with the different parties. just to give you an idea. saudi arabia, for example which backs the government of hadi says that for the air strikes to come to an end the houthis have to observe the resolution to 216, so you are talking about regional powers, international powers with different approaches to how to solve the crisis in generally. and the general understanding among the international community, particularly the america

forces loyal to hadi are outgunned, undermined, sidelined pushed to some areas pockets of resistenceally in the south. it's an extremely delicate situation. and the i want national community knows that they have to do business with the huge is and former president saleh because they are extremely powerful in yemen. >> many thanks indeed. live there in geneva. >>> libya's government says that former al qaeda commander has been killed by a u.s. air strike in libya. he was responsible for ordering an attack on a gas plant in algeria two years ago in which 800 people were taken hostage and around 40 were killed. most of them foreign workers. daniel lack has more for us now from washington. >> reporter: libya's recognized government based in tobruk which is in the neighborhood of that strike, did say that the target had been the algeria and said that it had been successful, that he had been killed along with a number of others. if this is confirmed it's quite a significant development. because he's been involved in violent activities in the sahara for quite sometime now. in the united sta

>> yeah it's interesting these comments from abd rabbuh mansur hadi because we knew leading up to thisting there has been increased sense of frustration among the u.s. as well as the french towards the iraqi prime minister. the feeling is that the iraqi shia led government is not doing enough to be inclusive and bringing sunnis and resentment with the government in line with the fight going on there but today we hear from abd rabbuh mansur hadi and saying they are not getting the support they need. as you mentioned a minute ago he used the term failure as far as what the international community is doing with regard to the fight on i.s.i.l., it has been a humiliating couple of weeks fighting i.s.i.l. because as we know ramadi a very strategic city fell to i.s.i.l. and i.s.i.l. on the march in iraq and seem to gain strength according to analysts and saying we need more help and not geting enough intelligence sharing with air strikes against i.s.i.l. and also saying they need more help when it comes to their ground troops and need support for iraqi army which is in tatters these days to e

the saudi's never had pressured hadi and he rejected that.the talks went on until march 23 the night the bombing began from saudi arabia, no as the end of that. now there is this attempt in geneva, of which there is for little optimism, to revive the talks again. aaron: the houthis had accepted a deal -- they also called for more representative government. >> they were going to get about 20% of the season parliament and cabinet. another point a diplomat made to me, this deal would have seen 30% women in the cabinet and 30% in the parliament. the suggestion is, the saudi's did not want to see some kind of progressive democracy in their backyard. if you look at the strategy they deployed throughout the entire so-called arab spring, it has been to undermine wherever popular democracy has broken up whether that be in egypt were bahrain and in syria. also iraq. they backed extremists who did not want to see democratically elected shia government survive. this was perhaps -- it is believable the saudis have intervened more so for this reason perhap

hadi. >> a prominent civil rights activist has been accused uf lying of her racial identity. rachel dolezal claims she is black but her family claims she is right. >> rachel dolezal is a spokane chapter of naacp president he. she has suddenly better than thrust into the social media spotlight by her parents. who tell the media that their daughter is not ethnically are african american. >> she has told others this erroneous story. she believes it more than she believes the truth. >> bl social media networks lit up. but many scholars who study race and thoingt in the country had a somewhat different reaction. >> so what? unless she does something to her friends and her fest comploounlt, by the way the naacp was founded and run by whites and blacks. >> exactly when dolezal decided to presents is hearst herself as where black is unknown. was once married to an african american man and teaches africana studies. >> race, perverse relationship with race, race is so fraught in this country. and why this entire even was how lewd accrues the social ludicrous, this is how situational ac

first of all the outies, ali abdullahhouthis, ali abdullah saleh, and the abd rabbuh mansur hadi regime. all of it together. >> good to get your thoughts. thank you so much. >>> thank you. >> one of saddam hussein's loyal ministers has died in iraq. he died in prison after suffering a heart attack. he was condemned to death after surrendering to u.s. troops 12 years ago. we look back at his controversial life. >> he defended his boss' policy at every turn 37 even in 1988 when there was the killing of 5,000 kurds. >> he is a christian who came to the baath party in the 1950s. by the time the baathists came to power in 1968, the former english teacher was already a prominent figure. he was named a member of saddam's revolutionary council. in the early 1980s he became foreign minister to strengthen relations between baghdad and washington. when saddam ordered. invasion of kuwait in 1990s he had to face the world and condemn the arab leaders for not standing up to the u.s. the u.s. responded to the kuwait invasion by declaring war on iraq. for iraq the results were devastating. the army def

. >>> in yemen, fighters loyal to ousted president abd-rabbu mansour hadi are coming before - coming under heavy fire. it is happening in a once quiet residential area of taiz. battling houthi rebels new allied with former president ali abdullah saleh. the houthis reportedly agreed to join peace talks in geneva planned for next week. they may have been aided by a push from the u.s. the state department confirmed american officials travelled to the region to meet with representatives from the abd-rabbu mansour hadi government and the houthis. we look at how the situation spiralled out of control. >> reporter: yemen osama bin laden's homeland provided fertile ground for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to grow. the group was called the greatest external threat to america and the west. >> we are working with the government and security forces as we have for a long time on counterterrorism. >> reporter: several years have left the area grasping. the saudi-led coalition started in march against iranians who seized the capital last year. battles rage as ceasefires fail to hold and fractur

speaking after a meeting with the iraqi leader abd rabbu mansour hadi, president obama said training the forces is a big part of the situation. >> if we wear out i.s.i.l. forces that are already there we're taking a lot of them off the battlefield but if they are being replenished it doesn't solve the problem over the long term. >> one of the key issues the german chancellor wanted agreement on was climate change. both germany and france have pushed for tougher targets. angela merkel said she believed real progress has been made. is. >> translator: >> translator: the g7 says weneed binding rules the world doesn't have binding rules that means this has to be the goal of the meeting in paris so the gloal riseglobal rise in temperature stays under 2°. >> french president called on the russians to implement the minsk ceasefire agreement in full. >> translator: if it is shown first of all that russia has continued to arm and have a presence in the eastern ukraine and if it is also shown that the eastern doesn't take the minsk agreement then we could increase the sanctions. >> reporter: th

it became a base of operations of abd rabbu mansour hadi abd rabbu mansour.despite months of air strikes by the saudi-led coalition the houthis still control large parts of yemen and they are well armed. >> translator: i asked our brothers from the coalition and king salman to help us. right now we live in very difficult circumstances and people want to know how long the fighting will last,. >> the humanitarian situation is only worsening lack of fuel and essentiallies like food and water. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> candles have been lit to remember the 38 are victims of the attack on friday in sousse. relatives of the seaside town say that what happened there on friday goes against everything it has meant to represent. >> we are very sorry what was happening yesterday, sorry for the families the victims they are our guests, our pringz principles do not allow us to treat our guests guests of tunisia. >> hashem ahelbarra reports from sousse. >> mohammed is dealing with the biggest crisis in his career. his family owns the imperial hotel where 38 tourists were killed in an tack. he s

says the houthis and president hadi's government have agreed to send representatives to geneva. >> i think last two months has shown the world anything, it has shown us that just by bombing yes, ma'am the people will not solve the problem there. there has to be negotiations between various parties. >> more than 2,000 people have died and over a million have been displaced. osama ben javid, al jazeera. >> turkey a is performance test. for recep tayyip erdogan. what happened at those ral items and how if anyway did it affect what's going to happen today? >> well, jane it's still unclear exactly as to the details behind those explosions. we understand reports that there was some sort of sound bomb and some sort of improvised device, which were done, to create chaos. one of them falling off a high rise building in panic. however, that is not usual with regard to these elections, in fact entire election process has been peaceful throughout the country and throughout the process. it is unlikely this will cloud over away has been a pretty smoothlysmooth process here in turkey. for the first

there both the houthis and president hadi's government have agreed to send envoys to geneva. >> i think if the last two months has shown the world anything it has shown us by just bombing the yemeni people will not solve problems there flp has to be negotiations between the various peaforts. >> more than 2,000 have decide and more than a million have been displaced. only hope for an end to the fighting. osama ben javid is al jazeera. >> visit comes 20 years after the end of the bosnian war which killed about 100,000 people. lawrence lee joins us live from sarajevo. what's on the pope's itinerary lawrence. >> this is a theme of symbolism jane that's running right through pope francis's visit. at the moment he's been at the presidential palace, meeting all three of the presidents. tripartite one serb but croat and one bosnian. greater reconciliation is going to be to that. the main meeting is at the olympic stadium where there's a large catholic and mostly croat gathering. a muslim carpenter took it upon himself to construct the throne that the pope with it sit on, and later this afternoo

instead, adou rabbo mansour hadi said they'll be discussing a u.n. resolution walking on houthis to stop violence. saudi-led coalitions forces are continuing to bomb houthi forces in yemen. these pictures show attacks in aden and sanna and these show the aftermath of fighting after taking cruel of houthi rebel bases. more saudi forces are on the yemen border. >> u.n. led talks between libya two rival governments set to get started again monday. three rounds of negotiations have taken place but so far have failed to form a unity government. two governments are at the center of the struggle. the country is racked with instability and violence. the tobruk government is recognized by the u.n. and arab league as the official government but was declared illegal by libya's highest court last november and forced from the capitol to tobruk. the tobruk based government is allied to general haftaa's forces. the director of a non-governmental think thank joins us live from london. these talks have been called the only hope that libya has of forming a unity gover

it's key to remember that fighters in the south refuse to acknowledge hadi. and that's one of the things that will lead to trouble in these talks. the fact that as we speak of a two-sided conflict. >> if we can come back to the main "fault line" sort of the houthis and their allies and the pro forces on the one side verse president hadi and their international backers there is a question here about the conditions that were demanded, the houthi withdraw from sanaa for them to lay down their weapons. what's happened to those conditions? >> it appears that the conditions have been sheffield for now. i mean, it's important to remember that these aren't even negotiations per se. what we're talking about now is consultations to pave the way for negotiations. >> talks about more talks? >> talks about talks perhaps talks about talks. it's still unclear. this is really a very tentative first step. that being said, i think anything i mean, it's been hard to find anything, any sort of cope of yemen. this is the slowest sign of something that could potentially-- >> if th

forces supporting president hadi, fought with houthi rebels for territory in one province.nment forces were able to retake some areas from the rebels. >>> al jazeera investigation has revealed how the houthis were able to take the capitol sana'a by first capturing the city of amran. it involved former president saleh and the hadi government. >> translator: the government boycotted the general. they backed the houthis with soldiers, but attacked the 310th brigade in a clear government conspiracy. >> the road to sana'a tells how the yemeni government may have sacrificed a city and a general, but lost power to the houthis, you can see that on "al jazeera world." still to come here on the news hour. >> we are closer than ever before. >> reporter: european leaders remain hopeful of a deal on a greek bailout. >>> more controversy on the u.s. confederate flag with growing calls of its removal from public places. ♪ >>> the heat wave in pakistan's sindh province has now killed more than 600 people in the port city the temperature has touched 45 degrees celsius, the government has ca

street battles have continued between forces loyal to president abd rabbu mansour hadi in the southern city of ta'izz. u.n. sponsored talks in geneva between the country's warring factions ended on friday without a deal. >>> the united nations is warning of a dangerous new era of refugees. syria is the biggest contributor to that number. in the past week, hundreds have left tawmed. tawbled. tal abyad. >> findings itfinding it difficult to feed their children. >> there are hundreds of families like ahmed's who are now camped out in the streets of the turkish border town. yet another decision to the millions of syrians who have lost their homes because of the of the war. back in the town of tal abyad administrative buildings used by i.s.i.l. still have its signs on the entrances. this one reads islamic state membership office. even though the expulsion of the armed group was welcomed by many, there are reports that some kurdish fighters are now targeting arab residents in the area. at least two two arabs were killed on friday. accusations are untrue they say. the situation in tabilityd t

. >>> and street battles continue between rebels loyal to abd rabbu mansour hadi and houthis. >>> thench foreign min sister has warned israeli and palestine that risking setting the situation ablaze. french led peace initiative and fabius is set to meet palestinian leader mahmoud behalf and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on monday. >>> neave bark he reports on austerity measures in gland. >> surprise majority in last month's general election, in the height of the london financial district, a sea of banners the global system that these protesters blame. >> there's people here from every different cause. people campaigning for the health service education housing all these different things. so what we're saying is we want a different kind of society, we want to end austerity we're terrified of what the government is going to do and we're saying we want an alternative. >> through the center of the city past downing street. here to the very gates of parliament. the police on high alert for signs of trouble. conservative party plans to introduce further spending cuts to pensions

. >> won't spoke to the exiled government of abd rabbu mansour hadi abd rabbu mansour hashem ahelbarra reports from yemen. >> they are in geneva for crucial talks aimed at stopping violence in yemen. the united nations has called on all parties to agree on a two week humanitarian truce. >> the fighting on the ground is an issue but the big issue is the saudi led air strikes. we want the u.n. and international community to put the pressure ton saudis to stop the air strikes. >> the be forces loyal to sally ale have recently taken new areas ton border with saudi arabia. >> translator: yemen has been destroyed by all sorts of weapons. children and the elderly have been killed. this is why we want the war to stop and the blockade to be lifted. people are starving. there is no medicine, no fuel, and no food. >> the orn going fighting is raising concerns about more instability. the be u.s. is monitoring the talks in geneva.it geneva. it is concerned that be al qaeda will take advantage of the political divisions across the country. the u.n. has been working for weeks to bring yemen's warring

became a base of operations for yemen's president in exile, abd rabbu mansour hadi, when he was forced out of office this year. they have been battling houthi rebels and forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh. houthis still control large parts of yemen and they are well armed. fest. >> translator: i >> translator: i ask ourbrothers to help us. right now we live in very difficult circumstances and people are wondering how long the fighting is going to last. when with will it stop? >> the humanitarian situation is only worsening with the lack of fuel as well as essentials like food and water. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> denouncing friday's attack on a popular resort in sousse. a government worker killed 38 people, before he was shot by police. voiced concern over a security crack down over the government which is closing down scores of mosques accused of insighting violence. inciting violence. >> the teuns of social tunisia of socially equality. >> many tourists have already left the resort town but the owner of the hotel says he is determined to keep the hotel open. ha

strikes are targeted site many forces loyal to exiled president hadi. also killed six people in sanaa's old city. the site is listed as a world heritage site by unesco. >> before be being load on to a royal jordanianless jordanianless flight. the approach was due to lack of confirmation. the sphooun ral is expected to take place on saturday. australia's priementsdz has denied the charge that his crews offered migrant boats money to not enter. andrew thomas joins them for one of the encounters. >> captain is flying over the andeman sea looking or the boats of migrants. its helicopters dropped them food but wouldn't let them land on shore. thiestled promised a better response. large ship offshore ready to accommodatefully migrants found. >> when migrants were fowrn in the add man sea ill thailand's navy has been send twog helicopters like this and two planes like this every day since and so far they haven't found any toart vessels. >> at least not with ones and migrant, near impossible team of given each aircraft lies for two hours each day. that though t

street battles continue between forces loyal to abd-rabbu mansour hadi, and houthi rebels. six rebel and fighters were killed. u.n. sponsored talks in geneva collapsed on friday without agreement >>> a u.s. church which was the site of a shooting is set to reopen for services on sunday. it will be the first time worshippers will be allowed in the eman all e.p.a. since a gunman killed nine people. a website was discovered that showed pictures of dylann roof posing with a hadn't done burning and spitting on the u.s. flag. the fbi is investigating the if the manifesto was written by the shooter. >> hundreds joined in march. we have more. >> emotions - all over south carolina as people continue to mourn over this terrible massacre that took the lines of nine poem. people marching in front of the church showing solidarity to those that lost their lives and the wider community, and protests in the capital. people asking to have the confederate flag taken down a flag associated with a racist period in the country, back to the civil war. they have been associated with the ku klux k

in the city of ta'izz, forces loyal to president hadi said they would stop a houthi offensive. parties fear an all out civil war if the talks collapse. they don't seem to have a eunt approach on how to solve the country's problems but all agree, the humanitarian tragedy has to end. >> alleging sexual abuse and exploitation by peace keepers. allegedly say that peace keepers, 125,000 troops and civilians deployed in 16 operations around the world. in 2003, it placed a ban on peace keepers paying for sex in places where they were deployed. a little earlier we spoke to stefan du jarak. >> peace keeping is a partnership between the united nations, the u.n. second stair yacht and those member states who given us the troom e-troops. the u.n. has no legal authority over those soldiers. after those sole engineers go back home after they may be expelled, it is incumbent for those soldiers to help us track down have they gone to jail, have they gone home, it is the u.n. secretary-general's responsibility to name those countries of his butte which is coming out next year. the relationship

used by the houthis. 20 houthi fighters were killed in clashes with forces loyal to abd-rabbu mansour hadi. saudi arabia air strikes killed people. the area is listed as an area site. the remains of the prime minister arrived in am jp there were reports that the body was snatched before being loaded on to an airlines flight. many family members where in jordan. >> australia prime minister denied accusations that his country paid smugglers to take them back to the waters. it was reported that australians offered crews $500 to turn back. the thai navy was searching the sea. >> the islands off thailand's west coast are exquisite. this is no joy flight. the captain is flying off the andaman see looking for boats. in may thailand was criticized for pushing back boats of rohingya. helicopters dropping food. under pressure thailand promised a better response. air patrols started, and the thai navy had a large ship offshore. >> when boats were found in the andaman sea in mid may. there was a crisis that there might be thousands more floating out there. thailand's navy has been sending two helicopt

rebels to seize suburbs of aden has been repelled by forces loyal to president adou rabbo mansour hadi. several neighborhoods north of the city have been attacked with artillery fired by the houthis. >> yemen's government in exile said it's prepared to return to a meeting in geneva to help end the civil war. talks were postponed once. no new date has been set. we have more. >> taking place in just a matter of hours a u.n. security council meeting to discuss the situation in yemen and ahead of that meeting the government of yemen has made an important announcement spokesman for president hadi has told al jazeera that the government of yemen is prepared to go and have a meeting about the situation in geneva. remember there was supposed to be geneva peace talks starting last week, but they had to be postponed. the government of yemen is saying if it attends the meeting in geneva, there will be consultations about the situation, not negotiations, because they say they'll only take part in negotiations with the houthis if the houthis comply with the existing u.n. security council resolution

fighters loyal to yemen president in exile abd rabbuh mansur hadi have come under heavy fire.s along with forces loyal to former president saleh have been trying to push their way into in area but so far their advance has been repelled. >> translator: fierce fighting has taken place between the resistance and the houthis but we will fight them until we die or achieve victory. >> reporter: this was the birth place of the up rising in 2011 and seen as a gateway to southern yemen and both sides are fighting hard to control it. >> translator: there are clashes but we are here to respond to them and we will defeat the houthis and prosaleh forces. >> reporter: behind the front lines there are many unarmed people suffering and the humanitarian situation is worsening for lack of essentials like food and water, victoria with al jazeera. >>> there have been more saudi-led coalition air strikes in yemen, government buildings occupied by houthi fighters and armed depo were targeted in the city and several rebel fighters and forces loyal to saleh are reported killed. saleh accused of doubl

rebels are battling for control of yemen against forces loyal to the president abd rabbu mansour hadi. the u.s. territory of puerto rico is facing economic troubles. report by former imf economist says major reforms need to be made to cut its debt. raising property taxes and cutting the number of teachers. the island is facing collection of bond indebtedness. al jazeera am andy gallagher is live for us in the puerto rican city of san juan. just house serious sit andy? >> we stood here about three weeks ago talking about the possibility of this government basically shutting down. here we are just a few days after that, and it really seem as if puerto rico is on the brink. it's $72 billion in debt we have that astounding statement from president, he even used the term puerto rico is heading towards a death spiral. they can't pay those debts and just one example power company there that owes $9 billion in real terms what that means for the three and a half million people that still live in puerto rico is job cuts. we're going to look at suspension of the minimum wage, paid holidays cut i

strikes came after ceasefire talks between the houthis and hadi's allies sended without an agreement. >> the iranian parliament approved a bill that could complicate negotiations over the nuclear program requiring any nuclear deal would ban inspection of military sites and call for the lifts of international sanctions. the u.s. will not agree to a deal without securing access to ran's military sites. iran and six world powers participating in the talks are trying to reach a deal by june 30. >> more decisions from the supreme court are expected this week. coming up, the controversial case on the court docket over the use of racial preferences involving college admissions at the university university of texas. >> a can't recovers valving the deportation of haitian from the dominican republic. stay with us. >> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. >> nearly half a million haitian migra

in the city of ta'izz, forces loyal to president hadi said they repelled a houthi offensive. the united nations fears all out civil war if the talks collapse. yemen's neighbors and key international players are here. they don't seem to have a united approach on how to solve the country's problems but all agree the humanitarian crisis must end. be be be hashem ahelbarra, al jazeera, geneva. >> still ahead on the program. australia's prime minister under fire from claims that australia bribed peoplebribed people smugglers. >> welcome back. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. sudan's president omar al al bashir has returned back to sudan be attempt to have him arrested and sent to the international criminal court on war crime charges. >>> thousands have fled over the border with turkey. kurdish forces have reported taking most of the border town of talabiat. >> peace talks in geneva, houthis have been delayed in djibouti. talks are expected to resume on tuesday. claims that australian navy bribed people smugglers to take be migrants back to indonesia. from sydney andrew

the idea that discussions will be attended by a team represents the government of abd rabbuh mansur hadi. >> kurdish militia have begun the advance in syria. in the nearest border town of raqqa city. and hundreds of syrian refugees have been blocked from entering turkey at the border. there has been an influx of syria in the past 13 days. thousands of people have crossed over. and turkey already hosts 1.8 million refugees. the islamic state in iraq and the levant has killed 20 iraqi troops in attacks in the north of the country. four suicide-bombers throw vehicles into military headquarters. the attacks happened in a 15-minute window. >>> the former foreign prime minister tariq aziz has been buried in jordan. but getting the body to jordan was anything but usual. >> there are ceremonies before putting former foreign minister tariq aziz to rest. getting his body out of iraq was a week-long ordeal for his family. aziz's casket was seized by an arm group at the international airport before recovered by the iraqi authorities. his sons avoided talking about the incident. >> he belonged to the

in the city of ta'izz, forces loyal to president hadi said they willpower a houthi offensive. yemen's facebook and key international players are here. they don't seem to have a united approach on how to solve the country's problems but all agree the humanitarian crisis must end. hashem ahelbarra al jazeera geneva. >> still to come the political storm over claims the australian navy bribed smugglers to return be migrants to indonesia. >>> nepal's volunteers are in desperate need themselves. >> lob. recap thewelcome back.let's recap the headlines. sudan's omar al bashir has returned back to sudan. there was attempt to have him arrestfor war crimes charges. bashir was in south africa to attend the african summit. thousands of syrians have fled across the border with turkey trying oescape fighting between kurds and fighters from islamic state of iraq and the levant. backed by u.s. air power trying to restay a town in i.s.i.l. hands. >>> a rift is growing between australia and indonesia over claims the australian navy bribed people smugglers to stay them back to indonesia. won't co

it became a base of operations of the president in exile head abd rabbu mansour hadi. despite months of air strikes from the saudi led coalition the houthis stilt are still are well armed and chrome large section of the country. behind the front lines there are many unarmed people who are suffering and the humanitarian situation is only worsening. with the lack of fuel and lack of essentials like food and water, victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> loyal to the government in exile near the mount jarrar area. tanks and heavy artillery. >>> kuwait says it detained the driver of the car used in the be shia mosque attack. he is a bedoon part of a community the government doesn't recognize. mohammed jamjun reports from kuwait city. >> a funeral procession unlike any before it in kuwait. demonstrating defiance and sorrow in equal measure. mourners prayed for dead. and prayed through their pain. >> translator: our whole lives in kuwait we've been united, one hand one heart. so this is like a nightmare. >> lost several relatives in a soviet bombing and says it's too much to take.

trying to flee the nighting in saudi arabia after forces loyal to hadi took over the border crossingthis and allies control the three other crossings into saudi. the u.n. says more than half a million people have been displaced since saudi-led air strikes began in march. >> translator: we are working around the clock to ease off the pressure and the overcrowding thanking it's getting better and showing up without documentation and functioning better for people going both ways. >>> number of people displaced by i.s.i.l. in iraq has topped 3 million. expected counter offensive against the group in anbar province is pushing more people from their homes and with i.s.i.l. controlling almost all of iraq's biggest province there are few options for those who are leaving, a bridge on the outskirts of baghdad who has become almost the only way out of anbar. >> reporter: just a few meters across the bridge and for most who cross it a painful journey, one side is anbar a province that is i.s.i.l.'s biggest stronghold in iraq. on the other side are the outskirts of baghdad. and she and her famil

i mean you have this months' long campaign in yemen essentially led by saudi arabia to restore the hadit but then there's a host of at least three other major factions on the ground there, the houthis, the remnants of the saleh regime and i wonder who has actually been telling the u.s. where to get these guys. >> dangerous, right? >> it's a fascinating story. >> last question. is this the way to defeat al qaeda and isis by taking out their leaders one by one? >> i mean look it's great that these guys with operational trade, in tradecraft and decades of experience are being removed from the battlefield. decapitation strikes, aerial sorties that eliminate the top commanders they don't really do the kind of damage we need because these guys are replaceable. and, in fact i'm sure both al qaeda and isis today are trying to consider who is going to inherit the throne. when you deal with these jihadi organizations, often it's not the guy who is necessarily out frond. it's the guy standing two or even three behind him who is really the shot-caller or the decisionmaker and the person who will be

in iraq and as we mentioned earlier the prime minister abd rabbuh mansur hadi met with the presidentk obama on the sidelines of g 7 summit. what he achieved is unclear but video has emerged after what can only be described as an awkward moment and a body is sitting down to obama chatting to the imf chief and italy prime minister but the trio didn't notice him when he stood up and looks like he is trying to join the conversation and no luck he checks his watch and wanders off. the u.n. envoy on sexual violence says teenage girls abducted by i.s.i.l. are being sold in slave markets and we visited iraq and syria in april and spoke to women and girls who escaped from captivity in i.s.i.l. control and they can be traded for as little as a pack of cigarettes and they will travel to the region soon to discuss how to help victims. myanmar has sent back 150 migrants from bangladesh rescued at sea last month and put on to trucks and handed over to bangladesh guards to a bridge linking the two countries and thousands of migrants have been rescued from the sea in the past month and people smuggl

several loyal to abd-rabbu mansour hadi were killed. >> the death toll from south korea's m.e.r.s. outbreak rose to 11. many have been affected. thousands of schools closed and 3600 people quarantined. >> it's the world day against child labour. 120 million children around the world are involved in underage work according to the international children organization 85 million are working in hazardous conditions the highest percentage is in sub-saharan africa. >> in liberia crushing rocks is the only way for some children to pay their way through school. >> 12-year-old abraham does this for five hours each day, getting about 1.5 usd for every pile of rocks crushed. he uses the money to pay school fees. he wants to be a doctor. that's why he works in the quarry. quarry. >> reporter: existing laws curbing child labour are weak and not enforced. activists say the practice is widespread in every part of the economy, and is calling on the economy to do more to stop it. >> they have a right to education. being out of school is not the rights of a child. stringent bills need to be passed to

earlier there were violent clashes between houthi rebels and soldiers loyal top abd rabbuh mansur hadi. several people have been killed. many others wounded. fighting also broke out in the city of taiz with popular resistence battling houthi militias. the fighters blew up a home in the city where houthi fight verse been gathering. the violence continues. yemen's exiled president said that he's prepared to take part in talks in geneva. however, the government still refuses to negotiate with houthi rebels until they pull out of occupied territory. let's speak now to the director of the center for political administration analysis in washington, d.c. good to have you with us. what do you make of the recent flare-up in fighting coming just before we understand talks are to be held. is there a link between the two? >> it's possible. one video you could say as we get to the negotiations they're going to start jockeying for position. this often happens in the case case--when it looks like there are going to be talks. it's also possible and probably that this is just a local initiative and may

while in yemen houthi have been repelled by forces loyal to exiled president abd rabbuh mansur hadi. >>> still to come this half hour, we go out on the front line of the mediterranean migrant crisis with the italian police patrol. plus... >> i'm in london where there is a steady stream of people with one goal in mind, how to beat the hackers. find out what risk cyber criminals pose to you and me. nd me. a real look at the american dream hard earned >> a reminder of the top stories on a al jazeera. accusing committing war crimes during it's fight against barack boko haram. 7,000 men and boys have died in military detention since march 2011. there has been an up search of fighting in ukraine between government forces and pro-russian separatists. and the fbi's investigates into corruption as fifa has been expanded to include the bidding process for the next two world cups which were run by russia and qatar. >>> staying with that story. an u.s. judge is expected to release some of the testimony given by charles blazer in the coming hours. he's one of the fifa executives who was charged w

abdullah saleh, who joined forces with shia houthis with the president in exile abd-rabbu mansour hadi. >> president ali abdullah saleh destroyed life in the city. >> reporter: there's little fuel donkeys are used more and more. queues for bread grows. rubbish is strewn on the street corners. tight security is a restriction on normal life. forces continue to besiege the city, they have been here since march. further north in the capital sanaa, residents clear up after an air strike by the saudi-led coalition, and appeals by aid groups for an end to the fighting and civilian suffering are growing. >>> still to come on al jazeera. i'm here in azerbaijan, where the government says there's no political prisoners, but dozens of journalist human rights journalists and activists are behind bars. >>> we meet tamils in sri lanka finding it hard to rebuild their lives after decades in the civil war. >>>hello the top stories, african leaders are meeting with the crisis in burundi at the top of the agenda. the international criminal court called for the arrest of basheer who is attending the talks

been firing rockets at neighbourhoods in tiaz to repel a push by tribesmen loyal to abd-rabbu mansour hadi. his envoy to the talks says the army should city intact to -- stay intact to protect yemen. >> the military establishment, which is constantly pounded by the saudi-led coalition is the only guarantee against a political vacuum in yemen. the army is the back bone against any transition of democracy. if there's no army and police, the next government will be undermined by militias and al qaeda. the houthi press conference turned into a scuffle. secessionists from the south accused the houthis of killing people in southern yemen. as fighting conditions across -- continues across yemen, talks are stalled in geneva. the united nations hasn't been able to narrow differences between the rival factions. >> in the absence of progress in geneva, yemen's only hope is an agreement between the key players and the international community on a humanitarian truce, and have all the parties in yemen accepted and stop the suffering of people >>> u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon refused to answer ques

hadi blamed the international community for not doing enough. said they needed weapons and ground troops. when it ended what was announced was there is now an anbar action plan in which this coalition members especially iraq will try to gather all of the combatants all of the fighters and tribes in anbar province together to try to better concentration how they will fight isil. the u.s. will be sending anti-tank missiles to iraq it wasn't specifies when they will get there, and the french foreign minister said there cannot be a military solution without a political solution. it was stressed time and time again today that there must be reconciliation in iraq. and what they mean is the shia shia-lead government is really expected to bring the sunni community into the fold. let's take listen to more of what the french foreign minister had to said. >> translator: we supported the iraqi forces with air strikes and supplying equipment and training allowing the iraqi forces so find the necessary scope to strike back against daesh, and the effort will b

. >>> street battles continue between forces loyal to president abd-rabbu mansour hadi, and houthi rebels. hundred of families have been displaced. union sponsored talks in geneva ended friday without a deal. >> tens of thousands protested in the u.k. against the plans for public spending cuts. road were blocked as protesters marched through london to voice their concerns about austerity measures. russia is officially a secular state. the orthodox church is wielding increasing power over spiritual, cultural and political life. the conservative values appear to gel with vladimir putin's stance against the west. rory challands reports from moscow. >> reporter: in the year of 1908, for years, through mongolian invasion and russian mongolian invasion and communist aethiesm. the russian orthodox church sometimes survived. today it is thriving. like its predecessor orthodoxy is seen as fundamental. it is mutual. the vladimir putin era has been called a miracle from god. >> they need each other. battery ark and church gives to vladimir putin additional additional authority. additional legitimacy