well you heard martin griffis say earlier that he could not predict when the negotiations will resume or even take place should i say he of course is traveling to amman where he will meet some members of the rebel hooty. well intended delegation and he hopes to travel to santa but really it has to be said it's the old story sadly in conflict it's what happens on the battlefield that can really count and also it's compliance possibly in geneva by one side noncompliance possibly in santa or although they insist that they couldn't get safe passage and delivery of injured to oman and they feel the hooty is feel that they are being sidelined in many ways it is impossible to get to the real detail underneath the rhetoric and possibly the posturing is it really a situation whereby the who it is. renay somehow they say they haven't martin griffis is being very very careful in his language he's saying this is not a blame game however what about the saudi u.a.e. that coalition are they really intent on pulling back certainly from what we're hearing and david touched on this no is the answer to

most certainly as i was saying there no one would predict the outcome and i don't think martin griffis would be amongst them either but as far as he's concerned he has delivered one thing to the table of the who thing is who are now talking to him and that is that when i mentioned there was that memorandum of understanding now that is really dating back to a precondition the huth is putting forward ahead of the geneva talks more than a week ago and of course those talks didn't take place martin griffis admitted that he could not make it has he made it work now well it's difficult to answer that question as well because simply this one week of fighting and there can be a different situation on any hopes for dialogue working can anyone read what the exact motivation is of the coalition the saudi u.a.e. led coalition well possibly because what we're hearing is that there's a major diplomatic push not only on the u.n. but other sources of influence as well and that includes the united states to convince people that they have to take the data take it they mean invade it or do they mean surr

remarks from the united nations to pass on to use the united nations who is sponsoring these talks martin griffis the special envoy who has worked tirelessly to get the two sides together whether this as described by the interview you played out there whether this is more serious than i'll hold up something that can be resolved quite quickly is unclear it is possible of course that the may be posturing to some degree in twenty sixteen there was a similar store process with refusal to attend geneva it is unclear at this stage exactly how this will play out but as you heard in that interview that telephone interview the dumond from the who it is to transport critically ill people to amman was made it seems the u.n. may be casting light on this later from geneva possibly in a press conference later on wednesday but you have now the main government delegation is apparently present there are fourteen members in this delegation the foreign minister for this internationally recognized government is saying that these will be confidence building talks there will be firstly a series of meetings bilateral m

last few days while they've been waiting for the who to delegation so it's not a good sign but martin griffis is not a man who's going to give up the former british diplomat he took over this job as a special envoy in march the two previous envoys both ended their periods in frustration at the lack of process now there's been a limbo in this peace process for the last two years since the last talks in kuwait collapsed it was vital and necessary for the people of yemen that this process should start but the yemen government say that the rebel delegation have disregarded the suffering of the people and he also said as you noted that they are panicking because they feel that the saudi led coalition is gaining ground on them but nevertheless both sides have reassured martin griffiths that they will not be an escalation in the fighting on the ground especially around the fight will pour control. at the moment by the who tease of data through which most of the foreign aid goes i mean the point is we must remind everybody that there are eight million people there on the edge of starvation you've see

posturing is it really a situation whereby the hoots is renae somehow they say they haven't and martin griffis is being very very careful in his language he's saying this is not a blame game however what about the saudi u.a.e. that coalition are they really intent on pulling back certainly from what we're hearing and david touched on this no is the answer to that and it does seem that events determine the direction in which the poor civilians of yemen find themselves events in the battlefield rather than the events in geneva or indeed far away in sana'a it is a terribly difficult situation a situation that as david said could well get worse under many thanks understands that lives in djibouti. a death penalty has been handed down against seventy five people for their part in protests against the twenty thirteen military coup in egypt many of them were involved in the city in a rubber square in cairo which ended in the massacre of hundreds of people among the defendants is the former muslim brotherhood spiritual leader mohamed badie who received a life sentence but three other senior brotherhoo

and are ready to leave this is been a huge disappointment for the special envoy for the amman martin griffis he hasn't given up all hope though he hopes to continue with the peace process in some form he hopes perhaps to bring the the sides together at a later date but he won't give any timetable on that let's hear what he said we're going to. take up the issues that we will have discussed here this is what i mean by we have begun this is what i mean by we have begun. it's too early for me to say when the next round of consultations will take place or will be held that's obviously going to be high on the agenda to do so that we don't go through a repeat of this week and i think it's important to note that. and also wanted to be here they're disappointed not to be here but the prospects for resurrecting the peace process do not look good a member of the yemeni government delegation here told me that as far as there was concern they were going to try and force the who tease to the negotiating table this whole affair has actually shown how wide the gulf is between the two warring parties whatev

consultations between the many government and who's the rebels andrew symonds has more from djibouti martin griffis may have flown out of some having reached some agreements with the leadership but there appears now to be another hitch there was agreement with him and with other u.n. officials for what the u.n. describes as a humanitarian bridge that transport for chronically sick people to get medical treatment overseas forty five patients showed up with their documentation but they were probably barred from flying because they had no clearance from the yemeni government they're suffering from a number of conditions including leukemia early stage tumors cervical cancer fibroid cancer and those needing bone marrow transplants and kidney transplants. leaving i was younger i fell and that caused internal bleeding and today it turned into a tumor i need to travel to egypt or to any other country for treatment i'm told by my doctors that you need a surgery i'm quite tired of all this i need to travel and be treated so i can survive in this world i'm some of the. answers that's rolled around so many cou

also on that flight so this is now all up for consultation with the special envoy for the yemen martin griffis is said he's not worried by that delay this is usual he said and he is sure everybody consultations are going on at the moment to make sure this matter could be cleared up and he also said that many confidence building measures were going to be discussed when the two sides get here in geneva and these included the vaccination program we've seen the cholera epidemic has taken many casualties amongst children especially on the old in yemen and also he said perhaps they should have another measure which is a prisoner swap he said that would give some hope to families on all sides of the conflict that real measures were being taken and that there was some hope for their future and the political process in the peace process could actually take root here in geneva. midwives have been deployed to ranger refugee camps to provide treatment for pregnant women but some of facing challenge is talking about family planning with an already vulnerable community nearly a million of a hinge on living

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from not the collapse but the failure is a better word of dialogue between the two warring sides martin griffis is now we think on his way to amman he's keeping a really quiet position on this now he wants to engage with the hootches directly or indirectly in terms of meeting them he wants to go to two to amman he wants to get a santa after that what is going to happen is unclear does it accelerate even more to the point where the who does that want to speak to him well it's it's dangerous but all of this diplomacy is irrelevant to the people of civility to the civilians of yemen right now because they're crying out desperately for the fighting to stop and the word cease fire hasn't been used once in public statements yet it's dialogue a desperate need for dialogue along with the desperate situation for the civilians of yemen. and a needed spite for them as well that's the situation in yemen andrea thank you stephanie daiquiris also following the story she joins us from rouhani and that turkey and stuff we had to report starvation increasingly being is as a weapon of war and this seen throughou

or of course the hootches say that's how could they come when they had no guarantee of safety martin griffis alluded to this he did say that maybe we didn't get completely a correct situation in advance of our talks he was quite honest it seems he's tried so hard to get dialogue going and these were confidence building moves not actual talks anyway and of course one side didn't get there because they said that they would be endangered in terms of eve ever getting back to the south but whether or not that was the key point that made things fail is unclear because they have got preconditions of injured people going to amman way this is supposed to be going to speak to their into major is amman and also to possibly to some rebel potential delegates but the point about what's going on the ground is this we do have reports of schools of deaths of fighters and we now have now hearing from saudi sources that they're saying that the coalition is reported to be saying they've had. very they've inflicted heavy losses on the hootches the hootches also saying that civilians have been that have been kill

special envoy martin griffis is supposed to be going to sana'a to see firsthand the situation a memorandum of understanding has been signed in amman in which the booth is will get permission to move people who are injured from santa to reportedly now karo in egypt that is what we're hearing whether this is going to be leading to any form of breakthrough is very unclear bearing in mind a week of fighting changes so much in the stance of the u.s. a saudi led coalition may be very different now to what it was a week ago that is speculation but this is not just fighting it's also politics and diplomacy all mixed into warm very lethal mix. the polls have opened across government controlled parts of syria in the first local elections there since the start of the civil war in twenty eleven state t.v. show voters casting their ballots in damascus and other mostly coastal areas local council is considered the first step in the reconstruction process the government says more than forty thousand candidates are running for almost eighteen and a half thousand seats for the first time the syrian governm

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special envoy martin griffis is supposed to be going to sana'a to see firsthand the situation a memorandum of understanding has been signed in amman in which the booth is will get permission to move people who are injured from santa to reportedly now karo in egypt that is what we're hearing whether this is going to be leading to any form of breakthrough is very unclear bearing in mind a week of fighting changes so much in the stance of the u.s. a saudi and. led coalition may be very different now to what it was a week ago that is speculation but this is not just biting it's also politics and diplomacy all mixed into a warm very lethal mix. more than two million people in southern china are being moved from their homes as typhoon man court begins to his fifty thousand fishing boats have been recalled to pour so heavy rain is expected throughout sunday night earlier in the day on sunday it pushed huge waves into hong kong the city was put on the highest alert level for only the fourth time in twenty years the wind blew down cranes and shattered windows in many high rise buildings all busines

is still told in the process what that means exactly only martin griffis knows he's meant to be going as i was saying earlier on to riyadh where you'll have talks with the saudis and the emirates is all right from the death thanks so much. under simmons there in djibouti to the head on al-jazeera the massive task of rebuilding iraq some complain the compensation scheme isn't fair. scuffles between protesters and israeli soldiers and faith and a village remains uncertain. hello typhoon man court will be in the news the next three or four days is just coming in is she of clarity as your screen it says couldn't a category five so which is about as big as it can get and it's going to batter lose all in the next twenty four hours or so the whole of the northern philippines strong winds and extremely heavy rain it might be briefly weaken as it goes across the rocky mountain strand of northern is on then ends up for sunday in the middle of the south china sea a little bit weaker but not a huge amount to be honest it's rain extends as far as hong kong stands far south as the philippines is go

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consultation talks but as i said they'll be delayed for twenty four hours and mind of problems as martin griffis the special envoy for yemen from the u.n. said that he believes that the delay won't cause any problems and delays anyway are part of the process so we do expect these these consultation talks to go ahead but starting the lawn on friday david try to thank you very much indeed israel's high court has approved the demolition of the palestinian leadership camera in the occupied west bank the ruling means that the israeli authorities have seven days to destroy the village which israel says was built illegally the national european union and rights groups have opposed the move saying it enables is it israeli settlement expansion which would cut the occupied west bank into a huge prospect of palestinian state even dimmer by the smith has more from the village of qana. the community here economy and the occupied west bank of exhausted all legal avenues now by court order homes and importantly their school will be demolished the one hundred eighty children who go to that school now have to tr

goes martin griffis the special envoy has done his level best to make things work but admitted on saturday that he could not get the final details agreed to get the who it is that he said though it is were really upset that they couldn't get there so it's unclear really he said he didn't want to blame game but it's unclear really that whether or not who's to blame for the lack of dialogue but he is supposed to be going to amman to talk to those who are trying to mediate in muscat and he was hoping to go to santa but he was also saying that it didn't have to be in geneva some talking it could be done by phone by video link by a whole variety of things so really this is a situation now where one has to ask did this backfire or was it planned all along andrew symonds reporting from djibouti thanks. polls are closed in sweden the general election that's been centered on the issue of immigration prime minister stefan loughlin cost his ballot early in the day reiterating his call to voters reject the far right this election one of the most unpredictable races many believe the polls could change

counterattack using artillery the government troops so this is getting more and more critical martin griffis the u.n. special envoy is attempting to try to calm down the fighting to try and really get some. sort of dialogue going having failed to get the sides together in geneva he's traveling through amman and on from there to sana'a he hopes and from there to riyadh but this is a desperate situation he has a lot on his hands to try to calm this down. you know secretary of state has said he certified the congress the saudi arabian the united arab emirates working to avoid harming civilians in yemen this means the u.s. can continue to provide support to it sounding and. more than ten thousand people have been killed in three years of war the conflict is widely seen as a proxy battle between regional rivals saudi arabia and iran a statement follows a string of coalition airstrikes which have killed thousands of civilians including many children. now one of the russians named by the u.k. as a suspect in the service crippled poisoning says he will make a public statement next week that's accord

special envoy martin griffiths has spent the day holding talks with hooty leaders in sana'a andrew symonds again with this update. griffis has a major job on his hands trying to convince the warring sides that now is the time to actually start talking about dialogue when there's been more than a week of really heavy fighting in the wake of those talks in geneva that never got off the ground the fighting obviously is most intense in her data the red sea ports in which cruises are trying to defend they say the huth is that they are repelled in some places. from these are you led coalition to get control of the supply line to the capital sana'a. sixteen is the biggest major focal point of the fighting but also further towards the port city in other points and there is a point such as kill a seven kilo ten there are also battles going on it certainly doesn't seem to be the case that things are at a point when you can say that this supply line is actually cut but certainly the coalition is putting every effort into trying to get full control of this area and control of the port city head of any possible dialogue with seem the