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victoria gatenby reports. >> fighters loyal to yemen's president in exile. abd rabbu mansour hadi trying to rescue him without being shot. houthi rebels along with forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh have been trying to push their way into this area and these forces loyal to hadi are trying to keep control. street battles continue in the center of the city, trying to force the houthis to retreat or surrender. further north in ta'izz, the birth place of the movement which ousted saleh in 2007. humanitarian situation is only worsening. there is a lack of fuel as well as essentials like food and water. after a month of bombing most people in yemen want the war to end. what they describe as a houthi coup call for the implementation of the united nations peace plan. despite saudi arabia indicating the aerial bombing is over, air strikes have continued on the cities of aden, ta'izz and sanaa. the capital people say they're too frightened to stay. >> there used to be 54 houses with 75 households living in them but after the air strikes nobody lives

victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> other peter pakistani civil rights activist have been targeted. had to leave the country for speaking out against the pro sunni lashgar group. year ago spoken against the forced disappearance of the people at the hands of pakistan's intelligence services. let's speak to tahira abdalla good to have you with us tahira. i know you knew sabine well, she was a passionate advocate of human rights wasn't she. tell me what a special person she was. >> thank you i wish i could say good morning but it's not a good morning. this is what pakistan woke up to, i don't know whether you can see this clipping. this is what we woke up to this morning and we wish we didn't have to. you mentioned hamad mees. i would like to specially name dr. farouk khan, and zora, in karachi, and federal minister, the list is never ending. but this particular issue i think i don't wish to cast aspersions i don't wish to point fingers. i don't wish to name names. but the linkages and the pattern and the trend is extremely worrying as to whoever wishes to speak up on issues which are

victoria gaint gatenby has more. >> this is sabin mahmoud doing what she loved campaigning for human rights. frequently hosted human rights events. >> i think it's critical in any city but especially a city that has, that faces so much conflict to have community spaces where people can get together allowed shared interest. >> but her fight for the rights of others may have cost mahmoud her own. mahmoud had just left the building when she was shot at close range by two gunmen as she got in the car. mahmoud's mother is also injured, and in at hospital. >> the daughter was killed, the mother was injured. the car is at a police station and the investigation is underway. >> mahmoud had been hosting a talk on human rights on the southwestern pakistan since then almost 3,000 belochi activists have disappeared pakistan's intelligence agency for the disappearance an allegation it denies. beloclistan is one of the issues she campaigned for. >> sabine didn't just gave a voice to belochi to all those people who were hurt and suffering who had feelings they wanted to express to keep from going cr

victoria gatenby reports. >> reporter: everett base camp on saturday morning and the first sign that is wrong. >> the ground is shaking. >> reporter: at first the climbers sound relaxed but that turns to panic as they realize that a wall of snow, rock and ice is heading straight for them them. >> go, go. go! [ beep ] [ beep ] [ beep ] [ heavy breathing ] >> come under my jacket. come under nigh jacket. are you okay? >> yeah. >> are you all right? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: dazed and confused the climbers emerge from the snow and begin to look for other climbers amongst the flattened tents. >> maybe in the kitchen tent. >> yeah, maybe. >> stay together. stay together. >> reporter: survivors described how the avalanche scent swept down the mountain through the treacherous ice fall forcing people to run for their lives. around 1,000 climbers were on the mountain at the time of the avalanche. the dead and the injured have so far been discovered at base camp. but further up the mountain climbers are trapped at camp one and camp two with rescue workers unable to get through. >> we have an

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victoria gatenby. al jazeera. >> jason sheriff schaeffer has been watching all of the news. mr. schaeffer, thanks for being with us tonight. what are you hearing from those climbers? >> , there's a, there is afirst and foremost, there is a short window that plowed helicopters to fly up to base camp and to transport 50 people, the rest, walking wounded down to the town at 14,000 feet and then by a larger russian helicopter out to lukla and to cat mandew, wherekathmandu, where the medical resources are already overwhelmed. >> what about the climbers on the mountain? how long will they be able to survive while waiting for help? >> base camp is a very well stocked area. they have plenty of supplies, the tents were swept away, at base camp just after the quake but they have enough supplies. people are bumping up, climbers who lost their tents are bunking up be, with people who didn't. there are at least five teams at camps 1 and 2 they have reported in that they have enough supplies to keep themselves sustained. but they have also gone down to check out the ice fall route that separa

in aden fighting continues, as victoria gatenby reports. >> reporter: fighters loyal to president in exile abd-rabbu mansour hadi come under fire north-west of aden a fighter is injured on the ground. they are trying to rescue him without being shot. >>> houthi rebels have been trying to push their way into the area. these fighters loyal to abd-rabbu mansour hadi are trying to prevent the city falling under control. street to street battles continue in the center of the city, tanks and heavy shelling forcing the houthis to retreat tore surrender. further north in taiz, pro-government forces take control of an area south of the city. tees taiz is seen as the gayed bay to southern yemen and both sids are fighting hard to control it. the humanitarian situation is worse things. there's a lack of fuel and essentials like food and water. after a month of bombing most in yemen want the war to end. in the city to the north people describe an end to the coup, calling for the implementation of the united nations peace plan. >> despite saudi arabia indicating the aerial bombing is over. air str