Toxic spill from a gold mine in the u. S. Turns a Colorado River yellow. Well, we begin in yemen where progovernment forces are making major gains against Houthi Rebels and they pushed them from the lost town in the province which is still under houthi control, then when you add aiden and saleh that means most of the Southern Area is held by forces loyal to the exile president abd Rabbuh Mansur hadi and there is still heavy fighting in that slightly to the north and also across these central provinces and the houthis remain firmly in control of the capitol at sanaa which they captured last september. And Carolyn Malone has the latest for us. Reporter watching over the province, now entirely in the control of progovernment for s forces. Local resistance groups backed by a coalition of countries led by saudi arabia are recapturing parts of yemen. They fought Houthi Rebels to the president saleh and say they are in full control. Translator we managed to clean the city of malitia supporting the cities and saleh and achieved a victory. The Popular Resistance has saved the country from going deep into the unknown. Reporter the fighters are looking ahead and they say they are on their way to the capitol which the Houthi Rebels still control and they are fighting on behalf of the exiled president abd Rabbuh Mansur hadi. Translator if necessary and if the leaders think its appropriate we need to go further and go beyond this because the aim is to reach sanaa. Reporter its a situation repeated across yemen and led to what the president of the International Community of the red cross says is a catastrophic humanitarian situation. Yemen population is in dire need of food and water and not only we can see the direct impact of displacements and violence going on and taking the yemen population and also the indirect impact of this violence going on and the Health System is crumbling and social and economic systems crumbling and more than 20 million yemeni today certainly are in dire need of support, of humanitarian support. Reporter land mines left behind by retreating houthi fighters and some children are back playing in the street but security has not returned. Fighting may have ended in some parts of yemen but the suffering continues, Carolyn Malone, al jazeera. Parliament in iraq approved sweeping reforms by the Prime Minister to eradicate corruption and cut spending and abadi wants to get rid of Prime Minister and canc cancel special privileges enjoyed by officials and set up an Anticorruption Committee and in addition he wants to make state institutions more accountable by ensuring officials are appointed on merit. And mohamed is in baghdad for us. They have now gone through the cabinet and approved by parliament and what is next mohamed . This is when it gets tricky and the measures passed and there are questions of what it means and take for example the issue of the three Vice President s being dismissed and the deputy Prime Ministers dismissed and they are dismissed and not part of the government now or will that happen later . This is where it gets complicated and the meeting today of parliament has adjourned and issues taken up at a later date and we are not sure at this point and expecting it will be soon and here is where we expect that arguments may breakout and parliament and others we talked to seem to agree with that and all the politicians are really facing a hard battle right now as far as trying to prove to the iraqi people they are with them and they are trying to fight corruption as much as possible, when it comes to these positions you were going to have issues of sectarian parties, religious us parties and other things bubbling up to cause anger with the politicians and perhaps maybe not as many body guards are needed for parliament and should be easy to decide upon, how to trim the fat when it comes to these issues but the top leadership positions that are so important to sectarian and ethnic and religious groups this the country that is when its going to get really tough and we dont have clarity right now. There are many at this point said although they support the idea of trying to make reforms as quickly as possible these are constitutional issues that cannot solely be decided upon by the Prime Minister and by parliament. Mohamed we will see how this develops, thank you for that. The Turkish Military says it has launched attacks on 17 targets of the Kurdistan Workers Party or p. K. K. In the southeast province and began targeting kurdish fighters in turkey and neighboring iraq last month. Russia says draft ideas are being discussed on how to unite International Efforts in the fight against i. S. I. L. The Russian Foreign minister Sergei Fedorov made the comments after meeting with his saudi counterpart in moscow but saudi arabia says syria president who they supported has no place in the future of the country so lets get the latest from rory challenge in moscow and you have been watching this and tell us the key points of what they had to say. Well, the language being used in this press conference was heavy on words like possibility and talked about continuing discussions but we didnt really hear much about when it comes to combatting i. S. I. L. , i. S. I. S. , Islamic State or daesh, whatever you call them is hard policy and talking about some kind of possible collaboration between the russian and the Saudi Security forces on combatting i. S. I. S. But not really anything definite about what form that might take. They were also talking about developing a kind of coalition to combat i. S. I. S. Again, we didnt hear much about what form that might take. That is something that has been discussed between these two countries previously and it was discussed earlier in the year when there was another visit from a saudi dignatory. The only thing we really heard for sure out of this press briefing was that the saudi king has been invitaled to russia at his convenience and more will be discussed later on when he does actually arrive. Very quickly, rory, obviously there are differences there between what saudi arabia said and what russia has said. What will the u. S. Make of these talks, will they be jittering at all . Well, i mean, i think one of the reasons why we have not heard much in terms of concrete policy from this meeting is that there are significant differences between russia and saudi arabia on big geo political issues, issues like president assad in syria, the Saudi Arabia Foreign minister here said there could be no future for assad in syrias politics and he has to go essentially and assad is an ally of russia and russia doesnt agree with that and as the matter of iran and russia has had a significant role in the brokering of the nuclear deal with iran. Of course the United States has had a part to play in that as well. Saudi arabia hates this deal. It thinks its atrocious and wants to see it unraveled as quickly as possible. Then there is the issue of oil and saudi arabia seems fairly happy to have played a part in depressing the Global Oil Price to flush out American Oil Producers from the market. This had a catastrophic effect on the russian economy, russia would like to see the Oil Price Rebound and doesnt seem to be at the moment much agreement between saudi arabia on russia to do with the oil price either. A lot of these things are complex and the american response depends on these particular issues and their particular stance on those issues as well. Rory in moscow and thank you very much for that. Japan has restarted the Nuclear Reactor at the power station and its the first reactor to Begin Operating under new safety rules since the fukushima disaster in 2011. And as harry faucet reports from tokyo it has triggered protests and criticism. Reporter in the control room at the station a crucial moment for the industry after 10 30 a. M. An engineer confirms the control rods in reactor one have been removed and nuclear has began and two years since the operating reactor was idle and everyone knows its a focus of national attention. Much of it critical. The gates protests led by the Prime Minister at the time of the fukushima disaster. Translator we cannot predict accidents, that is why accidents happen and here all of the necessary precautions to prevent an accident have not been taken. Reporter fukushima suffered a meltdown in three reactors after the power station was hit by the tsunami in march 2011 disabling the emergency cooling systems and they say tougher standards anything approaching that would be impossible and a former Nuclear Plant designer says restarting a facility has problems. Its harder, on top of that if you have tweaked something that part needs more inspect shun and this is more than 30 years old and they need to renew the safety on that. Reporter they overturned the decision for the power and fossil fuel imports caused costs to jump by a quarter since the fukushima disaster. And yet the majority still opposes the return to nuclear energy. The government says they start with the decision for the Power Company and protesters here there is no question this process is being driven by the Prime Minister. The numbers outside his office here may be relatively small but polls consistently suggest that around 60 of japanese people are against the plan. Residents living here say there are concerns about the emergency evacuation plan and the local government rather than tokyo or the Power Company will be responsibility for it and the local economy needs the main industry to get going again. The power station restart is now underway. By friday they are due to start providing electricity to the National Power grip and by september its expected to be running at full capacity. China devalued the currency triggering the biggest oneday decline in a decade. Central bank reset the band in which it allows it to trade at a lower level and beijing said it wanted to bring Exchange Rate controls more in line with the market but chinas trading partners accuse them of manipulating the currenty so make its exports cheaper. Greece and International Lenders appear to have reached a deal for 86 billion euro of bailout funds and they held allnight talks in athens, the deal raises hopes that aid can now be distributed in time for athens to make a 3. 5 billion euro payment to ecb which is due next week. Stay with us, there is plenty more coming up, on al jazeera including they walk for days to escape oppression and we meet the people desperate to find refuge. And a major milestone looms for sub sahara and africa as they are on the verge of eradicating polio. [crowd chanting get excited for the 1989 world tour with exclusive behind the scenes footage, all of taylor swifts music videos, interviews, and more. Xfinity is the destination for all things taylor swift. Frank gifford died, the pro football hall of famer passed away from Natural Causes at his home. Hello and you are watching al jazeera and reminder of the top stories and saudi backed forces in yemen say they have retaken a key Southern Province from Houthi Rebels and pushed them from the last town in the province that was still under houthi control. The Iraqi Parliament has vowed unanimously voted unanimously in favor of the Prime Minister reforms to tackle corruption and cut spending and he wants to abolish six government positions and establish an Anticorruption Committee. Despite protests in japan engineers restarted the first of 25 Nuclear Reactors under new safety rules. And power stations were shut down four years ago following the earthquake and tsunami disaster which caused reactor melt downs in fukushima and we have some pictures coming from the greek island of cost and take a look at these. Fights have broken out among hundreds of frustrated migrants and this is an island bearing the brunt of arrivals and they sprayed the crowds with fire hydrants because they needed food and wanted to be registered quickly and greece is struggling to cope with influx of arrivals and the country says almost 125,000 migrants have arrived there so far this year. About 50,000 arrived in july. 70 of those actually coming from syria so the latest pictures there coming from the greek island of cost, disturbing pictures for many to see. Moving on and they do not have a war or suffering famine but the second largest number of Asylum Seekers arriving in europe and make the dangerous trek across the border to find refuge in ethiopia and we have this report from northern ethiopia. Reporter there is no let newspaper the stead up fleeing from their country and the heavily disputed border with ethiopia is the route for them and found a family at one of 20 crossings on the north enborder ethiopia has with aratrea and had to walk three days to get here. Translator life has become unbearable in aratrea and never wanted to leave the country and im a shimmel shepherd and no interest in politics but government officials kept harassing me. Reporter 300 refugees arrive in ethiopia everyday and they are first taken to Screening Centers where they are efficiently registered before going to refugee camps and most of those fleeing are young people and an exercise for both men and women who finish school and military service was supposed to last just 18 months many of them are forced to suffer decades and he is 21 years old and been trying to get out since he has been 14. Translator they have no age limit, as long as you can carry a gun you belong in the military. Even my father who was partially blind is in the army. I dont want to lead that kind of life. Reporter Young Children have also been leaving and as young as six and seven are unaccompanied and this is their section of the camp in ethiopia region and this is chairman of the refugee community. Translator children are as affected by government policy as the rest of society and forced to flee when the parents are arrested for refusing to join the army. Reporter some refugees say they want to go to europe. Other refugees who have been returned or deported after having reached as far as even egypt in a bid to cross over into europe. Wanted by the number of people who are living the government recently adds the u. N. Security council to help bring traffickers to justice and human rights abuses are causing them to leave. Many here will readily disagree. Mohamed with al jazeera, northern ethiopia. A far right jewish settler organization has given eviction notices to four palestinian homes in occupied East Jerusalem and residents have set up tents in the area to protest any attempt by settlers to force the families out. And we have more now from west jerusalem. Very stressful time for the family who have been fighting for years to stay in homes they have been renting since 1948. Since the creation of israel. Now their homes are in the area of occupied East Jerusalem. This is in an area that has been the focus of israeli settler groups for some time and dozens of settlers have moved into buildings right around that area in the past several years according to human Rights Groups and propalestinian groups, in their view it effectively tears apart the fabric of palestinian communities in occupied East Jerusalem which they of course hope will be the capitol of the future palestinian state. Whatever the case the concern with this specific case involving the family is that it could lead to even more evictions in sawan, evictions of possibly hundreds of families but in the background of all of this we do need to consider the politicians, the israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu who was reelected a few months ago has a Coalition Government which is made up of prosettler parties so there will no doubt be an awful lot of political pressure to allow these settler groups to move into this area but as we have been hearing the family is refusing to leave and will continue their protests. A member of the syrian president assad family has been arrested and accused of shooting dead an army officer following a road rage incident. And we report. Reporter the people want retribution and they chanted these protests are extra ordinary because they are taking place in a regime stronghold and the man they are protesting against is president assads cousin and has been arrested by military police and accused of shooting dead airforce war hero in a road rage incident. Translator president bashar spoke to me early this morning and said justice will be done. We need not worry about anything. Reporter more than 1,000 people took part in saturdays protests in the city that is even during arab spring in 2011 and largely loyal to the regime. Assad in a very difficult position and i would not be surprised and we know he has been arrested and would not be surprised if an open trial to show assad his authority and he wants to show he is in control. Reporter analysts say they unnerved the assad regime and he arrested a member of his family and simply cannot lose the support of people here, al jazeera. State of emergency declared in colorado more than 11 million liters of toxic sludge was released from a deceased gold mine into local streams, that is three times more than the amount that was previously thought. And olson is the executive director of the San Juan Citizen Alliance and hopes it raises issues of pollution caused by mining. As a community we are sad and what future implications will be for the san juan and Colorado River and it would be wrong to say we are surprised and we have been living with pollution from abandon mines in the head waters for decades if not over a century and its unfortunate this even rent happened that there is a Silver Lining that it raises the spector of pollution issue that has been plaguing our community for a very long time. Unfortunately its hard to know at this point and we are still waiting on Critical Data from the epa with regards to exactly what the pollution is and what is in the eco system and we dont know and know the immediate impacts were less worse than they could have been insofar as it appears the fish populations and macro have survived the initial plume. That is not necessarily an indicator for medium and longterm health, no one can adequately answer that question right now and what is causing angst among the community because we dont know. People arrested in the city of ferguson after a fourth day of protest marking a year since the unarmed black teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a policeman and we report. Reporter activists gather at a church in st. Louis and prepare to get arrested. So we march and we march with the chance and all of that. Reporter Church Leaders and peace activists take part including wellknown philosopher cornel west. Black attorneys and general and homeland who is black and cannot give justice for poor and black people so now we move to put pressure on the federal government. Reporter some have come from out of state, this 13yearold girl is from ferguson. This kind of change this brings is they say we are serious and they will take us serious instead of thinking we are just a joke or just a game and i dont think there has been a game because just yesterday oneyear anniversary they shot somebody else. Reporter all in all a couple hundred people acting in ferguson action desended on the courthouse for a message for the department of justice. About 50 climbed the barricades pushing up against police as the crowd chanted and cheered them on. In less than an hour they were arrested. This has been a textbook case of civil disobedience and everything has gone according to the organizers plan and aggressive but peaceful, a stark contrast to sunday which were much more tense and unpredictable. Activists blocked traffic on west avenue the scene of looting and rioting a year ago, refusing Police Orders to move to the sidewalk. Down the street from the Standoff Police say several shots were fired between two groups of young men, when police pursued one of the men in an unmarked vehicle down the street he shot at them and returned fire leaving 18yearold Tyrone Harris in critical condition. The officer theres s in the van all fired at the suspect and the suspect fell there. Reporter they condemned the violence. Not only does violence obscure any message of peaceful protest, it places the community as well as the officers who are seeking to protect it in harms way. Reporter it was a bloody end to a day of peaceful marches in memory of mike brown whose death at the hands of police one year earlier sparked a national movement, his family called for peace. Kristen with al jazeera, ferguson, missouri. Sub sahara and africa is on the verge of eradicating polio and a year since one was reported and the vaccinations and the annual cases has dropped from half a million in the 1980s to just 34 so far this year. At the moment 80 of the worlds population lives in poliofree regions and the americas were declared polio free in 1994 and europe eradicated it in 2002 and others followed in 2014 and only two countries in the world have polio and they are pakistan and afghanistan and we have a spokeswoman for the global polio er ratification initiative at who and says the world must not be complacent despite the news coming out of africa. We are happy and it goes to the Health Workers who have gone over the years to every single home to vaccinate children and they deserve the credit now and its a moment for celebration but its also a moment where we cannot afford to be complacent and the job is not done and we need to be cautious and we know there are children who are not vaccinated in parts of the african continent and know there are places we have not found the virus and our surveillance needs to be sensitive so the two things we need to redouble our efforts are to find children and vaccinate them and find a virus and know where it is to make sure children around it are protected and those are the two areas where we need to refocus and redouble our efforts. More on the story and many other this on the website at al jazeera. Com. A second night of unrest in ferguson, missouri. Police arrest dozens of people there. We are live. I cannot shower. I cannot cook. I cannot do anything with the water from my water well. 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