Government. The united arab emirates, qatar have sent fighter jets to saudi arabia. Several hours into the bombing the u. S. Revealed its role in the together. It announced the creation of a joint planning cell with the saudis to word u. S. Military and intelligence support. The u. S. Said its policy in yemen is working. I have explained that it is a success and has been for many years because of our efforts to push back and counter alqaeda in yemen. Thats something weve been doing for sometime now. Iran supports the houthis which has triggered fears in saudi arabia and the majority sunni gulf nations that iran might be trying to spread its influence throughout the region. Iran has strongly criticized the airstrikes, saying civilians were among the casualties. The houthis have taken control of Yemen Holding the president in sanna until he fled to aden last month. There have been protests against the houthis enrecent days, including in taiz city. Al jazeera. A spokesman for the houthis said they will not back down. The aim of this aggression is to dent the resolve of the yemeni people and push them from their demands. However, these attacks cannot dent our resolve. We will continue until the resolution results have been realized. We are capable of standing up to the aggression. We will not call for outside intervention. We are not seeking the support of iran or any other force. We are confident of our forces, our boots and the will of our people. Jordans confirming its supporting the saudi led intervention in yemen. We have more only amman. An official jordanian force confirmed to al jazeera that jordan has indeed participated in the saudiled military operation in yemen that began overnight. The reason the source said was because jordan supports the legitimate government in yemen and also supports yemens security and stability and also in a show of support and appreciation for the historic relationship between jordan and the saudi arabia, as well as the rest of the gulf arab countries the source also said that the stability of saudi arabia and the g. C. C. Countries is a High National jordanian interest and that jordan supports the legitimate government in yemen formed and that includes all the different parties in yemen. A professor of middle east history at Qatar University joins me in the studio. The recent history of yemen just seems that its been all about the houthis on a roll, rolling out of their northern enclave taking almost all of the country at this point. Has this military unitervention stopped or is it stopping that process . The operation started last night will have a serious implication on the progress the houthis ever made so far. There is no doubt about it. Lets remember that the whole progress houthis ever made actually is being made on the support of al saleh. As long as this sort of coalition is working on, it will be a tough confrontation in yemen, simply because the air forces have the houthis forces and atbat saleh forces, for that reason, we see there is a focus on all of this basis of al saleh. Is it working . So far. You are saying they have saved adden for now . So far they disrupt the whole effort houthis ever done so far to control aden. There is the serious report that aden now is far away from their hands. There is a serious effort now in other places. There is a serious confrontation between houthis and adou Rabbo Mansour hadi forces. The houthis now are facing real resistance from within yemen and that is because of these a year strikes took place from last night. We saw people in protest coming out in places like taiz holding up pictures of president hadi holding up pictures of the saudi king. To what extent, though, is there an internal cohesive front against the houthis . The anti houthi side is very much fractured, as well, is it not . Yeah, lets remember, the houthis, the language of americanty and majority he, in yemeni context houthis were living in sanna. They have the support of al saleh. They were able to have a good relation with iran because of al saleh. They work on that basically for 10 years. Houthis in yemen they, you know, they will there will be an effort to get them onboard in any political process in the future. They will not be out of the game. Of course, you know, the taste of defeat will be seen because basically now all yemen has seen houthis as being anti, you know, you know, anti the unity of yemen, anti the anti the i would say the identity of yemen and they see them as being,on, since september 2014 when they started the preparation of controlling sanna. There is as real desire in yemen and we saw that, the yemenese sincere in having a government state, because they had worked on this for years now and what happened after the revolution 2011 that houthis benefited on that moment, and they try to redirect the effort to the yemenese toward something serving their own interest. At that moment, we find that the fragmentation took place in the political i would say budget. Now houthi needs to go back to the yemeni front where basically they are part of yemeni society. Yemeni, other players, they have to consider working with houthis. It doesnt mean that all of what happened in september, they are the enemy. They have something in common. It doesnt look like that. The scenario you are laying out now, it does look like from a the houthi perspective that they see a chance in order to solve this problem militarily. Simply because their approach from the beginning was military. Houthis, again, they are, you know a more than aty within yemen. How come they were able to control all of these cities . Because they have a military, you know, support from al saleh. With the absence of military and weapons, if they come and sit and negotiate, they will be equal. They will be cool. And this is what the other yemenese city about being equal, put the guns aside. This is the tune we hear, i hear this morning. All right always good to hear your thoughts. Thank you for coming in. Foreign ministers are meeting egypt to discuss the crisis in yemen. Egypts foreign minister said egypt fully supports the saudi strikes. Our position of the crisis is again impose ago status quo by force. We are supporting the legitimacy of the state that should be enabled to core out its National Responsibility to keep the integrity of the yemen territory and the interests of the yemeni people. Yemen is witness be disturbance it is the port of Yemeni Forces of trying to bring back yemen on the road of stability and democratic transformation. French prosecutors say it appears the co pilot of the germanwings plane crashed it deliberately into the french alps. He has been speaking in a news conference. The flight crashed tuesday killing 150 onboard. Robin said the pilot was locked out of the cockpit just before the crash. Well get you more on this as soon as we get it ourselves. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in the swiss city of lausanne to meet his iranian counter part trying to reach a deal to limit Irans Nuclear program. The framework is set to layout specific ways to reduce Irans Nuclear capability in terms of reducing sanctions. Talks have been going on for weeks to reach a deal. Much of the negotiations are about the deals technical details. We explain whats at stake. A nuclear deal with iran would partly focus on the number of centrifuges it can have. These are irans main Nuclear Facilities and underground in another city. The International AtomicEnergy Agency estimates iran has around 20 for us century phenols but only 10,000 are operational. A deal would probably reduce that to around 6,000 but weapons experts say even if iran agrees, it could secretly build more. That. Its not very difficult to hide these kinds of plans they dont require huge installations. Taillight, over the past six years while negotiations were going on since 2006, they have already built up quite a stockpile, and even more than what they need, so that they can bargain them. Centrifuges are important because iran can potentially amass enough enriched rain yum to make a palm. Iran has greed to dilute its 20 enriched rain yum and not enrich above a concentration of 5 . The iaea said iran is already limiting production of its reactor grade fuel, but there are concerns that maybe Nuclear Related activities are known to inspectors. That means the agency cant rule out the possibility iran may be developing a nuclear pay load for a missile. Some inspectors want to know how often they can visit sites and what kind of actions theyll have. The deal would ensure even if ran broke away from agreement the world would have enough time to react. Still ahead on the show im in the oil rich niger delta. Nigerians are voting soon. How have the Falling Oil Prices affected ordinary people . Chile deals with two natural disasters, pleasure to floods and fires on opposite sides of the country. Protestors are gathering. Theres an air of tension right now. The crowd chanting for democracy. This is another significant development. We have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live. Be significant and i cannot see that ending well. Where is the former president ali ab lets take you you through headlines we are following here. Breaking news, the french prosecutor investigating the germanwings disaster says it appears the co pilot deliberately crashed the a320. That he he says the co pilot refused to open the cabin door to the captain then activated a button which triggered the descent. The Iranian Foreign ministry is asking for an immediate halt to the military operations in yemen. A Saudi Led Coalition led a strike against houti rebels. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in the swiss city of lausanne to meet with his iranian counterparts, trying to reach a deal on how to limit Irans Nuclear program by the march 31 deadline. Nigerias prosecute good luck jonathan and his opposition signed a peace accord encouraging nonviolent voting. Ballot papers and result sheets are on their way to the polling stations across the country. The vote is expected to be the closest race since the return of democratic rule in 1999. Oil is one of the major issues in the election. The niger delta is where almost all of the nigerias oil comes from and it provides more than three quarters of the governments revenue. The niger delta region is one of the countries poorest. They know a what they are doing is illegal but they dont care. Young unemployed men steal crude oil from pipelines then refine it in the creek of the niger delta. They say this lucrative resource belongs to the community not the Nigerian Government or oil company. They are eating our money. Who owns it . That is what happened. We look for how you to get part of it. The men claim to produce around 60,000liters a day from the improvised refineries. Look at what this business is doing to the environment. This place used to be lush and green. More than 200 refineries are in the area, but they say they need the money to look at their families. Falling Global Oil Prices means less currency is earned. For poor nigerians prices of basic commodities are rising. When you go to the market to buy. A well armed jointly Task Force Made up of forces from all security sectors control the creeks. Oil accounts for 60 of nigerias gross domestic product. Government finances have been hammered by the slide in world oil prices. Its been very tough almost 40 of the revenues we get wipe off and with the amount of developmental work, this particular admin into, or had to look at so many cost cutting strategies to help us continue to keep afloat and to also pay salaries. For those struggling to get by this cheap often low quality fuel is affordable. One need, piling up generators. Despite being one of the Largest Oil Producers in the World Nigeria in still battling to meet its energy needs. More on that breaking news story and french prosecutors say it appears the co pilot of the germanwings plane deliberately crashed it into the french alps. The prosecutors been speaking, sake the captain was locked out of the cockpit just before the crash. The most likely interpretation we can make at this point is that the co pilot deliberately refused to open the cabin door to the captain. He then activated the button that triggered a severe loss of altitude. We do not know why he activated this button. It can be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to crash the plane. The flight from barcelona to dusseldorf crashed tuesday killing all 150 people onboard. Charlie angela is in the staging post for crash recovery crews. She can join us now from there so more pieces of the puzzle being put together, charlie. Yes. Indeed a very important revelation, the chief prosecutor from marseille in that press conference went into very minute detail. He started off saying that the conversation between two pilots during the first part of the flight was normal. It was almost playful. Then with this pilot handled over the controls to obviously go to the loo estimating, the co pilot goon sound different. It was left in his sole command and he put the plane into a steep descent. This was a volunteer action. What is interesting is that during that eight minutes of that frantic descent 1,000 meters per minute, there was no response from the co pilot. The pilot was knocking on the cockpit door, trying to get back in. He was demanding access by video phone, but you there was no word said. They do not believe that the co pilot was incapacitated because they can hear him very clearly breathing normally. That is a key point because if he had fallen unconscious, it could have been a tragic accident, but its looking like the co pilot deliberately sent this plane into a descent crashing it into a mountain. So perhaps the key question here staring in the face of survivors, relatives of the victims, as well as everybody else is why . Any clues from the prosecutor as to why the co pilot might have done this . We have very little detail about the co pilot. We have his name, andrew lubit a german national. He was 28 years old. Hed been flying for germanwings for almost two years beginning in august, 2013. He had 630 hours of flying experience, and the prosecutor reiterated many times he was absolutely not considered a terrorist. He does not believe this was a terrorist attack. It looks at this stage like a very tragic accident deliberately set about by an individual of which we know very little. All right Charlie Angela there, thanks very much for that. Gem cigarettes from libyas two rival governments are resuming peace talks. The legally installed government in tripoli and u. N. Government in tobruk are under pressure to back a u. N. Proposal. It calendars for the normation of a National Unity government comprising of technocrats. Sri lankas president is on his visit official visit to china since taking office in january, trying to renegotiate more than 5 billion worth of deals his predecessor signed with china. The chinese president wants to strengthen relations with sri lanka in a mutually beneficial relationship. Super markets unvenezuela are introducing new measures to combat Food Shortages. People have been signed specific days to shop. We have more from the capitol caracas. Private super markets in venezuela introduced a new system to curb Food Shortages and also the hour long queues affecting the country. With the new system, shopping can be limited to one day according to i. D. s. On a monday, people whose i. D. Ends with a one or two would be allow to buy items that have gone scarce, milk, sugar or even flour. The venezuela government is planning on introducing fingerprint scanners. These scanners would control according to the government, what theyve called speculative shopping or hoarding. The idea is to basically stop what has become a rampant contraband problem with people tripping out close to 40 of what the country produces. People have come to the supermarket to discover two of the items that have gone missing from most shelves soap and fabric softener. At least two people have died in flash floods in one of the dryest regions in the world chiles northern area. People in southern chile struggle with huge wildfires. Earth quakes, volcano reputations, forest fires and now this, this natural disasterprone country is now battling floods in the worlds dryest desert. In chiles Northern City in the desert region, torrential rain turned the streets into rivers. The river which 24 hours ago carried almost no water overran its banks. Hospitals are partially underwater. Roads are blocked and communities cut off. Further north authorities ordered the evacuation of at least 30,000 people. The president has declared a state of emergency and gone personally to the flood stricken areas to oversee relief efforts. While residents of the desert are struggling to hold back the water, here in southern chile which is normally famous for its green lush vegetation and wet weather the worst drought in 50 years is did he ever straight the region, prompting an agricultural state of emergency. In the desert, the floods have reduced operations to a minimum as a precaution and given the weather, authorities fear the worst is not over. The rain that these dry regions used to pray for is now turning into a curse. Al jazeera chile. Its ban tradition in the farrow island for centuries now the punting of pilot whales is under criticism Animal Rights activists saying it is cruel and unnecessary. We have a report. This is the sort of hand carved hunting knife used in a traditional whale hunt. You cut off the spinal cord and the wale will die in seconds. For centuries, the people of the Faroe Islands have gone into shallow waters and slaughtered whales. They arent endangered. Each year, the hunt takes 1. 1 of the population. I like the blubber to go to the dry fish and then you have the dried whales meat. You hunt them in a sustainable way, and its a food source. You have, i think you have to use it. We live in a world that where people starve. Why shouldnt we use our resource . Animal rights activists call it barbaric. Their attempts to disrupt the hunt have grown increasingly successful. This tradition in place for over 500 years, its time for this to disappear. The world has changed and therefore, i think this should also change. The intervention isnt welcome, of course, the islanders compare their whale hunt to the slaughter of farm animals behind closed doors. It looks very much worse when it is reality, blood is what you see when you kill an animal. They say they should be allowed to live off the resources of the sea and they have done for centuries but the activists reply that its a gruesome slaughter. You cant hide cruelty they say behind tradition. The two sides will never agree, but the tradition is being eroded by regulation and by outside pressure on a tiny nation that values tourism for revenue. Some residents believe that the whale hunt may die out in little more than a decade. U. S. Military has charged a soldier who went missing from his army base in afghanistan in 2009 with officers and misbehavior. A hearing will determine if he will face a court martial. The taliban held him captive for five years and reds him last year. Peter greste superintendent four hundreds hundred days in an james jail. Hes called for a universal charter for press freedom. What we wanted to do was find a way to protect journalists. We suggested some kind of universal Media Freedom charter the kind of document that has no weight in itself, carries no legal weight, but carries the kind of moral authority of the human rights charter which set a Gold Standard to finding the relationship between governments and the media. It would set out the responsibilities of each. It would set out the boundaries and the way the relationship is supposed to work and can be used as a benchmark by which both of us can be measured. As to the news this hour, there is more on the web. See you at the top of the hour. A show about innovations that can change lives. This is fighting a humanity and we are doing it in a unique way. This is a show about science by scientists. Lets check out the team of. Ive got a headset on, finger clicker, a heart break