a chance for the last week or so. the russians say that they ve now entirely encircled the city. that would be strategically important because that means they ve no started to move forces into the city where they say they are fighting in the streets as for the ukrainians. they say that is simply not the case that the city has not yet been encircled. the russians have not been able to cross an important river in the north of the city to give them that access. odyssey can independently a can farm either claim. but what we do know is that if the russians were to take less, a chance that would essentially give them entire control of the hand screeching. and in the 6 major cities, they are now add that to the gains that they re worried made in the nest. that means the whole of the don bus would essentially be under russian control, and that is strategically significant because that is where the russian started to move their military attention to after they failed to move into keys
Will it finally happen . A public utility uh political crisis in yemen may be drawing to a close. Shia rebels known as houthis have taken control of the president ial palace and most of the capital for the past 24 hours. Yemen which serves as a home base to a branch of al qaeda appeared to be on the brink of a coup but now a new deal. The rebels will return control back to the deposit houthis will be granted more access to government jobs and positions within the military. Now al jazeera has obtained a leaked phone conversation, it suggests a former yemeni president who was ousted during the arab spring has been working with the houthis for months. Caroline malone has this exclusive report. Reporter in audioare, leaks to al jazeera we hear a phone call that happened just after the houthis took control of the capital sanaa in september. In the phone call sallah tells him to speak to his people, soninlaw a leading gpc figure. Get in touch with aref. All right. Also abdul aziz. God willin
Ukraine is preparing for its first president ial election since the protest that toppled former president victory yanukovych. Russia president Vladimir Putin said russia will respect the out come of the election. As the vote nears violence is growing in eastern ukraine. Al jazeera has more from doneskt. This under lies an exclusive situation in eastern ukraine. Militia on militia, violence socalled antiterrorist. The defense unit stands for an united ukraine, but like the pro separatists they cover their faces, wear uniforms, and carry weapons. Now people here are extremely worried about that. They say that whoever stands for what its just another set of people with weapons on the streets. So far most of the fighting seems to happen outside of the towns and the big cities mainly at check points. But there is a real anxiety that that fighting could eventually inch closer to the city centers. People are also worried that in the next 48 hours there could be a further up tick in violence a
Hundreds of thousands of people die each year because the prescriptions they need arent the real deal. We begin in Southern California where seven people are dead after afternoon overnight shooting spree near the campus of uc Santa Barbara. They say people were gunned down in drive high by shootings. Al jazeeras brian rooney is there right now. What do we know at this point . Reporter isla vista is a student residential area off of the Santa Barbara campus. It is crowded with students at any time of day or night. Last night, friday night obviously, a lot of people were out. Apparently a black bmw pulled up to a group of people and the driver started shooting. There wereples nearby who engaged him. We dont have the exact sequence but there ended up being as many as nine locations where gunshots were fired. It ended with the gunman in the bmw dead. Six other people were killed by the gunman. Seven were injured. The police are still sorting it out. Its a big crime scene. It covers an area
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