Im Adrian Finnegan this is al jazeera life and also coming up Turkish Backed forces fight for strategic mountain in Northern Syria. One of hong kongs most prominent activists is barred from standing for election. Corruption and conflict high on the agenda as African Union leaders hold their annual summit. Yemens Prime Minister is accusing separatists of staging a coup this after several people were killed in fighting between armed groups in the city of aden been reports of heavy gunfire in the southern port city separatists allied with the United Arab Emirates but all of this with the saudi backed government of president a bribe a month so hadi groups want control of yemens Southern Region lets speak to some a humdinger whos a middle east analyst who joins us now live from london skype yemens Prime Minister that accusing separatists of staging a coup whats your impression of whats going on in a can of why what are you hearing. I think that. Oh. I think you get a little. More over the situation at the moment there is no real time you know and fighting between. All of them and im thinking. Maybe. He does know who. The woman that you want to know and then. None of them. And they know they dont want to so theyve been waiting for this opportunity to. Run the government and they can only. Be in my office and you move i dont even. Know where. You might. Find. A case of the u. A. E. Is which supports the separatists is fighting alongside saudi arabia in this coalition against the who things in the north of the country where this whats going on in a leave that coalition. I think you really. Want to believe me dont you want your. Loved. Ones were found to be want to make sure that were going to even consideration you know what im looking for the only person. On the ballot in the. Fight in. Iraq. So the review from day one had never really been undervalued my pal id be willing to bet my not to believe me when. Im training. Im going to. Do when do you get home and they dont know the current president on the right so it could the u. A. E. Apply pressure to the separatists and put a stop to whats going on. And could saudi arabia pressure the u. A. E. To do so i dont think. The pressure and the arab spring. We can i think you are going to want to pressure. On. I think. I learned about. Four thousand people so who the. Represents and sounds today much. Older than you were just going around in the media remembering. The coming out party go by what you can. Not necessarily in this region. So much always you know. Theres no reasonable question there are many so where in your opinion is this going sammy and what are its regional implications. I think that none of the. Problems really are going to happen no parent. Morrow morning when tired and i dont wake. Up from a slight risk. Even then becoming aware of the change in you know when to call back i mean number one in your honor yes your honor what you have been so proud of the money some of you have very important country in yemen. You are there you even are now living. In the region. And your ready and all of you will know we have who do you. Think you will know that you have its own you have your own lives on the. Enormous youre really an asian i think we didnt want to separate yet and based on Current Situation it could change but i dont think were going to live in your mind youre not in yemen. I mean really good to talk to many thanks. In london the battle for free in Northern Syria is intensifying Turkish Backed forces are fighting the kurdish wiping gene for a strategic mountain for syria turkey border turkey is accusing the white p. G. Of firing shells into its territory on saturday three civilians were killed in killis in cross border fire meanwhile turkeys military says that its killed daily five hundred kurdish y p g fighters in the past week in Northern Syria it says the fighters whom it calls terrorists have been neutralized in the campaign to take out free tickets military is trying to drive out kurdish fighters from the border area lets go live now to that border area in killis on the turkish syria border is al jazeera as Stephanie Deca president has been talking about the strategic importance of the hills that we can see behind you there stephanie. Yes he mentioned that had spoken to a commander on the ground that hopefully he was going to take a mountain that it would be taken very soon you mentioned strategic yes it is because it is that close to the Turkish Border now we are in chemists that you mentioned weve been seeing relentless rocket fire out going towards a mountain theres been artillery and theres been a heavy presence of jets in the sky throughout the period that weve been here all morning weve seen airstrikes as well behind us heavy smoke and also just briefly because of the location where and ill get to zoom in youll also see in the distance those tents those are camps for the internally displaced in side syria we went into syria just a couple of days ago and millions of people remain you know in camps in very difficult conditions in the winter adrian with nowhere to go and again this war simply changes its course so yes this front now which is sort of the eastern North Eastern front of a very active today there was more to very outgoing now as we were talking we drove up along the western front which is usually very active as well in terms of outgoing artillery that was relatively quiet so it seems to be all happening here today i know its a lot for the south from where you are but i know youre across watch whats happening the Eastern Ghouta just outside damascus where a russia brokered cease fire has been in place since saturday the reports of violations that cease fire. Yes three People Killed yesterday and today five according to activists we can that weve spoken to just seeing if you will can you get that zoom or maybe no theres outgoing behind us i dont think our camera will be able to get it quite accurately but yes going back to. That cease fire according to activists airstrikes and artillery both yesterday and today the problem with this agent is you have various groups and two of those have been subscribed to the cease fire one of those is a group that russia considers a terrorist organization. Led by the group. It is in the store front so when we talk about cease fires its all very relative when it comes to the ground just briefly the concern here is for the civilians inside this besieged area as part of the ceasefire we also heard that they were going to try and get humanitarian aid into eastern we know that you can say that but the practicality and the logistics of getting aid crossline into areas like this getting all sides to agree is incredibly difficult none of that has happened so again you know it shows why sometimes are quite cynical when theyre talking about talks or cease fires because what politicians agree on at the negotiating table in nice hotels thousands of kilometers away doesnt really translate to the conflict on the ground right stuff many thanks indeed out there Stephanie Decker reporting live from kill is. One of hong kongs most prominent prodemocracy activists has been barred from running in a byelection the government says the child cannot be a candidate because her partys political platform violates the citys electoral law the twenty one year old is a member of a Hong Kong Group that wants more autonomy from china the decision is seen as the latest move in the governments crackdown against opposition politicians. In hong kong. Many people here say they are angry and confused by the governments decision to bar. The government says agnes cha is not eligible to run in these elections because of her partys political stance they advocate selfdetermination and more autonomy for hong kong but until now all of those papers were in order she in fact gave up her british passport to stand in these elections so many are saying that this decision is unexpected and has no basis the goal experts say that this is decision could set a precedent perhaps in the future barring candidates from of the elections based on some high level officials decision or perhaps opinion that they can do that history or their political party. Manifesto is not suitable for joseph chang is a professor of political Political Science at the City University of hong kong he says that many others are following in agnes childs footsteps. The movement has been fairly well prepared for this kind of action and in fact alternative candidates have been people so we are looking to worst securing the three out of four seats to be elected in a coming by your action on march eleventh and it is generally believed that peace end of the hong kong people the hope of these candidates to win in the coming value but the whole idea is that our people are very very worried that any tax and balances mechanisms that remains are being seriously eroded and that the rule of law in home in the territory which is very very much cherished has been damaged has been and these seriously tell and leaders from fifty five African Union nations are meeting in ethiopia for the in the organizations annual summit and the fight against corruption is taking center stage nigerias president Muhammadu Buhari is being put in charge of the blocks first of Anti Corruption drive they also discussed conflicts and their goal to end all wars across the continent by twenty twenty but there are challenges thirteen of the eighteen a you Member States due to hold elections this year either in conflict emerging from one or have a history of electoral strife a bloc will also tackle how to pay for its projects it wants to be able to finance itself completely but now most of its money comes from foreign donors aljazeera is Mohammed Atta is in ethiopias capital. A governing office to fly for leaders majority of them coming from. Widespread corruption and discussing my thoughts seems. So many people are skeptical whether they can deal with option. Other seems. Like they have not come to understand there is some. Use in prison. Until i can a man who has taken. Something that many see. Loses a lot of money on the feeling here is that one dollar loss to ease one dollar less full funding education and health care and all the needs of the peoples of the continent and that its time to not only talk about it but also go a step farther than deal with its whether they can do it in the show tom still up in the. U. S. President donald trump has called for Decisive Action against the taliban after it claimed responsibility for saturdays suicide bomb attack in afghanistan at least one hundred three people were killed in kabul more than two hundred thirty others were injured by explosives that were hidden inside an ambulance the boma managed to get through security in the citys most heavily protected area jennifer plus reports from couple. Prison ashraf ghani has declared several days of mourning here in afghanistan you can see the National Flag flying at half staff as all the flags will be across the country it is to allow at the Afghan People to mourn with those killed and injured in that massive bomb attack here in kabul on saturday afternoon the u. S. President has joined the chorus of condemnations from around afghanistan and around the world saying that the United States remains committed to supporting a stable afghanistan and calling on countries to take Decisive Action against those who support the taliban really a veiled remark to pakistan which the United States and afghanistan accuses of supporting the taliban a charge that islam abroad denies the United States has already stopped hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to pakistan because its of alleged support of armed groups also in this put six men on the u. S. Terror list including a number of pakistani citizens because of their alleged support of the taliban and the question here is what more can be done already airstrikes have more than doubled in two thousand and seventeen against the taliban thousands more u. S. Troops have come in to support the Afghan NationalSecurity Forces president ashraf ghani was meeting with the commander of u. S. Forces actually of Central Command general just a votel he was here in kabul when that attack happened on saturday he reaffirmed the u. S. Support for the Afghan NationalSecurity Forces and they are out in full force. Cross the Afghan Capital today checking cars checking people looking for anyone suspicious as the funerals get underway a weather update thanks to you and i was there and then live pictures from moscow as antigovernment protesters gather in the City Hall Police shut down an opposition t. V. Station. And boom time in china i will tell you why prices for chinese medicine are going through the roof. Welcome back as we look at the weather across asia across more Northern Areas weve got a frontal system which is pushing across Japan Bringing with it some rain indeed in places or some snow so theres the forecast through monday snow showers coming in across the sea of japan on to the western side of honshu tokyo probably offering to party staying largely dry northern parts of japan really cold mana six says the mix and you see the cold air over towards a little bit or in mongolia beijing that just above freezing the cold air is going along way south of had snow in shanghai and temperatures struggling just two degrees that will become slightly warmer as we head through tuesday but five is still below average for this time of the year the cold air extends a long way say affair with hong kong seeing a high of just eleven degrees the cold air pushing in across northern parts of vietnam twelve as a mix some in hanoi and some dresses well it probably wont be a very nice at all same really goes for choose taken those temperatures below what the should be want to get across into laos and through towards me amar then you get some more typical weather conditions yangons thirty two degrees have to use you see at this time of the year heading into southeastern parts of asia the really heavy rain across the philippines is clearing away otherwise some showers for java and bali please move up through the malay pinchers looking largely dry and fine for both singapore and kuala lumpur the fine across much of thailand thirty two the high in bangkok. Personal stories of lebanese villagers on the border with israel the blue line runs through this period their daily struggles when we go get Emergency Forces stop us when we go there they shoot at us. And peaceful protests during the manipulation of the interior means the fines and resistance and piecemeal time gets Means Nothing at night and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on aljazeera. And again the main news this hour on aljazeera yemens Prime Minister is accusing separatists of staging a coup in the city of aden this after several people were killed in fighting between armed groups in the area separatists allied with the United Arab Emirates but at odds with the saudi backed government of president up trouble once a hearty. The battle for freedom in Northern Syria is intensifying Turkish Backed forces are fighting the kurdish why p. G. For a strategic mounted on the syria turkey border turkeys military says that its killed nearly five hundred kurdish fighters in the past week in Northern Syria one of hong kongs most prominent prodemocracy activists has been barred from standing for election the government says that agnes chow cannot be a candidate in the byelection because her partys political platform violates the territories electoral laws childs party wants more autonomy from china. In honduras the inauguration of president Hollande Hondas has been marred by protests demonstrators say there were irregularities in vote counting that sohan does win a second term in November John holeman reports from to go seek help. Inside the National Stadium or to rangers president juan orlando and mondays was sworn in for his second term. And outside things were different. It sums up a nation divided by elections in which there were serious irregularities we are demanding our votes be respected we voted and defeated the narco dictator even with all his resources we defeated him you can see the protesters trying to advance on the National Stadium but there is a big line of military police arent letting them get anywhere near and its turned into a little bit of a pitched battle with tear gas and stones. Numbers were way down from the tens of thousands that marks two months ago a sense of futility more than thirty deaths has dampened the spirits of many in his speech the president gave the barest of mentions to the crisis agreeing to look at the letter to reform in the future its dumb or new thought b