Cell robin this is the aljazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes session his forces in yemen have reportedly taken control of the southern port city of aden plus. Was. A rocky start to russias attempt at a peace conference on syria also. Thousands rally in nairobi as Opposition LeaderRaul Oettinger takes an unofficial oath declaring himself kenyas peoples president. And major changes for hundreds of millions of space book users worldwide get ready for local news feeds. Welcome to the aljazeera news our surgeon is forces in yemen are reported to have taken control of the southern port city of a the Reuters News Agency says the forces which are backed by the u. A. E. Have confined the government of president but that a bomb and the to the president ial palace the takeover comes after two days of fighting the Yemeni Government is accusing saudi arabia of ignoring the action by the u. A. E. Linked forces now this is a new front in yemen civil war which has so far been dominated by fighting between president had these government and who through rebels a split has emerged in the Saudi Led Coalition that supports had the back separatists have turned on the president s troops in the south they want a separate state for southern yemen lisa session to say the region has been neglected and mistreated by the government south and north yemen and worse separate countries for much of the latter half of the Twentieth Century before uniting in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and used to be the capital of south yemen. Well how is our correspondent covered the conflict in yemen for many years joins me now in studio how much of a game changer has certainly the last twelve hours been quite significant in the sense that now forces. Affiliated with the south Secessionist Movement backed by the united. Now much of the city of aden key government buildings and key also Army Military bases especially the main one of which was run over today and activists from aden are posting footage from that base with the. Massive destruction in it has been coming under massive shelling over the last few hours there was an attempt to broker a deal which has faltered and this still fighting in different parts of the city but it is definitely a game changer because the internationally recognized government of president obama so howdy has lost control over what seems to be perhaps confusing for our International Viewers have been following this story we were trying to clarify it for them we have two sides saudi arabia and the United Arab Emirates whove been part of a coalition against who the rebels who have now split in some shape or form and were not quite sure who theyre actually backing or why the why theyve split in this fight i have to say its intricate in confusing to a certain extent because extent because in two thousand and fifteen sunday libya saudi arabia start of the coalition start of this intervention in yemen against the houthi s. He was the key player they said they wanted to interfere to stop the healthiest form destabilizing yemen what is happening that i was totally different the u. A. E. Has merged as the key player in the south they are back in group which is called the south to the Transitional Council a group of activists who want to establish an independent state in the south something was the saudis have dismissed for many years how the saudis changed their mind about it we did. Other saudis and the emirate is trying to orchestrate a new outcome force for south yemen no one knows but what we know for sure is that United Arab Emirates plays a crucial role in the south they are the most Effective Armed force they have bases in are then in how the moat and also in socalled are these key strategic areas in southern yemen and they have huge political and financial influence over the southern cities what this then part poses is the question of what will the future relationship be of the u. A. E. And saudi when it comes to yemen and what is the future of yemen both in the short and long term if you look at the map and you see the southern part of yemen is you talking about. Its coastal areas some of the most busiest shipping routes for oil tankers in the world very important it has a crucial as you political importance for the International Committee further violence and instability or fragmentation in the southern part of yemen could pave the way for groups like al qaida which is one of the most aggressive groups operating in the area to gain war foothold there it could also lead to more instability and this is something that the International Community has been concerned about for quite some time if the fighting continues different factions. Fighting for different political agenda this is going to be very dangerous for saudi arabia on one hand but also for the United States of america and for the International Community to see what happens certainly in the coming hours and days thank you well other top story that were following today and thats russias efforts to host talks on syrias political future that had a rocky start in the resort town of sochi and its foreign minister was interrupted several times when he read a message from president Vladimir Putin to the delegates. Syrian opposition members yelled out a lover off your jets a bombing our people moscow is an important ally of syrian president Bashar Al Assad and syrias main opposition groups on the kurds are refusing to attend the talks so what you should use for it on the slow youve got the war today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syrias history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the un backed mediation. Well Stephanie Decker is standing by in her belly on the turkey syria border city because two new is in istanbul but first lets go over to rory chalons in sochi and some very concerned calls from the Russian Foreign minister before he even spoke i mean one has to wonder how that speech has gone down despite the interruptions aurore. While they were interruptions both pro russia and anti russia i think we heard the the anti russian ones there but. Was preceded on the stage by a Syrian Government representative who said that hands off syria essentially foreign interference should back off that the progress has been made to lead to such easy put it had been won by the victorious syrian army on the battlefield he then said long live syria and thanks to russia following that there were there was a lot of raw of people standing up and saying you know glory to russia thank you russia so yes there are people from the opposition who have turned up here who are still very very critical of what russia has been doing in syria but there are a good many syrians who come here who see things along a more damascus aligned position and they of course think that russia has essentially saved the government of Bashar Al Assad well there has been a distinct absence of opposition groups one person that wasnt absent is stephan de mistura the u. N. Representative hell be watching very closely about what happens and what this means for talks possibly the start and of course the focus geneva. Exactly and a lot rides actually on what stefan de mistura makes of all this everything we goes on here in sochi and thats because essentially turkey and the various opposition groups have decided for one reason or another that they dont want to come here have basically said that they will they will go along with whatever is decided in sochi as long as it gets the approval of the United Nations and as long as this congress feeds into the geneva track for peace in syria because lets not forget it is geneva which is the kind of overarching architecture for a final resolution of the syrian conflict thats where things ultimately will end up the opposition groups and to a certain extent turkey as well have always felt that so if you have a danger of basically steering round geneva and trying to get more of a moscow or damascus based settlements well if stuff and im a store approves of what happens here and it filters directly into geneva then that to a greater level a better extent will satisfy some of the wishes of the opposition or for the live in rory well leave it there thank you follow events of course is such lets cross over to istanbul or correspondent sit in consumer waiting for some of the opposition syrian groups did not take part and not in attendance in sochi but theyve asked turkey to represent them and speak on their behalf why. Well so have actually here maybe a better question would be to discuss why turkey is willing to represent the Syrian Opposition in such a congress as you have also been reporting since the morning the Syrian Opposition has been offended by the Syrian Regime flags on the documents and a proposed a proposed constitution draft that actually be a paves the way for a feather out of system within syria Turkey Russia iran and the Syrian Opposition have agreed on the territorial integrity of syria since the us than the process was something turkey has worked a lot has shown a lot of effort on a political solution in syria whether its with its partners in astana russia iran and with the in direct talks with the Syrian Regime but turkey actually imus emphasized that turkey hasnt been happy about the situation ive been talking to my sources since the morning anchor doesnt seem happy about the oppositions withdrawal decision from the table thats why they agreed to represent the opposition in the congress because turkey has an ongoing operation a military operation in africa which is called this. Operation all of branch and in turkey was able to launch this operation with it with direct talks with russia because russia yeah russia has an influence now friend so took it doesnt want its operation to be damaged also turkey doesnt want its relations with russia and iran to be damaged so this is actually a main point about this or presentation but well see how that transpires the coming days moving sort of thank you lets cross over to stephanie dechen our correspondent whos actually only turkey syria border in culture bayley or very close really to the conflict zone of our screen and. As weve been talking about for nearly three or four days now turkish offensive continues staff those kurdish groups to sending their positions just bring us up to speed on what we know so choose. Well thats you know the campaign is ongoing and we are just further its quite a hazy day but theres a bit of smoke coming from the village that villages inside syria turkey has been shelling that so its been quite an ongoing you know the border situation has been very active throughout this conflict which is now into its second week because what im trying to do is first push the y. P. G. Fighters thats a group they deem a terrorist organization away from its borders now weve understand from the Turkish Military that theyve dropped leaflets over the last couple of hours in the areas of africa urging people in civilians to not support the why p. G. But from what we understand certainly speaking to some sources inside is that it is a very difficult situation for those civilians particularly because of the shelling and the airstrikes of course also there is no you know its an ongoing conflicts of people are scared theres no aid coming in to the area so these are some of the challenges and briefly also you know while you talk about those those talks turkey here is using the Free Syrian Army fighters to lucius offensive weve seen the moving around here today they have bases along this border so just give indication that you know the Foreign Countries with syrian fighters all taking part in this operation its certainly just an indication of how complicated syrias war is for the moment so for leave of course that situation does develop stuff back of us on the take the soviet border now kenyas Opposition Leader has taken an unofficial oath in a ceremony held in protest over last years election and hes calling himself the peoples president and sense of victory in the twenty seventeen votes was stolen from him thousands of his supporters gathered in you in the capital nairobi the attorney general had warned challenging president who can yet to amounts to treason. Rolo digger claims he won the president ial election last august now the Electoral Commission declared who can yet are the winner of that vote didnt get a challenge the results on the Supreme Court agreed nullifying the result over what it called irregularities now the Court Ordered a new vote in october which can yet are won again during a boycotted the vote citing a lack of electoral reforms catherine soy is our correspondent in the capital nairobi and there was certainly uncertainty around the overtaking it did happen catherine the Opposition Leaders seem to be strongly supported. Absolutely and its you cant imagine that just a couple of hours ago this place was full of people of full of supporters of the Opposition Coalition waiting to witness this symbolic swearing in of loading up but it was also a day that was back to for many who left disappointed and we talked to some of them and they said the reason why theyre disappointed is that the three other main corelation partners did not show up including colognes almost. Deputy and was supposed to be sworn in alongside dry allowed. On the podium said that he will later give details as to why the other principals did not show up but there are also other people so hale that we talked to who are saying that it doesnt matter loading us war on the bible to protect and stop the kenyan people as the peoples president a lot of people i talk to say they have their hopes on him he is the change that kenya needs but Going Forward its going to be interesting to see what he does after today and also to get more details on what exactly this peoples president and tails. Be in the short term catherine but then one wonders what the end game isnt whats the longer you want to see opposition really hope to achieve by this sort of symbolic action and maybe are they on a collision course with the current government. Well what the opposition has been talking to has been talking about for weeks now is dialogue he said that hes been pushing for dialogue with to address some of the concerns of the opposition he says that. The president has been reluctant to have those stocks so saying by doing this he hopes that is going to put more pressure on the president to actually reach out and sit down with the opposition to listen to their grievances he also says that hes going to use to push more put more pressure on the government and the ruling party and hes going to use this socalled Peoples Assembly this Peoples Assembly is a forum that which has been established by the opposition and entrenched supposed to be entrenched with the county government its a forum made up of different stakeholders really just leaders politicians women and youth groups and so forth to push for electoral reforms and to address other issues that affect the country so were hopes to use that i think thats why the government is so jittery because its not just about the swearing in these people this Peoples Assembly which has already been induced by several counties are you know potentially a very powerful. Platform that can be used to advance the agenda of the opposition and we are seeing people within these forums already pledging their allegiance to. Review. Thank you. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including in the lead up to the u. S. President s state of the Union Address we talked to young undocumented immigrants living in fear of deportation. Also somalias government says it has come up with a Long Term Plan to tackle drought and famine we have a report from mogadishu. And in sports a sixty year old Baseball Team logo is to go to tatiana will explain why. Now the speaker of catalonia has parliament has to stone the vote for the regions president carla spiritual whos been living in brussels as the only candidate its unclear when the vote will take place left to spain in october after his government declared independence in a referendum ruled illegal by madrid while the foka joins me now live from barcelona i mean why was the Independence Movement trying to perspire in the investiture of their leader. In the speaker of the castle on Parliament Said that the postponing didnt twit happen indefinitely for a number of reasons he said to allow for meaningful dialogue but also to protect the guarantees of political immunity of the only man on the list for the leadership congress. But serve the Independence Movement knows that its somewhat backed into a corner largely because carlos bridgeman is two thousand kilometers away in selfimposed exile in brussels if he came here to atten