Over a newly revealed document that uses iran to use one of its own inspectors to investigate one of its most sensitive nuclear sites. On the front line. There has been an al shabaab ambush on the road. Al jazeera on the front lines, as government does battle with al shabaab rebels. And the next big thing. People right anow will end up on television, will end up in films made by hollywood producers. Fringe festival is on, as artists take center stage to showcase their talents. Good evening im antonio mora. This is lo al jazeera america. We begin in yemen where the tide is turning once again in the battle for the control of the war torn country. For the second day in a row Houthi Rebels launched an attack on progovernment rebels in the south. At least five government fighters were killed in the attack. This latest offensive marks a rebound for the houthis. The group has spent weeks retreating as those allied with the pro government rebels, and the head of the u. N. s World Food Program say the people are on the brink of famine, 10 million children are in urgent need of aid. Jerald tan has the latest. Once a playground, these streets are now a battle ground. For the children of yemen war means being forced to grow up quickly. My sisters and i get so frightened when we hear the bullets. We are afraid that we will die. Im frightened when i hear war planes. I cant sleep. Im afraid this war will expand and ill lose friends to this war. The grim statistics support their fears. On average, three children are killed in the fighting every day, five more are wounded, many maimed for life. These deaths are unnecessary. The vast majority of the people in yemen have nothing to do with this. They want to have nothing to do with this. They want to good about, they want to live their lives, they want to educate their children, see their children grow up. They dont want this. They are suffering unnecessarily. Its not just about direct attacks. Even before the conflict access to food and water in this impoverished country was difficult. That situation is far more dire now. Children who dont have enough to eat are turning up in hospitals. Nearly two million are expected to suffer from malnutrition this year. World food program estimates 1 in 5 yemenis is severely food insecure. The lack of access by hoourmts to the vulnerable humanitarians, for people not able to access foods, for us to mill grain when it comes in and the lack of clean water, a perfect storm that is brewing inside yemen right now. Reporter every aspect of life in yemen have been disrupted. Markets with limited food. Hospitals, trained development, schools unable to stay open. The concern is that children will continue to bear the brunt of this war long after the fighting is over. Gerald tan, al jazeera. Joining us from washington is yemeni political analyst a foal with the center for strategic studies. Good to have you with us as always. I know you still have family in yemen, you cant have been too surprised about this report. How bad are things in yemen and are they getting worse . I mean that report said it all. The statistics are horrifying and we really have to salute the aid workers that are daring to go into yemen now and trying to help the people. The biggest problem is the lack of electricity and lack of humanitarian aid reaching people in conflict areas. It is turning ugly every day. Yemen is now facing a huge divide, culturally speaking, because the war is turning into a regional civil war meaning that people from the north are turning against people in the south. The people in the south are turning against people in the north. And then there are more divisions, more than the northsouth divide. Right. And its turning into a racist battle and so society now is fragmenting and dividing from within and yemens government tends to be in out. The government in exile in saudi arabia, do you think the tide is turning so the government can return at least to set up sniflt souther itselfn yemen . Unfortunately they dont havefully presence on the ground. They have sent a few ministers to the city of aden however they dont havefully ministers or employees to operate underneath them, there is no structure for them operate from. There have been new appointments, for example, the United States has just appointed a new yemeni ambassador who just arrived a few weeks ago. The government is operating more abroad than inside yemen. On the ground though operation goldegolden arrow that liberatee city of aden, seems to be getting weaker. They keep on launching attacks, the houthis and not back down. The only way out of the situation really is to reach a peace settlement that everything can agree on other than that it will turn ugly. The problem with the peace settlement and the governments fight again the houthis, formerly allied with i. S. I. L. And al qaeda, and the herac movement this wants to separate south yemen from north yemen as it was in the past. There is total chaos, and these groups like quea quaip al qaedan peninsula, they have emerged in yemen when the war started, when we talk about yemen, we are talking about different types of militias or local resistance fighters that are fighting against the houthis. Some items of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, have assisted in fighting the houthis off. The taizz where predominantly a Muslim Brotherhood militia was able to kick the houthis out. However the day following that there were incidents of slaughtering houthi people, new to yemen, we have never seen images coming out of yemen like that before. And right now the north of yemen seems to be surrounded on the are port of hadetha, was destroyed by the houthi led coalition. A civil war, and on top of that air strikes coming in and hadis government does not seem to be backing down from the demand that the houthis return, and the United Nations resolution 2216. It poses danger for the groups that have gotten stronger there. Thank you for joining us. Absolutely. The misery faced by Palestinian Refugees caught in the Syrian Civil War at the yar [ music ] rar michael okwyarmichael okwuyarmoe camp has left 18,000 refugees without foot water or medical supplies. I. S. I. L. Has apparently beheaded aworld renown archaeologist. Neave barker reports. For half a century halaad assad was a guardian of the ancient roman ruins, he was beheaded by the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. Before the syrian conflict, palmyrapalmyras ancient buildw tourists from around the world. He oversaw research and rest traition. He was so much involved in part of the history and archaeology of that place, that he would live there and die there if need be and he did pay the ultimate price. In better days, assad showed foreign di dignitaries around te site. Likes francoi is miterran. Then i. S. I. L. Came to palmyra, he was taken hostage and apparently interrogated. I. S. I. L. Has destroyed hundreds of heritage sites across syria and iraq. Sledge hammers and power drills have been used to ruin priceless artifacts. Some prietless artifacts have been smuggled out. But it is believe that i. S. I. L. Have sold some on the black market to help finance their campaign. 25 men in a packed amphitheater before their apparent execution. And now the beheading of halad assad, a renown archaeologist who devoted his life to palmyra. Now at the mercy of i. S. I. L. Neave barker, al jazeera. The hunt continues for the main person believed responsible in mondays deadly bombing in bangkok, that killed 20 people and injured more than 100. Thai police now believe he did not act alone and are looking for two more people. Scott heidler has the latest from bangkok. This is the man thai police are hunting for in connection with the shrine attack. They issued an arrest warrant saying he appeared to be a foreigner. They are offering a 28,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. His image is shown on tv and constant figure on social media but police dont think he worked alone. Two different suspects have been identified in closed circuit tv of the bomb site. We will make a conclusion who they are and their identity and nationality. But at the moment these pieces from the bombs are seemingly coming from our own country. He added that the physical evidence could reveal signatures that could help them pinpoint where the bomb was made. At this stage of the investigation theyre not ruling anything out spaicial when it comes to the motivation behind the attacks. These bombings come just as tourism is rebounding here in thailand and the numbers of the all important Chinese Market doubled this year compared to the same time last year. The United NationsTourism Organization said these were attacks directly on thies that t are so directly connected to tourism. This has reassured some of the tourists. Translator at first i was shocked to hear about the blast. After assessing the situation i think bangkok may be safer after the bomb. Reporter as friends and relatives look at the list of the dead and injured from mondays bombing, thailand admits it will have to work hard toars prevent such attacks. Scott heidler, al jazeera, bangkok. Iranian hostage crisis, why do iranians distrust americans . And later, under pressure from the United States. South sudans president now says he will sign a peace agreement. New controversy tonight over Irans Nuclear program. A secret agreement between tehran and the International Atomic energy agency. It would allow iran to use its own inspectors to inspect nuclear sites. One separate from that negotiated with u. S. And five world powers. Briefed on the deal and endorsed it. Meanwhile, negotiations over the iran deal have highlighted the complicated relationship that that country has with the United States. Distrust between the two nations can be traced back to events on this date 52 years ago. In our in context segment tonight, Roxana Saberi looks at the history of distrust between washington and tehran. Attention is focused once again on the middle east where events in iran have taken a dramatic twist. An american hand set the nation of iran on a course away from democracy. 300 killed and hundreds wounded is a conservative estimate. Prime minister mohammed mosadi had been elected years earlier, nationalized the oil industry. 500 Million Pound oil refinery. They fiercely owned the move. Exit was shortlived. A proshah upride, and the shah returned with a fortified hold on power. Iranian artist julia focused on the issue. About art history as a country, all of you seem to remember iran after the islamic revolution, this democracy was stolen from us by the american government. In 2013 a declassified cia document, showed the revolution was American Made to smother a communist threat. It was characterized as a real james bond operation. In rome a bewildered young shah prepared to fly home. Thus it was the strategic Little Nation of iran was rescued from the closing clutch of moscow. Feeling control of their own political destiny slip away. The film also speaks to the iranian people and asking them to return to their history and look at themselves before they were so islamicized. In the way we looked in the way we played music in the way we had intellectual life and most of all, in the way that we fought for democracy. Roxana saberi, al jazeera. Iran ibrahimian, City University of new york, it is always good to have you with us professor. Thank you. The coouch 62 years ago, iranian hostage crisis happened 36 years ago. Isnt it sometime to get past this . I think both have had a deep effect on popular thinking in both countries. And its become part of i think i would say national culture. Its like pearl harbor in United States. Its long time ago but people know about it, they might not know the details but we had perfectly good relations with japan now. Exactly. After a while, now is the time when you get politicians in both washington and tehran, who are willing to say well the past is the past. Lets look at our national interests. And i think both the obama administration, rouhani administration, dont want to be bogged down in basically past history. They want to look at whats in both countrys interests. One thing, would that coup have happened had the cia and the United Kingdom as well not intervened . Not at all. The iranians in fact according to the cia documents were not organizing a coup. In fact the cia had to give the shah and ultimate mawm t ultima. We cant guarantee you the throne afterwards. So this was basically a threat to the shah. Now given the inherent tensions that exist between the two countries then, how can this Nuclear Agreement go forward . Well, because i think both leaders, both here and there, are again not interested in these questions of distrust. They are far more interested in practical lets say insurances that there is not going to be cheating. But then we have all this recent news. We have the secret agreement with the iaea, that would allow iranian investigation of their own site and the most influential investigators, and isnt this all giving a lot of meat to the opponents of the deal . Too much is being made of it. For instance we dont know exactly what international u. N. Agreement is. But what can i see is theyre talking about what was being done in iran before 2003. So were talking about again past history. The cia and 17 american intelligence agencies have said theres been no iranian, basically, experimentation with Nuclear Weapons since 2003. That anything that was done would have been earlier. So when were talking about inspections about past activities, were talking about history, were not talking about anything youre talking about how rouhani and president obama want to move forward. But are you among the optimists who think that not only this deal will work but this could lead to a broader improvements between iran and the u. S . Yes, im an optimist. I think things will improve. But i dont see a sort of friendly relations, an alliance between the u. S. And iran. I think this is overblown. I think there is a fear in israel somehow that iran will come the u. S. Main ally in the region replacing israel. Thats not possible. What youll get is much more of a normalization in which the danger of war is no longer there. U. S. Is assured that iran does not have is not interested in building bombs, and iran gets the assurances from the United States that actually u. S. Is not out for regime change. And thats one of the major things the iranians actually are concerned about. Professor irwin ibrahimian. Thank you. According to the state department, some documents at the state department, the Nixon Administration feared a Nuclear Israel would worsen fragile relations with its arab neighbors. Rld has throsalyn jordan has th. Reporter nixon suspected israel was developing Nuclear Weapons, as the defense secretary put it, if the israelis complete a Nuclear Weapon within the three to six months which is quite possible, well be unable to invoke sanctions. Now the state department has released hundreds of documents describing the arguments u. S. Diplomats and generals had about the situation. The documents show that the pentagon wanted to play tough. Dont give the israelis is f4 phantom fighter jets like these see here unless the israelis abandon their Nuclear Weapons program. Ultimately the state department and the National Security advisor Henry Kissinger prevailed, if they didnt press golda meir, it would be easier for her to make concessions in the peace talks. Sort of from kissingers perspective, it was better that they dont test the weapon to keep it basically concealed. Reporter another goal was to get the israelis to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation treaty. Meier was facing election at home. Israel has never signed the npt and has never admit it has Nuclear Weapons. Rio drosalyn jordan, al jazeera. Doctors say he is suffering from brain damage, alan is in a medically induced coma. And can be treated as a patient not a prisoner. Coming up next, mohammad adow takes us along with soldiers trying to hold their ground against the notorious fighters. And a look at the life boats that thousands of refugees are hoping are a life line to a better life in europe. Urope. Only on al jazeera america. Welcome back to al jazeera america. Im antonio mora. Coming up this this half hour of international news, nato warns incursions into ukraine. But in our american minute. Three firefighters have been killed battling battling wildfin washington state. Blazes that burned through thousands of acres in the eastern and southern portions of the state. Former Freedom Industries president gary southern has pleaded guilty to the West Virginia chemical spill. Southern could face three years in prison when he is sentenced in december. An angry protest broke out in st. Louis, officers say they were serving a warrant when the man pulled a gun on them and they opened fire. Gathering at the scene, some shouting, black lives matter. They had participated in a rally separating a one Year Anniversary of an attack on an individual. To cut off al shabaab supplies, until that happens, somali soldiers are trying to hold the line. Al jazeeras mohammad adow went to the front lines to witness the battle firsthand. These are the men somalia wants to use in its effort to seize territory back from al shabaab fighters. They are the latest recruits for the Somali National army. Now trained in the port city, one of the laf of the last survg strongholds of al shabaab. We cannot allow them to continue to use this area as a hideout. We have flushed them out in other areas we shall do it here too. Reporter it i