And welcome to aljazeera live from our headquarters in doha with me and. Also ahead. Two days of fighting in yemen and southern secessionists have taken control of the port city of aden. Donald trump gets ready to deliver his state of the Union Address that weve just received a preview and well bring you some of the details and drumming up business with whats in store for britains Prime Minister on her way to china. Russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country but the Syrian Opposition boycott of the event saying. No want. Reports from the conference and which was mobbed by squabbles on the heckling of the Russian Foreign minister. For several hours it seemed like the syria in sochi would collapse before it began turkish backs opposition figures refused to participate after arriving at saatchis airport overnight offended by the presence of Syrian Government flags. We were surprised to see that none of the promises were kept needed a brutal bombardment stopped nowhere the Syrian Regime flags and slogans removed from the conference banners and we have seen a lack of diplomatic manners from the host country which. Two hours late spring seedings finally got underway. But the chaos continues to ring Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov opening remarks in the conference hall. In the room one thousand three hundred ninety three International Observers and delegates from many walks of syrian life political religious ethnic cultural and business they pushed ahead with dialogue agreeing in the end to embrace twelve principles developed in the un stalled geneva process and to form a Constitutional Committee comprising Syrian Government and opposition figures but there was no disguising the absence of the main rebel organizations among them the Syrian Negotiations Committee the key concern that many in the opposition have had about sochi and whats kept plenty of figures away is that this would turn into a way for russia to sidestep the official un track to peace well thats something the russians have denied strenuously here saying this was never meant to compete with geneva and now they say they are handing the baton on to stefan de mistura its a task the u. N. Special envoy has chosen to accept their Constitutional Committee to be formed comprising the government of this. Republic delegation along with the why represented opposition delegation for drafting a constitutional reform and the main tests for the ultimate success of sochi whether the opposition factions who stayed away can be persuaded to endorse its decisions and whether it does as russia says was always the intention reinvigorate talks in geneva rory chalons aljazeera sochi. So yemen. Have taken control of the southern port city of aden thats where the saudi backed government of president. Has been basins two thousand and fourteen when i was pushed out of the capital by hoofy rebels well there was this News Agency Says the forces which are backed by the u. A. E. Have confined have these government to the president ial palace suggesting splits and they sell the lead coalition. That has the latest. The seat of power for yemens government is no longer under its control this is the sudden port city of aden where secessionist say they are now in charge fighters from the Southern Transitional council have seized areas around the president ial palace and military bases. The Prime Ministers call to cease fire has not worked the government of president. Is based out of saudi arabia and the man he appointed as governor of aden now heads the separatist movement secessionist said given how the made to change its government and when the deadline expired on sunday thousands of their supporters took to the streets of aden. That. We demand this corrupt gang in the liberated southern areas be expelled our youth have sacrificed for the school the sacrifices cannot go down the drain and see this corrupt gang in power to them we say enough is enough. Many people in the south of accuse the government in the north of discrimination since united in one thousand nine hundred the situation has worsened since the war against the who began three years ago. We aspire to form a state the Coalition Must consider our cause if not they will be the losers as we were store our country and our state not only on osama doing we are here today holding our ground youll remain in the streets we will topple the field government we will topple bin doctor and his government as theyve humiliated our people the people. The Saudi Led Coalition was supposed to fight the iran backed with the rebels you could call much of the north including the capital. That the United Arab Emirates which is part of that coalition has been supporting the separatists in the south by u. S. Partner saudi arabia backs the internationally recognized government which no longer has any control in the north or the south out but despite that the saudis insist the coalition has been splendid. To have. The position of the u. A. E. Remains deeply consistent with other members of the coalition concerning the yemen crisis the Foreign Ministers meeting last week was good evidence that members of the coalition are united and will take the liberation of yemen as their ultimate goal but instead of liberating and uniting yemen the war seems to have pushed the country to the brink of breaking up some of the job it does there. Now in just two hours from now u. S. President will deliver his first state of the Union Address to a joint session of congress as used to outline the president s legislative agenda for the year ahead exits have been released ahead of the address the president will talk about her successes with tax reforms and also push for cross Party Corporation of emigration as more divisive policies and fonda promising have prompted several democrats to boycott the address. I have attended every state of the union since one nine hundred ninety eight this president doesnt respect the office of the presidency at all and so i dont want to normalise that there are many reasons first day when you just look at his asshole comments about africa and about el salvador and about haiti my ancestors came from the continent of africa these were very racist comments and we see how they are translated into many of his policies secondly hes using our young people are dreamers in terms of a pawn in a political game and hes got them in limbo and they shouldnt be this have this anxiety about their lives well lets bring in aljazeera senior political analyst on the shah is joining us live from london so what would you be looking for the centrists would the real state of the nation in mind. Well certainly theres going to be a lot of boasting about the rolling economy as he sees it and certainly is going to be talk about infrastructure which probably will be good in terms of bridging gaps with the democrats and theyll be talking of that theyll be talk about immigration and certainly trade and National Security i think Foreign PolicyNational Security in general come you know towards the end and less in for sized in state of the union as it where especially when the United States is not you know in a new type of war as it were now of course a lot of us and a lot of americans forget that they are still at the war in afghanistan. After seventeen years of war in that country and now that they are deployed in syria and theyre deployed in iraq and lloyd in so many bases around the world there are more than hundreds. And twenty so far greenman state status of forces agreement in various parts of the world with with so many bases up to several hundreds so really the United States is present in all kinds of places but for the city of the union there will be probably this time around more talk about the Economy Infrastructure and immigration and on the on their presence in so many places around the world my one dollar trump is actually asking for an increase in the military budget and a historic increase in defense spending and hes as we know pushing on an open door because last Year Congress passed a Defense Budget that exceeded what trump asked for the proposed budget for this year lets have a look at some of the numbers six hundred and thirty four billion dollars by two thousand and nineteen point this to increase to seven hundred and sixteen billion the extra money will be used and. Crease the number of troops and bases and trump says this is balanced by cuts and nondefense spending including foreign aid on the washington d. C. Based Pew Research Center says the number of us overseas stuff is that a sixty year low so what can we take away from the increase in the military budget yet reluctance and less involvement diplomatically it is it is mind boggling its mind boggling really because while as i said the United States is still in a in a war in places like afghanistan but i mean afghanistan its much of the war there is actually a symmetry called warfare against basically. Insurgency in the various parts of the country and it just the war goes on and on and more defense spending and more involvement in the war everyone knows is counterproductive. Just imagine that the United States spends more than more than ten times what russia spends on defense i mean its just mind boggling that the United States spends more than the following twelve countries if spends more than fifty times the defense spending of iran or around out of iran the arch enemy of donald trump now in the world so really we are not in any type of major warfare and were not in the cold war and everyone knows that Real Security threats nowadays are more cyber or more a symmetric and so so forth and to spend such a huge budgets on defense in todays world can only lead to arms race and i think the likes of china of course are picking up some of the tab and they are increasing their Defense Budgets because they are competing with the United States so instead of reaching some kind of arms deals with the lack of china russia and others the United States is leading the pact in military expenditures and that will prove totally destabilizing to the rest of the world as much as it is a drain on the American Economy from that madman thank you very much for that for now we will of course be going back to my one after we hear from the president thank you for now. Still ahead on the bulletin. Kenyas main Opposition Leader vida day led the players and self the peoples president and caution long as exiled president carter has pushed a lot speaks out against the Spanish Government. The nice pink sky by the taj mahal. Or is the sunsets in the city of angels. Welcome back the cold air is persisting across a good part of eastern china and through into northern parts of vietnam thirteen in hanoi when the temperatures should be about seventeen or eighteen degrees and i suspect for some a lot of how long day and we are on a cold and damp and drizzly at times so hong kong really struggling temperatures a long way below average and all weapons far shanghai temperatures are struggling the highs of just four degrees heading into thursday still looking on the cool side but temperatures are beginning to edge upwards and that cold air will be gone from vietnam of that states the temperatures back to where they should be for annoy across the rest of indo china it is fine and caught in hewitts much as youd expect yang on there with highs of thirty one into southeastern parts of asia weve got a few showers for the philippines but jerry weather conditions here looking fairly quiet is looking like quite a good picture too across much of borneo java seen some showers through the course of wednesday thursday too i think theyll be some more rain around here but as you move up through them in a pinch it is generally looking fine for singapore in kuala lumpur weve got some showers around the gulf of thailand but i think for much of Southern Thailand through cambodia and into Southern Vietnam it should be generally fine showers said likely for sure lanka but also it looking largely fine one poor country sunshine high here thirty two. The weather sponsored by cat time race. Dizzy rakes prose prominent figures of the Twentieth Century and how life influenced the course of history was the cuban revolution coming his own way feel castro is a feudal east the not a communist that just wanted his country che wanted International Revolution became a point when the relationship came to fit in the icons of revolution who changed the course of latin american politics. And fidel castro face to face at this time on aljazeera. Good to have you with us on al jazeera these are our top stories russian sponsored talks aimed at finding a political solution to the war in syria have ended with a call for elections in the country for the Syrian Opposition who boycott of the event. And. U. S. President donald trump is just a couple of hours away from delivering his state of the Union Address to a joint session of congress thats used to outline the president s legislative agenda for the year ahead and Secessionist Forces in yemen have taken control of the southern port city of aden reported so the government of president. Has been confined to the president ial palace in the city. While the former u. S. Ambassador to yemen. Believes this latest about a moment will only prolong the war and yemen. This is going to be a complication its going to make the process of ending the media conflict that much more difficult and will make it more difficult also to map out a way forward understanding that there are a number of different divisions within the country including most prominently between the north and the south that are going to have to be addressed in my view what you need to do is to and the most immediate source of the fighting which is between the who tease who sought to overthrow the widget of a government of yemen and the and the government present the rabo months or hadi who still has the the support of the International Community through the u. N. Security Council Resolutions then after that you have to have a political process that is once again going to try to address these many issues of the internal divisions within the north in the south and also trying to win the support of disaffected populations particularly the tribes and news and civil society. Kenyas government has declared the Opposition Movement a criminal hours after its leader rylan a dentist for himself at a mock inauguration thousands of the supporters attended the ceremony insisting that hasan the judgment leader they are the president ial poll that returned who are kenyatta was there the free and fair catherine sort of reports from nairobi. I. Was right loading theyre taking an oath of office that is not officially recognized he swears to serve and protect the country as what he calls himself the peoples president hes basing his oath of the august eighth general election that he says he won the election was invalidated by the Supreme Court which ordered a new one to be held in october last year. And his opposition as a. Quartet that. Was tuesdays rally in nairobi was largely peaceful and there was no Police Presence despite the government declaring the gathering and knew full and shutting down live signals of the countrys Main Television stations for most of the day. The ceremony itself took less than fifteen minutes and left mixed feelings on what today was sort of under climactic for the many many supporters of the opposition as of when lisa new came to witness the symbolic swearing in of and his deputy. And the reason why people went home so disappointed is because the other three main leaders including. This deputy did not show up to this event was they later issued a statement saying the absence was beyond their control but supporters here say does not look good for opposition unity or. Other leaders will be here to support it would have shown us how strong the opposition is what. I do. The people we talked to told us that the important thing is that. Its one of the thats. Really the state of the of this country this is. The over the last one of. The socalled Peoples Assembly a forum established by the opposition to operate to the county governments to elect order forms and other issues last year the opposition. To the National Resistance movement the government has just declared that an organized criminal group. The supporters say it does not matter if all their hopes on him to deliver electoral justice even as they understand that the oath is largely ceremonial and. Catherine