A few days. And the battle against the coronavirus goes on with a warning from the w. H. O. That governments must do more to prevent deadly virus outbreaks. Im joined again with the sport as rugby star israel folau makes his controversial return to the pitch after a homophobic post. By satellite coalition has confirmed that one of its warplanes has crashed in northern yemen fees a video which they say shows them downing the plane in province on friday the u. N. Says at least 31 people have been killed in saudi led airstrikes that followed it like a true port. This is the mormon t. M. Ns who 3 rebels say they shot down a Saudi Air Force fighter jets the rebels in this video on saturday the saudi u. A. E. Led coalition confirmed one of its planes went down in. The countrys northeast the who these also broadcast vision of what it says is the aftermath of saudi led in strikes in the area followed which the rebels claim were retaliate tree attacks the Saudi Coalition released a statement saying there was a possibility of 4th calls Collateral Damage to civilians this show you that the us and our forces has been able after they have shut down. Several of the. American drones over the skies of yemen in the last 3 months now it seems to be that they are able to slow down those fighter jets and they can say that if they start at this stage this means that were going to end that and use stage of the lot of these claim the plane was downed with an advanced air to ground missile some analysts say if thats true it would be a very Significant Development in yemens long running war this is a big deal knowing that already their partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left another saudis are in there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning to lose the war. The conflict in yemen has killed tens of thousands of people and brought millions to the brink of famine its estimated more than 91000 yemenis have been killed and another 3000000 displaced by the fighting theres no sign yet when it will end because a gauge aljazeera. Saudi arabias foreign minister has confirmed that riyadh has been back channel talks with the who fees since the september attacks on that Oil Facilities prince feisal bit of sound was referring to the attacks on its armco facilities as faisel said they believe iran asked the who feels to take the blame for the attack he said riyadh is committed to finding a way forward with the who flees out as foreign minister says talks to resolve the gulf dispute have not succeeded and was suspended at the start of january Sheikh Mohammed bin abdul rahman funny was speaking at the Munich Security Conference but his question is began last year and concern the dispute that source saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates bahrain and egypt sever political trade and transport ties with carter in mid 2017 the quartet imposed the blockade on gaza kucing it of supporting terrorism a charge repeatedly and vehemently rejected by doha i think now its been almost 3 years since the crisis started we were not the perpetrator of that crisis and weve been very open and very clear that we are open to any genuine intention to resolve this problem and we have been we demonstrated this in fact when there was an opening in october here in november and of last year. And unfortunately these efforts didnt succeed and spin suspended at the beginning of january but caldwell would remain at the same position that we are often david mack is the former u. S. Ambassador to the u. A. E. He joins me now from washington d. C. Thanks very much for being with us why do you think the talks broke down. Well this is a decades old problem and there are all kinds of antagonisms among them but basically they dont rise to such a level that this blockade of qatar by saudi arabia of the u. A. E. Bahrain and egypt should continue any longer it is very much against the interests of all the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries and its against the interests of the United States which was trying to organize a strategy of maximum pressure against iran and there is only one country that benefits by this stalemate and that iran had any progress being made you think in those talks try and offer has been going on from for nearly 3 years now. Well there was a little bit of progress there wasnt there was a g. C. C. Summit in riyadh. In december the qatari prime Prime Minister attended they agreed that they would start talks. And there was after that a what you might call a confidence Building Measure in the sense that saudi and other regional football teams went to doha for a football tournament and that so they seem to be on the track toward easing their relationships. But you normally the United States should have been involved in pressing all the countries involved. Saudi arabia the u. A. E. Bahrain egypt and qatar to come to some kind of detente we have very very extensive relationships with all 4 of these governments. All 5 of these governments and really its a failure of u. S. Diplomacy well because basically secretary pompei o and secretary of defense esper have not picked up where the former secretary of state Rex Tillerson and the former secretary of defense jim mattis could have made a lot of progress but they were undercut by President Trump and his son in law Jared Kirshner who fell under too much employees from saudi arabia to time so i mean you mention the connection with iran and what the u. S. Is trying to achieve in terms of policy with iran would that do to the Current Situation and that will mean that they they do pick up the baton as you put it in and start to mediate further in this dispute. Well you would think so because but basically the blockade by the socalled. Quadro. Quartet of arab states has pushed qatar closer to iran because qatar has to have an outlet its landlocked except for its land border with saudi arabia it needs to have Airline Connections its doing that now through iran which is definitely not the ideal way for this to be taking place its costing a huge economic deficit to all the countries involved but most important it undermines their security they are strongest in confronting iran and other external threats like russia like china when they Work Together as a united front david mack thank you very much indeed to feel for us this country. Youre welcome. The u. S. Defense secretary has labeled china the biggest threat to the global order speaking at the read it security conference on saturday accuse the Chinese Government of seeking advantage across the world by any means and at any cost and he again urged European Countries to stay away from chinese tech giant huawei a demand thats been rebuffed by european allies under president shes ruled the Chinese Communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture. It is essential that we as an International Community wake up to the challenges presented by chinas manipulation of the longstanding International Rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades. Before i came here my colleagues told me about what the 2 american senior officials said and they have been once again repeating their smears and criticism of china it has become a common scenario they basically say the same thing wherever they go about china and i dont want to waste our time responding to each and everything theyve said what i want to say is that all of these accusations against china are lies they are not based on facts anding almost 2 decades of violence in afghanistan has been high on the agenda at the conference in munich now a provisional agreement between the u. S. And Afghan Taliban aims to reduce violence for one week if its a success it could lead to a possibility of intra afghan peace talks u. S. Officials hope this will end their involvement in the conflict and as james bays reports lead to the eventual withdrawal of 12000 troops from afghanistan. The war in afghanistan continues to claim lives here villages prepare to bury those killed in the u. S. Airstrike the un only started counting civilian casualties in 2008 years into the conflict but in the decade since then over 100000 civilians were killed or injured. In munich the u. S. Was explaining the deal its now struck with the taliban an effort to try and end the war we have on the table right now a reduction in violence proposal that was negotiated between our ambassador and the taliban it looks very promising and we have now been for a few days now in the process of consulting 1st with our congress i have had many conversations and then secondly concurrently with our nato allies in brussels now the u. S. Has done it steal its partners must follow other nato countries still have 8000 personnel in the country serving alongside of 12000 u. S. Troops we are not leaving afghanistan but we are prepared to adjust our force level if the taller bar on them assert their will and the ability to deduce violence and make it really compromises cut out of the negotiations with the taliban that are gone on for over a year with the Afghan Government president ashraf ghani had demanded a ceasefire be put in place before any deal instead the taliban have only agreed to whats being called a reduction in violence the critical test is going to be will be will the except in election as the mechanism the crucial mechanism of referring to that one people in the still have you come of course afghanistans last election is still not been formally decided ashraf ghani has the most number of votes but hes not been declared the winner that is going to make things difficult in the coming days because afghanistan needs to choose the delegation for those talks that it now needs to have with the taliban james bays out just 0 munich. Coming up on out of there this news hour protesters in mexico brand their country a femicide state for an emergence of a 25 year old woman. We go on patrol with Security Forces in the. Region where violent rebel attacks have killed almost a 1000 people in 4 months. And well see whats next for Manchester City as they get ready to appeal a 2 year ban from the champions league. Apologies river a few technical problems right now and were going to take a break for a moment or back in a few minutes so with more news. Hello and welcome to International Weather forecasts we have got some wild weather at the moment across the deep areas of low pressure one which has produced gusts of winds of more than 250 Kilometers Per Hour and ice and another one still developing which could produce wind almost a strong across ice and meanwhile for the u. K. For southern parts of scandinavia for all these countries are bordering the north sea coast is going to be very wet indeed they could well be some localized flooding the winds will cause some problems large across northwestern parts of the u. K. But the rain is likely because the real issues the low pressure south is going to hang around for a while becoming distorted amongst the afloat meanwhile across more eastern areas of your weather conditions are actually going to change and for the better so some warmer weather coming in across the balkans parts of in the course of sunday and into monday some high night time temperatures meanwhile weve got this area of rain which is going to be pushing towards the alps turning red lead to snow says much Welcome Falls of snow expected over the alps peyronies though still remain a large draw as you move into north africa put the temperature contrast on here and you can see that the heat across central parts of africa only cheery highs of 34 but roughly cool with a strong wind across the coast of libya with highs of 17 in benghazi. But. 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