Now its an attack the u. N. Is calling shocking as strikes by the Saudi Led Coalition and hold in yemen have killed at least 30 civilians and comes off to saudi arabia confirmed one of its planes crashed in the same region who the rebels say they shot down the aircraft they can gauge reports. This is the Mormon Church yemens who 3 rebels say they shot down a Saudi Air Force typhoon fighter jets the rebels in this video on saturday the saudi u. A. E. Led coalition confirmed one of its planes went down in government in the countrys northeast 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 what calls Collateral Damage to civilians this show you that the us and our forces has been able after they have sat 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 we are 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is a big deal knowing that already the partners the yemenis sort of the iraqis you know have for all practical purposes withdrawn left another saudis are in there and incapable of finishing the war and settling in cable of winning the war and now perhaps with this game changer beginning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 the gauge aljazeera. Casaus foreign minister says recent efforts to resolve the gulf dispute was suspended at the start of january mohamed bin of the ramadan tony told the security conference in munich that discussions began back in october to try to resolve the disputes the blockade began in 2017 when saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates bahrain and egypt said that political trade and transport ties with cato. 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. Here and november and of last year. And unfortunately these efforts didnt succeed and spears suspended at the beginning of january but would remain at the same position that we are or. Well we spoke to david mack a former u. S. Ambassador to the u. A. E. Who has more details on just how far those talks went. 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. 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 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. Well theres plenty more ahead on the news hour including were going to troll with the Congolese Army in a region where rebel attacks have killed almost a 1000 people in a matter of months. Popular Tourist Spots is leading the way for the rest of indonesia on plastic pollution. And in sports rugby star israel folau makes his controversial return to the pitch after. To have all the details and support. Now the u. S. Defense secretary has labeled china the biggest threat to the global order speaking at the Munich Security Conference mark aspect said chinas government tops the list of potential advanced results the us ahead of russia and iran and European Countries again to stay away from chinese tech giant huawei and irans 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 china how has more from that conference in munich. Well the worlds 2 most powerful nations squared off against one another here in munich 1st the United States secretary of state mike crapo and defense secretary marc esper giving notice firing the starting gun essentially on what could be a new era of u. S. Defense and foreign policy. China as enemy number one the pentagons top priority said mark s. But because of its more aggressive military posturing in the region its trade economic and territorial ambitions further afield he said we do not want to conflict with china we want china to play by the rules abide by International Norms in short we want china to behave and making the point in no Uncertain Terms that the u. S. Expects its allies to view things likewise noting in particular Chinese Telecom giant huawei some european allies the u. K. In particular in talks with huawei to help build their 5 g. Networks where the u. S. Of course sees huawei as a trojan horse for chinese intelligence well it wasnt long before china had the opposite opportunity here to respond when ye the foreign minister saying china will not follow the western model and seek a germany in the world but rather choose a policy of Peaceful Development working for shared prosperity and he had this very pointed response to those u. S. Comments. 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 so china emerging here presenting itself certainly as an unlikely standard bearer for multilateralism the very policy plank and pillar upon which western diplomacy has been built and practiced for decades and the very thing that many here and elsewhere would say that the trumpet ministration has abandoned. Well. Americans were trained from Global Affairs has been a key issue at that conference. From the press consultancy he says that anxiety is likely to continue even after the president ial elections in. The west listeners that they that theyre using is the theme here is really about a United States and a europe that not only is much more conflicted about leaving but also has populations that increasingly dont believe that their own Political Institutions are fit for purpose so how could they possibly want to spend time telling other people what to do or trying to fix or change those countries systems when you speak to people from around the world here i guess one of the questions youre hearing is what is going to happen in november almost im assuming for now the trouble be reelected they are i would say its certainly very far from you know in the can they mostly most American Allies would prefer if trump actually were to lose and i think that theres a presumption that somehow the next american president will go back to us leading multilateral institutions in the u. S. Led multilateral order and actually the reasons for american unilateralist in which we started to see under obama we see more of under trump have a much more structural i mean they have to do in part with the fact that a lot of americans just arent into it but also because america has an awful lot more power viz a viz its allies the u. S. Than the chinese are the big powers the allies are nowhere the americans are the big Energy Producer middle east is less important the americans have a geo political buffer from all of this instability in places like syria and libya and trump and others are saying why do we have to deal with em. Well ending almost 2 decades of violence in afghanistan has also been high on the agenda at that meeting in munich now a provisional agreement between the United States and the taliban and to reduce the violence for one week after there is diplomatic editor james bowles reports. The war in afghanistan continues to claim lives here villages prepared 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 us 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 now we have now been for a few days now in the process of consulting 1st with our congress ive 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 the 12000 u. S. Troops values we are not leaving afghanistan. But we are prepared to adjust our force level if the taller baran demonstrate their will and the ability to deduce violence and make real 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 in the step the taliban have only agreed to whats being called a reduction in violence the critical test is going to be will be will the taliban except in election as the mechanism the crucial mechanism of referring to that one people in the still have the view from 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 out just 0 munich all the while Health Organization has warning countries against complacency over the corona virus which has now killed more than 1600 people well ahead of the agency countries to step up efforts to prepare for the virus he insists the outbreak of still an emergency in china where the epidemic started and he also acknowledged that its hard to tell just where it will spread its impossible to predict which direction this week will take we are concerned about the levels of rumor and misinformation that hampering the response we are concerned by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports from china yesterday about the number of workers who have been infected or. Well on saturday the virus came to its 1st victim outside asia and elderly Chinese Tourists in france more than 69000 people are now infected worldwide most of them in china and an American Woman who was a passenger on a cruise ship that docked in cambodia has tested positive for the virus she fears in malaysia on friday she was one of the 1400 passengers that disembarked from the m. S. Westerdam in cambodia on thursday while there are also growing concerns that not enough is being done to protect medical workers who are treating the sick aging brown reports from hong kong medical workers in china are fighting a battle for the world in some cases without adequate protection more than 700 nurses and doctors have so far been infected several have died many of them look so exhausted in front of the camera when youre exhausted you get infected because you just lost your elder you cannot for all the guys well. Last week the Chinese Government conceded there was a shortage of essential medical equipment including protective clothing but state t. V. Says thats changing now its been showing pictures of Army Medical Teams arriving at the epi center with specialist gear further proof says china of its intensifying efforts to control the virus a virus that the countrys foreign minister says has created excessive alarm among some governments really good winter will pass and the spring is sure to come chinas vigorous and thorough measures are paying off the epidemic has posed a severe challenge to chinas economic and social Development None the less the difficulties will be temporary and short lived the latest official figures from Chinas National Health Commission offer a crumb of comfort these latest figures dont show a significant drop in the death rate but the number of new infections in who by province is falling they were half what they were on thursday but experts outside china urged caution saying these figures can be independently verified analysts say its become a Pivotal Moment for chinas leader xi jinping if this works and it looks like this thing is contained and they get thumbs up from the world Health Organization and other you know epidemiologist its going to look like theyve done the right thing and he could come out of this looking well but at the moment its such a go on saturday chinas government extended its quarantine restrictions to the Capital Beijing anyone returning to the city following the extended Lunar New Year holiday miss now isolate themselves at home for 14 days state media says those who dont will be punished without specifying what that will mean in hong kong the infection rate is under 16 with one day now the chief executive kerry lamb says the government has to spend more than 4000000000. 00 of taxpayers money helping workers affected by the virus she says around. 200000. 00 low income families will be given a one off grant of more than 600. 00 each but theres no hope yet for many small to medium sized businesses which are reeling from the effects of this Public Health emergency adrian brown aljazeera Hong Kong Well to the u. S. Now and democrats are starting to cost early votes in nevada as president ial caucuses the still crowded field of contenders have been campaigning in las vegas ahead of the 3rd nominating contest next week and now after the chaos of the iowa caucus results pressure is on nevada to do better its also the 1st test of candidates appeal in a state with a more diverse population will she have a chance he joins us now live from washington d. C. She had a very different demographic in nevada from the 1st 2 states where weve seen primaries so far so how are we expecting this to play out. Right just to make that diversity tangible in these early votes the ballots are in 3 different languages english. Spanish and tagalog the Philippine National filipino language i mean that theres about 8 percent Asian American population in nevada about 9 percent africanamerican but 30 percent that tino working class states have a union state and not latino demographic might explain some of the figures that weve now received in the last couple of days the 1st opinion poll weve had from nevada in many weeks actually. Bernie shaw is in the lead there were 25 percent he has a really strong latino base in nevada joe biden in 2nd place 18 percent hes really hoping to better because his whole his whole Campaign Platform is based on electability but unfortunately he was losing elections he came in 4th in iowa 5th in New Hampshire and one of the reasons why sort of the polls the africanamerican base that he has support some as they feel that weve got to beat trump and hes the man who can do it but even as far as opposed to telling us even half the africanamerican base is saying wait a 2nd hes not winning if he doesnt win the vote its going to be pretty disastrous rakshas the last National Poll we saw africanamerican support for biden has dropped by 10 percent already and the signs in South Carolina the next state where he has to do well because thats that sways africanamericans supposedly as if i will perhaps is beginning to disintegrate and if i could another sign that much trouble for joe biden the v