Israels Prime Minister justifies cutting off urgently needed tax revenues to the palestinians. Can russia return to the front ranks of science, or are its glory days over . Welcome to the program. Attempts to hold yemen together as a country are in deep trouble. There has been a bombing of the president ial guest house in domar city about 100 kilometers south of the capital sanaa. Several have been killed including a houthi t. V. Reporter. An agreement has been rejected to dive id the country six regions. Houthis control most of the armys assets and are growing impatient for reform. The latest from the yemeni capital sanaa. Reporter it is the first time the houthi leader came out and announced the regression of his group to the idea of dividing yemen in to six regions. He said this is a western scheme backed by regional powers to have a weak and divided yemeni. The irony is that the houthis have agreed to dividing yemen last year in something called the National Conference action and it was attended by all of the key political players in this country including the houthis. What changed, i think, is the very fact that the houthis now feel emboldened after taking over most parts of the country including sanaa in september. I think they have the will or the power to impose their political will moving on, an ngo in this country, a Research Center batessed here in the capital painted a grim picture. It said about 7,000 people died in the violence. It says the countrys military is very weak. The army and military are divided and that the Houthi Rebels are now in control of 70 of the armys capabilities. Witnesses in nigeria say armed men have seized a military base of a northeastern town. Troops were seen heading toward lake chad. Witnesses say some may have drowned. Its not clear who attacked the base but boca haram has a strong presence in the north of the country. A suicide car bomb hit mogadishu near the airport. The African Union peacekeepers are based there. The armed Group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted somalias National Intelligence and security agency. It has been con four simplians have been killed. The bombing comes just two days after an al shabaab assault near the central town of bidoa which killed seven soldiers. Attack was believed to be in retaliation for a u. S. Air strike which killed one of the groups leaders just a few days before. Over the past few months somali troops and African Union forces have stepped up that i have their offensive against al shabaab fight to go impose islamic law in somalia. Turning to iraqs battle against the armed group isil 11 iraqi soldiers and allied fighters have been killed in fighting north of baghdad. Din prove incident is one of the areas which Government Forces are trying to secure from isil. Auchttralias Prime Minister has made an unannounced visit to iraq. Tony abbott met him at the Republican Palace in baghdad. They discussed military cooperation in the face of attacks by isil fighters in Northern Iraq. Australia an jets have carried out bombing raids against isil as part of a u. S. Led coalition to wipe out the group. Meanwhile in Northern IraqPeshmerga Forces are trying to keep their momentum as they retake territory from isil. One of the key battles is where Peshmerga Forces were in full control just a few days ago. The village lies between isil strong hold of mosul and the kurdish capitol erb ill. More from the front line. Reporter we are on one of the front lines of the Peshmerga Forces close to Sultan Abdullah about 80 kilometers from the capitol from the semi autonomous region in Northern Iraq. We cannot go to the village because the peshmerga fighters tell us that there are isil fighters still holed up in some sections of this village. It is where there was heavy fighting just two days ago between the peshmerga and isil fighters and although at one point, the peshmerga said they were in control of this town they say now there are pockets of resistance in the town and they have been getting incoming fire from the positions of isil here in the place we are seeing unexploded ordinances particularly mortars which the peshmerga fighters here tell us they lost to some men. What we also know is that the village of Sultan Abdullah is also close to the strategic isil stronghold of mosul and maybe one of the reasons why the isil fighters dont want to lose the village is they are using it as a defensive position so that the peshmerga and other fighters will not move closer to mosul. And one of the other things the peshmerga fighters here are that the village is strategic because it is a source of this will place, mac mood not far from here. Its also on the highway to mosul. They say getting control of ting control of this village. A Police Officer was shot to death in their patrol car, you may remember in december. Again, police turned out in force for the funeral and there are reports that again, they turned their back on the mayor of new york bill di blasio. More on the funeral later in the program. Israel is with holding tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority in retaliation for their bid to join the International Criminal court. The punitive measure will have a big impact on those living in the territories. Stefanie dekker is in ramallah and has more on how people would be affected. Reporter these men are at risk of losing their salaries. Israel says it wont be transferring over a Million Dollars in response to the palestinians joining the International Criminal court. In sundays weekly cabinet meeting, theusis Prime Minister had this to say translator the Palestinian Authority has chosen to launch a confrontation with the state of israel, and we are not sitting idly by. We will not allow the dragging of idf soldiers and idf commanders to the International Criminal court at the hague. The ones who should face justice are the heads of the palestin palestinauthority who entered an alliance with the ham war criminals. He is referring to al government between fattah and hamas which Israel Considers a terrorist organization. Net has said the palestinians have more to fear in their decision to join the icc its a statement dismissed by the palestinian leadership. It will be an amazing historical case where the victim becomes the murderer. For theisitionis to claim we are the ones who are the criminal that we should be i dont think anybody will ever take this seriously, and Everybody Knows that the sort of act of aggression are done by the israel is against our people. He resigned as negotiate negotiate during the last round of talks. He says after the failure of multiple peace talks and the recent regression at the u. N. Where they tried to set a time frame to end israels obvious occupation, taking the legal option is the next step. For all of the political back and forth, many palestinians say they have lost confidence any lasting solution will be found. For them there seems to be no end to israels occupation and people here believe going to the International Criminal courts is the only way to put pressure on israel. This is a step we should have taken before. We are weak. We have no other options. President babas tried to do this to protect his people and his country. Israel is trying to pressure us and the americans, too, to not join the icc. Reporter joining the icc was a move made by the palestinians for maximum impact. Its not clear where it leads to any political solution on the ground. Stefanie dekker al jazeera, in the occupied west bank. Israel collects taxes for the palestinians under the 1994 oslo accords. It transfers them to the Palestinian Authority so it can pay its Public Sector workers. Means israel can also with hold revenue as punishment. Here is more. Reporter this is not the first time israel has frozen monthly tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority. In may 2011, israel withheld 100 million over a palestinian unity deal that brought together ham with the secular rival fattah. In in response to the overwhelming vote at the u. N. General assembly to recognize the state of palestine and it imposed a similar punishment in april, 2014 after pa president makmud abbas applied to join treaties and conventions. Israel should transferred about 100 million a month for month for the palestinians about 2 thirds of the palestinyon authoritys budget. Without the pa they cannot pay the 165,000 Public Sector employees it employs like policemen, doctors, nurses and teachers. Pa salaries are estimated to directly support one quarter of the population and because the pa economy is governmentdependent, these employees and the money they spend form the economic backbone of the occupied territory. The secretary general National Initiative speaking from ramallah says israel is afraid of being held accountable by the icc. The International Community is sick and tired of this continuation of this occupation that has become the longest in modern history. More than 47 years of occupation is enough. The system that it is advertised it is worse than south africa is intolerable. That is the problem. Israel has been impugntive to International Law and the fact it is conducting collective punishments against the palestinian population. Now, they will be held held accountable. They are injuring 17,000 of whom 4,000 were children is definitely a war crime. On the other hand what we are doing is an act of popular nonviolent resistance. In syria, at least five hezbollah members have been killed during an ambush carried out by the alnusra front. It happened in the town of fla. A near the lebanese border on saturday. In august around 20 troops were killed and 35 soldiers taken hostage in the same area by the alqaeda affiliated alnusra front. The United States and its allies have conducted seven airstrikes on its ill targets on syria and iraq over the last 36 hours. Six of the attacks hit isil positions near kobane in syria. There has been a 7th successive day of protests in bahrain. Tear gas was fired. Petrol bombs were fired at riot police in manama. Demonstrate orders are demanding the release of ali salman the leader of the opposition party. The family of a libyan alqaeda suspect who died in the u. S. Just days before going on trial is accusing washington of neg neglecting his health. He was accused of being involved in the 1998 bombings of u. S. Embassies in east africa. He was captured by u. S. Troops in tripoli in 2013. They deprived him of his rights and are responsible for his death. They abandoned treating him when he woke up from the coma. He never got any medical treatment. More to come here on the Al Jazeera Newshour including from a distance, it looks like paradise, but a closer look reveals an environmental disaster in senegal. Plus reporter reporting from the occupied west bank where street signs arent necessarily helping palestinians find their way around. In sport, its been a difficult opening day for the defending champion of the dakar rally. The latest from buenous airies. The mayor in france is being accused of racism for refusing the burial of a baby in his town. He says there is a shortage of burial attacks and local tax players should receive priority. A funeral has been arranged for the baby after a mayor from a neighboring town intervened. Harry smith reports. Reporter on monday a baby girl will be buried here in the paris suburb of visu. She died of sudden infant death syndrome at the age of just two and a half months. Her family wanted to lay her to rest in the nearby town of shampan where she was born and lived with her parents and two siblings who go to school in the town. The local mayor refused them permission because he said there were few plots available. I also told the paris newspaper that priority in the cemetery is given to those who pay their local taxes. The implication being that the dead babys family do not because they are roma. Campaigners for the Roma Community says the decision is racism. Its very clear they dont want any roma dead or alive. They dont want them. Thats all there is to it. Reporter the family is suffering just as much pain as any French Family who loses a baby. Its exactly the same thing. How can they refuse this . Its disgusting unjust inhuman. Reporter the mayor in visou is a doctor treated the family but said if he never met them he would have offered them a burial place. Translator you have to put yourself in the place of this mother of these parents, to understand that they have just lost a piece of their world, not being allowed to have their child rest in peace. Its not acceptable. Its not human. When i heard about the refusal, i am not trying to judge. I am not trying to express any point of view. My reaction was reaction was immediate. Harry smith, al jazeera. Police and mournes are gather in new york for the funeral of wen lui. The the shooter had ahit of violence and shot and injured his girlfriend before attacking the policemen. Courtney kay joins us Courtney Keely rather from new york. There are reports that members of the nypd again turned their backs on mayor bill di blasio when he was reading a eulogy. Do we know what happened . Reporter yes. We are having problems with Courtney Keely. We will try to go back to her later in the program. Look at live pictures from new york of the funeral. This is the funeral of new york Police Officer wen liu, a second of the two officers to be buried shot to death in their patrol car in december. These are live pictures coming in from new york of the new York Police Department turning out in force for the wake and the funeral. Officer wen liu will have a buddhist funeral as well as a funeral here given by the new York Police Department. We know that the gunman posted on social media he acted in revenge for the rooebt shootings of unarmed black men by the police. He had a history of Mental Illness as well. Its been reported. Live pictures here from the funeral, and reports, again, that new york Police Officers turned their backs on the mayor bill di blasio when he was reading the eulogy for officer wen lui, even though the commissioner of police had asked the officers and the widow had asked the officers not to turn their backs on the mayor. They still proceeded to do so. Those are reports. These are some of the still pictures of the officers turning their backs on the mayor. We havent gotten it in video format but these are still pictures of the officers again turning their backs on the mayor, bill diblasio. You may remember these officers turned their backs on the mayor for the first funeral which took place a week or so ago for the first officer killed when shot to death in their car. So live pictures coming to us from new york. If we can just go back to those life pictures live pictures of proceeding away from the church the casket already loaded in to the herself accompanied by the pall bearers walking down. New york still, of course trying to come to terms with this double murder of these two Police Officers. Now north korea has condemned the u. S. For sanctions imposed over the hacking of film company sony pictures, ping yang says it was hostile and impressed oppressive but dendz any involvement in the hacking attack. 67 years to the day since britain granted independence to what was then known as buncha. Myanmar has been celebrating with a military parade in yangong. The first time its been sill celebrated since 1962. Erica wood reports. Reporter just before daybreak, the ceremony marking myanmarts independence from bit issue rule is watched by the Prime Minister government officials and members of the public. Its the first time the day has been celebrated in this way since the military took power in a coup 52 years ago. The chief minister read out a statement from the president calling for public cooperation so the country can transition smoothly to democracy. But away from the military parade a skeptical crowd gathered. Protesters calling for freedom and the release of political prisoners. They stood chained beside the monnumeument that mashingsz the plates rulers said political ties with the british in 1994 were severed. We got independence from the british. We are not liberated yet from the military dictatorship. We are still deprived of basic human rights. The authorities can arbitrarily detain us any time if we speak out. Opposition leader also staged a small protest of her own declining the invitation to attend the governments military parade. Reporter there are many areas in this country that need to improve. So we cant be complacent with the current circumstances in our country. We need to restore the values and the mindsets we once cherished but now lost. Aside from the military parade there are no statesanctioned celebrations for independence day, but people have been marking the day in their own way. I had to get all of my friends together to clear up the trash by the pipeline to hold this sport. We just want to have fun on this day. But we dont know