Including tough talking in lausanne as efforts to hammer out a nuclear deal with iran intensifies. The local elections in france, a test of popular support. The leading Political Parties. All the sport including australia win the cricket world cup for a third time by crashing new zealand in the final. We begin in yemen where the Saudi Led Coalition is bombing houthi rebel targets for a fourth day. The arab league said the strikes will continue until the houthis law down their weapons and withdraw mom sanna. The airstrikes in saada in the north, saudi arabia said its destroyed all houthi airplanes and communications centers. It says that one air strike in the port city killed dozens have houthi fighters. The houthis are still on the move, reported to oh be marching towards aden, while theyve been battling sunni tribes. More now airstrikes hit targets across the country including in the capitol, sanna. Jets from the Saudi Led Coalition bombed Ammunition Depot he is, airports and language range rocket launchers. This is the aftermath of an attack on the air base in the capitol. It destroyed helicopters fighter jets and a fuel facility. The saudis have deployed thousands of soldiers along the border they share with yemen. The houthis are a group of militia that is staged a coup with the backing of the iranians and former president saleh. So you had led airstrikes seem to be weakening houthi fighters, who are retreating from areas in the south according to local forces. Sunni tribesmen are on the move to recapture areas they lost in the last few weeks. Hes are houthi fighters killed in an ambush in the southern city. The Arab League Summit has been dominated by yemens deteriorating security situation. The saudis and their allies say the airstrikes will continue until the houthis and the former president saleh disband their militias. They insist that president adou Rabbo Mansour hadi who fled the country is yemens legitimate leader. Yemen was on the verge of collapse which brought a response from the arab states and the international community. The move came as a peaceful solution to end the coupe and restoring the legitimate government failed. It will continue. Saudi media reported that Ali Abdullah Salehs son was in riyadh a day before the attacks were launched against yemen suggesting the former yemeni president is willing to turn against the houthis if International Sanctions against him are lifted. The saudis apparently no longer trust saleh accusing him of colluding with the houthis to destabilize the region. Lets he get nationals now from al jazeeras senior politicallal lift in london. Your latest blog post, youre very critical of the arab league the Saudi Coalition taking action in yemen and the arab leagues plans to form a unity force. Why is that . Its actually the easiest way to react is to be critical, of course, the sitting penalties and leaders of the arab world today are partly to blame for the terrible situation that the arab world goes through. A lot of the things they criticize and are trying to confront are of their own making in some ways, as well as the making of some other cynical leaders in the region, as well, whether they are iran or israel, but be that as it may it seems to once again everyones talking about military solutions to what in so many instances political problems, or are are intra arab problems that need to be dealt with through dialogue and unity which the Arab League Summit seems to emphasize but when they look for solutions they emphasize military solutions. Some like president sisi, of course was a former general and they tend to see political problems through military prisms, and the likes of like the intermilitary force which he would like to use in places like libya. How this force will be used remains to be seen. The coalition put together is taking action in yemen right now, that was done remarkably quickly, and it was pretty straightforward to do it. This is what you call in military affairs or Strategic Affairs the eternal now. You know, the strategic temperament cannot be about this week. Of course, saudi arabia enjoys aerial superiority and its expected that they will be ail to destroy so much of the houthi power. As weve seen in iraq and elsewhere, one thing is to lead with air strike, another is to control a country especially a very divided complex and heavily armed nation like yemen totally divided quite a rough terrain and so on and so forth. It remains to be seen whats going to happen in the next few days and weeks. Having said that, i agree with you that there is a real strategic challenge facing the arabs, which is an overreaching iran. Iran has been interfering in arab affairs follow lebanon to syria to iraq and yemen and there is a strategic challenge they he need to respond to, paradoxically saudi arabia near yemen, but this needs to go baaing to dialogue or negotiation table because there are no military solutions to these problems. Thats the next point i was going to put to you that there are no military solutions, that dialogue, among lets face it, neighbors is the only way forward. This cold war that seems to exist at the moment between saudi arabia and iran is counter productive and going to lead to trouble. Exactly. Its been going on for years for even decades a proxy cold war between saudi arabia and iran and now exposed with saudi arabia acting directly in yemen and iran in iraq. Not wanting to lead from the front, now its up to various region ale powers to take matters in their own hands perhaps with the support of the United States as weve seen in yemen, as egypt hopes to do in libya, as perhaps turkey might do in syria or iran has done in iraq. Once again what we see now is an entire region being plunged into violence, chaos instability and basically civil wars. Are more military solutions a joint military force the answer to all of this, of course not. Is this the answer to the cause of the arab spring, of arab people to took over the squares of the arab streets years ago asking for justice security, freedom, liberty and development . Of course not. So once again weve seen limited answers to complex questions with lots of slogans and lip service to the needs of every day arab. You can read more at aljazeera. Com. Our senior political analyst live in london. Well speak to a military analyst about this jointly Arab Military forced proposed by the arab league and the campaign, the Ongoing Campaign against the houthis in yemen. Talks in switzerland continue but two stumbling blocks remain. It is the third day of this round of negotiations in lausanne and iran is refuse to go budge on two key issues. Firstly, continuing its advanced Nuclear Research and secondly the speed at which sanctions will be eased. All parties are trying to reach a deal before a tuesday deadline. Aside from those sticking points, the policy chief said a deal has never been closer. I think that we can find solutions that are good for all that can guarantee that iran has no Nuclear Weapons cannot develop Nuclear Weapons but can develop a Civil Nuclear program if this is the Common Ground that unit us all not only tonight and tomorrow, but alleges in the last month, we can have a good deal, a deal that can be solid some say solid, some say robust, still a good deal for everybody, and having a good deal would be obviously very important for us all. The israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says the negotiations are dangerous and warn that iran could be in a position to conquer the middle east. I expressed a deep concern towards this deal emerging with iran and the nuclear talking about. It appears to bear out all of our fears and even more than that. In parallel to their coming together around this dangerous deal irans proxies in yemen are moving to conquer large parts of this country changing the maritime balance and global oil supply. James bays joins us live from lausanne. There seems to be optimism, how much progress has been made . There seems to have been made a great deal of progress at these talks. They are closer than they have ever been before to a deal. There are sticking points they have to work through. For most of this week and all of last week, we have the u. S. And iran mainly doing the negotiations, now were getting closer, other countries are joining, germany and france arrived saturday, china arrived sunday morning. The uk and russia are expected in the next few hours. When theyre all here, that shows you they are getting close, but there is no deal yet. Tell us about these two key sticking points, these key issues. These are issues that have been sticking points for sometime. They were basically the same sticking points when the talks adjourned at the end of the last week here in lausanne. One of them concerns irans future research and development on its nuclear program. How long there will be restrictions on that, just 10 years of what would happen years 1115. The other key one is about sanctions and particularly the u. N. Security Council Sanctions because it takes a great deal to get all the countries of the world particularly the Security Councils 15 members to agree. Particularly difficult now to get many sanctions through the security council, because of russia, because of ukraine not so keen on sanctions. The worry of some of the countries are if you were to lift the sanctions on iran and then iran wasnt to comply, youd find it difficult to put them back in place. Some are talking about snapback provisions new resolution saying that the sanctions will be lifted, but could come back if iran in some way was to breach the deal. James bays live there waiting to see what the deal might be. Thanks very much indeed. Ill have more from europe a little later in this news hour. Right now lets go to doha. Breaking news from afghanistan this hour. There are reports of a suicide bomb attack in the capitol kabul, the target reportedly one of the nations politicians. Al jazeeras Jennifer Glasse is on the line now from kabul. Jennifer, what more can you tell us . Two suicide bombers were targeting an afghan member of parliament in kabul outside the very center of the city. Those two attackers fought with police for a little bit of time. One of them detonated his suicide vest the other was shot in an exchange of fire, two dead and eight injured in this attack. This is the Second Attack in kabul in a week, a suicide car bomb in the very center of the city wednesday evening killed eight and wounded 31. More on that Suicide Attack in kabul when we have it here on al jazeera. The Iraqi Military says its in the final stages of an operation to recapture tikrit from the Islamic State of iraq and the levant. Government forces have been helped by airstrikes on the Northern City from the United States. Particular result has been in the hands of isil since june. Only meters away from enemy lines, iraq key forces prepare for what they call the final push into tikrit. Our forces have advanced towards the out skirts of the neighborhood to flush out isil. We advanced from four fronts and established fire contact with the enemy. Members of the national police, the army and elite forces are on the edge of the city waving the iraqi flag as they cross a bridge into the city center. They fire targets with machine guns and rocket launchers and report successes telling al jazeera the plume of smoke is from homes close to a destroyed mosque previously an isil command center. We are fighting the hideouts of isil where snipers are stationed at several buildings. Thankfully, we are making gains. Our Security Forces have advanced now on the gates of central tikrit and by the will of god, we will be victorious and will crush isil until none is left in iraq. Optimism is high since a u. S. Led coalition launched airstrikes wednesday. The three day campaign after the United States insisted that shia militias pull back from the operation with the iraq key forces. The fighters had been instrumental to the tikrit battle since it began earlier this month. Our iraqi forces are heading toward the city of tikrit. We are a collection of collaborating forces and by the help of got we will be unparticular result very soon. The government has predicted several times before that it will win back tikrit, regaining control seen as a vital step to its eventually taking back mosul, iraqs sect city which isil took over last june, al al jazeera. The mastermind behind the attack on a Tunisia Museum has been killed. That attack prompted tens of thousands to march in solidarity through the capitol. Frances president Francois Hollande and the italian Prime Minister joined the crowds. Still to come on the analysis hour, tens of thousands crowd the streets of singapore to bid farewell to a leader who pull the the city state out of poverty and into prosperity. Out with the old in with the new, the changing face of istanbul has some worried that its losing its historic character. A former World Champion proves hes still got it. Details of the grand prix coming up a little later in sport. People in parts of nigeria be getting a second day to vote in the elections for parliament. 300 of the 150,000 polling stations had problems. We report from one affected area. People are impatient and angry. Voting was supposed to end saturday. On sunday, many are still waiting in line. This is in the commercial capitol. This morning again, they are telling Officials Say technical problems are to blame. Some machines made to read voter i. D. s didnt work. It is quite unfortunate that such a thing could happen, because of what happened yesterday, in the first place they came without their register. We have to stay here for are a long time. Then when it was around 3 00, there was not it was not functional. Its still not good news for some. People are ready to vote, but there are no ballot papers. Its hot. Despite delays, they are not giving up their right to vote. We want to make sure we vote today. Everybody is ready. Everybody needed something and everybody didnt know what they need. Thats why they are trying to endure any situation they are going to go through this time around. Officials say final results will only be announced when everyone registered to vote has done so. The delay in voting means it could be sometime before final official results of announced. The Electoral Commission is asking nigerians to remain patient and be calm. Counting of results has started where it went smoothly. Those wait to go vote hope they, too, get a chance to choose nigerias leader. We are live in the capitol. These electronic voters were supposed to make the whole election process more efficient and transparent. Whats gone wrong . Well, the Electoral Commission always said that there may be challenges with the card readers. A new system, it was introducing for the first time in these election, which was designed to basically make sure that there wasnt double voting. They are saying people just need to be a built more understanding and patient. Looking at the scale of the election alone up to 60 Million People participating in over 150,000 polling stations, the independent national Electoral Commission are saying its difficult to do this. Its a huge country infrastructure is poor, there are porous borders and they are facing major challenges not just with the card readers but in some places, even he with the distribution of election terse. Its worth wearing in mind yesterday that president good luck jonathan voting was kept waiting for over an hour. The main opposition president ial candidate had a smoother time of getting accredited and voting yesterday, but said technical hitches, the late arrival of electoral materials should not be an excuse for any violence or bad behavior, or any counting of votes in any area. The general feeling is some people are frustrated, some have not voted. 350 polling units are reopening today for people to vote. People have to understand the scale of this election, how difficult it is to conduct and be patient. Polling extended in some places in the country. It was by all accounts a pretty tight race. When will we start to get the first results . So far theres no official announcement by the umpire on when well get the president ial race result. We do know he that there wasnt be any announcement until at least 48 hours after people have stopped voting. Now, the system goes like this, if you are accredited to vote, you must vote, you have the opportunity to vote and the right to vote no matter how long it takes. There is no end to voting. Polling stations are not closing at a particular time, but once everybody has voted the chairman of the Commission Says it will be about 48 hours before some results start to come out however, local newspapers in the capitol and some report that president good luck jonathan has been defeated in two polling stations in the president ial villa complex where the president works and lives. He was defeated there. That is just two polling stations out of 150,000 across the country so its not exactly indicative of the end result, but if this is accurate information, and as i say, they are not saying that this is accurate yet, but you if it is, its clearly bad news for president Goodluck Jonathan that he could lose literally on his own doorstep. Many thanks, live in nigerias capitol. 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