they had left the yemeni government bureaucracy functioning. their control was still tentative. abdulillah is a member of the so-called revolutionary committee, which the houthis have established to impose their control on the government. they are a secretive movement. they won't even tell me how many of them are in the city. after weeks of negotiations, they finally let me follow them in action. >> al ahmad: this is an unannounced visit to the ministry of finance. the houthis had put their own guards inside the ministries. >> al ahmad: abdu rabu al mortha is also a member of the revolutionary committee. together with abdulillah, they had come to confront the deputy minister about billions of yemeni riyals of government funds they said were missing. they walk right into the office of deputy minister jamal al maliki. >> al ahmad: the revolutionary committee refused to leave until the deputy minister signed a document ordering an investigation into the missing funds. the houthi anti-corruption agenda helped them gain popular support, but their grab for power has also made them en

foundation thank you so i mean i said nations a seven million yemenis could face starvation on death if aid is not allowed into the country the un's warning comes as i saod you that coalition is tight and it's at london sea blockade around yemen this is the latest escalation in saudi arabia's fight against a country iran backed rebels who the rebels launched a ballistic missile into saudi arabia over the weekend. these images of malnourished children were taken several weeks ago but since then nothing is changing and then the united nations says more than one third of the population isn't sure where their next meal will be coming from u.n. emergency relief coordinator mark lowe cock appeal to the world community. it will not be a line in a family in which cost two hundred fifty thousand people their lives in somalia in twenty eleven. it will be the largest famine the world to see in decades with millions of victims. there is almost no access to clean water cholera outbreaks have become commonplace a civil war has been raging in yemen since two thousand and fifteen a saudi like coalition

yemenis are facing famine like conditions with a further ten million in desperate need of food humanitarian workers are calling for the opening of all and seaports that were closed after saturday's attempted missile attack. the speaker of council only a sacked parliament and five of the former catalan politicians have appeared before spain supreme court they face charges of rebellion and sedition for their role in last month's independence referendum the courts will decide whether to remand them in custody while the investigation continues or release them those are the headlines but stay with us next up its inside story. starvation and day the u.n. has issued one of its grimmest warnings yet it says yemen could face a famine never before seen but what can world leaders do to stop such a catastrophe this is inside story. i don't welcome to the program i'm jane dot and millions will die that is the stock warning from the united nations humanitarian chief over the crisis in yemen out of sight and out of mind for most of the world millions of children mothers and fathers are strugg

yemen it is the arab world's poorest country and while the who thing is and the yemeni government have been fighting for years the saudi led military campaign began in two thousand and fifteen since then the situation has deteriorated for the almost twenty one million yemenis that the u.n. estimates are in need of assistance the conflict has killed more than ten thousand people and left another seven million without adequate food health water and sanitation yemen has also been hit with one of the worst cholera outbreaks in recent memory was some nine hundred thousand suspected cases since april. but go straight to our guests joining on skype from chicago a deputy united nations director for human rights watch and sunnah hussein yemeni journalist and former editor of news of yemen website and oxford helen lackner author of yemeni crisis the transformation of tribal rolls in recent decades a very warm welcome to all three of you has an obit gayety yemen is facing what could possibly be the largest famine in decades it's a terrific title to own isn't it. yeah of course and i'm not su

president's party purge the yemeni children who have to walk through a minefield to get to what's left of their school in titans and me on mars military careers itself of committing atrocities against iran just in an investigation that rights groups have branded a whitewash. the iranian government is scrambling to get aid to the remote area devastated by sunday's. hour for the earthquake on the iran iraq border more than five hundred thirty people are known to have been killed almost all of them in iran but many victims have been buried without the authorities knowledge so the real figure could actually be much higher the number of people injured in the seven point three magnitude quake now stands at nearly eight thousand the quake destroyed more than twelve thousand homes leaving a staggering seventy thousand people homeless worst hit was the rainy and town of southwell is a hob were former president mahmoud ahmadinejad ordered the construction of many low income housing projects seen in casio glued reports now from the barn and near the quake's epicenter in northern iraq. well you know

the yemeni port of her data is the first major food delivery since sounding like coalition aids to see and locate the u.n. children's agency says also says it sent one point nine million doses of vaccines into the country in a child dies every ten minutes in yemen from preventable diseases today it is fair to say that yemen. it's one of the worst places on earth to be a child but more than eleven million yemeni children are today in acute need of humanitarian assistance that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl. protesters in pakistan all calling for a nationwide strike on monday after another day of escalating demonstrations are angry about the wording of a palm and she bell case have been ordered to show restraint although six people were killed on saturday in efforts to break up the protests and a hundred calls i am. recalled to shut down pakistan issued by cleric and political party leader who stands in opposition to the government for three weeks protesters have choked the streets of islamabad when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they sprea

of yemenis we'll have the details in a cup and it's. the rebuttal from stephen. collingwood. guy suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.'s do suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru where she's a little bit different i'm not a good one on the line no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have some fun meet every day americans come home and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which. i says was it to by the americans by the israelis unfortunately by financial support of some. sort of contraries in there. for making them unsafe to delete it. hello again you're watching the weekly now planes carrying vital humanitarian aid started to arrive in the yemeni capital sana'a on saturday after the saudi led coalition aids its blockade of the country twenty million people in the war ravaged country are reportedly in desperate need of assistance will be for riyadh decision to allow help through thousands of people had been rallying in the yemeni port of a dieter they were a

upholds the reelection of president kenyatta. two and a half million yemenis at risk of disease as the capital joins the list of cities with i'm clean water because of the society led by kate. i'm glad marco says she'd prefer a new elections to a minority government after coalition talks failed in germany. and the us did mayor caracas explains how he's going to venezuela after a time in the days of hype so a. warm welcome to the program zimbabwe's militia chief says he's agreed on a war with president obama gabi he also says emerson when anwar the vice president mugabe sacked will be back in the country anytime soon to meet the ninety three year old leader. they're after the nation will be advised one of the art of talks between the two in the meantime is experience and commander in chief of the defense forces. started a process is to was definitive solution and road map for the country as this happens we is the defense and security services agency with to the men. and patient but the ruling party had told its chief whip to proceed with forgot his impeachment and choose day after h

the past six months or monday saudi arabia said it would reopen salma yemeni ports and airports but the u.n. wants the blockade to be lifted completely. at the top stories do stay with us there inside story is up next hour of the news hour free straight off the bat thanks for watching my for. two weeks after the saudi led coalition imposed a total blockade on yemen it says it's opening access in some areas but is that enough for a country struggling with years of violence and a humanitarian crisis this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm homages yemenis have been through a lot over the past few years there's a devastating cholera outbreak there is fighting and airstrikes almost every day and now nearly two week old blockade imposed by the saudi led coalition fighting iranian backed her with the rebels it was put in place after the what these launched a missile targeting the saudi capital riyadh saudi arabia says it is reopening some of yemen's ports and airports but humanitarian aid agencies say none of their supplies are coming in they are calling for the restrict

yemeni children who have to walk through a minefield to get to what's left of their school in times. the iranian government is scrambling to get aid to the remote area devastated by sunday's powerful earthquake on the iran iraq border more than five hundred thirty people are known to have been killed almost all of them in iran but many victims have been buried without the authorities knowledge so the. we'll figure could actually be much higher the number of people injured in the seven point three magnitude quake now stands at nearly eight thousand the quake also the story more than twelve thousand home and that leaves around seventy thousand people homeless worst hit was the iranian town of supple is a hog where former president mahmoud ahmadinejad ordered the construction of many low income housing projects neve barker reports. tents lined the main road into the city of kermanshah hardest hit in sunday's earthquake more than one hundred aftershocks followed many survivors now feel safer living in the open with belongings salvaged from their ruined homes. all of a sudden we started

program i'm hamad. yemenis have been through a lot over the past few years there is a devastating cholera outbreak there is fighting and air strikes almost every day and now a nearly two week old blockade imposed by the saudi led coalition fighting iranian backed her with the rebels it was put in place after the what these launched a missile targeting the saudi capital riyadh saudi arabia says it is reopening some of yemen's ports and airports but humanitarian aid agencies say none of their supplies are coming in they are calling for the restrictions to be completely lifted the u.n. warns yemen could suffer the worst famine in decades if aid supplies don't resume we'll get to our guests in a moment but first this report from the taj. you can hear the wind blowing and the chirping of birds at this port and who died but what you don't hear much of is this. signs that shipments of critical supplies such as food and medicine are arriving in yemen saudi arabia sealed off all ports of entry almost two weeks ago that's right our margins are not going to start at. the port last more than

the pipe the pope prepares to walk a diplomatic tightrope in mammo. a major yemeni port that's held by who is the rebels has received its first food delivery three weeks off to the saudi led coalition impose a total blockade on land and sea the ship entire data is carrying more than five thousand tons of flour and has been allowed in. after the coalition bowed to pressure from the un to ease the blockade and the embargo has already worsened in yemen spiraling humanitarian crisis which the u.n. children's agency is trying to stop by sending in one point nine million doses of vaccines in his have says yemen's conflict has become a war on children and that nearly every child that is in dire need if humanitarian assistance hit a shot records. the saudis have promised to lift the blockade of the yemen port of her died four days ago but it was only on sunday that the first desperately needed food supplies were unloaded. and now the ship in the port of how they entered carrying flour and relief materials way and five thousand five hundred tons this is not enough for the many people needs b

. blockading ships. >> they are exterminating the yemeni people. this.lim should be doing these are unjust operations. but it is that unexpected for those who kill children. amy: we will speak witith yemeni journalist afrah nasser, facing death sites, she is in exile from human the continues to report on human n rights violations, women's issues, and press freedom. she is here in the u.s. to receive international free press award fromom the committee to protecect journalists. all thatat and more, coming up. welcomome to democracy nowow!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. president trump has begun talks with chinese leader xi jinping in beijing following a lavish welcome on wednesday that was billed as a "state visit-plus" and included the first state didinner for a u.s. president inside the forbidden city. the welcoming ceremony outside beijing's great hall of the people was broadcast live on state television, unprecedented treatment for a visiting leader. trump used the talks to call on china to sever ties with north korea. pres. trump: the united states

the so-called first australians under thomas al-jazeera. are still ahead on the program how yemeni refugee war on violence are both a welcome change to. the refugee camps reimagined we find out what happens when the when the world's top. the vulnerable. how is just about start raining and snowing in afghanistan and to the west throughout iran and back towards the mediterranean coast not much is going on but on the mediterranean coast something is going on and inducing quite a lot of clouds to build the winds are suddenly here's a still twenty seven in beirut and it's about the same in baghdad and down towards cuba it is a clear skies no sixty in terrible danger frost levels in a good part of iran by night and here is the cloud as it progresses slowly it was during sunday a few green spots to suggest a bit of rain for syria iraq may be down as far as kuwait not a lot but a hint or sign for the most part of course the right move it raby in peninsula remains now temperatures just below thirty for most places though not in western side a saudi with loesch humidity that's right is still

korea back on the list of state sponsors of terror. to an odd million yemenis so a risk of disease is the capital joins the list of cities with i'm clean water because of the side he led the case. and days after a major oil spill the controversial keystone x.l. pipeline gets approval to go through another u.s. state. where there are warm welcome to the program zimbabwe's ruling center p.f. party is set to begin impeachment proceedings against mugabi presenting emotions upon him and on chewstick he's accused of letting his wife usurp power the ninety three year old ignored a deadline to resign by mid day this the day after he declared on t.v. that he plans to remain as president the military says it has a world map from a gobby future and he told talks with emerson. the vice president that he sacked will soon return to the country was under p.f. has already removed mugabe as its leader but that hasn't stopped him from calling a cabinet meeting on tuesday earlier hundreds of students marched through the capital harare demanding that he step down after thirty seven years in power are

government dog and al-jazeera manila. still to come on the program our yemeni refugee said war and violence have both a welcome change and. refugee camp reimagined we find out what happens when the world's top architects and i design. hello the rain in greece hasn't disappeared but the intensity of all these showers is slowly dropping this is been working around for about two days drifting slowly eastwards that's what the satellite did see to have put it out on top of the overnight the rain has spread both west and east which means the center of the circulation has become a lot more dispersed now and this is the picture for saturday raining it's the less able entirely away from greece rather less so in southern italy to rest of europe is looking cloudy in places cold still a rainbow running through the low countries and starting or less at london but the ending south of that and it's a northerly breeze but not particularly cold particular if you stand in the sunshine now there is of course enough cold here that if you want to produce some snow in chairs over the alps that certainly happened

monday saudi arabia said that it would reopen some yemeni ports and airports to tighten the blockade after the rebels fired a missile at riyadh nearly two weeks ago the special good name reports. you can hear the wind blowing and the chirping of birds at this port and who died but what you don't hear much of is this. sign that shipments of critical supplies such as food and medicine are arriving in yemen saudi arabia sealed off all ports of entry almost two weeks ago i was right our margins are not going to. deport last more than seventy percent of his operations poverty and starvation are now the headlines. led coalition has falsely claimed they have opened the port to aid vessels. saudi arabia says the blockade is intended to cut off smugglers arming. the rebels they've given assurances that they'll allow humanitarian aid to continue to flow yemenis say it's obvious shipments aren't arriving. about twelve to thirteen thousand truckers are now out of work we know that the closure is meant by the coalition to bring the yemeni people to their means but yemeni people will never knew bu

houthi rebel group in alliance with formerem en-- yemeni strong former yemeni strongman opposed the government. the government of the president. in response, the united nations security council adopted resolution 2216, which sanctioned individuals involved in destabilizing yemen and demanded that the houthis unconditionally end their use of violence, withdraw their forces, relinquish their seized weapons, and refrain from threats to neighboring states. unfortunately the houthi rejection of this u.n. security council resolution with iran's backing has sabotaged the prospects for peace. mr. speaker, the united states has longstanding critical national security interests in this region. members will recall that the deadly bombing of the u.s.s. cole occurred there in yemen. other terrorist plots against americans originated in yemen, including the unsuccessful 2009 underwear bomber attack on a northwest airlines flight that was going to detroit. we and our partners continue to conduct operations against al qaeda inside yemen, and that is pursuant to the 2001 authorization of use of mili

program how yemeni refugees who fled war and violence are brings about change to charity. and refugee camps reimagined we find out what happens when the world's top architects turn their design eye to housing. and i winter is making a bid to come through china the temperature forecasts and such a day is fourteen to shanghai and it's about the same let me down little bit for the following day but the skies are cleared and the air is coming in from the north at the same time the skies are clouded up for the sas in hong kong you may well see some rain once again and certainly cool down to twenty two degrees it still surprises. rain up in most of sichuan not snow even the high ground for the time being now we've seen this development of a tropical depression in the north and by a bang goals producing already in addition and more recently bangladesh but is now falling apart so yes it will produce some more showers but saturday's forecast you see the line goes through underbrush and then eventually we end up just with southern parts of india seeing the show as they stood around for a while.

says extreme hunger and disease are killing one hundred thirty yemeni children every day and it's warning that at least fifty thousand children could die this year if the blockade of yemen continues on monday servia arabia announced it will start reopening some yemeni ports and airports it had closed them after you see rebels fighting this silent the saudi capital riyadh last week but yemen is denying reports the country's main port has been reopened you might come with a no no there's no truth to the news that any ships were given permission to enter the port of a data situation is still the same and nothing is arrived at the port even the ships that were asked to leave when the saudi led coalition announced the closure of the yemeni ports have not yet returned. thirty five thousand yemenis have escaped to djibouti since the war started two and a half years ago many of them unwilling to stay in a camp in the north of the country due to poor conditions and harsh weather reports from northern japan. this is the mark because they come for yemeni refugees in the dusty poll. it's a pl

yemenis a coping a saudi arabia's new blockade of the country drives prices up even further. and probably independence castle and storm stations and block roads demanding the release of a jail separatist leaders. exactly one year after his surprise election victory u.s. president donald trump has traveled to china for the latest stop on his tour of asia north korea and trade between the two countries are likely to top the agenda during what could be a difficult day of talks but his first day so i receive a warm welcome to beijing despite his heavy. criticism of the country and its trade practices while on the campaign trail trump stepped out of air force one on to a red carpeted staircase in contrast to last year's visit by braca bomber who was forced to exit his plane from a lower door on the five star treatment continued with president xi jinping personally as courting them on a tour of the forbidden city in esco world heritage site which was declared off limits to tourists for the day the first couple were also treated to chinese opera and acrobatics display or trump has been

old yemeni seaports as quote a matter of urgency aid groups are preparing to send much needed supplies to yemen after the coalition said it will start reopening some air and sea ports this conflict in yemen has devastated the country and one thing which doesn't always get reported is the issue of landmines there all over the place and has been a smith reports many are planted deliberately to target civilians. it's perhaps the most dangerous walk to school in the world because every step these children in yemen take could be their last to get the class they must walk through a minefield. this school or what's left of it is in time a yemeni city that is one of the major front lines in the battle for control of yemen. it's been besieged for two and a half years by huth the forces loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh they planted the mines when they controlled this area. we're asking the our thirty's to remove these mines we've got so many students we can't control all of them and anyway they are so young and at the back of the school all the windows are shattered. much of

flare up of cholera which has infected nine hundred thousand yemenis in the past six months while djibouti is now home to more than forty thousand yemenis fled the war they started in a refugee camp but many have moved to the capital to earn a living and as a mom of the dow now reports their presence is bringing big changes to the city. old school tom into a training center in the heart of. a group of men are hard at work. the older figures from yemen until recently they were living in a comp some two hundred kilometers away. they were then were just given papers and allowed to work. up to rahman ali came here from the city of. destroyed his house he now owns the testament. outmost respect and dignity and. we thank the government and the leadership of that would. allow to. walk on living government officials. to see that if you give them the bottom. line is that. for themselves and for their home. one of the world's poorest countries with much a lot of sources the country has seen large foreign investment in recent years because of its strategic location but it still struggles wit

his family. mourning is my new tradition was killing an average of one hundred thirty yemeni children a day before saudi arabia blockaded the country's ports. scientists say classes in the french alps are heating up so fast they threaten to wipe out popular tourist resorts. and install of a when a shark this isn't to host the twenty two it is the rugby world cup the votes going france's way despise an official recommendation to south africa sixth place the event. zimbabwe's military has confined president robert mugabe to his home after taking control of the country soldiers are patrolling the capital harare and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard earlier but the military denies it's a coup the takeover follows a bitter battle over who will succeed the ninety three year old president which split the ruling zanu p.f. party into two main factions but the cost groups support sacked vice president and then god while the younger g forty group backs mugabe's unpopular wife grace and time mcgarvey ali and i mean and has strong support among the armed forces it was his second last week in

country. i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera coming up how yemenis are coping as saudi arabia's new blockade of the country drives prices up even further . independence cattle and storm stations and block roads demanding the release of eight jailed leaders. and climate change leaves a canadian court famous for its polar bears. exactly a year of his surprise election victory u.s. president donald trump has arrived in china where the latest stop of his tour of asia north korea and trade between the two countries are likely to top the agenda during what could be difficult talks on thursday but his first day saw him receive a warm welcome to beijing despite him slayton the country on the campaign trail for its trade practices. stepped out of air force one onto a red carpeted staircase in contrast to last year's visit by braca bomber was forced to exit his plane from aloa door. and the five star treatment continued with president xi jinping personally escorting them on a tour of the forbidden city unesco world heritage site which was declared off limits to tourists for

yemeni children a day before saudi arabia blockaded the country's border. earthquake survivors in iran a temporary shelters as they wait for a rifle three days on. and scientists say clashes in the french alps are heating up so fast they threatened to wipe out popular tourist villages. zimbabwe's military is confined president robert mugabe to his home after taking control of the country soldiers are patrolling the capital harare and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard earlier but the military denies it's a coup the takeover follows a base of battle over whole succeed the one thousand three year old president which has divided the ruling zanu p.f. party it was triggered by last week's sacking of the vice president a miss and. south africa's president jacob zuma says he's spoken to mugabe and confirmed a long time leader is say i have also. conducted the president . whom i had. time to talk to and he is fine but confined in his home. hoping that the defense force will be able to respect the constitution of zimbabwe as well as the people of zimbabwe so that this situation does n

of the yemeni town of who data has now provoked a mass protest from the locals demonstrators marched through the town carrying banners accusing riyadh and its allies of genocide against the yemeni people it is now more than two years since the. coersion in the country supporting the ousted president against the opposition fighters but events have taken a turn recently when the militias fired a missile towards the saudi capital is a reminder of what happened afterwards the day after the missile launch the coalition closed all air sea and land routes tightening an already existing blockade but under pressure from humanitarian organizations it was partially lifted a week later however the u.n. and aid groups continue to urge the coalition to completely lift the blockade. of the saudi led coalition has been justifying the blockade by claiming it prevents the illegal flow of arms to the fighters and we spoke to the communications a coordinator for the red cross in yemen who says the partial lifting of the restrictions is not enough to relieve the dire situation and fortunately it'

forces loyal to the former yemeni president ali abdullah saleh fought with rebels near the outside a mosque loyalist accused of committing groups have a loose alliance meanwhile people in yemen are finally getting some after the saudi led coalition the blockade and british prime minister to resign may voiced her concerns and say she's in the region about the crisis during her meeting with the saudi king today almost yemen's entire population is at risk of food insecurity this situation must and the u.k. will work with our partners to do everything possible to achieve this. we will continue as the third largest humanitarian donor to the crisis in yemen increasing our contribution to one hundred fifty five million pounds to twenty seventeen eighteen and pressing the whole international community to do more but i'm also clear that the flow of commercial supplies on which the country depends must be resumed if we are to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe well let's take the thought now we can speak to a. visiting fellow at the brookings doha center joins us live here in the studio welcom

five thousand tons of flour has docked in the yemeni port of her data the first since a saudi led coalition tightened a sea an earlier in the month unicef says it's flown its first delivery of aid into yemen sending one point nine million doses of vaccines into the country unicef says a child dies every ten minutes in yemen from preventable diseases the coalition fighting yemen's thirty rebels tighten the blockade after a missile fire on the saudi capital in early november. the u.n. charter agency regional director gets keppler says yemen is teetering on the edge of famine. today it is fair to say that yemen. is one of the worst places on earth to be a child more than eleven million yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl. wonderings are voting in a presidential election that's widely expected to return the incumbent to power one under hernandez who heads the center right national party has been praised for bringing down the sky high murder rates and raising economic growth the critics say he's trying to tig

arriving in the yemeni capital it comes after the saudi led coalition ease that blockade of the country where twenty million people are reportedly in desperate need of humanitarian assistance before riyadh took the decision to allow help through thousands of people have been rallying in the yemeni support city of her data and were accusing saudi arabia and its allies of genocide riyadh had been involved in yemen civil war since twenty fifteen if supporter of the ousted president against the huth the rebels is frequently been accused of war crimes and exacerbating the country's humanitarian crisis the coalition increased the pressure further when it closed all sea and land routes in early november a missile was fired toward saudi territory but facing harsh criticism from rights organizations one week later had agreed to ease the restrictions although some and some aid is now getting through the u.n. still says more needs to be done to avert a humanitarian disaster. the red cross is now warning that a million people are out risk of a new cholera outbreak in three yemeni cities the roquete

, though, the first supply ship to get through for almost a month. more than 11 million yemeni children are today in acute need of humanitarian assistance. that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl. the ship has arrived at the port of cilicia north from the main port of hodeidah, which is still under a blockade, imposed by a coalition led by saudi arabia after the rebels there fighting in yemen fired a missile at the saudi capital —— saleef. the blockades are designed to ensure shipments of weapons don't reach the rebel fighters. for the yemeni people, it means food supplies and medicine have run dangerously short. translation: we fled and arrived here with our children and we didn't find anyone to help us and now for the past two months we haven't received anything, no mattresses, no aid, nothing. the ship is carrying enough food to feed almost 2 million people for a month but it's estimated 20 million are in urgent need, 11 million of those are children. meanwhile, fighting here has already claimed more than 8000 lives. andrew plant, bbc news. let's take a look at so

called off in this proxy conflict is yemen the united nations says that seven million yemenis could face starvation and death if aid is not allowed into the country now that devastating morning comes after the saudi led coalition backing the government has tightened its air land and sea blockade around yemen after a missile was launched from yemen towards riyadh the u.n. says that if the blockade is not lifted yemen will things quote the largest famine that the world has seen for decades conditions for yemenis have been dire for months now they're even worse. the united nations says more than a third of the population has barely any access to food supplies the u.n. emergency relief coordinator appealed to the international community it will not be like the famine which cost two hundred fifty thousand people their lives in somalia in twenty eleven. it will be the largest famine the world to see for many decades with millions of victims there's almost no access to clean water and cholera outbreaks have become commonplace a civil war has been raging in yemen since twenty fifteen a saud

warnings malnutrition was killing an average of one hundred thirty yemeni children a day before saudi arabia blockade the country's ports. and scientists say glass is in the french alps a heating up so fast they threatened to wipe out popular tourist villages. zimbabwe's military has confined president robert mugabe to his home after taking control of the country soldiers are patrolling the capital harare and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard earlier on but the military denies it's a coup the takeover follows a bass a battle over who would succeed the ninety three year old president which split the ruling zanu p.f. party into two main factions the low cost group supports the site vice president. while the younger g forty group backs unpopular wife grace a long time ago ally has strong support among the armed forces it was his sacking last week in favor of grace which led to this military action south africa's president jacob zuma says he's spoken to mugabe and confirmed that the longtime leader is say i have also. conducted the president mugabe. whom i had. time to to talk. and

exile. groups warn hundreds of thousands of yemeni children are in danger of dying from malnutrition. and scientists have discovered a earth like planet eleven light years from our own which may be able to support life. hello zimbabwe's military has confined president robert mugabe to his home after taking control of the country soldiers are patrolling the capital harare and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard earlier but the military denies it's a coup the takeover follows a bitter battle over who will succeed the ninety three year old president which splits the rulings on o.p.'s party into two main factions the low cost group support sacked the vice president and listen. while the younger g forty group backs mugabe is unpopular wife grace and long time ally of mugabe when gaga has strong support among the armed forces it was his sacking last week in favor of grace which led to the military action how much us are reports from harare. parts of harare are now on lockdown soldiers an army vehicles have blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts people say they ar

response to the continued aggression committing daily massacres against the yemeni people. the conflict in yemen pits houthi rebels from the north backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh against yemeni government forces back in two thousand and fourteen the who sees and their allies took control of the yemeni capital sana'a. but the conflict widened early the following year when a saudi led coalition of arab countries state done with airstrikes to back up humans government in two and a half years the saudi led coalition has launched thousands of a strikes the same a strikes that have been repeatedly criticized by the united nations for disregarding the number of civilians killed and return who sees and their allies have fired dozens of missiles into saudi territory last week who's the spokesman told al-jazeera that who's the fighters would target any country that attacks them. of those that target yemen as far as we are concerned are fair military target for ballistic missiles any country that hits yemen militarily will be targeted. yemen was already the poor

arabia are in evitable he said that hundreds of yemenis are dying every day in saudi bombardment and that the people that they're fighting can be expected to do nothing else and he said that yemen had become a quagmire for saudi arabia in the same way that vietnam had become a quagmire for the americans and he said that it was time for saudi arabia to stop the violence and negotiate their way out of the conflict because as he said the era of empires is over. now there's been a major shake up in the top ranks of saudi arabia's government and ruling family between saturday night and sunday morning eleven saudi princes forces in cabinet ministers and dozens of foreign ministers were arrested the government describes all this as the work of a new anti corruption committee which itself was also formed on saturday night among those detained is prince i know he's best known as a billionaire investor controlling major states in companies like twitter twenty first century fox and citi group and previously listed in time magazine's one hundred most influential people's list the most significan