the houthis had just taken over the yemeni government checkpoints. after years of sporadic fighting between the houthis and saudi forces, this part of the border is now no man's land. >> al ahmad: we met a local man who lived on the yemeni side of the border. on the saudi side, we could see a deserted village, emptied by the saudi authorities during the 2009 war against the houthis. >> al ahmad: the saudis attempted to establish a border. but the villagers have found a way around it. >> al ahmad: it is dangerous for yemenis to attempt to cross the border. the saudis are on guard. >> al ahmad: as part of their push for power, the houthis hope to seize territory across the saudi border, claiming land they say is rightfully yemen's. >> al ahmad: for the moment, the saudi border may be the limit of houthi control. but their ambitions go way beyond it. >> al ahmad: the saudis see them as a potent threat and accuse the houthis of collusion with their regional archrival, iran. it has been widely reported that iran gives the group weapons, money, and trainin

by the yemenis themselves by the yemenis them for themselves and this kind of look aid is also very very destructive. of course the saudi blockade when also made today many people suffer but they say also they would let the the human and military and its go into the country and this was also a reaction from yemeni deets made by the whole with the. movement the ex-president. who fired a missile or rocket towards towards riyadh the saudi capital ok ali so so this is a question that if if you just got complicated situation then so how does this blockade get lifted how does the united nations get food into yemen is it seems to be not just a case of the saudis lifting their blockade is more complicated than that. yeah so there are ports sea ports like a little data i've done and through these seaports there humanitarian aid scale and get into yemen and the saudis and the gulf states they have declared that they would let this go into yemen but now the people are there because because of the blockade. there is shortage for example in these in in. and in these oil and in foods almost all t

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 surprised to hear that because of three years of the saudi that coalition war blockade which they have actually extended to close all port our border crossing in in that area as well which many yemenis use to use it as a travel as well to some of the food that used to come into your income of the border across in and it's not only the situation we had as well this caller which they were in i think is the unicef have said is one of the largest cholera outbreak since the record began and the latest. extension of the blockade actually has doubled the price of fuel price of food has increased forty to sixty percent and i think that the saudi and the blockade is not actually effect in. also known at the hotel and as they called the salah forces be

border cross in in that area as well which many yemenis use to use it as a travel as well to some of the food that used to come into your income of the border across in and it's not only the situation we had as well this caller which they were in i think is the unicef have said is one of the largest cholera outbreak since the record began and the latest. extension of the blockade actually has doubled the price of fuel price of food has increased forty to sixty percent and i think that the saudi and the blockade is not actually effect in. also known at the hotel and as they called the salah forces because we have seen the latest attack on the capital city shows that this blockade and three years of the saudi strikes has not actually damaged the hoti military capacity every time they have they have improved and they have proven that they can reach into saudi and i think that this latest. tide in this blockade this means that the crisis the food crisis fuel cries and color under starvation of the many will only increase on the poor people of yemen and it will not effect the hoses becaus

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 spread along highways to other major cities including a whore and. this movement is not political it is the duty of every muslim to protect the owner of his land the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistan's government. it began when pakistan's norman is desired handmade introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the prophet muhammad protest is linked it

yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl unicef says the war in yemen is sadly a war on children close to five thousand children have been killed or seriously injured in the last two and a half years and it welcomes the opening of the airport at santa it allowed us to send in the first humanitarian convoy one point nine million doses of vaccines vaccines that are urgently needed to vaccinate six hundred thousand children across yemen since the saudi led coalition began fighting the hooty is in two thousand and fifteen the country's basic infrastructure no longer exists. the blockade began on november sixth after hutu rebels fired a ballistic missile into saudi arabia. she said the blockade was imposed to stop weapons being smuggled into yemen but the un is warning that commercial imports of food and fuel must also resume the world food program says continuing to choke off those supplies could have a disastrous effect on fourteen million people living in the remote regions of northern yemen completely unable to c

. >> 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 kor

a collision course with mugabe after threatening to intervene over the 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 t

people to their knees but the yemeni people will never knew but to go out the u.n. is calling for a lifting of the blockade and warns yemen could suffer the worst fayemi in decades that would add to already widespread suffering two and a half years of war has only exacerbated poverty in what was already the poorest country in the middle east you know on a map and they are now we are facing real exhausting life conditions not of the government authorities or relief organizations are reaching out to us diseases are spending and the children are getting sick we cannot afford to eat how can we afford to treat them or buy medicine it's a crisis aid agencies say they're desperate to address but can't natasha going to al-jazeera. the u.n. says yemen is now in the grip of the world's worst humanitarian crisis around seventeen million people don't have enough to eat seven million of them are on the brink of famine more than two and a half years of war has forced almost three million people from their homes and a cholera outbreak has killed more than two thousand yemenis sinc

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 he had no deadline to resign zana go no war no your t

the two years and a half or most of this conflict is really bringing a lot on yemenis and the civilian population on the day today we did speak to the u.n. undersecretary general of humanitarian assistance about this and he told us that yemen's ongoing crisis could spark the worst famine the world has seen in decades. the effects of the blockade has been to make it much more difficult around the aid operation at the moment where feeding seven million people every month through the u.n. and our partners in yemen we are providing water services for four million people and we are we made very good progress through the world health organization and children's fund the red cross and others in bringing this terrible cholera epidemic under control but the point is until the food and the fuel and the medicines get back in there we won't be able to sustain those operations in the way we have been doing we have had you know sensible pragmatic discussions about that we are expecting to send two missions to arabia to look at their detail the arrangements for getting aid in more successfully once w

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 military force,

are already in during a famine like conditions but for other yemenis the danger is far more sinister the country is littered with landmines many of which were planted deliberately to kill civilians bernard smith as mine. 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 your 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 the school was blown up by the who the fighters as they were pushed from this part of thais by a saudi led coalition that is supporting ousted president apt rubber mansell hardy the school teachers

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 metastasize more now from harare. the monday new deadli

influx of yemenis is changing djibouti even the locals admit they have reinvigorated the city. for the refugees. and who knows if there will ever be able to go back home mohammed. djibouti. israel says it's prepared to cooperate with saudi arabia to unite against iran israel's military chief the attendant general gadi eyes and told an arabic online newspaper it's ready to share intelligence information with saudi arabia now israel and saudi arabia do not have diplomatic ties but recently their relations have shown some signs of improving in june two israeli ministers separately called for full diplomatic relations to be established with saudi arabia in october classified memos by the israeli foreign ministry revealed it had instructed ambassadors around the world to begin a diplomatic campaign against iran and hezbollah are both saudi arabia's rivals and a couple of weeks ago prime minister binyamin netanyahu said israel is working very hard to establish an effective alliance with the modern city states to counter it rainy and aggression. michael ware has the latest now from we

influx of yemenis is changing djibouti even the locals that they have reinvigorated the city. for the refugees to booties. and who knows if there will ever be able to go back home to mohammed other well just djibouti a large group of ranger refugees is on the move again trying to escape a military crackdown in myanmar hundreds are stuck in what's known as no man's land between me and bangladesh this footage filmed in bangladesh shows refugees trying to get to cox's bazaar more than six hundred thousand rand to have crossed the border since august the time their child has more from cops is bizarre. hundreds of rowing refuges crossed into. no man's land between caulks bones are dying of that shun me on my now most of them are stranded in the paddy field behind me the hilltop you know saying is me on my board are in between is the this has been one of the new points a lot of the refugee of the crossing into buying of that just last week and friday about six thousand refugees crossed into buying without using makeshift raft and fishing boat so the influx was really not stopped peo

influx of yemenis is changing. even the locals that they have reinvigorated the city. for the refugees. and who knows if there will ever be able to go back home. doctors in south korea say that parasitic worms found in a soldier who defected from the north show how bad health care and die i saw in the neighboring country the soldier was shot by his colleagues made his escape across the border on monday he's a serious but stable condition the worms were found when he had surgery the longest measured twenty seven centimeters dr said shows north korea has a major problem with parasites caused by the use of human excrement. a chinese envoy has arrived in north korea for talks at a time when relations between the traditional allies are under serious strain song tao is the highest level chinese envoys visit in two years china is under international pressure to persuade north korea to scale back its nuclear and missile program which can has so far refused to consider. architects from around the world are taking part in a major festival in lynn from reimagining a refugee camp

syria's army in iraq a militia team up to drive i still from the last major town they held in syria how 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

people to their means but yemeni people will never knew but to go out the u.n. is calling for a lifting of the blockade and warns yemen could suffer the worst fan mean in decades that would add to already widespread suffering two and a half years of war has only exacerbated poverty in what was already the poorest country in the middle east you know on a map and they are now we are facing real exhausting life conditions not of the government authorities or relief organizations are reaching out to us diseases are spending and the children are getting sick we cannot afford to eat how can we afford to treat them or buy medicine is a crisis aid agencies say they're desperate to address but can't natasha going to al-jazeera. a human rights watch investigation claims to have uncovered disturbing cases of men must security forces raping range of women and girls it's new report accuses troops of using rape as part of an ethnic cleansing campaign in rakhine state activists interviewed fifty two range of women and girls twenty nine of them were rape survivors three of them

people to their means but yemeni people will never knew but to go out the u.n. is calling for a lifting of the blockade and warns yemen could suffer the worst fan mean in decades that would add to already widespread suffering two and a half years of war has only exacerbated poverty in what was already the poorest country in the middle east you know on a map and they are in a number that we are facing a real exhausting life conditions none of the government authorities are relief organizations are reaching out to us diseases us spending and the children are getting sick we cannot afford to eat how can we afford to cheat them or buy medicine is a crisis aid agencies say they're desperate to address but can't natasha going to al-jazeera. save the children says almost four hundred thousand children in yemen are in desperate need of treatment for acute malnutrition but he says aid and she sees are struggling to reach them because of the funding shortfalls the cholera outbreak and obstructions by the warring parties even before saudi arabia blocked access to airports

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 saudi led coalition has been trying to fight back who the rebels with aerial attacks on monday the coalition closed all entry points to the country allegedly to prevent weapons from being smuggled to the rebels. the border closures are in retribution for this who is the missile attack on saudi soil seen here on saudi television. the un and fifteen aid organizations have called on the coalition to end the blockade and

three yemeni cities the blockade means that clean water cannot be pumped to the people living. but. actually i'm here since already one year and i can tell you i could see the situation deteriorates every day more and more the public health system is almost collapsing the water and sewage system is to having the same thing people are not getting the most basic things like having bread or having cooking gas to make something to eat and to put on the table. to two years and a half almost of this conflict is really putting a lot on yemenis and the civilian population on the day to day and we spoke to the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian assistance who told us that yemen's ongoing crisis could spark the worst famine the world has seen in decades be effective the blockade has been to make it much more difficult from the aid operation at the moment where feeding seven million people every month through the u.n. and our partners in yemen we are providing water services for four million people and we are we made very good progress through the world health organization and c

this is the mark because they come for yemeni refugees in the dusty poll. it's a place many don't want to stay long the sweltering heat then throw shells some storms have driven most of the residents to town of the capital you bootie about two hundred kilometers away. those who have chosen to stay say. yes that there are there are great but life here is difficult which is to flee certain death in yemen only to face a slow and here we have nothing when you see just six kilograms of fry sperm on it's far from enough at one point this camp was home to six thousand refugees many of them have left to rent accommodation a that in all the town or in the competent djibouti yet others have a ton to yemen prefunding the us something told the war zone to life in this column . they ignored warnings from the un refugee agency the un i'd see that the security situation is still. yet the must have his security and should to some basic supplies in yemen is forcing many more if you just to cross the sea. set a house on a not three children have to settle the matter because

you're watching al-jazeera also coming up warnings that mounted killing an average of one hundred thirty 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 t

this is sort of them has been used by the yemeni force. they've called it. and you can also see here military vehicle on the right that has. that is being used in the launch and the both the militants have been given this. and it has been destroyed. this. was about to hit the city of the drawn and we have droid this is an iranian missile that has been given to the host is. right so even if nato spokesman from the saudi led coalition speaking in riyadh about the targeting of the airports in the saudi capital following the. firing a long range ballistic missile that traveled over the border with saudi arabia which was intercepted by the saudis so our senior political analysts who are on bashar is standing by he joins us now from. and so marwan we heard him making the case that this specific type of missile could not have been obtained or used without help from the iranians essentially framing this as a direct attack by iran on saudi arabia. yes i think the entire last twenty four hours from sudden harry's resignation from the lebanese government and on to well

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 tighten his grip on power eight years after he himself supported a coup against the previous president and i are sanchez in only one year in capital to her so where are you and i want is a situation right now hundreds have been voting for a couple of hours that right. that's right lauren hondurans has been voting for a few hours now and in some places we've seen as low turnout. but here in this neighborhood called a bonafide his neighborhood we've seen a lot of people coming to vote a lot of concern today because this is a very special day in this election more than six million two hundred are eligible for voting but. really it's of. the rate of people of abstention as i'm hearing them with is very high

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 the school was blown up by the who the fighters as they were pushed from this part of thais by a saudi led coalition that is supporting ousted president apt rubber mansell hardy the school teachers have tried to block pathways where they think there might be mines and the mining teams have made attempts to clean up the area but lots of metal debora in the soil the mine detecting equipment didn't work effectively. there are still landmines in the school grounds the demining teams weren't able to detect them all because of all the rubble around here so asking the government and humanitarian organ

civilians killed in those are only yemenis that have been killed by the bombing doesn't take into account the thousands of yemenis that are dying because of disease lack of access to food medicine clean drinking water. and and so i mean the human cost of this war is has become very well known it's often in the news right now and the situation right now as we see a deepening of this rift between saleh loyalists and the whole thing is as mentioned earlier several people were killed in the capital over the last couple of days and we saw saw i give a speech the other day on the occasion of independence day and you know sort of presenting himself as a potential mediator in this crisis calling out to the saudis saying you know let's let's sit down and talk i think that this speech is further confirmation of you know salles. insistence on trying to retain. the power that he regained the power that he lost during the massive uprising against him in two thousand and eleven so it's a given all of the latest political situation the human catastrophe that that's on the ground that's unfolding on the

more yemenis that i've businesses owned and run by them are becoming more visible and. they are safe here and have a new start from the whole war yet they continue to follow closely events back home i mean. the problem with yemen is the are militias there for hire and cause massive destruction that will. influx of yemenis is changing djibouti even the locals admit they have reinvigorated the city. for the refugees. and who knows if there will ever be able to go back home. israel says it's prepared to cooperate with saudi arabia to unite against iran israel's military chief says in an interview with an arabic online newspaper that it's ready to share intelligence with saudi counterparts it comes as tension between teheran and riyadh continues to rise well in school as a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says the two countries have mutual concerns on several fronts well i think it's surprising that it became public but the fact of the matter is that they've been working together for quite a while particularly since president obama did the you ran nuclear deal

people to their knees but the yemeni people will never knew but to go out the u.n. is calling for a lifting of the blockade and warns yemen could suffer the worst thing i mean in decades that would add to already widespread suffering two and a half years of war has only exacerbated poverty in what was a. already the poorest country in the middle east you know on a map and they are in a number that we are facing real exhausting life conditions none of the government authorities or relief organizations are reaching out to us diseases are spreading and the children are getting sick we cannot afford to eat how can we afford to treat them or buy medicine it's a crisis aid agencies say they're desperate to address but can't natasha al-jazeera still to come on the program a barely disguised land grab nigerian authorities are criticised for their mass defections of a waterfront community in lagos. and the german chancellor angela merkel says the paris climate change agreement is only a feeling one of planned reforms. hello the week's heat wave is over thirty seven degrees i

influx of yemenis is changing djibouti even the locals admit they have reinvigorated the city. for the refugees. and who knows if there will ever be able to go back home. djibouti. israel says it's prepared to cooperate with saudi arabia to unite against iran israel's military chief says that an interview with an arabic online newspaper that it's ready to share intelligence with saudi counterparts it comes as tension between tehran and riyadh continues to rise well lou in school as a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense he says the two countries have mutual concerns on several fronts well i think it's surprising that it became public but the fact of the matter is that they've been working together for quite a while particularly since president obama did the you ran nuclear deal then they both realize they had to work together to make sure that iran did not become the dominant power in the region but i think it will be concerning to some of the other arab countries that have very tense relationships with israel to think that saudi arabia the premier if you will sunni count

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 the day. also

yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl on your own server to be in a presidential election that's widely expected to return incumbent to power while in orlando and landers who heads the center right to national party has been praised for bringing down the sky high murder rates and raising economic growth but critics say he's trying to tighten his grip on power eight years after he himself supported a coup against the previous president in a sanchez as more from the capital to. all the candidates are basically offering the same things because congress has and is very intense problems with poverty more than sixty percent of hundreds live in poverty so there's the issue of the economy leave third unemployment are rampant and around the country and of course the issue of insecurity a lot of continues to be one of the countries with the highest number of homicides rates in the world outside the war zone area and so many people have this concerns when they vote and the candidates will be very. have been offering a l

that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl. the ship has arrived at the port of saleef, north from the main port of hodeidah, which is still under a blockade, imposed by a coalition led by saudi arabia after the rebels they're fighting in yemen fired a missile at the saudi capital. the blockades are designed to ensure that 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 8,000 lives. andrew plant, bbc news. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news. one of america's best known civil rights activists, john conyers, has ste

the planes carrying vital supplies of food and medicine started arriving in the yemeni capital sana'a on saturday but this comes after the saudi led coalition ease this blockade of the country where twenty million people are reportedly in desperate need of medical assistance and before riyadh took the decision to allow help through thousands of people had been running in the yemeni port city of data it work using saudi arabia and its allies of genocide re it had been involved in yemen civil war since twenty fifteen as supporting the ousted president against who thier rebels it's 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 after a missile was fired toward saudi territory but facing harsh criticism from rights organizations one week later it agreed to ease the restrictions although some aid is now getting through the u.n. still say more needs to be done to avert a humanitarian disaster. well the red cross for one is now warning that a million

saida became a haunting reminder of yemeni suffering last year. this year nineteen year olds aida is strong enough to smile play with her siblings and even do chores for her family of ten but she's still suffering she can't chew her diet consists of biscuits milk and juice and she didn't have enough energy for an interview. i cannot afford her medical treatment it's costly in the end i gave up some benevolent people came to help and took a treatment now she's back here but still well. the global nutrition report says almost every country is grappling with serious nutrition issues ranging from what it calls undernourishment to obesity that means millions of stunted children and mimic women and a rise in obesity across the globe in yemen the issue is exacerbated by a more than two and a half year war that's created what the u.n. describes as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world earlier this year it warned that yemen and twenty million people across africa were at risk of starvation. in yemen in yemen there are more than ten million children an

so good to have you with us today for the program the continued saudi led blockade 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 re

humanitarian crisis there gets worse 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