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a nation on the brink of famine good the regulators prepared to meet yemen's government for peace on the un brokered talks could be the first chance in the years to end a bloodbath that's left tens of thousands and millions threatened with starvation. also coming out of. the yellow vests protesters in france say the government suspension of an unpopular fuel tax is too little too late. and if the first step that we could have achieved weeks ago without riots and violence we french will not be content with just crumbs we want to hold back get the protests that have shaken the contrary look set to continue. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us could the guns fall silent at least briefly that is the possibility being presented by talks in sweden between

a delegation of who's the rebels and representatives from yemen's government the u.n. brokered talks are the first since twenty sixteen aimed at ending the country's bitter fight. passports and tickets in hand for a journey many hope will bring pace a delegation of who theory rebels waiting to board their flight to sweden the un special envoy martin griffiths has been instrumental in setting up the talks with the yemeni government such is the distrust between the two sites the rebels wouldn't get on the plane without him. our basic guarantee is the presence of the u.n. envoy with us on the same flight this is the only guarantee we have for going there . have been. the evacuation of fifty wounded who see fighters from the war zone has also helps build confidence in the talks with the conflict locked in stalemates the

whose these backed by iran control the north west of the country including the capital sanaa which they took in twenty fifteen the government backed by saudi arabia and the u.a.e. has set up bases in aden in the south. for years of conflict have left thousands dead and created what's been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history with yemen's economy cripples more than fourteen million people many of them children facing starvation. is a country at war as i've heard me say that this is a country of the break of catastrophe but this is not a country on the brink of catastrophe. this is a country that is in a catastrophe. a catastrophe that son follows it in full view of the whole world but one many say has been ignored the hope is the talks will result in

a truce allowing food and aid to reach those who need it most. for more this morning let's bring in get zero steinberg expert on the middle east from the german institute for international and security affairs. good morning to you get oh all these talks lead to a truce and a halt in the fighting. we don't know yet. up to mistake because one thing has changed since since two thousand and sixteen when the last negotiations took place the united states now exert pressure on saudi arabia and the u.a.e. to start the negotiations and the negotiations at least with a truce so i think we can we can all be slightly optimistic ok what's behind the new push from the united states i think we do see the results of the murder of the trumpet ministration is on the jump in and say this is saudi arabian journalist

the journalist who has been killed in october two in the consulate in istanbul and administration is under pressure by congress. to start sanctions more meaningful sanctions than it already has against saudi arabia and it seems to me that the administration wants to offer a yemen truce all perhaps even peace negotiations in order not to sanction saudi arabia and to its middle east policy regarding especially regarding iran ok so we have new pressure from the united states the yemen conflict is widely considered a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran what motivation would either or both of these and the fighting was saudi arabia has the motive that it is absolutely dependent militarily diplomatically on the united states without united states military support saudi arabia cond keep up. or i would say more than two or three

weeks on the other hand i do not see it. i do not see the war as a proxy war the rani an influence on the forty rebels in the country is not really strong we hardly have an iranian presence we do have a presence perhaps. doesn't military advisers. see the conflict as one between the two richest states two off the richest states in the region namely saudi arabia and the u.a.e. against the hutu rebels which are to some extent. supported by iran but it's a sovereign who's the decision to stop the fight in the whole things are in a very strong position simply because if they don't lose they will it's a rebel move ok would that mean that there is a positive for them for the nor gershon's looking at the just laid out well it all it all depends on the trump administration and as we all know the administration is

not not that reliable and saudi arabia has is not the real partner anymore that it was until two thousand and fifteen so i think we can be somewhat optimistic but the actors on the ground especially saudi arabia to some extent the whole tease and the u.a.e. . are not that much interested in conflict resolution right now they still think they can that they can win this war but there might be a truce yes ok thanks very much the first on birds from the germans for international and security affairs now for some of the other story stories making the news this hour the british prime minister terse and i is battling to plan on track as parliament is set to begin a marathon five day debate on the deal it's not easy has already been handed a major blow over government became the first in british history to be found in contempt of parliament this after the fuse to publish

a legal report on bricks. u.s. prosecutors say the former national security adviser to president trump michael should not face jail time special counsel robert mueller cited flynn's quote substantial cooperation with the russian geisha. one resigned from his post last february that after the merge he lied to white house officials about a meeting he had with the russian ambassador in the lead up to the twenty sixth election. two large undersea earthquake over magnitude seven have struck just off the pacific island of new caledonia authorities of the french territory word of the evacuation of coastal areas and issued to tsunamis warning that there were the threat of destructive waves appears to have passed. in a medical first doctors in brazil a report of helping a woman to successfully deliver a baby from

a transplanted uterus the uterus had been taken from a deceased donor the baby girl was born last december previous cases of uterus transplants from dead donors have failed to produce a live birth. it's to france now where a weekly meeting of president emanuel macross cabinet is set to be dominated by the biggest crisis to face is administration yet in the face of increasingly violent nationwide protests comes government announced it would postpone an unpopular rise in fuel taxes crones as the tax is crucial to combat climate change but protesters say the burden to pay for that is not being shared by the rich. the yellow vests there's alasia on their protests over the past weeks forced the french government to back pedal for now there will not be any tax increases. i will postpone the planned tax increases for several months they will not come

into force until they have been discussed with everyone involved but don't. many french people are suffering from the rising cost of living and see mccombs planned eco tax to increase fuel prices by several cents as a failure of policy that's triggered. protests according to a survey three quarters of the french feel sympathy for the yellow vests here in the countryside the citizens feel particularly detached rundown schools dilapidated hospitals and very little money you know to have the ninety people have the impression and probably rightly so that purchasing power is falling you know that in general centuries in france on the side but the cost of living is higher and the gap is widening. around one in ten in france as unemployed and they are afraid of a decline in living standards. and you would leave the standard of living and especially the situation of the middle class has fallen since the economic crisis

there have been negative effect on the labor market with many more precarious jobs i'm part of china. and the president young dynamic and determined emanuel macross stood for a new beginning a break from the establishment but now many consider mccraw a president for the rich and his reforms have been massively criticized out of touch with the average person. that's flying the silence of course this country has the image of a president who sits in his palace in paris who actually has no contact at all connection with the people and is just not quite sure how to respond yet i am. visiting a police station on tuesday mccaughan kept silent but his protest hers did not students demonstrated throughout the country. for france's yellow vest movement suspending the tax increase and not raising the gas and energy prices is just too little too late. your son the that's

a first step but we could have achieved that weeks ago without riots and violence if we french will not be content with just crumbs we want the whole baguette. baguette the opening the power of the streets new protests have been planned for the coming weekend. it's a national day of mourning in the us and our former president george h.w. bush passed away friday at age ninety four a funeral service will be held for family and friends of the former president other former u.s. presidents and a number of dignitaries will also be on hand his casket has been lying in state since monday in the u.s. capitol rotunda where mourners have been passing through to pay their respects. and we'll have live coverage of bush senior's funeral service here on d w that's starting at six hundred hours u.t.c. all jewish people around the world have been celebrating the festival of lights on

a go and as part of that festival a jewish organization that handles claims for those who suffered under the nazis hosted an international holocaust survivors night at four cities around the world some three hundred survivors attended the event here in berlin but it's all the joy it was concern about a rise and he summoned his. as the adorable lights the fourth candle on the menorah the hanukkah candelabra. the eighty five year old was still a child when she was imprisoned with her parents in a concentration camp in ukraine children love the jewish festival of lights but they are it was unimaginable. in the concentration camp we didn't talk about one hundred you didn't know if you'd be alive tomorrow tonight because every day every hour you expected to be shot. if false and.

three hundred holocaust survivors came to the hanukkah festival at the jewish community center in berlin but the feelings of joy at having survived and being able to celebrate together are mixed with concerns. when he says least close even though this light burns brightly today we still don't feel safe the n.t. semitism that once swept away the fabric of civilization is on the rise again today as we experience more and more frequently how jews and jewish institutions are attacked physically and verbally face to face or on the internet in. asir garb and a former teacher from moscow now goes into schools to talk about her experience under national socialism it is important to her and as long as her health allies she will continue to tell young people about the holocaust we have staff there's an infant dying where eighty five nine hundred ninety two only

a few of us will live to be one hundred. and i wanted something good to remain in the memories and in the hearts of children so they know what happened before and that it should never happen again or call my soulmate of need that's that's as far. and as the a guardian is an optimistic person she is sure she'll be back for next year's festival of lights. and they'll forget you can always get more of these and other stories that our web site that's good of you dot com you can also of course followers on twitter facebook from a brian thomas thanks so much for joining us and for the rest it was well and it was so me it kind of got the out.

in march twenty fifteen a saudi led coalition launched operation decisive storm in yemen more than three years later the campaign drags on while coalition forces including egypt sudan and jordan continue airstrikes against toothy rebels there have been signs of other interventions behind the scenes look at the headline about your p.s.l.e. shall we and it can be up to me that i kept it and i know i had to stop offering it is sometimes yemeni fighters sell their weapons or ammunition. this is so-called

leakage of a type a weapon handed over to a resistance faction and ties then passed on to al qaeda in aid of. the presence of these arms has complicated the situation politically and on the ground further escalating the humanitarian crisis some of those weapons were originally sold to gulf states under subject to international laws known as end user agreements that prohibit their transfer to a third party. egyptian journalist mohammed abu airfare it and the arab reporters for investigative journalism he spent a year tracing the origins of weapons that have fallen into the hands of various yemeni groups. i.