saudi arabia has a border with yemen. the iranians are backing a force called the how hi -- out his to bring down a government in yemen. from a saudi perspective, everywhere you look you see iran encroaching throughout the mideast. the theocracy in iran is the biggest threat to world order and that is saying a lot given the world as it is. and i say that with confidence because what iran is trying to do is destabilize the mideast in unprecedented fashion and our allies are tired of it. now is the time to stand with them, with their imperfections, against iran with their hostility. so this $500 million chunk of the $110 billion weapon sale is absolutely essential that the saudi air force get these weapons not only to minimize casualties but when the fight against the aggressive nature of iran and yemen and other places. i don't know where we're going with iran but the president said that the current nuclear deal is absolutely a terrible deal. he is right. this deal locks in a march toward a nuclear weapon by the iranians.

-backed saudi-led war in yemen. we w will speak to human rights watch aboutt what this means for the war in yemen as well as the group's new report on torture and disappearances, and secret prisons in yemen. then we go to london. >> the government should be doing more, honestly. they're not doing enough. and they have failed because this is a natural disaster. -- it is a national disaster. amy: hundreds of protesters condemn the government's handling of last weweek'ss devastating apartment fire that has killed att least 79 people. we will l get the latest in london. than more from naomi klein on "no isis not enough." all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. republican majority leader mitch mcconnell is scheduled to release the senate's plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act today, pushing for a rapid vote ahead of the j july 4 holiday on a bil that was crafted in secret. a drug versions are given to do yesterday, seen by "the

you have to understand for dealing with in yemen. were dealing with iran.r saudi arabia has a border with a yemen. the ukrainians are backing a fourth force called the police and from a saudi perspective everywhere you look you see iran encroaching throughout the middle east. the bureaucracy in the iran is the biggest threat to world order and that is saying a lot, given the world as it is. i say that with confidence because when iran is trying to do is destabilize the middle east in an unprecedented fashion and our arab allies are tired of it and now is the time to stand with them, with their imperfections against iran with their hostility. this 500 million-dollar chunk of the $110 billion weapons sale is absolutely essential that the saudi air force get thesehe weapons, not only to minimize casualties but to win the fight against the aggressive nature of the iran and yemen and other places. i don't know where were going with iran, the president said the current m nuclear deal is absolutely a terrible deal and he is right. this deal

should we be at war in yemen. if you remember your constitution, it says no president has that authority. only to repel imminent attack, but no president alone has the unilateral authority to take us to war. and yet, here we are on the verge of war. what will war mean for yemen? 17 million folks in yemen live on the brink of starvation. i think to myself is there ever anything important that can happen in washington, is there ever anything i can do to save some of the millions of children that are dying in yemen? this is it. this is this debate today. it isn't about an arms sale. it's about children like ali who die. why are they dying? because the soviets have blockaded the ports. 90% of yemen's food comes in from the ocean, and they can get no food and they are starving and dying of cholera because of war. we think of famine being related to the weather. sometimes it is. more often than not famine is manmade and the most common cause is war. how bad is it in yemen? 17 million people live on the edge of starvatio

should we be at war in yemen. if you remember your constitution, it says no president has that authority. only to repel imminent attack, but no president alone has the unilateral authority to take us to war. and yet, here we are on the verge of war. what will war mean for yemen? 17 million folks in yemen live on the brink of starvation. i think to myself is there ever anything important that can happen in washington, is there ever anything i can do to save some of the millions of children that are dying in yemen? this is it. this is this debate today. it isn't about an arms sale. it's about children like ali who die. why are they dying? because the soviets have blockaded the ports. 90% of yemen's food comes in from the ocean, and they can get no food and they are starving and dying of cholera because of war. we think of famine being related to the weather. sometimes it is. more often than not famine is manmade and the most common cause is war. how bad is it in yemen? 17 million people live on the edge of starvatio

in yemen's civil war. and senator rand paul of kentucky. >> pursuant to the arms export control act of 1976 i moved to discharge the foreign relations committee from further consideration of sj resolution 42 relating to the disapproval of the proposed military sales of the government of saudi arabia. >> under the previous owner, equally divided between the proponents and opponents of the motion to discharge. >> mister president, today is an extraordinary day. an auspicious day. for we will be discussing issues of war and peace. believe it or not, i rarely discuss these important issues, we have been a war for 15 years and a handful of debates, most of them in direct, forced under duress, the leadership of both parties could avoid him. this is called a privileged motion. today we will discuss the involvement in the middle east and they engage in a new war in yemen. we will discuss and i'm sale to saudi arabia that threatens the lives of millions of yemenis that discuss something even more than an arms sale

and forced people in yemen to die of hunger. but there even doing it to qatar qatar which until a few days ago was working alongside saudi arabia now they've blockaded qatar they prevent food from getting into the country this is how bizarre this saudi regime behaves we know that ice is where its ideology comes from we know where the ideology come from comes from we know the books that they teach come from saudi arabia we know that the bomb attacks in europe across europe in asia in africa why does ice is an attack so did a period of years and the target of these are linked to wahhabism. all of them are linked and the attack in yemen what way why in the why we don't attack in tehran the al-qaeda the isis attack in iran was carried out with this support according to the for the iranian intelligence was carried out with the support of the saudi regime and i think the new crown prince mohammed bin should take care because saudi arabia is a country that is running out of money like there's no tomorrow it has lost the war in yemen it

what will forming for yemen? yen 17 million folks in yemen live on the brink of starvation.on i think to myself, is there ever anything important that can happen in washington, is there anything i can do to save some of the millions of children that are dying in yemen? this is it. this is this debate today. it is in about an arm sale, it's about children like ali who di died, why are they dying because the soviets have blockaded the ports. o 90% of yemen food, from the ocean and they can get no food and they are starving and dying of cholera because of poor. think of family being related to the weather and sometimes it is but more often than not, famine is related to man, is man-made and the most common cause is war. how bad is it in yemen? 17 million people live on the edge of starvation. some, like ali, have already died. what are people saying about its but they say that humanitarian crisis in yemen maybe worse than in syria. let me repeat that because nobody in america is listening to this. everybody is payin

yemen's memedical system is in shambles, but the u.s. back saudi led war shows no sign of letting upup as the e trump administration moves ahead with a $110 billion arms dealal. we will go to yemen to speak with save the children. plus, we will go to the streets of new york where thousands took part in sunday's puerto rican day parade on the same day puerto rico held a controversial referendum on statehood. >> they're are being deeply impacted by migration, congressional inaction, and deathsally by all of the . lester, half a million people migrated inland. grading infrastructure. amy: and looking at to real estate investors advising president trump's residence described them as slumlords. two new exposes show how trump's son-in-law jared kushner and his close friend thomas barrack have profited mightily off f the bacs of low-income renters. all of that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in yemen, a civilian is dying nearly every hour from an cholera outbreak, as th

saudi arabia and many to many terrorist acts many times now we come to it to yemen saudi arabia and yemen share hundreds and or a thousand miles of borders and the which is supported by iran and being supplied by very disable or lethal weapons like like the scud missiles support. supported by iran and given to the many to the whole by iran and the out of thirty that war doesn't just like they did like fields ago and when they're kept so did it be at that time we actually. allow in food to get into account for such weapons be sent to yemen no no no you didn't do it in a saudi surely surely not allowed on the if you added to the no no certainly no matter who they are you know you do and you do it and they would know audacity you don't know if you actually run when you just. really knew that it had been you know in its military or tele country ok now i'm just going to let alone. pronounce are you only the start of the by the way we wanted the war in yemen we would never want to be in a conflict with a neighboring believe it or not saudi arabia for that for many decades have supported yemen a

even when i was in yemen some we looked at very carefully at anyone who is looking to travel from yemen to and mostd states people in our evaluation did not meet the requirements and didn't get visas. whether the travel ban takes you farther and provides greater security i think is debatable, and in my own view, it is a mistake to go down that way. laws we have in place are sufficient to provide for u.s. security. host: we know from looking at dwarfs that qatar itself compared with saudi arabia. how big would it be compared with the state? guest: good question. relatively small. my guess is something like montana. but a relatively small area, and small population. host: how many people live there? guest: in terms of the actual qatari citizens, 100,000 or 200,000. host: jim in leesburg, virginia, final call. probably 60-40 on the liberal side, but on the topic this money come i'm a vet, my son is a combat marine from afghanistan, 2 tours over there, the pointtting to where i'm isolationist. it's the 21st century. if they can't get along, let's close up and focus on canada and the tip of

this is not the first time we have faced this in cholera —— in the yemen.ame. we are talking about half of the 200,000 people you mentioned our children. a lot of the fatalities are children. children are seriously impacted by this outbreak and it's important and crucial that we get to them with the help and assistance they need so we can beat this. unicef say this is the worst cholera outbreak in the world. how has it come to this? the worst cholera outbreak in the world. how has it come to thi57m is unfortunately the sad reality of the country that has been reeling from years of poverty, chronic malnutrition, systems that are not functioning properly. the situation has works and in the last two years asa has works and in the last two years as a result of the two years of fighting which has left the health system in tatters. it has almost collapsed. health workers haven't been paid for the past month so people, 50 million people don't have access to regular healthcare. —— 50 million. people have been pushed even further into poverty. people say they can't

in yemen food. roads, the pieces of infrastructure that yemen people the to afford to eat. all of the rest of the weaponry from i know will continue to go forward. it's a small slice senators are pushing a sin we cannot have it u.s. stamp of famine and another country. >> arthel: in a nutshell you're saying the civil war in yemen and the famine that is the result of the, the famine of the human rights violations will continue if the trump administration doesn't do something about it to call cut saudi arabia on the carpet and move on with the sale without condition. >> exactly right. there is a peace agreement to be had in yemen. i think all of the parties recognize that ultimately the only way out of this is a political solution. the problem is they all think they can with the long game. saudi leave readers were say this last month that along wars and their interests. partly because they say we have a steady arm supply, financing, and we can outlast our enemies in yemen. what needs to change to key

he was rock at the front end for getting these shipments of aid into yemen. so that story is quite public. what's new here is that it turned out that transoceanic and mr. darden were also working on secret contracts involving shipping similar types of materials into yemen for the military, specifically for the very specialized special operations forces, the commandos, who are operating in yemen today. >> woodruff: and. >> brangham: and just for the record, there's no evidence that the aid groups had any idea the company they were hiring to do work for them was also doing this work for the u.s. government. >> that's right. spokesmen for both unicef and for the red cross said they had no idea that transoceanic was carrying out these kind of contracts with the military on the logistics side of things, and had they known, they may have opted for another company, but i must say, there arein' a lot of companies that get into these kind of very dangerous war zone type of places. so it's not unusual to find a company like transoceanic dealing with multiple kinds of c

we should all every body accountable to start with the government of yemen and the us well to stop.reatments just stop course all the. spirit people started really the daily total detainees and to release any one of the drug again for dormant political activities at my french embassy from human rights watch thank you very much indeed for your thoughts escaping thank you. to. our french president a man you might call says he doesn't want to see a repeat in syria of the mistakes made in libya the intervention there which france was part of is why they regarded as having field global terrorism r.t. shallot do bensky reports from paris he almost gave a suggestion that there could be uncomfortable times ahead for the two countries the u.s. and france are chaffed been historically very strong allies the historical conflicts that the u.s. and france have been involved in together particularly in libya where he actually said that the intervention of nato allies france and the u.s. alongside other nato allies in two thousand and eleven which eventually helped lead to the removal of colonel q

a un warning about yemen as the number of cases passes 200,000. the desperate search for survivors after a massive landslide in china's sichuan province. more than 100 people are missing. 3a high rise buildings around england have failed fire safety tests following the grenfell tower disaster, with hundreds more still to be assessed. thank you forjoining us. the united nations fears for the safety of up to 150,000 civilians trapped in the last enclave of mosul. it's still held by the so—called islamic state but the iraqi army is closing in. the country's prime minister says mosul will be liberated within days. 0ur correspondent 0rla guerin reports from the front line in mosul‘s old city. she's with cameraman nicholas hameon and producer firle davies. and a warning — their report contains some distressing images. a journey to the front line. 0ur windscreen, a reminder of the dangers ahead. 0ur escort from iraq's elite counterterrorism force. snaking forwards towards an enemy that's still inflicting casualties. like this wounded soldier, being rushe

sentiment in yemen because this war that's been going on for over two years now is so devastating to the entire country of yemen they can't tass trophy is unbelievable proportions with now the outbreak of cholera that's a national emergency. the yemeni people are saying this is coming from saudi arabia and their ally the united states the bombs are made in u.s. factories the their weapons keep getting refueled in the air by the u.s. and now there is a cozying cozy relationship with trump who says we're going to give you more logistical support we're going to stop any rollback that obama started to do in the very end of his administration. so i think it's very very dangerous and i've been to yemen i've spoken to people who've lost their loved ones in a u.s. drone strike and they say we believe in revenge in our culture it goes on from generation to generation we will not give up we see the united states behind this and we will take revenge that's a scary so we've destroyed our reputation in afghanistan in iraq and libya and egypt to now and yemen all to suck up to the saudis that well

the world's worst cholera outbreak — a un warning about yemen — as the number of cases passes 200,000 nations fears for the safety of up to 150 thousand civilians — trapped in the last enclave of mosul. it's still held by the so—called islamic state but the iraqi army is closing in. the country's prime minister says mosul will be liberated within days. 0ur correspondent 0rla guerin reports from the front line in mosul‘s old city. she's with cameraman nicholas hameon and producer firle davies. and a warning — their report contains some distressing images. a journey to the front line. 0ur windscreen, a reminder of the dangers ahead. 0ur escort from iraqi's elite counterterrorism force. snaking forwards towards an enemy that's still inflicting casualties. like this wounded soldier, being rushed away as we arrived. and families fleeing too, on foot. escaping hunger and fear, and a beloved city robbed of life. no food, no water. mosul is dead. this is the old city area. it is really the heart of the battle. when you look around here, you get a real sense of how fierce the fighting has been

will always come back to haunt us hawk watchers and with the recent horrific reports coming out of yemen it appears that the united states and its war on terror has once again found itself at the center of yet another torture scandal this week the associated press is reporting that an estimated two thousand men have allegedly disappeared into a vast secret network of prisons inside the war torn country of yemen run both by the united arab emirates and yemeni forces and that many of the detainees are victims or victim to horrific torture and conditions including being subjected to the grill in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire. now where does the united states been this this this horror show well according to the a.p. u.s. officials have acknowledged that u.s. forces have been involved in the interrogations of these detainees however they deny any participation or knowledge of the extreme human rights abuses taking place there several anonymous u.s. defense officials told the a.p. that quote u.s. senior military leaders were aware of allegations

and american forces in yemen have reportedly been involved in the interrogation of detainees in prisons where torture allegations are rife. this is the news at the top of the hour from international in moscow welcome to the program i'm kate. victims of last week's grunfeld tower blaze may have been exposed not only to smoke and fire but also to highly toxic gas that's according to the latest expert analysis on the tragedy in the british capital artie's pretty boy has more. cyanide is one of the deadliest poisons there is and apparently the insulation boards on the building on ground felt how it could have been letting off cyanide as the building was burning and we know this because the hospitals treating some of the victims of the fire one of the hospitals as said that they have treated three people for cyanide poisoning bear in mind the building's management we're telling people will stay in their apartments until help arrived the other part of this scandal that's rapidly growing is that cladding so the material used on the outside of the building which turned out to be extremely flamm

not only that but the government of yemen and. for that matter the united states and others they have become state parties to the united nations convention against torture. which. also encourages the inspections and you know for a fact finding through the u.n. committee against torture so there are a lot of ways to to open this thing up and let. see the facts and because there's no doubt that torture is absolutely prohibited in international law and you think that after you know abu ghraib and other. terrible. instances which have been very well documented and finally admitted that all parties would stay away from you know uncivilized behavior if this was going on professors in trouble just want to get as many questions as i can and what if the u.s. though it wasn't complicit in the told it wasn't actually volley is in any international laws but it was perhaps using intelligence that was used that was gathered by its allies through the use of torture i mean could that for example if that was the case could that result to any sort

years of conflict in yemen have destroyed the country's infrastructure. water and sanitation systems has left almost 15 million people without access to basic health care. as a result, easily treatable diseases such as cholera are spreading at an unprecedented rate. more than 200,000 people are believed to be infected, and more than 1,300 people have already died — a quarter of them children. dr richard brennan is the world health organisation's director of emergency operations. hejoins us now live. good to have you with us. talk through the particular challenges are facing in yemen, giving the damage done to infrastructure. the conflict has been going on for a couple of years but that has been on the back of decades of underdevelopment and political tensions. there has been intense conflict over the last two years, divided government in yemen so there isa divided government in yemen so there is a government based in the northern city, the southern city, which has the backing of international communities, the legitimate government. there are huge problems

yemen and bahrain are much more important to saudi arabia. i worry that iran is doing cost imposing strategies on saudi arabia and the emirates and other countries there in potentially us as well as we become involved. so we have to be careful in how we approach those issues. so i think that this is one thing that i do worry about and why it's so important to understand how iran approaches issues like yemen and issues like syria. >> thank you very much. [ inaudible ] my question is do you see any ideology or policy change in iran from the last two elections? and second, do you see this as a shia and sunni war in the region? and finally, if president trump's recent visit in the region will change any poll change from the u.s. of bringing peace from the pad past administration to the new administration? >> those are three questions. >> three big ones. >> do you want to takive in these? i'll keep taking them. >> going on from the elections which i figure we would at some point talk about the elections. the recent election that's -- you have to r

senior military leaders were aware of allegations of torture at the prisons in yemen looked into them but were satisfied that there had not been any abuse when u.s. forces were present. but given the recent u.s. history regarding the torture regarding the torture of the war on terror suspects we've we heard these types of stringent denials before and sadly we can no longer accept the face value. sorry you lost all your credibility after all let's remember that the torture sorry excuse me enhanced interrogation acted under the bush administration was allowed to go on punished by the obama administration and back the only person president obama did send to jail for the cia's torture program was john kiriakou he agent who blew the whistle on it so with the united states once again being tied to claims of torture and abuse let us hope history is not repeating itself as we start watching the hawks. it looks like. it's really. as easy to pull out of it. like you know that i got. within three. weeks. growth of the on the watch of the hawks i am a robot i have a lot of those so here we sit. t

so let's focus to guarantee one is falling into any shadow or yemen to fill that vacuum. to guarantee that there is no democracy because god forbid they have the ability to jews against sharia so those nonbelievers that the same boat and are equal with their selection with a government that they want? so his commanders understood so with that management of savagery. how they viewed that strategy. so did i. the states was so weak in second to create a vacuum because whoever fills that will be the new dictator. so then two minutes that chaos and savagery. in then to declare a state you to start a final confrontation with the wife. so to say bin laden told his commanders it means a lot of people will die. lot of muslims will buy. -- died. but we have to kill them to save them. so that order that he gave just before he was killed and in such a phenomenal way. so now you see terrorism as a threat now that is embedded in geopolitical wars so what is happening in syria is not only a civil war. not only people who want liberty and freedom, that was the beginning of a the geopolit

targeting the yemeni people inflicting great damage carnage on the people in yemen and how much how much we've seen really at all in the western media about this and meanwhile the united states britain and other countries keep supporting the saudis with weapons with logistic with political support they pretend that they're fighting terrorism there it's really it's really despicable prince mohammad who feels that he has such a backing from washington he can engage in all sorts of risky and adventurous behavior and it's not going to come back to bite him and i think that if he keeps up this way it's going to end up above all destabilizing saudi arabia. stories twenty four seventh's. kevin oh he'd be a good morning this morning if you could come back in thirty five but it's not been great we're going to live here for moscow between now and then is along with boom bust give me a fresh take on the latest mainstream media money headline. prime market was reformed to some degree and the wall street. unable to penetrate that market as they once did so the wall street cockroaches along with

artie's obtained video of the alleged aftermath of a saudi led coalition strike in yemen which killed up to twenty five people at a market on saturday you may find some of the pictures coming appear upsetting mostly local reports suggest that the airstrike was comprised of two raids the first hit civilians whereas the second then targeted the paramedics are just a ride to the scene treat the injured the tactic is what's known as a double tap with a second strike hitting those reacting to the first and saudi arabia has reportedly used this kind of tactic before to. use was a funeral for one man in samarra and now it has turned into a funeral for hundreds of their minions. just a lot. back in october last year the deadliest so-called double tap strike in yemen hit a funeral in a sand it was immediately condemned by the un and the organization then warned it was violating its coalition's obligations saudi arabia says it carried out an investigation into the incident and said that it happened after they'd received incorrect information from yemen's military former u.s. diplomat believes t

next stop tease of time video of the alleged aftermath of a saudi led coalition strike in yemen that killed up to twenty five people at a market on saturday and i find some of the pictures coming up a disturbing local reports suggest that the airstrike was comprised of two raids the first hit civilians was the second then targeted the paramedics to the right of the same to treat them this tactic is what is known as a double tap the second strike hitting those reacting to the first and saudi arabia's reportedly used this kind of tactic before to. use was a fuel cell one. and now it has turned into a funeral for one hundred so you mean it's. all just. an all or. back in october last year the deadliest so-called double tap strike in yemen hit a funeral the asuna you may recall it was immediately condemned by the u.n. and the organization born riyadh then it would be violating its coalition obligations in response so they were carried out an investigation into the incident and said it happened after they received incorrect information from yemen's military former u.s. diplomat jim jatra

back in october last year the deadliest so-called double tap strike in yemen hit a funeral me you may recall it was immediately condemned by the u.n. the organization warned then it was violating its coalition's obligations not saudi arabia said it carried out an investigation into the incident and said that it happened after they received incorrect information from yemen's military former u.s. diplomat steve jett triss still to see believes the kingdom feels it can do it it likes and go unpunished. we've got. areas of yemen on the verge of starvation the possibility of the outbreak of cholera this is a war basically targeting the yemeni people inflicting great damage carnage on the people in yemen and how much how much are we seeing really at all in the western media about this and meanwhile the united states britain and other countries keep supporting the saudis with weapons with logistic with political support they pretend that they're fighting terrorism there it's really it's really despicable for crown prince mohammad who feels that he has such a backing from washington he can en

so why is it proving very difficult to help yemen? work is being slowed down by both sides in the war. on top of this, access to the affected areas is also difficult. shortage of fuel and damaged roads mean that supplies often don't reach the people in need. awareness of the waterborne disease is growing in the capital. but, in rural areas, where most of the cases occur, understanding is a problem. over 200,000 people are now suspected of having cholera. and, without outside help, aid agencies warn that figure could more than double. if you want more background you can find that right now on the bbc news website. stay with us on outside source — still to come. this common pesticide harms both honeybees and wild bees — that's according to the most extensive study to date. the family of the last person to die from injuries sustained in the hillsborough disaster have told the bbc they're "hugely disappointed" that his death has been excluded from the newly—announced manslaughter prosecution. tony bland's life support was removed four yea

it is endemic in yemen but the fact we have reached such a high number.of the 200,000 people you mentioned are children. a quarter of the fatalities are children, so children are seriously impacted by this outbreak and it is important and crucial that we get to them with the help and assistance they need so we can beat back this disease. two years of civil war have destroyed health services and sanitation systems. severe food shortages have led to widespread malnutrition, making yemenis, especially children, even more vulnerable to disease. more than 1,300 people have already died of cholera. steve jackson reporting there and for more information on the ongoing war in yemen and the humanitarian crisis there head to the bbc news website, or you can download the bbc news app. the united arab emirates has warned qatar that it will be cut off by its neighbours if it does not accept their demands. it's been three weeks now since the gulf diplomatic crisis erupted and a leaked list of thirteen demands from saudi arabia and its allies doesn't seem to offer much

killed mother in pakistan yes len saeed been a shock son in yemen in fact the study finds the u.s. only names western civilians killed in these strikes but the vast majority are of course from the country that's been hit it proposes three specific actions the government can take knowledge and explain every civilian or unlawful death and naming those killed releasing all government investigations into specific strikes and explaining why the government believes the strikes are legal it also comes with a personal plea to now president trump and his administration to build on the reforms the obama administration implemented in its final year not repeat its mistakes by operating in. secret in washington cmon dollars r e o r t. with war is raging in the middle east the region is a gold mine for weapons export in countries and our neighbors to the north are cashing in according to james defense weekly canada is now the second largest arms dealing nation after of course the united states when it comes to arms in the middle east are to have alex the high leverage is internal and has a littl

navy warships off the coast of yemen. u.s.ines had pulled out and shudder the embassy months before when a blood he civil war tearing yemen apart. the withdrawal slowed the fight against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> one of the most lethal branches of al qaeda and its proven itself to have ambitions to attack our country. >> in 2009, they sent a man known as the underwear bomber to the u.s. with the aim of bringing down a u.s. airliner. in 2011, the u.s. drone killed the radical american born muslim cleric who had been directing and planning attacks on the u.s. since president trump has taken office, air strikes against al qaeda in yemen have more than doubled. there have been more than 80 air strikes this year. u.s. special operations forces have returned in small numbers in two ground rates. ryan owens was killed days after president trump took office. although this comes as a civil war which many see as a proxy fight between saudi arabia and iran rages inside yemen. the saudis launched a surprise war against the hou

a traditional song passed from a woman board in yemen to her daughter. she shares a painful past with many yemenite israelis. she believes that 50 years ago, her baby was kidnapped and may have been illegally adopted. hospital officials showed her body ory -- her no grave, and the facts in these documents don't hold up. >> i want to find out where my daughter went. i want her to know that i didn't abandon her, that i love her. i was tricked. reporter: in the late 1940's, tens of thousands of jews left yemen, joining a massive airlift to the new state of israel. in tough conditions, many children died. but in some cases, babies were adopted by israelis originally from europe without proper consent. activists say there was ethnic discrimination and count several thousand suspicious cases over decades. authorities say the number is far lower. now parliament is looking into disturbing evidence of medical research after official archives were opened. dna tests proved that he was yemenite, but he was brought up by a couple who had come from europe. >> this is

. >>> weapons in yemen. the conflict being hidden from the cameras. the tranquility awaits. hanging with our mates weekenders and the it's been quite a day... ...so glad we got away weekenders. whatever kind of weekender you are, there's a hilton for you. book your weekend break direct at hilton.com and join the weekenders. usaa gives me the and the security just like the marines did. the process through usaa is so effortless, that you feel like you're a part of the family. i love that i can pass the membership to my children. we're the williams family, and we're usaa members for life. you myour joints...thing for your heart... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. >>> we're back with the world lead in pulling the curtain back in a weapons deal between the united states and saudi arabia worth nearly $110 billion. pr

it said yemen needs -- it says yemen is facing a triple threat of cholera -- and famine.hanistan, in recent years, the taliban have been regaining ground. for nearly two years, little has been seen of light under their rule until now. we have the first international journalists to visit the territory under close scrutiny of official minders. >> we just entered the territory. we passed through were so many british soldiers fought and died. our taliban minder always with us. the bustling market looks like any in afghanistan, but there are telltale sounds that we., then -- telltale signs that we are in taliban territory. the women are nowhere to be seen. maybe the market and head for the local high school. it is religious studies and only boys get an education. insists thatinder there are other lessons, and that girls can go to school, just not here. schoolsban used to burn down. now, they are running them, funded by the central government. >> the government and inspectors do the supervision. the telegram don't have any problem with it. >> and the playground, the main attrac

for now, his biggest problem is the war he started in yemen. it's expensive.acted strong accusations of war crimes and all his weaponry from britain and elsewhere isn't enough to win. his firstjob will be to stop the war. john simpson, bbc news. today's been the hottestjune day in the uk since 1976. the record was achieved at london's heathrow airport this afternoon, where the temperature reached 34.5 celsius. it's also the fifth consecutive day when temperatures across the uk have been above 30 degrees, making it the hottest prolonged spell injune since that summer of 1976 when britain suffered a drought. our correspondent, duncan kennedy, reports. the breathtaking beauty of the perfect summer solstice, celebrated today at stonehenge with meditation and anticipation of the longest day ahead. by mid morning, at the emmbrook court shelter in berkshire, it'd had already reached 30 degrees. what do you make of these temperatures? very hot. too hot? too hot, yes. but others here were following the advice of nhs england to avoid the heat, if not the humour. yeah, i

capitol hill after senate republicans unveiled their plan to change the affordable care act and over in yemen the new report is looking to shed some light on u.s. involvement in secret prisons used to torture and interrogate victims of the country's civil war a military and thing in for ed schultz reporting tonight from washington d.c. you're watching artsy america. good evening a major milestone is approaching in the u.k. tomorrow marks one year since britain voted to exit the european union and talks to shape the impending separation began this week just a year ago british voters cast their ballots and determine the future of the u.k. in a major surprise to many the results revealed a divide in kingdom one that would leave the twenty eight member states known as the european union experts say the most pressing issue will be the post brecht that trade deal as a number of european national and regional parliaments may want to hold referendums for more we spoke to our very own edge scholtz who is in london right now. there's a tremendous amount of curiosity about what's going to happen next am