the houthis are fighting troops loyal to yemen's president adou rabbo mansour hadi. he set up a temporary capital here in the southern port city of aden and his military is present in most of eastern yemen. hadi has the backing of soon any strikes and airstrikes from the so you had coalition. then there is al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they are anti houthi but not aligned with the government. we have secessionist groups mostly secular and have long been pushing to break from the north. no side that come close to winning yemen's war and all this has come with a heavy human cost. the u.n. said more than 6,000 people have been killed since airstrikes began. aren't half were civilians and almost 1,000 were children. people were starving well before the houthi rebellion. now more than 80% of yemen's 24 million people needle humanitarian aid. the u.n. accuses both of the main players of atrocities and arguments civilians. in the absence of a military solution, there are growing calls for a mediated end to the conflict. the peace efforts have failed before. awesome. >>

the houthis are fighting troops loyal to yemen's president, adou rabbo mansour hadi.e set up a temporary capital here in the southern port city of aden and his military is present in most of eastern yemen. hadi has the backing of sunni tribes and since march of last year, airstrikes from a saudi-led coalition. then there's al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, staunchly anti houthi but in no way aligned with the government. also competing for control in the south, we have the yemen affiliate of isil, as well as secessionist groups, mostly secular and long pushing to break away from the north. >> the u.n. says the number of people without reliable access to enough food has doubled since the conflict began to around 14 million people. that's well over half the population and most of them are women and children. the truce calls for unhindered access to aid across yemen. the ceasefire is to build confidence between the warring parties, a hint of u.n. sponsored talks in kuwait in a week, but the inability of any side to win this war militarily is likely forcing them to resolv