earlier we spoke to london-based barrister, activist and writer aisha khan and asked her if yemen was breaking any law by targeting vessels in the red sea legally, the american... have absolutely no right to be bombing yemen, in legal terms, under the un conventions and resolutions and decisions, and even the genocide convention itself, the one treaties, what the legal position actually is is that yemen as a state has the duty to, and if it sees genocide, to prevent it as it sees. bit, so actually the funny thing or what we have not seen in the media is going by the un's own documents and own judgments and resolutions. yemen is the only one by preventing these ships from giving supplies to israel, the only state acting in accordance with international law, the yemenes have not killed anyone, have not killed any of their citizens, and we can actually see the... in the rhetoric of joseph biden and rishi sunak and they're very clear when they speak about why they are taking military action and why it is and they've said it is for commercial interests to keep open commercial shipping lane

earlier we spoke to london-based barrister, activist and writer aisha khan, and asked her if yemen... was breaking any law by targeting vessels in the red sea legally, the americans have absolutely no right to be bombing yemen in legal terms, under the un conventions and resolutions and decisions, and even the genocide convention itself, the one treaties, what the legal position actually is is that yemen as a state. has the duty to in if it sees genocide, to prevent it as it sees fit, so actually the funny thing or what we have not seen in the media is going by the un's own documents and own judgments and resolutions. yemen is the only one by preventing these ships from giving supplies to israel, the only state acting in accordance with international law in the... have not - killed anyone, have not killed any of their citizens, and we can actually see this in the rhetoric of joseph and they're very clear when they... speak about why they are taking military action and why it is, and they've said it is for commercial interests to keep open commercial shipping lanes and to ensure that c

aisha, thank you very , ali khan. aisha, thank you very, very much. standing against them at the election ? at the election? >> i think what we're going to find out is , um, definitely in find out is, um, definitely in the local elections in may, just what, um, just how big a problem that my party is going to have. >> uh, in terms of the feelings around palestine , um, the war in around palestine, um, the war in gaza right now, keir starmer stands and, um , how how long the stands and, um, how how long the silence on, um, the sort of crisis, the humanitarian crisis that's going on right now. how long will that silence, um , uh, long will that silence, um, uh, is going to continue to. >> yeah . okay. i mean, does this >> yeah. okay. i mean, does this not put a huge amount of pressure on the labour party to do things like back a ceasefire, for example, and to have that if they want to keep the quote unquote, traditional muslim vote as it were. i know it's not just the muslim vote that are very keen on a ceasefire. i get that, but i think in the context