the turmoil allowed al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to strengthen its hold in the south. in the meantime, houthi rebels took hold in the north. they fought with troops in the capital, leading hadi and his government to resign in protest. the next month hadi fled sanaa for aden in the south and withdrew his resignation. houthi rebels announced they they were seizing power and would replace hadi with a council. made a plea to the international community. >> yemen is collapsing before our eyes. we cannot stand by and watch. >> reporter: and the u.s. temporarily closed its embassy in yemen citing the risk that renewed violence would threaten the diplomatic community in sanaa. roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> yemeni analyst writes her blog yemeneri. , it's good to have you with us. with the houthis overrunning the country, the president fleeing now saudi arabia gets involved with these air strikes. but is this too little too late to save the yemeni government that was allied with the united states? >> i think in my opinion any kind of action that's going to create more trouble on

al qaeda in the arabian peninsula.g up with isis or starting to call itself isis, depending on who you believe. so the iran-backed rebels just overtlou the government in yemen. that was the government letting u.s. troops secretly fight a very effective war against isis in that country. that permission, that drone base. even the u.s. embassy are all over now. so that war that the u.s. was quietly waging in yemen without ever talking about it in this country, that's over now. and if you are concerned about the threat, particularly the international threat of al qaeda and isis working from a place like yemen from which they have already tried pretty effectively to bomb the united states before, i mean, maybe it's okay that it's not u.s. special forces and drones in yemen fighting them there anymore. maybe it's okay if the new guys who have taken over, these iranian-backed fighters, maybe they themselves will be able to take on al qaeda and isis. they say they want to. they say they don't need the u.s., but they will destr

and probably the outskirts of the arabian peninsula, the adjacent country these countries are primarily concerned by the influence in this region. it's understandable that turkey and pakistan show some kind of support. the fear is this might be regionalized and iran might interfere, because iran has been doing exercises not far from the gulf of aden just a couple of weeks ago that, i mean, it's yes, there are fears and there are concerns that this might actually spill over, you know, in other regions not just in the arabian peninsula it's a very dangerous situation. >> it's interesting commentators used to talk about proxy conflict between iran and saudi arabia. this seems to taking things to a higher level in the division between sunni powers and shia groups and powers. >> they will tell you they haven't been willing to interfere militarily in yemen because they have been giving time to diplomacy, trying to get the divert sides to come to the negotiation table. they offered to host talks in saudi arabia. you remember the gulf initiative and so on. what the saudis now are saying i guess

aims in the global war on terror as international extremist groups like al qaeda and the arabian peninsula duck dug in on yemeni territory. yemen's leaders allowed american forces, assets and drone strikes in the efforts to push back. some figures were killed by drone strikes carried out on the yemeni territory. the u.s. pulled out. yemenis are fighting each other. back. >> we have a senior military writer for defense one and another guest. all the video talking about this rebel army, and that army, and taking this territory. they don't talk about how people are getting buy day to day in yemen. what is going on in the country? >> it's not looking good. you have two parallel authorities operating at the same time. an authority in the south represent by president abd-rabbu mansour hadi, and in the north ruled by the houthi, and former president sanaa. both are enemies. houthis has an enemy, al qaeda, and i.s.i.s. - as of recently. on the ground there's 26 million that don't want to be part of that. since the revolution in 2011, what the people wanted is a respectable life, meaning they want

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>> well, they may have to find another base of operations in arabian peninsula.he al qaeda elements that have operated there and now perhaps the islamic state elements, have been able to control certain pieces of territory in yemen to the east. and the government of hadi did not get ahold of them. the government of could not agreed hold of them. so it's kind of a no man's lands and that's where these groups prosper when they see conflicts absorbing the attention and the energies of the united states and of other powers and they see openings for their activity tiff at thises and that's what i think most worries washington odd? >> and eye footnote yemen is the homelands of osama bin laden. >> yeah, i wouldn't blame yemen for owe some a but the bin laden family were among the great contributors to saudi prosperity and development in the engineering world. >> ambassador murphyed sad i troops were engaged in battles with the houthi as recently as 2009. >>> anger over a u.s. air strike in iraq leads one faction to back off from the fight against isil. we'll explain why

and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula on the ground. with the houthis the main enemy of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, if they are significantly weaker, what does this mean to yemen? >> could this potential attack just add fuel to the fire there? >> absolutely. just hearing people's responses today, it is the middle of the night, everybody is scared and terrified and everybody on the ground knows this is definitely unnecessary for the time being. it is definitely shock, it is scary, we also don't know how effective it's going to be in limiting the influence of the houthis on the ground. i think everything happening now could actually be used by the houthi group to gain more support and have more recruitments for their cause than any other time before. >> somer how do you think things are going to play out? do you think the houthis and the supporters ever ali abdalla saleh will have to go back to the negotiation table? >> unfortunately, it seems that the houthis are taking this very personally and are vowing for revenge. of course th

our primary goal in yemen was go after al qaeda in the arabian peninsula.anization. they mounted attacks against the united states. the underwear bomber, printer cartridges, it was home of anwar al awlaki. we were concerned about what was going on. we had a good relationship with the yemeni government and have been working with them for years in the counterterrorism arena and special forces units that were there were doing a fairly credible job of going after aqap. now what do we have? isis on the rise there. a virtual civil war in the making. if we don't have a civil war, i'll be surprised. we're looking at a combination between libya and syria here. this is going to devolve before it gets any better. >> and doesn't it devolve -- isn't it just the ripple effects beyond the country of yemen when you talk about u.s. special forces pulled out and u.s. closed its embassy. you have british special forces pulling out. you are losing your eyes and ears on the ground. that has to have the ripple effect of impacting u.s. policy and strategy far beyond yemen. >> yes

drone strikes targeting aqap or al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. it has targeted successfully in the u.s. view dozens of aqap members so there is question now in washington the future that. the u.s. saying that it will be able to continue to to conduct those operations, and continue to work with president hadi, who is in fact not in the capital sanaa but in aden, therefore is still a key ally that the u.s. will be working with in terms of its security operation. >> kimberly any sort of response to the u.s. to the fact that president hadi has now asked his gulf makes neighbors to interfere in aden? has there been any response of the u.s. to that suggestion? >> there certainly has been a lot of questioning by all righters at both the white house and state department briefings. the u.s. has maintained nothing has changed. pointing out the fact they are actively continuing to monitor threats, doing so and continuing to conduct strikes from djibouti, and agents inside of yemen. there has been no discussion of nothing has changed in terms of the goals of

paul we talked about al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. this is a group that has actively targeted the united states all around the world for years. they have actually staged real life terrorist attacks, not just planned them. but now we see isis. last week isis claiming responsibility for killing 137 people on the ground. there were more attacks today, killing 29 that they claim credit for. now isis is popping up there. what's the significance of that? >> well it's very significant indeed because just until a few weeks ago, isis really just had a fledgling presence in yemen. they have been able to very quickly build up some operational capability there. i think there have probably been defections from aqap to isis. i think probably there has been the arrival of yemeni isis veterans from syria and iraq. now you have aqap and isis in competition inside yemen. i think there is likely to be oneupmanship between these two groups. that puts even more onus on al qaeda in yemen to carry out a spectacular attack against the united states. they hav

prospects for going after al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. again, the number one threat we believe to the united states when it comes to an al qaeda affiliate planning attacks against the united states. >> some very disturbing words today, congressman, from the french prime minister saying it's not a matter of if but when there will be another terrorist attack in europe. do you agree that isis is not just on the doorstep of europe but there and ready to carry out another attack imminently? >> i do believe just the way we have seen them recruit people in australia and canada and attempt to recruit people in the united states, that yes they probably have conversations with individuals across europe. libya is concerning because they have that northern region of which they're present. the distance between the northern shore of libya and the southern tip of italy is not very far. there are regular boatloads of illegal immigrants crossing that strait every single day, undocumented migrants. it is easy to infiltrate that human trafficking pipeline.

aqap, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula based in yemen, has been one of the biggest threats we've seen in terms of terrorist events against the united states. we were offensively striking targets there, preempting potential attacks and now without any intelligence in that country we've being on the defensive mode to prevent people from leaving there coming into the united states. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, victor. >>> back leer at home, it turns out that the machete wielding attacker was armed with more than just that deadly knife. >> investigators have discovered the suspect, richard white, was carrying a bag full of molotov cocktails and had smoke bombs in his car. >> white died as a result of the bullet wounds he had received. >> tom fuentes joins us. thankfully they stopped the suspect. his family we know is cooperating, but when we're talking about somebody who has mental illness, and this man did have mental illness, what is the best way to proceed? is there anything that you can glean before something like this happens? >> i think, christi, the family is well aware he w

this is where al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is based, aqap, the u.s.ined, where one of the "charlie hebdo" shooters received weapons training. so this is a big concern for the u.s. and of course president obama had said that yemen was a counterterrorism success story. this is where the united states has launched a series of drone strikes which, by the way, were backed and supported by president hadi who's now been driven out. now that he's been driven out, that has significantly undermined the u.s. counterterrorism efforts. and there's a lot of concern that as yemen sort of careens towards a civil war, you'll see a broader sectarian war throughout the middle east. so this is taking up a lot of discussion time here at the white house. president obama golfing in florida this weekend. but will undoubtedly continue to get briefed on the situation in yemen. alex? >> comprehensive kristen, as always. thank you very much from the white house. >>> time is running short when the nuclear negotiations with iran and there is concern today about an underground nucl

we know al qaeda in the arabian peninsula operates in southern yemen. we know there's an i.s.i.l. threat in the region are you about to see or predict the two forces will take opportunity of the conflict happening in yemen, and further their agenda in yemen? >> well i think there's little doubt about that. and one of the great ironies in all of this is that it's the saudi arabia perception that what we see going on is essentially a sectarian war inside yemen, one taken advantage of by the iranians and, therefore, is working against the saudis strategic interest in the region in the region wide struggle if you will that the saudis feel themselves to be involved in with yemen. to the extent that the yemenis see the conflict in those terms, that stokes further opposition among sunni tribals, particularly in the southern part of the countries, and while yemenis see the struggle those on the sunni side of that equation effectively wrapped themselves in islam that take advantage. therefore, that means that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and further north of the country, one of the g

they felt was a many rl terrorist organization, close to overriding aden, and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula a group they are still qualified to fight david. >> ambassador korb, the government of yemen the former government of yemen has been claiming a while that the houthi rebels have been getting crucial support from shia iran. now with saudi arabia bombing certain positions in yemen what are the prospects for more dangerous regional war between saudi arabia and iran? >> well, i think it certainly dots increasedoes increase it. are they willing to send ground troops in and then will iran do as they're doing in syria get you know provide more support to the -- to the houthis there? so i.t. really is a very, very -- so it really is a very, very complex situation. because the saudis are bombing i.s.i.l. in syria which iran likes them doing but obviously they're not going to like them doing this. >> it gets more complicated. we're talking about united states and iran being on the same side of the fight in iraq but as far as yemen, we know the houthi rebels have been overlyingoverrunning a unit

we have al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and i.s.i.s. in yemen. with the houthis weaker that could mean these other factions could move in yemen. >> in somer in all conflicts it is the civilians the people in yemen who are there caught in the middle of the violence and bearing the brunt of this violence. >> unfortunately it seems that the yemeni people are constantly bearing the brunt of this violence. ever since 2011 things have not been going in the right direction. yemen had a golden opportunity to transition into democracy and they had an opportunity to create real change and to achieve a pluralistic society. unfortunately the international community has always supported a program that was failing in its essential. in 2012 and 2013 a project known as the international dialogue conference was supposed to save yemen. and the mismanagement of that conference resulted in what we had today. hadi's government failed to deliver any services to the people i've said this over and over again. the yemeni people on the ground want electricity, want water

quite aside from the houthi, the main terrorist threat to saudi arabia is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. that was largely driven out of saudi arabia but into yemen and it still conducts regular strikes inside saudi arabia. you have a border that has always been a source of contention, of smuggling, of illegal immigration. it is one of the longest borders saudi arabia has and it is an area where many of the factions have been a problem for saudi arabia for decades. you have the need for some kind of stability in yemen, but you also have saudi concerns that if iran should ever acquire airbases or any kind of naval bases, even in the indian ocean area that yemen has, there is an island, or inside the red sea, they would control potentially one of the critical chokepoints into the red sea affecting the suez canal and saudi arabia's ports and oil exports in the reds ea area. for all of these reasons, yemen is critical to saudi arabia. charlie: what are the stakes for the united states? what is the risk for the united states? tony: the risk is that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has been t

we also know that the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula operate in southern yep edge. we know that there is an isil threat in the region as well. are you about to predict that these two forces will take opportunity of the conflict that's happening in yemen and perhaps try to further their agenda in yemen? >> well, i think there is little doubt about that. and one of the great ironies in all of this is that it's the saudi perception that what we see going on is essentially a sectarian war inside yemen, one which is being taken advantage of the by the iranians and therefore is working against the saudis overall strategic interests in the region, in this region-wide struggle if you will. that the saudis feel themselves to be involved in with yemen. the -- but to the extent the yep ownyep ownvinnie yemenis see these shelves there. while yemenis see the struggle in sake sectarian terms. it's those those those in the sunni that take advantage. and therefore that means al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and further north in the country. so one of the great ironies in all of th

but it's also to create allies in the arabian peninsula. they don't have a lot of friends there right now. but they are a growing force. to answer this question with a clear answer would be very hard. we don't know if they're still practicing as it used to be. we don't know if there are new holidays that they're celebrating that are not part of the traditional sect that was practiced in yemen. i call them a neo zati movement. they're not like hezbollah and lebanon who are very similar to the way they are in iran. and i think to say with certainty how much support they're getting support from iran would be very hard. i know that at the start of the revolution, on the ground, the kind of support they provided yemenis is more logistical than it is financial. they are training them to be organized. how to present themselves, probably presenting strategies. it's very obvious from the speeches, who is the leader of the group that he is mimicking the attitude of giving speeches. also, the uniform and some of the strategies, the views on the ground

the turmoil allowed al qaeda and the arabian peninsula to strengthen its hold in the south. in the meantime, houthi rebels in the north gained ground and took over the capital of sanaa last year. then this january the rebels rejected a government-proposed constitution, they fought with troops in the capital leading hadi and his government to resign in protest. the next month hadi fled to aden in the south and withdrew his resignation, houthi rebels announced they were taking power and would replace hadi. ban ki-moon called on hadi to be extraordinary as president and made a plea to the international community. >> yemen is collapsing. before our eyes. we cannot stand by and watch. >> reporter: and the u.s. temporarily closed its embassy in yemen siting the violence in sauna. roxana saberi, al jazerra. >> the u.s. is stepping up attacks against isil and iraq. the pentagon say they have launched air strikes over tikrit. the u.s. official had had no role in the offensive but military officials say the iraqi government requested help. the u.s.-led coalition had been flying survei

because yemen displayed one of the few unique democratic experiences in the arabian peninsula peninsula. there was hope for democracy and it was one of the few countries where women's participation was actually going somewhere. and i think the u.s. has invested too much to kind of let yemen go by isolating them or by abandoning all the work that they have there. >> thank you. i'm going to go to ambassador bodine next and hopefully then our technical issues will be revolved and we could hear from ibrahim. so please. >> thank you. thank you all for coming here this morning. battling the remnants of what passes ses for a blizzard in washington. and i notice a number of people in the audience who could do just as well sitting up here as sitting out there. so look forward to the question and answer. thank you for your overview of where we are on yemen and bringing us up to date on libya which i profess not to know very much about. i have to say that sometimes when i hear people talk about libya, i kind of envy you. because it seems as if you have got a nice, neat -- you got the east versus t

. >> al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is this failed state we've seen. underwear bomber launched from. without a u.s. presence there aqap can only grow. >> in fact. we had the bombings which were claimed by isis as their bombings against the horrific bombings, 130 or more dead in these mosques. the white house is not saying whether or not it isis. if that's the case then this is the first time we've seen isis there. it's a spreading of isis but also with the special forces withdrawn there's no way we can continue to fight against aqap, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> very quickly the arab spring. big terrorist attack in tunisia earlier this week. what's going on in yemen only two semisuccess stories of the arab spring. arab spring no long ear success. >> no. in fact these forces were trained to beat libya the other failed state. you see the spread of failure and islamic extremism in the arabian peninsula. this is even worse. >> libya, syria, yemen, three filed states. now to u.s.-israeli relationship. we know in a tough election things get said in

>> well, the risk is, first al quaida in the arabian peninsula has been the group that's planned more direct attacks on the u.s. than any to have the other extreme estor terrorist groups in the area. another is we, too, are critically dependent on the stable flow of exports out of the gulf and and through the red sea. the suez canal is critical to move combat ships and critical in terms of the global economy. while we have been reduced dependence on oil imports, our dependence on other imports from countries like asia, countries who are dependent on gulf oil, and our dependence on europe keeps increasing. so are we achieving energy independence? no not at all. we're actually steadily increasing our dependence on the global economy. >> rose: what happened to yemen? because it was a place that the president and others suggested go look at yemen, that's a good place to see where things might be. >> well it's sometimes very difficult to know because none of the data that were being collected by the national counterterrorism center showed we scored any kind of major victories in yemen. non

it's the base of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they've pledged to attack the united states, and they are pretty serious about it. isis seem to have a foothold there. they claim that horrifying mosque series of blasts back last friday that killed over 130 u.s. special forces were there hunting down al qaeda and maybe in the future isis they've had to leave their posts now the final lot leaving the base where they used to be we're learning has now got houthi rebels inside it. although against the government inside the grounds of that base. a stark change in what's happening in that country. it's vital geopolitically because it's to the south of saudi arabia. oil-rich saudis really worried about what's happening to the south of them. they're predominantly sunni in the muslim world. in yemen we're seeing the houthi rebels who are predominantly shia and some say backed by iran coming to power. those are the ones that kicked president hadi out of his administration building in the capital back in january. they're now the ones advancing

this really complicates our efforts to go after al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. as we all know this is one of the more capable al qaeda affiliates. they've actually mounted attacks against the united states fortunately none of them have succeeded, but they have the intent and capability to do that. so this really hurts our posture in the area. and hopefully we'll be able to replicate some of that maybe from ships, maybe from other facilities in the area but this is a serious blow and i think it underscores our lessening capabilities as isis seems it to grow as al qaeda seems to grow. >> you know lieutenant colonel, what we heard from the president was that yemen was a success. he held it up in that area that region of the world as a success. and it's falling apart. we heard from secretary general ban ki moon yemen is collapsing before our eyes. what can be dup now? >> you bring up an excellent point and i heard your conversation where you reference libya and the parallels we see there. when the president made those remarks yemen was fairly stable but there was so

they conducted airstrikes against the al qaeda group in the arabian peninsula.k: is this a failure of u.s. foreign policy? willem: they have had to withdraw from yemen. now, the question is -- they say they are providing logistical support. what kind of support can they offer? certainly nothing on the ground. mark: willem marx with an update on yemen. u.s.-iran nuclear talks. we will discuss how close the sides may be to an agreement. "bottom line" continues in just a moment. ♪ mark: welcome back to the second half-hour of "bottom line." i'm mark crumpton in new york. thank you for staying with us. let's get you the top stories we are following on this tuesday. let's begin with a check of the price of crude oil and the close of floor trading. new york crude is up about 4.4% trading at $51.39. french prosecutors hate was not a next and that brought down the germanwings airbus. the copilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit and then deliberately flew the plane into a mountain. that was the conclusion after investigators listen to conversations and other sounds fr

>> nick al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, they are based there. wasn't that long ago that president obama was suggesting the fight against the terrorists in yemen was a success story. clearly hasn't worked out at all, has it? >> reporter: well certainly not, no. as you mention, the u.s. embassy having to evacuate its grounds and houthi tribesmen roaming across it. it will be hard really to get the drone operation that was targeting al qaeda leadership in that country back to the kind of pace it was just a year ago. the british have closed their embassy. many other allies no longer functioning there. the government barely functioning. the houthis not really having a replacement government of their own. a real sense of that whole fight for power across the middle east now. so often between iranian backed shia and gulf backed sunnis that playing out in yemen but the real troubling issue here the more that chaos swirls the biggest space it potentially is for a group like isis. for them to potentially get a foothold in yemen, too. >> it's emerging as a

now you have al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. let's say there's a civil war, and the sides go at it. they'll have to feed i.s.i.s. and they'll want to go after whoever is the victor of that civil war. it's hard to find history, you look at the miles, there's deserts and logistics, and it's difficult to come up with a solution. >>> you mentioned nations coming together. your optimism on that. >> that will be qatar, saudi arabia, but, again, there's no from for them to do that. countries act in their own best interests, there are some saying let them go at it and figure it out and see what will happen. we are standing by and watching multiple humanitarian crisis. libya, syria, yemen, and there'll be, unfortunately, scores of civilians killed. >> if all this plays out and we get to the civil war in yemen and the region is unstable. how much more pressure does that put on president obama to change his idea dism. >> well the president is not looking good. he said about six months ago that yemen is the model for the counterterrorism or

when al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is involved it tends to be outdoor not as sectarian and more focused on government focus. if it is not i.s.i.s. it is a group inspired by them on some level. >> what do we know about i.s.i.s. footprint in yemen? >> we don't know a lot. in recent months there have been -- some officials have come out and said they were monitoring the movement of foreign fighters into yemen. that there may have been some defections from aqap, to yemen to a faction more aligned with i.s.i.s. there were also some other jihad jihadi groups that would be more inspired by i.s.i.s. and if i had to guess now that would be the kind of group that is probably responsible here. the difficulty is we haven't been able to get numbers on how many i.s.i.s. numbers there may be in yemen where they might be located, what their leadership structure might look like or who might be in charge and because i.s.i.s. is such a hierarchical organization you would think that information would be available. >> whether it is i.s.i.l. or aqap or another group what does the instability in yemen mean fo

because yemen is a threat not only due to the houthi but orveg the al qaeda and arabian peninsula. >> there's a third actor we need to worry about and that's one of the most lethal terror groups in the world. maybe they're the ones reading through our private documents we left behind at the embassy. >> or they could be trading them. all of this now becomes acutely important because of the deal that the white house is about to sign with iran on the nuclear weapons program, which will give in effect a license to iran to continue to proceed with uranium en enrichment and the other activity that won't be covered by the deal critical to weaponization. so when you have that in iran's arsenal, the al houthi at the arabs back door. this is trouble. >> do you really think the iranians are going to hold it against us that we're kind of backing this saudi thing against the iranian folks in yemen. because we're working with the iranians against isis in iraq. i'm sure the ayatollah will understand. >> look, the iranians are playing us for fools. they have taken us to the cleaners on these negotiat

claiming responsibility which is significant too because this is home turf of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. what do you make of that revelation first and foremost? >> if it is in fact an isis operation by which in some way commanded, directed funded trained, it's significant because what it suggests is the collapse of aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, which used to be quite strong in yemen. the guy killed in the drone attack was a leader there. it suggests that isis found a way to expand into an area where al qaeda was once strong. it's worth pointing out yemen is a complete bad lands, free-for-all place. it says more about the weakness of al qaeda than the strength of isis. >> we talked about the sense of competition between these two different groups. is that part of what we're seeing playing out here potentially? >> entirely. i think we have to understand these are like two companies battling for market share. when isis has a successful attack it gets recruits. it gets money. it gets media attention which drives more recruits and money. so this is high stakes game for both sides.

here in the arabian peninsula it's very wet today. we've seen a lot of the roads flooded in what's been heavy rain and thunderstorms. here in doha, we've had 15 millimeters of rain, that's nothing more than a shower. we only see 60 millimeters in the entire year, so it is a lot of rain. the rain is stretched into iran and it looks as this frontal system pushes into the south temperatures just in the mid 20's. >> on the island oh of jindu in south korea a festival celebrating an unusual natural phenomenon, low tides creating a pathway to a neighboring island. it attracts thousands of visitors. >> as the sea recedes people move forward from the shoreline. cautiously at first then finding themselves on a strip of land that stretches from the main island to the much smaller island nearly three kilometers away. then the fun starts. collecting whatever unlucky creatures got left stranded by the departing tide. >> i just found it now. it's an octopus. >> the story goes that a family left behind their grandmother when they were chased away fr

we have iran demonstrating it can cause chaos on the arabian peninsula. it's in baghdad controlling the government there. it is with hezbollah in lebanon. it's with assad regime in syria. and it's on the verge of getting an agreement that will legitimize its path to nuclear weapons. as you said, the region is descending into chaos. we're past the point where we have a problem in this country and that country. we have a problem all across north africa and the middle east. >> it's not just like a a civil war in yemen. everybody is involved. you've got sawed ya arab ya involved, you have egypt involved you have iran involved, the arabian peninsulas involved. we're trying to help. although we have been run out, we fled there, that's just yemen. >> this has to do with the feeling on the side of the air robs, saudis in particular, that they can't count on the united states. they're left alone to face iran. long-standing support for international terrorism including the al houthi. now they are acting on their own. that's not necessarily a good thing. >> we don't

the rebels and president hadi would only benefit terror groups like isis and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, this coming just two days after isis a sunni group took credit for their first attack in yemen, suicide bombings at a shiite mosque killing 137. >> emotions are running extremely high. and unless a solution can be found in the coming days, the country will slide into further violent conflicts and implication. >> today's u.n. meeting coming at the request of president hadi as iran backed rebels continue to take control of the country, but the u.n. security council was backing president hadi and demanding they give back governmental institutions or face further measures. >> it seems that the -- it's just paper right? >> that's exactly right. it's not a law binding resolution, and the rebels have ignored similar u.n. statements before. today the rebels taking the third largest city in yemen, taiz, the rebel leader promising to push troops to aden where president hadi is based saying international dialogue is leading nowhere. al qaeda is taking advantage is seizing the city on friday lea