fawaz gerges is professor of middle eastern politics at the london school of economics and author of two books on 'jihadism'. >> barbara, a failing state is just how we heard yemen described. what would you call it? >> i would call it a fragile state. yemen is described as the almost always failing state. its economy has always been in a shambles. it's always been resourceful. it's always had ungovernable hinderlands. it's always had a weak central government. one of the miracles of yemen is that it's never failed, but also never quite succeeds, and the issue before us now is not to write it off as a failed or even failing state, but try to see what we can do to keep it from going to the wrong side of the failure curve. >> fawaz gerges, what do you see? what does that say about the potential vacuum of power there? >> i think the situation is extremely volatile and fragile in yemen. i mean, every time i visit yemen i see a deteriorating security situation, a declining social and economic situation. what has happened is that really this particular storm has been brewing for the last fe

all right, barbara bodine a fawaz gerges, thk you both very mh. >> tha you. >> ifill: w the mexican governme's program to lift people out of poverty that's being copied arod the world. ray suarez has the story. >> suare in the state or relos in central mexico, the small town of santdomingo otitlan is rich in tradition in elabora costumes, villagers parade through the town'square during fesvals of dance. bufor all its history, santo domingo is vy poor. most residents are subsistce farms. homes are modest, women rub their wash or rocks at communalasins. for genetions policy makers have debated, what makes pr people pr? is it the sile fact of not having enougmoney, or is it e choices they make, the way they liv a pionring program here in mexico is tryi to fight povertboth approaches by giving the poore mexicans cash anby trying to change the way they live. orcasitas and hureds of women geing cash started 12 years ago by the mexican governmt- the program lled oportunidades opportunities gives a small subsidy everother month to po mothers, like santo domingo resident, sixta orsitas. but theris a ca