the port manager is a houthi political appointee and a powerful man.muggling allegations. evidence to suggest the houthis have been profiteering from the blockade, and scoring political points by playing the victim. the un says both sides in yemen's war should do more to put civilians first. we are trying to work with all parties involved to engage both sides, and to some degree they both help and to some degree they have issues. the cranes at hodeidah port have been bombed out of action. but the replacements, already paid for by the us, have been blocked. we loaded up the planes, we brought them in, and the saudis and the allied forces locked us from bringing the cranes in, so we had to send them back. if something is not done soon, what do you feel will happen? it this port is bombed and continues to be useless, literally hundreds of thousands of children will die and millions of people will die along with them. 90% of cholera deaths in the worst cases are in houthi controlled areas. the united states and united kingdom are saudi arabia's main allies

they came to reinstate the government that was pushed out by the houthis, who received support from iranered fighting, bombing and starvation. the suffering of ordinary people is a direct consequence of the way this war is being fought. both sides are using control of food and fuel as a weapon. the latest result is the biggest outbreak of cholera ever reported. 500,000 people have been affected and millions more are at risk. i am heading up to the highlands to see for myself where this outbreak started. this is what cholera does to a man. and this is what cholera does to a child. she looks newborn, but is 17 months old. she has caught cholera for the second time. her mother walked for a day to get her baby to this clinic. now, she can't afford transport. this nurse tells me it is cases like this that this nurse tells me it is cases like this that show authorities are failing to deal with the problem at the source by correlating the water, and finding out where the bacteria is spreading from. the nurse tells me of a village where one of the latest outbreaks started, so that is where i am

the saudi led blockade of houthi—held areas does notjust affect big ships or armed smugglers.ary people are being targeted directly with military force. these fishermen tell me their boats were attacked by the coalition just days ago. ibrahim lost his two sons, his brother and a nephew in the attack. 15 people across three extended families now depend on him for survival. the blockade has had a devastating impact on people's everyday life here. this used to be a profitable farm, but it collapsed when the coastal blockade cut off the export routes. sudden poverty caused by the war has destroyed the ability of working yemeni families to cope. all of this has taken a terrible toll on their baby. starving children are a horrifying, and horribly common sight across yemen. but this crisis is also ruining people in ways you can't see. the working class and even civil servants now have no jobs, no incomes, and they are going hungry. since the yemeni government moved the central bank from the rebel held capital, millions of state employees, including medics and sanitation workers have

houthi journalist and from a stumble. around him a former yemeni minister welcome to you all if i could start with mr najib in istanbul as i mentioned there at the outset it's been three years since the whole thieves took over santa can one say at this point that the campaign to evict them has simply failed there is really a lot of you know sense of. nationalism i mean among these i mean militias they just i mean they don't care about their people and they just continuing i mean fighting just for fighting and for just to make their legitimate this is the main goal of really should support these and they did get i would agree of the people there in yemen the happening there is a lot of of you know all right all right i understand that mr g. but and my question is if it's been for three years of fighting in the hope these are still in control of sana'a would you agree with those who say that the military campaign at least has failed to evict them is going nowhere. to to some extent no they're not actually about these them a

despite a military campaign by saudi arabia and its allies the houthi is still hold ground . we have achieved a lot since we took control we brought unity and we managed to confront aggression we improved our military capabilities and our neighbors are afraid of our missiles . these are backed by iran and former president. who still controls elite units of the army but the alliance with siler. the two sides how far to each other recently the whole thing is accused of colluding with the saudis accusations dismissed by the former president who blames the whole earth is for backtracking on agreement to share power so the war in yemen shows no signs of letting it if i enter the american who is the top yemeni is to rally behind his group against saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and. you know. as we said the immoralities are the front for the americans and today there are. stealing yemen's natural gas despite the suffering of the yemeni people and both people are suffering from issues related to both natural gas and petrol either in not being able to find it or not being a

but it is also a conflict which is very complex, it sees saudi arabia pitted against the houthi rebels very difficult situation and there is unlikely be a resolution because it is seen as a proxy battle for the region between the iranian—backed houthi rebels and the saudis. many discussions about yemen on the sidelines this week. so many points of discussion, north korea, the situation in myanmar, and donald trump making his first address to the assembly. he's already been speaking about what he is likely to say there. yes, donald trump had a vexed relationship with the un. as real estate developer, he wanted to get the contract to renovate the building some years back but was turned down. however, today he could return in triumph as president. some trepidation here about the tone that he would strike, would he say the world body was obsolete as he did with nato? as it was, people were breathing a sigh of relief. here is what he had to say about un reform. we commend the secretary general and his call for the united nations we seek a united nations that regains the trust of the people

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but it is also a conflict which is very complex, it sees saudi arabia pitted against the houthi rebelsery difficult situation and there is unlikely read —— resolution because it isa unlikely read —— resolution because it is a proxy conflict for the region between the iranians and the saudis. donald trump making his first address to the assembly. he is already speaking about what he is likely to say there. donald trump had a vexed relationship with the un. as real estate developer, he wa nted un. as real estate developer, he wanted to renovate the building some yea rs wanted to renovate the building some years back but was turned back. he could return in triumph as president today. would he say the world body was obsolete as he did with nato? as it was, people were breathing a sigh of relief. here is what he had to say about un reform. lim recommenced the secretary general and his call for the united nations to focus more on people and less on bureaucracy. recommenced the secretary general. in orderto recommenced the secretary general. in order to achieve this, the united nations must h

activities in the region, on what they're doing in terms of supporting hezbollah, supporting the houthis in yemen, supporting assad in syria. and the importance of pushing back on all of that. and she put forward some ideas which we will follow up on how we can do that better than we have done. but in terms of the jcpoa, she explained again why we support it. we should, by the way, it's about our national security. we think we are more secure because of this deal. and that's why as long as the iranians continue to comply with it in the view of the iaea, we will continue to support it. >> you're also not quite considering the question, so i will toss it down the line. are you prepared for a decertification by the u.s.? what would that imply, and not just for the german government and congratulations, by the way, on the re-election of mrs. merkel, what would it imply for german businesses who are going back into iran in fairly significant way now with the release of many of the u.s. sanctions. >> thank you, barbara, for having us here and the atlantic council. thank you for following this

and the relative merits of the houthis versus the hadi legitimate government is not really open to question. if you go back to the security council resolution, it's important to the legitimacy of the goal of the intervention, is hard to question. the way in which it has been pursued is very easy to question and you had at to be questioned. those are two different points. so really, just my response is very useful from the point of view of explaining iranian world view and iranian consensus. not so helpful as an accurate summary of the policies towards iran of vab why and the uae at all. two different things. >> thank you. turkeyings is somewhat in the middle here in terms of its interpretation of iranian activities. i have heard iranian diplomats say that iran is a status quo power. but i've also heard iranian diplomats say that they understand they have an idea logical role to play in terms of supporting groups that are oppressed, fellow shia, and so on. how does turkey see it? and we pointed out there is some confluence of interest now on qatar, on the kurdish issue. but in general as a f

we have been to visit some of those evacuation camps, people are being houthi well looked after.ildren —— pretty well. many have left their homes and livelihoods behind. it is a pretty poor rural place, many depend on livestock and animals and they have had to leave those behind. you have said hundreds of tremors per day, that must be pretty frightening? they are pretty small, i am pleased to say. people living in places such as new zealand japan might be used to that sensation. it is much more worrying if those tremors grow in intensity and frequency. there is no way of knowing whether that means mount agung is about to erupt, the large explosion in 1963, they didn't have the measuring facilities to know how this particular volcano behaves when it is about to erupt. when it happened in 1963, over 1000 people were killed. caution is the utmost concern. another part of the island is still open for business, a huge tourist destination. flights are coming in. the indonesian government has britain a letter to the world to say they are still desperate for the do is to continue in that

the conflict there is now in its third year with saudi—led forces fighting houthi rebels — and the situationllion children living in yemen are severely malnourished. the country is also in the grip of the fastest growing cholera epidemic on record. 600,000 people have been infected and 2,500 have died. 0ur correspondent nawal al—maghafi has returned one year on to one of the worst hit areas of yemen. i should warn you, her report contains distressing images from the start. this is salim. a year ago, these images of him gave a face to yemen's suffering. at eight years old, his frail body shocked the world and made the prospect of famine a reality. doctors feared for the future of the country. at the time, there were over 350,000 children with this same level of malnutrition. that figure now stands at two million. one year later, i'm travelling back to his village along the coast. this region is the worst affected. the further out from the city you go, the poorer it gets. this is salim now. emergency aid stopped him from wasting away. his growth is severely stunted. and his brain irreparably d

so, for example, in yemen it's claimed that they are providing some aid to rebel tribesmen, houthi tribesmen in yemen. okay, maybe they are. what is the united states doing in yemen? it's providing a huge flood of arms to its saudi arabian ally who are destroying the country. they've created a huge humanitarian crisis. huge numbers of people killed, massive or starvation -- massive starvation, they're threatening now to bomb a port which is the only source of aid for surviving people. but iran is the major source of terrorism. and if you look around the world, there's many questions like this. i don't want to go on too long, but very strikingly -- and this, there's one lesson that you discover when you carefully look at the historical record. what i just describe about north korea is pretty typical. over and over again, there are possibilities of diplomacy and negotiation which might not succeed, you can't be sure if you don't try them, but which look pretty promising, which are abandoned, dismissed literally without comment in favor of increased force and violence. in fact, that's also the

yemen's become a battleground in a fight between government forces backed by a saudi led coalition and houthi rebels supported by iran yemen's u.n. envoy says his government will cooperate with the investigators in a little further up by the let the matter with the complex circumstances that yemen is going through requires from the council and the international community support so the government can fulfill its obligations with regards to human rights the yemeni government has always expressed its determination to cooperate with the u.n. in order to promote and protect human rights before the un announced his decision more deaths were reported in yemen's conflict this time five people were killed in an airstrike by the saudi led coalition inside a province six others were injured in the attack. thousands of supporters of catalonia as voted for secession from spain have held a final rally before sunday's referendum there are also occupying schools designated as polling stations to make sure the ballot goes ahead. iraq's defense ministry is warning again that it will take control of the border

>> yes, but it's hard to do that when the iranians are launching military offensives through the houthi rebels in yemen, trying to establish a contiguous line from baghdad to damascus to lebanon. it's as if the great shia power iran is punching a big hole in the sunni world, challenging the power of the sunni states. this is an extensional issue for the -- existential issue for the gulf areas and as we all know israeli relations with those countries are best ever because they have a common enemy. so i think president trump has been right and despite my deep respect and support for president obama, i think he was as effective on this. we've got to be sending military aid and acting politically in such a way that we try to isolate the iranians on this -- >> rose: well we made a big deal with the saudis to sell them military. over $100 billion. >> we were right to do that. on the other hand -- as you know i was the point person in iran for the george w. bush from 2005 to 2008 -- we spent time sanctioning iranians, never got to the negotiating table, i think it would be a great mistake for

has been torn-apart by a two year-old civil war, as a coalition led by saudi arabia fight against houthi rebels and their allies. over 10,000 people have died, more than 40,000 have been injured, and over three million are malnourished. on top of it all, an outbreak of cholera has killed 2,000 people since late april, and 700,000 people currently are infected. for more on all of this i'm joined now by jamie mcgoldrick, he's the united nations humanitarian coordinator in yemen. welcome to the newshour. can you just give us a snap shot of how the humanitarian situation is in yemen right now? >> after two and a half years of war, you see things come up, the economy has collapsed. the conflict is raging, obviously and people are facing a number of threats. the most recent one you mentioned is cholera, you have some 700,000 people affected by it and over 2200,000 people dead. and then it will peter out and disappear for a few months and come back again because the conditions are in place. and the conditions are people can't afford to buy clean water, feed their families properly. and the fact

that top admiral in the middle east has said about a few days ago that iran has been providing the houthi is with sophisticated missiles with the can use in the near future to target the u.a.e. and saudi arabia i think the international community is going definitely push for a way out otherwise we're just going to see further sufferings of millions of yemenis thank you has been. syria has a rich history that goes back centuries but the six year war has destroyed much of its national heritage including some sites that date back more than one thousand three hundred years now the u.n. has been asked to step in. there was a time when tourists would come from all around the world to visit these sites some of syria's most ancient ruins. this is the remains of her recklessness palace the man who ruled over the bodies in time empire more than thirteen hundred years ago despite surviving for centuries much of syria's engine heritage was destroyed by war in a few seconds these particular sites and if the province were bombed by government airstrikes and what's left is now under threat and some of i

despite a military campaign by saudi arabia and its allies the houthi still hold ground. we have achieved a lot since we took control we brought unity and we managed to confront aggression we improved our military capabilities and our neighbors are afraid of our missiles . the hoa fees are backed by iran and former president. bush still controls elite units of the army but the alliance with. the two sides fault each other recently the whole thing is accused of colluding with the saudis accusations dismissed by the former president who claims the whole thing is for backtracking on an agreement to share power so the war in yemen shows no signs of letting it if i interrupt the leader of the american who is the told yemenis to rally behind his group against saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and. as we said the immoralities or the front for the americans and today they're stealing yemen's natural gas despite the suffering of the yemeni people and both santa and people are suffering from issues related to both natural gas and petrol either in not being able to find it o

security, with regard to arm shipments and other forms of support from iran and from hezbollah to the houthis with regard to iran's malign, malignant role in syria. and a range of other issues that we can discuss. missile development too. >> let me just quickly, to follow up, so a crisis between the united states and iran, which would be precipitated by the u.s. walking out of the jcpoa, that's not something they would welcome? they're content with the poor state of relations as they exist now? >> well, i don't -- that's not the right way to put it. but i think their concerns would not be primarily addressed in any constructive way from their point of view, as i understand it, by a walking away from a jcpoa which is being properly implemented. from their point of view, that would be a net negative because what it would mean is that a restriction on iran would be lost. leverage on iran would be surrendered, and iranian hardliners will have pocketed this reality. they will have done away with the international sanctions regime under obama and had their, you know, had their obligations under the

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