so yes international committee of the red cross together with our partners from the syrian arab red crescent. we have been to record city and to record government erected for a couple of towns and to understand the situation at to see how we can on a support the civilian population there who obviously has been severely affected on the last months or years of our conflict and crisis. now what is important to say is that the situation on the ground especially like a city is a very complex situation of people who were displaced not coming back to change that in day. one of the biggest risk of death in contamination meaning like mines and booby traps and people do want to return to their houses obviously and this is a big danger and we can speak about twenty cases of incidents in the goth girl and they've been caught in the nation that is one of our biggest concerns. in terms of the regime washington has admitted to seventy seven of those in iraq are committed by the coalition how would you estimate the number do you think that's an accurate figure seventy seven. so the international committee o

of the movie. just stay with us for a moment on the phone mohammed out there our correspondent who's with us on the phone from djibouti the outgoing director of the international committee of the red cross orbits martini has just tweeted his reaction to the attack he says it's high time for these relaxing tragedies to stop in yemen no one should allow putting children in harm's way and making them pay such an unacceptable price let's go back to our correspondent in djibouti mohammed we can't really stress the the unacceptable perhaps price paid mr martini says of the lives that have been lost but also the numbers that have been injured even up to this particular date we don't even have any reasonable figures one can only speculate as to how many people have lost their lives and how many people have been injured in the process of this what could be described as a civil war as well as a clash with the saudis. here in the. yemen on really. long. but i couldn't prevent the national guard. but he and i would be sick. and they are not being there not yet. but medical but they have patients because. you are not it's really the public out. there like i. was being down there doing. it stuck. in.

attack in yemen we can speak to add on his arm in sinai he's a spokesman for the international committee of the red cross and we know that a school bus was targeted many children were killed and injured and the i.c.r.c. the international committee of the red cross has been at the forefront of treating the wounded. attacker like no we don't have a further information. has been we don't like to share unconfirmed information but our focus now is to provide emergency medical support. the level of injury to her. calling all budgets to account for that to respect and finish the mission or even get a lot of value. on this which speaking today we here is pushing the women is getting worse more. cannot function well especially. on what we provide. congress with other organizations. to move their services to the people her how difficult is it to treat victims of such attacks in these hospitals with saying that they're lacking such basic resources even sheets on the bed. this is what her didn't hurt it reflect reality of the health sector in the country it is a lack of communications also said you can apply some qu

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probably more than three quarters of a million people having to move in the face of violence in a very short space of time the international committee of the red cross and its ethiopian affiliates are trying to help they're distributing blankets sleeping mats water and medical supplies but the surge of violence in southern ethiopia could fuel similar disputes in other regions the violence could undermine the new prime minister's sweeping reforms to ease tensions among eighty ethnic groups and a population of one hundred million cultured or john al jazeera. zimbabwe's main opposition leader has rejected a court ruling which confirms president. as winner of the july thirtieth presidential vote now some to me said challenge the result and says he has a legitimate claim to lead zimbabwe resident non-drug what is disputed is a leader i. made claims that are in supposed to be leading the people of the above the change is gone and change is come where it is delayed is another view it cannot be denied change will come it is going to govern sooner than we think we need to go back to the fundamental issues around dealing with the issue of the disputed illiter

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indiscriminately and urged them to do more to prevent civilian deaths the outgoing director of the international committee of the red cross robert martini has just tweeted his reaction to the attack and he says it's high time for these relaxing tragedies to stop in yemen one should allow no one should allow putting children in harm's way and making them pay such an unacceptable price christine bakaly is the yemen researcher for human rights watch joins me now from beirut via skype very good to have you with us on the program your initial reaction to the incident. first of all having any reaction to you. well you know this is you know is that. where this. most other air in the not very human rights watch up see clearly children killed an attack that. but more than that it was i think there you hear it there are three things each desk and when i say. what. we're. which is that over and over. we're either that's not an order or the other model killer. then now nearly four years into this company i'm still waiting to see real spreadable investigations into the attack regarding earth with the people who are committing war crim

not many foreigners set foot in this part of the arabia the president of the international committee of the red cross has come to visit this exhausted and divided country. he's one of the few people authorized to observe a conflict which has been reduced to wretched internal hostilities. his trip is a difficult one to say the least he'll be starting in the south in aden and finishing three hundred fifty kilometers further north in. the two cities that have been the country's capitals for years. between the two in the heart of the highlands he'll be. visiting us on the from line. she took me since my first visit to yemen two years ago i have been of the opinion that the international community has significantly underestimated the degree of destabilization of pain and of suffering caused by the war in yemen. and they've tried to relegate the situation to the second or third rank of international conflict possible so that it's like it just seems good and also that's why i've returned here. is determined to try and redress the imbalance to some extent between the lack of international attention and the h

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the ministry of health and population of yemen. figure is the international committee of the red cross is giving based on figures given by their medical teams from their from the i.c.r.c. supported hospital and. the saudi led coalition has reacted to what's happened it says that this mission was carried out within international law what's your reaction to that. well the i.c.r.c. has urged and will continue to urge all parties to the conflict to respect civilian life by taking every possible measure to protect civilians and of course under international humanitarian law civilians must be protected during the conflict we are disappointed actually less then two. than a week. since the attacks in the data. we are calling again on all parties to abide by international humanitarian law protect civilians protect civilian infrastructure to on a broader point this war's been going on since twenty fifteen just how bad is the situation in the country. well the situation in the country is a humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a popular issue that has been brought to the brink of collapse the system is decimate the movement

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the outgoing director of the international committee of the red cross robert madine has tweeted his reaction to the attack he says it's high time for these relapsing tragedies to stop in yemen no one should allow putting children in harm's way and making them pay such an unacceptable price christine burka is the yemen research of human rights watch and she says there's an urgent need to launch credible investigations into attacks that involve civilian suffering. not. rights watch have see clearly children killed or attacked. but more than that it was i think very minor that there are three things even just. working which is that. we are either this or. you are. then now nearly four years into this conflict we're still waiting to see real spreadable investigations into the attacks that are with people who are committing war crimes to hope that civilian victims of these attacks be privately dressed and i very much hope and such as this once again in our minds and urges those who leverage over who are these that they must use every inch of that leverage to push the parties not only to better la

the streets of yemen as a school bus filled with civilian schoolchildren were was destroyed by coalition forces killing as many as twenty nine kids according to the international committee of the red cross artie's death cold as the story. most of the victims of the attack are said to be children under the age of ten saudi in the airstrikes targeted them as their school bus drove through a market place a warning these images may be disturbing the latest figures say fifty were killed and seventy seven injured that number may go up as casualties continue to be delivered to the hospital the strikes were inside the province in the north west of yemen an area under whose the rebel control the saudi led coalition issued a statement saying the attack was in accordance with international law and accused who the rebels of using children as human shields this attack comes days after the saudi led coalition bombed a fish market in her data port and damaged the city's main hospital that attacked kill. more than forty civilians and injured one hundred among them women and children it's the fortieth month of the war that began back in march of two thousand and fifteen reports say as many as fifty thou

probably more than three quarters of a million people having to move in the face of violence in a very short space of time the international committee of the red cross and its ethiopian affiliate are trying to help they're distributing blankets sleeping mats water and medical supplies but the surge of violence in southern ethiopia could fuel similar disputes in other regions the violence could undermine the new prime minister's sweeping reforms to ease tensions among eighty ethnic groups in a population of one hundred million cultured or gian al jazeera. still ahead on the less than five provinces has to ireland the first visit by catholic polish and maybe for t.v.'s and the closure of the busiest depression like jerry of course frustration for many ends of commuting. by the skyline if an asian holiday. or off the coast of the italian riviera. hello get a welcome back to international weather forecasts well with the ongoing drought across parts of central europe we're dealing with some very dry conditions here with the forests and we are looking a forest fire is right now just about ninety kilometers south of berlin in germany and these fires have c

international debates the official number of civilian casualties in twenty seventeen eva polyphony international committee of the red cross in damascus told us that the streets of rack are still pose a danger to civilians the duration of the ground especially electricity is very complex the situation of people who are displaced not coming back to change that in day. one of the biggest risks in condemnation meaning like mines and booby traps people don't want to return to their houses obviously and this is a big danger and we can speak about twenty cases of incidents where they've been caught in the nation cannot give you any concrete numbers on the civilian this in this regard we have a letter a confidential that i am not we have just a conflict where we of course raise the issue and now also had a problem in in our case that a couple of the masquerades have been found there were the last weeks one was just discovered going to actually the red cross like when we were visiting two or three weeks ago that eleven bodies was it was this comment that this is a major issue at the problem is to identify the people in these mass

well the outgoing director of the international committee of the red cross robert madine tweeted his reaction saying it's high time for these relapsing tragedies to stop in yemen no one should allow putting children in harm's way and making them pay such an acceptable price. it's not the first time coalition airstrikes have led to a large number of civilian deaths earlier this month an attack on the port city of her data killed fifty five people in november last year in a strike on a busy market results in the deaths of twenty nine people also inside a province and in two thousand and fifteen a missile hit a wedding party near the port of. more than one hundred thirty people died the united nations has criticized the coalition air campaign for bombing indiscriminately and urging them to do more to prevent civilian deaths our correspondent mohammed has been covering the yemen conflict for us he joins us live from neighboring djibouti so mohammed we've had a saudi response now it says it was targeting legitimate targets that this was an area that the who sees launched rockets from what

the phone from djibouti let's just bring our viewers up to speed of what's going on because we're also getting comments now internationally the outgoing director of the international committee of the red cross robert martini has just tweeted as you mentioned reaction to this attack and in it he says it is high time for all these we lancing tragedies to stop in yemen no one should allow putting children in harm's way and making them pay such an unacceptable price we're joined now on the phone by your lena desert acting country director of care international in yemen she's on the phone for us from saddam good to have you with us on al-jazeera could you just tell us what you know about this particular attack and about perhaps your respective medical colleagues at doctors without borders who might be treating these injured children. i don't fly what we've got in the us now are five very intense air guys in a highly densely populated area out on the coast are one we are expecting even more damage and these are more to happen because. the pains are still circling in the skies the reason expecting more air strikes i mean what's happening today and also what happened to us five dollars thirty maybe

are going to get more on this we're joined by dave communication coordinator of the international committee of the red cross and she's joining us on skype from the yemeni capital sana very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so as we mentioned there are already many i believe a million suspected cases of cholera in the countries of the four we get to how much worse this could guess i mean how are those many people call a thing. when. infrastructure in yemen especially the want to dance and sanitation and restructure and to have interests or to. actually weaken and grow to their needs to be ongoing or the country for three years now and this is having repercussions on the spread of infectious it's a good quality and needs goods and the studio which he did not seem to. be sure of course the context makes her tour to keep it or those who are suspected to have pointed out to leech access to cities who are not good if it's. the conduct of hostility is security. inducement and so are not supported. and that's how they based on that. i can you know ok so it's already and credibly difficult situation and if the

the attack. some of them as you can see are very young. the international committee of the red crossst of the casualties were children under the age of ten. they tweeted that their medical team has received the bodies of 29 children, all under 15 years old, 48 injured people, among them 30 children. the coalition said the strike was part of a legitimate operation and was aiming at missile launchers. it accuses the houthis of using children as human shields. here's what spokesman colonel turki al—malki said in a statement. "the air conformed to international and humanitarian laws". i spoke to un coordinator, lise grande who's in sanaa. what has happened today in the yemen isa what has happened today in the yemen is a tragedy. scores of children have been killed and tens more have been injured. it is an outrage. the saudis say that this was an air strike that conforms to international and humanitarian laws. they said that they were targeting missile launchers and houthi rebels we re missile launchers and houthi rebels were using civilians as human shields. what do you make of what they

the capital to southern afghanistan it's a high value with thousands of afghans trapped inside a shell of dallas. as head of communication for the asia pacific region of the international committee for the red cross he joins us now via skype from geneva we appreciate your time. how quickly did the situation deteriorate. as you have been rightly reported was very quick. to have seen starting on friday and by today the shortest day of the heavy tried things that is leaving the. reality. leaving balshaw. huge chunk of people and on did every day large so. what are how much freedom of movement do your people have when it seemed when as we're irv's we're hearing from people on the ground that the taliban al controls more than half the city when the safety concerns for your staff how can they get to where they need to be to help people. maybe just to say that. people are working toward the i.c.r.c. teams have been working in a gun stand for over thirty years and yes you see as an organization has over one hundred fifty years of experience of working in situations of the armed conflict so for diaz you see i dare say yes' not and therefore we have protocols and ways of working in situations like this in

civilian casualty reports was a most international debate thier fishel number of civilian casualties in twenty seventeen eve appellate from the international red cross committee in damascus told us that the streets of iraq are still pose a danger to civilians. the duration of the ground especially like a city is very complex the situation of the people who are displaced not coming back to change that and date. that one of the biggest risks in condemnation meaning that mines and booby traps people don't want to return to their houses obviously and this is a big danger and we can speak about twenty cases of incidents or of it been called in the nation really i cannot give you any concrete numbers on civilian deaths in this regard we had of. course ensured i am not the parties to the conflict we are consecrate issue and i also had a problem in a. couple of the masquerades i have been over the last few weeks one was just discovered and actually there at the red cross like when we were visiting two or three weeks ago that tim eleven where the bodies was it was this comment that this is a major issue at the problem is to identify the people in these mass graves con

data says the majority of people killed in the conflict died as a result of coalition air strikes around ten and a half thousand casualties so far. from the international red cross committee she called the situation in the catastrophic. we have received twenty nine identified these are children up to fourteen years old and forty eight injured among them thirty children but for the overall top. this needs to be referred to the ministry of health and population of yemen humanitarian situation in the country is catastrophic it's a book relation that has been brought to the brink of collapse the health system is decimated the movement of population is growing because of. conflicts and hostilities going on so really do things. more hostilities and you know the expansion of those hostilities with will exacerbate an already humanitarian situation even more receive violations cross the country. to. issue or speak about civilian casualties in a matter of less than a week so for us this is painful. whenever restricted in casualties we i mean. this is just horrific so to read nonetheless defended the attack in a statement blaming the insurgents. the targeting today is a legitimate m

the streets of yemen as a school bus filled with civilian schoolchildren were was destroyed by coalition forces killing as many as twenty nine kids according to the international committee of the red cross artie's death cold as the story. most of the victims of the attack are said to be children under the age of ten saudi in the airstrikes targeted them as their school bus drove through a marketplace a warning these images may be disturbing the latest figures say fifty were killed and seventy seven injured that number may go up as casualties continue to be delivered to the hospital the strikes were inside the province in the north west of yemen and the area under whose the rebel control the saudi led coalition issued a statement saying the attack was in accordance with international law and accused who the rebels of using children as human shields this attack comes days after the saudi led coalition bombed a fish market in the data port and damaged the city's main hospital that attacked a. more than forty civilians and injured one hundred among them women and children it's the fortieth month of the war that began back in march of two thousand and fifteen reports say as many as fifty tho