mediator jamal ben omar, saying the rival factions have agreed on a people's council. chief of yemen post what do you know of this hakim? >> the parties have not talked about this or announced about this deal. the issue of this deal is that the current parliament will remain and they will provide a forum called the transitional parliament, both will go together and form the transitional national council. this council will be in charge to lead the country for the next two years. these represent in this council 30% for women and 20% for youth. but again details of the distribution of these seats have not been agreed on. so this deal is an initial deal and very far from a final deal, which the details have not even been discussed yet. >> so, would you know which parties exactly then have signed up to this deal? have they all come on board? >> as of last night three hours before the deal was announced three political parties announced that they would not sign. this includes the islam party the announcement party and the rashrhr party. we have not had enough time to contact

people were expecting jamal ben omar to come here to see mr. hadi but that hasn't happened. at the time, hadi is meeting with top security officials in the south with groafnls and it seems that hegovernors in thispart of the country. there are talks in yemen and in sanaa itself supporting hadi and there is also -- there are calls from the gcc today a statement that for the first time support from the outside the gcc has said that the yes ma'amis have toyes,yemenis have torally behind hadi. they have tried to force the government which last resigned to return to their posts most of them have refused. those who have refused have been threatened by the houthis to be taken to court and to be accused as traitors. that means the houthis are resorting to tough action, in a kind of reaction to what's happened. it is very, very clear that they are losing some of the momentum that they had before hadi's escape to aden. >> mohamed, many thanks, mohamed val lirvetionl in aden. >>> more than 100,000 employees of the department of homeland security will be cut unless the congress funds th