let's bring in unicef jeremy hopkins and joins us via skype from yemen capitol, sanaa and jeremy i wast reading the report from unicef that says the number of children killed in last ten weeks of fighting is four times that of those confirmed killed last year and that is a shocking number but realistically can anything be done to protect children during a conflict? >> well, that is a very good question. we are on the ground here with many other partners and organizations trying to do what we can but we would reiterate our call for an end to the hostility so we can better access the estimated nine million children in need of humanitarian life-saving support. >> there are also reports that children are being recruited by armed groups to fight, what implications would this have for these children in the future? >> well the child takes up arms and is associated with the armed force has lost his childhood so we are doing everything we can to prevent this from happening but if it does happen we need to urgently negotiate the conflict to release the children immediately and take them back in

jeremy hopkins is deputy representative of unicef yemen. he says his staff members can't get to their offices in yemen. but in the southern city of aidan, they're continuing to work from their homes. >> aidan is probably the worst-hit city in the country. we are able to operate there, but we have to be very flexible in our approach. you know we may plan to visit certain parts of the city to help support a clinic on monday. but then fighting breaks out in that district so we switch to another. we are very concerned we're not able to move our supplies much-needed life-saving supplies around aidan to -- especially for health and water and sanitation. >> reporter: hopkins says the fighting has left 249 children dead and 4 hurkss wounded. he says there's currently no safe haven for children in the country. >> the north, the conflict is largely about the air strikes. in the south, there's street fighting in the cities. and children are being needlessly killed almost every day. if children are wounded in the fighting or in the air strikes, they ca