. >> let's go down to roslind jordan at the state department in washington, d.c. and certainly the u.s. government has been watching very carefully the events over the last couple of hours. >> that's right. and only the pentagon have been the ones to speak so far. they are very much supportive both of the saudi coalition's efforts in operation restore hope, i believe it's called, as well as the efforts of president hadi moving forward. but not much more detail than that. certainly the u.s. was providing a support role to the saudi coalition during the 27 days of the airstrikes against houthi targets inside yemen. but they have been very very clear that they were not interested in taking part in this situation because they said it was involved yemen and it's neighbors. >> but 24 hours ago we were discussing the fact that an u.s. aircraft carrier had been sent to the yemeni waters. >> that's right. the uss theodore roosevelt has been in the region on a six- to nine-month deployment. and two of the vessels the roosevelt and the normandy were deployed to get closer to

roslind jordan joins us from the state department from washington, d.c. is there any reaction from the u.s. as both the announcements from the saudi right saudi-led coalition. >> there hadn't been either reaction either from the white house or from the state department but in the past hour we did hear from the pentagon, which said in a statement that it welcomes the saudi coalition decision to end its current mission, and it stands and will support the coalition as well as the government of the current president abd rabbuh mansur hadi hadi. the statement does not say however, whether the u.s. government was alerted ahead of time, that the saudi coalition was going to end the air campaign against the houthis and whether or not the u.s. is going to be changing its assistance role in any way to the saudi coalition. of course, as our viewers know, felicity. that is included in providing intelligence, air surveillance, that's also included refueling support for the fighters jets that have been carry out these airstrikes. >> it was dispatching an air cars carri

. >> roslind jordan thank you very much indeed. still ahead on this hour further measures to bring cuba back in from the cold. >>> and migrants rescued at sea by italy's coast guard. and we'll tell you which team has one foot in the semifinals. more details coming up with jo later on in the program. >> at least 20 iraqi civilians have been killed in a series of car bombs in and around baghdad. there have been five explosions in total. the pictures shows the aftermath of a blast. to syria now where there has been more fighting in the city of aleppo. syrian military jets have carried out bombing raids. >> reporter: field hospitals in part of aleppo held by the opposition has done struggling with the growing numbers of the wounded. >> all of the wounded were civilians. there were no fighters among them. they are women and children who are still under the rubble. >> reporter: people there say the syrian government has increased barrel bomb attacks on this and other parts in western aleppo. people say that when these bombs drop entire f