we asked to speak to prince abdulaziz bin fahd and sheikh saleh al—sheikh.nded to our requests. ever since 1932 when king abdul aziz al—saud created saudi arabia, the country has been controlled as an absolute monarchy. its conservatism has driven some members of the royal family to live overseas. i am meeting another prince, prince khaled bin farhan, whose branch of the family fell out of favour long ago, and who recently began to question the saudi regime as a whole. eventually he fled to germany where he claimed political asylum. according to prince khaled, the fate of the princes is decided at the very top of the saudi government. i wondered what it felt like for khaled to be forced into exile, and unable to travel freely. this is prince turki bin bandar al—saud. once he was a major in the saudi police, which gave him access to highly sensitive information about the royal family. a bitter inheritance dispute with the family landed turki in prison. on his release he fled to paris where he lived in this apartment. injune 2012 he began posting videos on you

would be doing things like trying to capture adam it really makes much more sense that ali abdullah saleh would be trying to capture i didn't we have to hear the conflict in yemen is driven by a shia sunni confrontation is there any credibility to that argument the sectarian conflict is a result rather than a cause of violence and civil war. the nationwide uprising during two thousand and eleven which went on for months and was in the nation wide. that was sunni and shia together there was no difference how much does foreign involvement contribute to all of the violence going on right now i mean foreign involvement is the main sources of. so i mean most of the deaths from firepower have come from the air which is to say from the south. for which you know the whole season so i mean there are no angela's and they also have contributed when they commit. what i think would plausibly be labelled work crimes do you see any way for reconciliation you know the new ambassador to the united states and he was interviewed and he said we are trying to bring the loosies to the negotiating table all the

who things can be traced back to november two thousand and eleven when then president ali abdullah saleh was forced hand over power to his deputy and current president undoubtable months what had well this created a power vacuum who stepped in they took control of the capital sana'a on september the twenty first two thousand and fourteen in response the saudi led coalition began its airstrikes the following march in a series of u.n. mediated talks failed to end the conflict thousands have been killed. let's bring in our guest to the show we have here joining us in the studio no hard the hub she is a visiting fellow at the brookings doha center joins us here onset good to have you with us also joining us from santa hossein. houthi journalist and from istanbul najib say that iran i'm 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 thesis 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. national

thousand and four hussein and who today are backed by supporters of former president ali abdullah saleh they are shia and have the support of iran who these are up against government forces aligned with president adorable months old hedi and a coalition of nine mostly sunni arab states led by saudi arabia and the coalition has received logistical and intelligence support from the u.s. the u.k. and france both sides are accused of human rights violations. let's bring in our guests now joining us from yemen's capital sana'a is hakim a must mahdi editor in chief of the yemen post from london sami ham the editor of the international interest and from bull must also in the u.k. rocco bloom of conflict the conflict and humanitarian policy adviser at war child good to have you'll with us so rocco bloom let me start with you then you welcome this decision we certainly do this is blown over due to human rights abuses are being recorded by credible humanitarian organizations by the un for the last two years now we have a mechanism providing a crescent development scrutiny and this will enable int

in november 2014, sultan accused prince algal and sheikh saleh al—sheikh, for being responsible for hissser was present. he said swiss authorities have done little in the case. nothing was done to pursue what occurred at that airport. who were the pilots, what we re airport. who were the pilots, what were the flight plans, when these planes from saudi arabia arrived. this abduction occurred on swiss soil, and one would think that there would be an interest in finding out how that occurred. for the first time, a senior saudi royal was launching a criminal complaint in a western court against another family member. the pressure on the monarchy was mounting. i had heard about yet another saudi prince who had disappeared. he was a relatively minor royal, playboy with a liking for europe's casinos in expensive hotels —— saud bin saif al—nasr. but in 2014, saud began tweeting attacks on the saudi monarchy. translation: to those who say i am criticising people from a family, i say it is obligatory to state the truth. in september 2015, an anonymous saudi prince wrote two letters calling for a

yemen i was reading analysis recently that the alliance between the former president ali abdullah saleh and the hoof these in some cases is actually breaking down that's going to make it even more complicated isn't it. absolutely this is a multi sided conflict with also a number of international powers most obviously saudi arabia but a number of international powers involved on one side or another and that makes it enormously complicated to to end now or to try and solve it but i think at the moment it's not like the council has been deeply involved in trying to do so without a few humanitarian pauses which have gone nowhere and fallen apart after twenty four forty eight hours with there hasn't been negotiations on trying to end the conflict in in more than a year and we have a security council just over there in the building that i'm standing outside of as i said who have not passed a resolution in more than two years and need to send a very clear message to all sides that they will hold people accountable and that they will try and. solve this conflict and let's keep in mind that some

they are joined by sheikh saleh al—sheikh, the saudi minister of islamic affairs.g will be resolved. sultan refuses. abdulaziz excuses himself to make a phone call. then, the al—sheikh also leaves the room. sultan is left alone. suddenly masked men rush in. they beat sultan and handcuff him. 0ne plunges a needle into his neck. unconscious, sultan is rushed to geneva airport, where a plane is waiting. several days later, he awakes, he is in hospital in riyadh. over the last year, bbc arabic has been investigating the disappearance of three saudi princes, all of whom were living in europe, and all have vanished. there is strong evidence that they were abducted. this is king fahd's palace outside geneva where prince sultan was allegedly abducted. what really happened that morning in 2003? and what could prince sultan have done that would lead his own family to violently drug and kidnap him? if sultan was really kidnapped by the saudis, could that give us a clue to the fate of the other missing princes? i needed to know what sultan had been doing in the months leading

they will get from the who the rebels as well as from supporters of the former president ali abdullah saleh and there are questions of whether their findings will actually have any legal weight but their work will soon begin at least there will be some chronicling of what has been happening on the ground inside yemen where the international committee of the red cross says all the warring parties in yemen using disproportionate force which is that excessive civilian casualties it's also why the color is not the only outbreak the country could suffer and it's calling on all sides to open sana airport to commercial flights for sensually supplies. the situation from a humanitarian standpoint is a catastrophe we have we have something which is close to a million cases of suspected kolarov maybe by the end of the year and but this is i told you it's only possibly do an external illustration of something more serious we could have an outbreak of something else russian opposition leader lexan abounding has been detained again in moscow ahead of a pre election rally here as his supporters to assembl

who these as well as there are supporters of people who support the former president ali abdullah saleh that that question of access is key because that's the only way to really determine whether or not there were enemy targets that the coalition for example was going after or whether it was simply engaging in a kind of terror campaign in order to get people to not side with the who these or with those who support the former president there's also the question of how much how seriously their work is going to be taken because this isn't a normally carried out process and so it may not have the legal weight that would be necessary if for example there were a decision in the human rights council to try to set up some sort of formal or make a reference or make a referral for a formal court process in order to try to hold people who violate those international laws accountable for their behavior so those are two real problems and then of course there is the assumption that there will be cooperation with the yemeni government but of course that remains to be seen what people promised to do is

in the civil war whether there's going to be any cooperation from the former president ali abdullah saleh as well as from the who these who have been fighting the government of president hadi for control of yemen and there are going to be questions about whether this group since it's a hybrid group and i don't know that it really is a legally. viable entity whether its recommendations will hold any legal weight for the human rights council those questions still need to be worked out but if they hadn't come to this compromise the saudis were prepared to withhold funding from the human rights council and not let this work go forward at all thanks very much reza in jordan with all the latest on this story from the united nations i still says it carried out a suicide bombing that targeted a mosque in the afghan capital at least five people were killed and twenty nine others wounded in attack a struck as worshippers left the shia mosque after friday prayers in central kabul afghanistan has faced a series of large scale attacks in recent months targeting the minority shia population when other

pits who three rebels from the north backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh against a good many government forces they supported by is strikes from a saudi led coalition nearly two and a half years of fighting has left yemen on the brink of collapse. already the poorest country in the gulf when the war began it's made the crisis much much worse a crippled infrastructure abject poverty seven million people on the brink of famine and since i pulled the world's worst outbreak of cholera clean drinking water it's issues here. we never have enough to drink this woman says her family is one of hundreds who rely on water deliveries when they come people here say there's never enough water to go around and. there's not a single drop of clean water here everyone here is sick with cholera now. who the rebels and they realize control more than sixty percent of the country including the capital santa and the village. lives that means it's a potential target for saudi led coalition is strikes while that's a concern so was finding the next meal well. we can't find jobs i h

the who sees can be traced back to november twentieth eleven when the then president ali abdullah saleh was forced to hand over power to his deputy and the current president months or hardee that created a power vacuum who the rebels who say they represent the minority shia community took advantage they took control of the capital sana'a on september the twenty first twenty fourteen with iranian support in response a saudi led coalition began airstrikes in march of twenty fifteen to defeat the and to restore the yemeni government various rounds of u.n. mediated talks have failed to end the conflict and more than ten thousand people have been killed since the fighting began. that's put some context into this for you joining us live is our correspondent hashim who's covered yemen extensively during the day looking at those protests the capital looks to an outside eye as if there's a semblance of normality but at nighttime it changes and outside of santa it's a completely different set up it is indeed it is a completely different political landscape however this is quite an interest in imp

they will get from the who the rebels as well as from supporters of the former president ali abdullah saleh and there are questions a whether their findings will actually have any legal weight but their work will soon begin at least there will be some chronicling of what has been happening on the ground inside yemen before the u.n. announces decision more deaths were reported in yemen's conflict this time five people were killed in an airstrike by the saudi led coalition and saw the province six others were injured in the attack. thousands of supporters of catalonia as voted for says session from spain have held a final rally before sunday's referendum they're also occupying schools designated as polling stations to make sure the ballot goes ahead and iraq's defense ministry is warning again that it will take control of the borders on its kurdish region and it wants the yes vote in monday's session referendum to be canceled baghdad has also closed airspace over the area to international flights and u.s. health secretary tellme price has quit after a scandal over his use of private jets it's

the who sees can be traced back to november twentieth eleven when the then president ali abdullah saleh was forced to hand over power to his deputy and current president months or hardy that created a power vacuum who the rebels who say they represent the minority shia community took advantage they took control of sana'a on september the twenty first twenty fourteen with iranian support in response a saudi led coalition began airstrikes in march of twenty fifteen to defeat the who thiis and to restore yemen's government various rounds of un mediated talks failed to end the conflict and more than ten thousand people have been killed since the fighting began al-jazeera. has covered yemen extensively he says weapons days ronnie shows the key position that who things hold in the conflict. the yemenis i talked to from time to time in the capital sanaa different parts of the country they basically say that no one seems to care about them this by the huge price they have to pay we're talking about half a million children in yemen under the risk of cholera talking about ten thousand people who

the who sees can be traced back to november of twenty eleven when the then president ali abdullah saleh was forced to hand over power to his deputy and current president's brother months or hardy now that created a power vacuum who the rebels who say they represent the minority shia community took advantage of that they took control of the capital sana'a on september the twenty first twenty fourteen with iranian support in response a saudi led coalition stepped in beginning airstrikes in march of twenty fifteen to defeat the who sees and restore yemen's government various runs of un mediated talks to end the yemeni conflict have failed more than ten thousand people have been killed since the fighting began. let's talk now to hakim is the editor of the yemen post he joins us on skype from the capital sana'a so we're expecting a big strong show from who thinks supporters but that doesn't translate into regional change or power changing hands on the ground outside the city itself why is that. again. it's a very big rally today hundreds of thousands of protestors but a one sided protest or

they will get from the who the rebels as well as from supporters of the former president ali abdullah saleh and there are questions a whether their findings will actually have any legal weight but their work will soon begin at least there will be some chronicling of what has been happening on the ground inside yemen well beta cells where is a senior research fellow at the middle east and north africa program of chatham house he's joining us live from new york thank you very much for being with us how much freedom do you think this team is going to have when they get to yemen. well i think that the first question will be whether or not they get to yemen at all there will be security constraints it's quite difficult to get into the north of the country at the moment there's no real airport access for most people so in the south very bad security environment to be interesting to see if given the restraints the places around these kind of panels they'll be evil even able to get in and once they're in country of course it's highly likely that anyone who controls a specific area will be trying to

i have worked with president saleh for a while and i'm continue on a project with her and her book, whicht didn't think anything could get better than her autobiography, but the way that you're able to extract that, merger with your own interviews and put your objective lens on it. it really is, it is a tour de force fo of people want to readn women in politics. my question to you is, now that president sirleaf's presidency is coming to an end and he has a liberian education trials with the success she has had in education in that arena, you've got the rebuilding of the hospitals, some of the roads are back. you certainly have, she's indicted and bringing to trial some of the major leaders in the government for corruption. and, of course, ebola. what do you think are most long-lasting legacy is? >> i think it's got to be the women. there is no way no matter, and she's had, she said sort of this, she has a lot of flaws,, after 12 years have disappointed a lot of people who expected more, while at the same time she is still been the best that we've had ever. but i think that when you look a

who things can be traced back to november two thousand and eleven when then president ali abdullah saleh was forced to hand over power to his deputy and current president. this created a power vacuum who think rebels who say they represent the minority community took advantage they took control of the capital on september the twenty first two thousand and fourteen with iranian support in response a saudi led coalition began airstrikes in march two thousand and fifteen to defeat the who theses and restore yemen's government various rounds of u.n. mediated talks failed to end the conflict and more than ten thousand people have been killed since the fighting began. as covered yemen extensively he says wednesday's ready shows the key position who things hold in the conflict. the yemenis i talked to from time to time in the capital somehow different parts of the country they basically say that no one seems to care about them this by the huge price they had to pay we're talking about half a million children in yemen under the risk of cholera talking about ten thousand people who were killed yo

of the who can be traced back to november two thousand and eleven when then president ali abdullah saleh was forced to hand over power to his deputy and current president. this created a power vacuum the rebels who say they represent the minority shia community took advantage they took control of the capital sana on september the twenty first two thousand and fourteen with iranian support in response to saudi led coalition began airstrikes in march two thousand and fifteen to defeat the duties and restore yemen's government various rounds of u.n. mediated talks failed to end the conflict more than ten thousand people have been killed since the fighting began. covered yemen extensively joins us now in doha studio there you see the leader there i mean what he's saying how how wrong is he when he blames the west and its allies for a lot of the trouble that they see at the mine where basically the rally today that we saw in the capital so i want to is one of the biggest political rallies in yemen over the last few years i think it's a message by the. this by the saudi led coalition they stil

pits who three rebels from the north backed by iran and troops loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh against a good many government forces they supported by is strikes from a saudi led coalition nearly two and a half years of fighting has left yemen on the brink of collapse. already the poorest country in the gulf when the war began it's made the crisis much much worse a crippled infrastructure abject poverty seven million people on the brink of famine and since i pulled the world's worst outbreak of cholera clean drinking water it's issues here. we never have enough to drink this woman says her family is one of hundreds who rely on water deliveries when they come people here say there's never enough water to go around in a day. there's not a single drop of clean water here everyone here is sick with cholera now. the rebels and they realize control more than sixty percent of the country including the capital santa and the village. lives that means it's a potential target for saudi led coalition is strikes while that's a concern so was finding the next meal well. we can't find jobs i

air strikes against the rebels as well as against supporters of the former president ali abdullah saleh now the saudis did not want to see a formal commission of inquiry or see a law established by the human rights council in the fact they were threatening to withhold funding from the council if a c.e.o. i were to be established however there were others on the council who felt that it was important to get an accurate accounting of what has been happening on the ground and their position was supported by the high commissioner for human rights. saying so finally overnight thursday into friday a compromise was struck and that was struck by the dutch a group of eminent experts will now be taking a look at the situation inside yemen wasn't what are the challenges in terms of logistics when it comes to carrying out an investigation into war crimes in yemen. well of course first yemen is still very much an active war zone so getting full unfettered access and being safe while doing so is going to be the first challenge for these experts getting the ability to talk to witnesses without interfe

are hoping to avoid a 0-2 start following their week one losses. 49ers defensive coordinator, robert saleh to turn it around after losing 23-3 against the panthers. all-pro new york giants wide receiver, odell beckham returns to practice in a limited capacity following his high ankle sprain but his return to the field to face detroit this week remains in question. today he revealed this injury will keep him out for six to eight weeks. he missed the season opener against the cowboys last sunday. it's been nearly a month since beckham injured his left leg against the browns in week two of the preseason. the warriors always good in the communitywith the help of community ambassador adonyl foyle they tipped off the team's "chef academy" todaythe warriors have partnered with wallmart the "share our strength's no kid hungry" campaign and "18 reasons" to promote a healthy lifestyle by providing youth and their families with hands-on experience preparing and cooking nutritious foods.today they were at westlake middle school in oakland teaming up with local chefs to teach kids how to cook healthy.