but there are serious forces in yemen that wish to see a car off of yemen from. the west not cooperate with the west not be part of the international system but rather as in afghanistan a decade ago create an islamic emirate that tell you what you we will continue on this point after a short break and after that show break we'll continue our discussion on yemen today with our. wealthy british. market. funds. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our cheap. hotel market here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. download the official flick a shake your money phone oh i pod touch from the i choose our store. which all she likes on the go. video on demand. old girls an r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question. mission free accreditation three times for charges free arrangements free is free. to free. the old free blog counseling videos for your media projects for free to our teton tom. can start. welco

ambassador to yemen and he's also author of the book high value target countering al qaeda in yemen all right gentlemen this is crosstalk i mean you can jump in anytime you want to mr ambassador if i go to you first here i mean as we go to air here there's a lot of speculation some people say evidence that the the leader in yemen is opening the door to al qaeda to make sure he can stay in power in what looks like what most people are saying now is a civil war how would you assess that statement. well al qaeda in the arabian peninsula was a threat before this current revolution in yemen and it has become more of a threat since it started simply because its operating space in the country has expanded but i go out the president is intentionally exacerbating that threat he may seek tactical advantage from that but i don't think that he has an interest in opening the door to al qaeda in any case i don't think he's getting any benefit from that and in any case. the challenge remains to get beyond the current impasse and to deal with this threat in the long term ok daniel what do you think abo

yemen is not bothering ok. so the intervention allah behind in yemen i think would be a disaster any arab country. generally any country that's tried to intervene military any in yemen has lived to regret it certainly the gyptian good and the saudi intervention these are d.d.l. two things was on the side of the president against saddam but where the saudis have influences with the pocketbook a great deal of resources flow from saudi arabia into yemen in their recent indications that the. saudis are using that as a significant lever. i'm a little bit more positive on the g.c.c. initiative also than. mr pipes i think it was a well designed effort i think it got far i think developments in the region really complicated it because when you started to see what was happening in egypt with hosni mubarak i think president saleh got cold feet and really question whether or not he wanted to give his state over and i also think he was motivated in seeing developments in places like libya and syria where dictators have hel

against what they believe are terrorist or groups in operations in yemen were just yemen in the yemeni yemeni people fit into all of this well it's obvious that they are very much worried you know what happens in that very important structure. area. for sure they would like to see somebody who's in charge could continue their cooperation which which. has given to the west and i think the opposition and in your region you would give the they have reassured the united states that. they will cooperate perhaps better than the last as regards fighting terrorism and with any other you know. towards the stability of the region if i go to you in tel aviv where do you stand in all of this here the devil that you know that's we've heard on this program here i mean what about what's going on in yemen and i'd like to spread it out with syria too i mean how does and i'm not asking you to speak for the state of israel but i mean how do you think the israelis see what's going on here i mean the devil you know is better than when you don't know. well that's a reference of course to bashar the devil th

yemen is a dangerous place for foreigners. hundreds have been kidnapped over the years, including in 2005, a german diplomat and his family. they were freed unharmed after three days, but many other foreign hostages have been killed. since the end of the 1990's, the al qaeda terrorist network has been active in yemen. in one of their first attacks on the american warship, the uss kolk in october of 2000, seven soldiers were killed. since then, the yemeni army has waged a series campaign against the islamists. so far, without much success. commander in chief of the army is president of the of dole hasanni. as an enemy of al qaeda, he has received strong support from washington. but right now, his days in office appear to be numbered. >> let's pull in our middle east expert for some analysis. the yemeni vice-president says saleh will return within days. do you think that is going to happen? >> that is wishful thinking. i am quite convinced that the president himself wishes to return to dimon as soon as possible, but his sponsors

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it had a civil war of south yemen and north yemen and they unified.remembering how much of this problem is man made. yemen's economy is not destined to be the kind of banket case it is. when the british ruled and when they had an empire there were two british trading posts. one was aden which was in yemen and the other is singapore. fast forward 40 years later and singapore has higher per capita gdp and yemen has turned into a hell hole. >> i think the gdp of yemen is something approaching $25 billion. this is a pittance of an economy. 34% of the nation, i believe, lives below the poverty line on $2 a day, just numbers that we have a hard time fathoming almost without access to food. >> we are just trying to stabilize. all we want is order because if you don't have that, you will have two phenomenon come out of yemen. one is al qaeda which will get stronger because it will have territory on the basis and communications set up. the other is i the somali pirate syndrome because it is turning into a kind of gang land, and each of those gangs will need mo

a the south of yemen which was a major british. naval base until independence carrying the country was then split by the cold war and there was the coming together but for many in the south it was seen as a takeover by them so any government or political unity that emerges asked to bring together all of the fractions and all of the interests across the yemen i cannot believe that syria i drove a liking to bring this about and in their haste to be involved the u.s. looked to me like they are in danger of making all the mistakes they made in afghanistan. and they rushed in as part of the cold war armed anyone that offered to fight on their behalf and thus was born the taliban what about the u.k. get involved as you're very outspoken about foreign intervention military intervention from part politically can afford to get involved in yet another conflict and also financially at this time. well the british forces are at a very high degree of stretch at the moment they have obviously a big involvement in afghanistan they have an involvem

the way to bring the deadly air superiority to yemen u.s. drones allegedly kill schools of civilians as the u.k. wedgies helicopters and commandos to send to the rest of. international news and comment live from our studios here in central moscow this is . the greek prime minister is promising a major reshuffle of the cabinet george proper says he's even ready to quit if whoever takes charge continues the austerity program is declaration came after a day of protests that left eighteen injured off to police fired tear gas and angry crowds first reports now from inside those clashes in athens. but the clashes between the police and the protesters still going on. in the crowd. people here want to see what's going on at the moment the police trying to stop that violence still breaking out though if i see be not stopped by a lot of the people on the street people just simply with the gas masks on they really don't want anyone to film that it seems that the people who. actually provoking the. people still me think back on the central state even th

it had a civil war of south yemen and north yemen and they unified. just remembering how much of this problem is man made. yemen's economy is not destined to be the kind of basket case it is. when the british ruled and when they had an empire there were two british trading posts. one was aden which was in yemen and the other is singapore. fast forward 40 years later and singapore has higher per capita gdp and yemen has turned into a hell hole. >> i think the gdp of yemen is something approaching $25 billion. this is a pittance of an economy. 34% of the nation, i believe, lives below the poverty line on $2 a day, just numbers that we have a hard time fathoming almost without access to food. >> we are just trying to stabilize. all we want is order because if you don't have that, you will have two phenomenon come out of yemen. one is al qaeda which will get stronger because it will have territory on the basis and communications set up. the other is i the somali pirate syndrome because it is turning into a kind of gang land, and each of those gangs will n

so the stakes in yemen are very huge and i think we, the american presence in yemen is, i think, unprepared for the games that are being played. saleh has played the americans and gulf states for a fool. he has promised he'll relinquish power. he in tends to do nothing of the kind. >> here's what concerns me. we saw opportune snartunisia. a little violent. similar in egypt. since then we've seen violence in libya, bahrain, yemen. these leaders have decided to fight to the bitter end. >> you're absolutely right. there's a document leaked out from syria from syria intelligence. what they end up saying is the lesson of egypt and tunisia is never to relinquish power it's to use the armed forces to hunker down and kill as many people as you can and so, in fact, you're absolutely right. you have egypt and tunisia as one story and then you have syria, libya and yemen. yemen itself is interesting. because saleh was always a rogue but not a killer. now i think with the complications in yemen i think now there's more blood on his hands and there's greater reluctance on his part to relinquish power. >

he can't imagine yemen without him and he can't imagine himself without yemen. >> all these people start to believe they are the country. >> exactly. >> and also there's a web of corruption beyond them. it's the family, so they cut a deal which gets -- maybe the president gets a nice villa in the south of france, but all the others say what about us? and then they refuse to do it. so much of what seems to be happening here, there are so many competing factions at this point. the government doesn't even control that much of the territory anymore any way. so if he leaves, say the vice president becomes president, you still face the two rebellions, the al qaeda problem, the fact that there is an economy in freefall, all that still remains. >> the saudis, the americans, everybody who is interested in yemen has been working very hard now for months to make a transition, a smooth transition, and every time we've come close, he's backed away. so ultimately he's creating a situation where there cannot be a smooth transition and we're just about at that point. >> thank you very much. >>> let us k

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juan, let's begin with the bloodshed in yemen. how ripe is the country right now with this violence continuing with the president gone? >> i think it's quite ripe for continued violence. you have president saleh now out of the country. it's not clear to me that he ever returns. you have tribal groups and militants vying for power in the capitol. and you have the group al qaeda in the arabian peninsula with greater breeding space in yemen. so i think the environment in yemen is ripe for greater violence in the future. >> mitchell: secretary of state clinton said earlier that president saleh and his government must go. however he has been a long time ally of the u.s. in the fight against al qaeda. so some are asking are we really better off with him gone for a while? >> it's a great question because i think yemen presents the most dangerous near-term problem for the united states. you have an al qaeda group there in yemen with greater breathing space. you have a number of tribal factions and divisions within the country vying for po

joining us now from yemen's capital, the yemen times political reporter.d today that the president may come back from saudi arabia. would that be acceptable you think or cause an outbreak in violence? >> if he came back, it means a bloody civil war. there is no other choice he is coming back and doing his jobs as a president again. >> what are is the sense now with the temporary government? will it be a temporary government or transitional government? is there a possibility the ceasefire will hold or is that too uncertain? >> the first president to be the acting president so far. the protesters themselves didn't want him to be the acting president saying that he is part of the regime and he has to be gone too. he is not a character that can fill the position. he is ruled by the president's son from behind the scenes. they know they are holding more discussion and trying to plan for the coming dates. >> whether it's a government official or american citizen who has the fear today that because of the chaos in yemen, it could become the pre9-11 afghanistan an

. >>> chaos in yemen. i'm christine romans. president salah undergoing surgery in saudi arabia after an attack on his compound. the u.s. with very serious concerns this morning about al qaeda potentially stepping up to fill that void. >>> and i'm kiran chetry. hackers hit nintendo. the gaming giant becomes the latest company to suffer an on-line security breach. find out if your personal information is at risk on this "american morning." >>> good morning. welcome to "american morning." it is monday, june 6th. >> good to see you all. breaking news out of yemen. right now the country on the edge of an all-out civil war. a cease-fire seems to be holding with thousands of people celebrating in the streets. the country's president ali abdullah saleh is now in saudi arabia. he's had two operations there after he was wounded during an attack on his palace. his supporters, though, are vowing he will return. >> mow mam head jamjoon is live in abu dhabi this morning. the u.s. not so sure he's ever coming back. growing concerns about the

but in yemen's second largest city, taiz, the violence continues. unconfirmed reports say anti-government forces attacked the presidential compound. despite the threat of a bloody civil war, a spokesman for the government said that saleh, when he's healthy, is going to return to yemen as president. it was a message that people celebrating in the streets today chose to ignore. lester? >> stephanie gosk from tripoli tonight. john harwood is cnbc's chief washington correspondent. he's at the white house tonight. john, the u.s. has a big interest in yemen and what's going on there. how is all this being read in washington? >> reporter: lester, the focus of american policy in yemen has been counterterrorism. white house officials are glad that president saleh is gone. don't expect him to come back. because he had become a liability in that fight. but one official i spoke with this evening was candid in saying, we don't know what comes next and when. institutions in the country are weak. and there is some urgency about helping a new governing coalition ta

yemen is a very serious concern. between march and june the al qaeda has taken over large swaths of land. we know that awlaki is in yemen. we know that out of yemen is the planning of the possibility of attack against the united states. so there is a direct national security interest right now in yemen and the more confusion and the more disintegration the better it suits al qaeda's purposes. so i am very concerned about what's happening in yemen and i think it would be in our best interests to provide as much stabilization as we can and also to go after those al qaeda targets like awlaki who we know are in yemen. >> there was a drone strike in early may targeting mr. awlaki. how close did the united states come? >> i can't answer that. i don't believe -- well, i know he wasn't killed. so that's all i can say. >> that's all you can say. what is your sense? should the united states be accelerating these strikes now at a time of political uncertainty? we don't really quite know who's running the show in yemen right now

places like yemen, syria and afghanistan.lad you could be here today. >> reporter: it's made up to look like an afghan marketplace. >> we've had some bombings of late. >> gentlemen, how are we doing? but this is actually 7,000 miles from kabul. it's the diplomatic security training center in summit point, west virginia. as instructors simulate an attack on a u.s. ambassador. our protection team returns fire a safehouse nearby provides shelter. smoke grenades provide cover until we can finally drive away. diplomatic security agents are responsible for protecting secretary of state hillary clinton. they can provide security for congressional delegations overseas. and a lot more. guarding a total of 220 embassies and consulates worldwide. and that means they have to be ready for anything, anywhere. >> we want to see how they react under extremely stressful conditions. you lose the sight that it's a training exercise. it really is an outstanding training tool for us to get our agents prepared for the service in iraq and afghanist

is civil war in yemen inevitable? >> more and more of the eyewitnesss and residents in sanaa eye been speaking with and also government officials there believe yemen is really now on the brink of all out civil war. let me give you the most recent worrying development. in the past hour we've spoken to more residents in sanaa report more than 1,000 armed tribesmen that have entered sanaa late last night, early this morning. when asked why they were coming into the city they said they were there to support the leader of the hasha tribe, the most powerful tribe in yemen, the tribe engaged if street battles with president saleh's forces. more worries that more tribesmen are coming into a capital beset with so much chaos and fighting the last week. also i spoke to a government official early this morning and he's wondering why there's no more international mediation going on. even though president saleh has refused to sign a transfer of power deal in the past few months, government officials want the international community

we begin tonight with the turmoil in yemen. the long time u.s. ally on the arabian peninsula whose future is now very much in doubt. here's the latest. president saleh has had surgery in saudi arabia after being wounded in an attack on his palace. a truce agreed too by major tribes is not holding everywhere and the u.s. ambassador met with the country's new acting president. the shockwaves are being felt all the way to washington where whit johnson begins our coverage. >> reporter: elation in the streets of yemen's capitol, anti-government demonstrators celebrated the exit of president ali abdullah saleh. the embattled leader who clung to power for almost 33 years is being treated in saudi arabia after being injured in a rocket attack on his presidential compound friday. reporter iona craig is in yemen and says reaction to his depar ture is mixed. >> they've certainly been celebrating over the last 24 hours as the news spread that president saleh left the country but in the north of the city again, there are shelling and mortar explosions at nigh

the chaos in yemen is growing, with the president fleeing yemen after an attack. he is now fighting for his life with burns across nearly half his body. just yesterday, diane sawyer asked general david petraeus and robert gates about yemen -- >> reporter: what do we do about al qaeda now in yemen? >> well, i think we maintain the focus. >> reporter: a new special forces strategy? >> there's one already, i can assure you. >> when we find them, we take them out. >> reporter: but that key strategy, using armed drones, is now threatened as well. the chaos in yemen means intelligence gathering and coordination for the drones is far more difficult. and it is vitally important to america in its efforts to find the world's most dangerous terrorist, who uses his perch in yemen to influence terror around the globe. >> and martha, you are here, but how vulnerable are the people in that u.s. embassy there? >> reporter: well, the u.s. embassy has been heavily fortified but they fortified it even more now. in the last few weeks, they sent in 60 u.s. forces to surround that emba

yemen's government says dozens of people have been killed in u.s. drone attacks in the country over the last few weeks many of them being civilians washington recently resumed its unofficial military campaign against al qaeda terrorists fearing they may exploit the current unrest in yemen to seize power the cia is also reportedly building a secret in the persian gulf to target militants as artie's a guy in a chicken says introducing cia spooks will move the operation into the legal shadows. the decision to task the cia with tracing down in yemen marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against hurt but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes so if you can walk ration would be yemeni counterterrorism units but now that power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under diffe

you have al qaeda in yemen. you have tribal leaders in yemen.ity and their control over various parts of the country. and as we know, when there is no central government, whether it's parts of pakistan, somalia or yemen, when you don't have a central government in control, that's when al qaeda really flourishes with new recruits, financing, training, all of that. that's the real concern right now in yemen. >> all eyes on yemen now. thank you very much, barbara. >>> well, thousands of people are on the run as a huge wildfire is spreading across arizona. now two more towns get the order to evacuate. we're going to go live to the fire zone. abdin. >>> more evacuation orders go out in arizona as a massive wildfire spreads. the so-called withallo fire has driven hundreds of people from their homes. jim, give us a sense here. weather is expected to get a little bit better. are the firefighters making any progress in trying to contain this massive fire? >> reporter: still this fire is officially 0% contained. but for the first time since this fire bega

drone attacks in yemen and the reasoning for that is that according to u.s. forces is taking advantage of what's going in going on moving into this power vacuum which is being created since president saleh left and went to saudi arabia for medical treatment moving into that being the activity taking advantage of general civil unrest to grab more support more and more territory so that's the reason for the u.s. paying these drone attacks that's how it's justifying it but of course that power vacuum works both ways interestingly the u.s. forces the military forces used to cooperate with the president on who to attack and when intelligence that kind of these kinds of territorial issues but now the u.s. can easily say that there's no authorities with with whom to cooperate the government is essentially not in operation anymore so if they if they wanted to one would have thought that they could just go ahead and wherever they like and of course we've now seeing president obama ok the use of cia drones now cia drones will have a much more use a real mess and much.

well absolutely not only yemen we claim the authority to send drones anywhere in the world how about pakistan we're killing more so called al qaeda in pakistan and then afghanistan where is the authorization for warning against pakistan which is our purported ally so you're right there to cross the course i mean why why is it that these folks are speaking out on libya but not the covert not so covert any more of course in the end because libby is the easiest case goes even the secretary of defense said i don't really know why we're there it's no vital interest and even even the most primitive schoolchild could see libby wasn't creating a danger to the united states you can concoct fears we need to be in pakistan radicals take over their nuclear weapons at least has a piece of justification very clearly is congress thing in that case is congress not serious about and in these unjustified unconstitutional words you have to start . someplace and it's certainly true if they were they would go to the impeachment route right now but it's needed moving by progression here and this could be

ability to do this in yemen?tates and al qaeda in a sense are taking advantage of the power vacuum that exists in yemen. al qaeda obviously thrives in chaotic environments. and there's some reporting indicating that they have taken a town in southern yemen. they're unlikely to take power in the country. they're a relatively small group. but similarly the united states sees that al qaeda is taking advantage of the situation and is essentially going forward with a set of policies including drones and unusually fighter jets essentially to make sure that they can't take control. i don't think they're asking anybody's permission for this. the agreement that exists with saleh is now sort of moot in a sense. i thing the post-saleh era has begun in yemen. he's much more severely injured than was initially portrayed. this is not a few scratches. he said he was going to step down three times already. and now he's been forced out of the country. and so clearly this is an effort as barbara was reporting, to make sure that th

. >> yemen goes closer to civil war. the president is injured and its attack on his palace. >> more bailout money for greece after the e.u. and imf approval austerity measures. >> and at ratko mladic refuses to tripoli at the war crimes computetribunal as the trial is underway at for him for genocide. >>> yemen is closer than ever to full-blown civil war. friday, the conflict arrived at the president's door. the president suffered minor injuries when trying to -- when people attacked his palace. later, he recorded a message for his country, labeling the tribe a gang of outlaws. we have this report from the capital. >> soldiers on the roof of the presidential palace. state television shows them taking cover amid a renewed attack. earlier, the building was hammerer by a volley of rockets and grenades. seven people were killed, including three members of the presidential guard. the president, seen in file pictures, sustained a light head injury. >> his excellency the president is in good health and has postponed a planned a

the cia is expected to start sending armed drones to seek al qaeda targets inside yemen according to the washington post through its military ran all previous covert action in yemen the change is significant because the cia operates under different legal authority than the military the decision reflects fears of a growing political instability in yemen. that are kind of a big deal you see we're not officially at war with or in yemen but our military has been illegally hitting a place with drone strikes and bombs for the last couple of years something the media never really asks about and now because we want to keep it legally hitting a place with drone strikes the decision has been made to just give that responsibility over the cia so you can expand the entire campaign and there's less publicising about it and so congress doesn't ask any questions and you give them thirty seconds of your coverage we are gay deserve a question from the president but shadow wars being fought on our behalf paid for by our tax dollars and ways without asking anyone not getting rational approval that isn'

aerial attacks killed civilians now become pinned in yemen was stopped a year ago because of concerns of poor intelligence leading to missions and civilian deaths so what's changed now that they're back there. well really this also shows the limits of u.s. weapons because despite. years of past attacks in yemen and these attacks in afghanistan and pakistan and so on a people's movement an enormous people's movement and in yemen has ceded the dictatorship there is an effort as i say to bring that back to reinforce again of the people's movement has proven to be a more powerful force against the more sophisticated weapons used in an absolutely lawless and criminal way as i say open season strike where they want declare everyone is al qaeda while while attacking villages cities are war all centers and yet none of this has stopped the movement in yemen it has not been able to stop the resistance in afghanistan from going anchor in pakistan let's look at the latest development president saleh left the country after being severely wounded in an attack on his compound how is the u.s. tapping