the trans administration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media reports say an american made bomb was used in an airstrike that hit a school bus earlier this month fifty one people were killed forty of them children and gallagher has more from washington. in northern yemen graves who recently dug for the victims of a saudi led coalition bombing that shocked the world on august the ninth a school bus was hit in an attack the coalition called legitimate military action more than fifty people were killed at least forty of them children aged between ten and twelve dozens more were injured. the u.s. has provided support to the saudi led coalition with intelligence and aerial refueling now there are renewed questions about the weapons being used in the war reports suggest the bomb used to attack the bus was made by lockheed martin and according to c.n.n. supplied by the u.s. government as part of a sanctioned on deal politicians in the united states are demanding answers senator chris murphy who's announced a measure to hold military assistance to

has declared yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis definitely not this war and not just the u.k. and u.s. involvement in it has been extremely under reported amnesty international calls that the forgotten war spoke to me about some of the factors that make reporting on yemen so difficult i think often what people presume to be a dis interest on the root of part of the media is that we've actually just an inability to get on the ground we are trying in different ways we are learning as we go along as other people in the media landscape how are we going to report on this war it is in place and accomplish that often times people don't really have a great deal of knowledge on but also that is incredibly difficult to get access to in and i think we are which.

u.s. involvement in yemen, given how much the saudis and ,miratis rely on u.s. ort we know that cannot continue to wage war on yemen without extensive u.s. assistance. congress needs to act quickly to continue to introduce resolutions in the senate and and the housese to push the u.s. out of yemen. amy: i want to thank you both for being with us, shireen al-deimi, yemeni scholar and activiststan assistatant profesr now at michigan state university. and maggie michael, ap reported, speaking to us from cairo, egypt. this is democracy now! we have a full-time job opening for a broadcast engineer here in our new york city studio. find out more at democracynow.org. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!] >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>ó a - i guess a smsmall-town mayor is sort of like a a community orgaganizer, except that you hahave actual responsibilities.

the trumpet ministration is facing growing criticism at home over its role in the war in yemen u.s. media reports say an american made bomb was used in an airstrike that hit a school bus this month fifty one people were killed forty of them were children and as well from washington d.c. . in northern yemen graves who recently dug for the victims of a saudi led coalition bombing that shocked the world on august the ninth a school bus was hit in an attack the coalition called legitimate military action more than fifty people were killed at least forty of them children aged between ten and twelve dozens more were injured. the u.s. has provided support to the saudi led coalition with intelligence and aerial refueling now there are renewed questions about the weapons being used in the war reports suggest the bomb used to attack the bus was made by lockheed martin and according to c.n.n. supplied by the u.s. government as part of a sanctioned on deal politicians in the united states are demanding answers senator chris murphy who's announced a measure to hold military assistance to the coa

u.s. bombs used in the yemen attack that killed forty children the report causing a political storm. and desperate to escape economic and political crisis but venezuelans faced new restrictions from their neighbors. landslides have come down and several buildings have been badly damaged or another powerful earthquake on the indonesian island of lombok it was jolted by a quake with a magnitude six point five late on sunday morning it was a shallow one with a depth of lesson eight kilometers and it centered in the northeast of the island people ran into the streets in panic this trauma coming exactly two weeks after another one measuring seven cools widespread destruction a community hall in my. villages collapsed and a mosque and other buildings have been badly damaged in this chapter but so far we've had no ripple to serious injuries more than four hundred thirty people in the quake two weeks ago died and thousands of buildings were destroyed scott hietala has small from the into the xeon capital jakarta yet another earthquake hitting the lombok island here in indonesia six point fiv

u.s. supply the bomb that was used in an attack that killed forty children and yemen earlier this month the indian government drops relief packages to those stranded by floods and kara and a defiant president just a. threatening. the united nations for a decade want to know about peace prize and campaigned tirelessly for global peace leaders around the world have been praising kofi annan who died on saturday at the age of eighty diplomatic editor james bass looks back at his life and legacy. a towering figure on the global stage bringing the peace bell of the united nations a man who did so much in the cause of global peace. u.n. secretary general for ten years a nobel peace laureate. kofi annan was born in ghana joining the un in one thousand nine hundred sixty two rising through the ranks to be the organizations head of peacekeeping at the time of genocide in rwanda eight hundred thousand people were killed he later said it was one of his greatest regrets that he was not able to do more to halt the bloodshed i am happy on and i hope you and sullenly souad when he became the first u.n. sta

u.s. bombs used in the yemen attack that killed forty children the report causing a political storm. and while the people of venezuela are being blocked in their escape from economic and political crisis. a new scare for the indonesian island of lombok is his troubles to recover from a massive earthquake just two weeks ago people have been said running into the streets again a few hours ago it was jolted by a quake with a magnitude of six point five now the quake was quite shallow a depth of less than eight kilometers and it was centered in the northeast of the island a number of landslides safe are being reported but we haven't had any reports of injuries just yet two weeks ago a quake a six point nine hit the island it killed more than four hundred thirty people and it leveled tens of thousands of buildings and go live to the indonesians capital jakarta our correspondent there is scope bring us right up to date then with what you know about this latest tremor. obviously you know a lot of people in in lombok island here in indonesia very concerned about what happened just a few hour

yemen. i suspect on the one hand you've got u.k. and the u.s. aying that some degree and we can come on to that later on their national interests are aligned with saudi arabia particularly against iran of course in yemen elsewhere and again you have to question i'm hoping hopefully later in a poem we will do that in more detail as to why the u.k. and u.s. always seem to see their interests as being in conflict with iran in most instances but also there's got to be a aspect of this which is based on commercial interests of course britain and america supply vast amounts of weaponry and other equipment to saudi arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here it's one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative . commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support also w

yemen. i suspect on the one hand you've got u.k. and the u.s. seeing that to some degree and we can come on to that later on their national interests are aligned with saudi arabia particularly against iran of course in yemen elsewhere and again you have to question and i'm hoping hopefully later in a poem we will do that in more detail as to why the u.k. and u.s. always seem to see their interests as being in conflict with iran in most instances but also there's got to be a aspect of this which is based on commercial interests of course britain and america supply vast amounts of weaponry and other equipment to saudi arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here is one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative. commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support a

u.s. says its fighting al qaeda in yemen. a u.s. airstrike has killed at least a dozen afghan security forces in logar province. afghan officials say the u.s. airstrike hit an afghan police outpost by mistake. the united states has sharply increased bombing in afghanistan, dropping nearly 3000 bombs in the first six months of this year -- almost twice as many as during the same period last year. in gaza, the israeli military launched a barrage of airstrikes and artillery shelling overnight, killing three people, including a palestinian woman and her 18-month-old child. the israeli bombing came after hamas fired rockets into southern israel, injuring six israelis. the hamas attack came after the israeli military killed two hamas members one day earlier. columbia has recognize palestine as a free independent and soverereign state. the announcement by the palestinian embassy in bogota came on the same day as u.s. ambassador to the united nations thei haley visited cocolumbia-venezuela border, escalating the trump administration's rheto

political solution missy's ok i have one follow up on yemen and then on iran question and question that for either of you i'm having what is it that the u.s. military is doing differently now in terms of it by saying that i'm trying to help the coalition get to its call of curtailing civilian harm in yemen because it doesn't seem to have worked over the last three years even though we've been trying to reach that goal and then on iran and i'm did ministration has continued to elevate its policy focus of confronting iran's regional influence how's that focus resulted in any diminishment of its proxies reach so far and what new actions is the u.s. military taking in order to constrain iran's proxy proxy activity you know on iran what are we excuse me on yemen what are we doing differently mr one one point i would make is where we've been successful there is no news and we have seen a much more rigorous targeting process for the deliberate targeting one that takes into account the areas where you are most likely to have collateral damage and that's why they imposed no fire areas restricted fire areas we have seen pilots with a much more attu

yemen. i suspect on the one hand you've got u.k. and the u.s. seeing that to some degree and we can come on to that later on their national interests are aligned with saudi arabia particularly against iran of course in yemen elsewhere and again you have to question and i'm hoping hopefully later in a post we will do that in more detail as to why the u.k. and u.s. always seem to see their interests as being in conflict with iran in most instances but also there's got to be a aspect of this which is based on commercial interests of course britain and america supply vast amounts of weaponry and other equipment to saudi arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here is one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative. commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support a

yemen. i suspect on the one hand you've got u.k. and the u.s. saying that some degree and we can come on to that later on their national interests are aligned with saudi arabia particularly against iran of course in yemen elsewhere and again you have to question i'm hoping hopefully later in a poem we will do that in more detail as to why the u.k. and u.s. always seem to see their interests as being in conflict with iran in most instances but also there's got to be a aspect of this which is based on commercial interests of course britain and america supply vast amounts of weaponry and other equipment to saudi arabia the relationship with saudi arabia particularly it's not just saudi arabia involved here is one of course other gulf states as well all of which have very lucrative. commercial contacts with britain and the united states and indeed france and there has been certainly of the last few years a tendency for particularly united kingdom that anything that is saudi arabia supports pretty much britain and america are going to support also we

accuses all sides of suspected war crimes in the conflict in yemen. the u.s. argues that the top u.n. courts doesn't have jurisdiction in iran's case against sanctions. looking for business british prime minister to resign may make her first trip to africa in order to boost post threats it trade.

yemen? what's the u.s. doing in yemen?and yemen fell into chaos, various factions started fighting each other. the houthis, which are aligned with iran, took over the capital. saudis and the emirates didn't like that so they wanted to fight the houthis, and the u.s. at that time, the obama administration, was trying to keep the saudis happy as it was putting together the iran deal so it reluctantly signed on for this adventure. at this point, it's just gotten worse and worse and worse. what was supposed to be an effort to get the houthis out of the capital of yemen that was supposed to take a few months has now dragged on, as matt bradley pointed out, for three years. >> i get that. but why is the u.s. directly involved in this fight? why does the u.s. see it as a necessary for our troops to be out there? >> well, i mean unfortunately it's become sort of part of this almost soviet-era style proxy war between the united states and iran. so because the houthis have gotten closer and closer to iran and to tehran and hezbollah

make any changes in yemen he said this was started under the past administration they came in they did a review in his words he said saudi has a right to defend themselves and the u.s. perspective is to try and install what they say is the legitimate government in yemen thank you patty patty forest at the pentagon here with a news great on al-jazeera the facebook my stream a social team looks at how japanese women are being discriminated against when they get pregnant and still ahead on the show britain's prime minister shows off her move says she visits africa looking for post rexy trade digs to status. hello there is generally quite quiet across many parts of the middle east at the moment it's hot and sunny for most of us but there are a few areas where there's slightly different types of weather we're seeing a bit more cloud up in the far north eastern parts of our map and that's giving us one or two showers and i think for the northern parts of turkey we're also seeing some more cloud there for wednesday and there's a chance of a few outbreaks of rain as well that system gradually edges its way eastwards as we head through thursday though and so most of us here

u.s. defense secretary jim mattis he was asked about the u.n. report on yemen during a rare press briefing at the pentagon had to go has more now on how he responded to multiple questions on washington's involvement in the conflict. this is somewhat different because we don't normally hear very often from secretary of defense jim matheson or the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff they called a press conference and all the questions really spanned the globe but much of the focus was on the u.s. support of the saudi led coalition that is bombing in yemen secretary mattis said they did a review when they first came into office and decided that they should continue the mission that they said the saudis have a right to self-defense and in his words it was their goal to reinstate the legitimate government in yemen and he was somewhat defensive when asked about the u.s. support for missions that are have gone wrong and seen civilians innocent civilians killed the training that we have given them we know has paid off we have had pilots in the air who recognize the d

u.s. was still supporting the saudi led operation in yemen and if this attack this latest attack proves to be a social a coalition operation using american missiles that will only increase the calls for the u.s. to get out of the conflict in yemen we've also had in the last couple of hours from the answer rula movement linked to the hippies and they say that new blood has been spilled in yemen new child's blood has been spilled in yemen before the blood of the previous attack had even begun to dry. we have got maybe a hoodie with us now who served previously as a diplomat at the u.s. embassy in yemen is with us on skype from washington d.c. if this is the case that we've got another situation of civilians and children it seems being killed in yemen what does that tell us about the coalition now does it just say that anything goes it doesn't matter what a target is it doesn't matter who the target is as long as it. is there some sort of destruction at the end of it almost well the short answer is yes which is what they've been doing for the past three years now. unfortunately well look beca

u.s. was still supporting the saudi led operation in yemen and if this attack this latest attack proves to be so delayed coalition operation using american missiles that will only increase the calls for the u.s. to get out of the conflict in yemen we've also had in the last couple of hours from the answer rula movement linked to the cities and they say that new blood has been spilled in yemen new child's blood has been spilled in yemen before the blood of the previous attack had even begun to drive spoke to number who'd a little bit earlier he was a diplomat for the u.s. embassy in yemen and he believes these types of killings will continue until there is wider political pressure against the saudi led coalition. unfortunately well look if the reality is are dictating the policies of the great powers and moral or legal imperatives as long as there's no real pressure on the solidly will stop this war from there and nor the diplomatic effort of direct diplomacy by the u.s. and the u.k. to end this war in yemen then i'm afraid we will see more of the sort of strategic the us and the uki are cu

investigation into air strikes led by saudi arabia that have left dozens of children dead in neighboring yemen. the u.s. has denied involvement in thursday's air strike, which apparently hit a school bus packed with children on a field trip. but the u.s. has been supplying equipment for the bombing campaign, which has targeted rebels loyal to iran fighting in yemen's civil war. more than 10,000 people have died in the three-year conflict. >>> a political drama is unfolding in kansas where results from the republican primary race for governor just got even closer. newly discovered voting discrepancies have narrowed the lead that the secretary of state kris kobach had to just 121 votes. kobach says that he will now recuse himself from overseeing the vote count, which is his job as secretary of state. >>> let's take a look now at your weather for this friday morning. >>> good morning. unfortunately, heat and blustery winds remain in place in the southwest making it easy for fires to spread yet again. in the northwest we're watching near record-breaking heat with temperatures well into the triple digits ac

u.s. says it's putting pressure on saudi arabia to reduce the number of civilians being killed in the war in yemen the pentagon says a senior u.s. military general has delivered a message of concern to saudi leaders last week the u.s. provides intelligence in the just tickle support of the saudi led coalition which is fighting who the rebels backed by iran c.n.n. is reporting the pentagon is threatening to cut that supports if things don't change and this month the school bus was bombed and dozens of children were killed . the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king solomon has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shows to the public his son crown prince mohammed bin someone wants to sell five percent of the company which is known as i said i'm quote one of the requirements of a deal like that is that financial regulators will be able to examine iran close finances but that also report says the king doesn't want to do that officially the saudi government says the offer has been postponed not council. robert mogul nicky's a senior analyst at the siebel group

the bomb used by the saudi led coalition and an attack on a school bus in yemen was supplied by the u.s. that's according to u.s. media reports fifty one people were killed in the attack inside our province earlier this month forty of them children there are now growing calls from observers and rights groups for the u.s. to explain its role in the conflict the u.s. along with the u.k. and france is a major supplier of arms to saudi arabia and the u.a.e. and washington also provides in the just tickle and intelligence reports so the military campaign in yemen michael cruickshank is a journalist investigated what types of weapons were used in that airstrike. what we can say is that the bombing happened on the morning of the ninth and he targeted an area very close to a market in the center of the city also along its busiest street or at a time when there was a significant amount of traffic along that street as we can see tragically least fifty people lost their lives including more than forty children and when you're social media activists on the ground have been posting pictures of what

u.s. and around the world. an airstrike on a bus carrying children in rebel-held northern yemen has left dozen wounded. the u.s.-backed saudi-led nded the attack, saying it is a legitimate action aimed at missile launches. for years yemen has been gripped by civil war and millions are facing famine.e ited nations special envoy to yemen says the country faces collapse unless a political solution can be found. our chief international etcorrespondent lyse dou reports. bags on the backs, shyeck in their e children who had been heading for a day out. a yemeni child's day ends like this far too often. many in hospital beds. today, three to a bed. and many more dead. this man says an airstrike in the market targeted the children's bus. "our shops were open," he says. shoppers were walking around. this was the school bus in a rebel-controlled town. the saudi-led coalition said it target missile launchers, took aim at cities, accusing the houthis of using children as inman shields. an ugly proxy wa country teetering on the brink of collapse. i asked the u.n. envoy what if the war doesn't stop. >> clapse, and mas

u.s. senators are accusing the government of contributing to the deadly saudi led coalition strike that hit a school bus in yemen on thursday twenty nine children were killed and thirty injured all under the age of fifteen according to the red cross well u.s. state department spokesperson has called for the coalition to conduct an internal investigation and outline that saudi arabia is a key partner for america and the reach him. we called the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident you also supply the tremendous amount of weaponry then the data for targeting to the saudis so that. sorry no lie wrong is that wrong sorry these ladies every hear laughing. on that i would refer you to the department of defense that is involved in that but you as you know saudi arabia is an important strategic partner in the region to the united states video of the aftermath shows the extent of the children's injuries please be warned that what we're about to show you is upsetting to watch the strike hit the north of the country which is under the control of who the rebels saudi arab

another grim report on the war in yemen this time from the u.s.it accuses all sides of carrying out possible war crimes. so obama you're watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the debate over genocide of the writing the crisis and me and my moves to the u.n. security council. also three latin american governments meet to discuss the growing crisis of migrants fleeing venezuela and. really think it is the eligible lot of people i think that president trump goes after social media giants claiming they're trying to silence conservative voices. welcome to the program the united nations says all sides fighting in yemen may have committed war crimes investigators describe saudi a morality airstrikes as the single most deadly element of the conflict but they also point to rub in sexual violence recruitment of child soldiers attacks by hooty rebels alan fischer reports from neighboring djibouti. none have clean hands a un panel three experts investigating and a damning conclusion individuals in the government of yemen and the

officials to stop supporting the saudi led coalition in the war in yemen is it possible that the u.s. could change its stance on the conflict. well i think the war in yemen really is the is the vietnam of this generation reality will force a change but unfortunately morality won't a bus full of under ten's being butchered will not change the stand of the us the resistance on the ground will ultimately change the stand of of the us i mean brutal and disgusting as this latest massacre is the reality is that at least one hundred thirty children. have been being killed by this war every single day that's according to save the children not necessarily for direct airstrikes but through the famine conditions that have been imposed on the country as a result of the war as a result of the deliberate targeting and this is well documented by the aggressive by the aggressor forces the deliberate targeting of agricultural infrastructure of key transport infrastructure necessary to moving supplies around the country. and of course the block the blockade that arbitrarily stops key supplies going int

u.s. bears responsibility for this tragedy in yemen was there we know the u.s. are selling the weapons we know the u.s. is providing targeting dad or did they target the school bus. we have to assume you know and the the a.p. had an excellent article just in the last couple days showing that the u.s. is working with al qaeda is paying al qaeda is an ally of al qaeda in this horrible genocidal war that has put millions of people at risk of starvation has killed who knows how many civilians and it's a very terrible thing the u.s. is doing this through saudi arabia and through the united arab emirates they both are after the who the who these who didn't who didn't like the fact that a saudi person was being put in charge of the most with the saudis stage a coup and put a saudi appointed guy in charge of them they overthrew him for this of course they all have to be killed you can't can't tell the saudis know just like you can't tell us no so it's it's horrendous and i would say the u.s. press absolutely direct responsibility for this it's telling the saudis what to

u.s. to abandon its rule in yemen again against the u.s. being implicated in the murders in this war crimes is a very strong the charity save the children says that yemen is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child right now the readers have in the last few hours called an international bodies to do more to stop the fighting in yemen and they say the international community silence on the attack two weeks ago and this most recent attack is nothing short of shameful. dozens of bob ways higher scores are due to begin delivering their ruling on the last ones presidential election m.d.c. alliance leader nelson chamisa says the vote was rigged in favor of president m.s.m. . zanu p.f. leader zanu p.f. leaders an operation has been postponed until the court delivers its verdict. this rarely has a new prime minister after malcolm turnbull lost his second leadership challenge in a week his former treasurer scott morrison has been sworn in as the sixth leader in eight years. we have a lot of challenges as a country and we will get through t

u.s. role in the saudi-led war in yemen. the bomb, a laser-guided mk 82, is similar to other u.s.-manufactured bombs that struck a yemeni market, killing 97 people, and a funeral home in sanaa, killing 155 people,e, in 2016. following g the funeral home massacre, the obobama administration banned the sale of precisionon-guided mimilitary technology to saudi arabia. the trump administration overturned the ban last year. to see our full coverage of the april 9 bombing of the school bus s in yemen, whwhich killed 1 people overall, 40 of them schoolchildren, go to democracynow.org. in san bernardino, california, immigration and customs enforcement agents arrested a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth last wednesday, sparking widespread outrage. the ice agents detained joel arrona-larara when he stopped aa s station,n, forcing his wife, maria del carmen venegas, to drive herself to the hospital for her scheduled c-section. the couple has lived in the united states for more than 10 years and have five children, including the newborn baby. we'll have more on this

talks on the positions of filthy fighters inside yemen he called the targets justified and said this is a rule and that they were fighting so d. and u.e. attempts to try and impose an popular government all the people of yemen it's not the first time who with the fight is claimed to have cut of alpha talks deep in saudi and you eat territory last week they claim total tucked up or defined to be in the saudi couple realities on that one sixth of july they say that kind of out on a toc or international airport something that was quickly didn't i buy you a officials if it is true that they've been cutting out these talks it tells you that the who's who fights us up to the teeth on the so you equally should family believes that it's iran that is supplying the who fight us with these but weapons one of the reasons why they are cutting out the talk on the city of they do that and want the huth used to see it is a port which they have been using to rearm themselves. a u.n. report says north korea is still building nuclear weapons and engaging in illegal trade all in violation of international sanctions meanwhile the u.s. and north korea say

u.s. is urging saudi arabia to cut the number of civilian deaths in the war in yemen the pentagon says the senior u.s. general met with saudi leaders last week to deliver a message of concern c.n.n. is reporting that the pentagon is threatening to reduce supportive these civilian deaths continue at the current level earlier this month the coalition bombed a school bus killing dozens of children the u.s. is providing intelligence and logistical support to the coalition in its fight against iranian backed who the rebels. the reuters news agency is reporting that saudi arabia's king saul man has stepped in to prevent the national oil company from issuing shares to the public his son crowe principle had been sold man wants to sell five percent of the company known as around officially the saudi government says the i.p.o. has been disposed not cancelled but according to the report the king doesn't want to disclose company details to regulators something that any listing on the western stock exchange would require robert to move nikias a senior analyst at the sea world group a consultancy an adv

because you saw as i did she looked a little surprised that what was happening in yemen it does beg the question why hasn't the u.s. acknowledged previous war crimes in yemen after all this time. because their greatest contributor saudi arabia has been leading the charge there they've been at this now for a number of years and they still have not been able to accomplish anything and this but this also shows a far greater disaster on the part of saudi arabia and and mohamed been some in particular and what his designs are for the entire middle east he wants to attack tehran he and his it was his country actually that they created the al qaeda that created jihadi salafist that have been roaming runnin all over the middle east he tried to influence elections in. lebanon he failed he tried he's tried to influence events in syria he has failed we do have to say a statement from saudi arabia that they have denied causing large scale civilian deaths seeing it is making every effort to avoid hitting civilian targets michael thank you so much for coming the program michael miller former pentagon official. lengthy litigatio

u.s. is the main supplier of farms to the u.a.e. and saudi arabia and provides logistical and intelligence support to their military campaign in yemen and gallacher joining us from washington d.c. first of all has there been any reaction from the u.s. has the u.s. commented on the origin of this particular bomb in that incident in yemen last week . not yet but what we're talking about is that august the ninth bombing of a school board in which more than fifty people were killed forty of them children and this comes down to one thing for the united states and that is culpability what we're seeing is a growing body of evidence that these weapons used in these attacks by the coalition are in fact made here in the united states some of the pictures we're seeing on social media some of the reports we're seeing referred to the serial number that was seen on the shrapnel after that attack happened on august the ninth i'll just read what that indicates that it is a two hundred twenty seven kilogram laser guided m k eighty two bomb made by lockheed martin here in the united states now there is growing pressure on the trumpet ministration bec

u.s. to abandon its rule in yemen the killings against the u.s. being implicated in the murder war crime is a very strong the charity save the children says that yemen is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child right now leaders have in the last few hours called an international bodies to do more to stop the fighting in yemen and they say the international community silence on the attack two weeks ago and this most recent attack is nothing short of shameful alan fischer al-jazeera djibouti human rights watch has criticized the saudi led panel investigating alleged war crimes in the amman the group looked into the panels work over the last two years and it found the investigations lacks credibility transparency and independence most of the time the coalition concluded it acted lawfully or made a mistake or did not carry out a report to the sack and investigators failed to provide redress to civilian victims. christine bakaly is a yemen research or a human rights watch she says the coalition members of failed in their legal obligation to

the bloody civil war in yemen, and the u.s. role in it, are ba in the headlines tonigh a united nations report finds that a saudi arabian coalition may have committed war crimes, as it battles rebels aligned with ira but u.s. defense secretary james mattis today defended ameran support for the coalition. we will examine his comments on yemen, after the news summary. in iran, lmakers largely rejected president hassan rouhani's plans to revive the country's flagging economy. rouhani was called before parliament to defend his policies-- only the second time that has happened. he admitted mistakes, rned against panic. >> ( translated ): certainly, we made and we have made mistakes. we should work together to make up for these mistakes. painting a bleak picture of people's lives wl lead to further darkness. >> woodruff: iran was already inga recession, with r unemployment and inflation and a sinking currency. the situation worsened after the u.s. quit the 2015 nuclear deal -imposed economic sanctions. president trump accused google

. >> finally in yemen the u.s. supported the saudi led coalitions in conducting missions over yemen, is there continued funding for that in here. >> there is. but it restricts some of wtha the u.s. can do with that coalition. and the fear is that the coalition is frankly carrying civilians. that we have seen a lot of supports were with sowdee gtargeting or hitting ths leaki3 hospitals and what congress is trying to go is tell the military hey, we're not that comfortable with it, you need toin crease ouor repng and you need to restrict what you do and that operational detail a real sign that congress sun happy with some of the things cthat thalition is doing. >> very quickly, just step back for me, is is a big major military buildup the president promised. >> st the largest pay he in nine years, the soldiers, marines, would be very happy with that. efforts to improve readiness as well and reforms to pernl, but no, this is not e major buildup that the president is promising. here is what one analyst .ld this is the sa