i'm calling god willing yemenis to start solving their issue by themselves yemenis against this wall and guys as i said before with the how can we stop that's the thing and other things that is good of coalition saudi and images showed that it would be a shame in yemen and they have to let i want to because of that to return to yemen and that you will help be as many to say to you to to to to build their country with those in the. armed intervention calls sank you so much for this emotional interview i wish you all the best all the best of luck in all your feature endeavors and above all i wish peace for yemen for your beloved country thank you very much for being with us while we're talking to tom i called karma on your many political activists and nobel peace prize laureates discussing the tragedy unfolding in yemen and the future of the country that is it for this edition of sophie and co i will see you next time. so now corporations are leveraging taxes on people no taxation without representation worse my representation on amazon stop unless i get a commands or share amazon stoc

you're not a yemeni victor you're not a yemeni occupier you're not a yemeni. leader you are a criminal who just killed so many of your own people and we can see that there is a united nations formula for a diplomatic solution based on the conciliation and best people coming together understanding that because excuse my disagreement but i think that there is a yemen so many attempts every concierge in yemen before in these past decades it never worked go back to what i just said earlier i am stupefied shocked by how leaders are so stupid and that's that's what history tells us they don't learn the lessons until all was it's too late look you know we know basically who's responsible for what we know who paid the price we don't know who's going to come on top at this point in time because i assure you no one is going to win yemen or say i mean no one is going to come out to say i the last word in yemen and everyone else has been defeated another saudi arabia or iran or the whole thing is not optimal. and of course we know what happened. in a question like yemen a

people yemeni people should we now the one who handled the solution the one that they stop the war and the one whose dog that coup how it's there is a lot of you know solution yes and lou is that many people should be will she talk about this in detail to our call so i want to be back to president solace as a nation now that he is that. his loyalists have no more leader do you think there will start fighting each other and fight. for power. here is we still who we are in the war you know into the rule and also do you know room so the world isn't stopped the inside yemen and also inside yemen so if it will be worse than that and worse than what had been to now nothing was that that done what does it have been in the now it's how can we stop this wrong how can we stop the spiting between yemenis and also between saudi emirates and iran in our country and that needs a lot of things so let's not do and this is done to speak about the past let's talk about future in eat at ten in the process possibility hope you prevent the of this. ok of the escalation i understand for for example one scen

i'm calling god willing yemenis to start solving their issue by themselves and yemenis against this wall and eyes as i said before with the how can we stop that's the thing and other things that is good of coalition saudi and emits should that equal base in yemen and they have to let's i want to preserve that to return to yemen and that's well held beyond many to to to to to build their time to be with those in the community armed intervention i call sank you so much for this emotional interview i wish you all the best all the best of luck in all your future endeavors and above all i wish peace for yemen for your beloved country thank you very much for being with us we're talking to tell the whole karma on your many political activists and nobel peace prize laureates discussing the tragedy unfolding in yemen and the future of the country that is it for this edition of sophie and co i will see you next time. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy the suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and intervened to say this is my buddy max famous financial

i'm calling god willing yemenis to start solving then issue by themselves yemenis gand this wall and eyes as i said before with the how can we stop that's thing and other things that is good of correlation saudia and emits should that equal base in yemen and they have to let's i want to raise it to return to yemen and that's well held beyond many to say to you to to to build their country without in the. armed intervention of a whole sank you so much for this emotional interview i wish you all the best all the best of luck in all your future endeavors and above all i wish peace for yemen for your beloved country thank you very much for being with us we're talking to tell all called carmen yet many political activists and nobel peace prize laureates discussing the tragedy unfolding in yemen and the future of the country that is it for this edition of so if you can call i will see you next time. on the face of it everybody out there is wants to be a success in life is too lazy you can either become educated you can do that by yourself go to the new york university websites or the galla

so they can have move towards sort of reconciliation bringing thinking of the future of yemenis young gay men is rather than thinking of the past the pictures we're looking at right now pictures are circulating on social media the moment immediately following the death of ali abdullah saleh when when i look at these pictures i can't help but think about libya twenty eleven and the death of gadhafi in similar circumstances we saw the same pictures in libya that was the start of the arab spring it's now twenty seventeen can we still talk about the our spring an arab spring moment when it comes to what's happened in yemen today well i mean you're right i mean the. these pictures that are similar to the demise of qaddafi of course it's a it's an entirely different context however there are a lot of similarities as well in the sense that you know the role of international actors was significant. the power vacuum that was that took over after the death of cold there feel the fragmentation of libya you also see fragmentation in yemen and this is where you know the militias come in and so do

and wearing a yemeni court. begin firing at the diplomatic compound. i got on the following the f.b.i. headquarters i said hey this is rick finally get in send. the embassies under attack and then there were guys with followed in that attack in another s.u.v. . the security guard. was still at the front gate. one of the terrorist popped up out of the roof with an a k forty seven and started engaging the yemeni security officers and cut the target out and shot him multiple times. while he was being gunned down he put the gate guard down and hit the law. and dave's life. the attackers killed twelve people amongst them an eighteen year old yemeni american. all seven of them and then blew themselves up. the main embassy grounds had not been breached. there was a lot of body parts there were severed bodies and heads and and their terrible just awful human the image. you know forget the smells or sounds it's you know blood has sort of a sickly coppery smell to it burning flesh has a very distinctive unpleasant smell to it. western intelligence agencies blame

or played with in the last four years that's something you knew to yemenis and i think a lot of yemenis are not happy with this discourse spreaded by holders of the last few years. we've got a minute can you talk us through the images that we're seeing on our screens right now and sort of bring us right up to speed with what we've witnessed within the last couple of hours and where yemen is today and you've got a minute certainly those images remind me of the tragic developer who saw in libya the way monarch of that who was killed although the circumstances are different i have. about the situation in yemen as we see today the killing of the have done three things at the same time it tweak his own party the congress party the congress party was strong as long as it was in power it was strong as long as he was its leader for four decades i think the congress party and all its units in the media after they have been weakened i think the whole cities that are contorting of the capital have also been weakened today because they have lost. and his people that have been with them now for some

if yemenis are confused by the shifting way their story is being told they can always watch state owned yemen t.v. they just have to decide which one there is the one based in samarra on the air since one nine hundred seventy five now controlled by the government and the one saudi arabia launched in two thousand and fifteen that's beamed into yemen from rio two channels with the same name offering distinctly different versions of the same story the creation of the of the yemen t.v. that is broadcasting out of a yacht gave some space to the conan what amanda. said if i look at it a hell of a lot of me but the other thing members a lot of a saudi as i think of it i think it hasn't been able to convince the public opinion inside saudi funded yemeni media never really achieved their goal in fact there is an increase of toothy owned media and you have to understand that in yemen only twenty six percent of the population have an access to internet and most of the saudi supported yemeni media are taking their platform on the internet so they're speaking in to an audience that's outside but not

as a novel katie thank you very much for joining us there from yemeni capital sana'a. on out moving on to our other top story this hour britain and the european union remain confident of reaching an agreement on bret's it was droll terms despite failing to reach a deal on monday european commission president jean-claude juncker and the u.k. prime minister to reason may have been meeting in brussels along the main issues still to be agreed a border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland will look like only then can trade negotiations actually be held our u.k. correspondent ivy phillips joins us now and of course time is running out what's gone wrong this time well it does seem that the irish border which you mentioned is the sticking point remember that the european union was insisting on what they call sufficient progress on three big issues the brics divorce bill how much britain is going to pay in the process of leaving the e.u. and the british have made considerable concessions there they're now talking about possible numbers in the region of fifty bil

just days ago said one wonders what the yemeni army what is the position of the yemeni army now what i mean you know what you have in the army are we talking about right because when i was a law saleh accepted to basically quit to be deposed by the uprisings and by the processes under international sponsorship that took place at the amman he still maintained control on a good number or a good part of the yemeni army because it basically owed him allegiance to his person after four decades have been you know and also by the way for some of his family members like his son and nephew and his extended family and his stride and so on so forth and by the way also that's why the who things were able to be so potent in their military advance and in the mid maintenance of yemen against the so-called about alliance or saudi arabian emirates because they had the help of the military units that were controlled by i doubt that was just killed today so then that the how all of this is going to be broken once again into what allegiances we actually don't know what we know for sure is that some of t

the yemeni government. had fought the who thiis in a series of six confrontations between two thousand and four and twenty eleven. but the political and sectarian divisions that have dominated yemen and ultimately led to assassination go back hundreds of years. the name yemen means south arabia in arabic in ancient times it was a center of civilization and wealth on the southern tip of the arabian peninsula. a crossroads for trade and travel and home to a mix of different people and faiths. when islam came to yemen is a d. is a shiite islamic sect became dominant in the north and it's a man's were in full control there by. by the ninth century the she our presence would remain in the north for the next thousand years. yemen also became a target of outside interference. the ottoman empire spread southwards across arabia from mecca and medina and seized the major city of sanaa and other towns. then the british arrived when soldiers of the british east india company captured eight in eighteen thirty two the br

factor in the in the country and i think how the yemenis now. consolidate where against who really were the congress party with all those who followed. now turned against the houses or with some of them ally themselves with all these we don't know when they now be ordered and where the allied themselves with abu dhabi and riyadh we don't know will be on riyadh now conclude that there bet on saddam was short sighted it did not work out and that then now they need to quit the military solution and embrace a diplomatic solution again we don't know we're now in the area of predictions the only thing we could say and i'll just end with that is that all three parties have been weakened today. had his followers have been weakened today the how things have been weakened today because they lost. and some of his followers or all his waterworks and riyadh and i would be lost an ally or a potential ally in this i think everyone lost today and certainly yemen has been a losing streak now for three four years. a regional problem if you like which was identifi

a yemeni people. brothers and also. the whole purpose of the. gulf mediation is. to have initiative and there was a dialogue a national dialogue and there is allusion of two thousand two hundred sixteen. which were then different framework and the. basis that are in place also as far as the nation or the murder or the oath is a militias undertaken such actions are totally condemned unacceptable and they are condemned the by all the gulf states and the international community. the. resolutions that condemn such acts. the g.c.c. supports the achievement of the interests of their many people this is. also reflected in the statement. in the decision of the. highness the leaders of the gulf to find a peaceful solution and to condemn such action. in two thousand and four and fourteen. q i too was hit in the session then and i had the pleasure of talking to my brother disagree general to have a national dialogue and. together with my brother who will attempt to continue. to. have the constitution and have th

is tightly controlled and they have shown little talk it's for critical reporting by yemeni. it's not a sharing king place for independent and local press landscape it's almost like to see a little space as we speak there are about forty one media individualists and rested in the hands. storming into many interesting include also i am led media offices yet then used to be a complicated story it is today an absolutely militant complicated than ever before the only media that exists today in yemen it's absolutely in control of the field at every group. shifting narratives coming out of real twin yemen t.v. channels identical in name ideologically opposed in nature to humanitarian effects overshadowing geo political costs and a saudi charm offensive that seems to be working but there's a lot to the yemen story on and more than the media on either side have given and you know i mean you know. we're discussing other media stories that are on our radar this week with one of our producers tarakan off torak according to the washington post's calculations in his first three hundred ei

to unite now against the who things how likely is it that the yemenis are going to answer that call that's very slim the army's divided used to be with had the. some of them with the houthi also it's a tribal politics tribal system what you get in yemen and very hard to control this which are lions so. a lot of support from the army or so on yemen. and that the tribes or so are around the m a down santa so it's very difficult to predict the future of this yemen what the need is good leadership i think decent leaders before they were fully corrupt government cetera so that's really played a great impact on yemen politics but i think you need a good leadership and you need. to unify the people which is very hard also to recruit some of the tribe. against the whole thing but that's want to appear in the future. and you can even start senex to know where to look for that good leadership right now. i don't know that said the prince and many. people in the region and the international community to look for a good leader because it doesn't really matter leadership it doesn't really matter

a yemeni journalist thank you. africa where the country's president has confirmed mali in seoul just work in a french strike in october the french. operation targeted forces that had to join an islamist group is now believed. had been taken hostage by the jihadists . the hostages and the should be ambiguity between our french friends one of those stories where the truth is really hard to be established but what we know for sure so far is that at the end of october the french military stationed in africa is part of the anti terrorist operation but hunt carried out a strike targeting the northern part of mali the country's troubled region suffering a lot in the last five years and currently from islamist violence according to the french commanders fifteen jihadist were killed in the attack including who they believe were former mali and saw who joined the ranks of the islamists but what is surprising in this situation is the reaction of president despite the death of the country's soldiers that could have been killed

and shocked everyone the footage that we've seen in the pictures of him as shocked a lot of yemenis and has turned him into. and the who sees to a certain extent nevertheless the coalition the ongoing blockade the blocking of shipments and through them assistance has also turned the yemenis against the saudis and so it's very difficult to understand the situation on the ground except in so far as it is very complicated people's loyalties are divided i think what yemenis are mostly concerned about today is finding food and assistance that is their primary concern what kind of action or sort of intervention do you expect from the international community on this i'm in that so so far there hasn't been any any progress on any of the diplomatic attempts to bring these two to a resolution where do you think that it goes next in terms of the international community i think yemen has never had an honest broker the international community has never stepped in properly to address the situation in yemen there's always been a political interest of sorts getting in the way and and this is the pr

now salah is calling on yemenis to rise against his former partners. i call on all the yemeni people in all the cities all the provinces all the districts in neighborhoods to take a united stand to defend the revolution and the republic against this group who have been irresponsibly playing with yemeni people for the past three years robbing the institutions and breaking into government buildings only seek revenge on the revolution and the republic. has called for talks with the saudi led coalition on condition they stop their attacks if the crippling blockade and allow for more humanitarian support coalition statement welcome sollars move saying it would redeem yemen from the evils of iranian terrorist and sectarian militias return it to plan are pure and natural for all but the who sees who are backed by terror and say they still have support from members of salah as political party and addressed directly then. we used to praise your position in the past even though it was one of words only which came. it's fair share of backstabbing disappointment d

the yemeni crisis as i said it's. it is one of the top priorities now for the international community mr bush on the africa is quite obvious now that it's becoming central to the turkey's global expansion strategy but this is something that could come at a cost because i mean for you to be able to maintain foothold in different parts of africa particular the red sea you need to spend more expand on infrastructure programs can turkey for that as a time when its economy has been facing a crisis yes i mean this is an question directly related to. high finance between us intention it's a rhetorical and it's capacity you know and we see a sort of widening gap between. historic and its capacity but right now i would say that considering turkish military is you know current posture particularly the navy's current post your i think anchor are can do that but at the moment but can maintain this in an sustainable fashion i think this is the question that we have to ask and also let me say this is a domestic social political sid

now salah is calling on yemenis to rise against his former partners. and i call on all the yemeni people in all the cities all the provinces all the districts and neighborhoods to take a united stand to defend the revolution and the republic against this group who have been irresponsibly playing with yemeni people for the past three years robbing the institutions and breaking into government buildings only seek revenge on the revolution and the republic. has called for talks with the saudi led coalition on condition they stop their attacks if the crippling blockade and allow for more humanitarian support coalition statement welcome sollars move saying it would redeem yemen from the evils of iranian terrorist and sectarian militias return it to an arab pure and natural fault but the loosies who are backed by terror and so they still have support from members of silos political party and addressed directly. feel we used to praise your position in the past even though it was one of words only which came with its fair share of backstabbing disappointment d

artie's headline news graphic and disturbing video emerges showing the body of former yemeni president ali abdullah saleh he's believed to have been killed by who the fighters after an alliance between them collapsed last week. another attraction from a major u.s. media outlet over coverage of the scandal surrounding the white house and team from celeb collusion with russia. and the president of mali confirms that a french airstrike in october killed mali and soldiers and not desert as who joined the jihadists as was earlier believed. this monday is now seven pm here in moscow my name's collin bray and this is the world news from r.t. international we begin with yemen where the former president abdullah salai has been killed in fighting in the capital sanaa a video has been released showing his body please be aware though that the footage we're about to show you is extremely graphic and it's upsetting to see. it was at the helm of yemen from nine hundred ninety until twenty twelve and was deposed during the arab spring unrest the internal conflict that ensued afterward saw him team up

and allowed for more humanitarian aid shortly afterwards he was dead in response heidi has urged yemenis to rise against the who forces laser. and i call upon all of you with an open heart and a strong will to turn the new page and to get rid of such a nightmare let's put our hands together to end the control of these criminal gangs and to build a new united yemen. so the who pushed out toddies government in january two thousand and fifteen and set up their own administration prompting the saudi led campaign against them since then the country has been split between the who the rebels in the north adi's administration in the south and forces loyal to saleh. his death could mark a turning point and the conflict getting worse a conflict which has already killed nearly ten thousand people but yemen to the brink of mass starvation and triggered what the unite. nation's has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis we remind all parties to the conflict that deliberate attacks against civilians and against civilian and medical infrastructure or clear violations of international humanitarian

basically the war is a yemeni war and the yemeni problem in which the saudi led coalition initially joined in with the explicit intention of returning the transitional regime of president had the into power something which is less and less frequently mention now almost always the mention is that it is a saudi irena and proxy war there is very obviously and straightforwardly a saudi in involvement the rayney an involvement is far more debatable and i think personally i think it certainly exists that it's far less than is claimed and i think the cold war and international aspects mentioned by the previous speaker are relevant but they are not at the root of the problem the root of the problem is in the m.n. in the problem issues between the numerous factions that are in yemen and somehow do you see any diplomatic way out of this crisis well if there are in the there is a diplomatic way there is a diplomatic solution if the intention is and the willing there is to be diplomatic we have the a clear resolutions by the not nation we have the outcomes of the yemeni dialogue national dialogue and

those who have been welcomed by some yemenis. meanwhile the u.n. does say it cannot confirm the safety of its staff insana at the moment and just fear there will be more instability and violence in the country security and political analyst ohman a sharpie believes the saudi led coalition could soon retaliate heavily for the death of the politician it's not the first time he switches sides this shift has been part of his political career it's not the first time that he changed his political position and his alliances now this time was a drastic failure the people of yemen after so many years of saudi bombardment i don't think they were ready to sit and talk with the saudis as if nothing happened there was a statement by the saudis actually where they threatened to bomb the night or there's going to be more bloodshed this failure in this conspiracy perhaps will push the saudis for more aggression more destruction and that's very unfortunate for the yemeni people. to mali now in west africa where the country's president has confirmed its soldiers wer

not respond to the will of the yemeni people is certainly not something that should be welcomed well nobody is trying to forget about those ground reality but in his final days former president saleh did try to call for reconciliation he called for . the increase humanitarian access he talked for a dialogue did you invest any trust in the in this culture we certainly want. those hopes to be realized we certainly want to see and end to the conflict in yemen. but that would require some sort of drug and some sort of a political settlement but it because at the same time there's also it's be ready for that i believe what has prevented an end to the conflict in yemen has been the reluctance of saudi arabia to engage in anything other than a military campaign i believe once they are ready and once everybody else is ready to engage in in an attempt to facilitate and in through yemeni died because we cannot from the outside impose a solution on the yemeni people we should only facilitate a solution by the yemeni people and iran for its part is prepared to do whatever it can to facilitate su

on the yemeni people we should only facilitate a solution by d.m. many people and iran for its part is prepared to do whatever it can to facilitate such a political solution to end this nightmare mr you're letting me perfectly to my next question because any power about leverage in the middle is the north africa is this proxy politics and i hope you would agree that neither iran nor russia for that matter are exceptions. it is widely believed that has certain degree of influence on the hoody rebels do you think that influence whatever it may be compels your country. to exerting some sort of restraining a fact on the rebels i think everybody should use whatever influence that they have in whatever place in yemen in syria in order to end violence and bring about it political solution at the same time nobody from outside could impose a political solution what we need to do is to act in a concerted way all of us i mean iran is not engaged in bombing german there are countries whose air force are dropping bombs on the people of yemen basically on a routi

let's start with the death of the former yemeni president, ali abdullah saleh, by houthi rebels. analyst: we are looking at reactions from the press. it is the end of saleh, is what one paper says on the front page, calling it his last dance with snakes, in reference to the fact that the former yemeni president was killed in an ambush by his former allies, the who's the rebels. of the who these has called his death a historic day. that is what another pan arab paper says. rochelle: the new york times is also looking at salah's death and what it means for peace in yemen. analyst: the editors explain countryeh had run the like a dictator. that changed during the arab spring uprising that forced him to cede power and show the emergence of this resistance movement, the who the rebels. the best hope for yemen now is a cease-fire, the end to the blockade, a negotiated withdrawal of those rebels, and an attempt at national dialogue. this could be a chance for all sides to pause and reflect. the u.s. supreme court begins hearing arguments in what some have called the gay wedding cake cas

such a news also have been welcomed by some yemenis. well according to the international committee of the red cross there have already been two estra strikes on santa security and political analyst. police the saudi led coalition could sing bring to bear even more firepower. it's not the first time he switches sides this shift has been part of his political career it's not the first time that he changed changed his political position and is alliances this time was a drastic failure the people of yemen after so many years of saudi bombardment i don't think they're ready to sit and talk with the saudis as if nothing happened there was a statement by the saudis actually where they threatened to bomb some are the night for there is going to be more bloodshed this failure in this conspiracy perhaps will push the saudis for more aggression more destruction and that's very unfortunate for the yemeni people. to mali in west africa now where the country's president has confirmed soldiers were killed in a french airstrike in october the french ar

inspired by tunisia and egypt yemenis filled the streets protesting against poverty unemployment and demanding for regime change but the scent was something some never tolerated. yemenis stood for even when the protests turned violent a few months later injured in a rocket attack on his compound saleh was flown to saudi arabia for treatment his face burned and hands bandaged he appeared on t.v. defiant as ever but this was a week a president abandoned by his political allies at home and under intense international pressure to hand over power with yemen on the brink of civil war gulf countries brokered a deal that so power transferred to his deputy. who had in return for solace immunity from prosecution after ten months of protests many yemenis were celebrating his ousting even though the country was in tatters but ali abdullah saleh had merely gone into the shadows we heard sing the next step in his snake dance and nearly three years later saleh was again at the forefront with a strong of support of the army he allied himself with the iranian backed who's his rebels they shared a com

he declared a complete we're going to host these and i think they he gained a major support among yemenis they took over very important spots in the capital where the airport t.v. station the presidential palace and so and he said he's also opened talks with conditions worked with those conditions be i think it's very clear that he maybe want to put one of his family members in power or to share power with the current legitimate government so i think maybe it seems to me that they might be some collaboration between regional powers. and maybe the legitimate government to somehow overthrow the whole fuse first and then have a sort of serious political talk this is what it looks like with the whole thing is headed i don't think so declare this war today against the whole theater without some sort of support from the coalition that's going to sell and you think this sort of move whether it was prompted by the saudis i mean do you think it will exacerbate the fight against the who sees now do you think they'll. you know. actually so far it seems that. you know the interest of the d.c. area i

i coal on all the yemeni people. in all the cities all the provinces. all the districts in neighborhoods. to take a united stand to defend the revolution and the republic. against this grgrp who havae been irresponsibly playiyi with the yemeni people. for the past three years a local lender that that a lo. solider d donated yemen's heavily armeded tribal sociy for thirty three years full quit saying in the aftermath of the arab spring uprisings in two thousand and eleven. he make common cause with the shiite muslim who he's agagainst the international box president hardy. but solider who the vice the supremacy over the territory they run together including the capital sana. the schools alliance burst into open combat last week. that you conflict in the yemeni war which is claimed the former president as its most high profile victim. was full some analysis of what is going on in yemen i'm joined now by fit start no he's the former deputy uk defense attache thank you for being with us on france24. now and sally out was it was really a lady had a remararka

such news also had been welcomed by the yemenis. well ali abdullah saleh who led yemen from one thousand nine hundred ninety until twenty had twelve and was the country's first president that was after playing i could rule in the merger between south yemen and north yemen he was from power during the spring uprising well since twenty twelve yemen has been riven by civil war and intervention by a saudi led coalition who. triggered a major humanitarian crisis riyadh and its allies have stepped up earth strikes in recent days the u.n. fears for the lives of civilians it ses are trapped in the city where one hundred twenty five people have been killed since friday alone it also says it cannot confirm the safety of its own stuff and some political analyst omar in the shopping believes the situation in yemen. worsen. it's not the first time he switches sides this shift has been part of his political career it's not the first time that he changed his political position and his alliances this time was a drastic failure the people of yemen a