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His foreign policy. our gillian turner has more now on the situation. >> when we cook food theres not enough for the children and we get up hungry. if we have lunch we dont have dinner and if we dont have breakfast, then we dont have lunch. >> in yemen, the middle easts poorest country, a humanitarian crisis is brewing with 75% of the population in need of immediate food and medical aid and 11 million yemenees on the berg of starvation, the largest famine the world has seen in decades. its a top...

Would see them backing saudi arabia in its proxy conflict with iran. but at the same time, no one really wants to see an escalation of this current situation between the two countries. you have countries, for example, like egypt, that is a saudi ally, calling for calm. and were a few hours, as you mentioned, george, away from that meeting and it is still not clear who will be attending and who will not be. for example there are some reports indicating that perhaps the foreign minister of lebanon...

Islamic state forced into what looks like full scale retreat another longer term conflict is intensifying with this man saudi arabias ambassador young crown prince mohammed bin salim on confronting the other big power in the region that is of course in the two countries are already locked in a proxy conflict thats impacting lebanon and is devastatingly yemen but now the fear is that the two strands of islam they represent sunni and shia could be drawn into a greater conflagration so our question...

That and help us, thats great. if not, then they have to figure out how to handle it. i think he really set up the meeting quite nicely. >> molly: perhaps the most serious discussion to have is the different approaches to the crisis in syria. rex tillerson said on wednesday that the united states is prepared to explore the possibility of expanding cooperation with moscow. will this be the number one topic between these two men? >> i dont know about the number one topic, but its going to be up th...

Effect it has between riyadh and tehran, how will that affect these plans? and then, victor, youve got yemen. this is a war that the u.n. has called a human catastrophe. no doubt that washington wants to see the end of the war in yemen. this is another regional proxy conflict between saudi arabia and iran. perhaps coincidentally also this weekend when we got the execution of sheikh al nimr we also had an announcement in riyadh of the end to what was a recent cease-fire in yemen. so two conflicts...

Radical shia interests. i think that to some degree we see a proxy conflict going on not only now but in the middle east, north africa region but expanding pond those boundaries. i think rouhani is right to be worried about security but at the same time you have leader contact it matters but i continue want to over hype that. there are ways in which leaders communicate and coordinate with the important matters of the day. this incident is not derailing all of the potential talks and deal making ...

>> one of the challenge s ive had throughout this heartbreaking situation inside of syria is that youll have people insist that, you know, all you have to do is send in a few truckloads full of arms and people are ready to fight. then when you start a training program and it doesnt work, people say, well, why didnt it work? or if it had started three months earlier, it would have worked. in a situation thats has volatile, with as many players as there are inside of syria, there arent any silver ...

Navy aircraft carrier to the gulf. we already have war ships that are positioned there ready to intercept any iranian vessels that may be carrying weapons to the shiite rebels. "the uss roosevelt" sends a very strong signal. the civil war in yemen now seen as a proxy conflict between iran on the one side and the saudis arab allies and the u.s. on the other. there came reports saudis are saying they are ending their bombing raids. we are working on that story as we speak. jennifer live at the pen...

Theyve seen a lot of problems there inside their border with yemen. now iran supporting a group taking big parts of control of that country. this is really a huge potential problem. >> it is a huge problem. there are about 6 million living inside saudi arabia as well. so the notion that theres a tight border there, it is a porous border. you have very large population inside. saudi arabia is directly engaged. most of the middle east looks already like a proxy conflict between iran and saudi arab...

Bad actors. and to be fair, many of your own officials who weve just talked about plus u.n. officials have been warning about this backlash for a long, long time. most people believe this is precise what would happen. if stopping terrorism is americas fundamental national security prerogative, was this a failure? >> well, i think its too soon to tell you about let me just quickly add that originally this was a rebellion by syrians themselves. and it was clearly assads goal to turn it into a batt...