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Yemen and saudi arabia. the united nations has called for an independent investigation. now, this conflict in yemen has been going on for more than three years. i want to have a closer look at it because its important at this moment because it involves the united states. yemen is on the southwestern tip of the a arabian peninsula. unlike its neighbors it doesnt have a lucrative oil industry. it is very, very poor. add to that it got a failed government, a long history of instability. you can see...

Your group investigating the coal. >> october 12 of 2000 an attack happened against a war ship, the uss cole in aid en. killed 17 soldiers, injured 40. thats probably the very first time we were engaged with the yemeni government on terrorism matters. the relation since then 2001 the united states focused on terrorism. today the situation is way more complicated. the internationally recognized government is mostly based on riyadh, not even ayden, the southern capital of yemen. we always talk abo...

Strategically insignificant in the west. but weve got a full-out proxy war and the united states has a role in this. >> absolutely. whats happening in yemen is disaster. yemen is a forgotten war. as you mention, millions of people have been affected with this war. just this year alone, 25%, there was 25% increase in the level of severe hunger in yemen. in 2017 alone, you have more than 50,000 children who died directly because of the yemen war. that means about 130 a day. this is a huge disaster...

Say that they were on their way to a school summer camp. the devastation of the blasts showing just how powerful the strike was about that about. the attack happened in the middle of the market and was aimed at the bus full of children. and im and our shops were open and people were going about their daily lives put on money and those who died were just locals kids and shop owner sharon out whos responsible the saudi arabian led coalition the coalition has been fighting hooty rebels on behalf of...

Tonight the red cross says that fifty people most of them children under the age of fifteen have been killed in an airstrike that hit a bus in northern yemen the children were traveling through a crowded market in rebel held saw the problem is its thought they were on their way to summer school and saudi led coalition that wants the attack said they were targeting hooty rebel positions and that it was a quote legitimate military action for the coalition is facing condemnation for these latest ci...

Pilots wanted to hit children the militarization of this proxy war through that huge arms sale from the us to saudi last year what impact is that having on this proxy war are we seeing it right now the fact that these types of accidents can happen in were more like this happen where its its very modern very lethal equipment american equipment that is used by non american pilots thats part of the reason why we see with the recipe for disaster that it is a recipe for disaster and saudi arabia. mig...

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 its 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, the u.s. feels its sort of incumbent on itself to support the effort to fight it. you have a very po...

Correction for republicans. >> mike, how does the party work in the gop? who decides where theyre going to dig in and declare what congressional races as firewalls? were just going to defend, defend, defend? were going to try not to lose this one? >> well, it becomes resource allocation. what youre going to hear out of republicans is that our pelosi campaign works and we won this seat but as david said, you know, were 60 seats into the republican list. so winning seats like this dont hold the ho...

A dozen to 15 seats that we can try to defend but it will be really hard. it will be that second dozen where they start to really apply dollars. but they applied millions and millions of republican dollars there were democrat are dollars, too. this proxy war we just had in ohio 12 was massively funded. there isnt that kind of money to go into every seat. they to make tough choices. normally the president would have a normal political operation that would use the bully pulpit of the white house t...

Expansion in the middle east rit large. i think one of the things that a lot of people fail to understand is our policy in syria is irretrievable linked to the policy in iran. right now on the syrian border, you have iranian forces in syria. the israelis are worried about syria becoming a staging ground tore military operations which it already is for iranians. thats why you saw them shoot down a syrian war plane that ventured into their air space and operations against iranian military forces. ...