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His foreign policy. our gillian turner has more now on the situation. >> when we cook food there's not enough for the children and we get up hungry. if we have lunch we don't have dinner and if we don't have breakfast, then we don't have lunch. >> in yemen, the middle east's 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. it's a top tier priority for president trump personally. >> the president was very concerned about the h...

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 we're 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 might not be attending, maybe it is a way of trying to avoid inflaming the crisis in that country ...

Islamic state forced into what looks like full scale retreat another longer term conflict is intensifying with this man saudi arabia's 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 that's 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 on quadriga this week is middle east tensions a new war and to discuss that question i'm joined h...

That and help us, that's 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 don't know about the number one topic, but it's going to be up there. there are so many important topics. the solution in syria, either the united states and russ...

Effect it has between riyadh and tehran, how will that affect these plans? and then, victor, you've 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, not least the incredibly important conflict in syria, displacing outward of 11 million people, th...