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Attacks. but some of the strikes, this is the serious part, have missed their targets. in august a bomb said to be made by the united states hit a bus in a town near the saudi border. at least two dozen children were among those killed. the saudi-led coalition later admitted the strike was a mistake. the air campaign has worsened an already dire humanitarian crisis. more than 22 million people, three-quarters of yemen's population, need help. 14 million face starvation. nearly 2 million children suffer from malnutrition and nearly half of yemen's medical facilities have been damaged as the cou...

Visited, some of them camps for internally displaced people. there is no help for them. they are literally sitting there in whatever they can use to cover themselves. you know, they are sharing food amongst them. so it's really different in the sense that the international community can't do the work that they're trained to do. >> robert, i mentioned that this has turned into a proxy war. it's really iran and saudi arabia at each other at someone else's expense. i don't mean to oversimplify this. there are problems in yemen and have been for a long time and they're legitimate and there are iss...

Created a power vacuum that jihadists have used to their advantage. yemen, the ancestral home of osama bin laden has become the base of al qaeda. eight years later the terrorist organization targeted the u.s. embassy in the yemeni capitol killing one american. in 2011 robert worth wrote an article in "the new york times." it was titled "yemen on the brink of hell." yemen is a source of leverage for weakened regimes. quote, terrorism helps raise the profile of a country that had long been neglected. as one yemeni official put it to me, yemen used to be called the tail of the saudi cow. now it i...

Groups. in the last couple of weeks in egypt after this military coupe, we are hearing groups like al qaeda and other extremists saying we told you democracy doesn't work, if you are an islamist political party the west and backers will never let you come to power. that's why they're calling on supporters to take up arms. they're taking root in the northern part of sinai in egypt. we're not saying it's al qaeda. al qaeda inspired ideology is on the rise. that has egyptian officials and western officials alarmed in the coming weeks and months if it's not put down quickly. >> robert, ayman says ...

Put its own interests above the interests of the domestic company. that is the result of what we see across yemen and elsewhere across the region. it does not hold water but it is the kind of rhetoric we hear in countries like egypt. that has negative impact in how the u.s. engages once it's trying to deal with egyptian counterparts on domestic egyptian issues. >> nbc's ayman mohyeldin and robert worth. coming up, they both sit atop the highest court in the land. that's where the similarities end. somehow justices ruth bader beginsberg and anthony scalia are laurel and hardy. we will explain...