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led coalition pounded yemen's main airport in sanaa monday. the air strike left this airplane burning. it came a day after coalition jets destroyed yemen's last remaining landing strip. the saudi led coalition has been trying to crush the houthis rebel group backed by iran and forced yemen's president into exile earlier this year. >> in nigeria hundred of women and girls held hostage by boko-haram are free after a military strike through the forest. these are pictures of a camp in the forest in flames after a raid there. now this area has become a stronghold for the terror group. but now the military is dismantling it. cnn correspondent diana magna joins me with more. for so long the nigerian
been kept in sometimes desperate conditions. >> reporter: scenes of mayhem, aerials from the nigerian military. motor bikes and trucks filled with men, apparently boko haram militants weaving through the trees as the air force bombs their camp. later groups on foot stream out of the village. the army says they're women and children held captive. moved to camps for the displaced. some 700 rescued so farther army says. in its ongoing assault on the zambisa forest. >> the boko haram fighters said we should stand in front of them as human shields. we refused. then we started hearing bullets. then they ran off and left us alone. >> amnesty estimates boko haram has taken 2,000 captives since last year. many taken to the massive forest. an area twice the size of belgium where according to the
government seemed peraralyzed a unable to put up resistance to boko haram, now we see them fighting back and rescuing hundreds of hostages, talk to us why we are witnessing a change in approach to boko haram? >> that's right. really since president goodluck jonathan decided to postpone the election he seems to have put a renewed impa etus and seeing an empowered military and better weapons and the contribution of neighboring countries has meant that they're able to squeeze boko haram from all directions and the fact that they're raiding the forest this vast area which has become a centerpiece of, of boko haram's activities is testament to that. and also been for the last few months if not years, the place where boko haram's captives have
what its the latest on their fate? >> we don't know. but we, there is always been -- suggestion or people believe that they're some where in the zambisa forest, also. but we don't have the intelligence. fundamentally, the military, primary objective at the moment is to squash. if they've find the girls in the process so much the better for it. it is likely that boko haram realizes how high value they are, given the profile they received. because of the bring our girls back campaign. they have withdrawn further into the forest with the girls than they have with the hostages. at the moment. still their fate is unknown. rosemary. >> let's hope we are able to report some day on their release. we are seeing this momentum now as the military there in nigeria are raiding camps of boko haram. we will continue to follow this
superstition the dead go to live and where boko haram made a stronghold. we mothers were hungry. so we couldn't produce breast milk. it is okay now. i kept the secret radio in zambisa, i would hide in the corner of the forest at night and listen to the news. and we heard the soldiers were recapturing the towns. we were praying for day and night for them to save us. >> the truck loads keep coming. women and children confused by the change in their fortunes. some injured in fighting desperate for comfort. the fact that the army is taking on boko haram is a sign how far it has come from the demoralized badly equipped force a year ago was failing against the militants. aided by contributions of neighbors in sending in their armies to join the fight. >> being able to cross over to nigeria to fight boko haram.
it provided that flexibility and i think that contributed to this operation that we are seeing now. >> reporter: so far none of those rescued are believed off to be the, more than 200 school girls held by. but it is a vast forest. with them making head way there is reason to hope that these rescued women won't be the last. >> we are also hearing, rosemary from the girls that boko haram seems to be in some degree of disarray. they've been complaining to captives. lack of guns, weapons, ammunition, even gasoline to drive their trucks. they've ben complaining abut the leadership, which is a very good sign for the nigerian military as they continue this assault. >> rosemary? >> yes, it is. what about the 200 plus, school girls kidnapped last year from this school.