armed forces from yemen. at that time members of the foreign relations committee requested additional time to study the issue and to debate the resolution in the foreign relations committee. the chairman of that committee, my friend and colleague from tennessee, senator corker, requested this with the commitment to, quote, bring forth legislation to actually appropriately deal with many of the issues relative to yemen, saudi arabia, and ourselves. close quote. so with that, the senate voted to table the motion. since then, the committee has held a hearing on this issue and introduced a separate, bipartisan bill to address it. but no further action has been taken. and so today, eight months later, the bloodshed continues, still abetted by the united states, even amidst further revelations of saudi depravity. it is long past overdue that congress remove u.s. forces from yemen, as recent circumstances is only confirm. today we have the chance to remedy our course of action and to did what the constitution -- and

to debate a bill but with support for the coalition in yemen so want to will this mean for us there were nations this is inside story. on welcome to the program. it's a strong message from us to the white house they will hold sandy arabia to account over its role in the war in yemen and the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the senate has voted to hold hearings next week on whether to end u.s. support for the sandy u.a.e. led war in yemen that despite strong opposition from the trump administration which sound the secretaries of state and defense to persuade senators to vote against the measure we have a lot to discuss with our guests in a moment but first hand with force from washington. this is pretty unprecedented one after the other u.s. senators came before reporters using pretty harsh language to describe saudi arabia and its crown prince we understand that saudi arabia is an ally. of sorts and a sometime port a country a despotic dishonest dictatorship it's time to send saudi arabia a message this after the u.s. secretaries of state and defense gave a classified briefing to sen

yemen's. i like yemen so much i'd like to have three. it's going to take an awful long time to get there in a peaceful way. saudi's are making anotherbig mistake . they think that lobbying campaigns in the united states can persuade americans to like saudi arabia and i've got bad news, americans don't like saudi arabia, they may not like iran but they don't like saudi arabia a lot. overwhelming majority of americans believe saudi arabia and something to do with 9/11 and all the protestations since then haven't convinced them. the sword of damocles is hanging over their relationship in new york . just as the sponsors of terrorism act allows the survivors and victims of 9/11 to sue thegovernment . it's well worth reading the indictment , they've got some good lawyers. they don't make claims like and wife funded it or silly things like that, they make is to claims saudi arabia allowed funding to go to al qaeda up to and including the day of september 11 and therefore are responsible for negligenc

well beginning with yemen there are several initiatives on the way to cut off the u.s. arms supply two to saudi arabia one vote might take place in the senate as early as next week we understand secondly cong members of congress have sent another letter . which will get the global magnitsky act on the way again they've already sent one letter to the white house asking for the white house to investigate anyone and come to a conclusion on who was responsible for the killing of the shoji and then they have to come back to congress and sanctions have to be worked out as to have a against whoever is found to have been responsible that already happened in october yesterday on tuesday another letter was sent specifically asking that the white house investigate whether mohamed bin solomon was personally culpable for the killing of the show so again and both of these the white house is one hundred twenty days to come up with their investigation the results of their investigation so that first investigation they have until february now they have until march to find out whether mo

we need yemen as yemen. we need the u.s. good efforts to bring peace to yemen, not to encourage the saudis to do me and more for this proxy war, fighting iran in yemen. that's my position. ou mentioned the article that secretary of state pompeo wrote. it was actually in "thouwall streetal." yes, it was today, in fact. >> sorry."t wall street journal." >> easy mistake to make from all the way over there in sanaa. tehran, it says -- >> sometimes, yes. >> pompeo says tehran is establishing a hezbollah-like entity on the arabn peninsula. a militant group with political power that can hold saudi hostage as hezbollah's missiles in southern leban threaten israel. in oth words, they are viewing you as iran's hezbollah-like proxiein yemen. being a direct threat to their ally, saudi arabia. what do you say to that? >> i deny that. and i can say, if iran is doing something the americans should know, with nikki haley provided the security council in terms of iran, intvention in i can't tell you, we improve them to depend them ourselves.

the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a why it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essential he would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states works behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on this resolution and failed to do so th

eric i can bury an advocacy associate at yemen peace project in santa fe yemen affair specialist finally also in washington d.c. sigurd neubauer a middle east specialist welcome to all of you i will start with you eric a state department spokesperson says that this call for this ceasefire is in no way related to the murder of jamal khashoggi the timing do you agree with that do you believe that. not entirely i think in the aftermath of the murder we've seen a lot of congressional reaction we've seen a lot of very strong pushback from within the u.s. government what's been interesting about this pushback is how quickly it has pivoted to yemen and to u.s. involvement in yemen and i think that reflects not only outrage over the murder of a shock she which was a terrible event an individual tragedy but knowledge from members of congress knowledge from certain scorn of the administration that u.s. support for the side of the coalition in yemen is vital and that if you want to roll back saudi behavior whether it be or amorality behavior as well whether it be in yemen or elsewhere you need to s

armed forces from yemen. at that time members of the foreign relations committee requested additional time to study the issue and to debate the resolution in the foreign relations committee. the chairman of that committee, my friend and colleague from tennessee, senator corker requested this with the commitment to bring forth legislation to actually appropriately deal with many of the issues relative to yemen, saudi arabia and ourselves. since then the committee has held a hearing on this issue and introduced a separate bipartisan bill to address it. but no further action has been taken. and so, today, eight months later, the bloodshed continues, still embedded by the united states. even amidst further revelations of the saudi depravity. it u is long past overdue congrs removed that u.s. forces from yemen as recent circumstances only confirm. today we had the chance to remedy the course of action, and to do what the constitution and justice demand. the situation in jenin is dire. the war has killed tens of th

number one, end the civil war in yemen. and number two, improve the humanitarian situation. which transpired -- what's transpired since then? well, i along with senators shaheen, collins and coons, introduced senate joint resolution 58 on april 11. our bill required the secretary of state to repeatedly certify that the government of saudi arabia is taking urgent steps to end the civil war in yemen, alleviate the humanitarian crisis, and reduce the risk to civilians. and if he cannot make these written, detailed, and unclassified certifications, the legislation would prohibit u.s. air refueling for saudi-led coalition aircraft conducting missions exclusively focused on the civil war in yemen. we, in a bipartisan way, worked successfully to ensure that the senate foreign relations committee and the senate armed services committee passed versions of our legislation. we then worked in a bipartisan way to ensure it was included in the national defense authorization act, section 1290, which the president of the united states signed into law. in september , pursuant to section 1290

our involvement in yemen accomplishes no good at all. only harm. in serious consequential format that. 17 million don't have access to food. more are being logged every single day. my position on this hasn't changed for thet past eight months but with the taking of another life circumstances have only further deteriorated. intelligence suggests they were not of the murder. it's only been made plain and it's not an ally that deserves our support or military intervention. especially when our own security is not itself on the line. on the contrary to continue supporting them would be bad diplomacy and undermine our very credibility. u.s. intervention is unauthorized, unconstitutional and immoral and we can't delay voting for our involvement in saudi arabisaudi arabia any lon. if we do, we have ourselves to blame for the country has lost credibility in the world stage and more importantly our own conscience though there the plane for the thousands that continue to be lost. the founding fathers had wisdom declaring these issues of american blood and tre

senate voted to debate a build support for the coalition in yemen so want to will this mean for us there were nations this is inside story. come to the program. it's a strong messages from us to the white house they will hold sandy arabia to account over its role in the war in yemen and the murder of journalists. the senate has voted to hold hearings next week on whether to end u.s. support for the sandy u.a.e. led war in yemen that despite strong opposition from the trump administration which sound the secretaries of state and defense to persuade senators to vote against the measure we have a lot to discuss with our guests in a moment but first a force from washington. this is pretty unprecedented one after the other u.s. senators came before reporters using pretty harsh language to describe saudi arabia and its crown prince we understand that saudi arabia is an ally. of sorts and a sometime port a country a despotic dishonest dictatorship it's time to send saudi arabia a message this after the u.s. secretaries of state and defense gave a classified briefing to senators they again tried

good morning thank you the needs in yemen are massive and it has been building up for years now yemen even before the conflict of two thousand two thousand as one of the at upwards poorest countries so the conflict came to add more than seventy five to eighty percent of the population is in need of some kind of mainly food aid and access to healthcare. so we see. we see scenes of misery across the county in the south but also in the north. as well so the needs are huge including of course food access to clean wanted access to health care and so on and so forth so four fifths of the population in yemen are in need of aid if i understood you correctly what are the biggest obstacles you face in getting a to the worst affected areas. well of course that i many challenges of course the complexity of the yemeni. conflict the multiplicity of actors the difficulty of movement across the country the difficulty that is stiction imports but also the massive humanitarian needs organizations on their own will not be a response to the massive needs this is why the international committee of that at

two like to draw it into yemen is not to show what's happening in yemen it just to show that the united states is willing to bring peace into yemen and we all know and i said many times that the saudi cannot stay for two weeks without your support so i think the united states really wanted to stop the war they can stop it in a matter of days. actually we must look into the statement what this statement has have told about the cease fire and if you look into it it is only a cease fire from the hoti this statement has requested. first to stop the missiles against saudi arabia to stop the drone strike against all got to be on of the united arab emirates and if it turns out that coalition will stop strike in highly populated area this means that the saudi come bomb any area they can bomb brode there anything that's out of a major city like sun on a date and i think this kind of ceasefire it just only to protect the saudi and they always say money the war just to stay in yemen they do want to limit so let me ask you that when you say you're saying that you don't think that this call for a ce

eric i can bury an advocacy associate at yemen peace project in santa fe yemen affair specialist finally also in washington d.c. sigurd neubauer a middle east specialist welcome to all of you i will start with you eric a state department spokesperson says that this call for this ceasefire is in no way related to the murder of jamal khashoggi the timing do you agree with that do you believe that. not entirely i think in the aftermath of the murder we've seen a lot of congressional reaction we've seen a lot of very strong pushback from within the u.s. government what's been interesting about this pushback is how quickly it has pivoted to yemen and to u.s. involvement in yemen and i think that reflects not only outrage over the murder of a shut she which was a terrible event an individual tragedy but knowledge from members of congress knowledge from certain scorn of the administration that u.s. support for the side of the coalition in yemen is vital and that if you want to rollback saudi behavior whether it be or amorality behavior as well whether it be in yemen or elsewhere you need to sta

the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essentially would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states works behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on this resolution and failed to do so they di

the king of saudi arabia is born in yemen. i wish it didn't have to come to that but that has gotten a lot of people's attention are you today. so. i think the important thing for the first procedural vote that might come up is to get on the floor. and . generally speaking. i prefer more debate to last and generally speaking i welcome the idea of amendment i'm aware of nothing that would preclude us from considering amendments once we brought this up and it's my belief that amendments could pass by a simple majority. like you said that i think you very much. senator mike lee is actually one of the co-sponsors of this whole process along with senator bernie sanders who we heard a little bit earlier if you're just joining us on al-jazeera this is continuing coverage of the aftermath i guess we would call it of a senate hearing today with regards to america's relationship with saudi arabia in light of the war in yemen and also in light of the murder of jamal khashoggi just keeping an eye we've got live cameras there as the senate

armed forces from yemen. at that time members of the foreign relations committee requested additional time to study the issue and to debate the resolution in the foreign relations committee. the chairman of that committee, my friend and colleague from tennessee, senator corker, requested this with the commitment to, quote, bring forth legislation to actually appropriately deal with many of the issues relative to yemen, saudi arabia, and ourselves. close quote. so with that, the senate voted to table the motion. since then, the committee has held a hearing on this issue and introduced a separate, bipartisan bill to address it. but no further action has been taken. and so today, eight months later, the bloodshed continues, still abetted by the united states, even amidst further revelations of saudi depravity. it is long past overdue that congress remove u.s. forces from yemen, as recent circumstances is only confirm. today we have the chance to remedy our course of action and to did what the constitution -- and

we have people dying inside yemen and i believe the people of yemen clearly want this to end, and it can come to an end but it requires all parties doing something. and let me add this because before the war started there was already economic deterioration in that country. there was already great poverty, there was maximized stunting among children. this was a country struggling before the war and now it's only exacerbated to a point where, as i hear people say, it's on the brink of catastrophe. i say it's not on the brink, it is a catastrophe. >> certainly looks absolutely horrific. and we've seen just these awful pictures from your visit and from previous reporting there which is very, very limited, the coalition and the others make it very hard for independent journalists to get in. look, you are a u.n. official of a major agency, but you used to be a u.s. governor. you know the situation in the united states very well, the political situation. and i wonder if you would just react to what the houthi leader wrote in "the wall street journal" a little while ago now, november 9th. it

know what's happening in yemen. told my. mom afraid i suppose. no no sorry what's happening in yemen. there's a war soldier rubia. for some middle east politics i have no idea really do you know what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen. it's taken the lives of thousands of civilians and caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and yet according to a new poll almost a conference the people in the u.k. have no i did that there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign event strikes in an attempt to drive out who the rebels hope you carry don't know about most things happening in russia but if i can imagine china's terrible why do you think that is no enough has been said about it it depends on what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time which influences public knowledge and opinion so you think it's underreported it's the war in yemen isn't just another humanitarian crisis in a far flung parts of the world the saudi

two like to draw it into yemen is not to show what's happening in yemen it just to show that the united states is willing to bring peace into yemen and we all know and i said many times that the saudi cannot stay for two weeks without your support so i think of the united states really wanted to stop the war they can stop it in a matter of days. actually we must look into the statement what the state would have told about the cease fire and if you look into it it is only a cease fire from the hoti the statement has requested. first to stop their missiles against saudi arabia to stop the drone strike against saudi arabia on of the united arab emirates and if it turns out that coalition will stop strike in highly populated area this means that the saudi come bomb any area they can bomb brode there anything that's out a major city like some on the data and i think this kind of ceasefire it just only to protect the saudi and they don't seem to me the war just to stay in yemen they don't want to limit so let me ask you that when you say you're saying that you don't think that this call for a

the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a lot worse. so the arabia says its military operations in yemen are aimed at fighting terrorism but international humanitarian groups are calling on the u.s. to halt its military support for riyadh in a joint statement five charity organizations pleaded for urgent action with as many as fourteen million people at risk of starvation already described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world the situation continues to deteriorate every day in yemen still. difficult take in those pictures isn't it let's go live to reza research at the islamic human rights commission hey there we just saw in some shocking pictures to our viewers we've documented such a long time but the horrors going on there in yemen why is the u.s. looking to perspire in this resolution one school of thought is that they simply don't upset the saudis what do you think about that. i think one of the things that is clearly there saudi arabia or britain or america are actually working together in terms o

we support the un to end the war in yemen. so saudi arabia is under pressure to use its influence as a regional power to end the fighting in yemen the conflict has been raging for over three years and is widely seen as a proxy war between the saudis and other mate and the other major regional power iran and saudi led military coalition intervened in yemen in two thousand and fifteen they joined government forces to fight with the rebels who are backed by iran the war in yemen has killed more than ten thousand people in triggered what's now seen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis millions have been pushed to the brink of starvation. for yemenis young and old a ceasefire can't come soon enough as many as eighteen million people more than half the country a close to starvation four years of conflict has brought yemen to its knees. than mine allow our own have no shelter we have nothing we don't even have water our children are sick. doctors just can't keep up with the number of malnourished patients. we received twenty five

we need yemen as yemen. we need the u.s. good efforts to bring peace to yemen, not to encourage the saudis to do more and more for this proxy war, fighting iran in yemen. that's my position. >> and you mentioned the article that secretary of state pompeo wrote. it was actually in "the wall street journal." yes, it was today, in fact. >> sorry. "the wall street journal." >> easy mistake to make from all the way over there in sanaa. tehran, it says -- >> sometimes, yes. >> pompeo says tehran is establishing a hezbollah-like entity on the arabian peninsula. a militant group with political power that can hold saudi hostage as hezbollah's missiles in southern lebanon threaten israel. in other words, they are viewing you as iran's hezbollah-like proxies in yemen. being a direct threat to their ally, saudi arabia. what do you say to that? >> i deny that. and i can say, if iran is doing something the americans should know, with nikki haley provided at the security council in terms of iran, intervention in yemen, i can't tell you, we

secretary of defense says yemen's warring parties have agreed to peace talks they're due to take place next month in sweden. i'm sorry so much god it's good to have you with us another step towards bragg's that european council president donald tusk says the e.u. and britain's government have agreed on a declaration on that your side's relationship after the u.k. leaves the block the text has not yet been released now it comes a day after british prime minister theresa may and commission president. talks on the declaration it will now be reviewed by representatives of the remaining twenty seven e.u. countries ahead of a weekend summit at which e.u. leaders hope to sign off on the declaration and on the brics if the treaty itself. but german chancellor angela merkel has said there's a still a lot to discuss let's listen to what she told a german industry group here in berlin. i don't even today i want to tell you that i will do everything to get an agreement in place and unregulated prigs that is the west possible outcome for the economy as well as for the mental situation of our future

war the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a lot worse let's remind ourselves of what is going on on the ground in yemen before we continue thousands of deaths including children and that's not to mention the worst ever cholera outbreak and millions of people under the risk of starvation saudi's reasoning is that they're only targeting the rebels which they view to be terrorists but what about the collateral damage and the dire humanitarian situation on the ground in yemen has been steadily worsening since the war began three years ago so what has prompted the senate to vote for such a resolution just now well part of the reason is obviously scandal and innocent journalists critical of the saudi crown prince being killed in a society embassy in turkey followed by weeks of denial numerous versions of what might have happened and finally a lucid admission that premeditated murder was indeed at play we know. that he. was involved not. any one of you know all smoking do you believe i've read every piece of in

military support in yemen. that passed by a 63 Ã37 vote. we will show you some of the remarks beginning with connecticut senator christopher murphy.>> thank you mr. president, i want to speak very briefly on behalf of the resolution being offered today by Ãbi want to encourage my colleagues to support it and i want to use my brief time to respond to some of the arguments of the administration has made over the course of the last few days as to why we should not stand together as a body and to say that without a congressional declaration aboard, the united states could not and should not be involved in a disastrous civil war in yemen. this is as important a vote as we will take here in the senate. lives are at stake, lives are in the balance. i don't need to repeat everything that senator sanders and others have said about the humanitarian catastrophe that exists inside the country but this is different than other famines. this is different than other outbreaks. this is different than other humanitarian nightmares in which tens of thousands

all of that was caused by the saudi led invasion of yemen three years ago. led by a despotic dishonest dictatorship. and to my mind it is imperative today. that the united states senate tell saudi arabia and tell the world that we are not going to be continually continuing to be part of that humanitarian disaster we are ending our participation in that horrific war and that we are going to do everything that we can. to force the saudis and the who teaches to the peace table and to provide the desperately needed humanitarian aid that yemen requires treaty will any of that have the likes of mohamed bin salman concerned he's just been cold or the leadership has been called a despotic dishonest to take his ship they're all strong words but as i've been saying earlier to i guess. mohammed been someone knows he has the pretty much undivided support of the executive branch the president in the united states. it would be a huge mistake by and if he's not concerned then again it would be compatible with this pattern of recklessness that is shown in the past if you re

high commissioner for human rights the un earlier issued a direct warning that children and the yemen port city of hadera are image at risk of death the statement comes after the saudi led coalition intensified military activity in the area. whole day to day very much on the from lines of a brutal war a brutal war against children children have already suffered three men this need to continue doing so so any escalation of the conflict that affects things for days will have brutal consequences not only for the hundreds of thousands of children here in the whole day who may be caught in the middle of the gun think but will have consequences for de mille eons of children throughout yemen who are counting on the supplies coming in through who day to help them to survive. the un also states that thirty thousand children die every year in the country from malnutrition describing the conflict as a living hell saudi arabia which has been leading a deadly campaign against the rebels there since two thousand and fifteen say they're trying to reduce civilian deaths kingdom's foreign ministry eve

nearly seven thousand civilians have died in yemen since the beginning of the conflict that's when the u.n. high commissioner for human rights the u.n. earlier issued a direct warning that children and the yemen port city of her data are at him in minute risk of death the statement comes after the saudi led coalition intensified military activity in the area. whole day to day very much on the from lines of a brutal war a brutal war against children children have already suffered tremendously if continue doing so so any escalation of the conflict affect things or they will have brutal consequences not only for the hundreds of thousands of children here in the whole day who may be caught in the middle of the conflict but will have consequences for the millions of children throughout yemen who are counting on the supplies coming in through who day to help them to survive the un also states that thirty thousand children die every year in the country from malnutrition describing the conflict as a living hell saudi arabia which has been leading a deadly campaign against the rebels there sinc

if disaster in yemen for almost three years. if you twit —— check their twitter feeds, they are jubilant and even amazed that they were able to get the numbers, 65 to 37, a really strong message. will have to wait and see what happens when it advances but nevertheless it is a very, very important message to trump and saudi arabia that congress has had it, basically. and yet, how much you think saudi arabia is actually worried about this, does it actually worried about this, does it actually need american support in yemen and you have to think, if the crowds was worried about losing power, he wouldn't have borne on two are all ofa power, he wouldn't have borne on two are all of a sudden. —— directory. that is the issue at their heart of all this. -- tour. saudi arabia does need us missiles, us training in order to carry out its work in yemen. for many of us, perhaps we knew, the big headlines this summer came when it was a us bomb that bombed a school bus that killed children, not to mention 85,000 children, not to mentio

security council resolution two two one six says he is the only legitimate president of yemen whether you like him or not you talk about peace you all side of the conflict the national salvation government of yemen which of course includes the who these failed to attend the geneva peace talks that were scheduled in september will you also be refusing to attend the upcoming un peace talks in sweden to try and end this horrific civil war to try and end this saudi led bombing campaign though we have announced that we are going to look for these. consultations in the call on what happened because geneva was the obstacles with obstacles was. the other side our people were ready to go myself but the night before they go they were intending to go let's talk details muhammad ali al who thea senior official recently wrote an op ed for the washington post newspaper claiming that if the saudi air strikes stopped there would be peace in yemen it sounds kind of simplistic vague even what actually are you proposing from your side to end the war we know what the saudis are doing but what is your sid

administration with the war in yemen. i think and it were it's congressional pressure on the administration which had been mounting for a couple of years before all of this and it spread the word the victory off of the democrats in the midterm elections and unfortunately the murder off question of g. also had a speeding up effect also the pressure. so that it's not just longer us but it's the media it's civil society and. from the administration as point of view what they would like to do is save their nation ship were in saudi arabia and avoided the congressional pressure in january which could do is solved in the same ship an all military assistance to solve any via our foregone of then jetted. there's a personal motive as well which is to save m.b.'s hammad been some on with whom they have a very special relationship absolutely not he said the u.s. has announced today and u.s. refueling of saudi warplanes engaged in operations in yemen that seems fairly significant in terms of symbolic value how far do you think the u.

to end the war in yemen. so saudi arabia is under pressure to use its influence as a regional power to end the fighting in yemen the conflict has been raging for over three years and is widely seen as a proxy war between the saudis and other mate and the other major regional powers iran saudi led military coalition intervened in yemen in two thousand and fifteen they joined government forces to fight who the rebels who are backed by iran. the war in yemen has killed more than ten thousand people and triggered what's now seen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis millions have been pushed to the brink of starvation. for yemenis young and old a ceasefire can't come soon enough as many as eighteen million people more than half the country a close to starvation four years of conflict has brought yemen to its knees. than myname our own have no shelter we have nothing we don't even have water our children are sick. doctors just can't keep up with the number of malnourished patients. that we received twenty five

backed war in yemen is ten thousand dead what have you found. to your work to conclude that the fatality total yemenis up to fifty six thousand people killed as a direct result of armed conflict this does kind of outside older people that have died as a result of malnutrition disease and other it leaves it out yeah so this is not fifty six thousand and you're not counting all the people who die i mean save the children iraq figure of one hundred fifty. children will die today because of the you're back by war forty million at risk you're saying fifty six thousand because of armed conflict presuming this can't be to do with aerial bombardment because the british government says that the area for training the pilots the war planes the u.k. is obviously training saudi pilots in north wales there's no british. killing in those figures there's no british soldier of course on the ground or british planes brittany's supporting the saudi let's call the shining refueling and try. as you mentioned. the number of course includes both combatants and noncomb

weapons dog to yemen gives us its take on the world's worst humanitarian crisis and britain's biggest police force advises not to drive into london but it's not because ten thousand die each year in the capital because of pollution but it's happening now stop pete because he won't work you know britain's parliamentary speaker didn't publicly write off to raise amazing bricks a deal that he and cuse pulled the symbol coming up in today's going underground the first in a week when britain's intelligence services admitted they didn't act accordingly to stop the bombing of the ariana grande a concert in manchester which killed twenty two are others continuing to be killed because of so-called u.k. intelligence this in a week of college and british involved conflict from afghanistan to yemen i'm joined now by skype from montana in the northwest of the united states by ordering whistleblower and former drone operator brandon bryant brandon thanks so much for coming on the show now we have in one analysis a third of those killed in drone strikes in yemen this year have been civilians includi

to end the war in yemen. so saudi arabia is under pressure to use its influence as a regional power to end the fighting in yemen the conflict has been raging for over three years and is widely seen as a proxy war between the saudis and other mate and the other major regional powers iran saudi led military coalition intervened in yemen in two thousand and fifteen they joined government forces to fight with the rebels who are backed by iran the war in yemen has killed more than ten thousand people and triggered what's now seen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis millions have been pushed to the brink of starvation. for yemenis young and old a ceasefire can't come soon enough as many as eighteen million people more than half the country a close to starvation four years of conflict has brought yemen to its knees. than mine and our own have no shelter we have nothing we don't even have water our children are sick. the. doctors just can't keep up with the number of malnourished patients. that we received twent

if the members of the house and the senate want to go to war in yemen, vote to go to war in yemen. don't let the president of the united states do it on his own. mr. president, later this afternoon, as i understand it, there will be a resolution coming before this body as to whether we proceed to vote on ending u.s. involvement in the saudi-led war. that amendment is cosponsored by my friend, senator lee of utah, senator murphy of connecticut, and many, many others. this is an enormously important vote. this is a vote that says to the world we are going to end the horrific humanitarian disaster that is killing tens and tens of thousands of defenseless children in yemen. it is a war that says that we are going to stand for american values. it is a vote which says that the time is now to tell saudi arabia that we are not continuing to partner with them in this horrific crisis. so with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the contract with america -- the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: the presiding office

we know what's going on in yemen. none of us can escape the responsibility we have to either endorse or ignore the suffering that's occurring there. thousands of victims in yemen, hundreds of thousands dying of starvation, and it's happening in some cases quickly, people living in their homes under a bomb die instantly. in other cases, the suffering is prolonged. badly injured, no medical help to ease the suffering, let alone save the life. in the case of most, it's rolonged through starvation. children. not having access to their mother's milk. not having access to aid that is in the port but is getting bombed and can't be delivered. that's happening every single day. u.n. report says of the 28 million people in yemen about 20 million are in danger of humanitarian disaster. that's happening. there's no dispute that it's happening. here's the question. right now, that is being done with the authority of the executive branch of the united states government. it means that that suffering that's avoidable and hardly inevi

and perhaps as a result something actually will change in yemen. yes but just to briefly respond to some panelist points i do very strongly and want to continue strongly condemning the amorality led campaign in the west coast that was causing so much displacement but also the who these bear a lot of responsibility for civilian suffering in terms of lang land mine in terms of destroying transportation networks in terms of conscription people into armed service and that should also be pointed out and condemned sure about the congressional picture i think we are approaching a bit of an inflection point not with this administration's relationship with saudi arabia the emirates they seem to be all in but with congress's relationship with saudi arabia and the emirates i think is right that congress is no longer looking at saudi arabia and the emirates as a reliable security partners we have two bills going on right now house concurrent resolution one thirty eight and senate joint resolution fifty four that will be coming up after the election each is a w

you know what's happening in yemen. but. i'm afraid i suppose. no no sorry what's happening in yemen. now there's a war soldier rubia. kind of some middle east politics i have no idea really do you know what's happening in yemen sorry do you know what's happening in yemen. is taking the lives of thousands of civilians and caused an unprecedented humanitarian crisis and yet according to a new poll almost a conference the people in the u.k. have no i did that there is a war taking place in yemen a war in which a saudi led coalition is conducting a deadly campaign event strikes in an attempt to drive out who the rebels hope you carry don't know about most things happening in russia but if i can imagine china's terrible why do you think that is no enough has been said about it depends on what the media synthesizing at a particular point in time we can through and says public knowledge and opinion so you think it's under-reported good the war in yemen isn't just another humanitarian crisis in a far flung parts of the world t

we support the un to end the war in yemen. so saudi arabia is under pressure to use its influence as a regional power to end the fighting in yemen the conflict has been raging for over three years and is widely seen as a proxy war between the saudis and other mate and the other major regional powers iran saudi led military coalition intervened in yemen in two thousand and fifteen they joined government forces to fight with the rebels who are backed by iran. the war in yemen has killed more than ten thousand people and triggered what's now seen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis millions have been pushed to the brink of starvation. for yemenis young and old a ceasefire can't come soon enough as many as eighteen million people more than half the country a close to starvation four years of conflict has brought yemen to its knees. than mine and our own we have no shelter we have nothing we don't even have water our children are sick. doctors just can't keep up with the number of malnourished patients. than us that we receive

the suffering in yemen grieves me but if the united states of america was not involved in yemen it would be a hell of a it's been widely reported that the united states prevented a resolution in the united nations that would have condemned the saudi attacks on yemen the resolution had support from the united kingdom among others and essential he would have called on saudi arabia to cease its activities that harm civilians however the united states works behind the scenes to prevent it from becoming a resolution now there has been widespread opposition and condemnation to saudi arabia's activities in yemen we've heard statements from charities that have come forward humanitarian organizations and said that essentially saudi activities put fourteen million people at risk of malnutrition however the united states continues to align with saudi arabia now it's important to point out that this is not the first time there have been votes on capitol hill regarding this issue and back in march the u.s. senate was presented with the opportunity to vote on this resolution and failed to do so they d

orla: in yemen, it has come to this. more than three years of war had brought the nation to the ink of famine. we filmed these distressing images earlier this month. after years of inaction, there is a new sense of urgency, and from the united states, a new push for peace. sec. mattis: 30 days from now we want to see everybody around ae pe table table-based on a cease-fire, based on a pullback , from the border, and seizing dropping of bombs that will permit the special envoy, who is very good, he knows what he is doing, to get them together in eeeden and end this war. orla: a war that filling new graves. here for 42 schoolboys killed by the saudi-led coalition in gust. we met survivors of the devastating airstrike. one more attack which raised concern internationally about the saudi boing campaign in yemen. but if a turning point is coming, it maye because of the brutal killing by saudi officials of dissident saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. that in turn increased thepr sure on key saudi allies and arms suppliers like

administration is prepared to go in order to get an end to the war in yemen. well this. actually sounds more event if there is and substance it's a token gesture because the planes that do it if you really are already in solidly hands a solid these have been trained in using them. and so really the u.s. saying we're not going to do this anymore doesn't mean that the refueling is nothing actually taking place so i think there was a shop across the. warning this hour that is that more steps may follow such as cutting off the naval blockade military sends a septa. i think the administration of donald trump left its own devices probably would not go beyond the symbolic steps but. pressure from congress on school who are going to complete cut off military. participation in this war by the u.s. and military assistance right oh you know what i mean that's the main ok coming to you helen said it wasn't that long ago it was june of this year that the security council failed to agree on a statement that was. issued by sweeten it was the u.s. and the u.k. who objected to it the the

yemen where it's basically moving towards a form of genocide go ahead. yes so instability in the war in the middle east is good for washington in the short term because i mean they sell billions of dollars of weapons to disability so the saudis being involved in war is actually good for business and i think that's something to donald trump made very clear in his recent statement essentially saying that this is part of the america first policy where you know the saudis can get away with what they're doing because they're bringing jobs and money to the united states well i would say i'm sorry i wouldn't really had a really i would really contest that ok the deals that he's talking about are in the pipeline they're not even really fine i mean the bombs on the planes they all came from the bush obama era trumpets had no in zero impact on arms sales to saudi arabia. at this point i'll give you the last word interim go ahead yes i would totally agree with that the trump is is an expert in exaggerating numbers but i would say that even if those numbers were tru

to pull support for the war in yemen. well the murder of jamal khashoggi has certainly put more of a spotlight on the actions of saudi arabia in yemen of course a critique of the war in in yemen was one of the things that jamal had written about so the two issues are very linked but unfortunately i think the united states to certain degree france as well and certainly the saudi government all view the murder of jamal khashoggi as a public relations crisis not as a human rights crisis whether the human rights of jamal khashoggi or the human rights of the hundreds of thousands indeed millions of yemenis who have been impacted so terribly by this war so until that changes i'm afraid that the murder itself is not likely to bring about an end to the war it is giving some new attention to the horrors of the humanitarian crisis that is the war in yemen which is very important but i think the real pressure certainly here in the united states too for for actions like the beginning action we've seen today with the announcement that