and yemeni flags. were also spotted in other parts of yemen. from the stockholm international peace research institute shows that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. purchased more than two thousand six hundred armored vehicles of this type between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. a year later the fundamentalist islam is chaika nuns rick was photographed inside an advantage yes if you mine clearance vehicle manufactured in the united kingdom. the vehicle was clearly marked with saudi army insignia. the same type of vehicle was also spotted in other provinces. if we're talking about the twenty two meter brigade it should have vehicles armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers and should spearhead attacks but this big a does not have any vehicles. in the second year of the war in yemen two new forces were formed the security beltin agent and the hydra me elite forces in hot remote these groups are made up of supporters of the separatist southern movement who demands a session of the south to form an independent state. the two forces raised the so

and yemeni flags. were also spotted in other parts of yemen. from the stockholm international peace research institute shows that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. purchased more than two thousand six hundred armored vehicles of this type between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. a year later the fundamentalist islam is chaika duns rick was photographed inside an advantage yes if you mine clearance vehicle manufactured in the united kingdom. the vehicle was clearly marked with saudi. the same type of vehicle was also spotted in other provinces. if we're talking about the twenty two brigade it should have vehicles armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers and should spearhead attacks but this gate is not have any vehicles. in the second year of the war in yemen two new forces were formed the security beltin agent and the hard drive me elite forces in how to remote these groups are made up of supporters of the separatist southern movement who demands a succession of the south to form an independent state. the two forces raised the south yemen fl

spent a year tracing the origins of weapons that have fallen into the hands of various yemeni groups. the country's third largest city lies in the southwest and was renowned as the capital of yemeni culture it has been turned into a battleground dies doesn't have any real equipment the security operators were systematically destroyed when the city was conquered by the who the militia. in the absence of state power new players came on the scene. kadir. in january twenty sixth seen the terrorist group published footage of some of its members holding german three machine guns. it was not limited to this type of gun all the city of time is suggesting wider more systematic abuses m g three isn't there like a what experts call flag items. that are relatively easy for analysts or track that have a strong indicator of possible diversion or possible supply. in the conflict after the conflict began. just three months after the start of operation decisive storm germany was the first european country to officially question saudi arabia about whether it had passed weapons to a third party. to trig

sometimes yemeni fighters sell their weapons or i mean. this is so-called leakage of a type a weapon handed over to a resistance faction and ties then passed on to al qaeda in aid of. the presence of these arms has complicated the situation politically and on the ground further escalating the humanitarian crisis some of those weapons were originally sold to gulf states under subject to international laws known as end user agreements that prohibit their transfer to a third party. egyptian journalist mohammed abu every it and the arab reporters for investigative journalism. spent a year tracing the origins of weapons that have fallen into the hands of various yemeni groups. i. was. the country's third largest city tires lies in the southwest and was renowned as the capital of yemeni culture it has been turned into a battleground if it dies doesn't have any real equipment the security operators were systematically destroyed when the city was conquered by the who the militia. in the absence of state power new players came on the scene. kadir.

kurdish or for use in the yemeni conflict. any support. the province of ties should go through the legal institutions of the national army we believe in establishing a national army and the support to go through its leadership with. the. arms are still being exported from a string of western countries even though there is waging evidence that the end users are not the armies of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. entires son ayden shop wa and other provinces the people of yemen are hoping for a new era in which their republican loan is the end user. instead weapons are being passed to various splinter groups in yemen for the yemeni people the results are catastrophic. greg's. the fast pace of life in the digital globe fish has the lowdown on the way showing new developments and providing useful information on the wheaties finds and interviews with makers and users. just so far next d.w. and. clicks the book coach knowledge. of the market. is just in forty five minutes. we know we were. in the first minute. americans at some point in our lives real

process is about yemenis. finding a solutions for yemen let's talk now to not be able cudi he is formally a u.s. diplomat and a deputy chief of mission in yemen he joins us on skype from washington what's your reading of what we've been hearing so far from antonio terrace. i'm very pleasantly surprised then i think this is a remarkable achievement for a roughly one week in sweden. the only week there was a rumor that there are was and they getting it on a prisoner exchange plan but no details and so now they're telling us that the things that have been working worked out there is a timeline for this prisoner exchange and there are thousands of prisoners on both sides so this is good news in the. second and frankly i don't think many people thought there would be an agreement on what they've done because it's such a thought for a show but apparently they have very good ether some kind of a first the cease fire in the data and secondly inutile management off the poor so that the poor can continue functioning and

keeping the port open means keeping yemenis alive. this is a country which has the greatest percentage of its people dependent on food aid. two thirds of yemenis depend on some kind of food aid just to survive and 10 million, the un says, don't know where their next meal is coming from. so they need the port. the port is the lifeline for aid, and also the commercial imports, the food and other essential goods — and prices have been rising, even yemenis who have a little bit of money can't afford to buy them. that is what has created this real fear of the risk of famine. you have the political delegations who met in the swedish countryside — and it was quite extraordinary to see them, so many yemenis when they saw the image of the head of the yemeni government delegation, the head of the houthi delegation, with the un secretary general antonio guterres in the middle smiling, shaking hands, it was a rare moment of hope. just before i came into the bbc tonight, i got a message from a yemeni woman activist, saying, "did you see that m

for the united nations this is quite a significant moment because this is the first time yemeni rival factions meet since two thousand and sixteen now as far as the expectations are concerned i think everyone understands that this is a quite delicate moment but this is what the international community and the u.n. are hoping to achieve here in stockholm they would like to start with some building confidence building measures like prisoner swap a cease fire that would extend across yemen it would be for about by means to try to consolidate yemen's economy and then they would start a political talks about. a transition to democracy a national unity government that's something that is going to take quite some time because for the time being the government insists that it is willing to forward only with the hope these make significant concessions if the talks for the war there would push with their military offensive to take over the port city of. the whole things are concerned they say that we are the legitimate authority of the control huge area that's russia's from saddam all the borde

itself has been saying about forty million yemenis are on the brink of famine and that millions of yemenis could further face more humanitarian issues in the future we're talking about two million the many million children in yemen who suffer from severe malnutrition and today the world food program spokesperson told us that the movement around the city of her day which is a vital lifeline for human has been drastically declined dropped over the last few days because of the intensifying fighting in this in the area and what does that mean it means we're not going to see more food coming into yemen in the coming days and this is something which is going to definitely further exacerbate the humanitarian crisis which has been described as the worst in the world now peter there is an opening a glimmer of hope now when it comes to the diplomats who are present here in stockholm and also some numbers of the united nations who think that because of the international pressure which is building up against saudi arabia and the u.a.e. who both of them lead the coalition against the healthy is asking

you have been working with a yemeni american community for aa long time now. how typical is his story? >> this is one example of hundreds that we know. the center for constitutional rights received about a list of 150 individuals who their visas were approved in advanced, but were not given, , or denied in e end. a lot of devastating stories that are coming out of djibouti, back, and malaysia because in 2015 when the war broke in yemen, the u.s. embassy had to shutdown its stores in yemen. so all of the yemeni american families were forced to move to different countries for the immigration interviews. as a result, they have been stranded in a lot of diffeferent places, which created a lot of different -- difficulties for yemeni americans and their families. mohammed is a perfect example where yes is foror his family he but also abroad but yet he has been waiting for his wife to come to the united states for over a year now. and then a lot of different examples where we know their kids were given visas but not the mom. another example of our client mohammed whe

i think the yemeni the yemeni people are looking for at least some basic rights to be met they need access to food and medication they need the blockade to be lifted the sea ports the airports to be opened and the humanitarian disaster not to be used as a bargaining chip for both parties for the yemeni government under for the whole of the militias at this point i hope the international community can apply some serious pressure on the party that negotiate in right now and still eat and to have them at least agree and implement some sort of basic rights the yemenis needs right now the right to live to have access to medication and food which is not you know going through right now through the seaports on the airport so we face in the made major. the turn disaster that is the world's most military and disaster at this point and has grown by the day and so we need some sort of serious ways to make sure the airports and the seaports are open and the food and the medication that is coming from the international community not to be looted by one group of the other we have to make sure that it is

the yemenis should reconcile and we should end the war in the ring of peace . it's the first time opposing sides in the conflict will have met since two thousand and sixteen past talks collapsed because of growing differences between who should play a bigger role in the future of yemen and. the internationally recognized government says a deal will only be possible when the whole thing is hand over their weapons and pulled out of the capital sana'a a demand with jetted by the rebels for say all parties should be prepared to compromise. we're going to talks we made concessions and we want the saudi backed government to make concessions as well the un's special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has insisted the wizard a military solution and that negotiation is the only way to find an agreement but it's unclear if with its will be able to succeed where his predecessors failed the talks come at a time when the international community is putting more pressure on the sandy u.s. coalition to and its military campaign and seek a peaceful way out but the biggest challen

to a lot of yemenis when i met. some of the members of the two got a geisha and here in sweden it was remarkable the confidence that you had because they were coming from yemen even having their you know numbers and adding to them my what's not right you know and then when i speak to them. the other yemeni government member is some of them would give me their number and egypt and to just yeah and jordan the fact that they're not inside yemen really undermines their acceptance. and psyche and so it's a very very you know the you know what do you think simon the saudi led coalition's exit strategy is at what point will it be able to say ok they won't be involved militarily anymore i think that's a really good question because it's pretty clear if we look at this the saudis and them artes haven't met their strategic goals if you trust someone why the saudis were going into yemen that's a was to defeat the who thieves and to prevent iran from getting any strategic foothold in the arabian peninsula and. that vote with th

well let's bring in robbie is a yemeni journalist and filmmaker he joins us live now from the yemeni capital sanaa not so there was some confusion yesterday as to who exactly is in control of her data port under this new u.n. back deal so just talk us through quickly what's been happening at the port and who's in charge. well. this is the question of this is a course in a very very important and but what is clear to us now is that. the bought itself is. should be the control of a few in that is the management and inspection but. would protect us and. management is something under their course johnson the forces of course that were used to abroad think that before the war and this is something that this is something normal actually but the question is also who they loyal to who i mean the course does the course johnson now are under the ruthie forces which means that the saudi emeritus. backed government would refuse with would say no we don't like this so it's a little bit confused although it is provided in the in the deal i mean the deal. talked about these things the deal talked a

to a lot of yemenis when i met. some of the members to get a geisha in here in sweden it was remarkable the confidence that you had because they were coming from yemen even having their you know numbers and adding to them my what's not right you know that and then when i speak to them. the other yemeni government member is some of them would give me their number and egypt and to just yeah and jordan so the fact that they're not inside yemen really undermines their acceptance. and psyche and so it's a very very you know the. what do you think simon the saudi led coalition's exit strategy is at what point will it be able to say ok we won't be involved militarily anymore i think that's a really good question because it's pretty clear if we look at this the saudis and them artes haven't met their strategic goals if you trust someone why the saudis were going into yemen that say was to defeat the who thieves and to prevent iran from getting any strategic foothold in the arabian peninsula and. that vote with the who is th

humanitarian organizations are hoping this who the delegation that arrived in stockholm and a yemeni government delegation arriving from saudi arabia will come to an agreement that will help protect millions of yemenis threatened by fighting famine and disease it would be the first time in more than two years that the parties are meeting now to get the parties to this conflict to to come to one place for presentation has not been easy. but is now a decisive step in our efforts to end the suffering in yemen. u.n. sponsored talks to to start in sweden are expected to bring together the who feels supported by iran and yemeni government leaders backed by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates an argument of fact all issues can be negotiated in order to rebuild mutual trust there will be several documents on captives on the economy humanitarian work to build confidence for the peace talks thereby to produce a comprehensive overall political solution to the yemen crisis. as a goodwill gesture the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting the who these allowed fifty wounded rebel fighters to be fl

keeping the port open means keeping yemenis alive. this is the country that has the most percentage of its people dependent on food aid. two thirds of yemenis depend on some kind of food aid to survive and 10 million, the un says, do not know where their next meal is coming from. so they need the port. and also the commercial imports, the food and other essential goods — and prices have been rising, even yemenis who have a little bit of money cannot afford to buy them. that is what has created this real fear of the risk of famine. you have reported from there many times, is there a danger that after three orfour years, positions get entrenched, fighters maybe don't want to give up the fight, or do you think somehow there is a slight change in the political atmosphere, and this could be different this time? your question actually points to what is one of the biggest challenges in yemen, which is that you have the political delegations who met in the swedish countryside — and it was quite extraordinary to see them, so many yemenis w

lifeline as mark will no doubt remind us today for the humanitarian program upon which millions of yemenis depend the ghastly prospect of famine. which mark has reminded us. is in prospect has made solving for data and this propensity for battle both and. for this reason the precise nature of the design of the agreed with drawls revolve around humanitarian needs humanitarian requirements thus allowing un as a first step the lead role in the port is this vital it's a vital response to this year by the terror requirement and we hope to see this happen within days the u.n. will take on a leading role in supporting the yemen red seaport cooperation in management of the spectrums at her data sally. post which will include enhanced monitoring by the un verification and inspection mechanism on them. the un country team under the leadership of my colleague and friend leads ground there has developed a plan seeking specific support from member states in the port lisa and her agency colleagues have indeed been integral to the shaping of agreements on the data and two of her colleagues were with us t

military support for saudi and emirates the forces fighting in the yemeni civil war the war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in that war and therefore that war is unconstitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights violations the suppression of dissent and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that this horrific killing of this journalist is not something that we can just simply look the other way and say hey what are you going to do. you know this is war

keeping the port open means keeping yemenis alive. this is the country that has the most percentage of its people dependent on food aid. two thirds of yemenis and on some kind of food aid to survive and 10 million, the un says, do not know where their next meal is coming from. so they need the port. and also the commercial imports, the food and other essential goods and prices have been rising, even yemenis who have a little bit of money cannot afford to buy them. that is what has created is real fear of the buy them. that is what has created is realfear of the risk buy them. that is what has created is real fear of the risk of famine. you have reported from there many times, there is a danger after three 01’ times, there is a danger after three orfour times, there is a danger after three or four years, times, there is a danger after three orfour years, positions get entrenched, fighters maybe don't wa nt to entrenched, fighters maybe don't want to give up the fight, or do you think somehow there is a slight change in the political

after almost four years of fighting between who the rebels and yemeni government troops aided by saudi u.a.e. coalition fourteen million a year many are on the brink of fermin. now many may not last and i pad and i pray talks will succeed we have had enough of all aggression and bloodshed we've lost so many people in this war. he met them another minimum the yemenis should rican sile and we should end the war in the ring of peace. it's the first time opposing sides in the conflict will have met since two thousand and sixteen past talks collapsed because of growing differences between who should play a bigger role in the future of yemen and. the internationally recognized government says a deal will only be possible when the whole thing is hand over their weapons and put out of the capital. a demand with jetted by the rebels for say all parties should be prepared to compromise. we're going to talks we made concessions and we want the saudi backed government to make concessions as well the un's special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has insisted there wizard a military solution and tha

to stop all military support for the saudi coalition in the yemeni civil war basically they're going to have to go back to the drawing board because the house rejected a similar version of that measure on wednesday so that one they can go ahead and keep moving on the other one they're going to have to start over russia in jordan thank you very much indeed and just. while we've been talking to some men live for developments in strasburg which is where we as you remember there was a shooting a couple of days ago at a christmas market and a suspect sherry shakeout to twenty nine year old was on the run has been on the run for a couple of days now and there's a police operation in the center of strasburg and we have got ben smith on the line now so ben and some shit shots fired and so interest to us what's going on there. lauren well we understand from police sources talking to french media that sharif cast has been killed in a confrontation with french police it's understood that the french police fired in response to shots that came out of them from sharif chicago so they had wanted to

to a lot of yemenis when i met. some of the members of the two got a geisha and here in sweden it was remarkable the confidence that you had because they were coming from young and even having their you know numbers and adding to them my what's not right you know that and then when i speak to them. the other yemeni government member is some of them would give me their number and egypt and to just yeah and jordan the fact that they're not inside yemen really undermines their acceptance. and psyche and so it's a very very you know the. what do you think simon the saudi led coalition's exit strategy is at what point will it be able to say ok they won't be involved militarily anymore i think that's a really good question because it's pretty clear if we look at this the saudis and them artes haven't met their strategic goals if you trust someone why the saudis were going into yemen that's a was to defeat the who thieves and to prevent iran from getting any strategic foothold in the arabian peninsula and. is that that wit

humanitarian organizations are hoping this who the delegation that arrived in stockholm and a yemeni government delegation arriving from saudi arabia will come to an agreement that will help protect millions of yemenis threatened by fighting famine and disease it would be the first time in more than two years that the parties are meeting now to get the parties to this conflict to to come to one place for presentation has not been easy. but is now a decisive step in our efforts to end the suffering in yemen. u.n. sponsored talks to to start in sweden are expected to bring together the who supported by iran and yemeni government leaders backed by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates an argument of fact all issues can be negotiated in order to rebuild mutual trust there will be several documents on captives on the economy humanitarian work to build confidence for the peace talks thereby to produce a comprehensive overall political solution to the yemen crisis and as a goodwill gesture the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting the who these allowed fifty wounded rebel fighters to be flown

and yemeni flags. were also spotted in other parts of yemen. from the stockholm international peace research institute shows that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. purchased more than two thousand six hundred armored vehicles of this type between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen. later the fundamentalist islam is chaika nun's rick was photographed inside an aardvark g.a.'s if you mine clearance vehicle manufactured in the united kingdom. the vehicle was clearly marked with saudi near . the same type of vehicle was also spotted in other provinces. that if we're talking about the twenty two meeker brigade it should have vehicles armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers and should spearhead attacks but this brigade does not have any vehicles. in the second year of the war in yemen two new forces were formed the security beltin agent and the hard drive me elite forces in how to remote these groups are made up of supporters of the separatist southern movement who demands a session of the south to form an independent state. the two forces raised th

what you have agreed here will mean a lot for the future of yemen it will mean a lot for the yemeni people to see concrete results in their daily lives. yemen's rivals reach a deal of talks in sweden after the un agrees to play a leading role in the port city of who data. again peter will be here in doha you are with al jazeera also coming up tensions are high in your part territories after israeli raids on palestinian attacks. sri lanka's supreme court rules it was unconstitutional for the president to dissolve parliament. the best arrangement treasury body will face the u.k. and see us to agree a deal and get this deal over the line to resume a back in brussels for last minute talks to rescue her troubled plan to leave the european union. some breaking news perhaps the most significant breakthrough in ending yemen's four year long war un backed talks in sweden have ended with a number of agreements the secretary general and says there's now a clear route to ending the conflict tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions more are on the brink of famine. you have reached an a

coalition fourteen million yemenis are on the brink of firemen. now men may not last cannot that and i pray talks will succeed we have had enough of all teach aggression and bloodshed we've lost so many people in this war. he met them another minimal we the yemenis should rican sile and we should end the war in the ring of peace. it's the first time opposing sides in the conflict will have met since two thousand and sixteen past talks collapsed because of growing differences between who should play a bigger role in the future of yemen and. the internationally recognized government says a deal will only be possible when the whole thing is hand over their weapons and pulled out of the capital sana'a a demand with tactic by the rebels for say all parties should be prepared to compromise. we're going to talks we made concessions and we want the saudi backed government to make concessions as well the un's special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has insisted there wizard a military solution and that negotiation is the only way to find an agreement but

the first tentative step which yemenis hope could lead to a new future. the fighters have controlled the part of the data for much of the almost four year conflict. these pictures show some boarding trucks and leaving reportedly to be redeployed around the city it's part of an agreement reached the talks in sweden and in her data hosted by the united nations who the rebels backed by iran and yemen's government supported by a coalition led by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have also agreed to uphold a cease fire in the city and i was delighted today because of the thing and we want these character to fission. came late but god willing the ceasefire will hold and the fear of god willing the ceasefire who died a continues people need security and safety in this country. yemen's coast guard will continue the day to day operations at the port as they have done while it's been under who control the united nations will have overall responsibility and pro-government forces are expected to back away from the areas they'd seized on the southern edge of t

it will mean a lot with the yemeni people who seek concrete results. a personal make statement and to pay tribute to the people of yemen. fors the commissioner refugees for 10 years. i visited yemen several t times. coming tougee's were yemen, a country that is a poor country with an arm's problems. , they were of yemen always open to refugees. you look at the world today, -- we need to pay tribute to the hospitality of the yemeni people. , they havepeople demonstrated a solidarity with other people in need t that tribute.our the agreements today mean a lot for the yemeni people and humanity. if it can be a stopping point , thank you very much. >> thank you. this is a special day for the united nations and for us here in sweden. this is a day we celebrate light. i w want to say, thank youu allr away,ing to this far snowing place and four-year efforts these days. thank you, secretary general for joining us. thank you martin. first and foremost, thank you to .he delegation thank you so much for everything you have done. the support from the international

the yemeni situation is stressful and there are clashes between parties and tribes. but there are parties allied with the coalition who deal with the who fees in one way or another. but the situation is almost completely under control. in twenty eighteen germany approved four hundred million euros worth of arms sales to saudi arabia but has now put the exports on hold. in june belgium announced the withdrawal of the license from a belgian company to export to saudi arabia. international human rights organizations have welcomed the moves but say more should be done and sphere interest has for many years from now campaigned for a complete in fargo on a trip to saudi led coalition for use in the yemeni conflict. to get. any support to. the province of thais should go through legal institutions of the national army we believe in establishing a national army and the support should go through its leadership. arms are still being exported from a string of western countries even though there is weighty evidence that the end users are not the armies of saudi arabia and the u.

humanitarian organizations are hoping this who the delegation that arrived in stockholm and a yemeni government delegation arriving from saudi arabia will come to an agreement that will help protect millions of yemenis threatened by fighting famine and disease it would be the first time in more than two years that the parties are meeting now to get the parties to this conflict to to come to one place for presentation has not been easy. but is now a decisive step in our efforts to end the suffering in yemen. u.n. sponsored talks to to start in sweden are expected to bring together the who the supported by iran and yemeni government leaders backed by saudi arabia and the united arab emirates an argument of fact all issues can be negotiated in order to rebuild mutual trust there will be several documents on captives on the economy humanitarian work to build confidence for the peace talks thereby to produce a comprehensive overall political solution to the yemen crisis and as a goodwill gesture the saudi u.a.e. coalition fighting the who these allowed fifty wounded rebel fighters to be f

a ceasefire in yemen well it's home to millions of yemenis facing famine hope so. almost four years of war. a loss in political settlement talk about mean for the saudi led coalition this is inside story. in a welcome to the program. it's hoped the saucing point four years of civil war in yemen and broken ceasefire has begun in the proceeds port of.

one of the hundreds of thousands of yemeni children suffering severe malnutrition he's being treated at a hospital inside the clinic is struggling to cope with the growing number of bodies of the young. years old but war in the tradition slowed his growth he may never be able to fully recover. the way mohammed's health deteriorated over the last year and we rushed him to hospital hoping he would recover and doctors are giving him fluids but he doesn't want to weaken. the u.n. he's brokering a new round of talks between the warring parties in yemen in a bid to ease the humanitarian crisis. after almost four years of fighting between who the rebels and yemeni government troops aided by saudi u.a.e. coalition fourteen million yemenis are on the brink off i mean you know men may not last and i pad and i pray talks will succeed we have had enough of all the check question and bloodshed we've lost so many people in this war won him at the nominal we the yemenis should rican sile and we should end the war in the ring of peace. it's the first time opposing sides in the conflict we have met s

the emphasis on the in the process that i'm involved in is on yemenis agreeing between yemenis about ways to run yemen so it's not about other foreigners being around the table to make decisions the people around this table in sweden were all yemenis and i've profoundly believe that this is what the united nations believes that that is right and proper you say it's not shocking the other countries in the neighborhood in the region should have interests in yemen and beyond but it was pretty shocking last month when reports emerged that saudi arabia and the u.a.e. had lobbied the u.n. security council members to stall a cease fire resolution as someone who is trying to get a cease fire a sustainable cease fire surely that must shock you when parties to the conflict the lobbying you all bosses at the u.n. security council at the u.n. building in new york to prevent such a deal i think there were many many reasons why there were different views about that security council resolution as a member of the u.n. secretary i did not get drawn on the rights and wrongs of any resolution that's fo

it was a rare moment of agreement yemeni rivals engaging in friendly chat before the start of talks this is the first time they've met says to thousand and sixteen. u.n. envoy barton has praised a prisoner swap deal agreed between the two sides but said the political process to and the war will take time the country's institutions or reduce the fragmentation the country. is enormously so we must work. before we lose control of the future of yemen the who thiis who control most of yemen said they were willing to make concessions hoping the talks in stockholm would lead to a comprehensive peace plan some a lot of move ahead now we heard the other parties are serious this time the humanitarian and security situations require all of us to come together and seek a solution we really want to deal. the prisoner's exchange deal is a small step forward in a complex political reality most of these government representatives live outside yemen their influence has why did a client says the who things took over the capital it's a thousand and fourteen but they remain determined there. must hand over

no one is winning this war and the humanitarian disaster is just about to get a lot worse indeed the yemenis have had enough of this war and they are putting pressure on their leadership to stop the conflict we're talking about fourteen million yemenis on the brink of famine we're expecting the government delegation to arrive. any time now to the venue of the talks the whole thing is have arrived arrived yesterday i've been talking to different members of the healthy delegations basically this is what they told me they said that they were given orders by their leaders to start immediate talks about a prisoner swap we're talking about thousands of fighters who have been. detained over the last few years by both parties and also they are hoping to agree on a cease fire that would be extended across the country to pave the way for more humanitarian aid to trickle into the country now. the biggest obstacle is the political framework the un is hoping to see the parties negotiate a transition to democracy with a national unity government but when it comes to who runs the country this is why you ha

for saudi and emirates the forces fighting in the yemeni civil war a war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in that war and therefore that war is on constitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights violations the suppression of dissent and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received a closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that this horrific killing of this journalist is not something that we can just simply look the other way and say hey what are you going to do. you know this is war and these things ha

there are reports every minute fighting in the yemeni city of her data just a day off to a un brokered truce was reached by the warring parties the port city is the lifeline for millions of yemenis facing starvation and u.n. monitoring mission will rush to a date and next week to oversee the cease fire. emergency services say twenty eight people were injured when a rush hour tram derailed in the portuguese capital in lisbon.

coalition fourteen million yemenis are on the brink of firemen. now many no less and i pad and i pray talks will succeed we have had enough of all the aggression and bloodshed we've lost so many people in this war. he met them another minimum of the yemenis should rican sile and we should end the war in the ring of peace. it's the first time opposing sides in the conflict will have met since two thousand and sixteen past talks collapsed because of growing differences between who should play a bigger role in the future of yemen and. the internationally recognized government says a deal will only be possible when the whole thing is hand over their weapons and put out of the capital sana'a a demand with jetted by the rebels for say all parties should be prepared to compromise. we're going to talks we made concessions and we want the saudi backed government to make concessions as well the un's special envoy for yemen martin griffiths has insisted there wizard a military solution and that negotiation is the only way to find an agreement but it's unclea

the led coalition for use in the yemeni conflict. any support to. the province of thais should go through legal institutions of the national army we believe in establishing a national army and the support to go through its leadership with. the. arms are still being exported from a string of western countries even though there is weighty evidence that the end users are not the armies of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. entires aden shop wa and other provinces the people of yemen are hoping for a new era in which their republican loan is the end user. instead weapons are being passed to various splinter groups in yemen for the yemeni people the results are catastrophic. wrong move. to. move. the fast pace of life into digital media shift as the lowdown on the web showing new developments and providing useful information in the with planes and interviews with makers and users the for next d.w. family. expresses and provocative african nights identity culture and political state schofield the story comes from the mall gallery. in our special ops twenty one a

a yemeni woman is about to arrive in the u.s. to see had dying's son after a year long legal battle she's been prevented from seeing us on because of a travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries as well as north korea and venezuela a two year old boy is an american citizen with a rare brain disorder the u.s. granted her of these of the civil rights group took the case to court china chicago's archbishop has apologized for the catholic church's failure to address accusations of child sex abuse by its clergy in the u.s. state of illinois of a seven decades he was responding to a report by the attorney general which said the church would held the names of hundreds of priests and other clergy cuse abusing minors. brazil's outgoing president michel is facing new charges of corruption a money laundering he's accused of taking bribes in exchange for extending contracts to port operators it's the third time with corruption previous cases were dismissed by congress but this time he's to face proceedings. as pre

thousand possibles were sent to have data the cease fire was agreed between who's the rebels and the yemeni government at un back to talks in sweden on thursday. about american prisons about delegation in sweden is very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks are successful and put on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation the human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented the un special envoy on yemen mohsin griffiths says it's a daunting task to end the four year war he was briefing the security council on the progress made in the talks in sweden our diplomatic editor james bay is reports from the u.n. in new york. the day are after an interim peace deal in yemen the u.n. negotiator at the talks warned the security council there was still a long and difficult road ahead mr president i also have before you today with a call for caution our collective achievements this week were date i hope you will agree a significant step forward but what's in front of us is task and as ever. in the context of such ne

you ask ordinary yemenis and they are up front about that, it is not a democracy by any means. the old friends i spoke to were uniformly upset with the houthis, feeling they are talibanish. they did not fundamentally try to change sana'a, apart from changing checkpoints. many people say that is because they cannot. they do not have that many fighters. they cannot fight this war and also transform the place socially. you do hear stories that in 2015 they would make efforts to shut down radio stations or prevent women from going out unaccompanied. strangely enough, despite the fact that houthis see the saudis as their primary enemy, they have extreme religious conservativism. one of the things difficult to understand about the houthis, they are happy to put forward people, like the guy who took me around sa'dah in the northwest, people who i met that helps me to make connections in sana'a, in the capital. people talk about fighting for justice, an occupation and so forth. these are the kinds of things everybody heard from the houthis during the national dialogue council which too

military support for saudi and emirates the forces fighting in the yemeni civil war the war in yemen is on authorize there has never been a vote in congress who allow our men and women to participate in that war and therefore that war is unconstitutional i have also been deeply concerned that the president continues to ignore human rights violations the suppression of dissent and the deaths of thousands of civilians in yemen in order to maintain good relations with the saudis. legislators have been worried for some time about the civilian suffering in yemen but the saudi government's murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in october set off a wave of anger bipartisan anger not seen on capitol hill in some time legislators have demanded and received a closed door briefings from the cia director and the secretaries of state and defense i can't mention some of the things that they have told us yesterday and today but i do think that this horrific killing of this journalist is not something that we can just simply look the other way and say hey what are you going to do. you know this is wa

it famine, just like many millions of their fellow yemenis. it is yet another sign of how vital it is for the hodeida deal to work and give momentum towards a wider resolution of the conflict. i spoke earlier to hisham al—omeisy, a yemen analyst, and asked him whether the ceasefire was holding. it is. there have been a few violations, but it has been largely holding up, the ceasefire. and does that mean that the flow of aid and food can reach all parts of yemen, as it should? not necessarily. it is as it should? not necessarily. it is a little bit more complicated on the ground. you have to remember, there are also seizures in yemen. in terms of the blockade, it is notjust about the saudis, it is within yemen with the houthi. they are besieging other places. when you talk about the aid flowing into the country there are a lot of hindering factors. you have people manning checkpoints from various factions, it is not just checkpoints from various factions, it is notjust the houthis hindering the flow of aid. sebastian earlier mentioned about t

conflict in yemen has been going on for forty years now four devastating years of suffering for the yemeni people as we all know yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis more than twenty four million people see quarter of the population need some form of assistance or protection some twenty million people are food insecure. and ten million of these people do not know or they will obtain their next meal but you the parties present here today ever the possibility to change these you have the future of yemen in your hands and we have a precious opportunity and i'm glad to see that you have made zero progress even sweeter than you have been working hard during these weeks it has yields several important results that is an achievement but there are also pending issues and we will move on with those pending issues without interruption we want to make sure that we make progress at any moment for the benefit of the yemeni people i spoke to president hadi this morning and you expressed his full support and appreciation of all the accomplishments you have made here and i sank in for these i al

has this been soley an intra yemeni conflict many internationally players have huge leverage and they can ask the different parties the government representatives of the who are these to make some concessions before we put an end to the war and resume political talks for what peaceful way out the problem or this is started as a yemeni issue and then evolved into a regional one with assad the u.s. coalition launching a campaign a military campaign insisting that they will not stop the gum pain unless the who these hand over their weapons and pull out from the capital sanaa they say also that the who these have been used by the iranians to further expand a radical shia ideology in the region something that has been dismissed as utter nonsense by the iranian government but also by the who these however the people that we've been talking to over the last few days say that there might be an opportunity of hope particularly with the pressure building up against saudi arabia for the need to put an end to the military campaign against against the who things and pave the way for serious politi

at the suffering of yemenis or our. humanitarian situation that the country is. presently now you are in the talks the recent talks in sweden where this ceasefire deal was agreed over the port of her data now things like that are is that what's more crucially needed rather nice like your almost saying is an empty gesture by the the u.s. senate and do we need more of that kind of thing. what happened in sweden. was no political deal whatsoever it was more linked to humanitarian reasons even if the data. yes there will not be clashes or be a cause for it end of clashes in the lead a province but again for humanitarian reasons and not for. any political gains so are no side is losing when it comes to are they being sold each one is just easing the humanitarian crisis in yemen. other issues later humanitarian problems are still standing right now is the closure of the iraq war it's been closed for two and a half years right now so all the things that happened in sweden all the updates all the progress has been linked to humanitarian success and or easing the pressure