the president's government has now stepped down and is now in the opposition camp because of what he's doing to the protesters, many of whom are students, all, though, many of whom are other types of militants, in syria, the protests continuing there, today, we got disturbing video, of protesters, not only after they were burning pictures of president assad, then came the secret police and you can see, some of the video, the protesters are being beaten with sticks, and batons there, mercilessly and of course still in syria and yemen, very difficult to get any kind of news, and difficult for reporters to get in, because of visa issues and where do we go from here? you have syria and yemen but as it relates to the u.s. and the key ally it seems like yemen is the place to keep an eye on, eric, back to you. >> eric: one by one by one, now locking at yemen, leland vittert live in jerusalem. >> jamie: and in yemen they are allowing al qaeda to gain a greater foothold inside the country and if yemen falls to