vests which could have been a much big erger catastrophe. there is a third suspect on the - run they re looking for and 15 people have been arrested. they re not willing to say these are isis say isis has claimed responsibility but need to do more investigation to know exactly who it is the italian president i spoke to last week. you speak to so many presidents sometimes we get them confused in the control room. we will get the right video. let s talk about the paradox in tunisia. it has been seen as this beacon of progress and democracy in the middle east yet it is the country that exports the most on for fight others to iraq and syria to join isis. what did the president tell you about how he plans to stamp that out? i asked him that obviously because it is such a counter intuitive proposal. how is this happening? he said years of misplaced
carnage and chaos is there threatening to collapse a country that was hailed as a success story by president obama just six short months ago, now isis and al qaeda closing in to make it a home base. the united states pulling all its remaining troops out of yemen. iran shiite backed rebels setting their sites on yemen s embattled president next. nic robertson live for us from london. what do we know nic? alison the real concern is isis and al qaeda will do precisely what they did in syria and iraq and use the instability there to develop bases for training, develop their bomb making and therefore be a bigger threat to the united states and europe. all of this is happening as that becomes more and more possible as the country slips deeper towards civil war. reporter: shiite houthi rebels now in control of the international airport in the south western city of taiz.
the country. where houthi s who control the capital of areas of the north are advancing south into taiz from sa na a. the mounting unrest pushing the u.s. military to pull out following the evacuation last month. isis claiming responsibility for this suicide attack on two mosques on friday. more than 130 killed. hundreds more vurd. we are seeing extremists trying to capitalize on the chaos and instability to carry out thing as of violence. the nation now in an especially perilous organization caught between the houthi rivalry with the terrorists al qaeda and the arabian peninsula, now, growing concerns the u.s. withdrawal is a serious blow to the counterterrorism mission.
yemen once a key american ally in the fight against terror is now on the verge of civil war. the u.n. has warned for weeks the country is collapsing. as isis gets a foothold in these environments you will start to see state governments fall. the rit list of u.s. troops posted online. names, pictures home address of servicemen and women. reported 11 foreign medical students working in isis controlled hospitals. that young man that walked in with a backpack a mug, we don t know what s in his backpack. this is new day. good morning to you. welcome to your new day. it s monday march 23rd, 8:00 in the east. yemen may be the most dangerous place in the world, slipping closer to all out civil war,
the counterterrorism mission. without the good intelligence starts plots, against the homeland without that intelligence we cannot effectively stop it. this region home to offshoots. the terrorist organizations, responsible for plotting several attacks against americans, including the 2,000 attack on the uss coal leaving 17 sailors dead and the underwear bomber attempt on the u.s. airliner in 2009. and now all the american presence pulled out of yemen, the last 100 special force, delta and seem teams pulled out over the weekend. that means the understanding, the reach, the connection with sources on the ground to target and monitor al qaeda and isis. that means that has dwindled down to effectively almost zero. alisyn. all right, nic, we will talk much more about that in the program. also developing overnight, an