Coming up in the next sixty minutes violence escalates in yemen after the ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh has killed by the rebels. So what now for the yemeni people caught in the middle of the battle for control of the u. N. Calls for a pause in the fighting. The u. S. Supreme court backs Donald Trumps travel ban on six mostly muslim nations. Smiles and handshakes but no deal yet british and e. U. Leaders fail to reach an agreement on that. Hello the killing of yemens ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh by Houthi Rebels has plunged the war torn country further into chaos the two sides had been allies until just a few days ago but this time switching sides led to the end of a man who had been president for thirty three years and navigated shifting alliances for decades well a few hours after sought after death who is the leader there years ive been manic and who with the maiden Live Television address describing sought after the my eyes as a victory against treason now yemens inter
Its thursday 8th february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Within the next half hour the leader of the house of Commons Andrea leadsom will be presenting the results of a cross Party Investigation into Sexual Harassment at westminster. Well be taking you there live when it starts, but first the findings show that nearly a fifth of people working in parliament have experienced or witnessed Sexual Harassment in the past 12 months. And the report recommends a new code of conduct and compulsory training to help mps understand and prevent harassment. The review was set up last year after several harassment claims against mps and staff. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is at westminster. We now have a set of proposals which mps will vote on, to revamp procedures for pursuing complaints of Sexual Harassment, a new investigating process, a new code of conduct, but nothing particularly new in terms of sanctions, and that is what will concern many people who work at w
To be spared. Many children have died. The flu season still has not peaked. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Parenti, and this is bloomberg. Emily i am emily chang and this is Bloomberg Technology. U. S. Stocks smash records across the board to close the week with tech shares at the charge. We have the latest. Plus, michael dalloways options with an ipo on the table. White the man with the largest leveraged buyout in tech history is reconsidering the companys future. And the rising uncertainty over facebooks new feed, pivot. Zuckerbergsal for new fixed and the potential impact on on ad revenue and digital publishing. U. S. Stocks hitting a new alltime high. The market is once again rallying on strong Earnings Results with tech shares leading the way. Helped pushformance the market higher, the s p 500 with the fourth week of gains. Lets bring in Abigail Doolittle in new york. And in San Francisco, corey johnson. W
Largely because of Prime Minister malikis mismanagement of the military. He put incompetent shia officers in charge of the military, and in a very short period of time they destroyed what the United States had created and trained in terms of the iraqi military. So thats what happened. Thats where we are. Isis is a very significant threat to the stability of the middle east. Thats why were doing what were doing. Theyre a moderate terrorist threat to us today. Al qaeda actually in yemen and in anotherred a quite group in syria and al qaeda in pakistan are still a greater threat to us than isis, but given enough time in iraq and syria isis will pose the kind of threat that al qaeda posed to us before 9 11. Thank you director morell. Please give both gentlemen a round of applause. [applause] the director will be available in the lobby to sign your books and take photos. Please come back tomorrow for ian bremer. Youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on booktv television fo
Makes a surprise visit to baghdad, reviewing the progress against isil. The haunting message sandra bland left her friend. One year later will a nuclear deal with iran help bring Washington Post journalist home from an iranian prison. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Good morning im randall pinkston. Defense as he can ash carter landed in baghdad this morning on an unannounced stop. He arrived a few hours ago where he will meet with iraqi leaders and u. S. Commanders fighting isil. They are working to plan a ground assault to retake ramadi. The visit comes during a bloody week in baghdad with isil attacks claiming dozens of lives. Imran kahn is live in baghdad. This visit was not on the publicly announced agenda for secretary carter. How is iraqs leadership reacting to his arrival . Thats absolutely right. Although this visit was unannounced, it certainly was not unexpected. These things take a lot of organizing. It goes to show you how dangerous the security situatio