them should be immense there should be an immediate cease fire the saudis should stop pummeling the emmys from the air will they do that i m not sure they will thank you very much bill appreciate your analysis. one to take you to one of our other top stories this hour it s one of the youngest democracies and witnessed the birth of the arab spring tunisia has held its 2nd presidential election since that 27 revolution that toppled a dictator and sparked a story protests in the middle east but only 45 percent of voters showed up to the ballot box official results on 10 until choose day ronald found is expected to be held stephanie decker reports now from the capital tunis. half an hour before voting was due to start a small queue had already formed tunisians waiting to have their say on who is going to be their next president. they should have i came here to vote in order to get someone who can get this country out of the crisis the economic crisis the financial crisis we have
about 45 minutes drive from here it s a very small community there are so many facilities that were just simply destroyed a lot of houses here survived because the building codes are pretty high but the insides can be saved but in high rock it seems that even there things like the police station and the local health clinic they ve completely collapsed because of the storm and people there were telling is how the wind came and the rain came in they knew the hurricane was coming what they couldn t quite handle was the fire seemed to sit over them for so long when there was the concern that tropical storm bertha was heading this way people were worried because essentially the ground here is soaked that there s really nowhere else for water to go people believe that things may start to get better soon they might be able to move into that house sometime in september possibly. but they re not expecting things to get back to normal this side of new year s day there s a lot of work t
threatening potential military engagement what are its options now if it does decide to go ahead this presumably huge threat of escalation around the entire gulf region. well now if we would attack iran then that you would really have a very very very very violent conflict that would be spread throughout the whole the whole gulf really what we need to do is end the civil war in yemen because even the usa has broken from the saudi position they are there supporting rebels in the southern arc the saudis are still. supporting the hardy government and the whole days of benefit then getting a lot of american a weapon from that the saudis have you use there so really that s what you that s what you have to that s what you hope to do because no one can win that war and the idea you know the saudis told us back in 26 thing they could win that in a month well it s been you know or half years that s what we really have to do if we want to restore stability to the region if the united s
any way of military being moved anywhere at least in the last few hours or so but clearly ramping up the verbal rhetoric here donald trump here on twitter gabriel is on to that for us in washington d.c. watching the story for us very very nicely thank you again. well let s remind you of what s happened in the last few days before has more on those attacks on saudi aramco. who the rebels in yemen say they flew armed drones across the border deep into saudi arabia to attack 2 major oil facilities if confirmed that s their most ambitious and devastating operation following dozens of smaller scale strikes in the kingdom in recent months but. we exploited vulnerabilities in the saudi defense system and we built our drones in order to avoid these systems therefore the saudi and iraqi air space became open to us after their defense systems failed to even spot the drones. the u.s. secretary of state flames iran for saturday s attacks might pump a 0 says there s no evidence they were