the authorities have been pushing on this. i was sit ing with top houthi officials trying to push toward the renewing the negotiations again. there is hope. again, saudi arabia is insistent it will not stop air strikes until the houthi gives in. both sides are very insistent. this is what s causing this to escalate. a deadlock on civilians caught in the middle. i think for being with us there in the capital of sanaa. now inside syria s refugee camps, thousands of palestinians are caught in a brutal battle between isis and the syrian government. it is just ten miles from the syria presidential palace. isis is now murdering civilians on the streets. atika shubert has more.
reduce collateral damage. all of this happening, the u.s. secretary of defense saying that in all this chaos, al qaeda is taking advantage. the situation is still an obviously very unsettled and there are a number of different warring parties as your question indicates. houthies are one. aqap is another one that seized the opportunity of the disorder there and the collapse of the central government and of course aqap is a group that we re very concerned with as the united states because in addition to having other regional ambitions and ambitions within yemen, we all know that aqap has the ambition to strike western targets including the united states. reporter: we have just been getting unconfirmed reports from the regional security source that al qaeda has in the port
and whoever is responsible trying to plunge the country into civil war. remember that bombing at the golden mosque in iraq in february of 2006, that was al qaeda in iraq, isis that carried that out. and back in 2006 their aim was to get shia to overreact to sunnis would be driven toward al qaeda in iraq and isis. whoever is responsible for this attack today in yemen are trying to do the same thing. they re trying to create an overreaction from the houthies and create a civil war kind of situation in yemen where the sunnis go over to the al qaeda or isis side and really strengthen jihadies. put this in the context of what s happening in yemen over the past month. it s been devolving into chaos. how bad is it now? it s unprecedentedly bad inside yemen right now and the houthies why does that matter? it matters to the united states because al qaeda in yemen has been the most active group in terms of targeting the united
i m standing here in washington, d.c. and the difference is so stark. america s founding document promises life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. iran s founding document promise the pursuit of jihad and states are collapsing across the middle east. iran is charging into the void to do just that. iran s goons in gaza, lackies in lebanon are clutching israel with three tentacles of terror. backed by iran, assad is slaughtering syrians. backed by iran, shiite militias are rampaging through iraq and backed by iran, houthies are threatening the mouth of the red
his speech. this is the nuclear agreement, which we will undertake an effort to see if we cannot address the many flaws in the agreement, working with partners. it may be a secondary agreement. maybe its not within the existing agreement but we might undertake a second agreement. then a much broader threats from iran, ballistic program, hezbollah, hamas, and destabling activities in yemen to support the rebels, houthies, they destabilize the region. and the third element in the policy, and the president addressed this in his speech, this is not about the iranian people. this is about the revolutionary regime that ever since it came to power has been intent on killing and harming americans and harming others in the region. we do not hold the iranian people accountable for that. our effort is to support the moderate voices in iran, support their cries for democracy and