which is part two. the air strikes are to protect civilians from militia or from behind the scenes they work on the implementation. john it is not just in the air or on the ground that is nuance. it is in the waters of the arab world that things as you rightly suggest are getting complicated. witness what could be the impending showdown with the u.s. war ships enter be the gulf of aden led by uss roosevelt. u.s. officials telling us and we heard from ashton carter that the mission is to monitor iranian cargo vessels that would deliver arms to houthis rebels. whether the army will block the
against the tutssy rebel houthis houthis rebels. they are providing leg gist cal and intelligence reports. they are joining the fight to take tick crete from isis. that means fighting along side the iranians bombing isis positions in the city following a slow down of the offensive by iraqi troops and iranian backed mal militias while they confirm it by iraqi troops they side step all of the questions about iranian involvement. and now to current weather. one person is dead after tornadoes ripped through tulsa, oklahoma. homes totally destroyed trees ripped from the ground. other parts of the state seeing tornadoes as well and also in arkansas. maria molina is tracking the storms. a lot of people in moore
iran. bullying is how ayatollah khomeini the spiritual leader of iran, put it over weekend. there are still gaps to close. at this late hour, israel is still discussing a dialogue about iran in these talks. nic robertson, thank you for that. the negotiations resume on thursday. u.s. officials and u.n. officials declaring yemen on the brink of civil war. the elected government president is calling on houthis rebels to be stopped. this as we learn britain has now also pulled out the last of the forces out of yemen. the u.s. evacuated more than 100 special operations troops over the weekend. developments are crippling american counter terrorism efforts.
happening now, yemen in crisis. special forces are pulling out of yemen as a result of the deteriorating situation there. the house committee warning that the dangers posed of losing yemen as a base for counterterrorism operations. to monitor what aqap and isis and shi a militants are doing in the region. without good intelligence plots against the homeland without that we cannot effectively stop it. on sunday, houthis rebels seized an international airport in the city of taiz. the united nations security council met in an emergency backing yemen s president and all sides to put down weapons and negotiate. yemen is in a quote rapid downward expirespiral and on the edge of civil war. let s bring in nic robertson. a grim assessment nic.
is worrying. a main reason the u.s. government left yemen with its forces. knowing there is no central government to cooperate with and militants are now in control. militants fighting each other for control. sounds like a petrie dish for isis for al qaeda, for all sorts of radical groups. it is right now. especially last week. this week when hundreds of al qaeda militants were freed from prison. they escaped because of the clashes that were taking place with two factions of the military. also the houthis are gaining from it as well. the idea right now is that factions must agree.