wildfires rage in algeria more than 30 people are killed and thousands evacuated. yemen s children of war eight years of conflict and it s the young paying the highest price. we have a special report. translation: i feel scared and run. there are a lot of explosions. a new ai project offers people cryptocurrency in exchange for a scan of their eyeball. welcome to the programme. we start in greece where the island of crete has been on high alert, with a warning of an extreme risk of fire. wildfires are continuing to burn on several other greek islands, as well as some parts of the mainland. greece s prime minister is expected to discuss the crisis with his cabinet today. on the island of rhodes, a long
but he s just a child who has seen too much. he asks amir what he wants in the future. buy me a gun, he says. i will put a bullet in my gun and fire at those who took my leg. it will go right to them. most of the children maimed and killed in taiz over the years have been victims of the houthis. but some died in air strikes by the saudi led coalition. if peace comes and many yemenis have their doubts the young will carry this war for ever. 0rla guerin, bbc news, taiz. earlier, i spoke to 0rla from taiz she told me more about
which intervened in in 2015 trying to reinstall the internationally recognised government. )but the young can t escape the danger, as our senior international correspondent 0rla guerin reports from the city of taiz. yemen s young know nothing but war. eight years on, the guns are quieter, but a generation bears the scars. and if there s one place that shows they re suffering, it s al rasheed street, a frontline neighbourhood in the city of taiz. it s home to badr al harbi, who s seven. he and his brother hashim were hit by houthi shelling last october, coming home from school. since the attack, the boys world has shrunk. they no longer go to classes. their physical wounds may have healed, but their trauma remains, like the danger. conflict echoes around them.
when you speak to people here they more or less say none. i don t think i ve had a single conversation since i ve arrived with anyone here who is expecting peace. there s a great deal of concern, in fact, about whether or not yemen will survive as a state. effectively, now it is no longer a state. this is a country that is controlled by different armed groups with different agendas. you have the houthi forces which control the north, where most of the population live. here in the south, you have the remnants of the internationally recognised government, but also the southern transitional council, which is secessionist and wants nothing less than a separate south yemen, as there was in the past. it wants an independent country here in the south. so this is a complex, overlapping yemeni civil war and there is no peace process in place involving all of the players inside yemen, so you don t find optimism here. you find weariness, you find exhaustion, you find fear.
0rla, you ve travelled into yemen seven times over the years. what risks are there and why do you feel it s so important to report from there? well, the greatest risks, of course, are for the people who live here, particularly the civilians. in a city like taiz, they re basically trapped. there is only one route out of here. it s a five hourjourney over a mountain pass because you can t use the main road because it s controlled by houthi fighters. it s always difficult to get here for any journalist. you have to go through a lot of bureaucracy, a lot of paperwork. you apply to the yemeni government for a permit to come here, but in fact we know final approval is given by saudi arabia. if you want to travel to the north, which is houthi controlled, you need an entirely different set of permissions. we obtained those permissions before travelling to yemen, but once we were in the country the houthi authorities revoked that permission,