and we look at tunnels used by mexican cartels to smug drugs to the u.s. hello there good to have your company. ah a ceasefire has been expected to come into force in yemen an hour ago but shortly before it was due to start, take effect from 0900 hours gmt. that s when the the sides are to begin talks in geneva. backed by ali abdullah saleh they swept through other regions in yemen. the houthi advance on aden in march was the trigger of saudi arabia and its gulf allies to support abd rabbu mansour hadi with air strikes. it s come at a cost. almost 6,000 civilians have been killed inches since march, 2.1 million people have been forced from their homes and 21 million people have been on the brink of starvation. zeina khodr sends us this report on the latest statement to end the fighting. it is a show of force just before the warring sides talk peace. the yemeni government and its supporters in the saudi led coalition have deployed forces along the front lines close to the ca
that being that a lot of people are wondering right now, because the united states is recognized for years that this was going to be the emerging threat. in other words, not uniform forces, soldiers who lay low, and attack, or in this case, try and attack the united states on the home land. did the pentagon not prepare for the fact that these lone wolves would be cropping up and if so, how do you prepare for lone wolf attacks like we saw in san bernardino, california? that s not the pentagon s responsibility. that s why we created after the attacks of 9/11 the department of homeland security, which we spent $600 billion on since 9/11 to deal with that. and you know we know that the fbi has been tracking something like 900 people. president didn t get into it today. i think he did in the previous speech he gave that jamie referred to earlier. but the fact of the matter is, you can t buy perfect security. you ll always have people inspired by all kinds of reasons to do horrib
forces. the rally outside south africa gets their third finance minister in a week. and we look at the tunnels used by mexican drug cartels to move drugs to the u.s. and we ll have reaction to the draw for last 16 of the champions league. with arsenal. it s arsenal who are faced with the task of taking on last season s winners, barcelona. hello there. a warm welcome to this hour of news. a ceasefire is due ocome into forcto come intoforce in yemen s confusion on the warring parties on exactly when it will start. on tuesday the government and houthi rebels are due to start talks to end nearly a year of civil war. houthi rebels took control of the capital sanaa, backed by former president ali abdullah saleh, they swept through other areas of yemen. then trigger was saudi arabia and its gulf allies to support president abd rabbu mansour hadi. at a massive human cost, the u.n. estimates almost 6,000 civilians have been killed since march. almost 2.3 million people have
elections, overrun with ethnic divisions. and storms hit india s east coast. fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant have carried out a series of deadly attacks in iraq. there are fears i.s.i.l. is gaining more and more ground in anbar province. shares borders with saudi arabia, jordan and turkey, diala province, a bombing there, killed dozens of fighters. imran khan is reporting. three suicide attacks that include bombers in, struck the government compound of karatapa. this was a facility with both kurdish peshmerga fighters and kurdish fighters. in the capital baghdad, more killed as a result of violence on saturday. this is the shula neighborhood in the early evening two parked car bombs ripped through a busy marketplace. those in the vicinity didn t stand a chance. 38 people were killed and 68 injured. acar bomb exploded here at the checkpoint, killing and wounding several people. my son was seriously injured and is now in hospital. this is his vehicle
issues that will probably be overlooked when president obama gives his state of the union address. an about face by prosecutors in belgium. they now say they want to extradite one of four people arrested yesterday in greece, the person may have ties to a foiled plot to attack police. john siropolous has more from athens. the arrests that took place here in athens were at the behest of belgian authorities during a raid on a terrorist stronghold last thursday that there was an athens connection, there was a mastermind who had made telephone calls from a location here in the city to terrorist cells in belgium apparently approving certain plots to go ahead. certain attacks on european targets. the police confirmed that none of the four people they arrested at the request of belgian authorities on saturday turned out to be the that mastermind. dna samples were cross revenued from dna samples taken in athens. the chief suspect is not among those four people arrested. so one of th