and rebuilding after ebola. the u.n. pledges billions much dollarsofdollars to help the countries hardest hit by the outbreak. we begin in yemen where a u.n. backed ceasefire has comment into effect. yemen s third largest city ta izz. week long pause in fighting is meant to allow vital aid supplies to reach an estimated 21 million yemenis, in need of urgent help. osama ben javid has more. medicines are running out. places like ta izz and other places have been cut off for weeks. and if emergency aid does not go through, millions could suffer from famine. it is paramount that we reach these homes and these families quickly, with the humanitarian aid and the supplies and the food. or the situation will certainly move into a much more difficult scenario. reporter: this is the city of ta izz. forces loyal to the government have been fighting against the houthis. in fact we don t have much hope for the truce to succeed. the previous experience with the truce, we don t th
big city, we ll meet some of hong kong s rural farmers. a car bomb has killed at least one person in downtown cairo and injured at least two others. the explosion struck outside the italian consulate at one of the busiest intersections in the egyptian capital. there has been no immediate claim of responsibility. jerald tan has the latest. reporter: the raw explosion rippled outside the italian consulate. minutes later people had gathered at the scene. the building was heavily damaged in the blast which also ruptured underground pipes flooding the area. it is still unclear who s behind the attack which witnesses say is caused by a car bomb. the situation is becoming familiar. the president, abdel fatah al-sisi then pushed through tougher security laws in the face of what he calls terrorism. the military s already engaged in a heavy campaign against fighters based in the sinai peninsula. one calls province of sinai and sworn allegiance to islamic state of iraq and the levant.
just hours after it is instituted. and a powerful typhoon bears down on eastern china. those ofthousands of people are gathering in bosnia to mark the 20th anniversary of the srebrenica massacre. it was in 1995 that bosnian serb forces killed more than 8,000 muslim men and boys. two international courts have deemed the action a genocide. let s cross live to nah diem baba in srebrenica. a very emotional day for people today. absolutely. i don t know if you can hear behind me the koranic recital. the many, many thousands of bosnian muslims who have come here to remember the dead. over the last 24 hours there have been a huge number of different groups some have come by bike, some have walked here and of course they re joined by dignitaries from around the world. before the burr yams of the latest 186 victims being identified. it is always emotional at the cemetery but there is feeling that the world has failed to grapsgrasp what has happened, the 8,000 men and boys killing
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