in their interview with oprah? how do you react to what they have said? millions of pupils in england head back to school after two months learning at home during the lockdown. from, today care home residents in england can have one regular visitor they can meet indoors and hold hands. and two people from different households can now meet outside for recreation, which can include a coffee on a bench. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the duchess of sussex has said she found life within the british royal family so difficult that at times she didn t want to be alive any more . in an interview with oprah winfrey, meghan markle said she did not get help when she asked for it. meghan also claimed there had been concern within the palace, before her son was born, about the colour of his skin. the interview with harry and meghan went out overnight in the us and will be shown on itv at 9pm tonight and on itv hub, courtesy of harpo productions. in
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open, as he s saying they re - going to have to do, - that s a fantastic opportunity potentially for britain s adversaries to get in there and try and steal those secrets - through blackmail, through data leaks, through subversion one way or another. so, it s quite a bold move, - but one that he says they ve got to do or else they re going to become an anachronism. let s return to yemen, where the war between houthi rebels and the government could be at a turning point. earlier, we showed you a report our middle east editorjeremy bowen sent from the city of marib, where houthi forces are closing in. marib is the last stronghold of yemen s internationally recognised government. i spoke tojeremy about how he managed to reach the city. well, marib, where i went, is very hard to reach. it s remote, it s in the desert. i was able to get permission
in syria, which had for a long time looked to be well away from any conclusive resolution one way or the other. can the same be said for yemen at the moment? afraid so. for yemen at the moment? there is a school of thought that, if the houthis did, either by an agreement or some kind of military breakthrough, take the city of marib, then they may be more inclined to talk and there may be something to talk about. and there is a un envoy who works very hard on all of this stuff. however, you know, it is my impression from having looked at these situations many times over the years that diplomacy tends to work when either there is some very powerful force that is motivated, a big country, to bash heads or when all sides are so exhausted and debilitated and drained that they are ready to make a deal. and neither of those factors applies in yemen at the moment. and you were mentioning the saudis ongoing support for the government.
katy austin, bbc news. in yemen, the seven year long war between houthi rebels and the government may be at a turning point. houthi forces have been pushing hard to capture the city of marib. it s the last stronghold of the internationally recognised government and is at the center of yemen s oilfields. saudi arabia, backed by the us and uk, intervened in yemen in 2015 after the houthis ousted the government from the capital, sanaa. since then, yemen has been gripped by the world s worst humanitarian crisis. all sides of the conflict have been accused of killing civilians and other abuses. at least 800,000 people displaced by the war have fled to marib. our middle east editorjeremy bowen has managed to reach it.