good morning, everyone. it s monday, september 16th. i m ayman mohyeldin along side yasmin vossoughian. we begin in the mild east whedd where iran is dying it was behind a series of drone attacks. the early morning attacks targeted a saudi processing field and a major oilfield. it cut the kingdom s liquefied natural gas in about half. it also destroyed more than 5% of the oil supply around the globe. oil prices have spiked more than 15% in the aftermath and u.s. gasoline futures and heating oil futures have jumped significantly on that news. yem yemen s houthi rebels have claimed responsibility. they said the attacks are related to the devastating saudi led war in yemen which has led to a catastrophic famine and a humanitarian crisis and left almost 100,000 people dead
ark and there is a been providing support to the houthis to fight well e beyond whbeyond would have been able to do. and we are hoping this is going to resolve the civil war and resolve a massive human crisis in yemen today. you saw that heather nauert, his top aide, the undersecretary, the acting undersecretary was trying to cut off the questions, and he did answer another question that he wanted to answer about the iranian support for rebels in yem yemen, and phil rucker, he artfully dodged the question of whether he believes and garrett haake asked him if he believes that mohammad bin salman was responsible for jamal khashoggi s death, and he said that he has seen no direct evidence. there is no direct evidence, and they have cameras there and an awe owe tape, and it was damaging according to all
were the troops ready and trained before we pulled out with no residual force to give the command, training control and direction. all that went away in a hurry. that created the problem we have today. i believe that special capability forces the admiral referenced that kind of operation, need to be on the ground. what we found in any engagement afghanistan, iraq, smol ya em yemen, they get all of the lo git ticks that go with that, including medevac, those soldiers will stay and fight to the bitter end. they ve lost that part. without regaining that control on the battlefield, you didn t get you don t need 100,000, you don t need 150,000. you need to supplant the forces or you re going to get into a sectarian bat wl iraq shia militias sue
yemen s capital. cnn s nic robertson is near the saudi arabia-yemen border. reporter: sandbags, stepped up security, yards from yemen. saudi border guards show up preparations for a war they hope won t happen. told to be ready for anything. that s our country and we have tooh defend our country. they are happy to defend with their life. reporter: that s the yemeni border post and riding with the border guards we didn t have to wear the jackets and the helmets but now they say the situation has changed. it s a lot more dangerous. army tanks have been brought in to back them up.
part of the representative government and that s what the saudis are attempting. they are a minority sect within yemen, and i think this entire revolution that they created has caused the representative government to go into hiding and that in fact is what the problem is. saudi arabia wants them both to come back to the table to get some stability as nic reported. what about these images that show the senior leader inside the presidential palace? what does that tell you about aqap s grip on yemen? it s an interesting image and certainly fascinating to see him in the palace itself. and i think it speaks to the chaos that exists in yemen right now as the representative government fled to the southern rt port of aden. with the chaos, with houthis against the yemeni government fighting each other they have ignored al qaeda, and when that