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Forty-two MPs from across the political spectrum have written to the Prime Minister calling for her to condemn the attack on Hodeidah and, if necessary, to stop British-made weapons being supplied to the Saudi-backed forces. Joining us from Glasgow is one of those MPs, Alison Thewliss of the Scottish National Party.
The civil war in Yemen has taken a dramatic new turn as Saudi-backed forces try to take the key rebel-held port of Hodeidah. Aid agencies say the coastal city provides a vital route for food and medicine and that millions of people are at risk of starvation if goods cannot pass through it. The Foreign Secretary Boris…
President Trump has claimed that Iran is the world’s “leading state sponsor of terror”. But is that fair? Before he became president, Trump said the “world’s biggest funder of terrorism” was Saudi Arabia – not Iran. So is his latest claim is just political rhetoric?
It was all about centrifuges, industrial spinning tubes designed to enrich uranium and crucial to making a nuclear bomb. Five years ago, Iran was set to spin thousands of them, but the deal brokered in 2015 stopped almost all of them and Iran’s nuclear programme was frozen. But Donald Trump has never liked it, once…
In Yemen, troops who were supposed to be fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have rounded on each other. Three days of clashes between southern Yemeni separatists and Saudi-backed government forces have left dozens dead and left close to 200 wounded in the port of Aden. And there are reports that the Saudi-backed prime minister is…
Boris Johnson has condemned the firing of a missile by Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen targeting the Saudi capital Riyadh, which was shot down by Saudi forces. Yesterday, Britain’s International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt called on the Saudis to end their blockade of ports and airports and allow desperately-needed food supplies into the country. The calls…
He ruled Yemen for more than three decades and played a pivotal role in the country’s ongoing civil war. Today the former president Ali Abdullah Saleh lies dead, killed in an ambush by his former allies, the Houthi rebels. Just days before, Saleh had offered to negotiate peace with Saudi Arabia in a deal that…
The situation in Yemen is now so bad that the United Nations warned today that 150,000 malnourished children could die in the coming months if a Saudi-led blockade is not lifted. Most of Yemen’s air, sea and land ports are closed, choking off supplies of aid, and worsening the humanitarian crisis resulting from over two…
Fifty thousand children expected to die by the end of this year from starvation and disease, seven million people on the brink of famine, the world’s worst cholera epidemic ever. The state of Yemen today. All of it made even worse by Saudi Arabia’s blockade, which is stopping aid agencies from getting vital relief supplies…
The UN Secretary General António Guterres has said he has “great concern” about the escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Lebanon and that any conflict would have “devastating consequences” in the region. The tensions follow the sudden resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Hezbollah’s leader in Lebanon today said Saudi Arabia had forced Hariri…
The material, shot by Syrian film-maker Waad Al-Kateab, featured both unprecedented documentation of the turmoil in the city’s final hospital, as well as the human stories of those who stayed during the siege.
Gary Gibbon
A film about Boris Johnson’s last year or so in office, Blond Ambition, is on Channel 4 on Sunday night at 10pm. It’s the product of some brilliant and dogged work by Lottie Gammon, chasing down Boris Johnson when he didn’t particularly want our cameras on his case. Do watch it if you get the…
An attack on a hotel on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sa’ana by the Saudi led coalition left dozens of people dead. As the coalition steps up its air campaign – the rebel alliance fracturing… 300,000 people joined a rally in Sa’ana today in a public show of support for the former president amid rising…
Jon Snow
Award-winning Channel 4 News journalist and presenter Jon Snow delivers the prestigious James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture at Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Conor Kenny, from Doctors Without Borders, who was the only doctor on a rescue ship that saved over 4,000 migrants this year, and Elham Saudi, director of Lawyers for Justice in Libya, discuss the rise in the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from north Africa to Europe.