Hello, welcome to your extra morning show. My name is Philip DeFranco, and today I want to focus on a story that's received very little cable news coverage, although that is beginning to change, and that is the war in Yemen.

And over the last few weeks, many have begun to question the US relationship with

Saudi Arabia after journalist Jamal Keshogi was allegedly tortured and

murdered by agents of the Saudi government and this while he visited the Saudi

consulate in Istanbul Turkey and while the outrage over Keshogi's death is

100% completely justified, it does also bring up the question as to why Saudi Arabia's airstrikes in Yemen that have killed thousands of civilians has not received nearly the same amount of attention.

And so that's why today we're going to dive deeper

into this war-torn country's severe humanitarian crisis.

And now Yemen's a mess, but it's getting better.

During a recent press conference,

President Trump briefly mentioned the war in Yemen, but the American public knows little about what's actually happening there.

Since 2015 a civil war in Yemen has spiraled out of control and transformed into an international crisis.

For more than three years, a rebel group called the Hutis that receives weapons from Iran,

and a central government backed by Saudi Arabia, the US, and other Arab countries

have fought a bloody air, naval, and ground war.

The Houthis have been accused of committing war crimes such as placing landmines and civilian

areas, engaging in arbitrary arrests and torturing prisoners.

This includes the placement of 500,000 landmin in various areas around Yemen.

Reports of detainees being hung from walls by their arms and having their fingernails extracted and at least 117 documented

cases of prisoners in Hooti captivity dying behind bars due to torture or neglect.

But the Saudi coalition is responsible for the vast majority of the estimated 16,000 civilian

casualties, conducting more than 18,000 airstrikes in Yemen, one strike every 99 minutes.

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