The world’s most shocking violence — and why you’re ignoring it

So the BBC is focusing on Ukraine after Russia resumed their major strikes on Kyiv pretty much immediately after Witkoff and Kushner left.

So at least two people have been killed in those strikes.

And this comes after that brief pause for Peace talks, emphasis on brief there.

Then Reuters, they're actually focusing on the Houthis today as the Houthis have attacked four Saudi cities overnight.

73 people have been injured and some Saudi energy facilities have had to stop operating as well.

Saudi Arabia have already said that they're going to retaliate.

And that feeds into the other kind of focus that sat with Reuters today.

They're saying that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is now slowing after Iran has threatened to impose a new restricted zone.

And so oil is heading back towards $100 a barrel.

Then The Guardian is still on Germany, but the story has moved on from the election result.

So there's now anti-AFD protests across Germany, with attention already turning to whether the far right could win two more state elections this month.

And Al Jazeera has the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized Yemeni government as their top story, and how they have launched a counteroffensive against the Houthis, saying it ultimately wants to retake the territory, which the Houthis have controlled for more than a decade.

So have you got any idea what's going on over there? The

actual structure of who governs Yemen isn't so complicated.

It's just unfortunate in that the Houthis control Yemen.

They have been in Sana'a now for quite a while, and they control, through various means, the other regions of the state.

There is still some trouble, as I mentioned, in the Southern Journalist Council.

There are some other issues, including like a very small and kind of much belittled ISIS group, I think, in the middle of the country.

There's an al-Qaeda operative there also.

And of course, the Houthis are ideologically and otherwise aligned with Iran and troublemakers.

Right.

So that's the situation.

And you can see that they flare up every now and again.

Of course, we've got excellent information about Yemen and its various stages of this conflict going back now over a decade.

But yeah, who's friends with who is much more complicated than who runs what.