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Abu Bakr al-Qirbi - Foreign Minister, Yemen

Stephen Sackur talks to Yemen's veteran foreign minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi about the country's humanitarian, economic, and security disasters that makes few headlines in the outside world and are described as 'the Arab world's slow-motion car crash'. The Yemeni government is supposed to be in the middle of a major programme of political and economic reform, but right now its focus appears to be a major military assault on local Al Qaeda strongholds. If Yemen is a failing state, who is to blame?

English
  • Originally Aired May 2, 2014
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Network BBC News
  • Created May 4, 2014 by
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