The Yemen peace deadlineSecretary of Defense Jim Mattis called on the warring sides in Yemen, including US-backed Saudi Arabia, to come to the negotiating table within 30 days. That was 15 days ago. Marco Werman checks in with Rep. Jim McGovern, an ardent advocate for ending the fighting, about what’s being done by Washington — and what’s not — to bring an end to the Yemen war.Hisham Al-Omeisy was in Sanaa for the first three and a half years of the war, spending part of it in detention, and he says it does not matter who wins this war now — Yemen just needs it to stop. He checks in from Cairo.
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