[Natalie Allen, Cnn Anchor:] Welcome back. Five of the world's biggest aid organizations agree if the U.S. doesn't stop supporting the Saudi war in Yemen, it will be directly complicit in causing what could be the largest famine in decades.
[Cyril Vanier, Cnn Anchor:] In a scathing letter, the aid groups say 14 million Yemenis are at risk of starving to death. Three years of war have caused import restrictions, blockades, damaged infrastructure, not to mentions, of course, the fighting. And all of this is preventable. CNN's Sam Kiley explains.
[Sam Kiley, Cnn Correspondent:] An electronic pulse tracks Naziha's battle with death. Her insides were torn out in an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition that's supported and armed by the U.S. and the U.K. The bombing killed three of her sisters and wounded two more in Hodeidah.
[Maged Ghaleb, Father Of Airstrike Victims:] We are calling on all the honorable people of the world, all people from all religions, anyone who has a heart to stop this bloodshed. We cannot take it. Yemenis and their children are being murdered in cold blood.
[Kiley:] A bipartisan bill that demands an immediate end to fighting and to the U.S. support for Saudi Arabia's campaign is being considered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. And it's getting support from five of the U.S. biggest charities that are working in Yemen. They published a joint letter calling for an end to support to Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. in the war.
[Abby Maxman, Ceo Oxfam America:] The U.S. has been over the course of the conflict over three and a half involved in supporting the Saudi- led, U.A.E.-backed coalition in Yemen. And it has perpetuated the war. The U.S. has been an arms broker while trying to be a peace broker which is a difficult thing to do both.
[Kiley:] At least 10,000 people have been killed in this war, many of them hit in air strikes like the Saudi attack on a bus that killed dozens of children with an American bomb. The U.N. has called for a ceasefire but there are no signs that the two biggest arms suppliers to Saudi Arabia the U.S. and the U.K. are going to join Denmark, Finland and Germany in stopping the flow of weapons. And while the war rages on, aid agencies say that 14 million people are threatened with famine and the U.N. says 400,000 children are on the brink of starvation. Sam Kiley, CNN Abu Dhabi.
[Vanier:] Now a blow to the LGBT community in Taiwan. Voters say no to legalizing same-sex marriage. And that's not all they did. We'll have the latest on the Taiwan elections when we come back.