stephen o'brien to syria where he met officials and visited the battered city of homs. obey brian has condemned the duma strikes. >> i'm absolutely horrified by the told disregard much civilian liflife by all parties on this conflict. attacks on civilians are unlawful unacceptable and must stop. i appeal to every party engaged in violence and fighting to protect civilians. >> a military force was quoted as saying that targeted the headquarters of the rebel group the islam army. a day earlier the group had announced a new offensive against government forces and captured an army base in harasta. fighting around the capital damascus has escalated in recent days. duma has been out of government croalt for years but the military still controls -- control for years. >> haresta like duma is at the outskirts of the government power. the government will consider them responsible for the action he of the opposition. >> well there have since been reports of more air strikes on duma. zeina has sent this reports. >> reporter: sunday's air strikes have been described as the deadliest yet in the syr

yemen. speaking after visiting the country, emergency stephen o'brien said the suffering there is almost incomprehensible. that's as the u.n. children's agency unicef said that children are dying every day, and those who survive live in constant fear. it said that the war escalated in march when 398 children died and 605 were injured. meanwhile, a report from amnesty international said that the conflict has gone too far. all sides can be held responsible for war crimes. this is the update from the u.n. a short time ago. >> the needs of the people are massive. this is exacerbated by i a embedments of imports with the widespread scarcity of food and fuel. this is why airports and sea ports need to remain open and be used for commercial imports and humanitarian supplies without restrictions. disregard for human life by all patriots continues with a attacks on residential areas and infrastructure having a disproportionate impact on the lives of yemen. reports of airstrikes and shelling around the port this week damaged the main life lines of import of basic goods, fuel, medicine and f

children among them. u.n. humanitarian chief stephen o'brien visited the battered city of homs. the u.n. has been unable to stop violence or bring about a political settlement but o'brien has condemned duma strikes. >> i'm absolutely horrified by the total disregard of civilian life by alt parties in this conflict. attacks on civilians are unlawful unacceptable and must stop. i appeal to every party engaged in violence and fighting, to protect civilians. and to r respect international humanitarian law. >>> a military contact was recorded as saying, an army base in harasta. fighting around the capital damascus has escalated in recent days. duma has been out of government control for years but the military still controls the skies and civilians more often than not have been targeted. harasta like duma is at the door steps of the government's seat of power. that's why sunday's attacks are being seen as a message to the people of the area. the government will consider them responsible for the action he of the opposition. zeina khodr, al jazeera, beirut. >>> the united nations envoy to syria

in yemen. speaking after visiting the country emergency relief chief stephen o'brien said that the suffering there is almost incomprehensivible. this is as unicef say that children are dying every day, and those who survive live in constant fear. it says since the war escalated in march, 398 children have died, and 605 have been injured. meanwhile the report from amnesty international said that the conflict has gone too far. all sides could be held responsible for war crimes. gabriel elizondo has more for us from the united nations. >> stephen o'brien back from yemen where he visited several cities to get a better sense of on the rebound. how bad the humanitarian situation is there. for the security council he briefed them and painted a dark and gloomy picture of a deteriorating situation in yemen. he gave example. he said that he visited a hospital where the lights were flickering because there was not enough fuel to power generators. he said that there were people who were having to sleep on the floors of the hospital, and several hospitals have shortages of criminal medical supp

marker place on sunday. humanitarian chief stephen o'brien said that he's horrified. from neighboring lebanon, we have our reports. >> the plane dropped the bomb in a crowded mortgage place. it is all an too familiar scene. this area is regularly targeted by airstrikes, but sunday's attack was the worst yet. civil defense workers gathered to help move the wounded when more air raids hit. more than 100 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded. doctors at the field hospitals struggled to help those survive. many of them were critically injured. according to activists on the ground the victims were civilians, women and children were among them. the attacks coincided with a visit were humanitarian chief stephen o'brien to syria. he has condemned the strikes. >> i'm horrified by the total disregard of civilians. attacks on civilians are unlawful, and must stop. i appeal to every party engaged in violence and fighting to protect civilians, and to respect international humanitarian law. >> the syrian opposition said that the attack was a war crime. >> i think that the

coincided with a visit of the u.n. humanitarian chief stephen o'brien to syria, where he met officials and visited the battered city of homs. the u.n. has been unable to stop the violence or bring about a political settlement, but o'brien has condemned the douma tribes. >> i'm absolutely horrified by the total disorder for civilian life by all parties in this conflict. it is unlawful, unacceptable and must stop. i appeal to every party engaged in violence and fighting to protect civilians, and to respect international humanitarian law. >> syrian state media did mention the attack on douma but a military source is quoted at saying the air force carried out strikes in douma and nearby areas that targeted the headquarters of the rebel group islam army. a day earlier the group had announced a new offensive against government forces and captured an army base. [ gunfire ] fighting around the capital of damascus has escalated in recent days. douma has been out of government control for years, but the military still controls the skies, and civilians more often than not have been targeted. it is at

with the visit of stephen o'brien to syria where he went to the battered city of homs. they have been unable to stop the violence and bring about a political settlement. but they're able to brin bring about the douma strikes. >> attacks on civilians are unlawful, unacceptable, and must stop. i appeal to every party engaged in violence and fighting to protect civilians and to respect international humanitarian law. >> syrian state media did mention the attack on douma, but a source was was recorded as s saying that nearby strikes targeted the headquarters of the rebel group the islam army. the group announced a new offensive against government forces and captured an army base. fighting around the capital of damascus has escalated in recent days. douma has been out of government control for years, but the military still control the skies. but civilians more often than not have been targeted. douma is at the door steps of the seat of power. the government will consider them responsible for the actions of the opposition. al jazeera, beirut. >> sri lankans have voted in elections. running

to a reliable food source. stephen o'brien is emergency relief coordinator for the united nations, and he says the need for humanitarian aid in yemen has never been greater. >> i was able to see for myself, the terrible human cost that comes from this instability, which has been rev aging yemen now for far too long. the scale now needs to be upgraded to such a degree, that we need all hands on hand to be able to get the international ngo's the u.n. agencies with full access both to aden, but also to sana'a, and the other areas in yemen, which i have been able to see over the last few days, and it has been absolutely clear to me, whether talking to a little six year old who happens to be blind, standing in line with his mother waiting for food, they had been doing that from 6:00 am every day for the last two weeks. these are real human stories. 80% of the yemeni people taken across the country we have to be totally impartial in getting access to each and every one of them. and now is the time for me to really ramp up the interest at the security council in new york at the various c

, the victims were civilians, women and children among them. u.n. humanitarian chief stephen o'brien, the u.n. has been unable to stop the violence or bring about a political settlement but o'brien has condemned the duma strikes. >> i'm absolutely horrified about the total disregard for civilian life by all parties. unacceptable and must stop. i appeal to every party engaged in violence and fighting to protect civilians. and to respect international humanitarian law. >> reporter: syrian state media don't mention the attack on duma but a source is quoted by saying, targeted the headquarters of the rebel group the islam army. a day earlier, the group had announced a new offensive against government forces and captured an army base in haresta. fighting around the area ever damascus has escalated in the past days. the military still controls the skies and civilians more often than not have been targeted. haresta like adam is at the door steps of the government's seat of power. that is why sunday's attacks are being seen as a message to the people of the area. the actions of the opposition, ze

united nations. gabriel is there. we're talking about stephen o'brien, what did he say? >> reporter: he did give a very impassioned spech -- speech on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in syria. he was there when government air strikes hit a marketplace outside of duma, killing over 100 people. so he has a fresh perspective on the situation going on there. he said in the last month he told the security council, there has been violence, has continued to escalate across the country with indiscriminate and targeted attacks by all of the parties of the conflict. a quarter of a million killed, one million injured, 7.6 million displaced inside of the country, including one million that had to flee their homes this year alone. but behind these numbers are people that are really suffering, and o'brien specifically pointed out the ongoing refugee crisis. listen closely to what he had to say about that. >> over four million people have fled across borders in a desperate search of survival a future. placing host countries under pressure, which is now stretched to breaking point. we may

very grim and dark report on the situation in syria from stephen o'brien, the top humanitarian official, host just in syria a little bit over a week ago, so he has a very recent and front and center view of the situation there in the country. he said that there are 4.6 million syrians living in hard to reach areas or besees areas and the country is having a very hard time getting aid to those people. he told the security council that the u.n. has only been able to reach about 12% of those 4.6 million people to give them food aid, and only 3% to give them medical help so a very very difficult situation there. 7.6 million internally displaced people within syria, 1 million people just this year alone, he said, have been pushed from their homes. but behind all these numbers, are really cases of human suffering happening in the country right now. and nowhere can you see it more, listen carefully to what o'brien told the security council specifically about that. >> over 4 million people have fled across borders in the desperate search of survival and the future. facing host countrie