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?
