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Lyse Doucet talks to journalist Safa al-Ahmad who has recently returned from filming a documentary in Yemen for 大象传媒 Arabic. Yemen is on the brink of civil war after Houthi rebels seized large swathes of the country including the capital, Sanaa, at the end of last year. Safa tells Lyse about some of the extraordinary encounters she had in the making of the film as she negotiated her way through Houthi checkpoints and into Al Qaeda held terrain. In a country that鈥檚 become increasingly difficult to report from Safa has poignant stories from a nation fast falling apart.

(Photo: A Houthi rebel holds a gun. 大象传媒 copyright)