‘We have failed Yemen’: UN human rights council ends war crime probe

Defeat for western states as Bahrain, Russia and other nations push through vote to shut down investigations

Bahrain, Russia and other members of the UN human rights council have pushed through a vote to shut down the body's war crimes investigations in Yemen, in a stinging defeat for western states who sought to keep the mission going.

Members narrowly voted to reject a resolution led by the Netherlands to give the independent investigators another two years to monitor atrocities in Yemen's conflict.