More than 30 people have been killed or wounded in a Saudi attack on a livestock market in Yemen's Taiz province, according to media outlets aligned with the Houthi movement and cited by Sky TG24. The broadcaster Al-Masirah, which is close to the rebels, said the airstrikes hit a market in the al-Wazi'iyah area of the southern province. The toll is provisional, and Sky TG24 reports that searches for missing people are still under way while aircraft continue to fly over the district.
Why it matters
The reported strike lands in the middle of a wider confrontation that now stretches well beyond Yemen's borders. Sky TG24's live coverage ties the Taiz attack to an escalating conflict involving Iran and the United States, and the same bulletin carries reports of burning tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, missile impacts on an Iranian island and a nuclear proposal shuttled between Tehran and Washington through Qatar. Each of those threads has the potential to change the calculations of governments far from the Arabian Peninsula.
Yemen has been the scene of a long-running war in which the Houthis, who control the capital and much of the north, fight a Saudi-led coalition backing the internationally recognised government. Taiz, in the country's southwest, has been a front line for years. Reports of civilian casualties at markets and other public places have repeatedly drawn international concern, though casualty figures from Yemen's conflict are difficult to verify independently and often differ between the warring sides.
A maritime flashpoint in Hormuz
Separately, two oil tankers caught fire after striking mines in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Tasnim, a news agency close to Iran's Revolutionary Guards. The report, relayed by Sky TG24, said the vessels were attempting to cross the strait using routes it described as unauthorised, and claimed the ships had shut down their navigation and identification systems while trying to leave with backing from what it called aggressive US armed forces. Those characterisations come from the Iranian agency and have not been independently confirmed.
The Strait of Hormuz is the world's most important oil chokepoint, and any disruption there reverberates through energy markets. The Tasnim account follows a pattern in which each side in the wider confrontation describes the same incident in sharply opposing terms. Sky TG24's live coverage did not include a response from Washington or from the tankers' owners or flag states.
Nuclear proposal sent through Doha
On the diplomatic track, Iran has passed a nuclear proposal to the United States via Qatar, Reuters reported, citing an official speaking on condition of anonymity. According to that account, Tehran says the proposal will only be discussed once Washington has met seven demands. Those conditions include lifting US sanctions, unfreezing Iranian assets held abroad and paying war reparations, Reuters reported. The US is said to be reviewing the proposal, and the official gave no further details.
Washington has maintained that nuclear questions must form a core part of any initial negotiations, according to the same reporting. The gap between the two positions — Tehran's precondition of sanctions relief and reparations against Washington's insistence that the nuclear file come first — is the central obstacle described in the coverage.
The picture is further complicated by public statements from President Donald Trump, who told reporters at the White House that things with Iran were going "very well" and that the US was talking to Iranian leaders. In a post on Truth Social, Trump also claimed that Israel and the wider Middle East would not exist today had he not prevented Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Sky TG24 reported both remarks.
Missiles on Qeshm and military planning
Tasnim also reported that two missiles struck the Iranian island of Qeshm, an account that followed similar information from Iran's official IRNA agency. Tasnim said no information had yet arrived from official sources. The island sits near the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz, giving the report additional weight in the context of the maritime incidents.
CNN, as cited by Sky TG24, reported that the US military is drawing up new strike plans on Iran that could involve the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, widely known as the "mother of all bombs." The reported targets would be energy infrastructure and military sites, and any use would depend on an order from Trump to resume military operations before or after the US midterm elections, which Sky TG24's coverage dates to 3 November.
The Times, again via Sky TG24, reported that Iranian officials are handing out iodine tablets to people living within two to three kilometres of nuclear facilities, out of fear those sites could be hit in a strike ordered by Trump after the midterms. A health official, speaking anonymously, was quoted as saying the distribution has been a precaution during every war.
Political fallout and a West Bank arrest
The coverage also records political consequences inside the United States. After Vice President JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr said on his podcast that Republicans had lost the midterm elections because of the war with Iran, stating that his side had been "steamrolled" and that the party had lost the House, the Senate and races across the country, with Florida as an exception. Sky TG24 attributes those remarks to the president's son.
In Israel, consultations on forming a government continue. Sky TG24 reports that Ra'am, with its eight lawmakers, first brought support for the centrist leader to 56 seats, and that the Joint List then unanimously pushed him past the 61-seat threshold. The bulletin also profiles former general Gadi Eisenkot, 66, presented as the opposition's leading candidate in elections dated 27 October, who leads the Yashar party and entered politics in 2022.
In the occupied West Bank, six Italians are among 14 international volunteers arrested while helping Palestinians harvest olives, according to Sky TG24. The group of Italians includes four activists and two journalists, among them Giorgia Lombardi, a municipal councillor in La Spezia. Expulsion procedures are expected tomorrow.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, also raised an alarm while speaking at the WinWin Brussels Summit for startups, Sky TG24 reported, without giving further detail in the summary.
What to watch next: whether the Taiz toll is revised as searches conclude, how Washington responds to the Hormuz tanker account, and whether the Qatari channel produces any movement on the seven Iranian conditions.
