Country asks UN for quick ground force intervention

Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations is asking the international community to quickly intervene with ground forces to save the country from Houthi rebels who have been targeted by Saudi-led airstrikes for weeks.

A letter sent on Wednesday to the president of the UN Security Council also urges human rights organizations to document what Ambassador Khaled Alyemany described as the Houthis' "barbaric violations against a defenseless population".

The call for the use of ground forces comes as the international community instead is urging an immediate cease-fire, or at least humanitarian pauses, to deliver aid to civilians trapped in the fighting.