maritime trade and control gives superiority in the world, no matter how big a trade on the land is, it won't find a better route for business than the sea. these are the words of alfred their mahan, the author of the influence of sea power upon history, which deals with importance of sea routes in maritime trade and control over them. about في 200 million years ago, all of the lands on

the earth were connected in a supercontinent named pengia, but gradually the unified continent started to be divided into different chunks. after tens of millions of years, the map of the earth looks like what we see today with several separate continents. now the link between the continents on earth has been established in two ways: through land between asia, africa and europe, and through the oceans in the america's... australia and antarctica. meanwhile some waterways, natural straights and artificial canals that were constructed later, had a strategic role in shaping the famous maritime corridors today for shipping to access the shortest and most cost-effective rots. choke points are the links that connect the sea and land. today, having control over the strategic points

gives astonishing powers to countries. some of the most important waterways in the world are the malaka, hormos, gibraltar, and babomandob straits as well as man-made canals like the suas and panama. the panama canal was constructed in 1914 so ships in the atlantic ocean won't have to turn all the way around south america. the straight of gibraltar connects the mediterranean to the atlantic ocean, between spain and morocco, it's been officially under british control since 1713. the cape of good hope in the...

southern tip of africa serves as a link between the atlantic and indian oceans. this is part of the route for the ships that sail from the south asia to eastern coast of america. the boss forest straight and turkey connects the black sea to the sea of marmara and then the mediterranean. besides a straight facilitates countries like russia and ukraine with access to the mediterranean and high seas. we can argue the hormostrate that joins the persian gulf to the sea of oman is now considered the most vital waterway in the world for a transit of energy. the suez canal in egypt was constructed in 1869 by france and britain. besides its strategic importance, it is used to establish a link between europe to west asia and led to a flourishing business. in

two other natural straights in the world, namely babel dub and malakka. the malaka straight is located in southeast asia between the indonesian island of sumatra and the maele peninsula. many experts believe it's the most important maritime choke point in the world. according to the united nations conference on trade and development, about 60% of maritime trade passes through asia. the south china sea alone carries 1/3ird of the global shipping. the route depends on the malaco straight which connects the south china sea and the pacific ocean to the indian ocean. the route is the artery of major economic powers in asia like japan, taiwan, south korea, and especially china, the second largest economy in the world. every year, over 1000. ships in the south china sea sail

towards the malaca straight. the baban dab straight, a straight between the gulf of aden and the red sea and joins asia to the horn of africa. the first move by the uae in this new regional plot was to get israel involved in the babalmandab strategic waterway. israeli officials directly suggested that the uae develop the perim island adjacent to the babomandab straight in order to link it with the sokotra island in the south of the straight and the gulf of akaba and the port of ellat in the north of the red sea. the development initiated a strategic partnership between the two, the uae and the israeli regime. in may 2021, images from the planet lab's commercial satellite were released from the pedium island. it showed that there's a

relatively large 1800 meter air strip under construction on the island. the israeli website, depka file. dated with the musad spy agency for the first time claimed in a report that the uae was behind the construction on pedium. the israeli media said error field for planes to land and take off as well as infrastructure for espinage activities on the island were coordinated between the uae and israel to control the ships that sailed through boblom dub towards the suas canal with the iranian commercial ships. as a prime targets. what's more, construction of the airport on pedium island gave the uae the chance to transfer some of its equipment from the asab airbase in eritria to this island, which is only 3 and a half kilometers away from yemen's mainland, so in case of aerial

backup for its forces, it could be done in the shortest time possible. on the development of petim island by the... democratic us senator chris murphy said that construction of the base on the island reminds us that as opposed to what the uae claims, it hasn't gotten out of the yemen war. recent reporting suggests that the administration intends to move forward with the sale of reaper drones to the uae. the amaratis already have a record of illegally transferring weapons to solophist militias in yemen, and congress frankly is not received sufficient assurances that such trans will not happen again, some of the main reasons the saudi arabia got militarily involved in yemen were to reduce its reliance on the straight of hormos, have control over yemen's oil and gas resources and use potentials of the country's ports near the red and arab

seas. the straight of hormos is considered the most strategic route in the world, one-third of the total. patrol gas products and a six of the crude oil in the world pass through the hormos straight. among the six arab literal states of the persian gulf, qatar, kuwait, and bahrain can export their oil products only through the hormone straight. a large number of ports in the uae and saudi arabia are dependent on the strategic straight. that's why the two countries have been trying for several decades to find alternative. routes and diminish their dependence on the hormose trade. we're witnessing one of the largest shifts in global geostrategic power that the world is witnessing. the saudi government heavily relies its terminals and ports in places like rasal tanura. according to data

released by the us energy information administration, they export 3.4 million barrels of oil produced in saudi arabia per day from these ports. during the past decades, saudi arabia tried to reduce its dependence on the persian gulf terminals and the straight of hormos by expanding its oil pipelines that pass over land called jubal yambu, which snakes through the east to the west of the country. the pipeline carries about 3 million barrels of oil every day from refineries from the east of saudi arabia like apke and alcoore to the yambu oil terminal. in the west on the coast of the red sea, but this pipeline alone cannot reduce saudi arabia's dependence on the hormose straight. it should have augmented its export capacities, considering yemen's location as saudi arabia's neighbor and its adjacency to

the strategic bubblemundom straight and the coasts of the red and arab seas, it was the most important option for the saudis. the uae is also seeking to develop the al fujeera port on the other side of the hormos straight so its commercial ships can directly access the arab sea and the indian ocean. because the saudis want to be able to, they want to run a pipeline down from saudi arabia, i get my pointer from it, i'll show you buse it economically be very helpful, right, right now all the oil goes out through the persian gulf right, and they're worried about what if that gets shut down or some, what if the iranians closed down the straight off for moves, so the saudis up here when the a pipeline that would come right down to here and go right out there and they'd put up a big facility and they they would bypass the persian gulf inistrative for moving or right through. that part, but the omanis are livid about this. you now, this is basically their backyard, and the saudis are going to use it

for their economic benefit, so i don't know how far that's going to get, but the soudies are eyeing that little that little tip of the immen for economic benefit. in fact, investment on and construction of new pipeline from the north to the south, which is complementary to the east-west oil pipeline in saudi arabia, namely the jubal yambu pipeline help reyad to achieve two-pronked. goal: firstly, it can minimize its dependence on the transit of oil products through the hormone straight, and secondly, it creates the necessary infrastructure to extract the rich and intact oil and gas resources in yemen, and transfers them to southern terminals in the country. and that's, i mean, the pipeline is still far as well, intact, and it runs down to an indian ocean facility, and they can put it on ships and they move it around the world. yemen. is located in the bubble mundab area, which gives it an extraordinary strategic

importance. there's also another reason why it's on foreign powers radar, it's rich and intact oil and gas resources. the valuable underground treasure in yemen has tempted saudi arabia to pursue its old dream to use the resources and control the energy market in west asia and other parts of the world. i also want to mention what i think has motivated this switch or this ignition of a more interventionist foreign policy from the gulf states from qatar, uae and saudi arabia in particular, but they share some things in common, and so the first driver of this more interventionist foreign policy is really what i call the magic decade, and the magic decade was 2003 to 2014, this enormous generation of revenue from oil and gas um exports and so

this allows these states to have the capacity, the economic capacity um to put themselves on the map in different ways uh in a wider widening sphere of influence. before the internal conflicts in yemen in the early 2000s, the country produced 400 thousand barrels of oil per day and 445 million cubic feet of natural gas. although it was a low amount compared to other countries in west asia, it was huge boom for poor country like yemen and its economy. from 2011 and the start of the conflicts in the country, oil production in yemen saw plunge. it has now reached between 50 to 60,000 barrels per day.

الان المنشاه هذه تتواجد فيها قوات الاماراتيه وحولتها الى ثكنه عسكريه وا نحن يعني يعني واقفه معطله المنشاه واقفه للسنه الخامسه على التوالي وستدخل السنه السادسه وهي واقفه نحنا بلد نعتمد على ايرادات النفط والغاز. في تسيير امور بلادنا 60% من موازنه الدوله كانت تاتي من عائدات الغاز نعم اليوم هذه المنشاه ا بالعربي الفصيح تقف الامارات حجر عثره في تشغيلها. proven oil reserves and about 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but some unofficial figures put the volume of the underground resources at 8.9 billion barrels

of oil, which is three times higher than the official figure registered by the yemini government. this figure has not been confirmed and it might increase even further, especially since estimates add 5 billion barrels of oil reserves in southern yemen. oil is not a big deal, it's diminishing the have fair amount of lng, of natural gas. currently we can say most of the gas fields in the marib governor are under the control of saudi backed militants and oil refineries in the country are controlled by the uae. for the officials in riad who suffered heavy political and military defeat in the yemen war, the economic resources and the transit routes in yemen are considered vital. on the other hand, the anstrila movement, which controls large populated areas in yemen, is seeking to access a oil and gas resources in

the country as valuable treasure for the future for. destruction and progress of the country after decade of devastating war. as for the plundering of yemen's oil resources by saudi arabia. the executive director of the yemen national oil company says ايرادات النفط الخام وفقا لتصريحات معالي وزير النفط والمعادن يتم ايه النفط الخام الى البنك الاهلي المملكه العربيه السعوديه المستفيده الاكبر هي قوه حالف العدوان. بقياده الولايات المتحده الامريكيه هم من يقومون بنهب ثروات وخيرات المواطن اليمني قد وصلت السفينه سارا سوتا يوم نهايه يوم 13/8/2021 الى ميناء شبوه لتحميل ما يقارب 106800 طن من النفط الخام اي ما يقارب 950 الف برميل من النفط الخام. with major

companies that are active in excavation of oil wells prove that the uncharted oil reserves in yemen will be far larger than the official 3 billion barrels and the resources in marib, shaba, aljaf and hazarmut are even larger than the fossil fuel resources in all arab countries of the persian gulf put together. in 2012, the year was not so good because of all the incident we had. and bombing of the main pipeline and we produce only 5.2 million tons when our design capacity is about 6.7 and even better in reality whenever we have no shutdown or whenever we have long trend of running. in particular in 2011 the year was quite good and we were able to produce 6.9 million ton.

one of the largest oil fields in saudi arabia is located in rubalhali desert every hundreds of millions of barrels of oil are extracted from that region, but the interesting thing is some experts believe that the main part of the oil field is extended to the south and is under the northern and eastern provinces of yemen, like aljaf and hazarmut. that's why saudi arabia is seeking to gain control over the northern and eastern desert areas. more than controlling the populated urban areas in yemen, in order to be the soul developer and extractor of the rich oil resources in yemen. the importance of using oil reserves in yemen under special and critical conditions in the world market stands out. what's more? ever

since joe biden won the presidential election in the us in 2020. he's been trying to stop the war on yemen. and control the energy markets in the world by granting privileges to the sauna-based government, including delisting the ansterila movement as so-called terrorist organization and mounting pressure on saudi arabia to establish sease fire. he has reversed the designation of the houties as a terrorist organization which threatened to cut off humanitarian aid to millions. by ramping up pressure on the saudiled cool. position to stop the war in yemen, the biden administration is scrambling to return the arab country to the oil and gas market in the world in order to make up for the low supply and consequently reduce fuel prices. the us has always supported occupiers in yemen and has sought to advance its constant policy of managing energy markets and controlling

transit routes. this war has to end and to underscore our commitment, we are ending all american support for offensive operations in the war in yemen, including relevant arm sales. despite macro plans, the support by western powers, topping them all, the us, and spending millions of dollars by the uae and saudi arabia implement their goals, nine years after the start of the war in yemen, riyad and abu dhabi have failed to completely implement their plots in the region. for example, as discussed in detail, the amirati government is eyeing the expansion of the ports in the south of yemen. in order to turn them into international financial and transit hubs, but it hasn't yet inaugurated the develop ports in southern and western yemen.

you can trace the reasons in the incident that happened on september 11th, 2021 in the almoka port. on that day, the southern transitional council leaders and forces under the command of tarik salih established the newly develop. developed almoka port with some uae officials in attendance and gradually start receiving shipping at the port. a few hours before the ceremony, the silos constructed at the port came under missile attack and the ceremony was completely canceled. it was decisive response by yemen's ancerla movement to the uae and the forces backed by abu dhabi. the message was as long as the... port and the coasts are illegally occupied by the saudi lead coalition, the rivals won't be allowed to use the southern ports. on the other hand, saudi

arabia, that wanted to construct oil and gas fields and extend pipelines from yemeny soil in order to reduce its dependence on the hormose trait hasn't even been able to secure its interest in the marib oil and gas fields because marib occupied by the former yemani government. of mansur hadi is beseged by popular forces in yemen. if the conflicts in yemen resume, the saudis and the militants supported by riyad might lose control over the city and the oil fields, which would in turn disrupt a major part of the saudi economic aspiration in yemen. yemen's geopolitical importance on the coast of babandab straight as well as rich natural resources in the country clearly show why

several regional and extra regional powers have been draining their military power, political force and financial resources for over decade to try to control yemen's ports and strategic oil and gas fields. after some time with the... restoration of political stability, the horn of africa and southwest asia, the countries that can exert their influence on these countries, either directly or through proxies, will wield astronomical power to impose their political will in west asia and political bickering by gaining control over one of the most vital maritime trade routes in the world. now this part of the world has been deprived

of peace and calm for many years. people in this region deserve to experience peaceful days. will the country see calm again? will there finally be new chapter in the history of this land without any tension?

more than 500 the children were killed during the conflict, what have they done wrong? being born in gaza is not the crime. more than year after the war was waged by the israeli regime on the gaza strip and approximately year after the cairo donors conference was held for rebuilding gaza, the

reconstruction. project is still teetering between the cruilty of the siege and the procrastination of the israeli regime. what we are doing here is to keep people surviving. we are not talking about quality of life in gaza. if you lock deeply in what is going on in gaza, you will find out big slogan that there is no tomorrow. all agree that the slowdown in the reconstruction is due to the slow process of transferring funds pledged. by the donor countries of the cairo conference, where the undwa received only $270 million, while the required budget is much more. welcome to the palestinian village of alakaba. it's in the northern jordan valley. you think life here would be relatively simple and uncomplicated.

palestinians in area se the way that israel treats hostile population, it makes them their lives as difficult as possible. those palestinian bidwin families who live in in almost about 52 communities without any kind of service. focus is on area c, this is the goal, the immediate goal.

thank you, thank you.