where intelligence agencies are pulling the strings where organizing cry rules were conglomerates make their own laws? we shed light on the opaque worlds who is behind the benefits. and why are they a threat to was all o peak wolves starts january 5th on d, w. ah. the path into the mountains is steep, stony, and spectacular, like the island itself. so cojo is regarded as one of the most beautiful islands in the world. i believe it's

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the slow back visitors are on their way to a cave. few tourists come here. the island is part of yemen, so it's not so surprising. but the civil war that has raged for years on the mainland is far away. the united arab emirates launched the 1st direct flights here in 2021. it's a 2 hour flight. so coach relies directly off the horn of africa, about 400 kilometers from the yemen. he mainland ether, our guide, he in his having a travel agency and he's doing some pot castile traveling. so he and his from co worker talking bicycle track. and when they prepare district, i decided that i really want to go because it's not just beautiful. they are of great scientific interest. they are an index for climate change.

luckily alice middle offers, it's even better as on the pictures of the imagined before coming here. the drivers, the guides and the cooks are very happy that tourists have returned to the island for many years. so coach herb was practically cut off from the rest of the world because of the war in yemen. one of them, we are proud that tourists are coming here again and that we have work men and we hope that more 2 groups will come a lot more. we're of us,

surprisingly, nature conservationist, ahmed, a div agrees it is okay. he says, as long as the tourists camp outdoors that minimizes their ecological footprint, what he doesn't agree with are the holiday homes that the immorality is a building in the middle of protected areas. for example, here by the coast close to the capital had the boot. he sees this as fraudulent on 2 accounts that only a mini gemini law dictates that you cannot build within 300 meters of the coast. and foreigners are not permitted to buy land. the buyer is from here originally said will it. but he has american citizenship. like i guess he, he used his brother to get around that orlando leave and he now keith had that

and that is just one example. i made a dave says that the purchases all follow the same pattern. there is a lot of demand for real estate by the see here, an entire vacation complex is springing up. the faces of immorality rulers are depicted at the entrance. the real estate investors do not attempt to hide what they're doing. legal. i'm a leslie and don't visit the people who are building here come from abroad. they are emerald, east or soco trees, with m radi citizenship. mostly there are also kuwaitis east. they buy via middleman. nest said these people have all bought land through local inhabitants and that the hint, good luck for anthony. more than in scotland. the environmental activist is worried that the island is being bought out. he's particularly concerned by the growth of

saudi arabia's influence in recent years. hattie blue is the capital of the main island, psycho tra, and the rest of the archipelago. here you can see how the u. a and saudi arabia of vying for influence. fighting to become the dominant power with displays of generosity. the emirates pay the salaries of the municipal officials while saudi arabia builds one school after the other. all of them identical this pow a game is even more apparent on the coast outside had dba. on the right, a yamini school funded by ever darby's khalifa foundation and directly opposite on the left. saudi arabia has also built a new school at this words,

i check point. there are 3 marashi flags and only one jamini flag. the power relations a quite evidence in the foothills of the had g, a mountains which reach 1500 meters at their highest point ahmed, a. d, bronze, a nursery. hello, hello. you've been here. the environmental activist tries to care for the islands natural heritage. his son and his sister help him, daddy, but it's a herculean task, not unique endemic species plants that a native only here are endangered. in this, in it. since the 19 ninety's there has been

a drop in rainfall. the climate here has changed. this should be the rainy season and that it was september is over on october is drawing to a close shot, but no rain has come. you can the shad actually the vision by the family don't receive any financial support for their endeavors and they are unlikely to get any in times of war. nature is not seen as a priority. save for his relatives. the conservationist is alone in his struggle to save the islands, iconic dragons, blood tree. at what level was that? i go believe that this is the dragon's blood tree. in the psychiatry language that we call it the tree of the blood of the 2 brothers the man, if you haven't missed that, how i lit sabelle me here we have planted 7000 dragons blood trees. we had allison,

so the saplings can be planted out in dick some regent and reproduce. the mac, leaned violet. do you think so? ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah ah ah ah.

so coaches fine, sandy beaches, have a caribbean flay the white sands. are a magnet for tourists. island is safe. you haven't been to kellen caea, you haven't seen a co truck for people here. the sea, with its plentiful fish stalks is the most important source of nutrition. the islands, 80000 inhabitants fish to meet their own needs. international fish inflates, don't come here. not yet at least. i love with many fishing boats bear the inscription, the saudi development and reconstruction program for yemen. more proof of how the rich neighboring states, a trying to win influence. fishing is closely bound up with local identity.

instead of playing with toy cars, children here play with home may toy, but ah, the fishes take turn, putting out to sea. 2 boats go out for 2 hours, and then they rotate the idea. every one should equally benefit from the seas. riches fishes, solomon and mohammed are going fishing with half way to the fishing grounds. they come across maison salon. he has set out

without his father. mohammed isn't surprised the boys known throughout the village with that. i like working of the sea. i like catching fish. i live here, live and proceed with the boy is taking a big risk. the waters here are treacherous. thought i wasn't at all that was needed. one boat has already sunk here. some even died. we were able to save up by launch a, the a solem on aids just

a few minutes to catch the 1st fish. there is still enough to go round even if so, the man now faces more competition or for a for the saudis have brought us boats. any one who didn't have a boat got one from them. another company, the immorality is helped us to help us out. they brought us electricity, water, natural gas, and gasoline. and anyone who was sick gets flown to the united arab emirates. well, i love them both, but especially the moratti's because they work with us most i thought a message thought of life is changing on to culture.

some people are worried about these new forms of dependency, but no one is willing to speak openly about it. for the last few days, the sea has been stormy and the fishes were unable to put out to sea. within seconds his couch is snapped up a oh, i know it's gone in a flash or sitting people, take it out of my hands. we fish, they buy more than it. oh. i wonder he wasn't far away from the beaches up in the mountains. you can find the coaches, iconic dragons, blood trees. oh, who? the letter? yeah. i hear the tree

stands in the middle of a nameless village. the houses are in good condition. above them flies the flag of the united arab emirates with the village elder sod. mohammed is fine with that. a note. let us go to the moratti's build the houses, spread them within as yet. we thank them for these houses and we thank them to for the medical care. let's go, let's go long. you thank people who do good to know more about the net. good, the money they get lynette good to was. yeah. if you didn't know what would be an act of ingratitude to god, they might go to live in america unless somebody's got along with hers. life has improved, says sad,

muhammad sous. i can imagine, you know, i, we used to live here with the sheep and the couch. i will karen as we sat and slaughtered our animals here. you can get it so we know, you know, we did everything here. we did a now, couldn't the me, i'm in the neck. no wonder that the u. e has won the hearts of the locals by donating these horns. adam and no matter what, amid a date is meeting friend and fellow activists. mohammed elk ebony the hood a sees a colleague far off, but he doesn't reach for a phone, mom to tell him anything. oh . 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 yeah, yeah, i know that i got it right. how yeah. yeah. but i am. yeah, i did. yeah. yeah. i the yeah. the goats are very far away. they're on the other

side of the valley where the goats are very, very far away. and i've heard nothing. let's have lunch and then go look jenny no, we don't have time. we're in a hurry. i can send my greetings soon. so mohammed l k. bonnie cause he's 60 goats and 10 cows with particular sounds i don't know the hood is have their own specific cools off the animals would get mixed up otherwise. 00000000000 i am here on this plateau. there are practically no dragon's blood trees left any more. it used to look quite different. oh,

i think as an animal, lad, with ag does, our grandfathers told us that there was an entire forest of dragons blood trees here. but that is gone. they have died off what now there is just one tree here. the other their name. again, there are just a few dotted about. they are in danger of extinction. i was joking. doubt. whether less. la la la la, la, la, la, la la, man, about it. scientists have told us that it's due to climate change. i have a minute here. laminate that the le, let them in mo cobra. they're always used to be rain here, visa manila, and there were no goat was lombard with wasa. much. evan, i'm alamba rain at all times of the year them, but ah, ah, the goats are a problem in psycho tra they eat the young, dragon's blood trees causing them to die off. i

only the older ones survive because their leaves are beyond the goats reach. people here say the trees can live for a 1000 years. in april or may, the harvest starts. the red resin from the trunks of the dragon's blood tree is used to produce cosmetics. the resin is used in nail polish and lipstick. o reforestation is urgently needed. the dragon's blood tree is in danger of going extinct activist amanda dave could use help above all money to help protect the trees. but he doesn't expect that from the u. e l l merely model t m moratti's aren't up on this subject line as the st. we need specialists in business with business. people aren't like scientists and emerald teens are business people business? oh, i think it. mohammed elk ebony

knows that he and his goats are part of the problem. that's why the herder is trying to grow. dragon's blood trees with his son is my ill. lou ah, the idea that i had met the goat or like chain smokers, america madman, they're addicted to the tree killer shirad. i'm mom and he had the ama highly di maggie. we built a wall to keep them out now, but they just jump on to it and come inside and eat the plant lovable. i got a move or got to get out of the door like another without good in the future is may, you won't be tending the trees any more. he has received a stipend from the u. e. he's going to study computer science in the egyptian city of alexandria. his view of the emirates involvement here is widely shed because he had the kind of government,

fortunately before the emerald east came here, sir. katra was a forgotten island. i get 5 years have passed and were now in a quite different position at glen or we can study abroad and we couldn't before last one. and now we have electricity. things are developing. there are roads and hospitals shop. what if it is yearly fee? yeah. had a give, it gives you 2 feet and me feet total caught fish as the huffinger fish via ah ah, for ton of selim new is the expert on the islands medicinal plants. he is also worried about the endangered species in global comparison, so kosher it is recognized as being particularly rich in bio diversity. also in

terms of medicinal plants, many are endemic to the archipelago. like you phobia are buskey law. for example, he is harvesting it's valuable sap to create a medicine for digestive problems. then the sick penknife would cut the arteries of the tree and create a problem voice, but a stone only creates a tiny wound that enables me to treat the tree sparingly for the sake of myself and others. and to protect nature will above. yeah, this is another popular plant the healer says that it can even help couples to have children and lives at the alley global mit and again,

when they say this plant remedies in fertility in men and women who wanna help them . and they said, when men don't have enough sperm or their sperm are too weak, and when women have a problem with their ovaries or hormones, this plant is very effective at the she gets her dea, lemme a saudi m r. radi company offered me 63 percent of the profits, see what the rest for them to what to say about that, i think, but they wanted the hatton rights to federal game at the elephant. i'm and i turned them down to chef this t a law here. what not a fault then a pharmaceutical company from the gulf clearly has the coach or in its sides. i activist i'm in

a deep is accompanying his son aysa to a soccer match in the islands youth league. the 17 year old is the coach of the tigers. i help you with along with the health and well, i think that i love both players and audience are male girls and women are not welcome society here is conservative. the pitch is typical for the island stony and dusty car for many boys. here saki is all they have in terms of free time or entertainment. so cobra is still disconnected from the world at lodge. she back in the internet here isn't good what i need sick, much like in other countries. so people here are still just as addicted as people abroad album would mean alan nessie butler the internet when it is working is so bad that they can't even watch

a soccer match on youtube. it's no wonder that even a youth league game is a highlight of the week that i live in and visit any of that i'm in the to the island doesn't have some things. will. those things are basically like internet, the telephone. it wasn't gathered, missouri. there are places that don't have any internet, it'll ask him what the hell of a lot in the gallery with the latin american, missouri, it's different in the capital than the neighboring villages and remote places. that's why the t, i just play sports, but they allow, wow, now the gen you can only find inside of the capital. here we don't have any sort of they play, sports will hang out together and have up again about a allah. again to vienna, gives that to ship via saudi arabia. and the united arab emirates are investing in the island, but not in its internet infrastructure. it is almost impossible for young people to

get access to information or to communicate via social media. is that an oversight on the part of the gulf states, or intentional? ahmed, a div believes the gulf states are acting out of strategic interests. the activist has arranged to meet up with his son aysa to eat on the beach. he says, abu dhabi and re out both want to consolidate their influence in the waters off east africa. he's under no illusions. he knows he must pursue his projects himself . yet he sees no alternative to the current situation. the past and present governments in yemen have done almost nothing in comparison with the m as in alan. emma. we are isolated from the rest of the world. they'll finish the credit, but thank god, the u. a. he came to psychiatry in 2016 at physical address. we didn't have a government denies union and god sent us the moratti's lana medical alert 1st of

all, they built a hospital and helped people here with jeff. my son was sick when he something was wrong with his heart. he couldn't get up in the morning. i did the night so they took him to the emory and cured him to come. medina, thank god oh conference. so what make almond hang you if the moratti's hadn't come here yet, what i thought we would have been worse off than the somalis, for example, moderates. i get the limit. no one can deny that things are better now. so again, imagine good faith above all, it's quiet here, says the environmentalist, the war is far away and that's what matters most with

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