ah, for an eternity time, it can be measured precisely. indeed, everyone experiences it differently as if there are different forms of time. time. ah, the phenomenon a dimension we know we won't live forever. an illusion. about time presenting future's past starts december 31st on d. w. 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, lies directly off the horn of africa, about 400 kilometers from the yamini mainland theater, our guide, he is having a travel agency and he's doing some podcast about traveling. so he and he's from co worker talking about the contract. and when they prepare the strip, i decided that i really want to go because it's so strange destination. and because of the war in yemen, it's very that the chance that you will come here again later it's very, very low. or if the situation will be better and more tourist will come, the,

the country will definitely change. so to, to see that at this moment it's really amazing. right? so culture is really far away from almost everything. while war is raging in yemen, the island is a peaceful haven. a safe place to go on vacation. caves are not something completely new for the slovak tourists. slovakia has many of them, but the visitors are nevertheless deeply impressed. ah, it's the biggest cave i've ever seen. it's really impressive, beautiful over style at nights and stella nights on the same. very, very impressive. hawk, a cave is 2.5 kilometers long. the many stalagmites and stalactites are not just

beautiful. they are of great scientific interest. they are an index for climate change. louis alice hopkins. 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. the coach of 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 work. and it looks of surprisingly, nature, conservationist ahmed, a div agrees it is okay. he says, as long as the tourists camp outdoors that minimizes their ecological footprints, 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. the gun only a mini gemini law dictates that you cannot build within 300 meters of the coast. and foreigners are not permitted to buy land. and the buyer is from here originally said bill it, but he has american citizenship because he, he used his brother to get around that oil and leave. and he now keith had that

and that is just one example. ahmed. a dave says that the purchases old 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 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 psycho trees with m radi citizenship mostly with it. there are also kuwaitis east. they buy via middleman nestles these people have all bought land

through local inhabitants. and that the hint, good luck that i don't think 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 is 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 power game is even more apparent on the coast outside had dba. on the right, a yamini school funded by abu dhabi khalifa foundation and directly opposite on the

left. saudi arabia has also built a new school at this roadside checkpoint, there are 3 emerald 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. i made a d bronze, a nursery, natural heritage, his son and his sister help him that he died. but it's a herculean task that unique endemic species plants that a native only here are endangered

in this, in it since the 19 ninety's. but there's been a drop in rainfall. the climate here has changed. this should be the rainy season and that was september is over on october is drawing to a close shot, but no rain has come. you can reach out. actually, the vision with 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. dragon's blood tree at what level would regulate the this is the dragon's blood tree and the circuitry language, what we call it, the tree of the blood of the 2 brothers for that. i know if you haven't missed that how i lit sabelle me here. we have planted 70000 dragons blood trees. we

had the alesis and so the saplings can be planted out in dick some regions and reproduce the molecular and violet, you think so? ah ah ah ah, ah ah ah ah, ah

sir coaches fine, sandy beaches have a caribbean flay the white sands are a magnet for tourists island to save. you haven't been to kellen caea. you haven't seen a co tra 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 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 toys, 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 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 like working of a c. i like catching fish. i live here live in, proceed with the boy is taking a big risk. the waters here are treacherous. so that wasn't all that the one boat has already sunk here. so i'm even died. we were able to save up on a a

soley mountain aids just a few minutes to catch the 1st fish. there is still enough to go round, even if still the man now faces more competition or for a what's up with the saudis have brought us books. anyone who didn't have a boat got one from them. another company. the immorality is helped us to follow. 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 got 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 catch is snapped up with an up, it's gone in the flesh. i wish that people take it out of my hands. we fish, they buy more than it. no. i wouldn't even get far away from the beaches up in the mountains. you can find the coaches, iconic dragons, blood trees. oh, 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 with a note let us go to the moratti's spilled. said them within as yeah, good. we sometimes 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 about the net. good, the money they get lynette good to was. yes. if you didn't wanna do, it would be an act of ingratitude to god. they might go to the image, but a message got along with

life has improved, says thought muhammad seems not i can actually now i know we used to live here with the sheep, and because i know we'll kind of as we sat and slaughtered her animals here, you know, can get it so, you know. yeah, you know, we did everything here. we do and now couldn't tell me, i'm the owner. no wonder that the u. a has won the hearts of the locals by donating these horns. i don't have them. what amid a day is meeting friend and fellow activists, mohammed al capone to her to seize a colleague far off. but he doesn't reach for a phone on the oh boy. 2 2 2 2 2 yeah, yeah, i know that i got to read how yeah. yeah,

but i am. yeah, i got i got 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 remember let's have lunch and then go look here. yeah, no, we don't have time. we're in a hurry. i can send my greetings mohammed l. okay bonnie, cause he's 60 goats and 10 cows with particular sounds other heard is have their own specific calls. all the animals would get mixed up otherwise all the other o o, o, o, o, o, o and i am here on this plateau. there are practically no dragon's blood trees left anymore. it used to look quite different. oh,

i did wanna move that with our grandfathers told us that there was an entire forest of dragons blood trees here. but that has gone. they have died off. now there's just one tree here. the other there, there are just a few dotted about you. they are in danger of extinction. i was calling out. wow, the less la la la la la la la la man, nobody. scientists have told us that it's due to climate change. they have a minute here. laminate that the le, let them in. now cobra, they're always used to be rein here. visa mana let, and there were no goat water, lombard moth wassa. marvin, i'm alamba rain at all times of the year them, but ah, ah, the goods 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. d is 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 you. a little merely, martine m. moratti's aren't up on this subject line as was to sleep. we need specialists who business with business. people aren't like scientists. and emerald teens are business people business.

i think it. mohammed elk ebony knows that he and his gods 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, her, the idea that they know on the go, the are like chain smokers, latin america, the madman out there addicted to the tree, a killer, shirad. i'm how many she'll die. mom haley damn are gave. 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 gotta move or going to get out the door. the garden without good in the future is may, you won't be tending the trees any more. he is received a stipend from the u. e. he is going to study computer science in the egyptian city of alexandria. his view of the emirates involvement here is widely shared.

it gives an island i get, i get 5 years have passed and we're now in a quite different position at glenn 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 court fees are so huffy. mr. ashby it ah ah, for turn off. selim new is the expert on the islands medicinal plants. he is also worried about the endangered species in global comparison, so kosher 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. lynette sic lanai would cut the arteries of the tree and create a problem ways, 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 love. yeah, this is another popular plant. the healer says that it can even help couples to have children at the end of the alley global mooted again when

they say this plant remedies in fertility in men and women who wanna help him. and he said, when men don't have enough sperm or their sperm are too weak. and when women have a problem with her ovaries or hormones, this plant is very effective. at the shed, he gets her dea. lemme a saudi m radi company offered me 63 percent of the profit to see what the rest for them talk about and i think, but they wanted that hatton right to give the elephant. i'm and i turned them down to chef the stella here. one out of the then a pharmaceutical company from the gulf clearly has the co tra, in its sides with

the activists. 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 will bother you with a boy with the hello. hello. who is? well, i 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 cow for many boys he is sulky, 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 that the, the island doesn't have some things. will. those things are basically like internet and the telephone network out of missouri. there are places that don't have any internet, it'll ask them with a telephone, not out in the gallery with another 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, that again, 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 of again a very allah again to vienna gazette 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 a strategic interests. the activist has arranged to meet up with his son aysa to aid on the beach. he says, abu dhabi and re add 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 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. e came to psycho tra, in 2016 at physical address. we didn't have a government denies union and god sent us the emerald east lena,

medical alert of all they built a hospital and helped people here with my son was sick when t. something was wrong with his heart. he couldn't get up in the morning either. so they took him to the emory and cured him to come. medina, thank god. oh kind for somebody. make almond hanging. if the moratti's hadn't come here no more. i thought we would have been worse off than the somalis. for example, let us get the linen. no one can deny that things are better now. so again, imagine go to faith. above all, it's quiet here, says the environmentalist. the war is far away and that's what matters most with

ah, we chew here, ellen war socialists construct. almost soviet to coast was an ideal in the soviet union. millions were educated according to this archetype. after the collapse of the eastern block, it disappeared, or did it almost soviet to cause a soviet state of mind. in 15 minutes on d, w. o. d w's crime fighters are back africa's most successful radio drama series, continues them all episodes are available online. and of course you can share and this goes on d, w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms,

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