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. out for business than the sea. these are the words of alfher 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 200 million years ago, all of the lands on the earth were connected in a supercontinent named penia, 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 americas, 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 babal mandandob straights, as well as man-made canals like the suaz 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 bosforest straight in turkey connects the black sea to the sea of marmara and then the mediterranean, besides the 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 transit of energy. the suas 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 into other natural straights in the world, namely babelman dub and malakka. the malakka straight is located

in southeast asia between the indonesian island of sumatra and the maelei 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 100 thousand ships in the south china sea sail towards the malaca straight. the babbal monte.

uae in this new regional plot was to get israel involved in the babalmandab strategic waterway. israely officials directly suggested that the uae develop the petim island adjacent to the boblemandab 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 ihalat in the north of the red sea. the development initiated a strategic partnership between the two, the uae and the israeli. in may 2021, images from the planet lab's commercial satellite were released from the petium island. it showed that there's a relatively large 1800 meter air strip under construction on the island.

the israeli website, depka file affiliated with the mosad 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 takeoff as well as infrastructure for espinage activities on the island were coordinated between the uae and israel to control the ships that sail through bable mont dub towards the suas canal with iranian commercial ships as a prime targets. what's more? construction of the airport on petium island. gave the uae the chance to transfer some of its equipment from the asab air base 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 uae, 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 suggested 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 salafist militias in yemen, and congress frankly is not received sufficient assurances that such transfers will not happen again. some of the main reasons that saudi arabia got military. 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 natural gas products and a sixth of the crude oil in the world passed through the hormostrate. 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 rasaltanura. 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 term. turnels 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 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 it's adjacency to the strategic 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 fujer port on the other side of the hormos straight. 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 as some but the iranians closed down the straight off for moves so the saudis up here want pipeline that would come right down to here and go right at there and they put up a big facility and they they would bypass the persian gulf inistrator for moving or right through that part but the omaniis are livid about this you know 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 yemen 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 riad to achieve two-pronged goal. firstly, it can minimize its dependence on the transit of oil products through the hormones 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 power's 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 the... 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 exports and so this allows these st to have the capacity, the economic capacity to put themselves on the

map in different ways, in a wider widening sphere of influence. before the internal conflicts in yemen in the early 2000s, the country produced 40000 barrels of oil per day and 445 million cubic. 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 60,00 barrels per day, a large portion of which is consumed inside yemen. القوات 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 ال billion barrels of proven oil reserves and about 17 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, but some unofficial figures for 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 yemani 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 to have fair amount of liquid of lng, of natural gas. currently we can say most of the gas fields in the amarib 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, 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 the oil and gas resources in the country as valuable treasure for the future,

for reconstruction and progress of the country after decade of devastating war. asked for the plundering of yemen's oil resources by saudi arabia, the executive director of the yemen national company ايرادات النفط الخام وفقا لتصريحات معالي وزير النفط والمعادن يتم ايداع ايرادات النفط الخام الى البنك الاهلي في 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 95000 برميل من النفط الخام continues that studies by institutes 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, shabwa, 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 shut down 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 rubal hali desert. every year

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. 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 sona based government and including delisting the antecerolla movement as so-called terrorist organization and mounting pressure on saudi arabia to establish seizfire. 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 coalition 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 reduced fuel prices. the us has always supported occupiers in yemen and has saw 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 emirati 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. that inaugurated the developed 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 saleh established the newly developed almokaport 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 cancelled. it was decisive response by yemen's ansera movement to the uae and the forces backed by abu dhabi. the message was as long as the hudaida port and the coasts are illegally occupied by the saudi led 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's soil in order to

reduce its dependence on the hormose straight, hasn't even been able to secure its interests in the marib oil and gas fields, because marib, occupied by the former yemani government of mansur hadi is besieged 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 babandalp straight as as the 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?

the israeli occupation. demonstrates its hatridge on houses of the lord, this mask was reduced to rubble by f-16 warjet, the raid

led to the destruction of the houses. around the mosk, causing the fall of martters and injuries amongst neighbors of the mosk. the palestinians did not stand on the romans of the masks idly, but they created temporary mosks that don't protect them from neither the cold of winter nor the heat of the summer. when palestinian journalist shirin abule was killed by an israeli sniper on may 11, 2022, the israelis meant to get across a clear message that they don't want any narrative

other than their... brown under decades old occupation of palestinian lands and their aggression. it wasn't a first time israel sought to put gag on the alternative narrative, and every time it has failed. watch the history of the israeli measures and palestinian counter measures in this documentary.

your headlines on press tv, at least three american troops are killed and over two dozen others injured in a drone attack a us base in northeast jordan near the syrian border. the death toll from the israelt on gaza surpasses 26,400 and mid master. placement of palestinians in the territory, and a senior un official says those countries that have paused funding for onrwa could be violating the genocide convention.