completely against the constitutional rights of americans, it's goes against the free speech right that they have, doesn't it? absolutely, it does, but as we've seen more and more, so many states have engaged in this, what we call the palestinian exception, of so people who support the boycott diverstinction movement against israel could be have been fired and also refused state jobs, um, and so while it does go against any kind of... um principle that the us claims that has within its first amendment, reality shows that there are cracking down on people for peacefully protesting on behalf of palestine, and the punishments are getting more and more draconian. okay, so we have once again some breaking news coming in, the lebanese health ministry uh announcing that 25 people have been killed in israeli air strikes since dawn. "that is the latest

update that we have as far as the israeli attacks on the lebanese regions are concerned. esha, if you could please tell us what kind of retaliation you're expecting from hazballah considering this level of destruction. so far hazballah has demonstrated a high level of restraint and it has only targeted military regions. "i think that hezbulah has a different strategy and so they're not going to start targeting civilian regions, but i think they are going to be more heavy missile attacks into israeli military targets and mostly in northern israel to make it harder for israel to strike lebanon. also another weakness that has been exposed is the well touted iron dome system many resistance movements have been..." able

to get missiles through the concord iron d dome system, so i think that exposes a weakness within the israeli military, and i think hezbulah is going to push on those kind of um weaknesses to continue making it more untenable for the israeli military to continue these strikes. what about israel's claiming that they are thinking about a ground invasion? there has been lots of media reports about that, is this something that is only? um restricted to media speculations or is it something that israel is could actually of having in mind? so far, i have not seen any evidence of israel preparing to engage in ground invasions yet, but there has been much media speculation, but it it cannot be ruled out given who's in power in in israel and the kind of reaction they are seeking, so it is possible, but if they do engage in... ground

attacks, that is going to be a disaster, because as we can see in 2006 israel had a israel got routed in lebanon, so it is not beyond the possibility, but right now there hasn't been evidence that they are preparing for that. what happens if they do? well, it's going to be an all-out war, the casualties are going to increase on both sides and we'll have to see what other members of the access. of resistance and how they plan on uh reacting to that would be um will they will they provide more direct military support, will they send troops? so i think those are the questions that will have to be asked if israel decides to engage in ground invasions. uh, we have some breaking news coming in, yemenese army says that they have struck vital targets in israeli occupied askalon with the... drones, so uh, ashna, it seems

that the resistance front is quite capable of penetrating deep into the occupied territories or israel, so uh, do you think this is something they had included in their calculations? it's hard to say, because um, it's still unclear what their capabilities are, but yemen has shown that their drones are very advanced and they can hit within israel. they can penetrate israel's missile defense systems um so but once again um based on israel's goals it may not be important for them to include this in their calculation because they're trying to get a more bigger involvement for and more direct involvement from their allies. what do you mean that they are looking for more? can you be more clear? i think they want the us to put boots on the ground and be involved more directly in this.

war because right now their goals have not been realized with the israeli military alone, so they want more than just military and logistic support, they want members of the us army to come and help them fight the war. how likely is that to happen? it's hard to say. um, right now, it us has shown an extreme reluctance in to get more involved than logistic and military support, but depending on how the elections in november go and who's in the next administration, it might happen. what would the next administration? do you think that first of all, whether we have a republican or democrat president in the white house? would it make a... difference on us policy regarding the region and what would happen if either one of the candidates becomes president, how will the equations change? okay, so yes and no, in terms of unwaving in terms of military equipment transfer, it's not going to make a

difference, but in terms of what kind of actions from israel they're willing to tolerate and support, it will make a difference, because president, president trump has already taken millions of dollars from donor miriam edelson who basically has a condition for her donations that um that they allow israel to annex parts of the west bank and he has openly said he would allow that so i think in those kind of and i think a republican administration is more likely to send boots on the ground than democratic administration so while the main support for israel may not change, the kind of aggression that is willing that that the parties are willing to engage in will change based on who went. okay, so as i said before, yemen, the yemeny army has struck vital positions inside

the israeli occupied territories. uh, our correspondent in yemen is also joining us, husph mari to tell us more about that. yusuf, i believe you are taking part. demonstration, those weekly demonstrations are held on friday in support of uh palestinians under israeli bombardment in gaza. tell us more about where you are and what is the mood? well, i'm here in the 70 square of the yemini capital where every friday tens, hundreds and sometimes even millions of protesters take to the streets to continue the... report for palestinian resistance to condemn israel and more recently to praise and to hail the yemeni armed forces military success in targeting israel and launching ballistic missiles that are able to bypass and to go

undetected and evade israel's infamous iron dome air defense system. the footage that surfaceed last night after the ballistic missile that was launched from yemen seemed. intercept a missile while it was airborne, and from the looks of it, from the footage that we've seen, the ballistic missile launched from yemen was just too fast and it was able to out maneuver these air defense system missiles that are possessed by israel, now israel depends heavily its air defense systems, the reason why they are... carrying out their aggressions on palestine, on lebanon, across the entirety of the middle east, carrying out illegal assassinations of access of resistance leaders. this is happening because israel doesn't think that uh countries like yemen, iran, lubnan or

hames will be able to retaliate and strike back and would be able to decipher the air defense system and bypass it and uh target and hit israel at. the heart of the capital tel aviv, which is exactly what yemen has been able to do, and this spells grave concern for not just israel, but for the us, for the united kingdom and for the west in general, because the reason israel's hegemonic occupation, military occupation of palestine, and even of the entire middle east, it all depends on israel having superior weapons that the access of resistance or regimes in the region. leading the forefront in terms of launching hypersonic missiles and sophisticated advanced state of the art weaponry which israel has never experienced before since its

inception in 1948, so yusuf do you have any information about the recent attacks of the yemenes in support? palestinians and targets that have been hit inside the occupied territories. yes, with the latest. was the ballistic missile that was launched last night and this was ballistic missile, a military uh initiative launched from yemen in support of not just gaza, but also in support of labnan's hisballah um and a warning to israel, a warning if you will, that if israel is even thinking about invading uh southern lebanon with grand forces, then these ballistic missiles and hypersonic missiles will only continue to escalate, they will continue to increase and israel will continually find it. at the receiving end of these from syria, from iraq, from leban and

from, well, it seems that we have some technical difficulties reaching our correspondent in yemen, yusuf mari, are you back, yusuf? yusuf, can we talk to you? well, it seems that with the technical difficulties there persist, so let's bring back our... guest from st. petersburg, ashha krishna swami, ashha, let's continue our discussion as uh, we uh shifted on more to yemen and the resistance front, and these retaliatory attacks, as our correspondent was about to explain to us, and uh, if you could please elaborate more on whether or not you think that the israelis took this into account, did they expect that they would be uh receiving uh attacks... from yemen, from iraq, from hazbullah, is this something they had in mind

before they started the genocidal war on gaza? that is unclear, um, but before they started the operations in lebanon, they have been facing missile attacks from both hazballah and the ansar allah army in yemen, so i think they would have had to take that into effect, um, and i think it must have... have been commiserate with their overall goal, but before they started the genocidal war with gaza, it is unclear because people were not sure of the their of the military capabilities of either the ansar allah army or the various groups of the axes of resistance, so i so so that's i guess my answer. okay, and uh, now we see that the resistance is quite capable of penetrating inside. israel uh, in how many fronts do you think israelis are capable of fighting at the

same time? um, they're not capable of fighting in any kind of actual resistance movements, they are very dependent on being able to have, they're using their aerial power and creating indiscriminate civilian attacks, but they are there, they have shown that they do not have possessed the intelligence capability. of taking out military targets or military capability of people who they consider to be their enemies. as a leader of iran's islamic revolution mentioned that eventually the resistance front will prevail and they will come out victorious out of this quagmer that israel has created and of course that would mean the defeat of israel. what is your opinion regarding this? prediction: of course, eventually all tyrants have to fail. um, as

we can see apartite south africa before its end in the 1970s and early 80s tried to invade angola, batswana, and they were also engaged in many military actions as they as things got more desperate on the home front. so israel has been following the same pattern of apartite south africa, and eventually within 10 years after they engaged in the... conflicts in angola and batswana and zambia, they ended up in zimbabwe, they ended up having to dismantle their apartide regime, so i think history shows that any kind of tyrany eventually gets overcome by resistance. okay, let's hold that right there and bring you back, apparently those technical difficulties have been resolved, you have, if you could please elaborate more on the different attacks carried out by yemenes in support.

the countless drone attacks on commercial shipments headed for occupied palestine, we've witnessed on law being able to target all kinds of israeli shipments, israeli vessels and any ship or cargo affiliated with israel in the red sea and surrounding waters, we've seen ships burnt. planning to attack israel from all fronts, from land, from air, and from sea, not specifically from land, i can tell you that there is currently discussion, there's currently plotting and planning from yemen and from other factions the access of resistance to put together perhaps what would be a military ground invasion on occupied palestine against the

israeli regime from the golden heights and the plan seems to be to first... liberate the golen height from all western and israeli forces which would then be able to open a corridor right into the heart of the israeli regime whereby uh fighters from yemen, labanon, from palestine, from syria, from iraq, and perhaps even from the rest of the muslim world who would want to join in this, what they believe is holy effort to commit offensive jihad in other words to confront the israeli regime face to face whereby they... will march with an army into occupied palestine to pressure the israeli regime, to confront the israeli regime so that the genocide in palestine can end, and that israel would never ever think twice of occupying or killing a single life of a muslim in the region. yusuf, could you please tell us more about these demonstrations that are uh held in yemen every friday. first of

all, is it only in santa or are they held in other cities across yemen as? well, what is the main slogan of these demonstrations? well, the main slogan is obviously the chant and the slogan that you hear every five minutes, the slogan which the protesters are constantly chanting, not just here in the capital sana, but in 200 other areas across yamen, even in areas in the the southern parts of the country, in some of the areas which are not even under the... control, the main slogan of these demonstrations is down with israel and down with american neocolonial western hejamonic architecture, the same architecture that has built a foundation, uh, a dynasty if you will, that has dominated dominated the affairs of of the muslim world, of lebanon, of yemen, of syria,

afghanistan and elsewhere in the muslim world for many, many decades, and this is the world hegemonic order. that yemen wants to break, and these protesters believe it starts with first confronting israel, it starts with first liberating the muslim lands from the years and decades of neocolonial, military, political and economic occupation and extortion of the muslim world. the message that's being sent here overall is not just national yemeni message, the you know the protesters here are not just calling or supporting the people of lubnon. were just the people of palestine, these protests are to support the muslim world, anybody who declares that there is no god but allah and muhammad is his messenger and to also support even those who are not muslim, any person who's oppressed, yemen wants to be on their side, and yemen wants to take the lead to be on the military front with its advanced military capability to uh alleviate the

suffering of any oppressed people, whether that be in lebanon, in gaza, in palestine or anywhere else in the muslim world. or anywhere else in the international community, and this is according to the leader of the revolution sayid, the struggle for yemen is not just a struggle to alleviate the suffering of the muslims, but to rid evil from the whole of humanity. yusuf, you did mention that these demonstrations are held across yemen and other cities as well, how many cities uh actually have these demonstrations are on the way right now, and how long has this been happening, but that's ever since the war in gazabrug. well, we're talking about over 200 cities and and villages across yamen where protesters are taken to the streets to voice the candim nation against the israeli atrocities being committed in gaza and in lebanon. and these protests have have uh persisted uh since

october 8th, day after the october. seven events yemenes took to the streets to voice their support for the palestinian resistance, to voice their support for the floodsa, because yemines, they believe that the time has come to to rid the palestinians of the israeli entity, the occupying israeli entity, and to return palestine to its rightful owners who are the palestinians. we are receiving some aerial footage. from sun all right now, we can see the streets that are uh full of people and they're also holding uh flags, carrying the flags of i believe uh gaza and uh, is that a hesbollah flag? could you please tell us what are those elements there? that seems to be a flag of gaza, huge flag that the people are carrying right

there. uh, what motivates these people to come out, it's almost a year since this war began, this genocidal war began in gaza, and these people have been coming out uh to demonstrate and express their support every single week. right and since i've been here, you can clearly see uh flags, you can clearly see flags in support of hamas, you can see flags of the lebanese flag, and you this is unprecedented in in in modern history, where you see muslims, yemenes are taken to the streets to voice their support for. the uh resistance that's taken place and anybody who engages in resistance against the oppression, yemen is going to want is going to be a supporter of you, wherever you are, whether

that's in labanan, whether that's in habas, and this is the message that yemen is sending, it's sending the message to the muslim world that if you stand against oppression and if you resist the illegal military occupation then you yemen will stand side by side with you in your quest, in your goal to alleviate the suffering. seem like they will stop anytime soon unless they are confronted, and that and that and that needs to come according to military effort from the access of resistance, and israel, they have no mercy, and they don't they're calling on other muslim nations to also join in this military resistance. which is why the jordanian government yemenis don't have much confidence in saudi

arabia, countries like the jordanian, egyptian regime, because they believe these are regimes that were crafted installed by israel and the west, which is why egypt and right under their nose, could you tell us is standing idle while genocide is happening about the chance that? hearing right now, what are the chances and the background sound that we can hear? yusuf, well, as you can hear me right now, the the protesters are chanting, the chant is is death to america, death to israel, curse be to the jews and victory for islam, this is the chance that the protesters are chanting and have been chanting in a year of demonstrations, it's... it's also the same chant that the protesters uh chanted when they first uh uh launched this yemeny revolution back in 2011 from all

the way from the northern province of sada all the way from north yemen bordering saudi arabia these slogans were raised in in condemnation and against western hejamanic order western supervision of yemen and that slogan made its way. way across yemen, not just the yemen capital, but also in southern provinces of yemen, and this is slogan that irritates and disturbs the international hegemonic architecture, because yemen believes that once the foundations of western imperialism are shattered, the rest will fall in order destruction. okay, thank you very much, yusuf mauri, our correspondent in yemen. covering huge uh rally there as you can see in these images that we're receiving live from sun aerial images that show streets

that are jam packed with people who are carrying huge flags uh taking part in this weekly demonstration to express support for the people of gaza and now lebanon they're also holding flags of lebanon as we can see the flags of hazbullah. as well as the flag of gaza is right there in the aerial images that we're receiving from sunna, as you can see huge rallies are held across yemen, according to our correspondent in 200 cities across yemen, people have come out on the streets, so this has been the scene every friday ever since the israelis attacked uh gaza and started their genocidal war there, people in yemen have been. coming out in solidarity with palestinians and now that there has been an escalation on the southern lebanese border with israelis attacking lebanon relentlessly, now they're also...

holding the yellow flag of hazbollah, as you can see in these images, expressing solidarity with the people of lebanon as well, we also saw these people holding the flag of lebanon, this is quite a show of solidarity and unity, as far as the resistance front is concerned, and they are definitely sending very strong message uh taking part in these demonstrations. uh every week ever since the war broke out and that was about year ago, it will be one year in just a couple of days. so let's bring back our uh political analyst, journalists and podcaster ashna krishnaswami, joining us live from st. petersburg, ashna, i'm not sure if you're watching the images that we're receiving live from sun, but if you are, what

are you and? pressed by the number, the huge number of people taking part in these demonstrations. yeah, it is very inspiring to see the thousands of people being involved in these demonstrations. so yeah, from the images itself, it looks like there are thousands and thousands of people who are coming out in solidarity of the palestinian cause, and that goes to show you that within the access of resistance there's popular public support. perhaps can be used for military mobilization in support of the palestinian cause. what kind of message do you think this sends the israelis? i'm not sure. i think it shows that there is popular support, so it's harder to paint these governments as tyrannical governments who are opposed to the will of the people. instead, it kind of forces israel to admit that these

governments that are hostile to israel. are carrying out the will of the people, and it shows that the will of the people is to be in massively in support of the palestinian cause and the palestinian resistance movement, because israel and also the us, the main propaganda leveraged against iran, is that iran is a tyrannical dictatorship as opposed to a constitutional democracy, who oppress who can conduct policy in controversion of the popular well. so i think that having thousands and thousands of people in support the palestinian cause shows that these governments are not subverting the will of the majority, but in fact are carrying out the will of the majority, which is to support the palestinian cause. now that is very important issue. thank you very much, ashna, krishna swami, journalist and podcaster joining us live from st. petersburg, thank you ashna for sharing your thoughts and views with us as we continue to uh cover the most

recent developments in the southern lebanese border, we have sakina dournalist, author and podcaster also with us from london. sakina, if you could please tell us, i'm not sure if you're watching the images that we are showing on press tv, huge crowds have gathered uh, as always, as they have been doing every friday uh to show their support for the people of palestine, are you surprised to see these? images, it has been almost a year and they have been coming out every single friday, almost a year and sakina, well it seems that we have some technical difficulties there again, we're not...