the saudis decided that an iranian ally on their southern border controlling the access to the suez canal was unacceptable. they have gotten support in this both from the obama administration and from the trump administration. >> just very, very quickly, what did you find in yemen that proved that iran was backing the houthis? any weapons? any personnel? >> yeah. there's a group called conflict armament research. this is made of former u.n. weapons inspectors. they have gone into the battlefield where the houthis' weapons have landed. they have analyzed the weapons. they have found the internal components of the weapons, the design of the weapons is iranian. it has all the markings of being iranian. when i asked what they thought when the houthis say they are not getting aid, they said, they are lying. >> martin smith, we look forward to the documentary on frontline. thank you for joining us. martin's documentary airs on pbs tuesday and again next week the second part. that's it for our program tonight. thanks for watching "amanpour on pbs." see you again tomorrow night. >> "amanpour on p

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alpana matt has its famous canal the suez canal cuts through egypt and now there's a plan to resurrect a four hundred year old sea link in the south of thailand the waterway would link the indian ocean and the man sea with the gulf of thailand in the south china sea when hey traveled to seek out to a coastal community. during the winter season thailand's end of an coast is often dark and moody tourists go home leaving local fisherman to ply their trade in relative peace but life could become a lot busier if the proposed shipping canal cuts through here some welcome the prospect of investment while others doubt their lives would change for the better. when it comes to megaprojects it's never the people who benefit it's only the rich people big people from bangkok who get more rich from it and never get anything and the government never helps at the moment ships sailing between europe and china for example travel through the dangerous and congested malacca straits often stopping in singapore to refuel or unload before continuing the tide canal would cut more than one thousand kilometers

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twenty days off the forty eight days it currently takes to get to rotterdam from china via the suez canal so as you see the theme of the show is this notion that you can all the ignoring the proof and evidence ignoring the spoofing in the markets ignoring global warming and ignoring the power and awesomeness of cryptocurrency doesn't make all the development happening in the real world go away people are going to take advantage and seize the opportunity that you decide to ignore while playing with plucky or even type odds well said every empire kind of crests and then falls apart based on a certain imperial narcissism well that's going to do it for this edition the cars are part of the most geysers days are when i think our guest plug. gun rate just on twitter at kaiser report intellects on bio. putin a song remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london after a british judge refuses to lift an arrest warrant for the wiki leaks founder. the us defense secretary asked congress to approve a major funding boost for the military and singles out russia and china as key global threats. an

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panama has its famous canal the suez canal cuts through egypt and now there are plans to resurrect a four hundred year old idea and southern thailand as part of our series on global trade routes lane hay travel to see cow or enter groups are pressuring the thai government to link the indian ocean and the sea with the gulf of thailand in the south china sea. during the wait season thailand's andaman coast is often dark and moody tourists go home leaving local fisherman to ply their trade in relative peace but life could become a lot busier if the proposed shipping canal cuts through here some welcome the prospect of investment while others don't their lives would change for the better. when it comes to make a projects it's new for the people who benefit and it's only the rich people big people from bangkok who get more rich from it and never get anything and the government never helps at the moment ships sailing between europe and china for example travel through the dangerous and congested malacca straits often stopping in singapore to refuel or unload before continuing the tide cana

then they'll be at sea for at least a month on the south china sea the strait of malacca and the suez canal. but in practice two months often go by between the time a computer emerges from the factory in china and is sold in europe. that gave rise to the idea of reviving the overland route of the silk road that once ran through western china central asia and russia. the shortening of the transport period isn't the only goal of this new silk road tensions are growing in the south china sea between beijing and its neighbors taiwan japan and the philippines and even with the unpredictable united states of donald trump an alternative route is becoming vital for china. those holton's a change president xi jinping has emphasized the great significance of chongqing for global and asian pacific logistics one is chongqing is to become a hub for inland logistics that will be open to the outside to. follow. chung shing has a clear directive to turn away from the sea and look west. that's also symbolized by kilometers zero which marks the starting point of the new silk road. in order to supply this new

officially opened the tunnel carrying nile waters under the suez canal. the waters flowed into the so-called peace can now extending into the sinai some egyptians suspected israel might be the ultimate destination of the canal. at the inauguration ceremony mubarak seemed to address such suspicions. possibly. at dinner this had the might there had doubted then i am under much and i was up. today the peace canal runs eighty kilometers eastwards into sinai. that allows for the irrigation and development of farmland reclaimed from the desert. the idea of diverting the nile to the sinai first proposed by theodore heard so is now a reality. just one hundred fifteen kilometers from the end of the canal and across egypt's international border is the negev desert. forming over half of israel's total land area. the negev as a land thirsty for water. these railways of salt to manage their limited water sources and deny the need for the extension of the peace going out saying it would be surplus to requirement if you're talking about the relation between the. relation

identified the territories of the ottoman empire it's wanted in order to protect its interests in the suez canal and the area provinces. but this clan was dependent on britain and france winning the war which at the start of one thousand and fifteen was almost at a standstill on the western front in europe. the allies decided to open an eastern front against the ottoman and. the ill fated gillet police campaign ran between april nineteenth fifteen and january nineteenth sixteenth. when it's finally field the allies including australians and new zealanders suffered a major steps back. this monument commemorates the ottoman victory in which around eighty thousand allied troops were killed. this defeat at the little league and later includes mystically timeo caused the british to enter into more secret deals over the middle east. coming up how the british conspired with should be for the same mcconnell to strike back at the ottomans through an arab revolt. the british adopt the sharifs of mecca as the partners that were essential. in the propaganda war with the ottomans to demonstrate that the musl

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