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[00:01:58] Good evening. in Saudi Arabia and Yemen are reaching a
[00:02:02] dangerous new level with Saudi airstrikes on Yemen being
[00:02:06] followed by increasingly serious retaliations on
[00:02:10] of Saudi territory, energy infrastructure and a strategic
[00:02:13] targets. Today explosions. Today,
[00:02:17] explosions and thick smoke were reported international
[00:02:20] airport, triggering aerial threats, alerts and
[00:02:24] major disruptions. This comes emit an
[00:02:27] of intensified campaign by Ansorolah. against Saudi targets
[00:02:31] and major Saudi air campaign against areas under
[00:02:34] Ansarulah's control. The escalation comes as Ansara has
[00:02:38] made significant
[00:02:40] of territorial gains along Yemen's western coast, including the
[00:02:44] strategic port of Mocca,
[00:02:46] of bringing the movement closer to the strategic Bobal Mandab straight and
[00:02:50] another critical artery for
[00:02:52] of global trade. Tonight we examine Yemen's response to Saudi
[00:02:56] Arabia's aggression, the changing balance underground and the
[00:03:00] wider consequences for west Asia with
[00:03:03] of our
[00:03:06] of guests.
[00:03:06] a
[00:03:10] is an activist and political commentator and he joins us from the
[00:03:14] capital
[00:03:14] Santa.
[00:03:18] and also joining us will be ali ham
[00:03:21] of military and strategic affairs analyst joining us from the southern
[00:03:24] Lebanon. gentlemen,
[00:03:28] both of you, thank you so much for your... time tonight, I'm going to begin with
[00:03:32] our guest in the Yemani capital of Sano, Mr.
[00:03:35] Al-Bukai, thank you for your time tonight. Uh, Saudi
[00:03:38] Arabia has
[00:03:41] a
[00:03:41] of significantly intensified its strikes on Yemen, is that um,
[00:03:44] is what we are saying right now, the continuation of what we have been
[00:03:48] seeing, Mr. Bukheidi for the past decade, or are we
[00:03:52] entering into uh uncharted territory, let's
[00:03:56] say?
[00:04:00] Yeah, bismillah rahmanirrahim, as we have seen that Saudi Arabia since they have
[00:04:04] broke the seas fire and they
[00:04:06] of targeted Sana airport, even though the Germany armed
[00:04:10] forces have warned the Saudi when the first
[00:04:13] flight aircraft, civilian aircraft that comes from Iran and
[00:04:17] they
[00:04:18] of warn them if they act or violate yemen air space that Yemen
[00:04:22] will respond, but Saudi did not
[00:04:24] of actually take that warning seriously, they have
[00:04:26] a target some airport, yemer retaliate against ab,
[00:04:29] they didn't. target Riyad at that time and they didn't even targeted
[00:04:33] Aramco company south of Saudi Arabia uh at that
[00:04:36] of time they will they target Abha airport and Saudi responded in
[00:04:40] targeting hudaida port and this actually when all the thing has
[00:04:44] broke lose and Yemen targeted Yambor at that time
[00:04:48] in uh one Saudi expand their attack across Yemen they
[00:04:51] of have conducted
[00:04:53] a 732 air strike against Jerman even though they keep
[00:04:56] claiming and saying and lying that they are not part. uh
[00:05:00] of this war, they are not conducting in
[00:05:02] of strike against yemen, that is the
[00:05:04] so-called government or the
[00:05:08] one that's based actually in Riyadh, they are the one who are targeting.
[00:05:12] Yemen with with those fight target and this is actually a big life because
[00:05:16] Yemen have shut down an F-15 and Saudi has
[00:05:19] requested from some mediator according to uh
[00:05:23] Sanaa uh that they want to know the faith the
[00:05:27] saudi pilot and those Saudi pilot are in
[00:05:31] the hand of Yemanis as a member of Ansarullah political Bureau
[00:05:34] have said but he hasn't explain what uh their
[00:05:38] situation is that's why we see what is actually today the
[00:05:42] "the statement from armed forces, it was actually a
[00:05:46] strong statement from yemani army against the
[00:05:49] saudi, they ever called the saudi that they are the
[00:05:52] horn the devil in in
[00:05:55] in in the region, because as they say that the
[00:05:58] saudi the great slanders and accusation
[00:06:02] to Yemen, the land the faith and wisdom,
[00:06:05] they are accusing yemen that they are targeting Makka, and this is actually a
[00:06:09] big lie, that's why many armed forces has conducted the..." attack
[00:06:13] against riyadh and as well against Yambo in response of
[00:06:17] this accusation and as well in response
[00:06:20] to the saudi continue continuing attacking yeman continuing
[00:06:24] trying to to support their back forces they know that yemen have
[00:06:28] the ability now to to destroy the entire
[00:06:32] Saudi economy to destroy the entire Saudi oil
[00:06:35] infrastructure and gas infrastructure and any other
[00:06:39] vital infrastructure in Saudi Arabia but "don
[00:06:42] I mean we we always think that the Saudi uh they they know
[00:06:46] Yemani are able to do so
[00:06:48] but they actually uh kind of a tool in the hand of
[00:06:52] Trump in the hand as well of of the zionist they don't
[00:06:56] see what's actually good for them they only want to
[00:07:00] target Yemen and keep attacking Yemen and I believe that the escalation
[00:07:03] in the coming days will be much much bigger and the response from Yemen will be as
[00:07:07] well bigger than the Saudi attack and strike against
[00:07:10] Yeman." Thank you, Mr. Al-Bahiri, I'm going to
[00:07:14] come back to that point. Mr. Hamiah, answer today
[00:07:18] said it responded by taking the fight directly into
[00:07:22] the Saudi territory. In your opinion, what are the limits of
[00:07:25] Riad's power when it comes to deterring the
[00:07:29] Yemeny retaliation? Good
[00:07:32] evening, from the beginning, if we read what's
[00:07:36] going on, we can see the Saudi intervention is trying
[00:07:39] to make or... trying to
[00:07:43] drag into regional incitements for sectorian
[00:07:47] sedition in our region and this is
[00:07:51] the demand the American and especially the
[00:07:54] Israelis and we can see that Saudi Arabia is
[00:07:58] taken off shoulder of United
[00:08:01] States all the
[00:08:04] weight and for the benefits of Israel and United
[00:08:08] State. nobody knows why the Saudi...
[00:08:12] Arabia imposed such sanctions against
[00:08:16] Yemen and continue in such act and then
[00:08:20] attacked the sana airport at the beginning
[00:08:24] and then
[00:08:24] they accuse Iraq and attack Iraq at the same time
[00:08:28] that those countries are attacking Israel,
[00:08:31] attacking retaliating against Israel, retaliating against
[00:08:35] United States only for the cause of sunni
[00:08:38] Palestinian, I'm sorry to say that, but they don't believe...
[00:08:43] those saudis in sunnah, they don't believe in shah, they believe
[00:08:46] only, as your guest from sana said, they
[00:08:50] are living as the horn the
[00:08:53] satan, and especially from riyadh,
[00:08:57] this is one thing, and I believe Muhammad bin Salman
[00:09:01] is playing the Trump
[00:09:04] worshiper as a Trump worshipper and
[00:09:08] also from the absten
[00:09:10] ' worshiper
[00:09:13] either also and let let's say
[00:09:16] why now go went
[00:09:19] into the mecca
[00:09:23] agreements for join forces and
[00:09:27] to join defense
[00:09:29] agreement why one is with
[00:09:33] NATO the other country is with the common wealth the third country
[00:09:37] is a part away as religion
[00:09:40] country to ' to protect the holy
[00:09:44] sides, how come three countries
[00:09:48] so much apart and one also is
[00:09:52] the devil worshipper as what so callalled the
[00:09:56] london square when they
[00:09:58] invented the luciferian
[00:10:02] worshipper, one the these was
[00:10:05] Arabia that dominate Saudi Arabia Arabia that dominate Saudi
[00:10:09] Arabia, let's let's be clear now and Now they are
[00:10:13] trying to drag Pakistan just because they
[00:10:17] are making some illusion about
[00:10:20] attack from Yemen against Mecca and
[00:10:24] everybody knows. that those pictures are one year old
[00:10:28] when Yeman launched some missiles
[00:10:31] and drones against Israel and it was
[00:10:35] passing over and beside almedina
[00:10:39] and Mecca and the Saudi Arabia
[00:10:42] tried to inter intercepted
[00:10:46] intercept them so now we can
[00:10:50] see what where are we going United
[00:10:54] State and Britain and Israel with
[00:10:58] the prosperous guard tried,
[00:11:01] yes to dominate over Yemen, they
[00:11:04] couldn't, they didn't win the war
[00:11:07] against Iran, and they are now
[00:11:11] entitled to withdraw from the area because most their
[00:11:15] military bases are destroyed, but they will not leave
[00:11:19] the place before they go or they they
[00:11:23] drag the countries the...
[00:11:25] into sectarian sedition, into
[00:11:29] ethnic seditions, into whatever you want to call
[00:11:32] it, but they want to take the area into
[00:11:35] a war between the countries
[00:11:39] in the region, then united state will be
[00:11:42] relaxed, Israel will continue
[00:11:45] its new middle east
[00:11:49] to create a greater Israel with nome as
[00:11:52] its capital. That's right, we're going to come
[00:11:56] back to that, Mr. Hamiah, Mr. Al-Bakheiri, because both of you
[00:12:00] mentioned the claim that San A has attacked the holy
[00:12:04] city of Mecca, my question is, who in your
[00:12:08] opinion would benefit the most from that claim that San has
[00:12:12] attacked the holy city of
[00:12:13] Mecca?
[00:12:18] I mean, I think if any Muslim country would target
[00:12:22] Makkah like they claim now that it will only... backfire, there
[00:12:26] is no benefit and the only actually benefit it will be from the scient
[00:12:30] state of Israel, because they are the one because they
[00:12:34] are the one who want to
[00:12:37] everyone will believe that sana has targeted maka and
[00:12:41] i can say and i can imagine that at one point
[00:12:45] because the saudi have claimed and lied
[00:12:49] about that many before the truth maybe in 2017 something like
[00:12:53] that that i believe that maybe state of Israel or maybe as well al
[00:12:57] saud they will do or launch a drone
[00:13:01] to target to target macah al-kabah itself to
[00:13:04] blame here the yemani armed forces or
[00:13:08] ansarulah the hodi because saudi has been failing actually uh
[00:13:12] military against yemen as we seen in the latest
[00:13:16] liberation the yemen armed forces in the west coast and in
[00:13:19] thebab almandab and as well in marib there is huge advance from the
[00:13:23] germany armed forces uh around Marib City which is
[00:13:26] half one the final Saudi backed
[00:13:30] forces in the so-called north of Yemen and we remember as
[00:13:33] well that during as an example during the war against Iran United
[00:13:37] States has announced before that war that they have
[00:13:41] made like Kobicat exactly the same drone that the Iranian
[00:13:45] have and some the attack that were conducted Iran was in in the
[00:13:49] Persian gulf Iran used to say that is not us who did this attack
[00:13:53] any attack that we conduct. We admit it, so I believe that United
[00:13:57] State and the sign state of Israel they might have the same
[00:14:01] drones that maybe Yamany have been
[00:14:04] producing, they will have maybe similar type of of
[00:14:08] missile and they could do this because Saudi when
[00:14:11] they when the it's so important the the
[00:14:15] Yemen and especially the Babel Mandab as you see that when yemen
[00:14:19] entered babild United Arab Emirate and Saudi has built
[00:14:23] three large airport in that. area just imagine like every airport
[00:14:27] is maybe 20 km from the other inzugar island, mun island middle
[00:14:31] the Babel Mandab in Moka as well 20 kilometer south
[00:14:35] of moka, there was an operation room underground tunnels,
[00:14:38] so it they were preparing that to control and to
[00:14:42] threat the ritsy, so it was kind of slap and
[00:14:46] something like the saudi did something like the saudi did
[00:14:50] not and the united state and could advance in
[00:14:54] to that region, I believe they are trying, as I said months
[00:14:57] ago when Saudi was trying to to blame the
[00:15:01] resistance in Iraq that they are targeting their oil
[00:15:04] infrastructure east of Saudi, I said that Saudi is planning for
[00:15:08] sectarian war, they want to bring all those terrorists
[00:15:11] in in Syria or any other area to to Yemen to
[00:15:15] fight for them, but they need reason and that reason
[00:15:19] is actually those claim that here Sanha
[00:15:23] have tried to... Makka and I just want to mention one more important thing,
[00:15:27] one the largest saudi air base
[00:15:29] called king
[00:15:32] fahd air base is 40 kilometer
[00:15:36] east
[00:15:37] of of.
[00:15:38] um uh Makkah so Yeman of course they will launch attack
[00:15:41] against
[00:15:43] that air base and maybe the air defense you could see it in the
[00:15:46] outskirt of of Mecca province or Mecca city is
[00:15:50] because Saudi Arabia is the one actually who has brought the fight to
[00:15:54] Yemen is the one has brought Yemani to retaliate
[00:15:56] against their airbase across Saudi Arabia
[00:16:00] so I'm sure that those claim and Saudi Arabia will
[00:16:04] not be able to to to gather or bring the
[00:16:08] battle to Yemen because Yemen now have the upper hand and if Yemen will feel
[00:16:12] that the Saudi and United State and the Zionist are planning as an example
[00:16:16] to make huge attack against themen invasion using terrorists using all that type of
[00:16:20] thing I believe that Yeman could start as well a ground attack
[00:16:23] against Saudi Arabia and the last thing
[00:16:26] that I believe
[00:16:29] that those we've seen in the social media
[00:16:33] uh those Syrian fighter as they call or we call them uh terrorist they were tool
[00:16:37] the a United. state they be writing that they said after Damascus is
[00:16:40] Sanah they couldn't even stop the zionist from
[00:16:44] occupying part of of Syria
[00:16:47] and this is actually the mentality of those
[00:16:51] people they only want to fight with with with anyone who
[00:16:54] will pay them and I believe this
[00:16:56] is now Saudi is trying to plan that and they
[00:16:59] will conduc it as they conduct
[00:17:02] attack there is report that the last two days there
[00:17:06] was drones launched. against sana one way drones and as al there
[00:17:10] are unconfirmed report that there was a huge plan from the saudi and
[00:17:14] the saudi backed forces to send like
[00:17:18] suicide bombers and as well explosive to sanhaa
[00:17:22] to like to to to threat the civilians here and they want to make
[00:17:26] everyone in Yemen think that Sanha is not actually
[00:17:29] safe and this is what have said as he
[00:17:33] say
[00:17:34] that they as he say
[00:17:35] that they foiled and and a plan from
[00:17:38] Saudi that have the character of ISIS
[00:17:42] attack, but I'm sure that in the coming days they will release more details about
[00:17:45] that. That's right. Mr. Hamia, one the important
[00:17:49] things that we have been hearing since the Ukraine war has
[00:17:53] started. Um, we have been hearing that the one side is
[00:17:57] dealing with stock pile issues when it comes to interceptors
[00:18:00] and weapons as talk billes in general. And we have
[00:18:04] heard this with Ukraine, with the US. with Israel
[00:18:08] and right now we are hearing it from Saudi Arabia from different sources
[00:18:12] that they are reportedly running low and missile interceptors and
[00:18:16] seeking assistance uh from other countries. The question that
[00:18:20] I have is how are modern wars fought
[00:18:23] at this point uh now and nowadays and
[00:18:27] what would that and how would that impact the Saudi
[00:18:31] Arabia's prolong sustenance in this
[00:18:33] war?
[00:18:37] Well, as we know for the eight war, eight years war
[00:18:41] against Yemen, most the pilots were
[00:18:45] American, and they get for every raid
[00:18:48] $700 for every raid, and every every
[00:18:52] time they went over Yemen, every and
[00:18:55] each fighter jet they attacked
[00:18:59] Yemen several times, so several times multiply by
[00:19:02] 700 every rate, it means
[00:19:04] every time they want.
[00:19:08] up every and each pilot got
[00:19:12] more than $5000 and they were mostly
[00:19:16] American and British and it was sponsored,
[00:19:19] supported, financed by Saudi Arabia, now
[00:19:23] I have let's say small approach we have
[00:19:27] to understand before I answer clearly clearly your
[00:19:30] question, we
[00:19:33] we we still remember the satanic versus against
[00:19:37] Prophet Muhammad, they the Saudi Arabia did not
[00:19:41] hear about that, they did, they did not condemn it, they did not
[00:19:45] respond, also after
[00:19:49] September 11, 20,
[00:19:51] 2001, one member
[00:19:55] the George Bush
[00:19:57] administration, he
[00:20:00] stated stated that we and he pushed
[00:20:04] for to attack Kaaba by nuclear bond. Saudi
[00:20:08] Arabia did not respond, response and they said,
[00:20:12] we are still as coat, they still
[00:20:15] friends with United
[00:20:17] State, and also
[00:20:21] they burned the Quran several times in in in United
[00:20:25] States, especially in United States, they didn't
[00:20:29] move finger against United State, they
[00:20:33] didn't make any kind of
[00:20:36] ensightment. against United State, they
[00:20:40] tried to be against any
[00:20:43] country that they retaliate even by
[00:20:47] words or by media against such act.
[00:20:53] but Saudi Arabia
[00:20:56] defended all those acts in in order to
[00:21:00] say we don't want to go against the west, this is not in our
[00:21:04] religion to be for such acts
[00:21:08] to be aggressor aggressors, now against a
[00:21:12] country that we all know one
[00:21:15] the best people on the face the
[00:21:19] earth that... Ansarullah and they are
[00:21:22] defending the Palestinian cause, they are
[00:21:25] defending Gaza, they are trying to
[00:21:29] clear and take off the sanctions the Israelies against
[00:21:33] Gaza, while at the same time Saudi
[00:21:36] Arabia bombard, supported, bombard
[00:21:40] Gaza by supporting the Israelis with all
[00:21:43] their ammunitions and oil from mumbo,
[00:21:47] 150 oil tanker.
[00:21:51] tankers supported Israel
[00:21:54] against Gaza during the ethnic
[00:21:57] cleansing and all genocides
[00:22:01] against Gaza. Now let me say
[00:22:04] about what's the power of Saudi Arabia, the power of Saudi
[00:22:08] Arabia was the existence the American
[00:22:12] military bases in the region military bases in the region.
[00:22:16] The most powerful weapon in the hand of United States.
[00:22:20] and Israel is to flame and ignate
[00:22:22] a war
[00:22:25] secterian sedition between the
[00:22:29] countries and I believe maybe they will drag
[00:22:33] Pakistan first into that just to defend Saudi
[00:22:37] Arabia because they the
[00:22:40] illusion and the lies of Saudi Arabia
[00:22:44] about Mecca and the ansarulah tried to
[00:22:47] attack Mecca and it was
[00:22:49] a lot. and a big lie according to
[00:22:52] all uh links by
[00:22:56] specifying that it was year ago such
[00:22:59] footage, so all the
[00:23:03] missiles that owned by Saudi
[00:23:07] Arabia been replaced or
[00:23:11] redeployed to Jordan, most of it,
[00:23:14] most of it, and some them
[00:23:18] were used. by united
[00:23:21] state against the Iranian
[00:23:24] missiles to defend to defend
[00:23:28] the American basis in the
[00:23:31] region, so I believe, I
[00:23:34] believe or most the interceptors
[00:23:37] our interceptive
[00:23:39] missiles, they are law,
[00:23:43] but it doesn't united states doesn't need many
[00:23:47] missiles to ignate the... uh and
[00:23:51] to uh to incide or to designate
[00:23:54] sectarian war or regional war in order to relax and
[00:23:58] sit back, smoke their cigars and sorry to say
[00:24:02] that and take their bottle of wine to drink
[00:24:06] and to see the brothers and the neighbors attacking each
[00:24:09] others and especially
[00:24:12] one in in the right side and for the cause of
[00:24:16] palestine, the other is for the absteen uh
[00:24:20] worshipper, they are defending united states, so I believe
[00:24:24] that with Saudi Arabia and United States doesn't need so
[00:24:27] many inter interception or
[00:24:31] missile intercepted missiles to ignate a big
[00:24:35] war in the region while the Saudi Arabia is doing so right
[00:24:39] now. Mr. Abu, before we wrap up this section
[00:24:42] in less than 30 seconds, Pakistan's defense
[00:24:46] minister also raised the meco defense agreements amid this.
[00:24:50] escalation, could the Saudi Yemeny conflict uh
[00:24:54] actually be the first test of that agreements, if that is the case,
[00:24:58] what would be the reaction of
[00:24:59] Sanha?
[00:25:04] I think is a real test, and I don't think that Pakistan, they just
[00:25:07] want to have some fund from the Saudi Arabia, they saw that Trump have
[00:25:11] taken uh hundreds of billions and couldn't protect Saudi Arabia, so
[00:25:15] they thought we will sign an agreement and as will do exactly the same, but if they
[00:25:19] will... interfere against jeman Pakistan they believe and I
[00:25:23] believe that the Pakistani government I called the Zionist government the Pakistani
[00:25:27] people and the leader Umran Khan was b in prison because he refused
[00:25:31] in 2015 I believe to Saudi request to interfere in the
[00:25:34] war if they do any action against Yemen this mean Yemen will block the red sea against
[00:25:38] Pakistan and as well if it has any missiles or any type of
[00:25:42] weapons that could reach Pakistan it will it will target it and I think
[00:25:46] for Pakistan is better that the Saudi economy is not destroyed.
[00:25:50] because pakistan is benefiting from from Saudi, Saudi is like a
[00:25:54] bank for Pakistan, so I believe that Pakistan doesn't want Yeman to
[00:25:58] destroy and to burn that bank because they will not get any
[00:26:01] time. Thank you so much for your insights, both of you,
[00:26:05] Hussain Albukai, activist and political commentator joining us from the yemeny
[00:26:09] capital of San A and Ali Hamiam military and Strategic Affairs
[00:26:12] analys, join us from southern Lebanon, and that
[00:26:16] brings us to the end of this edition of our spotlight program. Thank you for joining us
[00:26:20] and
[00:26:20] bye-bye.
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