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00:01:58Good evening. in Saudi Arabia and Yemen are reaching a
00:02:02dangerous new level with Saudi airstrikes on Yemen being
00:02:06followed by increasingly serious retaliations on
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00:02:13targets. Today explosions. Today,
00:02:17explosions and thick smoke were reported international
00:02:20airport, triggering aerial threats, alerts and
00:02:24major disruptions. This comes emit an
00:02:27of intensified campaign by Ansorolah. against Saudi targets
00:02:31and major Saudi air campaign against areas under
00:02:34Ansarulah's control. The escalation comes as Ansara has
00:02:38made significant
00:02:40of territorial gains along Yemen's western coast, including the
00:02:44strategic port of Mocca,
00:02:46of bringing the movement closer to the strategic Bobal Mandab straight and
00:02:50another critical artery for
00:02:52of global trade. Tonight we examine Yemen's response to Saudi
00:02:56Arabia's aggression, the changing balance underground and the
00:03:00wider consequences for west Asia with
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00:03:10is an activist and political commentator and he joins us from the
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00:03:18and also joining us will be ali ham
00:03:21of military and strategic affairs analyst joining us from the southern
00:03:24Lebanon. gentlemen,
00:03:28both of you, thank you so much for your... time tonight, I'm going to begin with
00:03:32our guest in the Yemani capital of Sano, Mr.
00:03:35Al-Bukai, thank you for your time tonight. Uh, Saudi
00:03:38Arabia has
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00:03:41of significantly intensified its strikes on Yemen, is that um,
00:03:44is what we are saying right now, the continuation of what we have been
00:03:48seeing, Mr. Bukheidi for the past decade, or are we
00:03:52entering into uh uncharted territory, let's
00:03:56say?
00:04:00Yeah, bismillah rahmanirrahim, as we have seen that Saudi Arabia since they have
00:04:04broke the seas fire and they
00:04:06of targeted Sana airport, even though the Germany armed
00:04:10forces have warned the Saudi when the first
00:04:13flight aircraft, civilian aircraft that comes from Iran and
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00:04:18of warn them if they act or violate yemen air space that Yemen
00:04:22will respond, but Saudi did not
00:04:24of actually take that warning seriously, they have
00:04:26a target some airport, yemer retaliate against ab,
00:04:29they didn't. target Riyad at that time and they didn't even targeted
00:04:33Aramco company south of Saudi Arabia uh at that
00:04:36of time they will they target Abha airport and Saudi responded in
00:04:40targeting hudaida port and this actually when all the thing has
00:04:44broke lose and Yemen targeted Yambor at that time
00:04:48in uh one Saudi expand their attack across Yemen they
00:04:51of have conducted
00:04:53a 732 air strike against Jerman even though they keep
00:04:56claiming and saying and lying that they are not part. uh
00:05:00of this war, they are not conducting in
00:05:02of strike against yemen, that is the
00:05:04so-called government or the
00:05:08one that's based actually in Riyadh, they are the one who are targeting.
00:05:12Yemen with with those fight target and this is actually a big life because
00:05:16Yemen have shut down an F-15 and Saudi has
00:05:19requested from some mediator according to uh
00:05:23Sanaa uh that they want to know the faith the
00:05:27saudi pilot and those Saudi pilot are in
00:05:31the hand of Yemanis as a member of Ansarullah political Bureau
00:05:34have said but he hasn't explain what uh their
00:05:38situation is that's why we see what is actually today the
00:05:42"the statement from armed forces, it was actually a
00:05:46strong statement from yemani army against the
00:05:49saudi, they ever called the saudi that they are the
00:05:52horn the devil in in
00:05:55in in the region, because as they say that the
00:05:58saudi the great slanders and accusation
00:06:02to Yemen, the land the faith and wisdom,
00:06:05they are accusing yemen that they are targeting Makka, and this is actually a
00:06:09big lie, that's why many armed forces has conducted the..." attack
00:06:13against riyadh and as well against Yambo in response of
00:06:17this accusation and as well in response
00:06:20to the saudi continue continuing attacking yeman continuing
00:06:24trying to to support their back forces they know that yemen have
00:06:28the ability now to to destroy the entire
00:06:32Saudi economy to destroy the entire Saudi oil
00:06:35infrastructure and gas infrastructure and any other
00:06:39vital infrastructure in Saudi Arabia but "don
00:06:42I mean we we always think that the Saudi uh they they know
00:06:46Yemani are able to do so
00:06:48but they actually uh kind of a tool in the hand of
00:06:52Trump in the hand as well of of the zionist they don't
00:06:56see what's actually good for them they only want to
00:07:00target Yemen and keep attacking Yemen and I believe that the escalation
00:07:03in the coming days will be much much bigger and the response from Yemen will be as
00:07:07well bigger than the Saudi attack and strike against
00:07:10Yeman." Thank you, Mr. Al-Bahiri, I'm going to
00:07:14come back to that point. Mr. Hamiah, answer today
00:07:18said it responded by taking the fight directly into
00:07:22the Saudi territory. In your opinion, what are the limits of
00:07:25Riad's power when it comes to deterring the
00:07:29Yemeny retaliation? Good
00:07:32evening, from the beginning, if we read what's
00:07:36going on, we can see the Saudi intervention is trying
00:07:39to make or... trying to
00:07:43drag into regional incitements for sectorian
00:07:47sedition in our region and this is
00:07:51the demand the American and especially the
00:07:54Israelis and we can see that Saudi Arabia is
00:07:58taken off shoulder of United
00:08:01States all the
00:08:04weight and for the benefits of Israel and United
00:08:08State. nobody knows why the Saudi...
00:08:12Arabia imposed such sanctions against
00:08:16Yemen and continue in such act and then
00:08:20attacked the sana airport at the beginning
00:08:24and then
00:08:24they accuse Iraq and attack Iraq at the same time
00:08:28that those countries are attacking Israel,
00:08:31attacking retaliating against Israel, retaliating against
00:08:35United States only for the cause of sunni
00:08:38Palestinian, I'm sorry to say that, but they don't believe...
00:08:43those saudis in sunnah, they don't believe in shah, they believe
00:08:46only, as your guest from sana said, they
00:08:50are living as the horn the
00:08:53satan, and especially from riyadh,
00:08:57this is one thing, and I believe Muhammad bin Salman
00:09:01is playing the Trump
00:09:04worshiper as a Trump worshipper and
00:09:08also from the absten
00:09:10' worshiper
00:09:13either also and let let's say
00:09:16why now go went
00:09:19into the mecca
00:09:23agreements for join forces and
00:09:27to join defense
00:09:29agreement why one is with
00:09:33NATO the other country is with the common wealth the third country
00:09:37is a part away as religion
00:09:40country to ' to protect the holy
00:09:44sides, how come three countries
00:09:48so much apart and one also is
00:09:52the devil worshipper as what so callalled the
00:09:56london square when they
00:09:58invented the luciferian
00:10:02worshipper, one the these was
00:10:05Arabia that dominate Saudi Arabia Arabia that dominate Saudi
00:10:09Arabia, let's let's be clear now and Now they are
00:10:13trying to drag Pakistan just because they
00:10:17are making some illusion about
00:10:20attack from Yemen against Mecca and
00:10:24everybody knows. that those pictures are one year old
00:10:28when Yeman launched some missiles
00:10:31and drones against Israel and it was
00:10:35passing over and beside almedina
00:10:39and Mecca and the Saudi Arabia
00:10:42tried to inter intercepted
00:10:46intercept them so now we can
00:10:50see what where are we going United
00:10:54State and Britain and Israel with
00:10:58the prosperous guard tried,
00:11:01yes to dominate over Yemen, they
00:11:04couldn't, they didn't win the war
00:11:07against Iran, and they are now
00:11:11entitled to withdraw from the area because most their
00:11:15military bases are destroyed, but they will not leave
00:11:19the place before they go or they they
00:11:23drag the countries the...
00:11:25into sectarian sedition, into
00:11:29ethnic seditions, into whatever you want to call
00:11:32it, but they want to take the area into
00:11:35a war between the countries
00:11:39in the region, then united state will be
00:11:42relaxed, Israel will continue
00:11:45its new middle east
00:11:49to create a greater Israel with nome as
00:11:52its capital. That's right, we're going to come
00:11:56back to that, Mr. Hamiah, Mr. Al-Bakheiri, because both of you
00:12:00mentioned the claim that San A has attacked the holy
00:12:04city of Mecca, my question is, who in your
00:12:08opinion would benefit the most from that claim that San has
00:12:12attacked the holy city of
00:12:13Mecca?
00:12:18I mean, I think if any Muslim country would target
00:12:22Makkah like they claim now that it will only... backfire, there
00:12:26is no benefit and the only actually benefit it will be from the scient
00:12:30state of Israel, because they are the one because they
00:12:34are the one who want to
00:12:37everyone will believe that sana has targeted maka and
00:12:41i can say and i can imagine that at one point
00:12:45because the saudi have claimed and lied
00:12:49about that many before the truth maybe in 2017 something like
00:12:53that that i believe that maybe state of Israel or maybe as well al
00:12:57saud they will do or launch a drone
00:13:01to target to target macah al-kabah itself to
00:13:04blame here the yemani armed forces or
00:13:08ansarulah the hodi because saudi has been failing actually uh
00:13:12military against yemen as we seen in the latest
00:13:16liberation the yemen armed forces in the west coast and in
00:13:19thebab almandab and as well in marib there is huge advance from the
00:13:23germany armed forces uh around Marib City which is
00:13:26half one the final Saudi backed
00:13:30forces in the so-called north of Yemen and we remember as
00:13:33well that during as an example during the war against Iran United
00:13:37States has announced before that war that they have
00:13:41made like Kobicat exactly the same drone that the Iranian
00:13:45have and some the attack that were conducted Iran was in in the
00:13:49Persian gulf Iran used to say that is not us who did this attack
00:13:53any attack that we conduct. We admit it, so I believe that United
00:13:57State and the sign state of Israel they might have the same
00:14:01drones that maybe Yamany have been
00:14:04producing, they will have maybe similar type of of
00:14:08missile and they could do this because Saudi when
00:14:11they when the it's so important the the
00:14:15Yemen and especially the Babel Mandab as you see that when yemen
00:14:19entered babild United Arab Emirate and Saudi has built
00:14:23three large airport in that. area just imagine like every airport
00:14:27is maybe 20 km from the other inzugar island, mun island middle
00:14:31the Babel Mandab in Moka as well 20 kilometer south
00:14:35of moka, there was an operation room underground tunnels,
00:14:38so it they were preparing that to control and to
00:14:42threat the ritsy, so it was kind of slap and
00:14:46something like the saudi did something like the saudi did
00:14:50not and the united state and could advance in
00:14:54to that region, I believe they are trying, as I said months
00:14:57ago when Saudi was trying to to blame the
00:15:01resistance in Iraq that they are targeting their oil
00:15:04infrastructure east of Saudi, I said that Saudi is planning for
00:15:08sectarian war, they want to bring all those terrorists
00:15:11in in Syria or any other area to to Yemen to
00:15:15fight for them, but they need reason and that reason
00:15:19is actually those claim that here Sanha
00:15:23have tried to... Makka and I just want to mention one more important thing,
00:15:27one the largest saudi air base
00:15:29called king
00:15:32fahd air base is 40 kilometer
00:15:36east
00:15:37of of.
00:15:38um uh Makkah so Yeman of course they will launch attack
00:15:41against
00:15:43that air base and maybe the air defense you could see it in the
00:15:46outskirt of of Mecca province or Mecca city is
00:15:50because Saudi Arabia is the one actually who has brought the fight to
00:15:54Yemen is the one has brought Yemani to retaliate
00:15:56against their airbase across Saudi Arabia
00:16:00so I'm sure that those claim and Saudi Arabia will
00:16:04not be able to to to gather or bring the
00:16:08battle to Yemen because Yemen now have the upper hand and if Yemen will feel
00:16:12that the Saudi and United State and the Zionist are planning as an example
00:16:16to make huge attack against themen invasion using terrorists using all that type of
00:16:20thing I believe that Yeman could start as well a ground attack
00:16:23against Saudi Arabia and the last thing
00:16:26that I believe
00:16:29that those we've seen in the social media
00:16:33uh those Syrian fighter as they call or we call them uh terrorist they were tool
00:16:37the a United. state they be writing that they said after Damascus is
00:16:40Sanah they couldn't even stop the zionist from
00:16:44occupying part of of Syria
00:16:47and this is actually the mentality of those
00:16:51people they only want to fight with with with anyone who
00:16:54will pay them and I believe this
00:16:56is now Saudi is trying to plan that and they
00:16:59will conduc it as they conduct
00:17:02attack there is report that the last two days there
00:17:06was drones launched. against sana one way drones and as al there
00:17:10are unconfirmed report that there was a huge plan from the saudi and
00:17:14the saudi backed forces to send like
00:17:18suicide bombers and as well explosive to sanhaa
00:17:22to like to to to threat the civilians here and they want to make
00:17:26everyone in Yemen think that Sanha is not actually
00:17:29safe and this is what have said as he
00:17:33say
00:17:34that they as he say
00:17:35that they foiled and and a plan from
00:17:38Saudi that have the character of ISIS
00:17:42attack, but I'm sure that in the coming days they will release more details about
00:17:45that. That's right. Mr. Hamia, one the important
00:17:49things that we have been hearing since the Ukraine war has
00:17:53started. Um, we have been hearing that the one side is
00:17:57dealing with stock pile issues when it comes to interceptors
00:18:00and weapons as talk billes in general. And we have
00:18:04heard this with Ukraine, with the US. with Israel
00:18:08and right now we are hearing it from Saudi Arabia from different sources
00:18:12that they are reportedly running low and missile interceptors and
00:18:16seeking assistance uh from other countries. The question that
00:18:20I have is how are modern wars fought
00:18:23at this point uh now and nowadays and
00:18:27what would that and how would that impact the Saudi
00:18:31Arabia's prolong sustenance in this
00:18:33war?
00:18:37Well, as we know for the eight war, eight years war
00:18:41against Yemen, most the pilots were
00:18:45American, and they get for every raid
00:18:48$700 for every raid, and every every
00:18:52time they went over Yemen, every and
00:18:55each fighter jet they attacked
00:18:59Yemen several times, so several times multiply by
00:19:02700 every rate, it means
00:19:04every time they want.
00:19:08up every and each pilot got
00:19:12more than $5000 and they were mostly
00:19:16American and British and it was sponsored,
00:19:19supported, financed by Saudi Arabia, now
00:19:23I have let's say small approach we have
00:19:27to understand before I answer clearly clearly your
00:19:30question, we
00:19:33we we still remember the satanic versus against
00:19:37Prophet Muhammad, they the Saudi Arabia did not
00:19:41hear about that, they did, they did not condemn it, they did not
00:19:45respond, also after
00:19:49September 11, 20,
00:19:512001, one member
00:19:55the George Bush
00:19:57administration, he
00:20:00stated stated that we and he pushed
00:20:04for to attack Kaaba by nuclear bond. Saudi
00:20:08Arabia did not respond, response and they said,
00:20:12we are still as coat, they still
00:20:15friends with United
00:20:17State, and also
00:20:21they burned the Quran several times in in in United
00:20:25States, especially in United States, they didn't
00:20:29move finger against United State, they
00:20:33didn't make any kind of
00:20:36ensightment. against United State, they
00:20:40tried to be against any
00:20:43country that they retaliate even by
00:20:47words or by media against such act.
00:20:53but Saudi Arabia
00:20:56defended all those acts in in order to
00:21:00say we don't want to go against the west, this is not in our
00:21:04religion to be for such acts
00:21:08to be aggressor aggressors, now against a
00:21:12country that we all know one
00:21:15the best people on the face the
00:21:19earth that... Ansarullah and they are
00:21:22defending the Palestinian cause, they are
00:21:25defending Gaza, they are trying to
00:21:29clear and take off the sanctions the Israelies against
00:21:33Gaza, while at the same time Saudi
00:21:36Arabia bombard, supported, bombard
00:21:40Gaza by supporting the Israelis with all
00:21:43their ammunitions and oil from mumbo,
00:21:47150 oil tanker.
00:21:51tankers supported Israel
00:21:54against Gaza during the ethnic
00:21:57cleansing and all genocides
00:22:01against Gaza. Now let me say
00:22:04about what's the power of Saudi Arabia, the power of Saudi
00:22:08Arabia was the existence the American
00:22:12military bases in the region military bases in the region.
00:22:16The most powerful weapon in the hand of United States.
00:22:20and Israel is to flame and ignate
00:22:22a war
00:22:25secterian sedition between the
00:22:29countries and I believe maybe they will drag
00:22:33Pakistan first into that just to defend Saudi
00:22:37Arabia because they the
00:22:40illusion and the lies of Saudi Arabia
00:22:44about Mecca and the ansarulah tried to
00:22:47attack Mecca and it was
00:22:49a lot. and a big lie according to
00:22:52all uh links by
00:22:56specifying that it was year ago such
00:22:59footage, so all the
00:23:03missiles that owned by Saudi
00:23:07Arabia been replaced or
00:23:11redeployed to Jordan, most of it,
00:23:14most of it, and some them
00:23:18were used. by united
00:23:21state against the Iranian
00:23:24missiles to defend to defend
00:23:28the American basis in the
00:23:31region, so I believe, I
00:23:34believe or most the interceptors
00:23:37our interceptive
00:23:39missiles, they are law,
00:23:43but it doesn't united states doesn't need many
00:23:47missiles to ignate the... uh and
00:23:51to uh to incide or to designate
00:23:54sectarian war or regional war in order to relax and
00:23:58sit back, smoke their cigars and sorry to say
00:24:02that and take their bottle of wine to drink
00:24:06and to see the brothers and the neighbors attacking each
00:24:09others and especially
00:24:12one in in the right side and for the cause of
00:24:16palestine, the other is for the absteen uh
00:24:20worshipper, they are defending united states, so I believe
00:24:24that with Saudi Arabia and United States doesn't need so
00:24:27many inter interception or
00:24:31missile intercepted missiles to ignate a big
00:24:35war in the region while the Saudi Arabia is doing so right
00:24:39now. Mr. Abu, before we wrap up this section
00:24:42in less than 30 seconds, Pakistan's defense
00:24:46minister also raised the meco defense agreements amid this.
00:24:50escalation, could the Saudi Yemeny conflict uh
00:24:54actually be the first test of that agreements, if that is the case,
00:24:58what would be the reaction of
00:24:59Sanha?
00:25:04I think is a real test, and I don't think that Pakistan, they just
00:25:07want to have some fund from the Saudi Arabia, they saw that Trump have
00:25:11taken uh hundreds of billions and couldn't protect Saudi Arabia, so
00:25:15they thought we will sign an agreement and as will do exactly the same, but if they
00:25:19will... interfere against jeman Pakistan they believe and I
00:25:23believe that the Pakistani government I called the Zionist government the Pakistani
00:25:27people and the leader Umran Khan was b in prison because he refused
00:25:31in 2015 I believe to Saudi request to interfere in the
00:25:34war if they do any action against Yemen this mean Yemen will block the red sea against
00:25:38Pakistan and as well if it has any missiles or any type of
00:25:42weapons that could reach Pakistan it will it will target it and I think
00:25:46for Pakistan is better that the Saudi economy is not destroyed.
00:25:50because pakistan is benefiting from from Saudi, Saudi is like a
00:25:54bank for Pakistan, so I believe that Pakistan doesn't want Yeman to
00:25:58destroy and to burn that bank because they will not get any
00:26:01time. Thank you so much for your insights, both of you,
00:26:05Hussain Albukai, activist and political commentator joining us from the yemeny
00:26:09capital of San A and Ali Hamiam military and Strategic Affairs
00:26:12analys, join us from southern Lebanon, and that
00:26:16brings us to the end of this edition of our spotlight program. Thank you for joining us
00:26:20and
00:26:20bye-bye.
00:30:21Your headlines on Press TV. Iran's top security official says the
00:30:24only way for the US to get out the predicament it has
00:30:28created is to accept Iran's seven
00:30:31conditions. Yemen warns Saudi Arabia
00:30:35that any escalation against the country will be met with a
00:30:38stronger response and increases the price that Riyadh has
00:30:42to pay.