Is Yemen's civil war escalating again?
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to withdraw its forces from Yemen after a Saudi bombing of the port of Mukalla. Saudi authorities say it targeted weapons intended for UAE-backed separatists who threatened its security. Also in the programme: the latest search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 begins today; why a Japanese folk tale of a ghost that haunts school toilets still persists; and we look ahead to some of the big stories of next year with our correspondents who cover health, the environment and sport. (Picture: People hold a South Yemen flag during a rally calling for South Yemen's independence, in the southern port city of Aden on 25 December 2025. Credit: NAJEEB MOHAMED/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.4 | Coming to you live from London, I'm Krupao Pardi. |
| 0:15.7 | Thanks for being with us. |
| 0:16.9 | Coming up later in the programme. |
| 0:19.0 | Postman Behr in his car with his little catty meal. |
| 0:24.9 | The end of the road for the Danish Postal Service. |
| 0:28.9 | But what will happen to those who still want to write a letter? |
| 0:31.9 | Plus, a new search is underway for the Malaysia Airline Flight MH370 |
| 0:36.2 | that went missing 12 years ago. |
| 0:38.4 | Imagine you put a bus somewhere in Wales and you're going to look for that bus. |
| 0:45.3 | That's the challenge in itself. But imagine doing that with your eyes closed. |
| 0:50.4 | That's all coming up later in the programme. But first, we begin with an escalation with the war in Yemen, |
| 0:55.5 | often called the world's forgotten war. |
| 0:57.9 | Almost 5 million people have been forced from their homes. |
| 1:00.6 | Over 18 million are in need of humanitarian assistance |
| 1:04.3 | and hundreds of thousands have been killed. |
| 1:07.2 | It can be tricky to understand the dynamics of this war |
| 1:10.1 | and who controls what in Yemen. |
| 1:11.7 | So let's try and map this out simply before getting the very latest. |
| 1:15.5 | Yemen is at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula and it's been embroiled in a civil war for over a decade now |
| 1:22.4 | between the Iranian-backed Houthis and the West and the internationally recognised government, |
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