Saudi Arabia bombs Yemeni port over alleged UAE weapons

Global News Podcast

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The United Arab Emirates says it will end its operations in Yemen, after Saudi Arabia conducts a strike on the southern port of Mukalla. Riyadh claims the target was a UAE-linked weapons shipment, intended for separatists. The attack marks the most significant escalation in a widening rift between the two Gulf powers, who once cooperated in a coalition against the Houthis.

Also: protests are spreading in Iran, sparked by rising prices and the plummeting value of the currency. China has launched rockets on a second day of large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. South Korea announces steep fines for companies found guilty of price fixing. BBC analysis suggests Russian losses in the war with Ukraine have been growing faster than at any time since the start of the full-scale invasion. Nepalese authorities are scrapping a clean-up scheme that was meant to encourage climbers to bring down their waste from Mount Everest. A new search for the wreckage of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH-370 begins in the Indian Ocean. We speak to the dinosaur hunters who discovered a spiky “punk rock" dinosaur. And why the Danish Postal Service will stop delivering letters, ending centuries of service.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.6	This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.0	Hi, I'm Ankara to sign at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 30th of December.
0:15.3	These are our main stories.
0:17.1	The United Arab Emirates has agreed to end its military activities in Yemen
0:20.6	after being given a 24-hour deadline by Saudi Arabia to pull out.
0:25.5	Protests are spreading in Iran over rising prices and the plummeting value of the currency.
0:32.1	Also in this podcast, Mount Everest,
0:34.2	and the challenge of removing rubbish and waste from the mountains
0:37.1	is proving
0:38.0	almost as tough as climbing it. And...
0:40.7	It's got this neck collar which has spikes. They're about a metre in length. So it's sort of
0:45.2	the length of golf clubs sticking out in various directions. And we've never seen anything like
0:50.8	that in any other animal. We'll have the story of the dinosaur hunters and their 10-year investigation which led to the
0:56.7	discovery of a spiky punk rock dinosaur.
1:03.5	We start with escalating tensions between two of the biggest powers in the Middle East,
1:08.5	Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
1:10.9	Riyadh has declared a UAE-backed separatist advance in Yemen as a threat to its national security
1:16.4	and has told the United Arab Emirates to withdraw all its forces from Yemen within 24 hours.
1:23.1	Saudi Arabia said it had carried out an attack on the port of Mukala in southern Yemen, where
1:28.3	it said large quantities of weapons had been sent from the UAE intended for the separatists.
1:34.2	The UAE has now agreed to end its operations in Yemen, but denied it had sent arms to the
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