Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, the tale of the businessman kidnapped in Yemen's civil war.

They took me and blindfolded me and they tied my hands.

And that was one of the more difficult parts of my life to really feel a kind of

certainty for death.

Also in the program, why people smugglers are making fortunes out of transporting people

into the same war zone.

We heard stories about sometimes moving migrants in fuel tanks and cages.

They are having more power benefiting from the ongoing conflict to do their business.

Two extraordinary tales of war and trade in Business Daily from the BBC.

The sound of gunfire and shelling on Yemen's border with Saudi Arabia during clashes last year.

Since the civil war broke out in Yemen in 2015, the country has become, in the UN's words,

the world's worst man-made humanitarian disaster.

There are basically two sides in the conflict, but it's complicated.

Houthi rebel forces and their allies in the north are squaring up to the government in the south.

Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is backing the government with aerial bombing,

and Iran is said to be providing logistical help to the Houthi rebels.

In the midst of all of this is, of course, a desperate civilian population,

trapped and increasingly hungry,

with the Saudi coalition blocking aid supplies to the main Houthi port.

Iona Craig is a British freelance journalist who's been reporting on the country for several years.

Out of a population of 27 million,

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