New threat to global oil supplies
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Tuesday the 21st of July. Iran's allies in Yemen, the Houthis, threaten to impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, further disrupting oil supplies. President Trump announces a new 50% tariff on Canada in retaliation for what he called unequal treatment of US products. And scientists in Northern Ireland hail a 3D printed battery as a game changer for energy storage. Also in this podcast, Italy's growing problem with childhood obesity.
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And... Women are getting notifications that their bodies are under some sort of strain, so their health scores have dropped, their temperatures are elevated, their heart rate's high, and yet they feel totally normal.
Can fitness trackers really predict that a woman is pregnant?
Following the deaths of at least three US soldiers in recent days, the United States has launched a tenth night of strikes on Iran, with President Trump saying the Iranians would pay many times over for killing Americans. For its part, Iran said it had attacked US military targets in Bahrain and Kuwait. It also claimed that two oil tankers had caught fire after explosions while attempting to go through the Strait of Hormuz. There are fears that another key waterway could soon be shut after Iran's allies in Yemen, the Houthis, threatened to impose a naval blockade of Saudi Arabia. That would suggest they intend to close the Bab el-Madab Strait at the bottom of the Red Sea, further disrupting the global oil supply.
But will they really go through with it, and how would it affect the region? Rebecca Kesby asked Greg Hollyoak, Middle East specialist with BBC Monitoring. We really don't know how serious it is as of now. They are known for making these escalatory remarks. How serious it could get is very serious, just to look back to what happened with Red Sea shipping and the price of oil and goods around the world when they were attacking ships that they said were connected to Israel and to Western powers in the past during the Gaza war, because it is this chokehold that especially now that we're already losing access to the Strait of Hormuz to add in the Bab al-Mandab, is going to be a significant shift. But what set Saudi Arabia aside during the Iran war was the fact that they have this port in Yanbu, which goes on to the Red Sea.
which Qatar, the UAE, even Iraq had no access to. They had to use the Strait of Hormuz. And we saw that Saudi media in March were quite pleased announcing that they were redirecting a huge amount of oil up to five million barrels a day to this port on the Red Sea for export. And if it is a blockade and if they're not able to use this, this kind of puts them in the same position as a lot of those other Gulf countries. Talk us through why this is all sparked off now, because there has been a ceasefire in place for the past four years or so. There's a couple of different theories. We have seen quite a lot of escalation in terms of language, but also in terms of tit-for-tat strikes in the last couple of weeks.
The Houthis tried to fire at a bunch of Saudi fighters who they said were trying to prevent an Iranian plane from landing in the capital, Sana'a. After that, the airport in Sana'a was bombed.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:47
2
How are the Houthis threatening Red Sea shipping and global oil supplies?
7:47–13:31
3
Why have tensions between the US and Iran recently escalated with strikes and tanker incidents?
13:31–17:28
4
What would a Houthi blockade of the Bab el‑Mandeb mean for Saudi oil exports?
17:28–32:08
5
How will President Trump’s 50% tariffs on Canadian goods affect US‑Canada trade?
32:08–34:05
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