UK & US strike Houthi positions in Red Sea and Ecuador in state of emergency | Battle Lines Podcast

This episode was released on Friday 12th January 2024 on podcast apps.
In this episode of Battle Lines, Defence Editor Danielle Sheridan and Telegraph writer Tom Sharpe bring the latest news and analysis from the Red Sea, as Britain and America strike Houthi positions after months of attacks on civilian and military vessels.
Then Middle East Correspondent Nataliya Vasilyeva updates us from Israel as the IDF continues to battle Hamas across Gaza, and Senior Foreign Correspondent Sophia Yan describes how the Chinese state forced ethnic Kazakhs to round up Muslim families in Xinjiang who were then never seen again.
Finally, journalist and academic Mathew Charles speaks about the internal conflict in Ecuador, where government forces battle drug gangs for control of the country.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on X.
Danielle Sheridan (Defence Editor). @SheridanDani on X.
Tom Sharpe (former Royal Navy officer). @TomSharpe134 on X.
Nataliya Vasilyeva (Middle East Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on X.
Sophia Yan (Senior Foreign Correspondent). @sophia_yan on X.
Mathew Charles (Foreign Reporter and academic). @mat_charles_ on X.
Read
West is united against Houthi threat, says Biden as Britain and US launch air strikes in Yemen, by Danielle Sheridan: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024...
‘We did it to our own people’: How China forced Kazakhs to implement its ethnic crackdown, by Sophia Yan: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new...
How Ecuador’s 36-year-old leather jacket-wearing president took on the drug cartels - and lost, by Mathew Charles: www.telegraph.co.uk/world-new...
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[@mateobravo9212]

Great stuff. Real news that will impact us all. The world is a very naughty place right now - the dice are being shaken everywhere. Only the history books will tell us what comes of it all. Greetings from Spain.

[@kitcat4512]

Albert Pike's letter to Mazzini, 1871, WW I, II and III.

[@Pooneil1984]

Calling a government officer whose purpose is to enforce legal strictures on births a "health official" is deeply troubling. At least say "so called" in front.

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[@mike4480]

..Thanks for the update and the informative interview…

[@Cue_D_ball]

Don’t forget about Papua New Guinea

[@equarg]

My mom is studying Spanish on an app because her church group wanted to go to Equator. Yea. This convinced her to talk to the pastor about modifying the plans……..

[@sergarlantyrell7847]

Regarding the "hate speech" would the world have expected the UK government to prosecute people for hate speech against Germans shortly after the blitz? I think we recognise that what people in the UK at that time went through was awful and that understandably provokes strong emotional reactions against people of the nation that perpetrated those acts. WE haven't lived through the constant attacks that Israel has had to endure for years, we haven't had a tangible existential threat in Britain since the second world war (possibly notwithstanding the Cuba missile crisis) so should be slow to judge those who are.

[@Steve-ev6vx]

I know one thing for sure. Had I experienced those attacks on my people I would be expressing my hate through much more than just speech.

[@xcrockery8080]

Exactly, so when a few Israelis go a little bit overboard when talking about the arabs in Gaza but we should forgive them, considering the atrocities carried out against them and the continued threats of genocide levelled against them by the arab world. On the whole, the 2 million muslims living in Israel remain safe and continue to benefit from all the rights held by Israeli citizens - rights that vastly surpass the rights of muslims living in any muslim country. There are no Jews in Gaza, except for tortured kidnap victims. The Jewish inhabitants of Gaza were wiped out when Gaza was created by the invading Egyptian armies.

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

​@@Steve-ev6vxI bet there scared 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

U people r seriously uneducated 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mitchellbailey7030]

#1

[@gee3883]

What a great bloke.

[@christianleblanc2842]

I'm just happy to hear a reasonable pronunciation of Houthi.

[@lindsaysmith7825]

Not in my name. Disgraceful

[@Leigh-ry3yb]

I think we're going to have to be more forceful than we previously have been, they ignored us over Iraq and look how that ended up.

[@Tanner-cz4bd]

@@Leigh-ry3yb yes, this is a complete waste of money. We don't need to get into involved into wars.

[@Carl0s695]

​@@Tanner-cz4bdpreventing your nation to sell its food and products to raise money for your living. Or preventing your nation importing food and goods essential to your survival Does that not afford a nation the need to invest spend into releasing that pressure. Terrorists are blockading ships owned by and destined for upto 100 different unrelated nations threatening survival of some.

[@xcrockery8080]

@@Leigh-ry3yb Iraq ended up a free and democratic nation.

[@dontiavang558]

This is a nice edition, to your other coverage of the Ukraine n Russia war. The Houthis activities around the Rea Sea, and the deeper conflict in the Gaza strip. Nataliya does exceptional work, capturing n detailing information, on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East between Israel n Palestine.

[@user-bd8ib2ep3y]

Foram os terroristas do hamas que atacaram, a Palestina virou refém dos terroristas pq não soube trabalhar na resistência contra o terror.

[@Tmb1112]

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[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

Jolly good show eh govnas?

[@ConnorCody-qe4ef]

Is this the begining of the end and a slow walk in to world war 3👀🫂,,,,

[@xcrockery8080]

Unless islam embraces a reformation to make it compatible with modern civilisation, WW3 is inevitable. The Chinese in Xinjiang are demonstrating what needs to be done when they refuse to reform.

[@jonemery8324]

The Tory graph \ \ \_____

[@gammaraygem]

Next, the hooteys will place their weapons inside populated areas, creating a "gaza" situation. Oops.

[@Mofi357]

Thousands protest in Yemen

[@kitcat4512]

Our funding?

[@anisyahya944]

Millions*

[@sammijocornock9899]

2024 😢 why

[@user-tu8wv4ko4u]

shem against shem is bringing harm on many

[@guff9567]

Hands off sovereign Hootey waters

[@gammaraygem]

Hoothis are a rebel group, starving its own people, spending money on weapons playing the noble hero, and the waters are international.

[@xcrockery8080]

Houthi are not a legitimate government and nor do they represent any sovereign nation, therefore no such waters exist.

[@mrdad7482]

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Joe Biden Kamala Harris 🫡🫡🫡

[@readmylisp]

Chemical Ali rides again

[@RyanBrown-nx8dw]

Cheerio! Dingos!

[@wendyharbon7290]

The biggest international political and military joke of all, neither the Americans and her British plus International Western Partners and Allies, or the Iranians Islamic Regime in Iran and Houthis in Yemen, or the Hamas in Gaza and the Hezbollah in Syria and Lebanon too. The Middle East Conflict between Israelis and Arab's, has been going on, since the end of the Second World War, if not for centuries before then. With fighting and attacks breaking out, between Israeli's and Arab's in every decade since the 1950's to the 2020's, peace is something no one living in the Middles knows about, that the problem! None of them have any idea of an exit policy or end game, to end Troubles in the Middle East once and for all time, or just end Palestinian Islamic Arab v Israeli conflicts from going on or not happening again either? The the Middle East Punch line here, maybe the Israeli answer, is the only answer sadly possible, Israeli wipe out their enemies totally from Israeli borders, or Israel is destroyed in the fighting with their Arab neighbours and all of the Islamic Nations. True Iran would like to destroy the state of Israel, but Iranian Islamic Regime Masters in Iran are not willing to face the consequence of an all out war with Israeli’s. Which could go nuclear with the Israeli as a last defence, threatening or actually dropping nuclear bomb on an Iranian city Tehran maybe, or launching nuclear armed missiles at other Arab States military bases too!

[@dude3678]

Mine as well just condense Ukraine into Battle Lines. The war there is going to come to a grinding slow pace. Battle lines was a very good idea with WWIII started all over the world in every region. South America countries are stirring up as well.

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. ... Turn to Christ to save your souls today. Do not die without having a close relationship with Him.

[@mrdad7482]

Why is that

[@fundyden4771]

Amen. Come Lord Jesus come.

[@nUmBskulLL]

Now now, settle down.

[@bak2back]

RIP Gonzalo Lira Murdered by the Kiev naxis Never forgive and never forget

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