2025-12-31
30 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hi, I'm Uncle Desai and at 16 hours GMT on Tuesday,
the 30th of December, these are our main stories.
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to end its military activities in Yemen after being given a 24-hour deadline by Saudi Arabia to pull out.
Protests are spreading in Iran, overriding prices and the plummeting value of the currency.
Also in this podcast, Mount Everest,
and the challenge of removing rubbish and waste from the mountains is proving almost as tough as climbing it.
And it's got this neck collar, which has spikes that are about a metre in length.
So it's sort of the length of golf clubs sticking out in various directions.
And we've never seen anything like that in any other animal.
We'll have the story of the dinosaur hunters and their tenure investigation,
which led to the discovery of a spiky punk rock dinosaur.
We start with escalating tensions between two of the biggest powers in the Middle East,
Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Riyadh has declared a UAE-backed Separatist advance in Yemen as a threat to its national security and has told the United Arab Emirates to withdraw all its forces from Yemen within 24 hours.
Saudi Arabia said it had carried out an attack on the port of Makalah in southern Yemen where it said large quantities of weapons had been sent from the UAE intended for the separatists.
The UAE has now agreed to end its operations in Yemen,
but denied it had sent arms to the separatists saying it was disappointed by the Saudi claims.
Iona Craig is a journalist who has lived in and reported from Yemen for 15 years.
She told Krupa Party about the situation there.