Houthis tighten squeeze on crucial shipping route
The episode covers escalating geopolitical tensions in Yemen, where Houthi fighters have seized control of the strategic port city of Mocha and an adjacent island near the Bab al-Mandab Strait, threatening global shipping routes. It also examines the 25th anniversary of 9/11, marked by po
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