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I'm Carla Zeus. 4

It's great to see you this Thursday. 5

International relations are the key factor in today's first story concerns. 6

The civil war in Yemen that ramped up four years ago. 7

It's Tauron apart, the Middle Eastern country. 8

This isn't a simple battle between you, many government forces and a rebel group that wants a new government. 9

That might have been how it started. 10

But terrorist groups like Isis and Al Qaeda are believed to be operating in Yemen. 11

Ah, famine has struck the country. 12

Civilians were starving and the war has become international. 13

Saudi Arabia is leading a group of nations that are attacking the rebels in Yemen, and Iran is believed to be supporting those rebels. 14

The United States is not directly involved in Yemen, but it has given military support to Saudi Arabia and its allies. 15

A recent CNN investigation accused Saudi Arabia of providing some American weapons and equipment to militias in Yemen. 16

This would break the rules of America's arms sales to Saudi Arabia, according to the U. 17

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Department of Defense. 19

But the top U. 20

S commander in the Middle East says it wouldn't be a good idea for America to stop supporting the Saudi led group. 21

There's a close relationship between the U. 22

S and Saudi Arabia, and it goes back. 23

More than half a century of Saudi Arabia and the United States are two unexpected allies. 24

One's an autocracy, the other a democracy. 25

There are many differences between the two, but one thing they have in common is that each country has with the other ones. 26

Saudi Arabia has oil, and the United States has arms toe. 27

Understand how reciprocal the relationship is. 28

We need to go back to how it started. 29

Saudi Arabia, as we know it, was founded in 1932 by King Abdul Aziz. 30

A few years later, oil was struck on American companies, sensing an opportunity moved in. 31

It was a relationship which was based on a company standard oil in the name off the U. 32

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Government trying to look for access to our researches. 34

This picture shows where the relationship crystallized. 35

This was Saudi Arabia's founder, King Abdulaziz, Meeting U. 36

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President Franklin Roosevelt on the USS Quincy on the Suez Canal in 1945 United States wanted to have a secure access to the oil resources and at the same time, they would provide the Saudi kingdom with excess two arms and obviously, for protection. 38

As the years passed, the relationship strengthened. 39

Standard oil founded Aramco, the Arabian American oil company, which controlled every oil well and barrel in the country. 40

And as the oil flowed into the U. 41

S, American made arms flowed into the kingdom. 42

Between 1950 2017 Saudi Arabia bought more than $100 billion worth of arms from the U. 43

S, making the kingdom of the country's biggest customer. 44

It's a relationship so strong that even when Saudi Arabia and the U. 45

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Are on opposite sides of an issue, arms continue to flow. 47

For example, in 1973 and the start of the young Comport war, Egypt and Syria launched a surprise offensive against Israel wth EU s responded supporting Israel, which Saudi opposed. 48

The kingdom and its OPEC allies responded by setting an oil embargo, reducing production and significantly impacting the U. 49

S economy. 50

But there was no slowdown in arms sales. 51

If you get the actual fingers, arms supplies to Saudi Arabia from the west, do you see that? 52

That was around the time, but you really see a very significant increase in those arms supplies, which then continue to over the decades, and probably this may also be related to the back. 53

But that really was the moment that oil crisis really increase very rapidly. 54

Even 9 11 where 15 out of the 19 Attackers were Saudi did little to rattle the arms relationship with the kingdom, which has denied any involvement in the attacks. 55

Ran to find there was a dead two volume off deliveries off weapons from the U. 56

S to Saudi Arabia. 57

But I think that didn't necessarily have to do with 9 11 I think they want to do with the fact that Saudi Arabia didn't have the best financial conditions at the time and that it had already stocked up on knowledge quantity of advanced arms. 58

And in 2017 U. 59

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President Donald Trump's first foreign visit was to Saudi Arabia, where he signed an arms deal said to be worth $110 billion for a long time, so I'd give you hasn't used to couldn't very much, but that started to change in 2000 and 15 way see the skill military intervention by Saudi Arabia. 61

Yemen conflict has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed. 62

It's also widely seen as a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, with Houthi rebels supported by Iran and pro government forces supported by the Saudi led coalition. 63

The world has changed a lot since the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the USA began. 64

Imports of oil from the kingdom to the U. 65

S have dropped by 47% since Ojai in 1991. 66

Since that first accord in 1932 Saudi Arabia has had seven kings. 67

The U. 68

S has had 14 presidents, but through it all, the bond between these two nations has remained unbreakable. 69

Second, trivia, which of these places is located? 70

The farthest North Anchorage, Alaska USA. 71

ST Petersburg, Russia. 72

Reykjavik, Iceland. 73

Or Oslo, Norway. 74

The northernmost city on this list, at 64 degrees north latitude, is the capital of Iceland. 75

But they're all at latitudes north of 55 degrees, which means their smartphone maps could be affected by a shift and the magnetic north. 76

There's the true North Pole and the magnetic north. 77

The true North Pole is geographic. 78

It's the northernmost point on the planet. 79

The magnetic North Pole is where compass needles point. 80

Historically, it's been located in the Canadian Arctic, several 100 miles away from the true north, and it's moving, scientists say. 81

It's always done that slowly. 82

But in recent years the Magnetic North Pole has been speeding up, traveling about 34 miles per year in the direction of Russia. 83

Why is this happening? 84

No one knows for sure. 85

Many scientists think it's because the Earth's magnetic field is tied to a liquid outer core deep inside the planet. 86

When the liquid flows, it could pull the magnetic north with it. 87

Well, compass is still point north. 88

For the most part, they will, but this could cause some navigational trouble above 55 degrees north latitude. 89

So for people who live in the cities mentioned in the 12th trivia, what can be done about it? 90

Well, there's something called the world magnetic model. 91

It keeps track of the Earth's magnetic poles, and it's used by militaries, North American and European countries and civilian navigation systems. 92

Officials usually updated every five years so it can stay accurate. 93

But they just took steps to update it sooner than that. 94

So it can keep up with the faster moving magnetic north. 95

Superhero crime fighters have always had a way to shoot a rope or a Web around people who were trying to get away. 96

Now that kind of technology is becoming available to real life crime fighters. 97

This thing is called the Bowler Rap. 98

It's not considered a deadly weapon, but he uses a blank charge to fire an eight foot rope toward a suspect, and its makers say it's effective as long as that suspect is between 10 and 25 feet away from the office. 99

Suspects would then get tied up roped in, repped up, tether tight, fastened down, not it up. 100

Since teens bound together, hamstrung or leashed up, they probably wouldn't get away. 101

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