undermine America's ability to keep uh that order intact and even to to open the straits of Hormuz. So um we're in a world where it's much harder for a single power to to act as an enforcer. Okay, there's a lot there's a lot to to to go through there. So let's let's let's pick our targets. First of all,
um between America and Iran over Iran's nuclear policy and then it suddenly becomes a problem for uh global trade as the straits of Hormuz um get closed down. um and Iran then attacks lots of countries around uh around it. Some which were involved in the attack on uh
And they might ride on a pedal tavern. Through the straits -- the Mackinac Straits or whatnot, right.
medal count and the actual total. 'India did not and does not have a sporting culture,' the veteran Indian sports columnist Rohit Brijnath explains to me frankly. Today he works with The Straits Times newspaper in Singapore after the Indian sports magazine he was writing for closed down. 'Personally one of the things I always felt as a sports writer was a lack of drive among many athletes. I can't understand it. It is much better now but earlier you only found that drive here and there in exceptions like the great 400
straight women are in trouble about women's political reality. My first question to you are the straits okay? No. No. Well, I mean to be fair, I'm not sure any of us are okay. But no, I I
blockade of Adessa uh and the invasion of Adessa uh and the invasion of Ukraine of Ukraine and from the closure of the and from the closure of the Straits of Straits of Hormuz and all of these Hormuz and all of these things are both things are both climate related and climate related and geopolitically geopolitically related and it's the
And I go, we're going to Iraq, because Iraq was west. And we pushed that night through the Straits of Hormuz. And we were up in the Gulf the next day.
And the treadmill is crazy. Got to go through the Straits of Magellan, and that was when I bought my first digital SLR was because I was going to take a carrier through the Straits
Here's another story. A mob came onto the streets to demand the ouster of a democratically elected leader in Ukraine who had made a choice to work with Russia to save a country in dire economic straits at a time when association with the EU would have led to further austerity and hardship for large chunks of the population.
how countries are are using those connections to try and hurt other ones. Whether it's uh you know Iran closing the straits of Hormuz which creates uh you know a crisis in many other parts of the world of inflation of energy prices of food security or um you know the US
And they might ride on a pedal tavern. It's like a seven-hour drive from the Straits of "Mackinaw" to Detroit.
And I decided that I didn't want to continue to do the same thing over and over again. So I set the goal of swimming across Cook Straits in a straight line between the North and South Island of New Zealand. The distance is 10 miles.
We're done. If I'm the Iranians and I hear that, I'm like, great. The Americans can't take this pain anymore. They can't take it." He keeps saying, "Straits , not my problem. Straits , let them take care of it." I hear that I'm the Iranians. Great. He can't take this economic pain. He knows he doesn't have a military solution. So, it's not that
of moving backwards and that sort of has knock-on effects for for everyone including including the straits . I I asked that question you know jokingly I am one of the straits in question and you know you mentioned dos I'd love if you could lay out more of that political landscape for women right
uh developed the operations needed to do it and then he had success so other surgeons heard of this who also had patience in Desperate Straits other surgeons heard of it they said Hey listen can we come John to your operating room and see what you're doing
of pitfalls. There's a question of whether publishers and platforms can help restore trust and credibility in news and information, I think is another issue where there might Whether this is a tabloid title like Apple Daily in Hong Kong or The Straits Times in Singapore, that there are news organizations there
able to reach out to somebody who had a Blog her name was Juliana low um and she had chicken scrawling she was a uh of of Nuna descent which is Straits Born Chinese living in maau she had a a connection to mes Cuisine because in in
The Chinese are building a railroad, which will go from Dawei up into Yenon. Dawei is situated in such a place where boats coming can avoid the Straits of Malacca. It's a fast run to China, and so why are they doing this.
I' I've found like dozens or hundreds of these drones." You've got to persuade to control the strait on its terms but they that would be set preceded for all of these straits .
to name kind of one recent development and it you know sort of that progress feels very fragile and in fact is kind of moving backwards and that sort of has knock-on effects for for everyone including including the straits . I I asked that question you know jokingly I am one of the straits in
And they might ride on a pedal tavern. Mackinaw. Yeah. "Mackinaw" Straits .
We're not exactly sure where it was but you can see right there, Frobisher's Straits .
Over eight bays, four rivers, four straits , 17 counties, 200 municipalities, and one major world city.
And the treadmill is crazy. But some of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life was going through the Straits of Magellan.
marriage as the only way to get some money for the family that was like in desperate straits .
But it has to be something that is tolerable to this country, to our country, to Americans, which includes passage through the Straits of Hormuz.
Remember, anyone who is to Iran is feeling more economic pain even than we are from what's happening in the Straits .
this. Um South Korea, in fact, has been part of the coalition that uh agreed to keep parts of the Straits of Hormuz
You're stranded, shipwrecked, deserted island, dire straits , and you find two fruits growing in abundance.
And then we always get caught up, and you start to meet people that are in dire straits .
And so there is a legitimate fear that, if you don't make it, you are really in dire straits , rather than being in this middle range, which is eroded.
It's very sad, but a majority of Cubans, or a significant proportion of Cubans, prefer to face a shark in the Florida straits
and a couple of the teams, and we ended up on this fishing boat in the Magellan Straits . And we got on this boat, me and another photographer
Tierra del Fuego is a very similar islands, equally inhospitable, equally cold, equally sparsely populated, and yet this didn't happen here. Why not? Because the Magellan Straits