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With concerns around further instability in the Middle East \u2013 as well as international trade \u2013 Yemen is the focus for many around the world. The Red Sea runs along part of the country\u2019s coastline, and it is in these waters where cargo ships have been attacked. The US and UK have responded with air strikes against the Houthis, the armed political and religious group, which is responsible for targeting the ships. These events are against the backdrop of a recent civil war in Yemen and one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.

We wanted to talk to people in Yemen to get a sense of what day to day life is like. Host, James Reynolds, is joined by two Yeminis who live and work in the capital, Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis. \u201cIt looks like normal life,\u201d Radhya tells us. \u201cBut if you are sick you will not find a proper health system, there is no good education system at all \u2013 the disaster in Sanaa is not something you can see with your naked eye.\u201d

Others inside Yemen have sent us messages and we bring together three people who have left the country. They talk about their home and hopes to one day return. \u201cI imagine Yemen before the nightmare, before the war,\u201d says Ahad. \u201cIt was a beautiful place and I wish for it to go back to how it was before.\u201d

A Boffin Media production in partnership with the BBC OS team.