Houthi Strikes: all you need to know with Yalda Hakim, Alex Crawford and Deborah Haynes
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Alex has covered Yemen for years and has interviewed Houthi leaders. Deborah says the action is a "high-risk balancing act". Her analysis is it "could yet trigger a regional war".
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| 0:00.0 | You know, when Helen used to get home from work, I'd ask, how are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Fine, she'd say. |
| 0:06.0 | She clearly wasn't. |
| 0:07.0 | After 10 years in IT, she was on autopilot. |
| 0:11.0 | Then she found this job, training up-and-coming tech wizas at the college, |
| 0:15.0 | same skills but with new people, new challenges. |
| 0:19.0 | Now when she gets back, I get the full debrief. |
| 0:23.2 | Can't get a word in. |
| 0:25.0 | Give your skills new life. |
| 0:26.5 | Train others. |
| 0:27.7 | Search jobs in further education. |
| 0:30.8 | Hello, I'm Yalda Hakim. |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to the Sky News Daily. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm here to present this special episode because in about a week's time, I've |
| 0:40.2 | got a new program on Sky News called The World with Yalda Hakim, and we'll be looking at |
| 0:45.5 | the biggest international stories nightly at 9pm. That's starting on January the 22nd. |
| 0:52.0 | We'll definitely be talking about a range of global issues and indeed now, |
| 0:58.0 | this latest crisis, overnight airstrikes by the British and US military on Houthi targets in |
| 1:03.9 | Yemen. Rishi Sunak says the strikes are a proportionate response to attacks on world shipping |
| 1:09.0 | in the Red Sea by the Houthis. |
| 1:16.1 | But with the Houthis having the firm backing of Iran and support in much of the Arab world for their stated aim of attacking ships linked to Israel, this raises the stakes that the |
| 1:21.0 | Israel-Gaza conflict could draw in other countries in the Middle East. |
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