Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett and I'm Amman Navaz on the news hour tonight.

Hoothe rebels vow revenge for U.S. strikes in Yemen in response to repeated attacks

on commercial ships in the Red Sea. We examine the critical white

evangelical vote ahead of the first official contest in the GOP race for the White House.

And Taiwan prepares to choose its next leader in an election that could have major implications

for its alliance with the U.S. and its tense relationship with China.

The PRC is really always worried about somehow losing Taiwan and the thing that they worry about the most, honestly, is that the US will encourage Taiwan. Welcome to the news hour. Hooty militants in Yemen fired a missile at a ship today and

promised further retaliation after last night's

U.S. and British airstrikes against Huthy targets.

U.S. officials say the airstrikes are a bid to stop the Huthy disruption of shipping through the Red Sea and not intended

to widen the war in Gaza.

As Nick Schifran reports, the U.S. warned, it will strike again if the Huthi campaign continues.

For as far as the eye could see,

Pro-Huthi demonstrators today filled the streets

of the capital Sonah, waving weapons,

the demanding death to their enemies,

a promise repeated by Huthi leader,

Mohammed Ali al-Huthi.

Did you not hear yesterday Yemeni people, the airstrikes? Are they not the same raids we have seen?

They did not bring anything new, but we are the ones who will bring something new.

Last night from jets, ships, and a submarine, the U.S. says a first round of strikes targeted

16 locations, and then 30 to 60 minutes later an additional 12 locations with more than 150 munitions.

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