Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. The U.S. and

U.S. and UK strike Houthis in Yemen. Could it spark a larger conflict?

I asked retired Colonel Peter Mansour.

And Israel defends itself against genocide at the UN's highest court.

Political scientist Dahlia Scheindland joins me for more.

Then on the brink of famine, World Food Programs,

Cindy McCain tells Walter Isakson that Gaza is starving.

Also, journalists in The Crosshairs.

We were visit Christian's conversation with reporter Lindsay Hilsom,

an actress Rosman Pike, who portrayed the late legendary war

correspondent Marie Colvin in the film A Private War.

Plus, a birthday celebration for one of the world's top composers. Sir Carl Jenkins joins the show from Carnegie Hall. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Goladriga in New York sitting in

for Christiane, Amanpour.

Dramatic moves in the dark of the night

as the US and UK struck Huthi targets in Yemen.

Washington warned that this could be coming

after the Iranian-backed Huthies

continued to attack commercial vessels in the Red

Sea.

The huthies who run most of Western Yemen, including the coastline, say they're doing it in support

of the Palestinians.

But the Americans say the Hutis are targeting ships indiscriminately

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