Yemen's Houthis launch missile attacks against Israel
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Iranian- backed Houthis in Yemen have launched another missile attack against Israel, less than twenty four hours after their first foray into the US-Israeli war on Iran. There are fears that the Iranian proxy's entry could further disrupt global shipping. Also in the programme: No Kings protests are taking place across the US against the Trump administration; and how a truck transporting twelve tonnes of chocolate bars belonging to Swiss food company Nestle disappeared en route between Italy and Poland.
(Photo: Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea announces a new attack on Israel via a televised statement, in Sana'a, Yemen. Credit: YAHYA ARHAB/EPA/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:10.1 | Hello, welcome to News Out from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:13.0 | We're coming to live from London. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm Sean Lay. |
| 0:16.5 | A little later in the program. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah. Depach kick-cat. |
| 0:31.3 | Ads for, you know what chocolate bar from around the world. |
| 0:34.6 | Thieves are now making a break for it with 12 tonnes of the chocolate. |
| 0:39.2 | It's gone missing from a truck, going from Italy to Poland. We'll find out more about the chocolate |
| 0:43.3 | heist a little later in this programme. But we begin with Yemen. It's not the damage the Houthis have |
| 0:50.8 | done that matters most if, as they claim Saturday, they've launched their |
| 0:54.9 | first missile strike against Israel in the current war from Yemen, it's what they might do next |
| 1:00.1 | and how that could disrupt global supply chains, including those for oil. |
| 1:04.6 | During the Gaza war, the Houthi movement, which controls most of northern Yemen, attacked |
| 1:08.6 | commercial ships on the Red Sea. Babel Mandap is a choke point connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and on into the Indian Ocean. |
| 1:17.1 | Just under 10% of global sea trade passes through it, including all of Saudi oil exports. |
| 1:23.1 | At the time of the Gaza War, the Houthi movement also trained its weapons on Israel, |
| 1:26.5 | and tonight, the country is a Houthi movement also trained its weapons on Israel, and tonight, |
| 1:29.4 | the country is a Houthi target once again. |
| 1:39.9 | Emergency sirens and an explosion were heard in the southern coastal city of Elat as a drone suspected to be from Yemen was intercepted by the Israel Defence Forces. |
| 1:50.0 | Later, Yemen claimed responsibility, I should say later the Houthi claimed responsibility for the drone. |
| 1:54.6 | So who are the Houthi and how significant a force have they become in Yemen? |
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