This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Robin Brant in the early hours of Thursday the 18th of January and these are our main stories.

The huthis say they will continue their attacks on ships in the Red Sea

after the United States announced that it would return the group to its list of global terrorist

organizations. MPs in London have backed a plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda after the country's president

Paul Kagami expressed frustration with how long the process was taking.

Also in this podcast, we'll go to the other place in Israel's conflict with the Palestinians and hear from our correspondence in the Israeli occupied West Bank which is suffering

from a spike in violence and later the top footballer who went to Saudi Arabia just a

few months ago but has now decided it's too hot for him. He found it difficult to

adjust in the conditions to the Saudi climate because it's not easy to play in

those high temperatures. preachers. We start there with the deepening standoff between the United States and its allies

and the Houthi rebels with a declaration of war from one leader of the Iranian-backed group.

The Houthis say a US decision to designate the Yemeni-based group as a global terrorist

organization will not deter them from attacking ships in the Red Sea.

That's been evidenced by reports of a strike on a US registered ship in the Red Sea.

The designation follows weeks of attacks by the Huthis, a rebel group that controls large parts of Yemen.

Well, one of the group's political leaders, Mohammed Al-Buhatee, spoke to the BBC. Because we are at war against America and Britain, therefore this decision won't change a thing.

We will continue until the genocide stops in Gaza and food, fuel and

medicines are allowed in for its residents. Well that was Mohammed Al-Bucheati speaking on behalf of the Yemen-based Huthis.

For more on this, I spoke to our State Department correspondent in Washington DC, Tom Bateman and I asked

him whether the situation looked like it was de-escalating as the United States had previously

stated was its same?

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