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Weekend: US and UK airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen

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US and UK airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen

04/02/2024 GMT

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A US-led coalition has launched yet more airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen

A US-led coalition has launched yet more airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.

Renewed US-led airstrikes hit Sanaa, the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen, following US attacks on sites linked to Iran on Friday. A  monitoring group said more than twenty pro-Iranian fighters were killed. 

Also on the programme: Voters are going to the polls today in El Salvador where President Bukele, the self-styled 'world’s coolest dictator’, is expected to coast to re-election despite severe restrictions on civil liberties; and we speak to a surgeon who spent five weeks working in Gaza in the midst of Israel’s offensive. 

Joining Paul Henley in the studio to discuss all this and more are Elisabeth Braw, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, and British psychotherapist and writer Mark Vernon. 

(Picture: A US Navy jet during takeoff, Feb 3 2024 Credit: U.S. Central Command)

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