Carried out a series of airstrikes on houthi held territory. The us says this was a response to a series of attacks on commercial shipping In The Red Sea which have led most of the major Shipping Firms to divert their freighters away from the Suez Canal and around the Southern Cape of africa. The houthis, who are backed by iran, say they have been targeting Israeli Linked Ships on behalf of palestinians in gaza. The uks defence secretary, grant shapps, says britain will now Wait And See whether any more action should be taken against the houthis. The world sent a very clear message to the iranian backed houthis. End your illegal and unjustified actions. Stop risking innocent lives. Cease threatening the global economy. We could not have been clearer with our warnings, which they chose to ignore and enough was enough. He left it open that there