our security correspondent, frank gardner, looks at whether this military action will deter them. proudly independent, wary of outsiders and also staunchly anti western and anti israel. the houthis are a tough mountain tribe who seized power in yemen ten years ago. today, the us led air strikes seem only to have emboldened them and their supporters. translation: we condemn the criminal terrorist strikes | on the yemeni people by israel, america, and britain. we have been at war for eight years. these strikes do not frighten us and do not worry a hair on our head. we will support our brothers in palestine and gaza and we are with them. the houthis have already endured nearly eight years of air strikes as saudi arabia, armed with western weapons, sought to reverse their takeover and restore the legitimate government. it failed. the houthis are in firm control of most of the populated parts of yemen. that s the purple bits here, including the capital sana a, and crucially, most
most of our supply is from europe, and any impact on bills would not be felt for several months. but the economy s already fragile, with growth figures suggesting that while activity picked up in november, the risk of recession remains. events in the red sea aren t hitting us yet, but if it is prolonged, and spreads, it could threaten to derail growth and declining inflation, just as we re trying to get back on our feet. the houthis have been fighting a civil war against the yemeni government since 2014. when the war in gaza began, they declared their support for hamas and said they would target any ship travelling to israel. frank gardner looks now at whether today s military action will deter them. proudly independent, wary of outsiders and also staunchly anti western and anti israel. the houthis are a tough mountain tribe who seized power
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market. and that concerns the other members who question whether countries like africa, egypt and indonesia, orargentina countries like africa, egypt and indonesia, or argentina who have all said they would like to join, they mostly want to be closer to china, and that would also make the grouping somewhat less exclusive and dilute the power of countries like brazil and india. the other issue that concerns some of the opponents of expansion is that it s harder to control the final declarations, particularly brazil, south africa and india always sought to moderate the rhetoric of brics summits and not make anti western, because these countries also want to maintain productive ties to the west whereas china and russia are increasingly anti western. so i think there is tension there and it ll be interesting to see how it