the houthis in yemen. a strike for stability or a step towards escalation? the prime minister praised the success of the mission targeting the ability of the houthis to threaten commercial cargoes in the red sea, but uk maritime trade operations said there were multiples reports of small boats approaching ships tonight. as protestors filled the streets of the yemeni capital, will this escalation serve as a warning or could the west be doing exactly what the iranian backed forces want? israel is encircled. we ll hearfrom a human rights activist who s in yemen and the former cia director general david petraeus. the oil price jumped today on fears of a wider conflict involving disruption to energy flows out of the persian gulf could all this upend tentative signs of turnaround in the world economy? and with the pm in ukraine trying to help shift a stalemate, israel at the international court ofjustice over south african accusations of genocide in gaza, and china threatening ta