into yet another round of confrontation. as we begin to see that rhetoric intensifying, there will be careful eyes on the situation on the ground in yemen, and to what extent the houthis will be able to regroup and launch further attacks. all right. i want to turn now to how this is playing out here in the u.s. with president biden now calling the houthis a terrorist organization. sorry, could you hear the question? i m asking about how this is playing out in the u.s. with we heard president biden calling the houthis a terrorist organization. i think we re having problems reaching nada. so we ll have to leave it there. reporting from beirut. thank you. want to bring in now the former editor-in-chief of yemen post newspaper, and he s also played leading roles in
yemen has little to no infrastructure that s what worth fighting for. they have nothing to lose. they have the military power. they have the missile power. and they will continue to attack vessels israeli vessels until the gaza war is over and they have nothing to lose. i do believe they have more to gain than to lose if the u.s. attacks. finally, we heard president biden calling the houthis a terrorist organization looking to perhaps redesignate them formally as a terrorist organization. what effect would that have, how would that change dynamics do you think? yeah. this will not affect at all. the houthis do not have bank accounts anywhere, they don t have any fighters abroad. all their fighters are in the country. their accounts are in the country. so branding them as terrorist organization will have little to no effect on them whatsoever.
attacks along the red sea by the houthis since late november. tuesday we did see 21 missiles and drones fired by the houthis from yemen being shot down, according to u.s. military officials. the express intention of those u.s. and uk strikes that we saw overnight thursday into friday were to diminish and downgrade the houthis ability to carry out further attacks along the red sea. the houthis, on their part, have vowed to continue retaliating, to continue targeting vessels along the red sea so long as israel s attacks on gaza continue. but of course the target for the u.s. and the united kingdom has been attempting to diminish that possibilities. of course we have seen a further attack by the u.s. and united kingdom. one anti-ship ballistic missile targeting a vessel in the red sea. the hits, according to u.s. military officials, they believe, according to officials in the u.s., that their strikes overnight thursday into friday mean that the houthis haven t
brokering political mediations in yemen. thank you so much for joining us here. so as we ve said, there have been fresh strikes on the capital. you re there. tell us what you ve been seeing on the ground. yesterday there were a lot in specific 73 attacks on houthi targets. sana there were attacks on military locations, targeting military targets. there have been casualties, all the casualties were military casualties, not civilian. but the houthis have vowed to retaliate these attacks, and for that they hundreds of thousands protested yesterday in the capital sana demanding the houthi-controlled government to retaliate at the u.s.-british attacks and asked to attack u.s.
it s all a question of how it is perceived on the different sides. you saw massive protests, anti-american protests yesterday in yemen that looked like tens of thousands of people out. so, clearly the people of yemen consider this to be a violation of sovereignty at a minimum and an escalation perhaps. at the same time, if you believe the pentagon, what they ve done is taken out enough of the infrastructure to make it physically quite difficult for the houthis to continue these attacks, or at least the missile and drone attacks. they could still do these fast boats that they send out. and if that s the case, it may lead to a pause in the problem. at some point the houthis, using iranian money, will rebuild it. president biden has said that he believes that the houthis are a terror organization. his administration early on