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steve: good morning this is fox & friends for friday, january 12th, 2024. ainsley: we have breaking news. joint strikes by the u.s. and u.k. hitting dozen of houthi targets in yemen in an effort to stop their attacks on the ships in the red sea iran backed group says they are not backing down. jack keane joining us on the military action taking place as our defense secretary still remains in the hospital. lawrence: texas national guard seizing control of a park stop the surge of illegal migrants crossing the border i jurent returned and got a firsthand look at what is happening on the ground. plus, country music star jelly roll giving emotional testimony on capitol hill on the deadly fentanyl epidemic. i have attended more funerals than i care to share with you all. this committee i could sit here and cry for days about the caskets i have carried of people i loved. i was a part of the problem. i m here now standing as a man that wants to be part of the solution.
it s singapore, this is bbc news. it s news. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we start with the us secretary of state antony blinken, who is headed to the middle east to visit israel, the west bank and seven countries over the next week. the us state department says during mr blinken s trip he will seek immediate increase in aid to gaza as the strip continues to deal with a humaniatarian crisis. the trip comes as the uk foreign secretary, david cameron, warns israel must allow more aid into gaza in order to avoid starvation and large outbreaks of disease. and there are reports of dozens more deaths from air strikes in southern gaza as israel continues its military operation there. and in lebanon, people gathered for the funeral of deputy hamas leader saleh al arouri. he was killed earlier this week in an explosion. hezbollah a powerful iranian backed group in lebanon has blamed that attack on what it says was flagrant israeli ag