hello and welcome everyone. i m michael holmes in atlanta. appreciate your company. we begin with breaking news, and concerns about a possible widening of conflict in the middle east. the u.s. and uk have been striking houthi targets in yemen following a surge of attacks by the iran-backed rebels against commercial vessels in the red sea. have a look at these images that came in a short time ago, showing american fighter jets taking off from the uss eisenhower aircraft carrier. a senior u.s. military official says it is unclear what percentage of who the assets were destroyed inside yemen, but said the amount was significant. houthis say they retaliated. we are told u.s. and coalition forces hit more than 60 targets at 16 of the locations, and those targets included the militants radar systems along with storage and launch sites for ballistic myself, cruise missiles, and drones. i can show you where they are located. you can see there on the map, the u.s. has carried out s
have not been too impactful on the global economy, at two have been much more extreme had the suez canal closed and affected other types of shipping like energy shipping for instance and the again, the u.s. led coalition of prosperity has proven that the fact they can intercept wide scale attacks provide some comfort for the merchants up until now we have seen these effects or attacks being announced. but it truly does show how fragile supply chains are, it is not the first time there have been so from 1967 to high energy prices for the 70s, and also a short in 2021. again it is a good point because there s already some problems right. traffic through the panama canal has been affected by a severe drought, hasn t it? is there a compounding effect