it s saturday, 13th january. our main story: the united states has confirmed it s carried out a fresh strike on a houthi target in yemen overnight, a day after both the us and uk carried out a series of raids on the iran backed group. the operation follows an attack by houthi rebels on commercial shipping vessels in the red sea. the group have said attacks in yemen will not go without punishment or retaliation . graham satchell reports. before and after satellite images show the impact of the american and british bombing raids. the americans say airfields and weapons storage depots were destroyed. the raf didn t take part in the attack overnight, but both the british and americans say the raids are vital to keep shipping routes open in the red sea. houthi militia have been targeting container ships off the yemeni coast for weeks. sometimes, like this, they have boarded vessels. in other attacks, they used drones and missiles. they say they are disrupting this key shipping
Judi dench, welcome to this cultural life. Thank you, john. You were born in 193a and grew up in york. Set the scene for us. What was family life like . My father was a doctor. And i had two brothers, older than me. And of course, at that time, no television, nothing like that. So we all had bikes and we made our own entertainment. My second brother, jeff, only ever wanted to be an actor. My oldest brother wanted to be a doctor, like dad, and i wanted to be a designer, scenic designer. Thats what i set out to be. From a young age . From quite a young age, because we were taken to the theatre a lot, you know, we were taken to. I remember once going to see a cuckoo in the nest, and i laughed so. This couple was in bed and suddenly a chest at the end of the bed opened and a man stood up in vest and pants. And i was sick. I laughed so much, i was sick. My mother had to take me home. But the wonderful thing is that i was taken back a couple of nights later to see what happened. They laugh m
darest thou cassius, now; leap in with me in to this angry flood and swim to yonder point?” and we d go, oh, jeff! we d be going. but it would go on for five minutes! jeff actually went to the rsc, didn t he? he certainly did. did he lead the way for you in that way? well, i expect he certainly did. but i was taken to stratford, by my parents again, in.in. ..in1953, i think. and that would have been the very first shakespeare that you saw? no! oh, no. i d seen shakespeare a long, long time ago, when my brother peter played duncan at st peter s school. macbeth. and i was taken. yeah. and he walked in and said, what bloody man is that? and i thought, this is for me, this is absolutely for me. and then we went to stratford, when i was still bent on being a designer, and saw michael redgrave as lear. and it was the most incredible set, which was a great, huge, flat circle. and in the middle was a pile of stones which turned,
but the wonderful thing is that i was taken back a couple of nights later to see what happened. laughter my pa used to be able to. he could recite the whole of hiawatha. and my. jeff, my brother, as i said, he wanted to be an actor, used to.he suddenly would launch into a huge, for once upon a raw and gusty day, the troubled tiber chafing with her shores; caesar said to me, darest thou cassius, now, leap in with me in to this angry flood and swim to yonder point?” and we d go, oh, jeff! we d be going. but it would go on for five minutes! jeff actually went to the rsc, didn t he? he certainly did. did he lead the way for you in that way? well, i expect he certainly did. but i was taken to stratford, by my parents again, in.in. ..in 1953, i think. and that would have been the very first shakespeare that you saw? no! oh, no. i d seen shakespeare a long,