talked to them about that weeks ago and they said they were going to do that and they are doing that. but i will continue to emphasise and i know secretary blinken and president biden will continue to emphasise the importance of addressing the issue of the palestinian people. it s critical and, you know, we are doing more but we re doing enough. time for a few more. more but we re doing enough. time for a few more. let s more but we re doing enough. time for a few more. let s go more but we re doing enough. time for a few more. let s go to - more but we re doing enough. time for a few more. let s go to cnn. reporter: for a few more. let s go to cnn. reporter: ,, . ., , ., ., ., reporter: secretary, allow me to oin m reporter: secretary, allow me to join my colleagues reporter: secretary, allow me to join my colleagues and reporter: secretary, allow me to join my colleagues and wishing - reporter: secretary, allow me toj join my colleagues and wishing you reporter:
the conditions exists for the return of the northern ireland power sharing executive and indicated he expects the assembly to sit on saturday. we ve seen just a number of moves through the last couple of days. we saw legislation late in the house of commons. now the dup leader says he s written to the dup leader says he s written to the speaker of the stormont assembly, saying the conditions now exist for the return power sharing in northern ireland, expected to start on saturday. we ll have a full live coverage of that. i really significant moment with the return of power sharing in northern ireland. more on that breaking development here in the next little while. let s head to the us. the defence secretary lloyd austin has called on iran to stop supplying weapons to the houthi rebels in yemen. speaking at the pentagon, he said the us does not want a wider middle east conflict, but it reserves the right to respond to iranian backed attacks on american personnel in the region
we ll bring you an interview with ecuador s president in the week will have elections on taiwan. we start tonight with reaction to the american and british air strikes on houthi targets in yemen. last night four royal air force typhoon fighterjets took part in the raids, along with us navyjets. this footage is from one of the two uk raf strikes. officials say 16 sites were targeted 16 sites, including in the capital city sana a. they included what the us called command and control centres, munitions depots, launching systems, production facilities and air defence radar systems. houthi leaders said five people were killed, and threatened to retaliate. the raids were in response to houthi attacks on ships in the red sea, which they say is in response to israel s attacks in gaza. fighters have been targeting ships with armed drones and missiles and boarding them. the british prime minister called the strikes necessary and proportionate in order to protect global trade in on
as soon as he is back in the us we are seeing a greater risk of further spike across region that is the concern and i ve been reading that the us is not interested in a war with yemen but then of the other hand it will not hesitate to use further force to stop any further attacks retaliation from the houthis. that s right and there is this inherent contradiction or difficulty and a dangerous difficulty and a dangerous difficulty in those two positions and i think that gets you into the much more strategic area of what s going on here because it s notjust the risk, the great risk is a military conflagration of the spreading across the region. what we are seeing now is the narrative battlefield escalating and broadening because the houthis presented to their own audience that
of hope there is still a potential diplomatic solution for all of this. at the same time neither side is changing its tooun. the u.s. still stands by the previous assertions that some of the russia s demands are nonstarters and russia is not changing its tune at all. so it is difficult to see how this can be resolved diplomatically. and of course you continue to see sha ratcheting you have of tensions more russian s-400 deployed to the belarus/ukrainian border and this is just contributing to the sense that the longer it takes to find a diplomatic solution, the more chance there is of things escalating and of the potential military conflagration which it does seem that both sides are committed to at least trying to put a stop to. but difficult to know whether the russians are entering into the negotiations or diplomatic efforts in good faith or whether