well the white house says it will be taking part in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into us president donald trump he had been given a sunday deadline to say whether he would send legal representation to a hearing on wednesday the white house also says it will respond separately regarding a 2nd hearing which has a friday deadline of course the u.s. president under scrutiny for asking ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son in exchange for military ate it is a big week ahead in the impeachment inquiry so let s have a little look at what s coming up members of the house intelligence committee will receive a copy of the impeachment report that will outline the findings of the investigation into trump s dealings with ukraine then will be a 24 hour period to review it after which there s a vote that s on tuesday afternoon to move it forward to the next stage that being proceedings in the house judiciary committee which is scheduled to sit on wednesday it is the judic
and on newsnight at 10.30, we ll go deeper behind the headlines and speak live to key players on today s big stories. plus, we take a first look at what s on tomorrow s front pages. good evening. in the last half hour, it s been reported that the uk has taken part in further strikes against the iranian backed houthis who operate in yemen. the attacks are in response to strikes by the houthis on cargo ships in the red sea. the houthis say they are attacking vessels bound for israel, in support of palestinians. our defence correspondent jonathan beale is here with me. this story has just broken, what more do we now? all we have at the moment is confirmation from two unnamed us officials at jets from confirmation from two unnamed us officials atjets from that us carrier in the red sea, the uss eisenhower, along with britishjets, they say, have been taking part in strikes on the houthis in yemen. we ve not yet had confirmation from downing street or the mod that that has happened
a senior lecturer in security at the university of bath and former british army captain. welcome to bbc news. we were hearing from lord cameron that he believes that this will degrade the group s ability to attack cargo ships. do you agree with that assertion, and how is the military trying to degrade the houthi capabilities? i do agree with the assertion. i think the strikes on the 11th of january, which hit about 1k targets, the uk was involved with that, that was a big message and it did degrade. we saw that confirmed with the battle damage assessment on the open source imagery coming through. then the us continue to hit missile launching sites, basically, as targets of opportunity. because the houthis have got mobile launchers. when intelligence queues of a target for them, they are able to hit them. but these were smaller and more ad hoc. finally, we had strikes yesterday that were very coordinated again, and larger, so hitting different targets across the spectrum, in t