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>> 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 ins...

this video of a strike, which we've geolocated to be nearly 100 miles north of the other strike you've just seen. the houthis are a political and military group who control a large part of yemen, including the capital, and they're allies of iran, who give them backing in the form of weapons and political funding. this is a map showing some of the strikes by the us and uk in yemen. a number of these have been confirmed by the uk's ministry of defence. the us has said over 100 weapons were fired at 16 houthi locations. the uk, meanwhile, has said it's been involved in strikes in two lo...

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>> iran is taking a big hit. they are serious sanctions that i know have very big. >> target shipping, financial and energy sectors all key to country's already struggling economy, the goal is to get iran to curve aggressive and destabilizing activities in the middle east which president trump pointed to at rally on sunday. >> i withdrew the united states from the horrible, one-sided iran nuclear deal. [cheers and applause] >> and iran has been a much different country. >> the administration is getting some criticism back at home, though, from some of its own party because several countries ar...