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coverage of the breaking news out of the middle east and the u.s. strikes continues with ac 360. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with breaking news. american-led air strikes in one of the most volatile hot spots in the world right now. mitts is some of the first video of explosions tonight in yemen s just north of the capital. iranian backed houthi fighters from yemen have been attacking commercial ships in the nearby red sea. there s been dozens of attacks. tonight u.s. and british forcevise struck back using air and naval assets. both surface ships and submarines with one houthi official moments ago saying multiple cities had been hit. cnn s oren leiberman at the pentagon for us tonight. m.j. lee at the white house where the president has just weighed in. i want to start at the pentagon. oren, what do we learn so far about the targets that have been hit? reporter: more than a dozen different targets were hit by u.s. aircraft and assets. it wa ....
From it. this targets the capabilities and tries to degrade the capabilities they have used to attack international shipping lanes over the course of the past several weeks and months, anderson. and oren, talk about the coalition that the u.s. has has involved in this. reporter: this is quite interesting. the u.s. and the u.k. from what we understand took part in the kinetic part of this operation in terms of firing the missiles and carrying out the strikes. but they were backed by a number of other countries here including austral you, bahrain, canada, and the netherlands. the u.s. was making sure this wasn t a unilet ral action and that they had international support. part of that was a diplomatic effort. there was a u.n. council resolution passed warning the houthis to stop international shipping in the red sea. there was also a joint statement put out by a number of countries in the u.s. effectively warning the houthis of the same thing that clearly didn t do anything to stop ....