the, the, this is the w news live in berlin, the u. s. a. u. k. launch a 2nd, 9th of retaliatory attacks against iran in the link militias, washington and london say they hit science belonging to this new c rebels in yemen, as follows us airstrikes in the rack and syria. also in the show and the united states, the democrats kick off their contest to choose their presidential nominate president biden, wins of predictive land line in south carolina. the 1st primary in his campaign, not his low approval ratings, means that the vote is still being seen as a test of his future re election chances. the

american and in spain is good to have you with us. the united states and britain have launched a series of airstrikes on the who, the militia and yemen. washington and london put out a joined statement saying that they had some dozens of target, which included underground weapons depos missile systems and launchers and radars. the strong is a part of the us military's effort to the terms of movies from further disrupting global shipping lanes in the red sea. well for more we can now talk to roger shanahan. he's a middle east analyst and military expert based in the sydney australia. welcome to the w. so according to those us officials, these strikes in yemen, hit 36 different targets. what more can you tell us about them?

to all right, it seems like we have some difficulties with the audio connection. are we checking whether we can hear roger shanahan? no, it looks like we cannot. all right, we will try to get our guest back later in the program. all right, let's turn our attention to the united states now where as expected, president joe biden has won the democratic primary in south carolina by a landslide. observers are still keeping a close watch on the turn out at this election. biden's approval ratings are low at the moment, and this vote will be a t test of support, especially among black voters as 5 and phases a re election battle with his likely challenger donald trump was more in

this. i'm joined now by mike cockburn. he is a post doctoral researcher at the viet reno european university here in germany. thanks for being with us. so i think it's safe to say that to biden's victory in south carolina. it was not a major surprise. so why is it still relevant? so yeah, we can see that the initial results look like he's got run about 96 percent by chance. and we can also see that there are no real challenges running. augusta so we've got dean phillips and marianne williamson. so running against him who neither of whom can be taken as a very serious candidates. and so we're still looking at these races on a number of different things. so festival, we can see that time out here was not huge. but we shouldn't worry about that too. much because south carolina has what's called an open broad rate system,

which means that people can choose to vote in either the democratic or republican crime rate. and republican property comes up on the 24th of february. and of course nicki highly. who's the form of golf and that is a south carolina is still running in that race. so i, i wouldn't worry too much about that. we all still seeing, particularly in kind of the media coverage. and certainly if you look on the kind of new york times headlines, there's still a lot of coverage about kind of concerned about items age of. but this concern really doesn't seem to be shed by the democratic party is it, is an organization has their kind of lack of a, a serious challenger, but really from, from biden's side and from kind of the democratic party, i forgot to side. i'm really at this point, everyone's looking ahead to the general election. i think on the, on that from the fight and camp is relatively happy to be running against trunk. and particularly this, this somewhat neutralizes be the i each question. particularly say if he was running instead of can someone like nikki haley when back could be more of

a concern? what i think the binding counselor be more concerned about this, the kind of lack of recognition that the president's been guessing in terms of the economy. if you look at the kind of the economic diets that is coming out of the united states, the macro economic indicate is a very strong. but the problem to provide has been to this kind of desist and inequality that he's not being able to address means the ordinary americans already speeding the benefits of those, those prices progress. so i think by for be kind of biden's message going into the general election to kind of talk about, but hopefully better from his perspective, try get a bit more recognition in terms of the economic conditions. and can you quickly perhaps explain to us the role of black voters in these primaries, which were it was very important. uh yeah. so of course uh, 4 years ago uh, south carolina is where our old times around the dry button. um this the south carolina farm reason now to have this past in the nation status among democrats. um,

but of course 4 years ago, he did very fully in, in iowa, very poorly in new hampshire as well. and it was black by just in south carolina that really help for kal, him to the presidency and to get the nomination. and so what we can see here in, in south carolina is once again uh in those districts. the, um, uh, most likely it is live, joe biden is still very popular. there's no, there's no kind of i'm to do with the around this among the black community. this is important because um, some pots and black community, particularly kind of older or more religious parts of the black community don't tend to be as kind of progressive on social issues. and some of the, some of the kind of the left of the party is way of bite and is also kind of worrying about a little bit more particularly site on issues like this route cause or complex sites that, for example, we've seen in the last couple of days that he's issued

a uh, an executive order kind of critical all, it is really sensitive. so that's what is in the west bank, which is somewhat unprecedented for us president. and i think we can read this as being in noticeable paul notes evaluated by concerns that may be arab americans will stay home, which could be a big a big important factor in the november election. particularly site in the state like michigan has a big out of american population. i'm the coast trump wong, in 2016 unemployed and 90. narrow the why? 5 by 3 points in uh in 2020. that was mike cockburn from the very now your opinion, diversity. many thanks indeed and we'd like to take him back now to our top of story and those strikes on who's the targets in yemen by the us and u. k. joining us to discuss this is roger shanahan. he's the middle east analyst

and military expert joining us from sydney. so according to us officials, the strikes hit some $36.00 targets across. yeah. man. can you tell us more about those targets? yeah, this is what we were told that uh it was 36 targets in 13 different locations, any aircraft with, from united states and u. k. and they're all sides say vice themselves fired from ships in the red se. uh, the targets were um, uh, support mechanisms for any shipping weapons that the who sees i utilize so. right as a actual launch is as well as emanation stuff, pause of me stalls, ballistics hidden crews and some drives as well. so we'll see relatively wide range of products mechanisms to launch the

projectiles into the red sea and also the rockets and resolves themselves. we do know though that the previous strikes on yemen in response to the who these attacks on the shipping lanes and the red sea have not deterred the rebels. so how would these strikes be any different as well as i think there's 2 things to that. first of all, how given issues size of a lease operation, 36 targets to attain different locations. i think we have to say this as part of that brought to us response to the test of 3 of us military personnel 24 hours before we say 95 different targets in certain locations in syria and iraq . so i think is part of the broad at multi spectrum response from the united states, but also as part of a longer term,

dried mission by the united states. and things like launch is volt, ballistic me. so is, is any finite number of them? you can import a range of me so as you can manufacture me, sauls and drives, but the launches and the, and 0 or, and surgery piece of equipment such as right, are sites and that kind of stuff much how to, to apply. so it's not any a deterrence affect it. so side grading effect by reducing the stuff falls of very important components of the complete me solid rocket systems. you mentioned that these latest strikes and targets in yemen are linked to fridays. us air strikes on targets in iraq and syria and also specifically that this was in response to the killing of the 3 us service man. um, of course, what all of these strikes have in common is that they're targeting iran backed groups. but can the us continue targeting iranian proxies without risking

a direct confrontation from iran itself? yeah, listen, it's, i have a question and i think that's part of the very delicate policy line that the by the ministration has to walk. it has to respond to 2 attacks against it's pres, know that resulting dest, it has to respond to attacks in the red sekins commercial maritime traffic. um, so they use uh, gibbons um and after the death of the personnel in jordan and it has to have, i respond sense is sufficiently robust and is sufficiently lengthy that changes the cost benefit analysis for a rainy and allied militia groups without directly attacking around because

of the assessment is if you're directly attacked around in territories and i will pay a much more likely to become more involved in it. if you attack at the extremities of writing the implants, in other words, its proxy groups. and then i understand the rules of the game and the 5 less likely to respond directly. so as we said before, a very delicate policy line to walk along, but they appear to be doing it at the moment with the right best response. but not at keeping that line with ron to is that it needs to become directly involved. that was roger shanahan. released analyst and military experts based in sydney. many thanks indeed for your insights my pleasure. as well as fighting goes on in gaza. so to do efforts to haul to the nearly 4 months more. moss now says israel and international mediators have made it

a tentative truce offer month. the militant group, which is considered a terrorist organization by most western countries, says it's still reviewing the details. hundreds of 10 credit together in golf house, hart against with egypt. this is probably the safest place for people to southern those guys to escape the fighting and bombing elsewhere. it's estimated this hub of the population of casa is now in the area. but these really army is still attacking targets in the city. scouts was how much strong health services, se 14 people were killed and one attack in rough or on, such as a willingness out of hello, the chelsea for legal homes go to the zones, considered safe. but at the end, whenever people go, they get moment why? who knows them to get, it's just revenge. they just want to bring destruction to people that sort of

shaving to the amount of. and you can see this huge destruction in this area and they show you that right. and what was the cause of all the neighboring houses were affected with demand route that has been my couldn't be meanwhile, international attempts to negotiate to cease fire between hamas and israel continue . i'm also concerned that it has received a proposal from israel, of the us egypt, and cut off it said it needed more time for decision that's still spinning. but there is no team yet. and his rarely defense minister us come on says, is john forces with also eventually advanced into rough or something. israel's allies have strongly warned against german for administer under the not the book said. and military operation against offer would not be justifiable. and that's the latest on data, but you can use this. our up next is doc film with a look at the last thing and dirty legacy of extracting oil and gas from the earth

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