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A new global naval force is to be set up to fend off attacks in the Red Sea

The assaults, mainly by drones, have rerouted global trade and are expected to raise oil and consumer goods prices worldwide.

Ten countries are to form a coalition to try to protect merchant shipping in the Red Sea from intensifying attacks from Yemen - we ask what the country's Houthis rebels want.

Elderly Jewish women have chained themselves to the gates of the White House in protest at the Biden administration's support for Israel in the war in Gaza - we talk to one of the protesters.

And the US chemicals giant Monsanto has been ordered to pay almost $900 million to people who said they were made sick by chemicals leaking from light fittings in a school.

50 minutes

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  • Tue 19 Dec 202305:06GMT