Overnight, the US-backed Saudi coalition of Arab countries began a naval assault on the Yemeni port city, Hodeidah. Longtime Yemen correspondent Iona Craig is in touch with people in the port and tells host Marco Werman that the fight will be neither quick nor necessarily decisive.
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