 Hello and welcome to today's episode of International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the top stories from around the world. Let's take a look at today's headlines. Saudi-led coalition attacks civilian infrastructure in Yemen, striking South African workers say they are facing armed attacks and threats. How is Palestine action able to struggle against Israeli arms manufacturer, Elbit? We begin with Yemen. Where the Houthis have alleged that the Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces carried out air strikes on Sada city's Talmous, water station late on Tuesday, January 11. The strikes reportedly caused significant damage to the tanks that provide water to over 135,000 civilians in the city. Claiming that the water facility was purely a civilian project, the Houthi government demanded war crime proceedings against the Saudi-led coalition. It also asked international organizations to fulfill their responsibility to Sada residents, the Yemeni news agency, Saba reported. According to Saba, the Saudi-led coalition altogether carried out six air strikes in Sada province, causing damages to civilian infrastructure like telecommunication towers. The coalition forces also launched several air strikes in Marib and Hudaida provinces. According to Deputy Minister for Water and Environment in the Houthi administration, Haneel Darib, the attack on civilian water tanks has endangered the supply of water to the residents of Sada who are already suffering due to a severe shortage of fuel. The Saudi-led coalition has been waging a war in Yemen since 2015 to reinstate its former president, Abdurrah Mansur Hadi. The coalition has imposed a strict land, air and sea blockade of Yemen. This has deprived the majority of its population of basic necessities such as food and medicine. Due to the war and the blockade, at least 400,000 Yemenis have died and millions displaced and pushed towards death due to starvation and lack of essential medicines. According to the UN, in the last month alone, at least 350 Yemenis were killed and more than 15,000 people were displaced. Our next story is from South Africa where striking workers of the dairy company Clover Allege that they have been subjected to a number of attacks. The workers have been protesting since late November and are led by the General Industries Workers' Unions of South Africa, GIWUSA and the Food and Allied Workers' Union, FAWU. According to union officials, the vehicles of at least two workers were attacked with patrol bombs while others were threatened by groups of thugs or received menacing phone calls. The workers of Clover have been on strike against re-entrenchments and salary cuts instituted by the company as well as other measures that have increased their workload. Clover is owned by the Israeli Central Bottling Company. When Clover was taken over by Milko in 2019, assurances had been given that any re-entrenchments as part of a restructuring plan would be kept on hold until October 2022. The company also promised to create 500 new jobs. However, unions say that the company has gone back on its promises and has created conditions due to which over 800 jobs have been lost. The company is also considering the loss of over 1400 more jobs according to workers. The unions have been demanding that Clover be nationalised and handed over to workers management. And finally, we had earlier reported that Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit has been forced to shut down its factory in Oldham in the United Kingdom. This follows a continuous campaign by the group Palestine Action and its allies since 2020. We bring you this excerpt of an interview with Huda Amori of Palestine Action on the campaign, how it was organised and the way ahead. We are a direct action network launched over 18 months ago now in July 2020 and we basically take action against Israel's arms sites here in Britain to disrupt them, blockade them, occupy their sites. Often in most actions, there is red paint involved, which is to cover their premises and to signify the blood shed by these companies. And also on many occasions, especially at their factories, there has been a higher level amount of damage and dismantling done to the machinery inside the factories and to the infrastructure of the actual factory themselves. And just another example of this is the infrastructure of the actual factory themselves. And just in our first year, when we launched, we caused Elbit £15 million in losses by doing these type of actions. And that was with just over 100 people being arrested and actually they were shut down for over 105 days, which was three months out of one year. So we went into it with a clear mission. We wanted to shut this company down. We wanted to shut Elbit down. It was as simple as that for us. We were sick and tired of begging and appealing to politicians who weren't going to act on this issue. We had been waiting and asking for this for so long, but each time something happens in Gaza or each time something happens in Palestine, there are no sanctions brought by countries like Britain. Instead, they're actually deepening their ties with Israel's apartheid regime. And I think it gets to a point. And when you realise that Palestinians in Gaza and Palestinians in the West Bank and in the refugee camps cannot weigh the situation is urgent. And we have to act with that same urgency. And when you start to realise that actually these weapons are never built in front of the people that they will kill. They don't build these weapons in Gaza. They won't be able to, because the people would do the same thing we have done. And to stop the weapons from being produced. But they are built in front of us here in Britain where we do have privilege. And we do have an ability to actually go out and stop these factories from operating. So for us, it's the most logical thing to do when you know that most people, I think somebody was going to hurt someone in front of you, most people would step in the way and try and do something about it. And I think it's exactly the same principle. When you know that you have an arms factory which is building these weapons and will be used to kill people and has been developed on killing people, then we have a duty to actually go out and do whatever it takes. And if lobbying, if they don't respond to our call out or to lobbying of MPs and politicians, then we won't, we'll do it ourselves. And I think that's the point is, you know, lives at stake and humanity is at stake. And when you see the inequality of the world, I think for those who are in a privileged position, we do have an obligation to step out of our comfort zone when it comes to campaigning for these issues. Otherwise, we're going to end up in the same situation over and over again. And I think, like myself, many people are tired of seeing what we saw in May 2021 when we saw Gaza being bombed once again, with weapons again that are probably built here in Britain. And even though there is global support amongst people for Palestine, it's not translated to government legislation. So for us, going out and shutting these factories down is saying we don't need the government legislation to stop Israel from being able to produce these weapons here in Britain. And, you know, for, for Elba in Britain, they actually are so, and they mentioned before about not knowing where Oldham is and I'm sure many people who are listening to this won't. But these factories are normally not in the kind of metropolitan areas that actually in working-class communities. And for example, Oldham actually has a very large Asian community, very large Kashmiri community, Arabs there as well, who are actually, you know, weren't aware of this factory existing until the kind of action stepped up against this factory. And you know, it's so insulting to see that they put, they put the manufacturer of these weapons which we used to kill, you know, the communities back home right in front of them and think that they'll be able to get away with it. And obviously they didn't and they won't. And that's all for today's episode. For more such stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thank you for watching. Thank you.