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Adding that russia had been either complicit or incompetent by failing to secure the Chemical Weapons of its syrian ally. A romanian woman injured in the Westminster Terror Attack two weeks ago has died. Andrea cristea had been visiting london with her boyfriend. Good morning. Welcome to the programme. We are live until iiam this morning. We will be looking throughout the show at the implications of that Missile Strike by america on a base in syria. Its the first time america has intervened dire...

The 2nd airborne will be sending some 1,700 service members into poland. both units advertised this is what they are about. the 82nd airborne says it can be ready to go in 18 hours. that 18th airborne corps calling itself the contingency corps for america. these are troops that are deployed frequently on things like this. in fact, some of these elements were deployed to help with the evacuation in afghanistan. so they are ready to go at a moments notice. what is not normal is why they are going....

And then there was a string of these booming noises, and we realized, its something more sinister. its only today that we realized that it was a missile attack on that base. and you know, although we were prepared, weve been expecting this, because the attacks have been coming further and further west, it was still a bit of a surprise, because even though lviv is a city on edge, its full of refugees, its full of displaced people. its still a relatively safe zone or was until last night. now, to ...

Two blast walls, it contains the explosion so it doesnt go as much on to the base itself, but it amplifies it. it is between the two very solid bits of concrete. there seems to have been a mass casualty event. were waiting to hear about the status of the afghan civiians and the u.s. casualties. >> richard, the intended effect of complex explosions like this, there in kabul? very simple. the pentagon and others, intelligence alerts that this would have been isis-k. now isis lost. they were yester...

0 >> all right, david, thank you. we have a bit more breaking news to add to this, the pentagon spokesman saying we can confirm the explosion at a gate was the result of a complex attack that resulted in a number of u.s. and civilian casuacasualties. another explosion a short distance from the abbey gate also took place. our breaking news coverage continues now with craig melvin. good thursday morning. craig melvin here. we continue to follow breaking news in afghanistan. explosion outside of ...

Got from the state department yesterday that 6,000 people were on the base and had been processed. so clearly then if you do the math there is something like about 3,000 people still stuck there who havent been transported out. which leads you to ask is there a lack of airplanes. when i landed in guqatar, there was c-17 airport. so there may be something of a jam inside the airport. it is an enormous logistical problem and of course something which president biden has made specific problems abou...

This election properly, it is an election for the soul of this country, starting with roe v. wade, starting with putting a check and balance on this president, because if we dont get the house back, if the democrats cannot tee it up, this is a more important election than even 2016. >> the message should be clear. >> if it we cant get that right, the democrats -- >> certainly roe v. wade for the democratic base, but there are so many -- for pro-life catholics in pennsylvania, theres a great mess...

The base itself, the majority of the damage to the base itself was infrastructure. they did not pock up the runway. these strikes were very targeted. they didnt take out the syrian air force as some were calling for early yesterday. what they were trying to do was send a very clear message, a clear signal that the specific assets that were used for this chemical attack earlier this week on civilians near idlib, those are what were targeted. they went after 20 syrian aircraft and several aircraft...

There were airplanes taking off today from there. can you thread that for us at all in terms of giving us an assessment there? >> sure. the base itself, the majority of the damage to the base itself was infrastructure. they did not pock up the runway. these strikes were very targeted. they didnt take out the syrian air force as some were calling for early yesterday. what they were trying to do was send a very clear message, a clear signal that the specific assets that were used for this chemical...

This worked perfectly. can you thread that for us at all in terms of giving us an assessment there? >> sure. the base itself, the majority of the damage to the base itself was infrastructure. they did not pock up the runways. these strikes were very targeted. they didnt take out the syrian air force as some were calling for early yesterday. what they were trying to do was send a very clear message, a very clear signal that the specific assets that were used for this chemical attack earlier this ...