you would have anticipated. these two countries were allies until this week. in fact, they were laying plans to hold joint naval exercises. on tuesday, iran said it attacked the bases of a group within pakistani balochistan. last night, pakistan responded in kind with precision strikes inside iran. it s hard to see any direct connection to what s happening in gaza but it perhaps reflects just how febrile the wider region has become. here s our analysis editor, ros atkins. ever since the israel gaza war started, there s been a fear the conflict could spread, and that s happening. across the middle east, we re seeing air strikes, bombings, assassinations and border raids. the most high profile escalation involves houthi rebels in yemen attacking shipping in the red sea, they say, in solidarity with palestinians. in response, the us and the uk have attacked houthi positions, most recently with us strikes on wednesday night. and a day before america began attacking the houthis,
Our message to any country or group thinking about trying to take advantage of the situation to widen the conflict is dont. Dont do it. Dont. Dont. Dont. Dont. Just one word, dont. Sandra american officials have repeatedly talked to iran urging it to not widen the conflict. Action has been taken to back up the threats. Gaza seeing some of the most extensive airstrikes yet and that is developing at this hour. Welcome, hello, everyone, sandra smith in new york. John john roberts in washington. Pressure is growing for President Biden to respond to the 20 rocket and Drone Attacks against our troops in iraq and syria in the past ten days. And late last night, the pentagon says it did just that, bombing two military sites in Eastern Syria used by iranianbacked militias. Sandra the fighting between the u. S. And iran comes as massive explosions have rocked gaza all morning. Heaviest fighting they have seen in the this violent threeweek war. John Fox Team Coverage over the next two hours and t
ukraine officially says it has nothing to do with. selma joins us live from london. that s the point in terms of what ukraine is saying. this whole cross borderer squirmish is reeking havoc inside russia and yet ukraine says we don t know anything about this. we don t have anything to do with it. it s the start of this conflict. this war has been fought on ukrainian territory and will continue to be that way. but in the last few weeks and months, what we have seen is the war coming to russia, if you will. this ramp up in drone attacks, including that dramatic one a few weeks a ago, now these cross border raids just a couple weeks ago, two russian national gr groups, but antiputin armed by ukrainian armed forces made this dramatic ground incursion into this region. one of those groups, the russian volunteer core is carrying out
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reality or not reality? when are we going to know? we will have to press all our sources and also in qatar where they run the deconfliction lin . . they run a lot of the air forward command center for this. in the past, i should just stress when the russians have publicly said that the deconfliction line is no longer operative, you had hedges from the u.s. side. so, they ll say things like we are still deconflicting, which could mean you re having conversations. you re just not technically doing it on the hotline. news this morning afghanistan and can you summarize what it is? they need to have a strategy. they don t have one yet. until they have a final strategy, the troop numbers are almost rounding. the big numbers is what you do about pakistan. how aggressively do you go after the extremist elements that are in pakistan and have cross border raids. that is a much bigger question. hasn t been decided much bigger