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About 7 iranians were killed in the attack on the t 4 base a few days ago. iran hasnt responded. they had huge funeral processions today chanting death to america but it would be very significant for iran to get involved. >> all right. thank you very much for that and you get a sense really of how compl complex that battlefield looks like should they carry out a military strike and whether or not it is going to be sustained or a one off strike like we saw last year. something has to happen to de...

United states either. its always struck me, this goes beyond trump, this was true for president obama as well. the russians have a strategy in syria. their strategy was to support assad, to ensure he is not toppled, to widen his area of control. they put their resources behind that, thats what they achieved. we dont have a strategy. were against assad, were against isis, were against al qaeda. were against everybody. what are we trying to achieve? until we can answer that question, it not ju tst...

East. mike tobin is live in jerusalem. mike? >> theres threats as you mentioned coming from leaders in tehran and israel is taking those threats seriously. the jewish state today had consultations with top members of the security council today. israeli armor is always present on the northern border but today is no exception. the heavy equipment was on the move at times. specifically the threat had to do on the t-4 base near holmes. israel has not claimed the strike but its widely reported that i...

Returning to israel was shot down by syrian forces. very much this base, the t-4 base, center of attention for israelis. israelis, as nic mentioned in his live shot, russians are accusing them of conducting this air strike. israelis, however, until now have declined to comment on the incident. >> we shall see what happens. ben wedeman live from beirut. president trump is standing behind the embattled epa administrator scott pruitt in the face of the questions of excessive spending for security...

Attack. we have cnns ben wedeman in beirut. do we know they hit syria before? what more are we learning this morning? >> reporter: this came in a statement from the russian defense ministry, alex, which said two israeli f-15s flew over lebanon. from lebanese air space, fired eight missiles. it is known as the t-4 air base which is 60 miles northeast of damascus. according to the russians, five of the missiles were intercepted. three hit the targets. the syrian arab news agency, the official syri...

To comment on this reports of the strike as the french have said they didnt do it it. the americans say they didnt do it. so a good question is who did? israel has a history of conducting as many as 100 air strikes on targets within syria and on the 10th of february after iranian drone launched from the t-4 base entered israeli air space. israeli f-16 was shot down by syrian defense forces. alison. >> lets talk about the timing for a second. if it was israel to conduct the missile strike, what a...

Warplanes flew over lebanese airspace. how are they responding to that accusation? >> reporter: its no surprise as per usual israeli policy, the foreign affairs and the army have declared to comment on the accusations that it was israel that carried out the strike. a former commander said, look, there are only two countries that have the reason and the capable to carry out the strike, the u.s. and israel. for the u.s. it would be very quick planning if this were a response to the use of chemical...

He has the latest from beirut. >> reporter: good morning. the strike took place after 3:00 a.m. local time. the base itself is known as the t-4 base. that is where it is known there are iranian forces as well as syrian. we had a variety of accounts of what happened. initially the syrian arab news agency came out with the statement saying that there have been casualties and fatalities. that several of the missiles were knocked out of the sky by syrian defense forces. it is important to keep indep...

Few years israelis have conducted more than 100 air strikes inside syria. normally the targets are operatives from hezbollah or iranian forces. it is known that the t-4 base does host iranian personnel. it was from there on february 10th, that the iranians launched a drone in israeli air space. on that occasion, israelis did respond by attacking t-4, but one of the f-15s was shot down by syrian depp fenfenses. >> this may not be tied to the chemical weapons attack? thank you, ben wedeman. >> joi...