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It was carried out by three u.s. c warships and a u.s. submarine. the french launched from a ship. in the air two b-1 bombers launched strikes along with french and british fighter jets. its located in damascus. missiles made it past heavy air defenses without being shot down. >> it does not exist anymore. we believe they have lost a lot of equipment. theyve lost a lot of material and it will have a significant effect on them. i think the words cripple and degrade are good, accurate words. >> re...

Him from doing this again. >> reporter:-shortly after these horrific videos emerged of an april 7th chemical weapons attack in a damascus suburb that the pentagon began planning for military strikes. the target list, a chemical research center in damascus and two chemical weapons in equipment storage facilities located west of homes. the pentagon said there were no reports of civilian casualties and all the military objectives for this strike were achieved. >> i believe we took the heart of it o...

The fact the turks was supportive as well and their foreign ministry came out with a show of support on this. turkey has been a tricky partner. they have been tricky. they had recent conversations with the iranians and the russians. the fact the turks are getting on our side. the fact the syrian missile defense did not work is a pretty significant change in our cunniku understanding of the battle space. the fact that one of the strikes was inside damascus and their missile defense shot after our...

New today leaders of france and britain say theyve spoken to president trump by phone. they say they discussed last nights missile strikes on syrias chemical weapons facilities and that they were all satisfied it was a successful mission. joining me is independent journalist danny mackey, who is inside damascus. danny, were you able to hear the strikes and have you been able to see any of the damage? >> actually, incidentally yesterday evening in the early hours, i was not able to just hear the ...

This battle in the skyline of damascus. it was something which is really out of a film because you dont expect to be in this situation where youre actually coming very close to a u.s. tomahawk missile. so in the initial hours of the strike, it was pretty traumatic, it was quite shocking from the perspective of many civilians in damascus, after the previous 48 hours where it seemed this was going to turn into something between russia and the united states. after the attack, which lasted for about...

Tensions remain high in the middle east after the united states, united kingdom and france launched those attacks in an already unstable region. rami, thank you for being with us. we were just talking to somebody in damascus, in talking to a syrian journalist, we were tacking about the russian involvement there. i think its time as we close up the hour to pull back to about 5,000 feet and discuss what has changed in 24 hours in the most unstable region in the world? >> what has changed is that y...

>> in a civil arwar and it was t about regime change. as i discussed with president trump and president macron it was a limited, targeted, and effective strike with clear boundaries that expressly sought to avoid retaliation. >> jeff bennett is at the white house for us. we have hans nichols at the pentagon. we begin with danny mackie who is inside damascus, the capital of syria. im sure that you were aware, as we were, of the conversations taking place over the last seven days about how the u.s...

Sense of jubilation, if youd like. ive been for a very short period into the streets of damn discussion. youve seen pro-assad protests within the centers of the squares, in the main areas around damascus. youve soeen the syrian pages posting pictures of assad going to work as normal but after that it was a message of what you could describe as defiance to the united states and it show as message that these people are definitely defiant and have taken their own actions in this war. >> independent...

Message of president trump last night. youre none by the company you keep. it was 2014 when then secretary of state john kerry negotiated an agreement that he would represent and that administration would represent, eliminated 100% of the chemical weapons in syria and russia agreed to be the guarantor of that agreement. and now we see the atrocities, the horrific images emerging from the brutality of this monster in damascus and all the while we understand that russia has been standing by aiding...

>> reporter: really this attempt by the assad government to lay out what their chemical weapons stockpiles actually are is trying to move the ball down the road a little bit in terms of keeping the conversation away from who actually used chemical weapons back during that august sarin gas attack that killed so many inside damascus. the syrians, of course, say it was the rebels, most of the international community say it was the government. that debate is largely academic as syrians keep living u...