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He calls a rigged election. They launch more air strikes in afghanistan and hundreds of thousands flee the fighting. Israel and hamas exchanged another round of rocket fire, these pictures show israels Defense System intercepting rockets over the city of ashdod. Israeli military says it bombed 50 sites inside the gaza strip including homes and also called up hundreds of reserve soldiers to the border and medics say at least 13 people have been injured in this latest round of attacks, some palestinian residents were warned to leave moments before the air strike. Translator 3 20 a. M. We got a call from the army and asked us to leave the house, we all evacuated the house and told the neighbors and all of us left our houses and attacked ten minutes after the evacuation and the house is totally destroyed. Reporter john is in gaza, joins us live and john we understand in the last couple of hours there has been renewed activity and bring us up to speed with that. Thats right, the numbers you
Autonomy. For days weve seen armed men patrolling there. Theyre meeting to discuss their next step to discuss a mediation mission. The European Union will address its discussion on monday. What are the people expecting from the russians . You know, as the news broke that the russians have authorized the use of force, there is celebration here 60 of the population is ethnic russian, and they feel that the russians are protecting them. They felt a lot of unease about what is going on in kiev. Theyve been watching television reports for months calling the now government thieves, thugs, fascists. They have created roadblocks to protect themselves from these people. And we have seen armed men and their military uniforms with no distinguishing insignificant knee i cant iininsignificaninst building until a few hours ago. A lot going on here. And now with russia authorizing force, russia, of course, crimea with 15,000 Russian Forces. Already in the region now they have authorization from the p
So what were talking about here really is the very high potential for a direct military conflict between the United States and russia. And an alarming message from at least one member of congress about potential war with russia. New today, a report about the options laid out by President Trump by advisers to deal with north korea. One of them involves nuclear weapons. And another directly involves the leader of that country, kim jongun. Its an option that might shock you. We begin with new reaction from President Trump tweeting this past hour. He says congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the United States and the world so well in the syria attack. His praise for the military coming as were learning the inside story of how he went from America First to striking syria. The Washington Post said it wasnt just the horrible pictures of suffering that led to this 180 but also, quote, he has been eager to show a clear victory more than two months into his tumult
These images that they say show the impact of 58 of those 59 tomahawk missiles that targeted the syrian airfield. This is the same airfield that the Syrian Regime launched the chemical attack killing dozens of men, women and little children. We are also learning now that the pentagon is investigating whether or not russia was complicit in that chemical attack. Im joined now by chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto and Senior International correspondent Clarissa Ward who is there near the turkey syrian border. Clarissa, beginning with you, the Syrian People, how are they reacting to this action . Reporter well, its been extraordinary to see, brooke, the Syrian People who support the opposition, that is to say who are against the regime of Bashar Al Assad were actually pretty shocked by this and shocked, i should say, in a good way. They view it as a welcome surprise for years and years they have dreamed about the u. S. Finally coming to their aide in some capacity only to re