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Good evening. Its 5 a. M. Jerusalem. This is Fox News At Night. There is word coming into Fox News At Night that the United States has conducted airstrikes in syria. Lets get to our chief National Security correspondent jennifer. We broke the news moments ago that u. S. Warplanes made airstrikes in syria against Iranian Proxy Forces that had been firing on u. S. Bases more than a dozen times in the past week. We now have a statement from the defense secretary, lloyd austin those strikes what are...

Hello and welcome to all of you watching in the United States and around the world. Im anna coren live from hong kong with our ongoing college of israel at war. Its 5 00 p. M. Here in hong kong, noon in embattled gaza where were now hearing that another small convoy of trucks with food and medicine is preparing to cross from egypt into gaza. 20 trucks were allowed to cross early saturday and egypts red crescent says another 17 trucks are ready to go today. Meanwhile, a Ground Invasion by Israeli...

You are in the, cnn newsroom. Hi, everyone. I am jessica dean in washington and we begin this hour at the white house President Biden unexpectedly on his way back to the white house right now, were turning from delaware to meet with his National Security council over rising tensions in the middle east. Us officials including biden himself warned and iranian attack on israeli territory could be coming within the next few days leaving both the us and Israeli Forces on high alert. And weve already ...

Strategist steve bannon. he explained why he didnt think the u.s. was trying to go it alone around the world. have a listen. >> what hes doing, whether its in the northwest with japan or korea, right, hes engaging his allies to say look, this has to work for america overall. so korea, im going to renegotiate our trade deal. at the same time, we talked about the security lines. at the same time we talk about the thad system. at the same time we talk about you paying for the thaad system. by the w...

Sanctions for so many years. thats why they are still propped up because of russia and china and have been able to gim the system. >> having said that. >> you know give them money to keep them going opinion and they say do this and for 25 years its a game. but the trump administration put pressure on there with sanctions and the military perspective. by introducing the thad system. >> but limited for time. you say all the things but having said that you have reservation. >> yes i have reservatio...

Unconventional approach? this moves the needle somewhat, it seems. >> i will give the trump administration credit for the amount of pressure that they have put on north korea. more so for sure than the -- than the obama administration. >> nick kristof said even those sanctions are working. >> what they call in the foreign policy community maximum pressure. and the maximum pressure comes from a multipronged approach. en a one of enemy is the sanctions. and the additional sanctions that the treasu...

It up almost instantaneously. now where it is going takes a little longer. the system is in place and depends on not just the ballistic missile defenses in fort greelly and van der berg air force base, but also the detection system deployed in the pacific to include south korea. and by the way i think its worth adding, we just tested pieces of that ballistic missile system a couple of weeks ago. the thad system successfully shot down a missile fired from hawaii toward alaska. and navy on a destr...

Strategic military capabilities in order to deter against the north. b 52 bombers. aircraft carries. theres been no official confirmation by the pentagon, but south korea president moon was making a speech. south korea will do everything it can to stand up to what he called reckless provocation by the north with strong punishment. what its doing is under scoring this concern about an arms race in asia. in particular here in china. china has already been long opposed to having that u.s. made anti...

Floating in the pacific. in terms of, of missile defense. in, i mean, there is a t.h.a.d. system even in south korea now. and the t.h.a.d. system happens to be the last, or a layer, of a defensive shield. >> reporter: so thats part of why the governor here in guam feels comfortable that for missiles to get all the way from north korea to here they have to cross over south korea, over the sea of japan, the east sea. over japan as well and then over hundreds and hundreds of miles to try to reach t...

The intercontinental ballistic missiles are the a.b.a. system. were not there yet. the technology isnt there. calculations so fast. its like a bullet hitting a bullet. we feel confident in our ability to defend south korea and japan using the t.h.a.d. system. once you get beyond that, then the numbers dont look very good at all. if you look at the missile tests, the antiballistic missile tests its about i think half of the tests are successful and they arent. half is not good enough. talking lau...