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According to the russian statement, two israeli f-15s while flying over lebanon fired eight rockets at the t-4 base. five of them were intercepted. three hit the base. we don't know the specifics of damage or whatnot. the syrian news agency in their statement did say there were casualties and fatalities. there have been reports that perhaps there were iranians among those figures because in the past that was a base that had been used by the iranians to launch drones toward israel going back to february. alison. >> if israel did carry out the missile attack, it is unclear as to the timing and w...

Quote/unquote, decision will happen in the next 24-48 hours and nothing is off the table. he also says if vladimir putin is responsible russia will pay a price. here now is the president. >> we are very concerned when a thing like that can happen. this is about humanity. we're talking about humanity. and it can't be allowed to happen. so we'll be looking at that barbaric act and studying what's going on. we're trying to get people in there. as you know, it's been surrounded so it's very hard to get people in. not only has it been hit, it's been surrounded. and if they're innocent, why aren't t...

Conducted its believed more than 100 air strikes in syria, although this morning the israeli defense ministry did deny comment on reports that israeli forces or israel was behind this strike on the t-4 base. george? >> thank you for the background on that, ben. getting back to these images that we saw, these atrocities quite frankly of people, women, children, fathers dead on the ground from beings apparently gassed to death, what are you hearing about the situation in douma now and the agreement as well to allow for an evacuation for rebels and civilians to clear that area? >> we understand, ...

Mr. trump will meet with his top advisers in the coming hours, and they will have to is tied how the u.s. responds to scenes like ones you've just seen. >> let's bring in ben wedeman following the story in neighboring beirut, lebanon. ben, so let's talk about the syrian media report of a missile strike in homs province. are you hearing any indication who might be behind this or what actually happened there? >> well, starting with what happened, some time overnight there was a missile strike on the t-4 air base, which is about 100 kilometers northeast of damascus. according to the syrian news a...

Now it's important to keep in mind that the t-4 base was where on the 10th of february an iranian drone was launched that went into israeli territory. the israelis shot down that drone and then carried out strikes on that air base, the t-4 where there are iranian personnel. and one of their f-16s on when it was on the way back to israeli airspace was shot down by the syrians. one interesting thing we've just seen is lieberman, the israeli defense minister has come out with statements saying that the israeli air force has returned to operate iing in syrian airsp. he didn't directly claim that i...