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Tweeting earlier this week that he would strike syria he's trying to kind of walk that back and reclaim some of the element of surprise by saying that strikes were coming very soon or not so soon at all but it's unclear whether there will actually be any kind of action and if so what it will look like a couple felgenhauer russian ambassador to lebanon says moscow would respond by shooting down american missiles and then targeting their launch sites does russia have that capability. well mainly some are. there the. be. the darkened area and then b s then there's a possibility. for the most like...

Likely options this stage. it certainly does not seem to have had the deterrent effect that the united states hoped for so what we could see now could be another single strike of the sort that we saw last year we could see a more on going a concerted military effort to repeat strikes on an air base to make sure that it stays out of app out of operation we could also see trying to do nothing at all this u.s. has certainly lost its element of surprise here with donald trump tweeting that tweeting earlier this week that he would strike syria he's trying to kind of walk that back and reclaim some ...

Warplanes and the syrian military is moving into a defensive posture. meanwhile, european officials are warning civilian aircraft to be cautious when flying near syria because of the possible missile strikes. david? >> all right, martha raddatz with us again tonight. martha, thank you. and another big question tonight, will russia carry through on its threat to shoot any missiles down? abc's james longman is in the region tonight for us. james? >> reporter: david, growing questions tonight about how russia will react if the u.s. bombs its ally, syria. the russian ambassador here in lebanon s...

A what appears to be a major policy shift mainly moscow would should down any u.s. missiles fired at syria not just the missiles fired at russian soldiers and it will all be obvious the target is a launch sites which means probably for example u.s. aircraft carriers also moscow sound as at that time promises to center syria would destroy evidence of suspected chemical weapons attack so a pretty strong reaction right now really feel fictious in our report and logically showing russian troops investigating the chemical attack from saturday what can we expect from that investigation. nothing new ...

Kind of serious military action that we're going to see from the united states is going to require a serious long term strategy and it's not apparent that trump has that clear himself. russia we know has already how it would respond in the. strong. mr is a soup can warrant for example in case of an at tack moscow would shoot down any u.s. missiles fired at syria also russia would obviously target to the launch sites all of the missiles which means u.s. military bases or aircraft carriers and the goals for its goal for example three weeks ago i myself was embedded all along just u.s. aircraft c...