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Response strikes, let's bring in former ambassador to malta and president of the middle east policy council gina abercrombie—winstanley. good to have you on bbc news tonight. i want to start with that statement that we were just mentioning in narrow lead worded, no mention of israel or gaza. is that the us trying to avoid further escalation? absolutely. the secretary of state has been very clear on the president has been very clear of our desire to not have conflict grow. this is an opportunity to show that this is indeed an international effort, that 47 countries being involved with the eff...

Cnn's nic robertson joins me live on this. this is where they said they launched an oil attack less than two weeks ago. what more do we know about this? >> reporter: yeah, the emergency situations ministry said they got reports of the fire at an oil depot at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, currently under investigation. so, of course, this happened under the or during the hours of darkness. and the russians were very quick to point the finger of blame at another oil depot fire 11 days ago, again, close to the border with ukraine. at that time they said ukrainian helicopters came across the border an...

For 25, 30 years. if these iranian-backed militias have been using these sites to use drones to attack our personnel, why just now are these sites being taken out, michael? >> there have been a number of these attacks. this is -- i think there have been 24 attacks by these militia's against u.s. targets just since january. so we've only seen two u.s. response strikes. so the biden administration is trying to respond but to respond in frankly a pretty measured manner. likely because they don't want to see escalation between the united states and these groups and second because frankly when they...