it's taking place in the western part of the capital. and then there are some reports that the stores were heard in the city of caution, and also in the city or mission. so this city's they're having significant some nuclear facilities and also the military facilities as well. but what we understand so far that that has not been any explosion in the nuclear facilities. oil and gas reserves brother the, the, the, some of these, the military targets have came on thursday is riley attacked. but we do not know about this, the state of the casualties where the sap some, some soldiers have been killed or injured or not. however, the help being the reports of exclusion from these 3 cities now we are in to around them. we have also heard at least 3 explosions. but there are some reports that there were present. there were 3 more explosions in, in, in,

in pat ross. so in total they're talking about 6 explosions. however, here we are understanding from these rally is rarely sports person dominion spokesperson that they have targeted the military facilities. they have targeted the, the, the, the minutes the basis rather than going to do for you a nuclear gas is for the nuclear faceted or you from the gas facilities and the nuclear facility. so that is tied in also something because we have heard or that again again, iranians were quite clear that the response is going to be according to these rarely attack. so that means if israel ethic, so our minute to the basis we are going to target is rarely minutes are based as this was at the adoptive pool as 2 teeth for tat. and if it's read a tax didn't for you and gas deserves for the nuclear facilities, then our response also is going to be shipping is read or, and that gets yours. and there a new to this, i said it is,

but americans have been put into tremendous pressure. one is rad. he's not to target this strategic person that he's got that cold. and he's a, the lead to an old off, a full scale war across the reason it seems that as of now, what we can see that is really response to earphones attack on october. first is quite a measured one, that called created one. and it seems that it is limited with the military targets, not going beyond that because to find itself is holding some of the nuclear facilities. and as of now, when we can see what just scanning, we haven't heard of that kind of explosions. and the, the post up you are receiving the nuclear facilities our operating normally so far . but we have heard, at least 3, exposes in the capital and there are some other explosions. 3 exposes that are at this moment on to confirm. as i said, it seems that these various have attacked,

emitted target committed to target, but we do not know what is the skate of that exactly at this moment. and whether now it was a one shift operation and that is over, or whether the 2nd move towards the coming ways are going to come. or now. now we do not know whether these varies have to new to date attacks or it what they have just to initiate that, that. so in the coming hours, we are going to have a clear but the can, the samsung feature off off of that. however, in the line you run, these are seeing that the air defense systems across the country are on the highest alerts and they're seeing that it's a multi year air defense system. so we're talking about with the, the, the, the, the protection particularly be hands across and around this strategic facility is the oil and gas reserves, the strategic depots that are reserved for the present for the more times and new

exist outside of this. so they would be protected by russians as to the 100 m. s for hundreds. then for the 2 of the systems. and also they're talking about the runyan made by back to the home to 70 city. is defined system which are equal looking to the equipment to the russian, meet as $300.00 as and on top of that, iranians are seeing that several dozens and dozens of the aircraft. but now, so counting the iranian, they are spies a space. and now the running autumn is at the highest lever or the readiness. if the 16 of these via the tax is quite big and huge, then your dining rooms are seeing that they're going to respond to these with the, with, with the same magnitude to the. so this would make it unprecedented if the uranium minutes use you say is on the highest level, what would that look like? even given the, this is a regional escalation, that hasn't been seen for

a very long time. that indeed indeed, so little since the establishment of the islamic republic here in 1979 on for the 1st time we are seeing direct attacks between the 2 companies. this 2 companies, since 1979 had tremendous problems with the, with the regional arc. and them is almost a big issue. they were on different pages, they see each other as a special task. so it says that the, this quarter of this n with the whole still that the between these 2 companies is, is nothing new. however, after october 7th of 2023, then if the key is got to in a sense if got into a new phase. and we have seen that right off the top of the 7, particularly is riley started to target. you running assets in syria, they have started to assess the needs, the uranium officials,

the top generals of the quotes forces the evolution of the gods in syria. and then the same has applied to level known as well is read. these have targeted iranian embassy in damascus. and then purple officials of you run, your army has been killed in lebanon, and then we have seen that that doesn't stop there. then they have killed somebody, honey, in july truck. the 1st why she wasn't an official visit, the former support, the chief of or, or from us has been she of here. and then in portland, 27th of september as well last night with a general pass on the summer has the cube, which for iran was a huge, huge blow because his light is directly created and not just by, by his with less so. and then you on has responded to the bombing of his embassy in damascus by launching more than 300 thrones on in, in apple last year,

200 israel. but then on october 1st, i mean this monte early this month. iran has some tests, but as long as roughly around 200 bells thickness side, some of them were hypersonic me says on is read historical. and roughly for 2 of them, they have penetrated into is very easy to defy system. so then now this for the to time you're seeing that this companies are the directly targeting each other, these values. she didn't one on uranium soil and one was also we have seen that they have ships, israel twice on their store. so despite this and the t going back to all those for that case then but the, the hostility between 2 companies. but the 1st direct attacks of touching directly to each other soil is happening for the 1st time in 2023 and in 2024. and that is

extremely dangerous, because now we're not just talking the war i faxed in an area or the lease. is that the, the, the small areas like garza or the south of 11 on. but rather than now, you're talking about the one which is the land size is over 1500000 square meter. and then there is a possibility of a war starting from the gulf, the persian gulf, to the mediterranean sea. and now when you're talking about the rams, you're running out of meeting that israel has, is ralph has the technological security. however, they're seeing that one has the geopolitical induct. and now we have some more and more seen this competition. this time shouldn't conflict between the regional jo pulled to the power and the regional country that has to acknowledge it goes to peter to so it is a different case now and the good each of the attacks are actually making the pull

toward an oil forward in the region quite likely now. okay, thanks very much for that latest update. it also says that of course, will be coming back to you as soon as we can with any of those latest updates that will be expected to come in. but let's go straight to ros. jordan, who's in washington? d. c. for us now, following the latest from the what do we know? has there been any form of reaction or have we heard from the us administration? i have this on the record comment from the national security spokesperson, sean sabot, and i'm reading directly from his statement. we understand that is real, as conducting target. it strikes against military targets in a ron, as an exercise of self was self defense. and in response to around list a missile attack against israel on october. first, we would refer you to the israeli government for more information on their

operation. close quote. there's also been reported via the voice of america on the x, formerly known as twitter, that according to one us defense official, israel did give the was a heads up that this air strike was going to be taking place and has been reported in many times in recent weeks after that attack on television back on october 1st that the us had been warning is world that if and when it did decide to retaliate, that it should avoid going after around nuclear facilities. it should avoid going after or ron's oil facilities one to up had off the possibility of global economic chaos, which would result from surging oil prices. and also to prevent the signing off of a regional war. which is something that many people have been worried about in

recent weeks. now in terms of the us is support for israel. you the us have long supported israel's technological and military superior origin in the region. every weapon sale that the us has conducted with israel has been to make certain that israel has technological superiority over its neighbors, including a ron. it is also worth pointing out that the u. s. has continuously almost continuously cowed an aircraft carrier strike group in the region to help provide defense for is really our citizens and as rarely territory. and in the past couple of weeks, the us deployed of sad a terminal high altitude uh, and the anti defense system, along with 100 us troops to is, will, to help protect is will, if and when the strike on

a run did take place. because the assumption is that a ron would respond in kind in the use of that that could add another layer of uh, atlas. spirits protection over is wally territory. so that is the short reaction. we are getting so far the statement from the n a c spokes person, sean savage. and as you said, there of course has been us reinforcement in the region since all of this escalation. but the question also is, is that this is all happening at the time when the us secretary of state anthony blinking has been in the region just less than 24 hours ago. hit in catch all because of an attempt to revive those diplomatic tools when it comes to the will ending the war in gaza and also really seeing the caps of a still being held the well, let's be clear. this was not a trip to deal with the tensions between israel and a ron. this was, as you said,

an attempt to try to seize the moment as it were after the death of your house and wore the head of from us to try to get that cease fire in place to get the release of the remaining captives inside garza to ramp up considerably the amount of demand, terry and aid into gaza to help the millions of people who are essentially starving at that point, as well as to try to bolster the ability to and that's on the ratcheting up of tensions between has the law in southern lebanon and israel, a ron was not on the agenda, per say. it probably came up and conversations, but the by inherited ministrations focus this past week, has been to try to end in the war and gaza, which has been going on for more than a year. now and which the u. s. c's as really the emphasis for everything else that

is going down hill in the region. yeah. okay, thanks very much. the on the us reaction that we've had, we've rushed jordan, giving us the latest updates from washington, dc. i'm sure we'll be coming back to you once again in the meantime, i want to go back to that is really, but it 3 spokesman statement by daniel her gallery, following the reports of those strikes inside her on let's take a listen again and see when he arrived the what he had to say on that in response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in iran, against the state of israel. right now these real defense forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets, any wrong, the regime in iran and it's processing the region has been relentlessly attacking israel since october 7th on 7 fronts, including direct attacks from a ronnie and so like every other southern country in the world,

the state of israel has the right and the duty to respond. our defense event offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. we will do whatever necessary to defend the state of israel and the people of israel as well. mamma done to him is life for us and jordan's compliment, and that's because he is ready. government has like she binds all the 0 from reporting within israel and also the occupied territories. a really quick statesman, soon off, the wasteful, or heard at least all those explosions. is there anything else that we know that's coming from that is ready to confirmation? oh we've heard so far, sar is that relatively short statement from daniel head guard with regards to confirmation from these are in the army that they have carried out this long awaited retaliatory strike on iran. now i should mention that just in the last

couple of minutes, the office of prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel has released a very short statement saying that the prime minister has been at the operation center at the carrier. that's the ministry of defense intel of eve, and that he was there while this strike against iran was ongoing. now what we've also heard from israeli media in the past hour is that the uh, the security cabinet had approved the plan for the strike against the ron. and they were waiting based actually for the order from the prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as well as the defense minister. your walk a lot seems of course that now has happened. there has been so much speculation the last several days about when exactly this strike would occur. there was no timeline given by israel, but there were suggestions in his really media that the strike would take place before the us selection. now that indeed is what is played out this evening because the us election is on november 5th, a little under 2 weeks. there was

a lot of speculation that perhaps this strike was going to be imminent because us secretary of state anthony blinking was originally supposed to be in the region for perhaps a week that tripped in the region did not last week. it only lasted a few days and then he went on to london where he met with several errors of leaders to discuss the situation in the region. the fact that he left earlier than had had been anticipated. and the fact that we know that the us has been discussing so often with this real a, the scope of this potential attack against the ron. there was a lot of speculation in the media that perhaps this right could be happening much sooner rather than later. now at this stage, we don't have a lot of details from the israeli army. we're still waiting to find out what exactly they hit, how they did so. and if they plan to be uh to be a taking any further action when it comes to strikes against the rock, that's what we have at this moment. obviously there will be a lot more detailed to come in the hours ahead. sorry,

i'm going over say it's still early and so know what the situation is with the public in is ro is supposed to be in the middle of the night. so the all day like like she has to take precautions because of fee that this will escalate. further, of course at the moment is ro isn't just carrying out the will in garza, but also in 11 on. so this is a situation now where many countries all involved so at the moment what we've seen from the israeli army as well as reports in the, as rarely media is there is no change when it comes to the directors of the home front command, meaning they are not heightening the alert when it comes to specific cities or parts of israel. obviously that could change in the hours to come. but the fact of the matter is that israel is on a heightened state of alert these days. what you're seeing of more and more because of. busy the conflicts that is real is engaged in is you're seeing,

especially when it comes to 11 on barrages of missiles of rock. it's being launched from lab and on towards israel every day, just in the past 24 hours. these really armies stated that there were at least 60 rockets that were launched towards the north of israel. and in the last few hours, we were reporting about the fact that in motion to chrome, which is a town in the north of israel. 3rd, actually been 2 people killed as a result of one of these rockets landing in the town and also shrapnel falling from an interceptor missile from the israeli air defense system. intercepting one of those rockets from 11 on so that cause damage of cause injuries, a cause to death. people in the north of israel, in the centre of israel, coming more under attack from rockets feeling more vulnerable, even at a time when there is so much defiance from the israeli military. and the israeli leadership, especially the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. in saying that all these conflicts of israel is carrying out right now, all these wars it is real is finding that it is actually in the long run going to

be making is real, a safer place now when it comes to this retaliatory strike against iran, as i said at the moment, there is no change in the directive of the home front demand. they are not putting the country on a more heightened state of alert, but that could all change within a matter of minutes within a couple of hours. within the next few days, we just don't know. it will all depend on what they feel might be the threat emanating from iran. just try to strike back for this retaliatory strike. everything is really up in the air, but more and more people in israel have been questioning whether or not they are much more vulnerable to attacks because of all the conflicts that israel is involved in right now. sorry. yeah, absolutely. um, how much i'm doing the with the latest from the dro damian cops, and that's because this real has binds all the 0 from reporting within israel and they keep it ok. probably chart trees rather, i'm sure we'll be checking in with you with those latest updates is they'll be coming through. but so in the meantime, syrian states media is also reporting that it's a defense is,

have confronted what's it says, cooling hostile targets over the capital, damascus. and also with us now is treats a policy who's the executive find vice president of the quincy. and since you, that's a think tank based in the united states, and he's joining us lloyd from preston in virginia. thank you so much for joining us. a lot. moving here at the moment, it's still happening and we're getting more information slowly. nothing confirmed by the radians. yep. yeah, we have a confirmation now from the is riley's and the united states was this what you were expecting as well, we don't know quite yeah. it's exactly the extent of the attacks. it was expected that they would not target new care and all the installations, but also we have to wait and see whether what they have called military sides. actually army latrice sides both and living on an in uh gauze are it's been quite clear that these rates have been quite generous and the use of that term and the

target a lot of civilian targets that they have claimed to be another, treat the question really is the extent of the attack and whether they are going after senior military officials as well within these a military targets. and to some extent, i have to say, it may not matter because if the attack is as extensive as these ratings themselves claim that it is numerous targets across the country, not just intact on it dramatically increases the likelihood that the volumes will respond. and then in the next round, these ratings are quite nice to go after the nuclear sides and go after oil installations and economic infrastructure. and at that point, we will be inside of a regional war, a completely unnecessary $11.00 bite and could have prevented, but has chosen instead to few. and why would it not? so to go off to those installations specifically when it comes to iran?

a i think if the targets are nuclear sides economic infrastructure, that will mean that all restrained on the volume side will be gone and the volumes of already shown their capacity of being able to penetrate is really your defenses . and i don't think that you vanya is at that point where the hold back as much as they are holding back right now. that within sure, the drugs united states into the conflict, as well as other countries in the region. this is what the international community obviously should be seeking to avoid. this is what the biden ministration says that he wants to avoid, but is pursuing a strategy and what you said that he weren't don't, doesn't want to see escalation, but it's at the same time reducing the cost for israel to escalate that. as a result, we do naturally end up seeing more escalation. absolutely, sure. to a policy i just wanted to talk about that point is specifically because while you have on the one hand, the us and us present joy by them saying that they want a de escalation. and the reason this is something they have maintains very early on

for almost a year now, if not more, but at the same time as our report to that in washington dc residential and was saying that the us has been and the only supplying support it is is rose biggest ally and also providing a huge amount of money and weapons. i'm back up in the region. absolutely untrue. the escalation strategy would pressure the wrong box is full, not it will d, as well as these raise not escalates for instead, binding has put the pressure on these other parties. but when it comes to visual, it has provide them with more, more weapons. every time they have escalated by didn't, has rushed in to protect them from the consequences of their own escalation. as a result, he's reduce the cost to escalate for these varies and has made it easier for them to do. so that's a key reason as to why we are in this situation. and the language that was used

in the is really ministry spokesman. and daniel, how gar is a statement, was somewhat interesting and that they were saying they were using precise strikes . is this potentially just a warning or all we like, she's to see this in stages or. 8 the escalation, very soon, a that i think 1st of all, the thoughts that have been reported so far are just part of the 1st phase of a series of attacks that is always going to be conducting over the course of the next couple of hours. so i don't think we've seen the full scope yet. the fact that they're using the word for size on the one hand, maybe a, put down the value for these various projects in the west and media that will fix that all and present these attacks as part of it. besides the attack smarter then the more indiscriminate manner in which these babies have been bombing, baby loops,

and, and gaza. but he may also be in an effort to try to provide some sort of a pay saving exit route for the vonn. it's the initial reporting inside of the box from ctv has lean towards down plates. that may be an effort on their end to try to avoid it. putting themselves in a corner in which they have to escalate and respond in present in return to this. but that at the end of the day, much depends on the degree to which these rates are part of getting and bombing, and really in 16 damage on this 1st round of explosions. and it's a wrong seems to just be a 1st round, and it's not sufficient to me able to make a judgment as to how to evolve over style. and in terms of how long it's taken. do you think that's a israel has been waiting for the right moment, or should this how it hasn't been distracted by what's been going on in lebanon?

is it strategic timing that it's wasted and didn't react sooner rather than later? i, as i did these rays, were planning to do this earlier, but several different factors, not causal to be delayed. one of the more important ones, this is probably the beach that came out of the kind of gone that show a part of their plans. and they probably have to strap those valuable with something else at the same time. these ratings have been working against the clock . they know that they needed to do this. i talked to before the us selections, an idea on the more than a week before the us selections, because if they got too close to the election, it is various complicated calculations with comments. but, but i do think that these ratings were actually planning to do this more than a week ago and how to delay it. and the question is, given dr. late, does that mean that the 2nd phase of this 50 volumes response may be able to be in the course to ask that to us and actions? if that is the case, perhaps there will be a greater effort on the american side,

a little bit more backbone from the winehouse to actually pursue interview. the estimates were restructuring. and of course, that's because the us elections is really let to be just around the corner truth a policy that exists, the vice president, the quincy is the truth. thank you very much for joining us. thank you. as well. hey, as a reminder of the breaking news we're covering for you in this last hour because he is ready on the radio. so security cabinet has approved the decision to the tank. iran an authorized prime minister benjamin netanyahu, as well as his defense minister. you all have good luck to set a date and he gave the order. now the announcement came off, the 3 loud explosions have been. a in the arabian capital to her on and also it seems that the all reports of the ones according to our reports are a result or so. so thought who we were speaking too early and we will be returning

to but fast. um, how my brandy is a professor at the university of to her on the he joins us live from the thank you very much for your time once again. um, so we're guessing a little bit more information over. see we've had the confirmation now from the is really saying that they have carried out these precise attacks. can you just take us back? is this just a result of what happens on october 7? or does this go for the back as well? again, i have to stress that i have not heard any explosions, but i mean one part of the 10 are on it's a huge city. i've contacted people uh, 2 different parts of the country online. except for one or 2 people, they're all asleep. no one has the, the one or 2 people that i've spoken to and the people i've seen their messages on online that there's nothing for so far. there's nothing confirmed that there's

some of the explosions may have been surfaced air defenses. they may have been and they are in a place that was struck. i don't know at this stage, but we'll have to wait and see what we did see with this right. the resumes folks of sense will have to wait though, for some sort of news from tapper on later on. but no, this did not begin on october the 7th, just as of the 4th it crimes against the people got uh did not begin on october. the 8th at the beginning, decades ago, and the americans and there's rarely use and westerners, what sort of leads like to begin history from a certain point which benefits them. but the reality is that the colonized ation of palestine began 70 more than 76 years ago. but the rhymes problems with the united states and this really regime began a long time ago and but the 1st time this riley regime em.