all 3 targets that apparently the us president joe biden who was at his home in delaware for the weekend has been apprised of the beginning of the attacks. and it said to be monitoring events very closely. and we understand that according to multiple reports in recent weeks after the october, 1st start air strikes on tell of even other targets in israel that the u. s. had been telling israel that it should do everything possible to not strike nuclear facilities because that could shut off a regional war and not to strike around oil industry. because that could start off a global economic panic because of the price of oil. and so while we had don't have an official on camera read out from us, officials about what is happening with things air strikes being carried out by the israeli military. we do know that the u. s. continues to maintain the presence of an aircraft carrier strike group in the region to help provide support and help

defend as rarely territory. the us also authorized the deployment of a sophisticated anti era defense of missile system, known as fad along with $100.00 us troops to is really territory to add another layer of the self defense. if in fact, is iran were to decide to retaliate for the air strikes that are currently underway at this hour. yeah, exactly. we'll have to watch that space. of course, as there has been concern the to the, they'll be an increase in regional escalation. and that's been happening for the last few months now, those concerns while you're watching all ge 0 and we're continuing without coverage of the breaking news out of the wrong. these ready ministry says is conducting what it calls precise strikes in to hong and the last few hours, at least 6 explosions have been heard in the west to and the south of the capital

to her on states media area repair reports that none of the military sites belonging to the revolutionary gods have been hits, and defense systems have been activated in the city. and these righty ami radios says the security cabinets, approve of decision to attack iran, an authorized prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and the defense minister, you all have go on to set the dates. now, earlier is rainy, military spokesman, daniel has already made the following statement, saying these really minute 3 is conducting precise strikes of minute 3 targets in iran, in response to months of continuous attacks against the states of israel. he also added the regime in the wrong, and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking israel since october 7 on several fronts. like every other suffering country in the walls, he says is role has the right and you see to defend respond, draw the to iran attacks, you know, so as the defense capabilities of fully mobilized to defend the states of israel

and the people of israel. well, let's speak to our correspondent results or the who joins us live from. it's a her on a restore. you've been following the latest events, this, these explosions that have happened in the last few hours. what more do we know at the moment, as well as of now not much is level up in here so that 3 explosions were confirmed in the capital off around 10 rods. but the iranian state media, i seen that, that ex motions or not, that these is rarely aerial vehicles have sheet the minute to target. indeed they say that they target at the minute their locations. however, the saying that the writing a or the 5 system has intercepted this is rarely aerial vehicle. so the minute to the experts here when we're talking to them, they were still seeing that they have prepared

a multi layer of air defense system. and it has been weeks that they were on the highest level or off alert. so if you're talking about the russian as $200.00 a system russian made as to the home, the systems you run in may the for that towards the systems. and also bob as $370.00 systems which are equal to equivalent to the russian made as to the home to the systems. and in addition to that, they will say that thousands of the writing a collapse of costly fly, an answer counting the iranian at a of space. and also in addition to that, through the satellite is that we're seeing that they are also monitoring the a space, a score of the neighboring companies, and also the woman from the american, the american minutes of business across the region as well. so they were making clear that they are upon us level of the preparedness of, of now is read. these are saying that they have target to, to size targets on several minutes of the facilities. but as of now from the run

your side, there are no reports of the casualty does indeed have been just talking through the c or the implementing international airport. and also the direct agenda or mid about the airport, which does have 2 main civilian air force in the capital of your running to run. and this seeing that there are places or nothing to rob to the flights are still human, but it is going as usual. so when we look at displease and talking to people, there is no sense of panic here. however, the question is, is, or whether this was the initial phase of these very attacks, or it has been concluded that if it has been closed due to what we can understand from that is that israel try to be extremely measured not to need to absolute out and they get a, an all out war across the region, not to,

to the get the full skid war, the engine region. because iranians have been quite clear since october 1st, when the bones over 182 missiles, including the hypersonic, besides one israel. there was sand and couldn't get a message, just use varies. israel attacks the run, the running policy is going to be teeth forth. that means if israel effects a nuclear facility is, or if you run, it honestly is good that that gets better and you get facilities. if you was boy and gas reserves ice, you porter, especially the areas are hit by israel, then you run is going to heat is ready for you and gas reserves and visit the national air with us. and they were telling us that the rental fee shows here, that they, they have to leave a detailed performance plan is, is prepared at the table, but even identified the targets to be see it in israel. and they were talking about the roughly around $1000.00 me. so i was ready to be fired and associated with pauses of the thrones as well. so now if it's val concluded by this,

then perhaps we are going to see the property of respect that the response from your on. but if this was just the 1st phase of his rarely mean, it just struck on the wrong. and if the start, the phases are going to follow, then your arms response also is going to be harsher. but as of now what we can say, yes, there has been explosions. heard iranians are saying that this explosions where they are, that they are in the fast system, have intercepted the is very aerial vehicles. and for now they see that there are no, as you'll see, is reported. and the test news agency, which is one of the most trustable in iran, they're saying that none of the the, the minutes of the facilities had been that had been at times to hit them. but they have were not sheets, they were not harmed. as of now, then of course there are sort of some of the questions here now or if the vehicles are being used by is very odd me, then the question is,

which is space they have use? because in the last 2 weeks, the running pop diplomat, the best that i could for the minister has visited 11 countries in the region from egypt to the gulf states. and he said that when he was talking to his concert parts, he's compet plus have a shrewd iran that there is space is not going to be use the gas iran in. and he's rarely stripe and american bases across the region, but also not going to be used in attack, a guest iran. and you know, i mean, we're seeing that yes we have, we have people who we are at the highest level of the preparations. and the addition of that, we are close the money turn into american military bases across the region, closely monitored in the air space as of the neighboring countries as well. however, despite that, now we see that this attack happens, right? these are confirming that iranians are confirming some sort of attacks, but when it comes to the security law stat and the resolve the caustic choices,

whether they have let any casualties or not as of these moments it's, it's, it's not clear, but one thing is quite strange so when we're talking about that you're running cabinets of, you're talking about the city that has 15, medium population. and usually in such cases you will have quite huge, huge pictures coming from different causes of the sources. but at this moment, yes, steve, having very, very limited um, visual sources when it comes to, to, to, to, to, to this does this most of the explosions being being shared. so, and that is something space. so what the take away from that is, is what the way that you're reading as of does it as teams here, is that it was quite a very limited balance. calculated and quite reserved is riley attack and trying to, to, to assist some how deep it is suppose to your arms is your arms attack. that's

happened to place on october 1st without you being, but i was in a region of what a waiting to 3 of your, an oil out full scale award individual under. so sort, dario sign the, as you rightly said, that both sides really have been saying that they want to avoid any or lout will. this is something that's been maintained by our believe is in the region. and also for those countries, that's all mediating. and yet for more than a year now, we are still seeing different attacks as ro is now involved with, well, not just in gaza, but also with lebanon. and it's also been carrying out attacks in syria, as well as a young man and now it wrong. but it says it would also go off to any one, no matter where they all, we saw this with how much data is maya m a. so this isn't the 1st time, but also iran has the time, is row,

can you just remind our view is more on not say, well says establishment of this law major, public 181979. so simply, iran has put israel as number one and to me and, and to me that needs to be a lemonade. that was, it could be a uranium position regarding his read and vice versa as well for you, ronald. so for this rattle, so you're on, has been regarded as number one, exist special tracts. so that was not a secret. however, through all that decades long tension is between the 2 companies that have been taking on each other's assess him directly. but for the 1st time, starting often with the 7th of 2020 to the one they have seen that these 2 companies start to at tech directly attacked each other. and the 1st has started by israel, it's attacking and targeting the iranian assets. what are you running allies,

particularly in c o? yeah, and in 11. and eventually they have seen that last year is rad. has she'd be running an embassy in damascus? they attacked the running diplomatic mission there. one of the top commander of the live edition to god's has been killed in that attack. and that was because just she was a big, well known figure. it has been public, but before that doesn't north albany, rental officials have being kills. and then on july 21st, during the integration of the nearly elected president, mister position young, one of the official guests was how much for the part the computer chief is smart honey. and he was seen to around and he has the necessitated by israel then iranian said that they are going to respond to the 1st you run your respond was when used. israel has attacked the running embassy in damascus in apple. 2 weeks of the debt

that you're on for the 1st time in history, has seat is rail directly from its own soil by launching around 300 rooms. but one ends at that time were quite clear. they were seeing that the reason that they are sending this very much very much primitive drones to israel is not to create the maximum of harm, but rather to work to, to work on the mapping of these red is the fast system. but then when this might have your was killed and then in step on september 27th, when the last 6 of the general house on the seller was directly assessing they took, it was a huge below. but it was a huge battle for, for your one. and your mom decided to go to another level and last, $200.00. besides including a hypersonic besides $242.00 of them have penetrated into is rarely a defense system. so we have seen that this is now becoming more and more usual

that these 2 countries me going beyond in direct attacks, but now rather directly at taking each other and publicly also announcing that. and that's why now, more than ever before, the possibility of an all out more is at the sig, i'm both companies are facing tremendous security complication. so now here is rarely is regarded as a technology called super poverty. but you want all of these close to the is of as a jewel public, a superpower and iranians believe that if israel spans is or patients that is going to be a war. busy starting from the persian gulf to the mediterranean sea. i'm both companies here are going to be losing quite huge. okay, thank you very much for that. the comprehensive lights just update the uh from the rain in the capital to her on and explaining how we no longer need just got here.

but just to give you an idea of the flight and situation to see this is the radar. the flights and radar that you're seeing live, the big grey space that you're seeing is where the flights the yellow adults. so the different lines and the different planes flying over the avoiding or rain in space or to give, uh, uh that just gives you a sense of the security situation. so those are flights international flights between continents and they're avoiding a flying over iran. and that's because of the latest, which is several explosions that have taken place in iran on the outskirts of the capital, not in the city center, but on the peripheries. and this has been confirmed by the israelis and not by the radians, no official iranian conformation. other than the arabian states media,

but following the latest is riley developments isn't the how much i'm doing, whose life for us and the jordanian capital online. and a reminder for our view is the israel has bind all to 0 from reporting inside of israel, but also from the occupied territories. hence why i'm, how much i'm doing is in georgia. and what is the latest that we know from these raise on these latest explosions? well, sorry, we heard earlier from dial agari. he's the spokes person for the israeli military. and he put out a video statement in which he said, partially in response to months of continuous attacks from the regime. any ron against the state of israel right now, the israeli defense forces are conducting precise strikes on military targets, skin iran, the regime in iran, and its proxies and the regions have been relentlessly attacking is real since october 7th on 7 fronts, including direct attacks from iranian soil now that's just part of the statement

that he released. but if we, if we look at that a little bit closer, it mentions the fact that his real is carrying out what they call precise strikes against military target. it does not mention if this is a phased response or retaliatory strike, if it is concluded, it does not mention what they consider to be these military targets, and it does not state how exactly the strikes have been conducted. so there's still a lot of questions in the coming hours that need to be answered by the israeli army . beyond that, we also have seen reports emerge that confirm that this strike was approved by israel's cabinet and a phone conversation that those cabinet members had with his really prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and as really defensive industry, you'll walk a lot that phone conversation took place earlier on friday evening and that the cabinet members had been briefed and the days prior to approving the strike as to

the contours of this strike, what it would entail. that's essentially all the details that we've gotten thus far . we also heard that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu was at the operation center in the carrier, which is the defense ministry complex and tele fees, as the strike was going on. so we're anticipating to hear more from the israelis, but the timing of this is also very interesting because as you and i have been discussing the last several days, you saw us secretary of st. anthony blinking touring the region. now that visit to the region was supposed to last longer. some people thought it would last up to a week. he left the region earlier than anticipated. on thursday, he went to london and he was in london meeting with eric leaders the next day. and a lot of people thought that that meant that perhaps israel's retaliation against iran would happen eminently well. it seems that that's exactly what happened. but

as you heard from wrist sewell started on my colleague and he won. he was speaking to you earlier, one of the things that everybody was wondering about and perhaps still wondering about his, what would the scope of israel's retaliation against the ron b that we still don't know if this strike, if this attack is over, we're waiting to find that out from the israel each but we know that in the weeks leading up to the stripe that the americans had privately been urging the israelis to limit the scope of this attack. in the initial phases of the reporting on this, the is really use had been saying that in their retaliation against the wrong, that every option was on the table. and there were sources unnamed sources inside israel that were given quotes to out with an israel suggesting that perhaps is really nuclear facilities could be targeted. in fact, some members of the government were even say publicly, they thought that nuclear facilities and they run should be targeted. now the

americans did not want that to happen. the americans also did not want there to be strikes against oil facilities in iran. once again, we must say at this point we don't know which military targets the israelis are talking about. we'll have to wait to see, but we know that the americans, one of the, is released to limit the scope of their attack because they don't want to see a wider regional conflagration. now, results are, there was also saying that there potentially indications that maybe people any wrong thought that the strikes were more contained and they initially feared they would be we don't know at this stage. but the fact of the matter is that in israel, at this stage, the home front command, when it comes to directives, to citizen in israel about the alert readiness has not been raised. so that indicates that this out for these really are not too concerned about coming under attack. again, that could all change. we're talking about a very fluid dynamic situation, minute by minute, hour,

by hour. but at this stage there's a lot more questions than answers. we're waiting to hear more from israel's military. chief among the questions, is this attack this counter attack that they've been promising against the ronald they said would be severe. is it over or is this just phase one? sar? thanks very much for how much on june the life for us from jordan. of course. many questions still remain on onset on this, but according to the public relations office of to her owns at defense, the sounds hug around to her on we're related to defense reactions. it says 3 locations outside the city. the details of the my to it seems also in on the investigation that's according to that statement. well, that speak to for odd is i the who's a professor of international relations that's a wrong university and he joins us from to her on via skype. see her, the, it seems that the conclusion from this is that it perhaps was

a limited reaction from israel or limits. it strikes raw the from is role in iran in the last couple of hours to it. yes. that's the feeling that we have the in they had on. we actually don't know if anything was hits the explosions that had a part of the entries due to either owns a defense system. when you use a different system, your dentist. p a sounds that the feel like explosions, but they're, they're not as and in take on things are very quiet. and i woke up by the call of international media and that's because of signs of explosions. so it seems i, i agree, it seems that there was a very, it was, it was very limited. and the, i think the airports both the airport so you don't,

has to the table. it has 2 major inputs. both of them are functioning normally. and thing seems to be quiet. i mean, certainly we're not surprised that israel has reacted. it's that it was going to react to the october 1st time that was carried out by iran on israel the time it had a sense um many uh ballistic missile. so we weren't surprised about that, but certainly those questions over the timing and also scale and you know, the analysis in a need on was that, is there any is attack and, and people expecting an attack that this is, was that it would be quite limited. and the reason is that the, i think is really is a climbing a major lot against either on but not at this time. remember what happened to love

it, not as riley's attacked 11, not as the one year of the patient. so they, they started a genocide that they, they continued with that. and then about 11 months after there's this stuff genocide that they started to affect 11 and they could do it at the same time. but they decided to postpone that because they knew that time to time that that attack the page is attacked under that tax. they had the, the time for that. and, and that it says, can you on, is that, is there any, is i'm not ready for the major military confrontation with the dog at this time. they may do it after one year or 2 years, i think is where it is a one to be in the picture lar continues to wash

a. i think the analysis in is it, is that if the stuff that was a mit how most of stem functioning, you know, the kid had 2 liters of how was the somebody tiny, i'm a yeah, you know, send a lot of but nothing much has changed in terms of the resistance in odessa that those sit losing. so just it's in facing resistance from that how boss and this from to how does that, that they have to say it has sudden that's what the head of visible. but at the. ringback level of his beloved retaliations against isn't actually increased after that as a nation. so nothing major has changed in terms of that culture of resistance that we have seen from living these for the last 40 years. and i just had texting deed

on these obviously a bigger, bigger fish you and you're talking about those attacks. certainly when the, how my pseudo smile on a was killed in iran, did the med take you wrong by surprise and did it have to re co calibrate and rethink its type 6 moving forward given that the war and cause a hadn't come to an end sooner rather than later, given the ceasefire negotiations were haven't been going anywhere. has they had to re assess its position. uh, okay, uh, we have a hearing some uh, a defense systems right now, just for the information. i'm hearing some somebody is it for the systems right now just for you to know that the to answer your question uh the, the, you know the there was a level of disagreement between the dog. there was some people who taught

the ceasefire efforts. the. ready oceans efforts, that's what led by the americans would bear fruit to put towards that's a lot of with this stop, especially after the march a ceasefire. a resolution at the u. n. people, todd. so those are the dates of the war with and so this was one group of people in, in take it on that, that had that analysis. and then you had the 2nd group of people that believed that time, you're looking at this stuff that was for a number of reasons, including his own positive for the future. and it seems the analysis of the 2nd group that was was correct. and as i said, i think that is what it is would continue to, but then war against the neighboring countries for some time to come. i don't think

the major military confrontation between 11 and is, is, is going to be able to get, i think that meant to see that sort of relates. and that just to recap, uh, mr. for the size of what was it you would just saying that you were hearing just a few moments ago. you know, i'm, i'm hearing that when i, when i just again, just a minute ago i, i was hearing day of defense systems war check. right. so this is i lived right in the middle of the day run and, and i could hear that just just now. okay, something will suddenly be keeping an eye on. is this the latest development coming out of the wrong continues? i thank you very much for our desire the, the professor of international relations joining us of from to her on from the rainy and a capital. thank you. well, let's take a short break. so now we'll, and we will return with all rolling coverage on his roll strikes on iran capital to

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on the world's right to know. the truth must be protected and heard. and the stories of real people must be told. journalism is not a crime, a pressing it the the, the welcome back you watching all of the 0 reminder of our top story. israel has lost as strikes on iran, and that's recount, but we know so fall is roll says it's conduct single to close precise strikes against minute tree targets in iran and response that wrong is attack against israel on october. the 1st iran state media has confirmed 6 explosions, west and south of the capital to her on bots. it's not commented on the cause so

far on the scale of the damage international flights of being diverted around west and iran, according to flights radar. and they're all reports, the space has been closed. but let's bring in rose jordan, who's in washington d. c. now for us, of course, when we talk about is route. we know that the us is likely to be involved some what, what are we hearing from the rest of ministration? well, i'm getting information from one us official, that the us military is not involved in these is really air strikes on a, ronnie, and targets. there's also this on the record comment from the national security council spokesperson sean savage. and i'm quoting here, we understand that is real is conducting targeted air strikes against mills 3 targets in a run as an exercise of self defense. and in response to

a ron's ballistic missile attack against israel on october. first, we would refer you to the israeli government for more information on their operation. now there are a number of news reports indicating that to us president joe biden has been made aware that these attacks are under way. and as i said, the monitoring the situation. there's also one report which i haven't been able to confirm that the vice president cala harris also has been read in on the as really a air campaign against a ronnie and military targets. we do know that in recent weeks, as, as well, was considering how it was going to respond back to us had been urging it not to attack nuclear facilities in iran, because that could lead to a much broader war in the region. the us also had been a warning is real not to target around oil industry, because that could set off a global economic panic. how however,

we don't know beyond the fact that the us has deployed a sophisticated, advanced anti missile defense system inside is regularly territory with about $100.00 us troops there to manage this system that to, we don't know that there's anything more that the u. s. it has been prepared to do other than stand up to its treaty obligations to defend as well in case of direct attack. okay, thanks very much for that. the latest update restoral now from washington, dc dc as well that speak to greg stalker, who's a former united states army special operations member and is now a g o please call unless for minutes press news and he joins us from austin, texas. thanks for joining us. i'm sure you've been following the latest developments that we've just had from residential net talking about us reaction. what is the us role in oral of this?

i mean we're talking about it being a friend of his ro, it's a describes this relationship as an clause. it's supporting its somehow, militarily, but it's also saying that it doesn't want any further escalation in the region and has been wanting of this so many months. well, i mean, it is very to mazda, of all that the united states does not want a wider regional war in west asia. however, we could talk about the us military cooperation 1st. it's been well established that they have targeting cells, intelligence targeting cells for kinetic strikes with in israel, the intercept broke, that last february we, they have global hawks and surveillance drones over the gaza strip. they have run intercepts with united states fighter craft and what i mean by intercepts is launching fighter crapped out of cyprus or out of

a naval straight group to intercept incoming missiles from iran. so everything so far seems to be from an intelligence and defensive perspective. and they, the united states and the joint chiefs of staff have been very clear that that is going to be the extent for the time being of us and involvement and is really military action. okay, and when we hear about the support, the military support that we've did that you've just mentioned that to what degree is the us willing to go? what is its red line when it comes to iran? well when it comes to is real, we bulldozed over and by we, i mean the united states government just happened to be living in america. now we bulldozed over every red line or rather israel has with rich regards to gaza with regards to an invasion in southern lebanon, with the expansion of settlements in westbank. however, iran is kind of a different situation. the united states as

a no way prepared to engage in any sort of armed hot conflict with the ron. if you ron with its mass of ballistic missile arsenal can overwhelm, is really air defenses. even in a small degree, that means our entire military asset matrix are bases with in the gulf and middle east are completely exposed to target devastation also. and this is why a salient point for why the united states did not want israel to a target oil assets. it raining oil assets, is because it was ours would be targeted and returned again, causing a massive market panic. and it's causing gas prices to search right before an election on november 5th. so yeah, the, the united states policy has been de escalation while giving is real political cover. and so many that's been some more confusing in the last few months. of

course, as the will and goal is the continues and also is ro, is a talking has beloved across its buddha and 11 on. and now with these latest strikes as well that we're seeing in iran. um, thank you very much, greg started performa us on the special operations members of joining us that and giving us your insight into the us military aspect of things with also a guessing reports. now that seems to be confirmed that that has been a 2nd wave of strikes on iran by israel. of course, that was a big question, which will put forward to how much i'm doing, who's all reports. but it's live for us, the in a jordan's cops on because he's ready to government has binds all deserve from a reporting from there. and as we were just talking about earlier, the question was, will it carry out any more attacks? was this just a phase of bus phase, or was this a limited attack?

and it seems now that there is a 2nd wave of those strikes sir, we should 1st mention that there's been no confirmation from these really army or any government officials in israel as to a 2nd phase of attacks having started. now there are some reports that are emerging in the is really media stating that a 2nd wave of attacks may have begun, but still very unclear. but it does go to the question that you and i were speaking about the last couple of hours. because the language from israel's army and the military spokesperson that daniel on guard in the video statement he put out earlier, was vague at best. it said that israel was carrying out precise strikes against military targets in a ron. and it did not say if these were phase strikes, it does not say which targets that they consider to be military targets that they are striking. and it did not state how exactly those strikes are being carried out

. so that left many to wonder if this was just going to be a 1st phase. how long? exactly. this might last. we're just going to have to wait and see as to the details emerging when it comes to what this retaliatory strike from israel towards the ron with the shape of it ultimately is going to be what we do know beyond that statement from a gar is that the israeli cabinet, a gave permission to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and the israeli defense ministry. you'll have a lot to carry out this strike against the ron that this happened in a phone conversation earlier on friday evening. and that these cabinet ministers had been briefed in the days leading up to that phone conversation about what the stripe plan against the ron was going to be. so they officially approved that, according to the reports and these really media on friday evening in a phone conversation. it's very interesting to see this playing out right now

because the israelis making a big show at the moment of releasing a lot of photos of notes in yahoo as well as hurt. see how levy, who is the chief of staff of these rarely army and other defense officials in the cure. yeah. which is a defense ministry complex in tel aviv. they are in the command center there. and there's a lot of reporting going on. the statements coming out from them as to the fact that all these people are involved in overseeing the strike from this center and israel. but again, not a lot of detail as to what that strikes ultimately will entail. and perhaps how many phases it will be. that's the big question at this hour. look, we know that the u. s. has been urging israel for weeks now to try to limit in scope this retaliatory attack against iran. the u. s. has privately asked, is real not to strike nuclear facilities,

and they've asked israel not to strike oil facilities. and there was reporting last week that indicated that the us felt that they had gotten the necessary commitments from israel. that israel was going to essentially heed. the us is warning, we don't know if that's going to be the case. we still don't know what these targets are. we don't know the scope of this attack. but the fact of the matter is that, you know, the answer they blinking was in israel just a few days ago. obviously this is something that was discussed. details did not emerge about it. the us does not want to see a larger conflagration in the region. and they were extremely worried about a strike that israel had promised for weeks. now that they said was going to be severe. they were extremely worried. and one of the reasons that the us and other international actors were worried was because you had is really officials who were stating to the media. and israel, the face thought that israel should strike nuclear facilities in a ron. this was causing a lot of panic. the region has been on tenterhooks. the region has been extremely

worried. tensions are, i don't know all time site. now right now in israel, it does not seem that the defense establishment there is to concerned about the state of readiness. because what we've seen thus far this evening or early morning, i should say is that the home command directives have not changed. that means that they have not heightened any directives for citizens there to take more cover or for a heightened state of alert. of course, this is a very fluid and dynamic situation, and that could all change within a matter of minutes. if i could have been some reports emerging in the last half an hour, but there's some communities in north of israel, the air raid sirens are going off once more. but that's mostly due to the threat that's being detected from rockets being launched from lab and on because of the conflict with his butler. israel right now is engaged in many wars. they're waging many conflicts. and the fact of the matter is that there are people in israel that are concerned about how long, but it is really citizens will be. obviously when israel wakes up to this news

later this morning, they're going to be citizens. they're concerned about if this attack against the wrong puts them a greater threat going for sarah. okay, thanks very much for that. latest update that uh, from a home at them june has been following those is ready, latest lines on those type feel. just seeing live pictures that you can see the, it seems though, the latest pictures. rather it seems these all the rain in defense defense system. other reports of the 2nd wave of is riley strikes on iran. it's still not clear. i think let me just cuz i think we may be able to hear that of those seems to be what we're seeing. those flashes that we're seeing in the sky seemed to be the rain in at defense. which one? 0, well i guess we were talking to friends or onset was talking to us live and said that

he was able to hear sounds that were going above him. i, as we were talking to him earlier, it seems that these, what we're seeing him now are live pictures, those pictures that we're seeing on live from to her wrong. you're seeing traffic the some of those that we've been speaking to, they've been saying that life seems to be as is as normal at the moment. it's gone of full am into her on local time. and if we have a look, we will just be it's gone 5, it's actually 5, 15 am local time, and it's a her on and it's a her on is also what all correspondence resource or dot is live for us following the latest. so we've been seeing these and hearing those explosions that we're just seeing in those latest pictures that we've just got the from iran,

i believe that you will also hearing them yourself. indeed indeed, from our route to 00 here also, we have heard this 2nd wave off the explosions. and now your ideas are saying that these are the date, your defense system into the intervening that they're getting into the, in the past activity. so what we can see here, this sound tight a tough gums are shooting at the, the, the, the drones. so as of these moments return confirmed that mature to 2 of these attacks that is rarely claiming has happened to drones, not from the sales, not a across. so that is quite an interesting case because this kind of quote, the quote there's that is a reason or a the question whether they have been fired,

launched from israel or from someone else because usually these kind of aerial vehicles, they're not the long range aerial vehicles. so far, whatever that you're running, you're the fast system is getting involved, seeing that they are targeting these kinds of projectiles and said the and, and plus the quad quarters. so now as of now, there are no explosions. they say it's over testing the most is reporting that you're running, somebody and no official news agency saying that it is over. however, now it has been almost around 3 hours and have seen the 2nd wave off the is riley attacks. but so for the running media or did you any more officials or not the reporting, any casualties there? indeed, seeing that none of the military bases have been, see it in a meaningful sense. and the still, the, the, the,

the c o and the director of jungles off since to mean the ports in iran, the month so many international reinforced and had a box a for the saying that they are for plating. they did not, they did not stop the flights. so the life is going as usual, if the business is green as usual. now it is 5. the 5 17 am in the morning local time into ron and within an hour we'll be seeing people. this is the 1st working day of the week and we're going to be seeing people gradually preparing to go through the work. of course that is a near future. there's a new and you've been vitamins now. however, as, as, as we can observe, based on our monitoring and distribution on the streets that we wouldn't say that the life dramatically has been interrupted so far. and the, the scale of the scale of the explosions, as i said,

doesn't seem to be the explosions originated from the messiah's or a craft attacks. and it's a nice sounding very loud the but says, you said at the moment we understand that those explosions that we were just seeing russell well, the uranium at defense system. thanks very much for that latest update from to her arm, which is the arraignment capital. but also i was speaking citrix of policies, the executive vice president of the quincy institute, a think tank based in the us, and he joins us live from rest and in virginia. thank you. once again for speaking with us. now it seems a 2nd way we haven't had as a report to them how much i'm june was saying any confirmation from these ratings on a 2nd wave sucks, but it's not. so is this what you had expected? we were expecting israel to respond to it wrong the time, but within what capacity, where are you expecting? of the messages that have come out for the last couple of days is that it would

only be targeting mandatory sites. but i think we have to be a bit careful now because we've seen 2 phases of this. there's a likelihood that there will be a couple of more. and those may end up being more powerful than the 1st ones. because the 1st ones may have focused on air defense systems to take those down in order to pay the way from much more powerful strikes afterwards. so everything we're hearing so far, no casualties, limited damage. uh, you know, especially in effort to play down the damage of these radio tax, which indicates that the volumes don't wants further escalation. it's not clear whether that will remain the case in a couple of hours. if there it actually ends up being a phase 3 and x rays for the perhaps of page 5. and this then goes to the court of your question. is this what we expected or not? we expected at these various bridges, something against military sides. but whether that will be so powerful that it

forces the volume to respond or not. that's where the question has been. and tonight, it's still too early. just tell me, the only indication we have so far is that at a minimum, the vanya is really do not want to see this escalates product. okay, thank you very much. uh, 22 policy that will be coming back to. uh, once again, i'm sure at some point, so because this is an ongoing developing story, but speak to greg. so who's a full the united states army special operations member. it is now geo political unless for mint press news and he joins is also from the us from austin, texas. so we see now we've heard from us that they've been aware of all of this a, how sophisticated do you think this attack is by the israelis and also the us minute treat role in any of this is the tool

the 1st of all i would characterize it is not, not necessarily as unsophisticated, but certainly performative. there is no nothing that a really accomplish. so we've just seen a 2nd wave through sending you avi's, unmanned aerial vehicles. most likely drones quad comforters. they don't have a very long range. so where did they come from? a probably not israel because they would have had the past due jordanian and rocky aerospace, most likely. um iraq, a turkey potential places for launch. but again, we're not going to know any of that right now. the reason it doesn't make a lot of sense from a military perspective, if you're trying to do actual damage, is because of basic air defense theory, which is if you want to overwhelm an air defense system, you need to either achieve one or 2 things saturation where you present so many targets that the air defense system is completely overwhelmed and has to start picking which targets to intercept or depletion where it runs out of ammunition.

and you have to reload and reloading a lot of these air defense systems takes 20 minutes. sometimes 30 minutes, you have to go get the munition for one place. bring it to the air defense battery . use a crane loaded up. so what you would try to do if you're actually trying to hit targets. so this is conventional military doctrine. you will do what we call flood zone, have so many targets that your cheap saturation and depletion. so that you can finally get through the air defense system and start putting rounds on target. hitting military targets. whatever you want to do, the 1st the was where your rankings did with have done have been doing as well as has been a lot on time. us both iranian backed groups that have been up consistently trying to overwhelm the on dime system in israel. and certainly that's what we saw when we seen drones at low altitude and much more higher numbers of casualties.

now, in terms of it being the other way around, what see, uh, iranian defense system like well, i mean it's, it's comparable to what the united states has. i mean, it varies in technology and capacity, but there's, it's a multi layered defense for low, medium, high altitude things you know, is realize the iron dome, david's lang arrow to and now they have on americans bad battery. just unlike the iranians, they have a multi layered air defense system, but uh, that's comparable and effective at intercepting, but obviously they intercepted these um you avi's, which it looks like you are these, they weren't photograph, they weren't ballistic missiles. we know that through image intelligence that we're actively getting right now. so, um, yeah, there is no way that they thought that that would get penetrate a russian air defense system, especially since a, b is really, is get intelligence information from the united states who have been fighting and

assisting ukraine and trying to penetrate russian air defense systems. in the ukraine war, so it just, it just seems beyond performative now there might be other waves, but they haven't achieved saturation or depletion. so it's not really going to achieve anything right now. they're caught right now. the arabian military is reloading those batteries for another wave, and so it really hasn't achieved much. okay, thanks very much. kirk sofa, who's a former us army special operations member, and always a good to hear thoughts on the military aspects of things of good to speak to you. thank you as well what you're seeing now. there is the latest pictures that of it runs at defense system against a what seems to be a 2nd wave of is really strikes on the rain in capital, not the sense up, but on the for fries and several other areas, several explosions that have been hubs it's been confirmed by the israelis. this is

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