a little of both and particularly with the barza target but a little of both.ny other non—military application? of these facilities have any other non-military application? no, this is what they do presently, there might be other activities that they carry on but this is the core activity. he said none of the russian air defences were turned on, how do you explain that?” russian air defences were turned on, how do you explain that? i did not say they were not turned on, they were not employed. was agreement with russians they would not employ air defences? he said the syrian air defences did not have any significant impact on the operations, is up to say there was rio operations, is up to say there was no interception of any of these missiles? we had no coordination or agreement with the russians before that, andl agreement with the russians before that, and i want to say that the best of our ability to determine at this time, though syrian weapon had any effect on we did. last year, when a any effect on we did. last year, whena similar any effect on we did. la

you showed the pictures of barza. that is the key research center, presumably the one referenced by general dunford which was hit by the missiles that gets inside the capital's major air defenses. i should point out that yesterday general mattis -- secretary mattis and general dunford were responsible for the 11 8 or so missiles used. quite how many got through we don't know. the u.s. said some surface-to-air retaliation by syria took place. we have no idea whether or not the suggestion that's 70 out of 110 may have been intercepted on the way out. to say personally that would be remarkably impressive for a defense system. we see today bashar al assad receiving phone calls from his iranian counterpart, but also walking calmly into work. the marbled entrance hall as he seems to glide, showing he hasn't skipped a beat, hasn't lost a moment's sleep. i have to say russia and iran, while putting out the usual rhetoric, the kremlin demanding a u.n. security council meeting suggesting that international norms have been broke

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so the first part of your question, particularly the barza facility does not exist anymore. they've lost a lot of equipment, they lost a lot of material and it's going to have a significant effect on them. so i think the word cripple is a great accurate word. >> secretary mattis said chlorine was used. he also said the syrian regime mounted these attacks. also, the opcw is on the ground now. they're collecting information on that. >> we are still assessing, but as the secretary said last night, he is confident of the evidence that we already had, which is why he recommended the strikes last night. but we are still assessing and getting details and we can provide more details once we have them. >> can you give us an assessment of what evidence you do have. >> there's various intel and i won't speak to that, but when we have more evidence and details, i will come back to you. barbara. >> general mackenzie, could you speak about in barza and these other facilities, were there actually -- are you convinced they were chemical agents inside at the time of the strike, how did you m

the barza research and development center. next slide, the hemshinsarand the chemical weapons bunker facility which is located about seven kilometers from the previous him shinshar site. this aimed to deliver a clear and ambiguous message that their use of chem cap weapons against innocent civilians is inexcusable and deter any future use. we selected these targets to inmysei minimize the risk to innocent civilians. initial indications are we accomplished our military objectives without material interference from syria. i'd use three words to describe this operation. precise, overwhelming and effective. let's go back to the first barza slide, please. against the first target, the research and development center in the greater damascus area, we employed 76 missiles. 57 of these were tomahawk land attack cruise missiles and 19 were joint air to surface standoff missiles. you can see for yourself from the graphics, initial assessments are this target was destroyed. this is going to set the syrian chemical weapons program back for

that research facility in barza is sort of integrated into that complex as well. they weren't really sure what part of that military area was being attacked. but now that the sun is out and people are coming to terms with what actually happened, i think that they believe this attack was a lot less potent than they originally thought. there's already demonstrations going on in the syrian capital outside of the defendase minist against these air strikes. obviously pro-government demonstrations. a video was released of bashar al assad seemingly casually walking to work inside what might be the presidential palace, obviously showing that the syrians are unfazed by these strikes that were conducted by the u.s. and its allies. it was also interesting as cyril noted that the syrians were saying that 110 missiles were launched towards syrian, that many were intercepted. that also meshes with what the russians were saying, the russians almost gloating, saying the missiles were intercepted by systems developed in the ussr in the 1970s, obviously trying to taunt the fact tha

the dust settled on barza, tension between the u.s. has gone down, being reduced just a little. but the question hangs in the air, what did the air strikes achieve. military commanders have been pouring over satellite photographs of the three sites. remember, 105 missiles, 76 fell on that site. they'll be trying to work out, you know, did we achieve our objectives, has this deterred president bashar al assad. president trump has certainly answered one of the questions in his own mind this morning, in yet another of the tweets we have been hearing about. he said this morning the syria raid was so perfectly carried out with such precision, and he backs his own use yesterday of the phrase "mission accomplished." certainly tactically in terms of the three sites, mission was accomplished, but the whole question is what is the greater strategic mission, and was that accomplished in any way. interestingly, one syrian defector, a man who worked on syria's chemical weapons program has spoken out today, and he says that the attempt to get rid of chemical weapons in syria wasn't wholly suc

starting with barza, this is the facility that the lieutenant general, the joint staff director of the pentagon described as the heart of the syrian chemical weapons program. the pentagon says this was the center for research, development and production of chemical weapons. three main buildings the after pictures are the ones with the smoke rising indicate the three buildings were flattened. the other targets were outside of homes, about 100 miles north of damascus. the pentagon says one of the targets was a facility that made sarin gas precursors and production equipment. the other again according to the pentagon was a storage facility for chemical weapons as well as a command post. again, you can identify the pictures with the after by the smoke coming up. they aspear to show the -- they aspear -- they appear to show the structures were flattened. they appear to be heaps of rubble. the generals of the pentagon says part of the decision making was to minimize civilian casualties. thus far we have reports of only three injuries and that was near the targets outside of homes. kelly? kel

the final target in a neighborhood called barza. it's in the eastern part of the city. this is what the pentagon referred to as the, quote, scientific research facility. when you hear the phrase scientific research facility, that means a chemical weapons production facility. the person i spoke to on the ground in damascus and all of these targets also confirmed by the syrian opposition, saying that there is sort of a red glow from that facility where it's believed that fires are burning this morning. the strikes, it's important we should say to our viewers, terrifying of course for those living in damascus. it's worth also reinforcing the idea that the syrian people have been through seven years of horrible, horrible war, and this was another long night. there does seem to be some relief there on the ground that this may have been a one-off strike, that this may have been a message to the syrian president, and they will now wait to see if there are further messages. also these targets in homs, brian, very difficult to get information on those targets because homs, as yo

the third facility is in barza in eastern syria. those three sites were pummeled 35 minutes ago. eight explosions in damascus. >> thank you very much. we are piecing together from the various sources of information we can get, both eyewitnesses like cal was talking to there, an eyewitness in damascus, western damascus, a journalist who was able to get on the phone, got there, also reports from news services. i should tell you in less than ten minutes we are expecting to get a briefing from the u.s. military, the defense department at the pentagon is past is any prologue we expect we'll get more detail about what the u.s. military is doing tonight, along with the french and british. the president in his remarks describing the aims of the strikes, describing it as a sustained effort, an opened-ended effort, rather than a one-off strike. we expect at the top of the hour to get more detailed information from the pentagon. i want to go to beirut, lebanon where bill neely has hopefully a little more information he can give us in terms of what we're learning about targeting and the over

several strikes were conducted against the scientific research center in barza and recently, two inspectionsthe opcw were conducted with unimpeded access to all facilities. experts didn't find any traces of activity that would contra convenient the chemical weapons convention. the scientific facilities in syria are used only for peaceful activity, which is aimed at enhancing economic-- effectiveness of economic activity in syria. do you want syria to have no economy at all? you want to throw this country back into the stone-age? just a few years ago, this country was one of the most developed countries in the middle east. you want to finish off what your sanctions haven't achieved yet? at the same time, you're trying -- you are shedding crocodile tears about the suffering of ordinary syrians. ordinary syrians who are tired of war and happy that their legitimate authorities have freed the territory, you're not interested in their suffering. your aggressive actions contribute to worsening the humanitarian situation, which you're so worried about, according to your statements. in 24 hours you c