emma awoulded, al jazeera ema haywood. >> reporter: >>> barbara joins us now. what do we know about the hits that we're hearing about? >> reporter: absolutely. the prime minister didn't waste any time on wednesday night after that vote passed as we heard in emma said. 174 votes. so the prime minister feeling he had the mandate to order these attacks in syria. we understand that two raaf jets left the british base shortly after that vote to go and bomb in eastern syria. it was then followed by another two raf jets. we understand that each of those jets had about three bombs, 500 pounds each, and they targeted the oil fields to the east of syria. this is very much tying in with the stated aim of the british prime minister and other members of the u.s. led coalition, so targeting these oil fields and trying to stop i.s.i.l. that way. interestingly, and there's a lot that the ministry of defense isn't revealing for operational reasons, but interestingly we don't understand that the brim stone missiles were used. these are the missiles that are meant to be the most