f. sixteen was hit. israel then launched a second series of strikes attacking at least a dozen syrian and iranian bases inside syria israel's air force says it's the most significant attack against syria since the one thousand nine hundred two lebanon war emraan kong reports from mr islam. in the early hours of saturday morning syria's war escalated to a new level for the first time in thirty years israel lost a fighter jet to enemy fire as israel confirmed syrian air defense shot at one of its f. sixteen fighter jets these really play minister was blunt israel iran and its most responsible for today's aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security the crash followed the shooting down of a drone israeli army video shows what they say is the iranian drone flying towards the north and golan heights before it was downed in retaliation israeli air force at twelve targets in syria including the suspected drone command center iranian targets and syrian air d

f. sixteen coming down. well the israelis a very squarely blamed the run ins for all of the aggression taking place over that area what they've said on this social media account by the israeli army is that the i.d.f. has targeted the iranian control systems in syria sent the u.a.b. into israeli s. place massive syrian and fire one f. sixteen crashed in israel pilots are safe iran is responsible for this their violation of israel use of serenity event more to follow the reason they're blaming iran for all of this is because they feel squarely that iran is behind all of the aggression when it comes to. president bashar al assad's actions within syria they say that iran is the power behind the throne particular when it comes to the support of the lebanese group hezbollah so there is that side of this the happening right now this is very easy for the israelis to do that very well equipped to blame iran for anything that happens in syria what's of more concern to the israelis right now is how this f. sixteen was

f. sixteen which crashed in northern israel at the hands of. the syrian political leadership took a decision at the highest level to face decisively any israeli military aircraft over therion in space today syria did what it promised by down in israeli plane and striking at other planes this is clear for syria it is the decisive decision to confront the israeli air force and its careless behavior. both pilots ejected and parachuted to these race side of the border one is critically injured the israeli army spokesman said it was wrong it was behind the launch of the drawing but didn't say whether it was armed or not the iranians have reacted they've said that they are going to stand with syria against any fullish and. by israel the russians have also reacted saying that israel needs to respect syrian the slate state sovereignity also what we're hearing is that the israelis want to send a strong message to the russians to get iran out of the region imran khan al-jazeera westra slim mike hanna has more now on washington's response to saturday morn

f. sixteen fighter jets so this is a very serious escalation and the north. and israel century is saying it's going to react what are you hearing. well we also got another statement because the sirens went off in the north in the past hour and they targeted according to that statement twelve targets and according to that statement they detail it in syrian targets and ukrainian targets we don't know if that incident now is still ongoing but also the syrian state t.v. has confirmed that everett's were carried out over there tell you can you tell us what exactly is israel's involvement in syria. there has been a lot of talk a lot of talk in the past couple weeks about a possible escalation on the northern border that has to do with the changes in the developments in the syrian war now what the israelis have said on and on doing all the time is that they want to avoid that the ukrainians can entrenched themselves through has through their own bases in the south west mainly in the area near the occupied israeli golan heights so this is why we've seen in the past t

f. sixteen was hit. israel then launched a second series of strikes attacking at least a dozen syrian and iranian bases inside syria at israel's air force says it's the most significant attacks against syria since the one thousand nine hundred two lebanon war and ron kong reports from leicester islam. in the early hours of saturday morning syria's war escalated to a new level for the first time in thirty years israel lost a fighter jet to enemy fire as israel confirms syrian air defense shot at one of its f. sixteen fighter jets these really play minister was blunt israel iran and it's. responsible for today's aggression we will continue to do whatever is necessary to protect our sovereignty and our security the crush of followed the shooting down of a drone israeli army video shows what they say is the iranian drone flying towards the north and golan heights before it was downed in retaliation israeli air force at twelve targets in syria including the suspected drone command center iranian targets and s

f. sixteen will stand well iran has rejected as ridiculous israel's claim that it intercepted one of its strongs israel says iran is playing with fire by entering its air space among khan has more now from west jerusalem. the operation is ongoing but we haven't heard of any fresh attacks from anywhere inside syria in the last hour or so but the official line is that the operation is ongoing and they're also not commenting on what brought down the israeli f. sixteen fighter jets however across social media here the blame is being placed squarely in the hands of iran saying that iran is a big problem for the israelis and these be dealt with very quickly now to the iranians have actually reacted to issued a statement it says shooting down the israeli jet is a clear message the days of carrying out attacks inside syria a go on any new attack will be confronted iran stands by syria against any foolish move by israel so there's a lot of strong reaction coming out from iran there's been a battle to one hundred israeli airstrikes inside syria against various targets including hezbollah convoys a

f. sixteen coming down. well the israelis are squarely blaming the iranians for this they have gone off to what they say are iranian targets inside of syria they say they've destroyed a command and control center for the unmanned aerial vehicle the drones flew over. really taking a look at what they should do next now we are hearing that a cabinet meeting the government is going to formulate a cabinet meeting to discuss what to do next also the minister of defense is meeting right now to see what kind of response of the formulates been a couple of emergency measures take place within israel itself in gori an airport the main airport in tel aviv was shut for about fifteen minutes all flights was suspended there and we're also hearing of air raid sirens going off in israeli towns and villages in the north so a lot going on right now but really what the response has been is all about iran it's not so much about syria the israelis squarely blaming iran for all of this and they using this as an excuse to really r

f. sixteen fighter jet by syrian government forces. yesterday we delivered some serious blows to the uranian in syrian forces we made it absolutely clear to everyone that our rules of engagements have not changed at all who will continue to attack any attempts to hurt us but it's been our policy and they will continue to be our policy more now from al-jazeera simran card in west jerusalem the key developments that are taking place in west jerusalem all two meetings the cabinet meeting which is a regularly scheduled weekly meeting that's likely to concentrate on the political strategy that israel will come up with now publicly they're blaming iran for all of this they say the iranian role in syria is dangerous to israeli interests and they've been really ratcheting up the tension since the summer say that iran is the problem they've also sent a letter to the united nations security council telling them that it needs to publicly condemn the iranian role within syria then.

f. sixteen fighter jet crashed after what these rarely army says was massive and to aircraft fire syria said it was responding to israeli aggression the downing of the f. sixteen follow the shooting down of what israel said was an iranian drone and the violation of its sovereignty by flying in the occupied golan heights also on saturday syrian air defenses reported repel ing to israeli raids on military bases so where will this escalation lead we'll talk to our guests in a moment israel has repeatedly attacked targets in syria over the years some confirmed by damascus others in night they include a weapons supply heart attack last year near damascus airport syrian rebels say the target was weapons sent from iran for the lebanese group hezbollah also last year the syrian army said is routed rockets were fired at a military base near damascus the syrian government denied an attack eleven years ago on a nuclear reactor under construction the first israeli strike on syria since the one nine hundred seventy s. the middle east war was fifteen years ago the target was a suspect as training cam

f. sixteen s.was the idea of heat by syrian ground defenses or i got the impression that they are about to be bailed out israel has again retaliated heaping be it twelve targets several of them being iranian and several syrian do you most serious incident. between israel and syria and definitely between israel and iran in many years perhaps in ten or fifteen years we have not seen like a free. lebanon has complained to the united nations accusing israel of violating its sovereignty to tell of if you use the country's space to carry out the attack on syria max blumenthal theron senior editor of the real news dot com said the escalation with lebanon didn't do israel any good last time and this time it could be even worse. it's a dramatic incident for a number of reasons first of all this is the first israeli plane that syria has down since one thousand nine hundred two second of all israel is unable to ask a late for a number of reasons benjamin netanyahu was in the opposition when the israeli govern

f. sixteen went down over northern israel it's the most significant incident between. on syria since the start of the syrian civil war seven years ago. well for more on this now we're going to cross over to our middle east correspondent tanya kramer joining us now from jerusalem israel may say it doesn't want an escalation but how likely is one based on what's happened today well i mean israel has always laitos as red lines and that is another story unfolding because they are concerned that iran and trenches itself in syria especially in the area that is close to the occupied israeli golan heights almost a sign of the border so they have said that before that they don't want to see iran or through its proxies like hezbollah are becoming entrenched in that area so who is it significant that the army says there has been. an unmanned drone that entered israeli aspace and the morning that they've responded to that so i think you know military experts here are saying it's kind of the show of force at the same time though saying you know staging again the red lines but at th

f. sixteen an israeli plane the pilot ejected safely to israeli territory they're currently treated in a hospital up in the north i think what is important to say that appears at this time by the syrians. to hit this jet and that is what is really. important to say is that israeli air crossbows hit and actually crashed . that makes this incident so serious. how about these reports and that israel is reacting what are you hearing right now. well there when these reports coming in from syrian state t.v. that there were new strikes and we just got another statement by the israeli army that the indeed made another raid into syrian territory as they say targeting twelve targets over then they need. to send in syria sirens the alarms were going off in the north because of that so it's unclear at the moment if this incident is still ongoing. and just in syria there are so many players and it's so complex what exactly is israel's involvement there. we seen in the past it is really at times have to talk to usually weapons convoys or places in syria but the concern here in israel is. with a new ph

f. sixteen so israel is in a tight bind here and they have blamed this entire incident on iran and consider it an attack on israeli sovereignty which is actually frankly bizarre because the israeli military struck twelve targets inside syria not israel and the golan heights is considered under international law syrian territory. the south korean president said he's ready to accept an invitation to visit pyongyang from the north korean leader if certain conditions are met this potentially sets up the first meeting between korea's leaders in more than a decade the invitation was delivered by kim jong un's sister who was attending the winter olympics in south korea she's the first member of north korea's ruling family to visit the south since the one nine hundred fifty eight youth she met with president moon for a three hour talks on the opening ceremony off the winter games also hinted at foreign ties between the two states and both teams marching together.

f. sixteen so israel is in a tight bind here and they have blamed this entire incident on iran and.

f. sixteen or certainly gave us the f. sixteen a lot of trouble so the iranians have also reacted what they've said is quite interesting. the days of carrying out attacks inside syria go on any new attack will be confronted iran stands by syria against any foolish move by israel so iran simply doubling down on their position within syria now also the u.s. sort of the american the russian sort the israeli ambassador to moscow has reacted saying that it's time to run and its proxies left syria that was very much a message to russia russia is the key ally who controls the space it's really the only real player within syria itself that has any kind of influence on the syrian regime so it's likely in the next coming days that israel is going to try and put pressure on the russians to try and get rid of iran from their borders but iran russia clearly allies and so whether that actually happens at all is unlikely imran khan's reporting from west jerusalem tonight thank you iran. off to london now and bashar asad new political anal

f. sixteen fighter jets were shot down. another display of harmony in seoul but south korea's president strikes a cautious note about an invitation to visit the north plus. a month ago across the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reaper a station if it could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. investigators in russia say they're looking at all possible causes as the hunt for clues begins into why a plane crashed soon after takeoff over seventy one people on board were killed the difficulties investigators face can be seen in these pictures from the crash site near moscow wreckage of the plane is lying in fields covered with thick snow day being human remains a spread over a one kilometer radius really challenge reports. over. airliner with sixty five passengers and six crew on board came down four minutes after it took off in bad weather conditions wreckage was scattered across snowy fields near the village of going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the cr

f. sixteen coming down. well let me give you the details of the large scale military response that took place in the last few hours against targets in side syria fishley what the israeli army have said is that israeli. sorry israeli air force targeted the syrian aerial defense system and iranian targets in syria twelve targets including three aerial defense batteries and four iranian military targets was attacked and the acro missiles were then fired towards israel triggering a lomas in northern israel so this operation a large scale attack against those targets drop in very quickly in the last four or five i was against those targets of the israelis clearly knew what targets they wanted to hit in. in revenge against what happened and now we're also hearing that the cabinet meeting there will be a cabinet meeting a little bit later we do know that the defense ministry of already met they are likely to trying to beef trying to figure out what response they have next to airport was also shut down for about fif

f. sixteen jets israel launched a second wave of strikes imraan khan has more from west jerusalem. to me early hours of saturday morning syria's war escalated to a new level for the first time in thirty years israel lost a fighter jet to anybody the crush of full at the shooting down of a drug israeli army video shows what it says is an iranian drone. flying towards northern golan heights before it was downed in retaliation of the violation of serenity the israeli air force at twelve targets in syria including the suspected drone command center iranian targets and syrian air defense syria launched surface to air missiles during the israeli raid and says it shot down the f. sixteen both pilots ejected and parachuted to the israeli side of the border one's critically injured these really army spokesman blamed iran for launching the drone it's not known if it was armed iran can al-jazeera west rosalie. well this is not the first time israel has hit targets inside syria iran has sent military advisers and allegedly thousands of its revolutionary guards to help the syrian government and

f. sixteen planes was shot down by syrian anti-aircraft fire while targeting or to calls iranian sites inside syria israel says its actions are in retaliation for an iranian made road entering israeli occupied golan heights imran khan joins us live on the line from west jerusalem and ron how did this all unfold. all unfolded in the very early hours of saturday night what we do confirmed from the israeli side is that they were responding to a wrong in what they say is an iranian drawing flying into occupied territory in the golan heights now when anything might be said to happen the israelis respond but bending and i sixteen. i was only one maybe two caught up in the sky they tackled the. sixty's tackled the drawing they shot the drawings. and then syrian a different system actually managed to bring down one of the a sixteen to two pilots evacuated the croft and they landed in the syrian side of the golan heights but they were even act out by israeli forces this is the practical details of all this the political details of this plot interesting both the iranians and the syrians will say that t

f. sixteen not only an f. sixteen but the most sophisticated it's been reported that president putin and prime minister netanyahu had a conversation and it was quite heated we don't know what the contents of that were but i tend to agree with you that it was very close to the line right there the escalation was necessary but it's also showing force ok i mean it's also debated to what degree syria took the initiative to defend itself over and over the years of one hundred incursions from israel over its sovereign territory and that plane went down so it is upping the stakes here i think it's quite clear that this was a strategic decision probably not only by syria but perhaps by syria and its allies to make a new redline of israel kept if you like not only disrupting but disrupting any political process in syria by these methods to i don't think they were doing that much damage to syria and from what i understand but it was but it was an effort. show israeli force to show that they had the ability to overfly now

f. sixteen so israel is in a tight bind here and they have blamed this entire incident on iran and considerit an attack on israeli sovereignty which is actually frankly bizarre because the israeli military struck twelve targets inside syria not israel and the golan heights is considered under international law syrian territory iranian talk as well as i hate to next incident what kind of response if any do you expect from sarong. you know it's unclear to me if iran is really calling the shots here i mean this appears to be the syrian government after losing something like one hundred soldiers either from of its from its own regulars or a allied militia to american airstrikes has decided that it's had enough with these infringements on its sovereignty and that it will strike back it appears to be striking back with advanced russian anti-aircraft missiles and another significant instance here or angle here is that israel has had to be very precise in responding to what it calls in iranian drone because russian military assets are honeycombed across syrian air bases the very air bases israel at

f. sixteen s was idea hit by syrian ground if. sensis or the pilots got the impression that they are about to be hit and bailed out israel has again retaliated he thinks the a twelve star gets several of them being iranian and several syrian this is the most serious incident. between israel and syria and definitely between israel and iran in many years meanwhile the israeli prime minister is under growing pressure in his own country thousands marched through televisa on saturday calling on benyamin netanyahu to resign over a corruption probe journalist maximun fall has been. for over a year protesters have been gathering every week to demand the indictment of prime minister benjamin netanyahu for corruption and graft this protest in tel aviv has taken on an especially electric atmosphere that's because this tuesday the police chief of israel is expected to recommend netanyahu is indict earlier tonight so many nuff tali a former maintenance worker for the netanyahu has helped launch these protests told me he fears that netanyahu ha

f. sixteen jet was downed by the syrian arab army over a syrian land i mean they were hoping for some kind of award to start whether in the southern part of syria or with lebanon for that matter but after that head they are now thinking a thousand times before they do so even at dawn on thursday this week surveyed and strong was sent from israel into syrian territory and was also attacked by the syrian missile system i'm sorry at the end of the system and they fled they went back into palestinian occupied territory so now even a drone a service drone is not being able to go and attack the sovereignty of syria for that matter now when we talk about a possible war between hezbollah and the israeli entity i don't think that the front would be this this time. part of lebanon the southern border with occupy palestine i think that the syrian golan heights would be the great place that we should all put our eyes into because first of all that's an occupied territory second of all it has been for the past six years at least where the resistance the armed forces of the resistance whether hezbollah

f. sixteen not only an f. sixteen but the most sophisticated. it's been reported that president putin and prime minister netanyahu had a conversation and it was quite heated we don't know what the contents of that were but i tend to agree with you it was very close to the line right there the escalation was necessary but it's also showing force ok i mean it's also debated to what degree syria took the initiative to defend itself over and over the years of one hundred incursions from israel over its sovereign territory and that plane went down so it is upping the stakes here i think it's quite clear that this was a strategic decision probably not only by syria but perhaps by syria and its allies to make a new redline of israel kept if you like not only disrupting but disrupting any political process in syria by these methods to i don't think they were doing that much damage to syria and from what i understand but it was but it was an effort to show israeli force to show that they had the ability to overfly now what is critical in this and what is

f. sixteen not only an f. sixteen but the most sophisticated it's been reported that president putin and prime minister netanyahu had a conversation and it was quite heated we don't know what the contents of that were but i tend to agree with you that it was very close to the line right there the escalation was necessary but it's also showing force ok i mean it's also debated to what degree syria took the initiative to defend itself over and over the years of one hundred incursions from israel over its sovereign territory and that plane went down so it is upping the stakes here i think it's quite clear that this was a strategic decision probably not only by syria but perhaps by syria and its allies to make a new redline of israel kept if you like not only disrupting but disrupting any political process in syria by these methods to i don't think they were doing that much damage to syria and from what i understand but it was but it was an effort to show israeli force to show that they had the ability to overfly n

f. sixteen was idea of heat by syrian ground defenses or the pilots got the impression that they are about to be hit and bailed out so israel has lost one f. sixteen and following that israel has again retaliated hitting the a twelve targets several of them being iranian and several syrian this is the most serious incident. between israel and syria and definitely between israel and iran in many years perhaps in ten or fifteen years we have not seen the like a feat. the south korean president said he's ready to accept an invitation to visit pyongyang from the north korean leader if certain conditions on that the invitation was delivered by kim jong un's sister who is attending the winter olympics in south korea he's the first member of north korea's leading family to visit the south since the nine hundred fifty s. he met with president moon for talks that ended at last think three hours and the opening ceremony of the winter games also saw signs of soaring times between north and south with the country's teams much and together. the recent friendly relations between the two countries are wi

f. sixteen not only an f. sixteen but the most sophisticated it's been reported that president putin and prime minister netanyahu had a conversation and it was quite heated we don't know what the contents of that were but i tend to agree with you that it was very close to the line right there the escalation was necessary but it's also showing force ok i mean it's also debated to what degree syria took the initiative to defend itself over and over the years of one hundred incursions from israel over its sovereign territory and that plane went down so it is upping the stakes here i think it's quite clear that this was a strategic decision probably not only by syria but perhaps by syria and its allies to make a new redline of israel. care if you like not only disrupting but disrupting any political process in syria by these methods too i don't think they were doing that much damage to syrian from what i understand but it was but it was an effort to show israeli force to show that they had the ability to overfly no

f. sixteen fighter jets was shot down by enemy fire israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes on what it said were iranian targets in syria on saturday i force it reports from west jerusalem. israeli soldiers collected debris on sunday at the site where an air force f. sixteen fighter crashed a day earlier while the investigation continues the army told al-jazeera it had confirmed the plane was struck by a syrian anti-aircraft missile the first israeli fighter shot down since nine hundred eighty two. at the border israeli media reported anti missile batteries have been increased after extensive israeli counterstrikes the day before inside syrian territory. shot yesterday we landed hard blows in the forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot we will continue to hit back for every attempt to harm us for any blow flicked it on us this is been our policy and this remain our policy. incident began with the downing of what israel says was an iranian drone launched from syria that had crossed into israeli airspace ira

f. sixteen jet was downed by the syrian arab army over a syrian land i mean they were hoping for some kind of a war to start whether in the southern part of syria or with lebanon for that matter but after that head they are now thinking a thousand times before they do so even at dawn on thursday this week serve in the strong was sent from israel into syrian territory and was also attacked by the syrian missile system i'm sorry the aircraft system and the fled they went back into palestinian occupied territory so now even a drone a survivor the strawman is not being able to go attack the sovereignty of syria for that matter now when we talk about a possible war between hezbollah and the israeli entity i don't think that the front would be this time the southern part of lebanon the southern border with occupied palestine i think that the syrian golan heights would be the great place that we should all put our eyes into because first of all that's an occupied territory second of all it has been for the past six years at least where the resistance the armed forces of the resistance whether hez

f. sixteen which crashed in northern israel at the hands of. the syrian political leadership took a decision at the highest level to face the thought simply any israeli military aircraft of a syrian in space today syria did what it promised to put down again misread the plane and striking at other planes this is clear for syria it is a thought of decision to confront the israeli air force and its killers behavior. both pilots ejected and parachuted to the israeli side of the border one is critically injured the israeli army spokesman said it was wrong it was behind the launch of the drawing but didn't say whether it was armed or not the iranians have reacted they've said that they are going to stand with us. syria against any foolishness by israel the russians have also reacted saying that israel needs to respect syria and the slate to state sovereignty also what we're hearing is that the israelis want to send a strong message to the russians to get iran out of the region iran koen al-jazeera westra slim a turkish military helicopter has been s

f. sixteen warplanes was shot down by enemy fire israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes on what it said or iranian targets in syria on saturday that yahoo says the operation was a serious blow to iran a fossil report some western islam. israeli soldiers collected debris on sunday at the site where an air force f. sixteen fighter crashed a day earlier while the investigation continues the army told al-jazeera it had confirmed the plane was struck by a syrian anti-aircraft missile the first israeli fighter shot down since one thousand nine hundred two. at the border israeli media reported anti missile batteries have been increased after extensive israeli counterstrikes the day before inside syrian territory. but on the show yesterday we landed hard blows in forces of iran and syria we made unequivocally clear to everyone that our modus operandi has not changed one jot we will continue to hit back for every attempt to holler for any blown flick to join us this is been our policy and this remain our policy. the incident began with the downing of what israel says was an iranian drone

f. sixteen fighter jets was shot down during the syrian operation and says the pilot ejected and landed safely the south korean president in has been holding talks with the north korean leader kim jong il and sister in seoul kim jong flew in to attend the opening ceremony of the winter olympics she is the first member of the ruling kim family to cross the border since the start of the korean war in one nine hundred fifty earlier leads from north and south korea marched under a unified korea's flag for the opening of the winter olympics in pyongyang the u.s. president donald trump has blocked the release of a classified memo written by democrats on the house intelligence committee citing national security concerns the memo rebuts a document prepared by the committee's republicans which was made public last week the republican memo allege the f.b.i. was biased against mr trump during its investigation into his presidential campaigns links with russia the memo was released despite public opposition from the f.b.i. trump claimed that documents totally vindicates him but democrats and some r

f. sixteen fighter jets however across social media here the blame is being placed squarely in the hands of iran saying that iran is a big problem for the israelis and has be dealt with very quickly now to the iranians have actually reacted to issued a statement it says shooting down the israeli jet is a clear message the days of carrying out attacks inside syria a go on any new attack will be confronted iran stands by syria against any foolish move by israel so there's a lot of strong reaction coming out from iran there's been about one hundred israeli airstrikes inside syria against various targets including hezbollah convoys and the like what we saw in the last four few a few hours today is attacks against what they call the iranian targets and against syrian air defense batteries twelve in total. save mostafa hold on sharon is a political commentator and professor of media news faculty he says it's a serious provocation by israel. the joint operations room that's run by iran syria russia and hizbullah in syria and in the war against terrorism in there they have stressed that their dr

f. sixteen war plane crashed in northern israel the jet had been targeting the military base in homs the israeli army says it encountered fire with syria says it shot down the jet in response to an israeli act of aggression both pilots ejected and parachute is safely into northern israel one was severely injured while in a few moments in a hot air will join us live from beirut but first let's cross to western talk to. some confusion as to whether or not these rainy operation is finished what more can you tell us about this jet being shot down. well can tell you that the israeli army have confirmed that the operation is still ongoing against what it's calling iranian targets and syrian ed defense systems on the syrian side now what they're saying about the israeli jet is interesting they're very very careful language they won't confirm whether it was actually shot down with it was shot down by syrian air defense systems all even russian defense system that is likely to try and avoid a big escalation of this conflict clearly the syrians are very angry and they've issued a statement saying