general hancock? you had the uniform. you were at gettysburg, and he reaches in the closet there and. hancock says, this is the jacket i wore at the battle of gettysburg. well, by now, after early attempts at sculpture, kelly in his studio, he don't turn it into a full time, more or less gave up illustrate and painting on the left is doing there that's bust of admiral dewey spanish war hero on the right kelly is working on a relief of admiral walden who commanded the monitor in the famed battle of the iron clouds. the monitor versus the virginia again, all the while taking careful notes about relief with general sheridan, the left, and joshua lawrence chamberlain on the right. kelly again always wanted to know exactly what their apparel was what their uniform were wearing, and kelly asked general chamberlain, what was your appearance at gettysburg? and chamberlain said, well, i wore a full beard and so when you watch the movies and you watch the documentary and you look at the artwork, modern, it all has chamberlain just

at almost 100 miles per hour when his car hit a tree in 0xfordshire, killing ethan goddard, daniel hancocktes before the crash, thomas johnson is filmed inhaling nitrous oxide, known as laughing gas, from a balloon. 17—year—old elliot pullen and 18—year—old daniel hancock and ethan goddard were killed when the car they were travelling in lost control at nearly 100 miles an hour. it was just completely reckless, dangerous behaviour. he's ruined everyone's life. he's taken three. ruined his own life. devastated ours. i know he's just a cocky. teenage boy, you know? i i know he's not an awful person, i but he made some awful decisions. and i really hope that he feels guilty for what he's done. - this is his fault. he's done this. he's killed them. and i hope it stays with him forever. i cctv shows a car pulling out of a petrol station. the two sisters inside told officers they heard a car skidding or drifting before they were overtaken at speed by a silver bmw heading towards the village of marcham, near abingdon, just after midnight on the 20th ofjune last year. a matter of seconds later, th

he was injured, and the passengers, ethan goddard and daniel hancock, who were 18, and elliot pullen,d be your reality. so don't, don't drive dangerously and don't consume drugs while driving because it's never worth it for this outcome. a lot of you will remember the stabbings that happened in southport in july. elsie dot stancombe, alice dasilva aguiar and bebe king were at a dance class when they were killed. today, the man suspected of stabbing them, axel rudakuban, pleaded not guilty to murder and to attempting murder ten other people. he refused to speak when asked to confirm his name and enter his pleas. and we know the news can feel heavy so we are reliving 100 of the year's most positive stories. it was really hard to pickjust one, but of course we chose ten seconds of a cute animal story. winston's wheels is a charity that makes wheelchairs for dogs. the founder says seeing the beautiful dogs adapting and proving that disability does not hold you back is rewarding. and you can see loads more of those stories on the bbc news app — just scan this code. and that's it from us. h

let's bring in tom hancock. are you wading into the whole chip thing here. now marvell is the hot new thing. where are you at for next year? >> well, we like a lot of these companies from quality of business point of view. i think if you're asking me broadcom versus nvidia, we could come down on the side of proud -- of broadcom here. one of the reasons that broadcom is gaining some ground on nvidia, they are winning on the networking side if you scale the number of gpus, it is an end square versus end problem to connect them together and that is where broadcom and marvell play. and also broadcom is strong in the custom chips. so for the big hyper scalers like meta and alphabet, coming up with the chips that they need to do their specific work load, we see that as a more proven commercialized space. but i think broadcom is a little bit more tail winds behind it and that is setting aside some of the businesses outside of a.i. that are in a cyclical trough that we think could rebound next year. >> you say that the nasdaq has turned into an a.i. index. is that a

i want to bring in our paula hancocks, who is in abu dhabi for us. up to speed on what we know so far about this moment and how we got here well, omar, as you say, it was a remarkably fast process to bring us to where we are now. >> and the situation to which syrian residents are waking up to now, a very different country, a very different capital as rebels say that that damascus is now free. they have called on syrians around the world saying a free syria awaits you. now, what we understand at this point is that those rebels moved to take up key positions within the capital, key institutions. we understand that they were taking over as well. the the media building, the television and radio building. if you control the the media, you control the narrative. and we're seeing as well that the sources say rebels believe that there were senior officials within the regime that were preparing to defect. now, we have heard from the prime minister this is mohammed gaza al jalali, who said that the government is ready to cooperate with any leadership the peopl

paula hancocks in the house for you. let's get you to vienna in austria. a syrian writer and journalist, reem alaf. and in london, cnn's nick paton walsh. reem, as you watch the images unfold from syria this morning, your thoughts are, first of all, elation for all the syrians who've waited 54 years for freedom from this regime. >> and i have to remind everybody it is not just the bashar assad regime, it is the assad regime. as a whole. there's also apprehension i think everybody understands full well all over syria, not just in damascus, that things could go very wrong. people i believe, were reassured. so far by the leader of the rebels, even though this is not necessarily what they would have hoped for, you know, to have a transition in this manner. but they are hopeful that we have already a resolution for nine years now, united nations security council 254, which had always planned for negotiations between the opposition and the government than a constitution to be drafted and then elections to be held so this is what i believe i and many syrians are

paula hancocks, following this for us and an achievement really for the israeli military who've been after anyone involved in those attacks yeah yeah that's right, max. >> and also a reminder of the fact that there are still hamas targets that israel wants to go after in gaza so this is the argument that the prime minister has been making saying he wants is happy for a ceasefire, but not the end of the war because hamas has not been eliminated so this is what we're hearing from the israeli military, saying that the air force took out a hamas militant who was basically the leader of one of the attacks on october 7th, specifically in nahal oz. this was a military base. it was also a kibbutz just along the border with gaza. a number of residents were killed during that attack, and a number of others were taken hostage back into gaza they say that it wasn't just this individual that they killed but also a number of senior hamas operatives including, they say, a senior member of a tunneling unit in hamas. now, hamas hasn't commented at this point, and we have no further information from t

it certainly will not be boring that we know samantha hancocks lee in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, thank you so much for being here with us. >> thank you for having me. all right. >> north korean troops are reportedly learning the hard way how tough a battle with ukrainians can be. still ahead, new reports of staggering losses as north koreans try to help russia recover land held by ukraine. plus, russia is ramping up its production of military drones, with iran playing a supporting role. how facility east of moscow became a mecca for drone production, which is growing by leaps and bounds. that and more coming up. stay with us. >> now's the time to go back in time and shine a light on the family journey that led to you. detailed dna results, inspiring family history, memberships. now's the time to save at ancestry. >> my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. now i have skyrizi. i've got places to go and i'm feeling free. >> controlling my crohn's means everything to me. control is everything to me. >> and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom rel

our thanks to paula hancocks joining us live from abu dhabi. well russia has requested an urgent private meeting of the un security council in the coming hours in response to the collapse of the assad regime in syria. moscow is also concerned for their own assets. still, there specifically military bases and diplomatic institutions state media reports. syrian rebels have guaranteed those will remain safe and that russia hopes for continued dialog. it's unknown how those talks will go given the close relationship between ousted president bashar al assad and russian president vladimir putin. iran's foreign ministry is weighing in on the unfolding events in syria iran, another key backer of assad, says it will respect syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity, but not without some caveats our interaction with the group that took over syria will depend on their behavior on what policy will they adopt against the islamic republic of iran, what policy will they have against the syrian shiites? >> what will be the distance between them and the zio

with us now from abu dhabi is cnn's paula hancocks. and paula, i mean, of course, the question is what happens next? who fills this power vacuum? so tell us more about this rebel group that led this coalition to overthrow assad well, amara this particular group is one of a myriad of of rebel groups of anti-assad groups that have been part of this effort. >> it's it's certainly the most prominent group, though. it is a group which several years ago was affiliated with al qaeda. it was affiliated with isis in the past as well but through the the leader of this group abu mohammad al-julani, he has been trying to distance himself from those affiliations saying that that this is a different kind of group that is obviously the concern, though, that it does have this these roots in syria we know, for example, that julani himself has a $10 million bounty on his head from the united states. we know that the group is considered a terrorist organization so it is certainly complex in the extreme. but what we also know is that this is one of the ma

i actually want to go to cnn's paula hancocks who's on the phone with us. she spent more than a decade leading cnn's coverage on the korean peninsula and the surrounding region. paula, this is to a degree unprecedented in the modern era. south korea's been a stable democracy since at least the late 80s, right well, that's right, boris. >> but remember i mean, it is a fairly young democracy in some sense. and there will be many people in korea many of the the older generations, who, when they heard tonight that there was a martial law being declared, would have been transported back just 40 years when this happened, the last time there has been a very bloody and very difficult history for decades under dictatorships and martial laws military coups in south korea. and there was a belief that that was in the past and the democracy was flourishing. so this would have come as a very nasty shock to many who would have lived through those previous martial laws and and many people lost their lives in, in bloody crackdowns when there were protests in the past so it

first, let's start things off with cnn's paula hancocks, who is live in abu dhabi. paula, give us a sense of what's happening on the ground in syria well, manu, we know that millions inside syria and outside will be celebrating given that the assad regime is no longer in power. >> now we understand that he is no longer in syria as well. this is what we've heard from the russian ministry of foreign affairs, saying that assad has left syria, saying that he also decided to leave his presidential post giving instructions to transfer power peacefully. now we have no way of independently verifying if that is in fact what he said. another source, though, telling cnn that he did leave damascus under russian protection. he left to go to the northwest of the country, close to where there is a russian military base. so obviously russia certainly has its hands with this one as well. but russia, as you say, was was not there when assad needed them to, to actually try and shore up power. this was a remarkably fast uh, takeover of power by a group of anti-assad coalitions of rebel

christiane amanpour thank you so much for setting the table with us now from abu dhabi cnn's paula hancocks are a lot of people waking up to this news who probably have been watching over the last week of the progress throughout several cities across syria who've never heard of this group so what do we know about them and specifically about the leader of this this group well, victor, it is the group that has really led the charge throughout syria but i have to point out, it's not the only group. >> there are a myriad of different rebel groups that have been part of this effort that are part of the anti-assad, uh coalition loosely termed but certainly hts is the is the most significant one. and abu mohammad al-julani is the the leader of that group, as you've just been hearing from christiane there. the group does have ties or did have ties to al qaeda, to isis al-julani himself does have a $10 million bounty on his head and his group is considered a terrorist organization by the united states. so it's certainly not an easy transition at this point but what we've been seeing from al-julani r

daniel hancock and ethan goddard — who were both 18 — and elliot pullen, who was 17, died in marchamng at almost 100mph. gregg wallace will be replaced by the restaurant critic grace dent in the next series of the bbc�*s celebrity masterchef. the guardian columnist willjoin the regular masterchef presenter john torode next year. wallace has been accused of inappropriate behaviour and faces a review into his conduct. plenty more on all those stories on our website — bbc.co/news. you're live with bbc news. haiti is one of the poorest and most dangerous countries in the world. gangs control over 85% of the capital, port au prince, and the violence has escalated following the recent resignation of the country's third prime minister this year. there are now 700,000 internally displaced people. 0ur senior investigations correspondent nawal al—maghafi and her team are the first to enter the country since the latest escalation. a warning, you might find their report upsetting. downtown port—au—prince — now the scene of daily street fighting between gangs vying for control. once one of the ci

we wanted to see the hancocks here, but no, it's a great experience. something else for a change. the crew is made up a felon surfing long. the sentences for the atmosphere is elegant, even if behind bars, the restaurants called in galera or in jails is the velocity penitentiary and milan, northern italy chest. the mesa has done 10 years, so far as another 4 years to go to sort of many patrons ask how much longer we've got. i'm a crime we committed far, but we don't tell anyone on principle i shall mind. so initially, malone's velocity penitentiary is regarded as a model prison with mutual security. many inmates use the opportunity to work in addition to the restaurant, it has a call center and took the last flew in shop. and the concept works only about 2 percent of inmate to learn a trade in italy's prisons commit another crime, as opposed to 70 percent of the general population of offenders. project directors to vehicle larry says the restaurant also brings people from i would cite in touch with the inmates. we've owned a restaurant here in the prison to show the patrons that p

paula hancocks is in abu dhabi with me. i'm joined now by kim ghattas. kim is a global politics fellow at columbia university, a contributing writer to the atlantic, a good friend of this show joins us live from los angeles. kim firstly, i just want to get your assessment of what we are seeing and hearing on the ground in syria at this hour becky, great to be with you and very strange for me to be in los angeles, where i happen to be for a work trip, but where i really want to be is back home in, in beirut, because these are truly momentous, historic events for syria, for syrians, for lebanon and the region, as a whole. >> a murderous dictatorship that has ruled over syria for 54 years, occupied lebanon for 35 years, and then pushed this country into a bloody civil war after 2011, when a civilian uprising demanded freedom and reforms that dictatorship has now come to an end. we don't know where bashar al-assad is, but it is game over for him. i don't foresee any possible return of pockets of resistance. this is really the end, and it has implications for

it alone. governance, especially when it comes to governments. accountability, hancock, da, da, they're saying governments are weaponized and internet shutdowns across the world. naomi, i'd like your take on this, i mean from what you've seen across the world. what were the biggest examples of freedoms being curtailed online in 2024? yeah, i absolutely agree. i do think this censorship is being weaponized by governments. they using very quickly phrases that you're using a lot of scare tactics and always going to visit the population that it's in their best interest. but the end result is that individuals are having the voice of shot down and anti countries of being stops from participating in the global conversations. because the governments have decided that they're not allowed to participate. and i just think that this is a freedom of speech to be a fundamental human right. so i think that we should find the global ability for people to participate in conversations. and i think that we shouldn't buy into these narrative. so this is for outline protection. i think that if they're a bad

driving at almost 100 miles an hour, when he hit a tree in oxfordshire, killing elliot pullen, daniel hancock convicted of murder and attempted murder, after stabbing two women he didn't know on bournemouth beach last may. the jury at winchester crown court was shown cctv footage of amie gray and herfriend leanne miles being attacked late at night by nasen saadi, who's 20 and from south london. the prosecution said it seemed he "wanted to know what it would be like to take a life". here's duncan kennedy. amie gray lived for football and family. head coach, team leader, inspiration. she'd never met nasen saadi, but in may this year, he decided he wanted to find out what it was like to kill someone. he randomly went to bournemouth beach and is seen here lurking near amie and herfriend, leanne miles, chatting by a fire. saadi first goes past them, then turns back, and then went over and stabbed them, killing amie and seriously wounding leanne. saadi's planning for this took on incredible detail. he researched how police dealt with dna evidence, whether hotels in bournemouth had cctv cameras, and

daniel hancock and ethan goddard — who were both 18 — and elliot pullen — who was 17 — died in marchamich is also known as laughing gas, while driving at almost 100mph. gregg wallace will be replaced by the restaurant critic grace dent in the next series of the bbc�*s celebrity masterchef. the guardian columnist willjoin the regular masterchef presenter john torode next year. wallace has been accused of inappropriate behaviour and faces a review into his conduct. soa so a shake—up at that bbc programme. you're live with bbc news. tens of thousands of people are without access to water, four days after a devastating cyclone struck the french indian ocean island of mayotte. french authorities say they hope to bring more than 100 tonnes of food to the territory by the end of the day. officials say half of the population is still without power or water. rescue teams continue to search for survivors. france says at least 31 people are known to have died, but local officials warn the toll could rise significantly. france's president emmanuel macron is expected to visit on thursday. 0ur corre

always had aspirations to be his own boss one day. 17—year—old elliot pullen and 18—year—olds daniel hancockled when the car they were travelling in lost control at nearly 100 mph. it doesn't feel like a family any more. it's very difficult. it's so hard. it has left a massive hole. even, like, our parents as well. it's really affected my dad. if he had any idea that this is how much pain we would be in, - he would've never set foot in that car. - cctv shows a car pulling out of a petrol station. the two sisters inside told officers they heard a car skidding or drifting before they were overtaken at speed by a silver bmw heading towards the village of marcham, near abingdon, just after midnight on the 20th ofjune last year. a matter of seconds later, they've come around the bend to find debris in the road and the same vehicle that's overtaken her in the trees. despite the force of the impact, the driver survived but suffered significant injuries. inside the car, officers found two large canisters of laughing gas and eight more in the boot. cctv revealed the driver and front passenger inhalin

daniel hancock and ethan goddard — who were both 18 — and elliot pullen, who was 17, died in marchamlso known as laughing gas, while driving greg wallace will by greg —— at almost 100 miles an hour. gregg wallace will be replaced by the restaurant critic grace dent in the next series of the bbc�*s celebrity masterchef. the guardian columnist willjoin the regular masterchef presenter john torode next year. wallace has been accused of inappropriate behaviour and faces a review into his conduct. you're live with bbc news. here in washington, a stopgap funding bill that would keep the us government funded past a looming friday deadline may be dead in the water after president—elect donald trump said he plans to fight it. he doesn't take office until next month, but he still has a lot of influence with republicans in congress. and he's been urging lawmakers to torpedo the deal after his ally elon musk expressed concern about the extra spending contained in the bill. the white house has weighed in saying, republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement all they wil

congress was benjamin franklin, who presented his papers signed by the president of the congress, john hancock, to the ambassador spain, the candidate aranda. but because spain was covertly sending aid at that time, franklin understood not to go to madrid and blow the cover. but once war was declared, then the continental congress sent j. their ex-president of the congress to madrid, where he tended to embarrass. we. it's a precedent that we we still practice. and finally, franklin. franklin called him to paris to participate in the negotiations. so franklin's negotiating and he's waiting for john to arrive and they're saavedra there. and saavedra is there to do what? convinced the french to invade jamaica. saavedra met the king spain twice. he met virgenes numerous occasions. he met every minister in the french government one time all together, and he convinced the french that it was still i mean, guy was amazing and he says in the strategy was were to use an american term the strategic thing i love that term strategic free it's easier to say and it was that the french european fleet would sa

congress is lining up back-to-back bills for trump's john hancock.ill, a border, energy and defense package. the second bill, tax cuts. so get ready for a massive change really fast right around the super bowl and march madness. enjoy the ride. trump already is. ♪ ♪ [cheering] >> jesse: former white house press secretary and cohost of outnumbered kayleigh mcrnany joins me now. there's a lot of dirty tricks swirling around. kash patel, pete hegseth, how do you think it's going to play out? >> why are those two being targeted. they are people ready to take on the deep state, the career employees and they put -- they exist. kash patel is someone i know well. i sat by him on air force one on many rides. we had deep discussions about policy, his ideas, he's very smart, very innovative. and yet i never heard him sit there and speculate and fantasize about jailing the media. that never happened, but of course that's the headline. they are doing the same thing to pete hegseth. i hope these guys get through, they are people who will make a change. the career

joining me now is matt from john hancock. welcome to you we jumped right in on the dollar theme. i don't know if that is your top, top level concern but back out for a second and what is the landscape you're expecting here in year end. >> the u.s. economy continues to hold up and the dollar continues to strengthen. well 47% of s&p revenues are from abroad. if you're translating those revenues back, you're getting a clip here in the fourth quarter. >> and i'm been watching this, the dollar going to $1.06 and the s&p has been going to all-time highs day after day why is it not discounting this. >> the price ratio goes up and it is sentiment driven but the earnings in q4 will likely get hit by this. a mid cap is only 25% foreign revenues and exposing yourself much more to the u.s. economy. industrials are the largest sector many mid cap. if the fed does not cut, the curve could flatten. they like a steeper curve. if that flattens, the banks might not do as well they've been doing amazing so they might just hit a bit of a head wind here but the industrials don't care about the curve.

he stays in the states, and one of the places he goes is camp hancock that's in augusta, georgia, which is where he will retire. he arrives in germany, runs the occupation army and in the center you see a flag coming down. barton was commander at that point in time and became commander of the first battalion in the infantry regiment and he supervised lowering the flag in 1923 at aaron wright stein castle outside of koblenz and that was the last part of the u.s. army's world war i commitment. he closed out the u.s. army in world war i. fascinating story. it's also where he met his wife claire fitzpatrick. they got married in paris in a quick wedding and they were married until he died in 1963. fascinating story. back one. stay right there. there. all right. i'm eating uptime. he goes and turns down an assignment at west point as a teacher. he says i've been teachinglong enough and he moved from there to become a student at the command and staff school at leavenworth one of his classmates is george patton. his connections have become fascinating. he goes from there and becomes the g3 for

there are melissa and raymond enjoying a beautiful morning in hancock, massachusetts.nicely done. janice and tim are celebrating 30 years of marriage at grand teton national park in wyoming, one of the most beautiful places in the country. congratulations, you two. a very good morning to andrea and tim celebrating their anniversary in the great american city of charleston, south carolina. i hope you're having a good time down there. kind of hard not to. a gorgeous shot here, tina, kelly, bree, teresa and susan on a trip to the patagonia region as they celebrate kelly's 50th birthday. look at that backdrop. amazing. and, bonjour to mary and pat, enjoying a sisters trip to paris with the glittering eiffel tower behind them. thank you for bringing us along to the city of light, ladies. send us a photo of you and your mug with the #sundaytoday. you might see yourself next week a, remember, you can get that big old "sunday today" mug online at today.com/shop. thank you for spending part of your morning with us. we'll see you right back here next week on "sunday today." hey,

one of the places he goes is called camp hancock in augusta, georgia, where he will retire. he goes to germany and the occupation army. in the center there you see a flag coming down. barton became a commander at an infantry regiment and he supervised the lowering the flag in 1923 at erin bridge tynecastle, and that was the last part of the u.s. army's world war i commitment. so he closed out the u.s. army commitment. that is also where he met his wife claire fitzpatrick and they had a quickie wedding. they were married until he died in 1963. fascinating story. move on. okay. there we go. oh, back one. back two. no. no. all right. i am eating up time. he goes essentially to turn down an assignment at west point. as a teacher he said i have been teaching long enough. and he moves from there to become a student. one of his classmates is george patton. makes connections and becomes fascinating when you pull altogether. from there, he becomes the g3 for a thing known as the seventh area corps. it is not a maneuver corbett a seventh core area. big deal. big-time things like the g

one of the places he goes is a place called camp hancock.that's in augusta, which is where he'll retire. he arrives in germany, goes to the occupation army in the center. you see there a flag coming down. barton was commander that point in time became commander to first battalion, eighth infantry regiment and. he supervised it, lowering the flag in 1923 at aaron bright stein castle outside of koblenz and that was the last part of the u.s. army's world war one commitment. so he closed out the u.s. army in world war one. fascinating story. and that's also where he met his wife, claire fitzpatrick. they got married in paris and quickly, quickie wedding and. they were married until he died, 1963. fascinating story move on. okay. there you go. well, back one back to stay right there. no no. all right. i'm eating up time. i'll get a feel. great. here's he goes sensually to tip. he turns down an assignment at west point. as a teacher said, i've been i've been teaching long enough. and he moves from there to become a student at the command and comma

. >> for more, let's bring in paula hancocks from jerusalem.ean, obviously, the middle east is always going to be a complicated patchwork of politics. but, you know, that legacy exists, doesn't it, of this peace deal between israel and egypt. and that's been. profound. >> absolutely, max. and it's it's a peace treaty that that is enduring as well. it it stands to this day, despite the tensions in the region at the moment, it is a peace treaty that also laid the groundwork for for further treaties being the first between an arab leader, an arab nation, and israel. now you can see from the responses from the current presidents of both egypt and israel just how significant what president carter did was and and that enduring peace, for example, isaac herzog, the the israeli president, in his statement offering his condolences, he spoke of president carter as being a brave leader, saying, quote, in recent years, i had the pleasure of calling him and thanking him for his historic efforts to bring together two great leaders, begin and sadat, and forgi

. >> let's bring in paula hancocks from jerusalem. it was extraordinary to think, wasn't it? looking back, what president carter had achieved there and that that glimmer of hope that christiane referred to that, you know, you know, whilst there isn't peace in the middle east, there is a always a potential for it. and he really brought that alive at the time. >> absolutely, max. and it's also the fact that many decades later, that peace between egypt and israel, the peace treaty still stands. it has been standing for decades, and even despite the pressures between the two countries, given what is happening in the region at the moment, it is still in place. so it was a remarkable moment and a remarkable turning point for israel to to sign its first peace treaty with an arab nation. and you hear this respect when you when you see the responses and the condolences being given by leaders in the region, for example, israel's president isaac herzog, his response has said that he is a brave leader, saying that he had the the pleasure in recent years of calling him and thanking him fo

let's bring in cnn's paula hancocks in abu dhabi i mean, there have been various sort of movements, haven'tving um, countries outside syria, within the country. um, this is an opportunity to um you know, make some, you know, movements around this chaos. i mean, how do you how do you regard it well, max, i think at this point israel would be concerned and we've we've heard that they're concerned as many that have a border with syria are as to to what comes next. >> so what we've heard from the defense minister israel katz, is that he has ordered the military to station soldiers, military personnel in this buffer zone it's a there's a sort of heightened strategic position of mount hermon, which sits just on the border between israel the the golan heights which israel took from syria in the 1967 war and has since since annexed lebanon and syria. so it's a key area which we heard from the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu. uh, they decided to move into when they saw that the regime, uh soldiers from syria the, the assad regime soldiers were moving out. they were concerned about a vacuu

cnn's paula hancocks has more reporter we heard confirmation from the israeli military. >> just how many strikes they had carried out, 480 strikes across the country in just a period of 48 hours. now, they say that they are targeting airfields. they are targeting anti-aircraft defenses, including tanks and fighter jets. and also we heard from the foreign minister, gideon sa'ar, saying that they are targeting facilities which are housing chemical weapons elements so that they make sure that they don't fall into, as he put it, the hands of extremists. now, we've also seen and heard from the israeli military that their navy targeted two syrian naval facilities, where about 15 vessels were docked. we have seen images of the destruction at those particular naval areas. and so the the impact has been significant. we have heard from israel's prime minister as well. benjamin netanyahu said that this would they're intending to change the face of the middle east, pointing out that the collapse of syria, as far as he is concerned, is due to israel's activities weakening iran, weakening hezbollah. a