joining me now to discuss this is the former british army commander, colonel richard kemp, who was inhe past chaired cobra meetings. richard, welcome to gbbn tonight. where are you , to gbbn tonight. where are you, by the way.7 >> by the way? >> i'm in tel aviv, in israel, at the moment, waiting for iran's much threatened attack. >> okay. it's pretty tricky here in the uk with these dreadful scenes over the weekend, but you've chaired cobra meetings, haven't you? what's it like? and what is cobra ? what is cobra? >> well, cobra is, it probably sounds a bit more dramatic than it actually is. it's a, a basically a crisis management committee that brings across all the elements of government, the home office, the defence ministry, the foreign office, other, other areas of government that are relevant, the police and the intelligence services to consider either intelligence about a potential crisis or in this case, about a crisis that is unfolding. so it's essentially going to be coordinating the government's activities in response and studying and considering the intelligence that's avai

joining me now to discuss this is the former british army commander, colonel richard kemp, who was inthe past chaired cobra meetings. richard, welcome to gbbn tonight. where are you , to gbbn tonight. where are you, by the way.7 >> by the way? >> i'm in tel aviv, in israel, at the moment, waiting for iran's much threatened attack. >> okay. it's pretty tricky here in the uk with these dreadful scenes over the weekend, but you've chaired cobra meetings, haven't you? what's it like? and what is cobra ? what is cobra? >> well, cobra is, it probably sounds a bit more dramatic than it actually is. it's a, a basically a crisis management committee that brings across all the elements of government, the home office, the defence ministry, the foreign office, other, other areas of government that are relevant, the police and the intelligence services to consider either intelligence about a potential crisis or in this case, about a crisis that is unfolding. so it's essentially going to be coordinating the government's activities in response and studying and considering the intelligence that's ava

good evening, richard , kemp.richard, this does seem like a rather concerning escalation. no rockets, i think one, at least one hamas rocket has fired. and as i understand , landed in open as i understand, landed in open area. it didn't hit anything . area. it didn't hit anything. but the concern, i guess, is that more are fired and indeed buildings and civilians will be hit . hit. >> yeah. oh of course there were, about 2 or 300 rockets fired this morning by hezbollah in lebanon at israel, which , the in lebanon at israel, which, the hezbollah planned a much larger barrage, but that was prevented by a, an israeli pre—emptive strike that took out, i think, a thousand several hezbollah missile launchers. so this one missile launchers. so this one missile in tel aviv and i'm actually in tel aviv at the moment. it's one missile which landed not too far from where i am, as you say , landed in open am, as you say, landed in open space. didn't do any damage and wasn't intercepted by iron dome because it was projected to

we have earth retired colonel richard kemp former commander of the british forces in afghanistan.ey don't exactly have a great record. he fought in afghanistan. so they did in afghanistan piece i whbe sowhat they did with ukr. you see what they're doing on our own border. uc taiwan is in the crosshairs not exactly helping taiwan. and you see with israel they have been with withholding weapon system they have been withholding ammunition i finally got caught and they say were going to tens of billions of dollars at the slow process israel will not see this equipment for how long. what would iran do there's a cease-fire they're going to sit still while they send stuff to hezbollah while they stop shooting missiles? when they're under attack by these people. >> you mention afghanistan. i think afghanistan holds the key to the situation going on now. american weakness by the biden/harris horrific withdrawal from afghanistan. after years and years of american soldiers fighting and dying. to defeat the taliban. biden/harris withdrew. that prompted putin to invade ukraine and my opinion.