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assad and have seen real action s well, flights have resumed from that same airfield and air strikes in the same area as the chemical weapons attack earlier this week. at least one person was killed in a saturday morning strike in a residential neighborhood also near that airfield. russia, meanwhile, has promised to help syria boost its air defenses. we re joined by the former u.s. ambassador to syria and to algeria. robert ford. mr. ambassador, thank you for joining us on this saturday. my pleasure to be with you. you ve heard them frame this u.s. cruise missile strike as message sending to the assad regime and the russians as well specifically about chemical weapons use. you have met assad more than once. do you believe he is a man, in this case, who will take that message and restrict, at a
weapons attack? military official told me that they did observe regime aircraft in the area with chemical wepns using potentie il weapons. the goal was not to obliterate this airfield. it was about sending a message, an act of deterence, tailored to chemical weapons use. they want to make sure that the signal was sent to syria this this chemical weapons use would not be tolerated in the future and opened the door for potentially more strikes should the regime in damascus continue to use chemical weapons in the future. not going to affect the conventional war on the ground, specifically chemical weapons. ryan browne, thank you very much. back to you in new york, fred. thank you so much, jim. meanwhile, president trump has
we see today. there was a wall around the building, signs and people start to put flowers there. very emotional and could not really speak when she was doing it. after that, all these other flowers came and it is quite an extraordinary scene. what you have at this moment where you cannot see the uglyness ugliness of this site. what happens here, a real message, the king says it is a safe country. the real way of demonstrating that people can carry on as normal and terra will not win over in this country. yeah, you made a good point. we get kaupgt caught up in the f attack itself, it is the scene that follow as and the reyekjec of the violence. we are hearing of this
struck by those cruise missiles. the russian view is that, yes, this increases tension, but not because of russia, not because of moscow or decisions being made here. as a result of an unjustified, illegal military operation, russia now takes the view that it must withdraw this pretty important area of cooperation between russian and american forces. it s a difficult argument made, at least from the u.s. perspective, as they have tracked those very syrian planes. phil black in moscow, thank you very much. fred, lot of big questions there and our viewers should remember that. u.s. and russian forces in very close proximity to each other over and on the ground in syria. yeah. people want a lot of answers and people want to hear what the strategy is. what is the plan. straight ahead. thanks so much, jim. still ahead, the u.s. bo bombarded a syrian airbase to send a message. the question is, was it received, and what was the