That news taking 50 points a off of the dow industrials, mornings with maria begins right now. Maria top story iran striking back overnight, iran fired over a dozen missiles at two bases in iraq housing american soldiers, so far no american casualties have been reported in attacks, the president tweeted overnight about the attack, he writes this, all is well, missiles launched from iraq, assessment of casualties and damages taking place now, so far so good, we have the most powerful, wellequipped military anywhere in the world by far, the president write, i would be making statement tomorrow morning, we will take the statement for you. Joining me right now ceo anthony, here this morning onset campusreform. Org and dagen mcdowell, kevin oleary. Lets get your reaction this morning to the showdown with iran and what you perceive as irans goal here. Hi, maria, good morning to the team there, you know, what has happened is we essentially took, if you think of thises is a chess match, we too
Japan hits back with an arrest warrant. Kathleen and the latest results from samsung. Shares remain close to an alltime high. Australian markets have open. Sophie, what is the latest . Seeing oil names with the declines along at the start of trade. Checking in on whats happening with the aussie dollar, looking flat after its biggest drop since august. , this morningline still below the level as we anticipate more policy support from beijing. Gold looking likely to continue. First words get the news from new york. The effect of the bush arsenal shag are being felt halfway around the world. About 12,000 kilometers from sydney. Five have killed at least one for people and up to a billion animals. They are generating their own west or system whether systems that can in turn ignite new blazes. The internal investigation that led to the ouster was never about finding the truth and he wanted to be interviewed himself as part of the probe. Hes promising to name people he said engineered a coup
An assassin asking another criminal with him to film him committing a murder in broad daylight. Were asking the Veterans Affairs secretary for an update providing faster and better care for our vets. We have details. Well ask him about a government watchdog report, alleging that the va spent billions of dollars on new medical facilities with little budget oversight. Im Melissa Francis in tonight for mcdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Melissa get to Edward Lawrence in washington with the latest developments there. Edward . Reporter defense secretary mark esper expects iran to retaliate. He would like a diplomatic solution but has prepared targets just in case. President donald trump keeping pressure on iran but backing off that those targets will include cultural sites. Listen. Theyre allowed to kill our people. Theyre allowed to maim our people. Theyre allowed to blow up everything that we have and there is nothing that stops them and we are, according to a various laws suppo
Including the ethnic cleansing as an achievement of the israeli army and the same chief of staff halevi uh released a communique to his soldiers uh a week ago that said which tells you really everything you need to know about this operation he said guys we are not a killing spree, a revenge spree or a genocide um do not steal uh peoples belongings, do not take trophies and do not shoot trophy videos, which we. Is essentially built into the israeli uh uh project here, these tik tok videos, um, theyre not individual soldiers taking a video with their buddy, weve seen, and you can see and check it out in all of these tik toks that you see, theres dozens of soldiers involved, um, when those the women soldiers took that photo, trophy photo last week that people probably saw in the ruins, um, theres dozens of people in those photos, so and we also know that the idf them selves their operations Uh Department ran one of these snuff channels uh where their soldiers submit the videos of torture
Um and another soldier was killed fighting hamas uh in zaitoon so then hamas within hours released that video that clearly showed sniper kill um and then there i i believe what youre seeing there is what they said were the two tank uh tank crew injured and so and well talk about this a little bit later on but thats thats a strike to injure the tank crew means youve penetrated the armor of the of the vehicle um and those fixes arent simple you dont just take them to your base and strap a piece of armor on them. Um, theyre significant, especially that shot, which appears to be hitting the hull, the hull on the markeva tank is what is what separates it from other tanks, its weight and its thickness of armor on the on the bottom parts, because they dont have to fly with these vehicles, um, they can make them super heavy, but because of that, um, strikes like this, which damage crew, which are also difficult to train, um at some point theres theres a limit to these um so maybe we could do n