against civilians. no mission accomplish tweets. just stressing that the mission was limited, specific, targeting only syria s chemical weapons capability that it s been successful and has wide ranging international support. atika shubert in ris. we ve heart from theresa may and the u.s. president, mission accomplished. but we haven t heard from the french president macron. what s the expectation there? reporter: it s interesting. yesterday, everything we were getting from macron was via twitter. he said a red line had been crossed and it included a photo of him in that meeting at the defense ministry, giving the military order and a few follows all on twitter. today, we are expecting a
growing concerns at the explosive situation in syria could take a turn for the worst if the russians follow through on a threat to create chaos in response to further coalition action against the ashad regime. this comes after the targeted airstrike degraded the chemical weapons capability. as you know the united nations security council met several times on this issue without a consensus about peaceful pathway forward. u.s. ambassador says russia will feel the sting of sanctions as long as it backs the murderous syrian dictator. russian sanctions will be coming down, the secretary will be announcing those on monday if he hasn t already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to ashad and chemical weapons use. i think everyone knows that we sent a strong message and our hope is they listen to us.
nato representatives have been meeting in the belgian capital brussels the military alliance says all twenty nine of its members are backing the airstrikes or nato allies expressed their full support for the last night s actions which was intended to degrade the sooner she aims chemical weapons capability. to deter further chemical weapons attacks against the people of syria. may strongly condemn the repeated use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime amidst all this a team of international chemical weapons inspectors have a rives in the syrian capital damascus to begin its probe into the alleged duma gas attack that prompted saturday s airstrikes the team from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived just hours after the united states friends and britain targeted syrian facilities the alleged gas attack
measured proportionate strike for syria having violated violated international law in terms of it using chemical weapons, and the president of the united states had warned them about a year before, and they crossed that red line, he did a limited strike at that time. this strike was increased from the previous strike, focused on research production storage and command-and-control facilities, directly related to assad s chemical weapons capability. arthel: going forward, what s next? we re getting reports as you well know that there s more. there s still capability of their stockpiles and capability of producing more. now what? there s no way to, you know, from the standpoint of airstrikes, particularly airstrikes from a stand-off platform, to do away with all
constitution we believe the president has every reason to defend vital american interests. that is what he did here tonight under that authority. ben with ittis, i see the debate raging. bad legal arguments for the syria air strike. help us understand what secretary mattis was saying and some of the legal considerations that are at play as we begin the process in the early morning hours in syria. right. so first of all i want to say that i have no moral problem for international politics problem with striking syrian chemical weapons capability. this is a horrible, horrible regime with that is in, you know, grotesque violation of the chemical weapons convention. and that said, there are some pretty serious legal questions, both under domestic law and under international law about what the united states and its allies did. the domestic law question is, you know, under what