Welcome. We begin the show with reports of explosions in the sky over iran, media sources there say that air Defense Systems were activated at a military base. And a Nuclear Facility near the central city of is fine to run temporarily grounded commercial flights across areas of western and Central Regions and response. And iranian Senior Commander told Iranian State tv that there was no major damage of following the incidents. Israel had valid retaliation for a retaliatory iranian attack last saturday, and were on fire hundreds of drones and missiles that is wrote in that attack. Almost all of them though, intercepted lets get the latest on this developing story from our correspondent rebecca rivers in jerusalem. Rebecca, information that trickling in this morning, what can we say for sure . Very much trickling and i will preface everything by saying this is very much a developing story. What we know for sure is limited. Most of what were hearing is from coming from a name sources, lot
To degrade and destroy the terrorist group known as isil. Part of the air campaign, france will join in strikes against isil targets in iraq and as one of our oldest and closest allies, france is a Strong Partner in our efforts against terrorism and were pleased that french and American Service members will once again Work Together on behalf of our shared security and our shared values. More broadly, more than 40 countries including arab nations have now offered assistance as part of the coalition. This includes support for iraqi forces, strengthening the Iraqi Government, providing humanitarian aid to iraqi civilians and doing their part in the fight against isil. Here at home im please that had congress, a majority of democrats and a majority of republicans in both the house and the senate have now voted to support a key element of our strategy. Our plan to train and equip the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists. As i said last week, i believe that were st