as we speak and so many others. so it s just mind boggling to try to understand that what the president is all about whether he it comes to russia. finally, the president ordered strikes on three different facilities that allegedly were involved in the production of chemical weapons controlled by the regime in syria. did you support those? do you support them and are you clear what the legal rationale is for those strikes? i think any sustained engagement in syria outside of isil needs the authorization of congress, number one. number two, wlags assad did is barbaric. but we saw a strike a year ago, we see a strike now. at the end of the day, i don t know if this was carefully choreographed because you have a strike against three facilities. the russians don t activate their defense missiles against us. the syrians shoot their missiles after our missiles land. you wonder, wait a minute, was this a choreographed kabuki
now she said that all options are on the table for the united states. his abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. war is never something the united states wants. we don t want it now. our country s patience is not unlimited. now, both russia and china have both condemned north korea s recent nuclear tests. but russia has called for an ungent need for all sides to keep a cool head saying history has shown that the security council sanctions of not worked. they want be a immediate return to dialogue and negotiations. china called it a vicious cycle and called for the u.s. to adopt a plan they call freeze for freeze. they want the united states to stop military games with south korea and to remove thad defense missiles in return for north korea stopping missile tests.
the thad, short for terminal high altitude defense missiles. designed to shoot down small to medium range ballistic missiles in dissent stage. they were put in place because of recent north korean launches and stepped up launches of kim jong un in north korea. china s president xi despite all the overtures president trump made to him and president to mar-a-lago this winter sees missiles as a threat to his own nuclear defense. china also weary of any potential alliance between the united states, south korea and japan. they see that not only as a threat to north korea, but as a threat to their owns a expirations of nato like threat to their owns a expirations. china s build up of islands in the south china sea the placement of defensive missile batteries in those man made islands, recent buzzing of u.s. planes in the region are all sending signals that china is not going to be reigning in north korea s kim jong un at least to the extent that the u.s. would like h to.
deploying defense missiles to syria to protect its jets. moscow suggested turkey s downing of a russian war plane was a planned provocation. the rescued co-pilot says there were no warnings from turkey. turkey released an audio recording to back the claim. david cameron is set to make the case for uk air strikes against isis in syria. meanwhile, the french president will head to moscow to discuss anti-terrorism efforts. south korea has agreed to meet with north korea. these will be the first talks since august when the two sides met to try to ease tensions. the pope is celebrating mass right now in kenya at the university of nairobi. we can show you live pictures
a warm welcome back to you. you re watching cnn newsroom. i m rosemary church. and i m errol barnett. let s update you on the top stories we re following right now. russia says it s deploying defense missiles to syria to defense jets. moscow suggested the downing of a russian war plane was a planned provocation. a rescued pilot said there were no warnings. doctors without borders is sclami slamming the u.s. military calling them negligent on a strike on a hospital in afghanistan. the military says the strikes were meant to hill a taliban site. they said avoidable human error led to the attack.