[background noises] [background noises] is nick any on education and workforce will come to order. I note the quorum is present. That objection the chairs authorized to call recess at any time. Good morning everyone and welcome to todays hearing. Acting secretary at soup, i like to start by saying you have been a hard witness to schedule. The committee began working with the department to secure your in person testimony beginning in march. You would not appear in may, we honored your request to appear in june. Using the day, june 7, that was offered by your staff into which you agreed. More than a commenting to establish a mutual date for this meeting, this hearing. Why is it that late friday evening following the committees public posting of the hearing a week ago, your staff told us you were quote no longer to make june 7 work . What was so important that you are willing to stop the work of a Congressional Committee come up in the schedule 45 members of congress and leave the America
Of the projectiles were shot down, with Military Support from the united states, the uk and other countries. In total, modern 300 missiles and drones were launched. More than 300 missiles,. Its the first time that iran has directly targeted israel from its own soil. Iran says its actions were in response to a Missile Strike earlier this month in syria, that killed several of its Military Commanders. With me is kasra aarabi, director of Islamic Revolutionary guard Corps Research at united against nuclear iran. Thank you so much for being here on the programme. Your headline thought into what we have seen over the last few hours . ,. ,. , into what we have seen over the last few hours . ,. ,. , few hours . This was a very well choreographed few hours . This was a very well choreographed attack few hours . This was a very well choreographed attack by few hours . This was a very well choreographed attack by the. Few hours . This was a very well choreographed attack by the Islamic Revoluti
Hello, welcome to the programme. We will be live injerusalem in a moment. First i want to take you through the latest images of what happened. Take a look at this. Air raid sirens these are the sirens blaring over jerusalem, you can see the explosions in the sky. 300 missiles and drones fired towards israel. Israel says that 99 of them were taken down. But it wasntjust over the airspace of israel, this is over jordan, allies including the us, france and uk helped to take objects out the skies. These pictures are from syria, the skies above damascus. Heading back to israel, it used its iron dome defences, they intercept missiles fired from the ground up into the sky to take out missiles and drones. As to the damage done to israel, the idf says there were no deaths, a Military Base suffered minor damage and a young girl was injured and in hospital. In iran, these were some pictures coming out of iran. These are government supporters celebrating the attack. Iran sees this as a response, r
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