welcome to this special edition of jesse waters on a friday on a fr night.s i m pete hegseth. and we start tonight with a fox news alert. the u.s. military has just ag launched retaliatory attacksd against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. u.s. central command says over 85 targets were struck.st these strikes come just days the after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly droneon attack the b on the border in j. for the latest, let s bringet in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well, we know that we ve got the first images coming out of irathe f comq. you just had them up a second ago, al.com, iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border, with syria, very near some of of the other locationthes. erent as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hitlo in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria, hit by 125 munitions. thos sevene seven locationsia are divided up to four inside of syria., three of them inside
pete hegseth, and we start tonight out with a fox news alert. the us military has just launched retaliatory attacks against iranian backed militias in iraq and syria. the us central command says over 85 targets were struck. these strikes come just days after three american soldiers were killed in a deadly drone attack on the border in jordan. for the latest, let s bring in international correspondent mike tobin. mike, what do we know? well we know that we ve got the first images coming out of iraq. you just had them up a second ago. al-qa im iraq. this is the very western part of iraq on the border with syria, very near some of the other locations, as you mentioned, some 85 targets were hit in seven different locations, both in iraq and syria. hit by 125 munitions. those seven locations are divided up to four inside of syria. three of them inside of iraq. the us says that the targets were all iranian revolution guard, command and control weapons storage, logistics, support fo
hello, i m lukwesa burak. president biden has said a deal with republicans to raise the us government debt ceiling is very close and he s optimistic it will be achieved. the two sides have a little more breathing room after the treasury secretary, janet yellen, extended the deadline slightly, saying the government would not run out of money untiljune 5. they re working on an agreement that would ensure no repeat of the stand off before next year s presidential election. as the clock ticked down to the midnight deadline which hasjust passed mr biden hinted a deal might be not be too far away. with regards to the debt limit, things are looking good. i m very optimistic. i hope we ll have some clearer evidence tonight, before the clock strikes 12:00, that we have a deal. but it s very close and i m optimistic. and our north america correspondent nomia iqbal sent us this update. lawmakers have now been given a little more time to find that much needed solution. many of them h
against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov told the bbc the planned assault was an historic opportunity but the government had no right to make a mistake when making such an important decision. mr danilov has been speaking to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. we have been talking about this counteroffensive for months, and during that time ukraine has been building up stockpiles of ammunition, it s been taking receipt of tanks and armoured vehicles from the west. it s been training its troops as much as it can. so when we sat down with oleksiy danilov, the man who is at the heart of what is effectively ukraine s war cabinet, it was inevitable that we were going to talk about the circumstances around which this counteroffensive may at some stage begin and this is what he told me. translation: we will figure out | when that will start so we can have that best result at that point of war. it could happen tomorrow, the day after tomorrow or in a