Israels military has provided a wide range of options to respond to the attack. Israels war cabinet ended without consensus. Middle east correspondent Yolande Knell has the latest. Israels air defences call to action. In the early hours on sunday, fighterjets battled waves of iranian drones and missiles fired at israeli targets. It marked the first time iran has attacked israel directly from its own soil. Explosions could be heard widely, Including Injerusalem and tel aviv. Israel says that 99 of more than 300 drones and missiles launched by iran were intercepted. Some of those that got through hit here in the sensitive Nevatim Air Force base in southern israel. Nearby, seven year old Amina Hassouna was seriously injured when a Missile Fragment struck her house. Translation the children were frightened and wanted to run away from home. And thats when the missile hit our house. The israeli war cabinet met yesterday to plan its next move. One of its members, benny gantz, said israel woul
Adding that representatives from the uk and us condemned the attacks by iran on israel but made it clear that they didnt want to see any further escalation, but israels ambassador rejected the call for the violence to stop. Iran and its hegemonic or conditions of global domination must be stopped before it drives the world to a point of no return. To a regional war that can escalate to a world war. This attack crossed every red line and is well with reserves its legal right to retaliate. We are not a frog in boiling water. We are a nation of lions. Iran launched an estimated 300 drones, cruise, and Ballistic Missiles towards israel in its first ever direct attack on israel. Iran said it was responding to an israeli strike earlier this month on its consulate in syrias Capital Damascus that killed several Iranian Military commanders. Speaking at the Security Council meeting, irans representative said the response was proportionate. Irans operation was entirely in the exercise of irans in
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Its the last attempt to get a lifeline and keep greece in the euro. German chancellor Angela Merkel says time is running out. Angela weve shown much solidarity with greece. Our last offer was very generous. In these time of challenges be it refugees or terrorism, europe can only keep strong and stand together if every country asumets responsibilities. Vonny they have to decide whether they can cooperate with cyprus and walked out of talks and called the referendum. Theyre trying to prop up the falling stock markets. Foreign investors are selling shares at shanghai listed stocks at a record pace. Vonnie obama warns it will take time and went for a briefing with the top military commander and called the fight against the Islamic State a generational struggle. President obama this will not be quick as a longterm campaign. Isil is opportunistic and it is nimble and many places in syria and iraq including urban areas, its dug in among innocent civilian populations. It will take time to root
Focus today as we watch and see what happens with todays iran nuclear story. Anthony we are waiting for something to happen. How long will it take the iranians to get their crude. They are wrestling with your the banks say it could take 12 months. Markets are discounting mechanism and they are already discounting. We are starting to see the price of crude you can see it is coming down over the last few days. Expectations are that if we do see a deal, it will continue to soften. Anna the great optimism greek optimism. An agreekment. That is really horrible. It was the picture up optimism. Some of the gloss has come off of it. You can see the shanghai reacting. That his house or reza will be debating a little bit later on today. Lets carry on the conversation about it looks set to be announced today. Anna diplomats are starting to prepare the final text sometime this morning. Elliott has more details. It does feel like we have been here before. How many times have they missed to these de