least a half a dozen targets now largely in eastern syria have been picked by u.s. forces right now where the focus seems to be on getting those that were behind the attacks on those u.s. soldiers, killing three of them and injuring better than 40 last sunday. that was then. the attack is on now. we re told it s a widespread attack zone. but there s some wondering about the sites that were included in this. that these proxy sites, again those sponsored by iran, are the oned targeted. so far no such moves in i ran itself as though some expected. let s get the latest from jennifer griffin, what she s hearing at the pentagon. jennifer? i apologize. we have dan hoffman with us first from moscow. what you know of this right now, what can you tell us and what do you think? yeah, you know, syrian media reports that six targets were struck as many as six or seven may have been killed. take that with a grain of salt. this is the initial forray by the united states. they re hitting t
china has tried to calm tensions after two chinese spy balloons were spotted over the united states and latin america. the chinese foreign ministry has spoken to the us secretary of state, antony blinken, after he cancelled his trip to china this weekend. beijing says the matter must be dealt with in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher reports from beijing. americans are looking up to spot the spy balloon in the sky. it s actually a weather balloon that blew off course, the chinese said. but the pentagon s convinced it s more than that and that it s not the only one. we re seeing reports of a balloon transiting latin america. we now assess it is another chinese surveillance balloon. the ballon burst plans for america s top diplomat antony blinken to travel to beijing for rare talks about covid, trade disputes and the security situation over taiwan, but mostly to calm sky high tensions. this crisis shows just how fragile re
more about them. the reason that they have a shut it down, the pentagon say, they do not want any civilians blow to be hurt so that is the official line from the pentagon but i spoke with someone in the pyrenees at the moment and he is an expert in electronic warfare and he said it is not as easy as you might think to get one of these things down from the sky. here s what he had to say. same at the blueness, judging by all appearances, made of rubber or plastic like material that makes, i would imagine, does make it fairly difficult to detect and because it is difficult to detect it is hard to guide a missile onto it are fighter onto it because both of those capabilities require radar in some shape orform to be capabilities require radar in some shape or form to be able to fix the target, follow it and be able to guide the aircraft or missile in. so what is the us concern here? what do
for a while. so he completely understands things. so, congressman, the administration says at this point i heard the pentagon say, you know, at this point, ukraine still has airplanes left. and we don t think that they really need them at this point. and they don t want to anger vladimir putin and draw us into world war iii. when you are dealing with putin. it is a delicate balance. well, sure. but, it s pretty consistent to say on the one hand to say they don t need them and on the other hand it s provocative if we give them to them. i don t understand the distinction, steve between lethal equipment ie javelins and stingers being driven across the border and lethal equipment, ie migs, and drones being flown across the border a distinction without a difference. we ought to give volodymyr zelenskyy what is he asking for. steve: congresswoman houlahan it does sound as if the administration is considering the smart drones, they are
fully understand the degree to which his forces are failing in ukraine. that s a little discomforting to be honest with you. the intel also suggests his aides aren t giving him a full picture of how the sanctions are hurting the russian economy. our intent is simply to make the information available so that there is a full understanding of what kind of strategic blunder this has been for russia and for the russian people. the united nations refugee agency says more than four million people have fled ukraine, passing the worst case predictions. more than half of them are children. in washington, lauren blancher ,fox news. lauren, thank you . despite facing mounting death and destruction across their nation, ukrainians are firmly standing their ground on terms for a peace agreement up front and foremost. ukraine insists russian must withdraw completely before any deal can be signed. but military analysts at the pentagon say that s unlikely to happen anytime soon based on the current mo