thanks. good afternoon, everybody. i m bret baier in for martha maccallum. welcome to a special edition of the story. breaking reports of a new attack on a container ship in the red sea after the u.s. retaliates against iran-backed hezbollah strikes on american troops in iraq injuring three of our service members. one of them critically. the attacks against u.s. forces in the region piling up. we re at more than 100 since the start of the war. u.s. officials for weeks now have been warning the situation could spiral in to escalation. congressman michael waltz says our response has not been nearly strong enough. first to trey yingst reporting live from tel aviv. good afternoon, trey. brett, good afternoon. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targeting belongs to militants in iraq. according to u.s. central command, three separate strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of hezbollah militant
intercepting multiple rockets, comes after iran s president issuing a threat against israel after one of their commanders was killed in syria. trey yingst is live in tel aviv with the latest. trey. trey: good morning. overnight, according to u.s. central command, three strikes destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants. attacks in response to a drone strike against the irbil air base, three americans were injured, one critically, total number of attacks in the middle east to 103 since mid october. lloyd austin released a statement after the response saying let me be clear, the president and i will not hesitate to take action to protect the troops and we do not seek to escalate conflict, we are further prepared to take necessary measures to protect our people and facilities. after israeli forces were on high alert following an airstrike in syria that killed sayyed mousavi, the iranian president said it s an act of the zionist f
Battered by Hurricane Katrina. A boat filled with refugees sunk off the libyan coast. The boat overturned offshore with several hundred refugees on board. Some of the bodies have now been recovered. An official on the scene said many of the passengers have been trapped in the cargo hold as the boat capsized. Its a major launch pad for smugglers taking refugees to italy. The growin growing number of refugees is the focus of a meeting. The crisis was highlighted by the discovery of up to 50 bodies in a truck not far from the venue. Reporter it looks like nothing out of the ordinary, a truck parked on a motor way on a busy road leading into vienna. But this is the scene of a crime. When police approached this abandoned vehicle, the driver was nowhere to be scene. They saw blood seeping out of the back. They were overwhelmed by a terrible smell. Inside they found the decome poeting bodies of people who had been locked in and suffocated. We dont know the country of origin. Its a slow task.
Now is the time for the Un Security Council to show leadership on serious. Those are the words of the uns secretarygeneral as he laid out a longawaited report that sarin gas was indeed used outside damascus. The report does not say who was responsible for the attack but he called it an attack that left hundreds of civilians dead, war crime, and that the perpetrators must be brought to justice. He also hoped to have inspectors returned to syria. After weeks of conjecture, u. N. Inspectors confirmed what many said all along, that a chemical weapons attack did take place on august 21. The uns secretarygeneral says the evidence was overwhelming and indisputable. A report to investigate allegations on the use of chemical weapons in syria has concluded that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an area of damascus on august the 21st, causing numerous casualties, particularly among civilians. The inspectors discovered clear evidence that the nerve agent sarah and was found
No peace. No justice. No peace. Good morning, everyone. And there it is, live, the aftermath. This is minneapolis. Not a lot happening. And thats a good thing, after all thats happened there and in this country. 400 years of frustration, outrage and oppression, coming to a boil, as we begin this may 31st, 2020. Im kendis gibson. Im lindsey reiser. Perhaps you stayed up all night watching another night of protests and oppression across the nation. Fire was set to nypd vehicles in new york city. And in los angeles, a handful of lapd cars were set ablaze. Fires burned in washington, d. C. , not far from the white house, as well as at a strip mall from fayetteville, north carolina. Cities large and small, this was the theme, frustration all over on the streets. Thats grand rapids, michigan, where you see vandals smashing windows. Heavy Police Presence on the streets. Fires burning, as well, in big stores in tampa, florida. There were large numbers at this mall in scottsdale, arizona, for q