closed captioning brought to you by invent help. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, the u.s. strikes several targets. the impact is being assessed right now. the u.s. president is making it clear that this is just the start of retaliation after the deaths of three americans in jordan. this is video from what appears to be one of those strikes early saturday morning local time. the mayor of this time says the strikes hit houses used for weapons storage. the pentagon says u.s. bombers hit 85 individual targets in iraq and syria. the u.s. says the locations were used by iran s revolutionary guards and by iranian backed militia. the pentagon says each was used by iranian backed groups. the video you saw comes from iraq on the border with syria. the attacks violated iraq sovereignty. the white house says iraq was notified before it unleashed it s military might. president biden released this statement. lets all those who seek to do us harm know this. if you harm a
Of women and children. A group of African Leaders are currently in russia for a crucial meeting with president putin. This comes after their visit to ukraine as part of a Peace Mission aimed at resolving the ongoing conflict between the two nations. Now on bbc news. First hand accounts from veterans of the Second World War in episode one of we were there. You were shot at, shelled, bombed, mortared. And yelled, let the bombs go from the aircraft. How many young people did we actually kill . We looked to the aircraft and the whole of the back of it had been shredded with shell splinters. If the sergeant says, jump, you said, how high . We just did whatever we were told to do. I in the sand, the only way to survive seemed to be try and get shelter of some kind. Because of the 12 of us, only eight of us had come back. Four of our crews had gone, including one crew who were on their very first trip. It was a sunday. I was in church with my mother and father. And i remember hearing the bis
now on bbc news first hand accounts from veterans of the second world war in episode one of we were there. you were shot at, shelled, bombed, mortared. ..and yelled, let the bombs go from the aircraft . how many young people did we actually kill? we looked to the aircraft and the whole of the back of it had been shredded with shell splinters. if the sergeant says, jump, you said, how high? we just did whatever we were told to do. i in the sand, the only way to survive seemed to be try and get shelter of some kind. because of the 12 of us, only eight of us had come back. four of our crews had gone, including one crew who were on their very first trip. it was a sunday. i was in church with my mother and father. and i remember hearing the bishop getting up in the pulpit before his sermon and saying, we re now at war with germany and i thought, how exciting! gosh, an adventure! and little did i know what was in store for me. 0ur division was putting told to captur
is one of britain s youngest imams and uses social media to tackle negative assumptions about islam and to speak about men s mental health did you know the beans were use for baked beans are not actually grown in the uk? they are shipped in from all over the world but for 12 years scientists have developed a seed they think will grow here and a farm in lincolnshire has been trying to trying it out. fingers crossed it works. now, ten seconds of ice cream. a man of many, many talents then, eric erling haaland was having a great time whipping up ice cream for football fans. i love it. you are all caught up. see you. voice-over: this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. unintelligible bombs, mortared. let the bombs go from the aircraft let the bombs go from the aircraft. how many young people did we aircraft. how many young people did we actually kill? we aircraft. how many you
lincoln s arrival to beijing s arrival shows how frayed the relationship is. only a low level ccp official will be there to him. no red carpet on the tarmac like other dignitaries have received just a redline. lucas tomlinson s life in the white house with more on today s meetings. scott has been five years since u.s. secretary of state has visited china great secretary blinken s last trip was abruptly scrapped back in february when the giant chinese spy balloon floated across the country. some republicans are glad he s finally on the ground. looks all throughout the cold war she continued diplomacy with china. we should have ongoing arms control talks but despite all the things that all the complaints we had a leak from the lab. we have a lot of discussions and needs to occur. i wish blinken well invite is making a trip. vice president biden called the chinese spy balloon incident and embarrassment for beijing a republican lawmaker says is the opposite. x it s embarrassing f