country. our daughter is a hero. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, and thank you for being with us on this busy friday night. and we do want to begin with at breaking news. the united states beginning a series of retaliatory air strikes on sites the white house said tonight that they have clear, irrefutable evidence is connected to the deadly drone attack that killed three soldiers in jordan. the president s national security spokesperson john kirby saying tonight the strikes were successful, but that a damage assessment will be done when the sun rises in the region. and this is just the beginning. the president saying the response will continue. here is what we know. three of the locations hit are in iraq. four are in syria. and there were dozens of individual targets within each site. the strike lasted over 30 minutes, involving multiple aircraft. those planes are now out of harm s way. and it comes on the same day president biden and first lady
welcome to the programme. we start in the middle east. iran s supreme leader says there ll be a harsh response, after at least 95 people were killed, by two explosions in the southeastern city of kerman. the blasts were near the saheb al zaman mosque, where thousands of people had gathered to mark the anniversary of the death of a senior general, who was killed in a us drone strike in 2020. caroline hawley reports. the roads leading to the cemetery were packed with people who had gone to qasem soleimani. officials say the bombs had been planted in bags and were apparently set off by remote control. whoever did this was clearly aiming to cause mass casualties. the iranian red crescent said their efforts to evacuate the injured were complicated by the size of the crowds. and a first bomb was followed swiftly by a second, more deadly explosion. it comes four years to the day since qasem soleimani was killed himself in an american drone attack while on a visit to iraq. general so
Condemns what he calls barbaric hamas attacks. This is the Sea Life In Gaza as israel continues to send soldiers close to the border. This is the scene live in gaza. We will speak to paul adams in a moment or two, but first i want to bring you one of the latest lines. We hear British Airways has diverted a flight from london to tel aviv due to the situation in israel. That hasjust come from the spokesmen in the last few minutes, a British Airways jet heading to tel aviv has been diverted. We will look for more details on that boat you see the activity in recent minutes in terms of rockets being fired, in terms of israeli action too, so that you just coming in. More on that in a moment but lets pause and head to the Sports Centre to round up the headlines with ben croucher. India are on course for a big win at the mens cricket world cup, chasing 273 to beat afghanistan in their second group game. Afghanistan were 63 3 when captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Azmatullah 0marzai put on 121 f
to disclose national defence information. for years, the us said the release of files around the iraq and afghanistan was endangered lives. wikileaks claims to have published more than 10 million documents in what the us government described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. he and his lawyers have claimed that the case against him is politically motivated. i spoke to nomia iqbal. nomia, you have been following this. following this. tell us about the agreement. following this. tell us about the agreement. it following this. tell us about the agreement. it is - the agreement. it is interesting. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hasn t it? his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned this breach that the americans said was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks released more than 90,0
around the iraq and afghanistan wars endangered lives. wikileaks, founded in 2006, claims to have published more than 10 million documents in what the us government described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. assange and his lawyers have long claimed that the case was politically motivated. i spoke to nomia iqbal. nomia, you have been following this. tell us about the agreement. it is interesting. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hasn t it? so his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned there this breach that the americans said was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he s long been accused of putting american operatives lives at ris