Officials here, Cabinet Secretaries and this is trumpian self had been talking about the rationale behind it, a set was aimed as a response to the Chemical Weapons attack, that it was a limited strike, a tactical one, it was proportional, they say, because it targeted the airbase that was connected to the strike, it was from where the aircraft launched the Weapons Attack, the Chemical Weapons attack, it did do a lot of damage at that race but they tried very hard not to kill anybody there, they want the russians who work with the Syrian Military before they struck, said it was very much aimed at warning the Syrian Regime not to carry out such attacks again and it wasnt opening a wider front, the Secretary Of State has said in the civil war, it wasnt opening up front in the war against bashar al asaad, it was connected to the attack itself. It was done quickly, so attack itself. It was done quickly, so the message that this would not be tolerated but it was also carefully planned to be
Adding that russia had been either complicit or incompetent by failing to secure the Chemical Weapons of its syrian ally. A romanian woman injured in the Westminster Terror Attack two weeks ago has died. Andrea cristea had been visiting london with her boyfriend. Good morning. Welcome to the programme. We are live until iiam this morning. We will be looking throughout the show at the implications of that Missile Strike by america on a base in syria. Its the first time america has intervened directly in the conflict. Do get in touch. Texts will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Thats our main news, that the us has carried out a Missile Strike on a Syrian Air Base in response to a Chemical Attack that killed dozens of civilians. 59 Cruise Missiles we re of civilians. 59 Cruise Missiles were fired from the mediterranean. They hit the base from where the attack was launched. Here is david willis. It was a decisive response from an administration that has often seemed disorganised an