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
By romain yen tourist. Andreea christea was on holiday from romania. She was catapulted into the thames during the attack. Ambulances under pressure. Theres a sharp rise in the number being turned away by A E Departments in england. And, its ladies day at aintree on the second day of the grand national festival. And coming up in the sport on bbc news. Lee westwood is the leading british player after the opening round of the masters. He is third, five shots off the lead, at augusta. Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. The us has carried out a Missile Strike on a Syrian Air Base in response to the Chemical Weapons attack earlier this week in idlib province. It is the first direct us Military Action against forces commanded by syrias president. The kremlin, which backs the assad regime, has condemned the move. The Missile Strike hit the shayrat airbase in the west of syria, north of the capital, damascus. Six people are thought to have been killed, and the pentagon says ai
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but proxy wars that the u.s. engaged in where we supported our allies in a significant enough way where they could ultimately achief the objectives. we need to get the missiles coming in important but russians operate without consequences. firing the missiles without consequences. we could provide more equipment. what my objective would be is to establish a no-fly zone. arm them with the medium and long range defense systems and i also absolutely underscored that the thing that is we thought unacceptable weeks ago are completely acceptable today. we are going to find ourselves in a situation weeks and months from now with the atrocities and a chemical strike that we were going to have to take more
weapons. here s what he said. we are consulting with our allies and collectively we are communicating directly to the russians sitting here before you today. i m not going to go further than what president biden said on friday, which is that the russians would pay a severe price if they were to move forward with chemical weapons. right. so the open question has been is that the red line or chemical weapons? is that the red line with the biden administration s step up? and jake sullivan says they would pay a price, but so far the only price that russia has paid is with sanctions. what do you think that is all about? and i think that is is going to be more of the same. they may try some harder sanctions, non kinetic and i think that is absolutely the right call because i keep saying no matter how much our heartstrings are hit here and how bad it is and there s no whitewashing what how bad a chemical strike would be in this case. but just think the consequences if we actually enter into