new concerns the reason could become a bigger tineder box. smoke rises over the skyline of gaza this morning. i m mike he manual in for bill hemmer. claudia, great to be with you. claudia: this is a special edition of america s newsroom. the u.s. going after hezbollah targets in iraq after a christmas day attack against american troops. defense secretary lloyd austin says his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured. that attack one of the more than 100 against our forces since the hamas massacre in israel october 7th. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with more. good morning, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targets belonging to militants in iraq. we do know according to u.s. central command that three different strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants in response to a drone attack against the erbil air base that houses u.
as the conservative leadership race goes to a third ballot. rishi sunak is still in the lead. more than 5000 train drivers will strike on saturday the 30th ofjuly. network rail staff also announce further action. pressure on nhs emergency services in england is getting worse, with patients waiting longer for ambulances and many staff off sick. and at st andrews a frustrating day for tiger woods as the 150th 0pen championship gets under way. later in the hour we ll have sportsday on the bbc news channel, with all the latest reports, results, interviews and features from the bbc sport centre. welcome to bbc news at ten. russian forces have extended their reach into the heart of ukraine, bombing a city far from the eastern front line. at least 23 people, including children, were killed in a cruise missile attack, and more than 60 were injured, needing hospital treatment. the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, called it an open act of terrorism . the attack took place in
important moment for the u.s. to tell viewers what you are learning. this is about to be a major announcement that we hear directly from president biden. we expect that president biden will be addressing the nation around 7:30 tonight. is senior administration official told us this was a counterterrorism operation of a significant al qaeda target. we are learning this was in fact, ayman al-zawahri. the senior official also noted that the successful operation did not result in any civilian casualties. keep in mind, this comes about one year after the u.s. withdrew fully from afghanistan. of the last military plane leaving afghanistan in august of last year. this will raise questions that perhaps, the president, himself, will address on how the operations were conducted, given no u.s. military prison in afghanistan. also, what the assurances are that we hear from the president, himself, on the note that there was no civilian casualties. the president has been isolating becaus
as the streets were filled with people. ukrainian officials describe it as a precision strike aimed at a particular civilian target from the actual fighting. cnn s scott mclean is on-site for us to walk us through what you are seeing there right now. reporter: i just want to quickly point out, this is across the street from one of the streetcars that would have been writing at the time when this went off all of the windows were blown out. let me take you over this way and show you this is the actual building that was hit with this is called a house of officers. it s actually a concert hall, a really ornate concert hall from the soviet era. it s quite his work, firefighters are still putting water on this it might be difficult to see against the sky, but there is still steam coming off the building. now we are nine hours or so later. i will take you over this way and show you, this is an office building across the street. you can see it s maybe nine stories high. i see two o
vinnitsya for us. give us the latest at this hour. reporter: this is across the street from the blast site. this streetcar, you can see all the windows are blown out. they re trying to figure out how they re going to move it, if it still runs at this stage and how they re going to get it out of here. i ll take you over here. this is called the house of officers. it is actually a concert venue, a theater. it s obviously from the soviet era, quite old. this building was completely gutted on the inside. we can actually walk past the lawn, and you can see inside, bits of it. they are still at least they were a few minutes ago still hosing down parts of it, some of the hottest spots. they re trying to dismantle parts of it. i want to take you over here for one second. people have started to lay flowers here, stuffed animals as well, and the reason why is because earlier in the day, there was a photo that was put out by the foreign minister and other officials showing a strol