to avoid a wider conflict in the region. we will take all necessary actions to defend the united states, our interests and our people. and we will respond when we choose, where we choose, and how we choose. earlier i asked our north america correspondent would any us attack may take place? we don t know us attack may take place? - don t know exactly when this military action will be lost, it apparently depends on the weather and on intelligence, but we understand that these strikes will take place over a number of days and today will include a range of targets. they include iranian personnel and facilities in iraq and syria. now, it is those two countries from where these militant groups, the iran backed militant groups have been operating and it is those groups that washington has accused of being responsible for the deadly drone attack on the us base injordan on sunday. that was when as you said, three us service members were killed, dozens more were injured and ever sinc
to the program. we begin in russia where president putin has carried out a rare reshuffle of his security chiefs. his top defence minister, sergei shoigu has been removed from his post. he s a long standing ally of vladimir putin and has served as defence minister since 2012, playing a key role in russia s invasion of ukraine. his replacement will be andrei belousov, an economist and the deputy prime minister. earlier our russia editor steve rosenberg explained that at the kremlin, reshuffles are unusual. whoever the russian government ministers are, whoever s sitting around that cabinet table, there is one man and one man alone in russia who calls the shots, and that is vladimir putin. he s the man with all the power. having said that, a government reshuffle in russia is interesting, particularly when key ministers like the defence minister is being changed. they don t happen too often. the foreign minister, he s been in his post for 20 years. mr shoigu, he has been defence
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