air strikes in iraq as the u.s. punishes a militant group for an attack on u.s. service members, but the strikes are also raising fears of this escalating into a bigger war with the u.s. caught in the middle of it. those attacks come as the u.s. and israel are trying to get on the same page as far as the war against hamas. a top adviser to netanyahu meeting with u.s. officials as outrage grows. exonerated and home for the holidays. i speak to a man who is wrongfully convicted about what it means to be free and the top challenges on the outside for others who are exonerated. we re following these major developing stories and more coming into cnn news central. today in for the holidays, boras sanchez is off. with fears of a widening war in the middle east the u.s. executed its own strikes against iran backed militants in iraq. this happened yesterday. there s video here showing theafter math. the move is in retaliation for a drone attack on american forces hours before at a
This is sky news today. The headlines at 10 00. Iran launches the first ever direct attacks on israel where pour than 300 drones and missiles and ies rate says they intercepted 99 . U. S. Military helped repel and the Royal Air Force was involved. Fears about israels possible response means tensions remain high in the region. Joe biden calls it a brazen attack and reaforms americas ironclad commitment to protect israel. He called a meeting of g7 leaders later today to discuss the unfolding crisis. We will have all the latest live throughout the morning here on sky news and we will be assessing what israel will do next. Good morning. We begin with a tense and significant turn of events in the middle east. Overnight, the skies of jerusalem lit up with explosions as iran carried out its first ever direct attack on israel. It comes two weeks after suspected israeli strike in syria that killed two iranian generals. In a moment, we will hear from the Israeli Military on the state of the coun
I think there is a little more nuance to whether the sanctions are having an effect. what s the read? why are the iranians attacking the facilities? they are hurting. so they want to make the u.s. hurt and the global economy pay attention. they want to perhaps draw in president trump into a confrontation, a direct military confrontation and perhaps there are some within iran who are concerned that rouhani might meet president trump. so there is also the question about the sanctions working on dollar funding to the proxys. i think there has been fewer dollars floating around the region to fund operations for the yemenis in iraq and hezbollah. so there hasn t been the total behavioral change from tehran about pursuing nuclear weapons
Symbolically an important threshold that they are going to break. looking at the prospect of a nuclear iran and a nuclear north korea, which one poses a bigger risk? well, i actually think iran is the greater threat because they have a lot more tools available to them to cause mischi mischief, not only in the region, but elsewhere in the world. so they have proxys. hezbollah and lebanon. and they have special forces and all of this. and they can start up problems and trouble elsewhere in the world in eastern europe or southeast asia and other places. so they have more reach. they are a much larger country and have more resources than does north korea which has one thing going for it which is nuclear weapons. let s talk about north korea. on the most i don t know if this is the basic level.
When we go into the cell, that s we ll be talking about, but we re actually looking for money. the suspect is richard valentino. the ruse is to protect the informant s identity based on the assumption that he s only told a few inmates that he has cash, which in jail is considered contraband. do you have anything on you? you re not supposed to have? any roxycontinue tin? nothing? i have nothing. if i find something on you, it s going to be on. nothing at all? don t lie to me. no. did talk to you about roxys? not at all? money in a jail is actual power. they can buy things from it. they can buy drugs, buy whatever they want. phone call time. that s why we have no cash in the jail. one shirt at a time. hand me the shirt. once we hear somebody has cash in a jail, it causes problems. other inmates if they know he has it will beat him up, take the money. and what they ll do is drop it in an envelope and send it out to their families. that s how it gets out. hands down.