Ofa we dont see this as the beginning of a new campaign. Well be live throughout the day in beirut, moscow and washington with the latest reaction to the unfolding events. The other news. A Romanian Tourist who fell into the river thames during the Westminster Bridge terror attack has died. A sharp rise in the number of accident and Emergency Departments turning away ambulances in england. Good morning, its friday the 7th of april. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. Russia has strongly condemned us Missile Strikes on a syrian airbase, describing them as an act of aggression against a sovereign state. It has provoked anger from russia. 59 tomahawk Cruise Missiles were fired from two American Navy warships in the mediterranean. Their target the shayrat Airbase Which donald trump said was the airfield used to launch what he described as a horrible Chemical Attack on innocent civilians earlier this week. Six people are said to have died in the air strikes and the base is described as almost com
reporter: this stage we don t. we don t have any details from the pentagon yet. indeed, the early indications are perhaps that they were surprised by this statement coming from the white house. this is very, very early stages yet. and one wouldn t expect the pentagon to put out all the information because that would tip their hand to to president assad and president trump has been very clear. he s not going to telegraph where the punches are coming from and how they re going to be landing. i think if you listen to the language that the white house is using here, i mean, this even perhaps ratchets up the rhetoric over what we heard or what happened back at the beginning of april when syria used chemical weapons, sarin nerve agent, 59 people killed, cruise missiles fired on the air base where that took place from. now this heavy price, this heavy price that the white house is saying will be paid, will be paid by assad and his military. last time it was paid by his military. is there
launch its sixth nuclear test this weekend. the country may have had the capability to deliver missiles equipped with chemical weapons. this is coming out here from the japanese prime minister speaking to his country s parliament today, shinzo abe, describing the situation with north korea as increasingly severe and suggested the reclusive country could potentially arm weapons with the sarin nerve agent. so gordon chang is with me, daily beast columnist and author of north korea takes on the world. you are excellent on all things north korea. thank you for sitting down. just to give the viewers a heads up, we re about to hear from the president of the united states who is at the white house having visitors from georgia, from that i-85 bridge collapse and massive fire. amazingly, no one was killed. so he s thanking these responders but apparently in this conversation with the cameras he did make comments on this bomb in afghanistan and in
fragments of rockets and shells that bore sign was sarin gas. it was a concerted attack by rocket artillery and i am prepared to believe that the opposition would use chemical weapons and no evidence that they have got capability for rockets and the attack. that is a co element. surface to surface missiles as a sarin nerve agent that was used in damascus. is there a way to trace those specific rockets back to equipments that was solid in the syrian government? it doesn t appear they could do that. and observers said at the time, the fighting in that area continued after the first reports of chemical agents were revealed, that the fragments of rockets and artillery shells that might have had markings