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
The families. are supportive of remembering the lives that have been lost and he is going to continue to look for ways to do that. go ahead. two questions, first on afghanistan. the drone strike that the united states conducted appears, according to family members in afghanistan, to have killed seven children. does the president feel the same sense of responsibility and loss for those lives as he does for the american service members? well, first, let me say that we take efforts, take steps from the united states to avoid civilian casualties in every scenario, and probably more than almost any country in the world. i can t speak to or confirm the numbers or cases of civilian casualties in this case. there is an investigation. i will note that in the sent com statement they put out yesterday, last night, i should say, what they noted is that there was also the explosion there were explosives in this vehicle that could have led to additional damage. there s an investigation to dete
And then, part of that is, because we now are, you know, hearing reports of how these have been carried out, why the drones had to fly, i think, 8 hours from uae, is there any concern that we re limited in our ability to respond in a timely manner if we ve got 8 hours of flight time and then they can only hang out over the target for like four or five hours before they ve got to turn around and go back. is there a future on going worry that we re going to be behind the 8 ball again? well, first, i would say the fact that we have had two successful strikes confirmed by sent com tells you our over the horizon capacity works. in terms of specific threats, what we had with respect to the kabul airport, we had been warning about for days, which was the potential for the rising threats, the rising threats from isis-k, that such an attack could take place and could take place at any moment in time. what we can do and what our commanders on the ground do, who
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do
For more on the death of al baghdadi and what it means for the future of terrorism, i m joined by general david petraeus. he was the commander of sent-com and leader of the cia. david, good to have you on. good to be here, fareed. thanks. tell me what you think this means for the future of isis. i ask because you destroyed al qaeda in iraq, and of course it came back in the form of isis when american troops left. when you look at the situation today with isis, decapitated, it s lost its territory, sources of revenue, a fighter scattered in the fields. how likely or unlikely is it that something like isis could reconstitute itself? there are still some 20 or so thousand islamic states fighters in that broad area, keeping in mind the caliphate was the size of indiana.