Israel launched strikes on iran according to us officials, following unprecedented attacks on israel a week ago during which it wants more than 300 drones and missiles. So why did iran attack israel . I was in retaliation for israels targeting of the consulate in syria on the first of april in which iran says seven of its military officers were killed. As a long running shadow war between these bitter rivals which is out in the open. We analyse footage from the letters attack sent to our colleagues which shows the succession of flashes in the sky said to be above isfahan. We think it is to be consider flashes match up perfectly. Indicating they show the same event. Isfahan, the location of the attack is significant because several of the Nuclear Facilities are based there. Iran said nothing to see here, the official state news shows this footage in an attempt to confirm the scene after the explosions. He describes everything is safe and sound. International atomic agencies as there is
9. 5 billion in economic help, in the form of Forgiveable Loans that the us president is authorized to set the terms of and given the power to cancel. And a much smaller measure includes 481 million that will be used to help ukrainians resettle into new neighbourhoods and pay for emergency housing. Once the bill is finalized, it would take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield. Congress will be voting in the wake of more deadly attacks on ukrainian civilians. On friday, russian missiles struck a rail station and a Maternity Hospital in the central Dnipro Petrovsk region. Local Officials Say at least seven people were killed including an 8 year old child. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told nato members on friday that ukraine needs more air Defence Systems to counter russian strikes. Putin must be brought down to earth, and our sky must become safe again. And it is real. And it depends fully on your choice. Choice whether life is indeed equally valuable everyw
a lot of these weapon systems in ammunition ready to go in europe so as soon as congress passes the bill biden will sign it immediately and the weapon systems can be sent. air defence is essential and we have seen needless lives and dozens of people die in the last week, you said in dnipro and these are innocent people who don t need to die. congress has not been able to act, we are seeing unnecessary suffering because of it. i think the question may be that did the us make a mistake by not providing this weapon assistance at the beginning of the conflict and instead dragging it out and providing more of a trickle in terms of weaponry? that s an easy question. absolutely yes. we would be in a much different place, ukraine would be in a different place, american interests, european security would be in a far different place if we had the courage at the beginning of the war that we are showing now.
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support for the ukraiian armed forces is weapon assistance. is the u.s. a signator to the cluster bomb treaty? we re not. we re still going through a policy review on this. i don t have anything to update you on that. phil? hi there. real quickly. what message would you have to american citizens including retired u.s. military personnel who may want to go and fight in the ukraine? also, could you comment on the new york times report about and apparent chinese request to russia that they delay the start of the war until after the