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We start with CNN exclusive reporting on Iran's military capabilities. A U.S. intelligence assessment indicates roughly half of Iran's missile launchers remain in Iran's military capabilities. A U.S. intelligence assessment indicates roughly half of Iran's missile launchers remain intact. Assessment offering a more nuanced view of Iran's military capabilities than the claims of near total destruction given by the U.S. President and Defense Secretary. Well, late on Thursday, Donald Trump posted video on social media of an attack that destroyed a newly constructed bridge in Iran with the words, bridges next, then electric power plants, exclamation mark. New regime leadership knows what has to be done and has to be done fast, he wrote. Well, Iran says the attack killed eight people and injured nearly 100 others. Meantime, Iranian media has released images that appear to show debris of a downed US fighter jet, saying the fate of the pilot is unknown. Matthew Chance is in Doha covering off some of this latest. Matthew, let's start with what we know about this downed jet in Iran. State media certainly saying it a USF We seen the images that they posted What do we make of those Well, I mean, look, it's a confused picture at the moment. I mean, yes, you're right, state media is touting this idea they've shot down a very advanced US fighter jet, an F-35. but what a lot of the military experts are talking about right now is that the parts of the wreckage of the plane that have been shown look more like an F-15, still an American plane the fate of the pilot, not clear what we know at the moment is that the Americans and CENTCOM are the people that have been speaking about this central command they've said so far that all of their planes are accounted for and that the Iranian military authorities often make claims like this. And so details are, I'll say, very sketchy at the moment, but those images are very compelling and we're hopefully going to get a bit more light shed on this in the hours, perhaps even in the minutes ahead, Becky. We know that Iran continues to target Gulf nations. We've got new reporting from CNN about the extent of its missile and drone capabilities. Debris just today in the past few hours causing casualties in the UAE and water and gas facilities impacted both here and in Kuwait. For example, Bahrain condemning an attack this week that targeted an Amazon data center. They are putting forward a resolution at the United Nations due to be voted on lightly now on Saturday. That is very specifically about the Strait of Hormuz. Just tell us about that. What have we learned? Yeah, well, that resolution is a real sign of how much anger and fear there is in this region about the fact that Iran continues to control access through the Strait of Hamuz, which is that essential waterway through which most of the oil and gas in the region goes out. It's a UN resolution that would essentially authorise what it calls defensive actions, but military action, if Iran does not open that waterway to all shipping, something that it has so far refused to do. I've just actually come off the phone from a senior Iranian official who's given me a first Iranian response to the fact that that UN resolution has been proposed at the United Nations. It's been submitted by Bahrain. I think that was your reporting. He said that the resolution, the draft resolution is irrelevant. As he says that the resolution fails to consider. This is his key point. It fails to consider the root cause of the crisis. That causes, of course, the United States and the US and Israeli aggression against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran. So what this senior Iranian official appears to be saying is that so long as that US and Israeli conflict war on Iran continues, which he says should be condemned by the United Nations, then the country isn't necessarily going to listen to what the UN Security Council says, or the UN General Assembly says about opening up the Strait of Hormuz. And so that's the sort of situation we're in right now with Iran, with that stranglehold around that strategic strait, and it's going to do everything it can because it's one of the few cards it has to play to maintain that control over that strategic waterway. That's really important, and we'll do more on that resolution as we get more and through the weekend. The French, of course, have seen pushback on the language, the original language in that UN Security Council resolution that might have been used to justify a wider war. So there seems to be no sort of real consensus as of yet about exactly what this sort of wide coalition that might try and protect shipping in the Strait of Hormuz may actually be required to do. Thank you, Matt. Let's bring in Jim, who is available to us from Tel Aviv. And Jim, I want you, if you can, to turn to the exclusive CNN reporting on the U.S. intelligence assessment that I reported on at the beginning of this show. What more can you tell us about that? So what we're finding is that the U.S. military has assessed that despite close to a month now of U.S. and Israeli strikes, that Iran maintains a significant ballistic missile capability, specifically that some 50 percent of its missile launchers remain intact, 50 percent of its one-way attack drones, as well as a significant portion of its coastal defense missiles. Those are crucial because that allows Iran to continue to threaten shipping in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. and, of course, the broader assessment contradicts the somewhat rosier readings that we've heard from President Trump and the Defense Department talking about how dramatically reduced those capabilities are. Certainly reduced as the U.S. has hit more than 12,000 targets in Iran since the start of hostilities, but despite that, Iran maintained its capability. And what we're told that this assessment has found, that the U.S. and Israel have had some trouble hitting mobile missile launchers, which Iran has had some success moving around, but also launchers hidden underground in bunkers, et cetera. As far as we're talking here, Becky, we're getting an air alert, which speaks to something we've experienced quite frequently here in Tel Aviv over recent days, which is Iran's continued ability to send missiles this way. And we seen an uptick in air raid signals and the firing of those missiles in recent days I have to go because in a couple of minutes we have to go into the shelter but those alerts speak to that assessment that even after all these weeks of war Iran still has an ability to strike out against its neighbors Yeah, and Jim, 18 ballistic missiles, 4 cruise missiles and 47 drones engaged in the UAE this morning. I'm going to let you go, seek some shelter, and we'll speak to you, I hope, next hour. All right, well, let's connect you folks to Lebanon now, where an aid group is warning of a widening humanitarian catastrophe. More than a million people have been displaced in the country as Israel expands operations against Hezbollah in the south. Project HOPE is warning that tens of thousands of people are living in overcrowded shelters and say many people lack clean water and vital medication. I want to talk more about Lebanon, about Israel's on-the-record plans in that country and its impact on the Lebanese. Fuad Siniora is the former Lebanese Prime Minister, joins us now from Beirut. Thank you for making the time today. I must just start by asking you how concerned you are about this massive displacement of civilians and growing humanitarian crisis in your country. well good afternoon Becky thank you for hosting me definitely we are passing through very difficult times and we are really very much concerned because Lebanon now is practically between Iraq that is Israel and a hard place that is Hezbollah and Iran and in fact what Lebanon has done so far is it has condemned what israel is doing in terms of occupation bombardment destruction killing and and displacement as you said of over one million lebanese out of their homes and what is what iran is doing in submerging lebanon in such a war that is not the war of the lebanese or the war of Lebanon and it is beyond its capabilities so far I can say that what Lebanon has done I believe that the Lebanese government has made its position clear in addressing the problem of with what we are passing through in putting in making steps towards the disarmament of Hezbollah effectively the Lebanese government has taken major decisions and it has shown that it is really concerned and serious about taking this position in line with the initiative that was taken by the Lebanese president. And the Lebanese president has suggested that we should start by really giving support to the Lebanese government in order to really move towards having a cessation of hostilities in order to prepare for the second steps towards this disarmament of Hezbollah. So this step has been made by the Lebanese government. On the other hand, the Lebanese army has made a significant effort. And effectively, what I have heard personally from U.S. and British military officers, that they confess that what the Lebanese army has done is quite significant and beyond their expectations. And let me really give you another example. what you have been mentioning just now is that the Israeli they have been in Lebanon for quite a long period of time and they could not really eradicate Hezbollah in a very short period of time that is really a sign for Lebanon to do it and the US over the past 12 months they have been engaging with Iran for about over 45 days and what you have said that still Iran has significant quantities of arms and missiles and drones and so on. What I really want to say in this. Yes, go ahead, Becky, if you want to ask a question. No, go ahead. Finish your thought. Yes, go ahead. Yes, what I really mean by this is that there is some support, I mean, that has to be done in order to move on different forms and levels. One, to extend some support to the Lebanese government in terms of the cessation of hostilities and recognizing what the Lebanese government is doing. On the other hand, extending support to the Lebanese army in terms of equipment, in terms of all what's necessary to enhance the capabilities of the Lebanese army. And on the other hand... Let me stop you there then. Let me just stop you there for one second because Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah. The Lebanese government had promised to disarm it. But the Lebanese government, and very specifically the army, doesn't have anything like sufficient means as I understand it. There will be Lebanese who say that the government, frankly, has acted too late on this. But if the LAF, the Lebanese armed forces don't have sufficient means to act against Hezbollah, what are they supposed to do at this point? And what is your message to the international community at this point about providing the sort of support that Lebanon needs? Exactly. is that Lebanon needs the support of the international community and the US in order to help Lebanon to get out of this quagmire that it is now. And this by doing so, it is through what you call political support to the Lebanese government, recognizing what it has been doing and expecting from the Lebanese government to do further steps The same thing from the Lebanese army It has shown the commitment and the intention the determination to go ahead in this process. But what can be done in this regard? There should be some real support in providing the Lebanese army with the necessary equipment and abilities to do that. On the other hand, I think that every single effort on the military side has to be complemented with an effort on the political side. And this is what we expect from the Lebanese government in terms of extending a hand to the Shiite community. The Hezbollah has been trying to convince the Shiite community that they are supporting this community and what they are doing it is in their interest. What in fact has been done during the past month or so is that there has been a great destruction that has taken place in the south and other parts of the country and more than 40 villages have been eradicated actually. So what it can be done in here is that the Lebanese government has to have has to develop a certain narrative and to show so clearly to the Shiite community that it is extending a hand and what is what it is doing now it is in the interest of the Shiite community and in the interest of all the Lebanese people so that this is the only way where the Lebanese who have been displaced over 1 million they can go back to their villages and there will be a program for the reconstruction of these villages they have to really make them believe that there is a commitment that there is after the war there is somebody who is going to really save them, this is the process what I think is the only way how we can save Lebanon it is not by continued war and continued destruction that is needing nowhere actually and this is what we are seeing what the mightiest country in the world is doing in Iran, and at the same time it is trying to really engage with the Iranians to find the solution, so I believe that this is something that has to be done as well in Lebanon. That the Lebanese government has to really engage in finding a way how to talk to the community of Hezbollah and to address as well the problem in front of all the Lebanese that this is the only way where we can really achieve the result in order to save Lebanon. And there are, of course, members of the Shia community who are not Hezbollah supporters at this point. They need the support, I think, is what you're saying from the government. The sitting Lebanese government has made overtures towards Israel, wanting to talk to end this conflict. But we've seen no real sort of movement on that. There are reports that Benjamin Netanyahu has ruled out ending Israel's actions in Lebanon, even if a deal were made in the U.S.-Israel war with Iran. So how do you see this developing? I mean, what is the latest, as you understand it, on those efforts to seek some sort of peace or resolution to this between Israel and Lebanon? you see what we are seeing in Lebanon as if exactly in some other places the same thing is that there are micro ambitions and there are serious and macro consequences we have the ambitions of Netanyahu is that his interest in the continuation of the war and this is not leading anywhere actually what is necessary now is that there is a way to save Lebanon and to save the region from further escalation that will not lead to anywhere, I believe. It will lead to further complication of the matter and extending the problem towards other regions. And this is not in the interest of the United States and not in the interest of the international community. And as you know, the international community is suffering from the economic consequences of what has been going on. So let me repeat by saying that we have now a way how to extract an opportunity out of this crisis. This is a situation where we have to have a collective effort made by the international community on the one hand, and in particular by the United States, in order to really help Lebanon to really address the problem in a different way, but at the same time leading towards the end result which is the disarmament of Hezbollah. That can be done with the help of the Shiite community. The Shiite community, many of them are not supporting anymore the Hezbollah. But they need to really be comforted that the Lebanese government has the real intention and the commitment that they will go back to their villages. And they are going to rebuild back their communities and to be able to participate in the effort to save Lebanon. Actually, nobody can really contribute to this if they are not going to feel that they are going to be part of the prosperity, the future prosperity of the country and not to be left alone. Lebanon's economy was already in bad shape. It's people caught in what many say feels like an endless proxy war. I've heard your message to the international community, who, of course, talk about Lebanon, but it seems rarely to the people of Lebanon. Let's see what happens next. Fuad Senora, it's good to get your thoughts this morning. Former Prime Minister of Lebanon, thank you. And we are back after this quick break. Stay with us. Thank you.