RUSSIA BOASTS OF PRACTICING SHOOTING DOWN MISSILES AS US CONSIDERS AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA FOLLOWING CHEMICAL ATTACK THAT KILLED AT LEAST 60

Over fifty-nine people died from the chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta, Syria on Saturday. The US government threatens the Bashar al-Assad-led Syria government with airstrikes following the chemical attack and in response Russia boasts of their capability to shoot down "low-flying long-range cruise missile."

The Russian defense ministry said that naval jets from their pacific fleet had trained how to "intercept and destroy a low-flying long-range cruise missile."
Russian officers turned politicians called on the Kremlin to use military force if Donald Trump approves an attack on the Syrian regime

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Republican senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, said that failing to approve a military response would be "the biggest mistake of his presidency."

The Syrian government and its Iranian and Russian allies have all denied chemical weapons were used in the attack. 

A spokesman for Vladimir Putin, says on Tuesday that Moscow would continue trying to solve the Syria crisis through talks. 

Russian hawks were pushing for a tougher stances. Senator Frants Klintsevich, a former colonel in Russia's vaunted paratrooper forces, said "Russia should shoot down these Tomahawks" if a US destroyer off the Syrian coast launches cruise missiles.

Vladimir Shamanov, head of the defence committee in parliament, said at a meeting:

"We won't let the Americans hammer nails on someone else's anvil."

There are reports of Russian military jamming US drones over Syria, "seriously affecting" American military operations.

Alexander Golts, an independent analyst, said: 

"Last year they were writing that these missiles flew high and for the S-400 they were too far to hit."

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Ruslan Leviev of the Conflict Intelligence Team, which monitors military developments Syria, said: 

"Even if they have the ability, we assume Russian forces won't do this."

Mr Graham, who plays golf with Mr Trump, called on Mr Assad to be a target for any air strike. He said to CNN: 

"I would go after all the infrastructure around his air capability."

"I would hit his intelligence services who are complicit in war crimes. I would make Assad a target because I think he's a war criminal."

Mr Graham added:  

"Trump says he’s going to pay a big price. If at the end of the day he doesn’t pay a big price then we President Trump becomes like Obama - weak in the eyes of our enemies and unreliable in the eyes of our allies."

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A million Syrians are dead and millions more are refugees," said one man, identified as Abu Bashir:

"They want to give Assad a light slap to protect their honour and then let him continue killing the rest of the Free Syrians."

"We don't rely on Trump," said Haitham, who asked that his surname not be published:

"Trump is not a genuine fighter. The genuine fighter is Putin, who is defending the regime by all available means. If Trump hits the regime it is just to embarrass Putin."