Bringing you the news and current affairs. Down to 0. For me ok and youre in the stream they we are diving into 3 stories making headlines around the globe u. S. President trumps next move with a wrong but as well as a political power struggle at australias a bushfire battle to give your take on these topics really easy you can tweet us at a data stream or leave a comment and i live you change chat it is curated dont be scared it is a safe space and you too could be in the street. Tensions between the u. S. And iran have dominated the headlines since the start of the year present balance of power for sanctions in response to irans targeted strikes on u. S. Assets on wednesday trump addressed the nation and the iranian people can be how can it reports the United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it but missing from the president s speech evidence that the u. S. Killing of iranian general qassam solomonic was justified and necessary prevented imminent attack on americans its evidence opposition democrats are demanding from the trumpet ministration also absent a Clear Strategy something the administration has promised to provide in closed door briefings on wednesday to members of congress including top republicans. Joining us to discuss that in fighting congress we have kimberly how she is at the white house she is Al Jazeera English is a White House Correspondent and right here in the studio. Shes an iranian american journalist welcome ladies good to have you here i saw camberley. Reading a tweet today when a tweet in front of the white house something bad is about to happen. This is the 2 in hope that all House Republicans will vote against crazy nancy pelosi war powers resolution. Why is this important and then ill get you to weigh in as well why i dont know if you have that whole tweet out there in full frame but i want to really struck me was the ending ferry were a i believe its president ial harassment exclamation point as i recall that thats a big problem ok so heres why this is a Problem Congress is required whenever there is military action being proposed by the white house there are obligated to debate this this is the check and balance that is to put in place by the Founding Fathers in the u. S. Constitution so when the president says president ial harassment when congress is essentially doing its job that is not only unusual its alarming because once again this is a president who did not use that he is behaving as an imperial president but thats exactly what that tweet reveals there we go. Well i agree i mean its just too hard to not see the timing of all of this president was just impeached hes up for reelection and his popularity keeps going lower and then boom comes a strike out of nowhere and so far the administration hasnt offered any evidence at least. That the democrats here the critics would be convinced about why this attack had to be so and basically killing a Foreign Government top official which brought the u. S. To the brink of a military conflict with iran and this is a president who campaigned against unless war as he said hes going to d. N. Tengo the u. S. From the middle east but every indication seems like hes going in that direction so why did he do some of these tweets seem to be pointing to that as well and its not just democrats that are upset with the president is even some members of his own Republican Party that are upset i mean we saw some very prominent senators coming out mike lee senator mike lee of utah as one of them who said he was incensed by the briefing that it was almost insulting his intelligence because they didnt deliver the intelligence and you know we all remember a lot of us remember the u. S. Invasion of iraq in the argument that was made there is that there were weapons of mass destruction congress was told all of this only to find out later it was flawed faulty intelligence there was no weapons of mass there were no weapons of mass destruction so congress and the American People i would argue to really dont have an appetite for being lied to a 2nd time so thats why i think there is so much frustration with this white house because they feel like theyre being lied to because we share this with you this is from. Twitter one major consequence of this attack is that every country affiliated with the United States is a target for revenge by knowledge so well what do you see it as. A situation right now well definitely at least in the region we saw iranians willing and capable to a touchy. U. S. Bases from their soil doing a very publicly this time there were no casualties but this was definitely a warning and then in the statement that came together with the ira do you see this specifically mentioned if any country in the region lets us forces use their bases from that country to conduct attacks against iran and iranians are willing to attack that country as well because we know u. S. Bases are spread across the region and other countries so basically this was a warning but in a same time they didnt want to start a full on war it seems there was a warning that we dont want war but if you want to pull us into war and were willing to fight it can be replaced in the u. S. And so every last couple of days people think mentioning war im running up to war where you will that the white house and youll want to sing whats happening coming out of congress what are you seeing and what hes feeling is that the same experience with the politicians of the u. S. Based it certainly felt like we were on the purpose precipice for war when those strikes were coming down against those 2 bases that house the u. S. Military in iraq i mean we had just a paint a picture here we had the u. S. President the situation room the state Department Secretary the department of defense secretary the chair of the joint chiefs of staff they were awaiting a Battle Damage assessment because you have to remember the u. S. President said if even one american is killed hes going to respond but that call never came but still there is this feeling of tension now the u. S. President did subsequently come out say all is well here is that iran is standing down but those tensions remain very quickly for me i think its important to point out its really a question of starting points because this administration constantly points to iran and its malign activity in the broader middle east going back decades but this is ministration when donald trump came into office he came out swinging very clearly he said that he was it essentially taking on iran to confront and contain those were his policies whether its with the economic sanctions whether its with the heightened rhetoric. Whether its with the military posture so with it with you know from irans perspective it certainly feels that or that in fact the United States has been the aggressor not the other way around as we often hear from this administration so Kimberly Agnico when the conversation is really flowing on each im going to show everybody where it is right now so you see what you can then see yourself as you scroll from here it is going so fast i can actually pick out individual stories and individual questions and just give you a moment to see that and witness that and then i actually want to put this to you because this is what it. Says and she says that President Trump wants to get out her wrong back off for a few months he would pull out he promised he would pull out of iraq and his votes as expected his numbers are absent pietschmann campbell you go 1st or wrong and then nicole you comment on that well theres no question that the u. S. President campaigned. For every wars but heres the problem in all of this he is surrounded by some very hawkish individuals well john bolton his National Security adviser no longer part of that team but he for example was hired by the u. S. President hes advocated for strikes on iran who remains the secretary of state pompei o who when he was in the u. S. Congress was very hawkish on iran so even if the us president feels that perhaps its best to pull out these troops hes getting an awful lot of advice for people who supposedly have more Foreign Policy experience that he does who are saying just the opposite. You know youve been writing about this idea that exit ramp you know how do we cant have a situation well i just want to add to what kimberly was saying that it might have been the president wanted all of that and he would just give in about bagged bad advice until he was a ph but we have to remember now hes the president that was impeached and hes also up for reelection so maybe even something in his own mindset has changed but then at the same time i think the miscalculation of this specific move the targeting of us and soleimani was that he was probably advised that this is going to be hes going to be seen as a hero for killing a terrorist like al baghdadi and that didnt happen it backfired here in washington as kimberly is saying and it backfired massively in iran with the millions of crowds that we saw but then at the same time they retaliate and we saw from their audience seems to be calculated and strategic it was like a warning sign saying we cad were capable and were willing to hit you know casualties asylum it seems like it was designed to have no casualties but then in the same time trying to make the region feel unsafe for u. S. Forces so eventually they would have to leave iraq which was the wrong goal to begin with if youve been following this story on aljazeera dont call on aljazeera its hard to know what might happen next but 80 out of uk money is a journalist and shes shes going out there shes prognosticating this is what shes saying about where are we going next with this particular crisis have a listen have a look. I think its really hard to predict exactly what is going to happen next to me anyone who thinks otherwise is really comforting. But i do think regardless of what happens its the people in the middle east who are going to be facing the repercussions for this escalation of hostilities its going to be around humans its going to be the iraqis its going to be everyone else in the region and. Other countries need to be doing right now is steering away from this maximum pressure strategy that he has been pursuing on your arm and that has gotten us to this exact point. A last thought from you about where will the story from next week since so much time if you are in the stream if he is talking about iran i also want to talk about the domestic repercussions of this we remember we saw massive antigovernment protests in iran even in iraq against irans influence and the grievances havent gone anywhere but now those protests their demands or grievances have taken the backseat in the face of this foreign threat so in a way President Trump has an in any way help the protesters hes actually unify the country. And made iranians rally around the flag basically came here on a better than to ask you what might happen next as youre sitting outside of the white house but im going to anyway. Well i think one important point in all of this is while the u. S. Has had very aggressive language towards iran they continue to also speak to the other side of their mouth saying were still we still have the door open to diplomacy but heres the reality right now you know we know that the u. N. The United Nations the secretary the Security Council meeting on thursday and there was one absentee person there and that was the Iranian Foreign minister why could he not attend that meeting because the United States didnt grab his visa that is where that kind of diplomacy could take place those discussions for peace could take place so there really are hollow words by the United States saying theyre open to negotiating a new deal with iran even to limit ringback its Nuclear Program when they wont allow someone who could conceivably help to begin that discussion into the United States to have that conversation. Thank you always feel analysis and for your reporting reading appreciate it we go from washington to caracas venezuela where political crisis is bubbling over over the weekend allies of venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro orchestrated a takeover of the opposition controlled congress how do you associate newman has more. The headline reads Congress Wakes to 2 speakers of the house in a country which already has 2 men claiming the presidency but his whalens are understandably confused and frustrated with the good ol muslim but i have a thing as the saying gars we lift as if we were lost and spice. On sending National Guardsmen prevented opposition majority leader one by law another deputies from entering parliament to initiate the years session as the constitution stipulates. In his place the progovernment minority swore in a speaker at deputy recently expelled from his opposition party. That showdown you just watched that didnt and for more on this political crisis were joined by latin american editor for aljazeera english to see a new when he you had just what she never thought to see here it looked like chaos how do you make sense of what is going on well that was just on sunday you should have seen we dont give. Up. Quite ball and accompanied by his 90 deputies stay armed at the palace as you like legislative palace in this case they managed to push their way back in to the to the chamber as the other group that i you just saw i know youll swearing themself in ran for his life with his other group of supporters so its been you there you have im seeing his like he was you know it looks like hes walking on top of people but basically hes hes pushing be the National Guard and telling them they get they have no right to stop him that that that the military has no right to decide who enters and who doesnt enter a civilian organization which is a parliament and thats whats been going on its a standoff its confusing. Maybe for our viewers and readers but its even more confusing provin is whalens because theyre their media is very much controlled by the government theyre going to 11. 00 take on whats going on from president little or from the government and then the other side doesnt have really much of an ability to strike back but people just dont know anymore who has really in charge when they do well what is true is that the gay ouster of the conflict has risen i love to transparency that im going to ask you questions and then you can you can say we have no idea right now because that would be reporting to you let me just show you here hunting them but generally east democratically elected one quote i dont know on the other hand is a selfproclaimed leader venezuela democracy is alive in venezuela that is a valid question to last point to make or is it you see what he said well if it were true yes. But the trouble is that magruder was elected in an election in which his rivals werent allowed to run in under conditions that in most democratic countries would be regarded as an acceptable. Let me put this one to you as well this one is from. The joys elected president why mind venezuela is a growing democracy they will sort out their issues in june time and this reminds me of last year when the International Committee and some particular high profile members the International Community were supporting one quite oh what happened in the past year and you see here yes he has lost support and certainly at the closer he seems to be coming the more beholden he seems to become to his number one ally which is the trumpet ministration the more some people seem to have doubts about him i think hes been trying to find his way and when i say he i mean the opposition they do have differences amongst themselves theyve been bickering a lot too but the long or short of it is that while he got off to a very what you could say a good start if youre on the side of the opposition after the end of april when after the failed coup attempt if you like or uprising against the government they tried to get the military to turn on my little when that failed people just said thats it were back to square one again we dont think that this opposition opposition can do it so i was going to be people today theyre saying you know theyre theyre all a bunch of lizard swimming in the same pond our only choice is to turn to god well have to turn to god now. And pray you feel it see it thank you for reporting for us for the stream we really appreciate it take care from the political firestorm in venezuela to a straight he has a real life firestorm more than 2 dozen people more than a 1000000000 animals have been killed as wildfires rage across the country flames have destroyed at least a 1000 homes and left over 12000 square miles of scorched earth heres a look at how people are reacting to that news on social media including celebrities who are using their star power to raise millions of dollars to fight the fires. As you well aware the bush was a destroyer of cause massive devastation the continued. Joining us from sydney to discuss the impact of the fire as aljazeera correspondent jessica washington jessica good to have youve been documenting so much of what youve been reporting on online and the stories are really coming to life for your reporting on social and we just look at your your twitter feed dave spent 10 years collecting pots phase 965 vintage kombi van he was defending homes on the south coast when it caught fire the car was clearly so special to him he said he couldnt even look at it dave the van i mean that just tells you one individual story how are you managing to capture what it is like with the australian bush fires right now jessica how are you doing that. It really is a case of i mean there are so many different stories youve got recently got the residents whove had their houses destroyed at their new also have the stories of these firefighters who works reminding the audience that the people who are out keeping this Community Safe are actually volunteers so many of them havent been able to work for the weeks some of the months while theyve been fighting these fires theyve had some sort of income coming in but of course its a big personal sacrifice you hear stories like dave here you know people are losing their own properties out trying to defend the rest of the community and i guess the tragic thing is when it comes to these residences its not just the houses that have been destroyed in some cases weve been traveling along affected areas its whole suburbs its pretty unbelievable to arrive at a suburb and you can just count the number of houses that are left on one hand and i think thats something that many australians had never seen before we always have bushfires that happens every year but this season is different we looked at some of the images from social media and what was getting people in gauge with australia all over the world one of the things that people really connecting with the animals the wildlife and another one of your posts here ive seen quality as a saint and always hugging people is one is a baby possum on its pacing front of the flames you say here we just scroll up see at least and see this picture so people being asked to evacuate get out of the way what happened to the adam or static or is there room for them to be safe here. So there are at rescue services basically go to these bush acted areas trying to get as many of those animals to safety is possible but the reality is that you know these fires are burning through their habitat weve obviously seen that the Quality Images have been sort of circulating on social media people rescuing these qualities giving them water and that kind of thing but you know its other animals true its its its plants and worth remembering that a stray has so many. If these species did go extinct they dont they dont live anywhere else that would be sort of the end for them if they cant survive in astronomy or the estimate from scientists was initially asked a 1000000000 now theyre saying that its more likely sort of 1000000000 mark in terms of animals which have died during this crisis let me share thoughts from me from a brassiere hes on twitter grassy l. S. S. Stop manipulating the forests the lands and there will be no fire governments and producers will tell you that it is due to Climate Change and that its the other way around Climate Change is a consequence of the abuse of the agricultural activities among others so that its basically say that this is Climate Change is Climate Change in action and this is why were seeing so many bushfires but its because we didnt look after the lad what are you seeing what are you hearing jessica. Well what we do know from from the science is that a strength here is in the grip self basically a relentless drought that has gone on for a very long period and that sort of basically across the countries of New South WalesVictoria South australia pretty much widespread and those Drought Conditions created the circumstances for this bushfire season to basically spiral we know now that the bush fires have burned through an area thats actually larger than the size of south korea so thats just sort of put in context how huge the spys been and Scientists Say that that drought is very much linked to Climate Change so the issue of Climate Change the debate around that issue is really sort of heating up here and its something that politicians are now saying that it is something that they do need to look at there is talk from the Prime Minister that there will be an inquiry once this crisis is over into how how much Climate Change did it sort of influence this crisis but of course we heard from the scientists before these guys again we actually know that the fire chiefs around the country had contacted the Prime Minister they tried to set up a meeting telling him that they anticipated just how bad this guys season would be and that meeting never happened so there is a lot of criticism of the Prime Minister and even though now he is talking about exploring the link between Climate Change in the skies theres no indication that the government is going to change its policies going to try to become less reliant on fossil fuels australia as an economy is incredibly reliant on coal so there are some Big Questions that will come once this fire crisis is over and i guess once the immediate tragedy is over as well lets talk a little bit more about your Prime Minister say as Prime Minister i should say as i hear the shiny and Prime Minister calls for more tourists despite raging bushfires his judgment has been called into question more than once just Scott Morrison by the way about how engaged he was with that with the crisis how it is a popularity right now in a city and think of them. Well lets its sort of an interesting question to put this in perspective Scott Marsland won the election pretty recently and it was just a few months ago that no one expected him to win according to sort of the people who were doing the polling and then he did he pulled off this miracle election when now we got a situation where basically his judgment is being called into question he is as youve just said calling the tourists to still come to australia saying that israel is a great place to holiday but the holiday itself is sort of a controversial point when were talking about Scott Morrison he when this crisis was still going when mr earlier was sort of navigating its way through this bush by a state of emergency had been called people wondering wheres the Prime Minister and it turned out that he was actually on holiday in hawaii since returning from his holiday he sort of struggled to regain some of that momentum everything he does is sort of under this intense scrutiny and you know hes been touring these bush by affected regions speaking with firefighters with residents who lost their homes and theyve just been a number of gas basically and hes been going to these regions and receiving a bit of a frosty welcome some residents actually swearing at the Prime Minister telling him youre not welcome here this popularity is definitely a question and many people are sort of calling into question the Prime Ministers popularity out here as jessica washington thank you very much for getting us up to date whats happening in australia with the bushfires thank you for watching ill see you next time at alderson here at all costs. 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