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Moments after taking off from tehran there are still no definite answers well ask an aviation expert. Thanks for joining us president s donald trump says iran appears to be standing down in its confrontation with the United States while he himself as not threatened any further military action against iran the president was speaking at the white house after iran launched a missile attack on military bases housing u. S. Troops in iraq iran had claimed that at least 80 americans have been killed but trump said there were no lives lost in the attacks. A crucial and highly anticipated moment. No americans were harmed. In last nights attack by the Iranian Regime we suffered. All of our soldiers are safe and orderly minimal damage was sustained at military bases or donald trump confirming no troops were injured or killed in irans missile attack meant there was no need to escalate tensions between the 2 countries. Its all about the Iranian State television had earlier claimed missiles fired by irans forces had killed 80 u. S. Soldiers at the ion al Assad Air Base in iraq. The attack was an act of revenge for the killing of top military commander general any the move has been widely welcomed across iran. Crowds chanting death to america as irans Supreme Leader ayatollah ali how many tell them their message has been delivered. Of the. New. Aslan force delivered last night but what is important is that the seditious presence of america. In the region should be and it. Was the countrys foreign minister also spoke out. Well said very clearly that if the United States takes any further action respond accordingly and we will respond in a very harsh way but proportionately the united stunnel trump and did promise further action but in form of economic sanctions military confrontation it appears has been averted for now. Lets bring in our washington correspondent. Been following that story for us we heard President Trump in that address there definitely a change in tone. For sure saying the u. S. Is ready to embrace peace now is this then the end of the immediate conflict that were seeing between the u. S. And iran. If he right there karl a very different tone to the one that we heard from President Trump just a few days ago but of course it is may be too much to say that this is the end of this that were not going to be seeing any sort of. Issue between iran and the United States and what is most being discussed here is the fact that of course President Trump is very adverse to the idea of entering into a war particularly particularly in an Election Year lets not forget that it was actually one of his election promises back in 2016 that he would not enter into any and he war necessarily and also what we need to focus on is now perhaps we could be seeing sort of proxies attacking you know u. S. Targets in the middle east who are linked to iran theres other areas as well where there are fears in the United States where iran may cause problems for the United States lets not forget of course the persian gulf. Has been a target before used by iran and lets not forget as well Cyber Attacks so at the moment whats being saying said here in the United States is you know lets express a little bit of caution lets wait lets not just assume that everything is absolutely fine between these long term enemies so trump now rather than calling for more conflict calling for new diplomatic efforts what will those efforts look like i mean these are 2 sides that have been going at it not agreeing on much how likely is it that they can find any common ground. Well it may come as a surprise to many but in fact the United States and around actually do have contact of some sort it often goes through other embassies or other countries that they do have links with one thats been mentioned a lot here in the United States its switzerland so they communicate that way or through other embassies but the idea that the 2 will sit down and actually discuss it is maybe hard to believe for soem but you know President Trump did mention that he would like to reach some sort of agreement along with europe with iran to reach a new deal President Trump being once again proved once again that he believes in maximum pressure the idea of maximum pressure is that you know if with these sanctions itll essentially force iran to sit down after negotiating table and come up with a new deal along with the european allies of the United States but you know at the moment lets take it step by step and in order to reach that situation. Many things need to happen 1st and foremost. Bringing us the latest from washington d. C. Thank you very much questions are being asked about what caused the ukrainian passenger plane to crash in iran just moments after takeoff there were more than 170 people on board all of them were killed ukrainian Ukraine International airlines jet was on its way from irans capital tehran to kiev ukraine says its sending a team of experts to iran to help investigate the crash. For the morning after wreckage and whats left of the personal items of those who are on board the Ukraine International Airlines Flight from tehran to keogh of was carrying over 170 passengers and ukrainian crew the majority were iranian with many canadians and son swedes on board many were rain ian students henri rainy in canadians returning via keogh of having spent the winter break what their families around the world expressions of grief like here at key have International Airport but also and international scramble to find dancers she is this the last inspection took place on the 6th of january there were no comments from the inspect as the aircraft was functional there were also know commons from the crew upon arrival since the crush coincided with the ren launching missiles that u. S. Bases in iraq some experts say the plane may have been shot down canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his country would join any probe our government will continue to work closely with its partners to ensure that this crashes thoroughly investigate it canadians have questions they deserve answers. Say categorically one way or another that the plane was not shot down. But i cannot it is too early to speculate i would encourage people not to not to speculate u. S. Secretary of state mike pump aoe has said he wants the u. S. To be involved in the probe but the iranians say they wont hand over the black box to boeing initially iranian and ukrainian officials both blamed mechanical problems but the ukrainians later backpedaled declining to offer a cause while the investigation is going on. Well for more on that plane crash im joined by aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas jeffrey were still looking for answers as to what caused this plane crash there has been talk of this being an engine malfunction others are questioning that theory whats your assessment. Look at obviously very early days and very difficult to to get an accurate assessment particularly with these volatile situation we have in the middle east as well but one thing i will say from the photographs that we have observed a one particular engine there are shrapnel marks. On the engine but they are outwards another woods it appears as though theres been an uncontained failure of that engine when i say on can tie what i mean is that the face inside that engine have broken loose and punctured the engine and then flown out of the out of the engine and possibly. Penetrated the fuselage possibly top fuel lines and done external damage to the airplane so the original assessment by the iranian authorities that there appears to have been an engine side seems to hold some credibility based on the imagery were saying at the moment. Now weve also heard that the black box has been recovered that that contains flight data will that help us figure out exactly what happened what can we learn from from that black box look indeed there are 2 black boxes the cockpit voice recorder which gives us all of the pilot conversations the other one is the digital flight data recorder which is the hot date of the airplane all systems now one of the places of information thats coming out of the moment from the iranian authorities as it is they wont hand them over to boeing the reality is they never boeing never gets black boxes they go to the investigating team thats the iranians to read and if i havent got the capability or the systems to analyze those black boxes i would go to another Investigative Team possibly in this case the french the be because the french will be a party to this investigation because the engines are my boss see if them international which is a joint venture by sneck member of france and ga of the United States so i expect those black boxes to go to france and they would that will really tell us exactly whats happened the pilots reaction and by the way there were 3 pilots on the sarah plane including a check captain said a very experienced crew with many many thousands of hours. But i expect that once theyve read those black boxes well know precisely what happened to that airplane and we are certainly hoping for more information the victims families as well Geoffrey Thomas aviation expert thank you very much pleasure. All right heres a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world e. U. Leaders are meeting with libyas u. N. Back to government as the conflict in the country worsens germanys foreign minister heikal moss and the e. U. Council president met with the leader of the un back to government fire as the raj the e. U. Russia and turkey have called on Government Forces and rebel groups to declare a cease fire starting this sunday. Bolivias in Term Government plans to start a corruption investigation into 600. 00 officials who are part of former president a former all this is the ministration or ellis was granted asylum in mexico last year after he was forced to flee bolivia in the wake of disputed elections under the thousands of people in puerto rico are currently without electricity without water after a series of earthquakes hit the u. S. Territory earlier this week the strongest quake at a magnitude of 6. 4 that makes it one of the worst in the century at least one person has died hundreds more were made homeless. European Commission President horse the founder lion has visited london for talks on bracks it she told Prime Minister Boris Johnson his deadline for post brecks of trade deal by the end of the year was unrealistic the u. K. Is due to leave the e. U. At the end of this month. Well big changes could be coming to the British Royal family prince harry and his american born wife have announced that they plan to step back from their duties as senior members of the family prince harry and megan markel have just returned from a 6 week stay in canada in a statement that was posted on their website and on instagram they said they would continue to support the queen but that they wish to become financially independent and balance their time between britain and north america. We spoke earlier to our london correspondent Charles Ponce and we asked her just how significant this announcement is. It is really a dress to move unprecedented in modern royal history and i think we have to take a look back at the couples history their marriage and their relationship in a 2018 was met by huge and susie essman also their charitable work that theyve been doing through their foundation and all of that changed in 20191 of the highest there of course was the birth of their son they opted for a royal title already for that baby so maybe a sign of what were seeing happening now but the couple was met with huge scrutiny criticism by british tabloid media to a point where harry stepped up and said that the tabloid magazines were driving a Ruthless Campaign against the couple and that he was afraid that what happened to his mother to Princess Diana would happen to his wife meggan formally meghan mako now the duchess of sussex so that was his fear and he they a probably trying to take themselves a little bit out of the public eye of course and move though doesnt mean that they are completely out of the public eye but at the moment very much in it coming up next an elder man has or business frowned upon called aspen thanks for watching. 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