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All is well thats how donald trump has responded to the attacks thank you will make a statement in the coming hours previously the u. S. President threatened to destroy multiple iranian sites including cultural ones if you round retaliated and anyway. Youre watching R T International bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program. Now for our breaking news story im joined in the studio here with nicky aaron as well a Ukrainian Airlines passenger jet has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital tehran Ukrainian Interior Ministry says there were no survivors of the crash the moment of the crash was captured on video. Well boeing be ukranian boeing 737 took off from the capital tehran here. At 6 12 am local time and it was bound for the ukrainian capital kiev and just a few minutes around 10 minutes after taking off it crashed and reports so that we received images and footage showing the plane crashing while in fire and the crash site is reportedly around 30 kilometers west of the one in a district called shot we are grieving relatives have been gathering at Kiev International airport where flight 7052. 00 was heading people are mourning the dead and waiting for any further information about the disaster heres what the father of one of the crew members had to say. My oldest son is the stupid i do want to come from the us she told me that do you crave the crack where we go through to run and i saw the video of the plane crash. Arties dollar quarter has the latest on the tragedy. Now iranian media had been reporting for a long time that that there were technical problems that brought the plane down and we also heard from an airport representative that a fire occurred on board the plane in the engine made flight a lot of ukrainians to to sions were quick to give their responses ukraines embassy in iran for example said that they have enough information to tell that this crash was not the result of a terrorist attack weve also heard from the countrys National Security and Defense Council which said that they will be organizing an operational headquarters to gather more information and get to the bottom of what caused these this crash in the 1st place as for Ukrainian International airlines they said that they will not be having any more flights to tehran until further notice and even president vladimir is a lengthy said that there is going to be an inspection of the countries of the countrys entire civil fleet including a probe into the crash itself this plane is the boeing 737800 the model itself is relatively older than the more recent models but the plane that crashed itself was only built back in 2016 so the plane itself was quite quite new only about 4 years old but this model has actually had its share of crashes over the past couple years in 2016 for example over 60 people were killed in the crash where the plane was coming from dubai on route to russia and in 2010 another similar crash in india that killed over 150 people again same model and this isnt even the the newer boeing 737. 00 max model which was also grounded about a year ago for its own series of crashed. Now its still you know tough to say its not its not clear whether or not this crash was the result of some sort of design flaw in the boeing 737800. 00 but Airline Officials have said that this crash mostly likely did not happen as a result of some sort of mistake made by the pilots they were very experienced and knew what they were doing as for boeing the company said that its still gathering information in regards to this crash but other than that we havent heard much. It was not the plane crash come to 1000 off to iran 5 dozens of Ballistic Missiles at 2 u. S. Military bases in iraq the Iranian Military is calling the movie revenge for the death of its top general customs the money who was killed in a u. S. Drone strike last week. Good bad or good academic. Was. The missile strikes happened at exactly the same time of night as the assassination of samavia 5 days earlier and the secretary of irans supreme National Security council tweeted this image of the iranian flag an apparent reference to trumps tweet of the u. S. Flag just after the drone strike that killed all money artist middle east correspondent paul flair has the latest details. Well weve recently just heard from the Iranian Revolutionary guards and i must stress that its im confirmed but theyve issued a statement in which they say that 80 soldiers have been killed and some 200 have been injured at the one american base that was hit in the early hours of this morning but we are receiving conflict reports weve heard from the pentagon that none of its soldiers were killed and as for the other Foreign Countries that are also taking place in the coalition against Islamic State weve heard from norway denmark australia and the United Kingdom all of whom had soldiers at this base said that was hit in the early hours of this morning with these countries saying that they soldiers all safe we are hearing also from the Iraqi Military that there are no casualties so at this stage of the mains to be seen exactly how many if any soldiers were injured this morning the iranians say that they fired off some 22 Ballistic Missiles the top was 2 bases to iraqi bases where these foreign troops all currently employed the one base in the north of the country did not receive any damage the missiles landed in a nearby field but it was this other base just outside of baghdad that has seen some extensive damage the operation has been dubbed lost to the men and we are hearing that the iranian president Hassan Rouhani will give an address later today we have on with a hood from the countrys foreign minister javad zarif who. Has justified the iranian strike saying that they are proportional it in line with the un charter clause that allows and calls for selfdetermination and that he ran does not want to escalate and see a confrontation with the United States but that it will defend itself if it has to. Run to conclude it proportionate measures in selfdefense under article 51. 00 of you and charter targets in base from which called lee armed attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched we do not seek escalation or war but will defend ourselves against any aggression now were starting to hear reaction from the International Community india and pakistan have both exercised or called for extreme caution urging they citizens there to avoid nonessential travel to and the philippines has now started a mandatory or compulsory evacuation of its citizens and the United Kingdom has condemned iran urging un not to repeat what a course of reckless and dangerous attacks but again the Iranian Revolutionary guard defending its earlier issued a statement in which it said that it would retaliate even further if the United States or any of its allies in the middle east respond to a strikes early this morning we warned the great satan the arrogant american regime that any further malice or mobilization will result in a more painful response. Hours of the u. S. Government which have given their bases to the terrorist army of that country are warned that any territory used for hostile acts against iran will be targeted the ongoing a concern of course is that the situation could escalate and we could see at the tensions showdown between some of the major powers here in the region we havent yet had any official reaction from the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu we are expecting him to release a statement in the coming hours if not earlier at the same time the israeli army is on a state of high alert countries more than and southern borders and this is out of concern that iran might respond or telling it for that by activating its proxies either hamas in gaza or hizbollah in levanon so an extremely extremely tense situation here in the region. Countries around the world have expressed concern the recent attack could lead to a far more turbulent situation israel though says it stands be firmly behind the u. S. Current situation but to risk their 1st defiance is and also has implications for the work of the coalition. Delays the rocket attack yet another example of its collation greece confrontation it is a no one interest to turn up despite all the violence even further we condemn this attack on a rocky military base is hosting Coalition Including British Forces we are to run not repeat these reckless and dangerous attacks and instead to pursue urgent deescalation. As a. Step towards complete you know its a marriage. Better friend than israel. Is. To. The United States. The u. S. Federal Aviation Agency has banned all u. S. Flights over the persian gulf the security concerns previously trump threaten to strike a 52 way radio inside if it were tallied today anyway so far washingtons with both has been somewhat muted with donald trump tweeting some fall so. All is well missiles launched from iran and to military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good we have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far i will be making a statement to morrow morning well we have a tweet from donald trump it begins with the phrase all is well followed by a statement that there is an assessment going on of the casualties and the damage done to u. S. Bases as a result of the attack by the iranian missiles furthermore we do have the white house saying that trump has been briefed on the situation and this point its expected that down trump will speak to the media regarding the events tomorrow this is what we heard from the white house we are aware of the reports of attacks and u. S. Facilities in the rock the president has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his National Security team now the response from members of the u. S. Congress has been quite different depending on which party they are in closely monitoring the situation phone bombing star getting u. S. Troops in iraq we must ensure the safety of our Service Members including and needless provocations from the administration and demanding that iran sees its violence American World cannot afford war. Iran is now a friendly calling for americans to turn on each of the the time will come to debate u. S. Policy tonights american and allied troops have come into direct attack by nation state and americans must come together to support and protect them and respond appropriately may god protect and watch over our troops stationed in iraq my thoughts are with them and with their loft once i condemn irans attacks which targets you ask coalition and Iraqi Military personnel in the strongest terms i am monitoring the situation in iraq closely and praying for our men and women in uniform the Iranian Regime has made a great miscalculation by launching its attacks among Trump Supporters the decision to kill qassam solomonic is being celebrated as a heroic act and act against terrorism however among Many Democrats though they have not much good to say about qassam solomonic they seem to however argue that this was an unnecessary ask elation that put american lives at risk so many democratic voices seem to be speaking up and saying that donald trump could possibly be asking lading to a war with iran and didnt consult the u. S. Congress on that matter so there seems to be some pretty solid divisions about how to assess the recent events between the usa and iran at this time people are waiting to hear what trump will say when he does speak to the media as the new day comes in the United States. On tuesday the Iranian Parliament unanimously passed a bill classifying the u. S. Armed forces as a Terror Organization tensions in the middle east have soared in just the past week. Look youre. Going. To. You. Remember these are some pictures from the state funeral of the slain Major General who was buried in his hometown has been an outpouring of grief across that iran was still a manis killing viewed as the death of a National Hero his funeral or trying to toss to crowds of mourners at least 56 people what killed off the being crushed in the crowd during tuesdays funeral procession for 2 decades in amman he served as the commander of irans could sports which is the external wing of the Islamic Revolutionary guard he played a crucial role in irans military Decision Making process and helped expand irans role in the middle east. For analysis we go live now to political scientist just of chang youre very welcome to the program now how will the wider world be viewing these strikes we have iran saying that it was an act of self defense. Well you have now the cost of the level of military escalation of both parties both iraq and the United States will find its truly difficult to crime down from the lower on the part of huron considerations of national cry mesnil sovereignty on the part of the United States you have issues of credibility our status and so on but both both countries do not seem to be to have the intention to engage in a serious military conflict. That understandably cannot do you see the United States militarily the United States are also understands that a lot of people in the United States do not want to get in more you know messy war in the middle east there are no clear cut military objectives and therefore despite the goal to claim victory the International Community certainly doesnt want war it is conscious it is aware of the serious adverse impact on the wheat Global Economy because of the military escalation and the tongue do you kind of think that irans response to be proportional i mean iran did think it was going to retaliate but it also said its not thinking an escalation or war what do you think. Well i think both sons have been detained to be not one tool escalate dont warm. You run certainly doesnt morning or evening are distaste. From has indicated that you will not damage the cultural historical heritage sites he ran a neat an opportunity. A respectable process to step down. And potentially the United Nations russia china and perhaps one of 2 major European Countries that france can help to mediate. If we shift focus to donald term for a 2nd earlier he with as you were saying or threatening to head over 50 plus iranian sites in response if anything to come from iran and then after the strikes we have been tweeting all is well so far so good a very muted tone for donald trump why do you think he changed the rhetoric well in the 1st place he doesnt enjoy an overwhelming support in the congress for a major war effort most americans not want to move through the problem in in in the middle east at this moment the messy handling of the situation can seriously damage Donald Trumps Reelection Campaign so he has to be careful he has to assess the domestic public open in supports. Donald trump is notoriously unpredictable isnt he i mean off the strikes we had this rather strangely upbeat tone from him in that tweet what do you expect to him to say one see awakes one see if the statement this morning. Well he has to define the objectives of of and of the military engagement so much so that he can claim victory within a fairly short period of time with dont being able to claim victory and allowing towards drag on leading to increasing the problem of the us military force in the middle east will not be helpful in securing why spread the message support and who not be helpful for his Reelection Campaign were also expecting today for irans president to deliver a speech maybe at the same time were just after donald trump does do you think the both of them will just make their speech say what they want to say and then the dust will settle or is there a possibility that things could still continue to ask late. There is a danger of escalation but both sides seem to be acting rather cautiously are avoiding our populist appeal to a rapid escalation of the military conferee for the obvious reasons that are both you run cannot expect a clear cut military victory over the United States only United States cannot define years military objectives as yet in a clear cut manner so as to claim victory and Domestic Support is are dubious is not overwhelming. Weve been speaking to political scientist joseph chang thank you for your time and your comments. And i tension to turkey now i have lost my putin and his 2nd counterpart which at times to one or to hold talks on russian turkish relations on the escalation of the situation in the middle east it comes as the leaders are due to launch the turk stream natural gas pipeline later today the project will supply the turkish and the e. U. Markets with russian gas lets go live to now who is in the turkish city if istanbul far as any i could to see it so another major russian natural gas project tell us more about it. Mickey hi well just how well things have been gone with the turkish stream through the black sea i guess it is fair to say that this is some real old sound compensation for the 40 power of north stream 2 in the north in the baltic sea because we do remember that that pipeline project as a result of the latest round of the american sanctions its construction was paused the americans i can tell you were keen to deal rail turkey stream as well but the real commitment from personally a lot of our approach the entire air to one just showed when Partners Team up against american pressure this can really lead to Success Stories and i can tell you that the construction of the direct route for Russian National natural gas from russia to turkey it constricts construction began only in what was it more than 2 years ago may 27th its now fully been complete it consists of 2 lines that are going to serve both turkey and also European Countries such as northern macedonia ball garia serbia then it could be extended further wrong too. Countries like hungary austria and so on and so forth the 2 lines are each almost 900 kilometers long and the capacity is absolutely amazing together both of these lines could deliver more than 30000000000 cubic meters of natural gas within one year and i can tell you that here and i was told that the president s of russia and turkey physically they going to come up to evolve which they are supposed to open and this is going to happen very soon and this will start these deliveries of russias natural gas to turkey and then further on to europe. Jacquelines here as well i just want to ask you its likely then isnt it that putin and heir to one will use this opportunity for more than just the opening of a pipeline month. Jackie so youre there too high. Of course they are going to have a serious conversation on some very important issues in the past we saw how real friendship between mr putin and mr heir to one could actually help build bridges and overcome obstacles that previously were thought to be unsurmountable here were talking about the crisis in syria i can tell you that of course we do know that russia is an ally of the government in damascus the government of syrian president bashar assad turkey is behind some of the elements of the Syrian Opposition and doesnt tolerate the kurdish militias in Northern Syria although russia believes that the kurds must have a say in building the future of syria but the 2 countries have shown that they can cooperate in solving the crisis in that country but this time it could be the case that syria may end up not being the most important topic because we do remember whats happening in libya theres another civil war and turkey just sent its troops to. Back the u. N. Backed government in tripoli which is up against general wholly for have to are whos based in Eastern Libya and of course that is the escalation between the u. S. And iran i guess we can definitely be sure that the 2 president s are going to talk about that as well. Are to see oprah turn go reporting live from istanbul then kill. Now professor of International Relations at anchor as middle east Technical University hussein biology believes the u. S. Sanctions wont stop cooperation between russia and turkey. Turkey will be in another breach for transferring the russian gas to Southern Europe and it will also strengthen the turkish russian relations getting much closer not only in Technology Military and political one but also in. The u. S. Sanctions are wrong in general and it will not be in there. In close cooperation rich pressure to transfer the russian gas to europe d turkish stream is from this perspective economically and politically very important projects the american policy in this respect can not deter against russia to come closer and cooperate further we are watching r. T. International thank you for joining us here on the china were back at the top of the hour with all the latest on our breaking news stories and plenty more to see that. 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