Launched the turks 3 natural gas pipeline the project will supply the turkish and e. U. Markets with russian gas. For the very good evening to you and here alongside myself neil harvey thanks for joining us here on r. T. International 1st this hour iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles at 2 u. S. Military bases in iraq the Iranian Military is calling the move revenge for the death of its top general. Who was killed in a u. S. Drone strike last week. The missile strikes happened at exactly the same time of night as the assassination of celine mani 5 days earlier as the secretary of irans supremes National Security council tweeted this image of the radian flag as an apparent reference to trumps tweet of the u. S. Flag just after the drone strike that killed some of money the iranian president has laid out what revenge against the u. S. Would mean exactly. The revenge is to fuels america out of this region the real revenge and response by regional nations is when america is expelled from this region and its hand of aggression is cottle forever. Because his partys middle east correspondent paula slit with more. 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 in 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 target was 2 bases 2 iraqi bases where these fallen troops are 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 mata solem and we have however heard from the countrys foreign minister javad zarif who has justified the iranian strike saying that they ought to portion it in line with the u. N. Charter a clause that allows of course 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. Concluded proportionate measures in selfdefense under article 51. 00 a few and charter targets in base from which cordless attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched we do not seek escalation or war but will defend ourselves against any aggression and even a new revolutionary guard defending it said 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 who respond to it strikes earlier this morning we warned the great satan arrogant american regime that any further malice or mobilization will result in a more painful response. 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 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 the philippines has now started a mandatory. Evacuation of its citizens and the United Kingdom has condemned iran urging u. N. Not to repeat what a course of reckless and dangerous attacks the on going on concern of course is that the situation could escalate and we could see a potential showdown between some of the major powers here in the region. The killing of some solomonic has shocked iranians with some expressing happiness at this retaliated the iraqi Prime Minister claim solar money was on a Diplomatic Mission just before he was killed here is what people on the streets of tehran had to say. I am very happy with what the i. R. G. C. Did today was one of my best days and i hope this will continue i think this was the 1st move to show irans power when i heard the news of irans revenge for it is sas nation and. I was very happy we will be able to take revenge for all the martyrs and gen so the money god willing which happened we supported and we would like to say that this is only the beginning. Of the russian and turkish leaders of relief the joint statement saying that they are against Foreign Military intervention or actions in iran however some countries around the world to express concern for their rounds with attack could further destabilize the region and have appealed for dialogue. I think we having a great deal of success in bringing together a European Response and bridging that the European Response without of course of our american friends and working both with the iranians and with the iraqis to die on this thing down to the Current Crisis deeply affects not only the region but all of us and the use of weapons must stop now to give space to dialogue. Is a. Step that is completely separate the. U. S. Federal Aviation Agency has banned all the u. S. Flights over the persian gulf over security concerns previously trump threatened to strike 52 iranian sites if it were talented in any way but so far washingtons response has been somewhat muted with donald trump tweeting so far so good. All is well missiles launched from around a 2 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 us 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 it would disappoint 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 we must ensure the safety of our Service Members including and needless provocations from the Administration American world cannot afford war tonights american and allied troops have come into direct attack by a nation state and americans must come together to support and protect them and respond appropriately i condemn irans attacks which targets u. S. Coalition and Iraqi Military personnel in the strongest terms the Iranian Regime has made a grave miscalculation by launching its attacks among Trump Supporters the decision to kill qassam solomonic is being celebrated as a heroic act an act against terrorism however among Many Democrats though they have not much good to say about qassam solid money 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 later. Into 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. And shes Irans Parliament you know honestly passed the bill classifying the u. S. Armed forces as a Terror Organization tensions in the middle east has soared in just the past week. If it. Was. Going to. The mall these are pictures from the state funeral of the slain Major General he was buried in his hometown has been an outpouring of grief across iran with the moneys killing viewed as the death of a National Hero at least 56. 00 people were killed after being crushed in a crowd during tuesdays funeral procession for 2 decades lamont he served as the commander of irans crudes force which is the external wing of the Islamic Revolutionary guard played a crucial role in irans military Decision Making process and helped expounder irans role in the middle east. We spoke to middle east experts about recent developments and dangers ahead. Iranian leaders said last night was a slap in the face. The u. S. Leave the region. I think that. Iran will that this is not enough thats my understanding it was in my opinion very humiliating strike for the americans because the u. S. Military was unable to intercept even a single Iranian Missile even though this was an air base and usually Defense Systems in an air base especially in a war zone are extraordinarily good and the americans obviously must have been waiting for something so it shows the vulnerability of the u. S. In iraq against the iranian strike we definitely asked both sides to end this charade theres no further need for any further bloodshed i think both made their point and both parties should exercise selfrestraint as much as possible this area is volatile. We have many targets that could be turned into a major war that engulfs the region in chaos. The route for International Oil crude oil passes through this area there is no need for further escalation in the price of oil that will definitely cause a worldwide recession. We think that enough life has been lost in this matter and we definitely as in iraq invasion and government we would like most eyes to see is safe to seize and stop any type of aggression on each other twice more of talking of a diplomatic. Convoy that was traveling towards iraq to deliver an. Search which was under International Law illegal under iraqi law it was illegal and and every other level of legality in the International Arena within the un charter as well was illegal it was an act of terrorism this is how its the find by law and we didnt hear anything coming from the western media or the western governments but when the every television against an actual military base which is found now illegal just after the bill that was drafted within the parliament in iraq that named these Foreign Military presence as illegal and unwelcomed on iraqi soil we hear condemned nation coming from the western world this is typical one to one western Mainstream Media and western governments reaction towards anything that happens in west asia. Just a few hours after those strikes tragedy struck in the rain in capital when a ukrainian passenger jet crashed minutes after taking off Ukraines Interior Ministry says that were no survivors and the moment of the crash was captured on video. Well boeing be ukrainian 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 crashed and reports show that we were steve 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 shari are there were people of 7 different nationalities on board the doomed liner ukrainian president vladimir selenski has cut short a visit to amman to return to kiev on his Facebook Page expressed his condolences to the relatives of the victims heres an eyewitness account of the plane crash. Help him of a toilet on the right side of the airplane and one end of it were completely on fire and i think the pilot made a great effort not to get Residential Housing as the plane crash landed in largely park and destroyed the fence before then it took off again and exploded and was completely incinerated. Grieving relatives have been gathering at Care International airport where flight 752 was heading people are mourning the dead and waiting for any further information about the disaster is what the father of one of the crew members had to say he seemed so support for you my oldest son is the steward my daughter called me from the u. S. She told me that the ukrainian aircraft crashed and you just wary go through just so i said to to run and then i saw the video of the plane crash this is a Party Correspondent on quarter has more details on the crash. 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 midflight a lot of ukrainians to to sions were quick to give their responses weve 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 lot of music. 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 is an even. Newer boeing 737. 00 max model which was also grounded about a year ago for its own series of crashes now its still 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 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. Putin and his turkish counterpart of officially launched the stream natural gas pipeline and we will be getting an update from our correspondents on the ground there in turkey after a short break. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy going for indication let it be an arms race is also a scary Dramatic Development that only really im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. In a world of big part of the lot and conspiracy its time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that Mainstream Media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. And shouting past each other its time for Critical Thinking its time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. Welcome back were turning our attention to turkey now a lot of my putin and his turkish counterpart which have type other one have officially launched the stream nazrul gas pipeline the project will supply the turkish and e. U. Markets with russian. I guess it is time to say happy new stream because the projects been a launch the official ceremony i was there for it offered a massive round of applause and it was actually done by the leaders of 4 countries russia turkey. And serbia and just how well. Things seem to be go in with the turkish frame which is going through the waters of the black sea i guess it is fair to say that its kind of a compensation for all the trouble with a different project which is called nord straying too. There was a thorny path now because of the latest round of american sanctions there was a pause and its construction but i can tell you that washington was keen to rail turkey a stream as well however because of partial commitment by Vladimir Putin and type aired on this commitment did show that when 2 major leaders team up to somehow oppose u. S. Pressure that could lead to real Success Stories and this is exactly what mr putin talked about during the Opening Ceremony because they were going to use or to crush or into the clear developing in practically sphere is just going to be a difficult situation in the world and efforts by some exertional players to prevent the expansion of mutually beneficial cooperation between our countries. Well let me just give you some of the specific details about the pipeline itself a turkish stream consists of 2 lines one is intended for consumers in turkey the other one goes to Southern Europe it could be extended to as far as austria or italy but the 1st countries to receive russian natural gas through turkey astri will be bug area serbia and then like i said extensions are possible so the sea distance of that pipeline is sub 900 kilometers and whats really important here and really impressive is the capacity because both these lives will be able to deliver more than 30000000000 cubic meters of natural gas again directly from the russian port city of a knob on the d. The shores of turkey and then further on to europe we discussed the significance of the launch with august. Already was initially starting from the late ninetys was to have diverse patient off road sources as your god. And edges of life because its important for turkey as we are not just with you since so this church tree replace the western pipeline. It will pump more than we have received so far from the west and by by what the us or towards you slated to clear it on various occasions that they were and they they were not happy about the establishment of the church they wanted nor sing to the americans would like also to sell their own guys and before the fed n. G. That they have a huge capacity as of a week. And they would like to sell Leather Seats in the us from now this isnt the 1st time turkey has been threatened with sanctions by the United States as we know with the russian air and system that turkey purchased american threaten the turks with katzs sanctions but turkey went ahead with the deal and now its going to be operational in april according to the chairman of the turkish the bents industries show so the turks have showed that theyre willing to stick to their guns when it comes to matters of National Security it looks like the turks will go ahead with this despite anything but sanctions threats coming out of the United StatesEnergy Security is an important part of the National Security portfolio and what this project gives is a solid through pyramid for the foreseeable future thanks for staying with us on R T International were back at the top of the hour with all the latest breaking news stories also expecting to hear from President Trump in the coming hour so do stay with us for that. 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