That the strike he ordered, quote, saved a lot of lives. As the president and his administration is now pressed, where is the evidence they spoke of before of an imminent attack . Jon karl is standing by live at the white house. And all of this playing out tonight at those two bases in iraq housing the u. S. Military. Just hours before it all happened, iraqs Prime Minister signaling he wanted u. S. Troops out. Pointing to a letter from the u. S. Military in the last 24 hours, saying the u. S. Was, in fact, leaving iraq. Tonight, President Trump saying that is not the case, the pentagon saying the letter was a mistake. Team coverage of the crisis with iran, a special edition of world news tonight begins now. Good evening as we come on the air in the west tonight with breaking news in the escalating crisis with iran. Tonight, u. S. Officials confirming iran has fired more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles targeting the u. S. Military. The missiles fired from inside iran, aimed at u. S. Mil
China is celebrating the Lunar New Year holiday but the festive spirit is being dampened by drastic measures to prevent the spread of the virus that has reportedly killed up to 41 people, and infected almost 1300. The first cases in europe have been confirmed in francem and australia has also confirmed its first case. Fergus walsh reports. Ten days from now, on this waste ground in wuhan will be a brand new hospital. The extraordinary pace of building a sign of how seriously china is taking the threat from the new coronavirus. The prefabricated building will have 1000 beds. It is urgently needed because hospitals in wuhan are overwhelmed with potential cases. The symptoms include cough, fever and breathing problems. A dozen cities have now been quarantined, affecting more than 30 million people. As you see, nobody here, it is absolutely empty. This should be the busiest time of year for travel and for hotels, but this one in wuhan is deserted. In downing street, borisjohnson hosted a r
Im Sharanjit Leyl in singapore, the headlines at least 6 rockets hit a us air base in iraq just hours after iran buries its general killed in an american drone strike. As the human toll rises in australias bushfires, we hearfrom people trying to protect some of the countrys precious wildlife from the disaster. Im kasia madera in london. Also in the programme we hear the story of how tensions between india and pakistan, have kept a family separated in kashmirfor decades. Facebook announces a ban on deepfake videos but the policy stops short
of prohibiting all doctored videos. Good morning. Its 8 00am in singapore, midnight in london, and 3 00am in iraq where according to reports an air base housing us forces has been hit by a rocket attack. At least six rockets are said to have struck the al asad base west of baghdad. Its unclear whether there have been any casualties. Details are still coming in. Well have more on that later. Meanwhile in washington donald trump has declared that the d
White house and Courtney Kube is at the Defense Department. Courtney, lets start with your new reporting. Tell us what youre when the president authorized soleimanis killing and what it does to the administrations justification for the strike. So geoff, its not just when they authorized the killing of soleimani but when he really first came into the sights. My colleague cara lee found out in fact it was early on in the Trump Administration in early 2017 that they began tracking Qassem Soleimani more closely than they had in the previous administration. But then it was last summer and the summer of 2019 when the u. S. First the Administration First started to target him for the possible target list. Back in may, the white house, particularly john bolton then National Security adviser put out a statement about a large deployment of u. S. Military to the region because of some threats from iran. Well, the tensions over the next several weeks and months between the u. S. And iran were very
Airspace after a ukranian plane crashes there all passengers and crew are dead, including three britons. The number of People Killed across the uk drops for the first time in five years but in london theres another rise. The former nissan car boss who fled justice in japan overfraud charges hes been speaking about his extraordinary escape. I felt i was a hostage of a country that i have served for 17 years. And coming up on bbc news, the government wants the fa to immediately end a deal with a Gambling Company that allows fans to watch fa cup matches only after theyve opened an account. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. President donald trump has given his first formal reaction since the escalation in the middle east crisis. It came after iran fired missiles at us airbases in neighbouring iraq overnight. There were no casualties and mr trump said he believed the iranian authorities were standing down. Iranian state television has released this video of what it says is th