Helicopters that were in this aerial convoy and only one of them crashed. But yes, it was carrying the president. It was carrying the Foreign Minister hossein amir of the law at least three crew members, the governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province. Thats again where the ceremony had been taking place on the border with azerbaijan is separate country. Of course and then the friday prayer, imam who leads the friday prayers in the city of tabriz. Thats the Major Metropolitan Center in that part of iran paula, i have done a road trip through this part of iran to the border, to turkey from tehran and i can personally attest to the fact that this area is rugged. It is very sparsely populated as well. We perhaps explain why you would have such a high level delegation traveling by helicopter because any kind of trip by road would have taken hours and hours and also been on potentially the dangerous roads. But this is a rugged and remote place and an indicator of perhaps why the iranian authori
Hello, im lewis vaughanjones, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. There has been plenty of reaction to the announcement from israel for a Million People to effectively move from the north of the gaza strip, down to the southern end. We were to use in pictures now from inside gaza in the last, these are live pictures right now, the scene looks relatively calm, very different picture at times overnight with air strikes continuing. We can show you some pictures from inside gaza. Some of the latest images we have from the streets. The devastation. We will bring you those in a few moments. While we wait for those pictures these are the pictures that i was just referring to. This gives you an idea of some of the destruction inside, some of the problem is therefore of asking people to move, a Million People to move in these conditions. Palestinian groups, United Nation groups have been talking about the impossibility of a Million People moving in
50. Im. It was go until it was not cocked and loaded to attack iran President Donald Trump pulled back from the precipice would just moments remaining calling off military strikes on iraq crisis averted or deferred tehrans downing of an american surveillance drone prompted the aborted retaliation by the u. S. Bringing the arch enemies dangerously close to war fanning the flames of war and posturing with lives on the line where do washington and tehran go from here on. This is the day. The president may not intend to go to war here but were worried that even the Administration May be bumbled into a war no im sure in the in which you know that the ultimate player ever did that
with the rain and we melted to high consumers. And with muscular everything we can and not to escalate the situation chilled out war is very wearing and stressful for us it will be an experience we have already laid out and it gets scary but one skill is depleted every person has to defend his homeland security. Pr
hostages to trade for what he really wants, which is cessation of hostilities, a cease fire, and asymmetrically largely imbalanced palestinians in jails. whether or not this could seriously escalate the situation along the israeli-lebanese border, the timing of this is intriguing. was it a target of opportunity? did the israelis need to demonstrate given the operational and intelligence deficiencies in the run-up to october 7th that they still had range and reach. was it a message to hamas leaders who are hunkered down in gaza? it s unclear. again, it s just another added piece to what is seemingly an unending struggle between israel
messages just received line we ve got attention to this. how should we respond to what you suggest administration does? we need to do some magic. we can start closing the chinese consulate. for chinese consul that remained in the us are engaging in activities that are inconsistent with their diplomatic presence. i think we make it very clear we are going to go after that asymmetrically. something that would take china by surprise because we don t do that. because we do something new i think he ll make beijing set up. that very well may reestablish deterrence. right now they are not deterred by us. before that provoke them further forcing them? yes, they will be provoked. we are now at a point where every move forward is risky and dangerous. that s because deterrence has broken down. that broke down with a collapse in afghanistan.