Mourning tea top militarygeral kwas em soleimanid at the baghdad airport. He ordered the hundreds of many americans. Reporter Ayatollah Khamenei has promised revenge and named a deputy to replace him. The consequences could be unbelieve sabl. The big concern is the u. S. Prepared for irans response. Reporter President Trump tweeted soleimani was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people. Adding, he should have been taken out many years ago. Republican senator Lindsey Graham said he was briefed in advance. Theyre going to come after us with a vengeance if we do noy troops have been sent in. Wo days of violent protests in iraq by proiranian demonstrators and after iranian militiaere s, in imminent attack taking place and people should know this is an intelligencebased assessment that drove this. Reporter the situation in iraq is said to be traj ill and very precarious and dangerous and urging calm. In a state nancy pelosi said this air strike risks provoking
Action to start a war. Reporter resident trump defended his administrations decision to take at one of irans stop generals, Qassem Soleimani. The head of irans revolutionary guard as well as an advisor to him were both killed friday in an airstrike at baghdads international airport. He was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel but we caught him in the act and terminated him. Reporter in iran, thousands of people took to the street to mourn his death. This as iran promises revenge. In washington, reaction to the strikes fell among partyline. Republicans wasted of as a justified reaction to a rented aggrno man alive was more directly responsible for the deaths of more american servicemembers and then Qassem Soleimani. Reporter democrats arguing that congress should have been notified first. This may bring our nation to another in this war. Reporter just getting where the venue airstrike to beg that. The will of course carry iran in back milit
Today, with high winds and record temperatures. Huge fires creating their own twisters. Thousands of residents forced to flee their homes. Animal habitats gone. Were live on the fire lilines s morning. Supersoaker. A major washout today with a massive storm system bringing rain to a 1,500mile stretch the gulf to the northeast. That rainy weather, plus high winds, even snow, expect to impact people wrapping up vacations across the country. Were tracking the storms path. All that, plus tragedy on the high seas. A crew member of the doomed fishing boat that sank off the coast of alaska, speaks out about the horrific ordeal. You can die in those situations. I knew thats what we were going into. Byebye brady . Could today be the last time tom brady puts on a new England Patriots jersey . And all grown up. 6yearold Prince George poses beside his dad, grandfather, and great grandmother, the queen, in a portrait that has everyone marveling at how grownup he looks today. Saturday, january 4th,
Well be live in penzance at 9 15am for a special report. And in sport, wales get ready to take on fiji in the Rugby World Cup, while scotland play russia in a bid to reach the quarterfinals. Good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9 00am. The irish Prime Minister has warned it will be very difficult for the uk and the eu to reach an agreement on brexit before the deadline of 31st october. Speaking to rte news, leo varadkar said big gaps remained between the uk and the eu on crucial issues. Mr varadkar is expected to meet Boris Johnson for further brexit talks later this week. It comes as european leaders accused the government of playing a stupid blame game in the negotiations. Speaking to the french newspaper les echos, the European Commission president Jean Claude Juncker said if the negotiations failed, the reasons have to come from britain because the original sin is found on the islands and not on the continent. He went on to say a no deal brexit would lead to the collapse of
And problem solving skills im looking at a scheme to get apprentices training outside of the workplace. Catch me if you can adam peaty storms to breaststroke gold in south korea to win his third successive World Championship title. Good morning from a foggy Blenheim Palace. Were going to have a dry, sunny, hot humid day with temperatures potentially reaching 36 degrees in london. Its tuesday the 23rd ofjuly. Our top story well know by lunchtime who will be our next Prime Minister as the results of the conservative leadership contest are due to be announced later this morning. Borisjohnson is the clear favourite over his rival, the foreign secretaryjeremy hunt. But he could suffer ministerial resignations before he even enters downing street, as several cabinet members say they cant support his do or die pledge to leave the eu by the end of october. Our Political Correspondent iain watson is at the qe2 centre in westminster, where the result will be announced. We are getting some sort o