Waited on. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is early start. Im laura jarett. Thrilled to be here. Its 4 00 a. M. In new york. And its 32 days until the iowa caucuses. After days of violent fprotest y iranbacked demonstrators at the embassy in baghdad. Thousands of angry supporters of an iranbacked militia tried to storm the embassy. They were protesting deadly u. S. Air strikes launched in response to the death of a u. S. Contractor in a rocket attack. The protesters did damage inside the embassy. Some of the rooms were left charred there. Iraqi Security Forces have regained control of the every ya. But a spokesperson for the group that organized the demonstration said america should have received the message. The embassy says all Consul Services are suspended until further notice. Arwa damon is live for us in baghd baghdad. Arwa . Reporter good morning. And what that group is saying, hezboll hezbollah, is these protests are openended. They have re
Warren. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world this morning. 4 00 a. M. In new york, 21 days until the iowa caucuses. Top National Security officials tying themselves in knots to explain the intel behind the killing of the top iranian general. The white house originally said Qassem Soleimani posed an imminent threat and then the president said he was targeting one u. S. Embassy, then several, then the president went even further. Large scale attacks planned for other embassies. And if those were planned, why cant be reveal that to the American People . Wouldnt that help your case . I can reveal i believe it would have been four embassies and i think that probably baghdad already started. So the president says four embassies there. Defense secretary mark esper says he didnt see the evidence for that, but he still backs the president s claim. He didnt cite a specific piece of evidence but what he said are you saying there wasnt one . I didnt see one with regard
Iran calls it an accident and says it was caused in part by heightened tensions just hours after iran fired missiles towards baseds in iraq that housed u. S. Troops. It took tehran three days to admit what ukrainian investigators say they knew just hours after arriving at the crash site, that a missile brought down that jet. Many of the victims were canadian. One man lost his sister, brotherinlaw and 1yearold niece who was the youngest victim. He speak tuesday the broader frustrations with the leadership in iran. She was an angel. Like how can you do that . They say it was an accident. It was not an accident. What does justice look like for you and your family . We say eye for an eye. I know thats not a possible way. What are they going to do . Give us money, give us piece of land, put a street under their name . I dont care. I can care less. I want them back. If i can get them back, they have to leave, they have to go. President trump went to twitter to warn irans leaders several time
And then posted the same message in farsi. In canada, vigils across the country for those who lost their lives on flight ps 752. Id like to take this opportunity to honour the memory of all the victims of this tragic event. Our deepest condolences go out to the families and friends of all these people who have lost their lives. And a strong message from Prime Ministerjustin trudeau. I want to assure all families and all canadians, we will not rest until there are answers. We will not rest until there is justice and accountability. Iran has signalled it wants to de escalate tension with the west but its unclear exactly how it will do that. Rich preston, bbc news. Lets get some of the days other news. Former Pope Benedict has made an unusual intervention on a possible change to Roman Catholic church practice. In a book co written with a vatican cardinal hes indirectly warned his successor pope francis not to relax the rules on clerical celibacy. Vatican experts have expressed surprise th
The Indian equities markets key indices ended the year 2021 on a bullish note with the benchmark Sensex surging 459 points and Nifty closing 150 points higher.