Try to find a way to bring iran and the u. S. Towards agreement and away from confrontation. The u. S. Says no to iraqs request to step up talks on plans to withdraw american troops from the country. How to tie up to stand ready to move in support a medically australias Prime Minister sounds more troops to areas facing devastation from rapidly spreading wildfires. And im far as smile have all the days sports news including rafa nadal fights back to lead spain to victory over belgian reached the semifinals at the 8. Polo we begin with the latest fallout from the u. S. Airstrike that killed a top iranian general washington has an l. The new wave of sanctions on iran that target the countrys steel and Iron Industries the sanctions also go after 8 senior officials and the new measures are in response to irans missile strikes earlier this week on an Iraqi Military base that houses u. S. Soldiers today sanctions are part of our commitment to stop the iranian regimes terrorist activities the
At 1 00 p. M. Today. Time now for global exchange. Tom hong kong to beirut, berlin, brussels and washington come our bloomberg voices are on the ground this mornings top stories. We want to begin in china. Chinese vice premier liu he will travel to washington next week to sign the first phase of a u. S. Trade deal. Ranthe current enda cur joins us. In some ways, no surprise. Enda no surprise, but is the first indication that we will find this next week. It will be a pretty heavy delegation with the vice premier. Other trade and commerce related officials. We dont have much more detail be on. The Foreign Ministry didnt give much more detail. That agricultural goods are part of the agreement, but we dont know what else. While this is obviously a positive sign that the trade deal will go ahead, a lot of people will be looking for any final hiccups in the days before the signing, and of course, when the details come out, there will be a lot of scrutiny. Alix thank you very much. In beirut,
Minutes 20 minutes or so has seen lows across safe havens to dollarchina as well. For eighttrack volumeheavy daytoday. Day today. We are on track for 35 billion today. It is a busy day of trade. Trades inxas, 55,000 the first 60 minutes on a front and contract in west texas. Iran is launching what it calls revenge attacks with missile launches onto bases that host u. S. Troops. What to me know so far about irans actions what do we know so far about irans actions . It was a series of attacks on these two bases. The Islamic Revolutionary guard corps claimed responsibility quickly. In the be interesting uns u. S. Response. There has been a lossoflife and how much damage was done . They were on high alert with those facilities, because i ran have thes thought to highest amount of short range missiles in the region and this was thought to be the retaliation to expect. Iran has been saying that they will avenge the death of the general and are calling it a terer operation murder martyr opera
Secretary of state has defended the trumpet ministrations decision to take out a rainy and general quest some solomonic mike pompei was confronted by a journalist apparently unconvinced by the evidence presented so far to justify the assassination. As more. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions that got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives lets take a listen to some of what went on if you have specific information about the internet and didnt have anything to do with our embassy. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats from included
In the studio to welcome from the Aspen Institute and. Baka welcome tyson now as we heard the pentagon say theres still assessing the scale of damage and casualties but let me go to the original tweet sent by donald trump when he cut off the attack and he said all is well assessment of casualties this taking place so far so good what do you make of that i think that was a narrow communication to basically communicate to the American Public and to the world that that didnt lead to perhaps significant casualties now we dont have any word from the Defense Department itself but we do have word from the iranians which is probably not credible saying that there have been a number of casualties which would be a dramatic escalation of the tensions between iran and the United States we should recall that this is in some ways a reaction to cumulative aggression on the iranian part of the part of the iranians in saudi arabia in the straits of hormuz and the attack on december 27th that killed one