Hello youre watching R T International i am or is on a lot court thank you for joining us and we start with this breaking news a ukrainian aircraft with 180 passengers on board has reportedly crashed shortly after takeoff from Khomeini International airport interferon those reports coming from Iranian State media but have not been officially confirmed yet Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was heading to kiev its a boeing 737 plane and reportedly went down due to technical reasons according to that same report so far we have no information on possible casualties but well of course keep you updated when we get further information and in separate developments in iran the Iranian Military has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles at bases housing u. S. Forces in iraq. Iran is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General kasim saw in money the missile strikes happened at exactly the same time of night as the assassination of sana money 5 days earlier and the secretary
A boat in stores guess what believe gangsters dont speak in politically correct. Youre watching R T International im ours on a lot of thank you for joining us and we do start with this breaking news iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles a basis housing u. S. Forces in iraq the Iranian Military is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General kasem saw the man who was killed in a u. S. Air strike last week well for more on this we can now across like to live in new york and paula slee here in tel aviv paula lets come to you 1st could you talk us through whats been happening and how is this all being viewed in israel where you currently are. Well theres been 2 d waves of a strikes target. 2 major iraqi bases where american troops are concentrated one of the bases is just outside baghdad the capital of iraq and the other one is in the north of the country in a deal the question that still needs to be answered is whether or not there were any injuries on those bases a
Right, brooke. It was several hours after those missile strikes by the iranians against u. S. Targets in iraq took place that we learned there was an airliner that crashed which is actually about 30 to 40 miles where i am right now in the south of tehran. We managed to get in touch with the head of irans Civil Aviation authority about an hour ago, and he did not down right dispute that the plane may have been shot down by a missile. However, he did say that he doubted that that would be the case. The reason for that is he says that the plane took off. It flew for several minutes. It then tried to apparently turn back to the airport before it then went down. He says he believes if that plane had been hit by a missile that its forward progress would have stopped immediately, and it immediately would have fallen to the ground. So thats what hes saying. Apparently theres also some investigators on the ground who are quoted in iranian media as saying they have not found any missile debris o
Then overriding his veto and all the successive efforts we have had to assert Congress Role to try to constrain a president from waging war since then. This is contested trorerritory, know, and fascinating territory in terms of modern american history. I wrote a book about it in 2012 called drift which explains my thoughts on the subject and what i think is the relevant history, in case you are interested in a deeper dive on the subject. I doubt you are, but just in case. This hour were going to be talking with democratic senator chris murphy about that vote tonight in the house. Again, the house passing that resolution tonight. Were also going to talk with senator murphy about whats expected on his side of the capitol now that the house has passed that resolution. In the house tonight this was a mildly bipartisan vote. Some democrats voted against the resolution. Some republicans crossed party lines to vote for it. In terms of the other side of the capitol, if and when there is a simi