The u. K. Puts the squeeze on lebanons hezbollah the entire Group Political and military is on the u. K. s terrorist blacklist and all of its assets are now frozen but why now is iran the real target and does it complicate an already tense situation in the middle east this is inside story. Im Richelle Carey and welcome to the program the u. K. Has added lebanons entire has movement to its blacklist of what its terms terrorist organizations and now its freezing house assets and will prosecute anyone in the u. K. Who continues to have accounts or Financial Services connected to the group it was in march of last year when the British Government said it could no longer distinguish between the political and the military wings of hezbollah but it took until this week before it announced it was going after the groups finances United States has welcomed the decision saying it had long been seeking such a move from its european allies will get or discussion our guest in a moment 1st lets take a
A you create International Airlines 1st fatal accident in his 20 year history. Of a warm welcome to you im on the. U. S. President is expected to make a statement shortly reacting to irans missile attack on u. S. Bases in iraq the u. S. Different is still assessing the damage but iran claims it has killed more than 80 americans the missiles reportedly ship the. Base in western iraq and another near the city of in the north irans revolutionary guard says the attack was in retaliation for the u. S. Assassination of general. In baghdad last week. Its all about the war here paul strong. The mouth of the house a rainy and state television claiming at least 15 missing aisles fired by Iranian Forces have hit the. Base in iraq killing 18 u. S. Soldiers the numbers cannot yet be verified and so far there have been no reports of casualties from the United States or other coalition forces. On. This promised active revenge was for the killing of top military commander general salim mani the move h
Call for International Help after a desert a tanker spills on oil into the red sea. But 1st the u. N. Secretary general has expressed disappointment with the results of a Major International Climate Summit the cup 25 conference in madrid ended with only a partial agreements between of most the most contentious issues until next year well thats often the go see asians drugs on 2 days past the deadline that clarke reports from madrid. There was a relentless log of endless negotiations whole blocks of nations working adults with a seemingly impossible goal of an agreement acceptable to all and when a cold came it was no a near enough for many observers you know im not happy i dont think anybody should be happy when you look at the forces outside these halls where people are in the streets it was 8000000 in september you have impacts happening from australia to germany and you have science that is becoming more compelling and more and deniable and the and the things that they have predicte
Medical treatment. And mexico demands urgent talks after President Trump says hes working to designate mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. I know a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of najaf off to Anti Government protests as the iranian consulate and set fire to the building was believed stuff at the consulate were evacuated before the incident meanwhile Iraqi Security forces have denied reports that 2 protests as were killed in baghdad often live ammunition was used to disperse demonstrations there. Joins us on the phone from baghdad so why would why would protest us target to the iranian comes consternation this way. We learned there is a great anger here in the by by these thousands and our government demonstrators d that that very dog is far too beholden to store and powers that among those foreign powers that are exerting too much influence the its country is the country which is their neighbor and that is the work extraordinary about what happened this evening is t
A landslide plowed 3 their community. The iraqi army says its sending its commanders to provinces to restore order its setting up what it calls crisis cells to quell the mass armrests at least 8 people were killed in the city of nasiriyah when Security Forces opened fire to disperse a demonstration for the past 2 months iraq has have been demanding job Spaces Services and an overhaul of the political system meanwhile iran has demanded firm action from the Iraqi Government after an attack on its consulate in the city of najaf on wednesday antigovernment protesters stormed the building and set it on fire demonstrators blamed tehran for propping up a government theyve been railing against lets go live now to baghdad the iraqi capital our correspondent there mohammed jam june so it does sound very much as though attention is spreading throughout the country 1st of all tell us more about whats been happening about in nazareth in the south. Well marty weve been told by medical sources in syr