Online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in the capital, thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. Eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneure from president macron. Welcome to bbc news. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding to many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded, but he is now facing criticism from democrats or revealing details of the plan. The attack had been planned in response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. That happened in the volatile region which is a major supply route for one third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the straight of hormuz. Here is our north america editorjohn sopel. In iran they are celebrat
Online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in tbilisi. Thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. And, eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneur, from president macron. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded, but hes now facing criticism from democrats for revealing details of the plan. The attack was to be a response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. It happened in a volatile region that is a major supply route for a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace, but the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 13
Against iran last night with minutes to spare after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. The attack had been planned in response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. Our north america editor jon sopel reports. In iran they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today, on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has no shortage of military assets in the region but the anticipated retaliation never came. It turns out military strikes had been ordered. But at the last moment donald trump had a change of mind. He confirmed this on twitter this morning but now a rather different account from the president. The planes werent even in the air, so weapons couldnt have been locked and loaded. Were planes in the air . We were about ready to go. No, but they would have been pretty soon, and things would have happened to a point where
Five men jailed for attacking a woman and sharing video of it online have their sentences increased. Russia bans flights to georgia after clashes in tbilisi thousands of protesters have gathered outside parliament for a second night. And eltonjohn receives frances highest civilian honour, the legion dhonneure, from president macron. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded but hes now facing criticism from democrats for revealing details of the plan. The attack was to be a response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. It happened in a volatile region which is a major supply route for a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace, but the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. Heres our north america editorjon s
From president macron. The Foreign Office minister, mark field, has been suspended hello, and welcome. President trump has confirmed that he called off a military strike against iran with minutes to spare, after deciding that too many human lives would be lost. Mr trump tweeted that the us had been cocked and loaded but hes now facing criticism from democrats for revealing details of the plan. The attack was to be a response to the shooting down of an unmanned us drone by iran earlier this week. It happened in a volatile region which is a major supply route for a third of the worlds oil. Tehran says the drone entered iranian airspace, but the us maintains it was shot down in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. In iran they are celebrating taking out of the sky a 130 million us drone the latest escalation in tensions between washington and tehran. Today, on iranian tv, the results of their handiwork were being shown off. America has