Live from moscow thanks for joining us in our teens a national. Welcome to the program. The u. S. Secretary of state has again been just of washingtons assassination of a top iranian general and a drone strike at the start of the year and a thinly veiled warning he also said russia and china could be next in whats being described as a terrence policy. And picks up a story. In u. S. Foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their International Actions so lets review some of the greatest hits showing to be ready for preemptive action a reset in relations between the United States and russia might bomb peo seems to be rolling out a new one when defending the actions of the white house in dealing with international adversaries of the United States might pompei os new favorite word seems to be deterrence reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to loose so
Its investigators have been given. Australians patients westin as protest rally against the governments handling of the bushfires crisis as people in the countryside brace for more places. And gestures like these will not be allowed at this years Olympic Games in tokyo well bring you the details of the i. O. C. Each new will lose some political protests. Im full go welcome to the program the u. S. Government has unveiled a new sanctions against Iranian Industries and senior regime officials you know what came from secretary of state might pompei one treasury secretary steven minutiae if you scribe the sanctions as a response to irans missile attack against u. S. Troops in iraq which followed the u. S. Assassination of a Senior Iranian general last week the sanctions target 8 senior officials in the Islamic Republic u. S. Has or involved in the attack against u. S. Troops. Views from the United States the European Union from d. W. Correspondence. In washington and Terry Schultz in bruss
From moscow thanks for joining us and. Welcome to the program. On the 2020 Campaign Rally President Donald Trump has been at it again this time heaping praise on protesters in iran i mean theyre now supporting the United States. Have you seen whats happened in around the protests there are shy i was in the crowd think what is to get americans on the street and the already its thousands and thousands of radios were supposed to walk on a trip. That beat the hell out of it every one of them will room with your truck was referring to this the president said every protester avoided walking on the stars and stripes there were of course those who did the u. S. President also seemingly exaggerated the numbers as well now since the accidental downing of a passenger plane in a wrong last week both pro and antigovernment demonstrations have been staged in the capital tehran was back in the administration have been seen burning u. S. Flags claiming the United States should bear some responsibility
The country is looking to inflict a historic nightmare on the united states. Late yesterday, one of the Key Developments was the pentagon dispatching 2200 more marines to the persian gulf as part of Amphibious Assault group. It is interesting that the secretary, pressed on the intelligence, said a lot of intelligence was what he had already done. He had already attacked americans. That is an anticipatory selfdefense. Bill the first reaction from the u. S. For the first commentary was there was an imminent threat posed by soleimani. Iranians and iraqi officials have said solomonic was on some kind of Diplomatic Mission soleimani was on some kind of Diplomatic Mission. Pompeo mocked that and said this guy had a lot of blood on his hands. David what about iraq . What about baghdad . Where with the notion we might leave the country and pull our forces out of there . Confusion when what appeared to be a draft letter from u. S. Military officials starting to talk about repositioning of u. S.
Stages of the Champions League. That is despite losing to Bayern Munich in theirfinal group game. Good morning. Weve got cloud and rain spilling in from the south west. Its moving north and eastward through the course of the day, possibly leaving some snow on the hills. Its going to be a blustery day, but the wind will strengthen from the south west later. I will have more in 15. Silent night. Christmas comes early for terrence, the age uk volunteer who wont be home alone for the first time in 20 years. It is thursday 12 december. Our top story after six weeks of campaigning, polls are about to open across the country for voting in the general election. It is the third ballot in less than five years, and the first to be held in december in nearly a century. Our Political Correspondent Jonathan Blake is in westminster for us this morning. Jonathan, talk us through the day ahead. Good morning, yes, decision day has arrived. The time for politicians to do the talking is over and it is tim