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
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
A weak economy which is left some saying theyre struggling to meet basic needs the Prime Minister has canceled fridays Cabinet Meeting and is expected to deliver a speech addressing the protests well jamal horseman is a journalist and former and its english she says the protests are a result of something that she was born in over. The timing of these measures and these new taxation methods that have been implemented couldnt have been at the worst time for the government and they were it was very audacious of them to bring this up the day after massive forest fires were destroying big swaths of land in the country and the whole people were feeling that the government was negligent and led to this and then the next day they come and lay these taxes on them so it was. Just this accumulation of things and and also we have to look back at the Prime Minister a couple of weeks ago having a big controversy with spending 16000000 dollars on this sub mysterious. Model while he fired all his staf
Few days and you can see some bits and pieces of cloud working their way eastwards and this is where indeed we have seen one or 2 showers now through sunday we still have the chance that you cross into the northern sections of iran but also across into turkey and at times we could see some heavy thunderstorms certainly by monday and those shows like you do what the weather the east was tom which is not too bad 34 celsius across into baghdad and 23 across into kabul now further to the south again temperatures here they have been coming down slowly the humidity has been improving slightly as well were going to temperature of 30 in muscat on sunday and temperatures in the mid thirtys really for doha 35 as you can see there on monday and 35 across into to riyadh further to the south down into Southern Africa again weve had some eastern areas of madagascar mostly dry sunday as you can see there but wanted to show is likely into cape town 22 so feeling a little bit cooler temperatures about
Asking for a delay even though he doesnt want one this comes after the u. K. Parliament voted to put off ratifying his brakes a deal. And travel halfway around the world on just one plane and airline makes history setting a new record for the longest nonstop commercial flight. Im Rebecca Ritters welcome to the program protesters in hong kong and a fine police and recent attacks on prodemocracy activists to attend an unauthorized march police say anyone attending risks arrest protesters have set fire to barricades and tear gas and Water Cannons have been fired by police demonstrate is pushing for more democratic freedom in the semi autonomous chinese territory tensions are high after a prominent rally organizer and an activist handling handing out flyers were brutally attacked earlier this week. Over the latest were joined by day to be a correspondent charlotte shell some pill whos in Hong Kong Charlotte tell us whats happening there at the moment. Rebecca hundreds and hundreds of thous