Influence across the region killed as he left the airport in back that along with others including the 2nd in command of the Popular Mobilization forces ever met the hundreds weve been hearing in the last few minutes from the iraqi president urging for calm and restraint and unity and in the in the hours leading up to this weve been hearing from various political leaders including the Prime Minister saying that a is this was a violation be this cannot be condoned in any way shape or form weve also heard from various political factions in iraq only how the and im ready and also the leader of the sudras bloc a book that al assads are saying that this is going to be to putting their forces on alert to some commanders calling them their their their forces on the ground their fighters on the ground valuing them telling them to be ready saying that this is the beginning of a great victory that was promised to them alluding to the ideological fight that they have been having with the United S
A strike in the capital baghdad iran is calling it an assassination he was the leader of the elite could support a division of revolutionary guard corps which has a far reaching influence in iraq syria lebanon and also beyond all the pentagon and so the moneys death in a tweet it said at the direction of the president the u. S. Military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u. S. Personnel abroad by killing kasim solo monny the head of the Iranian Revolutionary guard corps could force thats a u. S. Designated foreign terrorist organization. Hold donald trump after authorizing that strike tweeted this no words just a simple picture of the american flag. Well it wasnt just solomonic who was killed the u. S. Forces of also killed the Deputy Commander of the iranian backed coalition of armed groups in iraq. This from the Popular Mobilisation forces was killed when the airstrike targeted is vehicle on the road to the baghdad airport. Well the u. S. Air strikes in iraq have drawn mi
President threatened to destroy multiple sites including cultural ones if you will tell you that in any way. Youre watching arties or National Bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow with me jacqueline and my colleague don of we start this hour with breaking news coming out of iran where a Ukrainian Airlines passenger that has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital the Ukrainian Interior Ministry says 180 people were killed and the moment of the crash was captured on video. I. Know our 2 days correspondent and ali corner is in the studio with us here for more details its still early on but what do we know at this stage well jacki this plane was bound for kiev and it crashed just about 2 minutes after takeoff from khamenei airport airport in tehran now that was around 6 am local time and as for how many passengers were on board we have a couple conflicting reports the ukrainian president vladimir selenski said that there were 167. 00 passengers on
And lives in australia the military is on standby as lightning starts even more bushfires. Protesting on into 2020 of the defiance is set to continue in hong kong. And the city of lights and lock this is right now the latest city cheering a new day. Iraqi protesters have taken their rage against u. S. Airstrikes on a shia group to americas Embassy Hundreds of people marched into the heavily fortified green zone and surrounded the embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad some of them managed to storm the compound and set a security post on fire they were angry over some. These u. S. Airstrikes in iraq and syria targeting a powerful iranian backed group the hezbollah brigades on iraqi soil the incident at the embassy happened as funerals were being held for the fighters killed in the u. S. Air strikes the u. S. Is deploying additional troops to reinforce the Diplomatic Mission its blamed iran for the unrest on tuesday but tehran denies it had anything to do with it simona fulton begins our c
It is 1400. 00 g. M. T. Across the middle east it has been a tense day in the wake of the death of irans top military Commander Major general accustoming salim money so money died in a u. S. Airstrike early on friday it took place on a road at Baghdad Airport iran is calling it an assassination the pentagon says President Donald Trump ordered the attack to quote protect u. S. Personnel abroad meanwhile the u. S. Embassy in baghdad has issued an alert all americans to leave iraq immediately iran supremely leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for 3 days of National Mourning the many warned of harsh revenge and said the attack would double tehrans result to resist the United States iraqs Prime Minister says the strike will spark a devastating war well speak to our correspondents in the region shortly. As i say we have correspondent covering the story from all regions this go to. Will go to also shortly before us to his alma binge of aid who joins us from baghdad tell us more about the