In tbilisi protesters tried to storm georgias parliament they were trying to stop a visiting question lawmakers from speaking there plus in the womens World Cup Team usa make it 3 wins out of 3 the defending champions crewdson to the tournaments knockout stages with a 2 milk victory against the. Full im terry Martin Thanks for joining us u. S. President donald trump has confirmed he blocked a series of planned airstrikes on iran just 10 minutes before they were to go ahead the strikes were planned in response to the downing of a u. S. Spy drone yesterday in a tweet trump said the u. S. Military was quote cocked and low. Had to retaliate on 3 different sites he said the general told him 150 people could have been killed trump added that such a strike would not have been a proportionate response. Well the w. s all of us saw that is in washington covering this story for us all of it what have we learned from President Trumps explanation for aborting an attack on iran. Right so the preside
Under painful sanctions theyre feeling the pain from a financial perspective from an Economic Perspective its been close to a military confrontation as we saw late last night so whats the thinking in iran right now how does iran get out of this i think iran cannot maintain the current status quo which trump put iran in i think iran wants different players to contribute to a serious negotiation the pressure of the United States to have you know behind the closed door negotiations because current status quo is very tough on iran im not sure they can maintain it for a long time all right mushrooms were good to get your thoughts thank you. Well time for a short break here on out as iraq when we come back defying trump u. S. Senators vote to block the sale of arms to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Pomp and pageantry but has there been progress on Nuclear Talks we report on the chinese president s landmark visit to north korea more on that stay with us. Again its good to have you back here ac
Perspective that is a very dangerous issue because they have the crisis with the rather over it as we know so as long as you know as the time this so the drone leaves actually either a minute i think they start monitoring it until they realize that according to them it was on basically water so what is irans response likely to be then or what was it likely to be and when the americans overnight vajra man said we want to go see asians i think the iranians they have no interest of having war within a state thats obvious however they have also no interest to maintain the current status quo which basically staying and severe sanctions from the United States i think with they try to do to push more or different players regionally and internationally to work hard to pressure the United States maybe for negotiation maybe to go back to review some of the. Sanctions to at least be you know to calm down the situation because Current Situation is actually we will have it on with occasion of the s
Acting under article 51. 00 of the United Nations charter targeted the intruding aircraft at 4 o 5 hours in the letter iran says the drone was in the air for almost 4 hours it says it doesnt want a war but it reserves the right take any necessary measures against hostile acts it wants the International Community to respond so far though no meeting of the u. N. Security council has been scheduled jamesburg days out jazeera at the United Nations but matter driskill is the editor asian aviation news magazine he says commercial airlines are trying to avoid getting caught in the potential crossfire. Its an incredibly busy area i mean. Dubai all the middle eastern carriers theres a lot of traffic that goes through that area and i think that thats a problem the short term problem is everybodys going to have to do some rerouting or routing. So the flights may take a little bit longer they may have to put on some more fuel that may increase costs a little bit for the airlines but i think the f.
Its an incredibly busy area i mean. Dubai all the middle eastern carriers theres a lot of traffic that goes through that area and i think that thats a problem the short term problem is everybodys going to have to do some rerouting or recruiting. So the flights may take a little bit longer they may have to put on some more fuel that may increase costs a little bit for the airlines but i think the f. A. A. And the airlines are acting out of an over abundance of caution which is a good thing because they dont want to have another Malaysian Airlines that was shot down over the ukraine in 2014 and going back even further in history they dont have another iran air flight 655 that was shot down by the u. S. Navy in july 1908 im actually looking at a British Airways flight that left from new delhi and normally it would have a pretty straight shot over the gulf to. England and now its taken a hard right turn and it is flying over the middle of iran right now so its not flying anywhere near the