Restrictions in europe. A lot from attacks on civilians with nowhere to go syria and russia accused of committing war crimes in rebel held areas. So an accidental missile strike by the iranian navy on one of its own boats is killed 19 sailors it happened in the jasc a region on the gulf of oman where Iranian Naval exercises were taking place as a port vessel was hit when it got too close to a target there are regular exercises held in the region near the busy strait of hormuz if more of this lets bring in our correspondents embedded robbie who study by in tehran as a details were sketchy but we get a little more information now. Thats exactly right we know that this incident took place ringback in the gulf of oman in the waters close to the strategic strait of hormuz earlier yesterday approximately 24 hours ago weve been hearing murmurs since early this morning late last night early this morning about some sort of incident during a naval exercise but details have been unclear now about
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Out of control. And we sit down with venezuelas Opposition Leader aung quite oh hes determined to keep up the fight against a president he accuses of clinging to life force. The us President Donald Trump appears to be backing away from further military confrontation with iran washington has written to the un stating it will act against iran again if necessary but its also said its ready for serious negotiations without preconditions iran carried out air strikes on Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Troops on the web and stay in the tally ation for the assassination of military come on the haass and so the money we have correspondents live from both washington d. C. And 1st White House Correspondent Kimberly Hauck it has a report. With the u. S. And iran edging dangerously close to war President Donald Trump proclaimed that tehran appears to be standing down truck gave no indication that the United States intends to strike back hours after running in missile attacks on 2 bases used by t
Demanded foreign troops leave the country a departure that could threaten the fight against Islamic State and iran announced that it would no longer be bound by key provisions of the 2015 Nuclear Agreement trump versus iran on the brink of war. And its a pleasure to welcome our guests to discuss that question Matthew Carney chick is chief europe correspondent for politico and she says President Trump has restored a modicum of order to the middle east by making it clear to irans leadership that it cannot act with impunity and its a pleasure to welcome our lifo tolan to judge hes a german iranian political scientist working with the Brookings Institution in doha and he says so the money still. It was a major blow to the Islamic Republic and it is open to pandoras box leaving the middle east in uncharted territory and were very glad to have andrea Claudia Huffman with us shes a middle east expert from the german weekly magazine focused and she says killing general so the money has harmed