a young good and then we ve had many elections during summer but i have never seen something like this on the big 500000 people from istanbul have changed or canceled their travel plans so they can be here and vote in the election. president donald trump blocked planned airstrikes on iran just minutes before they were to begin that news 1st reported by us media was confirmed by the us president himself who used slightly more flowery language than the new york times trump tweeted the u.s. military was quote cocked and loaded to retaliate on 3 different sites for the downing of a u.s. spy drone on thursday he added a general told him 150 people would have been killed and u.s. military strike was reportedly averted by just 10 minutes when mr trump apparently 1st heard specifics about the possible collateral damage
the usa president donald trump has cooled off an operation to launch strikes on iran just hours before they were due to go ahead with the strikes were planned in retaliation for the downing of a u.s. spy drone earlier this week. dozens were injured in the georgian capital tbilisi as protesters clashed with police in front of the country s parliament the protesters were trying to stop a russian lawmaker from addressing the legislature. and protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong up to their deadline. for withdrawing a controversial extradition treaty cost on that they say the build risks destroying the city s democratic institutions. now don t forget you can always get d w news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and you can also use the d w out to send us
this proves that some of the evidence that they have released proves that the global hawk drone, which flies at a very high altitude, flying over international waters. not over iran at the time. as hard for us to tell from the evidence that the u.s. military has presented, if, in fact, that was the case. you would want to know where the debris landed, and it s hard to know the coordinates, but from what the u.s. military is saying, that drone was in international waters about 20 miles from the coastline of iran. in that case, this is what escalated this to an international crisis. melissa: forgive me for saying this, but that is exactly what we thought this video is going to prove, was that it was over international waters and not over iran. that is the point of dispute. i am so sorry that i said that backwards from what i actually meant. there isn t anything in here
commission and it s not the only e.u. top job a program apps plus the u.n. says a record 71000000 people have been displaced by war and persecution worldwide on world refugee day we look at the plight of aging where hinge on muslims for me and mark who fled to bangladesh. and the women s world cup scotland are on their way home after crashing and burning against argentina the scots look certain to win until their opponents mounted a full grown week and controversial comeback. on the ark thank you so much for your company everyone. we begin with that dangerous escalation in tension between iran and the u.s. iran has shut down a us. spy drone president trump calls it quote
that, then they shoot down the american drone over international waters. what they are doing, he says, is testing the president. you see what happens when the last president was tested in syria, and there was no response. he says if we don t respond to this, just wait until you see what happens with north korea and russia. that s the case that he was making. harris: god help us. so i want to point out a couple things about the camera, which we don t control, by the way, getting a closer view of the lectern. this is the pentagon. the briefing room will holden audio briefing, there was a screen off to the right. they say it will be a statement, and they do not believe they will take any questions at this point. so this is an audio briefing. we could see the screen just a moment to go. we may see that pop back up here to air force central command