Unions are stepping up their battle against proposed pension reforms. This is the largest industrial action france has seen in decades. From brexit to mexit. Harry and meghan saying they will step back from real duties. It seems they have forgotten to tell the queen. We will take a look at the royal fallout. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. In the last few minutes, the canadian Prime Minister has echoed u. S. Reports intelligence officials indicate iran likely shot down the Ukrainian International airlines plane, which crashed on wednesday. The plane was on its way from the iranian capital to the ukrainian capital. Unnamed u. S. Officiaials have td u. S. Mededia iranian air d defee systems may have accidentally shot down the plane. Ukraine has asked western nations to provide any evidence, intelligence or whatever they can that could show or corroborate these allegations. The plane was carrying 176 people. 63 of them were ca
As a form of protest where in india where the anger against a new controversial citizenship bill is getting created. So u. S. President donald trump says iran appears to be standing down after a series of airstrikes on Iraqi Military bases which host u. S. Troops those strikes were in retaliation for the assassination of top iran an iranian commander custom sort of money in addition washingtons now risen to the United States reiterating it will act again against terror if necessary of my White House Correspondent kimberly how it. 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 the u. S. Military in iraq we suffered ok will tease all of our soldiers are safe and orderly minimal damage was sustained at our military bases it was a stark contrast to the president s threats of retali
A commander. In turkey and russia push for a cease fire in libya the e. U. Warns of a 2nd syria if the conflict is not resolved. And unprecedented violence in west africa thats the assessment of a u. N. Envoy who could live on the grounds in nigeria. And in sports world tennis number one ashley barty makes a losing start to the new year party suffering a shock defeat in her opening match of the brisbane international. But we begin this new sir with the crisis between iran and the United States the reigning governments has dismissed u. S. Claims that it wants to negotiate after the assassination of its commander so the money to her own says it wants corporators low sanctions on. Police a senior really an officer as warns of honshu revenge after launching airstrikes in iraq on cheese say now in just a moment well be speaking. In washington d. C. 1st the school says dorset jabari. Doors its a ritual but salt spreaders stand in his white house address last night but it seems the iran doesn
He will be traveling to washington hell be here a couple of days saying negotiating teams from both sides remain in close communication. President trump saying hes going to later travel to beijing to begin talks on the next phase. I think well talk to eunice we never know until we know. The last thing we heard from eunice was, you know, the president says there is a signing next week but havent heard anything from the chinese side she did point out that it was good for the chinese to have this happening now ahead of the Lunar New Year too my point is that they would never say anything and deliberately stay and let us conjecture it is always bad they never signed off on this the day before the market pulled back a little after someone said something that the chinese are uncomfortable with something until we hear right from the Commerce Ministry. Just a lot of times sitting there, what they looked like. They are more reserved and are tweeting about this stuff. Anyway, looking good. Hope
Great military equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it. Reporter the president said he would be responding with economic sanctions after iran launched more than a dozen missiles at two iraqi bases housing u. S. Troops. These powerful sanctions will remain until iran changes its behavior. Reporter the white house now wants to negotiate a new nuclear deal. Yesterday there was a closed door meeting with administration lcied gofeneral qassem soleimanini. That was insulting. Reporter two republican senators spoke out saying the president needs to be held in check if theres further military escalation. It is not acceptable for officials within the executive branch to come in and tell us that we cant debate and discuss the appropriateness of military intervention against iran. Reporter in a rare act of defiance utah senator mike lee and kentuckys rand paul now say they will join democrats in voting for a war powers resolution. We need to have a debate about separation of powers. R