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Our broadcasting live from our studios in moscow. As we recap the weeks top stories all right at least 4 iraqi soldiers have been injured in a rocket strike on the air base to the north of baghdad the facility also houses american personnel and was previously targeted after the u. S. Assassination of irans top general earlier my colleague discussed the story with. We still have a lot of different reports in terms of figures of how many missiles or mortars hit the base some are saying that 7 mortar bombs hit the bases runway another says 4 rockets hit the base but we have heard from Iraqi Security officials and they say that 8 katyusha rockets launched were launched at the base and made contact across the board though we do know that at least 4 Iraqi Military personnel have been injured and are hospitalized now we also know with the base its been in the news before because it had a sizeable american presence thats where american troops where in the part of the country its what about 50
Will make a statement later today previously the u. S. President threatened to destroy multiple iranian sites including cultural ones if youre an retaliated and anyway. Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 11 am im here jacqueline to go with my colleague as well don of our breaking news this hour is coming out of iran where a Ukrainian Airline passenger jet has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital Ukrainian Interior Ministry says 180 people on board were killed the moment of the crash was captured on video. Were not going to go live to iranian journalist the editor in chief at iran front page who will bring us the latest what do you know at this point. It seems that ukrainian saying he belongs to ukraine and alone and it crashed minutes after taking of wrong the formally airport which is this suburb both the capital city of iran and the. Majority of the passengers have been the rain in nationals about 147.
A lot of fear and anxiety just worry about whats to come and why the death and the assassination of course until the money has caused fear for iranian American Communities in the u. S. Coming from the gulf everyones just past 7 am here in doha as it is in baghdad it is 7 30 am in teheran it is 11 pm in washington d. C. On come all santamaria continuing coverage of developments out of the region this weapons day the top line is that iran has launched more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles at u. S. Iraqi facilities in iraq this is at least 2 bases were talking about one is in erbil the other is the. Base in Anbar Province also irans revolutionary guard has issued a warning to other u. S. Allies in the region and that includes israel saying they will be attacked if their countries are used for strikes against terror rob also developments were seeing from the u. S. F a a the federal Aviation Authority which has now banned u. S. Airlines from flying over this region were talking about airspac
Of a tall iranian general in baghdad u. S. President trump plans to deliver a speech after the damage is assessed but he firmly or tweeted all is well regarding the attack. Im terry martin welcome to the program at least 170 people have died after a ukrainian passenger jet crashed in iran Iranian State media say the boeing 737 came down shortly after takeoff due to suspected technical problems the plane was on its way from irans capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev and was operated by Ukrainian International airlines ukraines president floored me it selenski protocol for a visit to amman to return to kiev because of the crush. Well for more on the plane crash im joined by aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas from Perth Australia geoffrey what more do we know about this incident. Look at the moment terry that is theres very little dots that we do have some vision taken by an iranian citizen. After the plane took off it appears to be on fire then theres a smaller piece of the a small