Crashes minutes after takeoff in iran all 176 people on board are killed. And Barbara Starr in london with the top stories from europe including e. U. Chief arsal of underlaying says the u. K. Is that line for breaks it for make a full deal impossible as she meets u. K. Prime minister johnson in london. And im far and smile have all the days top sports story thing clearing Le Bron James leads the l. A. Lakers to a big win over the New York Knicks for their 6 story picturing. Us president ronald trump says that iran appears to be standing down after a series of a strike some Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Troops the strikes were in retaliation for the killing of top iranian commander custom sort of money at a u. S. Attack last friday speaking a short while ago trump said hell be imposing new sanctions on tehran until it changes its behavior. We suffered no casualties all of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained and our military bases are Great American forces are prepared for anything iran appears to be standing down which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world no american or iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken the dispersal of forces and an Early Warning system that worked very well early on irans president Hassan Rouhani said the real revenge for the assassination of sum of money would be kicking the u. S. Out of the region that says soleimani as these him are all they cast off the hand of dias soleimani and you saw his revered hand in his body in videos and pictures the revenge for this is to force america out of this region the real revenge of the ultimate response by regional nations as we america is expelled from this region and its head of aggression its counsel for eva. We have a team of correspondents covering the latest developments baria standing by with the latest from ron will also be speaking with a sullivan java to sit in iraqs capital baghdad jona home will be explaining what trump statement could mean for other world powers but 1st lets go live to washington d. C. Our White House Correspondent kimberly how could is that complete what are we to make of the president s speech. Oh i think we sort of reverberate here in the United States and there is a lot of disappointment with the president s speech because it was missing a couple of key components namely number one what the strategy is of the United States moving forward there has been a lot of questioning coming from the American Public in recent days and also members of congress about the administrations strategy and what next steps would be given the fact that the president s own twitter feed in his public statements was full of harsh rhetoric promising to strike back against iran if it attack u. S. Interests without hesitation but it appears hesitation is exactly what this u. S. President is doing right now the other thing absent from the speech the evidence that Many Americans were looking for for why the United States decided to kill general solomonic so there is certainly been a lot of explanation in recent days but there were not the concrete tangibles that Many Americans were looking for instead there were even some surprises in the speech namely the one where the u. S. President suggested that it was time for nato organization that the president once called obsolete to now become more involved in middle Eastern Affairs today i am going to ask nato to become much more involved in the middle east process. Its not clear if the u. S. President has been consulting extensively with european allies he did however say that it was important for the u. K. Germany france russia and china to break away from the Nuclear Agreement that the United States pulled out of the g c p a way back in 2015 and now saying that decision to do so so there is a lot of confusion about the president s speech and imagine that there will be some tough questions for the Administration Officials that will be Briefing Members of congress on capitol hill in the coming hours a White House Correspondent kelly how it could live in washington lets go to london im serious john hall is that the president says he wants nato to become more involved in the middle east process we heard him saying it just a few moments ago to his nato allies know anything about this. Well for probably not not yet they would have heard it as we heard it one imagines that seems to be dont trump style i think were probably talking here about nato taking on more of the effort in iraq with forces based on the ground in iraq in the fight against eisel the language being used pretty vague of course talking about the middle east the focus of operations at the moment is in those. In training iraqi forces in the fight against eisel nato is involved with fairly small numbers on the ground at present announcing following the events of last friday that it was scaling back ending essentially its activities temporarily remember donald trump has a fairly checkered history with nato ones calling it obsolete now apparently supporting it but frequently railing against its members calling them to take on a greater share of the burden a greater share of the cost for their own defense on the collective coffers of nato now i think he will see nato alongside european powers as having disappointed the administration my compo the secretary of state said as much in failing to full throated lee support the actions last week against custom solid money. An opportunity i think in this address to give everyone a sort of dressing down here a bit of naming and shaming and in nato as case presumably as i said to take up some of the burden in iraq opening the door for the u. S. Possibly to draw down its forces there something we know donald trump is keen to do and something of course that we also know that the Iraqi Parliament at least is keen for him to do so many thanks indeed lets go live now to what ron out zeros Dorsett Barry is there d iran appears to be standing down said president from. Well i think there its. Hard to imagine where the u. S. President would get that impression from ever. Nothing weve seen so far over the past not only a few days but just today alone would indicate otherwise weve heard from irans Supreme Leader the commander in chief of the countrys armed forces who had some very strong words for the u. S. Government and the u. S. President saying that the attack that was launched on the u. S. Airbase in iraq was just a slap in the face that they are a real issue their real conflicts will ensue if the u. S. Should dont withdraw from the middle east that we also heard the same sentiments from irans president as well as the foreign minister along with the countrys defense minister the other point that we need to make is that fact that the u. S. President seemed to believe that the 150000000000. 00 that was given to the rain ians upon the signing of the g. C. Remains in 2015 was a gift from the u. S. Government that is hardly the case the money that the iranians got after the signing of the deal was the iranian fund that had been frozen in the United States since the revolution of 1979 and since the rain students took over the u. S. Embassy in tehran and helped 52. 00 american citizens hostage for over 444. 00 days that was what resulted in the sanctions on iran and the freezing of their assets in the country and that money was released to the iranian government upon the one thing they signed the nuclear deal the other point to make is the fact that the u. S. President said that they are ready to talk they want peace the remains are not likely to believe that statement to be true since their top general one of the most important figures in the country was assassinated in iraq as well as talking peace or offering a sort of all of branch to iran the president said he was implementing quote immediate additional punishing sanctions would be the reaction to that berent. Act well i think many officials and ordinary iranians are now at a point where they dont believe theres anything left for the u. S. Government to sanction the last round that we had was a number of iranian officials foreign minister jobs or if im self being on one of those sanctions list in the past few months of obviously the sanctions many of the companies the construction firms the various companies that are affiliated with the revolutionary guards are now under u. S. Treasury sanctions there have been sanctions over sanctions over sanctions over the past 18 months since the u. S. Withdrew from the nuclear deal and the iranians just so believe theres anything left for the u. S. Government to sentients of the statement by the president that theyre going to have more crippling sanctions theres really nothing left to sanction the ordinary iranians are at a point where they just find it quite laughable that the u. S. Believes they have the power more power to actually sentient anything else left for the iranians to. Benefit from so the idea that the u. S. Government is looking for any kind of dollars with iran is really something that is absolutely dead it here people dont believe that will ever happen again with this Administration Since the assassination of us and so the money the crowds that weve seen that have come out over the past few days to his Funeral Services across the country indicate how the rains feel at the moment about the u. S. There are so many thanks didnt exist or such were the live in term run lets go to baghdad. To some of the job the bring us up to date with the latest from the border will be made of those comments about from the u. S. President to nato to become more involved in the middle east process. In the last few minutes weve had response from one of the leading clerics here in. There who is the head of one of the largest rocks in parliament and he said that the crisis is over after statements from President Trump and the iranian government he says now the Iraqi Government seems should be focusing its energy on building a new government the new form the formation of a new government which can safeguard iraqs sovereignty in a statement on which has now become the medium of choice for many of these leaders following president from he says that. The fighters of various factions here in iraq which belong to the Popular Mobilization forces should not be taking military actions he calls on the urgency to expel u. S. Troops something that the Iraqi Government has been insisting upon and he urges that there should be free and Fair Elections here in iraq so it seems that there is definitely a sigh of relief at least if there is a statement of anything to go by and that is what we were expecting as well from political analysts who we spoke to right after the president s speech they said that the iraqis would be seeing this as a welcome move that this does not signal if further escalation of tensions here on iraqi soil because as you remember since friday sasa nation of money and it will match the old one this Iraqi Government has been saying that the solution is the expulsion of foreign troops in iraq because their mission has changed and also for all sides to exercise restraint and that was the that was the fear that this might and action by the United States than a reaction by iran could spark a Chain Reaction where no side would be able to contain it and so far it appears to be the case most of the people here in iraq are seeing the u. S. President s speech of not signaling any further action of involving nato partners as a welcome move which would be helpful to words deescalation we havent heard officially from the Iraqi Government yet about what they. Think of the president s speech but you have to remember that the Iraqi Government took more than 12 hours almost to react to the attacks which happened on its soil is calling it an infringement of its sovereignty summoning the Iranian Ambassador and saying that iraq does not want to be dragged into a regional conflict some a binge of it that lives in baghdad many thanks asama we have a panel of guests to discuss the latest developments out zeros senior political analyst the xara is with me here in the studio yes been zacchaeus of International Attorney have full the chief of communications for mission of iraq to the United Nations shell join us from washington d. C. And also in the u. S. Capital Steve Clemons and its a lodge at the hill and also host of office who is the boss of light he joins us from washington d. C. Steve lets start with you the price of oil dropped immediately following President Trumps address to the nation is it all over now by the shouting i dont think its all over i think i think the youve got a moment of relief these 2 nations have come back from the brink and stared into the abyss of how awful this could be and you know i think that given the provocative nature of this fascination of soleimani this president is extremely lucky in some ways that the iranians were so measured to gave both an opportunity for an unlikely deescalation for the moment but lots of things remain and you know depending on what you thought were President Trumps real reasons for taking this action when he did whether it was impeachment or whether it was the sense of a Real Security threat of the moment i think the president will be going through the next set of stages in the impeachment process are to some some degree were going to see bubbling up problems maybe not to the you know level of a massive war but certainly the iran portfolio is going to continue to get attention from this white house has been. You had a White House Correspondent saying that the American Public will be confused perhaps disappointed with what the president had to say what did you make of it. Well i dont know if theyll necessarily be disappointed but i do see that the reconciliatory language that donald trump use was a surprise to a lot of people he was using words like peace harmony prosperity stability hes not used words like this before when addressing the iranian government he brought up isis and extended an olive branch citing to a common enemy. I think as a result this hot war will deescalate but i do agree with what was said earlier which is the cold war will not these proxy wars will continue and irans malign activity will continue by a proxy using places like iraq iran syria yemen. Lebanon as a battleground our senior political analyst moment bashar is with me in the studio iran appears to be standing down the president said is this this crisis if you can call it that is. That he got out of it certainly yes i mean in terms of its been dial down. The escalated to some level whatever the cold war that we lived over the last 40 years seem to be heating up the last few days the last 4 days clearly thats heating up with the cold war between the wrong one could be now back to what it was before december 29 my guess is. Is that in the end of the day president from acted right after that attack on the u. S. Embassy in baghdad for him a political survivor as it were a Political Animal as it were quote unquote he he understood that it was the takeover of the American Embassy to her on that led to the downfall of president carter and it did damage the. Kind of the see if you will of Hillary Clinton because of the benghazi attack on the bank of the on the american diplomatic. Assists in benghazi and i think he figured that the assassination of of course some sort of money was an important step to put an end to that kind of iranian escalation for the time being. I think he just told us tonight that the United States has absorbed the attack on the u. S. Base in Northern Iraq and in a far as hes concerned iran has absorbs the assassination of his general cos im still a money for it so for the time being in a fight as the american president is going to end this very particular episode is over Steve Clemons of washington would you agree with that i do i think marwan gets it right because he understands the political sensitivity that trump has to the symbolism of benghazi the symbolism of the iranian hostage crisis and i think that you know part of the actions of the Hezbollah Group that was attacking the embassy and putting that pressure was trying to send that exact signal to the president that they could determine whether they created circumstances that would hang around his neck as he proceeded into the election or not so there was a fundamental political reason that explains the imminence. Challenge and we didnt hear the president why he chose that moment he chose it for exactly the reason bar one just said yes and will iran it may be over as far as irans official sources a concern but what about its its proxies throughout the region would it continue to exact its quote terrible revenge through