Remain over what caused the crash of an airliner in iran 176 people were killed including dozens of canadians. Who want to express my deepest condolences to those who are mourning the loss of a loved one. Or should have never been arrested in the 1st place also ahead on the run the foreman is son boss carlos go and he says he fled japan because he was the victim of a conspiracy. U. S. President donald trump says iran appears to be quote standing down after a series of air strikes on Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Troops the strikes were in retaliation for the assassination of the top iranian commander customs he was killed in a u. S. Drone strike in baghdad on friday mr trump said hell be imposing new sanctions on tehran until it changes its behavior White House Correspondent kimberly hulk it has the latest. 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 riding in missile attacks on 2 bases used by the u. S. Military in iraq we suffered no casualties 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 retaliation without hesitation that have dominated his twitter feed in recent days instead flanked by top advisors and generals troubling aid a surprising suggestion that members of nato to become much more involved in the middle east process it was an astonishing claim from a president who once called nato obsolete he also encouraged u. S. Partners and allies to abandon the j c p a way an agreement put in place in 2050 and by world powers to limit Irans Nuclear program we must all Work Together toward making a deal with the rain that makes the world a safer and more Peaceful Place however truck didnt ounce new sanctions would be coming without giving specifics he also left open the possibility of diplomacy speaking directly to irans leaders he insisted the United States desires for iran a great future one that you deserve one of prosperity at home in harmony with the nations of the world the United States is ready to embrace peace. With all who seek it but missing from the president s speech evidence that the u. S. Killing of iranian general qassam solomonic was justified and necessary to prevent an imminent attack on americans its evidence opposition democrats are demanding from the trumpet ministration also absent a Clear Strategy something the administration has promised to provide in closed door briefings on wednesday to members of congress including Top Republicans iran didnt just taken off ramp it took a u. Turn because they know they have no capability to fight against america at least based on the presentation that was made. That he does not meet what i consider to be threat but if President Trump chooses to respond by sending even more soldiers to the middle east he breaks a Major Campaign promise to pull the United States out of what he once called its for ever wars can really help get al jazeera the white house. Ok lets get more on that for you it will be speaking with assad big whos the iranian capital tehran in just a moment for us lets take it live to washington to my colleague john and so john it was deliberate targeting minimum damage. Thats right thats what the u. S. Defense department is saying and that is what officials have been telling reporters in greater detail outside of the pentagon briefing but at the pentagon it was marc esper the defense secretary and mark milley the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the most senior military officer in the u. S. Who said the Iranian Missile attack in iraq appears to have been intended not to kill personnel that it was specifically aimed to avoid people but also we have reporting here theres a New Washington post story among others in which senior u. S. Officials say that they were given warning ahead of time its not clear whether that was human intelligence or whether it was signal intelligence maybe an intercept but they had it least 2 sources of information so for hours ahead of that attack at those bases there in iraq al assad and up in the kurdish territory in irbil people were were in helmets and gear they were hunkered down in specific areas that are designed to protect them and they waited there for hours until that attack was carried out and u. S. Military Officials Say that is one of the reasons that they were protected when that strike happened. I had hoped and expected to receive more information outlining the legal factual and moral justification for the attack that was left somewhat unsatisfied on that front which i would add was probably the worst briefing ive seen at least on a military issue in the 9 years ive served in the United States senate when i found so distressing about that briefing was that one of the messages we received from the briefers was do not debate do not discuss the issue of the appropriateness of further miller military intervention against iran. And that if you do you will be emboldening iran. Also joan sanctions targeting walts well thats not clear because he didnt outline them i did want to point out that that that quote you just ran from likely came from a republican there were a couple of republicans who came out of that briefing and while most of the republicans felt that the White House Senior Administration officials who briefed them on the reasons for the the assassination of money most of the republicans came out saying that they were satisfied with the responses rand paul and that gentleman mike lee both republicans joined a broad array of democrats and some who said there simply was no specific information about an impending threat and that is why many people are looking to curb the administration as as for those sanctions we really dont have a lot of information on what those are and the administration has already levied significant sanctions on iran it will be interesting to see what they come up with and when you talk about curbing the administration or its missions in the region John Nancy Pelosi tomorrow will get some flesh on the bows to see how she wants to rein needin mr trump if you will whats that about and how was she trying to do is. Thats right nancy pelosi among other democrats was upset that in order to justify the killing of customs or the money the administration went back to war powers authorizations to authorize the war in iraq that is a decade and a half old and among others rand paul a republican said its ridiculous to use the justification the congressional authorization to launch war in iraq in order to kill an iranian general so now a number of people in congress and then she follows the chief among them want to require a war powers act that would limit the president s ability to act without Congressional Authority she says that would be introduced within the next 24 hours and would be brought up tomorrow here in the u. S. That is on thursday she says nancy pelosi our concerns were not addressed by the insufficient war powers act notification and by the administrations briefings today she said that the resolution would limit the president s military actions regarding iran and what was interesting in that quote you ran earlier from republican mike lee is that youve got a couple of republicans were joining democrats are you in the house they seem to have the votes in order to do this because the democrats for majority over there in the senate they need to or they need to pull over i believe it is for senators from the republican side well they have to today who spoke out and said they would support them ok john thank you very much well earlier the iranian president Hassan Rouhani the real revenge this us a nation of custom so the money will be kicking the u. S. Forces out of the region. Yes says soleimani as ease him on all they cast off the hand of our dia 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 in the ultimate response by regional nations is when america is expelled from this region and its head of aggression is cast off forever. Ok live now to tehran and our correspondent. What else are they been saying about this in the past few hours perhaps as a reaction to what mr trumps been saying. Yes well president rouhani has had some strong words for the United States he said the United States should know if they commit another crime even if it is a threat that they would receive a Decisive Action from the armed forces also weve had the supreme need to know how many speaking their rare live broadcast usually they are recorded and then put out on state t. V. But have a live broadcast to speak into fathers he said that yesterdays missile attack was a slap in the face for the United States military action alone wasnt enough and that the u. S. Presence in the region needed to end but weve also had response to what. Secretary general who condemned irans missile strikes against u. S. Forces. The foreign minister said that those those attacks were an eagle and he said that the nato had done nothing in the region except for destruction and instability but also the Foreign Office spokesman has said that the nato had become a tool to justify u. S. U. S. Crimes and terrorism so were still having some very Strong Language come out from iran despite donald trump saying. That iran is standing down iran also released video footage showing them assembling the missiles and those missile strikes and again trying to appease Public Opinion here people had been out in the streets over the last few days asking for revenge over the assassination of course and so the money where does this leave 24 hours on the relationship between tehran and baghdad because the fundamentals of that relationship are they still the same or have they shifted at all. Well well again iraq has become the ground for these battle taking place we understand that the iranians did inform the iraqis that they would be carrying out these attacks but i think this is the relationship between iraq and the herat is still the same but if there are further attacks and if that does become a battleground for any escalation that relationship could change very quickly as a big load for us into iran here on the news many thanks. Well al jazeera is journals in london he says donald trump used his speech to give need so powers addressing done for what he considers the muted response to the killing of kassam so the money 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 of the collective coffers of nato now i think he will see nato alongside european powers as having disappointed the administration my composure the secretary of state said as much in failing to full throated lee support the actions last week against person solomonic. 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 some of course that we also know that the Iraqi Parliament at least hes keen for him to do ok lets bring in ryan grim joining us from washington hes the d. C. Bureau chief for the intercept an online investigative News Organization ryan grim oakum to the user clearly the situation has not been wholly decompressed just because of what Donald Trumps been saying so where are we. So this evening on capitol Hill Mike Pompei oh that also the director of the cia and the pentagon secretary briefed both members of the house and then subsequently members of the senate and as you report a little bit earlier democrats emerged saying that there was absolutely no evidence presented that would give any comfort to the conclusion that there was any imminent threat that warranted this this killing and with a pair of republicans rand paul and mike lee also voicing rather blunt concern who had a mike lee calling it the worst military briefing hed ever seen in his history as a senator and mike lee said that he had gone into the briefing undecided about the question of how how the senate should respond and came out decided and he decided. Against the position of the white house so that that did not go well for them the question now though is what the United States is planning to do in terms of sanctions you know the President Trump has been saying that theyve been you know applying maximum sanctions already so hes going to have to kind of go searching through the couch cushions to find some more ways to sanction iran meanwhile youre getting noises from various elements of the administration that there was that theyre willing to you know sit down without preconditions and talk to iran and you had the specter of donald trump urging your you know members of the iran deal to break the iran deal and then come back to the table and negotiate a new iran deal and essentially he wants the iran deal that was in place but he wants it with his name on it rather than bronco Barack Obamas name but you know this evening in Washington People are breathing a lot easier than they were than they were this morning and thats for sure if this is will still parts of socalled maximum pressure surely maximum pressure has demonstrably failed. Right it depending on what your object is. You know aside from Everything Else it does appear that you know the United States is on its heels now in iraq and that cost will money will get his last wish which is the kind of the the final diminishing of american strength in iraq it was remarkable to see President Trump just come out and explicitly say that the United States has been in iraq because of its oil but now that the United States is the Worlds Largest producer of fossil fuels that he doesnt need the United States doesnt need middle eastern oil anymore and so its going to be leaving you know you dont see that kind of blunt language about oil and empire you know in in typical diplomacy but he just kind of took the mask off and said it outright and you know so trump has very conflicting views when it comes to the u. S. Role in the world want to say wants himself to look strong there is that he doesnt want to tangle the United States and overseas conflicts ok mr trump in the briefing youve touched on this already for us was saying wed like to deal with iran Lindsey Graham just saying we need to have a deal with iran maybe i spent the last 4 years in a parallel universe but wasnt that what the g c p a a 2015 was all about. Yes but the problem for republicans is that it was obamas deal you know trump doesnt necessarily have politics or world views that are absent his own grievances and partisan politics here in the United States if the if the administration the Obama Administration had been trying to go to war with iran then donald trump would be the biggest dove when it comes to iran you know he just wants to kind of erase and supplant the Obama Administrations effort is it is extraordinarily personal for him obviously getting reelected in 2020 is personal for him as well so if he can be seen if he believes that he can be seen as somebody whos strong who went out and acted in a way that president obama wouldnt act but then also somebody who disentangle the United States from middle east conflicts and reach some sort of peace accord with iran he feels like he could sell that to his 2020 audience theres no theres no need to look for any logic in this beyond trumps own personal and also kind of political grievances that hes engaged with here if we drill down for a 2nd ryan into kind of one of the other takeaways do you get the sense that theres a calculation on the part of this white house now and is this the white house this is ministration come escalate any serious crisis zeroes in on any place in the world but can always pull back you can always pull down the very last minute bucks when it comes to iran when it comes to the middle east thats potentially a really dangerous place to be if thats what you think you can always thats the rabbit you can always pull out the hat right right as it is dangerous if the president comes out of this situation. Believing that he went against the advice of all of his advisors launched this catastrophic strike was condemned for doing so and then it worked out just fine for him if he if thats the lesson that he takes away from that that is extraordinarily dangerous for you know the fate of the world Going Forward the next time that hes faced with a decision