Been arrested in the 1st place miss urns former chief makes his 1st public appearance since skipping bail in japan ahead of a trial on allegations of financial misconduct. U. S. President donald trump says iran appears to be standing after a series of strikes on Iraqi Military bases hosting u. S. Troops the strikes were in retaliation for the assassination of the top iranian commander qassam so the money 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 how 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 ok. All of our soldiers are safe. And only 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 trump made 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 live it 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. It does not meet what i consider to be you know the 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 at aljazeera the white house. Ok live now to washington correspondent john hendren so john when he says the sanctions more sanctions in place until iran changes its behavior what does that mean. Well there arent that many more sanctions that you going to levy against iran particularly from the n ited states but it seems to be the targets would be a series of businesses and individuals. But those sanctions would be largely symbolic and one of the reasons for that is there are already sanctions against 700. 00 individuals and businesses in iran there are even secondary sanctions against other countries who trade with those those bodies that are sanctioned in iran so that iran cannot essentially launder that money so the United States could target yet more people yet more businesses and government institutions but already it seems to have had a crushing effect on the iranian economy the troubled ministration has been targeting iran since pulling out that. Iran Nuclear Agreement in 2015 and since then the economy is scheduled to shrink just over the next year by 9. 5 percent its a 440000000000. 00 economy. And inflation is at about 30 percent right now which is very little more the Trump Administration can do but by ratcheting up these sanctions its sending a message that it is still not satisfied and that it wants to cut a deal with iran that with these other countries as well that would finally resolve the disagreements between the 2 countries reaction like john in the holes on capitol hill after we were hearing from mr trump. Well thats extraordinary its extraordinary to think that just 24 hours ago the world seemed on the brink of a new war in the middle east and then you heard President Trump saying that iran had stood down well the United States and stood down as well there is among the things that he said was not the word retaliation the world seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and then the but the administration went to capitol hill and tried to present its case for why it is asinine it custom somani and republicans were by and large convinced that that was a necessary thing to do democrats on the other hand said no that there was no imminent reason to believe that there were attacks to take american lives and in the senate which is controlled by republicans there are a couple of key republicans who are also very unhappy with what they heard from the trumpet ministration just listen peter to how angry this one republican mike lee is as he talks about it. 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 it 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 youll be emboldening iran nancy pelosi a little late so its a day out symes tomorrow morning your time we understand joan will try something to see things she has to rein in the administration whats she going to do. Thats right nancy pelosi wants to introduce a new war powers act that is something it would rain in President Trumps ability to declare war or were to engage in military hostilities with iran and the reason for that is the trouble ministration has been using to authorizations for military force one was in 2001 the other was in 2002 and as rand paul a republican in the u. S. Senate said it is ridiculous that the administration is using a 2000 to act which authorized war in iraq to assassinate an iranian general so in the house nancy pelosi and her democrats are offering a resolution that would in her words limit the president s military actions regarding iran she says that our concerns were not addressed by the insufficient war powers act notification and by the administrations briefing today there was a similar bill in the senate and 2 republicans have signed on to that the democrats need at least 4 but it is now conceivable that limits on the president s ability to engage in military hostilities with iran could pass in both houses peter john thanks very much well earlier on weapons to irans president Hassan Rouhani said the real revenge this. Money will be kicking u. S. Forces out of the region thats money and sees him on all. The heads of dias soleimani as you saw his revered head and his body had videos and pictures the revenge for vets 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 castle for eva. Thats a big since iran with war all for the reaction the. 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. Enough for many speaking in the rare live broadcast usually theyre recorded and then put out on state t. V. But you have to live broadcast to speaking to followers he said that yesterdays missile attack was a slap in the face for the United States but military action alone wasnt enough and that the u. S. Presence in the region needed to end but weve also had response to what the nato secretary general secretary general who condemned irans missile strikes against u. S. Forces devolves reached the foreign minister said that those those attacks were an illegal and he said that the nato had been 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 have been out in the streets over the last few days asking for revenge over the assassination of qassam so the money. Jonah holes in london he says donald trump used his speech to give nato powers a dressing down for what he considers the muted response to the killing of cost some sort of 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 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 carson 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 something of course that we also know that the Iraqi Parliament at least hes keen for him to do. Lets bring in Max Blumenthal who joins us live on skype from washington hes the author and editor of the gray zone dot com an online news website Max Blumenthal welcome to the news hour is there an overarching strategy here i mean all u. S. Actions in this region still have potential consequences here. Well if you listen to Donald Trumps beach the strategy is the status quo that produced this kind of escalate tory cycle Donald Trumps speech sounded to me like an impersonation a very slurred in person asian of Benjamin Netanyahu who is rife with the kind of dissent from ation hes used to justify his maximum pressure policy and it was bookended with a promise to sort of deescalate this latest round because even elements in Donald Trumps domestic base are in open revolt against escalation towards actual conventional war with iran donald trump couldnt even pronounce the name of the man that he called the worst terrorist in the world but the most significant aspect of his speech today is a restatement of the maximum pressure policy of sanctions then even hardliners in washington agree that sanctions that were split in place in 2017 which almost every democrat in the senate voted for are responsible for this escalation with iran its left iran with no choice but to begin to retaliate because the demands that the u. S. Has imposed on iran for lifting the sanctions would mean a complete dissolution and suicide of its revolutionary government has to say that mr trump hasnt simply spurred on tehrans proxies however. Well if you consider what happened today with an attack on the green zone by what i would consider possibly iraqi partners of iran mark asper the secretary of defense made a stunning Statement Today during a press conference at the pentagon where he said that the u. S. Must now distinguish between iran and its proxies meaning the Popular Mobilization units that wouldve been a great policy to have imposed or a strategy to take before the us decided to kill the one of the most important Iraqi Military figures mohandas who is the general leading the Popular Mobilization units in the same car as console the money so they started wised up after theyve realized the catastrophe that theyve produced inside iraq Lindsey Graham today representative carolina saying it be a nice idea if we got a deal going with iran and presumably several of the countries thats my extrapolation get a deal going we had one that was called the g c p o 8 we had it from 2015 yet i didnt hear him say anything in favor of the j c p o a Lindsey Graham seems to be the key representative in the senate of the permanent war state and is one of the major forces whos been pushing trump not only towards this maximum pressure policy but towards actual hot war with iran and regional war so its unclear when trump or any of his allies talk about a deal what they mean and it seems that theyve completely shredded the j c a p o n alienated all of europe the j. C. Pos just now theres a hollow hawk of a dead mess that probably will never be revived does he mr trump i mean does he genuinely believe he can get nato or the nato countries to do more given that just last choose day germany and the nato countries said we are leaving the area asap. Well this might be trumped by finding another way to justify not paying so much into nato his budget which president after president has been annoyed by even barack obama complained about having to pay so much into nato one nato is really struggling to obtain to. Demonstrate its relevance but what i see happening here is just general frame of u. S. European relations i mean trump made this statement a week after he threatened to impose sanctions on the government of germany for the nordstrom deal with russia to get gas at a very cheap price much cheaper than u. S. Gas you know after trump has supported braggs it so basically europe is going to after being alienated on the iran deal and now being threatened with u. S. Sanctions and now this latest statement by trump i think were going to see a more independent europe and this maximum pressure policy towards iran wont change unless theres another administration in place in washington ok well have to leave it there thanks very much for talking to us michael intel the in the states. 20 more ahead here on the news hour for you including australias bush fire crosses firefighters and residents brace the return of dangerous weather conditions this weekend also ahead 5 years in the making im finally its open how russia or stands to benefit from a new gas pipeline through turkey im one of its a whose biggest clubs pays the price for their fans racial of you so a star striker details coming up in the sport skiers will be other major story were following out of iran is the crash of that ukrainian passenger plane the boeing 737 went down shortly after takeoff from tehran killing ole 176 passengers and crew among them 163 canadians need barco reports the passengers and crew were flight p. S. 75 to didnt stand a chance minutes after takeoff the Ukrainian InternationalAirlines Flight from tehran to key have went down in a city suburb Recovery Team is pick 3 whats left of the plane from peoples lives most of the dad ari rainy and more than 60 canadians will also killed many reporter the students for turning from vacation the boeing 737800 was less than 4 years old and had been recently serviced video and social media shows a light hurtling to the ground and then a fireball iranian Officials Say there was no distress call this is a losing from selma claims fortunately it didnt christian the reason a intially area of but the ricketts hez scarce it around that the gardens a villas with an a large radius nobody his survived across bill airport in kiev the arrivals board bears the grim news. This mother and father had been waiting for their son to arrive missing so someone probably knew my son is a senior Flight Attendant my daughter called at 615 this morning to say that in the u. S. They were reporting that a plane had crashed a Ukrainian InternationalAirlines Plane ukraines now canceled all flights overran the countrys embassy in tehran initially blamed engine failure for the crash later removed the statement. We made our decision to suspend all the activities of all ukrainian of the Asian Companies in iranian airspace until the causes of this tragedy become clear. The crash comes amid heightened tensions across the region following a u. S. Drone strike that killed top iranian general has. In a sign of worsening ties irans Civil Aviation authority says it will not give the black box flight recorder to u. S. Plane make a boeing for analysis