World Service Middle east analyst. Just take us through the series of events of what we know has happened. Essentially, over the last couple of hours, we started to hear reports that a convoy of helicopters carrying the iranian president Ebrahim Raisi had got into difficulties. Now, never difficult, different ways in which it was phrased on different outlets in the arabian media. A hard landing, a rough landing on a Crash Landing but no exact details of what that actually meant. On the reports were that it was a convoy of three helicopters travelling in the north west of the country, the province of east azerbaijan, and, she was saying, not only was the president on this particular helicopter, it began to emerge that the Foreign Minister was on the helicopter, too. Now, the two other helicopters that were in the convoy, we have had reports that they have landed safely so a huge Rescue Operation has been launched, she was saying a new introduction there, this been hampered by the thick
What do we know . Welcome away caettin what do we know . Welcome away getting information what do we know . Welcome away getting information from what do we know . Welcome away getting information from various l getting information from various iranians sources and other News Agencies that provide pretty good understanding of what happens in iran but isnt necessarily full confirmation. So what weve heard is the president Ebrahim Raisi was travelling in a convoy and we here this from at least one iranian source of three helicopters over East Azerbaijan and that one helicopter had to make what was described as a rough, hard landing. That helicopter has emerged over the past half an hour or so and it seems almost certainly to have had president vasey on board, not only president vasey on board, not only president raisi but also the reigning Foreign Minister on board. This is an area where is mountainous, its wooded and we are hearing from these sources that there is a particularly bad Wea
Most of them in a strike on a House In Nuseirat in the central gaza strip. We can go live tojerusalem and our correspondent danjohnson. I correspondent dan johnson. I wondered correspondent danjohnson. I wondered if we could start with a meeting Jake Sullivan is having with mr netanyahu. You are still trying to get some form of ceasefire . Yes to get some form of ceasefire . Yes, or at least a to get some form of ceasefire . Yes, or at least a guarantee to get some form of ceasefire . Yes, or at least a guarantee that to get some form of ceasefire . 1 1 or at least a guarantee that the Military Operation around raffle will remain restricted in order to limit the threat to palestinian lives. We know that the Military Offensive there has been intensifying over the last almost two weeks now and that has put nearly 800,000 palestinians back on the move in search of safety. The us has settled israel that if it conducts an all out assault on rafah it would seize certain Weapon Shipments to i
Is currently unclear whether the president was on board the helicopter that state media says was involved in the accident, so there were three helicopters in this convoy. One of them had what state media are calling a hard landing. There is a lot of heavy rain and fog in the area and we are just seeing the mp for the city where the convoy was heading has told reporters in tehran that Emergency Rescue workers have yet to find the location of the president s helicopter, and heavy rain and fog has made the rescue very difficult. They are saying of the three helicopters, to have landed safely but there is no news on the third. Some reports do say they were carrying the president and Foreign Minister but we have had no confirmation of that at the moment and i amjoined in confirmation of that at the moment and i am joined in the studio by mike colleague. You have been monitoring the state media in iran. What is the latest as we know . You have presented what is the latest as we know . 7m, ha