Killing or bringing in general because of the money. And paris police fired tear gas to Disperse Protesters on a 6 week mass nationwide strike over pension reform. Youre watching R T International bring your line news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. U. S. And canadian investigators are due to arrive at the site of wednesdays plane crash in tehran on irans invitation a 176. 00 passengers on the ukrainian passenger jet lost their lives iran says a thorough investigation is underway and has rejected what it calls a logical and impossible claims by western leaders that it may have accidentally shot down the jet. Artists ask you to help looks at the growing speculation even before any progress has been carried out. Nothing instills confidence and International Leaders more than my love of precise language. We have intelligence from multiple sources including around lies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an array ne
Country. Elsewhere angular merkel is due to me Vladimir Putin in moscow later on saturday will be 1900 official visit to russia as german chancellor and this visit comes amid tight into the global times. That youre watching on t. V. International im writers on a lot could thank you for joining us. In the u. S. Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general mike bumppo struggle to explain the alleged threat posed by Major General solomonic during a press conference and explains. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary t
He is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate well let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and what not you know a ran his decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead. I think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. Launch the missiles all of them passed through the the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them. So that was a major success and i think that was a signal to washington that all the
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A warm welcome youre watching r. T. International with me. Or 1st the breaking news from the middle east the United States has assassinated a wrongs top military commander and a drone strike in iraq because some solemn on the lead the revolutionary guards elite kids for son was killed following a direct order from u. S. President donald trump the iranian Supreme Leader is vowing a harsh retaliation against washington while the iraqi Prime Minister has condemned the u. S. Strike as aggression i got an update here for most Senior Correspondent lourdes garcia. This is unprecedented in how how tense things are how both countries in this is this is the abbotts this is the obvious to kill assassinate the man who is referred to as the 2nd most powerful man in iran a potential successor to the Supreme Leader he was killed after arriving at the airport in baghdad a u. S. Airstrike he was he was targeted i mean this operation was preplanned they knew he was coming they knew where to strike the t