on al-jazeera. iran fires more than a dozen missiles that to iraq the airbase is hosting u.s. forces insisting it's legitimate self-defense. but i'm down in jordan the sound is iraq live from go coming up iran's supreme leader calls the missile attack a slap in the face for the u.s. and says it must leave the region. the burial has finally taken place at a rainy and commander nasim cinemark assassination sparked this latest escalation. and ukrainian plane crashes moments after takeoff from obama's capital killing more than 170 people.

welcome to the program iran has struck back at the u.s. for the assassination of its top commander customs to the mahdi and it's making it clear what happens next depends on donald trump iran fired more than a dozen missiles into 2 bases hosting u.s. forces in iraq the assad base that's in us in anbar province and another one in air bill iraq says $22.00 missiles were fired and there were no iraqi casualties well u.s. president donald trump has only responded to the attacks on twitter saying all is well we're expecting a statement from him once washington wakes up in a few hours times now iran strikes and salutations for the killing also the money in a u.s. airstrike last friday he was buried in his hometown of quetta man hours after the strikes by iran on wednesday but we have a team of correspondents monitoring all the developments simona fulton is in iraq's capital baghdad gable elizondo we'll have more on president trump's reaction and

also tomorrow we'll have the latest from the iranian capital but 1st to rob matheson begins our coverage. this is iran's promised response to the u.s. assassination of top iranian general high seems on the money ballistic missiles soaring into the night sky their targets to iraqi military bases housing thousands of u.s. soldiers iranians are ticking the core of their to hit back directly they wouldn't even leave their proxies to deliver the message that their american. kind of saving face order for them because killing soleimani is it's an insult from the americans to iranian establishment to iranian a state all and therefore i think you're ronnie and has to retaliate on twitter

this was us president donald trump's response all is well he's added casualties and damage are being assessed and said so far so good he's also said the u.s. has the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far the question is whether that military will be used to retaliate against these attacks u.s. troops are based at the air base in iraq one of the 2 targets hit by iranian missiles ever since president trying to scuttle the. there has been to. get an escalation and that either side can afford it or look weak the leaders of both sides have committed to this escalation and it's hard to see how how it gets you know where they are so i don't want. the u.s. says it's killing of cars some sort of money in an air strike was in response to an attack in iraq in which a u.s. contractor died and for which the u.s.

blames iran. in iran huge crowds have been in mourning. and demanding revenge for so money's death and immediate diplomatic solution to the crisis seems unlikely . both sides have to be rolling through gaijin diplomacy and right now i fear that i do not see that i do not see either side the iranian or the american willing to do the things necessary to engage in diplomacy. iran wants u.s. forces to permanently leave the gulf region and it says there will be a harsh response to any further u.s. retaliation rob matheson al-jazeera. when iran's foreign minister jihad zarif said his country will respond in proportion to any reaction from the united states we have said very clearly that if the united states takes any further action it on

viewed respond accordingly and we would respond in a very harsh way but proportionately well we did not start this process of escalation day united states rage an economic war against iran the united states has to come to its senses the presence of iranian people in the streets of many cities unprecedented in the history europe can play a useful role by informing the united states of the serious error in their analysis that they should stop listening to clowns that they should base their policy based on realities and not some evolutions of some clowns who have ambitions of strip. barbara joins us live now from the iranian capital so lots of reactions coming from iran's foreign minister zarif well most he's been saying. well he said that this is something the revolutionary guards have to do they had to respond and that's the general feeling that's been shared by the cabinet members of

president rouhani as government the weekly cabinet meeting took place earlier this morning in the capital where we also heard from iran's defense minister amir hatami who said that this was a just a response it was a proportionate response to what the americans did to general hossam so in money by assassinating him the defense minister also said that the attack that was carried out by the iranian revolutionary guard just after midnight here on the base in iraq was something that the americans have not have had since world war 2 so it's being seen as quite a significant hit that the iranians have managed to deliver to the united states we've also heard from the reigning president hassan rouhani at that cabinet meeting and he vowed revenge we know that the moneys body was torn into pieces and his hand was cut off and the president mentioned this is quite an image but he the words that he used he said that they've cut off his hands and now we will cut off the

u.s. is legs meaning that their support network in the middle east is now under threat by iranians we've also been hearing from various other ministers who share the same sentiments and. thanking the revolutionary guards and it's clear that this attack is just the beginning of what iran has planned in iran supreme leader gave a rather sobering speech to the faithful giving lengthy praise to get some sort of . yes the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei was at a scheduled event. writing the anniversary of the uprising in the city of paul was just prior to the revolution of 1979 and he used this opportunity to highlight the achievements of the late general who was very close to the supreme leader they've known each other for over 4 decades and so the money received the highest military award from the supreme leader just last year but the supreme leader himself was

saying that this wasn't just the general and his death has far reaching consequences let's hear some of what else he had to say. in that. today we are armed the nation of iran is equipped today against the bullies of the world matt bomer move past nice we slap the us on the face when it comes to confrontation military actions of this kind are not enough what is important is the corrupt presence of the united states in this region must come to an end they brought war and hostility and deception and destruction to this region wherever they go this happens they are still insisting that this corruption this destructiveness should be imposed on iran. so now the ball is really in the american government's court as the iranians see it they've done what they need to do for the time being they're waiting to find out if

and when the united states will respond and how they will respond they've warned that any kind of a reaction from the u.s. will have more consequences for them we're also waiting to find out a detailed account of the attacks that were carried out by the revolutionary guards their media relations department has said that they will release a statement in the coming hours so we'll get more information about the attacks so thank you all right let's bring in deborah elizondo who joins us live now from washington d.c. president trump has responded on twitter saying all is well so are we now sensing perhaps a poor in this escalation. i think so at least from washington's perspective at least from the trump administration's perspective i think that's what you're seeing i mean trump met with his war cabinet late on tuesday is this strike in iraq was happening and there was some real concern then and real apprehension going on and uncertainty on if some american troops were in killed or injured what trumps

response would be but it appeared and it appears by all accounts that no u.s. servicemen were men or women were killed or injured we don't have at it as well any sort of idea of if there is any even damage to american military. assets there on either of those bases so at that point trump has set out this tweet basically saying all is well i'll comment more on this tomorrow well tomorrow is now as it's a little after 6 am here in washington trump said that he would be speaking this morning at some point so that will probably be what you can assume probably in the next couple hours or so from the pentagon they've been doing a damage assessment throughout the evening but they have not been giving any other details about any sort of damage on those bases to any u.s. assets we expect to hear from the pentagon as well but right now trump is facing a real question what will he do how will he respond he's a little bit in

a box because he's been saying for the last several days if iran retaliated the u.s. would also retaliate back against iran well iran has retaliated now the question becomes what will trump do and that's the big question moving forward in the coming hours and days gabe and the u.s. secretary of state on the defense secretary both say they want to deescalate the crisis so what do we stand now with in a diplomatic efforts to cool things down now the defense secretary and state and. secretary of state both said they wanted to deescalate the situation but that was before these strikes occurred in iraq that was early on tuesday we have not heard from either of them since then however we have heard from lindsey graham he's a senator from the state of south carolina and very hawkish one of the most anti iran. government officials are on capitol hill and he spoke late tuesday after

these strikes in iraq and listen closely to what he has to say because he is a close advisor to president donald trump the missiles were launched from iran at targets inside of iraq housing u.s. military personnel the president has all the authority and aides under article 2 to respond and hiring sponsors yet to be determined but he has that authority to respond it was an act of war by regime for the last 40 years spent a cancer in the mid east when they say they want to destroy israel they're not kidding they're the largest state sponsor of terrorism so what trump is going to be hearing probably in the coming hours days and days is from 2 sets of close advisers one such as lindsey graham very hawkish and tell you ran folks that are have trump's ear that are probably going to be advising him to strike back at iran on the other side to probably be hearing from others who are telling him no let's

deescalate no american troops were killed this is a perfect chance to take that diplomatic off ramp this is a very unpredictable president nobody knows what he's going to decide what his next move will be our guide thank you for that let's cross over now to the iraqi capital baghdad and bring in some of the folds and some of us so we understand iraq's prime minister has been speaking about the iranian response what most even say. that is correct the media office of the prime minister's office released a statement in which the prime minister said that he received an oral message from iran minutes before or just as the attack was unfolding on. that airbase in western anbar as well as a base in and he said that at the same time he was getting calls from american officials here in iraq saying that they were being targeted so it appears that iraq was not given at least according to this official statement advance notice of these

planned attacks the prime minister then went on to condemn these attacks as a violation of iraqi sovereignty and he said he would continue his 1st try to mitigate this crisis to prevent further escalation of course many will be comparing this reaction to his reaction to the u.s. airstrikes that killed some silly money on iraqi soil and that also killed. hundreds and iraqi security officer who is the 2nd in command of the iraqi popular mobilization forces his condemnation of those u.s. attacks were quite strong he said that they were an aggression against the iraqi state and of course he went to advocate for the removal and the departure of foreign troops including yours troops from iraq so some people might see his statement in response to this iranian tags as a little bit more subdued than those earlier condemnation of the u.s.

strikes. what's clear now was iraq has become the battleground in this fight between the u.s. and iran so what are the fears and concerns of ordinary iraq as the people on the street. there are extremely worried have been through 4 decades of intermittent war they have only just come out of a 4 year war against eisel and the past 2 years have been an unprecedented or perhaps rare period. stability here in the country that gave many people hope that they could finally look towards the future try to build a better country and demand a better future for themselves but of course the latest crisis has been a huge throwback with many people preoccupied here that they will be once again dragged into a war that they didn't choose that they could end up being a call lateral damage as the u.s. and iran continue this tit for tat for tat attacks and of course we don't have just iran threatening retaliation we also have iranian backed groups here in iraq

threatening to avenge the deaths of. hundreds we've just had today a statement from the media office of the who is one of the leaders of one of these paramilitary groups who said that the attack that we've seen earlier this morning was just the 1st step it was the response to so the man is there and that now iraqis themselves would be avenging mohandas suggesting that there might be further attacks by iranian backed groups inside iraq on american bases and of course all of this is a great source of concern for iraqis or just some of. the thank you. sir for lines of council their flights to those planes to avoid rain the mayor. the u.s. federal aviation authority the f.a.a. has banned u.s. airlines from flying in the airspace above iraq iran and the gulf of oman it says there's a potential for miscalculation or mis identification. israel's prime minister has

warned that anyone who tries to attack his country will be hit hard in a minute and yahoo emphasized he fully supports the u.s. actions. president trump should be congratulated for acting swiftly boldly and resolutely against this thank you thank you thank you for acting against this journalist. who was the architect. of iran's campaign of carnage interred throughout the middle east and throughout the world. is very proud to say as i do now again that israel stuff is completely beside the united states thank you thank the european union has called for strength from all sides here's what is head of foreign policy had to say. to

current situation or to dream their 1st defies years and also has implications for the work of the. polish. relations rocket attack on air bases in iraq used by us and equally 2 forces among them the dupion forces yet another example of excavation and increased confrontation well let's talk to sultan barak outies director of the center of a conflict and humanitarian studies that the doha institute he joins me on set here in doha sultan so what's your assessment then of the iranian response i mean tehran says this is a slap in the face for the americans so is this an escalation or is a clever retaliation i think it's more of a retaliation television this been calculated carefully not to cross the line of direct confrontation with united states but it is it is designed to really help

vent some of the feelings that have bottled up over the last. few days in iran and it mostly speaks to the iranian public and it's important here so time is it not to talk about iraq because baghdad is not caught up in the middle of this fight between the u.s. on one side between iran and the other let's just remind our viewers that sort of money was killed on iraqi soil and iraqi bases within attacks by iran so it's a how difficult a position is iraq in now do you think i think is very difficult and has been in this position ever since to 2003 neither the united states nor iran really respects the sovereignty of iraq and has not demonstrated much of respect over the last few years including the war and i see now this could be the last straw and given the declaration by the iranian parliament to which to request that all forces should leave the united the the grounds of iraq. i think this could be

a turning point for iraq and i hope they do use this opportunity to recapture their sovereignty and act as as an independence day which would help other arab countries in the region as well and all eyes now sultan of course on president trump and what the u.s. reaction is likely to be we saw this rather curious tweet from trump this morning saying all is well is this now a pause in the escalation and is this now perhaps the off from that everybody's talking about well we have grown to think of a special term factor in any analysis these days and i think given that he has managed to go to sleep since the attack which happened sort of early evening washington time he has information that not many if any american soldiers has been killed in this attack it could be linked to the leaked memo from yesterday about the americans withdrawing from bases in iraq but having said so i think history for example on targeting cultural sites in iran what was very concerning and that kind

of attitude brings in a really deep rooted hatred of the culture in the region and somehow build this impression that the whole region has been taken through a genocide cultural genocide over the last few years which plays into the hands of certain elements including israeli prime minister netanyahu and his position really he's trying to make sure that he gains as much as possible out of the you mention the israelis the whole time so let's talk about the other regional players the saudis immoralities the israelis you just mentioned them the iranians have threatened to hit dubai and also haifa should there be a broader escalation but surely those countries don't want to get caught up in any further conflagration. norm in israel is going to continue to raise their rhetorical i think but if you really were to go german say would israel want to go to direct war with iran risking israeli lives and handling israeli missiles are going to israeli cities and. we know we had rather than nice days does it and maybe

other allies around the region in terms of saudi arabia and i think very as they have modified their way of addressing iran over the last few hours there they sound now much more moderate much more calling for potential negotiation and collective security in the region so good to get your folks thank you thank you now the other breaking news we're following is the crash of a ukrainian passenger plane in iran the boeing 737 belonging to ukraine international airlines went down shortly after takeoff from tehran 176 passengers and crew on board were killed the airline says the plane a service just 2 days ago more blood money has more. a ukraine international airline 737 bound for kiev reduced to smoke and wreckage. all those on board killed. rescue crew and emergency personnel pick through what's left natasha johnson mom from any airport. video released on social media shows

a faint light flickering and then a fireball. the boeing jet set off from town early on wednesday after being delayed almost an hour. but fortunately it didn't question the reason into area but the wreckage has scarce it around the gardens of villas within a large radius nobody has survived. this mother and father a flight attendant on ukraine international airlines who waiting for his arrival in kiev now they're waiting for any news or to. 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 international airlines plane she asked were equal or was flying to and we said teheran and that he would return on the morning flight and then we found the video of the plane crashing. the played was scheduled to had to boras spill

international airport at the ukrainian capital of kiev minutes after the boeing 737-2800 jet left throwaway it went down and a suburb southwest's of the arraigning capital boeing says it's gathering more information the 737-2800 is a common single awe of twin engine jet liner use for a short to medium range flights it's an older model in the boeing 737 max that's we grounded for nearly 10 months following 2 deadly crashes it's a huge setback for accompany this try to regain trust i'm bring the 737 max back to the skies and boeing would likely have questions to answer to from the families of the victims of this crash lure about a manly ouda syrup so let's take a closer look now the model of plane which crashed and tehran the boeing 737800 was

developed in the 1990 is not its 1st flight in july 1907th the last 737800 was delivered in december almost 5000 of them are in use around the world a model supposed to replace it in the something some max as one grounded since early last year after 2 fatal crashes or geoffrey thomas is editor in chief of airline ratings dot com he says this lightly that a mechanical problem is the corps of this crash the assessment is at this stage the this this of very good so i could have been the wrong word to use a very sickening place a vision of the plane. appears to be on fire there's a glow from this a craft as it's descending then there's a small explosion before the impact and when there's a much much larger explosion this appears to be. possibly an engine problem it may well again an explosion on board the aircraft. it's

a little bit hard to tell at this stage but certainly it appears to be some major technical problem has impacted this a craft i know it's coincidental with this missile attack but i don't think the 2 are related this is the 737 next generation arranging there are over 7000 of them flying around the world today it's one of the most widely used crossed in the skies it has an excellent safety record and in fact consider this that those 7000 airplanes that you about here are 5 flights a day so this is a colossal reliance on this aircraft by the world's airlines and it has an excellent safety record and notwithstanding the tragedy that we're just seeing unfolding but i do believe it will be mechanical or possibly it might possibly be a terrorist act it's too hard to tell at this stage now these 4 people have been

killed by a car bomb near somalia's presidential palace that exploded that the 1st security checkpoint for the building in the capital mogadishu yom group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility a week after carried out another bombing in the capital killing 19 people. right so let's just recap for you what's happened in the last few hours iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles to iraqi air base that host american forces tehran said it was in retaliation for the assassination of the iranian general hossam somali. he was killed in a u.s. drone strike on friday outside baghdad's airport iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali famine they said his country is united against the bullies of the world. and the u.s. president responded to the strikes on twitter saying and i quote only as well missiles north some iran to military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good. several airlines have canceled their

flights to tehran while others have rerouted their planes to avoid iran the u.s. federal aviation authority the f.a.a. has banned u.s. airlines from flying in their space about iraq iran and the gulf of amman it says there's a potential for miscalculation or mis identification well he's professor of international relations that darren university says not clear if iran's attack is severe enough for an american response. i think it's probably more a slap on the wrist to be honest with you this is not the strong severe revenge that had been the slogan of the last 4 days coming out of tehran and other cities it is never there is a retaliation is a response direct response to the american military presence in iraq and also $22.00 missiles got through whatever defenses the bases might have had so it is penetrated american targets and they can claim some victory in that sense that they have managed to hit american targets in iraq but if the americans feel and you know

just as behind the iranians there is huge wave of emotion to retaliate on the trump is also a huge woman more emotion for trump to continue to put what they would see is putting iran in its place if trump does respond to that and if he sees this as a wave that he can ride to get beyond the pietschmann and all these other domestic prices then i would be surprised if americans do escalate what is clear though is that if the americans do respond iran will escalate this and then we'll have a full blown crisis on our hands in terms of iran targeting neighboring countries and neighboring cities in ways that it hasn't done before remember it is on president for iran to use its ballistic missile force in anger against american targets or anybody else for that matter since the 980 s. now far from the streets of baghdad or terribly assassination of general hossam somali essential question through the large iranian american community in california to zeros rob reynolds reports now from los angeles. well sanjay all

is home to more people of iranian descent than any city other than tehran the crisis over the assassination of general qassam sola mahdi has cast a fearful shadow over the sunlit streets there's a lot of fear and anxiety and just worry about what's to come people are worried about yet another war in the region and in their homeland impacting their family and loved ones in a farsi language book shop on westwood boulevard proprietor sam begs the day says president trump is only interested in his own political ambitions. for reelection he's trying to make it a lot at the media at least and because of that he made everything on safe at holborn president tom is not a merely funny president thrawn is not a politician mini b. he was a businessman he doesn't understand anything he's brainless travel agent michael

amir he says the crisis has affected his business a lot of people are they counseled they are god you can sit in bed as there is you know if they go out of the day want to return as soon as possible still he approves of solmonese killing that they are the biggest terrorists and i'm glad you know that they got into the team by contrast the national iranian american council condemned the assassination extremely reckless and extremely. irrational several days ago los angeles area iranian americans took part in a protest rally over the assassination many were shocked by president trump's threats to destroy iranian cultural sites i think that for many of us this actually feels like someone someone from seeing. your cultural and historic sites some iranian americans fear they will be subject to harassment by the government or

individuals if the crisis worsens there have been multiple reports of u.s. citizens of iranian heritage being stopped by authorities at the u.s. border and questioned at length about their political views this community has weathered crisis after crisis between the u.s. and iran but this one feels different this is the most serious action that has been taken i think in in recent history which is i think the most worried we have been about oh a war in iran and a possible war that's broader than iran a community united in fear of more violence robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. well that's it from me how to make headlines up next with more news at the top of the inside stories next edge of that's what.

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