this is the news live from a jury and outrage at the united states a day after an american airstrike killed iran's top general and an iraqi militia leader tens of thousands joined a funeral procession on the in the iraqi capital as tensions in the region soar and iran is vowing revenge for the death of general kasem soleimani. also on the program australia calls up 3000 army reservists to help deal with devastating wildfires as smoke turns day into night and the death toll rises forecasters warn

of more scorching temperatures and high winds that could push the inferno closer to populated areas. thanks for joining us the american airstrike that killed iran's top military commander and iraqi militia leader has sparked rage in baghdad thousands of people shouted death to america as they marched in a funeral procession to show their grief the region is now on edge and iran says it will retaliate. thousands of mourners filled the streets in baghdad iraq is the 1st to hold funeral processions for the 5 iraqis and 5 iranians killed by a u.s. airstrike on friday many are dressed in black waving iraqi flags and militia

members are out in force showing their loyalty to the 2 key figures killed in friday's attack iraq's. deputy commander of an iran backed coalition of militias and general qassam soleimani the head of iran's elite military unit and iran's most important military commander. iranian president hassan rouhani visited the family of seoul chris daughter asked the president to avenge her father . mr rouhani when the blood of my father's friends was said he would take revenge for them now who is going to take revenge for my father's blood. they will everyone will get revenge for the martyrs blood don't you worry about that. you saw the money was the mastermind behind iran's military engagement in the middle east for the last 2 decades and a close ally of iran's supreme leader. u.s.

president donald trump says the strike was necessary to prevent what he called imminent and sinister attacks on americans we took action last like just stop a war we did not take action to start a war i have deep respect for the iranian people they are a remarkable people with an incredible heritage an unlimited potential. we do not seek regime change however the iranian regime's aggression in the region including the use of proxy fighters to destabilize its neighbors must stand it must stand now . solmonese blamed for attacks that killed thousands of people across the region but many in iran say his death amounts to a declaration of war as angry militia members in iraq and iran chant anti-american slogans and swear vengeance for the deaths of their leaders the u.s. is a devising its citizens in iraq to leave immediately. and for more insight into this

story we're joined in the studio by reporter turns of trouble he's a frequent traveler turn around for your reporting. in washington and i will begin with you state found if you don't mind the united states has ordered its citizens essentially to leave the region is that expecting retaliation so soon. well i would say yes the russian l.d. in the u.s. is better prepared. not to start a waiting game for something to happen because the u.s. knows that iran is absolutely capable to. cause a lot of harm to u.s. interests and personnel not only in the region but globally actually and as you can see the u.s. reacted fairly quickly to this scenario to a project a scenario that iran is going to be striking back in one way or form or another by sending 2 and 2800 troops into the region they are on route as we speak so

yeah there is concern that this is going to happen really really fast let me just ask to reset what kind of what form might that revenge taken in your opinion well iran's supreme leader ayatollah you know common a it will have to try to find a carefully calibrated response to that because with a weak reaction he risk losing his face but with an excessive reaction here to risk losing his head and the survival of the islamic republic is always his main goal of course he has a number of options at 10 and the most likely one of my opinion is like killing u.s. soldiers all civilians in the region another option would be targeting u.s. allies in the region i mean that's no coincidence that countries like saudi arabia are calling for restraint right now and we'll have to see whether the response comes directly from tehran all through one of his its allies in the region from yemen iraq going to burn for example so that could be rich and the asian across the

middle east is all sounds very warlike which is curious because i turned back to. donald trump said he wasn't trying to start a war. is he going to be providing any kind of proof about why he decided to strike that there was an imminent threat as he said. i really am not sure it's possible but it's unlikely of course having said that the pressure here in the united states from the democrats. is pretty high on the administration to actually explain why they did this busy attack right now why why now what's with the timing and. us administration of course trumpeters thracian is not willing or inclined to give them any more information in background discussions though they stress the point that there was hard intelligence hard evidence that cost of some of money was involved in planning further and significant attacks against u.s.

personnel in the region and u.s. interests and that that had to be. eliminated and prevent it and with that prevent a larger scale of war or animosity or when you talk about plans in the drawer for new attacks from iran are going to turn again to theresa the plans are probably still there there's a replacement winner stand already for so many who is and do you think those plans will come to fruition well we don't know about the guy that much yet because while his predecessor a lot of money was very much the face of the quotes for us and also very present in the media and his successor general israel donny is considered as media shy and what we do know about him is that he's about 62 years old that he fought in the iraq war alongside in money and then he also john that joined the quds force at a very good time so right now it looks as if sort of money is replaced by somebody

who is very very similar to him at least at 1st glance so right now people are celebrating the fact that sort of money instead in iraq for example where they hope the iranian influence might decrease but whether that will be the cane. we'll have to see because common a already says the quds force will very much stay the same and he'll now have to step out of the shadow it was because you his successor on e. is very much in charge of taking revenge no of course ok so if we have a successor who's pretty much similar to his predecessor and he wants to take revenge we're going to turn again to stay found what chances are there for the deescalation that secretary of state might pump is calling for. i think that's really difficult to answer but of course i understand the question that's the question everybody has on his mind how how successful could the u.s. actually be with deescalation. after taking out basically the

defense minister of iran in this day go so. secretary of state pompei always trying everything he can then is a busy busy busy weekend this weekend he had the state department he's making a lot of calls into the region of course to the allies saudi arabia israel but also into iraq of course he's talking and he has already talking twice now to the caretaker government in iraq. and try really and tries really to make everybody understand that from the u.s. perspective this was a a an action taken to prevent harm to which the united states as the president said he is he must make and have security and safety of u.s. personnel u.s. citizens in this here in the u.s. as well as around the world must this must be his priority so. there's a lot of talking behind the scenes now going on in the region with allies and maybe

foes are with countries like lebanon which are of course history says alluded to this may be a staging ground for any further retaliation or conflict between allies of the united states the u.s. and iran so there's it's a power pressure campaign for deescalation right now if you will from the state department and secretary pompei oh yeah looks like it may be an uphill struggle struggle given the context in washington thank you for that and 3 central tropper in the studio here with me thank you as well. and we turn now to other news around the world. indonesian authorities have been delivering supplies by helicopter after floods killed 53 people in the region around the capital jakarta the trench will rage that started on new year's eve unleashed deadly flash floods and landslides hands of thousands

of people are still unable to return to their homes. thousands of mostly right wing protesters have taken to the streets of the spanish capital madrid they oppose the way acting prime minister pedro sanchez has handled the catalonia separatist issue sanchez says he is open to dialogue in a bid to end political deadlock and form a new leftist government. austria's green party has formally docked a coalition deal to govern with the country's conservatives at a congress in salzburg party members discuss contentious issues including a strict ban on headscarves greens approval now paves the way for a new government to be sworn in next week. australia has called up 3000 military reservists to help firefighters battling blazes for weeks now more than 200 fires are burning across the heavily populated states of victoria and new south wales the scorched areas cover more land than the size of belgium and

luxembourg combined the human death toll now stands at 23 along with hundreds of millions of animals high temperatures and strong winds show no sign of letting up. australia's west wildfire season on record looks set to become a whole lot worse saturday boards even hotter temperatures and more strong winds to much of the country fanning hundreds of blazes already burning out of control to the a little. i'm sure. it's probably jarring putting a lot of pressure. from. more than 100000 people were told to leave their homes across 3 states whilst there was still chance to get away not everyone managed on kangaroo island 2 people died after a blaze broke containment lines and over took that call australia's prime minister

says the fire crisis has reached a new level and has ordered 3000 army reservists to help sky one of the forests is stretching resources on the ground and there are clearly communities that need additional help and in response to that we must move forward 1st as a commonwealth particularly with the work of our defense forces and then integrate with the local operations that are in place in those like all communities the announcement comes weeks after intense and bruising criticism for the prime minister who has so far insisted that managing the fires was a matter for individual states and rural fire service is alone fire services that have been stretched to the limit the australian navy has also been deployed to help evacuate fire affected coastal areas these people were rescued from mala qusayr in the state of victoria where a mega blaze forced 4000 people to feed to the waterfront a new use eve their safe and now

a smoke from the fi is once again tense day into night. and even as australia battles with bushfires is preparing for one of the premier tennis events of the year the australian open is just over 2 weeks away to that end a large crowd in brisbane to watch novak djokovic in-bred take on south africa's kevin anderson in the inaugural team event djokovic edged his much taller rival in 2 sets to ensure that serbia advances to the next round of what's called the a.t.p. . and which are not a ski jumping and marius linda vick claimed a 2nd win in a row at the 4 hills tournament putting himself in 2nd place the norwegian was the last man to jump in spoke and despite the difficult wind conditions he scored 253.3 points to edge poland's david. about 60 now leads the overall standings

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