president trump warns that america will hit back hard and fast tehran retaliate for the death of a top military leader has folded a series of funeral processions for general constance 2 days after the u.s. airstrike killed him in baghdad while iran mourns the rest of the world waits to see how the islamist republic might seek revenge. and the death toll rises to 24 as australia's bushfires great drawn forecasters warn of more scorching

temperatures and high winds that could push the inferno populated area. welcome to the program. president trump is warning the u.s. will strike back harder than ever if it is attacked iran has vowed revenge for a u.s. drone strike they killed its top military commander on friday mortars had filled the streets of the southwestern iranian city of office where the remains of commander custom salomone have been returned from iraq meanwhile more u.s. troops headed to the region soldiers and equipment left north carolina for kuwait adding to the hundreds who left earlier this week in iraq to shiite muslims have more in funeral processions to show their grief the prime minister has declared 3

days of national mourning in the morning and go on the air as the funeral procession for iran's top general cassim celeb money and iraqi commander. arrives at the holy shrine and not just thousands have come to pay their respects here in iraq. on the streets of tehran to hear iranians demanded vengeance after a u.s. strike in back that on friday killed soleimani. we will avenge your generous death he was not just an individual but a whole country they did not just kill one person they killed the country. and our all iranians loved him he was the general of our hearts i have been feeling royalties just today it's like if lost my own father the pain i feel won't be gone and so we take revenge in tecoma one of the sunday 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 and the revenge for his death seems already to have started on saturday a rocket fell inside baghdad's heavily fortified green zone near the u.s. embassy another on an air base housing u.s. troops. it comes after iranian president hassan rouhani vowed during a meeting with stolen money still to that his country will retaliate. mr rouhani when the blood of my father's friends were sure that 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 meanwhile u.s. president trump warned that the u.s. is ready to respond should iran strike any americans or american assets trump has repeatedly claimed that solomon is killing was necessary to protect american lives . solomin he was plotting. eminent and serious or attacks on american

diplomats and military personnel we took action last like just stop a war. we did not. take action to start a war. to iran has appointed general esmail ghani to replace alemany kill now be responsible for iran's foreign military operations the. for more on this story let's bring indeed to abuse very own for iraq from our arabic desk farid nice to see you with us the u.s. president donald trump has warned iran that they have already chosen 52 targets if iran has any thoughts about striking back to the u.s. would you make of that claim and would you make of that number that claim just give me how frightened the u.s. feel appalled that the u.s.

embassy in iraq because the 52 number is that exact number of diplomats who were in the you us embassy in iran 1979 taken captive by the right one students you had and these were and danger for 444 days so then from saying in every meaning that you us felt so they injure when the attack of the u.s. embassy happened in iraq in baghdad that the u.s. secretary of state mike pump player says that he wants to deescalate the situation are there any chances for deescalation at this point i guess there is kind of chance you just need to just act smartly this time i guess this

time u.s. need to not try at any point to stop the iraqi parliament who is today is in emergency session to possibly lol. to take a tour with the draw and the. troops and u.s. troops so i guess this could be the escalation to give iran a word on iraq and then to give the president a trump one of his promises you know but in that in the terms of the escalation i guess the diplomatic is not working till now because we so we heard that there's 2 letters went with the. land at best the other 2 rouhani and these were not acceptable from the iranian regime another one was yesterday with the foreign minister of iraq sorry of qatar and that wasn't

a goal anywhere and so then in the morning i was rethink that high command is thinking the foreign minister of germany is thinking about direct connection communication with the iranians so these 4 could make any changes just if the word to draw off the u.s. troops happened we'll have to we'll have to stop there farmer aka a can from the arabic desk thank you so much there are appreciative. now to some of the other stories making news around the world today a bomb attack on a bus has killed 14 civilians mostly students and. the bus was taking them back to school following a seasonal break 9 people were wounded in the blast that took place in simple province near the northern border with mali. austria's party has formally back to a coalition deal to govern with the conservatives

a new government could be sworn in next week the greens will be part of the coalition headed by conservative chancellor sebastian kerr. french authorities are treating friday's stabbing spree in a paris suburb as a terrorist attack a 22 year old man had attacked by gestures with a knife killing one person injuring 2 others before he was killed by police at the scene antiterrorism prosecutors are now taking over the investigation. the death toll from australia's catastrophic bushfires has risen to 24 thousands of homes have been destroyed and scientists say that more than half a 1000000000 animals have also perished in the places prime minister scott morrison is coming under angry criticism for his handling of the crisis emergency services are hoping cooler temperatures will bring some respite on sunday. another costly and deadly day in this month's long catastrophe. on saturday soaring

temperatures and strong winds fans hundreds of blazes across 3 states. exhausted far powerless to halt the destruction. the flames consumed hundreds of properties leaving local communities shocked. they told us they have. people in the court much the haves and the court. battling the worst bushfires in living memory strain leaders admit they're in uncharted territory we can't pretend that this is something we've experienced before it's not because the weather activity we're saying big stand and spread at the far as the speed at which they're going the way in which they're attacking communities who have never seen fought before. satellite images showed the scale of the fire as long as straightly south east coast the severity of the crisis

has prompted prime minister scott morrison to mobilize up to 3000 military reservists to assist exhausted volunteer firefighters marson is faced intense criticism for his response to the disaster his life has moved to draw public rebuke from a top far official he said he only found out from media reports it took us some time yesterday to understand what the announcement was what it meant i was disappointed and i was frustrated in the middle of what was one of the. record cooler conditions are expected to give some relief to fire fighting efforts but officials warn the reprieve won't be enough to get fires on the control let alone put them out now joined by journalist roger maynard in sydney roger i got to tell you this is a picture of sheer devastation thousands of people have already been evacuated do people feel that all is lost. well the real simon people are

remarkably real resilient they have little stood in times of crisis and although it looks terrible and a lot of these look old is it barry bridge distraught about what's happened. there they have a reputation for fighting back and i think that's probably going to happen this time as well even though so much damage has been ruled out and so many people have been suffering this result these terrible fires interestingly the weather has cooled a little bit but the temperature has gone down to the mid twenty's so it's been a bit of a reprieve to firefighters and to other people who live in these areas but the immediate danger from this weekend severe weather appears to a halt for the time being and coming days should allow firefighters to contain those fires that continue to blaze and will give a bit of the rest of the people were caught up in these in this zone which is regarded as a disaster. roger we have to talk about the prime minister scott morrison he's come

under intense criticism for how he's handled this crisis is he losing the nation's respect. well it has been a difficult week for australians certainly in a very tense inside of a promise that's gotten lost who's not really really been around a lot of pressure from the public at large over his perceived mis and link of this crisis and also questions about his leadership today he's been defending his actions at a press conference in sydney in particular criticism that he decided to post on social media what appeared to be a political ad to promote his decision to call up 3000 army reserve that didn't go down to world people who thought he was trying to bolster his image and improve his situation a lot with the looking as him of using this emergency emergency to merely boost his own standing here in reply said that was not the case of 2 who were simply trying

to communicate with the people and to 'd merely trying to help those people who really needed it. roger scientists estimate that half a 1000000000 net stats with a b. half a 1000000000 animals have been killed in the bush fires threatening if not already changing the country's ecosystem what can you tell us about that. no one can be really sure exactly go but certain we're talking about millions and millions of animals here the the the flames have swept through so many bus areas and so many such a big area of countries like so it's kill the kangaroos it's killed cuddly koalas it's goeglein has it and it's called a killer whale is one who bird like those iconic species like cook of burgers and you know all those parents out there silence us into someone to whom they do earlier today and it's a they wake up in the morning now and they no longer hear the dawn chorus it's all

silent these days and that is terrible because you know a lot of these animals are not these birds are iconic not only are they unique to australia but a lot of them are endangered anyway so to wipe off wipe out millions of species like this over a period of days is absolutely devastating roger maynard in australia for us thank you so much roger. thank you very much for. even as australia battles with bushfires it's preparing for one of the premier tennis events of the year the australian open is just over 2 weeks away to dad and a large crowd in brisbane watched novak yolk of it in red take on south africa's kevin anderson in the inaugural event of the year djokovic edged his much taller rival in 2 set straight sure serbia advance to the next round of what's called the a.t.p. cup. you're watching news from berlin reporter on

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