this is deja news live from berlin president trump warren said america will hit back hard and fast if tehran retaliate for the death of a top military leader iran is holding a series of funeral processions for general qassam solo money 2 days after u.s. airstrike killed him in back to colorado warns the rest of the world waits to see how the islamic republic might seek revenge. and the toll from australia's bushfires keeps on rising as just criticism of the government's handling of the crisis we'll hear from a homeowner who is directly threatened by

a major fire south of sydney. i'm glad you could join me. 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 that killed its top military commander on friday mourners half filled the streets of the shelf western iranian city of of us where the remains of commander custom somani 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 there earlier this week iraq to shiite muslims have marched in funeral for sessions to show their grief the prime minister has declared

3 days of national mourning in the morning and anger on the air as the funeral procession for iran's top general qassim celeb money and iraqi command. arrives at the holy shrine and not jeff thousands have come to pay their respects here in iraq not on the streets of tehran to hear iranians demanded vengeance after a u.s. strike in backed out on friday killed sunday money. 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. played out over all iranians loved him he was the general of our of hearts i have been feeling royalties just today it's like if lost my own father the pain i feel will 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 so many stores that his country will retaliate. mr rouhani when the blood of my father's friends were shot at 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 our american assets trump has repeatedly claimed that so the money's killing was necessary to protect american lives. to iran has appointed general esmail ghani to replace alemany

kill now be responsible for iran's foreign military operations the. journalist amir massai joins me here in the studio so glad you could be with us i want our viewers to take a look at some live pictures that we're getting in right now from iran before we start our conversation this is thousands of mourners now they're following this funeral procession for the slain officers that huge turnout one can imagine is meant clearly as a sign of unity how unified is the country behind the regime right now i think the time that some people criticizing the regime in iran is in this days at least it's not enough loud enough i think of the unity of the. iranian nation become more and more through that says

a nation of himself money we just saw that footage of our yesterday in iraq by the way all saw that some iraqis have also some criticizing against money but what we saw yesterday for the whole the footage and knowledge of. iraq e s. . burning the bodies of mr. mohandas it is also a kind of unifying. just not forgot that the footage that we got to today from iran coming from the city which the majority of arabs is that of west of iran and a who was and this is also a kind of a message to our 3 united states that he or iranian people are unified over that action of the united states there's a lot of messaging doing and i mean the u.s. president donald trump has warned that he has 52 targets in iran in mind if you use provoke or run ins taking him seriously i think this is

a con through country production that he brought the law the old things happen in the care of productive you're saying not productive yes is not productive because with that he bring in brian and more and more unified themselves for an remembering that time that when the americans tried to save that $52.00 hostages in 1999 and. felt i think iran in the remembering that that action from the united states it was not successful enough and they think that this this threat is will not be powerful enough i think if i would give an advise forms that from i think the message that he can send for the diplomatic talking to find the solution for that this is maybe better than bringing 52 number and this message journalist amir massai thanks so much for your

time. 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 blazes from 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 of blazes across 3 states the source of far is powerless to halt the destruction. the flames consumed hundreds of properties leaving local communities shocked. much that has been the core.

of. the worst bushfires in living memory a 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 way saying the extent and spread of the speed at which they're going the way in which they're attacking communities who have never before. satellite images show the scale of the far 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 has faced intense criticism for his response to the disaster. but you know it's a risk to much enjoy it my lawyers risk my doing my life.

well again and destroyed what. do you still do pretty well government indeed. cooler conditions are expected to give some relief to fighting efforts but officials warn the reprieve won't be enough to get fires under control let alone put them out joining us now from new south wales is david harper he's a resident of the town of new room which is circled by bush fires how are you personally doing right now i have to ask you to start and is your home in danger. eased potentially depending on whether they're being shot as well as many out on the coast where are you. and how are you personally coping with this. at this stage it's like the calm before the storm we're expecting it you know on saturday 11 o'clock and it's just sitting there brewing fortunately the say we didn't get the westerly so we're sort of i. think. this is going to be like the

trigger point is going to be to you. and a lot of the coming through my night. on the edge of us i suppose. so essentially fingers crossed absolutely absolutely we've lived measures we've gone through to a long line which tells on the. up a lot of moving a look to the scent of the house it's going to bring a full on effort. and by not just me but the entire community i can't imagine how have you ever seen anything like this before david. no i might not like this although i believe to fit you fly says with a little bit of for as a young fella back burning and stuff up and cost a bit nothing like this and we've. essentially a lot of people in the cars to you know i'm on the lucky one my home on the college

in a little town she had to go to 3 cars back room dance floor so i would get all the sleep very concerning to my community. no doubt you are not alone you mention your community from my vantage point there are whole communities around the entire nation living on the edge with many people criticizing the government's response house to community coming together day for. the common problem east being a lot of us i guess thought psych unit email i mean. we were actually communing with. town meetings that all the tourists who have been down here on the problems all of you if there is a 15 are still a visit because resources are under so much strife. not fuel and you know we're lucky because we live in a small community so we generally know each other by christ and when we all say each other in a locked lysol together with the sign problem we go you know that night you'll be

all guns so you'll have a truck or a mole and it's assigned by. david would just about out of time but very quickly if you had a direct line to australia's leaders what would you tell them right now. like he'd. like how they want you straley people to act and be a good representation of us david harper. thank you so much for your time and good luck through. now to some of the other stories making news around the world but thirty's in italy say 6 people are dead after a car ran into a group of german tourists waiting to board a bus the incident occurred in a village in the german speaking region of south toward local media reporting that the driver of the car was drunk. in croatia voters are going to the polls in the 2nd round of the presidential election the vote is a runoff between former prime ministers or in milan of each

a social democrat and the conservative incumbent kalinda grab a cab driver avenge. the death toll has risen sharply in the collapse of a hotel under construction in southern cambodia authorities in the city of cap pulled another dozen bodies from the rubble bringing the total to at least $36.00 they did manage to rescue a puppy raising hopes of also finding survivors. in a bomb attack on a bus has killed 14 civilians mostly students in. the bus was taking them back to school following a seasonal break 9 people were wounded in the blast that took place in province near the northern border with mali. america is american football's best known player around the world may have played his last game quarterback tom brady was unable to rally his team to victory in the 1st round

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market it's the 2nd highest price a tuna has ever fetched looking at the fish in question a 276 kilogram blue fin caught in the waters off northern japan. you're watching news from berlin more news as always at the top of the hour. can i am. sick closest place to hallam's news. in standing can.