karl we were almost expecting president trump to tweet and he said all is well missiles launched from iran of 2 military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good we have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far i will be making a statement tomorrow morning of course that was in direct reference to the fact that many americans were expecting him to address the nation earlier this evening that was being reported in u.s. media it was later than confirmed that it wouldn't be happening and it's a very different tone than what many americans were expecting from president trump it seems that he after this meeting that he held with the vice president my pants with the secretary of state pale and the defense secretary mark asper you know concluded about a couple of hours ago that we can't really comment really on what happened in that meeting we'll have to wait until tomorrow morning but until then we have this

information it's a little bit unexpected in some ways because of what president trump has been saying in recent days which was a lot more aggressive right i mean all those tweets featuring really inflammatory language this certainly is a different tone from president trump no one turns you a mere ballistic missiles striking to bases in iraq with u.s. military personnel how do you assess this situation and is iraq now being dragged into another conflict wall iraq is from the beginning is broken the conflict from the beginning to the whole between iran the states but i think iraq will will use the goals to insist again and they give tool with a droll the international troops from iraq and also with you to stop the. muscles. erode it also that is in the this all. of information that's said

that iranian also informed iraq short before the attack in their base of. a west of iraq. iran iran the also warning the united states to to crease the situation and also they also put another goals and other targets in the region they also we are ready to give in the wave of the of the attack probably back to you tell us more about about one of the confirmed targets now the ol assad air base what do we know about that base and tell us about its significance for the u.s. military. that's right of course there are 2 bases but one of course is the. base and that's in western iraq we must also mention that there are over $5000.00 u.s. troops based in iraq it's a very large complex it's split into 2 though it's split into an area where

american troops are based and then there are iraqi troops in another part of the base we're waiting for confirmation that in fact the attack earlier today was actually to the iraqi side we also don't know whether there are casualties yet that is still unconfirmed and it's a place that's very well known to americans why because vice president mike pence visited just a few months ago and in fact the president president trump was there back in 2018 so like i said it's a very large complex and it's quite well known here in the united states and as you mentioned we still do not know the extent of the damage or the casualties there. amir is there a sense to you that the u.s. or even iraq were prepared for this attack were they expecting something like this to happen in iran have been talking about or tallit or attack from iraq you expect . the tension in the streets you can feel it in baghdad in the cities also iraqi

government make sure that the proxies is good and they get in. iraq and also there is a warning for about proxies for you rocky military officers soldiers still voyaging do what it can spaces because they could be a target do you think they knew that they might be a target these bases yes of course we talked the last 3 days the big studio we talked about the possible targets. again and again. in. iraq will be the next target. i think this is the good chance for the targeting through the muscle but then you think is just using that muscle loss of. not from through proxy because for example i expect

a lot as expect that the proxy will be good there are it iranian factions there are actors act in iraq i want to i want to finish with you amir what do you have any sense what comes next and is there any chance for deescalation here i think it depends on the casualties from america's going to see more casualties a lot of soldiers killed and i think the administration will and should react and given the other the wave of reaction iran also were react but it depends on the schedule of these let us wait till the assessment number because you will think it will be clear the iraqi journalist amir mousavi here in studio and in washington our correspondent bob loaf thank you both thank you. just a short while ago iran buried the general whose killing triggered this whole crisis large crowds of mourners gathering in the city of care months of pay their respects

to money is burial had been delayed following a deadly stampede at a funeral procession on tuesday at least 56 people were killed in the crush. they were here to say good bye to a military command they called their own instead many were caught up in a stampede as hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on camera man. this is the hometown of kasim soli money the general killed by a us military drone last friday his funeral procession soon turned tragic as dozens were trampled to death. these mourners never expected the nation's loss to be overridden by their own. at a hospital a desperate search for missing relatives feared trapped in the stampede. we were at the ceremony and people rushed towards us so that i had to run away but

then a bike went over my foot breaking it. just shows. what. we will give our lives for general solomonic and we will avenge him. anguish for a man they considered a mata. anger towards the killers of a national hero. thousands also turned out in neighboring iraq at the funeral of. hundreds and ally of iran who was killed in the same u.s. airstrike. the shouting death to america the iranian lawmakers have been quick to pass a law declaring those involved in selling my niece death as terrorists. i mean almost all of those involved in this crime who are with the pentagon and the u.s.

military are counted as terrorists however in washington there was no backing down in the event the ready to make another bad choice that president obama aware that if he did last week which was decisive serious and message iran about the constraints that we're going to place on that regime so that it doesn't continue to put american lives at risk more u.s. troops already on their way to the middle east but tensions with iran have also thrown the u.s. military presence in iraq into question. our coverage continues now of the missile strike by iran we want to bring in journalist they guard mortazavi she's the diplomatic correspondent for the british newspaper the independent joining me now from washington d.c. now negara thank you for joining us 1st of all the foreign minister of iran tweeting just moments ago i want to read that to you he said quote iran took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defense and then it continues we did not seek escalation or war but will defend ourselves against any aggression what do you

make of that statement there from the iranian foreign minister thank you for having me so it seems like iran is trying to make it clear from the statement of the wire you see we saw the same spirit and now from the foreign minister is that this is not an attempt to escalate into a fool and warrior no appetite for a full on war in iran definitely nothing that would spill weren't iranian soil across the border and then at the same time they needed. a face saving with they needed the revenge as a supreme leader had been promising they needed their revenge that at least part of the population was really pressuring publicly for so this seems to be portrayed by iran as a one time retaliation not an escalation they're saying they're prepared to respond again if the u.s. responds well basically the ball is now in the u.s. court the president trying to side to not respond to this this might be called off

for now and certainly maybe speaking the language of president trumpeting that and sweet there's also speculation you know that if there seems to be limited damage from these strikes perhaps there is new casualties as well is there a possibility that there was also a way of maybe leaving open the door to a diplomatic solution. well it seems like it was a calculated strike because as you said there seem to be so far no american casualties but then at the same time it was a symbolic of how it's something that can be played over and over again in iranian media it was an attack on an airbase that president trump and the vice president pens had recently visited so in a sense it has the symbolic message that look we can let me now be able to head the white house that we can hit where you live at the podium where you speak from but then at the same time trying to limited to a low casualty or no casualty in order to keep it from escalation i think it was

calculated but at least the same time tehran is probably trying to play the long game here they vowed it will make it unsafe for u.s. troops in the region that yes that's what they're doing in iraq. to pull. out of iraq and possibly out of other neighboring countries in their region which is something they've been tried for a very long time you know how about those neighbors i mean the wrong i'll country of course of many allies in the region how does this affect iranians wrongs ties and in other countries will some of those allies some of. those neighbors not allies some of those u.s. allies who are iran the neighbors like the saudis the u.a.e. the israelis have actually been pushing president from to the brink of this conflict they pushed him to leave the nuclear deal to take a hawkish stance against iran but then right now they seem to be very quiet basically not wanting to be involved or are considered too. cool to

war between the u.s. or on anything any kind of proxy conflict so far we see basically iraq in the rocky soil and iraqi casualties like the proxy war between the 2 for says but seems like other neighbors that we don't want to pull in the cold and into any sort of conflict and they got mortazavi of the diplomatic correspondent for the independent thanks very much my pleasure. and before we go we have more breaking news from iran a boeing 737 belonging to ukrainian international airlines has crashed shortly after takeoff in tehran there were 180 people on board that plane we want to let you know that's coming from the iranian state news agencies we have no word yet on possible casualties we'll continue to track that story for you as well you're watching continuing coverage of the iranian and missile strikes targeting

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the bedouin was the hills around where the moose out the valley of moses' in the jordanian does it was sacred. petra the word means still know was the name greek historians gave to the place account excite of the nabatean was a powerful nomadic tribe who came to prominence more than 2000 years ago the novelty and has long since passed into history sacrificial rites no longer take place of the hiltons on entering this majestic world of cliffs and gorges at sunrise the visitor feels a sense of reverence the buddha and seems to is he was silent reminder to set off at an early hour because the work through the gornje is long and arduous and only in the 1st light of dawn and the treasury be seen in its full glory. steps

cut into the rock the hall mark of the mysterious world of an avatar its. huge brought us human from the rock as high as a house and with smooth will was but it seems with neither a way in more out. war. but it's only an exit they lack because these dwellings for eternity those who entered no longer had any need for worldly possessions. block like tombs at the entrance to petra pointed to the nabatean realm of the dead . and the propolis the city of the big and only time as it said the nomads living in this region were forbidden

on pain of death to build houses for the living. when they came to the sacred precincts to be near the dogs. they wrecked to shelter them came. the weathered sandstone massif rises up from the plain like a natural fortress it's characterized by bizarre items of rock the inaccessible peaks tower up to a height of 3000 meters those who lived here was safe from all enemies the nabatean was called this mountain range with its many ravines i shot up the rock and do shut out he who lives in the rock was the name of the mighty is gone there was only one entrance to the divine territory the seek the gorge of trial many

a 100 meters high the sheer walls seem to close in on me and food or any one venturing alone through this to. 200 metre long rope tunnel is filled with a nice and amazing. order form. form . how the unknown bedouin on the rock not warned that the journey through the gorge would be long and arduous. over thousands of years torrance and the wind had widened the natural cleft in the rock and carved out a riverbed the nabatean has diverted the river and turned its bed into a processional route appearing as if from nowhere our sign and companion points the way ahead but we remain motionless rooted to the school.

it's not a dream not an illusion through a narrow crack as if the secret were and willing to reveal the wonder work all at once i behold the because the treasury of the fair. the cosmic is a 40 meter high monolith human out of the cliff face in one piece it's almost impossible to make out the figure of our companion in the necropolis stonemasons cough the magnificent façade from the shapeless rock with all the skill the sculptors behind the rose red columns are 3 high room was dark and empty they are

tombs and a place where funeral rites were held but for which of the nabatean lives was this circle built. many questions remain unanswered. petra slipped into obscurity for hundreds of years then in 1812 a european travelling through arabia dressed as an arab leaders covered the stone monuments to nabatean culture. the former tombs were then inhabited by poor descendants of the mighty nabatean the european traveler who called himself a shake eba him found no treasure in the huge book shaped burial chambers decorated with simple step patterns and men on type freezes these it's believed of the oldest to. form. high facades corners half columns and petabytes as the sandstone has weathered they've

been repossessed by nature. or. order. where geologists analyze solidified quote sand stained by the admixture of iron oxide or hydroxide the inhabitants of the stone will see shapes and colors of the nabatean as affectionately called the site rock and the place of colored stripes. even though their descendants no longer believe in to shatter the god in the rock this holy place is their home they have become deeply rooted in the place of colored stripes and they have no intention of relinquishing this colorful world which enables them to forget their poverty. is a fairy tale perhaps that in a magic tribe in a stony desert became so wealthy it could afford to have

a resting places for the dead human from cliffs. the stonemasons a road cut more than $600.00 tombs out of iraq but where did the money to pay for them come from. frankincense route passed by the holy mountains of the nabatean as did the main trade routes between africa and europe the smart arabs levy taxes on the caravans and established their own warehouses for luxury goods. in this way the forefathers of jordan's bedouins became prosperous and powerful the tribal heads of the camel drivers livestock breeders and robbers rose to the status of kings their rule prevailed as far as damascus.

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the yellow sense too l.d.f. a magnificent to move monumental simplicity and strict symmetry crowned by a giant urn it's here where one can look out over the stone world of the nabatean that he seems to have waited the figure so rarely seen that a scorch the visitor in that prince of rock architecture is it a new man or shake it bring him perhaps who still bound by the sparrow accounts by the place when he discovered it nearly 200 years ago. the bedouins thought the stranger clad in white was a sorcerer who planned to steal the treasure they themselves had never found.

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