biala gassed. port city managed by truck bomb. this is d w news live from berlin iran fires back launching more than a dozen missiles at bases hosting u.s. troops in iraq tehran says the strikes are revenge for the us assassination of its top general american officials are working to assess the damage from the strike but so far there have been no reported casualties also coming up the funeral of iranian

general assembly money turns deadly more than 50 people now confirmed dead after a stampede during the funeral procession u.s. insists killing him was the right thing to do. i'm corn assman thanks for joining us we'll get to those missile strikes in just a moment but 1st some more breaking news coming in from iran a boeing 737 belonging to ukrainian international airlines has crashed that was shortly after taking off from tehran iranian state media 1st announcing that crash they say that all of the 170 people that were on board that plane been killed but we will of course bring you more on the crash as soon as we get it. let's turn now though it's those. tensions between tehran and washington iran has

fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at u.s. military targets in iraq the missiles have reportedly hits 2 bases the ol assad air base that's in western iraq and another one near the city of were below iraqi security officials say there were no casualties among its security forces but the full extent of the damage still unclear at this point iran's revolutionary guard has confirmed that those attacks were in retaliation for the u.s. assassination of general assembly so to many on friday. we have team coverage here on d.w. joining me in studio iraqi journalist amir mousavi and from washington ard w. d.c. correspondent pablo foley as pablo we want to head to you 1st the big question still american casualties we don't have any word on that but president donald trump tweeting the 1st we've heard from him in fact this was a couple of hours after the attack this is the tweet here and the president as you

can say is seizing quote all is well and so far so good pablo certainly a different tone in that tweet from what we've been hearing from the president in just the past few days. yeah you're absolutely right far less aggressive the mall we've been hearing from president trump far more measured and i think one point that we really need to focus on is those casualties and actually to wait and see whether we have a final confirmation on dot undock could play a very pivotal role in how at the united states precedes un also president term say they in dot tweet add that he'll be making a statement tomorrow morning at now what's interesting about this is that several hours ago here in the united states many americans were waiting in fact to hear from president troll because there was a lot of rumor in talk that he was going to appear i on make a statement to the nation but after

a meeting with the defense secretary mark asper of the secretary of state mike palm peo i and the vice president at mike pence at we we heard from president from peace spoken dot tweet and is just sort of holding all of taking a little bit of their at heat all fed the past few days deescalating you could even say from what we've seen and with regards to doze casualties which is very key to this carle at we're hearing av from the media here in the united states quoting u.s. officials there saying that they're no are no indications of american casualties so far and also there are saying that iraqi security officials are saying that there's no casualties among iraqi security forces are no one a turn see you a mere a now ballistic missiles hitting these 2 base is one of them a key base all assad the present trump has even been there many iraqi end u.s. military personnel there was this

a predictable toric it do you think will were we maybe expecting something like this oh i think because this is one loaf the main bases of you know it's states in the rocks well missed a preserve the the old puzzles a little the thing's going 18 they paid it was it means of course this is the. iraq is to pay for rebuild i think this is one of the main porto made bays that americans. from the old school began the whole story that americans because. of the proxies and kill the ball more than 13. 1000000 relief begun the whole the c.w. and pablo what about on the american side mean was there any sense that the americans were potentially prepared for this sort of attack i mean we were hearing maybe that there were some prior warnings before those missiles that you're

absolutely right karl in fact the u.s. forces and the air defense missile batteries across the middle east were placed on high alert because they had. the possibility or intelligence that there was going to be some sort of attack now also there was talk that the u.s. was watching for a potential. attack to tease me not just in iraq but in fact across the region in several countries including kuwait saudi arabia and the united emirates and also jordan and let's not also forget that earlier on choose they did defense secretary marc asper had also said that the united states was closely monitoring iranian activity so in many respects it appears that they were preparing for some sort of imminent attack. and we saw earlier the president trump had sent out a tweet the iranian foreign minister also tweeting among take a look at that and he's saying here in this tweet that the country had quote taken and concluded proportionate measures in self-defense and we do not seek escalation

of war a mirror what you read into this statement what was their purpose behind this tweet this is 2 messages one of it's go to the iranian public that's we are allowed to will go into revenge and the 2nd one went to the international community we don't want to have a war we don't want to have collation the situation we we just we just got was we did what we once and that is i think this is a deescalation signal they don't want to go far this is a signal do you think to the president himself as well exactly this is no for the mr trump also you got what you want we got what we had warrants let us talk about happy and i want to finish with you amir this action was taken by the iranian state but we've been hearing a lot about proxy groups has been law in lebanon even groups in iraq i mean what

can we expect from them might might they take action as well this is really interesting question because we expected that that groups could play the 1st step of the reaction of iranians but they keep them for the next step if the next step should be happens i think iraqi proxies will be more painful for american troops the hezbollah in lebanon because there are a large geographic area and they are a lot well equipped trained for an iranian from somalia money that's on i think they keep them for the next wave if the next wave would come right we still don't know exactly what will come next iraqi journalist amir was obvious here in studio with me our washington correspondent pablo foley l. yes thank you very much to both you're welcome. well moving on now and in iran

a short while ago the general whose killing triggered this whole crisis was buried arge crowns of mourners gathered in the city of air mon to pay their respects to custom so the 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 commander they called their own. instead many were caught up in a stampede as hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on care man. this is the hometown of kasim soliman ie 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.

sim with. 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 eventually. 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 an ally of iran who was killed in the same u.s. airstrike. was shouting death to america iranian lawmakers have been quick to pass a law declaring those involved in selling my niece death as terrorists. i mean

all men all. 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 race make another bad choice that the president respond in a way that if he did last week which was decisive serious and message iran. about the constraints that we are 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 are mortazavi she's the diplomatic correspondent for the british newspaper the independent joining me now from washington d.c. now nader 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 he 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 hires you see we saw the same spirit and now from the foreign ministry is that this is not an attempt to escalate into a fool and water there's no appetite for a full on war in iran definitely nothing that would spill over into iranian soil across the border and then at the same time they needed. as face saving with how you should they needed the revises the supreme leader had been promising they needed the 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 that basically the ball is now in the u.s. court so if president from the side to not respond to this this might be called off for now and certainly maybe speaking the language of president trump putting out a tweet there's also speculation you know that there seems to be limited damage from the strikes perhaps there is no casualties as well is there a possibility that that was also a way of maybe leaving open the door to a diplomatic solution. well it seemed like it was a calculated strike because as you said there seemed to be so far no americans casualties but then at the same time it was a symbolic attack it's something that can be played over and over again in iranian media it was an attack on an airbase that president charm and the vice president has had recently visited so in a sense it has a symbolic message that look we can you may not be able to hit the white house but

we can hit where you visit the podium where you speak but then at the same time trying to limited who are low casualty or no casualties in order to keep that from escalation i think it was calculated but at least the same time tyrone is probably trying to play the long game here. it will make it unsafe for u.s. troops and their region at least that's what they're doing in iraq out of iraq and possibly out of other neighboring countries and their region which is something i've been trying for a very long time all right nayyar or dissolve a diplomatic correspondent for the british newspaper the independent thank you very much i want to do a quick reminder now of the top stories that we're tracking for you at this hour iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at bases housing u.s. troops in iraq and retaliation for the u.s. assassination of its top general on friday president trump said in a tweet that the damage from the strike is being assessed and also in iran media they're reporting a serious plane crash a boeing 737 belonging to the crane and international airlines crashing shortly

after takeoff in tehran iranian state media now reporting that all 170 passengers on board that plane have been killed we'll be following that story for you as well . stay tuned we'll have the latest updates at the top of the hour right here on the g.w. news terry martin will be along to take you through that i'm from aspen thanks for watching. after. i subscribe to w. books you meet your favorite writer sometimes committed a story calls me and you have to respond to the books can you 2 stories the people the world over information they provide the opinions they want to express g.w. on facebook and twitter are up to date and in touch and follow us.