this is news coming to you live from berlin iran claims at least 80 americans have been killed in attacks on u.s. targets in iraq iran launched the strikes in retaliation for the targeted killing of a rainy and general in baghdad u.s. president plans to deliver a speech after the damage is those earlier tweeted all is well regarding the attack . also coming up more than 170 people are dead after an ukrainian airline crashes near airports all passengers and crew aboard the plane were killed when it

went down shortly after takeoff authorities suspect mechanical problems caused the crash. iran claims it has killed more than 80 americans. at u.s. military targets in iraq the missiles reportedly hit 2 bases the assad air base in western iraq and another near the city of the u.s. defense department says it's still assessing the full extent of the damage iran's revolutionary guard says the attack was in retaliation for the u.s. assassination of general. on friday. let's cross over now to tehran where we're joined by journalist raiser cost a. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei has been speaking this morning what

his he said about the attack. well the leader. referred to the attack as a slap in the face of the u.s. . on the cement the on the line. should be used instead it was just a slob and as a. revenge is still coming many speculated that there will be more military attacks on u.s. bases or interests but he later explains that he meant the manger event is to take the u.s. troops out of the middle east he describes the u.s. presence in the middle east co-option spreading president has brought the struction to the region and says all riginal states demand that the us leave the region and that will be the final revenge for the assassination of gen still

a mining now iran's foreign minister meanwhile the homage of a sorry has tweeted that his country had taken and concluded a proportionate measures when he called them in self-defense he also said we do not seek an escalation of war or a sit tell us do you think that's really the end of it at least from the official iranian side no matter what the supreme leader may be saying. yeah i guess so the 2 weeks by the foreign minister was very significant as it said that was the rivendell has now taken the. news agency close to the. all to. put the news that the headline there remains is taken the lead of the march. for the. future plans for. the u.s.

presence in the middle east the military revenge i guess is over now and if the u.s. and iraqi officials claim that no one has been healed in the true they should say that it's a compromise that's really. never and nothing has happened no one has been killed iran has taken to events and no it's still a show and tension in the region ok so we're getting mixed signals here and of course we're still waiting for an official assessment from the american side or any state t.v. as we've mentioned has reported 80 americans were killed we've had no other confirmation of that in any case there's been an outpouring of anger in iran over the u.s. assassination of the top or any general so many people have been calling for revenge blood revenge do you think this is really going to satisfy them the people on the streets who have been so angry. well the.

experts on intelligence and the contrary have concluded as 80 people as you mentioned has been killed over 200 have been. being transferred from u.s. choppers out of the analysts of. mace if the claim is true that it was then enough revenge for the entire nation for all those supporters of gen so the one who was a feeler among the society but if there is no casualty i don't know what will happen if the people believe this but i think convinced by the strikes or not of course a significant it was a good response in terms of giving give the us my us our in the region. their own us military

base and the reason it does the us territory is iran is attacking us i told. them that no casualties must be a significant response ray said thank you very much for talking with us that was journalist raising cost a in tehran i played the washington correspondent public police is following reactions from the united states and joins us now from washington public present trump has been commenting on the attack using twitter what he had to say so far. that's right terry a far more muted different approach to what we've been seeing in recent days from president trump in his tweet he said all is well missiles launched from iran of 2 military bases located in iraq he said of my assessment of casualties and damages is taking place now so far so good all the making

a statement tomorrow morning referring to of course wednesday morning so as we can see more measured it came shortly after a meeting with the defense secretary mark asper the secretary of state mike pompei oh and the vice president mike pence so we're seeing a different approach now sitting back waiting to see exactly what comes out of this investigation that's taking place over in iraq to see exactly what the extent of the damages are so if there are casualties on of course depending on president trump will then make his next move but we don't have too long to wait as i said wednesday morning he'll be speaking at publicly about it so president is saying all is well so good so for but the iranians at least already and state television is saying that the americans were killed in those strikes have you heard anything from other sources yet in washington about casualties and damage.

well here in the united states there is very much an approach of let's wait and see let's wait and see exactly what comes out of these investigations and then they'll be able to comment but what we have been seeing is the media has been reporting quoting u.s. officials late on tuesday that there were no indications of american casualties so far also there were other media sources saying that iraqi security fishel were telling them that there were no casualties among iraqi security forces because let's not forget that iraqi security forces and u.s. forces actually were in particular in the base were essentially in the same base so once again terry i think what we need to do is let's not speculate let's wait and see actually walk comes out of these investigations and then once we know the full picture then we'll be able to see exactly what approach the united states is going to take the united states of course was bracing for retaliation from iran in response to the u.s. killing of the top iranian general did this attack really come as

a surprise or was the u.s. prepared. well in recent days. the united states appeared to be gearing up for some sort of attack actually earlier on choose day the defense secretary mark asper said that the u.s. was closely monitoring iranian activity and also the u.s. was watching out for potential for potential attacks on u.s. targets in the region including like iraq kuwait saudi arabia and the united arab emirates so in many respects it didn't comb much of a shock here in the united states considering that it's been very much the focus of attention in the media in the past few days. thank you very much that was day that was published in washington. now let's get the response now from brussels and berlin d.w. teri schultz is standing by for us in brussels and here in berlin we have our

political correspondent simon young terry any comments yet from e.u. leaders this morning on the iranian airstrike terry at this very moment a european commission president or so live under lion and foreign policy chief joseph burrell are meeting we expect them to come out any minute when it when they planned this this urgent meeting of course the iranian airstrikes hadn't happened yet so they will definitely have to ramp up their response to this of course as our previous guests have said it remains to be seen what the death toll is if any from this attack from iran and that will very much color how leaders respond to that but we'll be hearing from them very shortly it's a bit early to have expected them here in brussels to come out with any response saying that it happened overnight so i mean there has been some reaction from the german government what's the latest. yeah terry the german government has condemned the iranian air strikes and the german defense minister and

a great camp karen has been speaking this morning she said that no german service personnel have been harmed in these attacks showing she said that the decision to move 30 training personnel out of central iraq yesterday was the right one. germany still has more than $100.00 personnel in the air bill in the kurdish north and she said that some of them could be moved that's at the planning stage at the moment she also commented that these attacks didn't come as a complete surprise but she condemned them in the strongest terms and she wants to use all diplomatic efforts to calm this situation and that's why germany's calling for a meeting of the lead nations in the international coalition to stop any further escalation of the situation in the middle east simon thank you very much for now terry what is

the use position on this escalating confrontation between tehran and washington can you do anything to deescalate this. you hopes that it can deescalate this and that's why i. still have underlined called this meeting this morning an urgent meeting of her cabinet there will also be a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers on friday but you know there's a lot of talk here in brussels and elsewhere about what the e.u. has in its you know in its toolbox to do about this situation it is seen by the united states as largely just throwing up its hands and hoping everything works out all right of course the european side is very much worried about the impact on the nuclear program of iran and of course we've seen tehran come out after the u.s. action after the killing of some silly money and say that it now will not abide by the measures in the iran nuclear agreement and that is something that europe very

much hopes that it can have an impact on as a negotiator with iran governments do still speak with the iranian regime whereas communication with the u.s. of course is not working so that is where the e.u. hopes that it can deescalate at least one part of the very complex picture in the middle east now i know terry that you're also tracking developments there at nato headquarters in brussels what consequences does this conflict have for nato troops in the region around iraq. nato doesn't have a combat mission in iraq but it does have a training mission of about 500 people who have been working with the iraqi government on improving the professionalism of the military working with it on ministration and half of those personnel have now been moved out of baghdad as the german government has done to get people out of the possible range of expected fire

so about $250.00 of those personnel have been moved away from baghdad now and the mission has been suspended as has the wider coalition to defeat isis been suspended and many european governments are unilaterally bringing their citizens out of the country so there is an impact on nato operations but those are not combat operations at the moment terry thank you very much t.w. teri schultz in brussels. meanwhile at least 170 people have died after a ukrainian passenger jet crashed in iran rainin state media say the boeing 737 came down shortly after takeoff due to suspected technical problems the plane was on its way from iran's capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev and was all paraded by ukrainian international airlines ukraine's president lot of no selenski broke off a visit to oman to return to kiev because of the crush more

on the plane crash i'm joined now by aviation expert geoffrey thomas he joins us from perth australia geoffrey what more do we know about this crash. look we now understand there was a significant engine failure. and it might have been on an uncontained engine failure where the fan blades of the engine exit the engine itself and possibly punch to the fuselage it was a large. from this a craft cross you impact on the ground and the examination of the wreckage shows one engine is pretty well intact but the other engine shows significant destruction and exhibits. signs of a massive fire we know that there's 176 people on board and back some count put some pounds put that 179147 of those were running in folks going

to see if. so at this stage it appears to be a major mechanical problem and that's been confirmed by the iranian investigators on the ground but why the pilots couldn't. contain this fire we dug there was no communication from the copied whatsoever off to sign off on. any problems all tracking devices ceased before at about 1000 feet and then the plane plummeted down to to the ground what can you tell us stephanie about the safety record of the plane of this particular model the $737.00 and the airline that was operating. you this is the 737 next generational rangy this is the ite 100 model is 3 models is the 708-0900 they're even size the item 100 has an excellent safety record has over

7000 of them flying around the world at the moment they do about 4 or 5 flights a day so it's a very significant. contributor to the world's a a line system. and a very reliable aircraft the ukrainians national airlines has was formed in 9092 it has 30 idea of profit its fleet it flies to a better idea just and i and this is its 1st fatality so ticks all the boxes as donald or might just say you wouldn't say so it's a very good ale on the respected so this is really quite a strange and very tragic occurrence and this this accident happened to jeffrey just as iran was launching ballistic missiles against targets in neighboring iraq could that have played been a factor in this crash look i don't believe so. the evidence

no evidence is to that to suggest that could be the case it's still it's very early days at this stage but initial initial suggestions on no it did not have easy access this appears to be a technical problem a typical fight. and you know this airplane was carrying mostly iranian nationals. sure it was not a target either intentionally or any change in only it it appears to be a mechanical issue jeffrey thank you very much for your insights that was a.b.s. aviation expert geoffrey thomas there now for reaction from ukraine i'm joined by kiev post news editor matthew cook in kiev matt a terrible accident there ukrainians are waking up to this morning what's the reaction from kiev. just a terrible accident but so far the response in kiev is fairly muted and what you

should know here is that yesterday was that eastern orthodox christmas which means people are today likely just returning to work from from the holidays it's been in it's been for the last almost 2 weeks a number of holidays people resting and this is very early in the morning here so the reactions are muted there have been some expressions of condolences from a few embassies i think there's been we know there's been a statement from president volume is where he says that the ukrainian embassy in tehran is working to to look into the crash and gain more information he's returning to kiev urgently from oman but other than that so far the reaction has been fairly muted because it's such an early morning event for ukraine do you have any information about who was on the tragic flight. we don't know yet i've seen no information about the passengers the manifest of the

flight and you know this appears to be a regular flight it's not entirely clear what the main who the main travelers are but i would suggest it's a likely a mixture of business and tourism travelers but other than that we know very little . matthew thank you very much that was journalist matthew for that in kenya. now let's catch up on some of the other stories making news around the world today an earthquake has rattled iran's only nuclear power plant the 4.9 magnitude tremor struck early wednesday close to the city of bora john it could be felt some 55 kilometers away at the bush era nuclear site. and puerto rico's governor has declared a state of emergency after a powerful earthquake killed at least one person and caused widespread damage the 6.4 magnitude tremor was the latest in a series of quakes to hit the u.s. territory in recent weeks. and plan to me or russia's president vladimir putin has

paid a surprise visit to syria's capital damascus for talks with his syrian counterpart bashar al assad it's led me putin 2nd visit to the country since syria's civil war began russian troops have been fighting alongside syrian government forces since 2015. spain's socialist party leader pedro sanchez will remain prime minister after surviving a confidence vote in parliament by a tiny to a vote margin he will try to assemble a minority coalition government with a left wing called de most party boat along political stalemate that included 2 inconclusive elections last year i've got to doubt though don't bet on sanctions better just a fine chance of victory socialist paper sanchez one and narrow vote and the spanish economy was reelected by a 2 got at least together with the left wing alliance but they most sanchez can now

form spain's 1st coalition government since the end of the franco dictatorship this is only possible because the catalan separatist e.c. party abstained such as justifying the cooperation. the only option is either this progressive coalition or the continued political blockade in spain. right when demonstrators protested outside parliament they accuse sanchez of betraying spanish unity the tone is just as aggressive inside parliament the opposition accuses sanchez of lying because he has ruled out an alliance with coup de most and cooperation with separatists before the vote if sanchez fulfills the demands of these anti establishment parties he risks threatening spanish wanted to unify if he doesn't want to lose their support. spain's new coalition government hopes to push through a decidedly left wing policy increasing the minimum wage and taxes for higher earners but given its lack of a clear majority it's likely to face intense political pressure by right wing

opponents. $8000.00 new jobs and a big image boost for the region it's still early but tesla's planned jigga factory or gigafactory outside of berlin looks to be a big win for all concerned it also solidifies tesla's position as an auto pioneer turned major producer now strutting into the land of automobiles. this is still home to rabbits and hedgehogs but after electric vehicle pioneer tesla announced it would build a massive production facility in the state of brandenburg next to berlin other major carmakers have also expressed interest in the region. the brandenburg economy minister believes the area could soon become a cluster for the electric vehicle sector attracting suppliers as well as skilled labor. are already seeing a stablish german manufacturers opening up to new technologies asking whether there

are opportunities for them here they're asking what are the requirements what made you interesting to tesla there is a knock on effect. tesla is aiming to produce half a 1000000 model 3 and y. vehicles annually at the brandenburg factory that would be equal to the planned output of its just completed facility in shanghai dubbed the factory 3 tesla was hoping to begin construction in the berlin suburb of green hired by march but that's unlikely because it's still waiting for a permit just before christmas tesla reached a deal with the state of brandenburg to purchase the plot of land for the new plant . as in german soccer news byron munich have officially presented forward goalkeeper oliver kahn as a new board member was a polarizing figure on the pitch but he says people can expect a different side of him off the pitch. out of a can has promised a toned down version of him south that's because on the pitch the form of irony

goalkeeper was seen as a hothead his stunts ranged from biding time launching confute kicks at his opponents but times have changed his fate it's nice to sit in meetings i won't slide tackle through the meeting room it's helped me a lot on the field days. but that was over 11 and a half years ago it still from the way of. the men also known as the titan stood between the posts for buy and for 14 years he won 8 going to see the titles as well as the champions league with the club in his new role khan was quick to defend the club's decision to bring in goalkeeper and xander nubile from chalco even though the young talent could challenge manuel neuer as number one spot next season when i looks under. is that if alexander nubile is available then we have to sign such a great goalkeeper from relative clause also he already said quite clearly that he

is ready to stand back and that he is ready to learn from manuel neuer so on and forward for monitoring oil out of a can has big shoes to fill in his new management position but with his winning mentality by an unique i'm familiar hants. and just reminder the top stories we're following for you here today on the debian news iran claims it has killed more than 80 americans so after firing ballistic missiles at u.s. military targets in iraq the strikes are in retaliation for the u.s. assassination of iran's top general u.s. president trump tweeted earlier that all is well as damage was being assessed. and more than 170 people are dead after a ukrainian airliner crashed near tehran's airport iranian state t.v. says all passengers and crew aboard the plane were killed when it went down shortly after takeoff. coming up next eco india the enviros magazine and i'll

be back at the top of the next hour with more international news meanwhile you can get all the latest news information on our web site at www dot com the name is terry march and you'll find me on twitter at t.m. news stream thanks for watching.

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