but it's sort of interesting that that seems to be more important goal dealing with iran when we have to say that actually this was the purpose of the runyon you could you know that's an important point there alexandra and tyson coming back to you we also heard the president talk about the importance of u.s. presence in the region in extinguishing the threat of isis as well does that tell us anything about the president's intentions whether to keep u.s. troops there or not he spent a long portion of the speech talking about his successes in battling isis including the assassination about. what has been noted obviously as a result of this just in the past week and more broadly given u.s. troop withdrawals from northern syria is that it seems that isis might have gotten gain ground in the in the near term because you know the u.s. has ceded a lot of territory in syria and then as a result of the destabilizing issues around this attack on money so how this attack

directly linked to continuing to make sure that isis is extinguished is is is hard to see the other thing that he noted in his speech in a kind of gesture of some reconciliation let's say is that the united states and iran share the goal of extinguishing isis that isis is a common image enemy and actually operationally on the ground they have been acting as such now of course in other proxy theaters they have been. at conflict but at least as regards to isis and time to our rooting out isis in iraq and syria they have been working together over the over recent years so given this acute new tension and the death of sort of money it's hard to see how you get back to that kind of to taunt in that one theater of the anti isis theater so i want to come back to you because we did hear the president again justified the imminent need. to

carry out that strike that did kill general salim ani and he said his hands were drenched in a rainy and american blood and he was planning an imminent attack that seems to be a huge source of controversy there in the u.s. also here in europe and tyson we'll get your thoughts on that in just a moment but i mean is there really proof that an attack was imminent. you know i have to say so we know that the full house and the senate are going to be briefed today on the matter but so far the trump administration didn't provide any evidence that there was an imminent threat and they did provide quite contradictory statements what was expected what kind of what kind of imminent threat that could have been with some officials saying that that. was an attack on american facilities that are saying that the targets were american diplomats and american and u.s. military in the region so so far we really don't know what was the nature of

this imminent threat that was posed by many. planning and why he was in baghdad what we know what secretary of state told us doing a press briefing is that you as think that it was true that he was on a sort of diplomacy mission and trying to. give diplomacy a chance dealing with saudi arabia and questions being asked about that here in europe as well whether there really was a need for this strike on some money now right i mean i think this is some friends it's why the strike occurred or something that's going to continue to play out not just here but in the united states i mean both allies and congress as the kind of over for in its role as overseer oversight giving oversight to the to the executive branch need to have some kind of credible evidence to come out and message to the publics more broadly that this attack was justified and i think in congress as has

been mentioned the administration did not brief in advance of the attack on so the money they did send notification after the fact in accordance with the war para powers act. had a briefing from mike pence and then there are going to be more briefings to come before the attack on these 2 bases the. addict controlled house was planning on introducing legislation to basically cliff the wings or temp to clip the wings of the administration's ability to act against iran be attacks on the 2 bases kind of slowed the momentum on that but i think but there are still a lot of questions about why now what is the justification worse a proportion ality and if if your justification which they've kind of moved away from a was an imminent attack been there needs to be evidence at least supporting that they can be given it in a classified setting if not made public questions that we mike it's more information on in the coming days and weeks for a people just joining us the the president has just commented up publicly for the

1st time on the iranian missile strikes on bases housing u.s. troops in iraq in that came in response to the u.s. airstrike a killing the uranian general cuz i'm still a mani and where the president say that he can from that there was no american there were no american or iraqi lives the been lost in these a radiant missile strikes and he set a a ron appears to be standing down which is a good thing at tyson an alexander will come back to you in just a moment but for now let's get some perspective from tehran we can speak to a journalist rezek cuss that who if in tehran and is been following this story for us is joining us and now are there he is high res that know we've heard the president say that there were no casualties and earlier we heard iran say that 80 americans had been killed what does the response that you're seeing there are now well iran has been insisting that people have been killed of this by the u.s. and iraqi officials claims but no matter their happening casualties there are

this attack itself was significant it was an attack on a u.s. base or an iraqi base holes think u.s. troops and it was according to iraq's defense minister the 1st attack on a u.s. base and u.s. troops since the 2nd war so it was a symbolic move made by iran even if there have been no casualties as claimed booked prisoners on our truck i believe even if there have been no casualties as claimed by the u.s. iran has shown that it could kill american troops but it is offering actually an olive branch to the u.s. and trumpet the trumpet ministration must embrace iran's message of peace actually the big could kill you. intentionally decided not to the

speech made by the u.s. president that suggested. that we heard that the u.s. president say that iran appears to be standing down here and that is a good thing so where do you think things go from here. from now on we should 1st expect that you want his response which is separate from iran as mentioned by iraqi pm you today and then we are going to have the u.s. troops leaving the iraqi territory which is a grid we threw for the slower group of the event more important and ensuring the casualties on the u.s. troops even if there is no casualty this is week 3 iran's leader to call the ultimate revenge kicking the u.s. our the iraqi terrorists or at least even. if not the entire region at the same time reza we did have the u.s. president to indicate that the u.s.

would continue to impose very powerful sanctions against iran he also referred to iran's destructive and if arius behavior in the region how impactful could those sanctions and that dialogue that rhetoric be going forward well of course the sanctions are hurting the iranian nation but that's exactly what was referring to iran is offering the olive branch it's wrong on trump again threatens to impose further sanctions on this long for all the. way to build peace or trust with another concert this was a great chance an opportunity for the u.s. president to start a resume dollars at this long i guess that was not enough. comments made by the u.s. was that the threats were more evident and his comments all right journalist reza has a speaking to us there with their reactions and the latest there from tehran thank

you so much. well shia muslims are in the majority in iraq just as they are in their powerful neighbor iran but the u.s. also as we've heard has a huge military presence in iraq and the assassination of general cousin saleh money has not changed the dynamic in the region and a u.s. influence in iraq could be the collateral damage. when a u.s. drone strike killed tehran's top military mastermind it didn't happen on iranian soil but in iraq the country was a target for general kids seem silly money and iran in their master plan for the region to extend shiite power using proxies. like this shiite militia that attacked the u.s. embassy many of these militant groups came to prominence during the fight against so-called islamic state shiite iraqis trained in iran was central to defeating i-s.

and many of them took their orders from sort of money. iraqi lawmakers call out no to america iran's influence pervades iraq's political class to end the $28000.00 elections $45.00 former shiite militiamen won seats in parliament that election also made a deal of the prime minister he was long a member of a shiite party based in iran abdul mahdi resigned after mass antigovernment protests at the end of 2019 he remains acting prime minister but with the government on the verge of collapse protesters have been calling for a new political order one without corruption and sectarianism and without the u.s. and iranian interference and merican soldiers ready to deploy to the middle east the position of the us in iraq has been shifting over the past decade in 2011 former u.s. president barack obama pulled u.s. troops out of the country declaring that the war in iraq was over 3 years later

they were back to fight i.a.s. this time on the invitation of the iraqi government. but now iraq's shiite majority parliament wants u.s. troops out washington says about snow's happening iraqis know that if the americans leave so-called islamic state could take advantage of the resulting power vacuum and resurge and that's the situation no one wants. in addition to the volatile situation on the ground false and on verified information about iran's missile attack on the bases housing u.s. troops in iraq spreading on social media and news peter has been taking a look at this for us and peter bring us up to date what i've been finding right and what we've seen in the wake of these strikes is really just a barrage of false information hitting social media particularly twitter to be what they've been targeting one simple explanation people are simply too trigger happy for lack of a better metaphor in situations like this so in other words people like this tweet

that were about to see who choose speed over actors in this case basseley overstating the severity of the attack falsely claiming that more than 60 missiles were fired 20 americans killed when in actuality as far as we know the number of missiles were fired was closer to 1520 tops and to the best of our knowledge no one was actually killed in the attacks we're also seeing what appears to be more deliberate attempts at spreading information and these are the more kind of this kind of more worrying kind this video. falsely claiming to show vania rockets being fired at the air base in al assad when actually this video is from 2014 and shows a russian military drone. why should we be careful about what we share well it's because it adds fuel to the fire every single piece of false information that we have risk making an already volatile and very confusing situation much worse ok so

how do you social media users people on twitter how can they identify what is fake and what is real. well there are a lot of or a couple of very basic steps one is to be critical be extra careful about what you share in situation like this ask yourself what's the source of the information that i'm about to share is it coming from a new source that i otherwise trust or is it coming from you know at tinfoil hat 606. are other outlets reporting similar numbers similar facts if not it's either very sluice of information or it's wrong and usually it is wrong that said even seasoned news media do you know from time to time get it wrong we saw this again just today with this image that was shared by a couple of pretty big name outlets. fortune there's a very simple way you can check for yourself whether an image like this shows what it claims to show is called google reverse image search and it's as easy as hitting

the right mouse button on your computer you see there in that pop up window it will analyze the image and search for similar ones on google if you scroll through the search for souls to see that this picture was already featured in articles from 20 c. 2017 so in other words it's a no picture it can't show the strikes that we saw today aren't some very important tools there that has been her fall back upon all right our reporter peter thank you so much for ok back now to the news of the hour u.s. president saying that iran appears to be standing down in its confrontation with the u.s. he was speaking at the white house said just hours after iran launched a missile attack on u.s. bases in iraq iran and claimed that at least 80 americans have been killed but trump said that wasn't the case. the american people. should be extremely grateful and happy no americans were harmed. in last night's attack by the arabian regime. we suffered

o'carroll trees all of our soldiers are safe and only minimal damage was sustained and our military bases. are great american forces are prepared for anything iran appears to be standing down which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world. no american or iraqi lives were lost because of the precautions taken the dispersal of forces and an early warning system that worked very well. right let's bring in our correspondent in washington alexander phenomena a cent of the president speaking just a short while ago delivering a lengthy statement about iran's retaliation tell us more about your thoughts on what we heard from the president.