by the really in 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. but let's bring in our correspondent in washington alexander phenomena a scent 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 well i think that we just heard the key sentence

here that as he said iran appears to be standing down and that was a key sentence because it showed that president trump. is seeing here that iran is signaling well we had to retaliate from our perspective but we don't want collation to ask the late father we don't want to have an all out war other things that were very remarkable in his speech was the fact that he once again vowed not to let iran obtain a nuclear weapon but he also avoided threats of additional use of force against iran so i think those were the 3 key points in his remarks and do we get an indication from the president what his strategy will be in engaging iran going forward are we going to see possibly negotiations between the 2

sides. well i think what we going to see more sanctions and this attempt by the you asked ministration to cripple iran's economy and this way trying to bring iran back to the negotiating table however so far we have not seen and the implications and the indications that iran would be willing to directly talk with the u.s. even though the president tried once said that he would be willing to sit down with the iranians so without any preconditions. into words all of this leaves the president is very eager to say that this is a been a victory a boon for the u.s. hasn't been for him as well. well i think that what he is trying to show that he is trying to present himself that he is a strong commander in chief that he has the necessary skill set that you would

expect from a leader open nation on the brink of a major conflict and i think that his decision to. refrain from military escalation from any military strike would be considered a wise one by his supporters and also probably at least by some of his critics because by doing so he once again. seeing look i am someone who would like to be friends with everyone i am a leader who embraces peace i am a deal maker who would like to close the deal with our enemies and that it's up to them to approach us and to. get to the negotiating table at the same time he has made clear in his remarks so that the u.s.

is ready to retaliate to strike back if american lives are in danger as you said alexander he announced economic sanctions against iran would continue that they would be powerful sanctions at the same time we haven't seen that that strategy of maximum pressure on iran has necessarily worked is that something that is is that something that is support for there in washington. well i think that experts and also lawmakers here in washington will be very pleased to hear that there will be at least at the moment no military response to what happened in iraq and there is support for for imposing sanctions against iran because by doing so the trump administration was seeking approval from the u.n. security council from its partners so it was

a sort of multilateral approach that is being seen in the very positive way also by trump's critics however we have to say as you just mentioned so far this maximum pressure come come paine has not been very successful what we saw was the opposites iranians trying to escalate the situation with attacking tankers in the persian gulf with shooting down american drones etc etc so now it will be really interesting to see how the whole crisis will be solved if we are going to see any sort of diplomacy to solve this conflict but of course there is still a danger that even if iran appears to be standing on its truck seas in the region may not. be as alexandra fun i'm reporting there for us from washington thank you alexandra. go again to tehran to get the perspective there

with journalist who's standing by for us hi reza have there been any reactions at this point to the president's statement in washington. you know sort of more and more reaction to the really and. resit we heard the u.s. president there say that it appears now that iran is standing down is that the case is this tit for tat this escalation now essentially over. well it should be as i mentioned earlier iran is sending a message a peace as the u.s. claims are not killing anyone intentionally according to western experts because the armco attacks linger on iraq show the iran or at least its missiles can't accurately hit its target so if they wanted to kill american troops they could but they didn't want so now president trump must

engage in dialogue. instead of resing writs because iran has now are telling the us that we didn't want to kill you so let's hop because that's the message of the escalation that is one message that's being sent at the same time we saw the president talk about powerful sanctions against iran how harmful are those and how do you think iran will react to that well iran has been under the sanctions for years even for a dish it is a link up with the bans and the our sanctions and the ordinary people more than the government are suffering from the impacts of the sanctions. i don't know whether there is any more room for sanctions on this lawmaker probably or not

they have imposed anything they could. all right journalist reza have to speak to us again now from tehran thank you. and let's get some more context on all of this now we can speak to us but the u.n. special repertory extrajudicial executions that agnes color she said she one writes expert and joins us on the line this column of thank you for being with us here on d w the u.s. is claiming that it's strike on general so the money was in self defense saying that he was planning an imminent attack on u.s. interests on that could attack u.s. citizens as well what does international say law say about that. well the international law allows self-defense but in very narrowly defined situations and conditions one of which is that the the threat of an arm attack must be instant overwhelming and all to be even and now we've seen within the

legal scholars they are much differences of opinion as to the meaning of imminent in terms of time our ever it is clear or at least clear to me that even and cannot be about a long time frame because otherwise you would suggest a constant state of war or pre war so is the overall was even on immanency that each should be a very narrowly place to time and that has not been well evidenced by the by the u.s. so far in fact the the stories of the fact that have been provided over the last 5 days that sheep to him usually the department of defense spoke of the future plans and then only 24 hours led to the word imminent start to

appear in then and since then the the u.s. has announced that they have intelligence regarding the reported 2 attacked that the holy many was planning they refer to it does x. queazy intelligence but that intelligence is not going to be made publicly available you could only be shared with a so-called gang of 8 meaning a leader of the u.s. congress our enemies seeing in the senate anything is the fact that the u.s. under international law should report to their information the 2nd intelligence to the security council and so far no steps appear to have been taken un special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions agnes kalama joining us on the

line thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. thank you. ok let's move onto our other big story of the day a more than 100 and the 70 people have died after ukrainian passenger jet crashed in iran it has not clear what caused the plane to go down the ukraine international airlines jet was on its way from iran's capital tehran to key of a ukraine's president blood a resilin ski has broken off a for in visit to return to kiev because of the crash and the president says that ukraine will be sending a search and rescue team to iran tonight a field of burning debris lights up the night sky near the iranian capital one they apparent remnants of the ukraine international airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from to iran sue never out a little rainy and t.v. stations where the 1st to broadcast images of the crash including this mobile phone video which appears to show you the plane going down

but it's daybreak of that reveals the extent of the destruction band the schumann toll the plane was carrying 176 passengers and crew from several different countries mainly from iran and canada was not give our see you doubt i could have that would watch nobody survived all the passengers by dad on no gun that bad i've that the international airport in keogh of the arrivals boat the lists the flight that never arrived we were people out a stroll which this man thinks is son was on the playing on to the oval trickle yes full to the will me my son is a senior flight attendant up the iranian and ukrainian officials have both plaint mechanical problem still a crash but the airline says it's still trying to determine the coals a statement by ukraine international airline said the plane it was one of the best

in its fleet aunt that the aircraft had pasta safety check just 2 days earlier as a rainy and small one another tragedy ukraine's president and others have warned against speculating about a potential link to the current flare up in iran u.s. tensions but current events of very much on people's minds when you go to the i was watching the news of the reunions hitting us bases with missiles after 10 minutes i heard a must have explosion and all the hoses started to shake there was fire everywhere at 1st i thought the americans have fired missiles and i went into the basement to take shelter so i didn't think there's any fun although. a few hours after the crash the ukrainian embassy in iran released a statement saying the crash wasn't a result of terrorism. that statement was later redacted. as investigators searched and says a number of airlines have suspended flights and iranian airspace. and on the ground

emergency workers are getting on with the grim task of recovering the dead. right let's get a recap of our top story here on d.w.a. u.s. president donald trump said no american or iraqi personnel were harmed in the arabian missile attack on u.s. bases in iraq iran had claimed there had been at least 80 casualties a trunk that iran appear to be standing down in its confrontation with the u.s. . coming up next on new business carlos goanna hits back in his 1st public appearance since he skipped bail in japan and embarrassed the japanese justice system. cartel 1st we'll have that story and much more coming right up on d w business please follow us on twitter for the latest headlines our handle there out e.w. news thank you for watching. with

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