the, the, this is the w news line from the 3 us troops killed in a drone attack in the middle east. if i'm secretary lloyd austin promises retaliation, pentagon blinds miller fence backed by iran for the strikes on the military outpost in jordan. notice our $22.00 also on the program. will country suspend funding for the you and agency for palestinian refugees? this is ryan ledges under the staff. took part in the how much the tax of the severance a box of the

i'm from gail. welcome to the program. the united states is promising what it calls a very consequential response to a drone attack that killed 3 of its troops in jordan. i'm going to dozens more us officials say the strike on saturday nights and ministry outposts known as tower 22 near the border with syria. it's the 1st time on attackers that killed the american soldiers in the region. sense the stats of the israel hospital. a us president joe biden has blamed yvonne back to minutes and so iran denies involvement. us defense secretary lloyd austin, used a meeting with nato secretary general in arlington, virginia to express his outrage. a good morning everybody. let me start with my outrage and for the death of 3 brave us from sin, jordan and for the other troops when president and i will not tolerate attack on us forces. and we will take all necessary actions to defend the us and our

troops. laura, blue and sell the is a senior fellow at johns hopkins school for advanced international studies as to what our us response is likely to look like. well, there's a whole menu of retaliation options here. uh, they could fire back at iranian back proxies which they've already done 10 times inside of yemen. um because it also choose to go directly to i ran um both inside or outside of iran. uh, economic or military targets. um, and there is a cyber option which kind of gives you some deniability if you want, but i think that they're more likely to go for a high value target if they take their own advice that they've been given these railways, which has to be precise to the to check and pinpoint did they, they've had some successes that 2020 when president trump took out general still a month. uh, you know, there was a dramatics. right. and they were able to back channel message. yeah. radians to say tit for tat were done. do not escalate and,

and they bought the job done. right. so that would be your anticipation. a strike in iran against a specific target are not necessarily on iranian territory if you'd be outside of iran, but i do think they need to send a strong message without escalating to the war. so how does the president walk that line? right? they want to, they want to create insurance with that and although, but she's been a main goal for the united states from the beginning of this conflict. we started back on october 7th. primary goal do not escalate into regional battle. and as we're so close now, leasing this week in paris where there's this hostages for a cease fire, at least a 2 month pause and the fighting in gaza. we're getting close. and the last president by and wants to do is blow up, you know, another front in the middle east as we're reaching potential peace between these rallies and ha, right. so the, the group responsible. all that is claiming responsibility for this is one of these

umbrella groups for what of why be regarded as a radiant proxies. if the u. s. and iran and pretty much everyone else in the world is saying the last thing we want is an escalation in this region. what process do you think was behind the target thing of this us base as well? i think that these proxy groups actually have a lot to gain. i mean look at the who t's and in them and they, they, they gain and status and prestige. and so for that, you know, it's all in program. i mean, they're very used to take little bites and nips out of the united states. they like to push them out of iran. i'm sorry, a vi rack in syria. so they're happy to kind of diminish the united states prestige and the region without going into all out war. but the small proxy groups have everything to gain, hama, included by attacking the big bad, you know, definitely united states. right. and just, just to go through that and it runs involved with the vis around has said we didn't

do this on the actions of, of these various groups, these resistance groups as it cause it's, that's nothing to do with, with us. so to construe, iran's involvement beyond financing them as well look inspiration, um you know, a lot of, uh, there is financial backing. there's the technology i ran to the same kind of we did it, we didn't do it immediately following october 7th. they kind of want to have the benefit of taking down the united states and israel without paying the price and it's understandable. they have their own domestic politics. that's what makes this moment in time. fascinating and treacherous, right? and we've got this military calculation. how do you respond without over responding? you've also got domestic policy, which in the united states were in campaign season now that you know, biden is thinking about his re election and that pressure from capitol hill or a republican saying that there's blood on president biden's hands and the uh,

president trump also running through the election following by them aware, soon as i can, i think us topics, domestic iranian politics. and then there's this regional fragility because it's tremendous fragility because israel is about to, is threatening to go to war 11, not to push back on his box. so it's got 3 things happening at one spitting up by the got a very, very fine line to walk, but i think he can do it. his key goal is to a ser, i am in command, i am the leader, not be you sort of nuisance proxies. or frankly, domestic political problems. okay, thank you for that. talk us through that. so a lot of bloomfield from johns hopkins university. thank you and we'll stay in the middle east for our next door. a syrian state media reporting that's and these right of us try come at damascus sub has killed several people including rainy and advise us. so i think the ministry, so the state news agency says the sol targeted several areas just south of the

capital. and that's a number of civilians were killed. israel hasn't commented on the attack. ranking members of events revolutionary god were killed and another lives, des riley, striking damascus only of this month. so your opinion says it will wait for the results of the united nations investigation before deciding whether to suspend contributions to the un agency for palestinian refugees. data organization, known as underwater, is facing intense scrutiny since israel a key to some of its staff of involvement in the october 7th. how must tara attacks several countries including easily germany. i'm us have already suspended funding fund ross, a condo. so one of gauze is last lifelines so many here. these blue and white bags of flour, a little bit stand between them and still vacation. but with more and more of the

agencies don't, is cutting off that funding. people here in the southern city of rafa, the west and that's what i worked with, told me in the doping. and ross, a distribution is a catastrophe in the gaza strip. of like is it was a handout on main supports and if they still there will be a famine like the one of the know the colors going to be much as the thought of somebody that can isn't what kind of move on the ross don't helping us then not people will face death a minute by minute who was helping on people who are hungry and suffering. if they stop him, but we'll have no one on our side other than go to the details of these really allegations against monroe stuff has been slow to a much according to new york times. so i think adult ca provided to the us government, but he is really secret services. 12 workers were involved, some said to have participated in kidnappings and killings, while others provided logistical support. the agency has already filed several

people and is about to thoroughly investigate the claims. but the un says that funding needs to continue while that happens. palestinian officials and occupied westbank have also urge donors to reconsider to the companies that have i know the suspension very paid amounts to 70 percent of the time you went budget of the united nation really fund work agency. this measure is extremely dangerous, and it is our hope that that would be provide us with most calls ins, no follows from the homes by the fighting people here. a more dependent on the agencies help whenever the head of own rule has won't. that is, money doesn't start flowing again soon. it's will, will grind to a hold in a matter of weeks like our respondents terry shows in brussels,

told me more about the use response to israel is allegations about on the stuff that's right. the european commission was under a lot of pressure to come out with a statement on what is going to do with regard to its funding. and what it said today was that it didn't have any payments planned before the end of february. so it said it wanted to get the results of the u. n's investigation into whether some of these employees in fact did take part in the october 7th, a tax and european commission set. it also wants to launch its own audit of the agency. it wants to look into not just these allegations, but how the agency is set up and how it ensures that its employees cannot take part in terrorist activities. so really a lot of pressure now to find the results before the end of february, when another payment would be coming from the european commission. and it said, it's not going to announce at this point, what it's going to do, right? i'm giving the it is a major donor to this you an agency. how do you think it is likely that the block

would cost its contributions because of these obligations as well? i don't have any idea what they will decide to do about it, but you are right that it's a huge donor and it would be an enormous problem for on road with the united states is the largest donor germany itself is the 2nd and the european union is 3rd, so if the european commission does decide to cut off this money, it is true that the agency would, would truly suffer enormously. but beyond these top 3, the owners that i just mentioned, you've got your opinion, countries themselves cutting off their bilateral donations. we've already heard austria of finland, france, germany, lithuania, italy, the done not you, but the united kingdom in addition to the united states. so this is truly a catastrophe. for henri, and as you mentioned earlier, some of the employees accused 9 of the 12 had been fired. but i think that the european union and these other donors will be looking for more action from unreal

to ensure that this doesn't happen again. you know, there's already been a lot of pressure and the european union has looked into allegations that some of its donations have gone to fund to moss. and it's, it came out with the results that it didn't believe that had happened yet. but again, they're going to launch their own audit with their own experts to make sure that this doesn't happen again, that there can be any such allegations that are a really damning for european aid to this agency. okay, thank is about terry dw correspondent terry schultz in brussels. a couple of other stores making headlines around the world. a danish warships on his way to join the us like mission against that, who's the rebels and the red sea you're on. back to rebels have been attacking commercial vessels because of the gas. a war who he's claimed to be targeting ships linked to israel. french problem is have blocks one of the main highways into paris that demanding high of pay. and that's red type. the face of environmental

regulations, government plan to phase out the tax price was dropped, the following weeks of similar protests. lots of mexico, which has hosted its 1st bowl fide finality, 2 years after the supreme court overturned a time pre bound to try the $50000.00 watch the event and the world's biggest bowl right outside the arrangements. that would noisy protests against the events which many se amounts to annual cruelty stadium. as tens of thousands of people. watch the return of bull fighting in mexico city. convinced that this schools is part of the country's culture. what are the best of the important parts of the bill? so i think culture is 1st and foremost, the bill. the bu is at the center. it's an animal that has been bred for this. you also see the economic benefit. so many jobs are generated by bill fighting. it

drives a lot, you cannot mclee. but down the side, the stadium, hundreds of protest is gathered. angry what they say amounts to animal cruelty mode, or is this group shouts, as most food cubes in the arena, fight? we're fed up with a miss treatment of animals of any species. we're here to defend the bills. unfortunately, in december, the judges decided that there were in sufficient arguments to keep the bill ring close to that judgment was made by mexico supreme court. in december, it temporarily overturned, a local decision to bind bull fighting with judges is still debating whether it should be allowed to carry on in the long term. something that continues to divide, the country that fits you up to date,

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