i. think. i was. breaking news in r.t. the syrian military says one of its fighter jets has been shot down by u.s. led forces in iraq the u.s. says it carried out the attack after the syrian jet bombed opposition forces also in syria tonight iran says it has launched missile strikes against what it describes as terrorist positions in the country. and at least fifty eight people dead the west london tower block fire has grown for the prime minister to reason to resign.

hello there is just a midnight here in moscow you're watching r.t. international start with breaking news today from syria because one of the country's fighter jets has been shot down by u.s. led forces damascus says the plane was conducting a counter-terrorist raid when it was brought down to the south of iraq a damascus but him joins us live now good evening. as we're hearing there the pentagon has confirmed the incident saying it was a retaliatory strike their words after the syrian plane bombed opposition forces what forces exactly do you think the u.s. is referring to there. the u.s. refers to the syrian democratic forces which is the militia group operating along

with the u.s. led coalition trying to take the city off. from the control of but we can also confirm. according to. sources from the syrian military approaching in that area that the popular church was actually carrying strike against a convoy from moscow moving from the town of us into the town of total softball thirty kilometers east of a city and. in no way post any direct or in direct threat to any militia group from those militia groups operating alongside the u.s. led coalition trying to get control over gain control of the city over the top but i think there is more to the story and what's more to that story is that is the u.s. is trying to true boundaries in the syrian conflict and red lines. for the syrian army not to cross the man trying to actually prevent the syrian army from achieving two goals the first goal is to limit the presence of the kurdish militias which is

the backbone of certain demographic forces and the second purpose is to actually. operational the syrian military to arrive to the city of their break and also siege on the city that has been ongoing for three years to put things in perspective if pushed out of seems to be the scenario it's very likely that this will be pushed out through an agreement between. the two the allow isis fighters a safe way out and those fighters will then be will have only one choice to go to try to take the city from the hands of the syrian government since they have been actually circling that city for the past two years or so what do you think then will be the reaction and response from the syrian government. the syrian battlefield is a very complicated one right now with the presence of various entered. regional powers not states russia syria iran has been a lot of unease has been law in addition to now you have the iraqi. army and

iraq in addition to turkey all these regional powers they have they are directly involved in the syrian conflict right now it's very difficult to speculate what will happen in the coming days but what i can tell you for a fact is that it seems that the syrian army and the syrian government are adamant on actually moving on with their operation to break the arsenal siege on the city of theirs or trying actually to limit the ability of the u.s. . led coalition and the u.s. troops who are now on the ground in syria limiting their ability to move on limiting their ability to create influence centers on the syrian battlefield and we have to understand that this is not just a syrian issue this is more of an international conflict and power play between the u.s. and russia on sirius. just just finally briefly i mean this is a serious escalation. this is part of an ongoing.

actually escalating for the past month or so since the u.s. first strike against pro-government forces that were trying to advance in the southern part of syria later on by that strike the u.s. tried to limit the movement of the syrian government forces and their allies back then the syrian army stopped its operation in southern syria only to surprise the americans by advancing and actually in circling the area that they had set up camp and that the nuff in the south eastern part of syria now it's a similar scenario americans don't want the syrian army to advance towards theirs or the doctor or the syrian army to actually present a spot of operation to retake or to take any part of a couple of us and the syrian army want to accept it i think it's up to the battlefield a little development of the battlefield will decide whether this will be escalated and how far the u.s. is willing to go in order to stop the advance of the syrian army because according to according to my sources the syrians and the syrian military forces are willing

to go as far as it gets to actually arrive to the city of theirs or continue to try to try and regain control of all of syria. thank you ever so much for your insight into this we have to leave it there that was a bit here at a mask based. well the incident outside rackers al are saying there is the latest in a series of u.s. strikes against the syrian armed forces over the past three months to say the u.s. led coalition has conducted several bombing raids against pro-government forces near a training base where u.s. backed rebels are located that happened in the area near the border with jordan there the u.s. claims to vitiate prior warnings to the syrian troops which allegedly breached the so-called deescalation zone peter ford former u.s. ambassador to syria and bahrain told us that the american military is willing to resort to any measures to protect the armed groups that it's supporting this new

attack youth by no means unprecedented. but let's not forget that the circumstances where the new attack took place it appears that it took place. in an area where the so-called syrian democratic army that the rebels financed by the u.s. was operating. in at the old rock are very much an american creation. that. it appears that the syrian plane may have been attacking their pet dog. and given that this is a very american operation the attempt to drive isis from fifty than the americans reacted to protect toyin.

in another development in syria tonight iran says it has launched missile strikes against what it calls terrorist bases in syria more on this now we're joined by emily sitting in the studio good evening to you again emily so what are the latest developments here while the veto andrew the iran referee lucia narry guard which is an elite defense force in the country they've released a statement confirming that they have launched several ground to ground missiles from western iran into the region of eastern syria they say they were targeting bases of terrorists that they claim are responsible for those twin terrorist attacks in tehran earlier last week in this statement the revolutionary guard also said that they managed to significantly destroy the terrorist bases infrastructure and also killed scores of them as well and i believe also on the screen now we can now show some unfaired five video of. purportedly showing the moment when this missile was launched and this development is rather significant because. this is

the first time that iran has launched a missile strike into syria since they've been cooperating very closely with their start regime and joining their fight against extreme you mentioned there was that sort of in retaliation to what happened on june the seventh interrupt just remind us just exactly what happened that well militants have targeted two of the most important buildings in the capital city on june seventh that first gunman stormed the parliament building and opened fire when it was in session and then simultaneously separate militants have that's an industry side bombs in the mausoleum of many who is the founder of this republic of iran so as you can imagine very significant buildings and those two attacks have led to the death of eighteen people and islamic state has since claimed responsibility and. the reaction from around was there any indication of a missile strike like this today following the attacks as you can imagine the government said that they were outraged and they have retaliation their revenge and the senior officials have also came out on cue saudi. arabia of being involved they

say that the fact that islamic state has claimed responsibility for the twin attacks proves a saudi arabia has been involved but bear in mind that saudi arabia and iran their regional rivals and the relationship between riyadh and tehran have really been increasingly tense and of course iran has long queue of saudi arabia backing terrorists which is something that flat out denies iran has been involved in syria's in it for some time yet as you know are a number of different parties and states. in the syrian conflict but fighters in the iran back to lebanese militant group hezbollah they were officially invited by the assad regime to join the fight and iran has been providing military support sending in trainers and advisers for the assad forces as well but as you can see this is quite a significant development as is the first time iran has launched missiles into syria since the syrian war started six years ago ok frank certainly that was really through there with get more insight because we're joined by chief of iran's foreign

news agency side moustapha. good evening to you thanks very much for your time this evening what's your perspective here big development or escalation do you view these missile strikes. hi thank you very much for inviting me well iran had already warned of those your call it. that it would strike back at the wrists and in tonight's a statement that the i.r.g.c. public relations has given it is warn that this is the beginning if the terrorists embarked on conducting any second attack on iran iran would provide a much more vigorous response to them and not just it has also warned the backers and sponsors foreign sponsors of the terrorist groups including regional transfer regional and when i mean the back years and when iran says trance regional

backers of terrorist groups specifically means the united states now it is believed by many in and outside the iran that the united states and many of its allies that are backing the terrorist groups in the region especially in syria they need to reassess. their estimates and assessments and the calculations with regard to syria because as you just mentioned in your earlier report there are been clashes at. border crossing between iraq and syria few days ago when the americans all warned this syrian troops and popular iraqi troops to stay away from their own borders and banned them from eggs or sizing their subject and riots and fight against the terrorist groups and then they bombed them launched missile and air strikes on the syrian troops and their popular allies hizbullah and

there's nobody in tehran of course confirmed that but the american officials said that after that strike they were also they came also on their. drone strike. the bombs didn't operate but they were dropped exactly their positions on the americans positions if this is true no one and i repeat that and i emphasize that no one in tehran has confirmed that but if that's true it shows that iran is warning the united states not to trouble syria iran and russia's fight and campaign against terrorist groups because. carrying border crossing has been. an outstanding point in the war in syria even more important then. the capture of aleppo syria itself given what you said the side in the strategic

importance of that harrie do expect america to hate that warning as you put it. well trump you know i personally believe that trump comes with much human cry to show the war of that he is mad he might do things that are on lies but eventually this is not trump himself that running the united states that's the strategy and when trump ascended to office he was accompanied by over fifty generals and i remember that former top general and top commander of i.r.g.c. who is now a top official at the expediency council general major general moore senator of iran said that it's much better when you see the generals come to power in the united states because they understand the power of the of iran its i.r.g.c. and army. i don't know how much time we have but i would like to raise a point that some kind of you know i can say misuse has been made by some probably

ease really medias that are trying to convince the public and the world public opinion that iran has a struck the targets i saw targets tonight which i hope three miss size that's not true the range between the two i mean western iran and eastern syria is no more than eight hundred kilometers iran is equipped with barrage of different types of missiles cruise and ballastic messiahs the i.r.g.c. said right now just a few minutes ago that it had launched six missile attacks on eisel and the misses have flown through the iraqi air space meaning that the missile is that it had used been cruise missiles and not ballastic missiles so shot up. all traverse over two thousand kilometers in range they have not been used most probably iran

would have used. an zone five are missiles that fly. for a bell less than one hundred kilometers from seven to nine hundred kilometers the i.r.g.c. said it is launched ground to ground the mid range missile. i personally believe has been the choice it is the organisational weapon system of the iranian army the ground troops the regular forces of iran but because the the mission has been carried out by the i.r.g.c. aerospace force. this could have been also used by them because the aerospace force of the i.r.g.c. is also equipped with all types of short and long range ground to ground ground to air air to surface missiles i see so. iran is. running out of time very quickly then just in your estimation a brief if you don't mind how much of an escalation is this tonight i mean from

what you've said the stakes have been raised in this potential for things to get worse. well you know right now we are at the height of the war in syria because the iraqi popular forces and the syrian army have been able to shake hands and their shared borders they are moving upward to towards the north towards the resume and the americans have warned them to stay back and they have stressed that they would this regard this warning and this use of missile by iran that has happened for the first time in a real combat zone after the revolution after the war actually with iraq this is a firm response to all the warnings that they've been issuing this shows that syria and iran russia theirs they are very much serious about defeating eisel in

day was. carrying the lands that syria lost some six years ago and removing the siege on the air base now as i said at the beginning of this interview i believe that the united states sold the arabia and others need to revise their assessments and calculations especially with regard to syria and battlefield ok so i'd like leave it there really appreciate your time tonight that aside the staff a question he's the editor in chief of the news agency iranian news agency. he was in our table be back in two minutes. don't walk slowly you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken

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the weekly more than fifty eight people have believed to have died in wednesday's tower block in west london police say that that number is likely to rise too was the search continues the fire broke out during the night and swiftly ingolf the entire twenty four story residential broke. i. i. i just don't. like him all right it was a warning. qualifier on the slow government response has led to widespread

public anger protests is in the capital have been calling on the prime minister to step down they want answers as to why change flammable cladding moshi on the building the reason may has admitted that the handling of the disaster has not been good enough or downing street is expected to appoint a judge to lead a public inquiry into the ground fell taua tragedy within days and the prime minister is also ordered urgent safety checks on all similar tower blocks but isn't this a sea of chalk and found that for many a lot more still needs to be done. we're right outside downing street where if you can see hundreds of people have gathered to protest against a recent maize government this was originally intended to be a protest and pressing issues following the election lots of people have been saying they're unhappy with the snap election that's recent made calls on the following coalition that was formed with the do you need and this was the original reason but since the tragedy with the ground cell tower where as we know believe

hundreds left homeless following what rubble there will be people are saying this is becoming the final straw for the unhappiness of following the decisions that this government has been making not only that one term according to hold still brought up the idea of giving the residents were affected by grand fellow residential properties there are so awfully available that area and standing empty in those neighborhoods is something that's been brought into the spotlight and has been also something largely about econ be acceptable but in london we have luxury buildings and luxury flats left empty as land banking for the future while the homeless and the poor look for somewhere to live and this is what some of the protesters have been telling us here throughout the day. and they have been for six months why not give them to someone temporarily and i mean that may be just made up it's been a long drop really foreign investors just come in force up all the slots and most

of the money even used and yet we have homelessness which is going to buck fifty percent in the couple you know this enormous inequality that we need to start thinking about the people that actually live here not the people that are buying houses you know for millions of pounds and then leaving them empty for six seven months what happened was by many here see as something that's just a symbol of the huge disparity that exists here in the u.k. and in london between the wealthier and those who are a little less well off i think what can she do i think she's just going to start acting as a as an actually the you know. coming out and talking to people and engaging with with people in a human way as opposed to acting like you're always at a press press briefing every time you're on top of that you can't help but think this constant endless cutting of or things that may not seem relevant to that point in time actually have a great ramifications of come back to bite them there's a long string of things and i think it's just been more and more frustration from even from myself as a british citizen of someone that is supposed to be this strong and stable leader

and you show nothing but the opposite and i think it's really getting to a boiling point. now earlier today france voted in the second and final round of its parliamentary elections president a man you met crumbs party winning a majority of the seats at least according to exit polls. has more. the polling stations are now closed and the votes are now being counted but this is it is it would run it clear that the french president's party exceptionally on the high public on march known as the republic on the move is expected to get the overwhelming majority in the powerful lawyer chamber off the column and that's means a big gigantic majority off the seats there and. is not surprising but the country is and terrain and he story a moment that would practically mean this outcome that anyone back home will have the green light for all the initiatives and all the changes that he has been

promising welcome pay me for the post of the leader of this country we have been able to speak to different people here in france and it seems that the public opinion is divided about this some say that this is a very good sign this is why we value to poll base man but others are afraid that. a country with very strong traditions is entering a new era when the authorization is going to be dramatically incapable of influencing the political landscape and that could theoretically lead to a situation when the ruling party would be spoiled somehow politically this is what some experts say about their theories will be a person but. the process of dissolution of the brutality. for as long as there isn't a strong opposition right now the opposition will be so weakest almost nonexistent that he's that he's not a good situation for them to be in parties which each individual will have. been

subject to defeat. but they will probably collapse as a result these elites only want to see the socialist public. will some degree of what the. they want me. to sell them but not in the bend the major rival all the men in mcallen the presidential election the controversial leader of the national front party has been elected based time and she will also be the member off palm and say the vote is now may be over but it is clear that france is at the beginning of something you good or bad it's too early to say. maria from washington reporting up next here not to report on how the meat industry uses powerful lobbyists to bypass

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