yes the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you the. breaking news on r t a ukrainian passenger plane has crashed near tehran airport and ukrainian interior ministry says all 180 people on board were killed. in the. meanwhile in neighboring iraq 2 american military bases are hit by dozens of air strikes as iran response to the killing of its top general was assassinated and the u.s. drone strike last week over tehran says it's not looking for a war with washington d.c. . all is well that's how donald trump responded to the attacks saying he will make a statement later previously the u.s.

president threatened to destroy multiple sites including cultural ones if you will tell you that in any way. you're watching artie's or national bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow with me jacqueline and my colleague don of we start this hour with breaking news coming out of iran where a ukrainian airlines passenger that has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital the ukrainian interior ministry says 180 people were killed and the moment of the crash was captured on video. i. know our 2 days correspondent and ali corner is in the studio with us here for more details it's still early on but what do we know at this stage well jacki this plane was bound for kiev and it crashed just about 2 minutes after takeoff from

khamenei airport airport in tehran now that was around 6 am local time and as for how many passengers were on board we have a couple conflicting reports the ukrainian president vladimir selenski said that there were $167.00 passengers on board and another 9 crew members but the ministry of internal affairs of ukraine cites $1180.00 so that's not an exact and exact term yet but what they all agree is that there were no survivors in this crash in this tragic crash iranian emergency services had teams on scene for a while gathering information and gathering the bodies as well earlier we even saw pictures of the scorched wreckage absolutely scorched wreckage and body bags that were connected to this tragic event now iranian media has been reporting that the there were technical problems that brought down this plane and we also heard from a representative from the airport that a fire actually occurred in the engine of the plane which we have some footage of

that that we should show on the screen now you can see for yourself that that kind of corroborates that. that theory that a fire took place on the plane as it was crashing there you can see right now as you can see it's bright in the night sky and the small white speck that is. but then you can totally tell that as it gets brighter and brighter i mean you can see that video where you do just one more time yeah but late probably just where we had left a few seeds barely visible there but it becomes. more and more bright and i'm going to be. so so it does as you. it does corroborate. and then gin and then gin could catch fire some 2 minutes into the flight i think he said this is the moment of the impact of course now don't it's still early on of course we don't even have the trade we were going to have the foreign ministry cranes foreign ministry and ukraine's president giving different numbers different

accounts we're still at the stage where we have to get the most basic facts straight so but in general there are so far so far the main version seems to be a technical failure what sort of a plane was it was a boeing 737 so it could but there are plenty of motivic ations of that particular plane it's a very popular model so could you talk a little bit more about safety record and in general how reliable was that particular edition of the boat yeah absolutely well this plane was 873-7808 boeing 737800 that's an older relatively older version of the planes but it does actually have a bit of a track record of crashes over the past several years in 2016 for example over 60 people were killed in when that same plane model was leaving from dubai on route to russia and in 2010 another crash in india killed even even more over 150 people and

this this model of plane is actually not even the same as the ball when 737 max model which was grounded about a year ago for its own record of plane crashes in which hundreds of people have died so perhaps that leaves something to be desired in these models definitely in the safety requirements of them tell us a little bit more has there been any other official reaction to this crash yeah ukraine has put put together a couple things well 1st of all the president vladimir selenski has given his condolences to the families and we should be should have pictures soon of the families in the ukrainian airport actually where. where the families of the victims should be and the country's also the country's national security and defense council is also opened and an operational headquarters to find to get to the bottom of what exactly caused this and to get all the information and details about the crash. of course be following that and any more information that does come out very

closely corder thank you for bringing us. the reports of the plane crash coming just hours after iran fired dozens of ballistic missiles at 2 u.s. military bases in iraq the iranian military is calling the move revenge for the death of its top general custom samani who was killed and a u.s. drone strike last week. not a good academic. was . we now crossed live to our to his middle east correspondent paula slayer are the u.s. and iran on the brink of war at this point. well the region certainly is in a state of high alert we are hearing from the radio revolutionary call that some 80 soldiers were killed in this morning's strikes and some 200 have been injured but

we are receiving conflict reports we've heard from the pentagon that none of its soldiers were killed and as for the other foreign countries that are also taking place in the coalition against islamic state we've heard from norway denmark australia and the united kingdom all of whom had soldiers at this base said that was hit in the early hours of this morning with these countries saying that they soldiers all safe we are hearing also from the iraqi military that there are no casualties so at this stage of the mains to be seen exactly how many if any soldiers were injured this morning the iranians say that they fired off some 22 ballistic missiles the talk was to bases to iraqi bases where these fallen troops all currently employed the one base in the north of the country did not receive any damage the missiles landed in a nearby field but it was this other base just outside of baghdad that has seen some extensive damage the operation has been dubbed ma to the men and we are

hearing that the iranian president hassan rouhani will give an address later today we have on with a hood from the country's foreign minister javad zarif who has justified the iranian strike saying that they ought to portion it in line with the u.n. charter a clause that allows of course for self-determination and that iran does not want to escalate and see a confrontation well. the united states but that it will defend itself if it has to . iran to conclude it proportionate measures in self-defense under article $51.00 a few and charter targets in base from which called lee attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched we do not seek escalation or war but will defend ourselves against an aggression. now we're starting to hear reaction from the international community india and pakistan have both exercised or called for extreme caution urging they citizens there to avoid nonessential travel to read

while the philippines has now started a mandatory or compulsory evacuation of its citizens and the united kingdom has condemned iran urging un not to repeat what of course reckless and dangerous attacks but again the iranian revolutionary guard defending its the earlier issued a statement in which it said that it would retaliate even further if the united states or any of its allies in the middle east respond to it strikes earlier this morning. we warned the great satan the arrogant american regime that any further malice or mobilization will result in a more painful response. of the u.s. government which have given their bases to the terrorist army of the country all warned any territory used for hostile acts against iran will be targeted. the ongoing a concern of course is that the situation could escalate and we could see a potential showdown between some of the major powers here in the region we haven't

yet had any official reaction from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu we are expecting him to release a statement in the coming hours if not at the same time the israeli army is on a state of high alert countries more than and southern borders and this is also a concern that iran might respond or retaliate for that by activating its proxies the hamas in gaza or has been in lebanon so an extremely extremely tense situation here in the region artie's pulse they are saying across that breaking news story for us thank you. the u.s. federal aviation agency has banned all u.s. flights over the persian gulf over security concerns previously trump threatened to strike 52 iranian sites if it retaliated and anyway so far washington's response has been somewhat muted with donald trump tweeting so far so good. all is well missiles launched from around a 2 military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good we have the most powerful and well equipped military

anywhere in the world by far i will be making a statement to morrow morning well we have a tweet from donald trump it begins with the phrase all is well followed by a statement that there is an assessment going on of the casualties and the damage done to u.s. bases as a result of the attack by the iranian missiles furthermore we do have the white house saying that trump has been briefed on the situation and it we have this point it's expected that down trump will speak to the media regarding the events tomorrow this is what we heard from the white house we are aware of the reports of attacks on u.s. facilities in the rock the president has been briefed and is monitoring the situation closely and consulting with his national security team now the response from members of the u.s. congress has been quite different depending on which party they are in we have nancy pelosi the leader of the democrats in the house of representatives speaking

about the events and saying that trump's unnecessary escalation seems to have something to do with these events though we have marco rubio a republican and a conservative speaking in support of donald trump and criticizing nancy pelosi for her criticisms of the president and the moment in which these missiles have been fired this is the exchange we saw on social media closely monitoring the situation phone bombing star getting u.s. troops in iraq we must ensure the safety of our service members including and needless provocations from the administration and demanding that iran sees its violence american world cannot afford war. iran is now openly calling for americans to turn on each of the the time will come to debate us policy tonight's american and allied troops have come into direct attack by a nation state and americans must come together to support and protect them and respond appropriately may god protect and watch over our troops stationed in iraq

my thoughts are with them and with their loft once i condemn iran's attacks which targets you ask coalition and iraqi military personnel in the strongest terms i'm monitoring the situation in iraq closely and praying for our men and women in uniform the iranian regime has made a great miscalculation by launching his attacks among trump supporters the decision to kill qassam solomonic is being celebrated as a heroic act and act against terrorism however among many democrats though they have not much good to say about qassam solomonic they seem to however argue that this was an unnecessary ask elation that put american lives at risk so many democratic voices seem to be speaking up and saying that donald trump could possibly be asking lading to a war with iran and didn't consult the u.s. congress on that matter so there seems to be some pretty solid divisions about how to assess the recent events between the usa and iran at this time people are waiting to hear what trump will say when he does speak to the media as the new day

comes in the united states. only a president has backed down on a thread to destroy iran's cultural sites the u.s. leader caused global alone with a series of tweets on saturday in which he said he uranium landmarks could be targets if the country were to secret venge or the assassination of major general salim money but on tuesday trump said washington would obey international law. we are according to various laws supposed to be very careful with their cultural heritage and you know what if that's what the law is i like to obey the law. one of the consequences of the u.s. assassination came from iraqi m.p.'s who voted on sunday to expel foreign forces from their country donald trump then war in iraq to brace itself for heavy sanctions if it kicked his troops out earlier on tuesday the iranian parliament

unanimously passed a bill classifying the u.s. armed forces as a terror organization tensions in the middle east have soared since the start of 2020. i am a. bomb bomb bomb bomb. bomb. bomb. bomb.

bomb he says because. if you feel. these are pictures from the state funeral of the slain major general he was buried in his hometown there's been a outpouring of grief across around whistle mommy's killing viewed as the death of a national hero israel attracted a vast crowd of mourners and at least $56.00 people were killed after being crushed in the crowd during tuesday's funeral procession for 2 decades lamont he served as the commander of iran's qods force which is the external wing of the islamic revolutionary guard played a crucial role in iran's military decision making process and helped expand iran's role in the middle east. we can now bring in international affairs expert for more on this now iran has said it's not seeking an escalation or war but does

that track with what we've seen. well i think iran is a strategic player and they have a calibrated a set of responses in mind after general cousins of the money's assassination i think their main goal long term objective ease to ensure the removal of u.s. troops from iraq and i think if they take these kind of proportionate acts as their our leaders have been saying hitting a few bases but not you know causing too many casualties of western forces then the idea is that eventually you know they can run out the clock and the americans will leave you know because there is a and they can leak that just come out letter to the iraqi government saying we are ready to reposition of course and possibly leave iraq so there are multiple you know conflicting signals and i think the iranians are holding back one is of course

they don't want to water as they clearly say but do they will take you know smaller actions of these are continuously and we have don't the u.s. you know what i feel is that eventually they will want to see the back of the u.s. and to see our american forces depart and they won't want to provoke right now beyond a point which may lead to permanent you know presence of u.s. forces in iraq so i think they are taking calibrated action right now and certainly it is reassuring because there are other ways if it goes out of control totally then you may have a long term presence and that will have other implications because if the western forces remain it maintains consistent strategic pressure on iran and on its actions right now i think revenge for general sort of money is killing is $1.00 thing but i think they're also looking at the long term perspective but the smaller actions reactions are acts of revenge will continue i don't see this as the sort of thing although the foreign minister sent our responses concluded but i think it would be

a continuous thing aimed at all the us i'll answer system in the region. has fear. iran says that this attack was self-defense and in accordance to the un charter and in general i have to say that the un and the un security council for instance it has been brought up in this in this conflict quite often that there are we've heard a lot of calls of how masses should be resolved through the u.n. security council council through the process but so far all of that has just been just verbal there has been no action no real action taken to no real attempts taken at that so do you think that the u.n. has been essentially sidelined in this whole conflict. well the u.n. and i would say that the whole international law framework on the basis of which the u.n. is supposed to operate all of it there has been weakened consistently by u.s. actions i mean this was an assassination 1st of all of general custom so low money

and 8 was not authorized or not but we don't really use this kind of force because there was no you know impending evidence of any impending large scale attack on the u.s. so the claim that it was a you know in self-defense by the u.s. i think does not wash and secondly i think the u.s. is using its our it as a permanent member of the security council to block any kind of resolution are unanimity to come forward so you know this has been the long term problem whenever the israel palestine question comes up are anything else that the u.s. believes is very significant to its national interests they're trying to block action at the u.n. security council so i think if you'll look at the opinion in the general assembly definitely i'm boss majority will of course the u.s. actions but because it's undemocratic the security council's undemocratic and not representative of today's changed our realities the u.s. is still holding on and preventing any kind of you know legitimate response by the

collective international community and that's a shame. now today later on we're waiting for some sort of statement coming from donald trump that he promised on twitter and it's also been reported that iran's president is to deliver a speech as soon as well today what do you think we might hear from them. well you know i think it's going to call it a big victory and he's going to basically say you know we came out unscathed and we took over terrorists that's what they're seeing is good general qassim solar money and i think he's going to basically claim we create. if you're starting from as a politician i don't think is looking for long term presence of u.s. forces in the region not easy aiming at some kind of hedge money i think there are other elements in the u.s. government that want that and we now cite that you know me and threat trying to maintain long term presence and they would also say that the allies need to be protected you know israel and other saudi arabia as well as other

a so-called golden pro-american or moderate as they call him forces need to be protected against a radical iran that's what they want to use that argument i think that debate is playing out you know and not some of these leaks are suggesting that the u.s. government is not in one voice or iranian must their eyes from by menstruation is divided on this matter so i think trump himself you simply looking to bolster his personal popularity and he's got a political campaign ahead of it just you know hardly 11 months to go for his reelection so not only is not going so well for him he has not been able to get conjunctive denuclearize so i think this is going to claim as a sure force but a very nice limited one i don't think he's looking for you know a long term spiral of war which is good news but i think the broader he was establishments many of them are very hawkish many of them of any pro israeli and then look at the iran from the lens of israel and israel's threat perception so they are the ones to watch out for because do we want war you know they want to use

this as a basis to look they're attacking our military bases we've got you know respond even harsher i can't stay their hand but eventually the larger question is what happens to you dance position in the region you know vill the u.s. move willing to accommodate an include iran in the regional security architecture. the trump organization continued so our policy of excluding it and trying to isolate you because the more you isolate iran the more you're going to get these kind of attacks as well as through has been learned how mohsen these popular mobilization forces you know so you don't have to be accommodated i don't see any other solution to this problem in the long run because you know what you do it belongs to the region and it has a sphere of influence and to some extent the u.s. has to concede that and i think that is the ultimate iranian goal and maybe these responses you are seeing tit for tat are based on that ultimate goal and therefore i think there is some reason to be hopeful that you could not bring on a full scale war but still as you rightly said it's very tense and the violence

will continue work some level you know it was short of what is the threshold is i think would be iranians and americans the balance of power between the 2 militaries as well as the allies will determine it but below that threshold i think the violence is going to continue i don't see this as you know if you need to or end of the story because no one is too big a figure for the iranians to let go or to forgive so easily. you brought up a very interesting topic the fact that indeed don't trump has a complaint ahead of him and any world that that fact alone is being taken into consideration i guess or whenever he decides to do anything right now anything public killing major general cassim silly money is a big political step but also it is obviously trump did hope for something positive to come out of it at home do you think that he will get domestically the fact he desired for or do you think that this whole thing is back firing back at him. you know i think that trump's lording biggest doesn't really care much for

foreign policy or for the u.s. you know maintaining a balance of power in different regions of the world our money for that matter trumps populist mortars the american working class middle classes the ones who worked for him last time and many of whom still are with him i don't think they really cared about a very dumb as you know economic and social and cultural agenda which includes class and release and economic opportunity and such things so these men are you know particularly the ratings for trump mullard will not jump automatically as a result of the assassination of general sort of money of iranian on our back i think mark i've seen from what i've seen he's desperate to show at least one big foreign policy cord for success and i think he's going to say look we brought the iranians we've sure how powerful our military is we you know we killed one of their top people and they would not harm months you know is he's he's going to bank on that kind of thing but you know there's still

a lot of many months to go before is the november election and the iranians are not going to sit by quietly because i as i said they have you know they belong to the region they are there they're they're hunkered down there they're going to remain in iraq they're going to you know stick step by step moves and saw eventually trump i think will want to make some kind of our deal with the iranians frankly you know it's so all you know it's almost unthinkable right now because of the high tensions but the things are fanning out i would not be surprised that in a few months you have some process that japanese are trying behind the scenes to bring rapprochement between iran and the u.s. i believe oman has been trying you know and some other school so i think you'll never know because trump needs victories i mean the china trade war was he said now i got a great deal and you know we're working towards that that is one north korea has not made any headway you know and he's going to likely say that look i extracted better terms from them and finally they agreed to down some of their activities. end of the day i think that there is

a degree of pragmatism when it comes to trump he's a politician he's not a video list on his you want to literally impudence to regional criminal us foreign policy which preceded trouble so i think that is the angle on the basis of which is that you don't even start thinking about how great form because trump is very different and it's one which is very easy to understand and deal with them and the way is you know very adamant but i think somewhere between those 2 points the iranians are trying to thread the needle you touched on the idea of dumb terms needing victories and of course that is true so how hopeful are you that this will end here we had trumbo a while back saying you know threatening to hit 50 plus iranian sites including cultural but then he backed off on that a bit and then after the strikes themselves he's tweeting out all is well so far so good and on the iranian side we have the iranian official saying that if the u.s. responds and any way that there would be all out war across the region and of course trump one of his big points has always been to stop those never ending wars

so you think that this could just end here the threats will probably continue for a little while and then the dust will settle. well you know all of the u.s. allies as well as american bases in iraq and in the region across media are have been at that repeatedly by some of these popular mobilization forces over the last year or are even longer so it's not that acts on bases themselves are you know signs of something new but what has happened is that you know he's directly doing it now rather than through their proxies so i think of the proxy net blog that the iranians have as of what they call the axis of resistance to israel and to the u.s. that will continue and that those activities and actions are you know as i said below the threshold of full scale war i think you want to continue this is not the end of the matter because as i said because insular money is symbolically so big and so important you know for his funeral was apparently the 2nd biggest after

ayatollah khomeini's saw the founder of the islamic republic so clearly he is such an elevated figure that they will not harm you or forget but who are they will do is fight will as i said wait it out until the u.s. forces are out of the region and then as stablish their lives there are fewer of influence i think that's very clear and between them and now one from 1000 or the electoral cycle in the u.s. does your argument to determine the our time and the scale of the u.s. drawdown of the pullback i so i don't think that this is a you know a stepping stone far far long term american presence because the war doesn't america don't want these endless wars as you rightly say. well iran has now basically warned american regional allies like the united arab emirates or the saudis against helping the united states in any way of striking raney and target saying that if they provide a launch pad or like

a ground for american and military action against iran then they will be targeted as well so where do you think this whole conflict will leave. america's relationship with its regional allies because it can go 2 ways now the content one way is it will bring them only closer together in the face of a common enemy or they my still they might see that washington is not that reliable of a partner that they can find themselves themselves in hot water maybe even unwillingly because america's unilateral action so which way will it go do you think. well they could be dragged into all this regional spinal clearly because now you know the israel has to contend with hizbollah they claim to have are tens of thousands of rockets aimed at israel from lebanon and hezbollah of course these are very close to the iranian establishment it is hamas in the palestinian territories there are these population popular mobilisation fronts there is a syrian government so.