minutes turned back towards the airport while it was on fire will start with this report from alan fischer. this was taken seconds before a ukrainian passenger jet crashed near toronto security cameras captured the dramatic moment of impact on the ground 176 people died including 63 canadians that country's prime minister says it was done by in a rainy and missile we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in a surface to air missile the plane came down just 4 hours after iran had fired a volley of missiles towards the u.s. bases in iraq the country was on high alert for possible u.s. a television i asked if he blamed america for escalating tensions in the area prime minister trudeau said a full investigation was needed before fingers were pointed i think it is too soon to be drawing conclusions or assigning blame or responsibility and whatever proportions iranian officials insist the aircraft the ukrainian international boeing $737800.00 had a problem and was headed back to the a

s murder and the hash tag led speech alan fischer is across the story for us from washington d.c. alan the u.n. wanting an investigation and the u.s. congress also wanting to get involved and set. ron wyden who is a democratic senator from oregon he has written to jeff bezos just in the last few hours saying you'd like some more information about the hike that jeff bezos has been talking about he says that this is part of a growing trend of saudi arabia hacking using tools to try and get information the timeline here is very important jeff bezos believes his phone was hacked around me 2800 that's a number of months before the death of jamal khashoggi although he was writing critical comments critical columns in the washington post at that time but it's also our own that time that jeff bezos was doing a tour around in the middle east because he was talking about citing a large share of put a farm somewhere in the area and sodium arabia was very keen to land that $1000000000.00 project so there is the real possibility that his phone was hacked because the saudis wanted to get informa

embassies alan fischer has the details. the killing of kassam solo money and its consequences continues to reverberate around the american political scene president donald trump claimed in a televised interview on friday for u.s. embassies when it imminent risk of a rainin attack that he said justified the operation but u.s. defense secretary marc esper was far less certain there was one piece of intelligence that pointed in that direction i didn't see one with regard to 4 embassies what i'm saying is i share the president's view that probably my expectation was they're going to go after our embassies embassies the most prominent display of american presence in a country one of the embassies at risk believed to be the one in baghdad the president's national security adviser insists the threat to 4 was real the intelligence they were working with was in his words exquisite because of the prompt action that we took both with respect to the embassy in baghdad which they would have attempted to overrun and storm and with respec

republican control chamber to remove trump from office castro al-jazeera washington let's cross to alan fischer now in washington d.c. and the question out of all of this allan is will this be enough to sway some of those republican senators and actually call witnesses like john bolton. well you heard mitt romney say that he thinks a number of senators a leaning that way and angus king who is an independent senators says his bold prediction is somewhere in the region of 5 to 10 republicans will demand to hear evidence from john bolton no the white house is already lining up some of the defenses that can put forward one of them being of course that the conversations between john bolton and donald trump should be covered under executive privilege don't trump hasn't invoked that it any point the here's the thing don't trump was tweeting about the conversations with john bolton earlier today that makes it very difficult to argue that these conversations are privileged if they're privileged that privilege for everyone including the president so it makes it more difficult to go to court and say you c

ukraine's media to investigate a political rival and of obstructing congress as investigation alan fischer takes a look at the events that led up to this point. this was the day after donald trump to call for us. exactly 3 years on he no faces a trial in the u.s. senate which could make that a reality it's an historic moment and it started in july last year with what should have been a routine phone call from his desk in the oval office donald trump called the president of ukraine a whistle blower was worried about what they had about the phone call and filed a complaint and that a letter to congress the allegation president trump was holding back hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid meant for ukraine and it would be sent if the ukrainian president announced an investigation into trump's political rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who want to new crane don't trump didn't understand the fuss i made a call the call was perfect he released the transcript but it seemed to cause more trouble the key section as the ukrainian president promises to buy more u.s. m

it will take 2 thirds of the senate to vote to convict a president and remove him from office alan fischer all to see you know washington . well still ahead on al jazeera. like a lot of people lost the scent of you feel like there was no hope in libya surrounded by fighting the use of libya a force to consider if their future lies attire. and in the driver's seat how technology is helping disabled people in australia take more control of their lives . hello the satellite picture reflects what you might expect this time of the year with most of the rain in malaysia or especially indonesia that is not a lot in the way of big thunderstorms except over the water but i think we'll see of the next day or so inland showers developing in sumatra and down in java as well those blue packs are the forecast center of the biggest under still that is a bit of orange or yellow in there they're really big ones but they stretch all the way down through jakarta towards bali and beyond so the way to rather few are born here that we saw say last week and very few over the philippines that breeze and all the s

mike hanna al-jazeera washington or let's get more now live from washington here's alan fischer island so the president president trump has been pitching in what's he been saying. well it's really the 1st reaction we've had from anyone in the trumpet ministrations since the iranians admitted that they shot during the jet but not specifically referencing that instead the president has on usually tweet it out in farsi and as far as we're aware he doesn't speak farsi so it's obviously by someone handles his social media came but he also sent out an english translation he says to the brave in suffering iranian people i've stood with you since the beginning of my presidency and he says he'll continue to stand with them we are following your protests closely your courage is inspiring if one farsi tweet was surprising then the 2nd one is probably even more surprising and we certainly got that from donald trump in the last half hour or so he tweeted something in english in farsi he says the government of iran must ally human rights groups to monitor and report facts on the ground on the ongoin

there's a lot of questions to be answered both here at the pentagon and elsewhere in washington alan fischer with the latest there from the pentagon thank you scott to capitol hill now and speak to hide the show cast your who's there because congress has reconvened a short time ago heidi what have they been saying what are they discussing well we are seeing a sharply divided congress barbara with republicans offering their congratulations to president trump for his you know lateral decision to launch this air strike that killed so many what republicans saying that this eliminated a significant threat to americans in the region well a very different tone coming from democrats who say that this happened without consultation from congress thus the action may have been illegal and democrats are warning and fearing let's go straight to president trump who is speaking now let's listen in. solomon any solomin he was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel but we caught him in the act and terminated him. under my leadership america's policy is unambiguous

is in toronto for us where a memorial has been held for victims of the crash plus there are 2 alan fischer who is in washington and alan president trump has been issuing warnings again to iran over twitter today. exactly he's also been doing it in farsi which as we said about 24 hours ago the 1st time we've seen him tweet in farsi so we think that's the person in charge of a social media current because as far as we're aware don't trump doesn't speak farsi he's told around the need to not kill their protesters that the world is watching but more importantly he says the united states is watching he says iran must turn on its internet and he says reporters must be allowed to roam freely of course this coming from the president who has described the media here in the united states is enemies of the people but clearly he believes that there should be reporting going on in what is happening in and around iran this is part of what the u.s. administration has been saying throughout sunday appearing on a number of the u.s. political talk shows the internal and external criticism of iran but they a

let's get more now on president trump's comments that alan fischer joins us live now from the pentagon i'm so we heard the president say that the u.s. took action not to start a war but to stop a war does it sound to you like the president was trying to the escalator events. it sounds as if that is certainly the tone coming from the trumpet ministration movement might pompeo on the foreign turn number of world leaders a number of allies in the in the last few hours saying that look with the united states is very keen on deescalation donald trump said the thing this he's going to get criticism for is that this decision was made because of some compelling intelligence that had passed to him and of course he described the u.s. intelligence agencies as the best in the world these are the same intelligence agencies that donald trump himself has criticized particularly when it comes to them talking about russian interference in the 26000 election seems to all roads go back to there. it also appears that don't trump has been considering this sort of operation for some time he says that a numb

so i like not to alan fischer in washington and ireland as you say in their donald trump came not to talk about that the plane crash directly in his tweets but talking more about the protests going on in iran. it's unusual that he would tweet an english and in farsi clearly someone who runs a social media. that did that because we don't think donald trump speaks farsi certainly has never given a vacation of that in the past it's an interesting tweet his well to say that he stands by the people of iran when less than a week ago he was threatening to commit what is essentially a war crime by bombing cultural sites but it shows that he is perhaps trying to tamp down all possible question of escalating the tension between the united states and iran at the moment and that seems to be the message that is going across all government departments or at the 24 hours or so after iran acknowledged its military short don't a civilian aircraft that the americans have not tried to make any capital of it and of course you remember there are questions about the americans perhaps escalating tensions i

senate alan fischer now has a closer look at the events and allegations that led up to this point. this was the day after donald trump to call for us. exactly 3 years on he no faces a trial in the u.s. senate which could make that a reality it's a new story and it started in july last year with what should have been a routine phone call from his desk in the oval office donald trump called the president of ukraine a whistleblower was what he did but what they had about the phone call and filed a complaint and that a letter to congress the allegation president trump was holding back hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid meant for you. greene and it would be sent if the ukrainian president announced an investigation into trump's political rival former vice president joe biden and his son hunter who want to new crane don't trump didn't understand the fuss i made a call the call was perfect he released the transcript but it seemed to cause more trouble the key section as the ukrainian president promises to buy more u.s. missiles trump responds i would like you to do is a favor

showing his support for iranians protesting against the government's let's go straightaway to alan fischer he's live for us in washington and tell us more about what the president's been saying. well you remember 24 hours ago we were talking about donald trump tweeting in farsi for the 1st time apparently that tweet is the most retreated farsi tweet in history something that will please don't hold trump he's been on twitter again in the last few hours he's saying to the iranians that they should not kill their protesters he's asking for them to switch on the internet and says reporters should be allowed to roam freely this coming from a president who in the united states has described the media as the enemy of the people and all modestly he's telling the leaders in tehran the world is watching you and the united states is watching you certainly this goes to part of the justification for the killing of castle of money you remember that when that happened the americans said one of the reasons he was targeted was that he had killed a number of peaceful protesters in the united in in iran when

out 0 is alan fischer reporting live there from the state department in washington alan many thanks. iraqis in baghdad have held a funeral procession for the paramilitary leader abu al behind this who was killed alongside sort of money in friday's strike and this was the deputy commander of the iranian backed popular mobilization forces whose fighters were involved in the siege on the u.s. embassy in baghdad last week i was there as a solid job it in baghdad says that there was a funeral procession and public viewing for how this. after some d.n.a. tests and his body being blessed at religious ritual religious science in iran his body has arrived in basra where there was a funeral and the body will now travel to nudge of for its final resting place i would imagine 100 has now been replaced by. a commander who's also been quite efficient in the fight against somebody who's very close to iran as well and how the lumber used to lead the budget of militia we've also seen the impact of this from his blood because there was a lot of influence of that particular group and the united states

against iran by the trumpet ministration there's no sign it's about to be debated in the senate alan fischer washington. well thousands of attended a vigil at kind of its largest college the university of toronto to mourn the victims of the downed ukrainian airlines jet of the $176.00 who died $57.00 were canadian citizens and many either worked or attended universities there. was at the vigil. those reading out victims' names from the ukrainian airlines crash were choked with emotion so were many who watched among the victims were dozens of university professors students staff and their families including young children this tragedy has hit one particular community hard but political leaders say the entire country is united in mourning and now it's time for a reigning canadian. and all of their canadians to come together as canadians we remember together we mourn together. and we will seek answers together so hundreds of people are waiting outside as the ceremony goes on in a hall that seats $1500.00 already full to capacity this is a community that's determined to come together both to gri

putting a time scale on how long their patients will last thank you very much from washington alan fischer and now donna lack live from the canadian city of toronto where a memorial for the plane crash victims was taking place earlier and so daniel how are people coming to terms with what has happened. well certainly what we saw at this memorial was the grief is still very heavy weighing upon them very heavily the scenes were so emotional it was almost impossible to bear at least if you had any connection to the iranian coming canadian community in this city this region where about half of the 200000 iranian canadians living in canada live there were 137 people on board that aircraft bound for this country and many of the ones who were at this vigil this afternoon had some connection to the tragedy some direct connection you saw people clutching photographs of loved ones and when they read the names of the victims the canadian citizens who were victims of the crash out from the stage the people who were reading them couldn't get through many of them they choked up they couldn't finish the

trump has long accused china of keeping the yuan a low levels to get an unfair trade advantage alan fischer is in washington and tells us what this could mean for the trade war. go back 4 years donald trump when he was campaigning to become president said that in this 1st year in the white house he would clear china to be a currency manipulator well eventually got round to just 5 months ago now it really was a symbolic gesture it didn't really have much impact it could have opened china up to greater scrutiny from the international monetary fund but it didn't really happen this was at the height of donald trump's trade war you'll remember he imposed targets or in billions of dollars worth of chinese goods he said that china was pouring billions of dollars in fees into the u.s. treasury in fact if you look at a report that came out just last week it said that 100 percent of the cost of tabs was being borne by american families $1.00 survey said american families were about $800.00 a year was soft so this sure is that things between china and the united states are getting better in the market

alan fischer was at the rally he says supporters when that thing up trumps criticism of the impeachment trial. he didn't spend a great deal of time on it and called it the usual things so and so which he criticized that i'm sure he said the 2 senators from iowa both of whom are republicans didn't come here tonight because he wanted them in washington because of course they're part of the trying donald trump speaking to the people here no one believes that donald trump has done anything that rises to the level of impeachment they see is a way of trying to overturn the previous election and trying to keep him off the ballot for 2020. course going to be in the caucus the republican caucus also being held on monday night he's going to when because let me tell you can you name the 2 other republicans are standing against him no most people here probably couldn't either he has the bully pulpit he of course has the benefit of incumbency of being the president so he's going to win that quite significantly and people here believe that that is just going to be the 1st step in regaining the presid

painfully waiting to find out when the bodies will be returned and they can see their final goodbye alan fischer washington for this on this with his on the in washington hi gabriel so ukrainian plane iranian territory canada wanting to be involved in the best in the investigation is how does this actually move forward. yeah under normal circumstances come all would happen would be the country that where the accident happened would take the lead but then investigators from the n.t.s.b. the national transportation board in the united states would most certainly be on planes or mediately to go to assist with the investigation and as well as where the most amount of citizens that died and that in this case it would have been canada would also immediately send investigators as well that's under normal circumstances but with this crash it is not normal circumstances primarily because as we all know the united states has no diplomatic ties with iran for over 40 years now therefore american investigators can't just assume they can get in there and start the investigation or assist the iranians with the

coordinated response has there been any direct comment on iran's admission that it don't reject alan fischer al-jazeera washington. now to syria and the latest attempt to bring a ceasefire to the province the last way the rebel held territory. has the details . the aftermath of an attack by syrian government forces and their russian allies in provence the attack happened hours before russian and turkish brokered cease fire was due to come into effect. volunteer why tell much paramedics who are there within minutes to do what they've done thousands of times during the war trying to save the lives of civilians who have also moved here in the fall of the earth and there have been several airstrikes in different cities we went to the sites and while we were helping people there were more airstrikes for sure there are people trapped in the rubble we're still searching for survivors. on a rap was one of several villages hit by russian and syrian government forces in the last 24 hours this grandfather is burying 4 out of his 5 granddaughters. i wasn't here when the airstrikes happened but i was tol

against iran by the trumpet ministration there's no sign it's about to be debated in the senate alan fischer washington. and as tensions persist thousands of people have gone along to vigils for the $57.00 canadian victims of the ukrainian passenger jet crash prime minister justin trudeau told one memorial event in edmonton that he will not rest until there's justice for the tragedy. people gathered at the university which last 16 daniel aqua's that. those reading out victims' names from the ukrainian airlines crash were choked with emotion so were many who watched among the victims were dozens of university professors students staff and their families including young children this tragedy has hit one particular community hard but political leaders say the entire country is united in mourning and now it is time for arraigning canadians. and all of their canadians to come together as canadians we remember together. we mourn together. and we will seek answers together so hundreds of people are waiting outside as the ceremony goes on in a hall that seats $1500.00 already full to capacity this i

well let's go to some a pinch of aid in baghdad shortly but 1st let's get some more reaction from alan fischer he's at the pence again for us allan what have we been hearing from the pentagon. nothing we got the statement early hours of friday morning confirming that they carried out the operation veer drawn but as you can see the put him behind me which would expect at least mark here spur of the secretary of defense to attend at some point on friday there are no plans for briefings at the moment of course there are problems with this with my pompei as the secretary of state going out and saying look americans are no safer because of the actions that the president took although his own state department is issuing travel advisories to iraq and are joining americans who are in iraq to leave the country as soon as possible and there are questions too why did the white house not inform senior figures in congress we've heard from nancy pelosi saying that did not happen if you remember back to the attack on abu bakar al baghdadi donald trump at that point decided not to inform congress and he said

tweeted about the plane crash but has expressed support to protesters in iran let's go live to alan fischer and at washington's done and what has the president been saying. of course the vents are linked the protests are mainly about the way the iranian government refused to acknowledge in the 1st instance that shot down the plane and once the admission came out people were then protesting against the regime and also against the supreme leader i'm self taught from unusually took the opportunity to tweet not just in english but also in farsi know we suspect is whoever manages his social media is doing the 2nd part of the tweeting because as far as we know donald trump doesn't talk farsi but what he did say is that he called the iranian people brave and longsuffering insisted that he had stood by them since the start of his presidency and administration would continue to do so and he said we are following your protests closely and are inspired by your courage he then followed that up with initially a tweet in english which then again was translated into farsi unusual that we would get that bu

against iran by the trumpet ministration there's a new sign it's about to be debated in the senate alan fischer washington tens of thousands of people in the philippines are fleeing their homes as scientists warn a volcano could erupt within hours or days volcano about 70 kilometers south of the capital manila started spewing ash and lava on monday on sunday rather 8000 people have been evacuated from the island of tully sea where the volcano sits with thousands more leaving coastal towns linda going has more from tennessee. we are in but on this province about 16 kilometers from kaino the roads are slippery this is a very difficult journey for those who are trying to flee evacuation and started as early as sunday afternoon and thousands have already fled the priority according to the government is to secure those within the 14 kilometer range of i will cain no i'm for you guys. police a problem for me the boy oh. boy oh boy you know for the violence. for this this try sicko. is an entire family. from police. they have been trying to evacuated since sunday afternoon we're seeing vehicles cars f

for the death of hundreds of american servicemen and injured the injuries to thousands more ok alan fischer reporting live from the pentagon thank you very much indeed let's get reaction now from iran al-jazeera star suggest bari is live in terror ron and what has the reaction been in iran. well there's been a huge sense of shock and loss and grief really across the board ranging from the ordinary average iranian that we've spoken to to the highest level of the establishment that would be the supreme leader himself we've also just been hearing from the national submissive 3 national security council that is a body that is tasked with one of the things that they're in charge of is their own foreign policy it's headed by the president hassan rouhani under the guidance of the supreme leader this body had an emergency meeting today and they've just come out with a statement saying that they've made a decision about what they're going to do and that in due time the united states will see iran's response that appropriate response that iran has decided to take so it's really now a matter of wait a

it will take 2 thirds of the senate to vote to convict the president and remove him from office alan fischer out easier washington . a 4th person has died in china from a new corona virus spreading in asia the latest victim died in the chinese city of rouhani where the response to treat illness was 1st detected while than 200 cases have not been confirmed and officials say that they have evidence of human to human transmission south korea has reported its 1st case a chinese woman who flew in on sunday has been quarantined a case was also confirmed in japan earlier this month and to thailand within 6 states now the world health organization is called an emergency meeting for wednesday because we know you is in beijing where people's worries about the outbreak are growing. we've got cases that were confirmed outside of the 1st time yesterday in beijing and in guangdong and now today we've got more potential cases in other provinces so we've got suspected cases in situ one in you 9 guangxi and chandon which are in different areas of the country so i think the concern is how fast this is spreadi

as alan fischer reporting live from the state department in many thanks indeed a see now from i was there as how did your castro who's live on capitol hill for us where u.s. politicians will soon be given classified briefings on iran and iraq heidi who's briefing who. that's right these will be senior members of the administration including us sensibly excuse me the secretary of state my pompei oh and they will be briefing what's referred to as the gang of 8 on capitol hill today these are the senior most leaders of congress from both parties and then tomorrow that's when the full senate and the full house of representatives. is expected to be briefed and they have many questions members of congress sharing with us that democrats particularly are concerned about exactly what this intelligence was that the president and that his aides have been citing in recent days to justify taking this action to kill general sulaimani now we've heard many times it's just as allen will say secretary of state mike on pale saying that this was an imminent threat however and that everything you heard he was

we were listening there to mark casper a secretary of defense and we can also cross live now to alan fischer in washington d.c. who was also listening to that so a lot of the journalists there really pressing the secretary of defense asking questions for example whether the u.s. is actually legally obliged to leave iraq if the government there wants it to and says should what did you make of that press conference. why i think one of the most interesting things was he said that general solar money was in america's view a legitimate threat his time was jew is what mark kasper said he said that the general had been planning a military activity he gave the idea that it was happening within days that would threaten american lives he said he's been doing this for years and had the blood of hundreds of americans on his hands and that is why the decision was taken he says the range of options were presented to the president we have from my pompei or. today when he said that there was from the intelligence agencies and also from people on the ground. pros and cons were presented to the president and

painfully waiting to find out when the bodies will be returned and they can see their final goodbye alan fischer washington that headlines the u.s. house of representatives has passed a non-binding bill to limit president trumps ability to take military action against iran that resolution passed to $24.00 to $194.00 just 3 republicans voted in support but 8 democrats oppose the measure house speaker nancy pelosi said the assassination of general concepts in the money was quote provocative provoke a tive and disproportionate india's supreme court has ruled restrictions in kashmir must be reviewed within a week part of its verdict on a series of petitions challenging the legality of the government's lockdown the judge says the court's trying to balance security with people's rights and revote indeed on mr kashmiri autonomy in august and imposed new restrictions since then there's been extra security and restrictions including internet blackouts and a curfew russia and turkey have announced a cease fire in syria's last rebel held area hundreds of people there have been killed there over the past ye

we're just as prepared to deliver a forceful response to defend our interests it's go live now to alan fischer in washington d.c. alan in the past hour we've heard from their mike has for the fence secretary and then also from the president himself it does seem that the top of ministration is very much waiting for the uranium but making clear that they will respond in kind. and certainly that seems to be the planning through the defense department but also through the state department who of course represents the embassies around the world what was interesting is that my caspar was marcus was asked when was this attack do you know there briefing people on the hill at the moment senior politicians of both parties and he said it was jus within days you had donald trump say that this was going to be a very big attack interestingly enough when asked about this just a couple of days after the attack the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the senior general in the united states couldn't give a definitive time scale but then of course he doesn't make political decisions and so it seems that from w

last october marking the one year anniversary of his murder and it had the hashtag let's speak to alan fischer was across the story for us from washington d.c. so alan the u.n. calling for an investigation and now the u.s. congress also wanting to get involved tell us more. well ron wyden who is a democratic senator from oregon he has said that he would like to get some more information from jeff bezos because he says this is part of a growing trend with so dear arabia using cyber truly to hike into foreign so you've got to remember the kind scale of this jeff bezos believes he was hacked sometime around may 28th teen so that several months before the murder of jamal khashoggi but it's exactly around the time when jeff bezos was in saudi arabia talking about the possibility of putting a massive sever farm somewhere in the middle east this is a $1000000000.00 project and so the saudis would have been very keen to find out who else he was speaking to what sort of information they could glean what they could possibly use to their advantage if there was anything that they could offer so jeff bezos

said look let's find out what actually happened before we start seeing what we're going to do alan fischer thank you very much indeed. 4 passengers on the plane were from around the world including iran canada and afghanistan a national day of mourning is being observed in ukraine nora benignly has will. friends family colleagues coming together in grief these are the 9 crew members of ukraine international airlines who was supposed to land this tumbling care of a wednesday at the site i had just assumed was it's a tragedy for the whole world for ukraine and every one of us this is a grief which is difficult to express in words ukraine's president lenski joined that that you'll join your probably do i will speak with iran's president to step up cooperation with ukraine to establish the truth i'm appealing to the international community especially to canada to take part in the investigation. most of the passages were iranian as well as more than 60 canadians. in toronto and elsewhere in canada there were more candles more flowers and pictures of those who'd been killed it leaves a shocked m

on wednesday in a bid to end an 18 month trade war or for more on this let's cross now live to alan fischer who's in washington d.c. and now and this is a pretty important concession to the chinese government does now. well if you flashback 4 years ago donald trump was campaigning on the fact that he would. designate china to be a come see manipulator on his 1st day in the white house now eventually got round to just 5 months ago and was at the height of the trade war between the united states and china remember the u.s. has imposed a lot of sanctions on to chinese goods don't come continues to say it's the chinese that's paying the the those tariffs but it's not because the u.s. consumer and it's estimated there around every family in the united states is now $800.00 more soft because of donald trump's trade war with china no the move to to call them a cunt see manipulator is largely 7 symbolic really didn't have much impact but don't trump no saying we're going to lift that designation that certainly helps before he said stone with the chinese vice premier on wednesday and signs a new tra

well as cross-eyed alan fischer his life is at the pentagon allan what have the pentagon been saying. well apart from the statement that we go it just enough to risk confirmation of the attack in iraq has been nothing you can see the empty podium behind me we do know from the pentagon that they are sending an additional 3000 troops to the middle east region they say that's part of the ongoing evaluation of the threat there you remember that there is a number of troops sent just a few days ago of the 82nd airborne they were there to provide support for the american embassy in iraq people there in speculating was that part of the whole process then although they were saying they were going just to add a bit of extra muscle was this because the planning for this was already in the works and it seems likely that that was the case if you start to join the dots because lindsey graham who is a republican senator big ally of donald trump he says he was told about the planning for the operation when he was in florida i know he was in florida according to the white house pool on monday and tues

alan fischer was at the rally he says supporters are lapping up trump's criticism of the impeachment trial. he didn't spend a great deal of time on it called the usual things so and so which he criticized that i'm sure he said the 2 senators from iowa both of whom are republicans didn't come here tonight because he wanted them in washington because of course they're part of the trying. i be speaking to the people here no one believes that donald trump has done anything that rises to the level of impeachment they see is a way of trying to overturn the previous election and trying to keep up the balance for 2020. course going to be in the caucus the republican caucus also being held on monday night he's going to win because let me tell you can you name the 2 other republicans are standing against the people here probably couldn't either he has the bully pulpit he of course has the benefit of incumbency of being the president so he's going to win that quite significantly and people here believe that that is just going to be the 1st step in regaining the presidency and regaining the whit

continued flying for several minutes and turned back towards the airport whilst it was still on fire alan fischer as more. this was taken seconds before a ukrainian passenger jet crashed near tehran security cameras captured the dramatic moment of impact on the ground 176 people died including 63 canadians that country's prime minister says it was down by in a rainy and missile we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in a surface to air missile the plane came down just 4 hours after iran had fired a volley of missiles towards the u.s. bases in iraq the country was on high alert for possible u.s. or television asked if he blamed america for escalating tensions in the area prime minister trudeau said a full investigation was needed before fingers were pointed i think it is too soon to be drawing conclusions or assigning blame or responsibility and whatever proportions iranian officials insist the aircraft the ukrainian international boeing 737800 had a problem and was headed back to the