breaking news from the middle east news special report: iraqi television has just confirmed that cassim sulaimani, a former general in iran's revolutionary guard and a commander of the kuds force, has been killed in rocket attack apparently initiated by the united states, where a us drone strike killed one of iran's most powerful military leaders overnight. it appears the us military has launched a missile strike in iraq. tonight, iraqi state tv, is... reporting that among the people killed is kasim sulaimani, a reveered iranian general and one of that country's most powerful military leaders. powers who have killed suleimani, they have lost. first let's start out with what's going on in iran. these are the biggest demonstrations, funeral processions that this country has seen in decades. well, more fallout for the us following at the drone strike. the general's killing has had a wide effect across the region. also, in baghdad, the iraqi parliament is expected to hold a special session on sunday. anti-us and pro iran chance in the iraqi parliament. good morning, well the iraqi parliament's resolu

for example of the 1953 coup of the 1979 revolution, all over the place, the portraits of haj cassim sulaimaniemoration of his assassination by the americans and as we saw at the british embassy, potentially also the british involvement in in that, and those displays that one sees of the politics displays are very, very different to the displays that you see in the uk. there's nothing like the kind of the expression of a revolutionary approach to life that there is here and that's uh... instructive uh and you see that in the the different ways in which people react and respond, of course here there are a variety of different views of things, we've seen that in many many occasions as we've gone through the city and uh for example, and it's it's really salutary to be reminded that - a small country like iran, it's not small population but small in terms of how it's... seen in the western world uh, which is clearly in the geopolitics of today becoming a country which has much higher status in the world, as geopolitics changes, as we move towards multippolarity, iran becomes a country which not on