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now in a few moments mike hanna will be telling us how the news is likely to go down in washington we go to dorset jabari who is live for us in tehran. the commander had a lot more to say than just that admission of responsibility to take us through what else he talked about. well he said he wished he had died rather than to share this news that this was a very difficult for him to come to share exactly the details of what occurred with the iranian population he said that this is a very difficult moment for him to explain to the arraign in public what actually took place and he's very very distraught as well and he's not the only one the one of the millions of iranians who are shocked at this news he says that this was a very very unfortunate accident that the operator of those missiles had 10 seconds to decide what to do because they were expecting a reaction from the united states government after iran launched those rockets into i know assad base in iraq he said that the operator tried to contact the plane they but then he didn't get a response and he believed to be a cruise missil

well daniel lak is in toronto where a memorial has been held for the crash victims we've got mike hanna standing by with international reaction washington 1st though to dorset bari in toronto and those who are just hearing a clip from the country emir there with his message of diplomacy in iran tell us more about what he was seeking to accomplish on this visit. well. many people here believe he chose this specific time to come because it's very very critical what comes next not only for the iranians but also for the neighbors in this region what happens in iran is has ramifications across across the middle east and the qatari mir was very keen on stressing the importance of the relationship between iran and qatar and he also met just a short while ago with the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini where the supreme leader explained his position that is that the turbulence in the inappropriate nature of what we see happening right now in this region is as a result of the u.s. presence in the middle east something he was hinting at for the qatari mirror to take note since the united states ha

members in defying the senate leader and the white house in demanding this new evidence be heard mike hanna al-jazeera washington and scone live to washington d.c. now our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat is standing by as so things are lining up with the democrats also releasing their new evidence how is all that coming together. well essentially what we're watching is for the top of the hour because that's when all of this is essentially going to come together in the house of representatives that's the lower chamber of the u.s. congress and up till now this is been really kind of a political spectacle if you will but now this is really going to take on a legal form and shape essentially there's going to be debate then there will be a vote and 3 things are going to happen in that chamber number one there is going to be the vote to move the articles of impeachment from the house of representatives to the efforts of the u.s. senate the other thing that's going to happen is the impeachment pietschmann managers are going to be named these are the men and women that potentially are go

pressured ukraine to investigate the democrats while withholding military aid and support from mike hanna. the house speaker nancy pelosi has guided the impeachment process to this point but after the house vote that will move to the senate where majority leader mitch mcconnell will effectively take control he's adamant the democratic majority in the house has failed to prove a case and argues it's not up to the senate to do so the constitution gives the sole power of impeachment without if i ask majority wants to impeach a president the ball is and their court but they have to do the work to prove their coach. nothing nothing in our history or our cost of tuition says a house majority can pass what amounts to a have censure resolution and then insist of the senate bill and the blocks but senate rules mean mcconnell might not actually have the final say the procedure of the trial is decided by a simple majority and republican senators are under increasing pressure to break ranks and join democratic party members in seeking a full trial with witnesses all it needs is for republicans to do

the conclusion that the killings were an act of terrorism is motivated by a violent ideology mike hanna al-jazeera washington now the threat of what experts call a volcanic tsunami is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in the philippines tel volcanoes in the middle of the lake and it's fear that an underwater eruption will cause destructive waves jamila island oregon reports from the tangas province. there is fear and anxiety here thousands of people are fleeing their homes and looking for a safe place to go everything happened in an instant. in the northern philippines spewed ashes steam and lava on sunday a violent activity not seen for decades and raising the threat not just to those living in the projects of the day but even in the capital manila where many people also woke up to a city covered in ash. driving to but down the us was a difficult journey we came across people desperate to flee gathering their families together and not bringing anything else except the clothes on their backs really becoming real being asked to leave and we had nowhere to go to look

well let's now get more from mike hanna he joins us live from washington so speaking to do also there is a feeling of deep regret and anger in in the iranian capital what about the international reaction to all of this there is clearly now calls for a thorough and detailed investigation or generally international reaction has been welcoming of the iranian acknowledgment of responsibility for shooting down the airliner we've heard from the president of germany we've heard from various nato ministers and you heard there from the ukraine president but what the common thread is among the reaction is that while welcoming iran's acknowledgment there's also the emphasis on the need for further investigation the doesn't end with an iranian acceptance and admission of responsibility this was also summed up by the canadian prime minister who had the. canada in the world still have many questions questions that must be answered earlier this morning i spoke with president rouhani of iran i told him that iran's admission that its own armed forces unintentionally shot down flight 752 is an importan

to mike hanna in washington d.c. there are reports the white house is expected to give congress formal notice of the strike on syria money we know about this. there are several out lights are in for reporting that the white house has inform congress that later on in the course of the day it will deliver a reason for its exercise its attack in iraq this isn't terms of the war powers resolution which makes it obligatory on the president to inform congress 48 hours after hostilities have begun now the nature of it is a signed document from the white house which would be expected to lay the reasons for the action that may be part of the classified of the public part of the document but then also within the document it's expected that there would be the intelligence reasons given for the action that may well be classified limited to the eyes of congress alone so certainly this is a important step it is time democrats within the congress have been calling very strongly for such a move to be taken arguing that president tru

the awareness that this is not an end to the trade war as it is at the stage really the truth mike hanna al-jazeera washington. so up until this point the world's 2 largest economies been locked in this bitter trade battle 18 months it's been going on really the u.s. president has long accused china of unfair trading practices and intellectual property theft china believes the u.s. is just trying to curb its rise as a global economic power so far the u.s. imposed tariffs on more than $360000000000.00 worth of chinese goods china retaliated as much as it could with more than $110000000000.00 of u.s. products his thoughts of dunn wang now who is an analyst the economist intelligence unit she believes china has given up more than the u.s. in this new deal. this looks to me a very big concession on china's side and i genuinely don't see how china can fulfill its commitment of $200000000000.00 more dollars a purchase from the us will without increasing its fiscal subsidies to domestic producers manufacturers dramatically and if china along the way of those 2 years. actually cannot fulfill som

mike hanna al-jazeera washington well in the past few hours president trump has not 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 twe

but scientists managed to keep the spitzer mission going for an extra decade this report from mike hanna. this is the last image the spits are transmitted back to earth's the tarantella nebula named after the filaments of gas that resembles spider's legs stretched out across the cosmos. it was one of the telescopes 1st observation targets when it was launched 16 years ago spencer allowed us to feel the gang look at things lift the cosmic they'll and see the super massive black holes that we couldn't see previously since then it has revealed twice as many galaxies as any other observatory and most importantly perhaps advanced human knowledge of black holes and the birth and death of stars spitzer's operational life was expected to be 5 years at the most but even after its helium fuel ran out the telescope continue to send vital data about the universe back to worth. it's relatively small size lead scientist to label spitzer the little telescope that could so this is a image of the telescope and i also have a little long love it right here in front of me now so this is 130 seconds of the s

a us university data that may still produce new discoveries about how souls and our universe mike hanna al-jazeera washington. this is out there and these are the top stories the world health organization has declared the coronavirus a global health emergency the respiratory disease has killed more than 200 people in china infected 9 and a half 1000 and spread to 18 other countries the u.s. state department is advise it americans against traveling to china bride has more from outside a temporary quarantine center and a son in south korea. a large convoy of buses and police vehicles drove through these gates and basically this is the number of those people off our flight who are going to be here for busy the next 2 weeks in quarantine this place was chosen because it is fairly well cut off from from the city itself there are individual rooms where all of these people will be kept individually. their health monitored over the next 2 weeks to make sure they have those signs of the coronavirus they get to keep their personal device will and to tell humans but basically this is for the next

mike hanna al-jazeera washington. while china's foreign ministry has praised the progress in trade talks with the u.s. after wednesday's deal which you don't do to you don't need to do it i can be signing this phase one trade deal being if it's china and the us and the whole world it shows that we can entirely we're cast a solution that can properly and effectively deal with the relevant issues through dialogue and consultation based on equality and mutual respect. now warnings of another volcanic eruption in the philippines are forced thousands more people to abandon their homes access to high risk areas is limited drone video shows one town near the volcano devastated by falling on buildings have collapsed and evacuation centers across the tongue a province almost full with more than 50000 people are sheltering in evacuation centers across the tongass province jamila in durban joins us live now from one of those in santo thomas city thousands of people have already been moved so what's the latest now on the evacuati

meanwhile the white house has now sent formal notification to congress about friday's drone strike mike hanna has the details from washington d.c. it's a very important formality in terms of the war powers act from many decades ago in terms of which the president is obliged constitutionally obliged to inform congress notify congress within 48 hours of putting troops in harm's way now such notification is a signed document from the white house normally it would involve giving information about the reasons for the action as well as which would probably be on a classified basis the intelligence that lay behind taking such action so this is an important step in terms of the trumps administration's attempts to justify this action though as you say it is after the act there's another set of constitutional provisions the use of a war arms authority to authorize ation act which has not been complied with according to many in congress so although the notification has been given in terms of the wartime resolution act it has not been ended the argument within many members of congress that they should be

once again contradicting what president trump has repeated in the past a few hours all right mike hanna thank you. at least 8 rockets have been have hit in iraq a military base that houses u.s. and coalition forces the rockets reportedly fell on the runway of balad air base that's north of baghdad for more on this assignment in john major's joining us from baghdad what more you are you learning about. where these rockets have been on to the ball at their base it's almost half a dozen attacks since the killing of possums their money and the alert that iraqi as well as schoolish and forces have been on according to details by the iraqi security forces for people for iraqi soldiers rather have been wounded including 2 offices this was an attack that no one has claimed responsibility and like many others that have happened since the killing of the monied rockets have been landing in baghdad in bases which are iraqi bases being used by coalition we've heard from the highest to xabi the popular mobilization forces saying that they will claim if the attack previously when they were blamed for

itself in now all right so doris i thank you for that update from iran let's get reaction from mike hanna joining us from washington and during that press conference mike by the revolutionary guard iran did say that the shooting down occurred in the midst of hostilities with the united states so has there been any official reaction from the president himself on what has come out of iran. there's been no official reaction whatsoever given the reign you know knowledge meant of being responsible for the shooting down of that airliner the president's been occupied this morning tweeting about domestic issues about his coming impeachment no reference on his social media to the iranian reaction there's been no official statement from state department so certainly it would appear to be at the stage. of restraint as far as the transfer administration is concerned not at the stage responding to be a rainy an explanation about the context in which the shooting down took place. all right it's my can i thank you for that update from washington. well moving on to other news and i'll tell you about it's

now in a few moments mike hanna will be telling us how that uses likely to go down in washington 1st we go to dorset jabari who is live for us in tehran and also there's an admission of responsibility and acceptance of accountability in what more did we hear. well we heard from the brigadier general there who is the head of the revolutionary guards aerospace division. he said that he was very very sad that you wished he had died and didn't have to hear this news he said that evening of tuesday evening and wednesday morning when this incident occurred he was in the west of the country launching those missiles into iraq he was with that group of the revolutionary guard commanders who carried out that attack on u.s. interests in iraq he said when he heard this news he wished he had died he says he was it's a very difficult position for him to be in to come in front of the cameras to having to explain how this tragedy took place he said basically the operator of the missiles that were in that area near among. got in contact with this flight but didn't get a response and within 10 seconds

at a us university data that may still produce new discoveries about how so and our universe mike hanna al-jazeera washington. past the hour here on al-jazeera let's take you to the headlines japan south korea and the u.k. are stepping up their evacuation of citizens from china in response to the coronavirus americans are now being advised to avoid traveling to china while the world health organization has declared the virus a global public health emergency so far more than 200 people have died from the outbreak in the 10000 been infected series when he and hong kong with more on what the declaration means for the fines against the virus one of the main things that this declaration does is free up money in the 1st instance that means the w.h.o. now has more funds that it can throw at the problem but it also effectively gives the w.h.o. more power because member nations including china have a binding obligation to accept and implement any decisions that the w.h.o. makes in regard to this particular outbreak of coronavirus of their headline scuffles outside the al aqsa mosque compound whe

attorney general has described it as an act of terrorism mike hanna reports. the shooting shocked the tightly knit community at pensacola and raised questions about the training programs that allowed hundreds of international could debts to attend courses at u.s. bases the f.b.i. interviewed some 500 people in its investigation in which it found that the shooter mohamed rami acted alone and that none of his fellow saudi officers had any for knowledge of the attack but the social media accounts of $21.00 of the cadets contained what the u.s. attorney general called derogatory material most cases ranging from what is described as terrorist related content to child pornography the relevant u.s. attorney's offices independently reviewed each of the $21.00 cases involving derogatory information and determined that none of them would in the normal course result in federal prosecution. however the kingdom of saudi arabia determined the disk material demonstrated conduct unbecoming an officer in the royal saudi air force and in the royal navy and the 21 cadets have be

context to the charges that trump pressured ukraine to investigate democratic rival joe biden mike hanna reports from washington. the house speaker nancy pelosi has guided the impeachment process to this point but after the house vote it will move to the senate where majority leader mitch mcconnell will effectively take control he's adamant the democratic majority in the house has failed to prove the case and argues it's not up to the senate to do so the constitution gives the sole power of impeachment to the out if i ask majority wants to impeach a president the ball is and their court but they have to do the work to prove their coach nothing nothing in our history or our constitution says a house majority can pass what amounts to a. censure resolution. and then and search for the senate bill on the block but senate rules mean mcconnell might not actually have the final say the procedure of the trial is decided by a simple majority and republican senators are under increasing pressure to break ranks and join democratic party members in seeking a full trial with witnesses all it needs is

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joining me is daniel lipmann and hanna tru trudeau. how wide open is this thing?'s really wide open. we have almost no idea who is going to win the caucus in less than 30 days which is pretty typically i must say of the caucus buildup. we have seen several candidates surging up until this point. pete buttigieg is the front-runner and haven't seen polls out in weeks so we are waiting for the final polls to come out and see if joe biden is able to catch mojo he left after launching his campaign in april, he is on his second bus tour in the state and bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are a major force to be reckoned four so i think those four are the ones to watch but it's anybody's guess who is currently ahead with the absence of the polls. >> bernie has raised so much money the last quarter he could do quite a lot of of damage in io iowa. >> definitely. he has a huge volunteer army there that is important to caucus turnout. this is a state where you have to rally your troops and if you have a huge volunteer army, you have lots of cash on hand, you have, obviously

a few moments we'll cross over to mike hanna to get reaction if any from washington d.c. but 1st let's speak to dorsetshire bari who's joining us from tehran and get to what the president and the canadian prime minister had to say a moment ago but 1st talk us through the reports of protests going on in iran. well this was a vigil that was held at this university in central tehran where 6 of the victims from this plane crash were students so there was a number of people that gathered to have paid their respects and have a vigil at this university and then to this vigil quickly grew into a protest the anger clearly there from the people at this university at the authorities who heed the truth from the rain in public for over 48 hours about what actually happened to the splayed there demanding that those are responsible should leave they should be held accountable there are demanding that they lawyers be held accountable and prosecuted there did it chanting they want the revolutionary guards to leave the country these are very strong statements were hearing from this group o

assets mike hanna is in washington d.c. thank you mike. and now on skype another hashimi who is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of denver nice to have you with us neither you him mike they're talking about the very classically on diplomatic language of the u.s. president counted by the actual diplomacy going on what do you make of the moves by the qatari foreign minister to move so quickly and head stright to iran to try to diffuse this one if you import into development we're on the precipice of a major war in the middle east and the prospects for diplomacy look very bleak and grim at this moment nonetheless in order to avoid a larger regional war all options need to be pursued to see if there's a prospect for deescalating this conflict so full marks and full credit to qatar for being the 1st country to send its foreign minister to tehran to examine the possibilities of deescalation i'm somewhat skeptical but i'm hoping that the terry foreign minister is going to be making arguments such as. such as th

appraise president trump's actions but democrats have expressed concern about iran's reaction mike hanna is in washington d.c. with more. u.s. troops reinforcements continue to arrive in the middle east and the state department has issued a travel advisory urging all american civilians to immediately be iraq this phase deployment of some 750 soldiers from the 82nd airborne rapid reaction division was initially treated after the demonstrations at the u.s. embassy in baghdad but pentagon officials indicate this number is likely to increase in coming days. president trump remains on for cation in florida but in the early morning tweeted this comment iran never won a war but never lost a negotiation the secretary of state insisted the action was in reaction to a clear and present danger and we want the world to understand that there was in fact an imminent attack taking place the american people should know that this was an intelligent telegin space and the drove this political reaction in the u.s. is split on partisan lines republicans welcoming the attack democrats expressing deep concern

initial report saying that a letter has been submitted saying that they do intend to leave now mike hanna is at the united nations just airing from terror is there not naming any countries specifically but saying that there really has to be some effort to to deescalate. yes very careful to avoid naming any countries or pointing any fingers a very brief statement around the minute he came in made the statement and then walked away again declining to take any questions some of the ambassadors were not as reticent to however the chinese ambassador attacked the united states very strongly saying that it has violated the basic norms of international relationships he too called for the escalation of the situation as did indeed the russian ambassador who spoke to the media the russian ambassador making very clear though the divisions within the security council the chinese ambassador had confirmed that the letters being received from iran asking for the security council to take note of this ongoing crisis but neither the chinese ambassador nor the russian ambassador would be drawn on whether the

will remove some tariffs on chinese goods bought as mike hanna reports it's an initial agreement and most tariffs remain in place. but. it was another white house ceremony crowded with have the members all bakers and executives from large u.s. corporations president trump hailed the deal as remarkable. today we take a momentous step one that has never been taken before with china toward a future of fear and reciprocal trade as we signed phase one of the historic trade deal between the united states and china together we are righting the wrongs of the past and delivering a future of economic justice and security for american workers farmers and families and sentiments echoed by china's signatory to the deal drew me down war for. china and the united states with the larger picture in mind have taken a serious approach to our differences and work to manage the entire appropriately reaching the phase one trade agreement that is good for china for the united states in the world. the reality though that this is just an initial deal and many problematic issues the u.s. and china relationshi

in west jerusalem for us obviously the steel is very favorable to israel as we heard there from my hanna as so what steps might israel take over the next few days considering that the palestinians rejected it before they even heard it but they certainly rejected it since. well yes i think the most resonant elements of the plan as far as israelis and indeed palestinians will be concerned firstly the green light that it gives israel to extend sovereignty i.e. annex large parts of the occupied west bank and the fact that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his office says that he will put an accession of west bank settlements to a cabinet vote as early as sunday so that is a hugely significant and consequential step it is one that many on the the right and even the center right in israel may well support certainly on the on the right they will support it but on the further right for instance in terms of his defense minister naftali bennett who is from a separate party in terms of the most influential settlers grouping the council they've condemned the plan saying that any mention

how serious mike hanna is there was a very short statement whatever what else to the secretary general had to say well it was very short indeed basically that was the gist of the he was in and out in front of the podium in less than a minute effectively obviously expressing the deepest concern but in a very unspecific way very careful not to point any fingers or name any actors in these various crises which he refers to around the world there was a little bit more from the chinese ambassador john shewan who emerged from security council proceedings today and took some questions he was very. specific about who is responsible for at least one of these crisis saying that the united states says violated basic norms of international relations as he puts it he's called on all parties to prevent a further escalation but when austerity whether he was going to call for a security council meeting he hedged a little bit saying that yes there has been a letter received from iran asking for the security council to take some attention to the u.s. attack however he did not go so far as to say that ch

and in the senate in the days ahead thank you for the updates mike hanna in washington d.c. meanwhile they have been more rocket attacks in and around baghdad one exploded in the heavily fortified green zone near the american embassy 2 others hit close to an iraqi air base where there are u.s. troops in contract and also the has blood brigades of the pro iran paramilitary group is warning iraqi forces to stay away from u.s. bases there's been grief and rage as well in the streets of baghdad and in the shia holy cities of karbala and the jeff where funeral processions were held for the iranian command the confidence of the many and the iraqi militia leader don't forget the mohan days who was killed alongside him. before donald trump sent his tweets diplomats and leaders have also been scrambling to try to ease the crisis between the u.s. and iran that is carter's foreign minister there meeting the iranian leadership also the leaders of france the u.k. and saudi arabia calling for calm ok some a binge of aid has a report now from baghdad. multiple attacks have been reported in

so this as i said a truce not an end to the war but certainly a truce that is welcomed by most mike hanna thank you very much. much more to come here on the news hour protesters continue to show their anger at lebanon's economic crisis and a top u.n. official says politicians only have themselves to blame. iran's president repeats his call for all foreign troops to leave the middle east saying american and european forces are not safe in the region and rally for relief the stars of tennis come together now been to raise money for victims of the australian bushfires. russia's prime minister has stepped down in a move seen as paving the way for president vladimir putin to hold on to power when his term ends in 2024 miter madrid if says his resignation will allow for putin to introduce sweeping changes to the constitution during his state of the nation address hooten proposed an increase in parliament's power as well as an enhanced role for the state council trying to hoe reports. it was dramatic and entirely unexpected except the just hours before the resignation of russia's prime minister

sailors were killed in the attack that washington is calling an act of terrorism mike hanna has this. the shooting shocked the tightly knit community at pensacola and raised questions about the training programs that allowed hundreds of international could debts to attend courses at u.s. bases the f.b.i. interviewed some 500 people in its investigation in which it found that the shooter mohamed fahmy acted alone and that none of his fellow saudi officers had any for knowledge of the attack but the social media accounts of $21.00 of the cadets contained what the u.s. attorney general called derogatory material most cases ranging from what is described as terrorist related content to child pornography the relevant u.s. attorney's offices independently reviewed each of the $21.00 cases involving derogatory information and determined that none of them would in the normal course result in federal prosecution however the kingdom of saudi arabia determined to dismiss serial demonstrated conduct unbecoming an officer in the royal saudi air force and in the royal navy and the 21 cadets have be

risc os to mike hanna who is in washington d.c. as you might were hearing about those thousands of u.s. troops being sent to the region tell us more about that and also this warning from some iraqi militia about the potential. their iraqi counterparts stay away from u.s. bases. well this has been a gradual process in a way the deployment of troops there was an initial deployment announced and triggered following the demonstrations outside the baghdad embassy that was some 100 soldiers rate rising to 750 and then in a 3rd deployment about a 1000 more but now in the last 24 hours it's been announced at another some 4 and a half 1000 troops are going to be traveling into the middle east they all from the 82nd airborne rapid response division and they will be flying in an ongoing basis there are some on the ground already there are still some deploying from the united states so certainly it's a significant uptick in the number of u.s. troops being stationed in the area particularly given the fact that president trump had for a long per

point despite iran's acknowledgment of being responsible for the downing of the airliner writer mike hanna thank you for that update from washington. now home on has declared 3 days of mourning after the death of its leader. the region's longest running ruling monarch died after a long illness at the age of 79 his cousin haitham been taught inside has been sworn in as his successor has somehow bought a house more. this is a new sultan haitham been thought it. sworn in a few hours after the death of his predecessor. the oldest ruling monarch in the region and the founding father of modern day oman. sultan haitham made it clear in his 1st speech to the public that he will follow in the footsteps of the late sultan. we remain guided by the late sultans wisdom going forward we will preserve and embark on the achievements he made this is what we are adamant to do to follow in his footsteps with respect to international relations we will follow in the same course set out by the late sultan we will embrace foreign policies based on peaceful coexistence without any interference in domestic affairs

run well tensions in iran causing concern at the united nations let's cross straight away to mike hanna at un headquarters in new york and mike a number of questions being raised not least iraq wanting some guarantees. yes indeed well iraq has sent a letter to the president of the security council and the secretary general asking for the security council to issue a statement condemning the united states for its action iraq says in the letter it stresses that any military operation on iraqi soil without the consent of the iraqi government and without prior coordination is considered as a provocative hostile act that violates the charter of the united nations so iraq wanting at the very least a statement from the u.n. security council but this isn't very likely the council and as on so many other issues deeply divided on this matter the chinese ambassador is saying that he is consulting with other members of the council when asked whether he will call for an urgent meeting the russian ambassador being even more blunt asked whether there was a likelihood of a joint statement from the secur

joining us here in doha and we'll get to the visit of qatar as amir in a moment but 1st on what mike hanna was saying about the secretary defense he's basically saying that president trump is willing to talk without preconditions yet at the same time we see the president doubling down on his maximum pressure campaign on iran what is the strategy there if there is one. maximum pressure it's sort of paradoxical and it's important that you ask the question because what we understand is that after 2 years of maximum pressure it was clear to the trump administration that that strategy wasn't working and iran's leadership continued on the same path in the region and within iran and if the iranians will simply not lay low and allow the sanctions to bite and so they just went in various directions whether it's in iraq and other places in the region hoping that they will counter the american pressure and try to force washington to reconsider its policy in order to go back to the nuclear deal because as everyone knows the new girl there is not just a bilateral affair between washington run it's an i

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

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new international cooperation let us not forget the terrible human suffering caused by war on mike hanna night of nations and joins us now like that has been a letter from iraq's mission to the u.n. hasn't there. yes indeed iraq has sent a letter to the president of the security council as well as to the secretary general asking for the united nations security council to condescend the conducted air strikes and assassination which the letter says contravenes the human rights obligations of the united states the letter also says and stresses that any military operation on iraqi soil without the consent of the iraqi government and without prior coordination is considered a provocative hostile act that violates the charter of the united nations so we had that brief interjection from the secretary general there he name no names pointed no fingers but some of the ambassadors were a little bit more forthcoming the chinese ambassador describing the u.s. action as violating the basic norms of international relations now he was asked directly with the china was considering calling a meeting of th