things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state speaking alongside stephen the new shin the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of iran's top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit on concert hall trying to answer the questions of journalists who just don't seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives let's take a listen to some of what went on that specific information about it in the threat and didn't have anything to do with our embassies. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on u.s. embassies. what is your definition of the internet. this was going to happen and american lives were at risk if the intelligence community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack it was active plotting is that right now gone wit

secretary of state by phone with mike pompei offering america's support in the investigation into the crash of a ukrainian passenger plane in iran on wednesday had a phone call with secretary pump am grateful for the condolences of the american people and valuable support of the u.s. in investigating the causes of the plane crash information obtained from the us will assist in the investigation earlier washington passed quote important data relating to the incident to ukraine's leader the us canada and u.k. all say they do have evidence suggesting a rocket from iran itself brought down ukrainian international airline jet killing all a 176 people on board iran though denied any missile was involved in this invited international experts to monitor its investigation this image and how moment will out the americans the french the canadians and the swedish to come here and see how we investigate this crash special is bodies from canada an america that investigate crashes we trust those bodies what we can say with absolute certainty is that no missile has had the spray. these are the latest

secretary of state mike pompei oh he's been checking in with his regional allies here in the middle east do we know what's come out of that conversation. not fully but we are getting a better sense of who he spoke to and perhaps why secretary of state mike pompei o made a round of phone calls to regional allies to prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel he thanked netanyahu for israel's continued support he also called the prime minister of iraq dumas the on wednesday as well and he stressed to the prime minister of iraq that it's the government of iraq's obligation to protect u.s. diplomatic facilities in iraq and also geisha and to see that these sort of attacks on the u.s. embassy do not happen again according to the readout from the state department secretary of state pompei also had a phone call with the qatari amir tomine bin hamad al funny this was an important call because qatar is a very important ally to the united states according the state department the to the amir qatari amir and the secretary of state discussed recent developments in the region and committed to find pe

of thanks netanyahu for his support over the last couple days particularly also spoke pompei oh by the a phone to iraqi prime minister. in that phone call pompei o stressed to the prime minister that the iraqi government is under an obligation to provide security and protect u.s. diplomatic facilities inside iraq and stressed that the u.s. is expecting that iraq will continue to do that over the coming days weeks and months but then pump ale also spoke with the qatari amir tomine bin hamad funny this is an interesting call they according to the state department that to spoke about the regional security issues in continuing to work together qatar is a very close ally of the united states on multiple levels on any given day there are as many as 10000 u.s. troops on how did air base just outside of the capital of dog so these are very close relations here in the pump a 0 was speaking to the emir because of qatar because it's a very critical country it's a close ally of the united states of course but also a neighbor to iran and qatar has a tendency to be neutral when it comes to the confl

in the month one pompei i did this is just the start of a far more aggressive deterrence policy while mentioning russia and china are more been more details. in u.s. foreign policy buzz words are everything administrations love to have a single term they can use in order to explain their international actions so let's review some of the greatest hits showing to be ready for preemptive action a reset in relations between the united states and russia might bomb peo seems to be rolling out a new one when defending the actions of the white house in dealing with international adversaries of the united states might pompei owes new favorite word seems to be deterrence reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to loose so according to the white house and its surrogates the killing of top iranian general qassam solomonic was necessary as part of this deterrence strategy but want to lay this out in context of what we've been trying to do there's a bigger strategy a strategy to this we have reestablished deterrence but we know it's not

will be joined by african and middle east and nations boris johnson to me as putin and mike pompei oh they're all on the guest list the reason for the all star lineup is that it looks like it will be here that the head of tripoli's un backed government. will sit down together with military strongman khalifa haftar these talks follow on from the go see a shin's in moscow in the week and although khalifa haftar refused to sign a truce following that meeting in the russian capital it's understood that those talks with a catalyst for the summit in berlin remember the would be the firing. to resume each of the reassure we have been promoting does this. meeting your most as a contribution to the conference of believe don't overdramatize the situation this think up of the past the there will only be no. one there to. be the hope is that these talks will bring an end to an increase in violence that's been brewing since the end of 2019 sts general hafta announced he has his eyes on the libyan capital tripoli. 0 discomfort the broad and total assault expected by every 3 and all this. today we'r

things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of iran's top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just don't seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives let's take a listen to some of what went on if you have specific information about the internet and you have anything to do with our embassies. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to happen in american lives are at risk the intelligence community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack that was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of mo

secretary of state might pompei as promised more support for venezuelan opposition leader why don't the 2 men met at an anti terrorism summit in colombia called on world leaders to help remove president nicolas maduro from power describing his rule as a terror regime the extradition trial of a senior executive of chinese telecom giant holloway has started canada it will determine whether maine the one who is sent to the u.s. to face 4 charges the american government accuses her of violating sanctions by selling equipment to iran things lawyers say she could be released because those sanctions are recognized by canada those were the headlines are back with more news in half an hour next on al-jazeera that's counting the cost. the climate crisis and the environment take center stage at this year's world economic forum in davos business people experts and leaders from around the world can expect an icy reception from some as they discuss how to save the planet from the threat of rising temperatures get the latest updates on al jazeera. this is counting the cost and i'll just 0 your weekly

it has the right to assassinate top iranian general extrajudicial lee and explain later well mike pompei o has thrown not only iran but also russia and china into the mix we saw not just in iran but in other places too where american deterrence was weak we watched russia's 2014 occupation of the crimea china's island building too in the south china sea and its brazen attempts to coerce american allies undermine to deter this so if the unite. states dislikes you it can pressure you economically diplomatically isolate you or brutally assassinate you know this is geopolitics in the age of deterrence the mask is come and ask this idea of supremacy that we we have you know this is you can call it american supremacy that we can do whatever we want and it's up to us to decide who is a threat or not this is it really really disturbing and very dangerous i think and it's not normal to hear does come an hour to somebody who is running the state department and this is extremely disturbing and i'm very disappointed that demo tick and political class is not speaking out against this. crazy idea that

yes sue me secretary pompei and secretary minutia spoke just moments ago and they announced new sanctions which they describe as targeting the economic and foreign policy of iran it's not clear yet exactly what to do what measures they are taking but you know iran is under such heavy sanctions already it will be interesting to see what more the u.s. thinks it can target in order to bring the iranian regime to its knees to make it change policy the united states says and of course secretary pompei got many questions about the killing of sulaimani and the rougher questions of that act and he said that in fact the intelligence showed that u.s. intelligence showed that there were imminent attacks there were attacks that saloon money was was planning on u.s. embassies on u.s. interests in the regions and he said to make no mistake that americans would have been killed and he also said something interesting it has been pointed out by many of servers that no one was killed in the iranian retaliatory strikes the missile strikes and secretary pompei was said that he believes they were aiming at am

your secretary of state mike pompei with treasury secretary stephen nugent of unveiled a new sanctions against iran steel industry and the own senior officials of obviously republican solutions the result of iran's missile attack on bases housing u.s. troops in iraq. of yet you can always get the news on the go just download the out from google play only up stalled out if you access to the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications funny breaking news out of a story and also use it to send us photos i'm figures. of the day is nearly done but the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter either at steve to use he followed me out a little bit of the get use a hash tag the death. of a good. good good. good good. good. good. good. good. night strong opinions clear positions of international perspective such. months as they ever rattling have culminated in a targeted killing by the u.s. and a missile attack by iran are the 2 sides on the brink of war who are ready to stand down find out on to the point. to the point the 290 minutes on the dubliner slap in

secretary of state mike pompei of offered no new information about u.s. intelligence that trump claims warned of an imminent attack by iran inside iran another tragedy time to the death of general cause some solo money today more than 50 people were killed in a stampede as crowds gathered along the funeral procession in the general's hometown. they were here to say good bye to a military command they called their own instead they lost their own lives caught up in a stampede as hundreds of thousands of mourners descended on common. this is the hometown of kasim saloon mining the general killed by a u.s. military drone last friday. after a 3 day state funeral procession he's jenny has come to an end. but for iranians their anger over the killing of the national hero lives on. the shouting death to america iranian lawmaker has have been quick to pass a law declaring those involved in selling my niece death as terrorists. all men on wall. involved in this crime who are with the pentagon and the us military are counted as terrorists however in washington there

secretary of state mike pompei oh. no new information about the intelligence that is supposed to support the claim that an imminent attack by iran was going to take place i mean reporters they asked questions and they were given basically the message come on who do you really believe the iranians or us what does that say to you covering the foreign policy looking at things from both sides of the atlantic what does that say to you about the the state of u.s. foreign policy. well we're at a situation that nobody can we either side there ronnie and or the americans and covering the foreign policy looking at this administration and also with the experience of 7 the 2003 and they do in iraq we don't have we can't forget that and also the fact that this president himself and some of his advisors have been critics of how that in the zone played out in no had a public when this informed even the media was pulled in so i see more pushback from reporters and not so much evidence from the administration and frankly in the past fe

a new sanctions against iran's steel industry and senior regime officials secretary of state mike pompei o 7 sanctions are response to iran's missile attack on u.s. bases in iraq which followed the u.s. assassination last week of iran's top military command general cassim samani secretary pompei o defended president trump's decision to kill the general saying that and in reign an attack against u.s. interests was imminent the goal of our campaign. is to deny the regime the resources to conduct its destructive foreign policy we want iran to simply behave like a normal nation we believe the sanctions that we imposed today further that strategic objective we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats treatment could attacks on us embassies period full stop i don't know exactly which minute we don't know exactly which day it would have been executed but it was very clear customs of the mahdi himself was plotting a broad large scale attack against american interests and those attacks were imminent against american facilities including american embassies militar

but we're talking about mr pompei we're talking clearly about donald trump the u.s. president the cia and i guess the 1st thing they'll want to hear they want to hear from the base commanders who are running the shows who have been hit in the past couple of hours. that's right one of the 1st things are going to want to know is how many people have been wounded or killed and as we were as you were discussing a little earlier it was one death that seemed to prompt the assassination of super money. this could be another major reason for retaliation on the u.s. for the 1st thing they're going to want to do is assess exactly what has happened in those attacks and i can't confirm this but i am seeing multiple reports that a 3rd base has been struck in taji again we can't confirm that and seeing a number of reports from local media that that is the case if so that would mean that much to iran has struck northern iraq hitting the kurdish territory it is struck al anbar province and about 27 kilometers north of baghdad in taji so there's a real possibility for some major rep

government specifically secretary of state mike pompei oh who has denied the foreign minister a visa to visit the united states and the u.n. general assembly where he was due to speak on thursday let's hear some of what he had to say iran would respond because there was an arc to war. act a war combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official of the stomach republic of iran and a citizen we don't and we are bound to protect our citizens. but united states had other plans and great of creating so many people out so that you don't and so you know that will have consequences for the united states and i believe the most important consequence is that the days of the united states in this region. as jeff had said we've speaking there were let's take you live now to the pentagon with the u.s. defense secretary like aspect is giving a briefing let's listen like to begin by offering my deepest condolences to the families of the 3 americans who lost their lives on sunday in manda bay kenya an attack by al qaeda affiliate al shabaab resulted in the death of a u.s. service member and

secretary of state pompei always trying everything he can then is a busy busy busy weekend this weekend he had the state department he's making a lot of calls into the region of course to the allies saudi arabia israel but also into iraq of course he's talking and he has already talking twice now to the caretaker government in iraq. and try really and tries really to make everybody understand that from the u.s. perspective this was a a an action taken to prevent harm to which the united states as the president said he is he must make and have security and safety of u.s. personnel u.s. citizens in this here in the u.s. as well as around the world must this must be his priority so. there's a lot of talking behind the scenes now going on in the region with allies and maybe foes are with countries like lebanon which are of course history says alluded to this may be a staging ground for any further retaliation or conflict between allies of the united states the u.s. and iran so there's it's a power pressure campaign for deescalation right now if you will from the state department and secreta

unveiled new sanctions on iranian industries and senior regime officials secretary of state mike pompei oh and treasury secretary steven minucci and made the announcement saying the sanctions were the result of iran's missile attack on u.s. troops in iraq that attack followed the u.s. assassination of a senior iranian general last week now the sanctions target. 8 senior officials of the islamic republic who the u.s. says were involved in the attack on u.s. troops iran's textile construction manufacturing mining and steel sectors are also being hit pump aoe outlined the objectives of the new sanctions the goal of your campaign. is to deny the regime the resources to conduct its destructive foreign policy we want iran to simply behave like a normal nation we believe the sanctions that we impose today further that strategic objective are at let's get more on this with our correspondents publicly ileus is in washington and teri schultz is in brussels good to see you both public let's start with you there in washington the u.s. as we saw announcing new sanctions against iran also reiterating

secretary of state mike pompei o making his rounds on american media and trying to make the case that somehow this effort by the united states in this recent killing is an effort to deescalate the situation with iran if the u.s. remains committed to deescalation that was the time to take this action so that we could disrupt this plot deter further aggression from crossing in the iranian regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation qassam solomonic is often described as the 2nd most powerful person in the islamic republic of iran furthermore he was very very key in the defeat of the i still terrorists throughout the region however as we hear from the u.s. department of defense this was a defensive measure at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad to by killing costumes still in money this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world now it certainly

there you go 2800 troops all routes to the region and quite an effort by the secretary of state pompei or to make a lot of calls around the world into the region speaking with the iraqi. government again showing everybody who does not get that did not get the message that this was an action taken to prevent something and not to start something and that means war no war intention or regime change attention from the united states and a big concern for negative fallout for u.s. interests around the globe where president trump said that he ordered that the strike on friday to prevent a war can we expect to see any declassified intelligence about what that threat concretely was. i wouldn't count on it the democrats of course want to see more because they are suspicious about the timing why this tech now went to other presidents who had the opportunity to take custom solenn money passed on this opportunity now it does it right now while we have don't forget still all this impeachment drama in washington d.c. which is going to heat up next week on monday and therefore the democrats in the sen

the reasons why the assassination of the iranian general took place in the 1st place and secretary pompei a was put under a lot of pressure but he said once again and justified once again saying that he had specific information on an imminent threat and those threats included attacks on u.s. embassies so very much justifying as well why these new sanctions were being put in place to the trumpet ministration has said the the end game here is to try and bring iran back to the nuclear negotiating table with missiles negotiating table but what makes the white house think more of the same because sanctions have been in place for some time what makes the trumpet ministration think that more of the same will do the trick. well the trumpet ministration i'm president of particular have really believed in this maximum pressure idea they believe that putting further sanctions on iran will strangle the economy even further we're seeing that with these new far reaching us sanctions which are being put on the country adding to the long list already in place president trump even said it this week that t

year secretary of state mike pompei when treasury secretary steven nugent unveiled the new citations against iran's steel industry and the own senior officials of obviously republican solutions to the results of iran's missile attack on bases housing u.s. troops in iraq. of yet you can always get the news on the go just download the app from google i o. . if you access to latest news from around the world as well as push notifications on a breaking news story you can also for use it to send those photos i'm figures all . over that is nearly done but the conversation continues online you can find us on twitter at steve to use it follow me i'm filled don't forget use a hash tag the death. of a good. after . showing your rev meter just shows numbers much more it shows a. new magazine slate dot. com. down the. ramp the smart way to get where you are. right. next. guest says. sets out for some fun game mystery. called finished explosive gemini's i'll go if you can. no matter if you're into winter sports or nature the al gore league has something for everyone. 6 to cut. here i am going to