Country. Elsewhere angular merkel is due to me Vladimir Putin in moscow later on saturday will be 1900 official visit to russia as german chancellor and this visit comes amid tight into the global times. That youre watching on t. V. International im writers on a lot could thank you for joining us. In the u. S. Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general mike bumppo struggle to explain the alleged threat posed by Major General solomonic during a press conference and explains. 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 irans 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 dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary t
Has been just for i was beginning around the world to welcome 2020 thats the view from all. We start with our breaking news out of iraq where thousands have been protesting outside the u. S. Embassy inside the secured green zone in baghdad most of members of the iranian backed popular model as ice and forces they condemning u. S. Air strikes on sunday on bases belonging to an iranian backed shia militia in iraq the u. S. Says the attacks against the hezbollah brigades were a response to the killing of a u. S. Civilian contractor the funerals of at least 27. 00 shia fighters killed in those strikes a taking place in baghdad where the u. S. Embassy is the largest american diplomatic posting in the wall it was also the most expensive to build it sits within the heavily fortified International Zone or green zone which houses Iraqi Government buildings and foreign embassies in the center of the city some on a 14 joins us now on the phone from baguettes monied been following these protests w
Say peace loving after after the attack so its the iranians feel its the other way around but more importantly i think the iranians believe that the americans have made probably the biggest mistake. That theyve made among the many mistakes that theyve made over the past decade and that is that theyve turned the iraqi people against the United States theyve turned the iranian people against the United States and theyve united iran in iraq in a way which we havent seen before you know chris youre in iraq war veteran i mean talk about that because thats essentially whats happened and if you look at whats coming out of the pentagon and other places of power in washington d. C. What where does democracy actually stand now in iraq because it was invaded under the auspices to bring democracy to iraq now they have a parliament in the form of the Parliament Says thats time to go home but washington says on not so fast so what is the value of the democracy that was forced upon the iraqi people i
He is founder of American Veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate well let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the United States iran and the entire region and were going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and what not you know a ran his decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead. I think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. Launch the missiles all of them passed through the the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them. So that was a major success and i think that was a signal to washington that all the
Bird i iran should not repeat these reckless and dangerous attacks, but must instead pursue urgent deescalation. Mr. Speaker i know the thoughts of the house are also with our friends in australia as they tackled the bushfires. As they are with the families of those killed in the Ukrainian Air crash. Mr. Speaker this morning i had meetings with ministers and callings i and others i will have further meetings later today. Mr. Speaker the disease is a terminal illness where the third of the people dying within a year in more than half within two years of diagnosis. The last thing terminally ill people should work be worrying about our their finances. The scrap Six Months Campaign with this association which is based in my constituency of northampton south. I went to bring this important issue of payments to those terminally illnesses to the floor. And i welcome to work with the pensions review for terminal illness. But can i ask the Prime Minister to join me in pressing them to complete