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Hello there on the blog this is a news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes there and shoot down an american drone donald trump says thats a very big mistake well have a live report from washington. You carry a weapon sales to saudi arabia broke the law the court rules against the government in the case over the war in yemen. Prostitution ring in pyongyang the chinese leader says the world hopes north korea and the United States cant hold successful talks. With all the sporting fluting a big overhaul of african football as the confidence of biggest stars warm up for the africa cup of nations its announced. That fifo will take control of its governing body after several corruption scandals. Iran made a very big mistake thats the warning from u. S. President donald trump after irans revolutionary guard shot down an american drone early on thursday the 2 countries are disputing exactly where it happened the United States says a surface to air missile fired at the Unmanned Aircraft in International Airspace over the strait of hormuz its believed the drone was being used for High Altitude surveillance but terror on says the incident took place within its territory the revolutionary guard says it intercepted the drone and it violated iranian airspace in homers gun province lets go straight to our White House Correspondent kelly how could he joins us live now from washington d. C. And we have reaction kimberly from the president. Yeah after days of the president almost downplaying the escalating tensions between the United States on iran weve had in the last hour reaction to the downing of that Surveillance Aircraft the u. S. Surveillance aircraft the president taking to twitter very short tweet but very strong in terms of the message iran it made a very big mistake are offering no further details on what he means by that in terms of what action he might take but its very clear that the United States is disputing the account from iran of what has occurred in fact the official statement from Central Command the United StatesCentral Command is that this was an unprovoked attack on a u. S. Surveillance asset in International Airspace of course iran disputing that account but there is no question that the downing of this drone nic has caused increased friction between washington and tehran and you have to remember that this comes on the heels of just a few days ago monday to be specific where the u. S. President announced he was sending an additional 1000. 00 troops to the middle east and then follows of course last week that we were widely reporting the incident that took place with regard to the attack on those 2 takers which the United States says corners of their intelligence very grainy video was the result of actions by iran so theres no question that there is increased friction between the 2 countries taking place we are expecting the u. S. President to speak in the oval office with the canadian Prime Minister in a couple of hours and we expect that that time that he will labrat further on this tweet where he is pointing the finger at iran right now saying iran has made a mistake or guru thanks very much kelly how could the white house lets know get the reaction from there on his door to do bari. According to irans revolutionary guards they say that this drone took off from a u. S. Air base in the south of the persian gulf where it made its way towards iran now they say that this device of legibly turned off all detection devices while it was making its way towards iranian airspace and shortly after 4 am local time at 45 exactly the iranians shot this drone down now this comes as the head of irans revolutionary guard has been speaking at a scheduled events in western iran lets hear what he had to say i know youre joining. We dont want to engage in any war but were fully prepared for war todays incident was a clear sign that we will protect old notice irans borders are a red line be careful we have experienced we have such a clear and message the drone had violated our borders. Reaction has been coming in swift the spokesperson for Irans Foreign Ministry has said that this is an act of aggression and it will be noted and responded to accordingly weve also been hearing from a certain if you m. P. s who said that they think this should go to the United Nations that the iranians should complain to that governing body it was in the United Nations and also it comes as tensions are high in this region the United States withdrawing from the 2015 Nuclear Agreement and. In stating some sanctions on iran has had the iranian officials saying that they are waging economic terrorism on iran and the recent escalation of tensions in this region is at it as a direct result of those policies well not only do both sides disagree on where this happened theyre also reporting a different model of drone but there are very similar and all use for surveillance in fact the United States says it was a more advanced version than that claimed by iran known as the m q 4 seen trying to whatever it is large with 40 meter wings by water. Commercial airlines including the boeing 737 and it flies way out of view its much multitude almost twice that of a typical passenger jet it can stay in the air for up to 24 hours without refueling and that since radar system provides a live 360 degree view well lets bring in justin braun who is a Research Fellow at the roll United Services institute a British Defense and security think tank joins us live now from london and just a nobody arguing about whether this did happen but just where it happened what do you make of it well i think its interesting to note that this is. The broader Maritime Surveillance demonstrator its a pretty subset of the try to and its based on the global hawk the significant thing about that is its got extremely powerful terrain and Maritime Surveillance mapping radar as well as. Electrical and infrared sensors so it has a very very sophisticated sets of sensors to tell it exactly where it is at any given time its not g. P. S. Dependent although it will cross reference so this is one of the least likely drones if you like in the world to get lost so the idea that this might have accidentally flowed into iranian airspace is very unlikely its called missions such as to sky space as well as maritime areas so that leaves you with either the iranians shooting it down in International Waters or in International Airspace. A sort of controlled escalation a warning to the United States and the International Community that the status quo with the sanctions particular oil exports is intolerable or you could argue potentially that it strayed into iranian airspace perhaps deliberately less likely i was just a part of males these are very expensive and relatively scarce assets so the u. S. Will be more than just symbolically annoyed at losing it there would be some who would say this is exactly what the hawks in the trumpet ministration wanted to happen and now look at Donald Trumps reaction to it. I mean donald trump is inherently anti interventionist hes very much an inward focused president ial figure now theres certainly characters within his Security Administration john bolton in particular who are very keen and quite openly quite keen to see iran sort of taken down a peg ideally militarily militarily on the other hand taken as a whole this administration is very keen to avoid a war in iran you know donald trump ran on just as obama before him run on a platform of getting out of what he saw as wasting American Resources in these long winnable wars and of course the dia d. The prospect of a war with iran is disastrous its something it knows it cant easily win it will be bogged down and for a long time it will take losses and all of this is far as the dia ideas concerned takes away from the main goal which is getting ready to try to challenge in trying constrain the rise of china as well as provide a backbone of deterrence in europe against the right continuing bellicose russia so yes there are figures in the us who are keen to see an engagement with iran taken as a whole id suggest thats not actually the case then what about the flip side what about the iranian side given the tensions they may have been provoked may have been provoked by the drone flying into their own space but nevertheless to shoot down the pretty dangerous game. It is also notably as was mentioned in your program that this is a very high flying aircraft yes the bombs the variant as was try tone is also intended to come down to lower altitudes to a sort of Medium Altitude to take take kind of a closer look to the global hawk which just spends most of its time at 60000 feet but even so youre talking about a large vehicle mounted say 11 like radar guided sam so very very similar in fact to the system that shot down on it 17 in ukraine so this is a large strategic system that can threaten anything in kind of commercial space and most military aircraft within a certain range this is not a shoulder fired you know relatively common manpads type system so its an escalation in terms of shooting down the drone its also an escalation in terms of Weapon System used and the implication but of course its notable that this was an unmanned set and just as with the tanker attacks assuming those work conducted by iran this is very carefully calibrated to avoid loss of life these are symbolic escalations by iran who seem to have calculated that the u. S. Actually doesnt want to war that they do have some space to push back and really pushed it out you know trying to force the americans to confront the fact that they dont actually want a war and for iran the status quo is this is intolerable just a wrong thanks very much abbi for that perspective just in broke a British Court has ruled the government broke the law by allowing exports to saudi arabia that might have been used in the war in yemen going Prime Minister to resume aid expressed disappointment over the verdict saying the government will ask to appeal and in the meantime Britains International trade secretary says no new licenses to sell arms to saudi arabia will be issued. As i said earlier we disagree with the judgment and will seek permission to appeal alongside this we are carefully considering the implications of the judgment for Decision Making while we do this we will not grant any new licenses for export to saudi arabia and its Coalition Partners which might be used in the conflict in yemen when the bucket has more now from london. This is very much being seen as a partial victory for Campaign Groups in the for the long and hard for this well theyre hoping for eventually is a total ban on all british arms sales to saudi but that may be some way off yet the British Government in response to this ruling has decided to freeze all pending arms sales to saudi looks into it although the British Government has said that it will challenge this ruling the courts has not whats in any way. The British Government to completely suspend licensing sales of weapons to saudi what it has ruled upon is that it was a lawful for the British Government to grant these licenses of weapons sales to saudi arabia knowing that these weapons would potentially end up in yemen and used potentially against civilian populations there we know that many tens of thousands of civilians in yemen have been directly affected by the saudi led a Bombing Campaign over the past few years the British Government has license 6000000000 dollars worth of sales of weapons to saudi since the start of the war in march 2015 there has been growing scrutiny growing momentum publicly for the British Government to do more to control the flow of weapons from the u. K. To saudi but of course lucrative deals are in the pipeline a significant section of the british economy is dependent on saudi going ahead im buying british weapons all of that now remains very much in the air while the British Government works out what to do next in the wake of this court case well andrew smith is from the campaign against arms trade the organization that brought the legal action. Well we certainly will come to judgment but it should never have taken a 4 year Legal Process brought on by campaigners to make the government follow its own arms export controls because tens of thousands of people have been killed and the worst humanitarian cases in the u. K. Meet where hes going to sensual and back traces you can you pay to jets in the u. K. Made bombs have had a devastating impact on the. Case which we put to the court of appeal was a very strong one the court of appeal has come down very strongly on our favor and to set a vitally important precedent as a result of this judgment the u. K. Government has to review u. K. Arms have been used to take a view on its. Forces have violated International Law and very devastating war in yemen the main result from todays cant be any new licenses awarded Going Forward so. This isnt just a legal question its also a political one and we have to make sure that this judgment is not cast to one side 1st because much political pressure on the government to act as possible the court has done its job judy its time for the government to do this. More than 40 percent of the boards are sent to saudi arabia it is the 2nd biggest weapons exported to the kingdom worth 2700000000. 00 france comes in 3rd with 733000000. 00 worth of sales to riyadh but both of those figures are dwarfed by the United States which sent 11 the half 1000000000. 00 worth of weapons to saudi the figures were related by the Stockholm InternationalPeace Research institute from the years 2014 to 2080. Oh the so all of weapons to saudi arabia is also being discussed in washington where u. S. Senate has holdings several the same to blocking a multibillion dollar deal with the kingdom and the 90 day lets bring in john 100 joins me from washington d. C. And said john tell us more about whats happening here. Well right now the senate is considering blocking arms sale to saudi arabia billions of dollars in arms and this really reveals the split between a rather Traditional Congress which wants to send a message to saudi arabia both over the killing of a Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and over the killing of civilians in yemen they want to block those arms going to saudi arabia but many republicans led by the Senate Majority leader say that the United States needs to stay with its ally and continue providing those arms the democrats say they can afford to block these arms because saudi arabia was the Worlds Largest arms importer from 2014 to 28000 this would really not set them back that much but the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says the United States needs to stick with his allies and this is what he had to say theres no shortage of productive steps at members disposal but recklessly counseling u. S. Arms sales to cure regional partners is not on the look so the question the senate will soon consider is really those whether will lash out at an imperfect partner and undercut our own efforts to bill cooperation shack around and achieve other important goals or whether well keep our imperfect par