A possible show died in venezuela the Opposition Leader is determined she returns of parliament after being barred from congress and in sport events a striker christiane or an elbow has hit another korea landmark the fight song world player of the year scoring his 1st hat trick in its least top division. But we begin with the breaking news from iran a stampede at the funeral procession for a rainy and general cross some sort of money latest reports coming in are over at least 35. 00 People Killed the crash happened a little over an hour ago among the huge crowds gathered on the hometown of the commander assassinated by the u. S. On friday of course when the bank is following developments for us from the capital tehran aside what work e tell us about the stampedes. Well were hearing unconfirmed reports coming that 35 People Killed and 48 injured now weve heard from irans Emergency Services who have acknowledged that there has been a stampede that there have been some casualties but havent given any numbers that interior Ministry Official. Who has confirmed that they has been an incident but again has not given the number of casualties and the governor of mana gain has said that there has been incidents but hes rejected rumors that it was a terrorist attack now man city is the major city in cmon province is about 1000 kilometers away from ron it has a population of around 820000 people but there will be questions about whether this city was a quit his equipped to deal with this many number of peoples because theres hundreds of thousands of people out on the streets following this funeral procession is the 3rd and final day of mourning where the moneys body will be buried at a cemetery there but just to give you an idea that as the body passes through its a coffin is on a truck and it passes through the crowds and people gather around these trucks and throw scarves scarves and other things up on the coffin full of all kind of like blessings but thats when people are cramped into a small space we were here yesterday and ran with the funeral took place and a number of occasions our team had to change location because of the vast number of people out on the streets so it does they are a lot of people who have come in to come on city for the final day for the burial and were still hearing reports but at the moment there are unconfirmed reports of 35 People Killed and 48 injured and assert this day of protests or rather this said gathering in the streets of karma and there are a considerable number of people expected perhaps because this was the generals own town but weve seen similar numbers across the country just give us a sense of feeling over the last few days as the generals funerals have been taking place. Well yes generals body has been taken to a holy city of. But those cities much larger especially with the funeral was being held hundreds of thousands of people came onto the streets the funeral was held at the university where the Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khomeini led those funeral press but emotions are still very high people are angry theres one word that we constantly heard out on the streets in tehran and we also heard chanted today in commodities in the column which is the farsi word for revenge and people are asking for revenge around iran they have been images of them for the money some of them show him in his military fatigues others showing him being embraced by the Supreme Leader and some show him being welcomed into heaven because hes considered a martyr and what has happened because of the assassination of course and so the money it has united the many different political factions here in iran in unison they all have condemned hes assassination and many people here on the streets are still asking for revenge as said big their life around thanks very much indeed for bringing us all the latest. Well as i mentioned unconfirmed reports of the 35. 00 death toll but thats from is expected to rise simply due to the sheer size of the crites paying their respects to the money you know the top military commander was assassinated in a u. S. Strike in iraq on friday day he is set to be laid to rest in his hometown there in response to the killing Irans Parliament has approved a motion designating the u. S. Army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations a short while ago irans foreign minister said the u. S. Had miscalculated by targeting solid money accusing it of making the world in that secure an hours earlier the u. S. Secretary of defense was forced to clarify it was not pulling troops out of iraq thats after a draft letter was links indicates in the withdrawal but a top general said circulated by mistake. Oh addressing the kurds solomon is funeral the leader over irans revolutionary guards has vowed revenge. Revenge will be harsh and tough be certain because we are telling the enemy bench him if you respond to our revenge will burn that please love and they themselves know where it is. Well the future of u. S. Troops in iraq has been in question since the solomonic killing and the past few hours has brought yet more confusion a lesser by u. S. General was leaked to iraqi media saying u. S. Forces would soon be repositioning but the u. S. Secretary of defense then denied it lets get more from Gabriel Elizondo he joins us now live from washington d. C. Again but we had lots of used sirens here is hard to believe that less of such importance was leitz mistakenly and yet officials have been scrambling to limit the damage this has been a bad week for the pentagon has it not. It has and it was not only that this letter was leaked thats bad enough but that the contents of the letter are apparently incorrect according to the secretary of defense as well so to understand this just look back to this weekend 1st when the Iraqi Parliament voted on a nonbinding measure to the victim u. S. Troops out of iraq that was the 1st thing that donald trump afterward said tweeted out no u. S. Troops will not be leaving iraq so thats the context we have here and thats when this letter came out in the letter was on department of defense letterhead and it was written apparently by a Brigadier General that its from the u. S. Military in iraq it was written apparently to give to his Iraqi Military counterparts informing them that the u. S. Was pulling out their troops from iraq and listen to what the 1st line or sentence of the letter says its pretty clear it says in due deference to the sovereignty of the republic of iraq and as requested by the Iraqi Parliament and the Prime Minister combined a joint task force will be reese repositioning forces over the course of the coming days and weeks to prepare for Onward Movement to goes on a little longer than finishes with the last sentence we respect your sovereign decision to order our departure that is very clear and such really saying u. S. Troops are moving out of iraq after this letter was leaked people were calling up the pentagon including journalists of course of the like ourselves and they said we know nothing about this bottom line here is this was a secretary of state im sorry secretary defense and joint chief of staff called in journalists off camera briefing and said the letter was leaked it does not mean what it says we are not pulling troops out of iraq it said that this was just a draft letter that was going back and forth in fact the u. S. Says that they absolutely will not be pulling troops out of iraq theyre simply. Just repositioning them. I will give you amid all the confusion President Trump has come under increasing criticism over his. Cultural sites in his defense secretary seems to be contradicting what walky thomas. Yeah this was another mess quite frankly that the pentagon is having to clean up over the weekend donald trump of said on 2 different occasions once on twitter in another time talking to journalists on air force one twice he said that he would consider bombing or striking militarily cultural sites within iran now thats against International Law and can be considered a war crime so raised eyebrows that why the president would consider doing this should be noted iran has 254 different sites that are unesco World Heritage sites so on monday journalists asked the secretary of defense is that true do you plan to bomb cultural sites in iran and he said if we go to war with iran he said we will follow all the laws of Armed Conflict so the journal said does that mean then that you will not cultural sites in iran and he said again we will follow all the laws of Armed Conflict and then wont say any more about it so clearly hes the secretary of defense is contradicting the president there and putting the secretary of defense in a pretty awkward position bottom line is this really raise the eyebrows of so many people here just and no one really wants to defend the comments by trump and so the visual line from the pentagon is theyll follow the law of Armed Conflict which means they wont be bombing cultural sites in iran ok well give or well keep an eye on that and i thank you very much indeed. Live for as in washington d. C. Lets cross to baghdad and i want to be following the reaction she joins us now live as some all know the recent statements from President Trump are not lesser that was leaked that house its a rates impacts on iraq itself how have people there been reacting to the contradictory messages coming out of washington d. C. Well there is a lot of confusion here in iraq both among politicians but also on the street over whether or not foreign troops are indeed leaving there is also there are also different opinions about whether or not the decision that was voted on by parliament is indeed nonviolent binding most legal experts appear to agree it is but in the meantime was seen governments take actual steps to implement this decision weve had Prime Minister either of them are to speak to the u. S. And about her to iraq here and urge him to take actions to implement the parliaments decision weve also had the military spokesperson of the government announced that mechanisms are being taken to implement this decision so for now there appears to be no additional efforts to really draft legislation to formally ask for these troops to leave it appears that the government is standing behind this decision and has basically initiated steps to make it happen now in terms of whether the u. S. Forces are really leaving or not that letter that was released last night has caused a lot of confusion here what we do know that there was a lot of Helicopter Movement over baghdad last night with troops being redeployed we dont know where theyre being degraded but theyre being redeployed to other locations inside iraq but there was certainly a lot of movement and we were also sure that there was actually a signed copy of this letter that was actually indeed sent to the iraqi counterparts to announce this redeployment now it doesnt mean the troops are actually leaving iraq at this point now in the meantime weve had other western nations such as france germany who also have troops based here in iraq as part of the coalition to fight eisel basically launched their own efforts to try to preserve their own relationships with iraq theyve been caught in an extremely awkward position because on the one hand theyre part of this correlation to fight isis but then they are caught in the middle when the u. S. Takes unilateral action. Against patents and money and i will mark the 100 who were killed in those airstrikes it put them in a very difficult position so theyre trying to now negotiate to speak to the Iraqi Government to see whether their own troops will remain in country some of them are being redeployed germany for example is redeploying some of the troops that are based here for training purposes and also for example frances redeploying some of the troops that are based at the headquarters in baghdad but it remains to be seen what exactly will happen and the Legal Foundation for this is extremely confusing none of these countries have a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi Government so its extremely difficult to understand what would need to happen legally for these troops to actually withdraw ok sort of old scene in baghdad thank you very much indeed lets get more on this. Is a professor of Political Science at the university of tehran and joins us now live from the Training Camp so good to have you with on the program lets focus on political events in iran for the moment. No not too long ago the Arabian Parliament has designated the u. S. Military a terrorist organization this is no enjoying in law in terms of the winds or tensions between the u. S. And iran which are at quite a high level what in essence does this change. A so 9 months ago when the United States theres a canadian the i. R. G. C. The uranium revolutionary guard corps as a terrorist organization the iranian problem and passed a bill that designated u. S. Central command as a terrorist organization what happened today is that the parliament changed the previous law to include the entire u. S. Military as well as the pentagon and all its subsidiaries riches institutes and even corporations as a terrorist organization so essentially the iranian government now sees the entire us military as a terrorist organization and i think this lays the foundation the Legal Foundation for a possible military response by you on but we were expecting a military response by iran in any case because all 3 since events what kind of military response do you think this points to. Well i think i mean its difficult to tell definitely because our. National Security Council which has come to a conclusion of what this response will be has not really made its decision public but most probably in this also relates to what was passed today in parliament are essentially u. S. Bases in the region will become targets i mean the United States has military bases in iraq afghanistan kuwait bahrain qatar saw all these bases could become potential targets for the year a needs and given the events happening in the United States receiving a lot of use one minute were being told that u. S. Troops will be pulled from iraq the next minute were told this isnt the case and then theres the whole issue of trump threatening to pop cultural targets and then the u. S. Defense secretary joints of all back these comments how are the how are these new turns being viewed or interpreted 8 iran is this a destabilizing Decision Making do you think or is it reassuring it shows an adversary here dont know what theyre doing. Well its actually i would say its concerning because it shows that there is a lot of confusion in the u. S. Administration and perhaps this is what donald trump himself wants i mean the whole mad men theory of him trying to present himself as this out of control leader that even might hit iranian cultural sites but i mean listen if iran does not respond to the attack of course and soleimani the trumpet ministration will see you on is very weak and essentially will increase pressure on you our european leaders in the past few days have urged restraint on the part of the iran lets remember that one and a half years ago when the trumpet ministration decided to leave the nuclear record these same european leaders persuaded you want to stay in the deal and not to retaliate and in return you know they were going to alleviate the sanctions the u. S. Was imposing on iraq and essentially Nothing Happened iran are stayed in the deal for a whole year and sanctions on the country increased and i think thats an experience iranian leaders have learned from and i think to day of iranian leaders are pretty adamant to have a military response for the assassination ok well have to leave it there but how much of a great secret your thoughts thank you so much for joining us from to her on. Theres plenty more still to come on the new siren creating forces loyal to libyan general file if i have to are making sweeping games will be live on the ground in tripoli. Protests across india after a mass group attack students and teachers as a Prominent University in the capital. And coming up in the sports wave and see theres some basketball magic from this washington christening. British woman convicted of lying about being rates in by israeli teenagers in cyprus has received a suspended sentence but she plans to appeal the 4 month jail term suspended for 3 years to the Supreme Courts now in july the woman claimed that 12 teenagers gang raped her when she was on holiday then she changed her story but she insists her retraction was forced because she was under jurists from Persistent Police questioning where the case led to protests in britain and a call to boycott the islands lets get more now from rory challenge she joins us live from a part of the media worry that the judge has handed down a 4 month sentence suspended for 3 years what exactly does this mean and what morkie tell us about this unusual case. But it does mean that she can go home for the 1st time in around 6 months this british teenager. Through this entire experience as University Career do you read. Lots of. 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