Good afternoon early in the new year but its turned into a busy news day january 3rd my names kevin though in this is live from h. Q. Im here with a half hour world news update hope you stick around to for the whole lot for the next 25 minutes or so so the big story in from the middle east let me tell you catching up the u. S. Secretary of state has defended americas assassination of irans top military commander cosimo seller money in a drone strike in Baghdad International airport early this morning my pompei a claim to the attack saved american lives and said that washington remains committed to deescalating tensions with tehran. That was the time to take this action so that we could disrupt this plot deter further aggression from chaos and salami in the Iranian Regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation the Early Morning raid also reportedly killed 9 others including influential iraqi and lebanese shia militias militia leaders that believed to have been leaving the poo