correspondents propofol he said washington and teri schultz in brussels welcome both let's start with you pablo tell us more about these new sanctions. hi phil well you're you've sort of said some of it already some of the individuals who are going to be targeted are involved in iran's financial construction manufacturing textile and mining sectors and the sanctions are also against 8 raney and officials who were described as being involved in d.c. stabilizing activities and this the idea behind this is to basically collect billions of dollars of revenue for the iranian government and it came it was announced in a news conference here in washington which was very much geared towards as well as 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

problem fully elise reporting in washington and teri schultz for us in brussels thank you both now iran has denied western allegations that one of its own missiles downed a ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside tehran canada's prime minister justin trudeau is said the evidence from multiple intelligence sources suggests that an iranian surface to air missile hit the airliner shortly after takeoff all 176 people on board most of them iranian and canadian were killed in the crash it came just hours after iran launched an attack against u.s. targets in neighboring iraq. mobile phone footage verified by 2 media outlets appears to show the missile exploding near the plane before it crashed. western leaders say the evidence points towards an iranian missile scores of canadian nationals were killed in the crash prime minister justin trudeau attended a vigil in the capital auto earlier he announced what he believes brought down the plane. we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in

in washington and teri schultz 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 its justification for a killer killing a general soleimani secretary of my pump aoa secretary of state rather spoke we saw him there what more can you tell us about what he said. that's right i mean you've mentioned some of that already there sumi but just to reiterate what he was saying with regards to the justification for the killing he said that we have specific information on an intimate imminent threat and those threats included attacks on u.s. embassies obviously regarding at the justification for the killing of the iranian general custom silly money last week also used details as well some of what he spoke about with regards to the new sanctions let's not forget that these are further sanctions which are already in place on iran so far reaching and sanctions as well with regarding to many of the key industries within iran including construction manufacturing textile and mining sectors and also

well let's get some response now some reaction from europe our correspondent teri schultz is standing by for us in brussels terry what has the reaction been from e.u. leaders to the iranian missile struck well terry the e.u. response has largely been unchanged over the last couple of days despite these dramatic developments overnight european commission president ursula vonder line called an urgent cabinet meeting this morning which had already been scheduled and she came out of it with no condemnation of the iranian missile strikes and that's something that will not be well received in washington several european union governments have condemned the airstrikes but not the european commission nor the european council at this point so i think that will be something that will be noticed will be noticed by the trump administration now what live under alliance says is that the e.u. has a long tradition of keeping communications open in the region of course they do have direct talks with the iranian regime and that is what she says are going to be the immediate plans of the e.u. . come cri

and that was due to his teri schultz in brussels now turning to australia where bushfires are being described as a national catastrophe take a look at these skies turned orange from smoke fires are also having an impact beyond australia this is the scene in auckland new zealand 2000 kilometers away the australian bushfires have been raging for months but the last few days have been among the worst at least 24 people have died and thousands have lost their homes the following report contains some disturbing images. it's a warning no one ever wants to hear we cannot guarantee your safety at present if you are an officer i able to defend yourself mentally. or physically or take yourself or your house it's. katie's recommended that he leave. thousands of history of the ins have been forced to decide stay and defend their homes or leave and lose everything in. mind that. if property and i didn't study they are evacuated. sorry. let's go. this is what many will return to over a 1000 homes have been destroyed in recent days. the animals of the silent victims burned in their paddocks and on the roads

phil: teri schultz in brussels, let's bring you in. the nato secretary-general has been at the foreign ministers meeting. the u.s. has called for more nato support in the middle east. what has been the nato response? teri: president trump called sesecretary-general stoltenbnbeg moments s ter he announced in aa white house press conferenence e wanted nato to be more involved in the middle east and secretary-general stoltenberg said, ok, we can do more. and in fact, i have just learned that nato has dispatched a delegation to the state department, this group is there now, talking with the state about what more can be done. now, what nato is offering is is more counterterrorism work. and i am not sure that is exactly what president trump had in mind, but the people who actually do the work are there discussing it now, so nato is taking the request seriously and i'm sure will do everything possible to try to help the united states. but these are not going to be combat operations, there is no way that 28 allies would agree to such a thing.

let's bring indeed of these teri schultz who joins us from brussels now terry little ambassadors are holding an urgent meeting there in brussels to discuss the situation in the middle east following the soul of money killing what position is nato taking in all this nato would be very happy if it didn't have to take a position at all it doesn't like to get involved in matters like this but in fact it doesn't have a choice because nato has several 100 people on the ground in iraq in a training mission now this is a non-combat operation they are training and advising the iraqi ministry of defense and national security officials but those individuals were thought to be in danger now and nato came out the day after the silly money killing and said it was taking all necessary security precautions but at that point it was maintaining the training mission a day later it had to call it off and following that the coalition to defeat dice that to defeat isis also called off its training mission so it's clear that the situation on the ground there simply can't sustain several 100 personnel from

teri schultz in brussels. meanwhile at least 170 people have died after a ukrainian passenger jet crashed in iran rainin state media say the boeing 737 came down shortly after takeoff due to suspected technical problems the plane was on its way from iran's capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev and was all paraded by ukrainian international airlines ukraine's president lot of no selenski broke off a visit to oman to return to kiev because of the crush more on the plane crash i'm joined now by aviation expert geoffrey thomas he joins us from perth australia geoffrey what more do we know about this crash. look we now understand there was a significant engine failure. and it might have been on an uncontained engine failure where the fan blades of the engine exit the engine itself and possibly punch to the fuselage it was a large. from this a craft cross you impact on the ground and the examination of the wreckage shows one engine is pretty well intact but the other engine shows significant destruction and e

let's bring in teri schultz though in brussels terry nato ambassadors are holding an urgent meeting in brussels today to discuss the situation in the middle east following the soul of man the killing what role if any does they to have in all of this well as as tyson mentioned. there is a lot of concern about this new decision by the iraqi parliament to call for all foreign forces to get out of iraq nato does not have a combat role there but it does have several 100 people on the ground who been providing advice to the iraqi military and to national security officials so nato is very worried about what will happen to that training mission and it suspended it within 24 hours of the killing of custom cilla money so nato ambassadors are going to be looking at what they should do about that mission beyond suspending it temporarily and of course ambassadors are going to want to hear from the united states about its intentions in the region about its reasoning behind the killing of custom sula money and i expect that we'll hear other nations germany france discuss their concerns in the region

phil: teri schultz, let's bring you in. the u.s. has called for more nato support in the middle east. what has been the response from nato? teri:: presidedent trump called secrcretary-general stoltenenbeg after he announced that he wanted nato to become more involved in the middle east. secretary-general stoltenberg said we can do more. i just learned that nato has dispatched delegation to the state department and this group is there now talking with state about what more can be done. what nato is offering is more counterterrorism work. i am not sure if that is what president trump had in mind. nato is taking this request seriously. they will do everything possible to try to help the united states. these are not going to be combat operations. there is no way the 28 other nato countries would agree to such a thing. phil: this eu foreign ministers meeting, what was the agreement there? do any of them care what they think? teri: i c could hear r the commen f from the foforeign ministerers and from foreren policycy chief jososeph burrel

and possibly getting it back on the table teri schultz in brussels problem for us in washington thank you iran has denied western allegations that one of its missiles that down the ukrainian jetliner that crashed on site on canadian prime minister justin trudeau was one of a number of national leaders to say that evidence from multiple intelligence sources suggest an iranian surface to have missile hit the allies shortly after takeoff or 176 people on board most of them in training and canadian were killed in the crash which came just hours after iran launched an attack against u.s. targets in neighboring iraq the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have been recovered ukraine says its investigators have been given access to the. mobile phone footage verified by 2 media outlets appears to show the missile exploding near the plane before it crashed. western leaders say the evidence points towards an iranian missile scores of canadian nationals were killed in the crash prime minister justin trudeau attended a vigil in the capital auto earlier he announced what he believe

schultz welcome terry so where does the bureau. speaking very statesman like but one wonders does anyone besides the e.u. care that the e.u. still backs iran nuclear deal but there have been recent events rendered it it relevant. well truly it isn't helped by mr burrell's rather uninspired. pronouncement that the deal is not dead but you know it's not true that nobody cares about the iran deal anymore that everybody believes it's irrelevant because besides the european union you know who else cares iran cares and that's evidenced by the fact that although it has now breached all obligations under the iran nuclear deal quite openly and flagrantly it did not kick out and specters and that truly would have been the death of the deal because the e.u. relies entirely on the assessments of these international inspectors to determine what it does next so the others the other parties that care about the iran nuclear deal are china and russia don't forget that they are also signatories to this deal and neither of them have suggested they wa

and let's go to brussels now our correspondent teri schultz is standing by for us there hi terry good to see you the u.s. says announce new sanctions against iran as president trump a promise and reiterated its justification for killing a general. secretary of state state might bump aoe has spoken what more can you tell us. 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 o