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1. 0:00The US military [music] says it's
2. 0:01conducting fresh strikes on Iran just
3. 0:03hours after President Trump said that a
4. 0:05ceasefire with Iran was over. It said
5. 0:08the strikes were aimed at degrading
6. 0:10Iran's ability to threaten the freedom
7. 0:12of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
8. 0:15Earlier Mr. Trump labeled the leadership
9. 0:17in Tehran sick and scum and declared
10. 0:19talks between the two countries were a
11. 0:21waste of time. Last night the US struck
12. 0:24over 80 Iranian targets including the
13. 0:27southern port city of Bandar Abbas after
14. 0:29three oil tankers were attacked in the
15. 0:31Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated
16. 0:34hitting a number of US military bases
17. 0:36across the region including in Bahrain
18. 0:39and Kuwait. Jeremy Bowen has the latest.
19. 0:45>> This was Bandar Abbas under attack by
20. 0:48the Americans last night.
21. 0:52It's the Iranian port that overlooks the
22. 0:54Strait of Hormuz.
23. 0:57It is a serious escalation with Iran
24. 0:59hitting back with its own attacks on US
25. 1:01bases. All driven by the Iranian
26. 1:04regime's determination to retain its
27. 1:06capacity to choke the global economy by
28. 1:09controlling the Strait.
29. 1:12And by Donald Trump's reluctance to hand
30. 1:15Iran a strategic victory after a
31. 1:18disastrous war.
32. 1:20>> I don't want to deal with them anyway.
33. 1:21They're scum. You know what scum is?
34. 1:23They're scum. They're sick people.
35. 1:25They're led by sick people.
36. 1:27And they're they're vicious violent
37. 1:29people.
38. 1:30And if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd
39. 1:32use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's
40. 1:34over. I'll speak to our
41. 1:36>> President Trump was speaking at the NATO
42. 1:38summit in Turkey. He's referring to
43. 1:40talks with Iran which continue but our
44. 1:42one source said now very tense. It won't
45. 1:45be his last word on the subject. In
46. 1:48free-ranging diplomacy he also has
47. 1:50coveted Greenland, ripped into European
48. 1:53allies, but gave Ukraine's President
49. 1:56Volodymyr Zelensky a major boost,
50. 1:58agreeing that the Ukrainians can build
51. 2:00Patriot interceptor missiles.
52. 2:03>> Now initiative
53. 2:05moved to our hands, not totally, but
54. 2:07moved. We are trying to move this war to
55. 2:10the sky from the battlefield. That's why
56. 2:13we now began to control
57. 2:16the battlefield.
58. 2:19>> The US used so many Patriot missiles
59. 2:21during the war with Iran that its own
60. 2:23stocks are low. President Zelensky has
61. 2:26asked repeatedly for US permission to
62. 2:29build Ukraine's own under license.
63. 2:33Ukraine needs them to intercept Russian
64. 2:36ballistic missiles. Kyiv was once again
65. 2:39under [music] attack last night.
66. 2:41It is a big US concession to Ukraine and
67. 2:44a move away from Donald Trump's affinity
68. 2:47with Russia's President Putin.
69. 2:50But President Trump's scattergun
70. 2:52diplomacy has not brought the wars in
71. 2:55Ukraine and in Iran anywhere close to
72. 2:58resolution or even a secure ceasefire.
73. 3:04The multi-day funeral for Iran's late
74. 3:06Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
75. 3:09has crossed the border into Iraq with
76. 3:12tens of thousands of Iraqi supporters of
77. 3:14the Tehran regime mourning in Najaf, an
78. 3:17Iraqi city holy to Shia Muslims who are
79. 3:20the majority in both countries.
80. 3:23The US and Israel killed the Ayatollah
81. 3:25on the first day of the war believing
82. 3:28his death would precipitate the fall of
83. 3:30the regime. Instead, his funeral has
84. 3:32become a symbol of the regime surviving
85. 3:35its worst nightmare, a joint attack by
86. 3:38the Americans and the Israelis.
87. 3:41The Americans have released this Top Gun
88. 3:44style video of their Navy in the Arabian
89. 3:46Sea. As their President promised,
90. 3:48they've hit Iran again tonight.
91. 3:51But America has come up against the
92. 3:54limits of its military power. It has not
93. 3:56broken the will of the regime in Tehran.
94. 3:59And it's hard to see how more strikes
95. 4:01can do that
96. 4:03where all the others did not.
97. 4:07>> And Jeremy is with me. And to that
98. 4:09point, Jeremy, the situation looks bleak
99. 4:11tonight, but what can the US achieve
100. 4:13with restarting these hostilities?
101. 4:15>> I'm not sure they can achieve anything
102. 4:16more apart from breaking more things
103. 4:19in Iran. Uh they've demonstrated
104. 4:22massively that they can do that.
105. 4:24So, the question is how do do they
106. 4:27reverse out of all of this, and how does
107. 4:29the world actually
108. 4:30deal with this big issue about the
109. 4:32Strait of Hormuz? It's got to be
110. 4:34diplomacy, surely. It's got to be the
111. 4:36talks. Now, sources from within the the
112. 4:39the sort of the mediation process there
113. 4:42are saying that while neither side is
114. 4:44walking away from the talks, Iran or the
115. 4:46US, uh
116. 4:48it's there's a lot of heavy lifting
117. 4:51necessary to try to get them talking
118. 4:53again. I think that they're probably at
119. 4:55a point now where it's pretty
120. 4:57stalemated.
121. 4:58Uh and what we may well continue to see
122. 5:02are these es- escalations and upsurges
123. 5:05without going back to full-on war.
124. 5:07Donald Trump, before he left Turkey, was
125. 5:09asked,
126. 5:10"Does this mean the war's on again?"
127. 5:12And actually, he said, "Well, no, it
128. 5:14doesn't." But then they've gone ahead
129. 5:16with these strikes, which he was
130. 5:17threatening as well. In fact, it was a
131. 5:18pretty classic day of Trumpian
132. 5:20diplomacy. Different kinds of messages
133. 5:22swirling around the place. With
134. 5:24President Zelenskyy in Ukraine,
135. 5:27that
136. 5:28uh bid by him to make Ukraine's own
137. 5:32Patriot missiles has been top of his
138. 5:34shopping list for ages, and he's got it.
139. 5:37And don't forget last year he had this
140. 5:39huge row with Trump, of course, in the
141. 5:41Oval Office when Trump said, "Uh you've
142. 5:42got no cards."
143. 5:44But now
144. 5:45Donald Trump has gone from saying what
145. 5:48about a month ago that the he was
146. 5:50dealing with very reasonable decent
147. 5:51people in Iran to saying that they're
148. 5:53scum.
149. 5:54And then pulling back a little bit. So,
150. 5:56I think we're going to be continuing to
151. 5:58see these oscillations. This is not over
152. 6:00and it's not going to end anytime soon.
153. 6:03>> Jeremy, thank you. Jeremy Bowen there.