Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And we 're going to begin straight away today with those reports
that an American fighter plane has come down over southern Iran.
It was an F-15E, which normally has a crew of two.
US media is saying that one of those crew members has been rescued, but we don't know about a second.
The Iranian authorities say that their military shot down the plane and they 've been offering a reward
to anyone who captures a crew member.
Here's what they've been saying on Iranian state TV.
Attention, dear viewers, residents of Koh Giliyeh and Boya Rahmat province, brave and honourable people.
If you capture an enemy pilot or pilots and hand them over alive to law enforcement or military forces,
you will receive a valuable reward and bounty.
Let's talk to Ione Wells, our correspondent in Washington, D.C.
Who joins us now.
Ione, I mean, this did happen a few hours ago.
Has there been any word from either the White House or the Pentagon about what has happened and what is happening now?
No, we haven't had any official comment yet from either.
Donald Trump was briefly stopped for questions by NBC here in the United States,
asking if today's news would impact negotiations with Iran.