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Sixteen jet crashing now event started when israel detected what it says was an iranian drone over its. And it shot it down the drone it come from syrian territory said israel sent its jets into syria but as you see one of its as sixteens came under fire syrian antiaircraft fire damascus says it was responding to an act of aggression the two pilots on board were able to eject from the jet israel called the incident a severe violation of its sovereignty and warns damascus and to a court playing with fire and then we get this video comes from the Israeli Military which says this is the iranian drone that invaded its airspace it gets shot out of the sky iran the denies it says the drone was not ours and calls the reports ridiculous so its a little complicated i just want to clarify the events in the order they happened using a map here some very very basic qatar graphy for you so forgive me in advance the iranian drone is said or apparent iranian drone is said to have originated from here close to palmyra in syria and then headed towards this part of the region which as youll see on the closer map is pretty congested youve got. This sort im sorry youve got this area in here which is the occupied Golan Heights surrounded by lebanon israel jordan and syria and its the israelis contention that that drone was coming in from syria into its airspace through here which is why it was shot down so thats one part of the story then youve got the israeli jet which would have come from somewhere in israel and headed out towards syria its common to this syrian anti aircraft fire but thats where things are a little confusing because we dont know was it actually shot down or did the pilot simply by out and the plane crash what we do know for sure is that it was actually down here that the plane went down back in israel. So i hope that is clear for you then iran and syria lets talk about those two Close Military and strategic ties which actually stretch back decades iran is accused of giving military support to prop up the government of president Bashar Al Assad to hamas allegedly sent military advisors and thousands of its revolutionary guards to fight alongside Syrian Forces in this six year war in iran it backs lebanons hezbollah which is also fighting along assads forces and israel is worried irans presence in syria will allow it to create something of a Transit Route to transport weapons from iran to hezbollah in lebanon russia on the other hand is now calling on all sides to show restraint and respect for syrias sovereignty and territorial integrity heres a marine following developments for us from western my goodness so much going on in iran take us through the latest news youve got particularly reaction from the israeli side. Well i can tell you that the Israeli Army Says that the operation is still continuing against targets in side syria but we havent really heard of any being hit in the last few hours so clearly things have slowed down what were also hearing is that the israelis arent going to comment on what caused that plane to crash whether it was shot out of the sky as the syrians allege or whether the pilots ejected and the plane simply crashed now as soon as the crash happened it was iran that took the brunt of the blame from is row its began with these really military spokesman saying this was a violation of our sovereignty we shot the drone down and then through all of the social media and through a lot of analysts talking on television it was a ron iran iran and thats all anybody is really really talking about say it wasnt about the syrian edison systems that knocked the f. Sixteen or certainly gave us the f. Sixteen a lot of trouble so the iranians have also reacted what theyve said is quite interesting. The days of carrying out attacks inside syria go on any new attack will be confronted iran stands by syria against any foolish move by israel so iran simply doubling down on their position within syria now also the u. S. Sort of the american the russian sort the israeli ambassador to moscow has reacted saying that its time to run and its proxies left syria that was very much a message to russia russia is the key ally who controls the space its really the only real player within syria itself that has any kind of influence on the Syrian Regime so its likely in the next coming days that israel is going to try and put pressure on the russians to try and get rid of iran from their borders but iran russia clearly allies and so whether that actually happens at all is unlikely imran khans reporting from west jerusalem tonight thank you iran. Off to london now and bashar asad new political analysts is there the usual amount of clarity i think my one when it comes to the middle east but as iran was pointing out there the speed with which iran was implicated and it was really hammered home after that was on it well look you know that i think its been in the wall now for several months years but certainly for several hours and days when netanyahu visited the Northern Front in israel and made all sorts of threats and and warnings that israel will retaliate to anything that the resembles a threat to its security and on the other hand weve seen the kind of movements that we havent seen before with russian with large mint and Syrian Regime with marmots and so on so forth weve seen also the turks being involved then certainly the iranians so this week you know unlike most other weeks of the last seven years we did have a turkish helicopter being downed and we have been or anian drone downed and and the russian jet fighter drowned and now we have. An israeli f. Sixteen down. By syrian fire so all in all this is that theres a new development in the sense that the much of the machine that is been doing a lot of the killing from air now is of course also under threat so yes theres a lot of ambiguity yes theres a lot of this commissions yes iranians are in despite their rejection of any israeli implications in the downing of the of this raid of sixteen is there a way. To describe what happened today in the sense of we will talk about events as being all this happened as part of syrias war or is part of the conflict been in has blown is this there is this so many elements in play in this particular one how would you sort of categorize what happened today is it simply israel iran. Well look the most important aspect of it is that this is a new development in every possible way we havent seen anything like that since the one nine hundred eighty s. You know a very sophisticated American Made israeli own f. Sixteen is down by syria by the syrians the syrians of course have threatened the israelis many times over the last several years but lets lets remember that israel violated syrian airspace and made a good number of mumbai arguments over one hundred such violations without the syrians actually responding in any serious weather so in a spot as the past is concerned this is an exception the question is coming is this a precedence is this now going to be more of the same moving forward i think thats the question this really is are asking themselves and thats the one they will be discussing tomorrow morning in the Israeli Cabinet and thats why the israelis for the time being are telling the russians and the americans that they have no interest in escalation because if the syrians now are armed with new more sophisticated weapons by the rain ians and they are able to deter or slash retaliate or slash down israeli sophisticated air force then we are up to a whole new development and if the israelis decide that they will escalate they all they understand all too well that hezbollah among among others syrian and iranians have more than a thousand missiles that can reach israel and that even if israel can down. Ninety percent of it there was to be one hundred missiles reaching is that and thats why or thats what explains the fears even the likes of city of haifa and northern israel where they want to open. You know the bunkers and so on and so forth because there is fear it is and so it is an important escalation and i think everyone now has been put on notice fascinating stuff isnt it mo one bashar senior political analyst in london thank you mo one reference this just a moment ago to turkish soldiers killed when their military helicopter was shot down in syria there is this video said to show the moments before it went down in time province the helicopter crew were on an operation against kurdish fighters turkeys president is warning the attackers will pay a heavy price. Should a little while ago one of our helicopters was downed of course all these things will happen when we are in a war we will have losses but we will also cause losses yesterday we destroyed and annihilated a very large rocket depot so of course why p. G. Got mad about that but of course we will make them pay heavily for maybe one of our helicopters is gone but they will pay for this not in kind but so much more because we are determined and we believe we are superior we will succeed in this as well his demolish iow he is in these border with syria. Very strong talk from the president there he is not showing any signs of backing down in this operation. Well no tony he needs to because this increases the number of turkish soldiers whove been killed since this military operation began steve weeks ago through over twenty and while thats still not a huge number it is still significance in the sense that its not only the military personnel that have being killed youre talking about a nice seven civilians inside turkey losing their lives to rockets being fired by the y. P. G. Thus the Kurdish Militia who are the main targets of the talkers from the chopper ation thats started to question your mind obviously our fears of why this is all taking place as far as the turkish army is concerned in the circus states is concerned they are trying to push back these militia whose ac is a Security Threat to turkey and want to create a safe buffer zone not only to protect their own National Security in terms of turkey but also to allow for a safe zone for them up to three million refugees Syrian Refugees who reside inside turkey to be able to go back in terms of developments come out over the past twenty four hours aside from the downing of this turkish manufactured hundred cops or attack helicopter which has resulted in deaths of two soldiers as you mentioned the Free Syrian Army who are essentially the rebels that are fighting alongside the Turkish Military have made significant advances towards ive seen the city inside their way which is a stronghold for the why p. G. So it seems that the Turkish Military is making advances regardless or despite rather this recent setback thank you jamal a shower in gas the end. So quite a day isnt it then when you think about it a turkish helicopter an israeli jet and maybe an iranian drone or all crashing this saturday maybe youve got a view on the stories hashtag a. J. 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In the president ial blue house in the capital seoul relations between the two koreas continued to thaw the meeting had two firsts kim jong is the first member of the ruling family to cross into the south since the korean war the sister of the north Korean Leader came with the first ever invitation kim jong un is asking south korean president moon jay in to come to pyongyang at a convenient time soon little know its key president moon said early talks between north korea and the United States are essential to improve relations north korea to be more proactive to move forward to have a dialogue with the United States congress. Its unclear when that might happen the u. S. And north korea have rebuffed moves attempts so far if an interesting meeting transpires it will be the first time kim jong un has met with the south korean president since assuming power in twenty eleven the last time leaders from the north and south met was eleven years ago during a summit in p. R. Is all because of all the global attention i believe reunification will be brought to for the government is making efforts and i think people are rooting for it organizers of the olympics say theyve been moved by the diplomatic breakthrough it was quite on the story a moment. And something that as you know the i. O. C. Has been generally working for since probably two thousand and fourteen. And you know i think it shows it opens opens the door maybe just a little bit critics say they doubt that door will ultimately open much more for now theres hope that the chiang Winter Olympics is the catalyst for a reboot in intercourse and relations natasha going to aim el jazeera south korea mike chinoy is a man who knows about such issues is the author of meltdown the inside story of the north Korean Nuclear crisis and hes joining us on skype from hong kong thank you for coming along might look im sure you get asked this question over and over and its the question we keep asking but what is really going on here because you cant help but look at these pictures and think well shes there kim jong insisted is there and shes meeting the president and this is these are huge steps for two countries who had so many problems but there is this nagging feeling that its all just sort of window dressing while the olympics are on. Well its more than window dressing because weve had a climate in the last several months on the Korean Peninsula where all the talk and all the concern has been about rising tension about the possibility of the u. S. Staging a proof ended attack on north Koreas Nuclear or missile facilities and now you have the north and the south talking to each other at extremely high levels so this isnt horton but i think once the olympics end all the basic issues are still going to remain under result which is the status of north Koreas Nuclear program whether to trust the administration is willing to talk to north korea and whether south koreas president mugabe is going to be able to find a way to take the goodwill that has been generated by the olympic diplomacy and turn it into something more concrete and the answer to all those questions is still very very uncertain about all of that you know you mentioned the trumpet ministration they all of this is happening without their help i mean i know mike pence is there at the moment and he was sitting there as the as all of the sort of the south korean president and kim jong un system met but its isnt it pretty much happening without their influence. It is happening to a significant degree without the american input and in fact i think the way the president and his behavior has really damaged the United States standing in the eyes of a lot of people in south korea the fact that he would meet in stand up when the joint north south Winter Olympic Team came into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony i think is one example of his refusal to even shake hands or acknowledge the senior figures in north korea is allied to the notion that the american secretary of state has said before that the u. S. Is actually interested in diplomacy for south korea its very tricky though because the south plus totally on the Security Alliance with the United States and so for the south korean president hes going to have to figure out how to thread this needle of maintaining some momentum with the north without really running into a crisis so key ally in washington and thats going to be difficult makes you wish they could be lympics all the time doesnt it mike chinoy joining us from hong kong thank you so much for that regardless of what happens in pyongyang between the two koreas there is this question as we say is north korea actually just playing games with the Winter Olympics there is a lot of feeling out there that this is all just a show house from a whole bar and the inside story team up to that just a couple of days ago if you want to see the full discussion to head to the shows section at aljazeera dot com and a little later in the show i far a will have action from the ol