A ceasefire. And in sport of a joke of it helps serbia secure a semi final place of the a. T. P. Cup djokovic starting his team to victory over canada the us will sign with russia. Well iran is the starting point for us this news our aviation officials inside iran have rejected accusations under rainy and missile mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner killing all 176 people on board the head of irans Civil Aviation authority says the plane caught fire and was having technical difficulties the flights had taken off from tehran on wednesday on its way to kiev it was the same nights that iran launched air strikes into iraq in retaliation for the u. S. Killing of its Top Commander rob matheson brings us all the latest. This video posted by the New York Times newspaper appears to show an explosion as Ukraine Airlines flight 75 to is struck. The plane flies on for several minutes before turning back towards to han airport where security cameras capture the moment it hits the ground among the dead were 63. 00 canadians 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 a surface to air missiles at the time of the crash iran had fired missiles at bases in iraq hosting us troops irans military was prepared for a u. S. Response but iran says the plane was not hit by a missile had. Any statement made before extracting the information contained in the black box is groundless however id like to assure you that the aircraft was not hit by a missile the aircraft was on fire for one and a half minutes after taking off so the pilot decided to return to the airport but he had many technical issues at hand. Iran initially refused to hand over to the u. S. The socalled black boxes used to record cockpit voices and flight data but iran has now invited the aircraft manufacturer boeing to be part of the investigation france made the aircrafts engines and says its too wants to be involved and the u. S. National Transportation Safety board says its assigned a representative to the investigation there are reports the debris has been bulldozed into a pile but one expert says the day may provide answers there could be evidence with literally within the bodies of the victims that could point to whether or not for example an explosion took place inside or outside of the air that ukraines president has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial at the airport where the plane was expected to land at least one vigil is being held in toronto in canada many of those who died had dual nationalities this chromaticism if you want to see his mother on holidays. And you know i swear. I heard with about. Some a furious that iran may have been involved in the crash others are waiting to find out when the bodies of their loved ones might return home rob matheson aljazeera well dorsetshire bari joins us now live from tehran iran is adamant it wasnt a miss out strike they did get more information though at a press conference in the last hour or so i just bring up to date what else were they saying. Well the head of our own Civil Aviation authority as we just heard in that report had said that absolutely this was not a missile attack he also gave more detailed information he said that this plane was on fire for a minute and 30 seconds before it crashed using the logic that had it been struck by a missile it would have exploded in midair and not have been on fire for that long he also said that they are cooperating with all the Different Countries that have a vested interest in this case in that they have invited the iranians have actually formed a committee to look into the cause of this accident and also they have invited various officials from countries such as the United States france and canada to help with the Ongoing Investigation we know that ukrainian authorities are already on the ground in tehran assisting in this Ongoing Investigation and weve just heard from the authorities here that the americans french and the canadians are also on their way to the capital to assist the iranian authorities the other important point to to say is that weve heard from the Government Spokesperson and leader of the e. U. Who says that the United States or certain countries are trying to use this incident to put salt in the wounds of those victims the families victims meaning that theyre trying to politicize this accident to their own benefits there is a sense here that there is some kind of a narrative being built up by western countries against iran and this specific case which they see as a very unfortunate accident they say that the 2 black boxes have been retrieved but they are very badly damaged so its not clear whether or not they will be any help to try and solve what actually happened to this flights ok there are some jabari bring us up states from the iranian capital thank you very much indeed. Now after the killing of irans Top Commander qassam so the money last friday the u. S. House of representatives voted to limits president Donald Trumps ability to engage in further military action against iran ill just say this Heidi Joe Castro has this report tonight from washington. House democrats say President Trump order to kill iranian general custom solar monny was a reckless move done without the consultation of congress it is unprecedented the level at which this administration is seeking to obscure the facts from the congress of the American People thursdays vote on the house floor is meant to deliver a rebuke to the president that the democratic led chamber has little confidence in trumps military Decision Making toward iran despite his justifications we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy we also did it for other reasons that were very obvious somebody died one of our military people died people were badly wounded just a week before and we did it and we had a shot at him and i took it and that shot was pinpoint accurate and that was the end of a monster the war powers resolution passed in the house on thursday directs the president to terminate the use of u. S. Forces in iran without congressional approval but how much power this measure carries is unclear it is a nonbinding resolution which under normal circumstances means it does not carry the force of law but House Speaker nancy pelosi says the war powers act is a special circumstance that gives the resolution legality that it does not have to be signed by the president of the United States the congress of the United States and this full power of full voice can speak in a year 9 that way about what the war powers act should look like and that should. Count for something House Republicans call the vote a partisan distraction this resolution has as much force of law as a new years resolution this resolution is not safeguarding our constitution but attacking our constitution by attempting to divest a duly elected president of his commander in chief powers a similar resolution is pending in the u. S. Senate where at least 2 republicans have said they will support the measure to curb iran war powers but whether the resolutions will have that effect or will simply be ignored by the president is a question that may be decided in the courts. Castro aljazeera washington. And iranian and u. S. Officials face off at the United Nations for the 1st time since cousin solomon his assassination it was left to irans ambassador to the the u. N. To represent his country foreign minister john wood serif was unable to attend because the u. S. Refused to grant him a visa or since and has continued to justify the so many assassination but supports has been limited even among its own ollies. James base has more now from the u. N. This was a Security Council debate about the uns founding document the United Nations charter key to International Law and also central in arguments about the legality of actions by both the u. S. And iran in recent days on us the Us Ambassador kelly crafts says the charter justifies their assassination of general sort of money pursuant to article 51. 00 that says nations have the right to selfdefense exactly the same article is invoked by iran to explain its missile attack on u. S. Bases in iraq on jan already a faction against an air base in iraq from which they cowardly on the attack against mortars sort of soleimani was launched was a measured on proportionate response to a terrorist attack in the existence and there exists an inherent right to selfdefense in accordance with article 51. 00 of the charter perhaps unsurprisingly both russia and china took a wrong side of them being. The only at present the United States unilateral military adventurism has led to the tensing up of the situation in the middle east gulf region china supports a call for peace by secretarygeneral guitars at this meeting once again the u. S. Is closest allies were not giving a full throated endorsement of President Trumps most recent actions 5 new members join the Security Council at the beginning of the year and diplomats believe the council as a whole is now slightly less favorable to the u. S. Than it was a year ago jamesburg 0 at the United Nations. President of trump has called on european nations to completely abandon the 2050 new clear deal with iran if Foreign Ministers are gathering to hold an emergency meeting in brussels france is calling on all sides to come back to the table its warning that tehran is now on course to develop a Nuclear Weapon within the next 2 years well so here is a policy fellow at the European Leadership Network where his focus is on the Iran Nuclear Deal and joins us now live from london good to have whether its on the aljazeera news or 1st of all this really truth in that claim from france is iran 2 years away from a bomb. Well i think that it really depends on how you calculate irans breakout capacity there are a lot of flaws in the ways that you know put that number together however what you have to keep in mind is before the j c p o a was negotiated iran was only weeks out or months out from developing being able to develop a Nuclear Weapon however because of the deal it put irans breakout capacity out over a year so if french officials are saying that it is 2 years and then just proves the point that the steps that iran has taken thus far in terms of you know trying to incrementally build pressure by walking away from those additional you know the measures that they took under the deal those steps are not grave enough to have affected the breakout capacity by making it go under a year ok so you know i think that just goes to show that iran isnt acting too volatile yet in terms of its Nuclear Escalation but still this this deal as it stands though it may have been working up to this points but with the u. S. Committing to the. Way i mean this deal is dad does it not why is europe so wedded to it if the u. S. Is so determined. Absolutely i think the europeans are wedded to it because it proved to work unfortunately the United States thought differently about whether or not this was an agreement that they could stand by under the trumpet administration but for europeans it represents not only a Regional Security agreement that will absolutely help bring stability to the region and had because at that point in time after the deal was reached we saw far less provocative iran than we are right now but moreover this is the core to European Security lets not forget that the middle east is on europes doorstep and the us preserving the agreement and the entire verification regime which took over a decade to negotiate is something that europe is unwilling to let go of my think that you know obviously there was a you know around the time that trump left the deal shuttle diplomacy by europeans to see if we could get a more for more agreement where we were able to include say missiles or other peripheral issues but they were reality is that at the end of the day the most imminent issue at the time that this agreement was reached was the nuclear question and the idea was was that over time iran of would socialize itself to the International System as a member of in Good Standing in the International Community and thus build the confidence with historic. Adversaries like the United States to be able to speak in good faith on topics like missiles which they refused to include in the original agreement but again with u. S. Participation this deal is not worth the paper its written on critics might say and certainly to read criticism is that europe just simply isnt doing enough to save the deal theres a lot of talk theres no concrete action given the reality of the situation or europe simply too weak to do anything to save this to properly or to do anything without americas say so. Well unfortunately this is because of the fact that the reason why iran agreed to the j c p a way is because theres an economic quid pro quo that underpins the deal which means that iran would then be able to interact with the International Financial system because of u. S. Secondaries same sions and how much fear they invoke not only in the Business Community but also in the Banking Community not just limited to europe but across the world unfortunately its basically impossible for economic quid pro quo to be implemented by the other parties with those sanctions in place therefore absolutely the deal d is very much fundamentally undermined with u. S. Sanctions in place because the other parties cant help up their end of the bargain china can import some oil russia can continue some level of trade the europeans can further find money to help operationalize this humanitarian channel that only deals with non sanction of the goods but overall we have seen the iranian economy has taken a huge hit because of the secondary sanctions and unless there is an easing of those sanctions in some kind of a step by step way so that there is some breathing room created iran will not return to the negotiation table under these circumstances that is something that we learned from 12 plus years of european negotiations ok im afraid i will have to. Shout but great to get your thoughts thank you so much for joining us here on the news are. But there were still to come on the Program Including canada in mourning people who vigils across the country after 63. 00 canadians are killed in iraq the plane crash. Is truly impish our crisis sparks calls for urgent action on Climate Change. And in sports the limpid bosses introduced a new rule saying to keep in politics aisles of their events and he will be here with. My. India Supreme Courts has ordered an urgent review of the locked in an incident minister kashmir the ruling is in response to a series of petitions challenging the legalities of the Government Shutdown that includes a ban on internet use daily revoke the regions autonomy in august and imposed extra sanctions security and restrictions were there responsive or in the grove or one of the lawyers representing the petitioners she says restrictions in indian administered kashmir are violating fundamental freedoms. I think its a very significant judgment i was representing cush me Times Newspaper and our contention was that the ban on Internet Freedom is an assault on freedom of speech and expression freedom of the press and the restrictions on movement at all. Have implications for freedom of flesh the court and the state had argued that these are issues of National Security particularly given that kashmir is a border state that actually there is cross border debtor ism and therefore considering security concerns there should be no judicial review the court has said that no these are matters of fundamental freedoms and liberties and the court will subject every executive action in order to a judicial review they have said held that the injured right to intonate is protected under the constitution as part of freedom of speech and expression and therefore any restriction or prohibition on internet will have to meet the test of constitutional easy to make sure that his executive action for 4 shamil to the problem that it poses right now what the way the state has conducted itself is that those orders were not published those orders were not even placed before the court to fill some full orders were given they have been directed to immediately publish all orders but deigning to internet restriction as well as Movement Restriction those orders must contain material particulars that why is the state taking this measure and is this is this required is this excessive in fact the court has gone so far as