Irans government is facing growing anger over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of the ukrainian airliner on wednesday protests have been held across the country after the revolutionary guard said it mistakenly shot down the james killing 176 people at the Iranian Parliament has denied a cover up but told the military to take precautions to avoid further disasters it followed a briefing by military leaders on the crash the recent crisis with the us was prompted by the assassination of iranian tamada custom saw the body in iraq could house the media is in tehran in a push to ease those tensions hes the 1st leader to visit the iranian capital since all the body was killed in that us a to. On january 3rd to. Walk has this visit comes at a very critical time in the region weve agreed that the only solution is to fuse escalations among all parties and weve also agreed that dialogue and only dialogue is the only route to any solution to any crisis. Its got to dorsetshire bar and now who joins us live from tehran and doors of the message is very clear is that its its to defuse tensions and critically diffuse tensions on all sides. Yes the emir of qatar was here at the request of president Hassan Rouhani at the invitation of the iranian president and he made the visits that was not announced it was very last minute that we heard about this visit earlier today but he was very clear that there needs to be an easing of tensions and qatar is willing to play a role in mediating that that is the goal really the emir said that iran and qatar relations are at an all time high since the blockade was imposed on qatar in 2017 by saudi arabia and the u. A. E. And number of other countries in the region he said that the iranians were very quick to come to the aid of the qatari government to help them ease the hardships that they would have faced had it been for the blockade the iranian president for his part said that they had a closed session meeting with between the 2 of them and they discussed a number of issues in that the iranian president also said that they will now be forming a joint commission to discuss strengthening their economic ties in the future this is something that the iranians welcome and they want to increase their relationship with the stories and they see that it is to their benefits given the current climate they find themselves in the region to have qatar as Close Friends and ally as possible. And we also talk to you while we have you there about the tension that were seeing on the streets over the for the downing of that ukrainian flawed as well a lot of anger that were seeing there. Yes there is that a lot of anger by the. Iranian public because of the fact that they feel their government was not forthcoming about the information that they had they say that they were lied to initially for over 48 hours until we heard that. The revolutionary Guard Aerospace commander come out and say that the iranians have shot down this passenger plane by mistake this is something that has caused a lot of anger there was a vigil held outside of your cabin your university on saturday evening and that vigil turned into a protest very quickly because 6 of the victims on that plane were from this university we also know that the British Ambassador was in attendance at this Vigil Service he was detained he was arrested briefly because as a foreigner according to rein in law is not allowed to attend illegal gatherings and thats what the iranian government is saying this Vigil Service was not that there was no permission granted for it since then the British Ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry and weve also seen a number of people gather outside of British Embassy chanting slogans such as the british needs to get out they want to see the closure of the British Embassy that only really reopened here in 2016 and this was posted here at that time we saw weve also heard that the number of people that have gathered outside the British Embassy of the burning the flag and demanding that the ambassador be expelled this is all happening because there is a lot of anger that is fueling the tensions not only. Between the general public and the governments but also were seeing the repercussions of the events that followed after the assassination of us and so they. Do so thank you joining us live from tehran were going to bring in our senior political analyst now one show or he joins us in the studio or want to come to that meeting between the qatari. And house and hardy in a moment but can we just bring up a tweet that we understand has been sent by President Donald Trump now this is what hes saying to the leaders of iran do not kill your Protesters Thousands of already being killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching more importantly the usa is watching turn you internet back on and let reporters run free stop the killing of your great iranian people what are you thoughts on that immediately no one how does that fit with what weve seen in recent days in the talk of deescalation response from the u. S. To the downing of the plane what do you read into what donald trump saying that i think its its probably in the same spirit of him tweeting in persian. To the iranian people the idea is that he wants to become an actor as it were within iran itself because he feels there is a place where he can insert the United States in order to divide the gulf as the charities of the iranian people exactly that its not to say that there arent some iranians that probably would be happy to have a kind of support my guess is my educated guess is that most Iranian Opposition figures dont want to be counted as allies or or agents of the United States or its mysteries in the region that they are an independent people and their and their and they have irans best interest not americas interest and that they work and act and demonstrate because of their consciousness not because some american president decided to tweet or decided and this is important underline because thats what were hearing from iran more and more. We dont want to hear from the same person whos been punishing us for the last 3 years from the same person whos been putting and doubling down on sanctions against us for the last 3 years so lets look at what the emir of qatar had to say today in that meeting with us and rouhani because that fits with what were seeing here. Since the is an issue tensions the killing of solomonic the response of the iranians since sanctions bring imposed or increased weve seen tougher talk but also talk of deescalation on both sides so where do things no end what do you read into that meeting between the emir of qatar and arsenal hardly today it is these are very Interesting Times we certainly pulled away from the brink of war or escalation towards war when both iran and washington were vying for revenge and vying for deterrence and response and counterresponse and so on so forth so we are what we pulled back from that unfortunately we havent pulled back from the very same conditions that led to the escalation a week ago and i think the kind of dialogue that they made of qatar and others could have or could cope bring to bear on this thing of this tension between their own washington is not only to move away from the brink but also to move away from the the root causes of what is leading to the increased tension between the 2 countries the french the europeans the russians all want to play a role but i need i need to make a sort of a wider statement on this qatar now is the is a spritely one of the smallest countries in the in the arab world and its trying to have a voice of sort because no other countries are stepping forward one of the main problems of why we have the issues today is because there is no arab voice the arabs are divided the arabs are not united with one voice where they can be the 3rd party on the table with iran and the United States they are now the object of tensions there. The objects or proc proxy wars they are the objects of attacks if iran carries so they are only object to fear instead of being subjects actors that could be joining the one in washington to talk about Regional Security and its good that this qatar is making some of voice available to the iranians and the americans and thats what we heard today that key word that we heard ive heard out of a dial up so thank you for that moment shower joining us there were going to take you to this in now and a government source there is telling al jazeera that the death toll from thursdays attack on an army base is now at least 89. 00 it happened in junior godhra a close to the border with mali it is defense minister has called a meeting of its National Security council no one is claiming responsibility now last month another attack killed 71 soldiers need these years border with mali and became a fossil that prompted leaders of the regional g 5 nations to call for closer cooperation and International Support for its president emanuel macro is expected to host leaders in the region on monday to decide on the future of frances military presence in the help now ahmed idris has more from. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack in yet but its suspected that it was carried out by merely or other fighters who crossed over from mali thats according to one Government Official and then launched the attack that area in particular has been vulnerable to attacks from groups inside mali and weve also seen how they have launched several attacks from that area from the border with broken up process well right now what were hearing about is that the bodies of those soldiers were killed in the tank have been taken to the capital of the i mean where they were buried or about to be buried some of them and the government is calling for more support from International Community to deal with the problem absolutely its not only the French Forces overall the french have a large number of troops in the sahara region more than 4500 but put together the number of Multinational Forces or other International Forces in this hell in particular close to or even up to 20000 and a lot of people in the region are wondering why these forces despite their training despite their equipment despite the level of intelligence gathering they have these attacks continue now in 2 countries ravaged by war 2 separate cease fire agreements are now in effect warring sides in syria and libya have agreed to put down their arms after negotiations brokered by russia and turkey the 2 countries support opposing sides in each conflict well have more on syria in above it 1st theyre going to take you to libya where world war 2 they thought half to had initially rejected calls for a ceasefire but without the why it is in tripoli he says theres already been some reports of ceasefire violence. Its now quiet in the front lines as were getting reports from military commanders on the ground its now quiet compared to last night but despite that the government has it imported that it has dick documented violations by have to us forces overnight and this morning and also overnight only a few minutes after the spokesman of have to announce said that they are putting the cease fire in place also we spoke earlier today to civilians eyewitnesses locals in ains our neighborhood they said that have to the forces also opened fire randomly in the area this morning but the government is written rating that its not going to stay silent in front of any violations by have to us forces a member of stand that the government has been repeating that half the us forces pulling out of southern tripoli is a prerequisite for the government for the government to proceed in any settlement to this conflict live also been reports of some skirmishes in syrias province thats where another cease fire agreement is in place its hoped the pores in fighting with all our disparate the needed aid into the region those jamaal show reports the turkish capital ankara. Aside from the fact of people fearing to be essentially bombed out of the skies by the regime of Bashar Al Assad then even by russian warplanes there is a dire humanitarian situation which is a consequence of 78 years of war that continues to plague all this is in civilians of syria in terms of how likely it is to hold this is the umpteenth time that some sort of ceasefire agreement has been reached and what is different maybe from here with regard to syria is of libya is that there is no where near a nice form of equilibrium between the military powers you have armed rebel groups that are now or only in control of this. Province the the the region of it and you have on the other side of the syrian army you have iranian backed militia you have the Russian Military which are essentially used all of their mights and firepower to corner those rebel groups or whats left of them in this small area and essentially has been pounding them for months if not for the past the best part of. Years now whats interesting very quickly is that in the past 24 hours the russians have set up checkpoints on the entrances and exits of it live they say to allow for citizens or civilians to leave it live the question is why would they do that if there is a ceasefire which people expect to last skeptics or cynics would say it is an attempt to maybe to filter out as many civilians as they can before the fighting resumes once more. Well still ahead on aljazeera flights are canceled and schools are closed as thousands of people flee in even a volcanic eruption in the philippines. And as a mans new leader takes the helm take a look at the pressures in places on the international stage. Its a surprisingly quiet winter over both china and japan this clearly movement in the sky carries moved from west to east to the cold air is going out of the war waters not does generate showers and here they are these blue things here running into home shoot so a bit of snow for the height in homeshare otherwise its a few rain showers on that when would coast puts tokyo in shelter suggests asako be dry as well average temperatures beijing is a bit warmer than you might expect the air isnt moving very much so i call it is not back good in northeastern china nor is it further south if youre an Industrial Area but a cloud and a suggestion of some showers building up in you know and you see across the Indian Border northeast india will see that a bit of rain but the main rain is for the sciences of course origines here we see the results in floods in jakarta in the next day or so i think jobber will be fairly dry but that line just the north extends back through sumatra and daily to korean central and Southern Sumatra you get pretty big showers there getting bigger i think in the next couple days it used to could be the day of the biggest ones ask for india generally speaking a dry picture but youve got this trough coming through pakistan which is rain for most snow in the north and thats moving steadily eastwards. Big stories generated thousands of headlines maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things never really being believed the prey muddying the water even separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism is so clear and it sounds to me and hear this think with the listening post on out 0. 00 s. Youre watching aljazeera hes a reminder of our top stories. Is calling for dialogue to diffuse regional tension at what he calls a critical time irans government is facing growing anger over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of ukrainian. Government sources telling al jazeera the death toll from thursdays attack on an army base is that at least 89. 00 it happened close to the border with mali no one has claimed responsibility. A cease fire is coming to effect in libya after warlord. Agreed to the truce just hours before. Theres also a pause in fighting in syrias the province. Brokered cease fires. In the philippines all flights out of manilas International Airport are suspended as well thora whos worn a large volcanic eruption could be imminent the volcano in the luzon region is about 100 kilometers south of the capital it is shooting. Into the sky and much of that is falling on me about unitys thousands of people are being told to leave their homes to be there in dark and joins us now live from manila tell us about the level of alert there right now. Holsts and the government announced over an hour ago that alert level has been reached for the 5th being the highest now alert level 4 basically means that hazardous eruption is imminent within hours and days. According to local Government Officials emergency Emergency Responders at least 6000 people have already been evacuated and the maximum contingency of evacuated people theyre expecting would be 300000. Airports and then the Manila Airport has been shut down both flights flying into manila and that of manila have been postponed indefinitely because according to officials there are also as they have already been detected on the runways and possibly on the planes that are stationed at the airport at the moment all schools classes in many areas across metro manila have been suspended as you know this area where the volcano is only about 2 hours from manila and even here ash fall has already been felt and seen by residents now within a few hours were hoping to get more information but according to Government Officials right now the priority really is Mass Evacuation they have prepositioned and 3 identified areas of evacuation outside the 14 kilometer range within a star within th