A blow to beijing. Wanted to preserve taiwans autonomy in the face of growing up for its part china and bring the island under its control. On nick spicer thanks for joining us american President Donald Trump says hes closely following protests which took place in iran after the government announced that its forces had accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet trump demanded access for human Rights Groups to monitor the demonstrations irans semi official a semi official News Agency Fars has also acknowledged that protesters have been chanting antigovernment slogans. Down with the lies and they must step down the blue. Of angry students gathered in front of the Polytechnic University in tehran when they heard the news that it was the Iranian Military who shot down the ukrainian airliner tempers boiled after days of denial. She is here tells them it is a peaceful protest we want to show that we disagree with what has happened in the past few days. Because if the things that support the and all the others thought people are tired of this we can handle this anymore. In the morning to hit the force of the brave illusionary god admitted in a Live Press Conference what could no longer be kept secret. Hes troops would taint on wednesday because of the war like atmosphere. And antiaircraft officer thought the object displayed to him was an american Cruise Missile on him a large and unfortunately he made a hasty decision and a tragic accident follow it and ship mobile phone videos on the internet show the launch of the anti Aircraft Missile runs late as admitted the mistake Supreme Leader who money apologized to relatives of the victims and president rouhani and foreign minister said eve announced punishment of those responsible and compensations for the families affected by this candles the light for the victims in tehran many of the mourners may feel apologies will not be enough. And to dig a little deeper into this story were joined now by hussein by iran expert and assistant professor at the hamilton luger school of at Indiana University he joins us from indianapolis professor how significant are these protests and are they different from previous ones. Theyre pretty significant. Are not that different in terms of their contents which is. Asking for greater accountability of government but they are i think qualitatively different this time around because theyre an accumulation. Now. Any years the same kinds of grievances against a government that has now resulted in a catastrophic. Death i mean some 6 people and they are about fundamentally accountability of government officials as to why this happened theyre against a lack of transparency when it comes to Decision Making but also i think more broadly than out. Utter lack of regard for the ordinary citizens lives that this government has shown in this episode in this confrontation with the United States. President trump as i was saying earlier has been well tweeting his support as his want for the protesters is not likely to help them in their if you will contest with with the authorities or perhaps hurt them somehow. Well it certainly doesnt help because the president as states has been very clear in terms of his position on iran on the actions of the u. S. Government when it comes especially to the punitive regime of sanctions its something that many iranians view as having largely indent detrimental to their everyday life but it also obviously gives the governments leverage to frame many of these protests as somehow being stoked by american intelligence agencies or. Through covert actions of foreign governments but i think more importantly. It speaks to a double standard on the one hand the american president. Has banned the entry of americans into the United States yet he speaks all deep care. And affection for them and i think many iranians are able to see through that. And do you think. The downing of the airliner when there was a such a. Scary standoff if you will between the United States and iran has it changed the dynamic of this standoff between washington and tehran. It certainly i think has changed the narrative from one of the collective sense. Grievance against the United States to once again one targeted against the iranian government itself just 4 days ago many iranians even though if they dont agree with the actions of their own government or at the ins with the lack of democracy a representation in iran nevertheless saw the extrajudicial killing. Military commander as an affront as an illegal action and and had rallied to really send a message to the world that they did not stand for either but just you know hours later this shooting it out of the airplane and especially in the manner in which it was handled by the iranian government the fact that the government took 3 days to really acknowledge this that happened when western intelligence agencies immediately. Identified it as probably a mistake and anti missile antiAircraft Missile i think many iranians have now changed your narrative and are demanding more answers accountability and transparency once again from their own government ok professor thank you for that insight hussein an assistant professor at the hamilton luger school at Indiana University. 57 canadians died in the plane crash making them the 2nd Largest Group of victims by nationality after irans admission that it shot down the plane canadas Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau addressed reporters about a story that has shocked the country. With iran has admitted to this very serious shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific duran must take full responsibility. Canada will not rest until we get the accountability justice and closure that the families deserve. Earlier i spoke to c. B. C. Reporter evan dyer in ottawa i asked him what Justin Trudeau meant when he said he was furious and outraged and talked about the need for justice because he was asked about that and he gave quite a few variations on the answer of well see what justice looks like in the coming weeks were going to have discussions with other allies and so on he didnt really get into the details on justice and accountability but transparency we understand means inspections and thats what the canadian side is working on right now there are 3 canadian officials who we believe landed in tehran about 2 hours ago canada has no diplomatic presence of course in tehran so they travel to great certainty where they were given 3 visas 3 officials went ahead but the understanding is that there but i know consular officials theyre there to deal with consular matters such as repatriation of remains to canada kind of course really wants to get an air crash inspectors from the Church Protection safety board to look at the actual evidence of the crash although the main question of course already been answered the plane was brought down by a missile and other questions about who gave the order and so on maybe out of the reach of air crash. How is the canadian public as a whole reacting to all this. Wild theres a lot of outrage theres a lot of sadness too i must say that these were you know this was a plane which had entire families in it had some very talented people with promising futures there were a huge loss of people for example you know bert and many of them were researchers from the university of alberta which seems to take in a particularly are. Just some you know some very promising people or on that plane as well as people who were just on their way home making a difficult journey because its hard to reach your own from ken a difficult story to see families and i guess you know one of the differences actually with this crash from the air india crash which was the biggest terrorist incident history that killed about 300 people most of whom were indian and canadian dual citizens at the time the Prime Minister back in 1900 sent condolences to india almost overlooking the fact that most of people on that plane were canadians and dsouza very well integrated Community TodayIranian Community very much part of the National Fabric and is there a perception that people died because of the standoff between the United States and iran and if so between washington and tehran which side do you think canadians might blame or. Mort iran i dont think theres any doubt about that but i think i mean there will be people of course weve taken the opposite position but i dont think theyd be the majority what i do think though is that some blame is at least from what weve seen from the direction of the Prime Minister hes been asked on a couple of occasions whether he blamed the United States he didnt take the bait but he certainly didnt say no of course not we blame the ones who pulled the trigger on the missile he said given and says more along the lines of those are questions were going to be looking at and those are questions canadians going to ask themselves as well so certainly theres a sense that canada should have been warned before these initial attacks success nation or general sold it money because canada has troops in iraq both as part of Nato Mission Iraq in baghdad and at the base in irbil which was hit by Ballistic Missiles fired from iran and canada had no warning of the attack that was going to lead. Ok well thank you for that c. B. C. Reporter evan di reporting from ottawa. Time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. Labor unions have marched through paris and other french cities to protest against Pension Reforms planned by president emanuel and. The demonstrations came after talks between the government and unions failed to break a deadlock a strike against the reform has destructed public transport since early december. Judges and lawyers from across poland gathered in the capital warsaw to protest judicial reforms proposed by the conservative government they say the reforms restrict the judiciarys independence judges and lawyers from many other European Countries join the march the European Union and the United Nations have also criticized the reforms. Taiwans Pro Independence president has been reelected by a landslide margin so i won 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for her tough stance against china which does not recognize taiwanese independence and says the island is still part of china. Savoring her victory. Message of defiance against beijing earned her a lopsided win in her acceptance speech she warned china the taiwan would not be influenced by threats. The people of taiwan reject a one country 2 systems model and we respect and our sovereign rights. I hope this election result sends china a clear message. Her supporters were ecstatic. I. Am very happy with the result today because we have made it known to china that top one is not to be bullied. Yet. Ever since i was small i was taught by my father that taiwan is a country for 21 years. So at this moment i feel very moved to see so many taiwanese agreeing that taiwan has its own sovereignty democracy and freedom. Size main opponent National Party candidate han q you campaigned on resetting ties with china to boost taiwans economy but that message failed to resonate with many voters. Sighs Government Faces several challenges Going Forward beijing is likely to increase its efforts to isolate taiwan hoping to bring it back under chinese control. A 17 year old in turn volunteering on a nasa program as impress his bosses by discovering a planet a High School Student from new york was on his 3rd day at work the newly discovered planet depicted here in this nasa animation is over 1300 light years away and orbits 2 stars the teenager in turn noticed a blip in data which indicated something was blocking the light from the stars is the 1st you planet spotted through nasa says test satellite this student is a star wars fan who hopes to make a career in astronomy and i think we can say the force is strong with him. 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