Energy supplies to europe at. Least i because the torched in paris where riot police began resorting to tear gas is a protest against Pension Reforms turns a. Low good evening just gone 10 oclock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International now the Senior Commander of irans elite military unit the Islamic Revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passions are playing on wednesday killing all a 176 people on board he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. Its me dont be that you were not heard that the flight had been shot down i wished i was dirt as i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. He also added in a Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision the commander added that they had requested the establishment of a no fly zone before the incident but it wasnt approved for some reason the earlier surrounded me to be as military unintentionally hit it yet despite days of the knowledge of any result in the downing one quarter discussed what happened further. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expects he expects iran to take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstruction earlier today we did hear from irans president who promised just that and called this a vent and im forgivable mistake. The armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error coups the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176 innocent people investigations continue to identify and prosecute this great tragedy and unforgivable mistake now irans president also promised compensation for the families of the victims and the countrys Supreme Leader has called for the for the findings of this investigation to be made public now earlier we also heard from irans foreign minister who gave actually highlighted the nother reason for why this crisis took place assad day preliminary conclusions of into an investigation biome forces human error at a time of crisis caused by us some ventures and lead to disaster profound regret apologies and condolences to all people to the families of victims on 2 of the affected nations give us a bit of background here what exactly is the foreign minister referring to oh well just last week a u. S. Airstrike killed a high ranking high ranking could command. Soleimani and that brought tensions in the region to a level that we havent seen in decades this guy was considered a hero to many in iran as he was instrumental for the defeat of isis in syria so the government promised harsh retaliation for his death and that came in the form of several airstrikes against u. S. Military bases in iraq that happened just mere hours before this plane went down and so at that time the Iranian Military was intice a painting some sort of possible u. S. Response to those strikes which explains why they thought that this airliner could have been an enemy aircraft they said that it was approaching a military installation clearly tensions were very high are there other cases of countries shooting down planes by mistake yeah unfortunately when tensions are this high like you said accidents are more probable for example during the cold war in 1903 the soviet union mistakenly shot down korean. Air flight 007 thinking it was a spy plane the plane went into soviet air space at the time that a u. S. Reconnaissance mission was going on as well and in 1908 u. S. Navy shot down an iranian airliner killing all 290 passengers because they thought it was in the rainy and fighter jet now at that time then Vice President george h. W. Bush said he had nothing to apologize for and that he didnt care about the facts regarding the shooting of that plane down irans admission of guilt has shaken the public mood interim and some question why the government didnt come clean. With us on unflinchingly when i 1st heard about the plane crash it was said to be a technical issue but the announcement came without any preliminary investigation. Around the world but now theyve done the necessary investigation it was clarified that the plane was going to miss weve been really since this morning when we heard the news and we were all angry that people told this line it was you why didnt you get after our flights should have been cancelled and planes shouldnt have taken off from any air force and that just about all of the country was in a state of war and this mistake could have been made by any country america itself made a similar mistake after iran hit the u. S. Bases we were in total readiness and thats what led to the mistake we also heard opinion today from experts on this developing story. In times of war and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable rate there are yet able to pierce these fog unless the reason be conflicting mechanism so again 3 1 can talk about blame and responsibility or accountability the blame is iranian but the responsibility lies on other shoulders too so iranian Defense Systems were on alert and they were expecting attacks by us planes as stated in the armed forces the statement there have been reports that some hostile objects flying objects have been appearing on radar screens in some of some parts around the country so soon as they saw a plane coming to a sensitive i. R. G. C. Base they have you know rushed to and jumped to the conclusion and fired pretty ticked at us become tactical blunders the strategy off by that regularly being ordered closing down the a. S. P. s under extreme circumstances could have avoided this whole war the magical whenever we have valid dives in that youll be in we had bound to have mentioned raised guns cog coolidges ready to fight the it will be said that you wish me to be have to be the case and the big picture to how to do use this and that you on how to be escalated this i believe did on ians have taken the 1st step by the initiation process of this horrible accident in which 176 people were lost was done by the american to have the video and say yes that is true. Well amid the heightened tensions between the u. S. And iran activists in london have held an antiwar rally was organized by the stop the War Coalition and the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament demonstrators have denounced recently reactions in the middle east as an act of war they marched through the streets of london converging on Trafalgar Square here among the slogans seen included no to nato no to trump or no to war on iran earlier they were pressed by the labor party the 2 Jeremy Corbyn a rival demonstration in support of transactions though it was held by the u. S. Secretary of state is held or had a hard time defending washingtons assassination of irans top general during a News Conference might struggle to explain what imminent threat was posed by questions to the mommy card mark morgan has more. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives lets take a listen to some of what went on if you have specific information about the internet and didnt have anything to do with our embassy. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on the u. S. Embassies what is your definition of the internet as. This was going to happen and american lives were at risk the Intelligence Community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the Intelligence Community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack that was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of money gone threats are never going now it wasnt just the journalists who dont exactly buy pompei as claims but american lawmakers also have their doubts we just saw in the u. S. House of representatives the lower house of the u. S. Legislative branch a resolution was passed attempting to restore it to the activities of the trumpet ministration and trying to prevent them from further escalating tensions with the Islamic Republic of iran however these doubts about whether it was the right thing in order to kill qassam solomonic go well beyond legislators and journalists they actually go to the us public itself we have new poll results that have been conducted and it shows that basically 2 thirds of the u. S. Public believes at this point that the country is less safe because of trumps decision to kill the top iranian general furthermore 69 percent. Cent of the u. S. Public believes that iran is more likely to attack the usa as a result of trumps decisions 52 percent describe trump killings qassam solomonic as reckless so a pretty solid opposition to trumps killing of qassam solomonic among American People themselves while at the press conference mike peo and steve minutia laid out basically what these new sanctions will include the new sanctions are targeting high level officials in iran basically preventing any business transactions with them but when explaining these new sanctions a mike bomb peo used some rather interesting language to lay out what he argued was the ultimate end game of the United States when it comes to iran the president said we dont want war we want iran to behave what the mobilization the reason the secretary treasurer this morning is to continue this campaign our strategic effort to get to run to behave in a way that doesnt continue their 40 year long effort to terrorize the world if you hear those words he refers to saying that he wants iran to be a quote normal country so essentially it seems the United States is ask a lady threats and carrying out more sanctions with the goal of forcing the Islamic Republic to conduct itself in a manner that the United States considers to be normal not exactly clear what that means but until that happens there will be further activities and sanctions and threats and whatnot now many are hoping that the Current Situation is in a state of deescalation but at the same time people worry about what could happen next you know the sanctions still remain iran still has the capabilities we saw the recent strikes that took place so a lot of nervousness in the Global Community at the moment i think air is still on sanctions at this point but i will get around to that again despite the fact that we dodged a bullet about going to war with iran our last few days were still in the same set piece positions where we were before and. All these guys around the president can think of us how do we turn the screws more more and backs mom pressure more and more in oh and this is the next thing i can do a lot of this list remember is aimed at the europeans i think a lot of this is toward pressuring the europeans to side with the americans in the small Pressure Campaign we model rockys a concern that their country has become a battleground between the u. S. And iran thousands of people flooded the streets of baghdad on friday calling for an end to the presence of Foreign Military in the country. Demonstrators waving iraqi flags chanted no to america no to iran. The Prime Minister has demanded that the u. S. Make preparations to pull all of its troops out of washington has made it clear its not intending to leave but rather stay for the good its not against the if never pools. Of us familiar with the situation you invite someone over to stay a while say a friend they stay and stay and stay you drop a hint you know its getting late kind of tired but they just dont get it america is a force for good in the middle east any delegation sent to iraq would be dedicated to discussing how to best recommit to our Strategic Partnership not to discuss troop withdrawal whats called implicates things is that your unwelcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put this kill your other guests you call make this up americans kill an arabian general in iraq iran then shoots back a bunch of Ballistic Missiles in revenge out of iraq i mean these poor rocky guys theyve done nothing and everyones bombing them so you can understand if theyre a little sick of it all then point to the door we were. To restart the civil war again among the shia we dont want this to happen we are not a battlefield between the usa and iran so whoever wants to hit the usa should do that outside of this country. Yet all of these troops must leave because they have turned iraq into a battlefield its astonishing the americans are saying no we dont care that you voted for us to leave we wont and just in case that wasnt enough of a slap in the face actually going to call more of their friends over to iraq nato played and then you have a middle east. They told me i said what a beautiful name nato personnel in the region to know youre supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an International Problem today and made to delegation is that the state department to discuss increasing netas role in the iraq situation is absurd it makes a joke a mockery of International Law and simple decency and as does anything absurd has the into that buzzing america is a force for good in the middle east and was told to civil war to prove you need our protection given military forces the against the wishes of the people who live there its called occupation. When we said we wanted to bring you democracy we did not mean you cant use it to make your own decisions iraq asks u. S. Troops to leave the country but president pompei o refuses instead his state Department Issues a statement the 1st sentence reads america is a force for good in the middle east remember if you say i am so cool then you know cool theres a lesson here i suppose you cant be friends with a superpower theyll call you a friend no patch on the head but when push comes to shove youre just another poor bombed out nation thats going to do as youre told middle east right rob nobody at one political analysts cheered as he gave us their reaction to the increasingly difficult 3 way clash. The pretext is you know were out fighting for isis and they are we dont want them to come back but this is completely fabricated excuses to be honest because this is that. It is it is that i shammed it is they are iraqi it is that it really is a whole issue. And this is there and very completely you know i dont believe there is a chance of this i mean. Unless you have one bill to come back and one to climb as them this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. Im going to pull out. Here today Iraqi Parliament is the lucian. Problem this is all part of the ratcheting up trying to show that iran is the one line that state iran is doing things which are not really in the interest of the public and you know usa is is is good for the world but really i would like to say that you know what mr. Trump was saying that they took every but i think what would be a really good titan is that ari and me Islamic Republic middle east without the usa there then all of the problems that we have will disappear and then we could get to some truthful conversation and having a narrative which has some bases and a logical basis to any communication. And other news this evening there have been no protests against Pension Reforms in france rallies in paris another french cities were joined by members of the yellow vests protest movement in the capital things did turn violent today with police resorting to takers. I believe i. I i i least. I think i was. And i well further west in the city of nanda anger also boiled over into street Violence Police used water cannon that disperse the crowds and almost 3000 people took part in that rally against you say some half a 1000000 people demonstrated across the whole of france they are angry about government plans to raise the retirement age and unify the Pension System on friday the government introduced its bill but did say it was open to alternative ideas unions they are continuing their strike action movie shoot youre watching r. T. Were back with more news to. Play. Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Lead. Welcome back Angela Merkel has been holding talks with Vladimir Putin in moscow and is the german chancellors 1st visit to the russian capital in 5 years and one of the key topics discussed of course was the iran crisis. Russia and germany support further implementation of a joint plan for deal with iran the iranians have the right to realign the support of European Countries that promised to create a special mechanism independent of the dollar for trade with iran. As the site of speaking of the crashed airliner iran announced today it was a big error and its good news that those responsible have been named i think know Everything Possible must be done to find a solution together with the countries whose Citizens Group on board that plane to clarify toll the situation in iran was indeed in the spotlight during the meeting between Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin even though