The welcome youre watching r. T. International now iran has admitted to accidentally downing ukrainian passions are playing killing all a 176 people on board the Senior Commander of the revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for wednesdays tragedy he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. Its minami that you were not heard at the wide shot down i wish there was a. Terrible incident he went on to explain that in their Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision iran had apparently requested a no fly zone before the incident but it wasnt approved for some reason earlier turandot missed it its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing on quarter discussed. What happened with jackie. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expect 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 the vent in an forgivable mistake the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error coups that horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176. 00 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. A sad day preliminary conclusions of into an investigation biome forces human error at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster profound regret apologies and condolences to all people to the families of victims and to of 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 so at that time the Iranian Military was in to supporting 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 and a rainy an airliner killing all 290. 00 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 the plane down. The victims of the tragedy has been held in turn around mission shaken public mood in the country. With some question why the government didnt come clean earlier. With us on the cover unfortunately when i 1st heard about the plane crash it was said to be a technical issues but the announcement came without any preliminary investigation what its led to doubts around the world but now theyve done the necessary investigation and it was clarified that the plane was hit by a missile weve been really sad since this morning when we heard the news and we were all angry that people told this line about how much of the russian ride we get after flies should have been cancelled and planes shouldnt have taken off from any airfield. And that just about all of our country was in a state of war and this mistake could have been made by any country america itself hit our air bus and made a similar mistake after iran hit the u. S. Bases we were in total readiness and thats what led to the mistake we had opinion from various experts on what happened. In times of war and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable rate there are yet able to pierce this fog unless the reason be conflicting mechanism so again one 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 jump to the tank luzhin and fired strategic at has become tactical blunders the strategy of i that regularly being ordered closing down the a. S. P. s under extreme circumstances could have avoided this whole war the whole magical whenever we have a valid dives in that youll be in we had bound to have mentioned raised guns cog coolidges ready to fight the good will be said that you wish me to be have to be the case and the big picture to how to diffuse this and that you know how to be escalated this i believe did on ians have taken the 1st step in the initiation process of this horrible accident in which 176. 00 people were lost was done by the americans at the video yes that is true of ukraine and the and the us around standoff today the shadow and meeting in moscow between Angela Merkel invited me and putin the leaders of germany and russia agreed to do Everything Possible to pursue the iran nuclear deal. Russia and germany support further implementation or a joint plan to deal with iran for iranians have the rights its realigned in support of European Countries that were promised to create a special mechanism independent of the dollar for trade with iran. As the sort of from the beginning of the crashed airliner iran announced today it was a big error and its good news that those responsible have been named and i think now Everything Possible must be done to find a solution together with the countrys Citizens Group on board that plane to clarify told the situation in iran was indeed in the spotlight during the meeting between Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin even though this meeting mine the 1st one in the kremlin between the 2 with the past 5 years had been prearranged back in december so way before the tragic events in iraq but these events they have brought into the spotlight the reality of a major conflict in the middle east as he has been showcased so vividly by iran and the United States of america sold leaders talked about all sorts of things like syria like libya and Vladimir Putin has talked about what sort of consequences a war in the middle east could have not just for the countries involved not just for the middle east itself but also globally youre to look at a stroke when you do i hope very much that we will avoid large scale military conflicts in the middle east if it comes to that it would be a disaster not only for the region much but the whole world is for them to use for instance Vladimir Putin talked about the potential humanitarian repercussions and consequences of a conflict in the middle east because while a refugee flow from the middle east to the rest of the world could be catastrophic if anything if the war on the ground was to break out also talked extensively about libya and about the fact how the hostilities in that country should cease and because this was what he agreed. And this is what he discussed and agreed on with the turkish president again turkey obviously being a major powerhouse in the region but the middle east wasnt the only thing on the agenda another big point is the nord stream to gas pipeline gas pipeline currently under construction from russia into germany to provide the whole of europe with russian but with the russian gas it was a major it is i should say a major bone of contention between Germany Europe and the United States because washington sees that washington doesnt want this doesnt want to see this pipeline it doesnt want this pipeline to be built so it has for instance European Countries european contract is under sanctions it has threatened them with sanctions and longer paean contract has had to pull out in the face of this threat. Stress that russia is able and will finish the construction of this pipeline only to show you just said that while the finish the end of construction will be delayed by a few months because of that but also Angela Merkel that she has stressed how important this project for germany and from her standpoint to the whole of europe to heres what she had to say about it. This is 1st and foremost in a canonic project we can see to it to be the right thing to do and after todays discussion with president putin i believe its possible to complete north stream to despite those sanctions. The tone of the meeting was neutral positive i should say in fact Angela Merkel she repeated at least twice that it is better to talk to each other rather than about each other so this could be an indication that russia and germany could drift closer towards each other in the near future of the libyan cease fire which he did mention could actually take effect at midnight local time that was just a few minutes ago and its being confirmed today by the Libyan National army that new justin. Now there have been more protests against Pension Reforms in france rallies in paris and other french cities too were joined by members of the Yellow Vest Protest Movement in the capital things did turn violent though with police resorting to take us. I. Was the i. Was. I. The. The. I further west in the city of najaf and also boiled over police she swore can intersperse the crowds there almost 3000 people took part in that rally unions to say that some half a 1000000 people demonstrated across france they are angry about government plans to raise the retirement age and to unify the Pension System on friday the government did in 56. 00 bill but said that it was actually open to alternative idea is the unions though continuing their strike action over the issue. Now another news activists have gathered outside an airbase on the island of sardinia has she says a Training Facility by nato forces protesters are demanding the departure of the International Military presence on the island there are. Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of the shorthand of a man who died on friday at the age of 79 he cant prove the gulf nation since 970 making him the longest serving ruler on the middle east is cousin has already been sworn in as. 12 migrants have been found dead and 21. 00 rescued after that sank in the sea off the greek coast according to a coast guard spokesperson 50 people were in the 6 coastguard ships and a helicopter have been searching for survivors. Cameraman contributed contributed. And hes iraqi colleagues were killed while covering protests in the city friday well have a look at this story more after the break. 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Both of them to reporters were shot dead in their in their car by unknown gunmen as they were leaving the site of the protests in basra group order earlier that there are protests going on all across iraq and of course basra is just one of those places local reports suggest that reporter. From a gunshot wounds to the head right there at the scene meanwhile suffered was its taken to the hospital he was seen as a gunshot wounds to the body. And thats where it he died and fortunately as well. Like i said. Works contributed to our t. He filed a nice a 30 reports for our channel and i believe that we can take a look at some of those reports right now ah the old law. Of the law and the law of the night the d the old so far weve heard from the committee for protection all for Journalists International down zation theyve called for theyve called on the iraqi authorities soon investigate this as soon as possible to find out who exactly wore those gunmen and so why those journalists. To die. Unfortunately this is not the 1st time an artsy contributor dies i have after working out of course back in 201725 year old a syrian reporter khalids i was at the old soul died after i says thats acting with the rocket fire and of course we talked quite a quite a lot about that so unfortunately in this day and age its not safe for reporters to be working either poultice or in places soulful or in i doesnt matter where they youre at war or you are in the city and you think can that really happen and of course i want to express deepest condolences to the families to the loved ones off both ahmed aboul some odd and the cameramen suffer goddy. I dont trump has claimed the u. S. Is doing a good job in venezuela he was speaking almost a year after the white house and recognize Opposition Leader one as the countrys president last despite the fact that Nicolas Maduro is still in power. We have a good strategy but were taking care of people were helping people colombias helping a lot of people some of the nations surrounding it helping people but were. Doing a good they have a system that right there is very broken well see what happens stay tuned. Meanwhile the u. S. Secretary of state has called for a swift negotiated transition to democracy in venezuela my pump post said that the government and opposition need to form a Transitional Government and hold free and Fair Elections on tuesday why day was sworn in for a new to the leader of the National Assembly that was after a standoff with soldiers who tried to prevent him from entering the building why dont. The countrys interim leader last year after branding and little rope presidency illegitimate during meanwhile has refused to resign and this pulled up some believe the u. S. Doesnt seem to have any clear plan for venezuela its very difficult to out here understand the u. S. Strategy in venezuela if it is very clear that their political goal in the country in 2019 were not achieved they did not achieve regime going they did not achieve out there where they were from power and the comments coming out of the white house in the last few days seem to suggest that there is some computer in about the current u. S. Strategy or there we saw the secretary of state. Talking about a dialogue transition which is a significant step down in the rhetoric regarding venezuela however only today we saw earlier the abrams the special u. S. Envoy to announce whaler bringing the issue of military intervention back onto the table so these 2 comments taken nearly 24 hours apart really show that there is a process a revision of the u. S. 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