indeed storytelling around the biggest issues. have to do with. oh. well let's go live to see ron where the head of iran's civil aviation organization is speaking to the press let's listen to ali abdul is. still. conducting investigations however before i start i would like to address the iranian people saying that the recent statements made by the ukrainian and american parties and other statements made by politicians. as you know the matter of complex technical details.

and iran together with ukraine are following up with the investigations and once a technical report is concluded. they will be presenting to their current and canadian leaders and they will disclose their outcomes to the whole world. and. as you may notice that the latest information we have. presented related on time. if they have technical proof they can come forward and presented. but this is a very important point however. considering the fact that

. the information contained in the black box. all the fusion systems including the recent conversation between the pilots these pieces of information are very critical. there are hundreds of technical points that should be at rest before reaching a conclusion therefore any statement made before extracting the information contained in that black box. are. groundless however i would like to assure that the craft was not hit by a missile. the craft suffered flames for one of the have minutes after taking off as

a result of the pilot decided to return. to the airport however he had many technical issues at hand and his top priority was to save the passengers after taking off minutes from taking off he contacted the control tower. and he. before that. he requested permission to climb up to 26000 feet. therefore it is not appropriate to jump to conclusions once the information contained in the black box will be able to establish what happens. what happens in such a situation the information contained in the black books are extracted then

analyzed in order to establish the condition. of that craft and the pilot as well however i assure you again it is a very complex and complicated case we have the necessary equipment to do so yet. this. incident. is of grave complex the and since the best images of different nationalities we are expecting some other countries to step forward come join their investigations and lend a helping hand. you. ask your permission for mr di to join in order to shed light on some of the technical

details. this morning. started our investigations in 2 different courses we had the security meeting with our colleagues we had another technical meeting. i have to extract them for mission contained in the black box and we also had the meeting with craney and officials. we employing. technical engine is responsible for extracting data from black books they are you damien's and as you know any carrier has that pretty to extract information and data from. the black box 3 run

in companies have the up to date sophisticated equipment necessary to extract things the data from the black box will also retain experts and professionals from. variation incidents in the iranian national carrier we also had a meeting with the investigation committee and president of the ukrainian officials. they also on their part. confirm that the black box suffered certain damages however the conversation between the pilot and the control the control tower. is ok and.

carrying initial investigations at mehrabad airport and this. preliminary assessment will be concluded today also seeking possibilities on how to repair the damaged legs of black box in case the other of ukrainian officials have. any suggestions with respect to how to repair the damage box they can come forward at the same time we have existing cooperation agreement with other countries like russia we have established 4 point. are where we are would be able to extract the information contained in the black books if we failed other countries canada or ukraine or the united states and russia have vic suppress their preparedness to

cooperate however it is very much likely. that the data contained in the black books can be extracted by our own experts. however if we come to our conclusion that the information contained in the black box cannot be extracted and the iranian technical experts fail to do so we may seek assistance from one of these 4 countries.

if you're just joining us here on al-jazeera we have been listening in to a press conference coming from tehran where the head of iran's civil aviation organization and has been speaking to the press his name is ali. and he starts off by addressing the iranian people about these accusations that the plane was hit by a missile the headline so far from this press conference is that the iranians say unequivocally based on what they know from pilot recordings and other technical insinuations that the plane was not hit by a missile what they're asking is that the international community holds on until they have all the technical information let's go back and continue to listen and. the pilot was in contact was in contact with the control tower after taking off he communicated the their port. and

he sought permission to climb up to. this level that's what he did after the take of the plane was. and he found a chance to communicate with the airport he spoke with the control tower in mehrabad airport seeking permission to take the 2nd. so that's why he's so. permission to climb up to 26000 feet after that. fire broke out in fact that for 2 minutes what happened between these 2 points. at that point it is it was natural for the pilot to seek permission to go to the airport however he should press the

communication in order to establish communication with the airport however we believe he was trying to do his best to salvage the situation as you know that is your recording in the cockpit. and how long the investigation will be will run before we reach a final conclusion. according to the peer element of the investigations. 12 technical committees have been formed they are responsible for analyzing data

these 12 committees suppose also to examine the crash site. i believe 3 days have passed we have covered a good distance. in terms of the investigations and now we have. come into the technical and vest occasions on the crash scene and as you know this is a very complicated process. at the same time we are trying to extract the data contained in the black box this has to be done 1st as we stand the situation is not clear however i assure you that the craft was not hit by a missile as falsely reported. the americans claim they have imposition of certain documents prove that the

craft was downed by iranian missiles by mistake. this or these statements were made by american officials if they are truly empire of documents proving these claims they will they are required to step forward and present these documents to the whole world i believe these are technically this these are totally political issues and these are political statements some of the public were able to catch some amateur videos were you able to examine these as well yes. i have myself examined these amateur videos and as you know

these were taken by average common people. however these videos show that the craft was enflame and continue. to be in flames for 60 or 70. seconds. also these videos showed that the craft was not hit by a missile or anything else. it is natural that if that craft was hit by a missile it would. drop to the ground immediately it was clear that the craft. caught flames and it continued to be so for 6070 seconds. if the missile had been hit by a missile the debris would have scattered over a large area if you made a cold grainy in grab that what hit by

a missile we can. recall that the debrief over a vast area on the ground. 16 to 17 swedish people. on board the craft did you invite the swedish authorities to join their investigations. yes we communicated with sweden and canada in order to be. closely monitoring the investigations

such requests from our part to these countries prove that we are genuine and we are taking the necessity steps. and we are keen on having all the parties interested. come closely monitor and follow up with the current investigations. you know. these discussions were raised with the respect to the delay. of. the flight. the craft. landed. in iran both the pilots went to the hotel. for rest however. they took rest only for 3 hours. as the 1st plane oh

really just at the beginning delayed the flight. and i believe. it was christmas holiday and the majority of the passengers. were carrying. as many luggage and. that's why the boarding process took a long period of time passengers a started to board. and as you know also the weather conditions. suitable the pilot at that time. wanted.

to make sure that he had sufficient feel. and. here the course is for more fuel it was notable that the fuel here quested the number of passengers and that weight of luggage is in x. is. of what the craft could carry that's why the pilot should have loaded off. of the leg it's. this call must be made by the pilot himself he is a wonder sponsible for taking such a decision either to load of certain luggage or certain passenger that would be

a reason for delaying the fly. some of the luggage were. loaded off and they were supposed to be carried forward on a different flight this is a normal process and it is natural and it is being carried out at any flight at any airport at any given time. so. these circumstances. this craft is insured by crane and their cranium carrier. and the insurance company will pay compensation to the carrier which is the crane ian.

lives. we have also chicago alliance and we have a should care go and talk to treaties. we should 1st establish. the craft is insured by which insurance covered. which agreement that's why the ukrainian carrier must present the relevant insurance documents and these compensations will be offered to the relatives of fact hymns however it is though and that compensations will be paid to the victims including the iranians. the clean internationalism sponsible for paying compensation however the

this carrier of course is covered under insurance and they is matterless will be it is all of that when the carrier and insurance companies before compensations are paid to the victims either in us dollars ukrainian currency or iranian one. as you may know this is a very huge incident it is a massive incident and vista geishas will drag for a long period of time it may even extend over one or 2 years extracting data from the black box also may take a month or 2 what we are asking the public and officials are like is to maintain calm and help us carry their investigations forward in order to

establish. v. . well we've just been listening in to that press conference in tehran we started off by hearing the head of iran's civil aviation organization and then mr as ziad who brought us up to date on exactly where they are with their investigations into what happened with the plane the main headline is that according to the rain ians and their investigation so far it was not hit by a missile they maintain the plane was on fire for a few minutes and they also say that the videos that have been circulated back that up that the plane was on fire for a few minutes before it tried to return to the airport well there was plenty more in that press conference and i'm going to bring in our correspondent acid big who's in tehran to help us on pics of it i said there was a lot said there just give us the headlines to start with. well there was definitely a lot said there more information than we expected so iran is still maintaining

that this is a craft was not struck by a missile now the aviation authority here did say that it was some amateur footage however they did that very fired that new york times footage that showed a projectile going up and apparently hitting some sort of aircraft but what they did say was that give us a bit more information about the flight the said that it caught fire for about a minute and a half to 2 minutes he said that the pilot did contact marabout airport which is a many airport marabout the airport is a domestic port that deals a domestic flights here and ron he said that he sought permission to climb to a high altitude of 26000 feet now they've said that they recovered the black box with the data and that they will try to recover that they feel that they had the expertise to recover it but if they don't they will seek assistance from other countries such as canada the u.s. ukraine but it feels like that the aviation authority here is trying to be as

transparent as possible giving us a lot of information taking into account what's been said by the united states and other than canada about the missile strike but they've rejected categorically the head of the aviation aviation authority here that he was hit by a missile and he said if it was it would have the wreckage would have spread over a vast area and he cited the u.k. the plane that was hit in ukraine and how the by myside and how that wreckage just spread over a vast area and he says that this is very different but we're getting that extra information because before we thought and what was said was that the pilot had not communicated but now we're hearing that he did communicate with murder about airport requests. to climb to a higher altitude he made the point several times didn't he that they've started with these 12 technical committees they've also been talking with the ukrainians

but he pointed out that starting with just extracting that data from the black box takes time and that it will take months potentially even years on his final comment was really you know the international community should come forward with any information that they have but also please be patient. yes because there's a lot of space statements that have been made and he cited certain u.s. officials that say that they have documents to say that this is a crafters hit with by a missile now the iranians are saying if you have this proof if you have this evidence to come forward with it and any other countries that have any information that can help out with this investigation then please let us know now we understand the ukrainian officials are already here in iran. an investigation meeting very much a part of the process but yes this investigation could take some time and he said

that if we cannot he also that the black box has been damaged and the looking to repair it but they are confident that they are for companies within iran that can extract that information but if they if they caught that they will seek help from other countries but again this is iran i think on the defensive somewhat i don't think that they expected these allegations the dot and didn't expect the countries or the countries around the world to kind of joining the chorus of suspicion saying that this aircraft was hit by a missile so we're getting a bit more information especially about the pilot and the communication he did he they say that he did try to turn the airplane around and his priority was to save the aircraft and the passengers as a big they're joining with the latest on that press conference giving us more information about what's happening regarding the airliner downing in iran and said thank you. india's supreme court has ordered an urgent review of the lockdown in

india and ministered kashmir with the warning is in response to a series of petitions challenging the legality of the government shutdown and that includes a ban on the internet will new delhi revoked the regions of tommy in august and imposed extra security and restrictions will happen when jacob is a professor of nehru university in new delhi and he joins us the scuse me on skype from their very warm welcome to the paul graham what's the significance of this ruling. i think this is a certain amount of good news coming from the a supreme court at this point to try and mock you know the shade why they have to be that they're completely locked out for the last 5 months without any internet that said it is 5 citizens now the court house in order that the government should review. that shutdown and the question why do so in that sense they're all disease but haps the beginning of all a process in which the individual people who are the whole of that the government

would be out of the motive for its actions in the state of their would get he is i think the court has come out with the 7 observations i had on earth while they go and one of them but i still look at it and say these are basically hot measures and not on the court hasn't really taken on board the extent of the city to do all the complains and bost orders that extend for instance the courthouse north or the government's action all shutting down even at in the case you know out before the last 5 months illegally it has only os the government to revisit each order want to be on the show of internet so he's going to do the interview that he was going to be done by the government is going to need senate and that's that's a problem and so out wind there are some positive aspects in this document a week she will that somehow forced the government to do behave in a particular way which would be going to save the. lives of people in the case made

by the i don't think the court has gone to the extent of mocking for that on linda porter from a couple of so happy only in my understanding what you're saying is that the government is being tasked with reviewing itself and i'm also wondering we seen the internet cuts often in other regions in a sound recently so in future will the government be able to make those calls and buy it south. you know they didn't leave so be important to be distinctly said that the freedom wants beach and expression on optical 19 of the indian constitution in clute stood right to the internet to dot the extent it has to be at least a dollar that the government get out of it we truly shut down the debt for what indefinite p.d.s. so to that extent except also give a judgment i'd be i'd be it why should i ask the question what is meant by it in death and if they get that's to go to p.d.f. right i don't want and fortunately if that's not bad the government from. shutting

down the internet it only downs that the government should have known who thought it all died and i think should but please the reason why he's citing don't need the net salt to some extent it is it will still give gentleman the idea that if the government wants it can continue with shutting down the internet for all kinds of the word beautiful dying to go to court of you to buy the beauty should be but it is not the complete ban on the government's action of shutting down in the net it's the good news and it's not all of that but it would use going to be that me be my add one thing he had and that is the court has clearly said that the to do city has to balance the interest of all the lead you have not the spirit of expression and speech with the national security of this state now he is the he it is the problem because the moment the government of india brings in the issue of national security

john just tend to go by the boy what the arguments made by the gov went on national security like a good thing or with that and when when he said once you started by missing this i think it's going to be your whole program i think that is happening on jacob but they are joining us now from new delhi thank you very much. thank you. russians announce a cease fire in syria is it the province the last rebel held stronghold with 1300 civilians have been killed there since the government launched its offensive to retake the area back in 2018 well the violence have been escalating in recent months and nearly 300000 people have been displaced by russian backed government airstrikes since december children and women are the most affected at least 175000 children have been forced to the thousands of families urgently need humanitarian help aid agencies have provided food and money more than 180000 people in australia more troops have been deployed to new south wales to help recovery

efforts as the bushfire crisis worsens the states of new south wales and victoria are expected to see temperatures of more than 40 degrees celsius on friday wind speeds are also rising at least 27 people have been killed and more than 2000 homes destroyed since september a volcano erupted in southern mexico petal exploded on thursday shifting ash and rock 3 kilometers into the air authorities have banned people going near the volcano but there have been no if i should say a quarter of a 1000000 people live within just a 100 kilometer radius of the volcano it's considered one of the most dangerous in the world. you are firming up today those are the headlines and the news continues here on al jazeera right to the street good to have your company is always we will see you later. we understand the different cities and similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter how you take it out just

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