20 years of me starts with blood and land to build a story on al-jazeera. the head of iran's civil aviation authority says the ukrainian airliner that crashed into her on a wednesday was not shot days. video released by the new york times appears to show the moment the plane was hit by a missile. and how he'd seen and this is al jazeera life from doha also coming up india's top court orders an urgent review of the lot and in kashmir and says the internet ban in need to speciate state is an abuse of power. after months of fighting in syria's

last rebel held province russia announces a cease fire. but 1st saving action officials in tehran have rejected accusations in a radian missile mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner killing all 176 people on board the head of iran's civil aviation organization says the plane caught fire and was having technical difficulties matheson has the latest. this video posted by the new york times newspaper appears to show an explosion as ukraine airlines flight 75 to is struck the plane flies on for several minutes before turning back towards to han airport where security cameras capture the moment it hits the ground among the dead was $63.00 canadians we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies

and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an array near the surface to air missiles at the time of the crash. iran had fired missiles at bases in iraq hosting u.s. troops iran's military was prepared for a u.s. response but iran says the plane was not hit by a missile had. any statement made before extracting the information contained in the black box is groundless however i'd like to assure you that the aircraft was not hit by a missile the aircraft was on fire for one and a half minutes after taking off so the pilot decided to return to the airport but he had many technical issues at hand. iran initially refused to hand over to the u.s. the so-called black boxes used to record cockpit voices and flight data but iran has now invited the aircraft manufacturer boeing to be part of the investigation france made the aircraft's engines and says it's too wants to be involved and the

u.s. national transportation safety board says it's assigned a representative to the investigation there are reports the debris has been bulldozed into a pile but one expert says the dead may provide answers there could be evidence with literally within the bodies of the victims that could point to whether or not for example an explosion took place inside or outside of the united states is said to have given ukraine's president of. what's described as important data related to the crash. president selenski has laid flowers at a makeshift memorial at the airport where the plane was expected to land. at least one vigil is being held in toronto in canada many of those who died had dual nationalities he was coming back home from a ship you want to see his mother on the holidays and an old i swear an old friend with about. some

a furious that iran may have been involved in the crash others are waiting to find out when the bodies of their loved ones might return home rob matheson al-jazeera. well dorsett bari is sent to her and she has more now on what aviation officials in iran have been saying. this was a press conference that was given by the head of iran's civil aviation authorities and the man in charge of that said that it was actually impossible for this plane to have been struck by any kind of missile or a projector device because the plane was on fire for over a minutes and 30 seconds in the air before it crashed and that means according to the iranian calculations that it wasn't struck by anything that there was actually they believe there was a technical malfunction of this plane it took off. 6 minutes after it took off it crashed so the iranians are now looking into this entire incident the iranian

president has. expressed his condolences to the families victims we're also hearing that there are. people coming from the united states france and canada to help with the aviation authorities in iran along with their investigation we also know that ukrainian officials are already on the ground in the capital here on friday helping with this investigation according to the head of the civil aviation authority 2 black boxes have been retrieved but they are very badly damaged so it's not clear what they will be able to find from those devices at this point but for now the iranians are saying it's very important that the international community doesn't make accusations or come to conclusions and he see manner the investigation is still just starting there's been a special committee that's been formed. by the government and the president himself has called for an investigation so this committee will need at least 6 months to one year to try and determine what actually happened to this flight. well france is

among the 4 countries iran is planning to seek help from for the investigation this is what the french foreign minister had to say earlier on friday isn't this real course france is available to contribute to the necessary expertise before making a stand we need total clarity on what happened and for that there are international investigations which must be implemented to do it on iraq's prime minister is asking the u.s. secretary of state to decide on a mechanism for american troops to withdraw from iraq the move follows a vote by iraq's parliament to expel the 5000 u.s. troops in the country after a u.s. drone strike in baghdad killed iranian military commander carson on the money last friday let's go more on this no from our white house correspondent kimberly whole kit she's live in washington d.c. at kimberly just tell us more about this we understand that a conversation between the iraqi prime minister and secretary of state pompei o. according to a statement from the iraqi side

a telephone call took place between the u.s. secretary of state and the iraqi prime minister essentially the request coming from the iraq side that there is a desire to have the united states send a delegation to set up as you pointed out a mechanism for withdrawing troops now this of course follows a very clear message from the iraqi parliament that there was a desire for these troops to begin to leave iraq and of course there is also the recent chain of events that has certainly put this in the foreground that being of course not only the u.s. assassination of the iranian general custom cell of mani but then the retaliatory attacks against those 2 bases inside iraq where u.s. troops were house now. the iraqi side of the government has suggested that the only way to deescalate these tensions at this point is to remove u.s. troops from the region particularly from iraq right now we know there are about

5000 troops that have been stationed there as part of a global coalition to defeat eisel so this is certainly something that is being pressed upon by the iraqi prime minister in this phone call we've yet to hear though from the u.s. state department with reaction in terms of how the suggestion was received and kimberly how was the u.s. president likely to respond to this requests of troop withdrawal this was a big campaign pledge from him. it was a big campaign pledge for him to remove troops from these so-called forever wars as he called it but it's really been a situation of mixed signals from the u.s. president with the specifics surrounding iraq the next steps remain a little bit unclear because you remember just a few days ago we were talking about that leaked letter from a top u.s. commander inside iraq that essentially was saying yes the united states was going

to respect the sovereignty of iraq was going to begin withdrawing troops all e. to hastily have a press conference from the defense secretary saying no no no no we're walking that back even the secretary of state called the letter a mistake then we look to some of the speeches from the u.s. president on wednesday when he was talking about iran and the tensions he meant made no mention of troop withdrawal so it's unclear what the u.s. president is thinking at this moment he did suggest that he believes that nato should take a larger role in security in the middle east that it should be nato plus the middle east nations that are being involved in we know this has been discussed with the head of nato but so far nothing concrete has been announced ok kimberly holker live for us in washington d.c. thank you for that seats the european foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in brussels to discuss the crisis between the u.s. and iran hoping to save the 2015 you clear deal after u.s.

president don't trump cold on a huge states to abandon the accord earlier this week from surged all science to come back to the table with a warning that iran could develop a nuclear weapon within the next 2 years let's go live now to brussels world designers and sasha butler is standing by. just give us a sense of what's happening there to see. or you foreign ministers are still arriving for this rather rare emergency meeting that is being convened by the policy chief chief foreign policy chief i should say just a brown umbrella actually earlier this week invited iran's foreign minister to come and talk to foreign ministers but as far as we know there's been no word on whether or not our heads the reef would come to brussels any time soon now of the past few days of course the e.u. has called on both the united states and iran for a deescalation of tensions they have urged restraint on all sides so foreign

ministers in this meeting will really be examining the situation will be looking want to do next we did hear from the dutch foreign ministers he arrived for this meeting and he addressed the issue for example of the plane the ukrainian airline that crashed in tehran this week the dutch foreign minister saying that as far as he was concerned that it was likely that that plane crashed because of iranian missiles and he said that the e.u. needed to try and decide what steps it was going to take next foreign ministers were also of course be talking about what they are going to do to try and salvage the j.c. p.o. way that iran deal nuclear deal was signed in 2015 even e.u. leaders have really been trying to save this deal ever since trying to pull the united states out of it in 2018 the e.u. says it's very important to stop iran getting a nuclear weapon to guarantee regional stability but really it looks as if this

deal is on the brink of collapse because iran this week said that they were withdrawing from some of their key commitments from it so we expect eve foreign ministers to try and decide what they are going to do to try and salvage a deal they've been fighting for so long and their particular pressure of course because the u.s. president donald trump this week in his speech in washington said that britain germany and france needed to withdraw its support for a deal that he has always called a very bad one ok natasha but we'll have to leave it there but thanks very much for bringing us that updates from brussels. so it's come on al-jazeera pressure on india's government continues of thousands of people protest a new citizenship law. and how the crackdown in home combe is fueling the election campaign for taiwan's incumbent president.

hello there some cold crisp air across much of northern asia wanted to pay some piece of plant further to the south but really the raid is just across central and southern areas of china one. day across into these areas the central and northern honshu but nothing particularly heavy and exit charges are really firing to poppy 12 celsius in osaka sunday said the town which is about 10 degrees then a little bit more unsettled working their way across southern portions of honshu and again to the south of china this rain doing its best to push towards hong kong but you should stay dry with a high of about 20 celsius meanwhile plenty of rains and thunderstorms across areas of indonesia it has been sumatra saying the heaviest rain for the last 2 or 3 days and there is more of this in the forecast particularly across these west facing coast we could be picking up about $150.00 millimeters of rain on top of what has already come down so we are expecting to see some localized flooding and it'll stay pretty much the same as we go through sunday again some heavy rain pushing to those

western and northern sections of borneo to the north of there it is mostly clear and it's mostly care really across much of india we have had one or 2 shots into areas of the south want to see more of those as we go through saturday and sunday and to the north it is staying cool in new delhi with a high of 90 degrees. when is the last time you out on the streets protesting whether on line you feel the weight of the system going to walk through each and every luxury or layer further and further into the jail or if you join us on say retention has to start from day one whether again you and attention or you're incarcerated this is a dialogue everyone has a voice for there are studies that support our coverage will be varying accounts but i want to give people the reason for it join the global conversation on how does iraq.

this is al jazeera her mind off the headlines this hour the head of iran's civil aviation body says he's certain a ukrainian airliner which crashed outside to iran was not hit by a missile and says there was a fire on board in new york times those released video that appears to show the moment to miss l. at the plane. the plane's flight course had been recovered or damaged france has offered to help with the investigation but says it wants complete transparency. and european foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in brussels to discuss the crisis between the u.s. and iran they're hoping to save the 2015 uclear deal. i have

been bombings in northwestern syria just fantasies for us and eyes by russia that was due to take effect serious air force struck multiple targets in southern italy an area within the deescalation zone it had accretes with turkey at le provinces the country's last remaining rebel stronghold when 1300 civilians have been killed there since the government launched its offensive to retake the area 2018 violence have been escalating in recent months nearly 300000 people have been displaced by the russian backed government air campaign which has been in force since december children and women are the most affected by those strikes at least 175000 children have been forced to flee and thousands of families urgently need humanitarian assistance aid agencies provided food and money to more than $180000.00 people well just 0 dollars and uncorrupt where he says turkey's failure to comment on the

ceasefire means it may have been false hope. the vast majority of not all of those who've been fleeing libya in recent months hundreds of thousands of. civilians have been heading towards turkey there was some brief optimism maybe worse people heard the russians announce on thursday that this ceasefire agreement had been reached however there was a bit of caution with that optimism because the turks on the other hand hadn't announced anything friday as we've seen and heard the heart of there been airstrikes have been shelling particularly in the area of moderate unarm on. other suburban parts of it lip which went to show that maybe that announcement by the russians with either primitive will or may be nothing more than just some sort of politicking or at least some p.r. from the their size. and then on saturday we have now.

the u.s. rather the u.s. envoy to syria james jeffrey in charge here on friday meeting with officials and then continuing his meetings into saturday before we hear of other developments taking place in terms of the foreign minister defense minister of turkey heading to moscow as well on monday so a lot of diplomatic movement lot of announcements or at least statements being made but in terms of the reality on the ground still very dire indeed protestors in algeria have been back on the streets for the 47th for a day in a row they're calling for a complete change in the governments that's despite the election of a huge president last month they argue is linked to the previous administration and they're angry about corruption high unemployment. iraq's grand ayatollah ali al sistani has condemned the recent attacks by the u.s. and iran as a violation of sovereignty his message was delivered by

a spokesman at friday prayers in karbala. what. iraq should be governed by its people and no outsiders should have a say in its decision. and that feeling is drive and thousands over the rockies to baghdad's tahrir square demonstrators want move foreign interference in iraq's internal affairs and have been demanding a complete overhaul of the political system since october and say it's corrupts and most iraqis being held in poverty all according to the iraqi human rights commission at least 485 people have been killed since protests began 3 months ago imran khan is in baghdad where he says there's a new energy among protesters. well the protest began around 8 hours ago it's worth just showing you it's getting bigger and bigger certainly the crowds are much larger than they have been in recent weeks that's tucker a square all the way down there and people are still streaming in not just from the

neighborhoods in baghdad but from across the country as well and they have a very key message no conflict between other countries in iraq iraq is not your battleground and you speak to most people here and they will tell you exactly that they also protesting what they were protesting before the killing of the iranian commander calls and also the mali and the hundreds the leader of one of the ship polynesian groups they also demanding that the government be changed through a general election that hasn't been told yet also that they all still waiting for the caretaker prime minister to be replaces there's still a political crisis here still a very significant political crisis here but it has been a 100 days since the protests began so there was a low just a couple weeks ago but now this movement really does seem to be reinvigorated. india's supreme court says ordered an urgent review of the won't sign and indeed

administered kashmir the ruling is in response to a series open stations challenging them a galaxy of the government shutdown that includes a ban on the internet the telly revoked the region's autonomy in august and imposed extra security and restrictions well earlier we spoke to her entire groover one of lawyers representing the petitioners she says restrictions in indian administered kashmir are violating fundamental freedoms. i think it's a very significant judgment i was representing kashmir dynes a newspaper and our contention was that the ban on internet freedom is an assault on freedom of speech and expression freedom of the press and the restrictions on movement are all. have implications for freedom of flesh the court and the state had argued that these are issues of national security particularly given that kashmir is a border state that actually that is cross border debtor ism and therefore considering security compliance there should be no judicial review the court has

said that no these are matters of fundamental freedoms and liberties and the court will subject every executive action in order to a judicial review they have said held that the injured right to intonate is protected under the constitution as part of freedom of speech and expression and therefore any restriction or prohibition on internet will have to meet the test of constitutional authority to make sure that is exact of action for for tional to the problem that it poses right now what the way the state has conducted itself is that those orders were not published those orders were not even placed before the court to feel some full orders were given they have been directed to immediately publish all orders but deigning to internet restriction as well as movement restriction those orders must contain material particulars that why is the state taking this measure and is this is this required is this excessive in fact the court has gone so far as to say that repeated use of section $144.00 which we are now seeing

across the country when that a protest on other reasons is an abuse of power any arbitrary shutdown of internet can only happen after you publish the order alongside and it will be open to judicial review. will have him and jacob is a professor a university professor a new delhi he says it will be difficult for courts to accept the country's arguments that instructions are necessary for security. the super important is very interestingly said that the freedom of speech and expression under article 19 of the constitution including the right to the internet to that extent it has to be a really big doubt that the government get out of it we truly shut down the internet for what indefinite p.b.s. so to that extent except also do you a judgment and b. and b. it why should i ask the question what is meant by an indefinite period that's to go on your feet here right and more importantly it does not bind the government from.

shutting down the internet it only there is that the government sure does no good for a long time i think should publish the reason why it is shutting down the event that sought to some extent it is a positive judgement and the at the if the government wants it going to continue with shutting down the internet for kind of the birth period of time the court has clearly said that the judiciary has to balance the interests of the individual that the spirit of expression and speech with the national security of this state now here is the here is the problem because the moment the government of india brings in the issue of national security janet just tend to go by the by the arguments made by the point on national security that are likely to tinker with that and when when you should once you start balancing this i think it's going to be your problem i think that is. thousands of protesters have marched in some of the southern

indian city of hyderabad against the citizenship will they write the legislation russified last month clears the way for citizenship for 3 minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims. some simple muslim population and also protests in calcutta that's where prime minister narendra modi is expected to arrive in science today since planting what clay to rooms from the airport in protest against the mo suppose government proposals to increase capacity seems so wrong once in kolkata with those protests since. tens of thousands of people have gathered here very close to the mouth like gandhi monument in calcutta in west bengal to show their discontent with the citizenship amendment act i don't think i've ever seen crowds like this other than the general election campaign of the sights of a society in a cross community representation regarding rebel areas religions where you have a civil society leaders and religious leaders who are making their speeches to the

assembled crowd they want the government to understand that the citizenship amendment act is illegal or 100 usually doesn't fit in with the secular nature of india and that's the message they want to get across to the right drug over here right here on saturday and they want to make sure that their voice. their very intent is heard not just in new delhi but across the country they are joining hundreds of thousands of other people across the that are continuing their demonstrations against him using their protests and they had the renderer modi will get to see and understand exactly the strength of the feeling here certainly in west wing all of the state that he has no control over but that the incumbent government hopes that he will of course understand that he's not welcome. thousands of people have been protesting across australia to highlight climate change they're criticizing the government's handling of the ongoing bushfire crisis prime minister scott morrison refuses to link the flying fires to climate change he says he won't

jeopardize jobs by cutting carbon emissions or troops being deployed to the south wales to help recovery efforts the states of new south wales and victoria are expected to see temperatures of more than 40 degrees on friday when speeds are also picking up at least 27 people have been killed and more than 2000 homes destroyed since september. in taiwan opinion polls suggest the incumbent president sign ahead so for a challenger in saturday's elections it's only when he's something closely watching the crackdown on anti-government protesters in nearby hong kong scott heiler has more from taipei. early last year taiwan's president saw in whens political future was on shaky ground her popularity had slumped after a party performed poorly in regional elections she resigned as party chair with some advising her not to seek reelection but then came a lifeline from an unexpected source china giving her and her democratic

progressive party a new hope. to crackdown on the pro-democracy protesters at hong kong shifted the political rhetoric in taiwan many grew concerned about china's growing influence he says beijing ramped up pressure on the island and president sadat the younger generation born into an autonomy and democratic taiwan see this election as about something much more than selecting leaders education a stand against china's one country 2 systems policy. this time this election is no longer to choose which president or legislators but those election is an election to choose whether to and it's going to be a part of china or be independent country some see the election reaching through generations and the island at an existential crossroads it was about taiwan's policy toward china it is about our own body. the 1st political party of modern

taiwan homan tang or candy is led by hans will you he said the path to glory for taiwan is not just on cd the d.p.p. but warmer ties with china. the opposition came to says that their approach to china has been about engagement that's because the economy here is so light on business and treat it with the mailing came to the candidates say they offer a more realistic frustrates relationship less confrontational than the ruling tb i think what's at stake today as we speak is more than just the sole coal and china or safeguarding democracy and sovereignty this is also a larger picture of what would taiwan be positioned economically in the years to come. so as the 19000000 eligible voters head to the polls are voting with the economy in mind or the future of the democracy here the result will carve the

political path for the next 4 years but also taiwan's position in the region for years to come it's got harder al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the headlines the head of iran's civil aviation body says he's certain a ukrainian airliner which crashed outside was not hit by a missile he says there was a fire on board the plane's flight recorders have been recovered but are damaged france has offered to help with the investigation but wants complete transparency. probably going to not all that unlike the americans claim their imposition of certain documents that prove that the craft was downed by iranian missiles by the stake these statements were made by american officials if they truly in position of those documents proving these claims they are required to step forward and to present these documents to the whole world these are totally political issues and

these are political statements. european foreign ministers are holding an emergency meeting in brussels to discuss the crisis between the u.s. and iran they're hoping to save the 2050 nuclear deal months after u.s. president donald trump called on the states to abandon the accord or there this week france has urged all sides to come back to the table the warning that iran could develop a nuclear weapon within the next 2 years rocks prime minister has called the u.s. secretary of states to ask for a mechanism for american withdrawal from the country and move follows very new to demonstrations against corruption and foreign interference rockey parliament voted to expel 5000 u.s. soldiers last week over the killing of commander saw the money have been bombings in northwestern syria just as a cease fire and i inspire russia will streets take effect syria's air force struck multiple targets in southern italy an area within the deescalation zone it had

agreed with turkey it led province is the country's last remaining stronghold where more than 1300 civilians have been killed since the government launched its offensive to retake the area in 2018. thousands of protesters have marched in the southern indian city of hydrabad against the new citizenship mall in which a solution to follow last month clears the way for citizenship for 3 minorities from minorities from 3 neighboring countries but excludes muslims has a sizeable muslim population and thousands of people have been protesting across australia it's all at climate change they're criticizing the government's handling of the ongoing bush foreign crisis the minister scott morrison refuses to link the farmers with climate change see up to date the stream is next there is no child on the cover of world news like we do. is like nothing. we want to

know how things and people we revisit place even when they're no not. really in back that's a problem as a journalist. i have them here ok and you're in the stream today we are diving into 3 stories making headlines around the globe u.s. president trumps next move with iran but as well as political power struggle and australia's bushfire battle to give your take on these topics really easy you can tweet us at 8 a stream or leave a comment and i live you change chat it is curated don't be scared it is a safe space it's u.-t. could be in the street. tensions between the u.s. and iran have dominated the headlines since the start of the year president trump balance of power for sanctions in response to iran's targeted strikes on u.s.

assets on wednesday trump addressed the nation and the iranian people can be helped get.