hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. canada's prime minister says the plane that crashed in iran, was shot down. we have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an iranian surface—to—air missile. all 176 people on board, including 63 canadians died in the incident. canada is calling for a full investigation. iran denies it, saying it's scientifically impossible. the queen has called a meeting of the royal households to try and find a "workable" future role for the duke and duchess of sussex after they announced they were stepping back. and we'll put the spotlight on australia's fossil fuel industry as the bushfire crisis continues to worsen.

canada's prime minister, justin trudeau, says there's intelligence suggests the ukrainian passenger jet that crashed near tehran on wednesday was shot down by an iranian missile. all 176 people on board were killed, inluding dozens of canadians. mr trudeau had this to say earlier we have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an iranian surface—to—air missile. this may well have been unintentional. this new information reinforces the need for a thorough investigation into this matter.

before that press conference, cbs put out information on this story saying they had confirmed us officials were confident... "us intelligence picked up signals of the radar being turned on and satellites detected infrared blips of two missile launches, probably sa—iss, followed shortly by another infrared blip of an explosion." sa—iss are fired from this sort of launcher it's a russian built tor—mi, which iran does have. newsweek also had the story quoting us intelligence officials saying the "pentagon's assessment is that the incident was accidental. iran's anti—aircraft were likely active following the country's missile attack, which came in response to the us killing last week of. general qassem soleimani." —— killing last week of general qassem soleimani." iranian investigators have released a statement saying, "scientifically, it is impossible that the ukrainian plane was hit by a missile and such rumours are illogical."

so, not for the first time the us and iran disagree. the plane took off from the international airport outside tehran. it was a ukraine international airlines flight to kyiv and departed at just after 6am local time. two minutes later, the plane stopped communicating and came down shortly afterwards. this footage is reported to show the plane before it crashed though we can't verify that. if it's genuine, you can see a small glowing cirle tracking downwards. it then disappears behind a hill, and there's a big flash. canadian journalists pressed mr trudeau if the us was to blame for the plane crash because of the rising tensions between washington and tehran over the us killing of this man, iran's general qasem soleimani. in the press conference the prime minister chose to pass up an opportunity to absolve the us of blame. listen to this. reporter: if the intelligence is accurate, then it seems this

is the end result of a sequence of events that was sparked by the drone strike ordered by the us president. so, given the information that you have, how much responsibility does the united states bear for the strategy? the evidence suggests that this is the likely cause, but we need to have a full and complete and credible investigation to establish exactly what happened. that is what we are calling for and that is what we are expecting will happen. here's cbs news transport correspondent kris van cleave. well, you have to assume that the us and canada being such close allies have been sharing intelligence on this and it seems to line up. what we are hearing is that us intelligence saw through satellite and other intelligence that the iranians activated a radar signal and fired those missiles as you guys have reported. and that seems to track

with what the prime minister said there, as he was going for a full and open investigation and certainly the us would like to see that too. understanding how the accident at the very least prevent it, perhaps, from happening again. we also note that this morning, federal officials here in the us and various agencies were briefed on this intelligence. so, it appears that this started to come into focus overnight, that we were in fact looking at a missile strike. and are your sources suggesting that this was a mistake? the indications here are that the plane was mistakenly targeted. one of the things that still working on figuring out is how far was this aeroplane from where those missiles may have been launched and what direction wasn't flying in? but it appears that it was not intentionally downed by the iranian military the best our sources can tell at this point. what direction it was flying in.

and presumably the thought is that anti—aircraft missile provision technology would've been on on a greater state of alert than a normal evening. right, i mean, let's set the scene here. this plane took off a few hours after iran had launched the missiles at the two bases in iraq. the world was waiting to see if the us would respond militarily, so you have to figure that the iranian military would be on high alert for a us response. there were only a handful of aircraft flying in or out of tehran at this point in time based on open records, flight tracking sites that we have access to. and the faa just a couple hours before the us aviation authority had put a notice out us pilots to avoid the airspace over iran and iraq out of concern of something like this happening.

so, certainly there was heigthened awarness and heightened concern about the potential for mistake. i mean, it has happened before these sort of fog of war moments were a civilian airliner is mistaken for something else and shot down. more details are emerging about the victims. this is siavash ghafouri—azar and sara mamani had just married in iran and were travelling home to canada. also on board were pedram mousavi and mojgan daneshmand, and their two young daughters daria and dorina, were also killed. vigils, like this one in toronto, have been held in canada to mourn the victims. she was only 21. she was coming to tell us good news, that she's getting married, that she was graduating this semester. she was full of dreams and now, they are gone. i knew three people in that crash and i went through social media

and i checked posts from different friends in the community, and they were posting about their friends and i was like, "0k, wow, i'm really connected to ten people." -- i'm —— i'm nearly connected to ten people. news that harry and meghan, duke and duchess of sussex, are stepping back from their roles as senior royals has come the queen has directed all four royal households to find "workable solutions" for the duke and duchess of sussex within "days not weeks". news that harry and meghan, duke and duchess of sussex, are stepping back from their roles as senior royals has come as a huge shock to the public... and the royal family. palace sources say they were blindsided by the announcement. some commentators fear it could have huge repercussions for the future of the monarchy, while others are delighted to see meghan return home. the only sensible way of proceeding was to arrange this beforehand with

other members of the royal family and with the royal household. they've chosen to do the opposite and don't rogued. the result therefore could have very serious consequences. these are very competent negotiations. i don't see how they can live abroad and also do their duty to the queen and the patronage is. that makes absolutely i'io patronage is. that makes absolutely no sense to me. i see the nerve to some extent of sending up a rifle royal court or institution which frankly never really works. i'm seeing a lot of excitement, people over here it seems to be that they're over here it seems to be that they‘ re overjoyed over here it seems to be that they're overjoyed that they will be coming home for meghan and a lot of people are curious whether they're going to canada where they filmed suits or where they spent their lovely holiday or if they will be going to los angeles. you can imagine the stories being covered extensively in newspapers here. this in the daily telegraph "harry and meghan quit the firm" the daily mirror "they didn't even tell the queen" daily mail "queen's fury"

as harry and megan say they are out for this is for new york post "megxit". madame tussauds have been quick off the mark — removing the couple from their royal display. there are several elements to the decision that harry and meghan have taken. one is that they want to split their time between north america and the uk. and we think that decision came into focus during an extended break in canada over christmas. one of their first commitments on returning was this. thanking officials at canada house in london for how welcome they'd be made to feel. here are some canadians on the prospect of meghan and harry moving there. they gotta do what they got to do to be had become right? we are part of the commonwealth and candidate is awesome. i guess it is exciting for people here in canada. they won't have paparazzi bothering them as much here as they would in the uk, so much here as they would in the uk, so i'm happy to have them. meghan and harry say they plan to carve out a "progressive new role" and intend to "work to become financially independent". that's going to be complicated

because of funding that is shared among the royal family. but on a new website published yesterday, this "funding" page outlines how they want it to work. we know some of their income comes from the sovereign grant, and they say that is what they are happy to forego. this website also details a new approach to the media. amol rajan explains. they've put together a really quite long, quite detailed new media strategy which says everything is going to change. the first big thing is rogued coverage in this country has been dominant by sunday called the royal road to a bit like in westminster for political coverage where we have a lobby system where certain journalists get a bit of access for slightly more favourable reporting, that's has been covered for decades and they will not operate in part this this. they say when they do give journalists access, they won't give access to

old newspapers, it will be up to younger up—and—coming journalists to support causes like mental health which they're interested in and they will use their own social media channels and website to communicate directly with the public. there's a really interesting generational point here that the duke and duchess of sussex are of a generation where social media are the primary source of news so they have less emotional attachment to and in their view need of traditional journalists shall we say. jonny dymond tweeting that the palace... if you want further analysis, you can find on the bbc news website and also on the bbc news website and also on the bbc news app. but for what's happening at the palace tonight, here's our world affairs correspondent richard galpin. the bbc understands what we heard from the palace important developments. they are saying that the queen has spoken to prince charles and prince william on this

subject and they have agreed to direct their staff from their different households to look into this whole issue and to try and find a workable solution as they put it to put harry and meghan ‘s to have a new progressive role within the royal family facet this is almost a counter move by the palace and an intent to make sure prince harry and meghan remain within the fold, they are putting on and off branch effectively saying let's talk about this, here is a start. but when they talk about a workable solution in practical terms what are we funding presumably? commitments? what else? the whole list of issues i'm running through, i have them here. titles, will they remain as hrh royal highness is? we think they will, that will certainly remain. what about their house, they have a frog of morehouse in windsor which was

renovated, a lot of money, to me in pounds. we don't know but the issue is whether they will keep it, it is possible they may have to rent it. —— frogmore house. but the biggest issueis —— frogmore house. but the biggest issue is a security because they wa nt to issue is a security because they want to split time between the uk, and canada or north america. if they we re and canada or north america. if they were for in canada, the cost could be huge, security normally comes from british police, the metropolitan police and it would rack up huge bills if those security officers were having to go with them back and forth between canada and the united kingdom. that in its own right and that is taxpayers money which would be used for that. the other issue of course is the financial issues again, but the issues of them wanting to be financially independent which presumably means they want to work. but the palace is we understand, they would be very concerned about them going into the sort of

commercial world. there are precedents in the password members of the royal family have done that and it has led to reputational damage, so there will be a lot of issues about that as well. all of this will become a kid if you're running a company but these are close relatives, and it seems that there is a lot of upset between certain sides of this family stop huge amounts. the palace have said that the royal family is disappointed and hurt by this. but there've also been some sort of issues going on between prince harry and his brother prince william. they seem to have fallen out and also between meghan markle and the duchess of cambridge. all of this going on, it has been a very difficult and treatment time for the royal family. in difficult and treatment time for the royalfamily. in a difficult and treatment time for the royal family. in a few minutes on the programme we will bring you up—to—date on the austrian bushfires. there are more warnings in place because further hot dry weather is on its way. —— on the australian bushfires.

let's go back to where we'd story because in iran, a senior military commander has gone on state tv and said that having fired less than twenty missiles against us bases in iraq on tuesday night, his forces had been prepared to fire hundreds — or even thousands — more had the us retaliated. taraneh stone from bbc monitoring told me how the iranian media coverage has been shaping up. they see it as a huge victory and they see it as a huge victory and the way they presenting it to people in iran. they say that it was an amazing victory, it was the revenge that they clinched, they said that the blood of the weight general has been avenged, and at this state it seems to be justice although they say that they were planning massive attacks, they could have planned massive attacks, they were prepared for hundreds of missiles. —— of the late generalfor some but

for hundreds of missiles. —— of the late general for some but they suck at that stage because that was enough. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. here's our lead story. canada's prime minister saya ukrainian passenger plane was shot down by an iranian surface—to—air missile. all 176 people on board were killed. let me bring you the latest on the austrian bushfires. authorities are urging people living in areas that are under threat to leave or risk becoming trapped. that warning has extra urgency because more hot dry weather is coming. the state of victoria has again declared a state of disaster. these are the fire ratings there — red is extreme, orange is severe, yellow is very high. almost the entire state is affected by that. the situation on kangaroo island,

just off the coast of south australia, is also pressing. the army has been called in, soldiers have been knocking on doors telling people to leave. this is the latest fire map for the island. areas that have already been burnt out are marked in blue and crossed out. the red area is where an emergency warning is in place. yellow means "watch and act". that means an emergency is nearby and to be vigilant. the mayor of kangaroo island tweeted that... more broadly, fires are burning out of control across three states along the southeast coast. across australia, 27 people have been killed and more than 2000 homes have been destroyed. the prime minister says the threat is far from over. i would encourage all australians to continue to follow the advice of authorities to keep being kind to each other as the way you are. thank

you for your generosity and your support, all willful of government will keep working to ensure that we come through this together by staying together. let's focus on new south wales. lucy hockings is in nowra. there are over 100 fires still burning here in new south wales so there is a real concern about what there is a real concern about what the hot windy weather will bring in the hot windy weather will bring in the next few days. fires are a natural part of australian life but eve ryo ne natural part of australian life but everyone here has been shot by the ferocity of this year's season. nick turner spent years designing and putting a beautiful garden in the kangaroo valley. he knew that the state would one day come. he sheltered with eight of his neighbours in his home and wash as a cyclonic farce from hit his house. this is the story of how he and his neighbour survived in his home. we save the house and the house saved us, and that was a nexus that if it had broken at any point would have meant that we would've perished. the

airwas like if meant that we would've perished. the air was like if you are in a very big funder storm but instead of sheets of water, it was sheets of embers and looked like fire, there's ago embers and looked like fire, there's a go through the air, and the horizontal rain was horizontal burning pieces of wood flying through the air or weaves. and the strength of the wind was just incredible. next to tomerong in new south wales. jonathan head is there. in the fire bleach bush of austria's southeastern coast, gary simpson pot site backyard has taken a beating. some of his tallest trees badly charred have had to be failed and tracked a safe distance from his house —— gary simpson's backyard. he has been growing up ever since a raging fire swept through s saturday and prepare for more fires once the weather heats up again. this was

what was happening here last weekend. the whole forest around his house was ablaze. at one stage i said this doesn't look good. and this whole area is awash with flames. it's a pretty scary feeling, yet it can be scary, most definitely. we had been very lucky, we save the houses and people down the coast on east south wales —— new southwest of been completely devastated. they only have the close they are standing in. that's a horrible thing. there is an urgency at the moment because the fires continue to burn — but the problems they are causing will take years to resolve. the town of batlow in new south wales was hit last weekend. at least 17 houses were lost. this is one farmer from that area. that's the most distressing thing i think for most farmers is the loss of livestock. we had just a small

group of 140 sheep. we lost half of them. we had to shoot a few ourselves. the veterinary services euthanized another 30, there were are kind and got us to stay up at the house and we counted the gunshots as they finish them off. our neighbour had 50 odd cows, he's got three left. this bushfire crisis has put huge attention on australia's fossil fuel industry. there is no doubt this crisis is so severe in part because australia has been getting hotter for the past century. that shift is caused by global climate change which in turn is caused by human behaviour not least emissions from fossil fuels. and those fossils fuels are worth a lot to australia. it's the third biggest fossil fuel exporter in the world. coal exports were worth more than $47.8 billion us in the last financial year.

and the industry provides around 50,000 jobs. the governing coalition, led by the liberal party, is seeking what prime minister scott morrison calls "a balance" between reducing emissions and supporting the industry. the then resources minister argued there was a "moral case" for exporting coal to developing countries. the governing coalition — led by the liberal party — is seeking what prime minister calls ‘a balance' between reducing emissions and supporting the industry. for the liberals that means a number of things including the government signing off a new coal mine in queensland. the then resources minister argued there was a "moral case" for exporting coal to developing countries. then there's domestic energy use. this recent report from the clean energy council — a renewable energy lobby — tells us that fossil fuels made up 79% of australia's total electricity generation in 2018. the equivalent figure in the the uk was about 40%. and if that's the government's approach — this is the leader of the opposition labour party. the road to a low—carb and future can be paved with literally hundreds of thousands of clean energyjobs. —— low carbon future as well as supporting traditionaljobs

including coal mining. clean energy jobs, coaljobs, we will see. this is from the organisation carbon brief normal mac and has all of the policy from last years election for some in intimate labour confirms the inevitably of transition from coal saying "we need a plan to support workers and communities affected both go. but no teacher on how will force away from fossil fuels. it's been keen to be supportive a call. this is from the minerals council of austria showing for labour mps of getting a tour of some mines last year. —— australia. long—term politics and client policies still sit uneasily in austria. both parties appear in different ways appear with trying to have your cake and eating it too is for the minerals council of australia, we asked for an interview but it declined. our lead story is that

justin trudeau is given a press comes in the last a few hours in which he said canada and its intelligence services believe the passenger plane shot down near tehran on wednesday morning was shot down by anti—aircraft armenian missile fire. netjust before we finished, this happened today. before we go — this happened today. d ayes to the right, through her 30. the noes to the left, 231. so the ayes have fed, the ayes have it.“ at first you don't succeed, try, try again. the commons voted 330—231 in favour of the withdrawal agreement bill and it will now pass to the house of lords for further scrutiny next week. the uk is due to leave the eu on 31st of january.

and exiting the european union. thanks for watching. see you tomorrow, bye—bye. good evening. three developing world weather stories to bring up to speed on this evening. let's start in australia first of all. another spike in heat in parts towards the territory around canberra and new south wales and winds converging will add to the fires. winds coming from different directions but notice this weather system here. this will bring rain by the end of friday to melbourne dropping the temperature from 31 degrees. colder winds will push its way, colder for the time of year. that will push its way northwards, bringing some ran across towards canberra and sydney as we head intothe start of the weekend. and then feeding in that air as we go right to the start of next week. so, things are set to improve after that spike in heat, probably around 40 degrees in canberra on friday, 28 by saturday. some further rainy times

in sydney but whilst it's dryer in melbourne, adelaide, and canberra, tempers will rise been over near the levels we seen as of late. towards the middle east if you know anyone in the uae or a man in the moment at break, heavy rain set there. friday, saturday you can see tojammies there. friday, saturday you can see to jammies with the rain. flash flood developing which will work its way eastwards across iran producing huge amounts of stone —— sell for afghanistan, the mountains of northern pakistan, and some torrential rain will sweep its way eastwards a cross torrential rain will sweep its way eastwards across the rest of pakistan sunday into monday drop in temperature here once more. and it is all about the big tip to drop across the western portion and canada. fighting it out with warm air pushing up from the golf, in between through thursday night into friday, the battle ground is this weather front, torrential rain storms developing on it anywhere from texas all the way through to new england. after the latter stage of friday as the storms get going, friday night into saturday, this

area here and read a real risk of tornadoes, unusual for this time of year. texas, louisiana, oklahoma, kansas. even if you don't see tornadoes, potentialfor damaging winds on this weather system. torrential rain, risk of funding through the start of the weekend and on the northern edge of it, the atmosphere significant cold produced huge is that huge amount snow. 50, 60 cm around the great lakes and note these temperature contracts for saturday afternoon. —5 in kansas. and maybe winter, plus 20 degrees there in washington, dc. very unusualfor there in washington, dc. very unusual for this there in washington, dc. very unusualfor this time there in washington, dc. very unusual for this time of year. across europe, temperatures are actually a little bit above where they should be for the time of year for many, many exception being down iberia, olympic core but not significant resell and what happens on friday, an area of low pressure across the uk will spill eastwards bringing wet and windy weather to denmark, baltic states, germany, and they will get a spell of snow, a scattering of showers west of them

it's raining. into the weekend for us, a fickle day and friday, winter and what are at times this weekend.

now on bbc world news and the bbc news channel, the first brexitcast tv of 2020. all feels a bit different, doesn't it, somehow? where has thejeopardy gone? it's left the building. i have not run anywhere this to beget, apart from the park. the exercise and never quite happened in 2019, or 17. the park. the exercise and never quite happened in 2019, or17. so it is still brexitcast but there's other stuff happening this week, should be something else, sorry. maybe just a not say only words like exit. what are we going to be sleep cast? outcast? i like