this is bbc news. the headlines: iran's admission that it accidentally shot down a ukrainian airliner, killing all on board, has prompted angry protests on the streets of the capital, tehran. some demonstrators are calling for the country's supreme leader welcome to bbc news. to step down. our top stories: president trump has expressed his support for the protestors. anti—government protests in tehran after the iranian authorities finally admit accidentally shooting 57 canadians died in the crash. prime minister trudeau has demanded down the ukrainian passengerjet. a "full and complete" investigation and says many more steps need to be taken. 57 canadians died in total, 176 people in wednesday's crash. prime minister trudeau demands died in the disaster. there have also been protests in toronto against the iranian regime. a "full and complete" investigation. royals in crisis talks, the queen is to host crisis talks in the wake of harry and meghan‘s with princes charles, decision to step back from their roles. william and harry at sandringham on monday. the queen, prince charles, it's in the wake of a decision william and harry meet on monday. by harry and meghan to step back from their prominent roles in the royal family. the summit is expected to look at a range of possibilities.

hello, and welcome to bbc news. there've been angry protests on the streets of iran after the country's military finally admitted it did shoot down a ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board. iran says it made a disastrous mistake when it wrongly identified the plane as a cruise missile. demonstrators in tehran have been calling for iran's supreme leader to resign, as our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. almost from the moment the ukrainian airliner crashed early on wednesday morning, officials in tehran furiously rejected the growing video and intelligence evidence suggesting it had been hit by an iranian missile. then today, an abrupt about—turn. in a flurry of social media postings iran's president spoke of a "disastrous mistake". the foreign minister talked of "human error". the ambassador in london apologised for misleading the media with "wrong findings".

a senior military commander explained that iran's air defences had been on high alert after the attack on us bases in iraq and the aircraft was misidentified as an american missile. he said he wished he could die. translation: we are sorry. we share the sorrow with victims‘ families. we regret the incident. but this was the price we paid for the tensions and us activities in the region. in tehran, people gathered on the streets notjust to mourn some of the 176 dead, but also to voice their anger at the government, shouting "death to liars". in one protest, the british ambassador was arrested and detained three hours in what the foreign secretary said was a flagrant breach of international law. ukraine's national security secretary told my colleague jonah fisher how iran simply could no longer deny the evidence. translation: this photo shows us the first part of the plane where a rocket hit.

it hit the cockpit from underneath. as canada continued to mourn its 57 dead, the prime minister demanded that iran cooperate with a full and transparent international investigation. iran must take full responsibility. canada will not rest until we get the accountability, justice and closure that the families deserve. the question now is how much access iran will give to the crash site and data from the wreckage. only then will we know if today's admission of responsibility will be enough to de—escalate the latest confrontation in the middle east. james landale, bbc news. and you can follow all the latest developments to this story on the bbc news website. there you will find how the iranian admission unfolded and the reaction it's triggered in the us, canada and ukraine. log on to bbc.com/news or download the bbc news app.

senior members of the royal family, including the queen, will meet on monday to discuss the future for prince harry and meghan following their decision last week to step back from their prominent roles in the royal family. the summit at the queen's sandringham residence in eastern england is expected to look at a range of possibilities. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell explains more on who will be present at the meeting. the queen, the prince of, prince william and prince harry. now this, of course, will be the first time they have all come together face to face. they've had telephone conversations but the first time they will have met face—to—face since the sussexes issued their personal statement on wednesday night. we also think that meghan, the duchess of sussex, will be joining the discussion by telephone, probably from canada, where of course she is now. officials have been clearly working very hard in the past 72 hours to better understand what it is the sussexes want. they've achieved that, i think,

but they don't have a complete understanding of what they are seeking, but they will present, i think, a range of possibilities for the family to consider. certainly there is a consensus that this is going to take time. it is a complex range of issues that they have got to go through. first of all, they need to establish how much royal official work are they still prepared to do, and they need to agree really the protocols for their non—royal work. going out to make their own living, financial independence. what should be the rules of the game be to prevent the sussexes from being too blatantly, to be perfectly candid about it, trading on their royal status. i think it will be business—like and we don't expect many conclusions on monday, but i think there will be an underlying sadness. it's clear this is what meghan wants but one has to wonder whether this is really what harry wants, to be upsetting his grandmother in this way and to be losing respect, as he certainly is, to a degree, here in

the united kingdom. some other news in brief now, starting with libya, where rebel forces loyal to general khalifa haftar have announced a ceasefire in their campaign against the un—backed government in tripoli. they say it's conditional on other parties respecting it. the tripoli—based government has already said it would welcome a truce. at least eight people have died as a result of severe storms sweeping across parts of the southern us. deaths were reported in the states of alabama, louisiana and texas. hundreds of thousands of people have been affected by power cuts as a result of the storms. the french prime minister has offered a major concession to trade unions in a dispute over pensions. there have been weeks of protest against overhauling the system, some of them violent. the prime minister says he could withdraw a proposal to make people work longer, and to raise the average age at which people receive a full pension. authorities in southern india have demolished two luxury lakeside apartment complexes that were built in violation of environmental rules. the supreme court ordered the demolitions in kerala, after a committee found

that they broke rules protecting coastal areas. two more skyscrapers were set to be razed on sunday. let's get more now on our top story, iran's admission that it shot down the northern ireland assembly has sat for the first time in three years, after a deal to restore power sharing at stormont. the dup leader arlene foster has been appointed first minister, while sinn fein‘s michelle o'neill is deputy first minister. chris page reports. it has been a long, tense, exhausting journey to bring back northern ireland's government. for three years, stormont has mainly been a nice venue for runners. now, it's a place of power again. speaker: order, order, members. in the assembly, politicians appointed the leader

of the democratic unionist party and the vice president of sinn fein to head up the power—sharing coalition. they both put the focus on the future. i'm not sure we will ever agree on much about the past, but we can agree that there was too much suffering, and that we cannot allow society to drift back and allow division to grow. let's not re—fight the battles of the past. it's time to bring people together. we can open doors, we can let the future in, we can give people hope, and we can give our young people opportunity. so, after more than 1,000 days, elected politicians are now back in control of this part of the uk. the deal to restore the devolved government can be read as an attempt to normalise politics here, move it away from divisive issues of identity and nationality, and make it more about health, education, the economy. whether your flag is the flag of ireland or the flag of britain, that doesn't really matter when you're not being cared for and looked after. and the future of our children and the future for the economy, for small business owners, they're all things that are becoming more and more important. and people are just not really putting up with excuses anymore,

that will argue about tribal politics. rebuilding political relationships won't be easy after such a toxic stalemate. northern ireland has a road map to stability, but there will be tough work ahead. chris page, bbc news, belfast. let's get more now on our top story, iran's admission that it shot down an ukrainian passenger plane and the reaction it's sparked in the country and elsewhere. in the past couple of hours, president trump has tweeted his support for the protesters in iran, saying "to the brave, long—suffering people of iran: i've stood with you since the beginning of my presidency, and my administration will continue to stand with you. we are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage." with me is ali hamedani from the bbc‘s persian service. no of course, president trump, did he do that exact same tweet in faster? -- in farsi. yes. the fact

is, twitter is blocked in their arm. —— blocked in iran. there are multiple ways people can get access to twitter, but iranian people inside iran follow news through the international media, including the bbc, so they know what president trump said, especially in persian. it was tweeted to attract my attention. i was checking the social media to see the latest reactions from the iranian people on twitter. what are they saying? iranians are divided. 0ne what are they saying? iranians are divided. one group are thanking him, saying, thank you, you are standing next to us against the iranians regime. there is a group of iranian people who actually blame everything on president trump, saying that the sanctions made people poorer and the killing of qasem soleimani, the iranian revolutionary guard general, so iranian revolutionary guard general, so iranians are really divided into

two different groups with two different opinions. and of course there was a big protest in tehran which we saw in one of the reports earlier. how unusual is it for protesters to criticise the supreme leader? they were calling him commander—in—chief but it was still aimed against him. yes, not only in tehran. we on the bbc persia service received footage from multiple cities all around iran. they are all saying the same thing? the same thing. in november 2019, saying the same thing? the same thing. in november2019, two saying the same thing? the same thing. in november 2019, two months ago, there was another wave of protests all around the country. it started because of the very bad economy and fuel price and then it became anti—regime but it started political and now they are challenging death to khomenei.m not a very dangerous? it is. in the last round of protests, two months

ago, 1500 people were killed because they were chanting against the supreme they were chanting against the supreme leader of iran.|j they were chanting against the supreme leader of iran. i want to pick up on one more thing, the british ambassador to iran was detained for several hours in iran. —— tehran. it is around's hardline media platform which started reporting that, the iranian news agency, the official news agencies, have not reported. the foreign & commonwealth office just confirmed the british ambassador in tehran was arrested for a few hours. the british ambassador is very close to one of these universities in tehran where there were students protesting against the regime, so most probably the ambassador was detained for that. but this is not what the —— regime backed media are saying. they are saying he was arrested in one of these protests, they claim that the british ambassador was gathering people trying to take photos and encouraging people to chant against the regime. and the british foreign

secretary has said "the rest of ambassador was without grounds". thank you forjoining us. thank you. lawyers and judges from across europe havejoined a major demonstration byjudges in poland. in a silent march in the polish capital, warsaw, the judges, along with thousands of demonstrators, were protesting against proposed legislation which will give politicians greater control over the appointment and disciplining of judges. politicians say reform is necessary but the judges claim it's an attempt to gag thejudiciary. rich preston has this report. dressed in their legal robes, judges from across the continentjoined their polish colleagues in solidarity, gathering at the supreme court before marching past the presidential palace towards parliament. they are angry at legislation being introduced by the governing right—wing and party. it will give politicians greater control over the appointment of new judges and the power to discipline judges and the power to discipline judges who questioned those new appointments. translation: this is a

law which takes away the right of judges to take part in public debates, and which silences us. this rivalry between the government and thejudges has been going on for months, but the government refuses to back down. it says the changes are needed to root out corruption and modernise poland's legal system. thejudges say it and modernise poland's legal system. the judges say it is a clear attempt to stifle the judiciary, and poland'sjudges say to stifle the judiciary, and poland's judges say they have many ordinary polls on their side. we, thejudges, are ordinary polls on their side. we, the judges, are supported ordinary polls on their side. we, thejudges, are supported here by thousands of citizens. we are here because we serve: fatefully and we stand by the law. -- serve poland. the changes have angered european officials too, who say the changes would be incompatible with eu law, which could risk poland being thrown out of the european union. the bill is currently sitting with poland's senate, but the senate can only postpone the bill, it cannot block

it completely. despite descent on the street and on the international stage, the government could still push through the changes it says i needed. this is bbc news, the headlines: after days of denial, iran finally admits to shooting down a ukrainian passenger jet, prompting angry protests on the streets of tehran. and in the wake of harry and meghan‘s decision to step back from their roles, the queen and other senior royals will hold crisis talks on monday. let's get more now on the situation in iran. dr rodger shanahan is a middle east expert from the lowy institute — hejoins me now from sydney. i want to pick up on some of the protests that we have seen across the country, chanting against the supreme the country, chanting against the supreme leader. how significant is that? it's very difficult to understand exactly what national sentiment is in a country with 85 million people so that they are looking at protests in and around

universities in tehran, it's probably not significant, the numbers that we have seen so far don't appear to be over significant so don't appear to be over significant soi don't appear to be over significant so i think it's a kind of protest that the regime is going to ride out yet again. is there an actual cohesive opposition movement at the moment anyone? no, not per se, not a movement that could coalesce around and individual or group of individuals and have seen in the past has tended to be a broad protest movement against economic conditions in arana, against bureaucratic corruption is in orion but not in favour of a kind of unitarian alternative to the current system of government —— iran. unitarian alternative to the current system of government -- iran. and thatis system of government -- iran. and that is part of the problem i think. you mentioned the protests were reasonably small, what is it then that would most worry the

authorities? those protest or something else? you could tell, i think you could tell from that extraordinary press conference from the revolutionary guard corps commander where they accept responsibility for the mistake that the first flush of members of the iranian government tried to obfuscate further but the prime minister of canada feministjohnson had obviously gone public to let the iranians know that the west knew what had done — but what happened andi what had done — but what happened and i think they were able to win the debate in tehran so we saw this a cce pta nce the debate in tehran so we saw this acceptance of responsibility. that obviously has repercussions for the government because it shows the people that the government and the military and the iag see in particular are not as competent as they were necessarily make out what a tragedy of the scale happens. that

isa a tragedy of the scale happens. that is a problem but it's a problem in the short term, and i think the reason why the government came out with this press statement was that they thought further obfuscation would have meant a much greater political risk further down the track. so they will take the short term pain and try and get the situation back to normal as quickly as possible. very briefly in terms of the downed airliner, is iran likely to be able to incorporate foreign experts from ukraine and canada into it's own investigation —— into its own investigation?” think they are they respected —— now that they have accepted responsible to, the question is how much leeway others investigators going to be allowed to, in terms of talking to iranian military personnel, to look at the military documentation and the chain of command, and the essbase control that has been exercised because that would show what the state of iranian military

competence is and that's going to be a difficult winter have on the part of the international investigators. thank you so much forjoining us. labour leadership contender sir keir starmer has launched his official campaign to become the next party leader in manchester. he said that "factionalism has to go" and that the party must unite, and promised to defend the party's radical values. we cannot be a divided party anymore. we need to end the factionalism. being a very, very strong opposition up against borisjohnson and forging that path to victory. what i meant by retaining our radical values is we shouldn't throw away everything in the last four years. we are now the party of anti—austerity, we are the party that believes in investing in our public services and common ownership. we should retain that. the manifesto i'm focused on is the next manifesto, not the last manifesto. but we shouldn't throw away what we have achieved in the last four years. earlier, our political correspondent, nick eardley explained what keir starmer‘s campaign launch means for the race. keir starmer has, for want

of a better word, momentum at the moment in this race. he's the man to beat, far ahead of anybody else when it comes to mps and the polls of labour members suggest he's out in front as well. he's not the obvious corbyn candidate, because that is rebecca long—bailey, at the moment, and her campaign at the moment is struggling to get off the ground. momentum, who are the pro—corbyn grassroots campaign who helped jeremy corbyn win the two leadership elections he won, they have said they will ballot their members on who to back, but, quite clearly, they want it to be rebecca long—bailey. they're recommending that that's who their members get behind and that will give her a big boost and, although keir starmer appears to be out in front at the moment, i would suggest, over the next three months before we get the next labour leader, there is a lot of room for movement in that race. when it gets going, when some of the more radical pro—corbyn groups start throwing their weight about, i suspect that will work well

for rebecca long—bailey. there's other candidates as well. lisa nandi, clive lewis, emily thornberry, jess phillips as well. they'll all be looking to make up ground over the next few weeks. tens of thousands of independence supporters in scotland have been marching through the centre of glasgow. the organisers, all under one banner, say around 80 thousand people took part in this, the first of a series of marches, the group plans to hold across scotland over the coming year. the uk government has said it does not support a further vote on independence. gillian sharpe reports. a sea of saltires on the streets of glasgow. it took more than rain and issues with transport to put these marchers off. their route going from the west end to glasgow green. we've come here today because we feel that really there's no choice now for scotland but to become independent. we're completely on a different track from england — totally. the march is well under way now.

the organisers say they just weren't going to let the weather put them off. this is scotland, after all. but a rally which was due to be held at the end of the event has had to be cancelled. today's event was billed as an emergency march organised in the wake of december‘s general election. it's another mandate at the end of the day, and it shows there's still an appetite and a desire in scotland for scottish independence. we don't get a lot of media publicity. the fact that we do get it now — the world media is here today watching us. the marchers today say it is time to revisit the question of independence. first minister nicola sturgeon wants another vote this year. in a state made, uk government spokesperson said: spirits not dampened today despite the rain. several more marches are planned across the country this year.

gillian sharpe, bbc news. fundraising events have been taking place across london today to help those affected by the fires in australia. many of them have been organised by australians living in the capital. celebrities and sports stars have also been supporting the aid effort. caroline davies has the story. saturday morning exercise class, but everyone here isn't just saturday morning exercise class, but everyone here isn'tjust attending for the star jumps. everyone here isn'tjust attending for the starjumps. each of them are donating to help those affected by the fires in australia. being over here in london i feel so far away i don't wanted to do something that felt so helpless and so what better way to use that money you would use ona way to use that money you would use on a fitness class but have it go towards the bushfire relief? some of those in the class have been personally affected. chris's family lost a home in new south wales. we lost a home in new south wales. we lost at about a week ago. our granddad belted 58 years ago. it is really sad but no—one has been hurt

so everyone has something important to them, haven't they? since september the fires across australia have destroyed more than 10 million hectares and killed at least 27 people. pictures and stories of the destruction have encouraged many to donate including celebrities. lewis hamilton has pledged £380,000, phoebe waller bridge has put a golden globe outfit up for auction to raise money. across london businesses as well as individuals are trying to do their part to help, including here. the two australian owners of this restaurant decided to help by adding a pound voluntary donation onto each bill. we were heartbroken and overwhelmed by everything happening and we knew that if we did one little thing that may be that would spark some kind of initiative from a lot of other people and i think the only way that we can overcome these kind of feelings of hopelessness is to do something. since it started, other restau ra nt something. since it started, other restaurant in the area have signed

up restaurant in the area have signed up to do it too. i think is a good idea to remind us of that we are in quite a comfortable place and there is an offa quite a comfortable place and there is an off a lot of people that aren't. a little bit of money, you're not going to notice it anyway. it really helps. every little bit helps. londoners may be on the other side of the world but many have tried in whatever small where they can to help. a 100—year—old giant tortoise credited with virtually saving his species from extinction — is being released back into the wild. diego is believed to have fathered around 800 baby tortoises after he was recruited onto a captive breeding programme in the galapagos islands. the park service believes he was taken from the galapagos eighty years ago by a scientific expedition. i've been speaking to drjames gibbs from the galapagos conservancy centre which worked with diego. i asked him what was the secret of diego's success. it's a good question. he's had a tremendous amount of success — we estimate about 800 offspring, and now legions of grandchildren. but he's got a personality unto himself.

he's a very strong willed, aggressive, sort of a flamboyant tortoise, if one can say such a thing. but he's definitely the one that's always doing the mating, and pushing out the other two males. there's just three males that... his whole species has gone through this tremendous bottleneck, but he's the one that is most active. very strong personality, quite aggressive. the latest headlines are coming up in a couple of minutes. first, the weather with phil avery. it wasn't just the country that looked a bit wet and windswept over the course of saturday if you are anywhere near that weather front, you had similarfare. it was quite wet and quite 2a it is a new day, sunday seeing that weather front front eventually pushing away from the south and east, a band of

showers following on behind, that'll ta ke showers following on behind, that'll take much of the morning to get away right from the eastern shores and then following on behind it so much brighter, a much sunnier day across most parts of the british isles, although there is a speckling of showers on quite a south—westerly wind across the north and north—west of scotland. some of those quite wintry in nature across higher ground. it's a fresher feel across the northern parts, temperatures in single figures further south, might get you ten or 11 degrees, something of that order. as a bit of a proceedings, a ridge of high pressure notice through through the evening and overnight, killing off many of the showers but not all of them. and underneath the clear skies again is going to be fairly cool. temperatures well done for some particular in scotland, well down in single figures. don't be full by the lull in proceedings, that's all it is. here comes monday, there are already met office warnings about this because this isobars are tightly packed. it's going to be a very windy day. after a dry start across very windy day. after a dry start a cross m ost very windy day. after a dry start across most past of the british isles, here comes the rain. it will

certainly be a feature is additionally in northern ireland but in spreading quite rapidly to the western side of scotland, into the heart of scotland, to the west of england and much of wales. there are some of the gusts. those are just some of the gusts. those are just some of the gusts. those are just some of the gusts because we could well find those in extreme getting up well find those in extreme getting up to 80 miles an hour. that is destructive, it's not a condo, given the strength of the wind, it is coming in from the south and south—west. once that system is away, only makes room for another bout of pretty wet and windy fair, piling in from the south—west so again, a dry enough start away from the south—western quarter but as the cloud and rain eases its way into somewhat cooler areas, across the heart of scotland, we may well see a conversion of rain into snow across the high ground of scotland. and that goes for areas we think to the south of the central belt. there's a lot going on potentially disruptive wins, some quite heavy rain at times, on the mild side and it could 00:28:56,976 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 be drier later in the week.