we would have died of hunger going on down. just starts to take its toll. this is g.w. news live from berlin the ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran this week did it on your radio and missile bring it down he was president donald trump says he has his suspicions that someone made a mistake and so u.s. officials saying it's highly likely that iranian air defense systems accidentally down but the plane all 176 people on board die also coming up tonight more protests

and strikes across france. unions are stepping up their battle against proposed pension reforms this is now in the largest industrial action that france has seen in decades and from breaks it to the next it is rocking the british royal family britain's prince harry and meghan announcing they'll step back from royal duties but it seems they forgot to tell the queen will take a look at the royal fall well. i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world well tonight in just the last few minutes the canadian prime minister has echoed u.s. . reports that intelligence sources indicate iran likely shot down that

ukrainian international airlines plane which crashed on wednesday the plane was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital key unnamed u.s. officials have told the u.s. media that and raney an air defense systems may have accidentally shot down the plane ukraine has asked western nations to provide any evidence intelligence or evidence of whatever they can that may have that could show it would corroborate these allegations now the plane was carrying 176 people 63 of them were canadian here's what canada's prime minister justin trudeau said in the last hour we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by in a rainy and

a surface to air missile and. this may well have been an intentional. art for more now we want to get to larry vance he's a pilot and former aviation investigator with the canadian transportation safety board larry it's good to have you on the program justin trudeau confirming that he also has intelligence that the plane was they owned mistakenly by entering the an missile from what you have seen what are the indications that this plane was indeed shot down by accident. well it has all the signatures of that big very very possible they obviously have. information that's not available publicly that they're using the president of the united states the prime minister of canada they just don't throw the stuff around they have they have information that i would say there they're very very convinced that that's what happened so. in my books

that makes it very likely from an accident investigation one of you aren't can say that there's signatures of that happening are all over it's all over this this aircraft was disabled very very quickly by something very dramatic and that just doesn't happen to a modern airplane like the boeing 737800 flying along on climate from an airport it just doesn't happen so if something mechanically did happen it would be something brand new that we haven't seen before so that searle's a lot of we behind what they're saying it because we've got information that tells us that the plane turned it back. it was heading towards the airport that's what we've been told but there was no call by the pilots for example i guess that in terms of a communication there was just a sudden blackout does that tell you then that there must have been an explosion

i mean it can't be something mechanical can it. well it's not likely to be some mechanical that all of a sudden slowly disables the your friend list that that would come from something like an explosion or aura of you know a complete disabling of the electrical system from something dramatic and again there's just no history of that in the thought in that airplane or or any martyr airplane like that that engine blowing off sleep knowing. you have another engine that could to comply with you find this airplane it was the city of duluth when noted control it lost communication basically all at the same time that it was on fire before it hit the ground i mean that has all the smells and tastes. of a missile or a or anything just let me just close it so if you find something like that rather than a mechanical event and we know that about a 3rd of the people on the plane who died were canadians and we have

a cold now from canada a demand that its own experts be allowed to join this investigation iran has indicated that it will keep the black boxes but will grant access to ukrainian investigators. what's your what's your feeling about the the credibility and the integrity of this investigation. well i think that the arabians would be very wise to open this investigation up to those who have an interest in it so can a candidate who has a tremendous interest in you know some of this in this case because of all our citizens who are on your own and if they want credibility for what they're going to release its findings in the end then they're going to have much much more credibility if they pull it out in the lobby to go in and come to a consensus as to what happened rather than closed off and come to learn computers and then trying to miss the world i think that they would be very wise to in and

out and kill that happens you know we have to rely on people like you who have experience in investigating crashes as a former investigator yourself tell us how would your colleagues in iran normally proceed to determine the exact cause of the crash i mean what what's happening now . they didn't go into the wreckage redound him an image go into the data recorders . hopefully they have the data recorders downloaded already i don't know that they have but we will go into those and see what they can find a service system spillers and all of predators on the data recorders but then we tell the story that releases to them but it will go into the record to look for signatures of explosive device and so on they would teach watson to leftists and they would be able to tell pretty quickly it was risky do from an explosive

device or a missile and. i would guess i would guess i would hope that they would already know in iran whether or not a missile brought this airplane down that would not be nearly as 30 euro if it was a missile as it would be if it was a mechanical failure which would be something quite. quite astounding quite bizarre and very complex that would take a long long for. a missile not to moaner or a bomb would not take that long to figure out so. it's a missile that was involved now that suggests that they already know. larry vance a former investigator with the canadian transportation safety board later we appreciate your time tonight and your valuable valuable insights thank you. well just before the canadian prime minister spoke about the crash u.s. president donald trump had this to say about the crash in tehran that killed

everyone on board take a listen. i have my suspicions it was very i don't want to say that because other people have the suspicions also. it's a tragic thing when i see that it's a tragic thing. but somebody could have made a mistake on the other could've could've made a mistake it was flying it was it was flying in that our system has nothing to do with us and it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say was been cannick i personally don't think that's. even a question all right that this president almost from there let's go now to our washington correspondent public ali alias good evening to you. so apparently the u.s. president and the canadian prime minister now of have shared information or have the the same information do we know any more about that intelligence that they're using to base you know these statements all. hi branch well here

in the united states we haven't had any confirmation yet from for example the pentagon they've not said it but we do know that the united states and canada do share intelligence information they're part of the 5 eyes intelligence alliance which is made up of the united states canada britain australia and new zealand so we can assume from statement from president trump that he had information on his disposal which he didn't divulge in greater detail than what we saw in that statement that he made earlier on here in washington and obviously what we need to do is step back and wait and see if actually the pentagon comes out and says something obviously the canadian prime minister has come out and made it clear. and confirmed a lot of the rumors which have been circulating here in the united states and we know that this plane went down on the evening of the early morning when there were a need. to place the bases in iraq that held us

soldiers there has been a lot of speculation in the united states i want to get your opinion on this that the u.s. president maybe has welcomed this tragedy or this information in order to distract from the intense criticism that he's been getting in washington for his decision last week to have general shield with the drone strike if you've been hearing a lot of talk here in the u.s. reporting about how this is all possibly connected. certainly i mean at the moment there's a lot of criticism in particular from the democrats there i've also been so grumblings from within the republicans with the whole situation was handled with regards to the. whole issue with the assassination of the iranian general but obviously at the moment what's being discussed is how

a lot of this information was made available to president u.s. media saying that u.s. officials of course had been you know monitoring the situation in the region because they had been expecting an attack in the region following the assassination of the iranian general now what they're saying and what what what it seems to be sort of confirmed is. this looks like it was a surface to air missile that's what a lot of officials are saying here in the u.s. media obviously what they would need as well is information with regards to the black box also access to the wreckage would confirm a lot of this but obviously the attention now has shifted like you've said more to this actual aircraft going down and what exactly and how exactly it all worked out and it looks like americans won't be having any x. i mean access to the black box more than likely won't have access of course to the

wreckage brant our correspondent. with the latest from washington. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world at least 20 people the majority of them soldiers have been reportedly killed in a militant attack in northeastern nigeria the attack in the telling of mangano also sparked a fire that left hundreds of already displaced people homeless and that extremist group linked to so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility british lawmakers have approved the withdrawal agreement bill which allows the u.k. to leave the european union at the end of this month the legislation will now head to parliament approved chamber it is expected to become war in the coming week. in france hundreds of thousands have hit the streets and yet another day of strikes and protests against president emanuel micron's proposed pension reforms his push for change has unleashed one of the longest strike actions in france in decades and

scenes that are very familiar to his now police are using tear gas to control protesters the strikes of course reeks of travel chaos across the country. earlier our correspondent lisa lewis said more on the day's events from paris hundreds of thousands of protesters have been marching today here in paris and in other cities across france according to the figures we are getting it was between 20600000 depending on who you listen to to the unions all the police that's about the 30th how many people who are out of protesting on the 17th of december that it's the last day of protest against the pension reform today was that that he thinks 60 day of protest of a strike here in france at the strike is actually happening in different sectors across the friends economy specially in the transport sector you know that there are very few trains running and also here in paris transport the our a.t.p.

which is running the metro metro has as the aussie got out to a whole it said this is the lie. longest strike really since none straight away strike since the 1930 s. hand france there was lisa lose their reporting from here were sworn to that war you know resignation prince harry and meghan marcos announcement that they're going to step back from their royal duties has sent shock waves through britain and through the house of windsor the news reportedly took even prince charles and the queen by surprise who are said to feel hurt by the move harry and megan's wedding back in 20 scene was held as the start of a new chapter for the british royal family but now the couple say they want to become financially independent and to spend more time in north america the honeymoon between the you case tabloid press and the newlyweds it did not last long . it is a shocking announcement and is getting a lot of press attention to talk about that it's now i'm joined here by my

colleague paid to the dog who's been tracking reactions online to this and you talk about the media itself see this one british newspaper today did the key did the 1st 17 pages of its addition to this announcement yet this amazes absolutely in his explosive mean really it's a move over breaks it there's a new i say it only adds next next that it's been trending ever since the shock announcement reactions have been it's been a very kind of mixed bag right on the one hand you have sons and you know they've gone too far the one who's saying they didn't even bother consulting the queen she goes on to call that meghan and harry ungrateful entitled brats mothers and saying you know they haven't gone far enough calling this kate multi-column the royal family quote an outdated institution which ruins the lives of most people in it but yes if harry and mick and are going to quit they have to quit probably digital

world titles and world patronage as they can't have it both ways and then others again are responded more tongue in cheek saying wait you can risk. from a family. famous madame tussaud's wax museum in london has taken the resignation bit and this is really quite funny very literally resigning harry and megan to a different part of the museum away from the rest of the royal family so i tell you what these days life comes out well i mean you can't you know you can't resign from your family but this amounts basically is prince harry saying i'm resigning from my job my public jobs as as a royal and what we understand is he's also said that he doesn't want to be paid anymore either that doesn't sound like a spoiled brat it sounds like a man who thinks he maybe has a better income source in the future i mean we don't know it but it just reinforces the fact that this is a big deal in the us it's a huge on there are a number of reasons for that i mean one is you know and make and you are really the

most popular couple of the royal family right i mean just in terms of sheer favor billeted this is a huge blow to the royal family there were also very much seen as this new bright hope. at just the right mix of pomp and progressiveness and so for a lot of people they felt a lot more relatable than previous role couples have felt so there was this hope that they would ring in this new era for the royal family and that was something that was really sorely needed it we saw a slew of scandals just last year. and last and i think this is something that a lot of people who didn't grow up in monarchies may not fully understand in times of political turmoil and britain has seen its you know share of the shuttle in the years. the royal family is really who you look to for a sense of continuity stability prime ministers come and go the crown is for life and so i was like you've been writing for the kremlin now listen are you there and i tell you what about the money here in macon said they want to become financially

independent i mean how how did the how do how does a prince go about becoming not up. pauper but. not financed by the crown yeah and that is kind of the gray zone that they find themselves or right now i mean you don't have to worry about them any up in the streets right i mean they're still going to keep their old cottage they're going to keep their titles the security is still going to be paid for. what is essentially happening by stepping down as senior members they are giving up access to this sovereignty granted it's an annual funding mechanism of the monarchy and basically this is means that there are now free to earn their own money so shortly after announcing the decision the launch this very sleek new website is called sussex royall dot com and they actually trademark to mark that name back in december and that fueled obviously a lot of speculation that you know maybe what they're up to something was interesting is that they're basically relaunching themselves as

a brand and so that's not unlike the obama's not like yeah it's a war a little bit of gates they want to use that name recognition to launch this big new charity potentially very successful if that doesn't work out you know looks like there's a job opening over at the daily show. that she's an actress but what you're telling us is that they're not going to have to worry about working to pay off a mortgage because they keep the cottage right no i think they're going to be said ok 1st people future at least the right to abuse peterborough the doll is always better we appreciate your reporting and your royal watching tonight thank you. prosecutors in lebanon have banned former nissan boss carlos going from leaving the country after interrogating him about the financial misconduct that he's charged faced a charge that he is facing in japan despite that go into warrior says that his client is comfortable with lebanon's judicial system

a big contrast to what he said about japan yesterday at his 1st public appearance since fleeing the country. beirut's justice palace this is where carlos ghosn was questioned by prosecutors for nearly 2 hours his lawyer says go and trust the lebanese justice system. that is there were 2 sessions one related to the interpol request another one related to visiting israel will be a communique shortly. a group of lebanese lawyers has filed a formal complaint against gone accusing him of normalization with israel over a visit he made in 2008 levanon deems as your own enemy state gone doesn't have to fear going back to japan because lebanon has no extradition agreement with tokyo in japan his arrest triggered a heated debate about the country's justice system on wednesday going to lead that he was held in inhumane conditions and treated like a hostage he said he had no chance of a fair trial the charges against him include under reporting earnings and

misappropriation of company funds from his employer and this on his criticism of japan's justice system has struck a nerve for years a federation of attorneys there has complained that they are not allowed to be present during the questioning of suspects who are put under enormous pressure to confess that makes a guilty verdict highly likely. the conviction rate is 99 percent even a judge would think the defendant was guilty or not that so right from the beginning even though the defendant's lawyer says he's innocent the judge doesn't think so. when you know something when ian was a that. japan's justice minister rejected the allegations and called on going to submit to her country's justice system. china says that a new type of virus could be the cause of a mysterious pneumonia like illness that has sent 59 people to the hospital the virus is related to the one that calls the deadly sars outbreak in china back in

2003 the outbreak in the central city of new holland has been linked to a seafood market many of the patients worked at or visited the woo one on seafood market in the city is around 100 kilometers inland from hong kong but officials there have also put precautionary measures in place. the border entry exit control points affan hants health surveillance and inspection medical personnel have been advised to stay alert and transfer and quarantine the suspected cases as early as possible the hong kong food and health bureau will keep in close contact with the world health organization and. china has been hit hard by novel pathogens in the past the sars epidemic in 2003 killed over 700 people in the region and experts in china say they've already confirmed this is a different disease one that appears to be less virulent so far there have been no fatalities among the reported 59 people who contract at the illness but health

officials remain on high alert. we have conducted a risk assessment we have activated the severe response level. under this in relation to new infectious diseases the immediate effect on public health is moderate and in the meantime the number of confirmed patients has remained steady and china's state broadcaster reports 8 patients were released on wednesday after showing no signs of fever for several days. oh it was just a matter of minutes when the waves arrived destroyed and changed lives forever here in indonesia 15 years ago on the 26th of december a powerful earthquake struck in the indian ocean just before 8 am local time waves of up to 30 meters were recorded as they swept through indonesia within hours more

than 220000 people across asia were killed and as the tsunami unleashed its destructive force as the years have passed some survivors have turned believe it or not to the ocean as a way to heal and find meaning after losing so much to the water. some people run from their fears darry set to one on his knees waves bring fun and thrills but 15 years ago a tsunami inflicted the cruelest pain killing almost half his family now traumatized for derry surfing is about surviving. and i doubt that i felt. we no longer feel like this wave was the one that destroyed us we just don't think like that anymore in fact the waves are now our friends so if you're wondering how could we surf a wave the ones killed us well we've never thought of it like that now it's up to

us we treat the waves like our buddies who hang around with us every day nowhere was more devastated than the coastal community here in la. cars homes and milledge is washed away. graveyard snow filled with those who perished some victims have never been found. i keep praying for the best for my family members. if the reality is that they have passed away. in heaven. charring memories are everywhere like the upon one a 2600 ton vessel that was flung ashore now open to visitors a permanent exhibit turn coping mechanism. in the early years after the tsunami it was hard i cried almost every day. i was great for the people

around me made strong my friends who were there with me during those days. they made me mentally stronger. too has been rebuilding and regenerating the mosque mosque there welcoming worshipers again but some of the damage is left untouched. don't forget the tsunami read the sign at the mosque not that anyone here ever will. you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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