this is deja news live from berlin the u.s. and canada say iran missile brought down the ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran canada's prime minister justin trudeau says multiple intelligence sources indicate that iran shot down the plane u.s. officials believe is highly likely iranian air defense systems that it accidentally killing all 176 people on. also coming up for protests and more strikes across friends.

unions continue their battle against proposed pension reforms it's now the longest such strike in france in the world than 15 years. i'm carl assman thanks for joining us u.s. and canadian officials say an iranian missile brought down the ukrainian international airlines flight canada's prime minister justin trudeau says mounting evidence suggests an iranian surface to air missile hit the airliner shortly after taking off from tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board died many of them were canadian iran says it has ruled out a missile strike by its air defenses u.s. and canadian aviation safety officials have now been invited to join the investigation. wreckage from the ukraine internet. airlines flight that crashed

shortly after takeoff from tehran leaving the world with many questions and few answers canadian prime minister justin trudeau was the 1st to publicly announce a possible cause an iranian missile 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 surface to air missile. this may well have been unintentional. this new information reinforces the need for a thorough investigation into this matter u.s. officials say they have quote a high degree of certainty that it was a missile that hit the plane earlier u.s. president donald trump suggested it might have been an intentional. i have my suspicions it was very i don't want to say that because other people have those 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 ukrainian officials have also said they were quote not ruling out a missile attack having sent a team to tehran to investigate at the u.n. ukraine insisted that iran fully cooperate the circumstances of these cars through are still unclear it is now up to the experts to use to gaited and to find answers to the questions what caused the crash do so x. mas received on conditional support for their investigation into the ins incident iran has now also permitted canadian and u.s. authorities to join that probe it's still unclear if that will include access to the vital data in the plane's black boxes. let's get more now from get brown and

he's a correspondent in ottawa again to understand you intended justin trudeau his press conference we heard him saying that there is intelligence now indicating that iran in fact shot down the ukrainian plane by mistake what more can you tell us. so this was really a very very remarkable press conference by the fine the prime minister who were yesterday was very careful to not to speculate about the reason behind this tragic event and today he called in this press conference on a show of short notice and then he said this is what we heard right now that canada has intelligence and that's it the plane was shot down by hearing in surface to air missile but it's very important is that he. emphasizes that this is from true information by the allies but also. own intelligence so it's also canadian intelligence that he's referring to in this is very important too to judge the

whole situation because there are some doubts from where i get this information coming but with with the this or if you refer to the canadian. information it seems to be this strong that the prime minister now decided to go to a public and to tell the canadian people what he knows and what he fears happened last night in tehran more than 170 people died in this crash including at least 63 canadians how was this latest development now being received in canada so when news broke yesterday morning that 63 canadians have died and there were more people citizens from iran who were where on the map their way to canada to visit people it was clear that that this incident that this catastrophe is really a canadian tragedy as well so it's not something that happened far far away but it

hits the ground everywhere in canada are from coast to coast university communities for example at month 30 people from at the moment died in this crash so now to get this information that this must might not be just a technical disaster but an arrow and that rocket a missile or brought this airplane down it's really absolutely shocking for the canadian public and for the families who are grieving and looking for answers why did this happen. around us giving us the latest there from ottawa thank you very much thank you. well a plane crash came on the same day that iran fired missiles at bases hosting u.s. troops in iraq now president trump's ambassador to the united nations has said the u.s. is quote ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations with iran so

it appears to be a sign of deescalation but iran has made it clear that it hopes to drive u.s. forces out of the region any serious negotiations between tehran and washington will have to sort through a heap of open questions ranging from the iran nuclear deal to the status of u.s. troops in iraq. is chief political editor asked the head of germany's parliamentary foreign affairs committee conservative nor batch britain whether europe should continue to stick to that iran nuclear deal despite demands from president trump to accept that the deal is dead. absolutely and as long as there is no better option to make sure that iran does not develop nuclear weapons i think we should stick to that of course we have to see and we have to face the facts that the u.s. has withdrawn from this treaty and by this economically has massively damaged the

effectivity of the agreement so we should stick to that perhaps we should embrace his proposal to broaden the negotiation and the relationship to iran not only to focus just on the nuclear aspect but to include for the regional aspects in order to create a broader arrangement for regional stability i think we should we should embrace and appreciate this approach and i think there the role for the europeans to make this possible is absolutely vital and crucial now europe keeps talking about broadening this iran nuclear deal trump wants a new deal which also has his name on the paper how do you read the accent of the u.s. president right now. i read his actions in the way that he is absolutely determined to avoid war. he sings at the same time that he can't afford to be seen

as weak and this is absolutely parallel to the iranian leadership they want to avoid war despite the aggressions. but they can't think they can't afford to be seen as weak so i think there is a viable. approach by the us president to substitute the j.c. a which he has lost all the time with a new diplomatic approach how far this can go we have to see but this at least is a new tune from washington that is not only sticking to the policy of maximum pressure but that he has introduced yes big of negotiation and diplomatic approaches what will happen to german engagement in iraq if the u.s. troops have to the this is absolutely clear we want to stay because we see our objectives there is not yet accomplished to really

have the victory on make sure that isis is. defeated in iraq and to contribution to the stability and unity of the country. so we want to stay there but if the united states were forced by the iraqi government to leave the country because they are declared doesn't as not being welcome there then we would also have to leave because we are interdependent in our military presence there and we need to have the u.s. there as our allies and partners know about what can head of the final fast committee of bonus tax thank you very much. here's a check now of some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. house of representatives has voted to limits president trump's ability to engage in military conflict against iraq the chamber voted nearly completely along party lines to pass a resolution which would become binding only if the senate also backs it trump

ordered the killing of course of iranian general hossam sort of money last week without congressional approval. military officials in mali say $25.00 soldiers were killed when heavily armed assailants attacked the base in the share more than 60 suspected terrorists also reportedly died in the attack close to the border with mali at least 20 people the majority of them soldiers have reportedly been killed in a militant attack in northeastern nigeria is haq in the town of mangano also sparked a fire that left hundreds of already displaced people homeless an extremist group linked to the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. well in france hundreds of thousands of people are in the streets once again in 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 these are now familiar scenes police using tear gas to control protesters the strikes have caused weeks of travel chaos across france. our correspondent lisa lewis is covering those strikes on the scene in paris she says the protests are reverberating across the french economy 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 or the police that's about a 3rd how many people were out there protesting on the 17th of december that's the last day of protest against the pension reform today was the 3660 day of protest of a strike here in france and 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 the local transport the are a.t.p. which is running the metro the metro has as largely graue to a halt so this is the longest strike really since long straightaway strike since the 1930 s. here in france lisa lewis there reporting for us in paris china says a new type of virus could be the cause of a mysterious pneumonia like illness that is sent 59 people to the hospital the virus is related to the one that caused the deadly sars outbreak in china in 2003 the outbreak in the central city of one hon has been linked to a seafood market in the city. many of the patients worked out or visited the 101 and 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 have enhanced 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 like china has been hit hard by novel pathogens in the past the sars epidemic in 2003 killed over 700 people in the region 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 onus 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

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