would have died of hunger running down. to the stores for journalists to please don't. this is deja vu news live from berlin the u.s. and canada say an iranian missile brought down the ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran canada's prime minister of justice says multiple intelligence sources indicate that the raunch shot down the plane u.s. officials believe it's highly likely iranian air defense systems hit it accidentally killing all $176.00 people on board and also coming up more protests

and more strikes across france. unions continue their battle against proposed pension reforms it's now the longest such strike in france in more than 50 years. i'm carl aspen thanks for joining us u.s. and canadian officials say an iranian missile brought down a ukrainian international airlines flight canada's prime minister just ensure no 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 it's 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 international 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 in 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 guys 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 gadget brown he's a correspondent in ottawa garrett i understand you attended justin should know this 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 fire the prime minister who were yesterday was very careful to not to speculate about the reason behind this tragic event and today card 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 in from

through information by the allies but also. own intelligence so it's also canadian intelligence that he's referring to and this is very important too to judge the whole situation because there are some doubts from where this information coming but with the with the this are you referring 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 is 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 that month 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 is 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. of course that plane crash came on the same day that iran fired

missiles at bases hosting u.s. troops in iraq now president trumps ambassador to the united nations has said the u.s. is quote ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations with iran and 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 now 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. the chief political editor asked the head of germany's parliamentary foreign affairs committee conservative or better written 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. things at the same time that he can't afford to be seen as weak and this is absolutely kyra to the iranian leadership they want to avoid war despite their 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 yours 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 the aspect 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. objectives there as not yet accomplished to really have the victory on make sure that isis is is. is defeated in iraq and to contribute 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 were declared 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 foreign affairs committee thank you very much our here's a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s.

house of representatives has voted to limit president trumps ability to gauge in the military conflict against iran the chamber voted almost completely along party lines to pass the resolution which would only become binding if it is passed by the senate ordered the killing of iranian general cost them sort of money last week with out congressional approval. military officials in mali say $25.00 soldiers were killed when heavily armed assailants at the base in nis air more than 60 suspected terrorists also reportedly died in the attack which happened 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 it's in the town of mangano also sparked a fire that left hundreds of already displaced people almost an extremist group linked to the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility. on france hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets again on thursday 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 ball strike actions in france in decades now familiar scenes you see them police using tear gas to control protesters the strikes have caused weeks of travel chaos across france or correspondent was there in paris lisa lewis she's covering those strikes for us and 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 all the police that's about the 30th how many people were out protesting on the 17th of december that is 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 economies specially in the transport sector you know that there are very few trains running and also here in paris transport the are a.t.p. which is running the metro the metro has as largely ground to a halt so this is the longest strike really since long straightaway strike since the 1930 s. here in france. lisa lu is there reporting for us from paris now in china a new type of virus could be the cause of a mysterious pneumonia like illness that is and 59 people to the hospital the virus is supposedly linked sue the deadly sars outbreak it's similar to that one that came out in china in 2003 the outbreak in the central city of one hon has been linked to a seafood market in the city as more many of the patients worked out 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 hands held 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 now 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 showing no signs of fever for several days. you're watching news live from berlin up next terry mark will have the business news and highlights our more news for you i'm crass but thanks for watching. it is time to take one step further and face the. time to search the. bike for the truth. time to overcome barriers and conflict the world it's too.