twist's today western intelligence agency suggested that the ukrainian passenger jet that crashed near the iranian capital had been shot down perhaps accidentally by an iranian missile iran says that is definitely not true but let's wait for the investigation so who can we believe i'm phil gale in berlin and this is the day. after the thing that is clear to us and that we can say with certainty is that this plane was not hit by a missile. seriously the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering a surface to air missile the iranian state would never kill it some people this may well have been unintentional we do believe that it's likely that the plane was shot down by a rainy and something very terrible happened very devastated and when we get the

results of that investigation i am confident we and the world will take appropriate actions which. also coming up australians demand that action on climate change as the country braces for mega blazes brought about by high temperatures and strong winds this one was ferocious just standing up in a hero and you could just hear that rumbling the roller of a. sound that never forget its horrible. welcome to viewers on p.b.s. in united states and indeed around the world iran has denied western allegations that one of its missiles a shot down a ukrainian passenger jet that crashed outside killing everyone on board ukraine the ukrainian international airlines flight was on its way from the iranian capital . to the u. . ukrainian capital kiev the plane went down shortly after takeoff it was carrying

176 people most of them in training and canadian it happened just hours after iran launched an attack against u.s. targets in neighboring iraq western intelligence agencies believe an iranian surface to air missile had lied we do believe that it's likely that that plane was shot down by a rainy unless all we are we're going to let the investigation play out before we make a final determination it's important that we get to the bottom of it but we've seen we've seen video we've seen film of the new hearing the answer you make a judgment you want to radian state t.v. we've seen bulldozers clearing the area that doesn't normally happen after playing out does it take to accidents plane accidents or a very technical issue i cannot judge you cannot judge the porters underground cannot judge nobody can judge so when our point is an aviation authority cannot speculate we have to be certain of the things we say the causes we aren't sure of

yet but as i said what we can say for certain is that a messiah did not strike the plane. well let's get more on this from aviation analyst to julian bray he joins us from cambridge in the united kingdom welcome to d.w. so we have now an investigation and 3 pack conflicting theories iran's going with mechanical failure or pilot error while an increasing number of western intelligence agencies are pointing at an accidental iranian missile strike what are you thinking at this early stage well the stories moved on quite a bit today and the thinking is that it was a proximity missile basically this means that the missile is fired does not if you touch the aircraft it comes within a few yards of it it will explode so that will then release lots of shrapnel and column 5 shots and literally just lacerates the aircraft. so that this is

what the evidence seems to be pointing to but we just heard from iran's civil aviation chief saying that it definitely wasn't a missile strike what do you think makes them so sure well with the graces of respect to the rain you know thora sees they're not exactly following procedure in investigating accidents they cleared the site they started clearing the site today they've had diggers out sort of moving everything away getting rid of all the day every there's been no mapping of the site has been no photography of of the site they removed all the parties yesterday they have removed possessions and they've let the local population walk all over what is a crime scene so. obviously they're going to say that nothing is happening nothing is wrong and you can't judge but the point is they're not allowing the proper investigation to take place and it's all down to the black boxes now and we're

hoping they're not going to mess those up because the big if this was a missile strike then presumably we'll hear somebody say oh my goodness what's that all of that effect. yes there are 2 data recorders on this take rare craft captures all the sound of the flight the conversations between the pilot and the traffic control. his copilot and you should be able to judge from that what state the pilots it whether the excited. hole or whatever is happening there and all the other side you have. set out to record every electrical impulse every switch to change every drop in voltage all that sort of thing and they're both on timelines and you meld the 2 together and you get a complete picture won't be nothing all that aircraft for about one or 2 hours before the actual incident and that's what we're off to now the iranians have these

they have phones is this saying already that one is damaged and they're not to say how they're going to go about it. there is no the legal requirement for the iranians to hand the boxes over to the ring also the engine manufacturers the way hugely the boxes all say to. an independent of barfi that sets out to decode these and this is what we hope they do with and we really don't want the iranians opening these boxes up and poking around inside to see whether they can get something off it really needs to be expertly decoded ok so as you said there is an investigation so but let's speculate let's say that it was one of these proximity missiles for whatever reason how people are going to be asking how presumably a multi-million dollar system accidentally hit system villian passenger plane how

does that happen. well they could have been firing at something else and perhaps a raving mechanism wasn't quite right remember this is heat seeking its proximity it doesn't actually have to go towards the aircraft it just detects a heat source and grows straight forward so this is being charitable we could say that this was a mistake they were aiming for something else but the point is this missile did actually cold cause this plane to crash and so no way this this is a new plane it's not even 4 years old yet and so if again continuing a speculation if this was an accidental shooting by an iranian missile silo one of the repercussions of that dog what happens to his health responsibility and what does that look like. well the west is the west the

the countries involved are already saying they're suggesting this was a mistake it's unintentional they didn't mean it to happen so they've given the iranians a way out you say to go along with this and we will counter that arrangement over it now the words will be no ongoing hostilities because of this particular incident accidents do happen hopefully not too many times. the iranians don't see the firing this asshole and what they're saying is that they're going to carry out their investigation they're inviting everybody in and you've got to realize of course that boeing is american and the engine and engine manufacturer is american so they're not too predisposed to go. at the moment so what they might have to to get a proxy t. even because they've got associations with other firms around the world and do it that way but the most important thing is that we really really like to see these 2

boxes going to somewhere like that be a paris who are set up for it and they can do all the proper tests and they can then give the independent report back to iran for them to distribute as they so choose that's very clear thank you for joining us aviation analyst julian bright. now the u.s. government has unveiled a new sanctions against iran's steel industry and senior regime officials secretary of state mike pompei o 7 sanctions are response to iran's missile attack on u.s. bases in iraq which followed the u.s. assassination last week of iran's top military command general cassim samani secretary pompei o defended president trump's decision to kill the general saying that and in reign an attack against u.s. interests was imminent the goal of our campaign. is to deny the regime the resources to conduct its destructive foreign policy we want iran to simply behave

like a normal nation we believe the sanctions that we imposed today further that strategic objective we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats treatment could attacks on us embassies period full stop i don't know exactly which minute we don't know exactly which day it would have been executed but it was very clear customs of the mahdi himself was plotting a broad large scale attack against american interests and those attacks were imminent against american facilities including american embassies military bases american facilities throughout the region this is i think. straight to washington that want to join the correspondent public phone they welcome. the u.s. is ultimate goal is to follow what they say it's ultimate goal is to force iran to renegotiate a new weapons deal but it's hard to see why iran oh i wouldn't negotiate with a country that has demonstrated such bad faith in the past and walked away from previous agreement so this fall we've seen lots of stick is there any carrots.

well yeah that's certainly a pretty fair statement to say that but of course the goal of the united states is to put so much pressure on iran by introducing these new sanctions adding to already a significant level of sanctions on iran that are already in place that eventually what will happen is iran will just not be able to cope and will have to. sit down and renegotiate a new deal with the united states which is what president trump has wanted since taking office and he has very much believed in this maximum pressure we're seeing it now with these new sanctions on you know so many sectors in iran finances construction manufacturing textile mining sectors also against aid to rein in officials who are said to be involved in destabilizing activities and actually phil

i want to bring in something that's happened in the past few minutes which is that it's being revealed here in the united states in that one of the big networks here fox news have been showing a snippet of an interview with president trump in which president trump once again justifies the reasons why they went after and custom still in money and he said in this interview we'll tell you probably. see the money was going to be there going to target the embassy in baghdad he says that he can reveal that it was going to be as well for embassies so this gives once again more just a vacation in the eyes of president trump for introducing this these new fresh round of sanctions against iran. present trumbo lot of last week's killing without congressional approval so the house of representatives house now passed a non-binding vote in to limit the president's ability to engage in military conflict against iran this code become if it gets support the house voted almost

completely along party lines to pass this resolution. today to honor our duty to keep the american people safe that is our 1st responsibility to protect and defend we must keep the american people safe the house will pass a war powers resolution to limit the president's military actions regarding iran i'd actually like to hear a democrat speak to the 600 gold star families the solomonic killed i'd like to hear them to finn that the resolution resolution before the house today is a step towards reasserting our constitutional duty to reign in a president who is unilateral actions have isolated us from our allies increased the risk of a nuclear armed iran and made us less safe don't try to pass some figley figleaves resolution that is only intended to try to undermine the president in the middle of

a conflict with the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism iran is going to publish this in washington pablo so talk us through what this resolution actually beans well this is essentially you mentioned it before it was you know mostly along party lines of course the majority is held in the lower hives by the democrats but this is really a show of force and power by the legislature here in the u.s. to say you know president trump you need to remember that we're here in order for the president to for example go into a war in the case of iran if he were to want to do that at some point that he needs to get approval from congress and that's something that they want to basically reiterate and show once again that he cannot just do essentially what he wants so it was also very telling that they also knew that if it does pass onto the senate you know it probably will not get approval because that's not forget that the

senate is controlled by a majority the majority there is by republicans. above fully honest in washington thank you meanwhile european union foreign ministers have been holding emergency meetings in brussels to discuss the crisis in iraq following nuff foreign policy chief joseph or who a call for deescalation from both sides and reaffirms a box commitment to the iranian nuclear deal the region cannot afford another war it really are going not afford another wall and we call for an urgent this collation and maqsood restrain to every part we are also committed to preserving the joint comprehensive plan of action. without the g c p o n a today iran would be a nuclear power we have to avoid the spider love by your lence can

create the situation in iraq that can be very dangerous for all of us and the strike is of work and efforts on the rebuilding of this country and so you foreign policy chief joseph burrell straight through brussels where we join brussels correspondent potentials welcome terry so where does the barrow. speaking very statesman like but one wonders does anyone besides the e.u. care that the e.u. still backs iran nuclear deal but there have been recent events rendered it it relevant. well truly it isn't helped by mr burrell's rather uninspired. pronouncement that the deal is not dead but you know it's not true that nobody cares about the iran deal anymore that everybody believes it's irrelevant because besides the european union you know who cares iran cares and that's evidenced by the fact that although it has now breached all obligations under the iran nuclear

deal quite openly and flagrantly it did not kick out and specters and that truly would have been the death of the deal because the e.u. relies entirely on the assessments of these international inspectors to determine what it does next so the others the other parties that care about the iran nuclear deal are china and russia don't forget that they are also signatories to this deal and neither of them have suggested they want to either quit it or to take this step of re imposing sanctions on iran for breaching the deal so the other 5 parties other than the united states still want to keep it alive even if it is by this very very very thin thread ok so it looks increasingly like a fight between the united states and you round won't influence the e.u. bring to bad either party. it is true that the e.u. is largely sidelined here as the u.s.

and tehran battle it out and the question then comes up if it's not dead is is it really alive and that remains to be seen but you do hear you governments sounding increasingly realistic which could also be pessimistic in saying that without the united states and without the united states removing these sanctions that are just crippling the iranian economy and and basically hamstringing the e.u. to do anything about it you really don't have much of a chance of reinvigorating this deal listen to what the in prime minister edgar's drink of it's told my colleague max under today at the emergency ministerial we need to reach out today and i think states understand it's also not going to be an easy dialogue and then try to push everyone at the table or at least to push everyone to try to find their rights how we can actually proceed however let's face it resulted in ited states it is almost impossible to revive the whole let's

say deal as it stands maybe we need to look at the broader issues maybe we need to more evidence ballistic missiles program and also activities appeared on in the region because those were also 2 key elements the threat not covered by the deal 2015 we now say that actually does to your shares aren't important. so that's a really interesting statement from the latvian prime foreign minister because he is saying that the 2 issues which the u.s. used to justify its abandonment of the nuclear deal that is iran's ballistic missile program and its support for destabilizing activities in the region were not covered in the deal and drink of us are saying perhaps we do need to open it up further something the e.u. has not been willing to do up to this point which is basically stalemated discussions with the the united states over it launching a new deal now there's no sign that iran is willing to discuss those issues but we are certainly hearing perhaps more realistic rhetoric coming from the european

union ok today's meeting of e.u. foreign ministers was also attended by of the nato secretary general what is nato is position on this unilateral military action taken by its biggest member nation against iraq well you sort of answered the question yourself phil the u.s. is the biggest military power not only in the united states but of course in nato as well and you're never going to hear the alliance as a whole speak out against any actions of the united states including this one and well some european governments have been quite open about the fact that they were uncomfortable with the targeted killing of customs the money nobody supported him but they don't like this idea that the u.s. wants as air strikes unilaterally without telling them without asking them and they are never that's never going to be a line coming out of nato headquarters fishelson brussels very clear thank you.

not to australia but tens of thousands of people have rallied in major cities to protest against the government's handling of the bushfire crisis and to demand action on climate change the protests carry the country brace for more high temperatures and strong winds which are likely to set off even more blazes at least $26.00 people have died in the 5 some more than 2000 homes being destroyed. byrne town pick up trucks and fires that still small her on the side of the road the village of co barco was an infernal a couple of days ago kyle moser shows us the chicken coop and has yard he was in such a hurry to a skate that he forgot to open the door is burnt said no chance these farm was for righteous just we was standing up and they hero and you could just hear that rumbling the role or a vet who was it would dive been it's a sound at never forget it's a horrible kyle and his partner david assessed the charred heap of rubble that was

once their home they say they feel numb but dave it is also outranged he feels things should never have come to this point in astray we were in a quip we didn't have the fall i thought in year trough we should have had the should be spending money you know from that's a the she peace thoughts we should be a king up out for us if says and they need of a native it the even the building right next door to the local fire department burn down after months the government has now set a sign extra funds for firefighting many sing it's too late but the fire chief appeals for calm and the middle of the fire season everyone here is a volunteer it'll at the mine an all arkansas is where you have a lot of taught paypal we have a lot of to made of paypal and way it when the aids or just get true at this stage odd get true the fall it's that we hit with it we have to have a be have taking on more fall kyle and david took refuge in the local post office

which they also run power still comes from a generator kyle has adopted 3 kangaroo babies alleys mother succumb to the flames well he washes out milk bottles tells us that many villages here are angry what the australian prime minister and his crisis management a his not still not thinking about how us he him throughout town only broady is his mighty k. he didn't bring any help he didn't bring food to and i. wouldn't even offer books people water it was just his i need to wing it to cover him so. many australians have donated necessities clothing and pillows are piled up in the local community hall sarah callan and her 4 daughters are looking for new shoes. their house burnt to a cinder. they had just moved in. and as

a mark i'm at a loss there highly says well so time the whole community as a whole as well some think it's good to see everybody working together and as a community will do it will all band together and everyone will help each other and will move forward as a community. some do not even have insurance but the people of cobar go are trying to make do with what they have left meanwhile the blazes burned on in other parts of australia. so here's a reminder of our top story iran's a civil aviation that she 1st denied that the ukrainian the plane at the vet's across newtek ground was hit by a missile but counted as prime minister says multiple intelligence sources indicate on the rain in that missile mistakenly hit the. 0 secretary of state mike pompei with treasury secretary stephen nugent one failed that new sanctions against iran steel industry and their own senior officials of obviously great public perceptions of the results of iran's missile attack on bases

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