for the future. for america. this is d.w. news live from berlin iran admins to shooting down and ukrainian passenger plane killing all 176 people on board iran says the aircraft was brought down by accident last wednesday after it flew near a sensitive military site i'll have the latest from tehran also coming up the mystery surrounding how the passenger plane came down in iran might be

a result beyond the shock and grief felt by people who lost someone remains time hear more about the victims and the international communities who are mourning their loss. i married to evanston welcome to the program we begin with breaking news iran has announced that its military on intentionally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet killing all 176 people on board tehran says it was a case of human error western countries based on evidence including this mobile phone footage had been saying they saw it in iranian missile brought down the plane after an initial denials iran's military now says the people responsible will be court marshaled. well meanwhile you iran's foreign minister zarif tweeted

a sad day preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by armed forces human error at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster and our profound regrets apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all the victims and to other affected nations sorry for the latest from tehran we're joined now by journalist raising cost day raise a good morning to you what more can you tell us about the statement that was issued by iran's military well this morning the general of the raid in arms or says really is just it most definitely meeting to shooting down the ukrainian passenger plane it offered apology sympathy to hold the families of the victims and the reunion nation as beloved the other countries in the tragic

incident it said that the passenger plane was flying near a cessna did all your g.c. believe 3 sides it was a very critical sensitive time following the i.o.c. sees lisa let. you was basically you are. use of all american military. aircraft flying over the region and it was high all the. human error caused the air if. the passenger plane did that to you with. the tragedy. well in the 1st few days following the crash hearing and officials ruled out a military strike as being behind it reason why do you think they chose to admit to this now. well pressure of the public opinion

of the of foreign trees all the social media. live no other choice for the contrie to meet it must of. if that happens. in the statement the armed forces said immediately after the incident did or or it could mean to probe into the incident. include the government. or in the investigation committee so somehow it exonerated the government i've heard from my colleagues and sources that the government was not the. shooter. right. know mother how the other government was informed or not it is. for the

contrary. there i am on the nation all right. journalist from tehran we thank you so very much for that update well for the view from the ukrainian capital kiev we're joined now by d.w. correspondent david stern hello to you david so has there been an official response from the government in kiev on this announcement by iran that its military shot down the passenger plane. well yes in fact within the last hour we've seen or a little bit more a an official statement in ukrainian and in english from the president. just read it very quickly in english it was a tweet that he's issued to this morning brings the truth he says ukraine insists on a full admission of guilt we expect iran to bring those responsible to justice return the bodies pay compensation and issue an official apology the investigation must be

full open and continue without delays or obstacles so ukrainians very quick to greet the news but obviously for them the story is not over they're expecting even more and they're expecting all the details to come out as well as for those 2 are responsible to be held brought to justice all right so some very clear demands on the part of ukraine david what can they do if these demands are not met by iran. well the president didn't say anything about that or we heard from the foreign minister voting for stocco yesterday he held a press conference and he had said before this news came out of the way that if it did come to this that the deter not that a missile had shot it down then they say there are legal steps that they would take ultimately possibly going to the to the united nations and he drew the comparison with the shooting down of the malaysian airlines and the 17 back in 2014 so the ukrainians are have already started thinking along those lines now i

guess it depends on how quickly. the iranians move forward in the investigation and in the other these other demands that the ukrainians have made david you mentioned that other incident with the plane crash over eastern ukraine this is not the 1st time that the country finds itself caught up in a tragedy linked to an international conflict how are people taking it. well yes exactly this is not the 1st time that ukraine has found itself in this position also and just in general in a very sticky international situation remind you also about the impeachment proceedings in the united states which has caused a great deal of i guess just diplomatic jockeying but the comparison with m.h. 17 is very acute there dutch investigators have determined that russia brought a missile system into eastern ukraine which shut down the would shut down the

a malaysian airline those people have not been brought to justice nor has russia admitted to this so the ukrainians are very much watching the uranian this is a the reaction from the general public well it's very early on a saturday morning but i imagine that they will greet it on but as i think that with the with the president they'll be waiting to see what the iranians do next. david stern correspondent in kiev we thank you very much. well among those killed in the ukrainian airliner disaster in tehran were $57.00 canadians many of them were highly qualified iranian canadians who held academic teaching and research posts at universities across canada the tragedy has led to an outpouring of grief for the victims. of this tragedy has hit an immigrant community hard many of the victims of wednesday's plane crash you know on a deer to the hearts of many here in canada the majority were iranian or jewel

iranian canadian citizens returning home from holidays in iran. to scurry about citizenship you would go see his mother on holidays and you know i swear we. heard briefly about a girl who is not his last we want to. destroy you. their brother. so the family last night said that. the effect of the crash is being felt across regions and professions in canada at least 17 universities have confirmed they lost staff or students. since the us hardened its policy towards iran the number of iranian students in canada has more than doubled. knowledge about what caused the crash is unlikely to ease the grief of those close to the victims. all right let's get some analysis on all of this and

for that i'm joined in the studio by raphael bo song he's a security policy expert with the german institute for international and security affairs hello to you rafael so now that iran has admitted to downing the plane what are the consequences i mean this may sound a little bit strange but could something possibly good come out of this could this be a moment for tensions to deescalate could we even possibly see. iran and the united states reengaging in the wake of this well i don't think it will have an impact on the american iranian relations and i think it is a stretch to say this can be turned into a constructive direction however i mean i think we can see that the iranian government is trying to maintain a line of deescalation i mean the real question is of course what happens with the atomic greenland and the further sort of diplomatic discussions with europe and also other partners like russia but within this bigger picture this is just maybe

a sign that we're trying to keep our discussions open and not shutting down the trust trying to pretend that everything is fine and we're just doing what we can to keep control i mean the i mean the iranian regime well we heard from our correspondent in tehran who is saying that public opinion within iran itself there is a lot of anger being expressed against the military following this admission do you expect any serious internal of repercussions in the iran in the wake of this but it's very hard to say but yes of course the regime is the only under external pressure but also very much under internal pressure i mean very recently last autumn and winter there were severe protests which were sort of pushed back only by military force and yes people may be scared to go out in the streets again but the anger hasn't gone away and of course the regime also knows that it cannot just rule by force so yes there were reigning victims among the shot down plane and so in

that sense the government has to respond and cannot just pretend it's the americans what kind of response is likely what do you think might satisfy the public well then again this is an internal matter but they said they would punish the people responsible possibly it could be finding some you know someone to blame and i don't know what punishment will be meted out. for. we not much more than not but in general as this had a beginning i think it's a sign that the government tries to listen at least they're trying to show with arabs and but whether that's going to be enough for people within the country i strongly doubt that all right well we thought perhaps this is iran's effort to show more openness but could it backfire i mean the united states has announced fresh sanctions on iran could we see the country becoming more isolated because of this well we're right in the middle of it i mean it really hinges on the other

international actors to see whether you know they have continued to offer a raise in iran alternatives to the u.s. i mean the e.u. talks for months already about providing aid and credit potentially as a compensation for u.s. sanctions but so far this hasn't really materialized and this is really the more important the bigger question whether this will be actually come into practice to make up for the u.s. pressure or whether in the end the europeans will say well in da would rather side with the u.s. and of course within europe there is no real agreement or has already said he wouldn't want to support this kind of line which now france and of course german to some expense are following so within this big picture of the plane i don't think will change that much rafał both song we thank you very much indeed for your insights let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news

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