i have hunger i mean i don't want to sound. just food storage turnour 15. this is d.w. news live from berlin the commander of iran's revolutionary guard accepts full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane iran says the aircraft was brought down by accident last wednesday after it flew near a sensitive military site all 176 people on board were killed you have the latest from tehran. class people from iran to europe and canada grief for those who were killed in that crash families and friends who lost loved ones uniting they're shocked to hear more about the victims and the community is mourning bell loss.

plan german chancellor angela merkel meets with russian president vladimir putin in moscow to the 2 leaders have several significant points of dispute is can i find common ground on the middle east and rising tensions in the region. i'm tired raid welcome to the program the commander of iran's revolutionary god has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian passenger jet on wednesday iran says the firing of the missile at the plane was a mistake blaming human error after the plane flew near a sensitive military side 176 people were killed in the crash tehran had previously denied claims from the u.s. and canada that it was responsible. an explosion in the sky this

mobile phone footage was one factor that led western countries to suspect an arena and missile attack on the ukrainian passenger plane finally after days of vehement denial iran's military admitted its guilt with armed forces on the highest level of alert the ukrainian international airlines flight had appeared to fly like a hostile target near a sensitive military site i'm. you know. when i became 'd certain that this incident had happened really wished death for myself . i wished i had died and not seen such an incident politicians followed human error had caused the missile to be fired iran's foreign minister tweeted meanwhile the country's president hassan rouhani called the attack a disastrous mistake their boat faced comes after iran maintained that's

a technical fault had been to blame for the crash even after u.s. canadian and british intelligence concluded that the surface to air missile had caused the tragedy. of. canada in particular has paid a high price for the recent saber rattling between iran and the u.s. this vigil in toronto was $1.00 of dozens across the country that paid tribute to the $57.00 canadian citizens many of them university students and researchers who were among the dead. people that were on the plane they were young they were academics they were engineers as his compadres mourned canadian prime minister justin trudeau called for justice for the families of the victims and said he expects the full cooperation of iran. let's cross now to tehran and speak to journalists reza ha stayed there good to see you are iran's revolutionary guards have now taken responsibility for this crash is there going to be any fallout over these. well it was

a very. or the 1st gone for as the interview says are is this there was really all christendom to the extent of all the responsibility for the tragic incident he apologize. or do you see it would obey all the decisions made by the coffers of the scheldt over the incident there already been reports of resignation but i heard that they have been declined are ready to resign. or now it is rejected by higher ranking officials. as i understand and you've also tweeted supreme leader ronnie wasn't made aware of the cause of the crash until friday that was 2 days off did officials keep him in the dock well the i r g c commander said on wednesday morning shortly after the tragic incident

he informed the contras officials but he did not specify. the shows that the g.c. informed of all and he lay there said that the contras generals stuff of armed forces car on top and the people who knew about it decided not to declare the issue until further investigation is conducted on the incident so i have heard that the president of this did not know about it until friday and a leader was also informed on the same day according to her poor boy. you see if you hear this farce news agency well no more can be said for about and that was journalist reza haas day reporting from tehran and earlier i spoke to aviation expert stephen wright and i asked him if he could explain how a commercial airline could be confused with a hostile target. well actually. the

the military should not obviously their own personal location and the thing that i found remarkable is that the military are located so close to a very large commercial apple. almost particularly confusing for myself is iran itself geographically is a really big city that surrounded by mountains the airport is located away from the hills because planes don't not fly. in that sort of general location so they're full why do you put a missile battery so close to an international apple it's not very clear for the by the strategic purpose of especially as it civilian airliners taking off and landing . what about the air force why wasn't the airport closed is that something that would or should normally happen in a situation of the heightened tensions that we're seeing between iran and the u.s.

. you know normally if you're going to have a conflict of some sort you're going to try to supply problems. that the country that you're going to overfly they would normally issue some sort of alert these would be carrying out flight crew so that you can then brief it's important to note that when an aircraft was deployed from this point to that point before the crews go to work they have to report in and work out how they're going to fly we're going to fly from this point to that point and over this country so if there's a conflict taking place for instance when there was the gulf war. taken place previously airlines made sure that they didn't over fly these areas where you know there's going to be trouble so there fly around it and they would need to plan this by carrying extra fuel so again it seems really unusual the airspace wasn't closed if they were anticipating such major problems all right steven wright professor of

aircraft systems finland temple university thank you very much professor now to some of the other stories making news around the world today taiwan's pro independence president signed in one has been reelected by a landslide margin side won 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for her tough stance against china in her victory speech she won beijing that taiwan would not be influenced by threats. and several 1000 people of march through scotland's largest city glasgow to show support for independence nationalists hope to hold a referendum light of this year on where the scotland should break away from the united kingdom britain's decision to leave the e.u. has increased support for scottish independence. well german chancellor angela merkel says every possible effort should be made to what he had to the iran nuclear deal the chancellor the comments after emerging from extended talks with russian

counterpart vladimir putin in moscow merkel also announced that would be hosting a peace summit as it seeks to broker i deescalation of the conflict in libya at the press conference putin said russia would be part of the talks for guiding libya which will be hosted. well for more analysis on merkel's visit let's bring in de w.'s emily show in moscow good to see you emily what else what else have excuse me. been saying at that press conference. well the 2 leaders had a really broad agenda going into these talks they were scheduled to talk about libya about the middle east in general and about ukraine as well and these talks really did seem to have to cover that broad range of topics they went for almost 2 hours longer than initially scheduled when the 2 leaders spoke to the press you could see that they have had for very many years a kind of

a working relationship rather close working relationship you can't say that they're close on all issues but they certainly seemed comfortable with each other and they both talked about how satisfied they were with the meeting both putin and miracles referred to the meeting as useful and productive several times in their comments they also seemed to present a kind of united front on several issues including as you mentioned on their desire to save the iran nuclear deal which donald trump left fairly recently and on north stream as well on that gas pipeline that's set to can take a next the 2 countries they both said that they're determined to finish the construction of that pipeline despite the fact that the u.s. hit the pipeline with sanctions last year or so in both cases u.s. policy seems to be pushing the 2 countries closer closer today. went to moscow. to get something from growing influence in the middle east on the

other hand putin wants to become a key player in resolving conflicts is so how far did each get in their goals today . well when it comes to the middle east we did see some concrete results merkel has been pushing for this peace conference in berlin to take place on the libya conference on the libya conflict and putin did today agree that that could take place he did have a caveat where he said that both sides of this proxy war of this war in this proxy war had to take part in that conference he also pointed out that there was going to be a ceasefire that was announced by him and the turkish leader aired on starting tomorrow so in that case in the case of libya i think both leaders today could present themselves kind of as peacemakers in the middle east when it comes to syria however putin has been pushing for european partners to kind of make

a commitment. to rebuild the country and it seems from the comments that we saw today that merkel didn't commit to that. first moment in moscow emily show and thank you emily. well this week the film frozen 2 officially became the most successful animated film of all time it's a pos the 1st movie which was the previous box office champion frozen 2 has already taken 1300000000 dollars since its november lace it's great news to disney but funnily enough not such good news for a small village in austria where frozen success is creating some serious problems. in frozen the kingdom of erin dell is home to snow queen elsa and her sister ana. karen dell is a place you won't find on any map or will you can tell it's not safe.

rumors are coursing through social media that aaron dell is based on this place the village of hushed up in the austrian alps great advertisement for the town's tourism industry except how start is already up to its eyeballs in tourists 10 years ago the village only got about 100 visitors a day last year it got 10000 a day outnumbering the locals 13 to one we. come here to make a dream come true because it's so pitiful to move to food you can't even walk through the village anymore you get pushed out and biking is really dangerous and he could feel it. and now with disney fans adding to the mix the town's mayor says they've got enough tourists already thank you start is trying to put a cap on the number of visitors who journey here from around the globe. in frozen to elsa is on a journey of her own called by spirits to the dark sea that lies beyond her kingdom

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