we would have died of hunger down the path. to such a short term refers to. the book. the at. the at. this is d w news live from budget the commander of all the iran's revolutionary guard accept full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian a passenger plane iran says the aircraft was brought down by accident last wednesday after it flew in a sensitive military site all 176 people on what killed her how the latest from

tektronix also coming up german chancellor angela merkel meets with russian president vladimir putin in moscow as you leaders have several significant point to dispute the chinese are common ground on the middle east amid rising tensions in the region. and taiwan reelected president and delivers a blow to beijing signed 1000 to preserve taiwan's autonomy in the face of growing efforts by china to bring the argument on that its control. was. the add. on helena humphrey glad you could join me the commander of iran's revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian passenger jet on wednesday iran says that the firing of a missile at the plane was a mistake claiming human error off the plane flew near a sensitive military site 176 people were killed in the crash techron had

previously denied claims made by the u.s. and canada that 8 was responsible. an explosion in the sky this mobile phone footage was one factor that led western countries to suspect an iranian missile attack on the ukrainian passenger plane finally after days of vehement denials a bronze military admitted its guilt with armed forces at the highest level of alert the crimean international airlines flight had appeared to fly like a hostile target near a sensitive military site. you know. when i became 'd certain that this incident had happened i really wished death for myself. i wished i had died not seen such an incident politicians followed human era had caused the missile to be fired iran's foreign minister tweeted meanwhile

the country's president has an rouhani called the attack a disastrous mistake the about face comes after iran maintained that a technical fault had been to blame for the crash even after u.s. canadian and british intelligence concluded that a surface to air missile had caused the tragedy on the streets of tehran relatives gathered to express the grief and growing anger. the the crowd chanting just one word directed at the country's leaders resignation. we gathered here because of iranian leaders inefficiency because of some peoples in adequacy. children were killed in the sky that's why they gathered together here where else do we go. in other parts of the city police fired tear gas

to disperse crowds that feel a government apology is simply not enough. well here to talk more about this now is iran expert just had a setup a good to see you today so now this admission of culpability from iran's revolutionary guard of having shot down that plane it is getting a heated response as we just saw there in tehran is yes very much so the. grief felt by many iranians turned into anger quite quickly both abroad and within the country itself we're seeing a lot of responses on social media where people are blaming the revolutionary guards for the tragedy they're asking why they did not declare a no fly zone while they knew that the confrontation with the united states would get worse they're asking what took them so long to acknowledge their fault and also demanding consequences some even calling for the resignation of the supreme leader of course and that's something security forces within the islamic republic usually

cannot tolerate so we saw tear gas and we're also hearing reports of internet connection getting worse in some parts of the country so that could indicate that the islamic republic is trying to shut down social media again just like it did during the last wave of protests to silence its critics to so many questions right now coming from members of the general public i suppose another question is you know why did it take so long to get to what is i suppose a very rare admission from the islamic republic what do you think the consequences will be of the fact that you know it dragged its feet on that well the problem apparently was that it took a long time until everybody within the islamic republic knew what had actually happened because you have to see that it was not in iran's military. shot down that plane but the revolutionary guards that's a powerful organization designed to protect islamic republic political system and they said when they noticed that they had made a mistake they decided not to go public but had an investigation 1st and from what

we hear the country's president and even the supreme leader only learned about all of that in a day and age. and that it was then decided to go public with it i mean what can we expect to see now because when we think about what we've seen in iran tonight we've seen grief we've seen anger we saw a country then united following the death that seems fragile now where we go from here and it's very hard to tell of course as an rouhani the president has promised there will be more investigation and prosecution of the people responsible and that's of course what the people on the streets of tehran and demanding. there are rumors that the person responsible has already offices resignation and that higher ranking officials declined that and actual prosecution of a high ranking official of the revolutionary guards is unheard of in iran so that's not very likely actually but if the public wants to end these protests it will have

to think about doing that right now. on expert with me here in the studio monitoring all of the fallout from this thank you very much indeed. canadian prime minister justin trudeau has addressed reporters following iran's admission that it shot down the aircraft taking us with iran has admitted to this very serious shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific. must take full responsibility. canada. rest until we get the accountability justice and closure to the families to search for that washington now where. standing by for us of course we just heard there from the canadian prime minister just in true day weather what other reactions are we having to iran's admission of having shot down that plane. well i just want to add as well that

justin trudeau said something which was quite telling of the feelings towards this whole situation which we seen over the past week or so between the u.s. and iran he said that obviously in this context the middle east these days death contributed to this tragedy but iran did the right thing and took responsibility for the downing of this plane for this tragedy so you know he's saying essentially that the tensions in that region contributed to this situation it's very care what he's saying in some ways but of course if we move it here to the united states president trump has been defending his decision and his administration's decision to assassinate the iranian general custom sulaimani so that's essentially what's being spoken about here president trump defending his decision r.t.w. probably for the n.d.s. reporting that from washington thanks. will german chancellor i'm going to russian president vladimir putin also discussed iran's downing all the play in the 2 leaders held talks on saturday in moscow where merkel also stressed that every

possible effort should be made to adhere to the iran nuclear deal now iran was just one of many urgent items on their agenda. bungle americal on her way to a quick meeting with vladimir putin the list of international crises is long you run syria ukraine libya germany wants to mediate proposes a peace conference in berlin to end the civil war in libya. it's about non interference about sovereignty and that's why the parties currently engaged in a military confrontation in libya we presented by mr saroj and mr have to should naturally be tightly involved that through the influence. different groups have been fighting for power in libya since 2011 russia supports general khalifa haftar are against the un recognized government in tripoli but putin says he will encourage the german initiative but it worth was up of this conflict not only

undermine stability in the region it also has negative effects on europe. i mean illegal migration smuggling illegal commerce and the proliferation of weapons and drugs the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany is another problem washington wants to stop the project with sanctions against companies who work on it berlin and moscow intend to complete it by 2021 anyway because with more we can finish the pipeline ourselves without foreign partners. germany and russia have major disagreements over the conflict in ukraine and european sanctions against russia but merkel said it's better to talk to each other than about each other. so i took notice of the other stories making news around the world maybe unions have marched through paris and other french cities to protest pension reforms planned by president to money what about call the demonstrations came off the talks between the government and unions failed to break a deadlock

a strike against the reform had disrupted public transport since early december. judges and lawyers from across poland to doubt that in the capital warsaw to protest judicial reforms proposed by the conservative government they say that the reforms are strictly do trees independence judges who is from many other european countries also joined in the alps the e.u. and the united nations have also criticised the reforms. northern ireland's main parties has formed a power sharing government off to 3 years sound off the deal between the unionists do you pay a nationalist should say was brokered by courts and then on and for years ago should say quit the power sharing a. ainge meant because it said it felt was it was not being treated as an equal moving again thank you. for several 1000 people have marched through scotland's largest city glasgow to show support for independence nationalists hope to hold a referendum database here on whether scotland should break away from the united

kingdom britain's decisions lead the european union has increased support for scottish independence. will taiwan's pro independence president saeed one has been reelected and by a landslide margin side won 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for a tough stance against china which does not recognize taiwanese independence and insists that the island is still part of china. savoring her victory sorry wants message of defiance to get spacing on her a lopsided win in her acceptance speech she warned china the taiwan would not be influenced by threats from. iran or the people of taiwan reject a one country 2 systems model and we respect tomography and our sovereign right side one that there will come around that. i hope this election result sends china a clear message i might be that simple don't listen to her supporters were

ecstatic. i. didn't get off i'm very happy with the result today because we have made it known to china that top one is not to be bullied. yeah they would tell you all. ever since i was small i was taught by my father that taiwan is a country for 21 years so at this moment i feel very moved to see so many taiwanese agreeing that taiwan has its own sovereignty democracy and freedom. to its legal size main opponent national party candidate han q you campaigned on resetting ties with china to boost taiwan's economy but that message failed to resonate with many voters. sighs government faces several challenges going forward beijing is likely to increase its efforts to isolate taiwan hoping to bring it back

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