the at. this is g.w. news live from but the commander of iran's revolutionary guard accepts full responsibility for shooting down a crane in a cause to declare iran says that the aircraft was brought down by accident last wednesday on st louis a sensitive military site the 176000 were killed the latest from iraq also coming up gemma child so that. the russian president vladimir putin in moscow the 2 leaders have several significant point to dispute but can they find

common ground on the middle east amid rising tensions in the region. and taiwan reelected president and delivers a blow to basic sign want balance to preserve taiwan's autonomy in the face of growing tactics by china to bring the island dictates control to. the as. i have and i am free 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 now iran says that the firing of a missile at the plane was a mistake blaming human error now if the plane flew in a sensitive military site 176 people on board were killed in the crash techron have previously denied claims made by the united states and canada that 8 was

responsible. down with the lies who many must step down the words of angry students gathered in front of the polytechnic university in tehran when they heard the news that it was the iranian military who shot down the ukrainian airliner tempers boiled after days of denial. she is here tells them it is a peaceful protest we want to show that we disagree with what has happened in the past few days. because of the things that supported and all the others thought people are tired of this we can't handle this anymore. in the morning the head of the force of the revolutionary guard admitted in a live press conference what could no longer be kept secret. he's troops with tents on wednesday because of the warlike atmosphere. an anti-aircraft officer thought the object displayed to him was an american cruise missile on him

a large and unfortunately he made a hasty decision and a tragic accident followed his book and ship mobile phone videos on the internet showed the launch of the anti aircraft missile runs late as admitted the mistake supreme leader who money apologized to relatives of the victims and president rouhani and foreign minister announced punishment of those responsible and compensations for the families affected by the scandals allayed for the victims in tehran many of the mourners may feel apologies will not be enough. well here to talk more about this now is the iran experts to have a setup a good to see you today said this admission of culpability from iran's revolutionary guard of having shot down that played it is getting a heated response as we just saw there in tehran is that yes very much so. 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 lending the revolutionary

guards for the tragedy there. 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 and now the 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. 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 iran's military record on that plane but the revolutionary guards it's a powerful organization designed to protect the public political system and they said when they did notice 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 the bad data and that it was then and then within decided to go public with it i mean we expect to see now because when we think about what we've seen in iran of late we've seen grief we've seen we saw a country then united following the death of saddam money that seems fragile now where on earth do we go from here that's very hard to tell of course on rouhani the president has promised there will be more investigation and also prosecution of the people responsible and that's of course what the people out in the streets of

tehran and demanding. there are rumors that the person responsible has already office's 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. ron expert with me here in the studio monitoring all of the fallout from this thank you very much indeed. well canadian prime minister just in a trudeau has addressed reporters following iran's admission that it shot down that take a listen. with iran has admitted to this very serious shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific. must take full responsibility . canada will rest until we get the accountability

justice and closure to the families deserve more than scares you washington now where. standing by for us of course we just heard there from the canadian prime minister just in the 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've 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 and for this tragedy so you know he's saying essentially that the tensions in that region contributed to the situation it's very care what he's saying in some ways but of course if we moved here to the united states president trump has been defending his decision and his administration's decision to assassinate the iranian general custom survey money

so that's essentially what's being spoken about here president trump defending his decision all right you know what he's probably for the n.a.s. reporting that from washington times public and joe johns who i'm going to marco has welcomed iran's admission that it was indeed responsible for the downing of that plane had comments came off to a meeting with russian president that he needed putin in moscow on saturday and the crash was just one all the many items on their agenda. bungle americal on her way to a quick meeting with vladimir putin the list of international crises as long you run syria ukraine libya germany wants to mediate proposing 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 re presented by mysticism raj and mr have to should naturally be tightly involved to to influence the. 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. 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 completed by 2021 anyway. we can finish the pipeline ourselves with our 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. in our time now to look to some of the other stories

making news around the world at this hour maybe unions have marched through paris and other french cities to protest pension reforms planned by president to manually back home demonstrations came after talks between the government and unions failed to break a deadlock a strike against the reform has just dropped to public transport since early december. northern ireland's main parties have formed a power sharing government after a 3 year standoff the deal between the unionists do you pay enough attention fein was brokered by britain and ireland 3 years ago should say quit the power sharing arrangement because if so it was not being treated as an equal. judges and lawyers from across potent gathered in the capital warsaw to protest judicial reforms proposed by the conservative government they say that the reforms restrict the independence of the judiciary judges and lawyers from many of the european

countries joined even without malt the e.u. the un have also criticized reforms. taiwan's pro independence president saeed one has been reelected by a landslide margin so i want 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for a tough stance against china which does not recognize taiwanese independence and insists that the odd and is still part of china. savoring her victory. wands message of defiance against beijing earned her a lopsided win in her acceptance speech she warned china the taiwan would not be influenced by threats. the people of taiwan reject a one country 2 systems model we respect to mocker see and our sovereign rights. i hope this election result sends china a clear message. her supporters were

ecstatic. 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 so i 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. size main opponent national party candidate honcho you campaigned on resetting ties with china to boost taiwan's economy but that message failed to resonate with many voters. sars government faces several challenges going forward beijing is likely to increase its efforts to isolate taiwan hoping to bring it back on dirt chinese control. and our very own phoebe kong is in the time when his

capital taipei she sent us this is us mint. this is a less life victory for taiwan's president taeyang one that she got over 'd 8000000 votes in this election that was the record in taiwan's history and the problem there by this party led by her also secured the majority of seats in the parliament and this is seen as a mandate on timing was stands on the high one china policy over the past 4 years and this is also seen as a strong signal to beijing is to reach out. vacation with taiwan and also to say no to beijing aggression to taiwan on politically diplomatically and also militarily over the possible years so apart from that hong kong protest is also one of the most determined factors in this election and this is seen as a results all patients hotline policy on hong kong's post has the post has

especially pushed how one is away from china over the past 7 months and now the focus will shift to beijing whether beijing will soften is one policy of further intensify the prostrate relations in the future. in taipei when a 17 year old intern who volunteer going to nasa program has impressed his bosses by discovering a plan it's no less the high school student from new york was on his 3rd day the new discovered planet depicted here if you take a look at this nasa animation when it's over 1300 light years away and it orbits 2 stars well the tina teenage in turn he noticed a blip in data which indicated that something was the light from the stars it's the 1st new planet spoke to 3 nurses test satellite the student woof suki here is a star wars fan who hopes to make a career in astronomy. may the force be with him you're

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