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this is deja vu news live from berlin tensions at boiling point in the red protesters chanted anti-government slogans follow the admission by the iranian government that it accidentally shot down a ukrainian jetliner on wednesday killing 176 people also coming up. canadian prime minister justin trudeau demands full accountability from iran over the downing of the airliner he says iran must compensate the families of the victims. taiwan relex its president and delivers
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a blow to beijing saw e.u. want vows to preserve taiwan's autonomy in the face of growing up for its part china to bring the island under its control. on exposure thanks for joining us american president donald trump says he's closely following protests which took place in iran after the government announced that its forces had accidentally shot down a ukrainian passenger jet trying to manage access for human rights groups to monitor the demonstrations iran's semi official news agency fars has also acknowledged that protesters have been chanting anti-government slogans. down with the lies and they must step down the woods of angry students gathered. in front of
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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 doesn't it is a peaceful protest we want to show that we disagree with what has happened in the past few days. because if the things that support the. people are tired of this we can't handle this anymore. in the morning the head of the force of the british and god admitted in a live press conference what could no longer be kept secret he's troops would taints on wednesday because of the war like atmosphere. an anti-aircraft officer thought the object displayed to him was an american cruise missile want to unfortunately he made a hasty decision and a tragic accident followed. mobile phone videos on the internet showed the launch of the anti aircraft missile runs late is admitted the mistake supreme leader
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cumani apologized to relatives of the victims and president rouhani and foreign minister said eve announced punishment of those responsible and compensations for the families affected but as candles alight for the victims in tehran many of the mourners may feel apologies will not be enough and to dig a little deeper into this story we're joined now by hussein by iran expert and assistant professor at the hamilton luger school of at indiana university he joins us from indianapolis professor how significant are these protests and are they different from previous ones. they're pretty significant they are not that different in terms of their contents which is about. asking for greater accountability of government but they are i think qualitatively different this time around because they're an accumulation of many years the same kinds of
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grievances against their governments that have now resulted in a catastrophic. death of 176 people and they are about fundamentally accountability of government officials as to why this happened there against a lack of transparency in what he considered decision making but also i think more broadly than out. the utter lack of regard for the ordinary citizens lives that this government has shown in this episode in this confrontation with the united states. president trump as i was saying has been well tweeting his support as he says want for the protesters is not likely to help them in their if you will contest with with the authorities or perhaps hurt them somehow. well it certainly doesn't help because the president as states has been very clear in terms of his position on iran on the actions of the u.s.
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government when it comes especially to the punitive rare regime of sanctions it's something that many iranians view as having largely indent detrimental to their everyday life but it also obviously gives the governments leverage to frame many of these protests as somehow being stoked by american intelligence agencies or. 3 covert actions of foreign governments but i think more importantly. it speaks to a double standard on the one hand the american president. has banned the entry of americans into the united states yet he speaks all deep care. and affection for them and i think many iranians are able to see through that. and do you think. the downing of the airliner when there was a such a. scary standoff if you will between the united states and iran has it changed the
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dynamic of this standoff between washington and tehran. it certainly i think has changed the narrative from one collective sense of. grievance against the united states to once again one targeted against the iranian government itself just 4 days ago many iranians even though if they don't agree with the actions of their own government or at the ins with the lack of democracy a representation in iran nevertheless saudi extrajudicial killing. military commander as an affront as an illegal action and and had rallied to really send a message to the world that they did not stand for it either but just you know how hours later this shooting down of the airplane and especially in the manner in which it was handled by the iranian government the fact that the government took 3 days to really acknowledge this had happened when western intelligence agencies
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immediately. identified it as probably a mistake and anti missile anti-aircraft missile i think many iranians have now changed your narrative and are demanding more answers accountability and transparency once again from their own government ok professor thank you for that insight hussein barna an assistant professor at the hamilton luger school at indiana university $57.00 canadians died in the plane crash making them the 2nd largest group of victims by nationality after iran's admission that it shot down the plane canada's prime minister justin trudeau addressed reporters about a story that has shocked the country. with iran has admitted to this very serious shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific duran must take full responsibility. canada will not rest until we get the
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accountability justice and closure that the families deserve. earlier i spoke to c.b.c. reporter evan dyer in auto one i asked him what justin trudeau meant when he said he was furious and outraged and talked about the need for justice because he was asked about that and he gave quite a few variations on the answer of we'll see what justice looks like in the coming weeks we're going to have discussions with other allies and so on he didn't really get into the details on justice and accountability but transparency we understand means inspections and that's what the canadian side is working on right now there are 3 canadian officials who we believe landed in tehran about 2 hours ago canada has no diplomatic presence of course in tehran so they travel to. where they were given 3 visas 3 officials went ahead but the understanding is that there but i know consular officials they're there to deal with consular matters such as repatriation
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of remains to canada that kind of course really wants to get its air crash inspectors from the church protection safety board to look at the actual evidence of the crash although the main question of course already been answered the plane was brought down by a missile and other questions about who gave the order and so on maybe out of the reach of air crash. how is the canadian public as a whole reacting to all this. wild there's a lot of outrage there's a lot of sadness too i must say that these were you know this was a plane which had entire families in it had some very talented people with promising futures there were a huge loss of people for example you know byrd and many of them were researchers from the university of alberta and seems to take it particularly are. just some you know some very promising people or on that plane as well as people who were just on their way home making a difficult journey because it's hard to reach your own can a difficult journey to see families and i guess you know one of the differences actually with this crash from the air india crash with was the biggest terrorist
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incident history that killed about 300 people most of whom were indian and canadian dual citizens at the time the prime minister back in 1900 sent condolences to india almost overlooking the fact that most of people in that plane were canadians and this is a very well integrated community today in community very much part of the national fabric and is there a perception that people died because of the standoff between the united states and iran and if so between washington and tehran which side do you think canadians might blame or. mort iran i don't think there's any doubt about that but i think i mean there will be people of course we've taken the opposite position but i don't think they'd be the majority what i do think though is that some blame is at least from what we've seen from the reaction of the prime minister he's been asked on a couple of occasions whether he blamed the united states he didn't take the bait but he certainly didn't say no of course not we blame the ones who pulled the trigger
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on the missile he said given and says more along the lines of those are questions we're going to be looking at and those are questions canadians going to ask themselves as well so certainly there's a sense that canada should have been warned before these initial attacks success nation or general still need money because canada has troops in iraq both as part of nato mission iraq in baghdad and at the base in erbil which was hit by ballistic missiles fired from iran and canada had no warning of the attack that was going to lead. ok well thank you for that c.b.c. reporter evan di reporting from ottawa. and it's time now to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of bilbo in spain's basque region there demanding the return of prisoners linked to the former armed separatists group at a government policy has so far been to does 1st these prisoners across the country demonstrators want these prisoners to be transferred to jail closer to home. a
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spanish rescue ship says it has rescued $72.00 migrants who had run into difficulty in the mediterranean or small boat found off the coast of libya was carrying several pregnant women and young children tens of thousands of people every year attempt the perilous journey to reach your. taiwan's pro independence president at saïd one has been reelected by a landslide margin side won 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for her tough stance against china which does not recognize taiwanese independence and insists the island is still part of china. savoring her victory. message of defiance against beijing earned her a lopsided win and her acceptance speech she warned china the taiwan would not be influenced by threats. the people of taiwan reject
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a one country 2 systems model and we respect democracy and our sovereign rights. i hope this election result sends china a clear message. to her supporters were ecstatic. and 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. size main opponent national party candidate hon cio you campaigned on resetting
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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 under chinese control. a 17 year old in turn volunteering on a nasa program has impressed his bosses by discovering a planet a high school student from new york was on his 3rd day at work the newly discovered planet depicted here in this nasa animation is over 1300 light years away and orbits 2 stars the teenager and in turn noticed a blip in data which indicated. something was blocking the light from the stars it's the 1st new planets spotted through nasa as tests satellite the student is a star wars fan who hopes to make a career in astronomy and i think it's safe to say the force is strong with him.
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