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this is the w.'s line from berlin anger flares in iran protests spread after the government there the night for days that it shot down a ukrainian passenger jet mistaking it for a cruise missile demonstrators accuse the regime of a cover up also coming up on high alert in the philippines a volcano near manila appears to be on the verge of a major eruption it's spewing gas and longer and thousands of people have been
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forced to sleep we'll have more from our correspondent on the ground plus a royal showdown prince harry prepares for president talks with the queen over his future role and that of is an american wife making market. only iraq thank you for your company we begin in iran the leaders there are denying that the allied about the shooting down of a ukrainian passenger jet killing all 176 people on board last week while demonstrators accuse the government of trying to conceal the fact that the elite revolutionary guard down the plane by mistake but the government says it admitted to the air as soon as it was informed protesters meanwhile have been taking to the streets in a number of cities to demand that so. one be punished for the tragedy. shouting
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and chaos as onlookers help people shot and bleeding on the streets of tehran this video was taken near the square where crowds had gathered outraged at the cover up after iran shot down a ukrainian passenger plane. video shows tear gas being fired into the crowd. they dispersed leaving a trail of blood as they flee. in signs of increasing defiance images of iran's heroes are being desecrated ordinary iranians are speaking critically about the crash that even talking about it makes my heart beat faster and makes me sad and i feel ashamed when i think about their families i'm so sad that he. is on all the foreign media try to describe it as a technical problem because of their interests and political and international
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reasons but later development changed the game and they had to tell the truth or. pro-government newspapers are also voicing their disappointment and printing lists of the names of the victims shame reads this headline in farsi and on forgivable just days earlier the iranian regime had been celebrating its missile attacks on iraqi air bases housing u.s. forces. now that narrative is also changing the commander of the revolutionary guards telling the country's parliament that they had purposely avoided killing american troops earlier state media had falsely claimed they'd killed 80 and further signs of cooling tensions iran's top officials met with the emir of neighboring qatar a u.s. ally both sides agreed that deescalation was the only way forward. all right let's get some analysis now from the julie norm. of the department of
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political science at the university college of london a very good day thank you for joining us we're witnessing these remarkable scenes of defiance of playing out on the streets of tehran. can this government survive this. well that's certainly a big question right now and as we've seen these protests have been carrying on for several days now starting saturday night continuing all through yesterday and then continuing on today these aren't just a response to to the handling of the crash of course protests were on moving very strongly in iran back in november as well and were crushed played quite severely by the regime at that time so we've seen this challenge to this state building for a while the grievances that were there several months ago are still there and if it's only more intensified so there is going to be incredibly increasing pressure on the state and there are some calls for the supreme leader to step down others
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are calling for something a bit more moderate just calling for some kind of accountability to the crash itself so what this means for the state more broadly that's still to be seen but there are a lot of grievances on the street right now a lot of grievances but i'm just wondering is the genie out of the bottle in terms of what kind of peace these protesters. right so at this point again there's a lot of different a lot of different motivations for people coming out right now people who are protesting are taking great risks to do so as we've seen from the clips you were being hit with tear gas on reports of live ammunition and again coming on the backs of quite severe crackdown in the past so people who are out there really are very committed to pushing for some kind of real change with that said the extent to which that will be able to happen is still unclear and as we've seen it looks like this morning the state starting to use more harsh measures measures of repression which may make it more difficult for these protesters to say to sustain let's widen
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our perspective for a moment and turn to the regional conflicts and also the bilateral a call that we've seen a some deescalation by both tehran and washington will it hold or do you think something this is not over yet. right so as we've seen today on the shakes me i'm from qatar was and iran over the weekend also trying to encourage this you know policy of deescalation we can assume that the official response from iran to the u.s. killing of so amani was probably limited to the strike that we saw last week and we've seen calls from both washington and tehran for deescalation sense then so that's obviously what we're hoping for in the official scale however it's well known of course so in mind he was very instrumental in coronating a number of militias across the middle east region in iraq in lebanon elsewhere and
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it's unclear to what extend those groups may or may not carry out and sanctioned attacks or continue to try and get some kind of some kind of response force on him on his death even outside of official iran response is truly norman of the department of political science at university college london thank you for your expertise. whatever if you know in some of the other stories making news while many of the victims on that plane in iran were from canada and mourners across canada have been paying tribute to the passengers of the plane shot down in iran at a vigil in edmonton prime minister justin trudeau said he would pursue justice and accountability for the victims' families and friends $57.00 canadians many of them of iranian descent or killed in the disaster show years. retired pope benedict the 16th has spoken out to defend celibacy for catholic priests observers say the appeal in a new book is an extraordinary intervention in the clerical affairs of his successor
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francis is weighing whether to allow the ordination of married men to address a shortage of priests. a course in pakistan has overturned the death sentence against the former military ruler servicemen shot off it ruled that the special tribunal that found him guilty of treason last year was unconstitutional the treason case centered on was shut up imposition of emergency rule back in 2007. authorities in the philippines are warning that a volcano new near the capital could be on the verge of a dangerous eruption the taal volcano about 60 kilometers south of manila begins spewing ash and lava on sunday while top sits in a picturesque a lake and is one of the most active volcanoes in a region where earthquakes and eruptions are a daily part of life while manila as the international airport was temporarily closed and tens of thousands have fled while others are refusing to leave their
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homes and farms. lightning shoots up into a huge ash cloud charged with static electricity it's just the opening act of what could be one of nature's most dramatic scholz little volcano blast the rock to more than 40 years ago now a steam gushes above quakes rumble below expect c.n.r. massive eruption could be just hours away. we were afraid and in panic we were thinking of how we could save our lives. tens of thousands of people living in nearby towns have been evacuated rain mixed with all kind of cash has courted the roots in thick mud making driving treacherous . but it's difficult to get food because we can't use the vehicle since it's muddy and we can't even clean it since there's no water. is affecting the
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inconclusive i mean over the weekend footage has emerged of the prince apparently. appearing to promote his wife's acting career could be one of the ways forward. there has been a lot of speculation that they could be doing much more commercial and $100.00 would be magazines acting career the other kid be around prince harry has shown a lot of interest in several social enterprises and whether he's going to work more and could possibly also draw an income from that there's also been reports that they have registered a trademark saw sig's royals say that is an indication that they are good willing to go more commercial but i guess we will know more details later on after this meeting they have to present somehow a way forward but the british public really wants to know how this is going to be resolved very much reporting from london thank you. and as for sound when in tennis
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