this is the w. is live from the violent crackdown against protesters in iran the police fired tear gas on people as demonstration center of day says the radians accuse the government of trying to cover up its role in the accidental downing of a ukrainian passenger jet. also on the program the philippines on high alert as a volcano near the capital manila appears to be on the verge of a major eruption tala volcano is spewing gas and forcing thousands to move to safety. correspondent on the ground. britain's prince harry joins crisis talks with the queen after declaring that he and his american wife meggan want to step down.

i'm for welcome to the program police in iran have denied firing live ammunition of protesters during the 3rd day of demonstrations across the capital tehran public out because growing up to the government admitted that it did accidentally shoot down a ukrainian passenger jet last week killing 176 people on board had initially denied military involvement claiming the crash had been caused by mechanical fault protesters now accuse the government of a coverup. shouting and chaos as onlookers helped people shot and bleeding on the streets of tehran. the video was taken near a saudi square where crowds have gathered out right at the perceived cover up after

iran shot down a ukrainian passenger plane. video shows tear gas being fired into the crowd they disperse leaving a trail of blood as they flee. in signs of increasing defiance images of iran's heroes of being desecrated. ordinary iranians speaking critically about the crash that even talking about it makes my heart beat faster and makes me sad. i feel ashamed when i think about their families i'm so sad. the pain is on our media try to describe it as a technical problem because of their interests and political and international reasons but later developments changed the game and they had to tell the truth. pro-government good news papers are also voicing their disappointment and printing lists of the names of the victims shame to the headline in farsi. and

unforgivable. just days early of the iranian regime had been celebrating its missile attacks on iraqi air bases housing u.s. forces. now back narrative is also changing the commander of the revolutionary guards telling the country's parliament they had purposely avoided killing american troops earlier it was falsely claimed they had killed 80. infer the signs of cooling tension around the top officials met with the immediate neighboring u.s. ally but sides agreed deescalation was the only way forward. or short time ago i spoke with a bold sudar a guy who is middle east correspondent for the independent news website i asked him if the government in tehran was indeed guilty of a cover up well it seemed like they were moving in that direction as the aftermath of the crash unfolded but i think there was

a couple factors that made them confess basically that they had shot this plane down one was the overwhelming signal intelligence and forensic intelligence that they were being provided with by investigators and international officials and the other was simply the demographic of those who were on board that these were elite people people who were very highly educated many of them going graduates of the most prestigious universities in iran heading back to their posts at universities and companies in the west after winter holidays these are people who are not going to be silenced these were not the sort of average every day iranians these were people who have a little bit of clout and know how the system works and so on and so it was very hard to hide this from those people ok so we've seen the pictures of these protests on the streets interesting to know how widespread it is this huge deal across the country. you know i'm going to get like some

criticism from some of the very anti regime people in the west but i think this is a relative these are relatively small protests and unless they manage to gather more people and have more of a momentum it will not make a difference i think also in the protests based on the videos that i've seen it represents a rather narrow subset of the iranian demographics the protests that were taking place just in november and the ones that were in 20172018 represented perhaps a more diverse kind of slice of the iranian population more rural poor demographic and so on these are mostly students and like elite if those 2 different crowds could merge their concerns and go up against the regime then it would have something to worry about but right now the regime is able to handle this so as you

mentioned there were already process in the country but now you have as you say the iranian government by the by cocoa obama conspiracy killing its own people how how does that leave the regime politically. i mean i think it hurts i think it damages their credibility. i think that they're in sort of crisis management mo but they don't really know how to deal with this kind of crisis is kind of unprecedented you recall that there was also during the funerals for qassam solar monny stampede in his hometown that left 60 people dead so i think that the regime has some answers to account for and it's not able to do that it's not a regime that is rooted in any kind of transparency it does not have a mechanism for this kind of thing it just knows how to hold on fast and hope for

the best and ride out the storm good talking to you thank you so much for joining us borzou daragahi from the independent news website. 57 of the passengers on board the plane were comedian citizens many of the reigning dissent mourners across canada have been paying a tribute a vigil in edmonton prime minister justin trudeau said it had been gut wrenching to listen to stories from relatives about their loved ones to pursue justice and accountability for victims' families and friends. i think authorities in the philippines are warning that a volcano near the capital could be on the verge of a dangerous eruption the tala volcano about 60 kilometers south of manila began spewing ash and lava on sunday it sits in a picturesque a lake that is one of the most active volcanoes in the region where earthquakes and eruptions are a part of daily life when there was international airport was temporarily closed and tens of thousands of people have fled while others are refusing to leave their

homes and farms. lightning shoots up into huge charge with static electricity it's just the opening act of what could be one of nature's most dramatic shows a little volcano blaster rocketed more than 40 years ago now as steam gushes above the earth quakes rumble below expect c.n.n. other 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 volcanic ash has courted the roads 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

capital manila 60 kilometers north face masks are in short supply at the airport hundreds of flights have been canceled while some tourists are trying to leave others are getting up close to the volcano. once in their life experience for. these phenomena. the danger level has now reached level for just one not 2 away from a house or disarray which could affect hundreds of thousands of people living in the volcano's danger zone. correspondent on a sound toss has been to the affected area and sent us this account. we were up at the site earlier today about 6 miles away from. and also throughout the day we saw

the volcano spewing out ash clouds these ash clouds were initially white and then they turned to gray and at some point they were all so black on the roads going to . there was the roads were covered with floods this is because of the volcanic ash that mixed with rain so the roads were very slushy and slippery and it was very difficult to move from one place to another because the roads were dangerous also the ash fall covered entire swaths of plantations and mostly pineapples in this part of the country and also you know the weight of the volcanic ash made the leaves on trees droop entire towns were covered in gray they looked like a black and white photo now against all of this some people or most people didn't really look like they were in a state of alarm a lot of them were going about their daily business like for example which is

a very popular tourist site was done attracting a lot of visitors who were taking selfies in front of the volcano and really mesmerized by the terrifying beauty of its continued eruption and you also saw farmers washing away volcanic ash from their livestock and just trying to go about their daily life and people were wondering where's the panic or where's the harm now a lot has been said about the resilience of filipinos in terms of coping with natural disasters but i think that can be drill down deeper to 2 factors both started with letter f. one is frequency we are one of the most disaster prone areas in the world so we experience natural disasters of all types on a fairly frequent basis so that. you get used to it and on the other hand there's also a mix of fatalism which. very much because of our predominantly catholic country so you kind of believe that you know these things happen for reason and that nothing

you can do anything about it so you just try to find ways to deal with it the best that you can. and the sun tell us now for some of the other stories making news around the world russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says in direct talks between libya's warring factions have made good progress with rebel leaders and they for hafta has not yet signed the cease fire agreement is that after all so soft has requested more time russia and turkey mediated the talks in moscow between hafter and they've been prime minister fires. a draft agreement for sees an unconditional open ended the cease fire. clashes of modern carnival opening event in rio de janeiro on sunday police fired tear gas and rubber bullets suggest bursts huge crowds in the city's copacabana district it's unclear what sparked the disorder that revels have accused police of using excessive force.

accord in pakistan has overturned the death sentence against a former military ruler of various mashallah it ruled that the special tribunal that found him guilty of treason last year was unconstitutional the treason case centered on general musharraf the imposition of emergency rule in 2007. retired pope benedict the 6 spoken out in defense of celibacy for catholic priests observers say the appeal of a new book is an extraordinary intervention in the clerical affairs office a successor to pope francis is considering whether to address the shortage of priests by allowing the ordination of married men. now as the body australian state of new south wales awaits a much needed rainfall operation rock wallabies on the way national park staff have been using. helicopters to drop thousands of kilos of carrots and sweet potatoes into remote areas of the state where the bush tailed rock wallaby is considered to

be endangered another species by australia's devastating bushfires are koalas a least 25000 feared to have died since the start of december they've been through hell burns on their noses paws fur and smoke inhalation. sam mitchell usually has 15 koalas in his wildlife visitor park on kangaroo island at the moment there are more than 100 and every day there are more than 2 so you know it's a guy there was a lot of 50 percent of the habitat still over mining but then of course those die fawaz or have continued to burn more and more grams. so when they to collaborate with the government as to whether or not some will be moved to the mine lands however the mine land is also burning as well new arrivals keep coming some fear that 80 to 90 percent of all koalas on the island are dead the wildlife park

becomes a veterinary clinic the kitchen suddenly becomes the treatment room. sometimes vets have to put down half of all new patients. or we're trying to do and he's not in that side zack science and it is not easy is decide which of these animals have the best chance which of them have no chance. and send them in the right direction and it really is very different. not far from wildlife park miles and miles of scorched earth soldiers roam the area they collect dead animals charter small poisoned kangaroos thirds and koalas. although we don't have the sense to wall off because i'm on property but also. as part of mental health support and for welfare reasons. and the so population of.

i can rapidly return back to normal off the authorities now want to draw up emergency plans for the rescued koalas with their natural habitats burned out they cannot return home without serious risk of starvation. britain's prince harry facing the queen today asked senior members of the boyle family big to resolve the crisis triggered by. shock announcement that he wants to step back from royal duties the queen is hosting the talks at her sunderland country stage with prince charles and prince william also attending among the issues to be worked through how magnet my to fund the financial independence they want and indeed them both titles the summit comes after 40 merged of the prince appearing to promote his wife's acting career with the chief executive of disney the film premiered last summer. straight to london then and the dublin correspondent burgomaster welcome but let's start with a background why do harry and mecca want to step down in this way. that

you haven't given any exact definition as to what it is that they want and why it is they said they want to take on a new so-called progressive role within the royal family there is of course a lot of speculation as to what the reasons are one is media coverage we know that prince harry in particular has long been unhappy with the tabloids the british tabloids in particular he has filed lawsuits he has food was with them he said they are vilifying his wife so that is one reason the other is continued speculation about him and his brother not getting along as well as they used to so they were always very close but since prince harry has been with meghan markle there was a lot of course of that they don't get along as well anymore that there is not a good relationship between the 2 wives so those could be the reasons but of course

this is just speculation they haven't really given any clear reason themselves ok so today's talks at sandringham than the 3 current a modicum the 2 as of that charles and william as well as the queen one of one of these talks going to cover. they have to cover lots of ground a lot of bullet points on their agenda so one of the really main topics will be fine and prince harry and his wife say they want to be financially independent and yet they also still want to support the queen is what they said in that sense and said in their statement but how exactly are they going to do that how are they going to split their time for a start as well between canada and the u.k. how many royal engagements will they in the future be able to take part in when they've got this international life split between north america and the u.k. and will they be able for example also to retain their royal title all of this will

be up in the air will they be able to have any make any commercial benefit any any inroads in any commercial ventures all of this is is most likely going to be discussed and we are expecting there will be some sort of clarification maybe already today but if not in the next days so once the dust settles an agreement is reached this is likely to have much wider ramifications for britain's royal family well for sure because the big question is is it possible in the u.k. to be a so-called part time royal is it possible if you're born into this family as it's being called in the u.k. that you can just opt out of it british class society has the royals really as the backbone and somebody to just go and say well i'm sammo royal but also somehow not it's going to be very very important for the future of the royal family not so

least for prince william because it might also have implications for his own children who you know might also in the future be playing a bigger role or a lesser role so a lot of people and prince william and self have huge interest too to resolve this conflict. brilliant mass in london thank you. the nominations for this year's academy awards have been armstead must angeles have dark comic book film drama the joker has done particularly well it leads with a lever nominations including best picture you have from entertainment correspondent in just a moment 1st though a look at the films on the shortlist. joaquin phoenix earned a nomination for best actor with his performance in joker a dark psycho thriller the tells the origin story behind the comic book villain of the same name the film also won nominations for best director best picture and 8

other categories. that part yes i have trained as jimmy hoffa. the irishman directed by martin scorsese took 10 nominations including best picture best director and best actor. the gangster epic tells the story of a mafia hit man who gets wrapped up in the fate of the legendary teamster boss jimmy hoffa in the 1970 s. with. friends in turn tino's latest production also looks set to collect a few oscars once upon a time in hollywood is set in the summer of 1969 with leonard to caprio as a washed up actor. and brad pitt as his stunt double. 10 nominations include best actor and best supporting actor for the leads. have a brother in the 2nd but the more epic 1917 by sam mendez also bagged 10

nominations it's filmed as one continuous shot that follows 2 kurdish in front tree men who undertake a dangerous mission across the front lines of a battlefield in northern friends if you don't we will do 1600 men. i certainly social satire parasite collected 6 nominations it tells the story of a poor family that insinuates itself into the home of a wealthy family. it's the 1st south korean film to be nominated for best picture at the cannes film festival last year it won the palme d'or i was a man who knows all about this sort of stuff you saw scott rock's rough and d.-w. culture welcome scott let's talk about the joke at the end with the most know. a nation's. backed movie based on a comic book character to lead the nominees. unthinkable even just a couple years ago that you could have a movie that would be so dominant at the academy awards i thought the film was

amazing i saw it last year at the venice film festival where premier and what i think's amazing about this movie is that it just combined. the comic book honor which is this moment is the most commercially successful genre in film and so dominant but it combines that with sort of the sort of dark psychological dramas that we know from 1970 s. new hollywood particularly the martin scorsese films this film really smart scorsese throughout the movie and to be able to be able to combine these 2 movies and make of commercially successful film that takes us to really dark. unsettling places i think is very very impressive and shows people are talking about the end of movies and the movies aren't significant anymore and that they're yesterday's medium this really shows that you can make a movie if you do it differently than overly appeal to a huge audience and also have sort of a real cultural impact this is from us but incredibly controversial really has got people to. any of the surprises well i was surprised but it was a disappointment to see again this year there were no women nominated for best

director same for last year look back i think last 20 years have been 3 female nominations the best director category i really thought who did little women which picked up a few nominations but not for her best director really thought she had a chance to get in was very tough year this year you had some incredibly great directors spencer says it's difficult to be with a man like that or quentin tarantino but i really hope that the discussion we've been having over lack of representation a particular female representation in hollywood would had a bit more impact on the voters speak out in the awards because it was christened with the golden globes i just recently as well for the same sort exactly on another controversy which the bafta is a scene as seen here is a lack of representation of people of color i think the acting nominees there's only one. person of color among all the acting nominees of the oscars obviously there's a long way to go there. it's. great great to see is parasite 6 nominees nominations including best own best director korean movie 1st movie to

ever be nominated for best film at the oscars this. can last year and it's my absolute favorite film of the year it's sort of a hitchcockian comedy thriller a horror movie. i think is one of the best directors working today and he's able to take on a take like comedy and then switch on a dime and suddenly within just a. year something in a horror movie what about what's happened what's happened he does things with anyone else is doing at the moment and i think it's phenomenal that he's getting recognized in this way and maybe just maybe a chance to take home the big prize and. thank you for that. on sports news a corruption trial of the former head of track and field governing body has been adjourned until at least june less than an hour after it began the media who was once one of the most influential figures in schools french prosecutors say his role in leading the international association of athletics federations. native accepted

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