this is the the reviews live from britain's queen elizabeth agrees on a transitional period for prince harry and his wife meghan the decision means the couple will be allowed to live out of the. work still needs to be done as their wish to step back a senior royals raises complex. programming violent crackdown against protesters in iraq now police firing tear gas to stem a stranger's and to. assess iranians accuse the government of trying to cover up its role in the accidental downing of

a ukrainian passenger jet. i'm just joking i'm. not including best picture but have a look at that and some of the films on the vision issue. of the program queen elizabeth has agreed to grant prince harry back and their wish for i have more independent life with a transition period in which they'll divide their time between britain and canada in a statement issued a short while ago the queen said she would have preferred harry and meghan to remain full time royals but respected their wishes she's been holding emergency talks country state with prince charles and princess william also in attendance of course as all follows meghan and her shocking. last week they want to step back

from royal duties. so let's go straight to london and join day doesn't correspond to back it must welcome have big it so with this statement from the queen does it look as though harry and meghan have got what they wanted. well so far so good i mean this statement seems entirely supportive of the young couple the word family is mentioned a few times and she says my grandson so it seems like she's almost protective of them so for a 1st sign we don't of course know how this is really going to look in the end but for a 1st sign i think the royal couple harry and megan can be very happy about it so what does this mean for the institution of the royal family. we don't know yet how this is all going to pan out was light on detail she's

talking about a transition period so all these issues that are still to be discussed like how are they going to finance their future life is it allowed the day becomes how come mercial entrepreneurs and they keep their oil titles how much can they really still have any influence in the royal family will they be able to carry out any row duty's or are they going to be made in canada all the said details that still need to be out and out still they need to be silly to be announced how the institution the more nicky the club's society that we are having in the u.k. how this is all going to change with this new step is still too early to say phil and so what reactions are very big interviews statement at this stage. entirely depending on how people are viewing harry and meghan in general so some

come commentators have been supportive and have spoken about this relatively warm language in this statement by the queen in an a in a positive way and others say that the queen really doesn't deserve to be treated that way people who are stressing how a sense of duty and contrasting that with this unusual wish by the wrong young royals to have an independent lives it really depends on how people are generally viewing the young couple and their more progressive lifestyle. mass and london thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says talks between libya's warring factions have made good progress but the rebel leader fully for half the does not yet side the cease fire agreement says half dot wants to study the deal overnight russia and turkey have mediated the talks between half and libyan prime minister fires al seraj

a truce came into effect on sunday drive has been repeatedly violated. a court in pakistan has overturned the death sentence against former military ruler pervez musharaff it ruled that the special tribunals that found him guilty of treason last year was unconstitutional the treason case centered on general musharraf's imposition of emergency room in 2007. retired pope benedict the 16th fast spoke out in defense of celibacy for catholic priests observe a savior appeared in the new book is an extraordinary intervention may clerical affairs of the successor pope francis is considering whether to address the shortage of priests by allowing the ordination of married men. a 5 year. old or 4 suspects charged in the 2018 murder of slow back a journalist a young jack and his fiance has pleaded guilty to murder. marchand says he was

hired as a contract killer the alleged mastermind local businessman pleaded not guilty which had been investigating a most government corruption and death triggered huge protests and that to the collapse of the government. of georgia in the philippines awarding us a volcano near the capital could be on the verge of a dangerous eruption. volcano about 60 kilometers south of manila a scene repeated bursts of volcanic lightning and dumped ash over a huge area tens of thousands of people have fled the region. and so to iran where police have did night. firing live ammunition and protesters during a 3rd day of demonstrations across the capital public anger is growing and after the government admitted that it did accidentally shoot down a ukrainian passenger jet last week and in all 176 people on board. initially denied military involvement claiming the crash had been caused by

a mechanical fault protesters now accuse the government of a cover up. shouting and chaos as on lookers help 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. dispersed leaving a trail of blood as they flee. in signs of increasing defiance images of iran's heroes are being desecrated. ordinary iranians speaking critically about the crash that even talking about it makes my heart beat faster and makes me sad that i feel ashamed when i think about their families i'm so sad. he. is 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 or. pro-government views papers are also voicing their disappointment and printing lists of demands of the victims shame to the headline in farsi. and unforgivable. just icily of the iranian regime had been celebrating its missile attacks on iraqi it bases housing u.s. forces. now that 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. infer the sons of cooling tension around the top officials met with the me of neighboring u.s. ally but sides agreed deescalation was the only way forward. there a short time ago i spoke with the board sudan

a guy 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 onboard 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 be 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 is the protest 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 there were already process in the country but now you have as you say the iranian government whether by call obama conspiracy to 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 cars and 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. nations for this year's academy awards have been and i'm still in los angeles the dark comic book film drama joker done particularly well it leads the pack with 11 nominations including for best picture so here's a look at some of the other films on the shortlist. joaquin phoenix earned a nomination for best actor with his performance in joker a dark psycho thriller that 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 framed as a 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. quentin tarantino'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 leonardo di caprio as a washed up actor. and brad pitt as his stunt double 10 nominations for the film include best actor and best supporting actor for the 2 lead that stood. in the 2nd

but the more epic 917 by sam mendez also bagged 10 nominations it's filmed as one continuous shot that follows 2 goodish in from tree men who undertake a dangerous mission across the front lines of a battlefield in northern france if you don't we will lose 1600 men. i think 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 you know. in sports news the corruption trial of a former head of track and field governing body has been adjourned until at least june less than an hour after it began the main diac who was once one of the most influential figures in sport but french prosecutors say that in his so role leading the international association of athletics federations the saudi native accepted

massive bribes to keep secret the doping test results of some russian athletes son a problem assata also faces charges from his time at the idea play after. refusing to extradite him. through. business use with benefits of him is up next that will have you next up world views update of the top of it out of the. earth the home for saving google india's tells stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas to protect the climate and boost green energy solutions by global ideas being brought in the series of global 3000 on t.w. and online. here i am going. to closest place to hell i'm just. evenin.