$1000000000.00 on it and there's no reason to do that research. breaking news this hour iran admits it unintentionally shot down ukraine's passenger plane on wednesday mistaking it for a cruise missile the country's president has called the incident an unforgiving mistake. foreign minister blames washington's adventurism for tensions that led to the downing of u.s. secretary of state is grilled by reporters who demand justification for the killing of around. meanwhile the u.s. sales its military in iraq as a force for good in the middle east after baghdad asks american troops to leave the country. good afternoon and welcome this is r.t.

international. start with breaking news the senior commander of iran's elite military unit the islamic revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday he said that the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. when i heard that the flight had been shot down i wish there was debt i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. he also added an air defense system operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision earlier tehran admitted its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing of iran's chief investigator says that the black box data will now be sent to france michael exactly discussed the details with donald quarter. we heard from ukraine's president vladimir selenski who said that he expects he expects iran's take full

responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstruction earlier today we did hear from iran's president who promised just that and called the vent and on forgivable mistake the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error coups that horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of $176.00 innocent people investigations continue to identify and prosecute this great tragedy and unforgivable mistake now iran's president also promised compensation for the families of the victims and the country's supreme leader has called for the for the findings of this investigation to be made public now earlier we also heard from iran's foreign minister who gave actually highlighted the nother reason for why this crisis took place. aside preliminary conclusions of into an investigation biome forces human error at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster profound regret

apologies and condolences to all people to the families of victims and to of affected nations give us a bit of background here what exactly is the foreign minister referring to oh well just last week a u.s. airstrike killed a high ranking high ranking could command. soleimani and that brought tensions in the region to a level that we haven't seen in decades this guy was considered a hero to many in iran as he was instrumental for the defeat of isis in syria so the government promised harsh retaliation for his death and that came in the form of several airstrikes against u.s. military bases in iraq that happened just mere hours before this plane went down so at that time the iranian military was in to supposing some sort of possible u.s. response to those strikes which explains why they thought that this airliner could have been an enemy aircraft they said that it was approaching a military installation clearly tensions were very high are there other cases of

countries shooting down planes by mistake you know unfortunately when tensions are this high like you said accidents are more probable for example during the cold war in 1903 the soviet union mistakenly shot down korean air flight 007 thinking it was a spy plane the plane went into soviet air space at the time that a u.s. reconnaissance mission was going on as well and in 1908 u.s. navy shot down and a rainy an airliner killing all $290.00 passengers because they thought it was in the rainy and fighter jet now at that time the then vice president george h.w. bush said he had nothing to apologize for and that he didn't care about the facts regarding the shooting of the plane down. we heard opinion from very sexperts who joined us during this developing story. in time so for and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable rate there are yet able to

pierce this fog unless there is a big conflicting mechanism so again one can talk about blame and responsibility or accountability the blame is iranian but the responsibility lies on other shoulders too so iranian defense systems were on alert and they were expecting attacks by u.s. airplanes as stated in the armed forces the statement there have been reports that some hostile objects flying objects have been appearing on radar screens in some of some parts around the country so soon as they saw a plane coming to a sensitive i.r.g.c. base they have you know rushed to and jump to the tank luzhin and fired pretty ticked at us become tactical blunders the strategy off by that regularly being ordered closing down the a.s.p.'s. extreme circumstances could have avoided

this whole war the whole nagell view a sect of state has defended washington's decision to assassinate iran's top general during a news conference month struggle to explain the alleged threat posed by gen solomonic as he was killed by journalists killed them open exclaims. things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of iran's top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just don't seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives let's take a listen to some of what went on if you have specific information about the internet and didn't have anything to do with our embassy. we had specific emanation

information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to happen in american lives were at risk the intelligence community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack that was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of money gone threats are never going now it wasn't just the journalists who don't exactly buy pompei as claims but american lawmakers also have their doubts we just saw in the u.s. house of representatives the lower house of the u.s. legislative branch a resolution was passed attempting to restore it to the activities of the trumpet ministration and trying to prevent them from further escalating tensions with the islamic republic of iran however these doubts about whether it was the right thing

in order to kill qassam solomonic go well beyond legislators and journalists they actually go to the us public itself we have new poll results that have been conducted and it shows that basically 2 thirds of the u.s. public believes at this point that the country is less safe because of trump's decision to kill the top iranian general furthermore 69 percent. cent of the u.s. public believes that iran is more likely to attack the usa as a result of trump's decisions 52 percent describe trump killings qassam solomonic as reckless so a pretty solid opposition to trump killing and qassam solomonic among american people themselves while at the press conference mike peo and steve minutia laid out basically what these new sanctions will include the new sanctions are targeting high level officials in iran basically preventing any business transactions with them but when explaining these new sanctions a mike bomb peo used some rather interesting language to lay out what he argued was

the ultimate end game of the united states when it comes to iran president said we don't want war we want iran to behave with your noble mission the reason that the secretary treasurer this morning is to continue this campaign our strategic effort to get to run to behave in a way that doesn't continue their 40 year long effort to terrorize the world if you hear those words he refers to saying that he wants iran to be a quote normal country so essentially it seems the united states is asking threats and carrying out more sanctions with the goal of forcing the islamic republic to conduct itself in a manner that the united states considers to be normal not exactly clear what that means but until that happens there will be further activities and sanctions and threats and what not now many are hoping that the current situation is in a state of deescalation but at the same time people worry about what could happen next you know the sanctions still remain iran still has the capabilities we saw the

recent strikes that took place so a lot of nervousness in the global community at the moment i think air is still and saying to this point but we will get around to that again despite the fact that we dodged a bullet about going to war with iran our last few days were still in the same set piece positions where we were before and. all these guys around the president can think of us how do we turn the screws more more back some pressure more and more in oh and this is the next thing they can do a lot of this list remember is aimed at the europeans i think a lot of this is toward pressuring the europeans to side with the americans in this full pressure campaign while there's growing concern among iraqis that the country's becoming a battleground between the u.s. and around thousands of people took to the streets of baghdad on friday calling for an end to foreign interference but. demonstrators waving iraqi flags chanted no to america no to iran meanwhile the

ranks can take a prime minister has demanded the u.s. preparations for a troop pullout washington has made it clear that's not going to happen but rather stay for good senior correspondent right as difficult. moves of us familiar with the situation you invite someone over to stay a while say a friend they stay and stay and stay you drop a hint you know it's getting late in the tod but they just don't get it. america is a force for good in the middle east and a delegation sam to iraq would be dedicated to discussing how to be recommit to our strategic partnership not to discuss troop withdrawal what complicates things is that your unwelcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put this kill your other guests you call make this up

americans kill and arabian general in iraq iran then shoots back a bunch of ballistic missiles in revenge out of iraq i mean these poor rocky guys they've done nothing and everyone's bombing them so you can understand if they're a little sick of it all and point to the door we want to restart the civil war again among the shia we don't want this to happen we're not a battlefield between the usa and iran so whoever wants to hear the usa should do that outside of this country. all of these troops must leave because they have turned iraq into a battlefield it's astonishing the americans are saying no we don't care that you voted for us to leave we won't and just in case that wasn't enough of a slap in the face actually going to call more of their friends over to iraq nato played and then you have any middle east you know they told me i said what

a beautiful name nato personnel in the region to know you're supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an international problem today and need to delegation is at the state department to discuss increasing netas role in the iraq situation is absurd it makes a joke a mockery of international law and simple decency and as there's anything absurd has the internet buzzing. america is a force for good in the middle east and we'll start a civil war to prove you need our protection given military forces the against the wishes of the people who live there it's called occupation when we said we wanted to bring you democracy we did not mean you can't use it to make your own decisions iraq asks u.s. troops to leave the country but president pompei o refuses instead his state department issues

a statement the 1st sentence reads america is a force for good in the middle east remember if you say i am so cool then you're not cool there's a lesson here i suppose you can't be friends with the superpower they'll call your friend patch on the head but when push comes to shove you're just another poor bombed out nation that's going to do as you're told. militia. and political analyst shabbir razvi give us their reaction to the increasingly messy 3 way conflict. the pretext is you know well fighting for isis in iraq we don't want. to come back but this is completely fabricated excuses to be honest because this is that. it is it is that i shammed is they iraqi it is that it is a year and it is a holy spirit. and this is they and many completely you know i don't believe that

his actions of this time. unless you have. to come back and the ones to silence them that this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. i'm going to pull out. here today and i think i'm going to lose the dilution. problem this is all part of the ratcheting up trying to show that iran is the one line state iran is doing things which are not really in the interest of the public and you know usa is good for the work but really i would like to say that you know what mr. trump was saying that they took every week but i think what would be a really good titan is that ari and me islamic republic middle east without the usa there then all of the problems that we have would disappear and then we could get to some truthful conversation and having a narrative which has some basis and logic and basis to any communication.

of the u.s. proposes to find boeing for defects in the $77.00 monks model which a sofa several deadly crashes details after the break. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so if you want to be president if you. want. it's. actually going to be close it's like a 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the why. should. anyone else seem wrong. just all.

out just to educate and indeed. the trail. find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. welcome back the u.s. aviation authority has proposed a $5400000.00 fine on boeing for allegedly putting defective parts into a 737 might explain some internal memos from the company been released suggesting staff were aware of numerous problems with the act traffic but failed to alert

inspectors. i still haven't been forgiven by god for the covering up i did last year would you put your family on a mac. simulated trained aircraft i wouldn't know this airplane is designed by clones who are in certain supervised by monkeys. more than 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to congressional investigators as part of a probe into how the boeing 77 max jet was certified safe before 2 major plane crashes the plane's manufacturer released a statement expressing regret over the content of the communications between its employees boeing also gave assurances it had made significant changes to enhance its safety procedures the manufacturer had its entire $77.00 max fleet grounded last year after being involved in 2 deadly crashes with ethiopian airlines and indonesia's lion air 346 people were killed in those tragedies problems with automated flight control systems are thought to have contributed to the fatal

crashes. are some of the most suggests that boeing limited pilot training on simulators as a cost cutting measure efficient safety advocate given us believes that that was a serious mistake. most flight conversion training happens and simulate even even conversion to a type will only derivative of a given type so that's not unusual i think one of the problems that bring painted themselves into a corner. with the recent months burton was trying to make it cheaper. to operate in terms of our common. pool with the earlier models of 737 specifically the astoundingly successful and g. . series as people in flight safety community certainly sink and search is expensive try an accident i think this isn't the ultimate station of that

particular mantra the cost to blow it. out of the problems with a sentence or something much program i don't think anyone people have tried to calculate it but i think i think it's beyond graham's. german chancellor arrives in moscow on saturday to meet with vladimir putin angela merkel's visit was originally planned over the ukraine conflict and the crisis in libya but now it's being overshadowed by the military escalation between america and iran as well as washington's efforts to stop russia's north stream to gas pipeline to germany to speak to all of his details. it's that difficult times that angular merkel arrives in moscow for what will be her 19th visit to russia as german chancellor certain to be up for discussion between herself and president vladimir putin are taking energy out of the current situation in the middle east and the standoff between iran and the united states and getting energy from russia

into germany via the nord stream 2 gas pipeline. chancellor merkel and president putin are in agreement when it comes to a deescalation of tension in the middle east mrs merkel spokes person stressing the need for cool heads this week it's constant it's important that all involved parties exercise restraint and turn away from the logic of escalation towards the logic of dialogue both the federal chancellery and the kremlin have their concern at the situation in the region with the government here in berlin sounding less than convinced by the justification given by washington for the assassination of a rainy and major general because some solemn army. we saw the explanation of the u.s. for this strike but the information to comprehend the explanation is missing fostered a school year that mildred violence must only be the last resort. germany and

russia were both architects of the a rainy a nuclear deal that now looks to be lying in tatters following 1st donald trump pulling the united states out of it unilaterally back in 2018 and just this week the iranian side saying they're not going to live up to their end of the bargain following the killing of solomonic it's. very concerning that iran is failing to meet says no longer meeting several of its obligations and what it has now announced is that it will no longer meet further obligations this is another wrong step in the wrong direction and naturally raises serious questions about the future of this agreement. when it comes to nord stream to a balancing act between washington and moscow will be required from the chancellor the united states is very keen to sell germany its liquefied natural gas but doesn't want germany to receive gas from russia slapping sanctions on the project and making overt threats towards the european businesses and companies involved you

face a binary choice stop now and leave the pipeline unfinished or make a foolish attempt to rush to complete the pipeline and risk putting your company out of business forever with the pipeline just a few dozen kilometers from its planned destination the project that was planned to be up and running at the end of last year now and in this huge completion date at the end of this year angle americal knows germany needs that gas at the price russia is willing to sell it then the flag of the other thing is if no $1.00 wants to be unilaterally dependent on russia but we received russian gas not only the d.d.r. where i lived but also in west germany during the cold war and they don't see why the times today should be so much worse that we can no longer see russia remains a partner i'm going to merkel can expect a warm welcome in a wintery moscow helped in part by the fact that both russia and germany. find themselves on the same side of the argument in 2 major issues the russian president

vladimir putin has also called for calm heads in the middle east and the government in moscow calls the sanctions that have been put in place on the north stream project illegal expect both chancellor merkel and president putin to be singing from the same song sheet when it comes to joint statements on these particular issues but they'll also be close attention paid later on today to what i'm going merkel has to say and how closely she aligns herself with the russian president and that's going to be paid attention to not just here in berlin but also in brussels in washington. belin. if i stay with r.t. updates in just over half an hour.

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not action or times are we going underground is anti war demonstrate just protest across britain against boris johnson support for donald trump's assassination of an iranian soldier allegedly promoting peace between. them which provoked iran into bombing u.s. installations in iraq this week coming up on the show the beginning of the end for the u.s. as u.s. president donald trump backs down from responding to be the 1st sovereign state attack of its kind on u.s. assets since world war 2 we speak to the iranian ambassador to the u.n. in geneva about how iran can now expel the united states from the middle east and ahead of hollywood's award season is the u.s. state sponsor of harassment that drove jean seberg death alive and well in the hollywood we ask the director of a new film about the legendary actor starring says our award winner kristen stewart told a similar coming up in today's going underground the 1st to iran's retaliation for donald trump's assassination of iranian soul. got some silly money who saved

countless nato nation lives by defeating isis diana on wednesday it felt a lame duck u.k. labor leader jeremy corbin to answer prime minister's questions in britain this after boris johnson replied to his plea for government information about the assassination by saying i have carefully considered your request and do not believe it is necessary to offer a briefing with a little specific information corbin then tried asking johnson i have to dispatch walks about trump killing soleimani the government has said that it was sympathetic to the assassination of general so the money whatever the nz has the prime minister got to suggest that this attack on him and his death was not an illegal act by the united states johnson said legality was not a u.k. issue the strict legality is not for the u.k. to determine since it was not our operation so whether the us commits illegal violations of international law is not a matter for the un security council permanent member britain jeremy corbyn

meanwhile failed to highlight so lame on his role in defeating isis and saving british lives so johnson came back and justifying trump's assassination of the arabian soldier lionized by even major nation media not too long ago for his victories against isis cason assume our he was not only is was not in your sponsor for many years amongst other things arming these with missiles with which they attacked innocent civilians arming his blog with missiles which again they use to attack innocent civilians sustaining the sad regime in syria one of the most brutal and barbaric regimes and of course supplying improvised explosive devices to terrorists who are i'm afraid killed and maimed british troops well joining me to respond to that and this week's events from geneva is iran's ambassador to the united nations. how many thanks so much for coming on the show well the according to the british authorities boris johnson was on the phone with president rouhani rang him and said. iran must not resume hostilities is that what happened perhaps

you have also heard the president or heinie was very fair in that vice the gaar johnson and other europeans not to follow that you wanted the states pass because it would simply lead to another disaster in our region i think we have you know all of that but arguably he backed down on that but i want to get to that there's just 1st start with who really money was because nato nations politicians from all around the world even jeremy call been shut of foreign secretary here they've been calling him a menace the people should not shed a tear for his murder people are calling him a terrorist even those who do not agree with the assassination and even the media of not long ago is saying he was one of the greatest fighters against isis day as an al qaeda i think for a start that john cost him some any money who was of every.