cabinet. and lusitania you think you can listen princeling me ill. around admits that it unintentionally shot down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday mistaking it for a cruise missile the country's president has called the incident a good. answer for mr claims washington's a venture isn't the tensions that led to the. us secretary of state his group by reporters who demand justification for the killing of around general. news a meeting between the german chancellor. and the way moscow sanguinary his 1st visit to the russian capital for 5 years.

interview with us this is r.t. international. the senior commander of iran's elite military unit islamic revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down the cranium passenger plane on wednesday he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. when i heard that the flight had been shot down i wish i was that 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 in which 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 iran's chief investigator says the black box data will now be sent to france. to discuss details with artie's

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. it's just that and called this a vent and an forgivable mistake the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error coups the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176 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 assad day

preliminary conclusions of internal 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 on 2 of the 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 intice a painting 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 intentions were very high are there other cases of countries shooting down planes by mistake yeah unfortunately when tensions are this high like you said accidents are more probable for example during the cold war in 1000. 83 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 an iranian airliner killing all $290.00 passengers because they thought it was in the rainy and fighter jet now at that time 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 that plane down iran's admission of guilt has shaken the public mood in tehran with some questioning why the government didn't come clean sooner although there's a college mistakes can be made in the context of the tense situation in the region

. unfortunately when i 1st heard about the plane crash it was said to be a technical issue but the announcement came without any preliminary investigation. around the world but now they've done the necessary investigation it was clarified that the plane was hit by a missile we've been really since this morning when we heard the news and we were all angry that people told this line it was you why didn't you get after our flights should have been cancelled and planes shouldn't have taken off from any air force and that just about all of our country was in a state of war and this mistake could have been made by any country america itself made a similar mistake after iran hit the u.s. bases we were in total readiness and that's what led to the mistake we had opinion from various experts who joined us during this developing story. in times of war and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable rate there are yet

able to pierce this fog unless the reason the 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 us planes 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 jumped to the conclusion and fired strategic at has become tactical blunders the strategy of i that regularly being ordered

closing down the a.s.p.'s under extreme circumstances could have avoided this whole war the whole nagell whenever we have valid dives in that you'll be in we had bound to have mentioned raised guns cog coolidge's ready to fight the it will be said that you wish me to be have to be the case and the big picture to how did he use this in that you know how to be escalated this i believe did on his have taken the 1st step in the initiation process of this horrible accident in which 176 people were lost was done by the americans at the video on stage yes that is true. to states has had a hard time defending washington's decision to assassinate iran's top general during a news conference point. struggled to explain what the imminent threat to do posed by jim was to live money as the state department chief was grilled by journalists

and had more pin has details. things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u.s. secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutiae 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 you have anything to do with our embassies. we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats from included attacks on the u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to happen and american lives were at risk if 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 it 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 base. 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 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's killing of qassam solomonic among american people themselves while at the press conference mike palm peo and steve minutiae 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 the president said we don't want war we want iran to be able to mobilization the reason that secretary treasurer of 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 ask a lady 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 you know i think air is still on sanctions at this point but we will get around to the. 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 it how do we turn the screws more more and maximum pressure more and more in oh and this is the next thing i can do a lot of this of this 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. meanwhile there's growing concern among iraqis the country's becoming a battleground between the u.s. and around thousands of people flooded the streets of baghdad on friday calling for and to the presence of all foreign military in that country. demonstrators waving iraqi flags chanted no to american no 2 around meanwhile iraq's caretaker prime minister demanded the u.s. make preparations to pull out all of its troops but washington has made it clear it's not intending to leave and rather will stay for good is right because they

have reports. post of us are 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 can a tad but they just don't get it america is a force for good in the middle east any delegation sent to iraq would be dedicated to discussing how to best recommit to our strategic partnership not to discuss troop withdrawal what complicates things is that your own welcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put this kill your other guests you can't make this up americans kill and rainy and 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 are not a battlefield between the usa and iran so whoever wants to heed 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 the iraq nato played and then you have any middle east. they told me i said what a beautiful name nato personnel in the region tell you they supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an international problem today and they 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 does anything absurd has the internet buzzing america is a force for good in the middle east and will 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

a superpower they'll call your friend patch on the head but when push comes to shove you are just another poor bombed out nation that's going to do as you're told . middle east right our political analyst shabbir razvi capers their reaction to the increasingly messy 3 way clash. the critics as you know well fighting for isis and they are we don't want them to come back but this is completely fabricated their excuses to be honest because this is the. times that it is it is that actually is they iraqi it is that it really is at all if you will simple and this is there and very complete you know i don't believe there is a chance of this i mean. unless you have. to come back and do $12.00 climbers then this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. i'm going to pull

out. here today iraqi prime minister is the lucian. problem this is all part of the ratcheting up trying to show that iran is the one lined state iran is doing things which are not really in the interest of the public and you know usa is good for the world but really i would like to say that you know what mr. trump was saying that they took and need 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 will disappear and then we could get to some truthful conversation and having a narrative which has some basis and a logical basis to any communication ok germany's chancellor angela merkel said moscow right now in an official visit after the break we'll bring you up to speed on the topics dominating talks.

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what before 3 of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the water. welcome back to the angle america is in moscow for talks with bloody putin the meeting between the 2 leaders is still ongoing earlier michael thank the russian president for the invitation adding it's always better to talk to each other than the pout. this visit was originally planned to be over the ukraine conflict in the crisis in libya but 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. it's that difficult times that angle or 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 to 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 voice 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 solid money. it was we saw the explanation of the u.s. for this strike but the information to comprehend the explanation is missing force of the school year that mildred violence must only be the last resort. germany and russia were both architects of the 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 is 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 2

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 ma'am 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 visit completion date at the end of this year angle americal knows germany needs that gas at the price russia is willing to sell it them 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 water angler 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

and in washington peter all over r.t. belin. and the 2 leaders are expected to emerge from that meeting fairly shortly to address the media will be right across it to soon as it happens. next the u.s. aviation authorities proposed fining plane make a boeing $5400000.00 that as punishment for putting defective parts into its now grounded 737 max passenger jet a trove of newly released internal messages suggest boeing staff were aware of numerous problems with the aircraft 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 mag simulated trained aircraft i wouldn't know this airplane these designed by clones who are in 3rd and supervised by monkeys more than 100 pages of internal communications were delivered to congressional investigators as part of

a probe into how the boeing 707 max jet was certified safe prior to 2 major plane crashes the plane's manufacturer released a statement expressing regret over the content of those communications between its employees boeing also gave assurances it had made significant changes to enhance safety procedures. the manufacturer had its entire 77 banks fleet grounded last year that after being involved in 2 deadly crashes with ethiopian airlines and indonesia's line 346 people were killed in those tragedies problems with automated flight control systems are thought to have contributed to those fatal crashes. some of the most suggests boeing limited pilot training on simulators as a cost cutting measure a patient safety advocate get in year with police that was a serious mistake. that most flight conversion training happens and simulate even even. in the type will only derivative of

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