around the myths that it unintentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane mistaking it for a cruise missile the country's president has called the incident an unforgiving. surrounds foreign minister blames washington's adventurism for tensions that led to the downing of u.s. secretary of state is grilled by reporters justification for the killing of the rounds. and the german chancellor. just finished addressing the media after holding talks in moscow will take you through the key points. and there are vehicles torched in paris where riot police have resorted to tear gas

as a protest against pension reform gets out of. good evening good to have you with us you're watching r.t. international. the senior commander of the runs elite military unit the islamic revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down the ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. well it's me don't you don't you were not heard that the flight had been shot down i wish there was a debt as i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. you also added in a defense system operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision the commander added they had requested the establishment of a no fly zone before the incident but it wasn't approved for some reason ilya

tehran admitted its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of involvement in the downing collegiately invigorate discuss this with all these dumb quarter. we heard from ukraine's president vladimir selenski who said that he expect he expects iran to 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 savannah in on forgivable mistake the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error because 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 he 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. 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 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 tensions 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 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 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. iran's admission of guilt has shaken the public mood in turn around with some questioning why the government didn't come clean sooner on the other side that knowledge 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 sad since this morning when we heard the news and we were all angry that people were told this line. was you why didn't you go after our flights should have been canceled and please shouldn't have taken off from any air force one that got them out that all of our country was in a state of war and this mistake could have been made by any country america itself hit our air bus and made a similar mistake after iran hit the u.s. bases we were in total readiness and that's what led to the mistake.

came joined online by a bus line who's a senior research fellow at the center for middle east to teach extent he's based in tehran it even to the senior islamic revolutionary guard corps commander who accepted responsibility for the downing of this plane said the military had requested several times a no fly zone that didn't happen for some reason you surprised that it wasn't approved. the news that iran unintentionally had shot down the passenger plane came as a can of shark to be run in people today and there was a tragic and a disaster to them and the concealing that fire was let's say a. second tragedy for the grieving public for days but there have been some questions that why then for example impose that north lies on the. why

that this happened and there has been questions among the public who is responsible for this and there have been some promises from the officials that they will try to pursue those who are responsible they do not want people maybe the public at that single operator to be held accountable by those officials who are responsible for this one for this crisis happening and the 2nd those who didn't inform the public and then that from. the public are fed up with this what do you think opinion in the in the among the people who obviously as you said a shocked at the government actually with the authorities coming out and admitting responsibility after repeated denials that they could in any way been involved in this is it seen as a sign that things need to be deescalated. exactly

the public and the people were unhappy and very. upset with what the admin the government has done that not to inform them earlier and to they felt that the government can sell their facts from them and that's why on social media or even today in the streets they had some protests against this there on the other side we hear it from the ukrainian military commanders saying that those develop fish as they were not of what had happened and they didn't know that that missile mistakenly target the plane and that's why they care denying that the plane had not been targeted by that missile so. he tried to take the full responsibility over this and when he was asked that why the military forces and the . iranian armed forces didn't and oust this earlier he said that it took some time

for them to process this issue and then to conclude and it took about 48 hours on friday they concluded to announce it to the public as it happens. on the stand ukraine's prosecutors have said that they're going to be investigating that this might have been a willful a deliberate. killing so this isn't over yet is it is still could be more serious repercussions to come. well this was a very this was a disaster as well as a tragedy but this issue will happen at the high then tensions between iran and the united states it was some short time after you've had missile strike at the american base in iraq so the iranians also were expecting some response from the american side and as you read them military commanders said. they had somebody for so the operator that maybe some missile cruisers. cruise missiles are

coming toward iran and that's why toward the sensitivity of the issue the operator had thought that he had identified the passenger plane in 19 kilometers as a cruise missile and he mistakenly had fired that that passenger plane so even then. also armed forces said that those responsible for this as well as the when they there and the president he said that those who are at fault they need to be pursued legally by the you do should be of the armed forces become a guest of a journalist and senior research fellow at the center for middle east studies. amid heightened tensions between united states and iran activists in london the been holding an antiwar rally organized by the stop the war coalition and the campaign for nuclear disarmament demonstrators denounced strong trumps recent

military actions in the middle east as an act of war and march through the streets of london converging on trafalgar square among the slogans on placards seen there no to nato no to trumpet no to war on the earlier activists were addressed by labor party leader jeremy corbett a rival demo in support of trump's actions was also held nearby. the us states had a hard time defending washington's decision to assassinate iran's top general in a news conference month pompei of struggle to explain what the imminent threat was allegedly posed by general sort of money as the state department chief was grilled by journalists killer morgan has details. things got quite on easy at the press conference where we saw mike pomp a.o. the u.s. secretary of state's speaking alongside steve the new sion 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 10 pts mike bomb peo 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 a specific information about it into the brett and did having anything to do with arkan disease we had specific him a nation information on an imminent threat and those threats trim included attacks on the u.s. embassies and blaze your definition of it in the net this was going to happen and american lives were at risk been toads goes community is not flawless we we we get it wrong in this case the intelligence community got it fundamentally rowing there was an imminent attack it was active plotting because at right now gone with sold of mali gone threats are never going now it wasn't just the journalist sue don't exactly by pomp ayos claims but america 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 trump and ministration and trying to prevent them from further escalating tensions with the islamic republic of iran however of these doubts about whether it was the right thing in order to kill qassam solomonic go well beyond legislators n. journalists they actually go to the us public itself we have new poll results of it have been conducted and it shows that basically to 2 thirds of the us public believes at this point that the country is less safe because of trumps decision to kill the top iranian general further more 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 i 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 it how do we turn the screws more more of maximum pressure more and more in 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

that the country's becoming a battleground between the u.s. and around thousands of people flooded the streets of baghdad on friday calling for an end to the presence of foreign military in the country. demonstrators waving iraqi flags chanting no to america no to around mile around static the prime minister demanded the u.s. make preparations for a full troop withdrawal washington's made it clear it's not intending to leave though rather it will stay for good as well as difficult. most 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 khana todd 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 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 an 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 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. hoover the rock nato played and then you have middle east you know 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 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 and that 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 no 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 at least try to abdel bari atwan and political analysts shabbir razvi gave us their reaction to the increasingly messy 3 way clash. the pretext is you know we're all fighting for isis and there are we don't want them to come back but this is

completely fabricated excuses to be honest because this is that. it is it is that i shammed it is they are iraqi it is that it really is a whole issue. and this is there and very completely you know i don't believe there is a chance of this i mean. unless you have been wonderful to come back and one to finance them this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. i'm going to pull out. here today iraqi parliament is the illusion and alcohol 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 is is good for the world but really i would like to say that you know what mr. trump was saying that they took every 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 bases and a logical basis to any communication. angle americal has been holding talks with vladimir putin in moscow it's the german chancellor the 1st visit to the russian capital in 5 years and one of the key topics discussed was the iran crisis. almost a 1000000000 euros russia and germany support further implementation of a joint plan for deal with iran and iranians have the right to realign the support of european countries that promised to create a special mechanism independent of the dollar for trade with iran. as the thought of iran in aus to date was a big error and it's good news that those responsible have been named i think now

everything possible must be done to find a solution together with the countries whose citizens were on board that plane to clarify it all. cause from the biggest on the following proceedings in the meeting in emerge from the discussions. nail obviously iran was at the center stage of the discussion even though this meeting was agreed on was arranged way before these events it was arranged back in december still it was at the center stage as i've said but in general they didn't just focus on iran and the tensions between iran and the united states and with what's going on in iraq right now but the situation around middle east instability came into focus big time too they talked about syria about libya and in general this is the very reality of a conflict in this region that has just shown that the situation between iran and

the united states has just shown it has had world leaders thinking and glad i'm a putin for instance has warned that any sort of confrontation in the middle east right now would not be only disastrous to the countries involved and the region but everybody around the world. that you put the book at us when you i hope very much that we will avoid large scale military conflicts in the middle east if it comes to that it would be a disaster not only for the region but for the whole world. for instance a lot of the putin talked about the potential humanitarian repercussions and consequences of a conflict in the middle east because while a refugee flow from the middle east to the rest of the world could be catastrophic if anything if a war on the ground was to break out also talked extensively about. libya and about the fact how the hostilities in that country should cease in fact lattimer putin has expressed hope that this could happen as early as tomorrow because this was

what he agreed on this is what he discussed and agreed on or with the turkish president again turkey obviously being a major powerhouse in the region but the middle east wasn't the only thing on the agenda another big point is the north stream to gas pipelines it's a gas pipeline currently under construction from russia into germany to provide the whole of europe with russian with the russian gas it was a major it is i should say a major bone of contention between germany europe and the united states because washington sees that washington doesn't want this doesn't want to see this pipeline it doesn't want this pipeline to be built so it has for instance european countries european contract under sanctions it has threatened them with sanctions and while european contract has had to pull out in the face of this threat of lattimer putin has stressed that russia is able and will finish the construction of this pipeline

on its own he just said that while the finish the end of construction will be delayed by a few months because of that but also angela merkel that she has stressed how important this project for germany and from her standpoint to the whole of europe to here's what she had to say about it. this is 1st and foremost an economic project we consider it to be the right thing to do and after today's discussion with president putin i believe it's possible to complete nordstrom to despite those sanctions. in fact the whole meeting at the whole of the while the tone of the meeting was neutral positive i should say in fact angela merkel she repeated at least twice that it is better to talk to. each other rather than about each other so this could be an indication that russia and germany could drift closer towards each other in the near future. i think our correspondent is done after with

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