underskirt. headlines this around admits it accidentally shot down ukrainian passionately jet on wednesday thinking it was a cruise missile the country's president says it's a nun forgivable mistake arounds foreign minister has blamed washington's adventurism for the tensions that led to the downing of the us secretary of state is grilled by reporters over the killing of iran's top general and the german chancellor hold. on issues from the iran crisis to the at least applies to your. vehicles or torched in paris where riot police resorted to tear gas is a protest against pension reforms gets out of hand.

good evening is just on 11 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international the senior commander of iran's elite military unit the islamic revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passion's your plane on wednesday killing all a 176 people on board he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. well it's me don't you know you were not heard that the flight had been shot down i wish there was dirt as i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident she also added in a defense system operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what he described as a bad decision the commander added that they had requested the establishment of a no fly zone before the incident but it wasn't approved for some reason to round

it meet its military an intention to hit that yet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing don't quarter discussed it with jackie i think. we heard from ukraine's president vladimir selenski who said that he expects 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 vent in an forgivable mistake the armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error caused the 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 another reason for why this crisis took place. a sad day preliminary conclusions of into an investigation biome forces human error at a time of crises 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. solo money 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 supporting 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 the 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 with iran's admission of guilt has shaken

the public nudity intervention with some questioning why the government didn't come clean. with us on not to talk about it 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 which is led to doubts around the world but now they've done the necessary investigation and it was clarified that the plane was hit by a missile and we've been really sad since this morning when we heard the news and we were angry that people told this line about the mission right now again after our flights should have been cancelled and planes shouldn't have taken off from any air force on the bottom of that all of the country was in a state of war and this mistake could have been made by any country and there occurs self-hate or at us 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've heard opinion from various experts on this developing story. in times of war and the

so-called foggo for unfortunately there is no radar yet able to pierce these fog unless there is a bit 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 all force as a 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 tank lucian and fired strategic

at has become tactical blunders the strategy off by that regularly being ordered to load. down dear space under extreme circumstances called to have avoided this. magical whenever we have valid dives in the your where we have bound to have pensions raised guns cog just ready to fight the in will be scenarios where to be hired to be this and the big picture to how to diffuse this scenario on how to be escalated this i believe that onions have taken the 1st step by the initiation process of this whole accident in which $176.00 people were lost was done by the americans and the video yes that is true. one of the heightened tensions between the u.s. and iran activists in london held an antiwar rally was organized by the stop the war coalition and the campaign for nuclear disarmament demonstrators have denounced

recent military actions in the middle east as not act of war but march through the streets of london converging on from. among the slogans the. no tonight no to try to war on iran. they were addressed by the labor leader in a rival demonstration in support of transactions was also held nearby. u.s. secretary of state has had a hard time defending washington's assassination of iran's top general during a news conference might struggle to explain the extent of an imminent threat with more his. 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 threat and didn't have anything to do with that kind of disease. we had specific information information on an imminent threat and those threat stream included attacks on u.s. embassies what is your definition of it in that. this was going to happen in american lives 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 it was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of monica. 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 restrict 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 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 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 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 the president said we don't want war we want iran to be hit with a 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 ask a lady. threats 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 insane 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 we're 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 of maximum pressure more and more info 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 will pressure campaign. and that country has become

a battleground between the u.s. and iran thousands of people flooded the streets of baghdad on friday calling for an end to the presence of foreign military in the country. demonstrators hay waving iraqi flags chanted no to america and no 2 around the model ranks caretaker prime minister has demanded the u.s. make preparations to pull all of its troops out of washington has made it clear it's not intending to leave but rather stay for good as more against you and i reports but 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 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 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 radiant 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 go into coup. all 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 tell you they supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an international problem today and made 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 you a 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 me later right out of body atlanta political analyst shabbir razvi gave us their reaction to the increasingly difficult 3 way clash. the critics as you know well i think the rises

in 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 there is that it really and it is all it's you know simple. and very completely you know i don't believe there is a chance of this i mean. unless you have one bill to come back and the one to climb is then this is the only the only way for those that say to come back. i'm going to pull out. here today and actually i'm going to lose the lucian. problem this is all part of the ratcheting up trying to show that iran is the one line that 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 i r. and b. 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. in other news tonight the have been more protests against pension reforms in france rallies in paris and other french cities were joined by members of the yellow vest protest movement in the capital things did turn violent today with police resorting to take us. i. was. i. was

i. i was. i further west in the city of now and anger also pulled over into new street violence police used water cannon to disperse the crowds there almost 3000 people took part in that rally the union still say that some half a 1000000 people demonstrates the cross the whole of france they are angry about government plans to rage raise the retirement age and unify the pension system on friday the government used it spielberg did say was opened small turnitin by these unions they were continuing their strike action over the issue. angela merkel has been holding talks with latitude in moscow it is the german chancellor is 1st visit to the russian capital in 5 years and one of the key topics

discussed of course was the iran crisis. russia and germany support further implementation of a joint plan for a deal with iran 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 site of speaking of the crashed airliner iran announced today it was a big error and it's good news that those responsible have been named i think know everything possible must be done to find a solution together with the countries whose citizens grown board that plane to clarify toll the situation in iran was indeed in the spotlight during the meeting between angela merkel and vladimir putin even though this meeting mine the 1st one in the kremlin between the 2 when the past 5 years had been prearranged back in december so way before the tragic events in iran but these events they have brought

into the spotlight the reality of a major conflict in the middle east as how it has been showcased so vividly by iran and the united states of america so the leaders talked about all sorts of things like syria like libya and vladimir putin has talked about what sort of consequences a war in the middle east could have not just for the countries involved not just for the middle east itself but also globally. look 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 much but for the whole world. for instance vladimir 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 glad i'm a putin has expressed hope the. this could happen as early as tomorrow because this was what he agreed on this is what he discussed and agreed on with the turkish president pressing. 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 nord stream 2 gas pipeline it's a gas pipeline currently under construction from russia into germany to provide the whole of europe with the 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 is under sanctions it has threatened them with sanctions and

while european contract has had to pull out in the face of this threat well 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. 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. camera man who's

contributed to r.t. working in iraq city. bastra has been shot dead his colleague of reporter from a local news agency was also killed in the attack on friday from one customer a fact gave us more to tell us we're talking about 2 reporters one corresponding for a local t.v. channel his name is ahmed abdul some odd and he's camera man who also contributed soup artsy that set us up on godly both lived reporters were shot dead in their in their car by unknown gunmen as they were leaving the site of the protests in basra reported earlier that there are protests going on all across iraq and of course basra is just one of those places local reports suggest that there reporter. from a gunshot wounds to the head right there the scene meanwhile. was it's taken to the

hospital here or seen as a gunshot wound to the body and that's where it he died of fortunately as well. like i said. works contributed to our t. he filed a police a 30 reports for our channel and i believe that we can take a look at some of those reports right now god law now the only thing the he was the leader of the the night of the 'd 'd the old so far we've heard from the committee for protection all for journalists international down zation they've called for they've called on the iraqi authorities soon investigate this as soon as possible to find out who exactly wore those gunmen and so why those journalists. to

die. unfortunately this is not the 1st time it's you contributor size. after working of course back in 201725 year old a syrian reporter. who had to also died after i say. that's acting with rocket fire and of course we talked quite a quite a lot about that so fortunately in this day and age it's not safe for reporters to be working either poultice or in places soulful war you know it doesn't matter where they you're at war or you are in the city and anything can really happen and of course i want to express deepest condolences to the family to the loved ones both. some odd and the cameramen suffer greatly. roman

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his own. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening amazon. our solar system going to busy doing math is going to do the population nothing much is going to people on. oh either imax kaiser and this is the kaiser reports. is there any and the bull market. there is no end to it. all news

is good news in our markets since basically 2008 really since 200-2008 the fed don't fight the fed for sure can't fight the fed because the fed will print and print in print and of course everything went up in 21000 as we pointed out and even assassinating the head of another state or a leader in another nation cannot stop this bull market but you know here is the chart that was quite interesting i thought telling you know that as soon as the u.s. did assassinate sell the money in iran well he was in iraq but the iranian head of their military division gold crude and big coin as you see they all spiked at the same exact time with the same movement is there then we have gold and oil and so they all went up together safe haven well

a couple things so because it is proving itself to be a safe haven like goal so bitcoin a store of value and safe haven as we've been saying on this show for 10 years finally the markets coming around to that point of view the idea of big oil as a medium of exchange you need to emphasize the transaction ability is false and that's why something like cash is a nonstarter however let's look at this other idea you talked about 2008 what happened in 2008 while the markets were constrained somewhat because of the plumbing of the way markets work the pipe that delivers cash or liquidity from the . bank to the primary dealers to wall street to commercial banks is somewhat well known in terms of the architecture involved there in 2008 with tim geithner and ben bernanke and all those president's men they decided to expand those pipes to be a $23040.00 times bigger.