and so far no steps appear to have been taken un special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions agnes kalama joining us on the line thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. thank you. ok let's move onto our other big story of the day a more than 100 and the 70 people have died after ukrainian passenger jet crashed in iran it has not clear what caused the plane to go down the ukraine international airlines jet was on its way from iran's capital tehran to key of a ukraine's president blood a resilin ski has broken off a for in visit to return to kiev because of the crash and the president says that ukraine will be sending a search and rescue team to iran tonight a field of burning debris lights up the night sky near the iranian capital one they apparent remnants of the ukraine international airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff from to iran sue never out a little rainy and t.v. stations where the 1st to broadcast images of the crash including this mobile phone video which appears to show you the plane going down but it's daybreak of that reveals the extent of the dest

well that statement was not well received by agnes kalama who reports to the u.n. on extrajudicial executions on twitter she said there is no more pressing time for the un and its leadership to step up the now but this statement does not bode well you have the legal tools and the platform please use them and she included the hash tag world war 3. joins us now from las vegas i guess welcome to the news of the un's got the tools what do you want them to do with those tools. look as you have well reported since yesterday the situation is extremely serious an extremely grave international law may not be the response. political will is required to move forward but the secretary general has a few tools at his disposal as a 1st and important 20 that you should involve article 999 of the un charter which would allow for the issue to become a priority on the edge and of the security council as well as a on the agenda of the genuine assembly. in my view of the 1st important step should be full of the secretary general to initiate an in-depth inquiry not just on the targeted

say that conducts any investigation obviously the united nations has spoken up already we heard agnes kalama speaking before but i mean i was think of the u.n. is something which investigates which mediates between. countries between states he hey you've got a state actor definitely but jeff bezos is still a private citizen. well i think that the investigation probably should be with the u.s. in the 1st instance and to the extent that i totally agree with rami about compiling the evidence as best one can even though the state actor refuses to acknowledge or comply with with any requests for information or even assertion of jurisdiction and then if once the investigation uncovers more evidence then the consequences can be economic because it seems to me that with what have been some. vision 2030 efforts and incredible efforts to have investment in the kingdom that if the investigation uncovers credible information that it was at his command request his purchase of israeli spy software and working with israeli companies to do this then the there should be economic consequences by the market by

iran relations and the un's agnes kalama also discusses her report into the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi stay with us for that. are iran and the united states on a path to war on today's up front a special debate between a former iranian diplomat and the retired u.s. general. i mad the our son also on the show u.n. investigator and this caliber has accused the crown prince of saudi arabia of hacking into the cell phone of washington post owner jeff bezos kalamata anyone can stand up to m.p.'s but 1st after iranian general hossam silly money was assassinated in iraq on the order of u.s. president donald trump the islamic republic of iran and the united states almost went to war and we're not out of the woods yet tensions between the 2 countries are the new high so who's to blame for all of this and is there a way out that's our debate. today on a front we're hosting something you don't often see on television a debate between 2 people who for decades served at the forefront of iranian and the u.s. national security policy making he would meet today are saying that hussein was th

restraint the world can't afford another war in the gulf well that statement wasn't well received by agnes kalama who reports to the un on extrajudicial executions on twitter as well she said there is no more pressing time for the un and its leadership to step up than but this statement does not bode well you have the legal tools and the platform please use them and she included the hash tag world war 3 well earlier i spoke to agnes calabar she said it's unlikely the killing of solomon it was justifiable under international law the international demand the international arena gort justification for the killings are very high because it's not only a question of whether there are. the us to act to do notionally in central defense which is questionable. it is not only a question of whether there was an international conflict and that's a huge issue here you know nobody wants to address it directly but this is very much at the heart of the other conversation the statement that twitter provided yesterday and the fact as we knew them seemed to end a kid treaty ition the statement quote i did today by t

but to coming up now on al-jazeera it's up front looking at us in iran relations and the un's agnes kalama also discusses her report into the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi stay with us for that. all wrong in the united states on the path to war on today's up front a special debate between a former iranian diplomat and the retired u.s. general. i'm mad also on the show u.n. investigator and yes calabar has accused the crown prince of saudi arabia of hacking into the cell phone of washington post owner jeff bezos kalama whether anyone can stand up to m.p.'s but 1st after iranian general hossam salem on he was assassinated in iraq on the order of u.s. president donald trump the islamic republic of iran and the united states almost went to war and we're not out of the woods yet tensions between the 2 countries are the new high so who's to blame for all of this and is there a way out that's our debate. today on the front we're hosting something you don't often see on television a debate between 2 people infant.

does not need another war in the gulf war statement james mentioned there wasn't well received by agnes kalama who reports the u.n. on extrajudicial executions she tweeted this there is no more pressing time for the un and its leadership to step up the now but this statement does not bode well you have the legal tools and the platform please use them and she included the hash tag world war 3 when i spoke to her earlier she said it's unlikely it's on the money as killing was justifiable. the international demand international arena goal justification for the killings are very high because it's not only a question of whether. the us acted lawfully in a sense defense which is questionable. it is not only a question of whether there was an international armed conflict and that's so huge issue here you know nobody wants to address it directly but d.c. is very much at the heart of the other conversation the statement that twitter provided yesterday and the fact as we knew them seemed to n.t. kid treaty ition the statement provided today by the president this afternoon seems to be anti kitching and a

including by mohammed ben stein that's agnes kalama well earlier jeff bezos tweeted a photo of himself with his fiance unveiling a plaque last october which was marking the one year anniversary of his murder and it had the hash tag jumo glenn collins a former deputy national intelligence officer for transnational threats at the cia and he says yemen's in phone hacking doesn't surprise him. and intelligence officer it sounds like business as usual i'm not surprised at all that that happened i am a bit surprised that n.b.s. himself would allow or the intelligence service would use the head of state's own phone so easily traceable but that they did so doesn't surprise me it's pretty clear it's not that basis is rich that makes him of interest what makes him of interest is that he owns the washington post one of the 3 most influential media newspapers in the united states and therefore with global implications which in seeking truth and i i want to emphasize that the washington post seeks facts it does not engage in a campaign hostile to m.b.'s or saudi arabia it publishes facts and the fa

about the legality of the strike in iraq the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions agnes kalama has condemned the killings and she has tweeted the targeted killing of kassam saw the money and. a most likely unlawful and violates international human rights law outside the context of active all still ities the use of drones or other means of fatah getting chilling is almost never likely to be legal well let's continue our conversation with with our guests but jude's wary who is the director of the gulf studies university. a pick up on almost comments we're hearing from iran we heard earlier from supreme leader talking about revenge president rouhani talking about revenge. our reporter there giving us some indication of what that might look like via iran's proxies in the region she's talking about libyan on she's talking about iraq syria and other places when you hear the wood revenge what do you think do you assists iran strategy. you know that the narrative we are hearing from to iran of course that is a normal reaction but it has you know it has a message itself the 1st message