time kabul sun long time ruler known for promoting peace in an unstable beach and his cousin hyphen bin taric outside is named as a modern new leader. and china watch as closely as the south governing island of taiwan chooses its new president's. thank you for joining us after days of denial iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all 176 people on board but ukraine's president says quote for admission of guilt and an official apology are still required the plane crash shortly after takeoff from tehran on wednesday the same night iran launch missiles at iraqi bases housing u.s. troops we begin our coverage with this report from. iran has admitted its military unintentionally shot down the street creamy in plane killing all 176 people on board president hassan rouhani has described it as a great tragedy and unforgivable mistake iran's foreign minister to votes the reef express his condolences human error he wrote at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster. this i stay to ready nuts a fact that everybody is expecting some sort or

also time cabooses successor were sought in just a short time ago in amman high found bin taric outside seen here in the front row of mourners was chosen to replace the longtime leader he was sultan kaposi's cousin and the country's heritage and culture minister with me now is my job's wherry director of the gulf studies center at qatar university thank you for being with us much of the challenge was that sultan qaboos of course didn't have an heir apparent but a successor has been named fairly quickly everything seems to be happening in a very orderly manner it was it was very smooth political transition in a matter of 5 hours for. announce the of town called was around 839 the announce his successor that was a very fast and smooth political transition this i think this reflects 2 things one is the procedure itself which basically highlighted by the constitution article 5 and 6 and number 2 the willingness of a man to use and the leadership of a man to move into the country the country quickly safe and secure right what do we know abbas accountable says success on haifa and bin taric o

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death of its leader sultan qaboos bin side outside the region's long as ruling monarch died after a long illness said the age of 79 his cover cousin hyphen been taric outside has been softening as its successor promising to continue the foreign policy which has made the gulf countries such an important regional mediator and a few moments matheson will look back on life and legacy but 1st sat iraq reports on a dramatic day of transition in amman. a year 200. in. the announcements of salt on kabul says death came on state t.v. . the man who ruled amman for 50 years had been unwell for a number of years 3 days of national mourning and now underway in amman and a number of regional countries. his funeral has already been held in the capital muscat. and just hours after the announcement of his death his family had already chosen his successor. haitham been taught at a site sultan kabul says cousin in true monny form his swearing in is the new sultan was a smooth and quick transition site has already served as culture minister and was made in charge of the country's 2040 vision development programme where. we will remain guided by the late sometimes wisd