the pledge came from bearings, defense minister elise andrew, who met with russian president vladimir putin on sunday. it follows a state visit to moscow by a chinese president. she isn't being last month. a court in iran has sentence 10 members of its air defense forces to prison for the downing of a ukrainian passenger plane 3 years ago. or 176 people on board died when iran's revolutionary guard shot down the aircraft over terran, at a time of increase tensions with the u. s. the association of victims families has denounced the trial as a sham and once the case brought before the international court of justice. 4 people have been killed and dozens injured in a shooting at a teenagers birthday party in the us state of alabama. it happened in the town of danville. there's been no indication yet of the motive for the shooting. a distant armed group that emerged from columbia's disbanded fog rebels says it's now ready for peace talks with the government. the mc rejected a 2016 piece deal, which other fog vendors had accepted. the group says it's prepared to start dialogue next month.