with the word next you know graeme smith with theme anti-monarchist free republic joining us tonight from reading graham it was good talking with you thank you thank you. well the united states and canada are tonight saying that they have intelligence that shows iran likely shot down the ukrainian international airlines plane which crashed on wednesday the airliner was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev at the time the very same time that iran launched its air strikes on bases in neighboring iran a name that u.s. officials have told american media that iranian air defense systems may have accidentally shot down the plane which killed 176 passengers and crew earlier today u.s. president trump was asked about the connection between iran's missiles and the crash i have my suspicions it was very i don't want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. it's a tragic thing when i see that it's a tragic thing. but somebody could have made a mistake on the other could've could've made a mistake it was flying it was it was flying in that