A cease fire in syrias last rebel stronghold plus returning to the streets workers in france continue their protests against pension reform plans with the transport strike entering its 37th day. Top story iran is denying accusations that a missile strike was the cause of the ukrainian jet crashing at tehran on weapons day its calling the allegations against them psychological warfare video posted by the New York Times does appear to show the moment a missile hit the plane near tehran airport the video shows a small explosion when the airliner was purportedly struck but the jet did not immediately explode the aircraft did continue flying for several minutes and turned back towards the airport whilst it was at the same time on fire alan fischer has more. This was taken seconds before a ukrainian passenger jet crashed near tehran security cameras captured the dramatic moment of impact on the ground 176 people died including 63 canadians that countrys Prime Minister says it was down by in a rainy and missile we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in a surface to air missile the plane came down just for hours after iran had fired a volley of missiles towards the u. S. Bases in iraq the country was on high alert for possible u. S. Or television asked if he blamed america for escalating tensions in the area Prime Minister trudeau said a full investigation was needed before fingers were pointed i think it is too soon to be drawing conclusions or assigning blame or responsibility and whatever proportions iranian officials insist the aircraft the Ukrainian International boeing 737800 had a problem and was headed back to the airport they say there were other planes in the area deborah from the plane was scattered over a wide area the socalled black boxes a cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder have been recovered they even see the wont be handing them over to boeing but will conduct an investigation and keep ukraine informed its been reported that deborah has been bulldozed into a pile at the scene making a forensic analysis almost impossible but one expert told us the dead might be the best witnesses there could be evidence with literally within the bodies of the victims that could point to whether or not for example an explosion took place inside or outside of the air that earlier in the day u. S. President donald trump said he feared the worst it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say was mechanical i personally dont think thats. Even a question the communion presently flowers at the. Schiff memorial at the airport where the plane was due to land he called for canadian experts to join the investigation its understood many of the victims had jule nationalities families are no painfully waiting to find out when the bodies will be returned and they can see their final goodbye. So alan this is going to be a laborious process not least because of the location and what the iranians are saying about this. Well these investigations always take time the difficulty here of course as far as the canadians are concerned is that they have no people on the ground they have approached the iranians they have sent inspectors to turkey waiting for visas to be approved theyre working through the italians because they have no representation in tehran itself and certainly the noises coming out of canada would suggest that they are quite hopeful that they will get a team on the grown very soon once they get there it may be difficult to carry out the exact sort of operation they would like because if this has been bulldozed if the site has been billed as it makes the job much more difficult not impossible but much more difficult they can of course talk to people on the ground they can examine the bodies and they can examine the wreckage that exists as far as the iranians are concerned they still see the way the plane came down on its belly suggest that it was a technical fault and it wasnt shot down there is a reports that there could well have been a Missile Defense system nearby that hadnt been switched off no how that would work because it would detect something in its vicinity and just fire that may be part of the investigation was there a Missile Defense battery nearby was it on automatic but these are all hypotheticals at the moment certainly the canadians want people on the ground as soon as possible no formal diplomatic relations between also and tehran as they need to get to states where theyve got a guess around on that and canadian investigators can enter iran and get unfettered access to what they need to see and what they need to get done and examine. The iranians say theyre going to share information with the ukrainians the ukrainians say that they will get access to everything that the iranians have clearly in that stage the ukrainians are going to share information with the canadians but its interesting that the ukrainian president when he was visiting the airport said it would be very good if the canadians were there obviously relying on the xperia tease at the great a database perhaps even people who have dealt with this sort of thing in the past all of these things current so its difficult for the canadians to deal directly with the iranians theyre doing it through the italians thats the way they normally do these sort of things but clearly they would like answers quickly because theres many families not just in canada who want an answer to what happened to their relatives after they boarded this flight and of course theres a question mark over the iranians why didnt they shut down the airspace if they knew they were working to a timetable this happened just 4 hours after the iranians fired missiles to towards u. S. Bases in iraq and they were concerned that there may be retaliation so their entire system their entire country was on high alert thank you all than 200000 people of iranian origin live in canada and the community has been devastated by the crash of a Korean International flight 762 more than 3 quarters of the passengers who died were traveling on to canada at least 63 work and 18 citizens daniel lak looks now at a community in mourning. Across a vast country grief devastation and loss iranian canadians have settled widely and built lives here its no exaggeration everyone in the Community Knows someone connected to the tragedy. Just 36 was a Real Estate Agent in a largely iranian canadian area near toronto he and his wife were returning from visiting her family in tehran very positive attitude very upbeat young aggressive very busy. And the wife you want to the job you want to life but he chose that he wanted and could have been. Something great in mans wife perry nas worked in a bank and was a relentless fundraiser for a top iranian canadian cultural festival the organization doesnt know what it will do without her they realize shes no longer with us. Its a big gap that they have to fill in our committee and you know our charity. Nearly 30 victims of the tragedy came from the western city of edmonton a small Iranian Canadian Community there has been gathering for vigils to remember the dead among them 2 married professors from the university of alberta and their young daughters this is a rainy and canadian member of parliament has been meeting his constituents almost constantly since news of the crash emerged on wednesday there are times like this that were really not a hyphenated canadian and were just a canadian and as promiser always said a canadian is a canadian as a canadian so although it has hit our Community Everyone in the Community Knows someone that knows someone with its impact on Diverse Communities from iranian canadians to academics the Business World and professions this tragedy is going to continue to resonate even beginning the healing process will take a long time daniel acknowledges here at toronto. Ok lets talk now to Thomas Juneau hes an assistant professor at the graduate school of public and International Affairs at the university of also where he joins us from also where the Canadian CapitalThomas Juneau welcome to news our intelligence gathering in canada is generally never politicized its never deliberately tilted one way or the other does that make what your Prime Minister was saying what 45 hours ago now all the more stronger than it might have been if hed just been quoting intelligence say from the states or from some of the european countries. I think thats an important point you know canada has limited intelligence gathering capabilities at the International Level we do rely a lot in terms of accessing for the raw data signals intelligence and other means from our allies the u. S. The u. K. Australia new zealand in particular but the very important point and im currently in the process of process of researching a book specifically on this with a colleague it can that we have very strong institutions at multiple levels but our Intelligence Community is extremely professional it is extremely nonpartizan and has in recent years you know maybe in the last 20 years or so there are no instances of the politicize ation of intelligence analysis and by this i mean you know politicians lying a vote what their Intelligence Community tells them so if the Prime Minister today in this country said we believe not with 100 percent confidence he did kaviak that but he said we believe that the most likely scenario is that this plane was shot down by mistake by iranian air defenses i think i accept that i accept that that is the most likely conclusion how do you think iran will handle it. Thats a very difficult question and i think that you know theres a lot of uncertainty right now given the International Situation so irans you know reaction is a bit unpredictable because of everything that we know thats been going on with the u. S. In the last 10 days or so that being said i think theres a good baseline of noncooperation that we can and should expect from from the islamic republic. Iran will be reluctant to share information it will be reluctant to give freedom of circulation and access to inspectors from other countries whether canada the u. S. Or others and you dont normally in a situation like this investigators should go on the site they should interview people they should have access to the wreckage they should have access to the black box and so on your own will restrict a lot of that it will say that it will do it but it will do a lot less than it than it says and that will just make the whole process very difficult very sensitive when it also slow the process done because iran doesnt recognize this idea of jewel citizenship the authorities in tehran you are iranian or you all canadian you cannot be both. At historically that has been a big problem with iran and it with other countries but specifically with canada we have had over the last few years including as recently as last year very difficult consular cases where dual citizens were in some cases killed by iranian autoroute hes tortured to death in prison in some cases it other cases detained under house arrest and prison there were a variety of scenarios but the common denominator of a number of these stories was that they were dual citizens i. E. They had passports of canada and of iran from the iranian governments perspective dual citizenship as you said is not recognized by the iranian governments response to kian and request for cooperation for a discussion iran would simply respond this is not of your business this individual is an iranian citizen and thats it for our own purposes of course that was disingenuous on the part of you ron but thats been the standard modus operandi in recent years in this case will it be the same i dont know the situation is different but at the very least we should expect some significant difficulties at that level certainly in the history of crash investigations that weve covered on this network on the unique what if the process of mourning turns to a feeling of anger and people start looking to washington i mean might be in a situation where say your Prime Minister feels pressured because people are angry because theyre saying well hang on some of the culpability he has to go to the white house because if the white house hadnt taken a customs for the money this would have taken off it was a flown to key and 63 canadians would then have made the journey on to canada. That is a very good question and a very difficult one for the canadian government to deal with in the next days weeks and months you know we are only land neighboring town that is the United States our economy is significantly dependent on our trade with the u. S. Which is by far by very far our largest trading partner over the decades on pretty much any important Foreign Policy issue managing the relationship with the United States is canadas most important Foreign Policy priority when kind of the place to afghanistan as we did for many years when we make a decision to not deploy to iraq in 2003 to deploy more recently we think in terms of our relationship with the United States and this intuition will not be different at a general level what that means especially with as prickly and unpredictable and impulsive a president as president but it was the case with other president s to have Prime Minister true that any government will have to be very very careful if the Prime Minister or anybody senior in the canadian government blames. The u. S. Killing of general solely money 10 days ago as being the root cause of this plane crash which in a way indirectly is true. Then you would expect President Trump in the u. S. To react negatively to that criticism and for canada thats a very difficult calculus to make and you could see it today when Prime Minister true what it was asked that question he avoided it basically i thought he was fairly effective in not answering it and that was a very typical answer he has no choice its almost you know good to talk to this difficult time thank you so much. Thank you. Lots more ground still to cover for you here on the news hour including the libyan wall orderly for halftime projects a call for a cease fire going into pleas by turkey and russia. In support we might not see protests like this any more of the 2020 olympics in tokyo far well explain why coming up in the sports news from about 35 minutes. Back to washington the u. S. House of representatives today passing a resolution to rein in President Trumps ability to engage in military action against iran days after he ordered that drone strike that killed custom so the money the nonbinding resolution passed by 224294 with just 3 republicans voting in support 8 democrats opposed the measure heres heidi jocasta. House democrats say President Trumps order to kill iranian general custom solar monny was a reckless move done without the consultation of congress it is unprecedented the level at which this administration is seeking to obscure the facts from the congress of the American People thursdays vote on the house floor is meant to deliver a rebuke to the president that the democratic led chamber has little confidence in trumps military Decision Making toward iran despite his justifications we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy we also did it for other reasons that were very obvious somebody died one of our military people died people were badly wounded just a week before and we did it and we had a shot at him and i took it and that shot was pinpoint accurate and that was the end of a monster the war powers resolution passed in the house on thursday directs the president to terminate the use of u. S. Forces in iran without congressional approval but how much power this measure carries is unclear it is a nonbinding resolution which under normal circumstances means it does not carry the force of law but House Speaker nancy pelosi says the war powers act is a special circumstance that gives the resolution legality that it does not have to be signed by the president of the United States the congress of the United States and this fall our of full voice can speak a new 9 that way about what the war powers act should look like and that should count for something House Republicans call the vote a partisan distraction this resolution has as much force of law as a new years resolution this resolution is not safeguarding our constitution but attacking our constitution by attempting to do. Best a duly elected president of is commander in chief powers a similar resolution is pending in the u. S. Senate where at least 2 republicans have said they will support the measure to curb iran war powers but whether the resolutions will have that effect or will simply be ignored by the president is a question that may be decided in the courts. Castro aljazeera washington. Well earlier we spoke with Bill Schneider hes a Public Policy professor at George Mason University he says democrats blame the president for the heightened tensions with iran they think that the president acted in a risky full hearty manner that he didnt heed of course did not consult congress these days president s rarely do before taking military action and they want to make sure that the president at least is symbolically required to inform congress before anything like this ever happens again in the near future especially with regard to iran palosi has put together correct me if im wrong he is utterly unique in the annals of u. S. Political history so does it mean that in the future if mr trump wants to do something similar or who have a follows mr trump wants to do something similar theyve got to Tell Congress we are doing it or have they got to go to congress and explain the strategy as well well thats what Congress Wants but you know what this aint going to happen. It has passed the house which is a democratic majority but it wont pass the senate which has a republican majority and president no president backed will sign this bill so it will not go into effect its more or less a statement that congress is unhappy with the risky way in which President Trump took action against iran without informing Congress Without consulting experts really on his own authority. Well the u. S. President donald trump tensions with iran to slow down his Reelection Campaign mr trump has been holding a keep America Great event until edo ohio as the of 2020 and so far he attacked the usual targets including the House Speaker nancy pelosi and the democrats john hendren is at that rally in toledo ok john i was expecting tens of thousands of red baseball caps but theyve all left now but was a short rally ok what weve been talking about. Well it is all over but the cleanup now the president came here to ohio to talk to 8 found roaring fans because this is a state that he won in 2016 that he also needs to win again in 2020 and with his approval hovering around 45 percent right now hes got a shot at doing that thats a National Approval level because he only had 46 percent when he won men back in 2016 so he offered kind of a greatest hits of trump is and he talked about the success of the economy each oct about impeachment he talked about democrats being socialists and no trump really would be complete without a pretty lengthy recap of his 2016 election victory now the president has had a pretty rough couple of weeks you had that war powers vote earlier today in the house for the house sought to rein in his ability to wage a military conflict with iran you had strikes by iran on military bases in iraq u. S. Personnel being there as well but he made it all sound triumphant this is a little of what he had to say. But while we are creating jobs and killing terrorists the washington democrats are wasting americans. With demented options and crazy which i dont. Think of it from the day i came down that scale later its. Going to take at this stuff right. Do i get some credit for the. Guys would have been harder. With. These are bad people. On the big. Picture. He did he boasted at length about the assassination. He said that was indeed. And he said not. Baghdad whats interesting is there was very little. Hours vote. To say that the democrats. 15 minutes or so to carry out the assassination. And he ended up presenting the triumph despite the fact that 2 american bases. Back. John thank you very much to syria now where russia and turkey havent i was to cease fire in it lived province the countrys last rebel held strong hold the force or and fighting began a few hours ago hundreds of people have been killed the in the past 12 months worse thing a violent in italy a percent a devastating effects on a humanitarian conditions strikes and other attacks by russia and Syrian Government forces of displace nearly 300000 people from the area since december children and women all the most affected at least 875000 children have been forced to leave thousands of families are an urgent need of humanitarian assistance aid agencies have provided food in cash to more than 880000 step brasen reports from moscow modern 300000 people have been displaced from it lip city in just a little over a month despite previews agreements between Turkey Russia and iran on a socalled the escalations zone in this loss rebel held area in the northwest so syria bombing has intensified bite the asset Regime Forces and his russian al ice 8 organizations have raised alarm about it it teary aerating humanitarian situation turkey rich has already taken in 3700000. 00 Syrian Refugees is concerned more will come turkish president ratchet thiab and russian president Vladimir Putin discussed a situation and it lay plan they met in istanbul on wednesday put a lounge of a gas project connecting both nations by high tech pipelines but in their statement on wednesday there was no mention of a cease fire in lip but instead they cold for a cease fire in libya starting on january 12 meanwhile in libya general who is backed by russian mercenaries has rejected the ceasefire proposal there and its unclear if the ceasefire it live will hold. Since september 2018 more than 1300 civilians have been killed in attacks by the Syrian Regime and russian forces. A cease fire declared on august 31st last year also failed to hold each of the cease fires just as with every single agreement that the russians and the regime has made the cease fires are then broken and the regime continues its brutal military onslaught and we hope that this time will be different and it is really turkeys responsibility here called for a ceasefire come at a crucial time as a u. N. Mandate that allows humanitarian aid delivery to syria through 4 border crossings is set to expire on friday leaving 3700000 people vulnerable shuto still ities continue step aljazeera moscow. Still to come for you here on the news hour australian residents in Southern States are told to get out as the bushfire crisis continues to worsen. It will come but can be enough to keep. Tempers flare at the a. T. P. Cup in australia more details coming up later in school. Had though theyre pretty cold and clear cause much of northern china japan the Korean Peninsula has seen the rain the snow on its way but it will be moving fairly swiftly but as i say you know that i was a china it is cold and it is dry look at this this is the big ice festival in cheyenne yang city it is amazing of 160 sculptures made of ice or snow it actually officially opened on choose day so it will stay cold and play in this particular region in fact not about day friday across the Korean Peninsula one of the showers work that much over central japan and then a line of rain showers working the way steadily through eastern china and also pushing for the south was as we had to saturday not cheap out there in shanghai 9 celsius and we should still be in double figures in tokyo for the hive 11 on saturday and in asia widely unsettled plenty of rain showers particules borneo of the next couple of days but the heavy rain is out towards the west really beginning to develop along these coastal areas all the sumatra we could be saying as much as 300. 00 millimeters over the next 3 days and even southern areas of borneo again picking up some fairly big amounts some strong thunderstorms developing later in the day fairly quiet picture overall across into much of n. D. S. And cloud has been streaming away from the north but to the north west we have got the snow on the ground but to time it is not too bad in new delhi 16 celsius on friday. This. Story of a british italian man experiencing life close up in a Palestinian Refugee camp in beirut its. Coming face to face with the daily lives of its residents some of whom have lived there for 70 years but there has been horrific jomo soldiers life its not known life is short 7 days in beirut but. An aljazeera. When the news breaks in the moment today the current government has lost trust the people they cant do anything because the protesters are against it when people to places like work who represent the loft shots for opponents of brechts its private but the conservatives aljazeera has teams on the ground right now hopes the meeting in paris will push politicians to create a competent and credible government to bring new moon documentaries and life moves on air and online. Updating your top stories for you here on the news so far today iran denying accusations that a missile strike was the cause of the ukrainian jet crash near tehran on wednesday the foreign leaders including from the u. S. The u. K. And canada say there is intelligence suggesting the plane was down by an Iranian Missile. The u. S. House of representatives has passed a nonbinding bill to limit President Trumps ability to take military action against iran Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the assassination of general custom solomonic was provocative and disproportionate to. Russia and turkey have announced a cease fire in the countrys. Last rebel held stronghold hundreds of people have been killed there in the past year. An Iranian Revolutionary guard commander has warned a missile attack on a base hosting u. S. Troops in iraq is only the start of the retaliation that will continue across the region. Says weapon state strikes one meant to kill soldiers but to damage the American Military machine dosage body reports from tehran. A country in mourning thursdays Memorial Ceremony began in the supreme leaders residence in tehran. The commander in chief of irans armed forces accompanied by the man who has replaced is sas a native general hossam saw the money as head of the revolutionary guards whats force. Similar Memorial Services were held across the country to mark the u. S. Killing of general salim on the impact that on friday. And on wednesday this was irans promise response this video was broadcast on state t. V. It appears to show members of the revolutionary guard loading ballistic missiles. Before launching them into the night sky their target a military base across the border in iraq housing u. S. Soldiers the man in charge of that operation is the head of irans revolutionary Guard Aerospace unit Brigadier General allie hodges. In. The forward the ball the missile attack conducted against the u. S. Military base was a move that god willing will be continued in iran was not after killing u. S. Personnel our goal was to hit u. S. Military equipment. And immediate diplomatic solution to the crisis seems unlikely iran wants u. S. Forces to permanently leave the gulf region i think there are events for downfall in many areas is something really a strategy and for lying to her and as there were. Either himself also mentioned it is to make the americans leave their region and i think that many nations in the region also are supporting this political thesis the us says its targeting of course im still the money in an air strike was in response to an attack in iraq in which an American Contractor was killed and for which it blames iran. But a recent unclassified memo appears to contradict trumps claims that Gen Soleimani pose an immediate danger to the United States iranian officials have united in their response the soleimani for now a number of countries are trying to use all political channels to the escalate tensions between the United States and iran but solomon is death is not likely to open a path of dialogue between the 21 time adversaries north of the bari outers there are terror on. Iranian and u. S. Officials who had a faceoff at the United Nations for the 1st time since the killing of qassam so the money irans foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif was unable to attend the session in new york because the u. S. Refused to grant him a visa u. S. Has continued to justify the assassination of some the money but if backing for the action limited even among its own allies james bays has more from the u. N. This was a Security Council debate about the uns founding document the United Nations charter keyed to International Law and also central in arguments about the legality of actions by both the us and iran in recent days on us the Us Ambassador kelly crafts as the charter justifies their assassination of general sort of money pursuant to article 51. 00 that says nations have the right to selfdefense exactly the same article is invoked by iran to explain its missile attack on u. S. Bases in iraq are generally 8th action against an airbase in iraq from which they cowardly on the attack against mortars or a muscle in money was launched by the measured on proportionate response to a terrorist attack in the existence and the existence of inherent right to selfdefense in accordance with article 51 of the charter. Perhaps unsurprisingly both russia and china took a wrong side of them being. Only at present the United States unilateral military adventurism has led to the tensing up of the situation in the middle east gulf region china supports a call for peace by secretary general guitars at this meeting once again the u. S. Is closest allies were not giving a full throated endorsement of President Trumps most recent actions 5 new members join the Security Council at the beginning of the year and diplomats believe the council as a whole is now slightly less favorable to the u. S. Than it was a year ago james out jazeera at the United Nations. Australias bushfire crisis is guessing even worse as temperatures shoot well above 40 degrees celsius and scorched on the Mass Evacuation call for heavily Populated Areas of the southeast Emergency AlertText Messages have been sent to 220000 people in victoria states alone at least 27 people have been killed and more than 2000 homes have been destroyed since September Jessica washington is in sydney. From the coast to the mountains fires have burned through an area larger than south korea thousands of houses have been destroyed businesses disrupted and dozens of lives lost the Blue Mountains in the west of sydney a unesco World Heritage site has been hit particularly hard in the neighboring region of penrith its almost impossible for people to avoid breathing in bushfires smoke and more than once this summer head north has become the hottest place on earth so we cant ignore the fact that you know temperatures are going to take ridiculous levels and. They are at a point where weve never seen them before weve never had time to divide 50 degrees in my lifetime so. As a kid weve never experienced 50 degrees having a strategy as severe drought has worsened the bushfire season which arrived weeks earlier than normal and those fires have become political just months ago Scott Morrison won the election in a landslide appealing to voters who were concerned about their personal finances but the scale and scope of this bushfire season has made many ordinary straley and realize the personal cost of an environmental catastrophe experts say politicians are now facing increasing pressure with many people blaming Climate Change and demanding action the situation is trying to quite considerably certainly Coalition Governments are caught Climate Policy issues have been brought into question big fast im so. Startled but how the conditions have arisen has become the key question of people really interested in the government has been reluctant to make the connection between Climate Change and the fires now the Prime Minister says there is a link but the government isnt prepared to reconsider the countrys reliance on fossil fuels this push by season is far from over and so too is the political impact jessica washington aljazeera sydney australia. Ok lets go back to a top story of the Ukrainian Airlines plane crash in iran with its top aim a hes the c. E. O. Of aero consulting experts he was previously an Airline Captain he has flown into and out of Tehran International is force airport he joins us from california but welcome to the news here on aljazeera do you buy the initial iranian narrative when it comes to the route seeing that aircraft took off to something had happened. Good morning peter you know i dont know what the routing they were talking about there is what we call a standard instrument departure out of tehran because as you know there are the highest mountains to the north of tehran the al gores mountains and there is a procedure for takeoff which this aircraft was initially on that the part to route and now something may have happened that he made a right turn towards the mountains but i believe that that happened right after this particular whatever happened to that or craft i cant comment on this right now because we dont have real. Data that it was definitely shut down how do you think the iranians should handle this moving forward. They have to. Strongly urge them to be forthright this could have been a accidental shoot down like the one over the persian gulf d many years ago when our destroyer vinson should shut down any iranian air bus. And they have to allow the international 3rd Party Perhaps a neutral 3rd party like france or canada they should allow those people to. Do the investigation alongside of the iranians that is there a very important because according to the i. K. O. Protocol which iran is a signatory to they must allow lets say the manufacturer of the aircraft which is boeing the ukrainians who own that airliner and perhaps even the engine manufacturer to participate in the fact finding they definitely have to allow the International Involvement in the investigation is there a sense in which maybe because of what we think might have happened getting access to unfettered access to the black black box data recorders is absolutely essential because custom practice dictates that the bodies of the deceased returned to their home countries not necessarily the countries the best nation but the home countries and when the relevant d. N. A. Testing is done they might find literally explosive evidence contained on or in whats left of the people who boarded the flight. That is very true every i hate to say body part every. Slightest small fragment of that aircraft on the ground has a signature of what happened to that or craft perhaps it was an explosion caused by an engine. Explosion or a bomb or even a missile that signature would be right on every part of that aircraft or bodies so therefore they have to provide that information the evidence to the International Community other questions as well briefly ross to the airline because the airline is the ultimate up its of whether it was safe to fly on all of. That is correct and as you know just a day before this tragic accident. Our f. A. A. Issued a notice which is notice to airmen basically telling all u. S. Carriers and everybody else that listens dont fly in that area if you remember with the malaysian shoot down over ukraine there was also a note on issued that they should stay away from that area perhaps fly at a High Altitude on fortunately this was on takeoff were these folks were in a low altitude on a climb out around 7900 feet. Which makes it much easier to shoot down but if it was up to me if i was the captain or not flight and obviously i had the protection of a uni and supporting me supporting my decision i would not have gone to that area at that particular night or i beg your pardon early morning. But the good thing it was that i believe all eyes were in that area of the world imagine all the satellite its all the radars from. Iranian radar a u. S. Radars. Just a good citizen that sam you in california some going to have to stop you there but listen up which i apologize for thank you so much for giving us a distilled of your expertise when it comes to your experience all moving around this area whilst flying a plane we do appreciate your time my pleasure sir. Libyan warlord to leave her half to has rejected calls from turkey and russia for a cease fire to be implemented by sunday the 2 countries supporting opposing sides in the conflict moscow banks after whose forces have been trying to seize tripoli since april turkey has started deploying troops to support the u. N. Recognize government based there mark without the words in the capital tripoli he says the battle for control of the city is constant this is one of the houses that were hit by rockets launched by forces loyal to the warlord 30 for half that on wednesday nights as you can see here this big hole in the concrete ceiling was caused by the rockets inside downstairs there is major damage this direction everywhere but the owners of this house tell us that they are grateful that they were not inside when the rocket hit but nevertheless they say that there are many elderly people in this building they are with chronic diseases there was transferred to medical centers to receive medical treatment immediately after the attack this area was hit dozens of times by half those forces on wednesday night this area in the vicinity of. The only operational airport has been heard many times by forces loyal to the warlords leaf or have to either by rockets or airstrikes so many times since he launched the military campaign to seize tripoli back in april multiple attacks on this area led many civilians to leave their homes. More antigovernment demonstrations are planned across iraq has the political crisis deepens people are gathering in various cities for a big march the shuttles take place on friday they say the political system is corrupt and most iraqis are being kept in poverty it follows months of violent protests demanding an overhaul of the government of 460 people have been killed in the past 3 months. A group of diplomats from 15 countries on a 2 day visit to indian administered kashmir its the 1st time foreign diplomats have been invited by the Indian Government to assess the situation after new delhi revoked the regions autonomy last august so what raman has more from the indian capital. A 2 day visit by a delegation of diplomats based here in india has begun in kashmir they consist according to the indian media of those such as the United States ambassador and diplomats from africa and latin america they have been insistent that they did not want to guided tour of kashmir since article 370 that gave the region its autonomy was removed in the middle of last year and they did want to meet former chief ministers such as me. Omar and for a dollar who at the moment continue to be under house arrest now of course the only pictures that are emerging from the region on this visit is a convoy from the airport taking these diplomats to a military base where they will they meet apparently members of Civil Society and other politicians a select group of domestic journalists have been invited by the Indian Government to cover the event but those that dont quite see eye to eye domestically within the government have not been invited is expected that we will get comment from these diplomats when they come back to the capital new delhi but what is most interesting is that the representatives of the European Union are not in attendance they cited it was too short notice to go and that we will wait to see whether they are invited on to further trip in the future. French unions are filled another nationwide strike against president emanuel macros Pension Reform Program the protests of already cause travel disruption for more than a month now because ca sions between the government and the transport unions are expected to continue on friday that is in paris. Where theyve been protesting against their french governments planned Pension Reforms for more than a month now for 5 weeks in fact transport workers have been on strike and that is meant to major trouble disruption up and down the country strains bassis may change transept is severely reduced now what the change Union Leaders have asked for is bull. Nationwide day of action that is why here in the center of areas there are people from all sections of french working society you have a Doctors Health workers accountants over here on my left there are lots of teachers many schools and universities are shut today and what they all were saying is they are worried that the french government. That they will have to work. And that they will have that pensions reduced. The Pension Reforms will be a huge catastrophe in our protests may take time but we must win not just for us but for our children and grandchildren what he wants to impose a. Road system where everybody is but that sounds selfish. People are joining this march and really its a pretty big crowd now no opinion polls suggest that despite all the disruption that a majority of french people still support the strike that is fueling theres no doubt that there is pressure on both the trade unions and the french government to do something to try and break the stalemate that the french government says that this reform is necessary to try to streamline the Pension System save money and make it fairer and this week the french Prime Minister said wofully said that both sides trade unions and the government have to work to find a way to be impulse. The bill which will be presented to the company until john has 24 is necessary to guarantee. The trade unions have a better players over a more intelligent. Then i assure you will take into account what some trade unions and protesters here want is for the government to scrap their pension reform plans all together but the french government wants to try and appeal to some of the more moderate trade unions with some modifications to the veil between the trade unions and the french government we see them on friday. Petaled. Splitted on thursday shooting ash and rock up into the sky and eruption created a cloud of gas an ash that reached 3 kilometers into the air the authorities a ban people going near the volcano but theres been no evacuations public out of petal is considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world because a quarter of a 1000000 people live within a radius of just 100 kilometers. Still to come here on the news of the sports news irans footballer suffer a setback in that qualifying for the olympics. Sport time. Thanks very much the International Olympic committee has warned that political protests will not be tolerated at this years summer games in tokyo on thursday the i. O. C. As top officials met in los and announced new guidelines stating that taking a political stand on the field of play will be prohibited athletes will be allowed however to express political opinions during official media settings and on social media actual punishment for protests will be decided on a case by case basis we want people to understand and athletes to understand the. Athletes that come from different backgrounds and different understandings and there are so many more athletes and Olympic Games that benefit from the solidarity principle. And if we can look at and try and get us to understand when youre going to the Olympic Games youre going as a team and not as an individual the olympics of course has a history of political protests the most iconic of which is arguably the black power salute at the 1968 olympics in mexico city u. S. Sprinters tommie smith and john carlos of raise their fist to protest against racism in the United States both athletes were suspended by their country not by the i. O. C. In 1906 to protest against having to represent Great Britain irish high jumper Peter Oconnor wave the golden harp ireland forever flag after receiving his summer a medal at rio 2016 marathon at silver medalist 3 said lisa crossed his wrists at the finish line to support protestors in his home region of ethiopia earlier we spoke to sports journalist stuart ware whos covered numerous Olympic Games he says the new measures by the i. O. C. Are a positive step. But i think the i. O. C. Is trying to say and their statement uses the word sport is neutral and must be separate from political and religious or any other kind of interference i think that theyre trying to make the focus of the olympics be on the sport on the competition and not to allow any athlete to hijack it for their own political reasons i think you have to stress that athletes are not being gagged because when theyre talking to the media they can say whatever they like its simply that theyre not allowed to needle don or put a fist stop like the the 2 didnt in 68. 00. I mean of course there will always be issues around the olympics but i think its quite a good thing for the i. O. C. To be saying this is the 1st civil sport and we want to keep it that way you know if you want to protest about racism in america do it in america or do it at the American Embassy dont do it in the midst of. The Olympic Games which really has no jurisdiction there. Serious footballers have taken a small step towards qualification for this years Tokyo Olympics had been to nail down 2 cats are in their asian under 23. 00 Championship Group match a competition doubling as an olympic qualifiers and they grabbed a last gasp equaliser and theyre pretty much in bangkok. Around were playing defending champions is back a stanley iranians are helping their cause but this is the only miss only so jari with a moment to forget the match finished and a 11 draw. England captain harry kay need surgery and faces a race against time to be fit for euro 2020 but on the striker will go under the knife to fix a hamstring injury sustained during his clubs loss to southampton on january 1st that spurs have to perm that he wont resume training until at least april with the euros beginning on june 12th. A political majority of stunned barcelona in the semifinals of the spanish super cup they came from behind with 2 late goals to win 3 chew of logical will now face city rivals round which are in the final this is the 1st time a 14 many tournaments is being used to decide the cup russia have reached the semifinals of tenniss a. T. P. Cup in australia but their top player Daniel Medvedev could face punishment after twice striking the umpires chair in anger. Mark goldberg cant get to the court. But with his skating with a point penalty after this meltdown last years u. S. Open runner up did go on to win this match against argentina as diego schwartzman. Carlos has extended his overall lead at the darker rally since become the 1st repeat stage winner at this years event which is being held in saudi arabia the time dakar and world rally champion is now 6 minutes clear at the top of the standings and thats all your sport for now more later. 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