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Ukrainian plane was hit by a missile but canada says multiple intelligence sources show otherwise that Iranian Missile likely shot down the airliner by mistake. Cost just like these will not be allowed at the 2020 games in tokyo will have details of the i. O. C. Is new rules on political protest. Im so much going to its good to have you with us the u. S. Government has unveiled new sanctions on Iranian Industries and senior regime officials secretary of state mike pompei oh and treasury secretary steven minucci and made the announcement saying the sanctions were the result of irans missile attack on u. S. Troops in iraq that attack followed the u. S. Assassination of a Senior Iranian general last week now the sanctions target. 8 senior officials of the Islamic Republic who the u. S. Says were involved in the attack on u. S. Troops irans textile construction manufacturing mining and steel sectors are also being hit pump aoe outlined the objectives of the new sanctions the goal of your campaign. Is to deny the regime the resources to conduct its destructive Foreign Policy we want iran to simply behave like a normal nation we believe the sanctions that we impose today further that strategic objective are at lets get more on this with our correspondents publicly ileus is in washington and teri schultz is in brussels good to see you both public lets start with you there in washington the u. S. As we saw announcing new sanctions against iran also reiterating its justification for a killer killing a general soleimani secretary of my pump aoa secretary of state rather spoke we saw him there what more can you tell us about what he said. Thats right i mean youve mentioned some of that already there sumi but just to reiterate what he was saying with regards to the justification for the killing he said that we had specific information on an intimate imminent threat and those threats included attacks on u. S. Embassies obviously regarding at the justification for the killing of the iranian general custom silly money last week also used details as well some of what he spoke about with regards to the new sanctions lets not forget that these are further sanctions which are already in place on iran so far reaching and sanctions as well with regarding to many of the Key Industries within iran including construction manufacturing textile and mining sectors and also as you mentioned to the 8 iranian officials who were involved in what he said were destabilizing activities the effect of this is to absentia billions of dollars of revenue for the iranian government. Tara lets come to you now in brussels the e. U. Has been scrambling to find a response Foreign Ministers have been meeting in an emergency session there to come to a response together what can the European Union do here sumi what the e. U. Is focused on is trying to keep iran in the nuclear deal which is hanging by just the thinnest of threads now and these new sanctions that are going to be announced while the u. S. Wants to make it harder on iran it will also make it harder on the e. U. Because the reason iran has been walking away from the nuclear deal is because it says the European Union has not fulfilled its obligations under the agreement to pump up the iranian economy in the face of u. S. Sanctions so the more the u. S. Targets the at the iranian economy the more pressure there is going to be on the e. U. To try to do more business with iran and it hasnt been working well at all which is why iran has breached all 5 of the obligations under the Iranian Nuclear deal and as the e. U. Ministers meet at this very moment what secretary pompei announced in washington is going to make their job even harder its completely unclear whether theyre going to be able to bring iran back into compliance and that is their main focus today kerry we saw President Trump said that he wants nato to do more in the middle east he didnt specify exactly what that meant but nato secretary general stoltenberg said he agrees with the president so what could that look like. Yeah that was a bit surprising to hear secretary secretary general stoltenberg say that he agreed that nato could do more in the middle east because nato does have some rules there it has Training Missions it has it has this 500 person Training Mission in iraq thats been suspended because of the unrest after the killing of customs of the money and so what the secretary general stoltenberg has said is that he will look into what further Counterterrorism Measures can be taken thats really where nato believes that its strength is even if the United States may be picturing nato troops taking the place of u. S. Troops somewhere theres no way that all 28. 00 other nato allies would agree to such a thing so i fear there may be some mismatch in expectations between what President Trump wants and what nato may be able to provide but these are very new developments and well certainly be discussing them at length in the days to come puddle lets talk about what President Trump one so what is governments strategy here and there are biting sanctions new sanctions but they havent until this point brought iran to the table so is the white house actually confident that more sanctions will be effective. Well at times its been hard to follow exactly what the endgame is here for the trumpet ministration but the idea appears to be that the maximum pressure that the United States is putting on iran will eventually force them to the negotiating table we know that the United States wants a new deal with iran we heard this week being discussed so perhaps the idea here from the administration the u. S. Administration is that further sanctions will put further pressure on iran and also lets not forget as well that iran is under pressure as well not just from the United States following the downing of this aircraft so perhaps theyll be able to garner some support from some of their allies here in the United States and will force the iranians to sit down and negotiate a new deal with the u. S. And their allies. Problem fully elise reporting in washington and teri schultz for us in brussels thank you both now iran has denied western allegations that one of its own missiles downed a ukrainian jetliner that crashed outside tehran canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said the evidence from multiple intelligence sources suggests that an iranian surface to air missile hit the airliner shortly after takeoff all 176 people on board most of them iranian and canadian were killed in the crash it came just hours after iran launched an attack against u. S. Targets in neighboring iraq. Mobile phone footage verified by 2 Media Outlets appears to show the missile exploding near the plane before it crashed. Western leaders say the evidence points towards an Iranian Missile scores of canadian nationals were killed in the crash Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a vigil in the capital auto earlier he announced what he believes brought down the plane. We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering into the surface to air missiles. This may well have been unintentional. This new information reinforces the need for a thorough investigation into this matter. U. S. Officials have told us media they have a quote high degree of certainty that it was a missile that hit the plane President Donald Trump echoed the theory that it might have been an accident iran vehemently denies the theory that the plane was downed by an Iranian Missile. Its now that the thing that is clear to us and that we can say with certainty is that this plane was not hit by a missile. As i said last night the plane was on fire for more than one and a half minutes and yet the russian of flight shows that the pilot was attempting to return. To the Ukrainian International Airlines Flight was traveling from tehran to kiev with 176 people on board the boeing 737 crashed in good visibility just minutes after takeoff. Most of the victims were from iran many of them do iranian canadian citizens do to take a connecting flight to canada western leaders are demanding full transparency from tehran the focus is now on the black box flight recorders they could hold the key to revealing the cause of the crash and we can speak now to julian bray an Aviation Security expert hi julian much has been made of that video clip we saw that allegedly shows the airplane being hit how credible do you think that video is. I think we can say its fairly credible because the supplier have been in court sourced it has done an awful lot of work on it so i would say on balance probabilities we should except that what about the focus of the investigation julian it was on to the black box flight recorders that were recovered from the crash site do we know if they were in good enough condition to be analyzed properly when i seen the pictures of the black vote flight recorders were delivered to a press conference this morning and theyre in wooden crates theres some superficial damage on the data stack seems to be apart from the unit itself but i would imagine you should be able to get all the data rolls but it needs to go to an independent well resourced the bars 3 and holds good just frankly i dont think the rain or florence is has the expertise to decode this properly what about the debris at the crash site if the plane was brought down by a missile would there be signs of explosive material on debris of the plane. Its very difficult because i came down as a foreigner so everything was being consumed and that is not something we would look for normally in these situations you make sure that the area was secure and you then go in you the area literally measuring everything out taking photographs no see where all of the objects are before you remove the bodies then the bodies are taken away and then youre left with the day every field and then the experts go through it now what ive seen just about everybody has been allowed to trample over that site and so i dont know if theres any thought of residence we have from it all right avian aviation expert julian bray speaking to us thank you now the International Olympic committee has issued new guidelines that will ban athletes from kneeling in protest or making any kind of political statement at this years games in tokyo the Committee Says those who break protest rules will face disciplinary action by athlete support groups say silencing participants should never be tolerated. Over 50 years ago american sprinters tommie smith and john carlos famously did the black power salute at the Olympic Games in 1968 bringing attention to the then plight of africanamericans in the u. S. In recent years there has been a rise in political activism by athletes most notably call them kapur nick and Megan Rapinoe last august 2 u. S. Athletes were placed on probation for 12 months for evidence that the Pan American Games in peru considered by some to be a warning ahead of the Tokyo Olympics International Olympic Committee President thomas bach said previous protests had no effect and the mission of the Olympic Games is to unite and not to divide box cautioned athletes any kind of quote for what they were reason is against the submission of the Olympic Games and then to respect the. Neutrality or the Olympic Games and by not to use. Their state for. Political purposes potential violations of the new guidelines according to the i. O. C. Would be evaluated by the athletes national Olympic Committee and the respective International Sport federation disciplinary action will be taken on a case by case basis athletes however will be free to express themselves during enter views and on platforms like twitter and instagram some ethnic groups have criticized the new rules calling it a violation of human rights and a double standard they point to the i. O. C. President jacques support of a joint north and south korean team at the 2018 Winter Olympics as an example of pushing politics at the games amid rising political tensions ruled why will athletes abide by the new policy set by the i. O. C. Well have our answer when the games start in. Tokyo on the 24th of july. Lets get a recapping our top story here on g. W. U. S. Secretary of state maicon pale and treasury secretary steven chu and have unveiled new sanctions on iran Steel Industry and on senior officials of the Islamic Republic to sanctions are the result of irans missile attack on bases housing u. S. Troops in iraq. Coming up next you have your business africa with your heartfelt 1st well be reporting on tech friday in malis capital bamako stay tuned