Were killed in that crash families and friends who lost loved ones united. Will hugh more about the victims and the international communitys mourning their loss. Im jarid rate welcome to the program the commander of irans revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian passenger jet on wednesday iran says the firing of the missile at the plane was a mistake and its blaming human error after the plane flew near a sensitive military site 176 people were killed in the crash to run had previously denied claims from the u. S. And canada that eats was responsible. And explosion in the sky this mobile. Phone footage was one factor that led western countries to suspect an Iranian Missile attack on the ukrainian passenger plane finally after days of vehement denial iran admitted its guilt the military was 1st saying that with armed forces on the highest level of alert the Ukrainian InternationalAirlines Flight had appeared to fly like a hostile target near a sensitive military site politicians followed human error had caused the missile to be fired irans foreign minister tweeted meanwhile the countrys president Hassan Rouhani called the attack a disastrous mistake theyre both face comes after iran maintained thats a technical fault had been to blame for the crash even after u. S. Canadian and British Intelligence concluded that the surface to air missile had caused the tragedy. Of. Canada in particular has paid a high price for the recent saber rattling between iran and the u. S. This vigil in toronto was 1. 00 of dozens across the country that paid tribute to the 57. 00 canadian citizens many of them University Students and researchers who were among the dead. People that were on the plane they were young they were academics they were engineers as his compatriots mourned canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau called for justice for the families of the victims and said he expects the full cooperation of iran. Lets cross now to tehran and speak to journalists there good to see you are irans revolutionary guards have now taken responsibility for this crash is there going to be any fallout over these. Well it wasnt a restraint or the chris conference. Interview says arias this. Was really all christendom to the extent of all the responsibility for the tragic incident he apologize to the i r g c it would obey all the decisions made by the coffers of the scheldt over the incident there are even reports of resignation but i heard that they have declined are ready to resign. Or now it is rejected by higher ranking officials as i understand and youve also tweeted Supreme Leader ronnie wasnt made aware of the cause of the crash until friday that was 2 days after did officials keep him in the dock well the g. C. Commander said on wednesday morning shortly after the tragic incident he informed the contras officials but he did not specify what we. Have to say informed about and he lay there said that the contras general stuff of armed forces. And the people who knew about it decided not to declare the issue until further investigation is conducted on the incident so i have heard that the president of this not know about it until friday and the leader was also informed on the same day according to or boy. Or to see if you hear the Farce News Agency well no more can be said for around rizzi you just mentioned the investigation how will all of this in effect thats investigation the International Investigation taking place at the moment. Well of course now everythings clear there will be no more d or to do on the black box list they are going to. Be there it was intentional they get on like what they were officially. Which is of course not true because it was intentional just briefly if you could reza all of this is happening as the standoff with the United States is happening could this admission have an impact on that standoff well it was of course a result of the illusion. You see commander today mentioned that the operator the air defense operator mistaken the passenger plane but the Cruise Missile. Apparently reports of Cruise Missiles fired by you against the iranian positions following the if you see me sell it against you was. Operator. It was one of those Cruise Missiles and he said message to his commanders asking for their permission to shoot down intercept the Cruise Missile he seemed. To 10 seconds of receiving no response he decided to make. Good to talk to journalists reza has stayed in tehran thank you. For more were joined now by david stern who is detail. Correspondent in kiev ukraine hi david whats been the reaction from the government there on iran admitting that it did shoot down the plane it says by mistake. Well yes a very sudden turn of events for the ukrainians just yesterday they were saying that they werent going to jump to any conclusions they were going to go through all of the evidence make their own judgments and that they werent going to rush now of course we have the admission from the iranians and the ukrainians have been very fast also to shoot their own statement in fact the president has a lengthy just shortly after the news broke issued his issued 2 statements one in ukrainian the other in english the english one was on twitter i can it was very short so i can give you the highlights here he said this morning brings the truth but at the same time he said ukraine insist on a full admission of guilt and this would include injuring iran to bring those responsible to justice return the bodies pay compensation and issue an official apology but at the same time the insist they emphasize that the investigation must be full open continue without delays or any obstacles so obviously for the ukrainians the story continues to a degree david youve just outlined some of ukraines demands they what can you crying do if there is demands not yet. Well indeed its a good question we are expecting to hear from the president again in a few hours he will make a video address after he speaks to his iranian counterpart in fact so will he maybe have a little bit of light on that but yesterday the foreign minister of i. B. M. For psycho held a News Conference and he spoke about legal steps that they could take now he emphasized of course at the time that they werent reaching any conclusions that they had not but if in fact it did turn out that a missile had brought down the jet that they would work with their International Allies and partners and possibly even bring this to the United Nations and he also drew the parallel with the situation with the Malaysian Airline m. H. 17 which was shot down over ukrainian territory back in 2014 which the ukrainians are also expecting or hoping for a some sort of justice in that incident as well you just mentioned 17 its not the 1st time is it that ukraine has found itself caught up in a tragedy linked to an International Conflict is us. Well not exactly and ukraine is main found itself in a number of i guess you could say diplomatic and international balancing acts there also dealing with the ongoing impeachment process in the United States which is also very delicate but the image 17 is very much on the peoples minds here in fact among the people in general a lot of people on twitter and in speaking on the streets are talking about how the rain ians have obviously made this a mission whereas within the 17 such admission coming from anybody the dutch investigators have in fact said that the missile the mobile Missile System that shot down the airliner was brought into ukrainian territory from russia ukrainians are hoping for some sort of justice from the russian side but obviously that is not as it happened yet so this both of these are very much on the ukrainian mind the fact that they have 2 similar situations at the at this at this moment our correspondent in kiev david stern thank you david. 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