A red must compensate the families of the victims. On the exposer thanks for joining us american President Donald Trump says hes closely following protests which took place in iran after the government announced that its forces had accidently shot down a ukrainian passenger jet trump demanded access for human Rights Groups to monitor the demonstrations irans semi official News Agency Fars has also acknowledged that protesters have been chanting antigovernment slogans. Down with the lies and they must step down the woods of angry students gathered in front of the Polytechnic University in tehran when they heard the news that it was the Iranian Military who shot down the u. Tempers boiled off the days of denial. To see if your terrorism it is a peaceful protest we want to show that we disagree with what has happened in the past few days about what is it because of the things that support the and all the others thought people are tired of this we cant handle this anymore. In the morning the head of the force of the brave aleutian raghad admitted in a Live Press Conference what could no longer be kept secret. Hes troops would taint so on wednesday because of the war like atmosphere. An antiaircraft officer thought the object displayed to him was an american Cruise Missile on him a watch and unfortunately he made a hasty decision and a tragic accident follow it and ship mobile phone videos on the internet show the launch of the anti Aircraft Missile runs late is admitted the mistake Supreme Leader cumani apologized to relatives of the victims and president rouhani and foreign minister announced punishment of those responsible and compensations for the families affected but as candles are laid for the victims in tehran many of the mourners may feel apologies will not be enough and to dig a little deeper into this story were joined now by hussein by iran expert an assistant professor at the hamilton luger school of at Indiana University he joins us from indianapolis professor how significant are these protests and are they different from previous ones. Theyre pretty significant. Are not that different in terms of their contents which is. Asking for greater accountability of government but they are i think qualitatively different this time around because theyre an accumulation. d of many years the same kinds of grievances against the governments now resulted in a catastrophic. Yes. Well i mean 76 people and they are about fundamentally accountability of government officials as to why this happened theyre against a lack of transparency when it comes to Decision Making but also i think more broadly than out. And utter lack of regard for the ordinary citizens lives that this government has shown in this episode in this confrontation with the United States and what President Trump as i was saying earlier has been well tweeting his support as he says want for the protesters is that likely to help them in their if you will contest with with the authorities or perhaps hurt them somehow well it certainly doesnt help because the brakes United States has been very clear in terms of his position on iran on the actions of the u. S. Government when it comes especially to get punitive rare regime of sanctions its something that many iranians view as having largely indent detrimental to their everyday life but it also obviously gives the governments leverage to frame many of these protests as somehow being stoked by american intelligence agencies or. Through coburn actions of foreign governments but i think more importantly. It speaks to a double standard on the one hand the american president. Has banned the entry of americans into the United States yet he speaks of deep care. And affection for them and i think many iranians are able to see through that. And do you think the downing of the airliner when be there was a such a. Scary standoff if you will between the United States and iran has it changed the dynamic of this standoff between washington and tehran. It certainly i think has changed the narrative from one collective sense. Grievance against the United States to once again one targeted against the iranian government itself just 4 days ago many iranians even though if they dont agree with the actual actions of their own government or have do with lack of democracy a representation in iran nevertheless saw the extrajudicial killing. Military commander as an affront as an illegal action and and had rallied to really send a message to the world that they did not stand for it either but just you know hours later this shooting down of the airplane and especially in the manner in which it was handled by the iranian government the fact that the government took 3 days to really acknowledge that happens when western intelligence agencies immediately. Identified it as probably a mistake and anti missile antiAircraft Missile i think many iranians have now changed your narrative and are demanding more answers accountability and transparency once again from their own government ok professor thank you for that insight hussein barna an assistant professor at the hamilton luger school at Indiana University 57. 00 canadians died in the plane crash making in the 2nd Largest Group of victims by nationality after irans admission that it shot down the plane canadas Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau addressed reporters about a story that has shocked the country. With iran has admitted to this very serious shooting down a civilian aircraft is horrific duran must take full responsibility. Canada will not rest until we get the accountability justice and closure that the families deserve. Earlier i spoke to c. B. C. Reporter evan dyer in auto and i asked him what Justin Trudeau meant when he said he was furious and outraged and talked about the need for justice because he was asked about that and he gave quite a few variations on the answer of well see what justice looks like in the coming weeks were going to have discussions with other allies and so on he didnt really get into the details on justice and accountability but transparency we understand means inspections and thats what the canadian side is working on right now there are 3 canadian officials who we believe landed in tehran about 2 hours ago canada has no diplomatic presence of course in tehran so they travel to. Where they were given 3 visas 3 officials went ahead but the understanding is that there but i know consular officials theyre there to deal with consular matters such as repatriation of remains to canada kind of course really wants to get an air crash inspectors from the Church Protection safety board to look at the actual evidence of the crash although the main question of course already been answered the plane was brought down by a missile and other questions about who gave the order and so on maybe out of the reach of air crash. How is the canadian public as a whole reacting to all this. Wild theres a lot of outrage theres a lot of sadness too i must say that these were you know this was a plane which had entire families in it had some very talented people with promising futures there were a huge loss of people for example you know byrd and many of them were researchers from the university of alberta which seems to take in a particularly are. Just some you know some very promising people or on that plane as well as people who were just on their way home making a difficult journey because its hard to reach your own from ken a difficult story to see families and i guess you know one of the differences actually with this crash from the air india crash which was the biggest terrorist incident came to history that killed about 300 people most of whom were indian and canadian dual citizens at the time the Prime Minister back in 1900 sent condolences to india almost overlooking the fact that most of people on that plane were canadians and this is a very well integrated Community TodayIranian Community very much part of the National Fabric and is there a perception that people died because of the standoff between the United States and iran and if so between washington and tehran which side do you think canadians might blame or. Mort iran i dont think theres any doubt about that but i think i mean there will be people of course we take the opposite position but i dont think theyd be the majority what i do think though is that some blame is at least for what weve seen from the reaction of the Prime Minister hes been asked on a couple of occasions whether he blamed the United States he didnt take the bait but he certainly didnt say no of course not we blame the ones who pulled the trigger on the missile given answers more along the lines of those are questions were going to be looking at and those are questions canadians going to ask themselves well so certainly there is a sense that canada should have been ward before these initial attacks us nation or general sold it money because canada has troops in iraq only just part of Nato Mission Iraq in baghdad and at the base in irbil which was hit by Ballistic Missiles fired from iran and canada had no warning of the attack that was going to leave. Ok well thank you for that c. B. C. Reporter evan di reporting from ottawa. German chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed to irans admission that it was responsible for the downing of the plane her comments came following a meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in moscow on saturday a crash was just one of the many urgent items on their agenda. Angle americal on her way to a quick meeting with Vladimir Putin the list of International Crises is long juran syria ukraine libya germany wants to mediate proposing a peace conference in berlin to end the civil war in libya get all neat and missile its about non interference about sovereignty and thats why the parties currently engaged in a military confrontation in libya we presented by miss to survive and mr have to should naturally be tightly involved not to to influence the tiny science. Different groups have been fighting for power in libya since 2011 russia supports general Khalifa Haftar are against the un recognized government in tripoli but putin says he will encourage the German Initiative but it would. This conflict not only undermine stability in the region it also has negative effects on europe. I mean illegal migration smuggling illegal commerce and the proliferation of weapons and drugs the north stream to gas pipeline from russia to germany is another problem washington wants to stop the project with sanctions against companies who work on it berlin and moscow intend to complete it by 2021 anyway. We can finish the pipeline ourselves without foreign partners. Germany and russia have major disagreements over the conflict in ukraine and european sanctions against russia but merkel said its better to talk to each other than about each other. And now to some of the other stories making news around the world. Taiwans Pro Independence president sighing one has been reelected by a landslide margin side won 57 percent of the vote showing strong support for her tough stance against china in her victory speech see she warned beijing that taiwan would not be influenced by threats. Labor unions have marched through paris and other french cities to protest Pension Reforms planned by president and then you had back demonstrations came after talks between the government and unions failed to break a deadlock a strike against the reform has disrupted public transport since early december. Judges and lawyers from across poland gathered in the capital warsaw to protest judicial reforms proposed by the conservative government they say the reforms restrict the judiciary from to independence judges and lawyers from many other European Countries joined the march European Union and the United Nations have also criticised the reforms. 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