A main crossing. Pardoned by the president Venezuelas Nicolas Maduro friens dozens of political opponents but critics say its only to legitimize the next election. Plus hong kong launches a mass covert Testing Program but many are staying away because theyre worried china may use it to crackdown on activists. French president emanuel not home is urging the quick formation of a new lebanese government to steer the country out of its deep political and economic crisis hes calling it the last chance for lebanons system visiting the beirut port for the 2nd time since that explosion killed almost 200 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless well somebody was named Prime Minister just hours before home landed on monday lets go live to aljazeera xina holder in beirut this is a very good 2nd visit by in my own back home as we saying very quickly after the 1st one what message is he sending here. Well fronts and mccrone really is the protecting power projecting influence the political mes
Great 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 blaming human error after the plane reportedly flew near a sensitive military site 176 people were killed in the crash tehran had previously denied claims from the u. S. And canada that it was responsible. An 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 International Airlines 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
Ukraine they do not necessarily see eye to eye with germanys goal here to plan talk to one of the key players when it comes to trying to solve and reduce tension in the middle east so they have a good personal working relationship if youve worked spilled out some of the things where they dont see eye to eye will some of those issues also be discussed in this meeting today ahead of the meeting today the spokespeople both in moscow and in berlin clearly stated a long list of topics that were going to be discussing back here in germany they played down a bit the importance of the issue saying that its not a state visit but a working visit and they would be discussing everything from the crisis in ukraine to libya to bilateral issues and when they talk about bilateral issues the 1st thing that comes to mind is a nordstrom to pipe that does not forget that germany and russia have very important commercial economic ties that Something Else is going to be discussed but obviously given current
A political solution in syria under threat turkey warns the us against a plan to establish a kurdish led Border Security force in Northern Syria president is accusing washington of forming what he calls a tether on me and is vowing to crush it will explore where this leaves the various peace initiatives on syria also on the great tensions in the sky over the gulf qatar denies u. A. E. Claims that its fighter jets intercepted and iraqi civilian aircraft this amid a blockade against. The u. A. E. Egypt and bahrain which began in june last year and what would Martin Luther king say to donald trump as america celebrates the legacy of a civil rights icon a u. S. President is still having to defend himself against accusations that he is a racist after several days of controversy over his alleged remarks about haiti and african countries. Mohammed president wrexham. That allowed women to buy alcohol for the first time in sixty years and it sparked a strong reaction online we have all the late
But you know very well that this changed relatively quickly, mainly in 2008. Maybe this atmosphere was maybe from the collapse of soviet union in 1991 to 2008 when this fascinating atmosphere finished and changed. And that is the reason why maybe this democratic discussion is also difficult in this central east european countries. Because on the beginning was this feeling that we have right path to the paradise, maybe. And now from 2008 it was clear that things are much more complicated and that its not that you are part of democratic system and everything is solved. And maybe there is some feeling, maybe, that some feeling of marginalization, maybe, is part of this, maybe disappointment now because economically, maybe after economic and financial crisis started, also crisis, maybe greece crisis in europe, then started this ukrainian, russia and migrant crisis, now brexit. It seems in a relatively short time, we are living in absolutely different world, and this changes out also the so