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
Storming the stasi east germanys secret police were feared and tainted to date knox 30 years since civil rights activists forced their way into stars the headquarters in east berlin and prevented the destruction of millions by the communist state collapsed. Im phil gal welcome to the program. China poses an existential threat to International Human rights this assessment is contained in the latest daniel report from Human Rights Watch u. S. Based Group Condemns what it calls chinas domestic repression and its attempts to censor critics abroad they urge the International Community to challenge beijings actions or face what they describe as a dystopian future the head of Human Rights Watch was due to release the report in hong kong but was denied entry so qantas wroth held a press conference in new york instead the Chinese Government is trying with increasing ferocity to use its economic and diplomatic clout to silence critical voices abroad and to undermine global institutions that prot
Should we be fighting another war with iran do you guys see a war with iran coming down the pipe or 2021 is interesting because there are just a few months ago the top u. S. Officials like my pump a 0 d and then john bolton were all saying hey watch out iran is going to use these smaller militias to go and attack u. S. Troops and they kept warning about that even though iran was saying we dont have any plans to do this and now all of a sudden you have a one tab i stack with the smallest of the killed one you know u. S. Servicemen and now all of a sudden theyre going off in our honest saying hey we didnt do this it lines up with that narrative that they have in place and so now theyre able to say oh look at this and of course how dare these protesters come and star in this embassy and speak out in a country where the United States has invaded and has been for several years with no sign of leaving in the forseeable future goes through a sort of clear display of why we need new leadership
We are down across the board these would be losses for the week that will end four weeks of gain weve seen up to this point. Does this count as the first week of 2020, even though it is only two days . We could look at the fiveday thing and if it is up, we could say that is the first week this is up as we see crude oil prices jumping we see that wti is up 4. 1 the gain to 63. 72 a barrel ice brent up by 4. 3 Natural Gas Prices up. Crude is the real focus as tensions are on the rise in the middle east. The market is up 30 from last year that is a place for people to look this year as for gains. We are moving crude from 60. We are not moving from 62 but based on the tensions rising you think about the heighten tensions and what this will mean for the potential repercussions in the middle east the idea of additional strikes of any ships going through the straits of hormuz, people will be watching that closely theyve been blessing with the Oil Production for months. We always look forward
Im william glucose welcome to the program the Ukrainian Government and russian backed separatists have completed a Prisoner Exchange a plane landed at kiva airport sunday evening after the swap took place at a checkpoint in the separatists stronghold of donetsk in Eastern Ukraine the exchange covers all remaining prisoners being held by both sides since hostilities broke out in 2014 the move stems from an agreement that russia and ukraine reached earlier this month brokered by germany and france. And joining me live at the airport is correspondent david stern hes there standing out in the cold as the ukrainian prisoners have come off the plane tell us david whats going on. Well yes the prince. Exit in the plane we saw some scenes of joy and emotion if you have ever seen some of the reception of views coming from previous war say the vietnam war it was very much like that they came off the plane were 1st greeted by president selenski if they were military they saluted sharply and then t