Youre watching our to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 11 am welcome to the program we start the program with breaking news as iran has admitted that its military an intentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday due to human error foreign minister zarif and it happened at a time of crisis caused by us and. Our correspondent on the corner joins us live in the studio with all the details what sort of International Reaction has there been to this admission well most recently we heard from the canadian Prime Minister who called this event a National Tragedy and he also said that he expected full cooperation from iran in the investigation we also heard from ukraines president vladimir is a lens ski who said that he expects he expects irans take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstruction earlier today we did hear from irans president who promised just that and called this a vent and on
Good evening is just on 11 oclock here in moscow youre watching r. T. International the Senior Commander of irans elite military unit the Islamic Revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passions your plane on wednesday killing all a 176 people on board he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. Well its me dont you know you were not heard that the flight had been shot down i wish there was dirt as i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident she also added in a Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what he described as a bad decision the commander added that they had requested the establishment of a no fly zone before the incident but it wasnt approved for some reason to round it meet its military an intention to hit that yet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing dont quarter discussed it with jackie i think. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski
And taiwan. You have elections coming up. Keep your eye on that. We are either flat or slightly higher. Safe havens, looking at dollaryen above the below the 200 day moving average. You are looking at oil pushing towards session highs, new york 1. 6 to the upside. In case you missed it, breaking news out of iraq, the top iranian commander was killed in a u. S. Airstrike with reports in the last 30 minutes or so. Thena lets get more on markets. David was just mentioning this news about the commander being killed in baghdad. What does it mean . What are you watching her . I think it means we will have geopolitical tensions coming back in the new year. The s p 500 in reversing earlier gains, and the yen is being beat up. But i dont think this is going to last. I think after the dust has settled and the markets continue to focus on the fundamental improvement, this liquidity part can still continue after china with liquiditya banks. An era for the emerging markets. Same macro theme. It wil
Custom silly money firing 22. 00 missiles on iraqi bases his team u. S. And coalition forces. A ukrainian plane crashes moments after takeoff from irans capital tehran killing all 176 people on board. And im far as smile have all the days sports including the English Football Association is set to review its decision to allow betting cap anees to broadcast as they kept games online. The us president says iran appears to be standing down after it launched a series of missiles on american bases in iraq the attacks were in response to the u. S. Killing of iranian general sort of money donald trump flanked by his Vice President secretaries of state and defense as well as military leaders warned iran that u. S. Military missiles were quote big and powerful and accurate and lethal he said hed be imposing further economic sanctions on tehran iran appears to be standing down. Which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world no american or iraqi lives were los
For abuse of power gets underway hes called the proceedings totally partisan. Political orderly for have ties in greece as part of an International Effort to end the conflict in his country hell meet the Prime Minister and the foreign minister of athens has criticized its exclusion from a u. N. Backed peace conference set to be held in berlin on sunday it says it should be included because tripoli has signed a maritime and military deal with its regional rival turkey has more now from athens. General have 2 hours a visit to greece is a surprise move but very gratifying to the greek side which was pointed li excluded from the libyan peace talks in berlin this week and the greek side is deeply aggrieved by this because it has a stated interest in the outcome of those talks greece has said that it demands as an element of any libya solution the scrapping of a deal but the Libyan Government in tripoli signed with turkey last november whereby they demarcated a corridor all of water across t