Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 10 am welcome to the program now we start with our breaking news this hour as iran has admitted that its military unintentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday due to human error for mr jobs or if that happened at a time of crisis caused by u. S. Adventurism were joined in the studio again by our correspondent now as i understand it ukraine has just reacted to this statement what did they say well ukrainian president vladimir selenski has just said that he hopes that iran will take full responsibility for this for the downing of this plane and that he hopes that the investigation will continue unobstructed now earlier today we heard from the iranian president who promised just that and he also called the downing of an forgivable mistake. The armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably. Missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific cras
Either thanks for joining us here on. Where we start with breaking news the Senior Commander of irans elite military unit the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. When i heard it had been shot down. Never wanted to witness such a sudden. He added an Defense System operator faulty Communications Just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision military around a bit of this military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing irans chief investigator says the black box data will now be sent to friends and colleagues actually bigger disgusting to those with aunties donald quarter. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expect he expects iran to take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstruction earlier today we did hear from ir
Interview with us this is r. T. International. The Senior Commander of irans elite military unit Islamic Revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down the cranium passenger plane on wednesday he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. When i heard that the flight had been shot down i wish i was that i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. He also added an air Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds in which to make what was described as a bad decision earlier tehran admitted its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing irans chief investigator says the black box data will now be sent to france. To discuss details with arties donald quarter. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski 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
Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general my pump a struggle to explain the ledge to threat posed by Major General sort of monitoring a press conference and explains. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside stephen the new shin the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives lets take a listen to some of what went on that specific information about in the threat and didnt have anything to do with our embassies. We had specific emanation information and an imminent threat and those threats trim included the time. On the u. S. Embassies and plays your de
Lets get going with this news breaking news out of a man state media has announced the death of Sultan Qaboos been side ill cite he ruled since 1970 but had suffered illness in more recent years there has been intense speculation for several years now about who will replace him because he never publicly named a successor well examine his legacy here on the news for you 1st matheson looks back at his life. Couple. Was an only son born in 1942 a life of royal privilege and to a father he would overthrow 30 years later what he did basically is modernizing the country opening the country to outsiders and thirdly looking at the domestic politics and try to move on to the state formation where building is institutions and related elements so to uncouple us was educated in oman and then at a private school in the u. K. Before graduating from Sandhurst Military Academy and serving in the british army for several months on his return to a man in 1966 his determination to modernize his country i