Country. Elsewhere angular merkel is due to me Vladimir Putin in moscow later on saturday will be 1900 official visit to russia as german chancellor and this visit comes amid tight into the global times. That youre watching on t. V. International im writers on a lot could thank you for joining us. In the u. S. Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general mike bumppo struggle to explain the alleged threat posed by Major General solomonic during 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 steve minutia in 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 t
Youre watching on t. V. International im Rosana Lockwood welcome to the program. And we do start with this breaking news iran has Just Announced that it military its military unintentionally shot down the ukrainian plane that crashed on wednesday into iran that is a statement from the military which has been released by Iranian State media the statement said a missile was fired due to human error iran had earlier said claims that a missile brought down Ukraine Airlines flight 752 were scientifically impossible the boeing 737800 went down needed to run on wednesday morning killing all 176 people on board. The u. S. Secretary of state has defended washingtons decision to assassinate irans top general during a press conference my post struggled to explain the alleged threat posed by general sort of money and was grilled by journalists there more pins got more. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve min
Watching our Team International bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program we start with breaking news this hour iran has admitted that its military and intentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday due to human error for an assert that the error was caused by us adventurism were joined in the studio now our correspondent quarter for more on this now of course youve been following this all the way from the beginning this admission goes against what iran was initially saying correct thats true but and irans president has been quick to comment on this he said it was basically forgivable mistake and he also said that an investigation is still underway to look into the for to get all the facts. The armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176 innocent people investigations continue to identify and prosecute
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
Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Im annemarie green. This morning theres dramatic new video of the investigation of the deadly crash of a ukrainian jetliner in iran. Intelligence sources tells cbs news the plane was shot down by iran. Video obtained by the New York Times appears to show the moment the airliner was hit by a missile just minutes after takeoff from tehran on wednesday. All 176 people on board were killed. This morning an iranian official denied a missile hit the plane. Hes calling on the u. S. And canada to release information that supports the missile strike claim. The plane crash happened just hours after irans missiles attacked a u. S. Troops in iraq in retaliation for u. S. Drone strike on irans top general. Kris van cleave has new details on the crash investigation. Reporter startling new video camera captures the flight raining down. The plane had just been struck in midair by two iranian missile