Taiwans Pro Independence leader in power months to the annoyance of china. Now iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all 176 people on board the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from tehran on wednesday after iran fired missiles targeting u. S. Forces based in iraq western countries have been piling pressure on iran which it spent days denying that it was responsible for the crash while irans foreign minister job and zarif tweeted this a sad day preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by armed forces human error at time of crisis caused by u. S. Adventurism lead to disaster our profound regrets apologies and condolences to our people to the families of all victims and to other affected nations well well go live to rob reynolds in washington d. C. For us in a moment but lets begin with a sad bag in tehran said that this admission as missing comes off the days of denial so why are we hearing this now. Well weve had to know tho
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
Had no children and didnt publicly name a successor and voting is also under way for elections that are expected to keep taiwans Pro Independence leader in power much to the annoyance of china now and our top story iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all 176 people on board the plane crashed shortly after takeoff from tehran on wednesday after iran fired missiles targeting u. S. Forces based in iraq western countries have been piling pressure on iran which is spent days denying that it was responsible for that crash well lets go live now to assad bag whos in terror on for us as a this is an admission as were reporting comes off the days of denial so whats precipitated this now. Well lou weve just heard from the general staff whos. Reported on state media that he said that the Armed Forces Defense system shut the plane down it was he said that it was a mistake saying its a mistake and it was the a unit that mistook the plane it was a se
Freezing. Thousands of runners poured into the d. C. Armory tonight. Theres that for you. Have a great time. Reporter they picked up their race packet. Have a great race. Reporter and tshirts in advance of tomorrows rock and roll marathon. You are all set. Have a great race tomorrow. Reporter the yearly event winds its way past the buildings and monuments of the nations capitol. Tomorrows race may be one of the coldest ever. Here are all your pens. I was communicating to all the runners they really need to take care of themselves. Thats first and foremost. Make sure people are listening to their bodies, make sure theyre dressing in layers. Reporter organizers spent the day troubleshooting the logistics of a race being run in freezing temperatures. The city is going to go through and deice the city beforehand on the course to make sure there is no standing water from the day. The otr attention to is the water stations to make sure the water people are drinking is actually liquid and not