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
Corcoran going to be so in the words Law Enforcement agency described as africas 1st norco states join us next as we follow an unseen or cortical prediction inside the Capital International airports. Thank you very much for joining us a Senior Commander with irans revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 people on board commander im iraq. Says it was brought down by accident by a short range missile soon after takeoff from tehran on wednesday it was the same night iran launch missiles at iraqi bases housing u. S. Troops. As a lot of. Those in our Aviation Services who were denying responsibility they were saying this based on their findings and i repeat they are not to blame it is us who are to blame the plane was on its way it did not have any error or mistake everyone worked very well efficiently it was us who made a mistake and we are responsible we should accept responsibility and accountability this was a very
Put a dent in this massive waste problem. We begin this half hour with breaking news out of state media theyre announcing the death of sorts on couples spend side all sides he ruled since 1970 but he had suffered serious illness over the past 4 years theres been intense speculation for a long time now about who will replace him because he never publicly named a successor rob matheson starts our coverage looking back at his life. It 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 tried to move on to state formation where building is institutions and related elements sort unco bourse 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 moderni
Taiwans democracy on the line as the selfwill island chooses its new president. Thank you very much for joining us after days of denials iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday killing all 176 people on board president Hassan Rouhani says it was an unforgivable mistake that iran deeply recreates the military says a boeing 737 was mistaken for a hostile target it was shot down just hours after Ukrainian Missile strikes on u. S. Forces in iraq those strikes were in response to the u. S. Assassination of an iranian general costs emslie money or we live to washington in just a moment with brunell standing by with reaction from baghdad for us to speak to our correspondent in tehran assad big assad an admission of responsibility from iran after days of denying whats prompted it. Absolutely theres been days of denial from the government officials here but we did see canada and the United States say that they did believe that the airline was bought dow
Thank you for joining us after days of denial iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all 176 people on board but ukraines president says quote for admission of guilt and an official apology are still required the plane crash shortly after takeoff from tehran on wednesday the same night iran launch missiles at iraqi bases housing u. S. Troops we begin our coverage with this report from. Iran has admitted its military unintentionally shot down the street creamy in plane killing all 176 people on board president Hassan Rouhani has described it as a great tragedy and unforgivable mistake irans foreign minister to votes the reef express his condolences human error he wrote at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster. This i stay to ready nuts a fact that everybody is expecting some sort or retaliation from the us that some lowlevel operator sitting in a missile battery ole miss well its all blip and launched a missile out it