By their very good evening this is r. T. And. 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 why it had been shot down i wish there was i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. And you also added in their Defense System operator had faulty communications that had just 10 seconds 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 of irans chief investigator says the black box data will now be sent to france my colleague Jacqueline Vega discussed the details with r. T. Is 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 from irans president who promised just that and called the event in an forgivable mistake. The armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably missiles fired you see human error coups the horrific crash of the ukrainian plane and the death of 176 innocent people investigations continue to identify and prosecute this great tragedy and unforgivable mistake now irans president also promised compensation for the families of the victims and the countrys Supreme Leader has called for the for the findings of this investigation to be made public now earlier we also heard from irans foreign minister who gave highlighted the nother reason for why this crisis took place assad preliminary conclusions of incident investigation biome forces human error at a time of crisis caused by u. S. Aventuras and lead to disaster profound regrets apologies and condolences to all people to the families of victims on 2 of the affected nations give us a bit of background here what exactly is the foreign minister referring to oh well just last week a u. S. Airstrike killed a high ranking high ranking could command. Soleimani and that brought tensions in the region to a level that we havent seen in decades this guy was considered a hero to many in iran as he was instrumental for the defeat of isis in syria so the government promised harsh retaliation for his death and that came in the form of several airstrikes against u. S. Military bases in iraq that happened just mere hours before this plane went down so at that time the Iranian Military was intice a painting some sort of possible u. S. Response to those strikes which explains why they thought that this airliner could have been an enemy aircraft they said that it was approaching a military installation clearly intentions were very high are there other cases of countries shooting down planes by mistake yeah unfortunately when tensions are this high like you said accidents are more probable for example during the cold war in 1903 the soviet union mistakenly shot down korean. Air flight 007 thinking it was a spy plane the plane went into soviet air space at the time that a u. S. Reconnaissance mission was going on as well and in 1908 u. S. Navy shot down an iranian airliner killing all 290 passengers because they thought it was in the rainy and fighter jet now at that time then Vice President george h. W. Bush said he had nothing to apologize for and that he didnt care about the facts regarding the shooting of that plane down irans admission of guilt has shaken the public mood and some questioning why the government didnt come clean sooner although the knowledge mistakes can be made in the context of the tense situation in the region. Unfortunately when i 1st heard about the plane crash it was said to be a technical issue but the announcement came without any preliminary investigation down around the world but now theyve done the necessary investigation it was clarified that the plane was hit by a missile weve been really since this morning when we heard the news and we were all angry that people told this line it was you why didnt you get after our flights should have been cancelled and planes shouldnt have taken off from any air force and that just about all of our country was in a state of war and this mistake could have been made by any country america itself made a similar mistake after a rom hit the u. S. Bases we were in total readiness and thats what led to the mistake we had opinion from various experts who joined us during this developing story. In times of war and the so called for go for unfortunately the reasonable rate there are yet able to pierce this fog unless the reason be conflicting mechanism so again one can talk about blame and responsibility or accountability the blame is iranian but the responsibility lies on other shoulders too so iranian Defense Systems were on alert and they were expecting attacks by us planes as stated in the armed forces the statement there have been reports that some hostile objects flying objects have been appearing on radar screens in some of some parts around the country so soon as they saw a plane coming to a sensitive i. R. G. C. Base they have you know rushed to and jumped to the tank luzhin and fired strategic at has become tactical blunders distracted g. Off by that regularly being ordered closing down the a. S. P. s under extreme circumstances could have avoided this whole. Magical whenever we have valid dives in that youll be in we had bound to have mentioned raised guns cog coolidges ready to fight the it will be said that you wish me to be have to be the case and the big picture to how to do use this and that you on how to be escalated this i believe did on ians have taken the 1st step by the initiation process of this horrible accident in which 176 people were lost was done by the american to have the video and say yes that is true. But the heightened tensions between the u. S. And around activists in london are holding an antiwar rally at the moment it was organized by. Stop the War Coalition campaign the Nuclear Disarmament on the streets is not denouncing little toms recent military actions in the middle east and to rule the most through the streets of london converging on to follow this slogan seen on placards a note. From a no to war on the early dont miss what address by the late vaunted leader Jeremy Corbin arrival demonstration in support of term sanctions is being held by. 2 states has had a hard time defending washingtons decision to assassinate a runs top general during a News Conference my poem post struggle to explain what the imminent threat was allegedly posed by gen so the money is the state department chief was grilled by journalists in the morgan has details. 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 if you have specific information about the threat and didnt have anything to do with our embassies. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threat stream included attacks on the u. S. Embassies what is your definition of it in that. This was going to happen in american lives were at risk the Intelligence Community is not flawless we we get it wrong in this case the Intelligence Community got it fundamentally right there was an imminent attack it was active plotting is that right now gone with sort of monaco threats are never going now it wasnt just. Journalists who dont exactly buy pompei as claims but american lawmakers also have their doubts we just saw in the u. S. House of representatives the lower house of the u. S. Legislative branch a resolution was passed attempting to restrict the activities of the trumpet ministration and trying to prevent them from further escalating tensions with the Islamic Republic of iran however these doubts about whether it was the right thing in order to kill qassam solomonic go well beyond legislators and journalists they actually go to the us public itself we have new poll results that have been conducted and it shows that basically 2 thirds of the u. S. Public believes at this point that the country is less safe because of trumps decision to kill the top iranian general furthermore 69 percent of the u. S. Public believes that iran is more likely to attack the usa as a result of trumps decisions 52 percent describe trump killings qassam solomonic as reckless so a pretty solid opposition to trumps killing of qassam solomonic among American People themselves while at the press conference mike peo and steve minutia laid out basically what these new sanctions will include the new sanctions are targeting high level officials in iran basically preventing any business transactions with them but when explaining these new sanctions a mike bomb peo used some rather interesting language to lay out what he argued was the ultimate end game of the United States when it comes to iran the president said we dont want war we want iran to be hit with a Noble Mission the reason that the secretary treasurer this morning is to continue this campaign our strategic effort to get to run to behave in a way that doesnt continue their 40 year long effort to terrorize the world if you hear those words he refers to saying that he wants iran to be a quote normal country so essentially it seems the United States is asking threats and carrying out more sanctions with the goal of forcing the islamic. Public to conduct itself in a manner that the United States considers to be normal not exactly clear what that means but until that happens there will be further activities and sanctions and threats and what not now many are hoping that the Current Situation is in a state of deescalation but at the same time people worry about what could happen next you know the sanctions still remain iran still has the capabilities we saw the recent strikes that took place so a lot of nervousness in the Global Community at the moment you know i think air is still on sanctions at this point but i will get around to that again despite the fact that we dodged a bullet about going to war with iran or the last few days were still in the same set piece positions where we were before and all these guys around the president can think of it how do we turn the screws more more of maximum pressure more and more into and this is the next thing they could do a lot of this list remember is aimed at the europeans i think a lot of this is toward pressuring the europeans to side with the americans in this will pressure campaign. Meanwhile theres growing concern among iraqis that the country is becoming a battleground between the u. S. And iran thousands of people flooded the streets of baghdad on friday calling for an end to the presence of all Foreign Military in the country but. Demonstrators there waving iraqi flags chanted no to america no to or run while iraqs caretaker Prime Minister demanded the u. S. Make preparations to pull all its troops out washingtons made it clear its not intending to leave but will rather stay for goods because the of ripples. Most of us are familiar with the situation you invite someone over to stay a while say a friend they stay and stay and stay you drop a hint you know its getting late kind of tired but they just dont get it america is a force for good in the middle east any delegation sent to iraq would be dedicated to discussing how to best recommit to our Strategic Partnership not to discuss troop withdrawal what complicates things is that your unwelcome guest is heavily armed and has a tendency to how do you put this kill your other guests you cant make this up americans kill an arabian general in iraq iran then shoots back a bunch of Ballistic Missiles in revenge out of iraq i mean these poor rocky guys theyve done nothing and everyones bombing them so you can understand if theyre a little sick of it all and point to the door we want to restart the civil war again among the shia we dont want this to happen we are not a battlefield between the usa and iran so whoever wants to heed the usa should do that outside of this country. All of these troops must leave because they have turned iraq into a battlefield its a star. The americans are saying no we dont care that you voted for us to leave we wont and just in case that wasnt enough of a slap in the face actually going to call more of their friends over iraq nato right and then you have any middle east you know they told me i said what a beautiful name nato personnel in the region to know youre supposed to us to be honest with you because this is an International Problem today and need to delegation is at the state department to discuss increasing netas role in the iraq situation is absurd it makes a joke a mockery of International Law and simple decency and as does anything absurd has the into that buzzing america is a force for good in the middle east a new start a civil war to prove you need our protection. Given military forces the against the. Ok apologize for interrupting the poor but german chancellor Angela Merkels been holding talks with the emir putin here in the russian capital the 1st time merkels been a moscow for 5 years and theyre just beginning their press conference lets listen and we have your results to give dogs you useful dogs. Were really key issues which have to do you are going about that show you choose in economy politics and humanitarian area as well we also discussed global issues with russia to build relationships with germany on the principles of respect. Benefit backs which others interest germany is one of our key trade partners when it comes to trade its our 2nd biggest part right after china. But last year the trade amounted to 43000000000. 00 the germans with investments in the russian economy equal at 20000000000. 00 well our investments in the economy are chimneys 9000000000. 00 we have a number of Major Projects but we work on together in the field of and we should we do respect the responsible position of germanys authorities when it comes to the well known to origin of north korea new to me also. By the transit of gas through the territory of ukraine. Were noted be arrangements that we should do 30. December between gazprom and its ukrainian colleagues are an important step forward and it was agreed that the transit will be continued for another 5 years these arrangements or beneficial for both russia and ukraine theyre well balanced and thought through the also the midi interests of European Countries that receive gas from russia. As for International Relations we 1st and foremost discuss the ocean in libya where fortunately we see large scale military operations a terrorist activities are on the rise and the social life is degrading through all that are to mind security and stability in the middle east it also spills over to europe. What i mean is illegal migration of trafficking. The liberation of weapons and drugs its high time we put in then to the. Till it is between the National Conciliation government and the of to us forces its time to make the necessary measures to find a timely end to these. To overcome the division inside the country and to form a unified state institutions i mean. It is earlier on and i adopted a joint statement to this and calling upon the working parties to stop the hostilities starting from. 12 am. To morrow and i briefed my honorable counterparts on the outcomes of my talks in estimable this time letitia that is coming from germany to hold a conference in 1000000000 on libya but to make it successful we need to bring to the table all the stakeholders. It is also important to remember that these meetings outcome should be coordinated with the sides inside libya and we believe that the special u. N. Envoy mrs salami will be of tremendous help on that way and we also discussed the situation in syria. But i breezed my counterpart on the outcomes of my recent visit to damascus and the talks that i had with president. You i can surely tell you the situation is becoming more and more stable and serious coming back to normal life the statehood is being restored russia and germany both believe that the conflict in syria can be finally sold but that can be done only through political means according to the resolution 2254. 00 of the un Security Council. The Syrian People have the opportunity to do side on the their own what kind of future they want to have for their country thats the very approach that lies in the foundation of the Constitutional Committee this committee has already. Had 2 meetings and the Constitutional Commission now will be working on formulating the framework of the constitution russia together with turkey and iran will continue to work as per the asked and therefore much facilitating the work of this committee that we also discussed the affleck to mr ration of Syria Committee area new shoes on the safe return of refugees to their homes we need to unite the efforts of all responsible stakeholders to help the syrians. Syrian state authorities to restore infrastructure water and Energy Supply infrastructure hospit