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
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
mississippi, ashland to be more specific near highway 4. we re told that the plane did get down. we had been trying to figure out the condition of the suspect after he was taken into police custody. we have been working the phones and we know there s only one hospital there, the tippa county hospital there. we ve been working phones to see if he s been there and folks have not been able to give an update specifically, but, guys, an end to a five-plus hour ordeal that started around 5:00 central time. folks saw this low flying plane circling a walmart and they thought something was strange about this, so they decided to report this to police, a short time later, this suspect reportedly got in contact with police and started demanding things. what he was demanding is unclear at this hour, but told police he would intentionally crash that small aircraft into a walmart. after circling the walmart for some time, he apparently moved northeast up into an area, blue springs, mississi
Hour. Najim laachraoui. Hes the man on the right in the hat. There have been conflicting reports. We know one person has been detained. One of the men of the left believed to be suicide boxer brahim el bakraoui. His brother khalid, not pictured here. There were two attacks in bruss yesterday. One at the airport, one at the metro station. At least 30 people are dead, more than 270 reported injured. Isis has claimed responsibility for that. At least one of the bombers has a link to the paris attackers. The Brussels Airport remains closed today. Others also remain on lockdown although mass transit in the city has resumed operations. The belgium Prime Minister Charles Michelle is calling it a black day in the country. Hes called for three days of mourning. Lets check in with Michelle Carusocabrera whos made herwh way in to brussels. Good morning. Reporter good morning. We flew in to Charles De Gaulle this morning. As you can see, theres a check point here where theyve been stopping every l
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