The welcome youre watching r. T. International now iran has admitted to accidentally downing ukrainian passions are playing killing all a 176 people on board the Senior Commander of the revolutionary guard has accepted full responsibility for wednesdays tragedy he said the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. Its minami that you were not heard at the wide shot down i wish there was a. Terrible incident he went on to explain that in their Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision iran had apparently requested a no fly zone before the incident but it wasnt approved for some reason earlier turandot missed it its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing on quarter discussed. What happened with jackie. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expect he expects iran to take full responsibility and for the investigation to conti
Or broadcasting live to recommend studios in moscow this is an International Im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us we have major breaking news out of the middle east in this hour a high profile iranian general soleimani is among several assassinated in a u. S. Drone strike in iraqs capital for more on this were going to turn to our senior correspondent. Live in the studio you are our man on the ground or you have been our man on the ground there in iraq you know the region you know the area you know the politics there. Big news what do we know so far well its all developing were right on the nights edge the situation is tremendously tense it is incredibly dangerous and the 2 sides the United States and iran and now on the verge of literally war reigning in National Security council is convening right now to discuss how to retaliate and a president ial aide to the president said that the United States must now be ready fool retaliation just just to recap this will happening
All over you watching r. T. International this saturday morning. In moscow now top story this hour a lawsuit has been filed in the u. S. Against military contracts who allegedly paid protection money to the taliban in afghanistan. As more data. Ever since 911 the u. S. Government has been working to criminalize prosecute and sanction those who Fund Terrorism however theres a recent lawsuit that seems to hit pretty close to home now a new lawsuit alleges that some u. S. Companies operating in afghanistan contracting with the u. S. Military have been paying out large amounts of protection cash to the taliban now the lawsuit is filed on behalf of those who have lost relatives in afghanistan other family members and u. S. Soldiers and other u. S. Personnel killed in afghanistan alleging that these corporations paid out cash that contributed to their relatives deaths this is how the lawyer representing those family members explained the legal action. The antiterrorism complaint alleges that
A lawsuit has been filed in the u. S. Against military contractors who allegedly paid protection money to the taliban in afghanistan. Is more on the story. I do agree with debbie on a number of things but we dont see eye to eye on everything in regards to this its why any activist does what they do you know its to send a message and in gabbys case she wanted to send a message that trans women do often tend to have x. Y. Chromosomes myself included and it is a message that tends to be very controversial in trance or comes to actually in my opinion a greater issue with cancel culture as a whole this is something that we need to have a conversation about not just as a community but as a collective demographic as a generation because there is no end to cancel culture right now there is no. Time for redemption i dont apologize you got the wrong report they will try and come back to that top story. In a minute or 2 now in the meantime we can leaks has released the 4th back to documents from
A 4th batch of documents from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons that cast further doubt on its report on allegations of a chemical attack in the syrian city of during the last year they reveal the o. P. C. W chose to ignore evidence that contradicts its conclusion that the attack came from the air but it can steer has more on the story toxicologist pharmacologist and bio analytical chemist walk into the u. P. C. W u b c w shows them a video of an alleged chemical attack and ask them what sort of symptoms they see could they tell what gas it was the specialists all look at the video and agree on one and the rest is classified or was classified. It was agreed among all present that the key takeaway message from the meeting was that the symptoms observed were inconsistent with exposure to chlorine and no other obvious candidate chemical causing the symptoms could be identified another day another leak another embarrassment and another blow to the u. P. C. W. s credi