Putin apologises over plane crash, without saying Russia is at fault
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Sunday 29th December, these are our main stories. President Putin has issued a rare apology after the Azerbaijan Airlines crash on Wednesday, but stopped short of confirming that Russian missiles brought down the plane. Lebanon has expelled dozens of former Syrian military figures who'd fled across the border as the new authorities in Damascus pursue supporters of the deposed president, Bashar al-Assad. An influential Sufi religious leader has been kidnapped in northern Mali.
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has apologised to Azerbaijan's president for the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane, describing it as what he called a tragic incident in Russian airspace. It's been widely claimed that Russia accidentally shot the plane down as it tried to land in Grozny on Wednesday. But Mr Putin did not accept direct Russian responsibility, according to Kremlin reports of the conversation. Mr Putin added that there needed to be an objective and transparent investigation. From Moscow, our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports.
According to the Kremlin readout of their conversation, President Putin apologised to President Aliyev for what the Kremlin calls a tragic incident in Russian airspace and expressed condolences to the families of the dead. 38 people were killed when Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243, having failed to land at Grozny Airport in the Russian North Caucasus, was redirected over the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan, where it crash-landed. The Embraer 190 is widely believed to have been damaged by missiles fired by a Russian air defence system. In the Kremlin readout, there is no direct admission by Moscow that the plane had indeed been struck by a Russian missile. The Kremlin mentions that at the time the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to land in Grozny, Russian air defences had been repelling a Ukrainian drone attack. Still, this is the closest Russia has come so far to admitting it was responsible for the disaster.
Steve Rosenberg in Russia. So is the mention of active Russian air defence systems in the area at the time as close as one can get to actually saying we did it, albeit by mistake? Where does the statement lie between an expression of sorrow and an admission of guilt? I heard more from Andrei Vladov of BBC Monitoring.
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Nick Miles 7 min
Unknown 6 min
Sebastian Usher 3 min
Stephen McDonnell 2 min
Will Ross 2 min
Andrei Vladov 2 min
Victoria Gill 1 min
Alfie Habershon 1 min
Josh Hartnett 1 min
Steve Rosenberg 1 min
Emir Nader 1 min
James Menendez 1 min
Alexa Giussoliba 1 min
Landon Harris
Andriy
Imogen Folks
Lilia
Tarek Jasharevich
Lena Sinjab
Lance Stroll