The BBC interviewer asked the Minister if he was embarrassed that an aircraft had flown undetected across his country. The Minister responded by asking the BBC interviewer whether, had they detected the aircraft and scrambled interceptors, the right thing to do would have been to shoot down a civilian aircraft. The BBC interviewer countered by asking the Minister how he knew it was a civilian aircraft and why, if he knew it was a civilian aircraft, he ordered a search in the Gulf Of Thailand, which is 180* in the opposite direction if the aircraft's flight path. The Minster looked as if he was about to walk out of the interview. As David Cameron (British Prime Minister) recently said (in reference to something unrelated): Muppets!
The link is
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26972045. The interview should still be somewhere on the BBC website.