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>> returning to the site of the malaysia airline shot down in ukraine. >> hello, you are watching aljazeera and coming up, homeless terrified and nowhere to go. we talk to the gaza residents affected by the ground invasion. >> giving ultimatum to christians to leave iraq's second biggest city.
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>> well, two major news stories in the program, the israeli offensive and the arm stepped up the attacks and pounding the northern parts of the palestinian territory. the figure reports 339 palestinians killed in the last 11 days. and the other top story, the shooting of malaysia fight in the eastern ukraine and the monitors are returning to the wreckage site. for more an that we go to london. >> ukraine accused russia of destroying evidence of international crimes quote unquote after the foreign observers anl allowed limited access to the wreckage.
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all of the passengers were killed in the crash. >> wild flowers on one of the crumbled wings, the first memorial on the site. some were placed there by a mother's house. >> it is sad for all of the people. it is awful to see this happening in your country. >> after lying uncovered in the fields since the plane fell from the sky emergency workers put the bodies in bags and laid them on the roadside. these armed separatist fighters coming down the hill to where we are broadcasting and in the first time in 48 hours since the crash happened we are told to get out of the area because the investigators are coming in. soon after we were moved, the
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monitoring mission arrived. after a standoff, the monitors were let into the crash. >> i am saying no. >> they are allowed to more areas of the crash site than on the trip friday which had shots fired. >> it is going beyond what we see and we are consulting to those in charge here. >> the ukraine government is pushing for more international access. they are allowing to collect and transfer the evidence. a small forward for the european monitors and fighter nearby the international investigation is still in question. >> rau
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>> russia and the united states is using their influence to stop the tensions in ukraine and giving international experts access to the site. >> despite is accusations against moscow russia is saying there is an investigation into the crash of mh 17, and that is undertaken and only then will with the truth be reached. russia is in a difficult position here and being accused of at least being an accessorry in the downing of the flight and fanning the flames of training, equipping and supplying the
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rebels fighting. there whether or not that is true, russia has interests in keeping them off balance and it is wanting to keep ukraine out of nato. now russia is in a difficult position because there has been this huge and persuading the countries sitting on the fence and been given the russia is benefit of the doubt and persuading the countries to swing behind the idea of tougher sanctions behind moscow and what does russia do back the rebels or turns against them and if turning against them they are running the risk of the goals in ukraine and if not, it is incurring further harshest sanctions and the way to avoid making a choice is by persuading
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the people it had nothing to do with the downing of mh 17. >> they are saying that the country is fur rows that the bodies are being dragged around the crash site. the netherlandses wants to know who is responsible for shooting down the airliner and britain and the netherlands is looking at the reapoach to russia. >> the news is bodies are being dragged around the site and not being properly, and a shock in the -- and furious. so my plead to you is please help us bring our people back. >> meanwhile, ukraine's security council is saying 15 pieces of
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equipment brought into the enhanced region from russia overnight and that is the latest of the about aing ewe weighses and what do we know for certain so far, we have been looking through some of the evidence. >> both ukraine and prorussian separatists are pointing their fingers at the blame for the crash of fight mh 17. it is a strong hold of prorussian separatists and fighting for six months now. the aircraft has been altitude of ten kilometers. many experts believe it was mostly like by a bu k surface to air missile system and hitting targets as far as 21 kilometers away.
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both russia and ukraine have these weapons and the separatists could have possessed them too. >> three of them trespassed the ukraine border and directed to russian federation. >> the prorussian separatists aefr run a base earlier. the plane was flied bond the reach of a shoulder fired missile. soon after the flight crashed on thursday, the links to footage of a plane burning appeared on the russian social media site. the message read we warned them not to fly in our skies. the site belonged a top commander of the prorussian
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separatists and the post was deleted. the authorities released a recording saying the conversation between the fighters allegedly admitting to shooting down the plane. mos kau and pro russian separatists abjected to the accusations and military experts agree that the crews operating them had to be well trained. the weapons falling into the hands of unskilled fighters could go to a way of explaining of bringing down a civilian airliner.
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>> now the human face of the malaysia tragedies are becoming clearer as the victims are being named. there is a memorial set up at the airport where the flighting took off. they were stopping off in malaysia to see her mother. one going on holiday together. should it disappear this is what it looks like. teachers had just wrapped up a european holiday and celebrating their retirement and looking forward to seeing his favorite football team playing in new
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zealand and he never missed a game. and that is all we have for you on the ukraine air disaster. >> israeli ground forces have been pounding parts of northern gaza and two days since the troops went in and 36 palestinians have been killed. overall the number of deaths after 11 days of attacks is much higher, at least 339 reported to have died according to the palestinian health ministry and of those 77 are children. 2500 hurt, and the u.n. relief agency in gaza is saying 50,000 people have fled their homes. we are going live now for us in gaza city. it is simple to read out the numbers but not giving a face of
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the suffering there. is there a way to gauge how the people are fairing? >> when you speak to them, they'll tell you, they are terrified. the shelling is picking up again and it is a psychological thing that they are living in fear and they don't know where to go and they are saying we have nowhere to go. they have tried to stay family but they are not feeling safe. people are extremely worried. we visited one of the villages and the areas on the border on this front line, if you will, and that gives a sense of how they are feeling. death succumbs the air here. you hear the sound of a drone. this is a border town and no one is feeling safe. >> every house has hundreds of
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people fleeing their homes, no food, no water and we can't go any where. no one is taking care of us. i hope what happens to us it is going to happen to all of the ar ar arab countries. >> we were met with people running away. there is panic here. we are being told a few dead people up this road and telling us that there's israelianks and it is advancing and people are running from here. what is happening is that people are dying. we see a young girl brought to morgue and joining her mother and father in dealt. the result of an israeli tank shell. part of the mother's head is missing. war has no mercy. there is no peace. this man is pulled from the
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rubble of his home and he's not well. >> i left my house. i don't know if my house will be there. my house is 200 meters away. i came running. i'm now in my father's house and if they come home where will i go? >> the sound of ar till ri fire is filling the air. the fare of a people trapped and no way out. >> that is the civilian impact and this is the second in command to get update on what is happening with the talks and the reports are coming out and he's saying no real movement on the cease fire. they want their conditions met
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and agreed upon and then the cease fire where the israelis want a cease fire and move forward on the conditions. we have learned we don't get anything when we hold the fire and briefly has to do with lifting the siege here and freedom of the movement of the people and the goods and expanding the phishing areas and there is a buffer zone and farmers can't access their land and all things he says have to do with improving the lives here. there will be holding of fire until we agree on the conditions that improve the lives of our people. >> stephanie in gaza city. >> thousands of the people in south america risking their lives to enter the united states. states. r
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>> welcome to aljazeera. we are running through the headlines, the monitors have been given wider access to the site of the crash of the malaysia flight that was shot done over ukraine. israeli ground forces are stepping up the attacks on gaza, mainly pounding the northern parts of the territory.
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it claimed 339 palestinians have been killed in the past 11 days. u.s. aid is needed for 50,000 displaced people. >> well, israel has been maintaining the purpose of the ground defensive is to destroy the tunnels that are used to smuggle the weapons. this is claiming the tunnels in gaza used by the fighters to enter and attack israel. the pictures release showing the troo troops, and destroying the tunnels with explosives. well, hamas military wing is showing it is standing up to israeli attacks and the brigades released the pictures showing the fighters using the gaza tunnels that the israeli forces are trying to destroy. i spoke to an expert on the
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international relations and israel could destroy the tunnels without getting involved in the fighting. >> the entrances to the tunnels are close to border and then most of the built up areas you are further down to west and to the south, so in fact, israel could eliminate most of the tunnels without getting involved in heavy fighting inside of the built up areas and israeli army and political leadership intent on trying to minimize actually the terrible casualties of the civilian population and the possibility of severe casualties would rise very quickly.
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>> killed at least 26 in the baghdad capital. 50 were injured. three of the blasts going off in ten minutes of each other and a suicide bomber driving a car full of explosives into a check point. the islamic state took over last month and the iraqi arm unable to get them out and talking to some of the families living in fear. >> george is not hiss real name he hopes to return to the home tun town of mosul and he's a christian that fled for his life. >> they stopped us and took my
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id and found out i was a christian. they took all my money. >> all the gold is also gone. >> i begged them for the money and the gold. they said leave or they would take the car. >> since fighters from the islamic state controls mosul the arms belonging to christian are marked in red and confiscated. this is the closest we can get to mosul and this is 20 kilometers away. the christians have to convert or pay a tax or be killed. that rules has terrified many. this church is now home for tens of families. immanuel is the priest and fears for the worst.
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>> we have been targeted before but never to this extent. >> but some of the muslims under the control the islamic state are targeted of discrimination. shiite and minors are being killed, kidnapped or forced to leave. the islamic state is imposing the teachings. many people are trying to cope and hiding their fears and others are saying they prefer such strict teachings and this is uncertain future for the country. >> the scandal on islands and mother of baby homes is calling
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inquiry into drug testing on babies. families want answers on how many children were used for the testing. in the second, we have reports from ireland. >> having a baby the most jou yous experience and for the int fants the care have had other intentions. that baby became marie, separated from her unmarried mother by the nuns and adopted from the mother and baby homes. she was treated as an experiment by a drugs company. they were testing vaccines without knowing what would happen. >> life is sacred.
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were you treating your life as sacred? >> no. i see the concern for the preborn but not the first born. >> this used to be a home and gone now and the ones died sold to doctors and the bodies used for medical research. the vaccine trials here is no means a revolution and coming back as the mother and baby scandal in ireland. they have criticized the state for the willingness to take on the catholic church, a church after all taking babies from the mothers and claimed to be caring for them. this is not just an issue for the catholic church, the drug tests happened here as well. victor remembers all of the children bei lined up for the doctors and nurses and he
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maintains the state knew all about it. >> let's call it what it is, it is children with no contact with parents, nobody is taking responsibility, and a few medics and doctors coming in and having a field day and taking advantage of vulnerable children in a closed setting and if it all goes wrong who knows or who cares. >> it is a headache for the drug company that the bought the company that was responsible for the drug trials. marie was used for tests and many others are bearing the scars. the government said it is holding an inquiry of what happened in the homes.
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>> we have been reporting as you are aware on the israeli ground invasion of gaza. we understand there is an israeli casualty, maybe more. we are going to john to give us more ob the details. john? >> david, we have got scant details right now and two israeli soldiers have been killed, one was an essential gent and one was a major. there was a clash we are told palestinian fighters had infiltrated across the israeli border. there was firing between them. and two israelis died. we don't know the fate of the palestinian fighters but we know that the israelis refer to that as a foiled infiltration attempt
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and according to them at least this was unsuccessful attempt by the palestinian fighters that killed two israeli soldier. >> also, john, this might tie in with the israeli army to destroy the tunnels and allowing the hamas fighters and others to get under the border and into israel. >> yes, indeed, david. they have found three dozen of the tunnels, three of them today and since the operation began and what they are doing is they have army engineers going into the tunnels looking to find what is inside of them and they are looking for people and weapons. it is one of the incidents where they found people inside of them. one of the things that the tunnels are used is in addition to infiltrating those palestinian fighters into israel, the tunnels are used to
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sneak rocket materials into israel from egypt and believe in the center of gaza, in gaza city there are senior leaders whose homes are being targeted. and that is going to take a number of days to exploit the three dozen tunnels. they don't know how many remain. >> reporting live from je jerusalem. two members of the military have been killed in this second day of the israeli invasion of gaza. two killed, we understand one sergeant and one major killed trying to prevent members of hamas getting into israel
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