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tv   Reporter  Deutsche Welle  March 9, 2019 12:15pm-12:31pm CET

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is over on saturday we'll find out if opponents stuttgart are willing to play along. coming up next on new five years ago flight m h three seventy bound for beijing disappeared from radar screens to this day no one knows what happened to the plane or where its wreckage is to be found more on that coming right up on our special report. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in the media telling the danger ship with just one t.v. shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked on the strength of many characters and their problems are always the same core to the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption work on the fourth to stay silent
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when it comes to the fans of the humans and see why through foals who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i work a day dollar. every day nearly twelve million passengers board planes and arrive safely john quis mother did not five years ago she flew to malaysia on holiday about her return flight from kuala lumpur to beijing vanished with barely a trace. malaysian airlines flight three seventy is one of the greatest mysteries of aviation history and it's true zhang's life into turmoil now he's on his way to
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one of them for and he wants answers. well i'm nervous i've been over several time i've flown since then. but flying to malaysia's worst of all. in twenty fourteen his mother left her apartment to fly to malaysia with a coworker they wanted to get away from the dreary beijing winter for a few days she never returned and he once has young he entered the apartment since . whenever i saw photos of her things that belonged to her
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i broke down i just couldn't take it. my brother and i packed everything up and brought her here to her apartment and if i ever found out what happened to the florida i'll come back and i'm back these things are. going to be able to say goodbye. you mean that you know that. young who has suffered depression lost his job and went deep into debt. he's traveled tens of thousands of kilometers and study piles of reports and documents trying to figure out what could have happened when in doubt he will quote out on it it's a lot worse when the anniversary comes around recently i've hardly been able to sleep. but now i'm trying to get by without the energy presidents they have all these side effects.
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but i think with the flexion actually have taken a direct power from kuala lumpur to beijing. through the with the old so you know. the plane started in the direction of beijing china. parked right there in between malaysia and vietnam and abruptly left and then flew back across the malaysian peninsula and out over the hundred sea and it turned again including even further south the. thing with. at least these are the findings of the official investigation eventually the aircraft would have had to crash into the ocean but the precise location is still uncertain such a large communications show that their craft must have been in the air for another seven alice possibly on autopilot what occurred on board during this time is on.
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there with what what what where is the you don't want to think about it i can't stand it. i get a headache as soon as i start to report for avoid thinking about concentrate instead on how we might find the wreckage if your daughter thought. the search for the wreckage was suspended without success john we can't except that so he decided to head to kuala lumpur for the fifth anniversary of the plane's disappearance there's to be a commemoration ceremony maybe a government representative will be that. the disappearance of flight m h three seventy has produced much speculation and even conspiracy theories. the investigators see three scenarios as plausible one is a hijacking another is a pilot committing suicide a third is a technical malfunction. jen has read everything he can find out about it.
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since. you know most people assume that the communication system was turned off manually. but as i see it that can't be true. when the transponder is turned off or it sends a signal but according to the official report there wasn't any so i believe there was a technical problem. for you if. jones greatest fear is that the truth might never be known now a final report has been released but it's still inconclusive. without the wreckage no further findings are likely. doesn't even know if there's still an agency responsible for matters pertaining to the incident. which are. from my shoulder it's unbearable. the investigative commission is inactive anymore. but the relatives are still searching. for something i just can't accept that.
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he hopes that he might yet persuade one of the officials to keep up the fs. jones been in malaysia several times to pressure the authorities that. he feels has been poorly informed and put off. no a new government has taken office. the commemorative ceremony was organized by the survivor. lead over john but you know we're not calling it a memorial service. according to chinese or east asian custom you can only speak of remembering after it's been proven that someone stared. but we haven't found the missing people or the plane we have no proof they're dead. so we don't talk about a memorial it's. young and the others have prepared t.
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lights one for each of the two hundred thirty nine people lost. their i'm looking for my mother's name. the mother is here. here and that's it. junk siri young. she's a. single. one of us but to my mother like green. pieces of a wing with found washed up on the coast of africa some of the very few pieces of evidence . it's important to the survivors that they observe the anniversary together and in
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the public eye. they don't want the tragedy to be forgotten. in shooting on. the whole the ceremony in the shopping center so not only the media and aviation stuff witness it but also any passes by. they were able to mobilize a local motorcycle club to show solidarity with that. young functions as an unofficial spokesman for the chinese survivors two thirds of the passengers which chinese citizens. here. here in of i'm the only one who came here from china today i bring greetings from
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many of the chinese survivors. and i believe the search has resumed we stand a good chance of finding the aircraft. the search technology is ten times better now than it was five years ago. is that he receives word that anthony loek malaysia's new transport minister has just arrived. he has said yes how did it find it. john consults a fellow campaign to the search for m h three seventy has been the most expensive in aviation history now the family members have contacted an australian company that claims it can cover a larger areas faster and cheaper using autonomous underwater vehicles. gentex. the opportunity to introduce himself to the transport minister.
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the minister speaks chinese that makes things easier. this is. what you are very unlike an official answer from an unofficial talk today it's just a matter of making contact and setting up lines of communication and that's the most important thing for now. the transport minister seems to understand that. it might be something like the last twelve months so if you refuse to get. the business again if you can't resist it if you think you can if you did so sit down you know what if you could be stuck with this it. couldn't get an appointment with the minister but he doesn't want to leave anything untried after all the new government has made an issue of greater accessibility and transparency he'll just
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have to try his luck. jiang and his friend are admitted to the outer office. from. the ministers in a meeting they have to wait nearly half an hour to see him. the minister reaffirms the government is prepared to resume the search. and he promises to have the final report with all its many technical details translated into chinese.
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what you know which of us and your heart might be much better than i did when i arrived i was afraid it would turn out like it always has for a complete waste of time but this time i got specific commitments i'm very happy about that. but neither is young hooey nor any of the other survivors know if anything will come of those commitments. even so he feels the trip was worth making he's done what he could. all he wants is to find out how his mother died.
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