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it was. all see up saying security reason to sharing the deadly plane crash in times us don with the draft nosediving and busting into flames. also the sound british led by u.k. intelligence is revealed to have been monitoring the hotel troops of top diplomats around the blood of. the mistreated migrants honesty international calls out with the severe abuse to foreign construction why.
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this is all see coming to life for most hello and welcome to the program. i'll see . the day of the final terrifying moments of tatarstan flight three six three which crashed killing all sixty on board in kaz on our correspondent chris going off reports now from the site of the tragedy. the new footage shows the actual moment of the plane crash and indeed it's quite different from the initial versions which suggested that the plane first sort of skidded on the runway and then exploded while the new footage shows it knows diving into the ground almost vertically and then turning into a huge ball of fire and although it provides a clear a visual picture of what happened it actually raises even more questions of how that could have happened and it's largely hoped that these answers would be given by the information from the flight recorders which have been found but they have
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been damaged so severely in this crash in this explosion that there they have been taken to moscow now it's going to take some time to go through that data of course . all of the relatives of the victims are still in shock from what happened pretty much this is tragedy has affected the whole city since this was a very popular flight and lots of people who i've been talking to here they have been saying that they do realize that they could have been on that flight and this tragedy could have happened to them and. there were fifty people on the plane all of them died and well let's listen to one woman who lost her son in this tragedy he was such a good boy healthy and handsome he had a good family his son is only three years old he made many plans for the future throughout the internet there's been an outpouring of. grief and emotions for
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instance one. t.v. sport commentator a lost his wife. and step daughter in this tragedy and in his twitter account he just typed this question how to live after this and also russia's president putin expressed his condolences to the family. solve all the victims she spoke to the president of the republic of the dutch son whose older son also was on board this plane and died and he just got made recently and he actually talked his pregnant wife out of taking this flight so theoretically she could have also been on board of that plane. so it was augusta night when the plane went down the winds were pretty strong about nine meters per second the track crashed as a descended a second time after pilots aboard as their first landing attempt it's not he is clear as to why passengers who traveled on the same plane from cousin to moscow
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early in the day said that landing was also made high winds and was frightening these pilots but instead. the flight itself went quite smoothly but just before the landing the plane started vibrating fiercely the plane was shaking it was direct from side to side landed to no first attempt but it was really bad landing and they felt like the plane was going to roll off the runway. and civil aviation consultant mark vi skis to fly in the same type of plane involved in the cars on disaster he says that's always a combination of factors behind a crime that was a poor repair that led to fatigue and obviously catastrophic failure but all of these factors are going to be looked at normally in an emergency you want to get the aircraft on the ground safely as quickly as possible so what would have caused
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the aircraft to not live on its first attempt was weather a factor when. crew fatigue cruelness there are going to be so many things that have to be looked at keeping in mind that accidents generally don't have been from a single event it's a chain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this. stay with dates as developments happen and get across maltese how and they can add tragedy online as r.t. dot com. now a russian woman who was watching on greenpeace's oxic sunrise ship as a doctor has been freed on bail is the second reading in st petersburg where to cool sun deciding whether to extend the custody of a group of protesters arrested in the russian arctic while trying to board an oil rig and our correspondent marias is in the city so maria what are the explanations given for their woman's release and for keeping some of the greenpeace activists
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behind bars until the end of february. well indeed we have one good news today indeed kalinski court here in st petersburg they want you can see behind me has ruled today to release the. doctor a young russian woman on two million group of all sixty thousand dollar bail and we've attended the hearings over her case today and we saw the woman in a courtroom she started crying when for the first time in two months of the tension she saw her husband so we can imagine how happy she now because she will be free as soon as the bail is put up which experts say will not take more than two days i think that this the situation all of the judge was could be explained by the fact that she was not a greenpeace activist but a doctor working at the ship so but i actually it's very hard to say why the judge decided to make this particular decision because earlier today and not
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the cold also here in st petersburg but more skewed court has decided that greenpeace activists another member or so called out to thirty or fifty nine year old men are most really are we'll have to spend three more months in russia is jail and we can't explain why. georgia's decisions are so different but all these hearings have started here in st petersburg after russia's invested. could miti applaud for the extension of the pretrial detention for the arctic thirty say they need more time to complete the probe just to remind you here's a little bit of the stories background in september the green crease arctic sunrise she's approached it as lol met sure all drilling platform in russia's northern fleet chore a sea it's owned by russia's energy giant gazprom and then a group of activists attempted to hold themselves on the platform as they sat
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before a protest over the danger is that the drilling could potentially pose to the environment but they were arrested by russia's coast guard initially charged with piracy they were facing up to fifteen years in prison but later wrong the charges were changed to hooliganism although lore is a saying that technically piracy chargers are not have not yet been lifted. first they've been held in the russian's northern port of movements but we could go there were transferred here to send to the river where they are now kept in three different detention centers who are have been hearing from greenpeace international but they would apply no extension as they say this is not legal so let's see how the story may end we know that already the rest have has as part of the world wide criticism though with protesters all over the globe.
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with the detainees and asking russian authorities to release thirty men and women greenpeace activists journalists and the ship crew were led to a diplomatic call between russia now the lens whose flag the ship was traveling on so we see that this story continues and we can see the end of the happy ending of this story but just as wealthy another chapter to start. some great reporting there maria thank you very much indeed for that update. guess who's been checking up on diplomats who track seem to big hotels yes british intelligence has been secret service in the rooms of foreign v.i.p.'s at top three hundred fifty hotels worldwide according to revelations and germany's big news
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magazine from new leagues but edward snowden the program's called royal concierge and has been here since twenty ten it intercepts reservation confirmations when they're sent to government addresses from monitored hotels their agency can then quote prepare the rooms for details surveillance meaning bank phones and computers british intelligence won't comment on the revelations which come at a bad time for the u.k. which already has some explaining to do over its a bird in the sea spying germany's holding a special parliamentary session on spying now speaks to all of our reports. what we're seeing right now is a special session of parliament as the all of the issues over just who knew what about what was going on with regards to the n.s.a. spying saga now the revelations that have come out from the leaks about edward snowden of hits home to killie hard here in germany it seems that germany may have been one of the the most targeted countries around the world by
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a foreign intelligence certainly though that's what the leaks from edward snowden would lead us to believe so the parliament is sitting for a special session to discuss just what it knew was going on what we have seen is is huge outrage here because of just how close the relationship with perceived to have been between the german people and their allies like the united kingdom like the united states it caused real outrage to move seen being voiced by demonstrations on the streets all throughout the summer here as well as states senior parliamentarians coming forward and saying look we need to find out just how involved germany was in any kind of spying activities taking place on its own people well the fact that this special session has being called shows just how serious things are being taken here in germany these revelations that come out that suggest that germany was well it seems amongst the most listened to spied on and
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watched countries around the world by nations that it well it considers to be very close allies and in a statement to the bundestag angola markel sat there spying revelations have put all relations between germany and the u.s. to test in a while and it's probe into their alleged tapping of the chancellor's phone there lynn is seeking edward snowden's help and john gats a german investigative journalist met him in moscow last month accompanied by a chair and. but that's one of the things that's being discussed is the question of how to get input from of the person who actually knows the most about the documents right now all of the documents are being kind of read in and reported on by journalists who of course you know are doing their best are doing the best job they can but these are complicated things and it would make sense to get expertise i mean from the person that knows the system and the n.s.a.
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from the inside as a matter of fact i mean the interior minister and other leading people in the german government have acknowledged the importance of snowden's allegations i mean the fact that uncle americal actually called president obama about. the story about her cell phone was not just the basis of a newspaper story it was that basically the german authorities had found out that this was true francois and bogged down from its top stance in the next round of talks over iran's nuclear projects that was the message of support to prime minister netanyahu as france or non visitor to israel meanwhile a british newspaper claims israel may join forces with saudi arabia in the ministry campaign against iran if they don't approve what's have atomic agreement is reached another development russia's president putin has spoken to iran's leader ahead to wednesday's level talks point to slee era. the russian president vladimir putin
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held a telephone conversation with his iranian counterpart who harney and in that conversation pushed and told him that there was a real chance that the international standoff over iran's nuclear program could ultimately be solved now this comes just two days ahead of say to talks that will take place in geneva between the six global powers and iran's and if any kind of indication is accurate that they will be some kind of deal reached this will happen then potentially this week and at the same time what we're hearing from the british newspaper the sunday times is that if a deal is reached this puts the option on a military strike by israel and saudi arabia back on the table both of them are worried that the deal would see international sanctions against iran lifted while the country continues with its nuclear enrichment program according to the sunday times riyadh is offering tel aviv tactical support in the form of allowing israeli
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warplanes to use its airspace in any kind of possible military strike and at the same time allowing the israelis to use saudi tanker planes drones as well as helicopters the saudis are reportedly furious over any kind of possible deal in the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly said that he will do everything it takes to make sure that his country is secure particularly as regards iran the last time the world powers mitt to discuss the iranian nuclear program was back on november the tenth and at that stage no agreement was reached and one of the major critics was the french and right now you have the french president francois hollande visiting israel and palestine he's here on a three day visit and he's already made with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and later today he's slated to give an address to the israeli parliament the israeli knesset now netanyahu has urged him to keep up the pressure against iraq. and western allies francois hollande by what indications is going to do this
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earlier he did say that there were four conditions at paris was insisting on if indeed any kind of deal with iran is to be brokered and these conditions are that only raney and nuclear installations need to be put under international supervision immediately that enrichment needs to be suspended to the twenty percent level that the existing stock needs to be reduced and that iran needs to halt construction on the a rock plant that on yahoo has praised the french president for his position viz of iran and its nuclear program and we also spoke to a former iranian diplomat who's represented in talks with the u.n. nuclear watchdog and he pointed to major contradictions in france's position of iran france has blocked the peaceful because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i.a.e.a.
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has a multi five thousand. inspection of nuclear program and frequently has announced the reasonable evidence of day version toward the opposition this is clear but i really do have the real concern of france usable nuclear bomb because france has a strategy to lation with israel is not a member of n.p.t. . to four hundred nuclear bombs therefore france should not be concerned about nuclear bomb france heard israel to master nuclear bomb france heard in the zero two nuclear bomb therefore france has a very very bad record. a from bates to law it's a bit coin has had a record breaking with kent on the spot washington laura is coming out to take a look at why lawmakers want to play the additional parents as a way to break. the
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picture of today's leaves no longer from around the globe to look to. the. welcome back that this is r.c. migrant construction workers in qatar are suffering from systematic human rights abuse according to a new published report from amnesty international the gulf kingdom has drawn international focus as it prepares to host the twenty twenty two football world cup testimonies from workers say they're being treated like cattle with amnesty indicating that some abuses amount to forced labor violations include and paid wages harsh and dangerous conditions as well as of a crowded and unsanitary housing the report highlights how the explode taishan is happening in one of the world's richest countries and we heard more about the
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report from mrs had a refugee and migrant rights. what we found was that there are systemic problems we would be. my guest workers encounter many of them are subjected to data expectation for example which i think people who. were deceived about the baby getting caught or some people have been deceived about the kind of work they were doing caught their eye we found many workers who had not been paid. for a long time and. some of them had not been paid for months at a time we found the workers who had been stuck in the country trying to leave their desperate in some cases the side of it trying to be you but i needed to because then we would not get to that makes it i mean teaches of course going to country love in some circumstances. with people who are in conditions that the most favor.
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a german filmmaker went to counsel to investigate the situation but peace again so and his cameraman would tank and interrogated by security officials accused of attempting to spark a riot by talking to walk is mystically so told us would be uncovered about the problems my current wife his face upon arrival in class. four of them they haven't got paid for seven months in a row right now trying to file their cases well all of those workers have one major problem they have to work within the so-called system let me try and explain to you what that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that comes into qatar has to find his own personal sponsor meaning his boss the firm is working for the cup ration. and that sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors of the state take the passports away from the migrant workers
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and that puts zero numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation. once upon a time the planets models just like us apparently now scientists want to know when to wrong that so nasa has summed up in me over to the side of the red planet sky is this come up with why it became an impossible billions of years ago details of the mission are now website. zero small volcano puts on a show in the sky about sicily enjoy a blast taking view of the erupting it's not an aussie dot com is in motion section . right. first street. and i would think the church.
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would. be. the walled novice and more international headlines a manhunt underway for a gunman in a françoise short and injured a photographer a with a hunting rifle at a newspaper's head office and his also confirmed as being an attack on the twenty four hour t.v. news channels friday but no shots were fired in the hunt for the shooter gunfire was heard in the paris business district as well as a report of a hostage situation in the early say but it's not known if the incidents are related. a huge rebel dollar target has rocked a government building northwest of damascus killing at least thirty one troops and opposition group which is part of the western bought free syrian army says it
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carried out their type and parts of this video on the web they're sold comes despite efforts brokered by russia and the u.s. to bring the rival sides in the civil conflict to the negotiation table. a freight train and a minibus have collided in egypt at least twenty four people are dead and many more injured it happened at the level crossing south of cairo and also involves several other vehicles it's thought that all of the barriers to the trucks were closed cars were still crossing as the train approached most of the casualties were reportedly members of the same family returning from a wedding. the digital currency bitcoin reached a record high this weekend of five hundred dollars each is having a roller coaster ride with its value. because it's frequently like the internet market transactions despite it rapidly becoming the twenty first century money spinner washington is still not sure it can be trusted as again there are reports.
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there's around one point two trillion dollars circulating in u.s. currency compared to around three billion dollars in bitcoin so big coin is still a very small phenomenon but it's growing and very rapidly the value of a big coin has increased ten fold since early two thousand and thirteen bitcoin bypasses government currency this is not subject to any regulations and at the moment the government is looking at it with suspicion citing concerns that the virtual currency is being useful facilitating illegal activity like drug trade. we've seen things like bitcoin and others these internet based currencies that are not subject to regulation or oversight and we're working very hard to look at how we can counteract that. but bitcoin supporters are pointing to the fact that this new peer to peer payment system is being used in
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a widening variety of transactions corners for example are now actively chipping in to help the victims of the typhoon in the philippines the u.s. government and the u.s. federal reserve obviously can't deny the rapid development of bitcoin and are right now thinking how to may be incorporate bitcoin into the conventional money system possibly wishing to see coin as more of a technological innovation rather than a truly stateless and independent currency in washington i'm going to check out. and he's now how it wants to use bitcoin as users great and online want it identified with additional card transactions can be processed between users without any middleman costing about financial institutions and governments and jeffrey takei is an academic her campaign still free on global economics and he says there's no way the authorities can bridle bit calling. governments always like to
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control money they like to control the currency and frankly washington is starting to get a little panicked about becoming a year ago of the laughing stock and now people are starting to worry sense they they don't want anything that happens out of their control and that kind really just doesn't care actually it's a perfect currency and it is it is immune from an abuse by governments and regulators and no one controls that quite it's purely a product of who can lobel international market of traders and users so in that sense because it is a vet illusionary tool to free people from oppression from their nation states governments can try to control it better elsewhere they cannot. and next say fish i do not think after their russo the financial problems and intimacy with the former head of the european central bank.
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there's now an all new form of humanitarian aid for the twenty first century created by members of the occupy movement this is nothing to do with hunger or homelessness what a different key problem in the so-called first world debt the rolling jubilee project has already bought around fifteen million dollars in personal debt for americans around the country most of the financial obligations that they bought were for medical bills and now the people who had to pay these bills are free from their burdens the group claims that the secondary debt market is very cheap and that they are able to buy the nearly fifteen million dollars in debt for only four hundred thousand dollars the secondary market exists because banks try to sell consistently unpaid debt to third parties for less than a nickel on the dollar right now i would be begging the rolling jubilee project to
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get rid of my college loans but alas this is always purchased anonymously so it's all pure luck who gets their debt purchased the important thing about this project is that they're actually doing something against an evil system instead of just blogging about it and although fifteen million dollars is a tiny tiny drop in the debt bucket it may have really saved the financial lives of many americans but that's just my opinion. right on the scene. first strike. and i think you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. to be in the.
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