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well see uptake security video showing the deadly plane crash in tatarstan with the job and was diving and busting into flames. also this hour british bedbugs u.k. intelligence is revealed to have been monitoring the hotel troops of top diplomats around the globe. the mistreated migrants on the sea international calls outs consol with the severe abuse towards foreign construction was. under welcome to twenty four hour news live from moscow. top story now and
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he has obtained dramatic video of the final terrifying moments of tatarstan flight three six three which crashed killing all sixty on board and sign our correspondent you go to school in off reports now from the site of the tragedy. and you footage of the actual moment of the plane crash here in cousin does provide a clearer picture of what happens but it actually raises even more questions into what could have caused this horrific tragedy because earlier we were reported and we're told that the plane sort of slid the runway then exploding while the new footage shows that nose diving into the ground and then joining into this huge ball of fire there's a lot of hope that the answers will be provided by information from the flight recorders which have been found by now but they have been damaged so severely in this crash in the explosion they've been delivered to moscow now and it's going to
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take some time for them to be decoded for this vital information to be taken out to finally understand who or what is to blame for this tragedy whether was a technical malfunction off the aircraft or human error or any other reasons now here back at the airport for the first time since the tragedy we're now hearing the . flights registration has now been opened for flights at the airport for the first time since the air crash with monday has been and still is a day of mourning for the fifty people that were on board this plane all of them died. definitely the a local seer and especially the family members are in shock. even a lot of people that i've been talking to have been saying that this is was quite a popular flight they do understand that they could have been easily in their seats
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one woman told about her emotions she lost her son in this tragedy he was such a good boy healthy and handsome he had a good family his son is on the three years old he made many plans for the future. psychologists are working with. the relatives of the victims to they obviously are in a deep state of shock this is also now the time for them to start the no matter how difficult it is to start dealing with some of the consequences and to start identifying the bodies of the victims. there's been a major outpouring of grief on the internet one state t.v. sports commentator a lost his wife and step daughter in this tragedy and in his twitter account he wrote the question how to live after this also russia's president idea of fortune expressed his condolences to the families of the victims he also. spoke on the
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phone with the president of the republic after their son who's all older son was also on board this plane he died he got married not so long ago and it turns out that his pregnant wife was also supposed to be on the plane but miraculously she wasn't because he talked her out of it so this is definitely a major tragedy for this whole town and well it's going to take time for a life to get back to normal here. it was augusta knighting cazan when the plane went down the winds were pretty strong that about nine meters per second the jet crashed as a descended a second time off the pilot's abortions the first landing attempt it's not he it's clear as to why passengers who traveled on the same plane. to moscow in the days said bad landing was also made high winds and was frightening. this pilot but
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incipient. the flight itself won quite smoothly but just before the landing the plane started vibrating fiercely the plane was shaking it was dragged from side to side linda to now first attempt but it was a really bad landing and they felt like the plane was going to roll off the runway . and civil aviation consultant mark bice used to fly the same type of plane involved in the disaster he says there's always a combination of factors behind the cloud that was a poor repair that led to fatigue and obviously struck with failure but all of these factors are going to be looked at normal interim urgency you want to get the aircraft on the ground safely as quickly as possible so what would have caused the aircraft to not live on its first attempt was weather a factor ones who fatigue who are almost there are going to be so many things that have to be looked at keeping in mind that accidents generally don't go up and from
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a single event it's a chain of events that lead to a catastrophe like this. stay with us as developments happen and get across more detail in because on and trying to get online at. chancellor merkel has told the bundestag that this spying revelations have put all relations between germany and the u.s. to test germany's holding a special parliamentary session on spying following a number of really revealing the u.s. and u.k. intelligence extensively targeting its officials on the race following it and ballot. what we're seeing right now is a special session of parliament says the all of the issues over just who knew what amount 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
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been one of the the most targeted countries around the world by 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 was perceived to have . been people and their allies like the united kingdom like the united states and it caused real outrage to move seen being voiced by demonstrations on the streets all throughout the summer here as well as i say senior parliamentarians coming forward and saying look we need to find out just how involved germany was and any kind of spying activity was taking place on its own people well the fact that this special session has been called shows just how serious things are being taken here
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in germany these revelations that come out that suggest that germany was well it seems amongst the most listened to spied on and watched countries around the world by nations that it well it considers to be very close allies. guess who's been checking up on diplomats have checked same to big hotels yes british intelligence has been a secret service in the rooms of foreign v.i.p.'s at top three hundred and fifty hotels worldwide according to revelations and germany's there should be your news magazine from new leads but at snowden the program is called royal concierge inside several nations. reservation confirmation such as say when best sense to government address is monitored at hotels the agency can then quote prepare the rooms full details available meaning bug follows and competed and john gets a gentle investigative journalist about snowden a moscow last month accompanying a german m.p. he says governments badly need his assistance and. that's one of the things that's
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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 and reported on by journalists who of course you know are doing their best to 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. 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. and coming up later breaking the ice in the arctic sunrise
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controversy a greenpeace dog say three don't bail but another accident has had his kind of extended but a few minutes report from outside the court where that oil rig hijacked hearings are underway. france wound down from its top stance and the next round of talks over iran's nuclear projects that was the message of support to prime minister netanyahu as france are on land visited israel meanwhile a british newspaper claims may join forces with saudi arabia in a military campaign against iran if they don't approve or whether atomic agreement is reached in another development russia's president putin has spoken to iran's leader ahead to wednesday's global talks on his policy on reports. the russian president vladimir putin held a telephone conversation with his iranian counterpart rouhani and in that conversation pushed and told him that there was
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a real chance that the international standoff over iran's nuclear program could ultimately be solved now this comes just two days ahead of slated talks that will take place in geneva between the six global powers and the ranch 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 of 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 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
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helicopters the saudis are reportedly furious over any kind of possible deal and 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 now netanyahu has urged him to keep up the pressure against iran and western allies francois hollande by what indications is going to do this earlier he did say that there were four conditions that paris was insisting on him . 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
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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 iraq plant it on yahoo has praised the french president for his position viz of iran and its nuclear program and we spoke to a former iranian diplomat who's represented tehran in talks with the u.n. nuclear watchdog he pointed to major contradictions and france's position of iran france has a block to peaceful because of israeli claims i think this is a historical mistake france is making the i.a.e.a. has about five thousand man the inspection or nuclear program and frequently has announced the reasonable evidence of diversion toward the opposition this is clear but i really doubt where the real concern of france is
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a nuclear bomb because france has a strategy to relation 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 a nuclear bomb france heard in the year two nuclear bomb therefore france has a very very bad record. now from still loyal to bitcoin has had a record breaking away care and. concern worried let's take a look at why i only want to. step out of the bright. wealthy british style some time to write a letter to. markets
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and i get and this is all she welcomed by a russian woman who was walking on greenpeace's oxic sunrise ship as a doctor has been freed on bail is the second ruling in st petersburg where true courts are deciding whether to extend the custody of a group of protesters arrested in the russian arctic while trying to board an oil rig our correspondent maria for a notion that is in the city. berlinski court here in st petersburg they won you can see behind me has ruled today to release the sunrise ship doctor a young russian woman on two million ruble all sixty thousand dollars 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 i think that this is the solution oh off the judge was could be explained by the fact that she was not a greenpeace activist but
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a doctor working at the earlier today and not the coach also here in st petersburg has decided that greenpeace activists another member of so-called politic thirty to fifty nine year old men are most really a we'll have to spend three more months in russia's jail but all these hearings have started here in st petersburg after russia's investigative committee applauds for the extension of the pretrial detention for the arctic thirty say they need more time to complete the probe and just to remind you here's a little bit of the stories background in september the green crease arctic sunrise ship approach as lol now offshore all drilling platform in russia's northern pretoria see 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 before a protest over the danger is that the drilling could potentially pose to the environment
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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 lori's are 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 st petersburg where they are now kept in three different detention centers were already 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. migrant construction workers in qatar suffering from systematic human rights abuse according to a newly published report from amnesty international the gulf kingdom has drawn international focus as it prepares to host the two thousand to twenty two football
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world cup testimonies from workers say they're being treated like cattle with honester indicating that some abuses amount to labor violations include unpaid wages harsh and dangerous conditions as well as overcrowded and suntory housing the report highlights how the exploitation is happening in one of the world's richest countries and more of the report from this is head of refugee and migrant rights right now. what we found was that there are systemic problems with be my guest workers encounter many of them are subjected to dave or expectation for example which i think people who were deceived about the baby were getting caught there some people have been deceived about the kind of work they were doing taught there we found many workers who had not been paid. for a long time and. some of them had not been paid for months at
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a time we found the workers who had been stuck in the country trying to leave their desperate in some cases the side of trying to be done able to because they would not get them exit permit which is required under carter in law in some circumstances. with people who are in conditions that the motive force taper. on the german filmmaker went to counsel to investigate this is but at peace again so and his cameraman were detained and interrogated by security officials accused of attempting to spark a riot by talking to walker's mr gaiser told us that what he uncovered about the problems migrant workers 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
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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 past posts away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation. once upon a time the planet mars will see just like us apparently now scientists want to know what went wrong and not send a new. study the red planet kind of discount of why it became uninhabitable billions of years ago details of the mission are now what's. most active volcano puts on a show in the sky about sicily enjoy a breathtaking view all day erupting in all speed or calm as.
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under around the world now for some more international headlines a manhunt is underway for a gunman in france who shot and injured and photographer with a hunting rifle at a newspaper's head office and has also confirmed it being on a twenty four hour t.v. news channel on friday but no shots were fired in the hunt for the shooter and gunfire was heard in the paris business district as well as reports of a hostage situation and the charms of his a but it's not known if the incidents are related. a huge rebel woman's heart has rocked a government building northwest of damascus killing at least thirty one troops an opposition group which is part of the western bug free syrian army says it carried out that charge and possibly speedier on the web salt comes despite efforts brokered by russia and the u.s. to bring the rival sides in the civil conflict to the negotiating table. or
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a train and a million barrels have collided in a trip at least twenty four people are dead and many more injured it happened at a level crossing south of cairo and also involved several other vehicles thought that the barriers to their 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. india has recalled its ambassador to australia in an angry response to alleged spying stems from leagues by edward snowden revealing that australia had been listening in to the internees of presidents phone calls it's not the first spanish tension between them indonesia has summoned a straight as ambassador over reports that is the embassy in jakarta was used as part of a u.s. led surveillance network in asia. the digital currency bitcoin
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a reached a record high this weekend of five hundred dollars each it's having a roller coaster ride with its value and reputation because its frequently links to intern a black market transactions despite it rapidly becoming the twenty first century money spinner washington still not sure it can be trusted and that's the trick our report. there is 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 bit 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
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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 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 maybe incorporate bitcoin into the conventional money system possibly wishing to see basic point is more of a technological innovation rather than a truly stateless and independent currency in washington i'm going to check on. the housing woks to coins create an online wanted identified with additional code
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transactions can be processed between users without any middleman causing about financial institutions and governments and jeffrey tucker is an academic who campaigns to free our global economy economic and he says that there's no way that i thought his ken bridle bit calling. governments always like to control money they like to control the currency and frankly washington is starting to get a little panicked about becoming a year ago it was 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 abuse by governments and regulators and no one controls that quite it's purely a product of who can load the international market of traders and users so in that sense because it is a very delusional airy tool to free people from oppression from their nation states
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governments can try to control of whether they cannot and up next insight into gun crime in new orleans but to a fair watching as in the u.k. it's time to go underground with. diplomacy that seems to be coming from washington it appears to be just falling short of expectations of the united states as a superior negotiator as a superior diplomatic player but we see what happened in egypt after the arab spring and the election of morsi if there was a space there where the united states could have played a critical role just assuring more and more seats on a path that would have maybe brought. jobs economic
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development in that period of time the united states faltered and it's the policy like that coming in and telling them how they should understand that in any case on the more. there's not much more the u.s. could have done now in iran the u.s. is trying to start with the iranian government and yet it's getting clobbered in the middle east by the saudis who don't want to do or. don't want to do were very good with good friends everybody. is on a. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really run fourteen thousand people or sixty thousand. in a record setting trip. torch
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