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didn't leave. anything mission to teach creation why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. as international experts scour the scene of a malaysian plane disaster in eastern ukraine accusations and counter claims are made but the e.u. says it remains unclear what actually brought the aircraft down. families and communities mourn the victims of the tragedy with people from at least ten countries among the dead more than half of them dutch citizens. amid uncertainty over whether the plane was hit by a missile r t hears from aviation experts about the unusual details surrounding flight m.h. seventeen and why it passed directly over a raging war zone. also european security monitors say that two hundred fifty civilians have been killed in less than two months in just one region of eastern
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ukraine as kiev apparently as its military operation. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. experts from several countries are joining an international probe into the tragic crash of a malaysian passenger jet and the government of the self-proclaimed people's republic of done yet has just announced that they will guarantee the safety of the investigators the wreckage site in eastern ukraine is spread out over a several kilometer wide radius white cotton markers have been placed where the victims' bodies have been found two hundred ninety eight people on board were killed among them eighty children now it is believed the plane was shot. downed by
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a missile however the e.u. commission says it has seen no evidence confirming this so far the russian president and the chancellor of germany have agreed on holding an international investigation into the crash a team of monitors from europe's main security watchdog arrived at the scene on friday the self-defense forces have widened the access to the observers since then the emergency workers are also at the scene helping locate of the debris and victims as well international experts working there say they face a difficult task as an investigative team on place if it is not all actual multi investigation the calls for you also do not speculate on it but put your here for us to see what measures are in place look at defending me to the security but it measures and what measures have to be taken to do is to see in a human and most efficient way. our correspondent or all monaco sort of spoke to some of the locals who witnessed the crash this woman who was out working in her
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garden when her son sold her a body had fallen from the sky and broken through the roof of their house that badly mangled victim of the malaysian airlines flight has now been laying in in this kitchen for more than a day. at first i didn't notice any and then my son went out and said mom there is a body in the kitchen there was plastic everywhere i thought it was just a pile of rubbish but then i found this too that it was a human body without a leg and was arms twisted and broken it was a man who fell out of the plane and through the roof it's a murder a real murder. my wife and i were having dinner when we heard a strange noise that sounded like clapping as soon as we went out of the house we saw a body lying nearby it must have fallen from a very high altitude the only thing left on the body was a t. shirt it was a man their legs were broken i saw practically no blood now you can smell the odor over here there are no words to describe it here's my house and it all happened
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right here i was watching t.v. i heard a roar in two explosions i would know and saw a spinning plane without a wing with something falling out of it the area where the plane crashed is near several mines that sustain people economically in the done as krege and so it comes as no surprise that coal miners were some of the first on hand to help but the scene of the tragedy. i've lived here with my family my whole life here where the crash happened i've been working in this coal mine for forty years and now i just want to help that's all there are thirty people in our ship and just two of them went to work others came here to help. is thought roses of the victims are going to be arriving here shortly and no doubt they will be seeking answers but it seems they could be in for a quite a wait to find out just how their loved ones were taken from them for among koester
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of art see donetsk ukraine while a large majority of the plane crash victims were from the netherlands as citizens of another nine countries were also on board of the doomed flight including people from malaysia australia and the u.k. tributes are being paid to the victims across the world in the malaysian capital where flight m.h. seventeen was supposed to land there are scenes of confusion and anger as artie's alexy report. we're now here in kuala lumpur where the mh seventeen plane was supposed to land scenes on friday where he is very emotional the relatives of those who were killed on that plane crash literally stormed the airport particularly the offices of the malaysian airline company demanding the lists of those who wore on board well most of the relatives of the mh seventeen victims have already flown to ukraine to identify the bodies of their loved ones the team of investigators from malaysia also went to key of the transport minister of the country is flying there tonight he just spoke to us about the investigation about several irregularities
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the authorities have noted first of all the change of altitude they confirmed that the plane changed altitude from thirty five thousand feet to thirty three thousand feet he says this is a normal practice for the world but there is no explanation whatsoever why this time the air traffic controllers in ukraine told the plane to go lower and now the regularity is the destiny of the flight recorders because we've been hearing contradictory reports coming from kiev authorities that they either had the flight recorders then they said they did not have them the malaysian authorities confirmed they have no information about the whereabouts of these flight recorders which of course would be instrumental for this investigation and last but not least they've also spoken that seventy five airlines flew for the same route just the day before the crash but still the malaysian authorities were assured by the on ground they are traffic controllers that the route was deemed safe in fact they said that several other airlines were flying the same route within minutes. before the crash so of course
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a lot of questions remain and many doubts remain and they of the malaysian authorities hoping that maybe questions will become clearer once they get access to the crash site and be able to conduct the investigation. before so there in kuala lumpur now moscow and washington are insisting that the evidence recovered from the scene of the crash must be made available to international investigators that's what the russian foreign minister discussed with the u.s. secretary of state over the phone but if notion has details. on the official website of russia's foreign ministry read that this conversation between mr lavrov and mr kerry was very on its and very open the two top diplomats agreed that all the evidence from the downed malaysian airplane including flight recorders so-called black boxes should be made available for the international investigation that both parties stressed should be independent and biased and transparent and also that the international experts should be given access to work freely on the
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ground also lover of and kerry threats that the ukrainian conflict has no military solution and should be resolved peacefully and they pledged to use influence on all the sides been involved in this. long protracted conflict to achieve this goal and speaking at the white house on friday the u.s. president claimed there was a firm evidence of the malaysian plane was downed by a surface to air missile fired from territory controlled by forces he also lashed out at russia for supporting them going to take a closer look at those allegations. president obama said the missile was shot from the territory controlled by separatists in eastern ukraine evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine moreover we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from russia having said that he also added we don't know
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exactly what happened i think it's very important for us to make sure that. we don't get out ahead of the facts. and at this point in terms of identifying specifically what individual or group of individuals or a. personnel order that the strike. came about the u.s. president called for a credible international investigation and that is something all members of the u.n. security council are calling for including russia because nobody at this point knows who shot the missile the blame game is about who created the ground for this tragedy to happen and here we see a clash of different views the u.s. says russia is responsible because it supported the rebels russia says key if it's responsible because it launched this military operation in eastern ukraine and the u.s. supported it at this point we had this vicious back and forth between everyone involved and not involved. as you can in d.c.
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now these are some of the strongly written media headlines appearing in the wake of the tragedy directly of. putin and the apparent lack of evidence into the crash has not stopped them from pointing the finger finger daniel schacter editor of global vision incorporated media channel told us earlier that it is still too early to jump to any conclusions. in the media in america are already blaming president putin personally for this as if he is responsible but without any evidence to back it up and of course the ukrainian president has blamed terrorists whoever they are there's a trading of accusations between the ukrainian military and the so-called separatists in the east of the ukraine obviously to needs to be some sort of a kind of ceasefire there and a real serious investigation if you want to get at the truth this is a very politically laced subject that really requires this passionate international
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investigation the ukrainian government has also added to the growing speculation of by publishing what it says is a leaked phone call between local militia fighters who admitted to shooting down a civilian plane and this unverified video circulating online purports to show a book missile launcher being smuggled out of ukraine after thursday's crash. now despite to the accusations being made there are still more questions than answers over the catastrophe and russia's defense ministry is demanding information from kiev it has put together a list of questions that it wants answered for example why did you crane rush to blame self defense forces after the tragedy that's the first question also moscow is asking why it deployed two book rocket launchers in the first place in the area despite the local militia having no planes question number three will you. it's
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warplanes available in the wake of the crash and another question is why was the aircraft allowed to fly over the conflict zone now indeed there are many unexplained details surrounding the tragedy let's take a closer look at what some of those could be first of all data from the flight aware service suggests that the plane diverged from its original route here's a map of the course was taken by other airliners earlier in the week and as you can see here the doomed flight went further north than any other airliners flying over ukraine and it's not clear why it took that particular path second to ukrainian controllers asked the crew to fly lower than the height which was originally requested this is according to a statement issued by malaysia airlines and it says the boeing seven seven seven was supposed to fly at thirty five thousand feet but was instructed to descend to thirty three thousand feet and finally it's also unclear why the boeing aircraft flew over a zone of heavy fighting the combat between ukrainian forces and local militia has
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been ongoing for months now and since kiev launched what it called an anti terror operation in the country's east we asked aviation expert chrissy aids to comment. it's a brave quest. line so not being prevented from flying through this this conflict. the international civil aviation organization i k o based in montreal. was the last to organization and to declare the as space to be safe that presumably based on information received from the ukrainian authorities. based in part on perhaps flawed intelligence sounds to they that weaponry the insurgents on the border may or may not feel it and so it's
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a whole bunch of questions that are cropping up now which we each need ounces and we need down some some fairly quickly indeed. coming up on our to international the people of gaza are facing the bloody consequences of israel's dramatic escalation hospitals are overflowing with civilian victims one in five among them is a child after the break we report on the tragic conflict where the death toll has now reached three hundred forty. i mean i think the afghans are invincible they're too independent minded they love freedom. they don't want to see foreigners in their country and will fight to guerrilla war till the end. we speak your language. news programs and documentaries in spanish
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what matters to you. it will turn to anglos couldn't stories. you hear. that the spanish find out more visit. and welcome back you're watching our t.v. international now the total number of civilians killed in eastern ukraine lugansk
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region has reached two hundred fifty in just in the past seven weeks that data has just been released from by monitors from the organization for security and cooperation in europe meanwhile anti-government activists have reportedly just turned on an air raid warning in lugansk as they brace for attacks from a government planes artie's eating igloo is on the russian ukrainian border. two hundred fifty people is the number that was previously given is the total number of civilians dead throughout the entire course of the conflicts in several regions now we're looking at two hundred fifty civilian casualties in one region in just seven weeks which is definitely lower than the number that probably exists in actuality now those numbers probably have been lowered significantly by the ukrainian authorities who previously insisted that they were not targeting civilian homes or residential areas or that seems to be simply not the case as described by one of the residents of. the city came on to morrow to find warnings were issued
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twice during the day and we had to seek shelter on the ground according to people at the scene most victims have trapped and once they will return to torn apart also report that regime forces have been patrolling this city and foreign troops in residential areas. has been targeted heavily by artillery over the past several days people are saying that they are being now left without electricity or running water a gas pipeline also has been hit so essentially there has been already talk about a humanitarian catastrophe in the making in the city aside from god has come under fire on saturday as a matter of fact some of the remote districts have been hit by ukrainian artillery . several buildings now while all of this is happening the world however seems to be focused on only one event in southeastern ukraine and that is the aftermath of the catastrophe of the malaysian flight m.h.
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seventeen. other heavy shelling in that targeted the neighboring region on saturday reportedly left several people dead people very at a complete loss about what to do next. who could if you. are joined. by have been damaged. you survive story is going to be damaged when you hear the windows are gone what are the authorities do we kind it was who are these are the i don't know what to do next or words ruin it. as washington ramps up the pressure on moscow over ukraine crisis russia has issued a list of u.s. citizens who are barred from entering the country twelve americans are targeted two of them for alleged involvement in torture at guantanamo bay and ten others for the alleged abuse of detainees at abu ghraib prison in iraq and that's just days after the u.s. imposed a new set of sanctions against a russian companies. but we've got more details on the tit for tat measures on our
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website as well as background on how the ukraine crisis sparked the dispute you can head to our to dot com for all of the updates. to be in the. other news now two israeli soldiers have been shot and killed by gaza militants who breached the border on saturday that brings the israeli death toll up to five since the start of the current conflict which is claimed the lives of over three hundred forty palestinians it is left hospitals in gaza struggling to cope with the influx of injured civilians. was. was
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. was to work with. israel's ground offensive is now in its third day targeting cross border smuggling tunnels used by hamas and while the stated goal is to destroy militant capability it's palestinian civilians who are paying the price at least twenty more people were killed on saturday alone as the i.d.f. unleashed an intense artillery bombardment u.s. president barack obama has warned israel against further loss of innocent lives of the palestinians killed since the air campaign kicked off last week it is reported one in five were children harry fear filed this report from gaza for three. thousands of troops and tanks stormed into garter in the early hours of friday morning as israel began its so-called anti terror campaign this is the. school in central gaza city we understand that over the last few days hundreds of families have come here to seek refuge from the ongoing escalation living in very very
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difficult conditions but that conditions better than being in a stream the dangerous neighborhoods rania is among fifty from the to monny family who sought refuge here. but. the u.n. says twenty two thousand people have been internally displaced and sought refuge in its facilities since this latest bout violence began last tuesday. consistent slammed into the homes of palestinians over the last two weeks yet israel maintains its only targeting hamas infrastructure mahmoud was one of those hit.
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it's less than a kilometer away from the israeli border and near a hospital that was being targeted here in the north of the strip these refugee camps some of the most densely populated places on earth and when the shooting starts people here suffer more than most but despite the danger not all the heating israel's warnings to evacuate i understand that you were told to evacuate by israel why have you not evacuated. their. homes are not the only targets damaged in this escalation on friday morning three air strikes hit an office high up in a commercial building in one of the most developed dario's of the city and.
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the. enemy of. the original promise i said i thought i would defeat is it possible that people are firing missiles from your office this morning. but man could you do a little bit. say here how did. well we're filming in the center of the city for rockets fired just behind us from a well known local military site the israeli prime minister has given orders to the israeli army to escalate its ground operations in the gaza strip palestinians here remember all too well the bloody mess of the winter two thousand and eight now an invasion of the gaza strip this a month of ramadan a time that is meant to be peaceful palestinian muslims simply pray to god to protect them and their families. the conflict hasn't gone unnoticed in france citizens are outraged over the tragedy.
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alison the demonstrators in paris were tear gassed after thousands flooded into the streets of the french capital they were angry at a ban on protests about the middle east put in place by the authorities france is the first country to implement such a ban demonstrators clashed with riot police with some of them climbing on top of a building set fire to an israeli flag and in london around one hundred thousand protesters also turned out to voice their anger over the invasion into gaza protestors have also taken to the streets of berlin in the thousands to show support for. and the c.n.n. news network has pulled its correspondent from covering the israeli palestinian conflict after she tweeted that israelis were cheering as they watched bombs land in gaza this comes after another american it network n.b.c.
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also removed its reporter from the same region without explanation however after a media uproar the network then decided to send the correspondent back into gaza you can find out more on these stories that are dot com now take a swing around the globe a look at some other news making headlines at this hour gunmen have attacked a checkpoint in the western desert area of egypt near the libyan egyptian border killing at least twenty guards thought the shooters were smugglers two of them were also killed in the attack it's the second mass shooting at the border post since mohamed morsy was forced from power in july last year. for polish a coach has plowed into the back of another bus in germany before careening into an oncoming van pileup left at least ten dead and sixty nine injured near the eastern city of dresden one of the dead passengers were from poland traveling in a van it is not yet clear what caused the initial crash. a series of car bomb blasts have rocked baghdad killing at least twenty seven people
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most of the explosions hit muslim neighborhoods in the iraqi capital no group has immediately taken responsibility for that attack but islamic militants who seized at large parts of northern iraq last month previously claimed to have carried out several suicide bombings in the year. well next on our to international a look at the struggle of thousands of civilians who are fleeing ukraine stay with us watching our two international. two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which is heightened tensions between the two countries even more the german reaction to this was to expel the cia chief in berlin from his post this is the kind of story that
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makes people who hate u.s. foreign policy the share button on facebook and get all excited it makes me feel that merkel or at least some elements of the german government are actually fighting against foreign meddling but i would say that you should take this story with a huge grain of salt yeah they'd have to go and cia asset out of the country and this could be a sign of change but there are still twenty plus u.s. military bases currently operating in germany in fact the bow holder base is one of the largest ones outside of america territory with thirteen thousand troops permanently stationed there so basically if merkel really wants to reduce foreign meddling in germany she is going to have to somehow get a massive foreign military presence out of a country and since this has been there for almost seventy years already i don't think that they're just going to pack up and leave on their own one day but that's just my opinion.
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