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girlfriend still works in poetry keep. nora. we post only what really matters. to your facebook you st. today's news and the week's top stories here are to see the bodies of most of the victims from the malaysian airliner that crashed in east ukraine have now been taken from the crash site amid tension over the progress of the cleanup and investigation. even before the start of the probe the u.s. said the plane was downed by a missile fired from territory controlled by resistance forces. and israel inflicts its heaviest shelling yet on garza killing more than forty palestinians in one attack in total nearly four hundred have now lost their lives and the ground assault is increasing. plus an investigation is ongoing
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into one of the worst accident ever on the moscow metro the disaster left dozens dead as three subway cars derailed during the morning rush hour. welcome my name is the harvey you're watching the weekly here on art. flowers laid upon. the scattered remains of two hundred ninety eight people these are scenes from the site of this week's crash of a malaysian passenger jet in eastern ukraine eighty of those on board the airliner were children russian the u.n. urging for an international investigation and team of observers arrived at the site on friday there is however a concern about the way recovery efforts are being carried out. because hawks.
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i am shocked by the images of their totally disrespectful behavior at this tragic sopped like against all rulings only careful investigation it seems that there are people who are rummaging through the players' sentences and recognizable belongings are the victims is a real story this is downright disgusting but it was it was left over. by now most of the bodies of the mh seventeen passengers have reportedly been taken from the crash site and they're all suggestions from kiev that all of the remains have now been taken away although our correspondent at the site has denied that among cos are sent to this report the situation here and the plane crash site is certainly a different from what we encountered say in the first and the second day the area is now cordoned off by plainclothes is militia. for the self-defense forces in control of this area say they've made several appeals to the international community to get it seem of the experts here
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as soon as possible it was easy to do so when we want a comprehensive and objective investigation but we don't feel like there's enthusiasm among the international community and experts several dozen experts are currently in kiev we're asking them to please come here faster so we are surprised and frankly angered that we have to keep the area untouched to all we've been waiting for them for so long meanwhile kiev has already rushed to accuse the and to government forces of meddling with the crash scene if you. want the pro russia fighters are not allowing investigators to collect and transfer the evidence so they're also not letting search and rescue groups leave the area the groups are currently working under the threat of armed force for now the only international group to make it to the scene of the crash is their organization for security and cooperation in europe the always see but it seems that right now they can do
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a little but stand by and watch although there is very little as we've reported there's very little security on the perimeter of the cross site we did notice that when he arrived today there was a cordon of armed security personnel both sides of the road when the process was basically as follow is that people go out to spot the body to photograph take video it and then the body is placed in the back and put beside the roadway is a brief from the plane is screwed over it's once a kilometer radius which is likely to slow down the investigation and that large area is right in the middle of the conflict zone all this means that a clear analysis of how this plane came to crash in the field in eastern ukraine is unlikely to come soon if indeed it comes at all and that is a heavy burden for many of the relatives of the victims who plan to come here to the scene of the disaster from on costs or of artsy eastern ukraine.
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ok and i think what we can see now are live pictures and we believe that these are train carriages that are going to be used to actually transport the bodies of the victims of the plane crash for further investigation now let's take a look at the flight path of seventeen it took off for a month that arms a simple airport heading for kuala lumpur it flew over the netherlands germany and poland and then end to do craney an airspace passing over the volatile eastern ukraine so let's take a look at the timeline of events in the run up to that crash on thursday july seventeenth that twelve fifteen pm that is when the plane left amsterdam for kuala lumpur four twenty one pm ukrainian time things started to go wrong radio and radar contact with the flight then lost within the hour the crash site was located
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however there were no survivors by eight pm both kiev and and government troops denied shooting down the plane instead pinning the blame on each other then the process of identifying the victims began and that left malaysian airlines to notify hundreds of grief stricken relatives leaving those who witnessed the crash in shock . usual i heard terrible noise i went out first and then my has been well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out i was in shock i couldn't go further than my yard but it's. a soon as we went out of the house we saw a body lying nearby it must have fallen from a very high altitude now you can smell the odor over here there are no words to describe it and finally we were swimming and we heard three distinct shots actually not sure it's more like explosions and then we saw the plane falling its wing was
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falling off and then we saw black smoke and that's all that other fish lore yes first i didn't notice anything my son went out and said mom there's a body in the kitchen and there was plaster everywhere i thought it was just a pile of rubbish but then i understood it was a human body without a leg and with arms twisted and broken it's a murder a real murder and here's a list of the nationalities of those on board the ill fated aca the majority of the passengers one hundred ninety three were forty three victims including all the crew members were malaysian there were twenty seven australians and nationals from britain germany the philippines and indonesia the plane crash is one of the biggest ever modern tragedies for the netherlands auntie's peter oliver reports now from the grieving country. the devastating news no one expects to hear. malaysian boeing adeline has been reportedly downed based on
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a waters and interfax a malaysian airlines flight with about two hundred ninety five people on board has crashed grief spills over his family and friends of those on board m.h. seventeen make it to the airport in amsterdam at the scene of the crash passports strewn among the carnage each one a painful reminder of a person who died and each of those people leave behind friends and family it's in small communities like this one that have been directly affected that the real human tragedy becomes clear neil tall and her partner course children were on the flight outside the flower shop they owned floral tributes pile up those who saw them day on day left stunned we couldn't believe what's happened. rumors spread quickly on the facebook when i came in the morning to see outside and those are the flowers. then you know it's it happened for real in the shop window
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a sign for the postman drop the mail off next door we're on holiday there were very lovely people and. you know i did want to just to just enjoy a holiday for two weeks and come back and say to pick up the post and i had a great holiday before stepping on the plane shoulder posted this message on facebook it's understood ms toll had been uneasy about the flight following the disappearance of a malaysian airlines jet early at this year. family members stand sobbing in front of a book of condolences they told me they just can't bring themselves to speak on camera it's not only those who lost relatives in the tragedy who were grieving the netherlands is in a state of disbelief following the deaths of nearly two hundred of its citizens in the disaster we were all shocked and they're very much. because especially for me. it's really. strange because my father modern i've been
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under this same flight many times. from that it's so shocking so many dutch people were on back plane this tragedy has affected our song. where think about it it's not realistic people are just a public airplane sticking it out in this small country of only seventeen million people it seems nearly everyone has been touched in some way by this the worst disaster to affect the country in its recent history teacher all over r.t. netherlands. for malaysian airlines the plane crash of m a seventeen is the second disaster in less than five months in march flight three seventy disappeared on its way to beijing and both cases are left more questions than answers alexi reports from kuala lumpur. inside the kuala lumpur international airport right now nothing speaks of the horrible tragedy of thursday it works without disruptions this is
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different to the situation in march when the other malaysian airlines jet went missing relatives of those on board were literally beseeching the malaysian airlines offices back then they still had hope of seeing their loved ones alive. there's no chance of that for the families connected to thursday's tragedy over ukraine but what unites the two apparently different disasters is the fact there are far more questions than answers starting with the mh seventeen jets flight path you move. and didn't see by the local pool. so you want to believe. that you can see the plane. but if that route was safe and many other jets had flown it on the day why had several airlines decided to change their paths malaysian authorities claim the plane was flying on the set route but flight tracker data published online suggests the path
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could have been changed to three hundred kilometers further north. international civil aviation community. we are going to. carry in some carry. very safe flying. cross. but if the flight trajectory is more a matter of speculation right now one alteration it made has been officially confirmed in years a flight. to fly. so we have to be and. indeed altitude changes on request is a common practice but the malaysian authorities have received no clarification as to why it was ordered on that day supposedly minutes before the jet went down most
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relatives of the passengers of m.h. seventeen have now gone to ukraine to identify the bodies a team of malaysian investigators is following them in the hope of shedding at least some light on this dark story. yahtzee reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. now if it's proved that resistance fighters in each to ukraine down the m h seventeen then it's a direct result of russia d. stabilizing a sovereign state and supporting anti-government fighters that is the view of the british prime minister david cameron an exit started even before the beginning of an official investigation has more. before investigators made it to the crash site the u.s. announced to the world where the deadly missile shot came from 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 but the u.s. president stopped short of saying who pulled the trigger we don't know exactly what
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happened and yet u.s. officials all but to accuse the rebels in eastern ukraine and russia by association of having shot down the plane president obama based his suggestions on incidents of ukrainian military jets that the rebels recently shot out of the sky a group of separatists can shoot down. a military transport planes or they claim shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training and that is coming from russia russia says t.v. is responsible because it launched this military operation in eastern ukraine and the u.s. supported it moscow has also raised a number of questions for key have to answer including why it hadn't closed the airspace over what was clearly a war zone the jim gray idea why did the creating an air traffic controller send a passenger flights to an area of military clashes an area which was used to carry
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out strikes against civilian targets and where there were anti-aircraft systems operating all members of the un security council including russia and the united states have called for a credible impartial investigation of the disaster it will take time before any results come through but the blame game is already in full swing down to check on washington d.c. . take a detailed look at the area where i am a seventeen came down starting with the small town that's here where most of the debris has been found that the plane itself actually came from the north west and further almost the entire conflict zone including two former hotspots slavyansk and tosk now major ukrainian army outposts the crash site is almost directly between the regional capitals they are down yet and lugansk kiev and anti government forces of engaged in some of the fiercest fighting over their airports grabber is just
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kilometers away from the border with russia and that's been shelled by the ukrainian army on numerous occasions and earlier this week in the neighboring town of an air strike destroyed a residential building killing eleven so far there's been no conclusive evidence but ukraine is claiming that anti government forces shot down the plane care is basing its accusations on several pieces of so far unverified information shortly after the jet went down ukraine circulated what it called a leaked phone call in which the opposition fighters allegedly admit to firing on the plane a video released by care reports to show a book mobile surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing the plane crashed on totally controlled by the opposition claims that's enough to implicate them despite the fact that the ukrainian armed forces also have a heavy presence there. other lives have also been lost this week in eastern
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ukraine that weren't involved in the plane crash the victims of caves ongoing crackdown against citizens in the east. noticed in the last few days after the break we'll report to be offensive against the region's biggest cities not far from the crash site. a bloody old school with no end inside dozens of palestinians are killed in the heaviest israeli attack so residents reporting bodies strewn across the streets made me a complete destruction. this
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where more than forty people have been killed in one district of garza on sunday that softer israel's heaviest shelling so far the ground operation has expanded with more i.d.f. troops pouring in hospitals in gaza already packed and doctors there fear there is more to come. residents in gaza said ambulances were able to pick up bodies on the street because of the destruction and thus casualties in northeastern gaza have now brought the total death toll to almost four hundred palestinians following leads didn't both israel and hamas of agree to a two hour humanitarian truce to allow the red cross to get the injured out however
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all diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have failed two more i.d.f. soldiers were killed overnight bringing the total number of israeli casualties to seven how we feel how small. it is now day thirteen of israel's operation protective we've seen heavy israeli ground sea. right now we can hear drones overhead and ambulances and shelling to the east of gaza city of course the policy and civilian population here are paying a particularly noted price of for this escalation in violence now of course the united nations and state actors in the region are trying to organize a cease fire for example. doing what they can and u.n. chief ban ki moon is today meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas egypt's attempts at creating a ceasefire a few days ago as hamas rejected the egyptian proposal of thousands of part of the
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scenes have been entirely displaced as this operation has been ongoing we've seen those numbers increase steadily over the last few days which has seen an opting of the violence used by particularly the israeli force now. course there are these particular instances of homes being targeted and they are regarded by the palestinians here very specifically as signs that israel is not being careful enough in terms of its operations that it is willing to be reckless actually is the language used by officials and palace and civilians you've been talking to when it's going about targeting militants sites. and this week ukrainian forces moved closer to the regional centers of east ukraine and yet scanned lugansk their approach was marked by the firing of artillery shells people have begun school living in their lives in the shadow of the air raid sirens and shooting on the streets at least sixteen civilians died after being hit in broad
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daylight dozens of buildings including a church was seriously damaged the total number of lives lost in the loop in the lugansk area since early june has reached two hundred fifty and that's according to monitors from the organization for security and cooperation in europe here's a really good on the russia ukraine border with the latest updates from the area. residents of reported hearing air raid sirens again again last night and they're saying that fighting continues on the outskirts of the city now according to self-defense forces ukrainian troops are gaining ground seeking to take control over the road that is connecting the gods to this disease that are essentially capitals of the two restive regions. bearing the brunt of off the assaults by the ukrainian army their city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged people are saying they're left without water electricity gas is also something they're finding
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a shortage off of course there there are instances of people being hit in the middle of the day by artillery and mortar shells at one instance eight people have died several tenuously one in a cross walk always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june in lugansk alone previously the numbers given for civilian casualties for these hydration and conflict for both regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than those people have to see their living here. he says of a peaceful life. should look like you to. know. the fighting continues in a dime's it can be heard on the border between russia and ukraine with residents complaining about shells flying into their backyards essentially and despite the fact that petro poroshenko has assured that civilians are not going to be the.
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targets of the ukrainian military nevertheless they seem to be bearing the brunt off the pressure and when exactly if at this conflict is going to end is not yet clear with of course the world's attention being on the aftermath off the disaster of flight m.h. seventeen the fighting that doesn't seem to subside in southeastern ukraine goes on before. this is done yes because city not too long ago hosted matches in the euro two thousand and twelve football championships today there are holes in the walls broken windows and rockets sunk into the ground one of the building said it was a kindergarten people there told us that they have nowhere to go and feel helpless people schoolteacher if you look at the shrapnel a giant shell landed here setting the place on fire and killing the people who lives here houses nearby was damaged this five story building was damaged the windows are gone what are the authorities doing what kind of authorities are they i
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don't know what to do next or where to go. in other news one of the worst crashes in the history of the moscow metro shook the capital on tuesday of this week three subway cars derailed after coming to an abrupt stop during the morning rush hour when twenty people were killed and one hundred fifty taken to hospital some of those remain in intensive care here's footage of the aftermath. i. i. think. it took emergency workers three days to remove the wreckage and carry out repairs allowing traffic on the metro line to resume here's what i witness account of the
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tragic accident. i was thrown into the air there was blood on the floor heads some people had broken ribs and one person was injured all in all the people were hysterical we started to get out we saw a door in the tunnel wall men eventually broke that door and you saw workers constructing a parallel town as they helped us to get out. there are a number of theories of how a decade old railway section became the scene of such a deadly accident and so far investigators believe a faulty switch was the blood of two metro workers have been detained over the safety of cheese i. more headlines at the top of the hour in just a couple of minutes though a special report on the trials and tribulations of making guitars.
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two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which has 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 makes people who hate u.s. foreign policy click to 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 just had one 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
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