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rebel leaders in eastern ukraine say they have the flight recorders from the doomed malaysian airliner and a ready to hand them over to international investigators. questions pile up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the unexplained details including why the aircraft strayed from its usual route and why dispatchers told it to reduce altitude. also this week civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the antigovernment stronghold of lugansk in eastern ukraine as kiev ratchets up its military onslaught in the wake of the plane crash also on the way. cool
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to civilians are killed in israeli airstrikes overnight as the i.d.f. expands its ground offensive now into its. new watching the weekly here on r.t. anti government forces in eastern ukraine where a malaysian plane crashed earlier this week say they are ready to hand the flight recorders over to international experts global leaders have called for a thorough international probe into the alleged missile strike that down flight seventy and there are deep sea surrounding both the cleanup effort and the investigation. european monitors arrived on friday but said local anti government
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forces were restricting their access to the site that's prime minister has told the russian president he must use his influence on the rebels to provide security conditions for the probe meanwhile kier visit kucing military group militia groups of forcing rescue workers to hand over the bodies and to government forces say the bodies are being taken towards their own costs fizz in the area for r.t. . situation here at the plane crash site is certainly a different from what we encountered say the first and the second day the area is now cordoned off by plainclothes 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 as soon as possible and was able to do so when we want a comprehensive and objective investigation but we don't feel like there's
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enthusiasm among the international community and experts several dozen experts are currently in kiev we're asking them please come here faster we are surprised and frankly angered that we have to keep the area untouched all we've been waiting for them for so long meanwhile kiev has already queues the end to government forces of meddling with a crash scene on. the pro russian fighters are not allowing investigators to collect and transfer the evidence they're also not letting the search and rescue 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 they're going for security and cooperation in europe the always see but it seems that right now all they can do 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 times when he arrived today there was
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a cordon of armed security personnel both sides of the road when the course says was basically as follow is that people go out they spot the body be photographed take video with it and then the body is placed on 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 the. 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 is soon to the scene of the disaster from on costs or of already see eastern ukraine so let's take a look back at a sequence of events in the lead up to the catastrophe started well malaysian airlines flight seventeen took off from amsterdam. on thursday bound for kuala lumpur but at four twenty one time this is when it disappeared from radar coverage
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over ukraine all radio contact was lost within an hour the crash site was located and then suddenly became clear nobody had survived by eight in the evening both kiev and anti government troops were accusing each other of having shot down the plane relatives of the victims were informed overnight in the process of identifying the bodies began local residents have been recalling the horror of that day you solution little thought i heard terrible noise i went out first and then my has been and the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out first my husband thought it was me i was in shock i couldn't go further than my yard. my wife and i were having dinner when we heard a strange noise that sounded like clapping a 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.
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shirt it was a man the legs were broken no sort practically no blood at first i didn't notice any of them 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 and this two that it was a human body was another leg and his arms twisted and broken. malaysian airlines has released the full list of passengers on board that ill fated flight and two thirds of the one hundred ninety three were dutch nationals forty three victims including all of the crew members were malaysian they were also twenty seven australians travelling as well as citizens of the united kingdom indonesia and germany in total ten nationalities are on the manifest for the netherlands though it's a time of nationwide mourning as peter oliver reports. the devastating news no one expects to hear. malaysian boeing airliners been reportedly downed
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based on a reuters and interfax a malaysian airlines flight with about two hundred ninety five people on board has crashed grief spills over as 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 a left stunned we couldn't believe what's happened. rumors spread quickly on the facebook in the morning to see outside and those are the flowers. then you know
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it's it happened for real in the shop window 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 childer 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 very much. because especially
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for me. it's really. strange because my father modern i've been under this same flight many times. from that it's so shocking so many dutch people were on that plane this tragedy has affected our song. with think about it it's not realistic people are just a public airplane taking it down 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 peter all of our party netherlands there are plenty of unexplained circumstances surrounding the tragedy first of all the flight deviated from its usual route and it's also unclear why it passed directly over the zone of a raging armed conflict and finally there are questions over why ukrainian ground control told the crew to reduce our attitude just before the jet went down grieving
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families are now demanding explanations of what happened to their loved ones. brings us this report from malaysia. inside the kuala lumpur international airport right now nothing speaks of the horrible tragedy of thursday it works without disruptions this is 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 design asters is the fact there are far more questions than answers starting with the mh seventeen jets flight path. and didn't see by the local pool and never. believed
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it. 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 could have been changed to three hundred kilometers further north. community. carry. 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 as a flight. back on board. so
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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 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. reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. now britain's prime minister claims that if it's shown that the rebels in eastern ukraine down to the aca then this would be a direct result of russia's support for anti-government forces david cameron's comments follow a wave of accusations from western powers against moscow even though no official investigation has yet been conducted a church account has the story. before investigators made it to the crash site the u.s. announced to the world where the deadly missile shot came from evidence indicates
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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 happened and yet u.s. officials all but accuse the rebels in eastern ukraine and russia by association of having shot down the plane president obama based his suggestions on incidents if you crane in military jets that the rebels recently shot out of the sky a group of separatists can shoot. military transport planes or they claim shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training and that is coming from russia russia says kiva 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 kiev to answer including why it hadn't closed the
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airspace over what was clearly a war zone such immigrants why did the air traffic controller send a passenger flights to an area of military clashes an area which was used to carry 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 r.t.e. washington d.c. . after the plane came down kiev was quick to blame the anti government forces for the tragedy here's what the accusations are based on first the ukraine circulated what it called an intercepted conversation between the opposition fighters in which they allegedly admit to firing on the plane the jet crashed on territory controlled
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by the opposition claims that's enough to implicate them even though the ukrainian army also has a heavy presence there and finally there's the video released by kiev purporting to show a book surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing or clear of claims that that video was shot in could hours not dawn that's a small town near to the russian border but locals claim that in that video what you can actually see and address here we go on a billboard which they say is actually located in two thousand are the maske now that's a town which is said to have been under the control of the ukrainian army since may and is located two hundred fifty kilometers away from the russian border and we will try to independently verify those claims for you intelligence expert charles shoe bridge though points out some other discrepancies in kids' accusations. one
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could say from the outset with some investigation the area of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think that is to put in much of eastern ukraine is in a fluid situation in terms of who controls what any given time the ukraine government has released what it claims are a number of evidence should lead for example it is said that the rebels have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the prosecutor general himself denied that rebels have this system so it's fair to say there's a lot of confusion at the moment and really this really points the way to the importance of a thoroughly independent and indeed thorough investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case. several mainstream media outlets latched on to the message coming from washington and kiev unleashing a storm of accusations against ukraine's anti government forces and against moscow the editor of the global media inc media channel daniel schecter believes the war of words is making it harder to get to the truth. many in the media in america are
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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. 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 investigation. to stay with us here and i'll say still to come they saw a global shock waves from the devastation being brought. to a bit of coaching on how people in london new york and paris have been rallying against
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entourage tours and leave. the city. we're not going to. stop. what is more precious music more movie. next this hour despite calls for a cease fire the louder kiev has stepped up its military crackdown against the centers of resistance in eastern ukraine this week the situation in the regional capital have done yet scream a tense explosions heard on the outskirts while daily air raids and shelling a become everyday reality for the people of. malta far in broad daylight in the grounds killed at least sixteen people on friday tens of buildings including a church were damaged while residents were left without power and water meanwhile
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the organization for security and cooperation in europe puts the total number of lives lost in the since the summer of two hundred fifty has a ridiculous score on the russia ukraine border with the very 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 defense forces ukrainian troops are gaining ground seeking to take control over the road that is connecting the internet's just cities that are essentially capitals of the two restive regions. varying bronzer off the assaults by the ukrainian army this city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged and people are saying they are left without water electricity gas is also something they're finding a shortage off of course there are instances of people being hit in the middle of the day by artillery and mortar shells that why. an instance eight people have died
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similar tamia slee when a shell has hit a. wall always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june in lugansk alone previously that number is given for civilian casualties for these homes you ration of conflict for both regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than people have told me in the city they're living in fear of what the u.s. uses a peaceful life. should look like the series. of . the fighting continues and at times 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. targets of ukrainian military nevertheless they seem to be bearing the brunt of off the pressure and when exactly and if this conflict is
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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 as before. now finnish customs have seized a shipment of military equipment that was bound for ukraine officials describe it as military goods that belong to certain types of arms local media report the shipment comprised of components for missile guidance systems customs officials declined confirmation the shipment was seized at the end of june at helsinki airport because it was lacking necessary permits for defense material reportedly originated from vietnam and was heading to ukraine in transit finland the finnish military are investigating the case. and is washington proceeds with its accusations against moscow claiming it's doing nothing to deescalate tensions in
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ukraine fresh sanctions have been imposed this week against major russian companies russia's biggest oil producer ross nifty along with the gas problem bank are among those targeted now just to give you an idea of the scale of these companies are us the effort is a vital contributor to the state budget it generates more than one hundred billion dollars in revenue annually and gazprom bank is the country's third largest bank it finances some of russia's most prominent energy projects these two along with several other firms are now forbidden from borrowing money on u.s. markets for periods longer than ninety days here's how the russian president reacted to the move. as far as saying sions are concerned they usually have a boomerang effect like i've said before and they will eventually lead russian u.s. relations to a dead end damaging them severely i'm also positive that these measures harm america's long term strategic interests in the interests of its people.
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israel says a humanitarian to sweep gaza militants which was supposed to last for two hours has been brought to an abrupt told by hamas rocket fire just minutes after it began the signs and agreed to allow the red cross to get the dead and injured out of the worst hit area in eastern gaza i.d.f. bombarded the site overnight and more than forty civilians were killed locals say that are bodies strewn across the street amid the rubble and no one is able to retrieve them because of the destruction meanwhile two more israeli soldiers were killed last night bringing the total israeli death toll to seven that number though is dwarfed by the palestinian fatalities which now four hundred fear gaza city. is now day thirteen of israel's operation protective we've seen heavy israeli ground sea and air bombardment right now we can hear drones overhead
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and ambulances and shelling to the east of gaza city of course the palestinian civilian population here are paying a particularly good price 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 turkey and qatar doing what they can and u.n. chief banky 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 palestinians have been internally displaced as this operation has been ongoing we've seen those and i. has increased steadily over the last few days which has seen an opting for the violence used by particularly the israeli air force now of course these particular instances of being targeted and they are regarded by the palestinians very specifically as signs that israel is not being careful enough in its
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operations that it is willing to be reckless actually is the language here used by officials on policy and civilians you've been talking to me it's going about targeting militants. the palestinian bloodbath has created ripples worldwide. road palestinian demonstrators in paris with tear gas throws up to thousands flooded into the streets angry at a ban on anti israeli protests imposed by the authorities they clashed with riot police and in london thousands turned out to voice their anger over the invasion into gaza but then people took up the mantle in support for palestine with a finals and strong turnout chile australia and the us saw people overflowing in the streets protesting against israeli aggression and the loss of innocent lives. to stay with us we'll be back with the very latest news headlines at the top of the
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hour in just a couple of minutes though we'll have a special report on the trials and tribulations of making tons. if there's anything we're afraid of in the modern western world is al qaeda or aids or something like that it's words just words especially on the internet morning radio shock jock the cumia from the opie and anthony show has been fired for a massive twitter rant that he made against a woman who believe that the radio host was taking mocking photographs of her and got aggressive with them who may claim to just be taking pictures of time square now normally what you do outside of work shouldn't matter but with public personalities i can see how people want them to have good behavior all the time but
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the problem is that guys like him are put on the airwaves to have bad behavior what does the sirius x.m. company expect from people they put on air to be wild and raunchy this is typical corporate boardroom mentality well we want morning g.g. . to be really crazy and shocking but not too crazy and shocking hey i don't have a horse in this race i actually think the opie and anthony show is pretty dismal but when i see someone getting fired for wacky shock jock stuff that is in a way kind of part of his job well just seems very hypocritical to me but that's just my opinion. to.
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