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why you should care only. for headlines in r.t. rebel leaders an eastern ukraine say they have the flight recorders from the do malaysian airliner on are ready to hand them over to international investigators. questions pile up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the on explained details including why the aircraft strayed from its usual route and why the spotters told it to reduce altitude. also coming up civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the government stronghold of lugansk in eastern ukraine as kiev rushes off its military onslaught in the wake of the playing russian. for eighty palestinians have been killed by its really strike since saturday night
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as the i.d.f. expands its ground offensive in its third day we have reaction later. a warm welcome to the weekly here in r.t. international wrap up of the top stories from the past seven days and up to the minute developments as well i mean you know neil welcome our top story government forces in eastern ukraine where a malaysian passenger jet crashed three days ago say they are ready to harm the flight recorders over to international experts all two hundred ninety eight people on board were killed in the horrific incident when the plane was allegedly hit by a missile most of the bodies have been recovered from the scene and placed in refrigerator or ridges on a nearby station for further transportation but local south for him to. the train
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will not depart until international aviation experts arrive monitors from the european security watchdog the o.s.c. have already seen the remains of the victims a tourist station. is following the clean up on investigation efforts. the self-proclaimed prime minister of people's don't ask a republican examiner birdseye's said that they had found technical evidence off flight m h seventeen that resembled a black box is now the second of the men's had already been taken to the next they're here on their guard and bora di said that they will they will only be delivered to the international team of experts once they get here speaking of that scene there yet to get here we do have always see monitors here who are observing the situation now as to the controversy regarding the bodies of the victims they had been taking to the. nearby it's about fifteen kilometers away from that crash and then he they have been placed in a railway railway refrigerators now the self defense and militia they said that
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they are doing this out of moral concerns because we are in a thirty degree heat out here and some of the bodies had already began to decompose in while i was of the scene of the crash the situation here and the plane crash site is certainly a different from what we encountered say in the first and the second day in the area is now cordoned off by plainclothes militia for. for this solves a tense 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. 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 who are currently in kiev we're asking them please come here faster we are surprised and frankly angered the. we have to keep the area untouched while we've been waiting
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for them for so long meanwhile kiev has already rushed to accuse the end to government forces of meddling with a crash scene if you. want to use the pro russia fighters are not allowing investigators to collect and transfer the evidence 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 groups and make use of 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 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 so i was basically as follow is that people go out to spot the body to photograph take
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video it and then the body is placed in the back and put beside the roadway is a brief from the plane is strewn all 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. right let's take a look back at the sequence of events in the lead up to the catastrophe malaysian airlines flight seventeen took off from amsterdam on thursday at twelve fifteen pm local time dawn for kuala lumpur at four twenty one kiev time it disappeared from radar coverage over ukraine and all radio contact was lost within an hour at five pm the crush it was located on it became clear no one had survived by eight in the
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evening both kiev an anti government troops denied involvement in the crash local militia insisted they had no weapons capable of shooting down the or liner and both sides started to trade accusations relatives of the victims were informed overnight and the process of identifying the bodies began local residents have been recalling the horror of that day a little thought i had a terrible noise i went out first and then my husband the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out i 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 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 in the body was a t. shirt it was a man and the legs were broken practically no blood. at first i didn't notice any
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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 i had this too that it was a human body without a leg and was arms twisted and broken. malaysian airlines has to release the full list of passengers on board the ill fated flight two thirds of them one hundred ninety three people were dutch nationals forty three victims including all crew members were malaysian. twenty seven australians traveling as well as to the sins of the united kingdom indonesia and germany in total ten nationalities are on the manifest for the netherlands it's a time of nationwide mourning as peter all of our reports. the devastating news no one expects to hear. malaysian boeing airline has been reportedly downed based on a horse. and interfax
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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 on the flight outside the flower shop they owned floral tributes pile up those who saw them day on day a left stunned re couldn't believe what's happened. rumors spread quickly on facebook in the morning to see outside then 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 and is told 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 and it's not only those who lost relatives in the tragedy who are 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 i very much. because especially for me. it's really. strange because my father modern i've been
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on the this same flight many times. from the it's so shocking so many dutch people were on by plane this tragedy has affected us all. think about it's not realistic people just the 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 teacher all of our party netherlands. now there are plenty of on explain circumstances surrounding the tragedy firstly the flight deviated from its usual route it's also want to hear why it passed directly over the zone of a raging armed conflict and finally there are questions over why you creating growing control told the crew to reduce altitude just before the jet went down grieving families are now demanding explanations of what happened to their loved ones. and to this report from malaysia. inside the kuala lumpur international
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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 disasters 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. it never. really. gets to play. but if that route was safe and many other jets had flown it on the day why had several airlines decided to change their
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pratt's 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 carries. very safe flying. across ukraine but if the flight trajectory is more a matter over speculation right now one alteration it made has been officially confirmed flight. so we have. indeed altitude changes on request is a common practice but the malaysian authorities have received no clarification as
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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. the reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. britain's prime minister claims that if it's sure not the rebels in east ukraine done your craft 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 by nature contacts up the story for us. 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 but was launched from an area that is controlled by
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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 to accuse the rebels in eastern ukraine and russia by association of having shut down the plane president obama based his suggestions on incidents if ukrainian military jets that the rebels recently shot out of the sky a group of separatists can't 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 airspace over what was clearly a war zone the jim gray why did the air traffic controller send
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a passenger flights to an area of military clashes in 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 a chicken or t. washington d.c. . now after the plane came down kiev was quick to blame the anti government forces for the tragedy here at the accusations are based on firstly ukraine circulated what it called an intercepted conversation between the opposition fighters in which they allegedly admit to firing on the plane or the jet crashed on territory controlled by the opposition kiev claims that's enough to implicate them even though the ukrainian army also has a heavy presence there and finally there's video released by kiev purporting to
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show book surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing kiev claims that the video was shot encrusted dawn a small town near the russian border but local state you can see an address on the billboard which is actually located in crustal army yes that's the time in which they say has been under the control of the crimean army since may and it's located around two hundred fifty kilometers away from the russian border will try to independently verify those claims intelligence expert charles hsu bridge points out some other this crap and sees in kiev's accusations one 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. he's in a fluent situation in terms of who controls why any given time the government has released what it claims are a number of evidence should lead for example it is said to have these weapon
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systems i should point out that of course the prosecutor general himself. reports 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. investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case. several mean stream media outlets lots to onto the message coming from washington and kiev unleashing a storm of accusation against ukraine's government forces and against moscow the editor of the global media and media channel believes the war of words is making it harder to get at the truth many 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. trading of accusations between the ukrainian military and the
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so-called separatists in the east of the ukraine obviously to needs to be some sort of 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. coming up in the program global shock waves from the devastation being brought on. the recording and high people in london new york. to the deaths of palestinians at the hands of the israeli military stay with party international. fish farms waters do you have a pond to me because. i saw it spread all over norway is the most toxic food you
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welcome back a humanitarian truce between gaza and militants on israel has just expired the side earlier agreed to allow the red cross to get the dead and the injured out of the worst hit area in eastern gaza hospital wards there are already severely overcrowded and doctors fear the worst is yet to come. whoa whoa whoa. whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. whoa whoa. whoa whoa. whoa whoa. was.
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the i.d.f. bombarded the site from the year overnight killing at least eighty nine civilians locals say there are bodies strewn over the streets and made collapsed buildings on that no one is able to retrieve them due to the destruction in baltimore is really soldiers were killed last night bringing the total is really death toll to seven and that number is dwarfed by the palestinian fatalities now approaching four hundred and harvey fear reports from council. is holding it's just standing in the last five or ten minutes it's continued to attack this neighborhood east of gaza city to show you a neighborhood this morning and last night dozens upon dozens of dozens more were injured over the last one of the civil service is even says have been taking people out of bodies in the gunshots now of course the united nations and state actors in the region are trying to organize a cease fire for example tukey and doing what they can i knew and she is today
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seen with palestinian president mahmoud abbas egypt's attempts creating a ceasefire a few days ago failed as hamas rejected the egyptian proposal kinds of thousands upon the 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 uptick of the violence used by particular the israeli forces. now of course these particular instances of being targeted and they are regarded by the palestinians here very specifically as signs that israel is not being careful enough in its operations that it is willing to be reckless actually is the language used by officials and palestinian civilians you've been talking to when it's going about targeting militants. the palestinian bloodbath has created ripples worldwide. palestinian demonstrators
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in tahrir square tear gas after fires and flooded into the streets on a ban on m t s really protests imposed by the authorities they clashed with riot police and in london thousands turned to voice their anger over the invasion into gaza while in berlin people took up the mantle in support for palestine with a thousand strong turnout chilly a strain on the us so people overflowing in the streets protesting against israeli aggression on the loss of innocent lives france based independent journalist robert harness says' the one sided media coverage of the conflict in the west is only fueling discontent. seeks public it's ironic isn't it has been sensitized by western governments that. government should behave responsibly good news we've heard enough about that if the aid it's a case of the ukraine of before is
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a trust government to. israel apparently a person who writes attempting to go to gaza killed people eyes of being very careful or maybe not being so very many people are now up to this sort of people who are demonstrating in paris that we young people they want to extremists most of there are a few calls to just trouble but most as of late they get their information to the internet they know what's going on as. it eats world wide now there is a c. section of the community that is well it does not change just by the west media just highly biased in favor of israel. while an israeli defense force spokes person insists the two are t.v. up there going to great lengths not to hit civilians. we do not shoot the targets in underwear any way or form or civilians we target how must terrorists and the idea for a show in is ongoing in order to restore safety and security for the state of israel hamas decided to have an onslaught against against the state with israel and
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indeed even when we held our stations yesterday for six hours they continued to bombard israel indiscriminately and we were left basically with no alternative stay with our to international for more of the week's top stories and up next kitty pilgrim takes a look at how u.s. sanctions against russia are disrupting global financial markets its venture capital. live. live. clear sherman know where you. live. to.
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we witnessed the creation of a new bank in brazil also coming up in corporate news across styles as well as travel chaos for robson's and diamond trading but the russian market slumped to this week in reaction to a new u.s. sanctions the company's targeted dropped the ruble declined and the russian my sex life to a six week low as investors lost confidence and as international tensions intensified with the tragic malaysia plane crash the global markets once again panicked as far as the sanctions are concerned they can't choose a major banks and energy companies were targeted as well as the russian defense ministry i'm now joined by alexander proles vehicle for more analysis on how russia will be affected and indeed the u.s. companies tell me an issue market reaction what was your reaction to it well there
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was a little i think in the first minute of the first hour as we sort of markets collapse in terms of the russian equity use of the ruble what the make even though it was after the sanctions. bill and you know we saw some parallel sort of plane crash story after it was and after more just reading on the markets will three percent of the four percent be watched from the sanctions so it was like a seven percent drop we sure will fall of zero two percent but. as we see the next day following the plane crash the market actually started to rebound from the lows but the stabilization going on in is stabilizing a little bit there are a few factors first of all there is not much foreign money in the markets anymore a lot of foreign investors they left after the crimea situation they were on the fish be forced to sell their russian holdings not only and i call these in bonds if we look at the gold the people started to panic because they store something's going to happen and it sank shows that we started to buy dollars to build.

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