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resistance leaders in east ukraine say they're waiting for international experts to examine the bodies of the victims of the malaysian airliner crash though the investigators remain in a live report coming up. president putin says the tragedy should not be politicized he's called an old groups involved in the ukrainian conflict not to obstruct the investigation and to ensure the safety of anyone involved in the program. continues despite both sides suffering the bloodiest days since the start of the conflict.
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monday morning here in moscow thanks for joining us on international law. the. international experts to examine the bodies of the two hundred ninety eight victims of the malaysia airliner crash in fact the calls come amid condemnation in the west over the efficiency of the recovery operations. in the regional capital don yes now joining us live here on our team to national good to see you this morning there are certainly been some. surrounding the cleanup effort also the fact finding mission at the site i was a situation as you know. yes well the plane had crashed already a few days ago and the bodies of the victims had been lying out there in the field for at least three days before recovery efforts by the self-proclaimed donetsk
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people's republic began and they said that they did it purely out of the moral responsibility to the victims all the to the families of the victims of the crash because we find ourselves in a thirty degree heat so the bodies had already began to decompose plus there's also danger present from the wild animals in the surrounding area as well because the plane did crash in a rural area so far at least two hundred bodies had been recovered so they were taken to the nearby city all solar red they've been placed in the three railway refrigerator cars the temperature there is said to be about zero to minus five. now they always see a mission of war and wanted to and this is a situation here they said that's. still out there in the open they had not been recovered and the most recent finding is the part of the cockpits including thirty
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seven additional bodies that they probably think belong to the cockpit crew meanwhile the investigation still cannot begin as international experts are currently in key of latest information suggests that they are from malaysia from the netherlands and from the united states of america which is some seven hundred kilometers away but they still can't get here apparently saying that. they have restricted access to the area but always see observers who are currently on site are saying that this is simply not true they also added that the international experts who are currently in kiev have been all been in contact with authorities of the self proclaimed people's republic and saying that they have full access to the area of the crash site so let's have a listen. we covered
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a wider area we visited a site that we hadn't visited before. we had fairly good perimeter security. and you know there they did seem to provide us with a kind of ring of security to allow us to to do the monitoring that we have to do. and so there are also questions asked where there are black boxes all the flight m.h. seventeen have been found so the leader of the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk said that technical elements resembling black boxes had been discovered ad the sites and said these technical elements had now been taken to the city of. guard and he said here all. somebody bring the word this evidence so they will be kept under guard until international experts do get here and to go elements will only be be given to those international experts that is once they arrive from kiev . thank you for about thanks. in the meantime i russia's president has said the
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tragedy should not be politicized diena caution of a listen to what vladimir putin had to say. well speaking about the situation treasures a russian president vladimir putin said that it is a necessary to everything it takes to provide for security for those international acts greats now working at the scene of the plane crash. it's important that all the people who are countable for the situation in this region of ukraine are more responsible for their own citizens and people of those countries who suffered as a result of the tragedy we need to do everything we can to provide security for international experts who will be working at the site of the accident. meanwhile the president also added that russia will do everything it takes to turn this conflict in the eastern ukraine from a military one and into the face of peaceful negotiations moreover the president to
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add is that no one has the right to use this treasure to you for being some selfish political goals. such events should unite people not separate them no one has any right to use this tragedy for any kind of selfish politicized interest. president putin hasn't blamed any of the parties involved for the crash like some of his counterparts done exactly that however he added the crash could have been avoided if military action had been resumed. show you some of the several of the damning headlines that have appeared in scores of publications across europe following the seventeen tragedy. feeding a feeling of anger all across europe germany france and britain have threatened moscow with sanctions as soon as choose day if international investigators are not given the full access to the crash site is pretty relevant reporting from a country that suffered the biggest loss. european reactions to the downing of the
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malaysian airlines flight over eastern ukraine have started to change from initial shock people are now calling for immediate and real action to be taken here in the netherlands where almost two hundred people among those who died came from the foreign minister of france timmons is said that people are angry and furious at what they see is a lack of progress being made regarding an investigation he will be announcing later on in a press briefing what he gained from a recent trip to ukraine will be bringing you that of course as soon as we get it right here from the hague in the united kingdom where the foreign secretary philip hammond has said that his country are willing to push ahead with more sanctions against russia even if it was to harm the british economy by restricting the flow of russian cash into the city of london the british prime minister david cameron said he's in agreement with french president francois hollande and german chancellor angela merkel that further sanctions must be discussed the german chancellor though held a phone conversation over the weekend with president vladimir putin and which both parties said that an international investigation is
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a must and it must get underway very soon from the hague peter all over r.t. and even before international experts reached the crash site washington accused the anti-government forces in eastern ukraine of shooting down the plane but none of those u.s. claims have been independently verified but our russia has been accused of supplying heavy weapons to eastern ukraine an allegation moscow has strongly denied and demanded proof of the u.s. claims it detected a missile launched from opposition held territory shortly before the plane went down for the ukrainian military was also within striking distance of washington sites allegedly intercepted communications between the ukrainian opposition but there's no independent confirmation recordings are authentic the u.s. refers to social media postings of footage allegedly showing a used surface to air missile launcher in eastern ukraine and his russian expert analysis of the voice recordings quoted by washington. it's not really it's
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a text on. it's being presented as one on it it's had recorded so in reality the sort of if i was compiled out of several fragments in the time inconsistent the part where it's being said the plane was downed by cossacks these markers reveal that one fragment was recorded at sixteen thirty three and that the second fragment which comes right off towards was recorded at seventeen fifteen. this is footage allegedly showing a book surface to air missile launcher with one of its rockets missing a kiev and washington claim the video was shot in an opposition held area of eastern ukraine. however some ukrainian locals there of come to their own conclusions about the oncoming stream of pictures in fact one twitter user pointed right here to the billboard in the video it's apparently located in the town about causing a lot of mice at the area that has actually been under the control of the ukrainian
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military sense. of the town is about one hundred kilometers from where the malaysian airliner came down we spoke with one former white house official who also doubts the u.s. version of events hysteria curious that there would be a video on you to look for the information reaches here or washington. and since the video has been discredited by experts the implication is that this was something done intentionally in order to train russian the so-called separatists do not share those expensive systems and do not have the training to operate and we also know that the separatists have no incentive to shoot down an airliner so they have nothing to gain from. and there is no end to violence in two eastern ukrainian regions where troops and
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anti-government forces are fighting for every corner of land but our correspondent went to one russian hospital near the ukraine border and not everyone is taking sides. yesterday they were firing guns at each other in ukraine today they wake up in the same hospital in russia. they were the last people expected to see that which is the ukrainian soldier just about it was a bit to a model logical but people still try to get them as kindly as possible of what the premium soldiers who brought to this hospital last week after being wounded near the border with russia their commanding officers decided it was easier to move them across the border to peaceful area not involved in the fighting and seek medical help to graner especially with those critically injured the issue of their transfer back to ukraine after treatment is being worked out but some already say they're willing to go back to battle a combination you know what i'll go back of course a more active military duty if your country needs you you have to go. literally
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next door to them is a member of the guns because self-defense troops he's also being treated for battle wounds here's what he thinks about the can you know army. to pick up guys from regions that have been rising up like donetsk or going to guns they tell them they're going to mandatory army do not have what they end up with when you are here i feel sad for every one of the doctors here are not only doing their usual traps but also playing diplomats yeah. i immediately said guys are you know maybe you think of us as enemies but we don't think of you know the same way we live in one country not too long ago that was what i'm surprised that not a single one of them was from western ukraine everyone is from neo regionals. and some cases diplomatic efforts aren't needed when soldiers themselves don't want to fight i mean i knew at the time what was in there i wouldn't want to go i don't know who we're fighting and i have no animosity towards russians all of nationalists i'm not right six of them should what right do they have to make us
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fight i was mobilized i receive wounds to my hands and i have to go and fight again with cardboard equipment they reuse old ammunition to make money off us the country's. pulling apart but for them everything's fine. it's all so confusing who's fighting who and how and what for isn't clear who are the separatists what do they look like we don't know the situation may seem a paradox after ukrainian and western officials. trying to paint russia as a hostile aggressor but doctors in this small rural hospital believe there's is simply an exercise in humanity. southern russia. or become. a national good morning to you israeli tanks have again been shelling militant targets in gaza early this morning following the bloodiest day so far for both sides almost ninety palestinians were killed in the shelling over should jaya district on sunday residents and families had to escape through streets strewn with
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bodies and rubble. israel also suffered its worst losses with a teen of its soldiers dying on sunday two of the i.d.f. troops killed by hamas in recent fighting american citizens by minister netanyahu vowed to continue operations quote as much as needed despite the casualties the total death toll of on the palestinians is now reportedly almost four hundred and eighty a humanitarian truce last that less than one hour both sides blamed each other for violating. in the meantime there have been streets celebrations in the west bank
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city of ramallah and followed reports that the ring of hamas had kidnapped an israeli soldier the brigades saying that he was abducted a day ago during the ambush in the east of gaza city israeli military now saying they are investigating the claim. well our correspondent sent a video from the heart of the conflict it does contain some images which you may find destroy us. ok that's what we're doing now from we're going to move. on we're going. because joe you aren't showing a man among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings was thought to be a target of government gunfire you know your peers to be hit by a bullet while lying stretched out on the ground very fear talk to one of the witnesses of this this is. a group of international solidarity activists and two palestinians who are making
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a trip into the east. very close to the border with israel this was at a time when there was a hoax on israel's operations in the area there were two palestinians one an activist which shot the video the images that you just saw and there was another young man we believe approximately eighteen or nineteen years old the one depicted in the imagery which shows him of course being fatally wounded and dying in front of these international solidarity activists and this young gentleman wished to take these activists to this area in order to help evacuate his family which he believed was caught up and had been pinned down essentially for hours in a six three me dangerous neighborhoods i'm joined now by a human rights activist and witness rena. rena can you tell us exactly what you saw with respect to the death of this young man. with respect to the death all together there were full shots fired the first one missed him but remained it we aimed for
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him the second one was fatal. which caused him to fall down in the underground and the third one was i guess for them to make sure that they had got him basically do you have any reason to believe he was caught up in militant trying to or to say no not at all he was as far as we are aware he was looking for his family he was frantic he was he was leading the way. he was on the phone and he knew the admin wanted to do was find that resulted in his death there was supposed to be a cease fire as well however as we settle into the region there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting yes indeed so that some of the detail of this incident on shows are you kidding this young gentleman this often. an israeli defense force spokesperson told my colleague you know neal they're doing old they can't protect civilian lives and the hamas minister of the interior
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specifically instructed the civilian population in gaza not to leave their homes not to leave the instructions not to follow the instructions of the military provided what you knew these innocent people were in their homes and yet you still decided to strike was that your decision we provided as much warning as we could and at the end we had to attack certain targets that are resulting in the terrorise ation of our entire public and one of the latest attacks really. shells with spray are thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal we've seen that some rules of humanitarian law render their use in the gaza strip illegal as an imprecise weapon is more likely to result in civilian injuries which of course we have seen in spades why do you ignore international law in this case you can say with full confidence and with full sincerity that any weapon that is being used by the i.d.f. is done so in line with international law and we're seeing hospitals schools media offices essentially sick people children and the ordinary working man and woman
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being hit in these places you know overwhelmingly why is this they're not being targeted and the reason the reason that they are not leaving and following the instructions that we are giving them is because hamas finds it in its assets to leave them in these areas. in the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is due to travel to egypt to support regional efforts to reach a cease fire in gaza my colleague shawn thomas discussed the trip with former cia officer dr charles cogan there's not going to be peace as long as netanyahu is prime minister he doesn't want to end it with all the efforts of. it was netanyahu who broke the talks off after israel refused to release the finer traunch of kind of standing back in april john kerry the u.s. secretary of state was recently caught off mike talking about the israeli tactics in gaza let's listen in to what he had to say it's a hell of
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a pinpoint operation that's a hell of a pinpoint operation. it really. underscores first we've got to get over there. that. i think we have to go to and i think it's crazy to cigarette can we expect that to turn into some type of a concrete action very difficult because these neighborhood neighborhoods are very crowded and there are launching sites within the neighborhoods there are of stray actions that go wrong like the killing of the for palestinian teenager and all youths on the beach at ash wednesday but i think the the i.d.f. does make an effort they send out warnings but it's a very very messy situation and and it's it must stop by and maybe maybe kerry can do something it's going out to the middle east i think imminently to cairo and bunchy moon is going out there. it's gotten way out of hand and is kerry seems
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quite accurate. some of the global headlines are brief hundreds gathered outside the b.b.c. broadcasting house in belfast accusing the corporation of pro israeli bias in covering the conflict protesters lit candles and held a minute of silence for the victims of the military campaign a petition criticizing the b.b.c.'s reporting on the issue collected forty five thousand signatures. rival libyan militias are battling for control of the capital's international airport by people reportedly killed in the latest attack civilians among them missiles and rockets have been used during fighting for the border with charles been ongoing for a week the militias are made up mostly of former rebels a country has been thrown into anarchy since the ousting of. the three years ago. unidentified gunmen ambushed two buses carrying ruling party supporters in
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nicaragua at least five people killed twenty injured in the attacks the victims were returning from celebrations marking the anniversary of the sandinista revolution that brought us back to take a ship thirty five years ago. now small earthquakes are shake the romanian capital on a regular basis damaging houses in the process of course in fact it's common most people there don't even worry about it anymore so i want. to investigate what could happen in the event of a major. illumine piano has been living in this building most of her life first working as a manager and leader getting a flat of her own on one of the top floors and even though it's officially been determined that it may collapse true fuses to move anywhere else that. this house a strong nothing happened before it can withstand an earthquake it was designed by a famous well architect. out of all the e.u. capitals book crist has the highest risk when earthquakes small tremors occur every
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year but in the twentieth century there were two major quakes as well the one in nine hundred seventy seven left more than fifteen hundred people dead and injured up to eleven thousand but all of this is often even ordered by the residents. the government is ready to give loans to owners to reinforce their buildings but they refuse is because the people who agreed and moved out were promised that it wouldn't be for long and then in some cases it took up to ten years most people simply do not trust the government now throughout the years only twenty six houses have been reinforced using this program. well around four thousand buildings in bucharest are believed to be in danger in the case of a strong earthquake they're marked with special warning signs but even if they weren't often you don't have to be an expert to figure out there are a hazard it's not only about the risk to those living inside these buildings many especially the taller ones have been falling apart even without any major
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earthquakes and often pieces of plaster fall down right on the heads of the pedestrians yes those this is been his since one nine hundred seventy seven built in the main nine hundred twenty s. this building is also in danger of collapsing previous earthquakes live scores all over the structure would due to the low rent this also doesn't scare off neither its tenants or the owners despite the obvious. if a major earthquake strikes it will go down up believe me. experts see a major tremor shakes every thirty to forty years which means the next one may not be too far off you go to school not r.t. look arrest. so this lucky projection only decorated the walls of the u.s. embassy in berlin for about five minutes though that was enough to cause a stir online all the details at r.t. dot com for you right now. and while you're there to bolivia now where the
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how did he go from captive to brother in arms what made him go native and why did he come home to rush out years later well nic i was strongest here in the studio to tell us his personal story. twenty five years ago the troops left afghanistan some soldiers however stayed behind. in a foreign are unsure of who is friend or foe stuck between two worlds what does it take to change sides in the war how can you survive in captivity. ever. welcome to the show thank you very much for finding time your story is amazing and i know that you also go by another name. that's an islamic name which you consider your home country afghanistan or russia i have two home nations. russia
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is my first home the real one but i see afghanistan as home now as well. as you were only eighteen when you were sent to afghanistan did you realize where you were cooling and what you would face once you're there still needs. i knew nothing until they sent us to a boot camp in took menace ten after six months in the boot camp they told us we were going to afghanistan. when you were told that you were headed there did you have any idea what it would be like they told us there was war were realise that afghanistan was another country but we had no idea what the real war was like of course we were curious to see it with our own eyes but when we got there it was like we're on a different planet with all the mountains and gunfire around us and first we were intimidated but still we were curious to experience war firsthand because prior to that and.

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