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in poetry. to your face. resistance leaders in east ukraine say they're waiting for international experts to arrive and examine the bodies of the victims of the malaysian airliner crash. at the scene say local authorities all providing full access. president. groups involved in ukrainian conflict not to obstruct the investigation and to ensure the safety of everyone involved in the probe. released video shows an anti government rebel whitely accused of looting the crash site in ukraine was actually paying his respects to one of the young victims.
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and the continuing israeli bombardment of gaza dozens dead both sides suffering the bloodiest day since the start of the conflict on sunday. and you're watching international. first this hour a self-proclaimed. urging international experts to begin examining the bodies of the two hundred ninety eight victims of the malaysian airliner crash there has been condemnation in the west over the efficiency of the recovery operations investigators said to the country are still not yet out the crash site but some are now thought to be in the neighboring region. what you're watching now is footage
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from the town of torres this is where the bodies of the three years of being kept in a refrigerated train. observers of examine those carriages they were monitoring the train to ensure the bodies are stored at the proper temperature on teacher mind is in done yet. plane had crashed already a few days ago and the bodies of the victims had been lying out there in the fields for at least three days before recovery efforts by the self-proclaimed donetsk people's republic militia began and they said that they did it purely out of for moral. is 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 and 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
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taken to the nearby city all but so red they had been placed in the three railway refrigerator cars the temperature there is said to be about sept from a zero to minus five celsius now they always see a mission of war and wanted to and this is the situation here they said that some of body parts i still out there in the open they had not been recovered and the most recent finding is the part of the cockpits including thirty seven additional bodies that they probably think belong to the cockpit crew meanwhile the investigation still cannot begin as international experts latest information suggests that they are from malaysia from the netherlands and from the united states of america they are still in kiev 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
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on side 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 republican saying that they have full access to the area of the crash site so we covered 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 a ring of security to allow us to to do the monitoring that we have to do and so there are also questions and. asked where there are black boxes of the flight m h seventeen have been found to the leader of the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk said that technical elements resembling the black boxes had been discovered at the sites and these technical elements had now been scanned they are now on their guard and he said here of. somebody tampering with this evidence so they will
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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 here . meanwhile russia's president has called for the safety of everyone involved in the investigation to be assured marina culture has more on what vladimir putin had to say the russian president wants to ensure that there is a fourth or an objective investigation and to make sure that happens it's important to ensure of course the safety of all the observers international investigators who are there about to start investigating the scene of the crash it was. important that all the people who are countable for the situation in this region of ukraine are more responsible both 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 at the site of the accident lattimer putin added that the
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task force there right now is not enough and more experts should be brought in who would be working under the guidance of the international civil aviation organization and he also stressed that it's essential that this tragedy isn't being taken advantage of. no one has any right to use this tragedy for any kind of selfish politicized interest such events should unite people not separate and. so all in all what russia is looking for is for the investigation to be done in accordance with international standards in an objective manner and with no politics involved. these are just several of the damning headlines that have appeared in schools of publications across europe following the mh seventeen tragedy they've been feeding a feeling of anger across europe germany france and britain of threatened moscow we've sanctions as soon as choose day if international investigators aren't given full access to the crash site peter all of the reports from the country that
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suffered the biggest loss european reactions to the downing of the 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 fieri assume 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
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parties said that an international investigation is a must and it must get to underway very soon from the hague peter all of r.t. so let's get more analysis from veteran british labor politician and former mayor of london ken livingstone who joins us now live good to see you can let's start with these threatened sanctions germany france the u.k. all apparently dishing out they sold him a term to russia because they want russia to make sure that the international investigators are given full access to the crash site what do you think about those threats. well i think there's an awful lot of pandering to the hysteria that's being whipped up here some of us are old enough to remember that back in two thousand and one ukrainian military shot down a russian civilian playing killing i think seventy nine people there's no great outcry very few people remember that happening and i can recall back in nineteen eighty eight under president reagan an american aircraft carrier shot
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a rainy and and civil aircraft out of the sky killing nearly three hundred tourists that were on a pilgrimage iranian ordinary civilians to the to mecca there was not even an apology from the united states we didn't have headlines saying this was reagan's missile in the way we've had headlines on our gutter press saying this is putin's missile the simple fact is ukraine is a dysfunctional country is not being brought together by a new president who needs to i think offer reassurance both to the people in eastern ukraine and to the the russians people that ukraine won't become a member of nato won't bring nuclear weapons onto its soil threatening and russia and it needs to reassure the people in eastern ukraine that they're not going to be dominated or treated as second class citizens and some sort of devolved government
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like we have here in britain for our our welsh and our scottish minorities but ukrainian government doesn't seem to make any concession that could bring this sort of small civil war to an end another interesting point i think than it is the territorial issue because russia is being asked to ensure entry for the investigators on on the part of a another country that it isn't their land it's not their territory so how does that even work. but in to me that if if putin had sent russian troops in to secure the site there'd be uproar you can't. blame president putin if he sees a bit of a mess going on there this is an absolute tragedy. but it is not something planned and plotted by putin and that's the line being dished out from washington and the british government and i have to tell you want whilst people in russia may be looking and newspapers now t.v. broadcasts and thinking there is great down here there is no mood in britain or i
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suspect anywhere in europe for escalating sanctions because it would simply tip the european economy back into recession and there's no evidence to suggest that this is anything other than a tragic error by people that should have known better ok the certainly some mood coming from david cameron though just quoting from an article in the sunday times where he says if it is proved that resistance fighters in east ukraine downed the m eight seventeen flight then it is a direct result of russia de stabilizing a sovereign state what do you make of that his claims that well. and we. didn t. stabilize ukraine ukraine is that of succession of pretty awful governments it is a divided nation and i was put to care of the get the hardly after the collapse of the old soviet union i what president putin wants is secure stable states on the border of russia which are not a threat to it and it just seems to me the simplest way for the ukrainian
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government to. remove all this tension is to say we have no intention of joining nato and bringing american missiles onto ukrainian soil because this is not forget when the old soviet union put miss hours in cuba i.e. the world came to the point of extinction america wasn't prepared to tolerate that military presence just ninety miles from its border and we could recognize great powers do not want to see themselves encircled and threatened and you know we didn't have all this of course when we had. the the russian president because he was seen as very much doing what the west wanted now you've got a russian president who puts russia's interests as well i would have many disagreements with president putin about a lot of responses by recognizing the same way obama tries to defend american interests that is exactly what putin will do for russia another interesting aspect of this of this whole disaster is the way it's covered in the media particularly of
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taken note of the british newspapers now we talked about what david cameron said he said that in the opinion column of a british newspaper now they seem to have some kind of liberty it seems like as we heard with putin's missile to say whatever they like how do you feel about that that kind of freedom in the press doesn't have every right cameron to say what he likes. he has ever actually realized let's be quite clear we don't have a free press in britain seventy percent of our papers are owned by five billionaires all of them tax exiles all of them quite happy to have to focus on this issue rather than a serious discussion about the mess david camm's government has made of our economy we have an election coming up anything they can seize on to divert attention from the issues that matters of the british people they will do ok for melinda mccann livingston thanks so much for speaking to thank you now even before international experts set out for the crash site the u.s. accused antigovernment forces in eastern ukraine of shooting down that plane but
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washington is basing its allegations on several so far unverified claims take a look russia has been accused of supplying weapons to eastern ukraine that's an allegation that moscow has denied ukrainian opposition is known to have seized plenty of weapons from kiev's armed forces the u.s. claims that detected a missile launch from opposition held territory when the plane went down but the ukrainian military is fighting in the same area and as its own systems the washington cites communications allegedly intercepted between ukrainian opposition but as yet no independent confirmation that they are authentic now here is the recording in which the opposition allegedly admitted to bringing down the airliner . in europe where you are right you. know where you are. what you are going what chipchura if you. like it so much and we've. been examined by
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a leading company which helps moscow police decide just how authentic recordings are here's what one of the experts had to say. it's not really it's a text but. it's being presented as one an edited recording in reality the sort of file was compiled out of several fragments the time markers the inconsistent 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 then the second fragment which comes right afterwards was recorded at seven hundred fifteen. and this here is footage from ukrainian authorities allegedly showing a book surface to air missile launcher with one of its rockets missing a kiev in washington claimed the video was shot in an opposition held area of eastern ukraine. however some ukrainian locals of come to their own conclusions about the location where those pictures were actually taken i want to use
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a pointed as i can see here to the billboard in the video because it's apparently located in the town of ardagh maske that is an area that's actually been under the control of the ukrainian military and since may the town's located about one hundred kilometers from where the malaysian airliner actually came down a veteran o.s.c. advisor load of our news told us there's currently zero conclusive evidence about what happened this too good an opportunity to once again play the blame game on russia and on the insurgents in the east of ukraine i meant and it's too good an opportunity to miss the relatives and the victims and does a thorough investigation by independent sources were. when you see evidence this is something that is produced by experts on the ground it takes weeks and months before you can to jump to any conclusion whatever is being said is just speculation to a political move to each. a lot of anger is being caused by the way that locals are
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perceived to have been treating the belongings of victims images such as this one here. in the center of a lot of criticism now let's see what the dutch prime minister had to say it because what i am shocked by the images of totally disrespectful behavior at this tragic site this is downright disgusting it's a photo that evoked a lot of anger it's been retreated many times the use expressing outrage that an anti government fighter could be holding a child's toy monkey like it was a trophy although as it's turned out sometimes an image doesn't tell the whole story. east ukraine ski industrial hub which just recently was hosting matches at euro two
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thousand and twelve it's currently under attack from heavy weaponry that's according to anti government forces there local say at least three civilians were killed and one more was injured when four tanks tried to break through checkpoints and into the capital of the volatile region the self-proclaimed author it is advised the public to stay indoors the ukrainian army has denied responsibility for the series of told r.t. . yes want to know what we are going to be sharing with you are you sure what you know how it's. going to be for sure why there is work for you why do. you want to get into it if you are standing. for a week or more and rick a t.v. program for your average more i'm. sorry to hear more to be here very high and i have to. think about. me while this video was shot by a cell phone camera at a beach located to the north of dunn yes that's just outside the city we see
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a couple of families with children apparently sunbathing on the sand when explosions start to go off on the other side of the like they all squeeze into the one car and speed away. but i know they want to watch the kids. or whatever. the lot of them are they want to. see what the new. runners are going years not you know like you know what you did the minute. you just on your own said you should. listen listen. minds about this b.s. it was about who supposedly said that this is a. fact. this was the scene. the lebanese. army buddies bulusan who don't know you know you're going to assume
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said jesus isn't. going to go out there. there is no end to the violence in areas close to the mh seventeen crash site where kids troops have been waging an offensive against anti-government forces according to the o.s.c. two hundred fifty members of the public of being killed in the neighboring lugansk region alone since the start of jean and the fighting continues for every inch of land. to what. was. he not the shah. only he knew it but we didn't. get the chance to start it you just don't see. the count do you stay with us going to take a very short break and after that we'll bring you the very latest updates from war
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stricken guards. told him a language of war but i will only react to situations i have read the reports. let me put it no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point please a. secure car is on the docket no god. no more weasel words. when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. critical speech and let down the freedom to. dramas that can be ignored. stories others refuse to see. faces change the world.
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so picture. from around the globe. welcome back to r.t. now the israeli offensive in gaza has left more than five hundred palestinians dead sunday was the bloodiest day of the conflicts the shelling of one particular district killed more than one hundred people residents of families escaped through streets strewn with bodies and rubble. i don't want.
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to spy rising casualties israel is continuing to pound gaza thirty five people being killed this morning in southern gaza many belonging to just one family also at least ten militants were killed as they cross the border through two tunnels. who is vowing to continue operations as much as needed despite the casualties a humanitarian three less than an hour on sunday before both sides blamed each other for violating. and our correspondent sent a video from the heart of the conflict it contains some images which you may find distressing. well here's what we're doing now but most of this from we're going to move. on we're going. to know your lumo you should go learn this footage apparently shows
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a man among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings being thought to be the target of government gunfire and he appears to be hit by a bullet while lying stretched out on the ground harry fear true to a witness about incident. a group of international solidarity activists and two palestinians were making 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 that one was 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 this extremely
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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 four shots fired the first one missed him but remained we aimed for him the second one was fatal. which caused him to fall down and on the ground and the third one was i guess for them to make sure that they had got him basically to have any reason to believe he was caught up in militant turning to or to say no not at all he was as far as we are aware he was looking. he was frantic he was he was leading the way he was on the floor and he knew the ad that he had wanted to do was find that resulted in his death there was supposed to be a ceasefire as well however as we said into the region there was bombing nearby
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there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting yes indeed so that some of the detail of this incident on show you kidding this young gentleman this often. earlier an israeli defense force spokesperson told my colleague neal the doing all they can to protect civilian lives and the hamas minister of the interior 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 military the use flechette 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
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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 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 i'm next to you and i'll tell you we have a special report on the black gold rush in. canada and for u.k. viewers get ready for a heated debate in cost. in
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florida the debate over whether illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses is heating up one group called the living with angels says that they should be allowed behind the wheel to support this view they use a classic argument that comes up a lot in the media they say that not a lot of people for it are legal so if you're not legal you can't ever driver's license what's with that this is like when people say well we should legalize drugs because people use them anyway or we should legalize prostitution because people will do it anyway so such i think they mean it's everyone comes here illegally anyways we may as well let them drive so if enough people do something we currently consider illegal does that make it ok maybe sometimes but in the case of illegal immigration rolling out the red carpet for people to come to a nation illegally just empowers more people to come and it certainly spits in the face of locals and legal immigrants who do obey the rules of bureaucracy so here i would say no driver's licenses for illegals in florida yeah there might be millions of them in the usa but that doesn't justify society bending over to make their
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lives comfortable if you want to drive in america be born american or become one the legal way but that's just my opinion. i mean i think the afghans are invincible i mean they're two independent minded they love freedom. they don't want to see foreigners in their country and will fight to guerilla war till the end. of. my granddaughter has told me. we're coming. back. when he worked in that low.

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