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larry king now right here on r.g.p. question. coming up on r.t. and i to have separatists have officially handed over the black box flight recorders from the malaysian airlines crash this news comes as victims remains are now officially being transported from the region an update just ahead. and there's been a rising casualties as israel continues its invasion of the gaza strip in response the obama administration wants to halt the conflict with a potential cease fire more on the violence coming up. and a new smartphone app is offering a way to protect your phone privacy the company promises a secure anonymous means of sending messages audio and more will show you how it
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works later in the show. it's monday july twenty first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm here i david and you're watching our team america. i begin today with the very latest regarding the down malaysian airliner in eastern ukraine senior separatist leader olic founder burra di has handed over two black boxes to malaysian experts in the city of donetsk officials with the malaysian national security council say that the two black boxes are in good condition meanwhile the united nations just recently approved a resolution that calls for an international investigation of the crash at this point ukraine and anti kiev separatists are accusing each other of firing
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a surface to air missile at the airplane as it flew from amsterdam to kuala lumpur some thirty three thousand feet above a war zone in eastern ukraine all those on board the flight two hundred eighty three passengers fifteen crew were killed for the very latest on this investigation let's go to our tease roman kosar of the bodies so the victims of flight m h seven c. know that we're in the city of stories about sentencing a lot of the way from that crash have indeed been taken away from there now i reportedly they're on their way to the city of gold which is beyond the area controlled by this self proclaimed defense forces say here in the east of ukraine after word the bodies that will be sent over further to the netherlands and now this is all according to the dutch officials as well as the experts who have arrived here at the scene finally five days after the crash had taken place now the
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first expert that arrived on the scene was forensic specialists who took a look at the bodies that were stored in refrigerated train cars and he was satisfied with the environment that they were stored in. i was our correspondent roman coaster of. the u.n. security council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution demanding investigators get full access to the eastern ukraine crash site of malaysian airlines flight seventeen for the very latest from new york i was joined earlier by our teas marina port and i first asked her what this resolution entails. well the security council has unanimously adopted a resolution condemning the downing of a malaysian passenger plane in ukraine with two hundred ninety eight people on board so first and foremost we see the council finally reaching consensus now the text which was drafted by australia and co-sponsored by thirteen countries calls
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for a full thorough and independent investigation into the plane crash a key focus of the resolution is on the importance of armed groups maintaining the integrity of the crash site it calls on separatists in eastern ukraine to provide safe secure and on restricted access to monitors and investigators washington and many of its western allies have blamed anti keep rebels for downing the plane insisting that russia also bears responsibility for backing the separatists and russian envoy vitaly churkin rejected the allegations in turn accusing the u.s. it would norrin the violent role he says kiev has played to inflame the crisis in ukraine the back and forth between the u.s. ambassador and her russian counterpart did get a bit heated throughout the meeting here's a bit of a listen to what they had to say no resolution would have been necessary had russia used its leverage with the separatists on thursday getting them to lay down their arms and leave the site to international experts or on friday or on saturday or
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even yesterday. i think today's meeting is not a place for debate and the u.s. ambassador is again using literary language maybe washington doesn't know about the efforts russia has gone to particularly its collaboration with the come take a group to get into the national experience to decide to be accident the soonest possible true the u.s. embassy needs to be better informed discussion should not turn a tragedy into. now the resolution adopted by the security council also calls for seizing all military activities in the vicinity of the crash site and demand excuse me that the armed groups in control of the surrounding area refrain from destroying moving or disturbing. any of the wreckage equipment to re personal belongings or remains no there were some questions about whether russia would vote for this resolution in the first place i mean why did they all the minutely go along with it do you think or russia was always prepared to condemn the downing of the plane and
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support an international independent impartial investigation moscow according to reports insisted that some changes be made to the text including the characterization of the incident as the downing of the airliner instead of shooting down of the airliner russia also reportedly pushed for the resolution to state that the international civil aviation organization rather than the ukrainian authorities take the lead in the investigation but that demand wasn't exactly met and i know that. you need to have ways their concerns to speak about this incident what did they have to say. all of the countries expressed grief for many the sadness was accompanied by outrage over reports that evidence at the at the site had been tampered with tampered with over the weekend and that the personal belongings of the victims were moved around or might have gone missing the foreign ministers of the netherlands and our strategy actually traveled to new york to
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address the council directly everyone agreed that the international community to the victims and their families to determine what led to the downing of the plane and who was responsible but the australian foreign minister said that russia must use its influence over the separatists to ensure that there is unrestricted access to the site and that sentiment was echoed by many members of the security council all right artie's marina in new york as always thanks for that reporting. earlier today the spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in your i've talked to our colleagues in moscow about gaining access to the crash site and donetsk here's what that spokesman had to say there are quite a bit of logistical and security issues to address don't forget that the crush scene is in the middle of conflict zone and for example between here and the crush area there are probably about ten checkpoints so everything here takes time you
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know you have to explain where you're going to to take some you know negotiation. and but we've done a lot i think in the past four days but there is a lot of work that is far far better placed for others to do and. you know what remains to be seen when the. experts will come here i can tell you though that just in the past hour or so we did bump into some. delegation if you will from malaysia they've made it here and to morrow we're expecting that they'll want to go out to across site to begin their whole investigation that was a spokesman for the zero as seen. russian president vladimir putin has been in the international spotlight since this incident took place last week with many world leaders saying that russia bears the responsibility for what happened today
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russia's defense ministry released new information about the crash and asked questions about a military jet that was reportedly in the area when the plane went down our maria cosa reva has more. there was a second aircraft which was the type that gaining heights at the same time as the boeing seven seventy was flying over there and watch it what's interesting is that it reached its distance between of this aircraft and boeing seven seven was at one point between three to five kilometers now what's the question that springs up here is why it deployed military jets so close to passenger planes because we're not only talking about the malaysian boeing there were other planes flying over that area as why and why not reveal it because since considering everything that's happened this is crucial information and now i believe we can hear about some more details regarding the second aircraft and what russia's defense minister believes there was. five twenty one pm and thirty five seconds another mark of an aircraft
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appeared at the point of the crash. monitored by radar station. and you're in sky during the next four minutes having spotted the jets in air traffic controller failed to identify it as the aircraft most probably didn't fare so far did for creation system which is characteristic of military aircraft it's also interesting as that ukraine's radar activity seemed to have peaked on the day of the crash and actually satellite pictures show that from the fourteenth of july ukraine's anti-aircraft missiles were being moved towards the east of the country which is interesting again why because kiev authorities had said up until that point that sansa government forces in the east did not have bulk missiles yet they are shown in these satellite pictures a move in their arsenal towards the east of the country also one of the pictures clearly shows that a factory the bulk missile is seen within a few kilometers of the onion skin now the day after the crash the battery is gone so another question springs up then we have the u.s.
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which insists that has pictures proving that the missile was launched by the rebels in the rebel controlled territory or russia on its part and the defense ministry says that its pictures show that you are. space satellites were actually monitoring that very same area surrounding the plane as that second aircraft so they should have pictures and if they do have them then why not show them in this evidence that they are saying that they have why not show it to the world so they can analyze these pictures as well i was artie's marina causer eva the u.s. state department has responded to the russian military claims saying to take that information with a quote grain of salt we're getting more reaction from the obama administration as well r t correspondent megan lopez has the very latest for days after malaysian airlines flight seventeen was shot down by separatists in ukraine harsh words are coming out from both the white house as well as the state department today president obama spoke to reporters this afternoon reaffirming his commitment to
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finding the facts about this event that what up to the deaths of two hundred ninety eight innocent civilians the president said he has sent a seam of investigators to ukraine in order to help with the international investigation into the crash but accuse the russian backed separatists of quote blocking that afterwards they've repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage investigators approached they fired their weapons into the air the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site all of which begs the question what exactly are they trying to hide. moreover these russian backed separatists are removing bodies from the crash site. often times without the care that we would normally expect from a tragedy like this this is an insult to those who lost loved ones president obama didn't stop there he went one to say that the burden of controlling the separatist
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groups and forcing them to cooperate with investigators lines with russia and with president putin's russia has extraordinary influence over these separatists no one denies it. russia hazzards urged them on russia has trained them we know that russia has armed them with military equipment and weapons including anti-aircraft weapons. key separatist leaders are russian citizens. so given its direct influence over the separatists. russia and president putin in particular has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation that is the least they can do by talking about finding a diplomatic solution to the four months of aggressions and warn russia that the const for continued violence will increase if a diplomatic arrangement isn't made. meanwhile at the state department today state department spokeswoman marie harf spoke about the amount of evidence that is piling
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up against russian backed separatists in ukraine describing what she is calling quote a pattern of behavior or perhaps familiar with the briefing that the russian defense ministry this morning. in which they laid out. satellite images or radar tracking images talking about a ukrainian fighter plane which apparently is a malaysian airlines plane. they also asked a question a series of questions to you meaning the u.s. government to produce the documentation the evidence that secretary kerry investor power. talked about but didn't offer any you know forensic evidence or at least intel evidence. how do you respond to that well a couple points you saw the secretary yesterday speak very clearly about our system
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and that this was an essay eleven fired from a russian back separatists controlled territory. that we know we saw in social media afterwards we saw the videos we saw photos of the pro russian separatists bragging about shooting down an aircraft that they invaded and they then excuse me took down once it became clear that it may have been a passenger airline. and there is a preponderance of evidence at this point both sort of out there in the public domain and also from our information that points to the fact that there was a sale have been launched from separatist controlled territory we assess of course that the russian backed separatist have this system. and one of the main reasons we have called for a full investigation so we can get all the facts out there surf on to say that she hopes russia will fully cooperate with the investigation but then now is the time for actions instead of words of support and she warns that the u.s. might take further action along with its european allies if something isn't done in
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flew in front of the white house meghan lopez r.t. . the netherlands had one hundred and ninety three citizens on board malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen now four days after the incident shock and grief have turned to rage over the handling of the passengers remains as well as the evidence that is needed to aid the investigation artie's peter oliver has more. dutch prime minister mark rutan has been addressing representatives of all of the parties in the dutch parliament concerning the malaysian airlines flight that went down in the east of ukraine addressing the concerns of the dutch people he said he understood their frustration after they saw on sunday u.s. secretary of state john kerry point fingers of blame he said he wouldn't be doing the same thing until you've been presented with concrete evidence history to stress though that the priority at the moment was the repository ation and identification of the bodies of the killed in this disaster he said that they wouldn't lose focus
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on an investigation and to find out exactly who was responsible and he would be making sure that they were punished something that was tucked up by all of the parliament areas present priority number one priority number two priority number three is recreating the bodies of the victims and their personal possessions but we have to take care we have to take extreme care to ensure that those who are responsible for this hideous crime do not go unpunished and i think this is a difficult balance but a balance that our government at this point in time has managed to make but i think and i fear that if corporation is not forthcoming in a couple of hours snacks few days the balance will go to towards film action now holland has been rocked by this disaster almost two hundred of its citizens died when the plane went down over eastern ukraine and they are demanding action announces from their politicians reporting from the hague peter all of a. our coverage of the malaysian jet crash continues online get updates on r.t.
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dot com you can also follow us on twitter and facebook for the latest on the breaking story and keep an eye on the ticker at the bottom of your screen for any new developments secretary of state john kerry is now back in the middle east as the obama administration attempts to renew regional efforts to reach a cease fire between israel and hamas kerry left washington early today headed for cairo where he joined diplomatic efforts to resume a truce that had been agreed to back in november of two thousand and twelve this comes as the civilian death toll in the conflict sharply as school aged over the weekend in fact yesterday was the deadliest day in the most recent conflict with one hundred palestinians and thirteen is really soldiers killed two of which were american citizens the u.s. is expected to urge a mosque to accept a cease fire agreement that would halt nearly two weeks of fighting with israel
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more than five hundred palestinians and over twenty five israelis have been killed in that time period many of the dead are children artie's harry fear has more on that. at least eighty children have been killed in gaza in the past two weeks of fighting in their homes on the streets i mean playing on the beach in a recent incident three children were killed by drones while playing football on the roof of the home the un confirm that at least one in five of the palestinian victims so far are children the numbers are much higher in the proportion is much higher than we saw in the conflict in two thousand and twelve if your six year old child in gaza this is your third war you know this is a regular occurrence this is part of your life and the impact it has on the long term development the children really takes a toll and of course what's needed immediately is a station to the violence we need we need some kind of a ceasefire agreement in impoverished refugee camp known for its danger on the
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night time bombardment we met nine year old my lack. for bin laden the for the hey betty i am in belmont i. have been led to the camp. that i. have on. hand dr ziai has been working in mental health for over twenty years and says the traumatised children parents struggle to the minds of images. with critical questions for the parents a bit on themselves. and the. children how they can deal how they can to protect how they can secure these on time for a scared to secure a scared the children he is an average mother of six living in one of gaza's most densely populated camps and i'm trying to out of
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a normal way to try and make them calm and to make sure they don't feel scared to avoid a terrifying atmosphere a six year old son keeps asking me why there are drones in the sky. and i tell him they are taking video children know the difference between a drone strike and an f. sixteen strike i have a daughter in high school she's grown up and she hears the airstrikes she starts to scream and cry experts fear that this latest violence could create an op surge in mental health issues which could affect long term prospects for peace some of the children in their scheme and they will use violence as. their problem in the future and this is one of the this and you are talking about a generation will be involved in this in this conflict. there are surely no easy place in which to grow up one's destinies here are continually up rooted by conflict and instability and among today's bereaved intro matteis children are
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tomorrow's parents leaders and a smaller number still resistance fighters parry fear r.t. gaza. protesters took to the streets over the weekend here and washington d.c. to demand an end to the gaza violence several hundred marched from the state department to the white house on sunday waving signs and palestinian flags the demonstrators want the u.s. to put pressure on israel to stop the ground offensive inside gaza. well many of us have heard of snap chat the quick time photo sharing app what about weaker it's the latest private messaging app that lets you securely send self destructing text audio and video messages just recently wicker announced that it had raised a second funding round of thirty million dollars the company now claims it has the resources to build the most trusted communication system in the world it's something that may be
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a little more appealing to users considering what they've learned in the wake of edward snowden's and say leaks to discuss exactly what this app can do i was joined earlier by the co-founder herself nico sell before she broke it down for us she explained why she chooses to hide part of her face during t.v. interviews. so far there's no pictures of me on google or facebook or at least have my eyes trying to keep it for that way as long as possible it's just one of the ways that i am decreasing my digital footprint probably a little bit more extreme than most people but i think everyone needs to be aware of the digital footprint they're leaving out there and make conscious decisions about what goes out what doesn't sure absolutely now just to be clear wicker is not the only private message security out there but this is slightly different from the rest and can you break down for us the technology behind this and how it works. yes so i think we were the first group of cryptography experts in the world that said
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we're going to make top secret crypto that kids are going to use one hundred times a day because we think that they deserve the same level encryption that spies are using because data brokers are just as a as aggressive or even more aggressive than the n.s.a. so am i correct in saying that the user data never actually enters wicker's servers exactly it only touches your device and the device that it's sent to so essentially what we do there is we use perfect forward secrecy there's a different key that's generated for every single message that you send and that key is generated on your device and your device only so that we can't see lou you're talking to when her often or what you're sending i actually downloaded the app to see how it works myself and it's actually really really nice it's very user friendly i went to sign in after making a cow and realized i had actually forgotten my password and instead of sending me
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an e-mail for a very verification which is what i'm used to we're actually asked me to create an entirely new account i had to sort of erase everything. can you talk about that future is that crucial to keeping user data secure a well essentially we don't have the key right so we can't do a password reset we are looking at solutions around maybe putting an extra key for you on your u.s.b. drive so that you've got a backup because in the future when we have messages that live longer for six days the no password reset doesn't quite work the same but for right now considering messages are only six days it's not that big of a deal right if you're to have to create a new account and as i understand it you mention those that were employs a special tool called perfect forward secrecy can you explain a lot of people don't know what that is can you just talk about how that protects the user. yes so essentially we don't have the keys or any way to unlock the
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messages that you're sharing with other users and that's really important because i mean i've been educated by the best hackers in the world and i know that if we've got a key that they're going to get it and also that way we were able to say no to the f.b.i. asking us for a backdoor because we don't have a key so we have nothing that we can give over we can't tell who are users are what they're sending so that really protects us from hackers as well as from blackmail and legal requests that come in so solutions great for a lot of reasons right when most people think about this they're going to think about the n.s.a. the capability of the n.s.a. has to really you know surveil our communications right you go as far as saying that this app is and it's a proof or is it impossible to really be one hundred percent n.s.a. proof. oh well i'm a hacker so nothing no security is one hundred percent perfect however this is number one in the world this is as good as you're going to get spies use this and
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human rights activists use it every day fighting dictators all around the world so we're out in the field in the most intense situations out there and succeeding every day at letting people communicate privately and messaging is of course a major component of any social platform social media. linked in facebook google they all have their own instant messengers and a lot of people use them and they would use them they're more inclined to use them to them to go and get you know an app like wicker for example but how secure is our data on those kinds of websites. it's not secure at all and i think more important the thing that people don't realize i actually read the privacy policies and whether it's facebook snap chat whatsapp instagram twitter all of those you grant control. of the information that you're putting in that service to that service provider and so i don't think this is anything that people want you don't want
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someone else controlling your baby pictures and you're communications with your mother but there was never another solution around it until now absolutely nico sell the cofounder and c.e.o. of wicker thanks so much for that all down for us california has ordered the emergency shutdown of nearly a dozen fracking waste injection sites to investigate if energy companies are polluting local drinking water aqua fires the drought stricken state has over fifteen hundred sites where companies inject waste water into the ground during the process of fracking for natural gas the department of conservation announced friday that it has ordered the shutdown of eleven waste injection sites in california's kern county since the companies were informed officials have allowed for two of the sites to reopen the california division of oil gas and geothermal resources has
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warned the seven energy companies that operate the sites that they may have been injecting waste water that can include toxic and sometimes radioactive liquid into offers that are used for fresh drinking water because california has been facing a drought crisis many farmers are tapping deeper into underground aquifers to cope the state says it has no direct evidence the drinking water has been affected but the investigation to confirm that could take a year to complete and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america check out our website r t dot com usa follow me on twitter at amir at david make sure to let me know what you think we should cover for now have a great night thanks for watching. i'm abby martin writes the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right separate stories that have .

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