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what's. ukranian warplanes reportedly bomb a town near the crash site of the malaysian passenger jet despite the president's hostilities. and government forces have handed over the flight data recorders to the officials probing the crash of the train carrying the bodies of seventeen victims reaches completing the first stage of its journey. defense ministry presents radar evidence that a ukrainian fighter jet was in the nearby space at the time of the disaster and the crash site. western media they know who's to
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blame heaping accusations on russia citing evidence from ukrainian officials social media and the internet. welcome to international the ukrainian army has reportedly been launching attacks on towns and villages in the east which kids have declared a no combat zone it's an area around forty kilometers wide around the site of the malaysian plane crash one resident told r.t. they're still being bombed. that my friends holiday home was shelled from rocket launches and that's what they found in their backyard hit their garage two cars. luckily no one was killed but then time village has been raised its no farther than
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ten kilometers from here and the president promised us a forty kilometer no comfort zone i took the show with me to show it to the international observers working on the site now my way here i saw to find a chance and shockley off towards the sounds of bombs explode and my mom just called me and said they had been bombed. well ramana cos rafa is at the scene of the crash for ati. despite the announcement by ukrainian president got a promotion call the no combat zone forty kilometers around the crash site apparently that's been violated russian navas the agency reports that thirty kilometers from here and. airplanes have been noticed and they indeed conducted an air strike that two hundred eighty two bodies that were recovered from the site of the crash are right here and were later taken to the city of saurez where they were cats and refrigerated train cars have now reached the town called here in ukraine
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while members of the always see monetary mission who are here in ukraine here at this site and observing everything that's going on said they were completely satisfied with the transfer of the bodies from the city off. of i have watched. the train and the wagons and i. think the story itself the bodies. group of quality in while malaysian experts have also arrived on the scene they have already got a hold of black boxes that was done late night last night by the self-proclaimed governments all five eastern ukraine here. or the malaysian airlines boeing seven seven seven crashed in eastern ukraine last day or two hundred ninety eight people on board were killed among them eighty five children it's hoped the plane's flight data recorders will help shed light on exactly what happened they are being handed to the u.k. for the kind of thing according to the ukrainian government meanwhile key west in
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need is have been criticizing the self-defense forces in ukraine's east for hindering the investigation the work has been made more difficult by the presence of separatists. repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage as investigators approached they fired their weapons into the air while initially investigators had trouble reaching the crash site which is in the middle of a conflict zone but michael bought his cue from the i.s.c. mission which is monitoring recovery effort says that's no longer the case and we didn't receive any instruction that is most of you saw we had a security cordon around us most of the time and we did visit the railway station twice our passage for two nights to the affected area was incredibly fast as you can most of you know there are a lot of checkpoints along the way our observations were that we did not see any perimeter of security in the place there is clearly were noticeably less activity
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and the emergency services were no longer present and the tents used for what they said for planning purposes had been removed. while the intensification of the fighting in east ukraine in the mh seventeen tragedy came up at today's emergency meeting of russia's security council headed by president putin medina question overlooked what was said. the president says that russia is to ensure full scale and transparent investigation into the h seventeen crash in eastern ukraine the one that will be available to the international community and moscow says that it is ready to facilitate such a crash investigation however that seems to be not enough. we are being called on to influence the self-defense forces in southeast ukraine i say again we will do everything possible but russian steps alone absolutely not enough to give authorities have to be called upon to follow the basic norms of decency and
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to enter a ceasefire during the time of the investigation the president is calling for the key of to at least act appropriately as its current actions are not assisting the investigation but rather slowing it down and the president is also pointing at the un going situation in the area very close to the city. as the president says that ukrainian troops attacked self defense near the now it's almost at the same time as government forces were handing over the black boxes from the crash to international experts and investigators working at the scene. well as the invested investigation into the crash gets underway russia's defense ministry has provided evidence that may have had a hand in the tragedy it's made public its own radar data from the area and it shows a second aircraft in close proximity to the malaysian plane air traffic control failed to identify it which according to defense officials suggest it was
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a military jet. you know if she was so five twenty one pm and thirty five seconds another mark of an aircraft appeared at the point of the boeing crash. steadily monitored by radar station didn't ask and detour 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 ourself identification system which is characteristic of military aircraft. now this is one of the satellite images released it shows ukrainian missile systems being deployed from a base some distance from the crash site but in the next photo taken on the day of the tragedy one of the missile launches is missing it was detected by satellites near where the plane came down and this graph shows how radar activity in ukraine paint on the day of the crash july the seventeenth now ukraine's president denies that the country's military was involved in the downing of the plane talking to
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c.n.n. petro poroshenko says satellites and air defense systems were monitoring the skies of ukraine insisted the data from them will confirm that all ukrainian planes were on the ground at the time of the crash in one of the u.s. says there is intelligence to back up that accusations against east ukraine militias and russia but is holding back from making any of it public the state department the state department was asked why. well you're willing to present publicly that backs up your version of the story which may well be the correct version of the story but all united while well it may well be but i think you know i don't know and you know. because i haven't seen your evidence that shows that the missile was launched from rebel held territory but you're saying but said the only thing you're willing to put out publicly is the social media accounts i mean the social media that's part of it right but there is social media account that says that the disputes that are the claims to present a different
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a different version so are always admiration be met why don't you there are many many many theories but you're saying not all and you're going to sweetly illogical well i would point out though all of the accounts that do not support your version of events are now wrong and all of the ones that do support it are right because we make assessments based on a variety of intelligence in a variety of information some of which we can talk about publicly and some of which we can't. well accusations from state officials were spurred by much of the mainstream media which is putting all the blame for the plane crash on russia long before an official investigation has reached a conclusion. and has been looking into what some news outlets are passing off as facts hours after the tragic crash of m h seventeen a toxic mix of politics and speculation filled the airwaves and headlines worldwide with the western media already determining who to blame this is not a case where terrorists are operating without an address or home base it's called the kremlin is it time to stand up to russia's president once and for all blame is
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largely on putin and i think we have to hold him accountable international monitors say they now have open access to the war torn area where the plane fell and are now working to reveal what exactly happened to m.h. seventeen but in the court of public opinion the investigation itself may have already been discredited they may be stymied in the investigation because they don't want to have the real proof of the fact that they actually shot this aircraft down there have been reports saying that already some of the black black boxes had been recovered and were in moscow there has been no confirmation that the black boxes were even heading to moscow many unconfirmed reports have sprung up since the crash a tape was widely circulated in the media with conversations between who were said to be ukrainian rebels as well as between the rebels and allegedly russian intelligence officers discussing a plane crash here has also provided a video of what it said was the launcher used to down m.h.
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seventeen about to be smuggled into russia these recordings were only very find by the ukrainian intelligence service hardly an impartial party in the conflict the obama administration has put out its own version of events saying a missile was shot from rebel held territory but presenting no evidence to back it up the media does not treat all. sources equally either and in the court of public opinion innocent until proven guilty does not always apply. get a check on our t. washington d.c. . where the editor of politics first says the west is jumping to conclusions will stand in the way of a proper investigation. western journalists and western politicians are not crash investigators you cannot determine how a plane was pulled out of the sky within a few hours and that's what we saw last first day within a few hours western journalists and western politicians had made up their minds
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that russia was responsible but it's not the way that an egg question resignation is carried out that's certainly not the way that a court of law would approach the matter certainly in england which has the finest legal system of the world they wouldn't tolerate that sort of behavior there'd be very cheap b.s. about these claims you have to have an impartial fora investigation carried out by experts and western journalists for example are not crash investigators. while the international community molds who's to blame for the tragedy the heartbroken relatives of those on board are mourning their loved ones the dutch prime minister says the remains of m.h. seventeen victims will be taken to the netherlands on wednesday but all of a has been to meet one grieving family. and outpouring of public so. the people of iraq to pay tribute to a family and restaurant was part of the very fabric of the community this family is so within the whole community would mean
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a whole city so everybody knows someone here has been coming you know for years so you're quite shocked restaurant owners before in general you know died in the crash along with these laws mother and sweet for only this son kevin wasn't on the flag now he's left pick up the pieces you can imagine take the last cease fire ins his grandmother. works in the restaurant also. hope he can manage to. go on like you spend state outside the asian restaurant floral tributes pile up those who knew the family concerned more with making the dead rest that needs a national climate about investigating the tragedy the meeting is that which are the body's own requirements or goodbye to them on the proper way ultimately what memorial service is like the one going on behind me show that even in its darkest hour the people of the netherlands are coming together to show that they stand as
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one peter all of a polity rotterdam. where malaysian investigators on their way to the crash sites have now really avoided coming under fire ukrainian army on the east and artillery strikes on the region's capital still a stronghold of anti-government activists killing five civilians and wounding many more details on the way plus. a number of. daniels' killed in israel's offensive policy six hundred is a hospital inundated with injured civilians becomes the latest target of shelling stay with us all reports from gaza. is the media leave us so we leave the baby. by the sea potion secure the play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you
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deserve answers from. politics. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here we're not going to hear anyone say that our big story the extra headline same time there's a reason they don't want international airport and the reason that we think. now let's break the set. choose your language. please make it with zero if you're going to. choose the consensus. choose the opinions that you figure a couple. choose to stories to. choose the access to.
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an hour's drive from the malaysia air waves crash site the ukrainian army has shelled the regional capital of the. republic is also hit new guns the capital of another restive eastern region over a dozen civilians have been killed and many others injured just warn you there are some graphic images coming up in the videos filmed by local residents. again. i. think i. don't know what all the city of donetsk under constant shelling by the ukrainian
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army remains a stronghold for anti-government activists graham phillips has more on what's going on in the city. i'm here in donetsk outside the city central ministers a building which is firmly in the hands of the pro dinette activists as is the entire city of donetsk we have in the city limits in some places that's a kilometer ramparts fortifications there's a collapsed railway bridge with wagons across a that's not completely impassable and it is not be the receiving end of shelling approaching the city today there were plumes of smoke billowing up into the end that was a factory complex in the city center shelled bondy crazy military we also had the railway station here reportedly on the receiving end of shelling with reports of casualties there and fighting going on here throughout the day at the city's airports. well the ukrainian parliament has voted to draft more recruits the conflict zone in the east the decision was opposed by one opposition member who spoke out against the move is microphone was quickly switched off he was pulled from the podium beaten we've got more on ukraine i'm going to play political and
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military on a website. the u.k. will hold a public inquiry into the death of former russian f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko poisoned in london nearly a decade ago the investigation could shed light on who was behind the assassination reports alexander litvinenko as many of you will remember was a former f.s.b. officer who died in london in two thousand and six now some of his family say that they believe that he was working for m i six at the time of his death but he was allegedly poisoned with radioactive polonium after drinking tea with two russian men in a london hotel now the new investigation is set to examine whether or not russia was behind his death and the home secretary theresa may said that she was hoping that the inquiry would be of some comfort to alexander litvinenko is a widow last year a judge ruled that indeed a public inquiry with its wider powers is exactly what is needed to try and get to
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the bottom of how alexander litvinenko died now the timing of this is very significant it comes at such a huge point in relations between the u.s. the u.k. and russia in the wake of the crash of flight m.h. seventeen over eastern ukraine now ministers in westminster have reportedly said that the timing of the inquiry is pure coincidence but what a coincidence it is. well for more on this i'm now joined live by world affairs journalist and broadcaster neil clark. very good to see you there why do you think the u.k. is out relaunching this case well as any settler i was a few days ago they wouldn't surprise me to see that an anchor case being brought up again in this current wave of russia phobia of course it's no coincidence this comes on the very day that britain is trying to push other members of the e.u. to impose tougher sanctions on russia so this is just one more stick that the u.k.
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government think they can beat russia with and so i think it's no coincidence at all the it comes out just five days after this terrible plane disaster in ukraine it's all part of this russia phobic campaign and the u.k. government will be hoping that bringing this back into the limelight will trying to turn even more people against russia and so it's a political decision at least well why was the previous inquest deemed insufficient and what new details have emerged since then well i don't think many new details if any have emerged since and have they i think mr dyckman in khost wedo said that the investigation was stopped because at the time the british government was not looking to provoke moscow but now of course it's changed altogether so i think that politics is really driving this rather than the galaxies and i think that's all wrong because i think this should be a neutral process and it seems that it's all out in in and in and out all depending on what you know that the british line towards moscow which is wrong if you think
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it's politically motivated the timing of this announcement then what do you think the goals are of this latest inquiry and will this inquiry achieve those aims well i think or that the end of this the british government will be hoping that some kind of evidence can be brought up which would incriminate russia and the russian state secure it. to do that they would regard that as a positive so that's why they're bringing this up again whatever that will do i'm not sure i mean the coroner back in january said there was prima facie evidence to link it to russian state security forces but that's a promise facie evidence and of course we don't know there are a lot of other actors involved in this there are several theories being around as to who killed this man and which only one of them is that it was in it was the russian security forces responsible so i think that the british authorities will be hoping now that something comes up in this new investigation new inquiry which will point towards moscow now doing this for political reasons and it's wholly wrong
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because there doesn't seem to be any new evidence that has come up and so why are we bringing up today what we all know why we're bringing up today because this is part of the anti russian campaign. finally no i mean we say as part of the anti russian campaign you say they're i mean the evidence in the initial inquiry and what we've seen emerge since how strong is the evidence how likely is it that they'll come to a conclusion the conclusion that you think that they want well the trouble is poor political precious i mean it should be handed paralegal inquiry they should be crushed but of course the people who are taking part in a car will know exactly what they're supposed to find and this is always the problem when these cases are highly politicized because the people who are taking part will know what the political leaders what their masters in whitehall want them to find and so this is the danger that this inquiry taking place in this current climate of russia phobia where people are seeking for political reasons to blame russia for various things i do think it's it's certainly at the right time this
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should be done of course banco wants to find out the answer the question of who killed her husband that's the standard when we need to do that but it has to be done in a very very independent way and i think the political pressures will be put on to this inquiry to find russia guilty or at least find evidence of some russian involvement. thank you very much for your time modifies journalist and broadcaster clock on r.t. international thank you. israeli warning shots have been fired at a building in gaza city where foreign journalists a base there are no casualties but the building which is situated in a residential area was evacuated israel earlier warned it will not be responsible for journalist safety in the area but it's gaza civilians who have been affected by since israel's anti militant operation began two weeks ago the offensive has claimed the lives of six hundred five palestinians while israel has lost twenty seven of its soldiers and one is missing where u.n. secretary ban ki-moon is urging israel to exercise maximum restraint in gaza i'm
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get back to negotiations as soon as possible but israeli leader benjamin netanyahu remains defiant blaming hamas for the atrocities what grievance can we solve for hamas their grievances that we exist they don't even want to two state solution they don't want any state solution some of them say they should open up great movement and dissolve all the regimes around us and therefore in the face of such extremism in the face of such violence in the face of such israel has no option but to do that this is what we are doing. right while adding to the civilian toll. in gaza was monday's tank shelling of a hospital in central gaza which killed at least five people or one norwegian doctor volunteering in gaza wrote an open letter drawing the attention to the horrific injuries witnessed by the medics he described legs of blood in emergency rooms where the wounded a constantly arriving mads gilbert also appealed to western leaders to take
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a closer look at what's happening arguing that spending one night at a hospital where he works would be enough to change that. what israel is actually doing it's applying an immensely disproportionate force which we see not at least in austral i mean when we look at all these vern bodies i think they use an ira a different grenades than chargers to achieve both the bombardment of buildings and destroying of whatever hobbit out there is and to cause this sort of on to personal effects. and this roughness of shuttles are really hard to treat because it takes number one their deadly if they penetrate your cave it's called the chest abdomen they would cut open but blood vessels and you bleed to death within a short time depending on the size of the trouble but if it doesn't penetrate like we had all these children would have hundreds of shrapnel start you have to sit and extract one by one and it's extremely painful and of course it's dangerous because
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you can have infections so it's an irony of weaponry that they are using all the time. what is your response to the general the general situation of violence especially in this context of what's almost a cycle almost of every few years this happening. and that's that's really a good question because it seems i think i heard one say a spokesperson for i.d.f. saying that everybody has a backyard needs that you know set you need to have to mow the lawn every now and then and that's what we're doing basically every third year we have to go down and cut the grass that has a meaning killing people. in a way this is a huge obstacle to peace because it sort of moves everything backwards backwards backwards instead of finding you know what can we agree on like said if you want peace you have to talk to enemies this is not talking to enemies this is make your enemies really untalkative. you're watching r.t.
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what's inside the filet of fish. was. she good laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach music creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. if. a. going to break in the set i'm abby martin so this past weekend tens of thousands of activists and countries around the world took to the streets to protest the continued israeli aggression on the gaza strip and paris demonstrators were met with tear gas and rubber bullets as they defied a recent.
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