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this is tonight ukrainian warplanes reportedly ball the town near the crash site of the malays in passenger jet despite the president's ban on who's still ities. on to government forces have now handed over the flight data recorders to the officials probing the plane crash while the train carrying the bodies of flight m.h. seventeen victims reaches harkov completing the first stage of its journey. russia's defense ministry presents radar evidence that the ukrainian fighter jet was in the nearby airspace at the time of the disaster and circled the crash site. and western media insist they know who's to blame heaping accusations on russia citing
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evidence from ukrainian officials social media and the internet. good evening my name is kevin owen here in moscow tonight's just past eleven pm we appreciate you company our top story the ukrainian army is reportedly been launching attacks on towns and villages in the east which kiev a 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. that the still being bombed. my friend's holiday home was shelled from rocket launches and that's what they found in their backyard but he did go to consummate luckily no one was killed but the entire village has. and raised it's no farther
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than ten kilometers from here and the president promised us a forty kilometer no comfort zone i took the shell with me to show it to the international observers working on the side now my way here i saw two fighter jets and shortly after wards the sounds of bombs explode and my mom just called me and said they had been bombed. our correspondent roman culture of donetsk. as i'm talking right now we just heard the sound of multiple rocket launchers being fired at a distance and that's basically been happening all day which is a clear violation often all combat zone it was announced by ukrainian president go to reporter shannon cole now in terms of the bodies that have already arrived in. ukraine there are over two hundred of them there and the head of the dutch forensics team that was traveling with the train from the city of torres then to done that scan then it's a hard call said that they're completely satisfied with the way that the bodies
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were stored and how they were transferred i have watched. the train and the wagons and i. think the story itself the bodies. group of quality of course the black boxes flight recorders or comment on as black boxes have been collected from the site said they were under the control of the self-proclaimed. people's republic here they have now been handed over to the malaysian authorities as happened late on the monday nights and the malaysian authorities in their turn they will take these black boxes send them over to british aviation experts and hope that's will shed some light on what actually happened to flight m.h. seventeen now always see mission are continuing to monitor the situation here on the ground initially they said that they had had trouble reaching the side that's a no longer the case right now they have completely full access and use they
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marketed the thursday that's the malaysian aviation experts say arrived to add this scene they had a chance to scour the territory they were there in fact finding mission and they also express said gratitude for the full access and for the level of protection that they received here in eastern ukraine meanwhile the head of the spokes person for they always. he who is here on the ground he said that perhaps it's time for those who have more expertise to finally be here and he also added that still haven't heard anything from the international aviation commission. well the intensification of the fight to get out of course the tragedies come up in an emergency meeting of russia's security council headed by president putin cochon of a look to what was. the president says that russia is ready to ensure a full scale and transparent investigation into the h seventeen crash in eastern
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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 not a cause that. 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 kiev authorities have to be called upon to follow the basic norms of decency and to enter a ceasefire during the time of the investigation the president is calling for a 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 of as the president says that ukrainian troops attacked self-defense. and now it's almost at the same time as
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government forces were handing over the black boxes from the crash to international experts and investigators working at the scene. difficulty reporting there as the investigation into what brought down m.h. seventeen gets underway russia's defense ministry has provided evidence that kiev may have 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 malays eone plane at the time traffic control failed to identify it which according to defense officials suggests it was a military jet fuel not that useful one at five twenty one pm and thirty five seconds another mark of an aircraft appeared at the point of the boeing crash this aircraft was steadily monitored by radar station. and detour in sky during the next four minutes of having spotted the jet in air traffic controller failed to identify it as the aircraft most probably didn't count itself identification system which is
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characteristic of military aircraft. furthermore 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 it seems that one of the missile launches there is indeed missing it was detected by satellite near where the plane came down and this craft two shows a radar activity in ukraine peaked on the day of the crash possibly indicated we use of ukrainian and ts systems ukraine's president his part denies that the country's military was involved in the downing of the plane talking to c.n.n. petro poroshenko said satellites their defense systems were monitoring the skies of ukraine and he insisted that data from that will confirm that all ukrainian planes were on the ground at the time of the crash for its part the u.s. says is intelligence to back up their accusations against east ukraine militias and
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russia but it's holding back making any of that public 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 you need and 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 so 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 a different version so what we said very should be met why don't you there are many many many theories but you're saying not always you're going to be a logical 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
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we can't. accusations from state officials or spurred by much of the mainstream media which is putting all the blame for the plane crash on russia long before an official investigations reach any conclusion going to cannes for looking into what some news outlets have been 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 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
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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 that perhaps a tape was rightly 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 the plane crash here has also provided a video of what it said was the launcher used to downed m.h. seventeen about to be smuggled into russia these recordings were only very fine 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
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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. to check on our t. washington d.c. . the e.u.'s foreign policy chief says a. new list of russians and ukrainians to come under sanctions over the crisis in ukraine will be ready by thursday top european diplomats will also discuss possible economic sanctions against moscow that's got some thoughts on the and where it will go next to the ski from the brussels based reporter from reporter magazine thanks very much for being with us we appreciate it so than this list of sanctions a list of names of some russians ukrainians is going to be drawn or probably taken forward on first it's kind of before any official investigation findings are out here it's kind of already implicating russia as being the culprit here isn't it when you think about it. our first what first of all it might be drawn by the end
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of the month speakers is a great debate here because the opinion is very much divided because our whatever the official let's say mainstream press says the research and to standing in clarity that is a political gain and america the united states up back to their great classics retaining of russia so now it's the worried the the the major focus is on europe because what will be their direction of european diplomats what will be the direction of european political elite would they follow in the footsteps of the united states or they would take the independent course they would take the independent political line and they will really insist that they cooperate with russia and are that the friendship with russia because russia is a strategic partner of here it is crucial for europe this is our this smear
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campaign is absolutely and chose to do what he now it's interesting to hear you say this i've been back in britain for the last week or so and i've seen the headlines that i've seen a lot of media reports. it's interesting to hear that there are some cool heads within your. that might not be following down this instant path of a russia condemnation and of course in the light of this everybody wants honest as everybody wants to know what suffered we've seen all those sensational headlines all of them mainly blaming russia but you're telling me there are cooler heads within europe that have got a pragmatic on the not going to jump before any official conclusions reached. absolutely because that there is also great feeling. great sentiment of free saying people say there is no such a thing as a presumption of guilt there is a presumption of innocence and you can't say someone's reputation without proving the opposite so if mr putin would be
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a private citizen private person he would gain a fortune suing all these who released made his name so there is there is a sentiment that is unjust it's unfair and it's so exaggerated that now it's really animosity it's a resent and a feeling about it please don't take us for the fools it doesn't work with us so that of course they're also the allies of the united states in europe and we know they are baltic countries are they race poland who are following closely the point of view or the politics of the united states and this country's well are just blindly say what white house already pronounced what they already articulated that mr putin the president of russia is guilty of what happened and unfortunately are all the experts i discussed the issue with are very much upset they say that is so politicized that we have a very little chance we as public to know what really happened because this
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catastrophe is used to such extent for political means that we we can truly establish the truth because already now the acts first have to fight against the opinion of the white house and it's the most powerful country in the world. poor souls most of them on the train report treated to their relatives we've heard the british promises already getting. drunk shouldn't be going out and selling the. mistral ship the building what do you think about that you think from so we'll we'll back out from this contra. well i think that at least one ship would be sold of course that selling mistral ships is a highly symbolic gesture because russia is a nuclear power in if you think like ninety percent of the world nuclear arsenal is still shared between the united states and russia so the the defense system is not
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dependent on this mistrial and for russia it's not a great loss but it's a symbolic if france will follow the advice of the american friends or they will conduct their own independent politics and if it's independent politics they have to fulfill their contract but french people are also very divided because today i spoke to many french and they said that we would like to know the truth about the accident because you can't be motivated by emotions we have a contract we have to follow it first of all because that's the conditions and then we can't we don't want to be part of this may contain because it's so exaggerated that people stop believing into it has been a pleasure to have you on the program and do your thoughts thank you very much commentator from welcome to reporter magazine. divisions grow between moscow and london we talk about that shortly also to the u.k.
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launches a public inquiry into the poisoning of x f a speech alexander litvinenko with russia or its prime suspect deepening that russia plus. the number of palestinians killed now in israel's offensive policy is six hundred is the un secretary general pushes for the agency's just a couple of stories we've got lined up for you right off to this break. this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motion secure. place your party visible. where shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics only on our team.
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i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going on here in iraq said our big story. talkers a reason they don't want international airport. now let's break the set. choose your language. call if we could with oh if they feel some of. the consents to. choose to give to us the degrade to. choose the stories that impact the. child's access to. the u.k. told a public inquiry into the death of former russian f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko poisoned london nearly
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a decade ago. could and should light on who is 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 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 weirdo last year a judge ruled that indeed a public inquiry with its wider powers is exactly what is needed to try and get to the bottom of how alexander litvinenko died now the timing of this is very
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significant. point in relations between the u.s. 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. world journalist neil clark believes the. british should punish moscow. 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. government think they can beat russia with and so i think it's no coincidence that all the comes out just five days after this terrible plane disaster in ukraine it's all part of this russia campaign and the u.k. government will be hoping that bringing this back into the limelight trying to evoke people against russia and so it's
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a political decision i believe. the latest on the middle east conflict now and israel really warning shots of being fired at a building in gaza city where foreign journalists are based there no casualties there reported but the building which is situated in a residential area had been evacuated beforehand israel earlier warned it wouldn't be responsible for journalist safety in the area but is garza civilians who've been affected most since israel's anti militant operation began two weeks ago the offensive has claimed the lives of six hundred five palestinians israel's last thirty people to twenty eight of them i.d.f. soldiers. i. was. i. thought. oh this is. the world the business is going to. give. you.
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five below them just a little bit of. says continued firing rockets into israel raising security concerns several american and european airlines have suspended flights to tell of eve now tonight after a rocket landed near ben-gurion airport u.n. secretary general ban ki moon's urging israel to exercise maximum restraint in gaza and to get back to negotiations as soon as possible but israeli leader benjamin netanyahu remains defiant what grievance can resolve for hamas their grievances that we exist they don't even want to state solution they don't want any state solution some of them so they should open up great movement and dissolve all the resumes their arms and therefore in the face of such extremism in the face of such violence in the face of such terror israel has no option but to burned it this is
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what we are doing as is our right adding to the civilian toll was monday's tank shelling of a hospital in central gaza which killed at least five people one norwegian doctor volunteering garza wrote an open letter drawing the attention to the horrific injuries witnessed by the medics he describes lakes of blood in emergency rooms where the wounded were constantly arriving mads gilbert also appealed to western leaders to take a closer look at what's happening arguing that spending one night at that hospital where he works will be enough to change their minds are a fear talk to. what israel is actually doing it's applying an immensely disproportionate force which we see not at least in the hospital i mean when we look at all these vern bodies i think they use an ira of different grenades and charges. both of the bombardment of buildings and destroying of whatever harbor thought there is and to call this sort of on to person although i have facts. and
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this roughness are shocking as are really hard to treat because it takes number one their deadly if they penetrate your cave it is scrolled 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 shrapnel but if it doesn't penetrate like we had all these children would have hundreds of shock not start you have to sit and extract one by one and it's extremely painful and of course it's dangerous because you cannot 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 actually yeah and that's that's really a good question because it seems i think i heard one a spokesperson for i.d.f. saying that everybody who has a backyard needs to you know said you need to 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
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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. the f.b.i. specifics of terrorists as it seems served to create them out of law abiding citizens in our pool by human rights watch also says american muslims are the security agencies top targets to. want to put the story. well whatever you want to call it the reality is that hundreds of american muslims are being arrested and prosecuted for taking part in crimes manufactured and orchestrated by the u.s. government a lengthy report released by human rights watch finds that nearly all of the highest profile domestic terrorism plots post nine eleven featured direct involvement by f.b.i.
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informants who recruit the targets and induce them into taking part in would be terrorist attacks now most of if not all of the targets are muslim the role that the f.b.i. informant or agent provocateur plays is that he sets up the plan he provides the weapons he encourages the target and even at times induces him or her by promising cash to carry out the would be attack now human rights watch focused primarily on twenty seven cases and found the following that the federal bureau of investigation may have created terrorists out of law abiding individuals by conducting sting operations that facilitated or invented the target's willingness to act in one case a judge said the government came up with the crime provided the means and removed all relevant obstacles the report also says that in aggressively pursuing terrorism threats before they even materialize u.s. law enforcement overstepped its role by effectively participating in developing terrorism plots now as of two thousand and eight the f.b.i.
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had roughly fifteen thousand paid informants about thirty percent of the nine eleven terrorism cases are considered sting operations which informants played an active role in recruiting the would be terrorists and setting them up to commit the crime. right after this break. we chase profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world and into the future the world's cheapest and best petroleum deposits have been mined out we have to use more energy to get this energy
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