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military transporters fly the bodies of more seventeen victims to the netherlands. in information war by western media echoing the u.s. state department against russia refusing to. contribute to missing in eastern ukraine with reports that he may be held by government forces. israel's ground operation in gaza. helicopter gunships planes more than seven hundred palestinians dead.
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are you watching r.t. international we're coming to you live from moscow it's now three pm here in the russian capital it's good to have you with us the bodies of forty of those who died on flight m.h. seventy arrived in the netherlands to a solemn welcome. thousands of people marched in amsterdam wearing white in memory of the victims of the crash . is in idaho where two more planes are expected to arrive on thursday. the
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process of bringing those killed on board malaysian airlines flight seventeen here to the netherlands is underway the first two transport planes arrived here in eindhoven bringing the first of forty coffins containing the remains of those who died they were greeted by a solemn ceremony a lone bugler setting up a minute's silence that was impeccably observed around one thousand relatives who are believed to have been in the on the airstrip at the time watching the ceremony along with the dutch royal family and the prime minister of the netherlands the bodies were then removed from the airplanes by a military on the god made up of all of the armed services of the netherlands and put into funeral cars they've now been taken to a military base near to the to the town of hope a zone where the identification process will take place here at the airport itself where those bodies will continue to arrive floral tributes are piling up and
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becoming another center of remember and here in the netherlands all of those who lost their lives. well this is the first of two planes taking off from hard core of airport for the netherlands bearing remains of more m.h. seventeen victims investigators say not all the bodies have yet been found him unconscious arrives at the crash site in the don yes region where experts combing the area. body fragments along with the debris of flights and age seventeen are scattered over around a fifteen to twenty kilometer area here in in a rural parts off eastern ukraine farms and villages all around us so it is going to take quite a long time to collect all the evidence and the remaining fragments of the victims of flight and they each seventeen and while they always see mission monitoring mission along with malaysian experts are continuing their work day here on the ground earlier they expect express their gratitude for the level of access that
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said they have received to to this site some investigators mentioned rumors all losing in this area and they have addressed this issue of my know their fear and reports of looting and so on it's impossible for us to verify that. the malaysians and again it's their second day they said they did they did say still a second circuit remember under valuables lying around that haven't been taken flight recorders or a common and known as black boxes had been recovered from this area they are now in possession of british aviation authorities who are hoping to shed some light as to what actually happened to flight m h seventeen they said the flight recorders had been damaged but there is still intact and they have not been tampered with the malaysian prime minister earlier said that he is not about to put blame on anybody at all as to why this crash it's a complete until concrete evidence is in place well the investigation is still
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ongoing and there are still several theories some analysts say that current and he evidence doesn't rule out the possibility that on to government forces could have been responsible for the tragedy he's won you know on his note be from the danish defense called he told us. my best guess. is. that of course that m.h. seventeen was flying over ukraine and it was pretty must hit by accident in the way that i believe that the answer key if fighters launched. on what i would estimate to be a ukrainian fighter but simply. exchange or whatever of target their information and hit the state or russia has released information including radar data showing a suspected ukrainian military jet near flight m.h. seventeen at the moment of the disaster but the defense ministry says it's
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concerned by a lack of reaction from kiev and its allies we haven't received any answer from ukraine or from the trees to really come into an on poor civil causes for the disaster with more still their comments based on material from social media or the ministry has been talking about the claims made by the u.s. on the disaster point by point it addresses a number of accusations which you see listed here now saying the united states has not come up with proof for any of them the spokes person even hinted that america's taking so long because it's cooking up the evidence you also pointed out that if u.s. territory had come under shelling from a neighboring state as ukrainian forces did into russia washington would have thought twice before moving troops to the border where the us media remain adamant in their accusations against russia regarding the malaysian airline crash and despite presenting no hard evidence to back such allegations once launched a media machine is hard to stop you can reports.
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it took most pundits military experts and incurs in the us mainstream media less than a day to pronounce russia and specifically the russian president guilty of the downing of the mh seventeen this tuesday u.s. intelligence official said they had no evidence that would directly link russia to the tragedy they also said they did not know who exactly pulled the trigger but inertia in the media is a powerful thing and such a lack of evidence does not set back some of the journalists who seem to be absolutely sure about who's to blame maybe you haven't been following it but the u.s. is actually coming out with a lot of its own intelligence that connects what happened made seventy to the acts of russian militants and perhaps of the involvement of russia in either training equipping or maybe even assisting one when this what. exactly are you talking about what what forensic evidence are you referring to. we are very or
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release intelligence information about the trajectory no not twitter i do not think peter this is something to be flip about two hundred ninety people lost their lives let's not i think they want to see people i mean it's been very real human intelligence coming out very flippant about much of the u.s. media brushoff whatever information comes from the russian government propaganda for instance when presented evidence that ukraine had the capability to shoot down the plane without directly accusing kiev of doing it many journalists have shown clearly that they were not willing to treat all sources equally that is not to say that all journalists do that so really it's the propaganda machine spinning on both sides in an information war certainly has it seen from the russian angle. is russia's evidence credible. well how credible is the u.s. evidence after a u.s.
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official said there is no proof of the russian president's involvement in the plane crashed. the u.s. media is looking for another face to put on that tragedy the leader of the playing russian rebels the suspect in this crime seems defensive even amused by it all rolling using is that the question of accountability one of the bodies to get that suit. you know it's a fantastic story the thing is that as soon as the members of the c.e.o. arrived they notified us that if we start moving the bodies then we will be responsible have new source information tonight from u.s. government sources about this strange shadowy character who leads pro russian rebels the jean jacket black t. shirt of the eyes he comes across like a sixteen year old being lectured by a parent while the real investigation is only beginning in eastern ukraine the media are hungry for quick with salt quick accusations and a quick verdict in washington i'm going to check on r.t.
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. meanwhile there's still no sign of a graham phillips a journalist reporting for r.t. who disappeared in eastern ukraine two days ago the channel lost contact with him on his way to don't yet port which is. the life in his medina quote you know reports may be held by ukrainian government forces journalists working fourteen ground philip was among is among four people reportedly missing while they weren't covering firefights and the area very close to the city of dining at school now we do know that he was with a group of freelance journalists working very close to an airport which is currently one of the most active war zones and that regional center now one of the drones. says that he was aware of the ground there we shortly before he was reported missing. we received information that an offensive on the approach was planned and that and to kill for it as we try to repel it
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a string from an a new set he could bring a sea fleet to their position we got to three hundred meters from airport that was in this month thing to do because we knew it was dangerous the other journalist told graham that they should go even further so they went and soon we lost them out of sight they got really close to the airport building then we got a call from graham's phone it was the other journalist cooling he said that graham had been detained by antiterrorism troops and at the same time ukraine's defense ministry said they do not take during this hostage. i know has been taken hostage there is no information on those were boats or were there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't journalists. well the russian foreign ministry has demanded us in the media treats of the journalists working for t. and others. and the british foreign office also says that it is aware of the situation and is standing ready to provide assistance meanwhile the last time phillips got in
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touch with moscow was on the evening of the twenty second of july and at the moment artie's doing everything possible to learn about his present where bags. but we spoke to a friend of graham and journalist brian mcdonald says he's relieved his friend is not among the dead but he's concerned that neither of the conflicting sides in ukraine is playing by the rules. he's alive and that's untasted news and everyone's very very relieved of course western journalists i want her nationality to protect her identity said to me earlier that nobody is in control nobody's following orders in the area on either side and that's why the situation is so dangerous the she said in her exact words that concerns me a little bit and i suppose a question for. the new president of ukraine and the national guard is ukraine is a country that spirals to join the european union it's going around kidnapping foreign nationals for no reason why. well according to the international news
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safety institute ukraine is the most dangerous place for media workers right now since the beginning of the conflict seven international journalists have been killed there and that's more than in iraq since the start of the year five of the victims were russian one reporter was from italy and one works for ukrainian media journalists also face constant pressure from government forces that sometimes banned from entering ukrainian territory with reports of kidnappings and beatings government mcfadden from the center for investigative journalism says the army is a dubious source of information while the conflict is ongoing but one tends not to believe what the military says in almost any country because they tend to cover themselves and not admit when tragedies actually occur the armies themselves on the other side in most wars provide very little meaningful protection it's a very difficult war because there are no conventional front lines in the way that we know them traditionally so it's very difficult to position yourself safely in
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that circumstance the impulse for any serious professional is to get as close to the combat as you can to the best pictures are that's where the best drama is and that's of course the most dangerous place there have been seven killed in that conflict so far seventy internationally and all of them have had the same sort of circumstance. well there's new fighting reported in the area where graham phillips and other journalists were supposedly captured gunshots and explosions are being heard around donning at airports artillery is said to be at work and unconfirmed reports by locals speak of numerous civilian casualties the ukrainian army has confirmed two of its finally jets was shot down in the region some reports claim they were flying close to the m eight seventeen crash site earlier of course declared a non combat zone by the president he had quickly blamed russia for launching the missiles that took down the planes something that moscow designed is. now we've got more news coming your way after this short break including the onslaught in gaza.
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you know margaret mitchell author of gone with the wind one with enough courage you can do without a reputation but in a highly emotional social media driven world in which extremely concerned sometimes hysterical residents of twitter and the like hashtags their outrage from thousands of miles away at the slightest deviance from what. they all have to take agree is the only acceptable course well people are going to need a lot more courage. they want to so this is back to the middle of. the very very rigid interpretation of iraq if you look at a country like egypt for example the very high poverty the reason this might also be i think is because the religion calls the boundaries and the board and that's
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the kind of suppression if you look at the liberal the say of a country like turkey it's ninety nine percent muslim. economy it's. the palestinian death toll has topped seven hundred as israel carries on with its ground operation and diplomats trying to broker a peace deal a must says it will agree to a ceasefire only if israel and its siege of gaza the latest pictures from the region are. consistent with the witnesses. that. little
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bit of other. meanwhile the un has warned that israel's actions in gaza could amount to war crimes the body's human rights council approved a probe into the israeli offensive on this how we feel reports for ati even the day it can't rest in peace in gaza. this is gaza's main morgue several hundred dead have passed through here in the past fortnight we met its director. certainly working here it's very difficult first when the corpse arrives we put the dead bodies inside these fridges after fifteen or thirty minutes the families normally arrive to take the martyrs bodies morgues are operating at capacity throughout the strip in some two bodies are being put in freezes bill just for one it's a grim process. every night around twenty to twenty five bodies come in even though this facility has capacity for eighteen it's really too much pressure for us we see
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many cuts and lacerations among these victims it has been incredibly hard this job needs people with a personal conscience with a strong heart. bodies are taken from the morgues and swiftly buried according to islamic tradition but many local cemeteries are under threat of bombardment and i simply too dangerous to use so it's here at gaza's main cemetery where many of forced to bury their dead. this man has buried ten of his relatives since the israeli operation began. we feared that they were about to attack the cemetery because the cemetery in shaikh red one had been attacked twice so people going were very afraid of standing in congregation of the cemetery in shadia is off limits is the israeli army has been in that area and everyone avoids going there then we went to shake red one but while we were there the air force attacked the cemetery during the ceasefire we dug the grave and laid the first martyr to rest there and as the
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bloodshed goes on garza cemeteries are running out of space and. best of luck but shuttled one i've worked for seven years of shaikh road one cemetery the previous two weeks have been the worst in some cases we've had to dig up old graves to make room for relatives where do i start the morgue bring way too many bodies here we put three bodies in one grave because we don't want the relatives to go to dangerous places which are off limits this grieving family has no choice but to open up a relative's grave and bury the new body alongside you may have thought that at least gaza cemeteries would be spared the din of war but even as palestinians bury their loved ones there is no rest by from the sound of menacing drones overhead or ceaseless bombings around perry fear r.t. gaza. meanwhile a top diplomat thinks the international community is reluctant to help stem the surge of civilian deaths here's what the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. told us. that the un security council sues the mass killings
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of promised indians by israel in gaza but does nothing to stop the aggression and ensure the safety of civilians. but still will continue to knock on their door. in the past two weeks we are pointed to the council four times and got only a few limited solutions to the crisis which israel didn't recognize and didn't stop the aggression. mall paris's seen a strong wave of support for the palestinians more than fourteen thousand people took to the streets in the heart of the french capital to condemn israel to previous protests descended into violence with windows shattered in three rioters jailed. now more world headlines for you right now and around forty thousand farm workers from across mexico rallied in the capital they marched to the interior ministry in mexico city demanding dialogue on land reform and rights for indigenous people they also protested against new energy reforms they claim for slandering is
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to give their land to foreign investment to explore for petroleum and natural gas the protest was accompanied by a heavy police presence and passed off peacefully. an attack on a prisoner convoy near baghdad has left sixty people dead and dozens wounded the bus transporting inmates and soldiers was hit by a roadside bomb and then fired on by gunmen the situation in iraq has been tense since sunni radicals seized the northern city of mosul and established an islamic state in the region. the execution of a death row inmate in america has taken two hours instead of the expected ten minutes murderer joseph would gasp for breath more than six hundred times in the death chamber after being given a lethal injection it's not the first case when u.s. executions have been apparently botched by using drugs earlier this year it took an oklahoma inmate more than forty minutes to die raising heated debate over the use of such methods. the trial of one of venezuela's main opposition figures
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leopoldo lopez has begun in caracas lopez is accused of inciting deadly anti-government protests that took place at the beginning of the year he denies all the charges he's been in custody since february and if convicted could face up to a decade in prison. and according to reports an algerian passenger plane flying from bikini fastow in west africa. two argyria has crashed officials say one hundred ten passengers and six crew members were on board contact was lost with the aircraft just under an hour after takeoff company officials say the crew asked a ground control to change the plane's route due to bad weather coming up next here on r.t. international it's been bust with their innate stay with us. a
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friend of mine flew in from germany and he said that as he was leaving he looked in to do stand at the airport and on the front page of twelve german publications were basically titles like tunes missile destroyers airplane alluding to the crash malaysian airplane that fell into the combat zone eastern ukraine this isn't just some fluke that my friend saw all these newspapers together the entire mainstream media has made the same bold speculations i think this is interesting for two reasons one the way that the mainstream press jumped onto the story with exactly the same headlines and exactly the same angles really makes me want to start believing in conspiracy theories especially when an investigation had been conducted yet there wasn't any formal evidence yet but from fox to c.n.n. to medium sized german newspapers the speculation of who was at fault for the crash
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is identical and absolute and to the western media which feels justified to push for war with anyone who doesn't adopt western values have themselves completely forgotten just what those values are i thought in the glorious west everyone gets a fair trial with due process evidence and a conviction only after their guilt has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt but when enemies of washington need to be demonized i guess all those principles just fly right out the door but that's just my opinion.
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hello there i'm marinating this is broome bust and these are some of the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up a u.s. a judge has denied argentina more time to negotiate with its creditors and if both sides fail to resolve this little is shared by the end of the month then there will most certainly certainly be a default so does argentina have the money to cody up to its creditors so we look into a common rate out and karl denninger is on the show today carl sat down with me earlier discuss the apple i.b.m. deal among some other stuff and then in today's big deal edward harris and i are discussing the chinese of mobile markets and the future of apple's growth it all starts right now. with.
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our lead story today the origin time that poker face argentina's president cristina fernandez is battle against holdout investors suing her country is increasing the odds that her government will default for a second time in twelve years so it's almost a record now and hearing on tuesday u.s. district judge thomas grayson decided not to grant argentina's request for more time to negotiate with holdout creditors and directed both parties to meet with a court appointed mediator to reach a settlement judge crusoe ruled that argentina is not allowed to pay its restructured bondholders until it reaches a settlement with a group of holdout creditors who have refused the country's debt restructuring offer since its. and one default and are owed roughly one point six billion dollars they're not interested in renegotiating now president fernando has refused to budge
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she's not moving from her stance that argentina simply cannot pay out in full to the hold out hedge funds notably management they have a lot of money with argentina now this basically they snatched up all these arjan time bonds back in two thousand and one on the cheap and that's after the country's one hundred billion dollar default so this isn't their first time on the merry go around argentina but the question today is could argentina muster up the money to pay its bondholders if it really really had to steve hankie a currency specialist an expert on argentina had this to say. it's a matter of ability to pay is there a willingness is not that's been pretty much the history of argentina for a couple hundred years actually been in default on bombs and their creditors about thirty five percent of the time so that's that's an incredible number actually. bottom line there's no signal today that argentina is getting ready to pay its creditors and all signs clearly point towards
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a default if that's the case it's not like argentina will be an unchartered territory remember these guys are getting quite good at the faulting on their debts will know how this all shakes out in one week's time on july thirtieth that's the deadline. now on today show when the u.s. government bailed out the banks it didn't address the massive debt overhang that is still a major drag on the u.s. economy now mainstream economists are encouraged by the improving economic indicators but they're analysts often analysis often overlooked debt so our next guest steve keen is worried that our debt levels and nearly as large as before the
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great financial crisis now king is the head of the school of economics history and politics at kingston university in london now since the crisis monetary policy has been the only game in town so i want to get a sense of whether monetary policy is effective in the face of such high levels of debt i first asked steve to explain whether steering the economy via short term rates is dangerous here's what he had to say. and this is the thing that is myself and richard most recently. bill was himself. and pitiful with holdings saying it's the level of the right of change and i'm like has the acceleration of private debt that really matters and by ignoring the the private sector in the economy that's why we haven't seen we didn't see it but didn't see the crossest coming it's what we've got out of the crosshairs now because having to leave it very slightly american providential from about one.

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