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but. headlining tonight the netherlands has just received more bodies from the seventeen disaster as experts at the crash site meantime continue the harrowing search for the rest of the victims. a missing british journalist who's been reporting for our teams in the hands of the ukrainian security services has been severely beaten so says a fellow reporter just been released. developing news to ukraine's prime minister quits this afternoon as the main political coalition european choice collapses after failing to deliver reforms. at israel's bombing of a u.n. school serving as a shelter in gaza it kills at least fifteen people including children.
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good evening it's eight pm here in moscow and you without international story again tonight planes carrying more victims of the malaysian flight m.h. seventy arrived in the netherlands the bodies are being taken to a military base for forensic expertise but it might take a while before the relatives will be able to say a final goodbye to their loved ones peter all of the reports. this is the dutch army base outside of the town of his office and where all of the bodies of those killed on board malaysian airlines flight seventeen will be brought for identification by the end of thursday one hundred and seventy four coffins will have come through these gates and into the army base the base has been chosen in particular because it's the headquarters of medic training for the dutch army and
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therefore has the facilities in order to carry out this task the job of identifying the bodies will be done in association with the netherlands forensic institute the n f i is regarded as one of the finest forensic laboratories in the world but in terms of how long that identification process will take we're hearing from dutch leaders that for some it could take days for others weeks but that some families may have to wait up to as much as a month to find out the identification where their loved one's body is so that they can take them have them repatriated if they're not citizens and say goodbye to them in their own way already outside of the base though floral tributes have started to pile up many people coming here to what is rather a remote road outside of the town in order to pay their respects and lay flowers to those who died on board m.h. seventy. the crash site in eastern ukraine experts are combing the area for more bodies as not all of them have not been found roman costs are off is there. body
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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 probably take quite a long time to collect all the evidence and the remaining fragments of the victims of flight and age 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 say they have received to this site some investigators mentioned rumors all losing in this area and they have addressed this issue of i know there's been reports of looting and so on it's impossible for us to verify that. in the lasers and again it's their second day they said they did it to say still
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a second circuit remember undervalue balls flying around that haven't been taken flight recorders or a company known as black boxes had been recovered from this area they are now in possession of british aviation authorities who are hoped to shed some alliance as to what actually happened to flight and seventeen they said the flight recorders had been damaged but they're still intact and they have not been tampered with malaysian prime minister earlier said that he's not about to put blame on anybody at all as to why this crash it's taking place until concrete evidence is in place roman coaster of reporting russia has made public data indicating the presence of an airborne ukrainian jet fights it near a major seventeen at the time of the disaster the country's defense ministry those of a loss as to why there's been no comment from kiev or its allies about it. we haven't received any answer from ukraine or from. effectively come into it on poor
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civil causes for the disaster with more stall video comments based on material from social media the ministry also commented on some of the claims made by u.s. intelligence officials immediately after the tragedy washington said a missile had been fired from militia controlled territory but never bothered then to provide any evidence another popular theory disseminated by the us is that russia resisted the missile launch but again there has been no proof american state officials are also convinced kiev has no hand in the mh seventeen disaster but again hasn't explained why. the u.s. media is also whipped up to russia's steer is going to check out explains next it's unleashing a tirade of accusations against moscow with next to no supporting evidence. it took most pundits military experts and incurs in the us mainstream media less
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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. are you talking about what what forensic evidence are you referring to. we are very or release intelligence information about the trajectory know not twitter i do not think peter
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this is something to be flip about two hundred ninety eight 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 as 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 what is 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. 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 pro
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russian rebels a suspect now in this crime seems defensive even amused by it all rolling his eyes at the question of accountability the bodies. were given soon. as they did you know it's a fantastic story you'll have to the thing is that as soon as the members of oh s. c.e. 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 the roll 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 our team. coms collected the various theories about why the malaysian airlines flight crashed head to our
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website for detailed analysis pictures and videos. after two days of hearing nothing about a british journalist who disappeared in eastern ukraine it's now he's being held by a security service and ukrainian reporter who was with graham phillips when the pair went missing has just been released we managed to talk to him on his way to hospital you told us they were severely beaten. we were near them yet scampered he ran to film a group of men i followed him and that's when we were on a they put bags over our heads but before i noticed it was you cranium military judging by their insignia that we were put in a car and driven summer first they put us in a kind of cell together but we were later separated they started torturing us beating my head graham screaming and i was screaming to our it was horrible i didn't tell them i was a journalist so they accused me of being a self-defense fighter but it seems that they knew who graham was they beat me so
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badly i finally told them i was a journalist in the net i told them i had a child and if they killed me he'd have no one else they said if they catch me again they'll kill me later fighting broke out at the airport we heard gun sounds so we were taken to a different location i don't know where they put plastic bags on our heads i think it was a checkpoint i heard they told graham they were taking him to western ukraine i took yeah then they left me outside and yet. growth phillip servicing on tuesday evening in donetsk the day he lost contacted i didn't catch nevers more of the circumstances of his disappearance. philips a was with a group of freelance journalists covering there for a fight in the area very close to the city of daniel school and he disappeared the last time he got in touch was moscow was on the evening of the twenty second of july he said that he was going to film in the area very close to the airport and he said that he was still going there despite our warnings of high risks and then we
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received a text message from graham saying that everything was fine and that was the last we've heard from him now it's morning reports emerged of him being detained by the ukrainian security services however he denies detaining him or that they've asked for it it. has been you know there's no information as we're both were there is that. the ukrainian military. and may graham was seized by keefe security forces in ukraine he was question on a spanish links and later released after about thirty six hours after that he left ukraine for a while however he came back just a few days ago and we managed to speak to graham's friend who was very close with his family. ukraine at the time i was pretty place for
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a foreigner depending on where you went i warned them i know your family warned him and he just says all of us face is mind your own business the russian foreign ministry has demand as the media tree lease of graham films and at the same time the britain's foreign office says that it is aware of the situation and that it is standing ready to provide assistance and at the same time parties doing everything possible to learn graham phillips present whereabouts. we'll keep you posted as best we can also the c.n.n. news reporting too that a freelance journalist working for them was also abducted in. and it's two days ago he's currently in captivity again keep you posted. in ukraine's parliament the european choice coalition is well no longer a choice a developing story this evening a major grouping is crumbled forcing the promised it to announce his resignation let's discuss the political situation with political science professor nikolai
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petro from the university of rhode island nicholai thanks for being with us well you know at such a time of crisis for ukraine so many huge events going on there it crumbles the prime minister goes he was of course the leader of one of the revolution leaders that ousted the president what ahead now is it going to go well right now we have. the need for an interim prime minister. the current prime minister has resigned. but since there is no actual coalition that will support him they have thirty days in which to come up with a coalition and if they feel their new elections for the parliament must be held and that seems to be the strategy of the two parties that have brought down the current call them into force you will actions of the parliament he's staying put until the intil the new person is brought in but what what what what was his
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downfall here is because he couldn't push through economic reforms seen as a failure was. i think that it was not anything in particular that he did or failed to do i really think this is political maneuvering by the two parties svoboda. who feel that at this particular juncture they have a good chance to emerge as benefiting from the new will actions the situation in ukraine politics is so fluid that if the elections are held three months from now or six months from now things could be very different and the one thing i think that political parties want to avoid that are currently there is being blamed for the price hikes the significant price hikes for utilities and gas that are underway that are going that are coming in the pipeline a bit but common sense would say i guess most people would say at this awfully
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turbulent time you would hope would be a show of unity show of strength in parliament you know people are bad together doesn't seem to be the case. again i think there's never been that much unity in the ukraine parliament i mean you know every few weeks or so that we can we're witness to what fights are in the parliamentary hall. among members of parliament and they're finding all sorts of legal and illegal ways to physically just remove those with whom they disagree. from the parliament being able to vote this is one of those i think episodes and indeed the prime minister the current prime minister now the acting prime minister you have the new moon has expressed his frustration and even accused those who are behind this of being sort of supporters of the policies of the kremlin that's become a common refrain ukrainian politics now with people with whom you disagree.
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understood thanks for being on the program political science professor nicola petro from the university of rhode island. thank you. after the break his cigars his death toll tops seven hundred we report from overcrowded cemeteries now ask israel when it will stop plus to poland condemned by europe's human rights court for hosting cia torture prisons see watching international. says the media leave us so we leave the. bush and your. party is it. seems that no one is asking with the guess that you deserve answers from. just three years ago the european union or spending several hundreds of billions of
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euros on the public procurement underestimation in each. deal twenty thirty sometimes even fifty percent of the money spent on corruption. hello again a un run school serving as an emergency shelter in gaza has been hit by israeli shelling leaving at least fifteen dead and hundreds wounded witnesses say no
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warning was given it's the fourth time a u.n. facility where hundreds of displaced civilians seek refuge has been hit in the two weeks of israel's offensive reporter harry fear is in gaza for. this complex was struck directly or indirectly by israeli tank shells now it's not clear how or why this facility this civilian object was targeted by the israeli military but no warning was given and the united nations has made clear in this past few hours that it has given israel historically and recently all of the g.p.s. coordinates and information pertaining to its facilities in the gaza strip in order to prevent this sort of tragedy from taking place we understand also schools were injured in this attack and the last couple of days we've seen extraordinary escalation of bachman throughout the gaza strip not just the northern area but also the east particularly how we caught up with some of those inside the palestinian health system here really struggling to keep up with the number of civilian losses
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. this is gaza's main morgue several hundred dead have passed through here in the past fortnight we met it's direct government certainly working here is very difficult first when the corpse arrives with the dead bodies inside the fridge just after fifteen or thirty minutes the families normally arrive to take martyrs bodies moves are operating at capacity throughout the strip in some two bodies are being put in trains is built just for walking it's a grim process. every night around twenty to twenty five bodies come in i think even though this facility only has to pass thirty four eighteen it's really too much pressure for us we see 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 men and swiftly buried according to
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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 bear. this man has buried ten of his relatives since the israeli operation began. we feared that they were about to attack the cemetery is the cemetery and shake red one has been attacked twice so people going were very afraid of standing in congregation the cemetery and she 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 bloodshed goes on gas the cemeteries are running out of space i have 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 morgues
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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. . the number of palestinians killed has now gone well beyond seven hundred sixty deaths during the past twenty four hours alone casualties are also mounting on the israeli side with over thirty soldiers killed since the start of the offensive guard result will now be investigated by the united nations human rights commission pakistan's ambassador to the un told us why it's vital that every alleged violation be federally looked into. those who committed those crimes must be
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punished it's only fair to the victims that's why investigating those crimes and finding those responsible is very important we will closely follow the inquiry conducted by the un commission its recommendations should be heard by the international community and all human rights organizations the cases should be brought to the international criminal court palestine will do everything possible so that every single case ends up in the court. paul herschel from israel's foreign ministry told us earlier that the responsibility for these civilian deaths. squarely with hamas they say that all timothy's should be investigated and i agree and i'll tell you what we're going to discover we're going to discover that israel has taken unprecedented steps in a very difficult circumstance to minimize and to avoid civilian casualties and we're going to discover that hamas evil machine with a killer strategy. is perpetrating war crime of the war crime of the war crime and
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that's what we're going to discover you say that israel is doing all it can to minimize civilian casualties are you doing enough for boys killed in a bitch we're hearing about civilians being killed every single day we said repetitively we said it also quietly through diplomatic channels quiet will be answered with quiet calm will be responded to with call this message was rejected out of hand have been three cease fire proposals one by the egyptians one by the united nations one by the international committee for the red cross all three we accepted unconditionally we implemented them all three of which with the with the glib laws they couldn't care less attitude rejected and violated so i agree with you this is a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas . more tonight's headlines now around the world first soften algerian passenger jet with one hundred sixteen passengers and crew on board crashed according to an aviation official in algeria the douglas eighty three was on route from the kuna
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fast to algiers when it disappeared from radar fifty minutes after takeoff erasure a says the pilot asked ground control to alter the plane's course because of storms . a death row inmate in america's taken two hours to die instead of the expected ten minutes murderer joseph would gaffes for breath apparently more than six hundred times in the death chamber are to being given a lethal injection prisons are administering untested drugs to kill condemned prisoners off of drug their products from being used in a similar case earlier this year it took an oklahoma inmate more than forty minutes to die. the european court of human rights has ruled that poland violated international law by hosting secret cia bases on its soil they were used by the u.s. to interrogate detainees kidnapped as part of its infamous extraordinary rendition program polish officials have already called the court's decision embarrassing but blame those in charge of the country at the time the case was brought to court by
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two men captured in dubai in pakistan and then brought to poland in two thousand and two they were water boarded there and abused and then sent to guantanamo a lecture is yes she's been covering the story for tea and visited one of the bases . we went to the northeastern part of poland the town of ramadi where reportedly one of the cia black sites was located although i can say it was hard luck because we went there the only thing we can manage to see was the airstrip the military airstrip where reportedly. the cia prisoners were brought in and then taken to a different location and we also heard. witness accounts that they indeed saw military war airplanes landing in that area even sometimes three or four o'clock in the morning but that is this part is that as it got we didn't find this location we didn't find this facility of course it even if it existed there it was very seriously classified then we went back to warsaw and we had an interview with one
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of the lawyers of these two men who by the people to be precise and he spoke of ample proof that these man possessed being water boarded tortured deprived of sleep and all that happened at that particular black site in northeastern poland i myself when i worked as a beautician from eastern europe covered several of those black sites in romania in lithuania caused huge public resonance at those countries there were many activists who were asking their government to sort of apologize to the people who were reportedly tortured and waterboarding those facilities but then again reportedly there are eighteen such facilities all across the world in kosovo in bosnia in afghanistan only one facility we do know off of course is one ton of money but you know the scandal surrounding that prison always make headlines across the world. myself the breaker and i'd say look at the possible collapse of argentina's economy and privacy threats from mobile phone users.
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starts right now. with. our lead story today the origin time poker face argentina's president cristina fernandez his battle against holdout investors suing her country is increasing the odds that her government will default for a second time in twelve years it's almost a record now and hearing on tuesday u.s. district judge thomas 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.

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