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this is the end game when it takes two tons of sand to make one barrel. you know here at the bottom. that's where we're at. the chill ourselves. the netherlands has now received more bodies from the mh seventeen disaster as experts at the crash site continue to the harrowing search for the rest of the victims. missing british journalist who's been reporting for us in the hands of the ukrainian security service and is being severely beaten apparently so says a fellow reporter who's since been released. trades prime minister quits today is the main political coalition european choice collapses after failing to deliver reforms.
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and israel's bombing of a un school serving as a sheltering kills at least fifteen people including children. good evening it's kevin over here in moscow tonight you are there are international just past ten pm here now and first off planes carrying more victims of the malays ian airways flight m h seventeen of arrived in the netherlands the bodies are being taken to a military base for forensic expertise but it might well be awhile yet before relatives be able to say goodbye to their loved ones peter all of the reports. this is the dutch army base outside of the town of hill for sin where all of the bodies of those killed on board malaysian airlines flight seventeen will be brought for identification by the end of the day one hundred and seventy four coffins will have
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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 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 and 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 and 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.
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seventy. at the crash site of eastern ukraine experts combing the area for more bodies as not all of the view have been found roman cost rushed there. body fragments along with the debris all flights and h seventeen are scattered over around a fifteen to twenty kilometer area here in a 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 flights and they each seventeen 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 of losing in this area and they have addressed this issue i know there are reports of looting
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and so on it's impossible for us to verify that. the malaysians and again it's their second day they said they did it did say still a second circuit remember under valuables lying around that haven't been taken flight recorders or a company known as black boxes have 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 and made seventeen they said the flight recorders had been damaged but they're 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 room culture of the crash scene will russia's made public data indicating the presence of an airborne ukrainian jet fighter near m.h. seventeen at the time with the disaster the country's defense ministries in the
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last blow as to why there's been no comment from kiev and its allies about it. we haven't received any from ukraine or from the police to really come into on portable causes for the disaster with more still via acquirements based on what you will 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 being fired from militia controlled territory but they're never bothered to provide any evidence and the popular theory disseminated by the us is that russia assisted in the missile launch but again no proof put forward american state officials are also convinced care of had no hand in the mh seventy disaster yet they don't explain why they're so sure. the u.s. media is also whipping up anti russia hysteria is going to change it can explain its unleashing a tirade of accusations against moscow with next to no supporting evidence.
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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 i'm age 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 is what. you're going to have lance are you talking about what what forensic evidence are you referring to.
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winter very or release intelligence information about the trajectory no not twitter i do not think peter this is something to be flip about two hundred ninety eight people lost their lives let's not i think they want to see declaring he's been there and really have an intelligence coming out. the u.s. media brushed off whatever information comes from the russian government propaganda for instance when presented evidence they 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 carol 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 crash the u.s. media is looking for another face to put on that tragedy the leader of the russian rebels a suspect now 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 you have to the thing is that as soon as the members of our 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 leaves pro russian rebels the jean jacket black t. shirt the role 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. . combs collected the various theories about why the malaysian airlines flight
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crashed head to our website if you get a minute for detailed analysis pictures and video. after two days of very nothing about a british journalist who disappeared lisa you created submerged that he's being held by care of security service ukrainian reporter who was with graham phillips where the pair were missing is being released now we managed to talk to him on his way to hospital he told us they were both severely. we were near them yet scared porter he ran to film a group of men i followed him and that's when we were and they put bags over our heads but before i noticed it was you cranium military judging by their insignia we were put in a car and driven somewhere 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
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didn't tell them i was a journalist so they accuse me of being a self-defense fighter but it seems that they knew who graham was they beat me so 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 or to air then they left me outside then yet. when phillips hurt missing on tuesday evening and then that's the day lost contact diversity within a coach never has worn the circumstances of his disappearance. philip so 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 july
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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 received a text message from gram 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 ever did. you know he's been taken hostage there's no information as we're both there's a bone to him to the ukrainian military. and may graham was seized by kiev security forces in ukraine he was a 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 is very close with
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his family. ukraine at the last time i was pretty place for a hard landing where you went i warned them i know or family warned him and he just says all of us face is mind your own business the russian foreign ministry has demanded as the media treaties 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 president whereabouts it will keep you posted as we know more also to let you know c.n.n. the news channel reporting to get a free loan the journalist working for them was also abducted into. two days ago he's currently in captivity as well and will live trying to keep tabs on. in ukraine's parliament a lot of unrest the european choice coalition is well no longer a choice as as of today the major groupings crumbled forcing the prime minister to
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announce he's quitting political science professor nicholai petro from the university of rhode island told me he believes the p.m.'s trying to escape responsibility for failing reforms 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 first of all there will be a political crisis. which has just been announced every. few weeks or so that we can we're witness to fights among members of parliament while there is a political necessity as europe's as the e.u. sees it to support and disburse money into ukraine it will actually not do that indefinitely and the problem is ukraine is running out of money even if words army the money to pay its soldiers will run out next week after the break as gaza's
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deaths top seven hundred now we report from overcrowded cemeteries and ask israel when it will stop. this is the media leave us so we leave the baby. bush is secure. your party is that. is that no one is with the guests that you deserve answers from. three years ago the european union or spending several hundreds of billions of euros on the public procurement underestimation that in each of the deal twenty thirty sometimes even fifty percent of the money spent on corruption.
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logan quarter past ten pm here in moscow now a un run school serving as the mergence the sheltering guards has been hit by israeli shelling leaving at least fifteen dead and hundreds wounded witnesses say no warning was given it's the fourth time a u.n. facility now where hundreds displaced civilian seek refuge has been hit in the two weeks of israel's offensive reporter howry fear is in gaza. this complex was struck
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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 over the last couple of days we've seen extraordinary escalation of bombardment throughout the gaza strip not just the northern area but also the east particularly and we caught up with some of those inside the palestinian health system here really struggling to keep up with the number of civilian losses. this is gaza's main morgue several hundred dead have passed through here in the past fortnight. we met its director on and certainly working
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here is very difficult first when the corpse arrives we put 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 train says bill just for one it's a grim process. every night around twenty to twenty five bodies come in 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 monks 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
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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 shake red one had been attacked twice so people going were very afraid of standing in congregation the cemetery and 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 guards 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 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
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a relative's grave and bury the new body alongside you may have thought that at least garza 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 carry fear r.t. . the number of palestinians killed has now gone well beyond seven hundred with sixty deaths reported in the past twenty four hours alone casualties are also mounting on the israeli side too with over thirty soldiers killed since the start of the offensive as i told a former i.d.f. commander turned human rights campaigner joining us who would assure you that thanks for your time you've taken part in israel's previous operations you know firsthand what's going on here what's the difference in what you've previously experienced what you're seeing now is there a difference. then thank you first of all for having me here the truth is that i'm i don't really know what's happening there
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it's kind of like breaking the silence we're all like soldiers who serve in the i.d.f. and our way to know what's the reality in the occupied territories is through our members and testimonies of soldiers who were there so this operation is still ongoing so it's a bit difficult for us to know what's what's going on on a day to day basis there i think will have to wait for the operation to end in order to know the details. let me put it this way things don't look good now. this is definitely not so clear what is the goal behind this operation what is obvious is that in all our relationship things are not clear because if you look at the last few years everything every two three years there is an operation look we've been through operation warm winter operation summer rains operation autumn clouds operation cast lead operation. protective shield there's just
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a serious of operations in gaza and everyone just lead to the other end in breaking the silence the one thing we're trying to ask is ok so where is this one taking us now is it again to the next operation two years down the road shouldn't we after all these operations of then work should we try to ask ourself you know maybe we should try to change our ways and how we deal with gaza how we have the people in israel think well you go. i think i think these days we're we are in dark times i think we are a minority but at the end of the day this is our home and we're going to fight for it there is no doubt that israel has a right to defend itself and there is no doubt that the terrorist organization that is trying to bombard israelis all the time and hit israeli civilians all the time but the question is again how do you deal with it and whether what we're doing now in gaza is the answer my senses tell me that that's not the answer you don't want your personal story you're in the army now you're
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a human rights campaigner you believe or was it just that you've served your time moved on briefly what what what what made you become human rights campaign it was because of what you saw in the army. yes indeed the i actually grew up in the political right and did my high school in the settlement in the west bank believe it or not but i did three three years of service in two of them in the west bank during the second intifada and the things i've done and things i've seen in the way we treated palestinian civilians on the occupation was something that brought me to question the morality in the whether we are actually standing up to our principles and what. we want to be in my answer was no we are not standing up to what we are to be as a society in the sense i got out of the army ten years ago this is what i do with my life trying to bring my society to cope with what is being done in our name in trying to bring the occupation to an end. thanks ever so much be on the program give me a few thoughts that you would assure former i.d.f.
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commander no turned human rights campaigner. got some reaction from paul hershon from israel's foreign ministry told us earlier that the responsibility for these civilian deaths in gaza as far as he sees it lies squarely with hamas. they say that all of a tease 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 in a very difficult circumstance to minimize and to avoid civilian casualties and we're going to discover that hamas this evil machine with a killer strategy has the is perpetrating war crime of the war crime of the war crime and 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 or 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 all
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said 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 the this is a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas for tonight's top stories the european court of human rights has ruled that poland violated international law by hosting secret cia bases on its soil there were used by the u.s. to interrogate detainees kidnapped as part of its infamous extraordinary rendition program polish officials 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 two men captured in dubai and pakistan and then brought to poland in two thousand and two
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there they were water boarded and abused and sent to guantanamo. has been covering the story for 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 military airplanes landing in that area even sometimes three or four o'clock in the morning but that is as far as it 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 of the lawyers of of these two men who by the people to be precise and he spoke of ample proof that these man possessed of being water boarded tortured deprived of
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sleep and all that happened at that particular black site in northeastern poland i myself when i worked as a beauty 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 and 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 makes headlines across the world political scientists much as pistol ski believes that the ruling could have huge political costs now. i had conversationally though one of the leaders of the then governing social democracy parties and when he told me that they were so
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afraid of being accused of being not enough primary care and or parole westen they agreed for all conditions for all demands of the us including such things as breaking come on ally human rights and torturing people and breaking. and violating holding the nation conventions days and official announcement and days of the verdict is something that might possibly impact. in a positive way in the polish political for the future. thanks for being with us the next live news update city to an up and it's time with me kevin know enough to break though here another glimpse behind the scenes in the late sedition a news team.
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we chase profit very large very attractive and now very globally recognized source of oil for the world 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 industries grow like a cancer in each of these squares it's ten kilometers where. and this whole area is slated to the point of that's where drinking water that's our wildlife service that's where fishery we stop this is the end game when it takes two tons of sand to make one barrel of oil you know here at the bottom line and that's where. we chill ourselves.
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you surely know where you. can. i'm. just so.

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