coming up on r t in another lens more remains from the mh seventeen plane crash arrive in the country an update on the process that will be used to identify the victims and how long it could possibly take ahead. on the death toll rises in an embattled gaza a un school serving as an emergency shelter was struck today by israeli shelling resulting in the deaths of civilians and update from inside gaza. and in arizona an inmate was put to death but not without complications it took nearly two hours we'll look at this latest bach botched execution and what it means for the death penalty in the u.s. moving forward later in the show.

it's thursday july twenty fourth four pm in washington d.c. on lindsay france you're watching our team america two more military planes carrying remains of victims of the malaysia plane crash arrived in the netherlands today the remains of more than seventy victims were removed from the planes and wouldn't coffins there was again a somber mood over the military base as dignitaries and some of the victims' family members watched from nearby the remains are being taken to a dutch military base where a forensics lab will begin the process of identification which could take months peter all over has more from the netherlands. 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 the day 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 medics 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 associate institute the n.f.l. 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. seventy. that was our to correspondent peter are in the netherlands at the malaysia

airlines crash site in eastern ukraine experts are coming the area for more bodies as not all of them have yet been found crews are reportedly trying to collect personal items from the victims artie's román costs are up is there. but it fragments along with the debris of flights and they seventeen are scattered over around a fifteen to twenty kilometer area here in the 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 they each seventeen you know 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 they have received to the sites some investigators mentioned rumors of

losing in this area and they have addressed this issue from i know their fair reports of looting and so on it's impossible for us to verify that seven malaysians and again it's their second day they've said they did they did say still a second circuit remember under valuables lying around there that had 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 happens of flight and made 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 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 that was actually correspondent for a man called survive. it's been a week since the downing of malaysia airlines flight seventeen over ukraine and as

conflicting evidence presented over what brought the plane down from all sides is allowed in a live report from moscow one c.n.n. journalist offers up the official evidence presented so far from both sides and points out the level of media frenzy and the rhetoric being exchanged take a look. 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 that she goes on to give voice to what plenty of other reporters covering this event feel how credible is either side until proven facts emerge stay with us for continuing coverage of the crash investigation to find out if any time an architect can you can also get updated on twitter and facebook british journalist working for our to remains missing in ukraine ground philips went missing on

tuesday evening internet in eastern ukraine the day he last contacted the network we're now hearing from a journalist with the news agency who was captured with phillips and has since been released have a listen. we were near the pool he ran to film a group of men and i followed him and that's when we were 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 summer first they put us in a kind of cell together but we were later separated they started torturing us beating 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 badly i finally told them i was a journalist in the new york i told them i had a child and if they killed me he'd have no one else he said but if they catch me again they'll kill me later fighting broke out at the airport we had guns 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 yeah then they left me outside down yet. artie's medina coach now has more on the circumstances of graham phillips 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 with 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 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 ever

did. you know there's no information as we're both were there is a bit. and then graham was seized by security forces in ukraine he was questions on a spanish links and later released after about thirty six hours after that he lasts 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 his family i think ukraine at the best of times i was pretty place for a foreigner depending on where you went i warned them i know or see them as family and them and he just says all of us face is mind your own business the russian foreign ministry has demands is the media true lisa 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 now is r.t. correspondent medina coach of ukraine has become a torturous place for journalists to work c.n.n. is now reporting armed men from an eastern ukraine rebel group abducted one of the network's freelancers and one skibo was allegedly seized outside a hotel in the separatist controlled city of donetsk he had worked for one day with a c.n.n. television crew c.n.n. is currently working on to give us release. ukraine's prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk has announced his resignation following turmoil in the government he made the announcement after two parties said they would pull out of the governing coalition opening the way for a snap parliamentary election according to their websites the ukrainian government has been struggling to govern and pass a budget as the military continues to fight against and to keep separatists in the east of the country. says the parliament could no longer do its work and passed

necessary laws under the constitution ukraine has thirty days to form a new coalition or it must call early elections the existing cabinet will remain in place in the meantime elections are expected in the fall. a united nations run schools serving as an emergency shelter in gaza has been hit by israeli shelling leaving at least fifteen dead and many more wounded the fighting in gaza is now is now in its third week and has killed more than seven hundred palestinians most of them civilians more than thirty israelis mostly soldiers have also been killed artist harry fear has more on the u.n. shelter attack today in gaza. 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 made from ation 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 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 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 direct. 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 mortars bodies moves are operating at capacity throughout the strip in some two parties 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 other given though this facility only has to pass thirty four eighteen it's really too much pressure for us we see many crowds and lacerations among these victims it has been incredibly hard the job needs people with a personal conscience with a strong heart. but he's a taken from the men 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 are forced to bear. this man has buried ten of his relatives since the israeli operation began. we feel that they were about to attack the cemetery because the cemetery and shake red one has 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 and we went to shake red one but while we were there the air force attacked the cemetery during the cease fire we dug the grave in the first martyr to rest and as the bloodshed goes on dance 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 her relatives grave and bury the new body alongside you may have thought that at least gaza segment trees would be spared the din of war but even those palestinians bury their loved ones there's no rest by from the sound of menacing drones overhead or ceaseless bombings around perry fear r.t. . the federal aviation administration has lifted its ban on us flights in and out

of israel the f.a.a. instituted a twenty four hour prohibition tuesday in response to a rocket strike that landed about a mile from ben gurion international airport in tel aviv the directive which applied only to u.s. carriers was extended wednesday the same day an emergency session of the united nations human rights council voted to launch an international inquiry into potential human rights violations by israel and its conflict with hamas in the gaza strip the forty seven member forum adopted the resolution by a vote of twenty nine states in favor with seventeen abstaining and including all. european union members only one country voted against the measure the united states the resolution according to the un condemns in the strongest terms the widespread systematic and gross violations of international human rights and fundamental freedoms arising from the israeli military operations carried out in the occupied palestinian territory since thirteen june two thousand and fourteen israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu quickly labeled the vote a travesty israel blames hamas for using civilians as human shields while the u.s. claims israel has a right to defend itself from rocket attacks from hamas. the nation's third botched execution in six months has rekindled the debate over the death penalty arizona inmate joseph rudolph wood was pronounced dead at six forty nine pm yesterday one hour and fifty seven minutes after the execution started when mrs reporting gasping for ninety minutes the execution took so long that his lawyers had time to file an emergency appeal while it was happening the arizona supreme court also called an impromptu hearing on the matter and learned of his death during the discussions in the it is the third execution gone awry this year in the u.s. including one in ohio in which an inmate gassed in similar fashion for nearly half an hour oklahoma inmate clayton lockett died of a heart attack in april minutes after prison officials halted his execution because

the drugs weren't being administered properly here to talk about how this incident can potentially hand new evidence to those building a case against lethal injection is alexander simpson from the california innocence project and an adjunct professor at the california western school of law thank you very much for joining me today now yesterday's execution let's get right to it what do we know about the drugs used in this case. so the drugs that are used in this particular case there's four states that have really tried to have to scramble to continue the pace of executions after the traditional drugs that were used or are now kind of put to the wayside so this is a cocktail of drugs that is really by definition experimental there aren't really any kind of track records about how these drugs are or used to special with regards to lethal injection and so this is a new cocktail of drugs that. obviously did not work out at all in these last few

executions why are the drugs such a secret you know a lot of pharmacies who put these drugs together they don't want to be identified at least the mixing pharmacies the pharmaceutical companies don't want to be identified you know why is it so important these people are allowed to keep this a secret yemen it's a great question and the particular drugs the knowledge about the drugs and where they come from really just comes down to if the opponents of the death penalty know where the drugs are coming from then that is where the focus of the opposition becomes obviously the reason why we don't use the drugs that we previously used in the united states or at least with the frequency that we did is because those drug companies have made have taken positions that they won't sell to correctional institutions or correctional organizations anymore because they're good they're going to be used for executions so as soon as the general public and primarily the opposition to the death penalty finds out what particular drugs are being used then

that's the becomes the petition to try to get those drug companies to also refuse to sell to correctional systems to try to stop the death penalty that way and what can be causing these delays when using the lethal injection is the procedure only supposed to take about ten minutes. yes it is supposed to take ten minutes or at least that was with their prior cocktail which was primarily if you know bar but all it was an average of about ten minutes or less it's actually a very interesting point that what we're really talking about is lethal injection was originally sold as a humane alternative or a humane process for carrying out the death penalty and it's now become with these latest round of botched executions that now become actually so on palatable to people that even prisoners are asking for their executions to be carried out

through hanging or through firing squad that's how inhumane the process has now become one to turn a team of attorneys actually try to plead to the courts to halt the execution after they saw a hand in the midst of suffering they were unsuccessful but is that even legally possible well obviously when you're talking about the death penalty one of the things that you have to get around is that. any type of challenge to the death penalty primarily centers around the idea that it's a cruel and unusual punishment and lethal injection was not necessarily conceived as cruel or unusual because it doesn't take that long and because it's primarily kind of puts the person to sleep and then shuts down the systems if you're talking about somebody who's writhing in pain for two hours at a certain point it becomes cruel and unusual and therefore it's a violation of the person's rights even if they're executed they have to be done in

a way that doesn't violate their constitutional rights governor brewer has called for an investigation into what could come of that. the that is a good question what is the ultimate goal of any particular investigation into this i think the proponents of the death penalty or trying to make sure that whatever executions happen with this cocktail or with another cocktail down the road that it becomes something like what we used to have and to the open and so the death penalty would most likely say that any investigation is really just going to turn up that this is no longer an acceptable alternative to the prior lethal injection process so i think any kind of investigation may turn up that the procedure was handled improperly or that the drugs were administered improperly but it's it's most likely going to center around just the debate of whether or not we want to

have a death penalty or whether we think it's a good idea. arizona. oklahoma and on and on into the future possibly states with botched executions lethal injections a california judge even recently stated another lethal injection due to his finding that the death penalty sentence itself is currently qualified as cruel and unusual punishment under the constitution do incidents like yesterday's just energize people desire to fight this through the courts and not the legislature. that's correct traditionally the fight against the death penalty has been more legislative in nature. people want to try to get the death penalty voted off of the books but increasingly courts have recognized that. the death penalty can be both cruel and unusual even if you're talking about a perfect execution in california for example one of the reasons why the judge said

that this was a violation of anyone's constitutional rights is that it's so arbitrarily carried out that it often takes decades for somebody after they've been sentenced to death to be executed and so i think what you'll be seeing more is more challenges through the courts that this process is just simply broken alexander simpson from the california innocence project and an adjunct professor at the california western school thank you very much thank you. well the next one to syria calls asking for permission to run a black site in your country hang up the phone the european court of human rights has found poland guilty of violating the rights of two terrorism suspects. in abu zubaydah so by the excuse me they were held and tortured at a prison code named courts that the cia operated at the stair cage coochie military base in the north east of the country before being shipped off to guantanamo bay

though it is possible that polish officials did not know what was happening to the president at the site the court has stated the treatment to which the applicants had been subjected by the ca durning during their detention in poland had amounted to torture for all practical purposes poland had facilitated the whole process had created the conditions for it to happen and had made no attempt to prevent it from occurring the court then ordered poland to pay more than one hundred thirty four thousand dollars in damages to each inmate plus an additional an additional forty thousand in compensation for the legal costs and expenses they also instructed the polish government to obtain diplomatic assurances from the u.s. that it wouldn't subject the sherry to the death penalty new faces capital charges in guantanamo for allegedly masterminding the two thousand attack on the u.s.s. cole and is set to go on trial in september while i do by doc a palestinian was initially by the bush administration of helping plan the nine

eleven attacks and is still being held in guantanamo bay although no charge has officially been brought against him poland is now the first country to be held accountable for its involvements of the sergei's extraordinary rendition program it's more than likely it will not be the last. and the missing piece to the puzzle has been found how as a person added to the ever expanding u.s. terrorist watch list well thanks to the intercept we now know are cheesemaking lopez explains. if you ever suspected that your name was added to the terror watch list and you wanted to know why or how you ended up on it today you might be able to get an answer the intercept obtained a copy of perhaps the most revealing document to date about the practice and here it is a copy of the rulebook the government uses that spells out when to add a name on to the list and what habits is necessary this is what the bush and the

obama administration have been working so hard to keep out of the hands of the general public it is one hundred sixty six pages of unclassified information that attorney general eric holder and others have invoked the state secrets privilege to protect and receptor porters jeremy scahill and ryan devereaux discovered that neither concrete evidence nor irrefutable facts are necessary to place a person's name on the list in fact all it takes is a single white house official to place an entire category of people on the list so what exactly raises a red flag well destruction of government property damaging computers used by financial institutions posting things on social media knowing or being related to someone that is on the list already fitting a certain profile all of those things can blacklist you part of the rulebook reads quote in determining whether a reasonable suspicion exists due weight should be given to the specific reasonable

inferences that a nominator is entitle to draw from the facts in light of his or her experience and not on unfounded suspicions or hunches although irrefutable evidence or concrete facts are not necessary to be reasonable suspicion should be as clear and as fully developed as circumstances permit we are also learning more about what information the government collects about those on the list now that includes travel itinerary is gun licenses health insurance information. medication per scription zz and any card that you carry in your wallet that has an electronic strip on the back so that could be gift cards or discount cards it could be a grocery card it could even be a library card they also collect academic transcripts parking tickets email addresses and much more and a number of agencies like the usa id contribute to the collection of this information now the number of people that have been added on to this list has

ballooned with nearly one point five million names submitted to the watchlist over the past five years and ninety nine percent of those names being approved to be added now take a look at these numbers these numbers are a visual manifestation of what government critics call a wildly loose classification process also remaining on the watchlist people who have already been acquitted of terrorism related charges because while u.s. courts require evidence beyond a reasonable doubt watchlist thing only requires reasonable suspicion and the deceased there either added or kept on the list to prevent potential terrorists from attempting to steal their identity now the national counterterrorism center and the terrorist screening center declined to comment to the intercept r.t. itself has reached out to the department of justice the f.b.i. and the t.s.a. we're still waiting to hear back from them reporting in washington meghan lopez

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