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

good evening it's thursday july twenty fourth five pm in washington d.c. i'm lindsey 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 in wooden 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 were to be taken to the dutch military base where a forensics lab will begin the process of identification which could take months archies printer all of our has more from the other ones. this is the dutch army base outside of the town of his office and well all of the bodies of those killed on board malaysian airlines flight seventeen will be brought in 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 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 of 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 with 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 arctic correspondent peter oliver in

the netherlands. at the malaysia airlines crash site in eastern ukraine experts are combing the area for more bodies not all of them if you have been found crews are trying to collect personal items from the victims are. is there. body fragments along with the debris all flights and age seventeen are scattered around fifteen to twenty kilometer area here in the in a rural parts of 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 m.h. seventeen you know while they always see mission monitoring mission along with malaysian experts are continuing their work here on the ground earlier they expect express their gratitude for the level of access that they have received to this site some investigators mentioned rumors all losing in this area

and they have addressed this issue and i know there are reports of looting and so on it's impossible for us to verify. the lasers and again it's their second day they said they did a good series to the second circuit remember undervalue both flying around there that have 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 m.h. seventeen they said the flight recorders had been damaged but there is 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 as are to correspond closer it well spent a week since the downing of that flight over ukraine and as conflicting evidence

presented over what brought the plane down it's coming in from all sides it's loud and clear and 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 high level of media frenzy and 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 is russia's evidence credible. well how credible is the u.s. evidence now she goes on to voice what plenty of other reporters covering this event feel how credible is either side until proven facts emerge so stay with us for continuing coverage of the crash investigation to find updates anytime on our t. dot com you can also get updated on twitter and facebook and british journalist working for r.t. remains missing in ukraine graham phillips 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 wouldn't have been. you around to film a group of men i followed him and that's when we went to put bags over our heads before i noticed it was you crying in military judging by their. we were put in a car and driven some first they put us in a kind of cells together but we were later separated they started torturing us beating. screaming and i screamed to run 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. they beat me so badly i finally told them i was a journalist and i told them i had a child and if they killed me he'd have done us he said if they catch me again they'll kill me later fighting broke out of the you know we had guns sounds so we

were taken to a different location i don't know where they put plastic bags on i think it was a checkpoint i heard they told graham they were taking him to western ukraine yeah then they left me outside. parties has more on the circumstances of graham phillips disappearance. philip so was with a group freelance journalist covering there for a fight in the area very close to the city of then yes when he disappeared the last time he got in touch was moscow was on the evening of the twenty second 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 the type 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 asked

for it it. has been taken hostage there's no information as we're both were there is a young. the ukrainian military. and then graham was seized by security forces in ukraine he was to question john a spanish lynx 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 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 to them it's family demands he just as all of us bases mind their own business the russian foreign ministry has demand as the immediate release of gram 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 that was our correspondent medina. ukraine has become a place for journalists to work c.n.n. is now reporting armed men from eastern ukraine rebel group abducted one of the networks freelancers and. 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 skype as release. ukrainian prime minister us senate gets a new york 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 website the ukrainian government had 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 mill 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 must call early elections the existing cabinet will remain in place in the meantime elections are expected in the fall. united nations run school 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 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 artie's harry fear has more on the u.n. shelter attacked 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 as starkly

and recent 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 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 director. 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 water it's

a grim process. every night around twenty to twenty five bodies come in by the demon though this facility only has about 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 job needs people with a personal conscience with a strong heart. what has it taken from them and swiftly buried according to islamic tradition. that many local cemeteries are under threat of mint 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 as a cemetery and been attacked twice so people going were very afraid of standing in congregation the cemetery and showed you is off limits is the israeli army has been

in that area and everyone avoids going and we went to show a great one but we were there the air force attacked the cemetery during the ceasefire we dug the grave and the first martyr to rest and as the bloodshed goes on dance the cemeteries are running out of space i work 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 their relatives 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. 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 probably better 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 in session at the united nations human rights council voted to launch an international inquiry into potential human rights violations by israel in 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 seventeen abstentions including online european union members only one country voted against. measure the united states the resolution 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 devote 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 fifty seven minutes after the execution started witnesses report him gasping for ninety minutes the execution took so long that his lawyers had time to file an emergency appeal while it was happening there is on the supreme court also called an impromptu hearing on the matter and learned of his death during the discussions it's 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 a half 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 i was joined earlier by alexander

simpson from the california innocence project and an adjunct professor at the california western school of law to talk about how this incident could potentially have new evidence to those building a case against lethal injection i first asked him what we know about the drugs used in yesterday's execution. 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 are used especially 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 in primarily the opposition to the death penalty finds out what particular drugs are being used then that's that 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 well could 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 a fino 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 the lethal injection was originally sold as a humane alternative or a huge 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 one 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 is now

become now once attorney team of attorneys actually tried to plead to the courts to halt the execution after they saw him 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 this 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 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 ohio oklahoma and on and on into the future

possibly states with botched execution and the lethal injections a california judge even recently stayed 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 by 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 of is more challenges through the courts that this process is just simply broken all right alexander simpson from the california innocence project and an adjunct professor at the california western school of law thank you very much thank you. and i think piece of the puzzle has been found how does a person added to the ever expanding us terrorist watchlist well thanks to the intercept we now know artie's mega lopez explains. if you ever suspected that your name was added to the terror watch list and you want to know why or how you ended up on it today and 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 evidence 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 stakes secrets privilege to protect and perceptor reporters 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 entitled 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 that 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 light henries gun licenses health insurance information. medication purse christians and any car 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 e-mail 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 watch list people who have already been acquitted of terrorism related charges because while u.s. courts require evidence beyond a reasonable doubt watch listing only requires reasonable suspicion and the deceased they're 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 r.t. . that does it for now folks for more of the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r g america and check out our web site r t v dot com slash usa can also follow me on twitter at lindsay france see you back here at eight pm i'm at the martin the stories we cover here nor can you hear anyone better or even have a chance at life the reason they don't want you to know. i'm not really that we don't really know let's break the set.

how can you tell if a politician is lying if he's moving his mouth that goes for all politicians no matter what side of the aisle or what part of the planet they come from our politicians speeches are carefully crafted b.s. and reasonably n.p.r. did a story on that crafting that everyone needs to think about when they see a politician at a podium for the peace n.p.r. references john fabro who used to write speeches for president obama and mary kate cary who used to write speeches for george h.w. bush the story focuses on cadence and rhythm of speech and both speechwriters openly admit they craft every beat in a president's speech for instance remember this one hit wonder from obama they said this day would never come fabro says he in his speech writing team knew they wanted eight little beat they approach it like

a song with rhythm being of utmost importance next line they sped our sights were set too high same thing saburo admit this rhythm is intentionally used to sweep people up emotionally just as a song would same thing for kerry bush's speech writer who says she remembers actually putting mark even the tax to help bush remember the tempo he was supposed to use she said she would mark up his speeches with backslashes arrows up and down things like that to remind bush when to speed up or when to slow down and the m.p. . our story composer rob kapilow discusses how the rhythm can actually create community think about people blindly chanting at a football game or at a political rally kapil oh says that for that moment we stop beating ourselves he says he thinks we're all looking for that opportunity to become part of the we

because it just feels good to be part of a powerful group it's just part of our nature and language john mcwhorter says we have up why no urge to get into the groove of rhythm that's what makes music so powerful and soul feeding it's also what makes our politicians speeches so powerful and dangerous to our politicians and their writers are intentionally lonely just into submission with rhythm one of our most sacred human aspects that offends me as an individual as a lover of music and as someone who would prefer that our representatives not try to brainwash her so right now with all the crap that's going on in the world and all of our politicians worming up to my proposals try to spot the rhythm they are using to brainwash you then maybe consider marching to a different drumbeat altogether tonight.