poll forty one bodies of the people who were killed when a russian plane burst into flames during an emergency landing in moscow have now been recovered from the crash site among the victims of the two children and a flight attendant who died assisting passengers a stage in front of. israel and palestinian militant group hamas reportedly called a truce offer a weekend of deadly exchanges which saw over twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in the massive air strikes and tops. russia's foreign minister and

his u.s. counterpart and we'll discuss the venezuela crisis later on monday often what appears to have been a failed through its hands by the washington backed opposition in the latin american country. and the u.s. secretary of state says north korea's latest missile test happened right off to vladimir putin spoke to him joan in an otherwise and meted reaction from washington to pyongyang's publication. day here in moscow and you're watching international live from a studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. all forty one bodies have now been recovered from the scorched wreckage of the air a float plane crash landed at moscow's sheremetyevo airport on sunday these are the latest pictures from the. cross-eyed during touched on the airliner carrying

seventy eight passengers and crew members on board burst into flames off trust help on the ground thirty seven people survived the disaster they're being treated for inhalation burns and post traumatic stress here's how the tragedy unfolded and a warning that you might find some of the scenes upsetting. the kids. when the plane was in the air i sure a white flash a most of the morning. because. we certainly had the windows i just turned my head and all of

a sudden i saw the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke. and i am. getting out a. cutting edge. joining me on the street is. firstly we have to say what truly appalling incident and you know what we're seeing now we can all imagine ourselves being in a situation tragic and you were at the airport as well. what is the situation. well it's it's quite. muted even i would say but we're starting to get a pretty good picture of what happened with all the witness accounts the

testimonies that. coming out starts off with what the pilot said just recently they took off everything was fine everything was normal systems normal they took off and barely minutes into their ascent they were struck and here all witness accounts of testimonies agree they heard a loud bang and a flash a very bright flash like me in the play. and this is this is when things went south because the lightning hit knocked out radio communications it knocked out pilot settings various electronic systems so the jet was essentially flying all the guidance systems had been turned off the crew decided to turn it around to head back for the airport they had a secondary review backup system but that was malfunctioning as well the bits and pieces from ground control from the tower nevertheless they go to runway they went

down to the runway. the second this collision came because the jet was very heavy we don't know what rule this played but experts are saying that this could have played a serious role jets aren't supposed to land with their fuel all of it. so this is why they circled over cities until they burn enough fuel their light enough to come in for a stable lag. in this case the pilots had been training they landed there with passengers and with fuel so maximum fuel but something obviously went wrong in the pilot says he doesn't yet know what and the tail end bounced off the runway it was pretty powerful that will fool bounces according to official according to authorities and that's when the fuel tank ruptured fuel spilled and poor deliver the back end of the aircraft and given the speeds we're doing at the given that the

shots he's apparently failed. the speed the heat the friction ignited and ignited the jet came to a stop very quickly and people started evacuating but this is this is where the you know the horror starts because we want testimonies from stewardesses from eyewitnesses people thanking the cabin crew for saving their lives apparently they were dragging them out by their carts. passengers we're talking about seventy three passengers another man another steward he was in the back of the plane he tried to get a door open another do a back door so the people in the back could get out quicker couldn't do it so he stayed behind and helping people get out and he perished unfortunately in the inferno nevertheless we we're looking at various scenarios so investigators are looking potentially at pilot error if the pilots that in the wrong aircraft

malfunctions all of weather is the reason for this crash it could be a mix of all three it could be something else entirely this isn't the time to jump to conclusions and speaking of junk jumping to conclusions a lot of. in the on in social media in the news when people saw the passengers coming out of that aircraft with hand luggage i mean it was burning they had seconds seconds to get out and apparently. people felt that some passengers had wasted time getting their hand luggage again. to jump to conclusions and psychologists working with all the survivors working with their families saying that don't jump to conclusions this isn't we don't know what happened wait for the official version of the wait for investigators to get to the bottom of this they're also saying warning that survivors likely to have survivor's guilt in effect you

know this is very very tragic the plane was on fire it landed it landed perhaps people thought that be fired and then the plane was engulfed in seconds in seconds so the people who survived the they might have lifelong trauma after this. investigation as i say is ongoing they're looking at the absolutely everything the black boxes have been recovered and we also hearing reports that the bodies all the bodies of those who perished in this tragedy have been found and have been recovered ok. thank you murat we will come back to you i'm sure as the information more information comes in thank you very much looking across the. aviation expert the brits say upon it told us that there's never just a single reason for accidents like this. because when you get struck by lightning you. possible have the airplane check. in my case and nothing major happened to the

airplane we just had it checked by the engineers an hour later we're back in the air sometimes lightning strike can cause situations like this but actually it always happens for a number of factors it never happens for one reason it's usually six or seven things that line up i mean obviously this is a new airplane you know where the very first crash is on this side of the ground and so we should be looking into that as well see if there's any flaws in the design just like the seven three seven actually we got two crashes recently and they found some flaws in it in the manuals and that it's going to dealing with to say hey we should go right. to the core to who is near the. emergency hospital. give us an update on how many patients. the hospital has managed to take and what kind of condition are they in. while the deer out of the nine survivors who were hospitalized after last night's

tragedy four of them are being cared for in the building behind me officials say that none of them are in critical condition but there are two such cases in other moscow hospitals around the city now in total thirty seven out of seventy eight passengers survived they successfully flew for the fled for their lives and many of them suffered injuries we talked to russia's health minister a minister she told us a bit more about the causes of these injuries. was just playing it was most of the some of the suffered from burns gas inhalation or other injuries own medical services who responded quickly. now across social media people have released a videos of passing. fleeing from the burning plane crew members quickly carried out the evacuation and you could see how chaotic the situation was some reports suggest that passengers looking for their baggage further added to the discords now in terms of the relatives it's likely we'll see that they'll be coming to visit

their loved one so we'll bring you the latest as to what they have to say in official statements as they become available thanks don core to the reporting for us. israel and palestinian militant groups hamas have reportedly called a truce after two days of intense cross border exchanges including bombing raids. the violence has claimed twenty four lives among them civilians four people were killed in israel. can you see the impact of the windows from the explosion from outside. we the floor as a result of the explosion. palestinian

militants began then this album bodman from the gaza strip on saturday morning several residential areas were hit mostly in the south of israel the israeli air force targeted multiple sites in gaza retaliate tree strikes on pulis leah has the latest we have heard an announcement from the israeli army that it is lifting all restrictions for residents of the south of israel who live within a forty kilometer radius of gaza now this does confirm that the truce it was brokered at around four thirty monday morning is holding up it was brokered by egypt and the united nations piss it's been the bloodiest weekend of violence on the israeli side it for his ratings were killed which is the highest fatality

israel has suffered since the last israel gaza war back in two thousand and fourteen but on the palestinian side twenty four palestinians were killed including a pregnant woman and a child the street scene was indescribably people were afraid and terrified and running and everyone was looking for their children nobody was able to see others and after the first struck it hit everyone started screaming children and adults in the building collapsed nobody was able to see one another they. leave it to those big of the me to the generals that know the situation to do what they know and all week. do is to cross our fingers they will succeed we're not calm any more we do trust the army we do hope benjamin netanyahu will take care of it but we are really worried from the rockets now overnight bomb shelters were opened here in tel aviv which is some eighty kilometers from the gaza border after hamas threatened that it would target the city and that's also published in hebrew the coordinates of those

sites in israel if planned to attack in these include have been going on international airport and also delano where it's all is believed to house its nuclear arsenal although this of course has never been confirmed by the israeli side late last night the israeli security cabinet wrapped up with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that the israeli army would keep up its attacks . this morning i instructed the i.d.f. to continue its intensity against terror targets in the gaza strip and to experiment its presence surrounding the gaza strip with forces artillery and troops we are operating and we will continue to do so to restore peace and security to residents in the south of the country now the next two weeks are very busy on the israeli calendar they include the israeli memorial day the independence day the one year anniversary of america moving its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem nakba day which is commemorated by the palestinians and one of the culminating in the fung

festival your vision on the fourteenth of may many israelis i speak to say that they believe the israeli prime minister did not go ahead with a full scale invasion of gaza because he doesn't want to detract from the twenty thousand visitors who are expected to descend on israel for this major show which is a big highlight on the international calender. janice rami khouri and political analyst mitchell. conflicting on the latest escalation between israel and gaza. these are either response is always disproportionate. the palestinian rocket. attacks on the palestinians are very destructive and ruining for the population high rises are being reduced to rubble people in the streets are being hit what while they are on motorcycles on cars even on the ground in the fields including mothers and their toddlers both the hamas and islamic jihad or are excellent in

using human shields you know launching their operations from schools and from apartment buildings and from civilian centers and hoping that the israelis will not retaliate or that the israelis will be concerned with possible civilian casualties every civilian casualty is certainly a tragedy but the state of israel must take its citizens and has to protect its borders and for that some very very serious measures are being taken against the military infrastructure in gaza. pharmacist to meet with the u.s. secretary of state to discuss the crisis in venezuela or in that story after this break.

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welcome back to the profound north korea's surprise missile tests in the sea of japan over the weekend failed to trigger the fire and fury one might have expected from donald trump u.s. state secretary might compare insinuated that russia played a role. right after he spoke if i don't made the decision to take these actions we're still evaluating the appropriate response but i want everyone your audience to know we're going to exhaust every diplomatic opportunity rest of all teasing looks at why the response has been so meted. north korea a country that says it doesn't want anyone paying attention to what's going on there yet at the same time secretly can't get enough of the spotlight look test we did a test deadly scariness silos and everyone did look and also glanced at donald

trump the afficionado of name calling expecting one of his north korea one liners like these little rocket man mad men out there shooting rockets all over the place is a sick puppy rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself rocket should have been handled a long time ago. yet everyone expecting a measuring contest was in for a surprise to the missiles and even the size of kim's button don't seem to bother the white house any more that we still believe that there's an opportunity to get a negotiated the hope that this act that he took over the weekend won't get in the way we want to get back at the table anything in this very interesting world is possible but i believe that kim jong un fully realizes the great economic potential of north korea and will do nothing to interfere or end it he also knows that i'm with him and does not want to break his promise to me deal will happen ok let me go

through this again is it about north korea chuck is it about something militaristic check is trump still the president of the united states chuck so what's wrong well it could be about the timing and the fact that the once hate to do is turning into a love triangle a couple of weeks ago russia's president vladimir putin had his first ever meeting with kim jong and among other things the north korean leader asked putin for this. german king also read directly to tell us about his position and about the questions he has in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula. there's no way of telling if lot of reporting has passed the message on but he certainly had the perfect chance one trumpet dialed him last week and they stayed on the line for a good ninety minutes north korea definitely being among the talking points so when your relationship is going downhill maybe it's a good idea to get

a third opinion. with the crisis in venezuela simmering russia's foreign minister said discussed situation with the american counterpart later on monday on the sidelines of the arctic forum in finland on the agenda will be the alleged attempt by the us backed and us when an opposition leader as a media conference on sunday so often venezuela's foreign minister both stressed that dialogue is key. we are not venezuelan partners agree that any use of force circumventing the un charter and the un security council may have catastrophic consequences for the entire structure of global security as any nation venezuelans themselves could only decide their own fate through peaceful dialogue within the scope of the constitution this was another attempt at violence by the venezuelan opposition president nicolas maduro insists that dialogue remains the only option on those who voice the u.s.

position which says all options are on the table who believe the only way is to respect the u.n. charter preserve peace in venezuela and not violent or forceful overthrow of the regime. meanwhile the venezuelan soldiers have been making a display of their loyalty to present my dear burning a copy of a letter from opposition leader. handed to them by some of his supporters. earlier vladimir putin discuss the venezuelan crisis with donald trump by phone with the u.s. president saying the chat with his russian counterpart had been positive are to sleep trying to has more on that and efforts to break and as well as deadlock. what if all the key stakeholders don't only talk on the phone but get to meet maybe even more than once and actually end up agreeing on something might come pale and serve don't get in touch that often nowadays but just last week they were on the

phone and there you have it they're meeting face to face just a few days after vladimir putin and donald trump didn't talk for about five months after the g. twenty in argentina last week it was time to get back to business the two presidents were on the phone for more than an hour he is. not looking at all to get involved in venezuela other than he'd like to see something positive happen for venezuela. and i feel the same way so we want to help with a humanitarian basis and i thought it was a very positive conversation i had with president putin on venezuela sounds quite optimistic probably even too much was president putin able to convince him speculation over russia's involvement and as well or is way too overblown wait only the day before we heard this from america's number one diplomat we need to make sure there's not an invasion intent as well and yet there's been one. it took place

that you wouldn't invaded some time ago the russians have now followed suit and in the meantime mr lab rob was saying this because we've agreed to keep discussing the situation in venezuela but i don't see how we can find a common approach where no policies based on the principles of international law and the u.s. line is to appoint someone as an interim president in another country threaten to use military force along with choking sanctions to overthrow the congress seems. washington is trying to convince the world the way they've been pulling the strings in venezuela has nothing to do with the word coup yet as usual they're leaving all options on the table including the use of force. military action is possible if that's what's required that's what the united states will do those who are not venezuelan should know is all options are on the table secretary of state is in close contact with the pentagon he was among the officials who were briefed by the

u.s. southern command quote unquote on a wide range of military options as the command continues to monitor activities on the ground and as well self-imposed venezuelan leader one of like bill has been hinting he would be happy if washington stepped in militarily and you don't rule out a military intervention because it's entirely clear what the madeira regime is about anyway it's clear for him that would probably be the best case scenario after several failed attempts to get the army on his side. one of why bill called himself the president of venezuela three and a half months ago and time isn't on his side giving the orders as head of state hasn't yet helped him actually become one president nicolas maduro and his supporters have so far been able to withstand most of the pressure a few more failed attempts to start a coup or energize

a genuinely nationwide protest may lead to second thoughts about mr within the opposition whether he'll ever choose to back down himself. that's a tough one speaking of nicolas maduro this man doesn't look like someone who ever be the first one to raise the white flag making concessions though when he's completely pushed to the wall that's more like it. the head of the international action center sarra flounders thinks the u.s. is likely to carry on trying to rock the boat in venezuela. the us stepping in militarily i think we all know on a world scale where that. which is a complete disaster of a country struggling and certainly seems that they run out of options it doesn't mean that they won't continue to try in every way to increase the hardships for whose will this meeting in moscow is no indication that countries of the world

important significant countries of the world stand with them as well when the people make a choice and a like president and then that choice is completely insulted by say putting in most marginal if you're expecting people to bow down all that we really stiffens response. i'll be back in around thirty minutes time with world update so do stay with us. you know world of big part of. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bats and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the

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coconspirators. welcome to sophie and sophie shevardnadze today i talk to a man who so the history in the making so international diplomacy at its highest level and excludes in meetings between the world's most powerful man. who is the legendary translator of former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev talks to me about his newest thrilling and exciting experiences when the fate of nations wrists on a leader's words and

a misunderstanding could trigger disaster the odds of translation becomes crucial in global affairs what does that translate to witness behind closed doors during one on one negotiations how do translators who showed a world leaders cope with the risk of a mistake and do they also have their own impact on global decisions. it is so great to have you on our program welcome thank you so i want to talk about you in this interview for the most part when you go back a little bit when you first started working on the level of u.s. so it summits did it scare you that you're translating reagan i mean like you were literally translating the words of the most powerful men in the world did it change you.