all 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 are a twelve year old girl and the flight attendant who died helping passengers escape the inferno. investigators are currently looking at three possible causes for the tragedy pilot error systems malfunction and bad weather. israel and palestinian militant group hamas reportedly called a truce after

a weekend of deadly exchanges which saw nearly thirty palestinians and four israelis killed in massive air strikes and missile attacks. and russia's foreign minister and his u.s. counterpart will discuss the venezuela crisis later on monday after what appears to have been a failed coup attempt by the washington backed opposition in the latin american country. and the u.s. secretary of state says north korea's recent surprise missile test happened right after a lot of your putin spoke to kim jong un and what's been an otherwise muted reaction from washington to pyongyang's military drills. this is our to international bring you your live news update this hour from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. all forty one by. have now been

recovered from the scorched wreckage of the air flood plane that crash landed at moscow's sheremetyevo airport on sunday these are the latest pictures from the crash site during touched on the airliner carrying seventy eight passengers and crew members on board burst into flames after it still bumps 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 just warn you you may find some of the scenes rather upsetting. look at. the planes in the air i saw a white flash they must have been haunting. 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. if. joining me in the studio now to discuss what happened is our senior correspondent ron castillo rod tell us the latest full bits and pieces are merging more and more witness accounts testimonies from the from the crew as well as from the passengers from authorities and we've heard from the pilot now he told us about how they took off everything was fine everything was normal the the jet was in perfect condition

they began their ascent minutes off the takeoff and that is when tragedy struck when things went south that is like me according to with this is according to the cabin crew they heard a very loud bang and a really bright flash and everybody seems to believe that there was lightning that struck them and when it did it took down a number of. access the bit of doubt communications gear it took out guidance and other systems. we had no communication we managed to restore it through the emergency frequency on the second radio station and it was intermittent that is after turning on the transmitter it was only possible to say a few words before losing contact and having to reconnect the dispatchers helped us they gave us directions to get to the runway. what's worse is that some of the

systems that were taken offline were critical including pilot landing assist so the pilots basically had to land manually which is very rare nowadays jets are very sophisticated in a lot is done automatically what compounded all of this is that it was very heavy it was so much fuel on board there was it was full with passengers with luggage and they couldn't burn the fuel off for whatever reason they decided to against circling over moscow over the airport as jets usually do to burn off excess few landing a jet while the fuel tanks of fall is considered less than safe nevertheless the pilots are trained they have the knowledge they have the experience the simulator experience to do this and he said the pilot said he doesn't know exactly what went wrong all we know is that during the landing the tail section the back half of the aircraft bounced off the ground off the runway repeatedly and during one of those

impacts the fuel tanks apparently ruptured fuel spilled all over the back section of the aircraft and given the speed the pressure the friction involved in landing an aircraft it could it could fire and there was the inferno spread in seconds that is when the real horror began because all these people they had thought that they had landed the worst was over only only to be caught in this raging inferno one of the one of the chute as is who commented in that said people began screaming when the illuminated started melting it you know it must have been awful nevertheless the passengers have expressed their gratefulness to the cabin crew the steward as the steward that i should them out she said that she grabbed people by the cuffs of the necks and drag them out towards the exit there's another steward in the back section he. and he attempted to force open

a door in the back so people could get out as well but he was unable to having given up on that he began pushing people from the back of the aircraft to get them to the front he unfortunately perished with forty one others out of the seventy eight cabin crew lot of people are in hospital now and. to be honest with you lot of people are grateful to the pilots the pilots for landing this thing in for getting anyone out. i'm grateful to this pilots they've waited to crash land in this city and saved lives perhaps they were spile it but let's wait for the official findings things could have been so much worse. than not the important thing to avoid jumping to conclusions for now it always happens when the big crash people love to jump to conclusions think of reasons it doesn't help doesn't help at all and he have investigators looking at three main

versions of why this happened that is pilot error and the qualifications of the pilots were unprepared to land the aircraft manually with the fuel tanks full. but again they just that that's one version the other is whether the lightning or window whatever outs could have could have led to this tragedy and the final version they're looking at is that perhaps the aircraft was the malfunctioning that something went wrong aside from the lightning aside from it being heavy it's only days that stood still looking at everything but we've seen a lot of negative reaction especially when people saw passengers coming out of their luggage people jump to conclusions straightaway they thought that these people had held up the evacuation while they got their luggage and people are saying that we shouldn't jump to use these people are very vulnerable right now and many of them are going to have survivor's guilt for the rest of their lives as

lifelong trauma. so you know best to avoid jumping to conclusions for now and focus on the investigation the black boxes have been recovered the bodies the remains of those that perished on board that also been recovered and mourning has been declared in moments the destination where the jet was heading of course be following that investigation very close a man got stan thank you for bringing us the latest on the tragedy in. aviation. expert fabrizio pollie told us that there's never just a single reason for accidents like this. because when you get struck by lightning you. possible have to have the airplane checked in my case and nothing major happened to the airplane we just had it checked by the engineers an hour later about in the air sometimes lightning strike kind cold situations like this but actually it always happens for a number of factors it never happens for one reason there's usually six or seven things that lined up i mean obviously this is

a new airplane you know one of the great science crashes on this side of the grand craft and so we should all be looking into that as well see if there's any flaws in the design just like the seven three seven max that we got two crashes recently and they found some flaws in there in the manuals and that it's going to dealing with to say hey we should go right. let's not cross live to donald quarter who's near the school if a soft emergency hospital how many patients have had the hospital received and what can you tell us about the state there and. well jackie behind me is the hospital where two crash survivors were being treated in a critical condition but just moments ago we got word that one of them had passed away from their injuries the captain copilot and a stewardess are also being treated at this hospital for a poisoning and for a shock in total thirty seven out of seventy eight passengers survived in all but

many of them now have mental and as well as physical injuries psychologists say that these survivors are in an especially vulnerable state right now that many might feel guilty that they survived and others on the plane did not or they may develop p.t.s.d. as a result of the trauma and experts also say that these conditions may last throughout an entire person's entire life now russia's health minister also said that friends and family should also seek psychological help as they are in a lot of cases in the. state of utter shock. those not to fly gifts that you don't get that so it's not just the victims that need psychological assistance but that relatives too including for example the wife of a man in critical condition being cared for at the institute or have them are in a state of shock they can't process what's happened. now across social media people have already released videos showing passengers fleeing from the burning jet crewmembers quickly carried out the evacuation plan but you can see in

these videos how chaotic the entire situation is there was also reports that people scrambling for their luggage further added to the discord now this is how one woman described waiting for news of one of her friends who was on the plane. q inaudible the tragedy in the media and immediately went to the airport hoping to get any information about a friend who was on the plane it's very hard for people waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones but everyone is trying to hope for the best. as for the relatives fifty have arrived from more months this morning with the city actually declaring a three day period of mourning for those deceased so i had shared a mitzvah airport emergency services have met with them already and to help them in the painful process of identifying the bodies. artie's quarter them you for bringing us that report. from.

israel and palestinian militant group hamas has reportedly called a truce after two days of intense cross border exchanges including bombing raids by telling me of the latest reports put the number of those killed in gaza at twenty seven among them children four people were also killed in israel. you can see the impact of the windows from the explosion that took place from outside the body that was flung as a result of the explosion. palestinian

militants began their missile but bombardment from the gaza strip on saturday morning several residential areas were hit mostly in the south of israel the israeli air force targeted multiple multiple sites in gaza in retaliatory strikes artie's paul slayer 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 that was brokered at around four fifteen monday morning is holding up it was brokered by egypt and the united nations place has been the bloodiest weekend of violence on the israeli side at four israelis 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 when the building collapsed nobody was able to see one another. big of them. know the situation to do what they know we can do is to cross our fingers they will succeed we're not call many 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 on 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 what 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 intense attacks against terror targets in the gaza strip and to expand its presence surrounding the gaza strip with armored forces. 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 all of this culminating in the largest sung festival year of 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 calendar journalists romeo mcgrory and political analyst michel burke give us their conflicting views on the latest escalation between israel and gaza. these are either response is always disproportionate. palestinian rocket. attacks on the palestinians a very destructive. for the population. being reduced to rubble people in the streets are being hit what. even on the ground in the fields including mothers and their toddlers both the hamas and islamic jihad 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 the citizens and has to protect its borders and for that some very very serious measures are being taken against the military infrastructure in gaza russia's foreign minister is to meet with the u.s. secretary of state to discuss the crisis and then as well after this short break. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development only. exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down.

welcome back to the program north korea's surprise missile tests in the sea of japan over the weekend have failed to trigger the fire and fury one might have expected from donald trump u.s.

secretary of state mike pompei although insinuated that russia played a role right after he spoke if i don't put in he 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. looks at why they were spawns has been so muted. 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 hope 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 am 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 but the. german king also read directly to tell the u.s. 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 lattimer putin 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 but as well as simmering russia's foreign minister is set to discuss the situation with his american counterpart later on monday on the sidelines of the arctic forum in finland on the agenda it will be the alleged attempt by the us backed venezuelan opposition leader

a media conference on sunday sergey lavrov and his venezuela's foreign minister both stressed that dialogue is key we have no venezuelan partners agree that any use of force circumventing the u.n. charter and the un security council may have catastrophic consequences for the entire structure of global security as any nation in venezuela is themselves could only decide their own fate through peaceful dialogue within the scope of because the two should this was another attempt at violence by the venezuelan opposition president nicolas maduro insists that dialogue remains the only option 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 venezuelan soldiers have been making a display of their loyalty to president burning a copy of a letter from opposition leader want to go handed to them by some of his supporters

earlier discussed the venezuelan crisis with donald trump by phone with the u.s. president saying the chat with his russian counterpart had been positive artist has more on that and efforts to break that 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. 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 into it 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. we've got to keep discussing the situation in venezuela but i don't see how we can find a common approach when our 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 a self-imposed venezuelan leader one of why 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 like bill called himself the president of venezuela three and a half months ago and time isn't on his side giving out 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. that's

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