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data controls the algorithms and the index. of. the remains of all forty one people killed after a russian plane burst into flames during an emergency landing in moscow have now been recovered from the crash site a twelve year old girl and a flight attendant who died helping passengers to skate the inferno were among the victims best gaiters are currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. we focused on real politics russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state. saying he's found no support for any military intervention in
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venezuela including among u.s. officials. and israel reportedly agrees to a truce with palestinian militant group hamas following a weekend of deadly exchanges we've seen more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. so joining as you're watching international. the remains of all forty one people killed in sunday's plane fire in moscow have now been recovered from the charred wreckage of the aeroflot craft these are the latest images from the crash site at sheremetyevo airport the wreckage of the aircraft that's now been removed from the scene and take. away for further investigation just to remind you
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joining us a term to landing the sukhoi superjet burst into flames after its tail struck the runway only thirty seven of the seventy eight people on board survived the tragedy . people have been laying flowers and tributes and sheremetyevo airport which just since returned to a full flight schedule of more months ports where the plane was flying two candles have been lit to one of the victims with some people coming simply to pay their respects here's how the tragedy unfolded just to warn you you may find these images disturbing. but. at the. door when the plane was in the air i saw a white flash it must have been lightning.
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we start near the window i just turned my head and all of a sudden i saw the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke. over the mike to get out the yes and i. think the most. i mean this could happen to. the children my heart is just breaking from this terrible tragedy of this nature which in just a little it's very hard to even imagine a tragedy like this would come to pass. children died people were probably just
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coming back from a volatile so migrations one fact we've come back in caught in this is just around us it's so difficult to even think about it in dispute we're not slipping that we were worried only together with more men square in mourning take care of each other people. with an investigation underway three main theories are being focused on pilot error systems will function bad weather the latest rug as the has more. there's a lot of testimony a lot of witness accounts that are coming out now important not to jump to conclusions but the most reliable source is the captain for example he has. made comments he said that during the takeoff there was no hint of trouble meaning was nominal was functional not a hint of trouble and all of that changed just after takeoff as they were ascending climbing higher and higher they were struck by lightning. the lightning caused
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wrecked havoc on the system on the aircraft electronic systems seemingly one of them for example it. would circuited the radio communications gear and even the backups didn't work. we had no communication we managed to restore 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 with dispatchers helped us they gave us directions to get to the runway that was only a part of it because the lightning strike took down other systems including navigation including pilot guidance and all of these systems help a pilot land an aircraft especially nowadays when they are so complicated so. difficult to control manually what the pilot was left with was manual control he
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had to land this aircraft that had almost all of its systems offline and was incredibly heavy because the fuel tanks to fall. ill advised to land an aircraft with the fuel tanks for what aircraft generally do is they circle above a city or an airport burning that excess fuel off making the aircraft lighter so it's easier to land for whatever reason they decided that they couldn't do that they couldn't. ford waste time they went for the landing and unfortunately as you see the. tragedy struck the bump the rear of the aircraft bumped against the concrete and the fuel tanks ruptured fuel spilled and poor all over the back section of the aircraft given the heat here the pressure the speed the friction no surprise that it ignited it ignited or not is when the true horror began because
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all of these people they thought that they had made it that they had landed and suddenly they were surrounded by an inferno i mean the stewardess spoke about how people were absolutely terrified of what was happening we have heard is passengers expressing gratefulness thanks to the cabin crew to the colleagues who stayed behind she said she grabbed people by the cuffs of the necks and dragged them out of the aircraft there's another should in the back it's a very big story in russia he tried to force open a door in the back of the aircraft and he couldn't do it he tried and tried to give up and he started pushing people from the back in order to get them to the front to hurry them up he unfortunately perished he was very young in all forty one people died in this tragedy thirty seven made it out and out of the seventy eight passengers and crew that were on board but as i say it could have been even worse.
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i'm grateful to this pilots they've waited to crash land in this city and saved lives perhaps there was pilot error but let's wait for the official findings things could have been so much worse. they're looking at three courses for this the first one is pilot error pilot on the qualification of the pilot perhaps have hadn't had enough training to land this aircraft man. only with it being so heavy the other thing that they're looking at is the weather how the weather may have caused this this incident and the last thing is that the aircraft may have now function and something may have been wrong with it before it took off something may have happened. in the air we shouldn't jump to conclusions the investigation is still ongoing speculate it's too early to speculate and to guess probably wait for the official findings they've recovered both black boxes and they've also recovered the
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bodies of all forty one died in this tragedy. of the superjet spinning commercial services two thousand and eleven more than one hundred eighty planes have been built so far each of them capable of carrying up to almost one hundred passengers it's the first passenger plane to be built in modern russia plane systems are isolated from lightning strikes aside from sunday's crash in moscow there have been three other safety incidents that involved the superjet in two thousand and twelve this was during a demonstration flight in indonesia super jet crashed killing all forty five people on board there are two other cases that involved will mechanism failure and an overshooting of the runway several crew were injured in those cases the plane that burst into flames had been in use since two thousand and seventeen and had no reports of previous trouble it receive regular maintenance just last month and safety investigated a big leaf says that a number of avenues as to the cause of the current will be assessed prior to any
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final verdict. the airplane may have been quite difficult to land with all the electrical problems that it has i believe the flight control system was working ok but not in the usual mode of operation so it's quite right that the investigation will take some time to look at how the pilots were trained to land the airplane in that particular software mode there have been some recent accidents some of them seem to be the modern level of electronics and equipment and the pilot training associated with that i would say that also the media are able to pick up and report the accident much more easily so the accident rate is has gone up slightly recently but not significantly so we haven't gone back tens or twenty years anything like that let's get a little more evidence from the flight recorders in the cockpit voice recorder interviews of the crew and then let the interstate aviation committee discuss with
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the russian certification committee what should happen to the airplane. here we can take a look at the seating plan of the plane which indicates what happened to its occupants inferno mostly affected those who were sitting towards the rear of the actual bar a few exceptions only those towards the front and closest to the only usable exits were able to escape. or are the or are.
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for men. or around. horses health minister has visited a skiff a cell scale emergency hospital that's where several of the crash survivors are receiving treatment off a stomach ulcer reports. behind me is the hospital where two survivors are being treated in critical condition in another location the pilot copilot and a stewardess are being treated for shock as well as poisoning now in total thirty
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seven out of seventy eight crew and passengers survived this crash but many with serious psychological as well as physical injuries now russia's health minister says that friends and family should also seek help as many of them are most likely in a state of utter shock was not to fly gifts they don't get that so it's not just the victims that need psychological assistance but that relatives too including for example the wife or mom in critical condition being cad 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 released videos of passengers fleeing the burning jet crewmembers quickly carried out the evacuation plan and you can see how chaotic the situation was in these videos there were also reports that passengers scrambling for their luggage also contributed to the discord now earlier today we spoke to one man who brought flowers in tribute to the airport although he had no familial ties to the victims of his own as the nothing occurred in those times a mystery that could have happened
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a new one so how tragic when fate takes an unexpected turn like this whose life is all a matter of luck and can and just like that i would like to have someone brought me flowers of something like this happened to me as for the relatives about fifty of them arrived earlier this morning from water months where the city has declared a three day period of mourning for those who died emergency services met with them at the airport to help them in the painful process of identifying the bodies of those who were lost. auntie's holiday international memorial awards twenty nine c. the now open for entries the media professionals are eligible whether you are
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welcome back russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says that he hasn't seen any support around the world for military intervention in venezuela nothing to lose among u.s. politicians his words came after a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomat on these u.s. counterpart might pump a meeting on the sidelines of an ant forum in finland as expected venezuela was the main subject of discussion with the possibility of u.s. military action the hot topic for journalists following the talks. the number one diplomats of america and russia have finally met and we were hoping to understand if there is at least a slight chance that. moscow and washington could be on the same page when it comes to venice well off well it's like the pale didn't speak to journalists at
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all after this here in finland but when. i talked to the media he thought it wasn't a good idea to shed light on any of the details pretty much but he did respond to my question about mike barrows statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of cool sam intervening militarily when you start a loose. consent to do this and we tried not to concentrate on those two incidents which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was real to exist we concentrated on the real politics in a sense to seclude it from my contacts with the us american and european colleagues i don't see any suppose it's moved to reaction immediately after this i asked the russian foreign minister if that included american diplomats and to that he simply
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answered yes but the real question right now is though whether that is really the case because many times we've heard from the most high ranking officials in america the phrase all options are on the table including the military one and when secretary of state pump ale was heading to europe the journalists were reporting that on the plane he said that nicolas maduro can no longer be in charge of this country he believes he is simply not able to do that even though he is de facto the leader of the country and i can tell you that the government in venezuela understands that they could end up having to brace for the worst case scenario. just listen to what their foreign minister said when he was in the russian capital on sunday no sort o. put it out but i quote get us and we are ready for all scenarios the first includes
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diplomacy dialogue and peace and i think if the u.s. prefers the military part we are ready to resist to have an army police or our people and we are ready to destroy any army no matter how powerful it is so essentially the most influential powers on the opposite sides here the government at any cost door and the self-proclaimed president one quite go are finally in touch on this president donald trump how spoken to president fly out of our potent the top diplomats have met but it is unclear whether that would still lead to a peaceful resolution of this longstanding venezuelan crisis former british diplomat william mallinson doesn't think that u.s. military intervention is a real threat for venezuela these are empty threats and there are threats all vanity that threats of looks like the wounded bear wounded line but as long as. there's
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a lull in particular with russia and china support international law i don't see the possibility of an overt u.s. intervention at all because that would be extremely dangerous for the world's ability and cause major problems for the american economy in fact if you look at the economic multiplier effect and other financial factors going on at the moment whereby gold is being bought and the dollars being turned away from accept the exception so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly. israel and palestinian militant group are massive reached a truce after two days of intense cross border violence including bombing raids by the israel defense forces children are among the twenty seven thought to being killed in gaza four people died in israel.
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you can see the impact of the windows from the explosion took place from outside and read it was fun as a result of the explosion. was the militants began their missile strikes from the gaza strip on saturday morning residential areas were hit mostly in the south of israel israel's air force targeted multiple sites in gaza in retaliatory strikes on these paulus leader explains. 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
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brokered at around four fifteen monday morning is holding up it was brokered by egypt and the united nations press has been the bloodiest weekend of violence on the israeli side it for 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 indescribable 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. so those 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
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overnight 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 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
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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 long 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. because the political. ritual barac is the conflicting views on the latest escalation between israel and gaza. these are either response always disproportionate. palestinian. attacks on the palestinians a very destructive and. the population. being reduced
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to rubble people are being hit. 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 a certain 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. staying with the saving on our to international to stick around michael thomas will be here with the very latest headlines top stories in about half an hour.
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