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to control the data because the 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 and have now been recovered from the crash site a twelve year old girl and a flight attendant who died helping passengers a spade from the inferno are among the victims. investigators are currently looking at three possible causes of the tragedy pilot error system malfunction and bad weather. we focused on the real politics russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov holds talks with the u.s. secretary of state mike on peo saying he has found no support for any military
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intervention in venezuela including among american officials. and their leader. harrowing images there as israel reportedly agrees to a truce with a palestinian militant group hamas after a weekend of deadly exchanges which see more than twenty palestinians and four israelis killed in large scale air strikes and missile attacks. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us. now 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 eric. aft. as you can see the entire rear section of the
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plane was destroyed by the fire the remains of the jet have now been removed from the scene and taken away for further investigation and just to remind you during its attempted minding the souffle 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 to the airport which has since returned to a full flight schedule at airport where the plane was flying two candles have been released to honor the victims but some people coming simply to pay their respects here's how the tragedy unfolded and just to warn you you may find some of the scenes upsetting. when the plane was in the air i saw
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a white flash it must have been wanting. near the window i just turned my head and all of a sudden most of the burning plane with huge plumes of black smoke. told about the my city because the a.t.f. guns. i keep hearing. i missed all of this could happen to. the children. my heart is just breaking from
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this terrible tragedy has the late georgian digital it's very hard you name it we couldn't even imagine that a tragedy like this would come to all cities where people died children died people probably just coming out from may want to do some operations in fact they've come back in coffins is just horrendous it's so difficult to even think about the dispute we're not slipping we were worried oh no it's together with more men square in mourning take care of each other people who. are with an investigation under way three main the theories are being focused on pilot error or a systems malfunction and bad weather with the latest here is what i. 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 reading was
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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 wrecked havoc on the system on the aircraft electronic systems seemingly all of them for example it should circuited radio communications gear and even the backups didn't work. 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 with dispatches 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
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a pilot land an aircraft especially nowadays when there's so complicated so. difficult to control manually what the pilot was left with was manual control you had to land this aircraft that had almost all of its systems offline and was incredibly heavy because the fuel tanks were fall. ill advised to land an aircraft with a fuel tank for what 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
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surprise that it ignited it ignited or not is when the true horror began because 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 a 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 stewardess colleagues who stayed behind she said she grabbed people by the cuffs of the next and dragged them out of the aircraft there's another should in the back is 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
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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. 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 causes 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. 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 mouth 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
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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 bodies of all forty one died in this tragedy. the project has been in commercial service since two thousand and eleven more than one hundred eighty planes have been build so far each capable of carrying up to almost one hundred passengers it is the first passenger plane to be built in modern russia and you heard allude to the system there in terms of lightning strikes the plane systems are supposed to be isolated from lightning strikes and i'm sure that that will be investigated now aside from sunday's crash in moscow there have been three other safety incidents involving the super jet in two thousand and twelve join a demonstration flight in indonesia super jet crashed killing all forty five people on board two other cases involved we'll mechanism fairly near and overshooting of
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a runway with several crew being injured in that incident another plane that burst into flames on sunday had been in service since two thousand and seventeen and had no reports of previous trouble in fact it had received regular maintenance just last month but aviation safety investigator david de gleave says a number of avenues as to the cause of the crash will be assessed before any 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 malton level all electronics equipment and the pilot training associated
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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 going up slightly recently but not significantly so we have ten to 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 the russian certification committee what should happen to the airplane. here is a seating plan of the plane indicating what happened to the occupants of the inferno mostly affected those sitting towards the rear of the aircraft only those towards the front and closest to the only usable exits were able to escape. for the
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russia's health minister has visited the hospital where several of the crash survivors are receiving treatment r.t. if donald quarter 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 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 the floodgates that you don't get that it's not just the victims that need psychological assistance but that relatives too including for example the one from on in critical condition think had at the institute or 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
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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 murder as well as a mystery that could have happened a new one so how tragic when fate takes an unexpected turn like this is what 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 and 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.
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or russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov says he has not seen any support around the world for military intervention in venezuela including among u.s. politicians who. words come after a highly anticipated meeting between the russian diplomat and his american counterpart mike pump the pair were meeting on the sidelines of an arctic 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 of following the talks if you believe the trickle comments. 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 when. i talk 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
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my question about mike barrows statement from this weekend that russia must get out of venezuela and also about the possibility of. intervening militarily in these photos. we tried not to concentrate on those statements which are publicly discussed because they are being affected by many factors the don't have anything to do was real politics we concentrated on the politics in the sense from my contacts with the u.s. 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 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
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including the military one and when secretary of state public pale was heading to europe that drove us. we're 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 but i'll put a quote get us in and we are ready for all scenarios the first includes diplomacy dialogue and peace and i think if the u.s. prefers the military path we are ready to resist to have an army police were on 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
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at any cost door and the self-proclaimed president one quite though are finally in touch on this president donald trump house spoken to president flot amar 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 does not think u.s. military intervention is a real threat to venezuela. these are empty threats and there are threats over vanity that threats of looks like the wounded bear a wounded line but as long as you've been there as well 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 world stability
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and cause major problems all 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 dollar is being turned away from except exception so i think it's empty rhetoric rhetoric frankly. israel and palestinian militant group hamas have reached a truce after two days of intense across the border violence including bombing raids by the israel defense forces children are among the twenty seven thought to have been killed in gaza four people were also killed in israel. you see the impact of the windows from the explosion took from outside to read it
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was flown as a result of the explosion. or palestinian militants began their missile strikes from the gaza strip on saturday morning residential areas were it mostly in the south of israel israel's air force targeted multiple sites in gaza in battalion tory strikes policy or reports. 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 places been the bloodiest weekend of violence on the israeli side it for israelis were killed which is the highest fatality israel has
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suffered since the last israel gaza war back in two thousand and thirteen 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 rocket hit everyone started screaming children and adults in the building collapsed nobody was able to see one are going to. leave it to those big. 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 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 thus also published in hebrew the coordinates of those sites in israel if
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planned to attack and 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 intensity 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 they include the israeli memorial day the independence day the one year anniversary of america moving its embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem not the day which is commemorating the palestinians and one of the culminate in the larger. vision on
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the fourteenth of may many israelis i speak to say that they believe it be 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. excuse me a journalist rami on the gari and political analyst mitchell barak gave 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 are a very destructive googling for the population. being reduced to rubble people in the streets are being hit while they are on motorcycles whether on the ground in the fields including mothers and their toddlers both the hamas and
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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 certain tragedy but the state of israel citizens and has to protect its borders and for that some very very serious measures are being taken against the military infrastructure in gaza. on may fourth of the i.d.f. published a tweet blaming hamas for indoctrinating children with militant sentiments and provoked an angry reaction.
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hamas is robbing the children of gaza of their future and attempts to rob the children of israel of theirs let the. pictures like those if they are in fact accurate or current would represent a very small minority of occurrences in palestine putting these pictures out taking them out of context the way these really army has attempted to do is not surprising only role there are plenty of videos and images showing israeli children being trained to use live fire ammunition by their parents or by their fellow family members serve in the army children who are in the army exhibit sions for
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climbing on top of tanks and commenting on what they want to do and what they deem of doing when they serve in the army remember that israeli is at the age of eighteen must serve in the army so putting this out of context is part of a trend part of an effort to further dehumanizing the palestinians and depict them as less worthy of solidarity and compassion by the international community. well that does it from i'll be back in about thirty four minutes with more news to watch our traditional start of. what is it call in decline is magic internet
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weekend are moving markets on monday the shanghai composite plunged five point six percent while the dow fell as much as four hundred and seventy points before rebounding the markets are reacting sharply to the sudden increase risk of a full on u.s. china trade war as a standoff creates a huge uncertainty as part company is trying to decide where the to buy supplies build factories and make investments these strong tariffs on steel aluminum solar panels they fall into. early on the u.s. consumers and businesses who buy the imported products a study showed that by the end of last year consumers were paying three billion a month in higher taxes and absorbing one point four billion a month in lost efficiency this threat from trump was a big surprise for the markets following weeks of so-called positive developments and updates it really is unclear right now whether the threat was a shift in position or just a negotiating tactic it could be that this new threat is.

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