i'm breaking news this hour it's been confirmed that russian photographer andre stannin is dead he'd been missing in eastern ukraine for almost a month let's cross to r.t. correspondent arena for more on this latest tragic development arena do we have any information on how and when this happened. while hopes for injuries safe return from ukraine have been shattered after genetic tests has proven conclusively that the remains that have been found in south eastern ukraine indeed do belong to andre steady and it was a photo journalist working for ria novosti which is part of the corporation rest in supporting news corp the head of which has made this statement on the death of andre. rieu paulo gundry's fate and demanded that international organizations freed him we're thankful to everyone in russia and their broad for your activities and for your support. unfortunately when we are trying to do everything possible and even impossible for his freedom and ready no longer with us. now those words of gratitude to prompted by a massive show of support that was that began right here there are

international it's been confirmed that russian photographer andre stannin is dead had been missing in eastern ukraine for almost a month let's cross to correspond to renegotiate for more on this tragic development arena what more can you tell us. understanding has been missing since august first and it was a month filled with hopes and worries for those who are working with him the odds first is that right now information agency was presumed dead he was missing as no information about his whereabouts was provided was it all ends tragically now that we have the results of d.n.a. tests which do show that the remains found in southeastern ukraine do belong to andris day in and here's the official statement from the head of the information agency on this. quote gundry's fate and demanded that international organizations freed him where thankful to everyone in russia and their broad for your activities and for your support. unfortunately when we were trying to do everything possible and even impossible for his freedom and really was already no longer with us. not throughout this entire mon

human rights watch has again called on kiev to provide information on russian photojournalist andre stanninwho's been missing in ukraine since the start of august here vince's it has no information on andre's whereabouts watchdog's deputy director for europe and central asia says the rights of media workers are being violated in ukraine by both militia groups and the army it added that the authorities have a track record of detaining russian journalists. for years the u.s. has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars on its nuclear arsenal but with nearly five thousand warheads the country struggling to maintain the hazardous stockpile if you can explains. in a field where there is no room for error a series of scandals is haunting the management of land based nuclear missiles earlier this year ninety one officers were implicated in a test cheating scandal it's twenty percent of all officers story charges some of their says deadliest weapons the air force removed the entire chain of command at the base where it happened while investigating those missile his personal cell phone says par

test results now confirm one of those bodies was that of andre stand him. stannin was a respected photographer who worked in conflict zones all over the world for media outlets such as reuters and a.p. these are some of the latest and last pictures he took while working in ukraine before covering the ongoing army assault in the country he was in kiev during the mass anti-government rallies on make square. with more than a dozen journalists has been killed abducted interrogated and tortured in ukraine learn more about their fate in the conflict zone on our website that's r.t. dot com. in other news a second american reporter has apparently been executed by islamic state militants steven soft life was taken captive more than a year ago previously seen in the video where another u.s. journalist james foley was beheaded. and has the story because it's a scenario that we've seen before when another american journalist james foley was beheaded two weeks ago similar orange jumpsuits a desert setting an executioner with a british accent in both videos and now the westerner