Youre watching our team to National Bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program russias defense minister has described how her roic Navy Officers sacrificed their lives saving colleagues and a civilian expert on board and their deep sea submersible caught fire on monday don and join me to discuss the details. Well so far the details that weve had were pretty scarse we know we know that on july the 1st deep sea vessels submersible quote file while on a mission and apparently it was. Assignment this is what were getting from the Defense Ministry in the course of the fire 14 people turned up dead so now the defense minister rushes defense and defense minister sergei show who has offered a bit more has offered an insight as to what happened on board during that fire and apparently the crew 1st they evacuated a civilian we dont know much about who that civilian is whether its getting down to the simplest of details like it was a worry she what they
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A free speech conference going to defend the freedom of press. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. A military court has cleared a navy seal accused of multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial nature of his acquittal Edward Gallagher once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas we go live now to our to scale up and for more about philip is gallagher now a free man and whats been the reaction. Well the 40 year old special operations chief was acquitted in a military court in San Diego California on 6 out of the 7 charges he faced and he was acquitted for all charges of killing civilians and such he was only convicted of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of military rules for that the maximum sentence would be 4 months in prison however and hes already served 9 months of pretrial detention so essentially at this point he seems to be basically a free ma
A British Foreign office promotional video about a free speech conference calling to defend the freedom of the press. Low and welcome you watching r. T. 1 international with me great to have you with us our top story a military court has cleared a navy seal accused of multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial nature of his acquittal that would gallegos trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas more pain has more. The military court in san diego has acquitted gallagher on 6 out of the 7 charges that he faced involving the killing of civilians he was convicted on a charge of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of the rules however of the maximum sentence for such a violation is only 4 months in prison and hes served 9 months in pretrial detention so at this point he is indeed a free man now it appears that his acquittal was essentially hinged on the testimony of a of a Navy Seal Medic who testified that he himself wa
Defend the freedom of the press. Hello and welcome you are watching r. T. International broadcasting to you live from moscow and the carrier now military court has cleared a navy seal accused of multiple war crimes of all key charges as well as the controversial nature of his acquittal edgewood gallaghers trial once again raises questions over pentagon conduct overseas morgan has the details. The military court in san diego has acquitted gallagher on 6 out of the 7 charges that he faced involving the killing of civilians he was convicted on a charge of posing for a photograph with a corpse which is a violation of the rules however of the maximum sentence for such a violation is only 4 months in prison and hes served 9 months in pretrial detention so at this point he is indeed a free man now it appears that his acquittal was essentially hinged on the testimony of a of a Navy Seal Medic who testified that he himself was responsible for the killing of the the ice still fighter who was cap