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the graphs - what can they conclut about the teen, the 20s and behind, michael. >> there is a great deal more ideological thinking. it's not a surprise. we are more educated, we have more access to information, the ability to choose from a range of information that may or may not reinforce our views. that combines into a society where the left and the right are more consistent in the way they look at things, and find less middle. it's important to remember that the bulk of the country is not there. the bulk of the country offers the mixed views. >> good to talk to you all. thanks for joining me. that brings us to the edition of "inside story." thank you for being us with. in washington, i'm ray suarez.
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tonight an america tonight special report, two breaking news stories this hour. >> israel invades gaza, underway, at this hour. israel launches a devastating ground assault on gaza. going down deep, to flood the tunnels where they say hamas threats are hiding. it is the heaviest show against hamas in years. a jet with fearly 300 people onboard blown out of the sky. al jazeera is the fist network at the scene. downed at the border of ukraine and russia, but who did it? and why? good evening and thank you for joining us. two of the most tenuous
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conflict zones erupted in game changing development, and breaking news continues to emerge even after this hour, from the scene, of a malaysian passenger jet crack. and in the middle east where israel has haunch add major air strike. to sneak into israel, the army gave mer mission to call up 18,000 more reservist, bringing the total number of troops to nearly 60,000. at least 230 have been killed more than 1800 injured. in the west bank, clashes have erupted. at least 14 people were injured. in the ground in gaza city, and joins us now, nick. >> good evening joey what we are seeing is a large escalation, just in the
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last few minutes, about a mile or two behind me right there, huge booms. and what we believe are missiles coming in from the sea, which is about half a mile that way, and we can hear them over our heads and land in that area. so we have that type from the west. a hot of residents talking about tanks coming in from this. officials telling me from the southern border with egypt, you have troops moving in. is about keeping this escalation, or keeping this invasion limited. and of course eliminate those rockets that fire, but the fact that israeli troops are now here, some people in israel talking about deeschase, or
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rather that boom happens and this is demilitarizing the strip entirely, that means that israel is going to go as far as i can, before international pressure build to the point where they leave. just a matter of hours today, all signs -- al jazeera has a view from jerusalem. he joins us at this hour. why did the israelis decide to move on this, and why did they make the announcement that they were going just as they seem to be breeching into the space? >> the announcement seems to have been made at an unusually early point, as
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they are just crossing the border and that's pretty unusual. they wait until they were much further in. and the only reason i can think of is that first of all, they can concerned about public opinion. income in that area can still move out of the area. second of all, they had nothing to fear, from hamas, because it doesn't have a traditional army, with tanks and artillery, and an alert would not allow hamas to launch an immediate count ever attack. they agreed to the terms that didn't work either, so the israeli pinester had one other option that he had put on the table, and had been threatening all along.
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right now you can attack the leaders, in order to diminish their ability to launch these rockets into israel, or he could do what some people are proposing which is to demilitarize gads disa, to do that, though, it means house to house combat, it means a very prolonged engangment, hike the kind you saw when the u.s. went into iraq, and that tends to be very costly, in terms of human lives on both sides. right, in addition the government has made clear that there was a precipitated event involving those tunnels we have heard so much about. that's right. what happened was about 13 palestinian fighters, this is visible on video, that the israeli army has put out.
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apparent hi doug tunnels. and the video shows that these guys come out, and the israelis immediately bomb them. but that instilled fear, it's not cheer how many of those 13 were killed but possibly all of them. never the less, that instilled fear in israelis who had already seen two incidents are palestinianed had infill straited a military base in israel. so that has the public very concerned and that may have forced netanyahu's hand. >> john, thank you very much for being with us. >> the other good news of the day is the crash of malaysia air when it was brought down over ukraine. here is what we know so far. there was 298 passengers onboard, and now no sign
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anyone survived. ukraine blames separate fist the break away region russia denied responsibility. unfolded moment by moment, we all saw it all over the year together. >> camera phone pictures taken from the scene, very rapidly tweeted out on facebook. which almost instantly began to suggest very strongly, that this has come down as a result of a missile strike.
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as we have noted this is a disputed region, this break away. how does that complicate the investigation going forward? >> it makes it enormously complicated. there is no national authority there, under no mall circumstances it would be the ukrainian civil aviation authority that would take the lead. we are in a conflict zone, there has been very very fierce fighting. there are rebels that control that zone, and that perhaps one of the black boxes has been found, and reportedly already isn't. no idea if that's true. there are other parties to an investigation, besides the national authority. the malaysians it is their plane. the americans because boeing made the plane. the dutch because the plane took off from the nether-lands and more than half of those onboard that plane were dutch nationals.
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2340 clear path here, russia says that it should be responsible, but militants say that russia should be responsible, ukraine says that's not possible. there are called tonight for a u.n. led investigation. and of course finger pointing has already gone both ways what is the best guess. >> why they think it is a missalt lake they have the heat signature. why do they think it is a missile in the height of the plane. that can't be a normal surface missile. it has to be something more fighters skated. who has missles like that, the ukrainians do, the russians to, and it is believe the russians separatists now do as welt. ray gar guided that are believed to have been captures and just in the
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last few days there has been a number of nights that have been downed. it is believed by missile fire. including one on june 16th. this passenger jet was nighing at. >> so, yeah it would take a very sophisticated tool. >> this is not a point and shoot. this is not a point and shoot thing. this is inning in order to target a plane flying at that altitude, at that speed, it require as radar guided missile. it requires sophistication, and training to operate. so whoever launched this knew what they were doing, they may not have known that the plane was civilian plane. if the radar was not fully tied into the civilian air traffic control system, they may have seen a plane but not the identification. that goes i am civilian,
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i am civilian, they may have believed it was another military plane. certainly a hot to investigate, thank you very much we will hear from you again later. al jazeera was the first news network on the scene of the crash, correspondent describe add short time ago what he found. this is the very tail section of that boeing triple seven malaysia airline flight 17 that was carrying 295 people. and in these fields these are two field as road connecting them, that's where these people lost their lives. this is the tail section, the very back part of the plane, about 200 mites down, deep zero the field is the tail fin. with the logo very very visible. if you look down the road down there there's another chunk of the fuselage, it was burning when we got here, five
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hours after this aircraft came down, in that wreckage you can can see the landing gear, with it's tires still on. the rescue workers are still here, but they are not taking any of the bodies out, they are flood lights so they are going to be working as much as they can. the remains of the two hunt 95 people remain scattering throughout the field. >> sorrow, and anxiety, and the disturbing questions about how this flight 295 civilians became the target of a military offensive. there's more to financial news
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that this strikes to note malaysia airline just four months after the
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disappearance of flight 370. underscoring it's point that the plane was nighing in an area declared safe by the international organization. again, this is destined to be a long and i motional investigation. al jazeera is in amsterdam where the wait for news is underway. >> a short while ago, the airport was in crisis mode. this is where friends the family members of those killed in the incident came looking for answers. the airport now is running as it should do. plaps the biggsest fear is that a proper investigation is not taking place, and that the right answers will not be known any time soon. of all the victims there are a lot of different kunas have been involved in this.
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is in europe, frabs, britain, and the quite, have also been effected by this. this have been strong comments from global leaders, president francoise of france, said he felt deeply emotional when he heard the news. some concrete measures have been made, some global international airline. have now said they will not longer nigh over eastern ukraine. we do know that british airline made that decision, and that back in april, the federal aviation advised the height of the conflict the flights didn't fly over the conflict zone there. perhaps some of the most immediate conflicts are towards the administration here, in europe. the authorities and those questions are likely to be about why perhaps more precautions weren't taken to avoided this flight from flying over the conflict zone.
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has crashed overnight, this is -- the second major tragedy to effect malaysian airline this year. with a loss of another mane in march en route to beijing. and his determination, that those responsible be found and swiftly brought to justice. he said the airline didn't make a distress call, before it went down. and so the importance now is to find out what happens. and he said the crash made a tragedy for may la sha in what has been a tragic year already.
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>> al jazeera stephanie reporting from may la lay sha. the plane was flying eastward toward the russian border when it honest contact. and that is when it is out of the sky. as shocking as it sounds it wouldn't be the first time this was shot down. it had happened at least a dozen times. an italian commercial flight killing everybody onboard, that there was clear evidence that it was brought down by a missle. one of the heeding theories is that it was accident hi shot down by asian forces. deviated from it's flight path and was shot down by a soviet fighter jet.
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all 290 people onboard died. though there were no restrictions on flying through ukrainian air space when the malaysian airliner went down, al jazeera is been covering the industry, and she joins us to try to put into perspective all these details. there was a lot of confusion, was there or was there not any sort of advisory that commercial craft shouldn't be flying through this space? >> back in april, the faa had issued an advisory for another part of ukraine. barring from flying over the region. as far as the area this jet was in, there were some restrictions. but only up to 32,000 feet altitude. you crane had requested no planes fly below
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32,000 feet. this jet was t a 33,000 feet, above that restricted area, so technically it was not in an area that was off limited to commercial jetliners. can you explain to me how this worked? does the faa make a blanket announcement to all aircraft carriers across the world? this is a particular area of concern? there's fighting here, there is an increase in surface to aramis sills from this area? >> well, the f.a.a. would only be able to notice, the issues only cover u.s. carriers. but obvious hi other officials sometimes follow suit, and sometimes the faa follows suit. the aviation official control the routs in this area. so they have already said they are routing planes away as requested late by the ukrainian government after this plane went
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down. putting a restriction for eastern ukraine, it is a little proform ma, because obviously flights are avoiding the area, but again, it is up to each country, it is up to each government, and now all of european officials the air traffic control folks in europe are saying we are routing planes away from eastern ukraine. joining us is aviation expert, and retired commercial airline pilot. appreciate your being back with us, what do commercial aircraft pilots know in these situations? do you have a sense of warning in do you have an understanding of what might be targeted a commercial airliner. >> well, we do get advisories. there are -- i would say three possibilities. one, where there is no threat, we choose our routs accordingly. just the shortest rout.
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the second, would be the other extreme, where this is a warning do not fly into this area, you may be fired upon, and then we will avoid an area like that. what you have here is something of a gray area, not unlike what the u.s. faces when we have flights go from miami, said, over cuba. in order to land in jamaica. what usually happens in those cases there's prior permission that has been granted and safe passage is assured. in this case you have a rogue presence. and this is the result, unfortunately. >> i am curious to know there are so many places in the world. that are conflict zones. maybe they will be increased technology. on fighters on the ground that may have a problem to civilian, aircraft, as well as -- what is the
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lodge call thing to do here, it shouldn't aircraft be directed in different ways out of harm's way? yes, most definitely, and the crewed themselves if they have been given a notice that this is a dangerous location can request that they can insist that they be rerouted around it. the airline of course are driven by cost, and they will always favor going the most direct rout on the most optimum altitude. once you know there's a particular hazard, like in the case of bad weather, a hurricane, obviously, or a hostile situation, like what we are facing in eastern ukraine, then you just simply rout the flight. comes and says don't use
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this area, after all, we saw through the course of this day, that aircraft went around and went in different directions so the course of the day, we saw much fewer aircraft over ukraine. >> absolutely. write should make the point that malaysian airline made the point that they were not in a restricted area, it was a normal flight path, they were at an altitude that had been approved. there will be questions raised about whether that was smart, whether there should have been restrictions but they were not violating any rules. yes, they want to save on cost and money, but they won't to knowingly fly into harm's way, they just won't do that. retired airline pilot, thank you to both of you for being with us. now on how the investigation could be hampered by the on going uncertainly about who is on the ground and in charge.
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she joins us veejay skype, lindsay, let's talk a little bit about this. from your insight and understanding, when something like this happened, is there an opportunity for intelligence to move in and try to help understand what is happening on the ground? there is, and i think that's probably the one silver lining of a tragic event. probably from the quite that we will have come in is investigate, we will have access, and there's not a doubt in my mind that this is an opportunity for the intelligence community the western intelligence community, and specifically perhaps the c.i.a. to get some operatives on the ground. the fact that the ukraine blew up, without or having any advance
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knowledge of it, speaks the the problem of not having any human sources on the ground. this was an area that the intelligence community had been ignoring. and unfortunately, i think this event could be the catalyst that not only drabbings the u.s. and the west into this crisis but that also enabledtous get in a position where we can be collecting more intelligence. lindsay you have echoed the world that others have used terrorism. there is question about whether this was targeted terrorism, or a mistake. and i want to take a moment to so thing is that was intercepted by the u.s. -- sorry the ukrainian state security agent, it seems to be, according to them, the conversations between rebelsen on the ground, recognizing what they have done by shooting down this aircraft, let's listen for a moment. >>
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again, this is coming from ukrainian state security. they are saying that they intercepted this, they are alleged these people were pro russian rebels. and they are having this conversation is a civilian aircraft,t it goes whether the truth comes out, it goes to this motion, that it is perhapsed a targeted terror, but perhaps as mistake? is. >> well, that was my first thought when i found out what happened that it was a complete mistake, or miscalcuplace on the part of russian separate itselfs. they are responsible, which it is seeming they are. it is sophisticated smacks of russian involvement, that said, i
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don't think this was a targeted terrorist attack. i think this was a complete mistake, there's no end game for the russian separatists to enginedder the wrath of the international community. so i don't -- seek to take out a civilian aircraft, and to kill a bunch of innocent people, but i think that's what happened and honestly, this is what happens when law less thugs get their hands on sophisticated weaponry. we have had it happen to us before, and used to wreak havoc and cause terror. >> even with all the sophistication of technology in the world, it is still possible to make mistakes. appreciate your being with us, former c.i.a. agent, thank you. >> thank you. >> america tonight special report returns after a break, a view
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>> the violence has continued just a couple of miles from here >> just a short while ago we heard a large air strike very close by... >> people here are worried that this already serious situation may escalate. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli - palestinian conflict, stay with al jazeera america your global news leader. >> al jazeera america presents >> i've been waiting for this... i'm so nervous right now. i'm really scared. >> 15 stories one incredible journey edge of eighteen coming september only on al jazeera america we return now to one of our other big stories of the day. the israeli ground
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invasion in gaza. many say there's nowhere to go. where they can feel safe. and be safe. one family now in the united states about what it is like to live under fire. you are always ready to die, you are always expecting the coming air strike, will be toward my home. ly be the next victim. he left his home in gaza three weeks ago to pursue a degree in the united states. >> it was really frustrating. and devastating. family. >> now he is prepared for bad news every time he called to check in on his
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five immediate family members still living in gaza. >> i believe not only my family, but all the civilians right now, they are in great situation. you know being -- being killed from gaza. >> he lived through heavy strikes on gaza in 2008, and 2009. he says he feels there's nothing there to feel they are protected. it is just 146 square miles and had a population of 146 people. many people never leave their home, hoping they won't become a target. >> so, all the time, you live in stress. you are scared.
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it's not a good feeling to experience. by anybody. here in the united states, he lives with his cyster and probably. sister and brother-in-law. >> henne called his parents frequently. as an american citizen, he is the only member of his family not living in gaza. >> this is no safe place, every place in gaza has been bombed. but even empty land sometimes, these are real people, these are unfinished lives. people that have favorite songs and tv shows they like soccer, people who are not just numbered. >> he gets must of his knew from social media. he scours his facebook every morning seeing the destruction, the rockets have hit chose to home. many of f his family
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members moved down the road, oen to cram into a small apartment space. >> you have five or six families living in two bedroom apartments two separate apartments. each of them three bedroom. and you can tell that require as lot of food, a lot of water. no personal space. that's the risk they are taking and they get bombed god forbid, you hughes everything. >> he says he may be far away, but he takes solace in his work. so you have medical supplies here? >> yes. >> to go through this area? >> the american near east refugee aid group. in order to deliver emergency medical supplies and food. >> we have trustworthy partners we always live what we say we will. we with stay away from politics and anything controversial that can jeopardize our mission.
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though his parents are a world away, he prays nor their safety, and hopes that one day, they will be able to travel to the united states, to meet his new little girl, due next month. we just got the crib together. itself justn't doesn't help to watch that situation. >> al jazeera. we blow that you spoke with our correspondent before we knew about the ground invasion, and since then, of course, your mother is still there and is trapped? have you been able to speak to her? >> after a few attempts we were able to talk to her. she is not able to leave. >> the danger zone? >> yes. >> this is the area she went to during the breaks. >> yeah, she wanted to take a shower and pick up a few items and she wasn't able to do that,
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but she did now, and then the drones were bombing and things like that, so she didn't think she could go back, which is almost 15 minutes walk. and she wasn't able to go back to that area. and now she is really freaking out. in the past week she has been living in a small space, she just wanted to shower and come back, that's been a costly shower. >> so she is home alone? >> she has my younger brother. >> what did she tell you when you spoke to her? she heard the sound? >> she was crying and we heard the shelling as we spoke, because they are getting closer, and the troops move in there's a lot of stress. they don't know, a lot of bombs from the sky, the sea, she is freaking out. for the first time i was worried for her, because she lost her composure, she was like tell anybody come get us, the red cross, we really want the leave. she lives in the same
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home we lost our cousin. she was 16 and she got shot, and that was one issue we have to deal with, and that memory is scaring her and my brother. >> is there any safe place in that building in can she take cover somewhere? go outside to some sort of shelter? is there any safe place? in that area, there's no safe space. the ground level, the troops come in, if she goes out there's the airplanes dropping whoms and she doesn't know what to do. she says to fear to even go to bathroom, if her going somewhere, to tell. you are there and then all of a sudden you are gone. we have seen the graphic images and things like that, and it is stress for them and those that care about they want. >> if she is able to get out. can verification move back to safer ground. >> i imagine she will go jogging. because she wants to be
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with with family, and if anything happened she wants to be with them, in life and death, she wants to be with her family. she doesn't like to take risks but she took the cease fire, and went with to take a shower, and got stuck. i imagine she is not the only one that's a challenge, and we worry about them from here. it is a stress for us. even with an american citizen son you can't get her out. >> we would like for her to come, but the borders are closed. she would have to wait for eight months and that's difficult. we appreciate you joining us, thank you for tells us your story, and we your mother well. >> . >> the timing could not have been worse for the obama administration, which is now having to manage two major international crisis at one moment.
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gins us live from the white house, thises a challenging time. >> you are right, and this is a classic case where the politics will determine the policy, and the politics are very complicated. as is very typical of the middle east when it comes the the united states, we saw the senate with voice vote, with no objection, expressing it's full support. marco rubio, the hopeful saying 100% this is hamas' fault, and the house did something very similar earlier in the week. on the other hand, the longer this last pressure will be mounting. to do something to reign in steal to stop this, and already we have heard israel saying it is a very limited goal of posing these opportunities first and foremost. joe by, late yesterday, the president appeared in the briefing room in a very hastily arranged appearance, and he said he would be working redoubles the efforts of the united states, to
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come to a cease fire. well, less than 24 hours a f that, israel went in and the result is what we see now. so the president does haven't a hot of good moves to make now at this moment. and adding to the tensions there with russia. >> you are right. we should add we have just gotten a statement from secretary of state john kerry, on this issue he says the united states is still reviewing whether any american citizens were aboard. we have seen conflicting reports none of that is confirmed. the united states government is not confirming that any americans were onboard, but the president, you are right. cut somewhat flat fooled. he was on the phone this morning talking about ukraine, in the sense is that the president had just imposed sames on russia.
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when at the end of the conversation, according the the white house, they noted briefly the reports of this downed airline in ukraine. events unfolded very quickly after that. spoke very briefly called it a tragedy and offered help. but it was joe biden also traveling out of town, this time in detroit who spoke very forcefully, and left little doubt where he thinks blame lies. a malaysian aircraft, is acrossed or is near the border of ukrainian russia. apparent, will i say apparent lay because we don't have all the detail. i want to be sure of what i say. apparently had been shot down, shot down, not an accident. blown out of the sky. now, any moment, if you stick with me, you will hear the chopper blades
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of marine one. the president did keep up his schedule, he went to new york city for two fund raisers this evening. he is on his way back in between the president was on the phone with many of the major world leaders. the president of ukraine, mark route that of the netherlands and prime minister, the one common thread in all of that, the president insisting and agrees with these leaders that an investigation a must go forward and that area there controlled by the separatist must be investigators must be allowed in that is a major concern now that is emerging in the wake of this tragedy. >> and adding to the tensions with russia, appreciate your being with us, al jazeera correspondence. a. ♪ from moscow, russian prime minister, had this to say, my deep condolences over the crash of the malaysia airline flight. this accident has claimed the lives of hundreds of people from various countries.
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the exact cause behind the downing of malaysia airline. u.s. intelligence officialed reported earlier they have proof a surface to aramisle was used, by they say they still don't know what where it was launched from. >> there have been numerous reports of using shoulder launched heat seeking missles to shoot down aircraft over recent days. but such weapons can only reach a maximum of 15,000 feet. well below the 33,000 feet that it was reported to be flying. suspicious has shiftedded to a sophisticated radar guided surface to aramisle in both the ukrainian and russian arsenals. variations of this mobile vehicle mounted system can strike targets as high as 80,000 feet.
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both countries have also the new generation, 400 missle systems that can engang dozen as at time and are tightly integrated into an air defense system. th would point to a high level national involvement. an a.p. journalist saw the missle system in a rebel held town near the crash site, raising speculation the jetliner was brought down perhaps accidentally, by rebel fighters. still significant training is needed to successfully operate such a system, so it remains too early to say who and what caused the tragedy. one group under the suspicion of the downing flight, is the russian separatist group that called it the donetsk feel's republic, here with more about that, sheila. >> earlier this year, it took control of many of the rebels fighting the government in eastern ukraine. some seeding on posting
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on social media made shortly after the plane was shot down this morning. that posting was attributed to the group's military commander. a little more than a half hour after it came down, this message appeared on the social media site, v.k. in russian it read in part, we warned them not to nigh in our skies. below it were links to plane in the distance. the post appeared in the site of commander of pro russian militias in eastern ukraine, many claiming it was his forces which shot down mh 17. the post was cleated shortly after it appears. however, it's appearance is raising the question, just who is egor strakov. the word most often associated with him is shadow we. the european union has identified him as a
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member of the russian military intelligence agency, gru. and has targeted him for economic sanctions. earlier this year, russian journalists confronted him, in that exchange, he did not directly deny his ties to the russian military. he also claimed that he and many of his men entered. they knew him as ego gerken, just one of three names he is said to use. he is described as a romantic, he is eager to see russia return to it's former glory. in billboards and ads he also fond of comparing the troops under his comaens to the 300 spartans of historical legend. a force which died defending ancient greece against a persian army
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100,000 strong. evidences some say of how far he is willing to take his fight against the ukrainian government. is willing to take his message, it is a heck advantage that speds think social media. >> interestingly enough, the first word that was put out is talked about 26 coming down, in that area where this malaysian airline flight 17 had come down. now the immediate aftermath the information this was a passenger plane, those posts deleted has been accusing the ukrainian authorities of carrying this out. it is important to know, at this point in time that the u.s. investigators are focusing on those russian separatists rebels led in part by starkov and even on russia itself. a little insight on who may be behind this. >> when we return to complete our coverage, we
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