>> translator: get out of here. >> pro-russia separatists are accused of impeding international observers at the site of the malaysia airlines plane wreck. hello there, i you are with al jazerra. also coming up on the program, gaza's hospitals are under pressure as israel's offensive goes on. hamas has been shelling off its tunnels, the targets for israeli ground forces. >> translator: not only psychologically, this has affected our way of life over the past 30 months. what now for islanders in italy as the costa concordia

ship wreck gets ready for its final voyage. ♪ ♪ international monitors in east ukraine are going to try again to inspect the wreckage of malaysian passenger plane. >> translator: whoever crosses the line and doesn't comply with my records will face the consequences. >> observers from the osce say pro-russia separatists limited their access to the site on friday, warning shots were fired in to the eras the monitoring team was asked to leave. they have been trying to set up a corridor for investigators to get to the scene. the u.s. says the aircraft was shot down by a missile fired from a rebel-held area. all 298 passengers on board the plane were killed when it came down near the village. that's about 50-kilometers away from the russia border. wreckage is strewn across at

least 15 square kilometers of farmlands. scott heidler is at the scene for us, and, scott, tell us what's happening there today. are the monitors going to be returning? >> reporter: yes, we are hearing, we are getting world that we will be returning and later in the morning. they are going to face, and what we faced on the way in, is lighter armed separatist presence quite honestly compared to the last two days that we have been here, last day and a half that we have been here. there are still some checkpoints on the way here, once you get to the site where we are, there is a very light presence, only a couple down of streets here, a couple armed separatist fighters, i can see a couple now. so they are going face a much lighter presence, how they react, if there are more coming in, if there are more coming with them, that's left to be determined. but we do know that they are go going to give it another go. what else we have seen? like we saw yesterday, friday, these emergency workers going out fanning out in that 15-square kilometers that you were talking about, julie,

looking for more bodies and more remains. those have has been identified, those very visible through the roads that split through the two feels, none have been covered. the 298 people on board who pair i should in this incident, their remains have not been covered, they have remained he is posed for 42 hours. that's because there has been no international movement, there has been no international group to come in here to stay long enough to take care of that or even to start appropriate investigation. and one thing i need to note, too, this rural road between the fields where a lot of this debris is, yesterday, friday, it had been yard aned off. today it's not. a public bus just passed through probably in the last couple of hours. so what's going to happen when the investigators do get here, they are going to find a contaminated, a compromised site to do their investigation in. we are in an area that's scorched earth, still smells of aviation fuel, again, 42 hours after this happened. and if you can kind of look over to my left shoulder, you'll see

some of the engines, parts of the wa wing, what was once a wig lying over a draped over a berm. and something is there now, a vigil for the 198 people that died. we spoke to the woman who put must flowers there, she said the reason she did that is because of the 80 children that were on this aircraft. she has grandkids about the same age, she felt compelled to come out here we spoke with her soon after she put those did there. the first local out pouring of the makeshift memorial here, this is one of the main debris areas of what once was that aircraft. >> scott, thank you very much indeed for bringing us you up-to-date. scott heidler where international monitors are due to return to the scene later on this morning. now, the number of palestinians killed after 11 days of israel's offensive on gaza has risen to more than 300.

people there have suffer aid second night of attacks by soldiers and tanks. an israel i air strike and artillery bombardment from the sea have continued. this is gaza right now, it's looking fairly calm at the moment. most of the cashing at thises have been civilians, nicole johnson sent this report from gaza. >> reporter: israeli troops are inside gaza, near the border, lighting up the sky with flares. their tanks are firing shells, you can hear it everywhere. houses have been hit, people killed in their homes. at an emergency meeting of the united nations security council, the pantsil vinnie ambassador called on the world to intervene. >> crimes against humanity and systematic human rights violations are being committed by israel against the palestinian people. >> reporter: israel says it's protecting itself.

>> there is no country in the world no country in the world that would tolerate such an assault on its citizens and israel should not be expected to either. >> reporter: and the u.s. took both sides. >> no family, palestinian or israeli should have to live in perpetual fear of being unsafe in their own homes. >> reporter: however, the u.s. pred reaffirmed his support for israel. >> no nation should accept rockets being fired in to its borders or terrorists tunneling in to its territory. >> reporter: while the politicians had a lot to say about gaza, palestinians were being injured and killed in their homes, their houses pounded by tank shells and artillery fire. the israeli army leased this video, it says it shows tunnels in gaza, used by fighters to attack israel. the military warns its grounds offensive will be expanded. >> we have gone up a notch and taken it to the ground maneuvers

and ground mobilization. >> reporter: hamas and other groups are still firing rockets and attacking israeli soldiers. >> translator: we are fully prepared no a long occupation of the armed forces, the enemy has only witnessed the tip of the iceberg. >> reporter: is really air strikes are also continuing. here a building housing media offices was hit. on friday the dead included a 70-year-old woman, a baby and children. more families fled from their homes. looking for somewhere safe to go. but there aren't many options in a place where all the borders are closed. nicole johnston, al jazerra, gaza. gaza's main medical facility has been stretched to its limits during this conflict. this is a scene at the hospital. there have been many children among casualties. they are being treated for

shrapnel wouldn't and broken bones, bodies are piling up at the hospital's morgue. after 11 attacks on gas, a 308 people have been killed. that's according to the palestinian health ministry of them at least 73 are children. the number of people injured stands at more than 2,000. and the u.n.'s relief agency in gaza says about 40,000 people have had to flee their homes that, figure has almost doubled since the ground offensive began on thursday night. meanwhile, hamas' military wing is trying to show it's standing up to the attacks, they are released this video showing they are using the tunnels beneath gaza. they have been used by fighter to transport men and womens. they also use them to bring in food and fuel evading an israeli blockade. joining us now is stephanie dekker. the ground offensive is aimed as

destroying those tums that we have seen. as we have seen in nicole's report, that's not all that they are destroying. tank shells are also destroying homes and some in cases wiping out entire families. >> reporter: that's right. we have had that overnight. one case to the north, eight people killed, members of one family. i am trying to get out of shot so we can show you what's been happening. there has been a couple of air strikes in the last 10 minutes or so and also there has been a relentless shelling from tanks. i am going to stop talking and see if you can actually hear that. no, but it's -- i can tell you, it's been over the last hour there is around 10 seconds in between, it's a constant thud of shelling from tanks across that eastern border. so what they are trying to do, and this is something i am told they have done before over the years, is there are still residents in those border areas,

many people don't want to leave their homes, or certainly they will if they do leave them at night they try to come back during the day and this is a tactic to try to push people back. but what happens is we have seen many of these tank shells get in to people's homes, killing, many, many civilians, many children, 16 children in the last 20 hour hours have died here in gaza and that is something that people will tell you is increasing totally. >> yeah, and as we know, the israeli government has laid down conditions where the ground invasion can be expanded. what are people there telling you about, you know, their need for a ceasefire? that this has to end for them. >> reporter: yes, well, it's absolutely terrifying for them. especially when nightfalls. you can hear it, practically when the sun comes down, they'll

break their fast here, of course it's the month of ra ramadan. it's a successive campaign. and also from the air. so people do absolutely, of course, they want it to stop. because too many people are losing their lives here. you can hear it, like it's actually stepped up in the last 10 minutes or so bombing around us. but of course they want it to stop, but they also tell you that they have had, quite a few, there is that area which is to the left. i am not sure you can see it with the camera it's been struck three times now in the last 15 minutes, but they tell you that they want their lives to improve as well. like this is something that has happened, there have been three wars here over the last six years and nothing has changed. they achieve cease fires, but they say their lives don't improve, this is the gaza strip, of course, is under siege, its occupation, people can't leave, their borders are closed, israel and egypt both blocked the borders and israel controls

everything that comes in to here through the border crosses, there are no construction materials can come in. i was speaking to one man when he was hearing the stories from the other side because, of course, this is a two-sided conflict from israel people running in to shelters, he says we don't even get construction materials in here to rebuild our homes from previous wars, let alone how can we build bomb shelter to his save us. people are petrified here and they want it to end, but they also wants people to take their cause seriously. and to make things better for them here. >> stephanie, thanks for that. stephanie deck never gaza there. let's go to the israeli town on the gaza border. stephanie saying that the tank shelling going on was just absolutely insistent. like 10 seconds between each firing. you are probably in a better position to see what's going on. just describe what's happening. >> reporter: well, surely i can confirm what stephanie has been

reporting just now. because from our end here only two to three-kilometer as way from the border with gaza behind me we have been hearing for the last half hour very intensified shelling coming from tanks that are stationed on is really territory here on the side where we are reporting from shelling straight ahea at gaza, we are ce to north of gaza and as well close to gaza city and that shelling has been incessant for the last few minutes, the last 20 minutes at least. as you may have heard. i think we can show you some smoke, just right after this shelling happened right behind me over there appears to be somewhere in gaza city. >> yeah, we can see that and we can here it. so tell me about the diplomatic moves going on in the area today? we have ban ki-moon in the middle east. and he's apparently going to be in israel.

but what is it he thinks he can achieve? >> reporter: well, from what we understand, from reports that are quoting the u.n. under secretary for political a fairs jeffrey feldman is that ban ki-moon is interested in pursuing an egyptian-brokered ceasefire, especially following the one, the failed attempt to broker one by the egyptian president and also following israel's launch -- that's another rounds of shelling -- of a ground invasion. so we understand that he is going to express solidarity with both the palestinians and the is reallies, we don't know his schedule yet. but according to feldman, he would probably be visiting the palestinian territories and israel, but probably not gaza for security reasons. and feldman has also indicated that in these talks about a ceasefire in which palestinian president mahmoud abbas is very

involved in in cairo. abbas has indicated his willingness to deploy palestinian authority forces along the so-called philadelphia root or border the route on -- between gaza and egypt. and that allegedly hamas and other palestinian factions have used to smuggle in weapons, so feldman is saying this would probably enable the opening of the border crossing between egypt and gaza, which is a key palestinian demands, in order to achieve a ceasefire, but it's not clear whether hamas would accept having palestinian authority forces deployed along its border between gaza and egypt. >> interesting stuff. let reason, thanks very much for that. and as we can hear there that intense shelling kill continuing behind you.

still to come on the program, why iraqis taking refuge in the kurdish region feel they may never be able to return home. stay with us.

♪ ♪ hello again, welcome back. let's recipients minds you of the top stories now. pro-russia separatist have limited the access to the wreckage of the malaysia airliner. the u.s. says the aircraft was shot down by a missile in the rebel-held area. all 298 people on the plane were

killed. there has been no let up in gaza. for the second night troops are vanvleet pounded the territory. at least 308 people have died over 11 days of attacks. malaysia's transport minister is flying to ukraine as part of international efforts to secure access to the wreckage of the malaysia airliner. the u.n. security council has joined calls for an independent investigation to be carried out. as our diplomatic editor james bays aren't. >> reporter: they stood in silence. the members of the u.n. security council pausing their meeting to pay tribute to the almost 300 people who died on flight mh17. a moment of unity soon followed by a meeting in which this tragedy became a global crisis. things dramatically escalating when the u.s. ambassador made it

clear who her country holds responsible. >> let me share with you our assessment of the evidence so far. we assess malaysian airlines flight 17 carrying these 298 people from amsterdam to kuala los angelelumpur was likely dowa surface-to air missle also from eastern ukraine. >> reporter: ambassador power backed by hess british colleague went further saying one country alone was backing the separatists. >> the context for yesterday's horror is clear, separatist forces backed by the russian government continue to destabilize ukraine and undermined the effort of ukraine's elected leaders to build a democratic ukraine. >> let us here today clear and unequivocal condemnation from russia for the actions of these armed groups. these armed groups do not represent the people of ukraine. without russian support they

would weather. >> reporter: the russian ambassador then fought back with a completely different version of events. he places all the blame on the government in kiev. >> translator: i am sure that every reasonable person would ask themselves why the ukrainian aviation authority directed a passenger plane over the zone of military activity in to an area of military clashes, an area that was being used to carry out strikes, including on civilian targets. and that was the area where antiaircraft forces were already operating. >> reporter: one of the main challenges now is to get investigators to the crash site. there are calls for immediate ceasefire and a suggestion that monitors from the osce, an international security body with russian and western members to take the immediate lead. james bays, al jazerra. malaysia airlines has released a list of the nationalities of the 298 passengers on board flight mh17.

they include 192 from the netherlands. 27 australians, 44 malaysians and 12 indonesians. also on board 10 british nationals, four germans, four belgians, three from the philippines, one canadian, and one ne new zealander. of course an outpouring of grief across the netherlands the king and queen signed a book of condolence for the 192 dutch national killed in the crash. at the airport with mh17 took off, travelers and air support staff have also payed their respects. now, other news. diplomats negotiating the future of iran's controversial nuclear program have agreed to extend talks by four months. sunday was the original deadline for iran and six world powers to reach long-term agreements. teheran's nuclear fuel production capacity remains a stumbling block. it denies developing nuclear weapons, patty culhane has more.

>> reporter: it was clear the six powers and iran were not going to be reach ideal by their self-imposed deadline of sunday so they have extends the negotiations for another four months over iran's nuclear program bringing the deadline to november 24th. as part of the deal, iran will get access to $2.8 billion of its money that's been held in overseas accounts and the negotiations will continue. secretary of state john kerry saying, well, there are very rear gaps that remain, there is a very real prospect for a peaceful solution. in iraq, the advance of islamic state fighters have displaced hundreds of thousands of people. many have fled for a refugees camp in the kurdish controlled region in the north. and as dana reports, many want to go home. >> reporter: it was a show of solidarity to the displaced people of iraq that is how the united nations high commissioner for refugees an be antonio gutierrez described his visit to

this camp just outside mosul, hundreds of families have been living here since june 10 when the isil pushed people out. people here had a long list of complaints, but what they fear the most is never returning home. >> what they want is to be able to go back home. and to restart their lives. >> reporter: but reconciling iraq's communities won't be easy. some people here are shia. they are no longer welcome in sunni areas. others are sunni, but they can't return because their family members work for the iraqi army and police. up to 1.2 million iraqis moved in to the kurdish controlled territories over recent weeks. but the dudder stan regional government was already hosting up to a million iraqis displaced since the u.s. invasion in 2003. there 250,000 syrian refugees here, kurdish officials say this is a huge burden.

the cured stan regional government has fallen out with the central government in baghdad, no longer getting their share of the government money. >> the groupings are controlling this area and they have. [ inaudible ] so we are following a procedure to provide and continue the security in the area. >> reporter: those measures anger the many here. >> we don't even go to the hospital. we weren't allowed to move, we are only allowed it stay here. >> reporter: those who don't have a cured to sponsor them aren't allowed inside urban sent, he many of the displaced here say they feel discriminated against because of their ethnicity and religion, it is a sensitive time in iraq and the political divide that is created everybody more barriers between the people who are struggling to

survive. al jazerra. activists in syria say fighters from the islamic state have captured a gas field and killed 100 workers and soldiers. amateur video said to show dead bodies dressed in military fatigues. the fate of more than 200 people who were captured is still unknown. southern china, where a powerful typhoon has left one person dead. it made landfall on friday with wind speeds of more than 200-kilometers per hour. over 25,000 residents have by vac waited. the typhoon has left thousands of people homeless in the philippines, 54 people were killed when the storm hit earlier this week. some residents have began repairing houses damaged by the typhoon. united states is stepping up the deportation of undocumented migrants from central america. thousands of people, including eye record number of children have arrived in the u.s. in recent months.

they have been fleeing violence and poverty in country likes honduras, guyed mall guatemalal salvador. many are being put on planes and returned home. three al jazerra journalists have spent 203 days in a prison. they are falsely accused. they were jailed for seven years last month. mohamed was also given seven years but received an additional three because he had a spent bullet on his possession which he had picked up at a protest. al jazerra continues to demand that the journalist be freed. now, two and a half years after the costa concordia rana ground off the italian island, a massive salvage operation is almost complete. emma heyward has been finding out what islanders think of the giant cruise ship as it makes its final voyage to the scrap

yard. >> reporter: battered, broken and bolted together by tons of steel to trying to make hersey are seaworthy again. she is per encarnacio preparingl voyage. so too is the island where she came to be so tragically two years ago. what is so striking isn't just how big the costa concordia is or how broken it is, it's how it's become em beded in this island's story. in january 2012, the mayor found himself coordinating the rescue operation. after the cruise liner collided with rocks. 30 to people died on on that cold winter's night. since then the island has been transformed. >> translator: not only ike khropblg klee this matter has a are affected our way of life over the past 30 months it also strongly affected our economy and our way of living here.

windsers were very beautiful and silent. but today they are very busy. the soul of the island has changed. >> reporter: its crystal clear waters always brought the tourists here, but intrigue has attracted many, many more. the restaurants and hotels have been bolstered too by hundreds of salvage workers who have made this island their home. that is until the costa concordia leaves some here wants the local legacy of the ship wreck to be more than the dollars pumped in to the economy. franca is collecting snooze calling for part of the structure used to secure the ship to be left and turned in to a dive site. >> today these platforms give new life to the area of the sea which was destroyed. removing them would be the true damage to the environment. >> reporter: what happened here had the poe 1 potential to deste town. when it leaves there will be

mixed feelings, a new chapter will begin. but this island will never forget what the costa concordia brought to its shores. emma heyward, al jazerra. and you can keep up-to-date with all the day's developments, news and sport at aljazerra.com. personal says the downing of a passenger plane is a wake up kowalis colog for the world. while he supports israel's grounds assault in gaza, he says there needs to be peace talks, this is the "inside story." ♪ ♪