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we begin in eastern ukraine request malaysia airlines flight mh17 was shot down. ukrainian government now says they have evidence that russia supplied the missile system that brought the plane down killing all 298 people aboard. >> we know for sure that the team was russian. they were russian citizens operating bukm1 and they came from the territory of russian federation together with the missile launcher. >> pro-russian rebels allowed ukrainian emergency workers to recover bodies from the crash site this morning. but european international monitors were again denied access. the ukrainian government says the crime scene still isn't secure and that yesterday dozens of bodies were removed from the scene and then transport today the rebel-held city of don everything. they say several items that should have been evidence have already been taken from the site. al jazerra's scott heidler is at the scratch eight with more. >> reporter: when we came from a

two hour drive to hear, we saw lighter presence at the checkpoints, i'm not sure that's why they say it will be easier to they say for the investigators to come in. but one thing needs to be needed too. you have a 20-kilometer safety zone around the site. but you don't have a corridor. a lot of international groups coming here investigators, doctors, forensic doctors they have to come to this location, if it's safe around here that's one thing, but is it safe to get here, that's the bigger issue. i bring that up because we have been here for a couple of hours and off in the distance, quite far in the distance we have been hearing fighting going on. this is still a battle zone, there might be a safety zone around this location, but there is still a battle going on, and what we have been hearing is the distinct sounds of multiple launch systems, brad systems outgoing, where the exact battle is, we don't know, but it's still an active battle area. what's changed here so far today? more markers for more bodies.

the boys are not covered, any that we have seen are not covered. in the main sight o site of whes aircraft came down. we are in the part where the biggest chunks came down if you will. the earth scorched it smells of fuel still. if jamie can pan over here, you can see the first thing, the first time we have seen this and that is a memorial to those 298 people that lost their lives. we spoke to the woman who picked the flowers locally just in the fields around us and put them on what once was the wing and she said she did that because there are 80 children who are on this aircraft. and they perished and she has grandchildren of the same age. so she felt the need to put some kind of memorial on that wing. again, this area, much more on friday was yard ended off bicep test fighters seeing less of that today. in fact, there is this rural road that goes through the debris fields and farm fields and the public buses are back running up and down. so when i look at from a forensic standpoint, an

investigative standpoint, this is not a cordoned off scene this is now a contaminated scene. malaysia airlines has released the latest list of those aboard the flight. 193 people were from the netherlands including quinn lucas, who was a student with dual dutch and american citizenship. 43 malaysians were also on board, 15 of whom were crew members and two who were infants. the u.s. is sending a team of experts to help the ukrainian government figure out exactly what happened. john terrett joins us live now from washington with more. john, what help is the united states offering right now? >> reporter: well, in the past couple of days, morgan, the president has pointed out that personnel are on their way from the fbi and the ntsb, the national transportation safety board. now ajam can put more detail on that. at least one member of staff from the quantico lab in virginia is going out to had he been with the forensics

according to the fbi. the ntsb said last night a member of staff took off for kiev and is expected to arrive in the capital sometime today. all of this comes as president obama continues to push for an independent, international investigation in to what happened to flight mh17. at the moment, only the organization for security and cooperation in europe is on the ground. they spent 75 minutes there yesterday, today we are told they were on site as well but denied access by the separatist fighters to the wreckage, the site, they didn't get close to the wreckage. all of this 24 hours after samantha power who is the u.s. ambassador to the united nations called for immediate and unfettered access to the crash site for all international agency. >> you have mentioned the ntsb and the international monitors who did in fact get in this morning. what about the politicians, at the political level how is western europe and other members of the international community respond to go what's been really rapidly unfolding. >> it's interesting, the international policing oreses

interpol and its european counterpart have offered today at the request of the kiev government they are said to be on the way. they are going to help with the identification of victims from flight mh17. a sports persons from euro pol. refuse today comment on whether or not they had guaranteed access to the crash site or not. the problem here, just to remind you, the site is controlled bicep tests backed by russia. they don't accept any authority from kiev. now, on top of that, the french are going, the bea, that's their air accident investigation bureau. they are the people that looked in the crash of air force 447 off the coast of brazil in the atlantic ocean in 2009. the netherlands have offered the that layer ens of course, an ma layer ends and thmalaysians e branch of the u.n. but who knows if they will get access to the wreckage itself the organization for security and corporation in europe tried

today and weren't allowed. >> certainly a situation we will be continuing to monitor. john terrett joining us live in washington, d.c. john, always a pressure. at least six people killed on flight mh17 or their way to an hiv aids conference happening in australia. scientists and activists from the international aids society paid tribute in melbourne today. among passengers was a well-known researcher and spokesman for the world health organization glen thomas. who is based in jamaica. >> we discussed this, of course, among ourselves, our friends, our colleagues, and what we agreed and i think we had a real consensus, everyone agreed, that the colleagues that we have lost were people who committed their lives and their work to hiv aids and they would want this conference to go forward. and that they would want us to have them in our hearts during the conference. >> officials say they don't yet know just how many of those victims were going to that conference. meanwhile, ukrainians right here

in the states are remembering the hundreds of lives lost in malaysia airlines tragedy. they held a candle light individual ill last nights on the streets of philadelphia. some even left ukrainian flag. now to our top story. it's the third day of israel's ground offense, enough gas a israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he may expand that operation. ban ki-moon is going to visit as early as this weekend. so far over 300 pa palestinians killed and over 200 injured. rocket fight. two israelis have also been killed including a soldier, nicole johnston has more 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 sr-pblg meeting of the united nations security council. the palestinian 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: is seal says it'sis protectinprotecting itself. >> there is no country in the world that tolerate an assault on its citizens and israel should not be expect today either. >> reporter: the unite u.s. tooh sides. >> no family should have to live being unsafe in their homes. >> reporter: however the u.s. president reaffirmed his support for israel. >> no nation should accept rockets being fired in to its borders or terrorists it upping in to its territory. >> reporter: while the

politician have his hirayama a lot to say about gaza. palestinians were being injured and killed in their homes. pounded by tank shells and artillery fire. the israeli army released this video showing tums in gaza fighters used to tack israel they say. the military warns its frowned are ground offensive will be expanded. >> we have gone up a notch and taken it to the ground maneuve maneuvers. and ground mobilization. >> reporter: hamas and other groupings are still firing rockets and action attacking israeli soldiers. >> translator: we are fully prepared for a long lasting battle with the okay takal forces the enemy has witnessed only the tip of the ice work. >> reporter: israeli air strikes are continuing. a immediate ye building was hit o friday the dead include 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 any options in a place where all the borders of closed. nicole johnston, al jazerra, gaza. >> funerals from friends and family are now a daily occurrence in gaza where mourners held a funeral for three children killed on friday. gaza's health minister said a fifth of the palestinians killed have been children. many remain homeless. the relief organization says it needs $66 million by tomorrow or else it will run out of emergency supplies. al jazerra's nick schifrin has more from gaza city. >> reporter: conditions for the residents of gaza if they weren't already are becomingpractices, they need

$66 million for basic necessities like water, food, blankets the hundreds of thousands of gas ans need right now. focus behind me is the northeast corner of the gaza strip where a lot of the rockets have been flying from gaza in to israel especially the ones traveling north to tel aviv. the israeli army has focused its air strikes in the last week and a half in that area and now the ground operation is in its second day is focusing tank shelling and artillery shelling in those areas. that is why so many residents are fleeing come hoo tore gaza city that's why the u.n. needs all of that basic necessities water, food, shelter for those tphraoegsz. the israeli army says it's focusing on two things, tunnels and rocket launchers they say they found 13 tunnels. that is new. we have never seen that number of tums being used by fighters here in gaza to get in to israel. usually those tunnels are used within gas and within gas city to launch those rockets, so the

israel israeli military is focu. but the toll is being take own civilians. last night we saw nine members i've single family killed. and the worry among residents and the u.n. clearly, is that the toll on residents will increase as this grounds operation continues. >> israel says one of its main objectives in gaza is to target and detroit a network of hidden underground tums. hamas released this video of soldiers running through one of those tunnels running through the sheet. some of the tunnels lead straight in to israel. and israel says it's found 13 of them that could be used to carry out on tacks, several palestinian fighters entered israel through one tunnel on saturday. the israeli military says one of the palestinian fighters was killed in a fire fight and the rest fled back in to gaza. two israeli soldiers were injured in that attack. israel's death toll climbed to

three on saturday when a rocket fired from gaza killing a resident in the southern desert. nisreen has more. >> reporter: we are two to three-kilometers way from the northern part of the gas strip and, again today we have been seeing a lot of shelling and hearing shelling from israeli tanks based on israeli territory shelling targets in gaza behind me. so that has continued throughout saturday. now, separately we do know that there are diplomatic efforts by the united nations secretary general ban ki-moon in order to reach a ceasefire to stop the fighting between gaza and israel. we understand that ban ki-moon is going to be arriving in the region to try to advance the talks on the ceasefire that is brokered by egypt. he would like to see this ceasefire happen very soon. now, we understand from jeffrey feltman who is the under secretary for political affairs

at the united nations that ban ki-moon will be meeting with the israelis and palestinians he will be expressing solidarity with both of them. he will be going to the west bank and jerusalem but probably won't be going to the gaza strip for security reasons now, according to feltman, there is a proposal by the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas in order to reach a ceasefire and he's saying that he's willing to sends palestinian authority forces to man the philadelphia corridor which is the route between gaza and israel in order to guarantee the opening of the border crossing between gaza and egypt. that's the key palestinian demand because hamas has said it will not agree to a ceasefire unless there is an easing of the siege and the restrictions imposed by egypt. but feltman says that it remains to be unknown whether hamas what agree to having palestinian authority forces based on its border with egypt.

next on al jazerra america, a refugee crisis spurring from the violence in iraq.

president obama will sit down with leaders from central america next week. and on the agenda, the massive amount of unaccompanied children entering the united states. as the president prepares for the high profile gathering, dozens of migrants departed from the united states are now headed back home. border officials say that most of coming from honduras, guatemala and el salvador. the u.s. is urging the government of those country to his stop the children from coming over in the first place, officials are warn that go the u.s. will take steps to sends them back immediately. iran and six world powers have agreed to extend nuclear talks until november. that agreement was reached after both sides acknowledged that they wouldn't meet that july 20th deadline. nuclear talks have been ongoing since last november and world leaders are now trying to get

iran to curtail its nick lahr program all in exchange for an easing of sanctions. on you over in neighboring iraq three bombs went off in a shopping district in baghdad in the span of 10 minutes, at least 27 people were killed and accord to this local place the sueed by bombers close cars full of explosives straight in the area. the iraqi government has been trying to secure baghdad mostly because they are concerned the city might fall by mosul. while all this is happening, hundreds of iraqi ref gentlemens are fleeing the violence each and every day. and they are arriving in refugees camps in neighboring countries, dana has more. >> reporter: it is a show of solidarity to the displaced people of iraq, that's now the commissioner antonio gutierrez described his visit to the camp outside mo such hundreds of families have been living here since june 10 when the self declared islam i state and other

sunni fighters took the army out of their cities. 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 kurdistan regional government was already hosting up to a million iraqis displaced since the u.s. invasion in 2003. there are also 250,000 syrian refugees here, kurdish officials say this is a huge burden. the kurdistan regional government has fallen out with the central government in bag dad, it no longer gets its share of the national budget. but it's not just money.

the massive influx of people has raised security concerns for kurdses whkurds who considered f declared islamic state their enemy. >> you knowyouyou maybe, you kne groups are controlling this area, and they are targeting. so we are following a procedure to proceed the aid. >> reporter: those measures angered many here. >> we can't go to the hospital. we report allowed to move. we are only allowed to stay here. >> reporter: those who don't have a cured to sponsor them aren't allowed inside urban centers. 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 has created even more barriers between the people who are struggling to survive. dana, al jazerra. there has been a violent attack at a gas field in central syria. and this amateur video right

here shows rebel fighters walking along a number, large number of dead bodies. that footage was released by the syrian observatory for human rights research the activists say the rebels killed over 100 guards and workers all during clashes with government forces. at this it time, however, al jazerra has not independently verified the account of this attack. coming up next on al jazerra america, destructive wildfires blaze through parts of washington state. stay tuned.

good morning, to you and welcome back to al jazerra america. live from new york city i am morgan radford. it's the third day of israel's ground offensive in gaza and over 300 palestinians have been killed. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon will visit israel and the palestinian territories this weekend. over in ukraine, the government says it has evidence that the missile that brought down flight mh17 did, in fact, come from

russia and was operated by russians. meanwhile, pro-russian rebels allowed ukrainian emergency workers to recover bodies from the crash site this morning. but european international monitors were, again, denied access. the your honor will be u.s.n tours along with other groupings sending experts to help the ukrainian government figure out exactly what happened. a member of the national transportation safety board is arriving in kiev today. now, imagine taking a flight all wait across the world but knowing that you may actually be flying through a war zone. did you know, for example, that each airliner assesses the danger of flight paths differently. that means that some planes fly closer to conflict than others. al jazerra takes a look at how airliners deal with those hotspots. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration and agencies around the world routinely issue notices to airmen, or note ems for sure warning of hotspots on the

ground. recent warnings highlighted ukraine and syria. each carrier assesses risks differently. some war zones fall right along or near major air transportation routes. before mh17's crash, airlines like klm, had been flying over the ukraine avoiding the creme vinnicrimeanpeninsula but air cd others had avoided it. in a statement. air canada tells real money as a precautionary measure we have been avoiding the area for seven rag months already. we do not perceive any impact on our passengers. however, as all major airlines divert flights to avoid the ukraine entirely. aviation consultants and retired airline captain ross says there will be an impact to the bottom line. >> it will cost the airlines perhaps a little more money to take a longer route. a little longer flight plan, flight time. and eventually they'll pass that

cost to their passengers in terms of ticket prices. >> reporter: july 18th radar images show almost no traffic over known hotspots like syria, pakistan and afghanistan. but flights to the mideast regularly flyover iraq. unless the state officially restricts its air space, like north kariya, airlines can take a chance and flyover. every hour hundreds of flights take off and thousands are in the air somewhere around the world. some of these flights will knowingly travel above or near war zones. for example, planes traveling from johannesburg to london often flyover warring regions of africa losing altitude it -- using at albuquerque toot it is a safety net. malaysia airlines was a thousand feet above. the safest path is to avoid flying over conflict zones, however that option sometimes comes with higher costs.

>> this is all about money. what determines a route of flight is by the airline, by the dispatch, is the shortest line between two points. >> reporter: between two points, where hundreds of people lost their lives. al jazerra. ♪ ♪ >> meteorologist: good saturday to you. checking out the weather across the country it's quiet, from the central west. we are seeing most of the active weather across the u.s. where it is a soggy day for your afternoon plans especially across the southeast in the ohio valley where it's been raining all day long. we will see a few hit or miss showers across mainly western washington as the frontal boundary tries to slide in, but where we need the rain unfortunately doesn't look like we'll get it.

we are still dealing with a anybody of wild fires across this area, including parts of northern washington and northern oregon. i want to show you video out of washington of a wildfire that has been known to destroy at least up to 100 homes. it's really created a challenge for firefighters because they are not really seeing a break in the weather. again, we have a frontal boundary moving through but still expecting very little in the way of rain and some very strong wind gusts across the area. of course we have been watching the winds because they are going to continue to blow that smoke further inland and off to the east creating some really bad air quality across this area, because the air is just really pretty stagnant. now, our frontal boundary is really going just get hung up here across western washington, near seattle to the west of the cascades that's where we are going see the best trans of the rain, otherwise dealing with red flag warnings up across the area, all down in to idaho where it remains warm and dry. morgan. >> eboni, thanks so much. and thank you for watching

al jazerra america live from new york city. i am morgan radford. stay tuned because "inside story" is coming up next and, recognize, you can always catch us online 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." ♪ ♪