hello, everyone, i'm amara walker. >> i'm errol barnett. thanks for staying with us. welcome to those of you in the u.s. and around the world. the remains of more victims of malaysia flight 17 are returning to the netherlands today. we'll look into what's next in this grim process. >> one child has been killed each hour in gaza over the past two days. more innocent victims in the gaza conflict. we're live with details about where efforts stand to broker a cease-fire between israel and hamas. >> and in the u.s. state of arizona, an execution of a convicted murderer was supposed to take a few minutes but instead it took nearly two hours. we'll have details on what happened after the man was given a lethal injection. >> it may be hard to believe, but it was one week ago now that a malaysia airlines flight, flight 17, crashed in a field in

eastern ukraine killing all 198 people on board. >> 74 more coffins of people who died in the crash will be returned to the netherlands. authorities hope all the passengers remains they have recovered so far will be return bid friday. >> meanwhile, british security officials have something which could be significant. they say they have conversations intercepted by ukrainian intelligence showing russian-backed rebels talking about having possession of an sa-11 missile system as early as monday, july 14. that's three days before the malaysian airliner was shot down. >> the report says separatists talked about moving bodies at the crash site. >> now authorities have to begin the grim task of examining now and identifying the bodies of those kills on board flight mh-17. >> the first 40 coffins arrived in the netherlands on wednesday. senior international

correspondent nick peyton walsh reports. >> in many of their hearts were dreams of beaches, tranquil vacations. 298 lives taken here in a war they may have known little of. after days of painful pleading with separatists, this train of five refrigerated wagons brought them closer to a resting place. but behind closed walls began the grim task of working out how many human souls were in the body bags on board. a journey that began so unceremoniously could only grow in dignity. a dutch c-130 taking 16 coffins, four loaded in silence. ukraines embattled army honoring as them as they could. global opinion at one in sadness. >> we stand together today

united in grief with the families and friends who have lost people they cherish. >> as much dignity as can be afforded these bodies on this far perhaps the easiest part of their journey back to the netherlands. 40 in total carried out today, the rest, they hope, by friday. only then can forensic science begin to work out who and how many they were. as they landed, the noise of recrimination was drowned out by a more powerful silence of respect, grief. the netherlands planes briefly stopped flights, paused entirely for a minute. they played the last post on the bugle, normally for fallen soldiers, instead for these, perhaps victims of a war crime. the line of hearses, this for only one seventh of those killed witness to how mammoth and sickening this loss is to the netherlands. even when these processions end,

the search for bodies may not. some perhaps left in that field in ukraine. their families left with only time to help cope with the loss and forget how mh-17 came to end. nick peyton walsh, cnn, kharkiv. >> and in another development, the u.s. is now investigating in a separate incident whether the missiles shot two ukrainian fighter jets were shot down from russia. pro-russian rebels are claiming responsibility for bringing down those fighter jets and they say they used a shoulder fired missile system the ukrainian defense says it was possibly from inside russia. the pilots ejected after they were hit but the ukrainian military hasn't given any word on their conditions.

u.s. secretary of state john kerry reports some progress in talks toward an israel/hamas cease-fire. >> so far there is no clear way forward. kerry met wednesday with the israeli and palestinian authority leaders the key is getting hamas to agree with a cease-fire, a proposal it has already rejected once but a hamas spokesman signalled some movement in an interview wednesday with cnn. >> if there was direct contact to hamas and they are under the same conditions, i don't think that there will be any problem for hamas to say yes. >> u.s. aviation authorities have lifted the ban on american flights into and out of tel aviv and that, of course, comes as a big relief to israel. john vause has more. he's joining me live now from jerusalem. john, israel pushed back hard saying that this flight ban was essentially handing hamas a victory. as you said, they must be quite

relieved but i guess now it comes to whether or not these airlines will choose to fly this path. >> i guess it's a question of when now they decide that it's safe enough for these carriers to land at ben-gurion airport with the faa now lifting that ban, clearly a lot of airlines will resume those flights. the timing, though, is the issue you did mention this will be a great relief for the israelis. in fact, they have raised this with john kerry, the u.s. secretary of state when he was here, they're very concerned that ben-gurion airport may in fact be closed down but for a handful of carriers and this faa ban in place only 22 carriers had been landing at the tel aviv airport this was a big issue, 90% of these people coming in and out of this country, they do it via ben-gurion airport. now that that ban has been lifted it was under review, it

was apparently going to be in place until 7:00 tonight here which is 11 hours from now but now the ban has been lifted. so it's up to those individual airlines to make that decision whether or not they believe it is safe enough. the israelis certainly thing so. the airlines believe it's safe you have no land at ben-gurion airport. >> as we saw over the past couple days, a lot has been made about this flight ban into ben-gurion airport. we saw the former new york city mayor michael bloomberg arriving in testify veef demonstrating it is safe to fly into that airport. there are allegations that the obama administration was using this ban to pressure israel to a cease-fire. you were on one of those first flights diverted on its way to tel aviv. you ended up in paris but what were the people saying on that flight? did they think that this was an overreaction? >> a lot of people did think the faa and delta airlines in

particular -- because that's the flight that i was on -- were, in fact, overreacting. they believed the airport was safe. they say the rocket landed about a mile away from the airport and officials have moved flights away from the southern end of the airport so it was out of the ranger of hamas rockets. or at least they thought. there are missile interceptions and the iron dome protection system in place around ben-gurion airport and the threat of hamas, rockets had, in fact, complicated the push for a cease-fire because there was a thought that if hamas could almost close down ben-gurion airport but close it down for all intents and purposes that would put more pressure on the israelis not to agree to a

cease-fire because then it becomes harder for them because they clearly need to eliminate that strategic threat from hamas with those missiles before they could stop the ground operation or the air strikes on gaza. now ban has been lifted. that's no longer an issue when it comes to the cease-fire negotiations. >> john, let's talk about the prospects for a cease-fire. you've covered this region extensively for many years and as we've heard hamas does have some demands including an end to the blockade, the air, land, and sea blockade of gaza. will israel in your opinion consider an end to the blockade? >> look, that's a long and difficult issue for the israelis to deal with, this is the problem we have. the israelis have their demands, hamas have their demands and right now it's difficult to deal with these two competing dema s

demands, reopen the borders from hamas's point of view, demilitarize gaza from the israeli's point of view while also trying to stop the fighting. it is a positive sign that john kerry flew from tel aviv to cairo overnight so he's still the region. and you have what's known now as sequencing. when they put in place some kind of formula to stop the fighting and deal with those much bigger issues. i think the only way the israelis may be inclined to agree to the border being reopened, they may be inclined to allow the raffa border to be reopened. the egyptians don't want to take control of raffa, they don't want anything do with it, or maybe a stretch in the palestinian authority are put in charge of that border crossing, not hamas, hamas is probably unlikely to accept that so it's very complicated and very difficult to negotiate this

where you're trying to stop both sides from killing each other. >> challenging and complex might be an understand statement. john vause, appreciate your reporting from jerusalem. thank you. israel was critical of the faa ban it's sharply critical of the u.n. human rights councils move to investigate human rights abuses in gaza. the council voted at a meeting in geneva. he says the u.s. should be investigating hamas for turning hospitals and schools into weapons depoes. the council points to the very high number of civilian deaths in gaza and the killing of children in particular. our paula hancocks has more. >> reporter: more children than hamas fighters have been killed so far in gaza according to the united nations innocent victims of a conflict they were born into. >> one child has been killed each hour in gaza over the past

two days. each of these children had a name and the future and a life that was cut horribly short. >> reporter: they went to the beach to flay football. it cost them their lives. four children, aged 9 to 11, killed by israeli fire. another father loses a son. small bodies carried through the streets of gaza and grief over lives barely begun yet already ove over. names of young victims were read out tuesday at the u.n. by palestinian observer riyadh mansour. children are often the biggest casualties in gaza and surprising as almost half of the population is under the age of 14. in the midst of one of the most densely populated territories on earth, there are few places for the young to run and hide. of more than 600 palestinians

killed, 161 are children as of wednesday morning. a third are under the age of 18. even those without physical scars bear the invisible battle wounds of trauma. losing parents or homes or simply listening to the macabre sound track of a battle fought nearby with such a large young population unable to leave gaza no one doubts that more small graves will be dug and filled before this fighting ends. paula hancocks, cnn, new york f. a german astronaut calls it his saddest photo yet. alexander gerst shared a picture of gaza as seen from space. he tweeted from the international space station "we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over gaza and israel." this photo has been retweeted

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some gains in the asia markets there. welcome back, everyone. the governor of the u.s. state of arizona has now ordered a review after a convicted killer condemned to die remained alive almost two hours after his execution had begun. we have the story of the death of joseph wood. >> reporter: the length of time it took to execute joseph wood took everyone by surprise. here's the time line. at 1:52, a doctor delivered the lethal injection. by 1:57, wood was sedated. then at 2:02, he began to breathe and a minute later his mouth moved. witnesses report hearing him gasping and snorting for nearly two hours. >> you could hear a deep snoring, sucking air sound. >> i counted about 660 times he sort of gasped, kind of looked like as if he was trying to breathe or catch air. >> finally at 3:49, almost two

hours after the lethal injection, a doctor pronounced wood dead. executions typically take ten minutes. wood's execution clearly did not go off as plan. but his unexpectedly prolonged death did not concern his victims' family. >> everybody's more worried about did he suffer. who really suffered was my dad and my sister when they were killed. >> jeannie brown and her husband witnessed wood's murdered 25 years ago, they dispute the witnesses who claim wood was gasping. >> to me it looked like he was sleeping, he was snoring. that's what i saw. >> reporter: after the execution, they dismissed concerns about the secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs. >> this man conducted a horrifying murder and you guys are going "oh, let's worry about the drug." well, why didn't we give him a bullet?

joseph wood wood's attorney dale baich watched the execution and spoke with us this hour. here's his account of what happened. >> after mr. wood gave his last words, the chemicals began to flow and his eyes closed and his brooiftding appeared to stop about five minutes into the process a medical team member came in and did a consciousness check he said mr. wood was sedated. about five minutes after that his lips began to move. and he exhaled and began gasping for air. and that gasping went on for an

hour and 40 minutes. >> very descriptive account there. wood's lawyers filed an appeal asking he be resuscitating saying his rights against cruel and unusual punishment were being violated but that request was deniedenied. it's sure to stoke debate about the death penalty. amara? an american teenager has been killed and his father is missing after a plane they were in crashed off the coast of american samoa. both were pilots attempting to set a record for flying around the world. their families say the plane crashed into the ocean on tuesday night. the u.s. coast guard is sending a ship to help search for the father. so far there's been no sign of the plane's flight data recorder still to come here on cnn, dozens are killed in another plane crash and this one in

taiwan. we'll look at why weather conditions may have been to blame.

right now investigators in taiwan are working to determine the exact cause of a plane crash that killed dozens of people during stormy weather. >> the transasia airways turboprop plane came down near an airport on one of taiwan's penghu islands and crashed into homes. >> we'll bring in david mckenzie following this from our beijing bureau. david, we're talking about weather being a cause because that's all we know at this point, there was a storm in the region. walk us through what details are available at this early stage. >> well, errol, we do know that tragically more than 40 people were killed in this crash and the plane in question, an atr-72, is well known for dealing with short runways and tricky scenarios like this, according to the manufacturer. but what happened, errol, this

plane was already delayed because of the weather, the severe weather in the area, typhoon matmo had just swept through taiwan, was on its way out of the region into mainland china when this plane was cleared to take off for the relatively short flight from southern taiwan to one of the penghu islands. it appears that it tried to land and then bailed out of that landing, was in communications with the tower and then lost communications and crashed right into a residential area. and those dramatic pictures of the plane mangled in those houses and despite that it appears several people might have escaped the wreckage, though their injuries at this stage are unclear. errol? >> we should explain the penghu islands off of taiwan's west coast where this storm is still churning is that it moved from taiwan to china. this type of plane, though, would travel to islands like

this on a regular basis. talk to us about exactly where this happened. >> this is a short flight. planes like this into other islands and between taiwan islands so this would have been a very regular scheduled flight according to taiwanese media there were several other plane which is landed without any problems. you know, i want you to take a look at the plane in question. this was shot by a plane enthusiast several years ago of the exact plane and you can see this turboprop plane, you know, is almost perfectly designed for these kind of short haul flights that you get all across the world with domestic carriers like transasia airways. now, certainly the airline says they're doing everything they can to assist family members, there were at least two foreigners, french nationals, on

board the flight that crashed and they are scrambling assistance from the main part of taiwan, both military and civilian, to help in the recovery efforts at this stage. now, very early to tell, of course, questions being asked about the weather conditions as you've said, errol, but they have managed to recover the black box or flight data recorder. that should get more information to investigators. but certainly taiwan will be an area in mourning today as they wake up to this tragic news. >> we'll see what information these black boxes reveal. david mckenzie, live for us from our beijing bureau. thanks, david. let's get a closer look now at the weather at the time of the crash. >> our meteorologist joins us from the international weathercenter. as we looked at this yesterday, we all the talked about the size of this storm and how it may have moved over the island but it was still leaving heavy rains in the area. >> it was. the storm made landfall in china

two hours before this plane took off from taiwan. so you would think the conditions would began to clear back behind the storm system but that was not the case when you look at the radar imagery and slide imagery we have across there portion of taiwan. to give you the perspective with this storm system, it was not a super typhoon, it was not expected to become one. but it had winds equivalent to a category two hurricane, around 100 miles per hour, 160 kph. it made landfall in eastern taiwan. when it pushed towards china, 3:30 in the afternoon wednesday, is when it made landfall there across portions of eastern china but the airplane took off two hours after this plane made -- this storm made landfall. and there's penghu island right here. i want to show you the perspective of video in this region when the storm system landed in taiwan. hurricane force winds abound, damaging conditions. we know hundreds of trees down across portions of taiwan. of course, some flights halted at the peak of this storm system but this was after the storm had

passed through and we still had residual moisture behind. look at the second piece of video here. a rare perspective as a driver had a camera aboard. you see one of the trees come down right on top of their vehicle out there. we know this driver not severely hurt but a scary perspective in place. i want to show you the radar imagery. this is when the storm has cleared on into portions of china but back behind it what we call training is taking place. essentially like boxcars on a train. you have one storm behind another one, behind another one and they fuel from one another and that's what we saw take place over penghu island and the conditions during this time were around 60 kilometers per hour. that was the wind speeds of about 40 miles per hour on the island. we had about a mile visibility in place, rainfall totals 100 millimeters in just three hours. that's about four inches in three hours times so we know the weather definitely was not ideal for flying in this region and this is something that investigators we heard are going to be looking at carefully with us twin prop engine aircraft coming down there.

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welcome back this thursday. to those of you watching in the u.s. and around the world, i'm errol barnett. and i'm amara walker. here are the headlines at this hour. another 74 coffins carrying the remains of those killed on malaysia airlines flight 17 are scheduled to arrive in the netherlands today. family, friends, and dignitaries greeted the first 40 coffins wednesday. the bodies will be examined and identified before being returned to their home countries. the u.s. federal aviation administration has now lifted its ban on u.s. flights to tel aviv. the faa announced the decision late wednesday after reviewing what it calls significant new

information. and we also have this information just in to cnn. according to the latest figures from the gaza health ministry, some 715 people in gaza have been killed since the beginning of israeli military operations. so the death toll now well above 700. at least 40 people are dead following two separate suicide bombings in a town in northern nigeria wednesday. the blasts targeted a well-known muslim cleric and the former military ruler who's also an opposition politician. both survived. a 24-hour curfew is now in place. a review is under by that the u.s. state of arizona a convict sentenced to die remained alive for almost two hours after his execution began. joseph wood received the lethal injection on wednesday. his lawyers say the mix of drugs used was experimental. they called it a bungled execution as he struggled to breathe. other witnesses say wood did not suffer and they say he got what he deserved.

the job of tending to the hundreds killed and thousands wounded in gaza falls to the red cross and the palestinian red crescent. >> and their work entails combing the war-torn streets even as the shells and bullets fly. our ben wedeman went along for a first-hand look at the dangers they face. >> reporter: they came to look for the living and the dead, but had to turn back under fire. as did we. sniper back there. the red cross and the palestinian red crescent entered the battered and embattled gaza city neighborhood. red cross veteran larry maybee cautiously confident they could do their job. >> until now i'm relatively comfortable with the security situation. i expect it might get more difficult as we progress down this way. >> reporter: the israeli

military has shelled this area almost around the clock for more than four days as part of its offensive against hamas. the rescue workers well aware they needed to tread carefully. >> obviously this is making me nervous. we don't want to make them nervous. >> reporter: some residents took advantage of their presence to retrieve possessions. "my brother's house is gone," says this man. "nobody there was a fighter and now we're homeless." this man fled before the fighting began. his house is now in ruins. "do you see?" he asks. "they're hitting civilians. they didn't hit one of the fighters or any of their so-called military targets. look at what they did. they destroyed the houses, the street and killed civilians." this fireman tells me "i've never seen destruction like

this." they tried and failed to retrieve either the living or the dead. the shooting -- it's not clear from whom -- was too intense. the small arms fire is increasing in intensity and directed at us. i think the problem is there are too many people here. too many civilians. if it was just us it might be different so we're -- we're coming back. there are two people trapped in rubble wounded. i want to try to go in on foot to get those two before we go back. >> reporter: did you find anybody? >> no. there's the front line there and there's the line. >> reporter: it seems that given the risk here with explosions up the street and perhaps sniper fire the risks for the red cross and the palestinian red crescent are simply too much.

they're now pulling out of the neighborhood. ben wedeman, cnn, gaza. >> israel says hamas has turned that neighborhood in ben's report into a terrorist fortress with a vast network of tunnels used to transport weapons and fighters. hamas itself provided this look at that tunnel system and the heavily armed militants who use the it to battle israel. israel says it's attacked several militants as they emerge but say there are many more underground. >> you have hamas taking over civilian neighborhoods and what we saw with the pictures above ground, but below ground's a whole system of tunnels where they store missiles, where they fire missiles at israel, where there's command and control. they even have that from that area tunnels that go into israel under the board sore they can pop out on our side of the frontier with automatic weapons, exclusives, rocket-propelled grenades and do terror attacks

so we had to deal with that threat. the problem was, we asked, requested the civilian population to leave the area which we knew would become a combat zone. what did hamas do? hamas told people to stay. hamas told people not to go. hamas deliberately wanted to use the civilians there as human shields for its underground network of terror tunnels. > > . >> israel says it's uncovered 60 shafts leading to 28 tunnels since its operation began last week. more information for you now on our top story. authorities in the uk are examining the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from malaysia airlines flight 17 shot down last week over eastern ukraine. >> they say the voice recorder was damage bud its memory intact and that there is no sign of tampering. >> definitely significant developments there. meantime, the crash site in eastern ukraine is in a state of disagray.

senior international correspondent ivan watson reports. >> reporter: nearly a week after malaysia airlines flight 17 crashed into these farm field, the bodies of some of the victims have been transported, returned to the netherlands, the country of origin for this doomed flight where they were greeted by a very somber ceremony. the flight data recorders on board the plane, they've been take on the the united kingdom where experts are now going through their contents trying to learn more about what exactly happened last thursday. the conflict that nearly everybody agrees directly contributed to the downing of this commercial plane and the deaths of 298 innocent victims, it continues to rage. rebels -- the rebels who control this area shot down two ukrainian warplanes about a half hour from where i'm standing right now. the rebels say they used

shoulder-mounded surface-to-air missiles to shoot down those jets and throughout the day we've heard the distance roar of warplanes flying very high overhead. and as for the investigation, there's been a united nations security council resolution calling for safe access to this place. we've arrived here and there is no security to speak of, no experts, no investigators watching this plane. and it's clear that even within the last 48 hours a great deal of the debris that was here has been removed. this so-called crime scene has very clearly been contaminated many times over. nearly a week after flight mh-17 crashed here and all those innocent people died, this crash zone feels all but abandoned. ivan watson, cnn, eastern ukraine. >> as ivan was showing us, that

crash scene has been contamin e contaminat contaminated, making the job of investigators difficult, if not impossible. >> but some international inspectors have now been looking through some of the debris. our wolf blitzer spoke with a spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe, the osce. >> we spent a whole day out there today and we combed more area, i think, than we had ever before. yes, we did stop for quite some time at two or three pieces of fuselage which, if i can describe it this way, they bore characteristics that were not consistent with everything else we've seen. kind of shrapnel and holes narp bizarre so the malaysians took an interest in that. a lot of photographs were taken. we documented it carefully. and on the other side of it, wolf, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families, we made an intentional effort

today to keep a very keen eye out for any sign of human remains. we did only see in one spot some human remains and we noted that and told the rebel escort about it and then also there were reports coming in tonight from journalists who haven't been out in the field that they perhaps have seen more bodies. so as a monitoring mission our policy is to follow up those types of reports and we will be doing that tomorrow with mal malaysian experts. >> do you know how many bodies have actually been recovered and how many still remain at that wreckage site presumablpresumab? >> wolf, we have no way of independently verifying that. when that train left, shortly before it left, we were told by the rebels in the vicinity about 260 or 270 but at that time we were very care to feel say we have no way to verify that. so all we're going sbi what we actually see.

we put the figures of what we actually saw in body bag of a few dozen but that was a very limited area. tomorrow and for as many days as necessary we will keep our eyes very widely open and travel as much territory as we can to spot that type of remain because, you know, there's a lot of -- wolf, there's a lot of heavy debris still out there and not quite sure what could be underneath. so we will do our best to document that. >> quite an enormous and grim task there. that was wolf blitzer speaking with the spokesman for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. you may have noticed that while many world powers point fingers at russia and pro-russian rebels, malaysian officials have for the most part remain side lent even though dozens of malaysians were on board the doomed flight. our will ripley looks at the reasons for their restraint.

>> reporter: another malaysian tragedy is tainting the holy month of ramadan. public prayer, private fury. >> there was a lot of anger with the russians and the rebels. >> reporter: from the streets to the prime minister's office, this man lost his step grandmother on flight 17 but so far he's refusing to take sides. >> he's a very cautious political animal. >> reporter: the university professor james chance said he gained the rebels' trusts during hours of secret negotiations. he stayed neutral as other countries blamed pro-russian rebels and accused moscow of supplying weapons is this helping or hurting him politically? >> right now he has a major political success in the sense that he did negotiate for the rebels to release the bodies and also to release the black box. >> reporter: the rebels insist they did not shoot down flight 17. the russians maintain none of their military equipment crossed the border into ukraine, even

holding this press conference denying any involvement. >> it was not a russian, it was ukrainian plane. >> malaysia is a bit of a small war in a faraway country like ukraine. >> reporter: malaysia's next move is critical. analysts say joining the u.s. and others in a tough stance against russia could damage relations with china, a vital ally. >> he wants some sort of report, especially sanctioned by international bodies, before he blames anybody for it. >> reporter: a prime minister's public balancing act as he and his country cope with private sorrow. wil ripley, cnn, kuala lumpur, malaysia. we will have much more on the mh-17 tragedy ahead in our special coverage. up next, why an industry-leading ceo says it's time for airlines to rethink their flight plans. stay with us. what age you are. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+. a complete multivitamin

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some in the aviation industry are calling for new rules about flying commercial jets over war zones. cnn's richard quest spoke with emirates airlines ceo tim cook. >> this particular case the ordnance that was deployed is a game changer. in other words, when malaysians thought they were flying above the restricted airspace of 32,000 feet safely, comfortably, without any concerns about action about yet there was ordnance on the ground that could well pass through that particular altitude up to 59,000 feet. so was that known about in and vance? did other entities have information about that? should they have been passed to the regulators of the countries that operate at that -- these carriers are domiciled in. in this case malaysian -- >> but do you believe there should now be some form of

conference? i say it's quoted as a summit, that might be putting it a little grandly but do you believe now that there needs to be a meeting to discuss the way in which these issues are handled. >> that's the statement i made last week and i believe that we can not -- doing nothing is not going to be an option now. we really is to assess now what is the way forward regard to this. there are many conflicts on the planet. they are growing in numbers and scale. there's a degree of contagion and the international community is trying to make its way across the areas of conflict. >> richard quest speaking with ceo tim clark, not tim cook as we originally stated. now that the victims of mh-17 are being take on the the netherlands and finally getting to dignity they deserve we

wonder whether they will get the justice they deserve. >> cnn's deborah feyerick spoke with one family who's been through this before. >> we all make a lemon cake on his birthday no matter where we are. >> reporter: mary stratus feels the pain that loved ones feel on flight 17. >> it was life changing for me and my children. >> reporter: stratus lost her husband on pan am flight 103 which exploded over scotland 25 years ago. a dozen years later, she saw the lockerbie bombers brought to trial. >> it was a sense of justice because facts were presented and proven to be true. >> reporter: no one now is taking responsibility for shooting down flight 17 -- not the russians, not the ukrainians, not the rebels of donetsk. amid it is grief, families are left wondering if and when justice will ever be done. >> there isn't a shortage of courts that could try those who are deemed to be responsible.

>> courts in ukraine, netherlands, and malaysia could establish jurisdiction, as could russia. but that means first identifying who gave the order and who shot the plane down in ukrainian territory. in the bombing of pan am 103, a hybrid court tried two libyan perpetrators under scottish flaw the netherlands. >> they should make the people who did this pay. >> justin green is an international aviation lawyer handling civil cases. if you were a family member and you wanted to make a point, would you sue vladimir putin? would you sue the russian government? would you sue this former hedge fund guy alexander borodai who's now the prime minister of this rebel region? >> well, first thick is you'd want to sue malaysia airlines because that's your legal right against malaysia airlines is well defined by the law. >> reporter: the montreal convention limits the airline's liability to about $150,000 per

person unless the airline is found negligent. >> the burden is on the airlines to say, look, it was not negligent to fly over the war zone. we would go in and say, look, other airlines decided not to fly over this troubled zone. >> reporter: if found responsible, possible reparations by president putin or self-declared prime minister borodai and their respective countries are unlikely. britain has threatened to freeze billions in russian asset which is could be used as potential leverage. after the lockerbie tragedy, libya ultimately paid families of pan am 103 so that crushing sanctions against them would be lifted. after the u.s. navy shot down an iran air passenger plane in 1988, america paid the families without ever accepting formal responsibility. but who will step forward now? >> it's not really a legal liability, it's a public relations or political liability. >> as for pan am widow mary kay

stratis, for her and families like those on mh-17 -- >> if there are questions out there, that's pursuing justice and we won't give up. we'll never give up. >> the bodies not yet buried and justice a long way off. debra feyerick, cnn, new york. now more than three months on from the capture of their daughter, nigerian parents are still praying for their safe return. >> coming up, we'll look at the 100 days since the violent kidnapping by boko haram militants. stay with us here on cnn.

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the er tterror sewn by boko haram was felt in nigeria's capital of abuja. families of some of the 200 nigerian school girls boko haram kidnapped 100 days ago marked the anniversary with heavy hearts and determination. they held a commemoration at the city's unity fountain with members of the bring back our girls campaign. the parents say they will keep pushing for their daughters' rescue. we recently traveled to nigeria and explain how difficult it's been to find the girls from their very dangerous captors. >> reporter: it all began here in april at a school in chibok in northeastern nigeria where more than 200 school girls were stolen in the night, taken hostage by boko haram. 100 days on, the government in abuja has done little to prove

they can control boko haram, let alone rescue the girls, even though some government officials insist they know where the girls are. parents say they initially tracked the girls to the sam bee a forest, a known boko haram hideout. other reports say the girls were taken even further out of reach to neighboring cameroon and chad. human rights watch says the terror group is waging war in the northeast and the vast borno state is its biggest target. so far, they say, more than 1 4rksz 00 civilians in borno alone have been killed by the militant this is year. and beyond the stronghold, the group is suspected of attacks in the country's capital, including the bombing of a bus station in april and another at a shopping center in june. although the fate of the school girls is still uncertain, experts say they are sure of one thing -- attacks in nigeria by

boko haram are on the rise. >> all right, we have a few uplifting stories now to get you up to speed on, events at the commonwealth games will begin in the scottish city of glasgow and nearly 1400 medals are up for grabs. amara is eager to get one of them. prince charles is among those checking out the facilities. his mother, of course queen elizabeth, opened the games at celtic park stadium. >> and around 4, 500 athletes are taking part in the games. the opening ceremony included a minute's silence for those killed in last week's malaysia airlines disaster. north korea is apparently furious over a video mocking the country's leader. take a look at this. ♪ ♪ >> it's hard to tell, his face is being superimposed on these bodies. >> i say what's wrong with this? >> and the parody, the face of a smiling kim jong-un has been

superimposed over a serious of clips set to a chinese pop sound track and in one scene he is kicked to the ground by u.s. president obama. that's why they're furious. >> vicious. and in another if you can believe it he dances hand in hand with osama bin laden. oh, boy, look at this. this video was reportedly by a youtube user in china. >> it has wracked up more than two million views so far. i'm sure that number will take up quickly. according to a south korean newspaper, north korea asked china to stop the spread of the video saying it seriously compromises kim's dignity and authority. >> what about the clothe he is wears. i think that compromises some of his dignity. but, no, this video, too. the paper says beijing has been "unable to oblige." >> they can't catch a break because remember that film is coming out in the u.s. as well, a parody of kim jong-un. so they are not happy. well, thank you for joining us for very special coverage. i'm amara walker. >> and i'm errol barnett. more after this break.

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