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down the jumbo jet, even as the separatists opinion the finger at ukraine. nearly 300 people tied when the malaysia airlines 777 fell from the sky over eastern ukraine. u.s. officials say a ground missile brought it down. now the ukrainian government claims to have recordings of taped phone calls which officials say prove the rebels are to blame. ukrainian officials say one call captures a militant saying, quote, we have shot down a plane, end quote. a second call captures the moments rebels realize it was a passenger plane. we're going to play that part of the intercepted phone call in russian, unedited, exactly the way the ukrainian's released it. >> turned out to be a passenger plane, as we know.

bodies everywhere. u.s. officials tell fox news they have to reason to doubt the calls are the real thing, and for their part, rebel leaders deny any role in bringing down the jet, and russian president, vladimir putin, said, ukraine is to blame for starting the fighting. he says in the first place. one russian government run news network claimed there is no evidence a missile caused the crash. a network analyst even blamed -- seemed to blame the airline, pointing out that the malaysia airline flight that vanished back in march somehow is part of this. of course we know that's not the case. still, rebels recently bragged about getting their hands on powerful missiles like these, and journalists reported seeing a missile launcher in the rebel-controlled region yesterday. and now, an earlier emergency meeting of the united nations security council, the u.s. ambassador susan powers, said there was no way the rebels could have fired the missile on their own. >> because of the technical complexity of the sa-11 it's

unlikely the separatists could effectively operate the system without assistance from knowledgeable personnel. thus we cannot rule out technical assistance from russian personnel in operating the systems. >> earlier today president obama called the attack an unspeakable outrage and confirmed at least one american died in the crash, he was reportedly born in new york city and held dual citizenship with the netherlands. he was studying at a business school there friends have filled his facebook page with messages of mourning. reporters of the crash scene describe a lot of chaos. a lot of bodies still on the ground where they fill. and witnesses say rooters have begun to rifle through the luggage from the blood-soaked field. now as ukrainian forces and rebels fight for control of the crash site. what had been a regional conflict has now claimed hundreds of innocent victims from all around the globe with

this plain crash. we're live in ukraine's capitol, kiev. >> right now we have both sides blaming each other. we have ukrainian officials pointing the finger squarely at russia, saying this was an act of terrorism, at act which needs to be responded to with fours force, and the russian president vladimir putin blaming ukraine for the overall situation. the sound bite saying we're not ruling out the russians. most other world leaders saying we need to get to the bottom of this. that's the problem to get to the bottom of is in a war zone because that's where the wreckage of the plane is, strewn for miles 25, miles from the border with russia in a hot war zone right now. international officials, experts trying to analyze and determine what brought the plane down. so far not able to do their work because of the fighting going on there harris. >> we saw president obama talking about a cease fire today. we know that many others are talking about what can happen with this at the u.n. at this

hour. any indication wes could see one? >> we are hearing calls for an immediate cease fire, both from president obama and president putin, but keep in mind on the other side there is real pressure for retaliation, for a strike back. emotions here are returning very high, especially in the capital of ukraine where they feel like this was an unprovoked act of terrorism. one man in the streets told me, these people need to be shot. we need to shoot down these russian terrorists on our soil. >> you mentioned something interesting. president putin calling for a cease fire when we saw samantha powers at the u.n. say, putin can make this stop. he can bring this to a halt. can he deliver a cease fire from the rebel side, steve? >> that is a tough question at this point, especially where things are now. putin, of course, influential in allowing weapons to go over the border from one side or another, and certainly has a major

influence over the key players there, but keep in mind, these rebels are not entirely united. there are some local leaders with am birks of -- amibitions of their own. turning off the faucet might even be too much for putin. >> rebels growing -- like tentaclessing are right, with their own amibitions. thank you very much, steve. let's bring in retired lieutenant colonel bill cowen good to see you today. first question about the phone calls calls and the belief they're authentic. >> one thing about phone calls, if they can be considered pretty pure intelligence, the people on both ends of the conversation, whether it be a telephone or radio, don't realize they're being listened to, being recorded and just going to speak openly and freely, particularly in the early onset of the entire incident when they thought, look what we have done, shot down a

ukrainian aircraft, and then as the story goes along they find out it's something else. it's clear they were speaking openly, freely, unabashedly, and that's one reason to believe it's true. communications can also be used for deception but i don't think there was any deceit? what these guys were talking about, and that's part of the evidence we have. >> talk to me more, if you, colonel, what kind of intelligence we would be working with right now? >> thanks, harris. a great way. we have imagery, intelligence, primarily from satellites above. i doubt we have any drones in the area, although we could. we're going to get signals intelligence from satellites, sometimes from ground stations, about all the communications and the radio traffic, telephone traffic, what have you, moving around, kind of like an nsa job over there. we'll have image intelligence from the satellites looking, human intelligence. we don't have any americans operating in there on the ground but we certainly have assets on the ground we can talk to people

we pay to go out there and collect information, and we have electronic intelligence, radar other technical systems beaming out signals and receiving signals. so we have a whole wealth of sources of information. the question is how you put that together here in washington and make a comprehensive story come out. >> we know to the nib, the ntsb. i visualize the jackets we see with the big fbi letters on it. how can we protect our americans in the war zone right next door to russia. >> i'll be surprised if we get there. putin has a great card to play. if he calls a cease fire i think those various factions will back down since he is their main sponsor so suddenly putin, although russia looks like the bad guy, putin can look like a bad guy and people with give him credit. i doubt we'll have any investigators in there the in a

while, and the entire crash scene is being polluted. things taken, being moved. i'm sure the separatists want to get any traces they can recognize of being part of a missile out of that entire area so it's going to be difficult for the fbi or whomever to go in there and do a credible, thorough, and conclusionary investigation. >> the people who were looting luggage and everything on the flight, colonel, thank you for your time today. we are learning more about the men, women, and the children on board malaysia airline flight 17. at least one american died in the crash. and now we know several world renowned aide researchers and advocates were on the plane, traveling to australia for an international conference. president obama spoke today about the good work they had done. >> in the midst of conflict and killing, there are people like these. people who are focused on what can be built rather than what can be destroyed. people focused on how they can help people they've never met.

people who define themselves not by what makes them different from other people but the humanity we hold in common. >> around the world, people are paying their respects in the netherlands where the flight originated. flags were another half staff. in moscow, people left flowers, candles, and other well wishes outside the dutch and malaysian embassies. one note read in english, sorry. and in kuala lampur, candlelight tribute spelling out, pray for mh17. >> hours ago the president said a global investigation needs to get underway right now and needs to be credible. reaction from both sides of the political aisle when we come back. stay close. [ woman ] i've always tried to see things from the best angle i could.

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into the attack. after the president spoke people began comparing the president's words to those of the ambassador to the u.n., samantha power. she really took russia on. told them to stop this war right now. the president, not so much. >> she was making a much more direct case before the u.n. security council, the president much more cautious. this is a president who was burned by drawing a red line on syria and not following through. so he was tip toeing around vladimir putin's responsibility, whether there was direct responsibility, even though u.s. intelligence as well as ambassador samantha power suggesting a lot more russian culpability here, and the president specifically took a potential u.s. military action off the table in tomorrows of dealing with the crisis and seemed to put the onus on european allies who should step up. >> this should snap everybody's

heads to attention, and make sure that we don't have time for propaganda, don't have time for games. we need to know exactly what happened. >> he was talking about making sure the investigation is as international as possible, to make sure evidence notice tamper ode with, but there have been reports they black box or boxes from the jetliner have already made their way to russia. so a big question mark whether the evidence has already been tamper with. >> if think pretty much anything the president would want to do he and congress would have to get together pretty quickly. curious to know, what is the latest reaction from republicans on the hill? >> well, it's interesting. you have seen republicans like john mccain suggesting that because of the power we're seeing from the separatists and the weapons they have, that clearly are coming from russia the u.s. should have been providing much more direct military aid to ukraine much sooner to help them. and you also have republicans hitting the president for

fundraising in new york city and suggesting he has not been on top of the crisis. listen. >> far more important than what he says is actually what he does. and there is no substitute for a strong united states military presence around the world. people see us receding around the world, while the crisis just gets inflammed. >> rather than military action, the president seemed much more focused on sanctions. some of those sanctions have had some bite. previously in terms of going after the russian economy, but also clear that in the larger picture, the sanks have done very little to deter vladimir putin directly. >> ed henry outside the white house. thank you very much. we're learning americans will go to ukraine. no timetable exactly on when they'll be able to get to that crime scene, though. they're going to investigate -- help investigate the deadly airliner crash. also ahead, the very latest from u.s. military officials on what we know about the missile

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u.s. officials as we have been reporting this hour, say they will help investigate the deadly airliner attack in eastern ukraine. the ntsb and fbi are each planning to send at least one investigator to the country. of course, the crash scene is in the middle of a war zone, and pro-russian militants are controlling the area and have given no indication they plan to cooperate with our investigators. jennifer griffin is live in washington. what have you learned about the weapon systems that took down the plane? >> well, harris, general phillip breedlove warned on june 30th june 30th from the pentagon podium the u.s. had evidence that the russian military was

training the separatists on how to use vehicle-born antiaircraft weapons, what he is describing is the type of weapon that brought down the malaysia plane. >> what we see in training on the eashe border is big equipment, tanks, apcs, antiaircraft capability, and now we see those capabilities being used on the west side of the border. >> that antiaircraft capability vehicle born antiaircrest systems like the sa-11 that the pentagon and others said brought down the malaysian plane, the pentagon rid tated the u.s. had evidence the russians trained the separatists on antiaircraft systems. >> i don't know exactly what system he was referring to, but we would agree with the assessment that they -- some separatists have received train in these vehicle-borne systems. there's no question about that.

>> pentagon officials added that whoever fired the fa-11 had to have been trained on the system. it is more complicated than what your average separatist knows how to fire. >> well, we understand, too, jennifer, there are photographs that have emerged showing that missile launch or the buk launcher we're learning about in the area of the attack. >> that's right. the pentagon cannot confirm that this is an image of the actual fa-11 used in the air strike. " daily mail" says the pictures were taken around the border around the time of the missile strike. >> whether it was russian military unit or a separatist unit, we don't know. whether it was a system that was driven across the border by russians and then handed off, we don't know. we just don't know. >> again, those images emerged

today, taken purr pored -- purportedly shortly after the malaysian airlines flight fell out of the sky, of what looks like an fa 1-1 along the ukraine-russian border. >> aviation attorney justin green is here now. also a licensed commercial pilot and a former pilot for the marines, who used to work on accident and crash investigations. thank you for coming coming com. the first thing i want to talk about is air space. people think how could this plane have been over a war zone. american planes, via the faa, stopped flying in that area. >> there was a dispute over which part of the air space russia was going to controlled and which part of the air space the ukraine would control, and part of the faas response was we don't want airplanes flying into disputed air space. the second thing in recent days-at least one confirmed shootdown by the rebels of a military cargo plane --

>> that was monday. >> and so the question i think part of the investigation is going to have to focus on, is what malaysia airlines knew before this terrible tragedy, and why did they route their aircraft through the area? the air space was open. they legally didn't violate anything but the question is should they have done what they did. >> what is interesting today, samantha power -- the u.n. security council meeting because this is the first time we heard anybody say that the missile that took out the cargo plane on monday likely came from russia, so that was the first time we heard that. why is that important? >> it's a russian-made system now, part of the confusion is i understand the ukraine military has the same system, the russians have the same system. the question is, where did the rebels get it. if the russians gave them the system, that kind of puts blood on the russians' hands. on the other side, even if they

captured it -- and they could have catch tuned it -- tap cured it -- this is not a system that you can train someone in a day to operate it. it requires training and unless you have ukraine rebels who had prior training -- >> or have served in the russian military. we don't know. >> who do they report the shoot-down to? we understand they reported it to the russians. >> and twitter is a possibility there. some tweets that were scrubbed two questions about the investigation site do you think we're likely to get in there? we're going to send guys in with fbi jacketed and they'll be targets. >> i think, none one, an investigation can't attends if the investigators are at risk so it's very important to make -- >> do we send troops in with them to protect them. >> i think there has to be a a secure zone, troops we can

trust, they have to secure the investigators, and i have to say something right now, though. right now there's a -- put eight side the investigation, you have bodies on the ground, loved ones 298 people. bodies on the ground. the rebels do not have the capability to properly take care orthos -- care of those bodies. >> would they do it? >> you don't know. there are 200 plus families famo want their loved ones back and i'd and their dignity upheld, and for my opinion it's time is of the essence and president putin and the ukraine have to get this together. >> justin, you bring up such a hugely important point, and i'm seeing it in social e social media today. how do people have closure if they can't get to the bodies. black boxes, how important are they. >> in a normal crash investigation vitally important. there's two black boxes, the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder. the flight data recorder tells

the investigators everything the plane did during the accident sequence. the cockpit voice recorder will tell the investigators what the pilots were talking about inch this type of investigation the black box maize not be the most important evidence. the most important evidence may be satellite imagery, intelligence, like colonel cowen was talking about before. interceptions before the rebels bragging or talking about what they did, and the wreckage itself. the wreckage itself will show evidence of a missile strike, will show evidence of explosive residue, and so the black boxes are critically important but not the only pieces of information, and i think probably the most important information is going to come from the military or the intelligence community. >> usually we see those black boxes trying to tell us how a plane came down. we already know that. >> that's right. that's right. >> justin green, good to have you, military pilot, all that expertise. we appreciate your time. >> no problem.

>> more on malaysia flight 17 and our coverage. the big question, who is to blame? we'll show you when the representatives from both ukraine and russia had to say at the united nations because the emergency meeting is going on today. it happened thousands of miles away but the attack over ukraine has already had a huge impact on wall street. it was shedding gains. gerry willis is here.

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now now to the what is new in the deadly airline attack. u.s. officials say they cannot rule out that russia helped in the missile launch. both russia and ukraine are blaming each other. at today's emergency meeting of the united nations security council earlier ukrainian's ambassador did not hold back, saying russia is responsible.

>> would not be possible if russian did not support the terrorists and did not provide sophisticated antiaircraft missile system. >> that was after the russian ambassador questioned why ukraine allowed in the plane to >> all the members of the current standing to pay their respects to those who lost their lives aboard flight mh17. then when the talking began, u.s. ambassador to the u.n.,

samantha power, aiming her fire directly at russian president vladimir putin, painting him as the political backer of the rebels, as the military supplier to the rebels, and painting him as anything but the peacemaker he claims to be. listen here. >> time after time, president putin committed to working toward dialogue and peace in geneva in april in normandy in june, and in berlin earlier this month, and every single time he has broken that commitment. >> interesting to note as well, harris, that when the russian ambassador addressed the security council, he didn't directly deny any single one of the u.s. accusations. he simply put the blame on foreign airlines flying over ukrainian air space. >> that was interesting to watch today. words are one thing, jonathan, but a security council

resolution is another. >> entirely another. and put simply and bluntly, harris, it will not happen because of the makeup and the rules of the u.n. security council. there are five permanent members. you can see them right here. one of those is russia, and each of those five has the power of veto over any resolution. so, a resolution will not happen as ambassador power implicitly recognized in her remarks, putting

it. and if so, how. >> let's bring in now fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. good to have you here. i want to ask you about what happened today and why seems to be a different message from samantha power. it's like a good cop, bad cop. >> i think you're right on. i was struck by it as well. samantha power in the very quiet, understated way, showing some real power at least in her words, not clearly in her actions but there's limits to what the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. can do. on the other hand, here you have the president of the ute who has almost unlimited powers and he is speaking in a much milder voice, a call to investigation, a call to further discussion and contemplation, but he was

repeatedly asked by reporters, president obama was, is this a game-changer? are you now going to take tougher action against russia? and he repeatedly refused the opportunity to do so, and at one point began talking about the global economy and how we don't want to see a problem -- a disruption of the global economy, and all i can think as you show these pictures, really? we're going to worry about the global in the and what impact sanctions on russia would have at a opinion when you see the smoldering wreckage of a passenger airliner and the remains of 298 people. seems like a very odd point to be worrying about at this point in time. >> you had the same reactions. i heard them talk to about the sanks and tightening sanctions on russia but we can't do too much because we don't want a people around the world to hurt behind whatever punish. what really can we do? as we have laid out now with our reporters here, putin is on the

council that would vote against any sort of a pushback. so. what do you do to get him to do something? >> you're not going to get anything meaningful out of the u.n. security council. we have certainly seen that over the years. but you can get something meaningful if the ute and the allies in we were europe were to take unilateral economic action. putin is involved now in a cost-benefit analysis. he has a benefit here and the ho maintain control over eastern ukraine and to keep the country of ukraine divided and fighting with each other and not signing up with the west, and the cost has been economic sanctions. clearly at this point, sitting in the kremlin, president putin decided the benefits are greater than the costs. and it may not work even still but the one opportunity we have is to great hi -- greatly increase the sanctions, not targeted sanctions against companies or people, but sector

sanctions, against the energy sector or arms sector or complete parts of the russian economy, for whatever reason president obama and our allies in western europe, have refused to do that, and even after this act senior savage act, unacceptable act, the kind of act that ronald reagan in 1983, the korean airliner, called an act of barbarism, refuse to take the steps. >> president obama said that president putin has the most controlled of the situation. chris wallace, thank you very much. we can't get enough of chris. this is what we do. chris will have more on the crisis in ukraine on "fox news sudden are sunday. -- "fox newss" he'ing talk to menendez and bob corker, this sunday on your local fox

station. >> 0 stock markets are bouncing back today. the dow and nasdaq fell one percent and the s&p had the largest one-day drop since april. here's a live look how the dow is doing. we're in to green. gerri will hiser here, she anchors the willis report. geri, we're coming back from yesterday. >> here's what happened. automated trading set in from the get-go, seeing the headlines, automatically started trading. then here came the human traders and did the same thing. dow ultimately down 160 points, a classic flight to safety, traders buying treasuries gold higher, oil higher, and then today, the market just as happen as it can be. almost made up for all of yesterday's loss. stocks are trading higher. >> you mentioned automated

trading. there's so far ahead of us that people already the world telecast this. they knew what was coming down, and then by the time our markets reacted, you sue what you got. what stopped it. >> i believe the traders have come to the conclude that this is not going to be a broader war. what is interesting here, if you could look back to other times when we have had problems in the middle east. gaza on fire, but traders this time, trading higher, don't think it's going to be extended. this is a market you just can't hold back. everybody has been saying it's going to sell off and be a deep and solid decline. not so far. >> on wall street. main street, different topic, but would need another hour to go into that. ahead, the other big story, and you just heard gerri alluding tot. i israel's prime minister told the nation's military to prepare for a significant expansion of

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as we have been telling you this hour, right now the united nations security council is holding a meeting on the situation in gaza, hours after the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu issued a new warning to hamas militants. a live look now inside the u.n. meeting. jordan called for the meeting after the israeli army began its ground operation yet. netanyahu told the nation's military to prepare for, quote, significant expansion of ground attack. this video shows israeli tanks rolling into the gaza strip hours ago. yesterday, fox was there as flares and explosions lit up the sky. israeli troops hitting targets from land, sea, and air. 25 palestinians and one israeli soldier reported dead since the

ground operation began. israeli defense forces have released several videos, including this night vision footage of soldiers moving toward gaza city. we cannot independently con thunderstorms the authenticity of this video. they say the purpose of the mission in gaza is to seriously harm the infrastructure of hamas and other terrorist organizations. cross-border fighting has been raging for more than a week. idf reports hamas launched roughly 1500 rockets at israel during the first ten days of fighting. israel has responded with thousands of air strikes. earlier this week, egypt proposed a cease fire. the israeli government agreed. but hamas rejected the truce. our john huddy is live in gaza city. what are you seeing and hearing on the ground right now? >> reporter: there's been a tremendous amount of explosions, a lot of fighting behind -- just to the north of us, the reason i'm crouched down is for our own safety because there's been incoming fire very close to our

location, just across the street in fact. so it's getting dangerously close, as it seems like the fighting is now pushing in. that ground offensive started right around this time last night, when israeli ground forces pushed in from the north, across the border, and also from the east. we saw intense firefights last night, and this afternoon, it quieted down a little bit. but then tonight it's really picked up. it's intensified, particularly within the past 45 minutes when there's been that incoming fire, very close to our location. so i'm just kind of keeping an eye out as my veteran war photographer, mall mel james, watches my back as well. so we're seeing this increased through the night. hearing a lot of close gunfire as well, harris so thinks are definitely intensifying here on the ground in gaza city. >> john huddy, stay safe. thank you very much. on the crisis in israel and gaza, coming up, i'll talk with a spokesperson for the israeli prime minister, benjamin

netanyahu. stay with us.

the israeli military's operation in gaza marks the first major ground offensive in five years. a meeting at the united nations underway right now, finger-pointing on all sides. this is the israeli ambassador who is talking right now. we have been monitoring the situation, and good timing now for mark to join us from jerusalem, the spokesman for israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu good to see you. thank you for being here. >> my pleasure. >> inside that u.n. meeting, as we were in a commercial break, the ambassador was laying out what happened to kind of get you to this point of ground operation. having to do with a narrow focus on tunnels.

what can you tell me? >> well, the tunnels are actually a strategic problem for israel because hamas and the other terrorist groups have been building these very long tunnels, very deep in the ground so they can infiltrate their terrorists into our country and attack us, cause murder and mayhem. the idea is they pop out of the ground where you're not expecting them and then start kelling people. we had yesterday morning, 13 such terrorists try to come into israel with automatic weapons, with explosives, with rocket propelled grenades we caught them in time and no damage was dawn. but this is a strategic threat to our people and that's why our ground forces are on the ground in the gaza side. to deal with these tunnels and take them apart. >> mark, right now, that meeting going on at the u.n. was called by jordan, and i'm wondering what you're expecting to hear after this u.n. emergency meeting. >> you know, i'm not sure you'll

get a lot oust -- out of the u.n. what we heard from the united states and other democracies is clear, that hamas was wrong and has been condemned for rejecting the cease fire. hamas is wrong and has been condemned for firing rockets arizona innocent civilians, and israel is right to protect our people. israel in this operation is exercising his right of self-defense. what country on thy this planet would sit by idly and see civilian pop population targeted by rockets. it must stop. >> how asksful to knock out the tunnels hamas was digging into israel? >> the ground incursion into georgia says only 24 hours old. just started this time last night. so i don't want to pre-judge. so far we have had success but i don't want to underestimate the challenges that lie ahead. ultimately hamas has over the

last few years, with iranian support, built up a formidable military terrorist machine. the fact they can shoot rockets targeting jerusalem and tel aviv, the very heart of my country, shows what sort of potential they have. so we're going into this mission knowing we have a formidable faux. having said that -- for mettible faux. having sad that i'm certain we will prevail. >> how long will you keep this up. >> as long as it takes. our goal is to protect our people. our goal is to achieve piece and quiet for the people of israel, so they don't have to live in fear of an incoming rocket, and one way or another, hamas will understand itself simply cannot shoot rockets at the israeli civilian population without paying a price, that it's a price that is not worth paying. >> mark, i know one of the challenges that your military has faced has been that hamas reportedly has been putting their people in front of

innocent civilians and so you have hospitals and schools, and i know you have had to navigate that challenge. we'll bring you back as news is made at the u.n. we appreciate your time today. thank you very much. >> thanks for having me. >> we'll be right back. movie night. i get 2x the points on streaming movies and takeout from restaurants with my citi thankyou card. everyone wins. you mean you win. yes i do. the citi thankyou preferred card earn two times the thankyou points with no annual fee. to apply, go to citi.com/thankyoucards.

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>> wall street apparently is shedding its concerns that what has happened all the way in ukraine will have a long-term effect on anything in this country. it's up, and now "your world." >> russia denies it but the evidence is building against it. welcome everyone. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto and this is "your world." the u.s. ambassador to the unites nations suggesting russia did have a hand in the crash of the malaysian jetliner, pointing to a sophisticatees missile simple. >> it's unlikely the separatists could effectively operate the system without assistance from knowledgeable personnel. thus we cannot rule out technical assistance from russian personnel in operating the systems. >> to jennifer griffin in washington on these really fast-moving developments. >> well, state department spokesman