your ex-girlfriend still paints tear jerking poetry keep. nor it. we post only what really matters out r.t. to your facebook. search team sift through the dead body of a malaysian plane which crashed in ukraine killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board after an alleged rocket strike. grief stricken relatives struggle to come to terms with the tragedy in which the majority of victims were dutch nationals. and the russian defense ministry says it has been tracking signals from the ukrainian army's radars and found that they were in use and in range of the plane at the time of the crash .

welcome my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international. rescue teams are combing through the wreckage of a malaysian passenger plane that went down in ukraine on tuesday searching for bodies and clues of what caused the crash this is what the scene looks like all two hundred ninety eight passengers and crew on board were killed in the tragedy and we should warn you that there are some graphic images coming up so far around hof of the bodies have been retrieved from the scattered debris antigovernment forces who control the area say they have found two flight recorders and are ready to hand them over to international investigators we managed to speak to local eyewitnesses . i saw a piece of the plane fall about four hundred meters from my apartment when i went

to check it out i saw scattered bodies from a distance of looked like debris was falling but as it turned out it was people falling out of the aircraft. it was terrible what i saw first i saw smoke and fire and when the firemen started to put out the flames i saw the body was torn apart there were children too there were bodies to see here and there so let's take a closer look at the route that malaysian airlines flight seventy was taking it took off in amsterdam on the long haul flight to kuala lumpur the boeing seven seven seven was flying over eastern ukraine the zone of an ongoing conflict between ukrainian army and local militia groups the plane the disappeared from radar coverage shortly before it was due to enter russian airspace and here is a list of the nationalities of those on board the ill. the majority of the passengers one hundred fifty four were dutch thirty eight victims including all

crew members were malaysian there were twenty seven australians also traveling on the airliner also among the victims citizens of britain germany the philippines and canada. these are pictures from kuala lumpur international airport the flight destination families of the passengers and crew gathered there to find out what happened to their loved ones some lashed out at the air carrier demanding it release the passenger manifest and it's also a time of grieving in the netherlands from where the plane took off reports now from amsterdam. richie of the passengers on that flight were dutch nationals not flight took off from here where i am in and sit down people airport before it crashed in ukraine devastated passengers relatives trying to obtain

information about what had happened to their loved ones and the reef and the shore . coming to terms with their losses it was just unbelievable we know that malaysian airlines have sent out i can't seem to hit amsterdam to help passengers cope with their losses but we also know that a number of the passengers were headed to melbourne for an international aid conference on the spanish correspondent francisco managed to get to the scene within just hours of the catastrophe this is his report in twelve kilometers around here there is still pieces of the bodies there are also this is off aircraft and a lot of details of their lives of these almost three hundred people right now the local government of don't ask is saying that they are in agree to make a cease fire for some days that they can do an investigation and here they can come

they said they always see and also the international civil aviation organization the situation in this moment is that in around some kilometers we have heard some grad rockets this means that the combat is still going on. russia's defense ministry says it has tracked the activity of the ukrainian military is radars on the day of the crash it says an exchange took place between military officials concerning air targets earlier ukrainian security sources release what they claimed was a leaked phone conversation between local militia members discussing out they had mistakenly shot down a civilian aircraft president poroshenko says that the rebels down the plane with a rocket but the anti-government fighters say they have no weapons capable of this and are blaming the ukrainian forces meanwhile russia is calling for a thorough investigation let's get more now and speak to our course what edwards

cowley. thanks for joining us just tell us more than about the reaction coming from moscow. well earlier vladimir putin said that ukraine must take responsibility for this tragedy it happened over their territory and if they had been paced in eastern ukraine then this tragedy would never have happened and this is what the president had to say. we have to do everything in our capability to make sure an objective picture of what happened is made public and known to people in our country as well as the people of ukraine and the whole world what happened is completely unacceptable and no one has the right to walk away without making no no ject a conclusion of what happened for you but i want to point out that this tragedy wouldn't have happened if there was peace on the ukrainian land at least if the fighting hadn't had resumed in the south east without any doubt the state on whose territory this happened must stand responsible for this horrible tragedy. it's russia's

foreign minister sergey lavrov has also issued a statement about the recent shellings by the ukrainian army of russian territory which has happened a few times over the last few weeks this is what lavrov had to say. the obedience from the little if you crane continues to shell russian territory has the ability to retaliate against the area where the firing is coming from your so far according to our estimates is these shellings of the result of nonprofessionals and those working there or accidents during wartime those are sort of the word now moscow has also said that it hopes the u.s. will review its support of kiev's military operation in eastern ukraine. as a correspondent with cal reporting live from moscow thank you to you. let's move on

with the story u.s. intelligence officials they claim that the play. in was downed by a surface to air missile but have not specifically blamed either side's vice president joe biden said the team of specialists will be sent to assist ukrainian authorities with the investigation again education is in washington following the american reaction. u.s. officials believe it was a surface to air missile that shot down the malaysian plane over ukraine the u.s. is not pointing the blame thing there just yet president obama spoke with the ukrainian leader. we can be sure that the blame game in the coming days and weeks is going to be there are questions as to who had the capability to do this the ukrainian military certainly has the capability a launch like that would require a team of specialists as we hear from many experts and there is another question why was this malaysian airline flying over the conflict zone we know that u.s. airlines had been avoiding the area for some time to size me because it was deemed

unsafe what kind of instructions that this plane would see from the ukrainian air traffic control and what exactly was happening inside the cockpit just moments before the tragedy hopefully we'll get more answers when investigators get hold of the black box of course one of the main questions at this point is who is going to investigate this the u.n. secretary general spoke out calling for an international investigation one of the concerns moving forward is that the investigation could eventually be politicized the blame game is for lawn in the media even before the facts have been established . correspondent to. russian ukrainian border she's following the search efforts well at this point it does seem that there is information coming in that the self-defense forces from the self-proclaimed donetsk people's republic that are also working on the scene in fact were some of the first ones to be at the site of the crash there are reports coming in saying that they have recovered a second black box there have been increasing calls coming in from e.u.

officials from the secretary general of nato calling for an international investigation into this horrific tragedy and we also know that all we see observers are said to be heading to the site of the crash so perhaps the recovery of the black boxes is something that will take us one step closer to finding out the reasons and the actual causes of this disaster. meanwhile the deputy head of rushes in to study aviation committees for an international commission to be allowed to probe the crash. understanding the difficulty of the situation in the area of the incident we consider it necessary to create an international investigation commission which could be established under the authority of the international civil aviation organization and to pass on to it all the flight recorders souls on the board that go major air carriers are now diverting their planes around the eastern ukrainian airspace among them air france kalen and

lufthansa europe's transport agency europe control has advised all e.u. carriers to avoid the area and following the tragedy leaders have been expressing their condolences to those affected r.t. speak to oliver is in berlin. you heard from german chancellor angela merkel she was given a press conference in which she said there needs to be a full investigation into exactly what caused this disaster she said that germany was willing to to send a team to ukraine to to help with that investigation to get to the bottom of exactly what happened but she also went on to say that this was an extremely serious act that the taken place she referred to the plane having being shot down and she said that those that are responsible must be brought to justice that's what the german chancellor saying that she did also express her extreme crieff and condolences for the families of the those that have been killed for germans were

among those that have been on board this plane and she expressed particular condo interest to the people of the netherlands who of course will worst affected by this disaster but she's not the only. european leader that's been speaking about this david cameron the british prime minister of course nine were on that flight as well he also said that he'd spoken to the dutch prime minister mr is to express his condolences and saying that europe and britain all grieve together with with the people of the netherlands. and we're seeing this come out but from every leader every politician around europe all expressing their condolences and grief for what's going on with regarding the downing of this airplane in eastern ukraine now if you look at any radar map at the moment of the ukrainian area it's complete

almost completely bare of any any planes flying around there many airlines are avoiding ukrainian airspace altogether all are avoiding eastern ukraine this is after control the the organization that monitors air traffic safety said. that was now a no fly zone the area around eastern ukraine no flights would be passing over there as europe deals with what is a real tragedy not just for europe but for people around the world when we see the nations that all those people came from that have been killed so let's take a look at the chronology of events as this disaster unfold it will it all began at quarter past twelve local time when the plane left amsterdam on route to kuala lumpur ok at that stage but then at four twenty one pm ukrainian time all radio and radar contact with the flight was lost within the hour and here forces arrived at the crash site after a thorough sweep of the wreckage they found no survivors then by seven pm both kiev

and anti government troops had denied cheating down the plane instead they began pinning the blame on each other three hours later the opposition said it had recovered the plane's flight recorders and would hand them over for investigation sadly that left malaysian airlines to notify hundreds of grief stricken relatives well earlier former pilot and air traffic controller desmond ross told us there are still some gray areas being presented about the story. the first one was the cockpit voice recorder which records the last two hours of all communications and all conversations in the cockpit so that that two hours leading up to the final moments should give us a fairly good indication of what was going on and that may even tell us that ours knew nothing about it whatsoever that it just happened cracked it was a couple of things that are accountable but curious about the images that i've been seeing on television when the aircraft was hit and it would have depressurized more innocent mediately if there was a large hole blown a fuse a large or

a compact if you slow scope and a sudden decompression of that nature would have been quite calamitous the people who had very few seconds of consciousness and be sure they passed out and they would have fallen obviously a great distance to the ground and so interesting of that they might be quite intact one would expect that might be showing some signs of damage you know the other thing that i found really interesting it is the collection of our sports that are being shown on television which will appear to be very train and almost brand new. and they've been collected obviously very quickly you know or from pockets of should cases perhaps so there are some interesting aspects to the whole thing we were on going to come out of investigation is conducted professionally and probably . well if this passenger jet was indeed shut down there are few weapons it seems in the range unable to do that one possible example is the book surface to air missile system several former soviet countries use such a weapon including ukraine it has the ability to intercept

a twenty four targets at the same time within a distance of up to forty five kilometers and it can reach an altitude of twenty five kilometers it's missiles travel at up to twelve hundred meters per second as yet there is no confirmation that this missile system was the cause of the crash aviation expert christianity believes the plane was almost certainly hit by a missile strike. there are types well sorry. that would indicates whether this is a missile strike or otherwise. that will be present on the way remnants of the fuselage for when a proper analysis is done of the lines have a jolly good safety record the leads to the aircraft of it was operating the boeing triple seven. often described as a workhorse of the skies. opened earlier this year with the law also mazie m m h three seventy. the line of

a serious safety related incident for some considerable number of years so there's nothing to. spring springs to mind mind that could indicate that this was a save to be related. it had to be. probably a missile strike. some of the accusations against antigovernment fighters are based on a twitter post in which they allegedly boasted of having advanced missile systems capable of bringing down the plane as claimed the tweet was posted in then deleted from the account of the self-proclaimed and yes people's republic however kids prosecuted general denied the weapons had fallen into the hands of militants. takes three some of the speculation being circulated in the media. a shocking tragedy

claiming the lives of nearly three hundred victims before an investigation even begins the lack of credible facts has it prevented many in the west from jumping to conclusions according to the sun newspaper the russian president is personally responsible for downing the malaysia airlines plane in ukraine and accusation some u.s. officials are doing their best to feel if it is a result of either separatist or russian actions mistakingly believing there was a ukrainian war plane i think there's going to be able to pay and there should be there does seem to be growing awareness that it probably had to be russian insurgence now how we determine that will require some forensics but then there is evidence pointing in that direction the equipment had to come from russia either the missile came from it's a missile that came from russia or it was from the separatists and it's

a buccal style bissell i mean this came from russia russia has their fingerprints all over it either way why stop it fingers according to the daily mail russia's hands are soaked in blood some journalists conveniently camouflaged their blame with a question mark headline after headline asking if russia is to blame very few bothering to enquire about ukraine's possible role in the plane crash the new york times on the other hand reported ukraine's accusations leaving no room in this article for russia's position the u.s. nato and russia have all called for an investigation to be launched to establish the facts many media outlets have already created their narrative even if it means bypassing the truth marina port ny r.t. new york. the actress she is the latest and most deadly development tonight months long conflict that's been plaguing. southeast ukraine despite international calls

for a cease fire and other tragic milestones including the massacre in a desert in early may when forty two antigovernment protesters were slaughtered and weeks later seven people were killed when kiev launched a ground offensive in the city of mariupol in the midst of victory day celebrations a military airstrike on the city center of lugansk in early june killed eight civilians and wounded many others and it was a day before a hospital in krasny lemon in the den yet screeching came under shelling by keir forces claiming ten lives and just over two weeks ago the army shelled the small village of qana killing twelve civilians including a five year old child since the so-called antiterrorist operation was launched by kiev in april the civilian death toll has reached two hundred fifty seven according to the un special commission in ukraine or ukraine's army does in fact have some history of shooting down civilian planes back in two thousand and one

a fatal mistake during a military exercise claimed dozens of lives russian plane was carrying sixty six passengers and twelve crew members it was flying from tel aviv to the russian city of novosibirsk contact was lost with the jets above the black sea international investigators acknowledge the tragedy was ukraine's folds kiev however always denied the allegations. well website is gathered information on all of the previous cases where civilian aircraft were downed by weapons had c r t v dot com to see where and when they happen. let's go now to our other top story today here on r.t. that is that israel is widening its ground offensive in gaza one of its soldiers has been killed the first israeli military in this latest campaign which kicked off

late on thursday the operation has also led to palestinian casualties. i was told very well that some of the. people who go. to. these images show the bodies of three children who were reportedly hit by artillery fire and they're among more than twenty palestinians who have died since this ground operation started to take its toll early friday a heavy bombardment rained down across scars there with locals there reporting tanks crossing the border israeli warplanes have also reportedly struck a building that houses several media offices rockets still being fired into israel

by militants israel meanwhile says its ground troops are trying to destroy its initial target the tunnels being used by hamas to infiltrate the country harry fear has more. well the streets of gaza remain empty throughout this morning after the sun rose people here fear that this ground incursions will continue in the coming days people here do fear that the night the israeli ground invasion could step up its. operations into a new level which could be much more costly for the population of gaza including the civilian population but we decided to go to a sheet the hospital where we spoke to a hamas spokesperson and questioned him on this recent past delayed. reaction to the israeli ground invasion of the gaza strip would that be appalled by all the people depending on your doctor for all of these because i am. going to buy the

bits i get from you that you're going to be introduced to get our own war because finally i want to be bored by people to do anything. groups here have the capacity to actually deal with an israeli ground invasion we already. know are between people like throughout the world go to home be able to buy off you would be in the ok thank you very much for a time thank you ok thanks so that was. he a traitor to the position that israel's ground invasion. is going to civilian casualties in large numbers he argues that it does have the capacity to defend the palestinian population here from an israeli ground invasion. of the israeli operation follows days of gaza shellings with a mass launching rockets in return overall nearly two hundred sixty palestinians have been killed most of them civilians including dozens of children and there was a short humanitarian truce on thursday but the exchange of fire resumed as soon as

that and now the israeli prime minister is talking about the operation in gaza vowing to deliver a serious blow against hamas has more. what we're hearing from military sources is that at this stage they're limiting their operation to some two to three kilometers inside gaza we are being told that some one hundred targets have been hit that twenty of them are launching pads nine of them are tunnels but that the operation will be expanded we are also being told that this could take around two weeks this is the time the israeli army estimates it needs to completely destroy the tunnels in gaza each tunnel for instance takes some three years to build now the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that he was left with no option after diplomacy failed back to launch a ground offensive he has said that it is impossible to destroy these tunnels that israel blames for being used to smuggle weapons into gaza from the air at the same

time he did say the israelis were trying hard not to hit civilians but they blamed her mass for using civilians as human shields now we're also hearing from the minister of defense as well as the chief of staff and they say to quote them that the operation will last for as long as it needs to they also say that this will be a limited operation and that garza will be attacked from all sides at this stage no one is talking about conquering gaza although we have heard that sentiment expressed by the israeli foreign minister avigdor lieberman. to get a full picture on the very latest updates on the conflict spiraling out of control log onto odyssey dot com lined up just a click away for you are videos and reaction on social media. and we will of course be bringing you the very latest updates on the situation soon both eastern ukraine and guards are back at the top of the hour between now and then though enjoy so for next here on r.t. .

two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which has heightened tensions between the two countries even more the german reaction to this was to expel the cia chief in berlin from his post this is the kind of story that makes people who hate u.s. foreign policy the share button on facebook and get all excited it makes me feel that merkel or at least some elements of the german government are actually fighting against foreign meddling but i would say that you should take this story with a huge grain of salt yeah they just had one cia asset out of the country and this could be a sign of change but there are still twenty plus u.s. military bases currently operating in germany in fact the bomb holder base is one of the largest ones outside of america territory with thirteen thousand troops

permanently stationed there so basically if merkel really wants to reduce foreign meddling in germany she's going to have to somehow get a massive foreign military presence out of a country and since has been there for almost seventy years already i don't think that they're just going to pack up and leave on their own one day but that's just my opinion. if you look in the stability of. it she said. it would so. blizzard on the militia needed. this needed.

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