which fortunately doesn't do anything. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the. breaking news in our team malaysia airlines say creamy and traffic controllers told their ill fated plane to fly lower than the planned delta chewed before the jet crashed killing all passengers and crew on board. the u.s. claims it is evidence the anti government forces are behind the crash citing leaked phone calls of local militia released by ukrainian officials that have never been confirmed. grief stricken relatives struggled to come to terms with the tragedy in which the majority of victims were dutch nationals. this hour the russian defense ministry says it has been tracking signals from the ukrainian army radars and find out they were in use

and range of the plane at the time of the crash. by former news center here in moscow twenty four hours a day welcome to our international my names you know neil our top story new information has come to light in the tragedy involving a malaysian airlines plane that went on in ukraine killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board the earth that before the disaster the plane had dropped to a lower than planned altitude following a request from ukrainian flight controllers teams are still combing through the wreckage searching for bodies and clues as to the causes of thursday's crash we should warn you the are some graphic images coming up so far and half of the bodies have been retrieved from the widely scattered. debris there are up to eighty

children among the dead monitors from the organization for european security and cooperation have arrived on the scene we managed to speak to a local woman living right next to the crash site of. the solution a little thought i had terrible noise i went out first and then my husband well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out and i first my husband thought it was me and i was in shock i couldn't go further than my you aren't. here let's take a closer look at the route flight m h one seven was taking the time it took off here and on the long haul journey to kuala lumpur the boeing seven seventy seven was flying over eastern ukraine zone of an ongoing conflict between the ukrainian army and local militia groups the plane disappeared from radar shortly before it was jus to enter russian space let's take a look at a list of the nationalities of those on board the ill fated aircraft the majority

of the passengers one hundred eighty nine were dutch forty four victims including all crew members were malaysian there were twenty seven australians traveling on the line are also among the victims were citizens of britain germany the philippines the u.s. indonesia. these are pictures from kuala lumpur international airport the flight destination families of the possible crew gathered there to try and find out what happened to their loved ones some lashed out at the earth carrier demanding it release the passenger manifest it's also a time of grieving in the netherlands from where the plane took off reports from officer down. even though it's looks like business as usual back to normal at amsterdam airport there's a very so i'm moved in the now malaysian airlines have said that they are providing financial support to him psychological assistance to the victims' families they've

said that they are willing to fly any victims' relatives over to ukraine to be closer to the scene of the crash and to the investigation now the european boasts of the airline has defended m.h. seventeen's flight path over eastern ukraine saying that the flight to the flight path was declared safe and that other international airlines were using it until this tragic tragic incident but other details a slowly emerging we know that a dutch politician dutch member of parliament was on board the flight with his family as well as a number of australians and delicates headed towards an international eight summit in melbourne but of course the majority of the victims' families. they are based here in the airport where the ill fated flight took off from being kept well away from the press you can imagine how difficult

a time into is for them now but we know that they are waiting for news about what happened to their loved ones and more importantly why. drop longer a problem and he the researcher was on the plane with his wife heading for a global aids conference he was one of dozens of delegates thought to have been troubling their longest friend the president of the aids foundation shared his feelings applause. i feel stunned it's very unreal i think the moment i will see something more tangible it will hit but it's you know i talked to them yesterday morning before they boarded the plane jeffrey were saying that she was very much looking forward to going to the conference in melbourne and then she even sent me a text message on the plane in malaysia airlines saying that they had just given them the menu card even before takeoff and that she was already looking forward to eating the nice asian food r.t. spanish correspondent francisco quite managed to get to the scene within hours of

the catastrophe some viewers may find the images in his report the starving in twelve kilometers around here there is still pieces of the bodies there are also this is all crass and a lot of the tales of their lives of these almost three hundred people right now the local government of the don't ask is saying that they agree to make a ceasefire 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 this situation in this moment is that in a round some kilometers we have heard some grad rockets this means that they come but it's still going on russia's defense ministry says a truck the activity of the ukrainian military is radars on the day of the crash it sees an exchange took place between military officials concerning targets president

put a shank it sees the rebels die in the plane with the rockets but the anti government fighters say they have no weapons capable of doing this are blaming the ukrainian forces earlier ukrainian security sources released what they claimed was a leaked phone conversation between local militia members discussing how they had mistakenly shot down a civilian aircraft. well earlier brought in a putin said that ukraine must take responsibility for this tragedy happened over their territory and if there'd been pace in eastern ukraine then this tragedy would never have happened so 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 with the making conclusion of what happened for as you put it i want to point out that this tragedy

wouldn't have happened if there was peace on the ukrainian land russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has also issued a statement about the recent shelling 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 you know from the little booklet which if you crane continues to shell russian territory almost has the ability to retaliate against the area where the firing is coming from your so far according to our estimates is these shellings as a result of nonprofessionals some of those working there. during wartime those now moscow has also said that it hopes the u.s. will review its support of kiev's military operation in eastern ukraine. now there are plenty of unexplained details surrounding the flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur to sum up the plane diverge from its usual flight path and passed

directly over a war zone secondly according to the or line ukrainian traffic controllers requested that the plane reduce its altitude the reasons for that remain unclear we asked former pilot traffic controller desmond ross to give us his view point. 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 may even tell us that knew nothing about it whatsoever that it just happened frankly there's a couple of things that are a little bit 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 refusal of scope of a sudden decompression of that nature would have been quite calamitous for people who had very few seconds of consciousness and before that passed out and they would

call an obviously great distance to the ground and so interesting in 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 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 should cases perhaps so there are some interesting aspects to the whole thing we were going to come out of the investigation is conducted professionally and probably. if this passenger jet was shot don there are a few weapons in the region able to do that one the possible example is that book surface to air missile system several former soviet countries use the weapon including ukraine it has the ability to intercept up to twenty four targets at the same time within a distance of forty five kilometers and reaching 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 weapon system was the cause of the crash we asked wireless communications professor mr dollar whether it would be possible to tell where the pull is the missile came from. the easiest way of doing it is if you look at the video you have and you determine the angle of the self-propelled. and you know wallace would actually has departed from you can use the shot of that sundin from which directions actually come so that's a very rough indication and my guess is it's not done a little business council as it's coming from the east. to russia go really a rigorous method would be to look at the radar traces which i'm sure all the russian and ukrainian military because they are trying to protect the airspace. ok let's take a look at the chronologically of events twelve fifteen pm local time the plane left

for kuala lumpur four twenty one pm ukrainian time all radio and raider contact with the flight was lost within the hour the crush out was located no survivors were found by eight pm both kiev an anti government troops had denied shooting done the plane and instead pin the blame on each other then the process of identifying the victims began leaving malaysia airlines to notify hundreds of grief stricken relatives major a car years have been once that they're diverting their planes around eastern ukrainian airspace among them are france and lift europe's transport agency euro control has advised all e.u. carriers to avoid the area and following the tragedy e.u. leaders have been expressing their condolences to those affected artie's peter all over is in berlin. 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 send a team to ukraine to help with that investigation to get to the bottom of exactly what happened and she said that those that are responsible must be brought to justice should also express extreme crieff and condolences for the families of the those that have been killed for germans were among those that have . 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 britons on that flight as well he also said that he'd spoken to the dutch prime minister. expressed his condolences and saying that europe and britain all

grieve together with with the people of the netherlands 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 and russia has lashed out at the u.s. for shifting blame in the ukrainian crisis after moscow faced mounting accusations on an emergency meeting of the un security council over the tragic plane crash that is the spite russia denying any involvement or teach marina port ny it's been following the session in new york for us. it was a tough session russian envoy to the u.n. to tell you did urge council members from prejudging the outcome of an international investigation into the plane crash by using broad statements and insinuations that hold russia accountable because that's precisely what most western countries or the security council did and bester churkin said there are many unanswered questions such as why did the ukrainian aviation dispatcher send

a plane or allow a plane to enter an insecure or dangerous territory and besser churkin says the ukrainian government has not been showing military restraint as western countries have insisted he said in contrary caves aggressive attacks and indiscriminate shelling of areas in eastern ukraine has led to more violence and clashes and this is why moscow insists that responsibility for the tragic plane crash lies with keith. we've repeatedly warned of the dangers of solving ukraine's political crisis through the use of force we've been calling for respectful dialogue between the conflicting sides however each stage of his choosing the room and the west and backers are speaking mainly of the united states push them to escalate the crisis and now when facing the catastrophic consequences of this course of action is going to try to shift responsibility to russia and the u.n. security council has expressed its condolences to the families of the plane crash

victims and has also called for a full sorrow an independent international investigation. on the spot international calls for a ceasefire the ukrainian army is continuing with its heavy shelling of lugansk which is one of the focal points of the anti-government resistance in the south east early reports suggest as many as twenty civilians have been killed as a result of reports from the russia ukraine border doesn't feel like there is any end in sight so when it comes to violence in lugansk a military airplane belonging to a korean air force has delivered to get another hit on the city earlier on friday now we know that they have damaged several of residential buildings at least twenty according to various reports they have damaged also the gas pipeline so at this point people are saying that they are left without water and they are being instructed not to leave their homes and this is something that has been happening on the grounds for quite a while according to the numerous statements that we have received from people who are coming literally fleeing from the lugansk region into the neighboring region

which is located on the territory of russia. the recent deaths new york crush are the latest developments in a month long conflict that's been plaguing southeast ukraine other tragic milestones include the muskrat no deaths in early may when forty two different protesters were slaughtered a week after about seven people were killed when kiev launched a ground offensive in the city of mariupol in the midst of victory day celebrations military earth strike on lugansk city center in early june killed eight civilians and wounded many others that was a day before a hospital incrusted in the next creature in came under shelling by kiev forces claiming ten lives and just over two weeks ago the army shelled a small village of converse killing twelve civilians including a five year old child since the so-called terrorist operation was launched by kiev an april the civilian death toll has reached this number two hundred fifty seven

votes according to the u.n. special commission in ukraine. well ukraine's army does have some history of shooting done civilian planes back in two thousand and one a fatal mistake during a military exercise to dozens of lives the 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 jet above the black sea international investigators acknowledged the tragedy was ukraine's fault kiev whoever denies the allegations. website has gathered information on all the previous cases where civilians were dying by weapons head on over to r t dot com to see where and when they happen. to be in the. moving to our other top story today on r.t.

israel is winding its ground offensive in gaza one of its soldiers has been killed the first israeli military fatality in this latest campaign which kicked off late on thursday the operation has also led to palestinian casualties. you know that. those old very well the from the. people who. look at. these images show the bodies of three children who were reportedly hit by artillery fire they are among more than twenty palestinians who have died since this grind operation started taking its toll. on friday of heavy bombardments rained down across gaza with locals reporting tanks crossing the border it's really warplanes

have also reportedly struck a building housing several media offices rockets are still being fired into israel by militants and israel say's its ground troops are trying to destroy its initial target the tunnels being used by hamas to infiltrate the country hardly fear has more. while 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 escalation. but your reaction to the israeli ground invasion of the gaza strip would differ in that people by all the people depending on your doctor for all of these there could be

so much talk of committed by the british i get. into this to give our own. because finally i wasn't going to be bored but i want to go to the right to the groups here have the capacity to action. deal with it is right a ground invasion we are ready to. go i don't want to be aboard like throughout the world got to go home. we would buy off it would be ok thank you very much for the time thank you thanks so that was. rated the position that israel's ground invasion . is going to civilian casualties in large numbers to use that does have the capacity to defend the palestinian population here from an israeli ground invasion of. the israeli operation follows days of gaza shelling with hamas launching rockets in return over two hundred fifty palestinians have been killed most of them civilians including dozens of children it was

a short humanitarian true some thursday but the exchange of fire resumed the soon as it ended now the israeli prime minister has been talking about the operation in gaza vowing to deliver a serious blow against hamas polis lior has more on the story. what we're hearing from military sources is that at this stage they are 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 these really 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 massively 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 gaza 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. could to discuss this issue further and i join a live. deputy spokesperson of the israeli foreign ministry mistimed thanks indeed for joining us today since the israeli military operation began two hundred seventy four palestinians have died many of them being civilians surely your government for saw this huge terrible human cost.

that's why we never wanted to be in this place in the first place so what we did was we in the beginning when rockets at us we said quiet will be answered by quiet and what they did is they fired more rockets then the egyptians initiated a cease fire and we respected it and we didn't shoot and guess what kept on shooting rockets at us and then there was a humanitarian ceasefire and we wanted the people in gaza to receive medical help to receive food through all kinds of supplies they need and the hamas still kept firing at us so unfortunately hamas aim is to destroy israel and that's why they keep firing at us our aim is to have peace and quiet and security of our civilians but is it not really they're firing on you because they think you're firing on them first we are looking at this huge loss of life it is clearly an palestinians the pictures we've been showing them better spreading around the world by stepping up

the operation aren't you simply pushing in this into a spiral of violence but who knows when it could end. as they said we don't want to be in this spiral of violence that's why for quite a few chances that we asked the hamas to stop the violence what they said is no they will not stop until israel is destroyed you can look it up their spokesperson said it just a few days ago that's what they keep saying so unfortunately yes you have one side who wants violence more violence and more death and you have us who are asking them please let's stop it even though this is very risky for us just the other day the tunnel that was discovered when they had more than a dozen terrorists in trying to influence trade into an israeli fillets and they feel was to massacre the whole village the. these tunnels are for but thank god that israeli defense forces found that out and they managed to stop this so-called mission of the hamas so yes we don't want the violence but unfortunately this is

hamas is mission just more and more by ok when they weren't there that's fine and i just remember one thing the un international law israel is obliged to protect civilians in the occupied territories doesn't this violate what you're doing the responsibility you have towards the palestinians. yes we have a responsibility. to civilians in general and that's what we do before we attack we have flyers that saying that we're going to attack even though sometimes this actually might be bad for us because what the terrorists do is that they hide and they use them as human shields what do we mean these terrorists hide in bunkers and they let ask the people to be on the rooftops so that they will protect them with their own lives think of how how awful that is they're asking the civilians asking children and women to protect them they're supposed to be the leaders and that's what they do but we try to warn the civilians and say please leave and some of them listen to us and leave and this and sometimes we also abort missions you can look

it up in our in our websites we we have pilots actually aborting missions because they're told that there are children nearby and even though the next day this can be mean that these places are going to launch missiles at us at me in tel aviv we still think that this is better to abort a mission than to have children getting hurt so we're doing the maximum so that civilians will not get hurt but unfortunately some us in very cynical way is just using the population for their own goal which is just destruction ok a lot of stying deputy spokesperson of the israeli foreign ministry thanks for speaking to us today we're bringing you more updates on the situations and gals on eastern ukraine at the top of the hour but before that it's sophie co with host sophie shevardnadze.

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 is going to have to somehow get a massive foreign military presence out of a country and since this 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 like the stability so. if you let me she said. you would so what. was accomplished you. just made a.