fortunately doesn't sound anything. to teach creation why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. for headlines malaysia airlines says ukranian are traffic controllers to alert feted plane to fly lower than the planned altitude before the jet crashed killing all passengers and crew. the u.s. claims it is evidence that ukrainian government forces were behind the disaster accusing russia of supporting them despite moscow denying any involvement. with grief stricken relatives struggle to come to terms with the tragedy in which the majority of victims were dutch nationals. and also we're getting reports of up to twenty civilians killed by ukrainian army shelling in the defined city of new

gallants where the combat rages on the spider international calls for a truce. from our new center here in moscow twenty four hours a day you're chewed into r t international my names you know neil welcome 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. 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 for clues as to the cause of thursday's crash we should warn you there are some graphic images coming up. so far around half of the bodies have been retrieved from the widely scattered debris there 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 he solution a little i heard terrible noise i went out first and then my husband well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out at first my husband thought it was me i was in shock i couldn't go further than my yard. well let's take a closer look at the route flight m.h. seventeen was taking it took off and on a long haul journey to kuala lumpur the boeing seven seventy seven was flying over eastern ukraine this zone of an all knowing conflict between ukrainian army local militia groups the plane disappeared from radar shortly before it was to to enter russian space. and here is a list of the nationalities of those almost board the ill fated kroft 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 travelling on the euro liner also among the victims were citizens of britain germany the philippines indonesia and the u.s. . these are pictures from kuala lumpur international airport the flight destination families of the passengers and crew gathered there to try and find out what happened to their loved ones some last died at the earth cari are demanding it release the passenger manifest and that's also a time of grieving of course in the netherlands from where the plane took off polly boyko reports from amsterdam. even though it looks like business as usual back to normal at amsterdam airport there is a very somber mood in the end now malaysian airlines have said that they are providing financial support and psychological assistance to the victims' families

they said that they are willing to fly any victims' relatives 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 a the eastern ukraine saying that the flight 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 i touch member of parliament was on board the flight with his family as well as a number of australian delegates 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 it says for them now but we know that they are waiting for news about what happened to their loved ones and more importantly why. a prominent h.i.v. research was on the plane with his wife heading for a global aids conference he was one of dozens of the other gets thought to have been traveling there longest friend the president of the anti aids foundation shared his feelings of the loss are still stunned it's very unreal i think the moment i will see something more tangible it were his but it's you know i talked to him yesterday morning before the border to separate he was 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 information and i'm so strange that they had just given them the menu card even before takeoff and that she was already looking forward to eating the nice in asian food r.t.

spanish correspondent francisco to get to the scene within hours of the catastrophe some viewers may find the images in his report the. in twelve kilometers around here there is still pieces of the bodies there are also this is crass 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 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 around some kilometers we have heard some grad rockets this means that big combat is still going on russia's defense ministry says a truck the activity of the ukrainian military radar on the day of the crash it says an exchange took place between military officials concerning targets present

part of this is the rebels on the plane with a rocket but the anti government fighters say they have no weapons capable of this on are blaming the ukrainian forces meanwhile russia is calling for a thorough investigation let's get more from our t.v. or piskun off tell us more on moscow's reaction to all this well moscow is calling on both sides for an immediate cease fire in order for a thorough and objective investigation to be held and according to president putin . this investigation and everything that's happening there now especially the cease fire should definitely be one of the top priorities especially for the authorities in kiev. 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 in the whole world what happened is completely unacceptable and no one has the right to walk away without making

a conclusion of what happened for. 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. we've also heard from russia's diplomats who reminded that throughout the violence in eastern ukraine that have been a few cases now when russian territory was attacked from across the border and the minister says that if this continues in the future then there is a possibility of that russia may have to react to this. a little bit if you crane continues to shell russian territory has the ability to retaliate against the area where the firing is coming from so far according to our estimates these shellings as a result of nonprofessional is and those working there are accidents that occur

during wartime but there were new officials here in moscow are also saying that perhaps this tragedy with the malaysian plane will help. the authorities in washington sort of have a fresh look at the situation there in ukraine and perhaps change their policy of supporting. military operations in the country. updating us thank you for that 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 secondly it passed directly over a war zone and finally according to the airline ukrainian air traffic controllers requested that the plane reaches its altitude the reasons for that remain unclear we asked former pilot an air traffic controller desmond ross to give us his view point. first one news 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 it may even tell us that knew nothing about it whatsoever that it just happened frank it was a couple of things that 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 or less and mediately if there was a large hole blown in the fuselage or a compact excuse like scope of a sudden decompression of that nature it would have been quite calamitous for people who had very few seconds of consciousness and before that 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 are 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

should cases perhaps so there are some interesting aspects to the whole thing we will undoubtedly come i.o.c. investigation is conducted professionally and probably. will have heard if this passenger jet was shot down there are a few weapons in the region able to do that one possible example is the 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 par second as yet there is no confirmation that this weapon system was the cause of the crash we asked wireless communications professor misha dollar whether it would be possible to tell where the supposed missiles came from. the easiest way of doing it is if you look at the video you have to determine the angle of the self-propelled. and you know more or less weight actually has departed from the you can use the shadow

of the sun to turn from which directions actually come so that's a very rough indication and my guess is not just on a little bit of calculus it's coming probably probably from the eastern border. from russia go and do really a rigorous mapping would be to look at the radar traces which i'm sure the russian and ukrainian military because they are trying to protect the airspace. russia has been caught up in a war of words with the united states of emergency un security council session in new york focusing on the malaysian plane tragedy the us on for he made some serious accusations against moscow over the incident and the circumstances surrounding it that's the spied russia denying any involvement in a port nighest mean following the session in new york. 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 on 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 shelling military were straight as western countries have insisted he said in contrary. 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 kiev has chosen 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 trying 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 so an independent international investigation. major earth cartier's have been on spirit diverting their planes are running eastern ukrainian airspace among them are earth from scale and lift that europe's transport agency euro control has advised all e.u. cartier's to avoid bierria and following the tragedy you have been expressing their condolences to those affected ortiz peter all over is in berlin for us. we 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 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 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 the spite

international calls for a cease fire 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 southeast early reports suggest as many as twenty civilians have been killed as a result reports from the russia ukraine border. it doesn't seem like there is any end in sight so when it comes to violence in lugansk a military airplane belonging to a korean air forces 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 guns creedon into the neighboring region which is located on the territory of russia. the recent deaths in the euro crush of the

latest developments in a months long conflict that's been plaguing scifi stew crane other tragic milestones into the must occur in odessa in early may when forty two government protesters slaughtered a week after that seven people were killed when kiev launched a ground offensive in the city of mariupol in the midst of victory day celebrations and a military strike against city center in early june killed eight civilians and wounded many others that was a day before a hospital. in the dinette screeching came on the shelling by kiev forces claiming ten lives and just over two weeks ago the army shelled a small village of the rush of killing twelve civilians including a five year old child since the so-called terrorist operation was launched in kiev in april the civilian death toll has reached this number two hundred and fifty seven people according to the u.n. special commission in ukraine. let's get more on the situation in eastern ukraine

from foreign affairs expert surjit thanks for joining us this spike the tragedy kiev's army as we've seen continues its offensive in ukraine's east resulting in twenty civilian deaths is the ceasefire there possible at all at this stage. frankly no because. jeanne has no interest in it. expects that you can continue its indiscriminate shelling and its war against the civilians we've been. no one in the west these calling it to us and the whole you know why these asked the situation is only helping them because it was a clear creation's. scenario in which they did and. trying to. believe it. maliciously

placed. in harm's way so i don't see why they shouldn't stop because in washington whenever they shelves have billions whenever they feel. children in air attacks the only comment we get is taking their the family to their country. or. in their national interests. only way to stop this nonsense he's told russia. coming becoming involved proactively and more precisely. and do you believe the plane crash will fuel the crisis even more. of course it was designed to do so because if you look at the details of the case which of course the western media would love to report to walk. the plane it was in the same zone where

a ukrainian twenty six transport plane was making an appearance obviously. the poor of middle east asian male lion men who are the reaction. of the fans horses and it's not the first time we've seen this whole thing we've seen. three years ago or even. so-called massacre and of course in the get out we. normally exist and weapons of mass destruction each and every time the short term effect of the lie serves the purpose of being beyond. turning crisis in very limited no nonsense. zero sum gain.

at the same time when the lie gets discovered. the me still on the lot circumstances now on the net as the united states shut out. thank you for the rain like you were just a little bit short in time foreign affairs experts which we do appreciate your input this hour we're trying to get to some more stories but thank you. well ukraine's army does 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 a russian plane was carrying sixty six passengers and twelve crew members it was flying from tel aviv to the russian city of never said b. or c. contact was lost with the jet above the black sea international investigators acknowledge the tragedy was ukraine's fault kiev whoever deny the allegations.

website has gathered information and all the previous cases were civilian aircraft were done by weapons dot com to see where and when they happen. i am. i or other top story today on r t israel is winding its ground offensive in gaza one of its soldiers has been killed the first is really military fatality in this latest campaign which kicked off late on thursday the operation has also led to palestinian casualties. and that. the little very well the that the. that. 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 ground operation started taking its toll. on friday a barrage of heavy bombardments rained on across gaza with locals reporting tanks forcing 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 as well and israel says its ground troops are trying to destroy its initial target the tunnels being used by hamas to infiltrate the. because if your brain just. 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 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 the schieffer hospital where we

spoke to a hamas spokesperson and questioned him on this recent escalation. both your reaction to the israeli ground invasion of the gaza strip with different people depending on your doctor all of these. committed by the british are get. into this to get our own water because finally i want to. be able to do the groups here have the capacity to actually deal with an israeli ground invasion we already . know what it was like throughout the world go to home. we would buy off you will be ok thank you very much for the time thank you ok thanks so that was. the position that israel's ground invasion. is going to invoke civilian casualties in large numbers. so it does have the capacity to defend the palestinian population here from an israeli ground invasion

. or if you're reporting well earlier i spoke with a lama stine deputy spokesperson of the israeli foreign ministry i asked her how a tentative ceasefire agreement turned into an all out ground offensive egyptians initiated a ceasefire and we respected it and we didn't shoot and guess what don 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 since the it's really 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 fortunately 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 they're firing on you because they think you're firing on them first we're looking at this huge loss of life it

is clearly palestinians the pictures we've been showing and better spreading around the world by stepping up the operation aren't you simply pushing in this into a spiral of violence that who knows when it could end we don't want the violence but unfortunately this is hamas is mission just more and more by ok i warrant that that's fine and i just remember one thing the u.n. 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 and this and sometimes we also abort missions you can look it up 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 and of course we'll be bringing you more updates on the situations and gals

on eastern ukraine at the top of the hour but before that it's sophie shevardnadze talking about how people with autism can be integrated into society. to u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been quite. which is 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 to share button on facebook and get all excited it makes many 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 bow 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 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. reversals of fortune and stalemate the harder the western backed regime in camp assaults the resistance in the east the more the resistance is able to push back washington support of a military solution is flagging as well as pushing goes off you're.

welcome to survey and kill i'm selfish ever not say diagnosed with autism as a baby doctor said he'd never lived a life outside a special situation but it proved him wrong now he's a professor teaching others about the needs of people with autism dr stephen shore is my guest today. the number of children affected by autism is on the rise. but the condition remains hard to define while many think it's an illness that people who have autism don't consider themselves sick what does it mean to be so different are autistic people really disadvantaged can they be integrated into society and cancer society benefit from their innate talent. dr stephen shore a professor at adult five university which is an researcher lecturer diagnosed with a state he.