international reached the wreckage of the malaysian. from the site of the tragedy. of the u.n. war against assigning blame before an investigation is held as the u.s. claims to have evidence of the plane from an area controlled by ukrainian government forces. and grief stricken friends and family over the plane crash victims are seeking about why they lost their loved ones. just a few kilometers away from the crash ordinary ukrainians continue to die as the

closes in on the city. it's a saturday morning here in moscow you're watching international with me will receive a very warm welcome to you today investigators are combing through the wreckage of the malaysian airliner that crashed in east ukraine on thursday killing all two hundred ninety eight on board alongside the debris of the plane lie the remains of passengers and their belongings and these white ribbons ultimately here where the bodies have been found but many who are on board still remain unaccounted for now a team of international observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe has arrived at the scene accompanied by representatives of

the self-proclaimed people's republic they took pictures of the gruesome scene. we are now way past that twenty four hour mark that the bodies of the people of the crash malaysia airlines flight have been lying around here along with the burning debris you know they always see mission had already come here they spend about an hour talking to people and scouring the area then they left so we couldn't get any information from them right away they were keeping mum about the whole thing but certainly the shock was definitely on their faces now it's not just this area that's been affected the debris and along with the bodies had falling in an area around twelve kilometers here so this is going to be lengthy lengthy process for identification and for investigation as well and right now cue to take

a look at what we have seen here so far and how this tragedy had affected the people that live here in eastern ukraine this woman who was out working in her garden when her son sold her a body had fallen from the sky and broken through the roof of their house the badly mangled victim of the malaysian airlines flight has now been laying in in this kitchen for more than a day. at first i didn't notice any and then my son went out and said mom there is a body in the kitchen there was plastic everywhere i thought it was just a pile of rubbish but then i found this too that it was a human body without a leg and was arms twisted and broken it was a man who fell out of the play and through the roof it's a murder a real murder the local residents dimitri said the area's been saar good by ukrainian forces as part of their so-called antiterrorist operation.

my wife and i were having dinner when we heard a strange noise that sounded like clapping as soon as we went out of the house we saw a body lying nearby it must have fallen from a very high altitude the only thing left on the body was a t. shirt it was a man their legs were broken i saw practically no blood now you can smell the odor over here there are no words to describe it here's my house and it all happened right here it's not clear what caused the boeing seven seven seventh's of fall out of the sky leaving nearly three hundred civilians dead several different possibilities have now been thrown up the locals here it's all that's what they saw just before that plane came crashing down i was watching t.v. i heard a roar into explosions i would know that and saw spinning plane without a wing with something falling out of it the plane was shot down there were explosions in the sky in apart from the loud sounds of the plane itself i heard the

buzz which fighter jets make the area where the plane crashed is near several mines that sustain people economically in the done as krege and so it comes as no surprise that coal miners or some of the first on hand to help at the scene of the tragedy i've lived here with my family my whole life here where the crash happened i've been working in this coal mine for forty years and now i just want to help that's all our own government is bombing us there's thirty people in our ship and just two of them went to work others came here to help is thought roses of the victims are going to be arriving here shortly and no doubt they will be seeking answers but it seems they could be in for a quite a wait to find out just how their loved ones were taken from them from on cos or have are at sea than s.q. crane. the netherlands is also in mourning the majority of passengers on the flight

were dutch and people across the country have been laying flowers in tribute artist polly boyko now reporting from grieving i'm stood up. as travelers rush to catch their flights these floral tributes are the only visible reminder of the tragedy for victims' families the crew wait to find out who downed flight m.h. seventeen continues but away from the airport the heartbreaking stories a starting to emerge in the town of borden a school rocked by grief graduates of men kemah college robin hamill rick robot young vines it failed and his sister fred a reek were about to start the next chapter of their lives while two of the three students from this school that sadly perished on nine eight seventeen were in fact siblings a brother and a sister who were flying out to kuala lumpur with their grandparents who had gifted them a holiday to southeast asia for graduating from this school just several days ago

everybody's together there's lots of crying everybody supporting one another you don't see something like this coming i knew he was going to hold you to malaysia with you never expect something like this to happen instead of enjoying the first days of their summer holiday pupils and teachers a grieving it's unbelievable seeing something on the news is one thing but when it's about your own school it hits you i still don't understand where shellshocked the loss is terrible we've opened up the school so that the kids can come in and mourn together and so that the students that needs extra help can get professional trauma counseling. over announced today outside one of the city's bars we saw young men and women crying they were mourning the loss of their friends laurence van de graaff and his girlfriend collin who had planned to travel across malaysia a fun five am last night i got

a text and i woke up. and i saw it was gone you have this roller coaster going round of different emotions disbelief shock anger sadness. and. you feel horrible and saddam has a population of just around eight hundred thousand people everyone we've spoken to is in shock but because that list of dutch casualties was so high on m.h. seventeen most of the people we've spoken to say they know someone or know someone who knows someone who died on that plane well what i read earlier today it's the same ratio as nine eleven we've compared to the death toll. to the population so i think it's pretty impactful and while relatives and friends of victims digest the news of what's happened the flags are flying at half mast a symbol of a nation in mourning. for the boy. in the. well of attributes have been paid across

the world as well i mean you have offered prayers among with flowers and notes in remembrance of those who perished party's election a chef he is now in kuala lumpur where a major seventeen was supposed to land. we're now here in kuala lumpur where the mh seventeen plane was supposed to land but it did end scenes on friday where he is very emotional the relatives of those who were killed on that plane crash literally stormed the airport the particularly the offices of the malaysian airline company demanding the lists of those who wore on board for some reason the company was reluctant to give those lists only a few hours later did provide those lists now we understand that a larger part of the relatives of the victims of the plane crash went to amsterdam from there they will travel to ukraine where they will participate in the identification of these bodies that but the authorities here both the authorities of the malaysian airlines company and the state authorities are on the rolling

press conference schedule there providing updates literally every hour raising a lot of questions particularly that one of the most important questions as to why as it's been reported the plane was ordered by the ukrainian air traffic controllers to descend to a lower altitude these scenes are now pretty calm although huge media and police presence here around the airport which pretty much resembles the scenes of march when another airliner of the malaysian airline company disappeared it's still nowhere to be found but of course the situation is different and we are waiting for more updates from the country's officials. alexi to shift the reporting and will the investigation has barely begun the u.s. claims it has firm evidence the plane was shot down by a missile fired from an area controlled by fighters more now with guy in a chick. president obama said the misawa shot from the territory controlled by separatists in eastern ukraine having said that he also added we don't know exactly

what happened i think it's very important for us to make sure that. we don't get out ahead of the facts. and at this point in terms of identifying specifically what individual or group of individuals or. personnel ordered to the strike. it came about the u.s. president called for a credible international investigation and that is something all members of the u.n. security council are calling for including russia because nobody at this point knows who shot that missile the blame game is about who created the ground for this tragedy to happen and here we see a clash of different views the u.s. says russia is responsible because it supported the rebels we know that these separatists received a steady flow of support from russia. this includes arms and training russia says key if it's responsible because it launched this military operation in eastern ukraine and the u.s. supported it at this point we have this vicious back and forth between everyone

involved and not involved now there are plenty of unexplained details surrounding the flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur where the plane first diversion from its original flight path it then passed directly over a war zone and finally according to the airline ukrainian air traffic controllers requested that the plane drop its altitude reasons for that remain very unclear let's get the thoughts of hugh a ritchey who's the chief executive of aviation consultant international joining us head live on the program very good morning to you thank you for joining us first of all why would you craney an air traffic control is the boss the plane to drop altitude directly over a war zone. i don't understand. why.

that's. why. i mean if i was jumping i mean it just sort of jump in hipaa but there are the risks of flying over awards are not obvious i mean are there any advantages to doing that. well you know. me a little. my. wife any. number. i'm. sorry we're not sure i'm going to jump in i really apologize we've got we've got a bit of a bad connection here hugh we're going to try and reestablish it will come back to you she ritchie the chief executive at aviation consultant international i do apologize thank you for your patience and i thank you for your patience for joining us here on ati today and with accusations being thrown in every direction russia's deputy defense minister has suggested kiev has some explaining to do i would like

to express deep condolences to all people whose relatives were in this. i don't want to use this up i do need to blame anybody i just would like to raise a few questions to my. colleagues from force to solve ukraine. and russia wants kiev to explain why it believes ukrainian opposition forces shot down the plane and the government fighters don't have an air force so moscow wants to know why kiev deployed surface to air missiles in the area russia is also calling on ukraine to release record of its military tracking from the day of the tragedy and questions have been raised of why the airliner was allowed to deviate from its course lower its altitude and fly directly over a battleground well kiev and antigovernment forces are accusing each other of shooting down the plane of course as we know with a surface to air missile system allegedly used was a soviet made book it's

a mobile complex that can be quickly moved around and deployed virtually anywhere though unlike handheld surface to air missiles at the book does have the range to shoot down flying airliners ukrainian military was known to have deployed a number of these systems in the area but kiev is now circulating an unconfirmed video allegedly showing a book complex being driven across eastern ukraine with one of its missiles missing intelligence expert charles shubert she says that kiev's claims have yet to be backed by solid evidence. one could say from the outset with some investigation of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think. in much of eastern ukraine is in a fluid situation in terms of who controls why any given time the ukraine government has released what it claims are a number of evidence should lead for example it has said. intercepted

communications it says between people on the ground suggested that we have those who are firing or how fired or weapons. ukraine government has in the past said to . have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the ukraine government claims i was yet on cooperated in respect to these intercepted transmissions. and also of course. the prosecutor general himself you know i have always have the system so it's fair to say there's a lot of confusion at the moment and really this really points the way to the importance of a thoroughly independent and indeed thorough investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case. we've tried to reestablish the connection with hugh a ritchie who's the chief executive of aviation consultants international to bring him back on the program hugh thanks for your patience i was asking you just a few moments ago first of all why would the ukrainian air traffic controllers have asked the malaysian airplane to drop its altitude directly over

a war zone. well. this is i guess the topic. we're not moving across the flying in the region to find. their ration read the reasons that we are far and the reason to bring in a crop so all around to not withstanding that stuff in my mind that's not my place in the person is why the airlines allowed it was true. in the masses in my mind it was management and certainly in malaysia i'm not pointing the finger directly at malaysia airlines but all the profit flying through the walls of my mind i believe that i and i asked the fly a. lot think bought into the. not declaring the area a no fly zone. i don't understand the i got into his. i

know the proper. thing saw that. during the wait and fumble flying across the. my mind as i did before all the airline flying through that i don't think that the malaysian airlines. should have a big part of that in terms of managing the site if traffic controllers will manage manage that it exposes flight rules and separation minimum. five will expire and if you have a look at the region just thought of the eight steps off the land you'll see that remember the problem in the region. that was keeping the separation at the status which is meant to. fly practice. and that i can't give a reason why they did the or the fact that the proxy reduces it is certainly very bizarre this points you i'm just saying and as we've

a we. in reporting the ukrainian air traffic control is telling the malaysian airliner to drop its altitude directly over a war zone it seems that american intelligence officials do have proof they say that a missile was responsible for taking out the malaysian aircraft one question is if it was flying at ten thousand meters approximately thirty thousand feet i spoke to an aviation expert yesterday who said you cannot identify from the ground with the naked eye what kind of plane is flying at thirty thousand feet in other words whoever took out this plane either knew exactly what they were going for all they made a mistake well i agree. they can see in the ground what they were actually writing the. thing and most likely that it was right. and actually. the. on fire and most likely thing on the transponder.

and bomb itself. when this was detonated and exploded the missile nation. in my mind it does show in. my my i don't want to. jump to any illusions on any of this but it does seem to be actually being vetted and secondly it's like trying to say that. people leave me so why wasn't the. question which is. the fact it was a. no fly zone blurs and one thousand feet will knock down one of the main. and then alarming was. in my mind i've. lost money on

the airline still on the. control and then try to control it as well i'm going in kiev that i as we know i'm not looking often just one and line but many airlines in a passing over the northern regions he richie chief executive of aviation consultants international a great pleasure to have you with us here on the program today thank you but. now at a tense and much of the meeting of the u.n. security council russia's envoy urged others not to assign blame before the results of an investigation unknown ati's were in a fortnight i was following proceedings in new york. as pressure and accusations are piling up against moscow russian envoy to the united nations vitaly churkin is urging security council members against pointing blame or prejudging an investigation into the tragic plane crash during a somber and yet contentious emergency meeting friday ambassador churkin said there are many unanswered questions such as why did the ukrainian aviation dispatchers

send a plane flight into an area of military clashes and where were the anti-aircraft systems working ambassador churkin says the ukrainian government has not been showing military restraint as western countries have insisted moscow insist that heaves 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 key. members of the british good we have repeatedly warned of a grave dangers of solving ukraine's political crisis through the use of force we have been calling for respectful dialogue between the conflicting sides however at each stage kiev has chosen the wrong course and their western backers i'm speaking mainly of the united states have pushed them to escalate the crisis and now when facing the catastrophic repercussions of this course of action they're trying to shift responsibility to russia. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n.

samantha power says it's likely that a surface to air missile was used to down the malaysian airliner as a result she insists that the international community cannot rule out that russia trained or assisted the ukrainian separatists in shooting down the plane many western council members also said that rebels in eastern ukraine have shot down several planes in the area in recent days which establishes their record and capability of activity the ukrainian ambassador to the u.n. told the council that he believes the separatists in the eastern part of his country are armed with two missile systems that would be capable of shooting down the malaysian airlines plane he insists his government has evidence to back up the claim the u.n. security council expressed its condolences to the families of the plane crash victims and has also called for a full thorough and independent international investigation into the crash that claimed the lives of two hundred ninety eight innocent people russian president vladimir putin and his u.s. counterpart barack obama have both called for an immediate cease fire in ukraine to

allow investigators to safely determine the facts and truth surrounding the devastating crash of the two hundred ninety people on the malaysian flight to kuala lumpur from amsterdam u.n. officials say eighty more children were enough. new york. of course the rampant speculation was also flooded the mainstream media political analyst bill boras believes that some details are being ignored old in an attempt to school late international tensions. it's an outrage that war mongering politicians from hillary clinton to john mccain to joe biden and the media are cynically exploiting this crisis to point the finger at russia and to lay the groundwork for further nato intervention in ukraine and for new sanctions against russia when it is they themselves who by giving a blank check to the poroshenko regime who have encouraged the poroshenko regime in

kiev to wage war against its own people to launch air and artillery attacks on cities like don't yet going to god it's going from a tourist in flood it is they these power from the white house to congress to the pentagon to the cia who are responsible for turning east ukraine into a war zone and at best they bear responsibility for the tragedy in this sense the whole purpose of that is to create a rift between west europe and russia to force europe into the same kind of subservient relationship it had with the united states during the cold war. and with the plane crash taking all the attention since mid thursday kiev's ongoing crackdown in east ukraine has gone largely unnoticed the army has tightened the siege on the region second biggest city of lugansk just about sixty clicks from where the plane came down now claims it's now in control of the southeastern parts of the city the gains came at a price at least twenty civilians killed in broad daylight as four. came under

heavy artillery fire and shell struck close to a church and a local market left in ruins of course when it really has more of what's happening right there. doesn't seem like there is any end in sight so when it comes to violence in lugansk a military airplane belonging to an air force that has delivered yet another hit now we know that they have damaged several of residential buildings at least twenty to various reports of damage also gas at this point people are saying that they are left without water and they are being instructed not to leave their will this has been happening in the town for quite a while according to the military statement that we have received from people coming little to the. into the neighboring region to look at it on the territory of russia. now wherever you are you can always log on to watch the dog kong for all the news and developments from ukraine our web team is working twenty four seven to keep you up to date. the casualties are mounting in israel's ground

operation in gaza now almost sixty palestinians have been killed many of them children and teenagers in all more than three hundred have been killed since israeli shelling began just last week on the vast majority of them are civilians hospitals received a steady flow of injured all day friday. well because of. this. one israeli soldier was killed on friday the country's first military casualty prime minister binyamin different yahoo is vowing to widen the ground operation and

the government says it must destroy the network of tunnels used by hamas to infiltrate israel and the un says the number of gazans seeking shelter has nearly doubled our correspondent ari fear now reporting from gaza. 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 a sheath the hospital where we spoke to a hamas spokesperson and questioned him on this recent past. your reaction to the israeli ground invasion of the gaza strip we're different people depending on your doctor all of these the crime. committed by the british i get.

into this to give our own. 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. the world's going to. be able to buy off. ok thank you very much for the time thank you ok thanks so that was. he a traitor to the position that israel's ground invasion really is going to invoke civilian casualties in large numbers to use that it does have the capacity to defend the palestinian population here from an israeli ground invasion. and they were and he is really rallies in the region as well on friday in the west bank city of bethlehem pro gaza demonstrators with tear gassed by police in jordan's capital amman hundreds of protesters demanding.