orders. the. international investigators reached the wreckage of the malaysian airliner that crashed in ukraine killing all on board. we report from the site of the tragedy. russia's envoy to the u.n. against assigning blame before an investigation is held as the u.s. claims to have. shot at the plane from an area controlled by ukrainian government forces. and grief stricken friends and. seventeen plane crash victims now seeking why they have lost their loved ones. just a few kilometers away from the ordinary ukrainians continue to die as the closes in

on the city. thanks for sharing some of your saturday with us here on r.t. international. investigators are combing through the wreckage of the malaysian airliner that crashed in east ukraine on thursday it killed all two hundred ninety eight people on board alongside the debris of the plane like the remains of passengers on their belongings i'll show you some pictures of white ribbons that marked the spots where some of the bodies have been found but many who were on board are still unaccounted for a team of international observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe will continue their examination of the site a bit later accompanied by representatives of the self-proclaimed people's republic they took pictures of the. some scene on friday nights where authors of oman the

cost of reports. we are now way past that's when the four hour mark that the bodies of the people at the crash malaysia airlines flight have been lying around here along with the burning debris you know the always see mission had already come here the 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 mom 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 i ask you to take a look at what we have seen here so far and how this tragedy and affected the

people that live here in eastern ukraine. this woman 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 and it said that when my son went out and said mom there is a body in the kitchen there was blood everywhere i thought it was just a pile of rubbish but then i understood 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 motive. my wife and i were having dinner when we heard a strange noise that sounded like laughing a soon as we went out of the house we saw a body lawyer nearby it must have fallen from a very high altitude and the only thing left on the body was a t. shirt it was a man's legs were broken or silky practically no blood at all but now you can smell

the odor or be here there are no words to describe it well here's my house and it all happened right here it's like i was watching t.v. i heard a roar looking through explosions i would know the source been played without a wing what's wrong with your falling out of it the area where the plane crashed is near several mines that sustain people economically in the done and screeching and so it comes as no surprise that coal miners were 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 with whom i've been working in this coal mine for fourteen years before and now i just want to help their soul there's very few people in our shared i know there are some of them one but work with the others came here to help you get that new is thought rises 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 for. on them for a month cost or of our c donetsk ukraine. the majority of the passengers on the flight were dutch and people all across the netherlands have been laying flowers in tribute many of the victims were simply holiday makers heading to the beaches of malaysia. reporting from the departure point and up to the. i was travelers rushed to catch their flights these floral tributes are the only visible reminder of the tragedy for victims' families the cool 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 veld and his sister freda 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 i'm 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 their thoughts 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 teaches a grieving it's somebody saying something on the news is one thing but when it's a bunch 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 kaiser who had planned to travel across malaysia. five am last night i got a text and i woke up. and i was going you have this rollercoaster going round it's different emotions. disbelieve shock anger sadness. i know. 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 that it's the same ratio as nine eleven where you compared to death toll to or 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 people you can see. and other attributes have been pouring in from all across the world many have offered prayers along with flowers on notes in remembrance of those who perished aussie's alexina chefs q now reporting from malaysia that was supposed to be the point of arrival. m h seventeen plane was supposed to land but it didn't and scenes on friday where he is very emotional the relatives of those who were killed on that plane crash literally stormed the airport 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 they're 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 the 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 alexy the ship's you're reporting that the investigation has barely begun but the u.s. says it has firm evidence the plane was shot down by

a missile allegedly fired from an area controlled by and kiev fight his guy nature can with a report. president obama said the misawa shot from the territory controlled by separatists in eastern ukraine evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface to air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine moreover we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from russia 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 how 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 the 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 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 had this vicious back and forth between everyone involved and not involved with the accusations coming in from old sides moscow has suggested that kiev has some explaining to do the details without so use more ethanol. russia wants to know why the ukrainian authorities believe that the country's anti government forces shut down the airplane and while of the country's opposition doesn't happen a force why i keep have deployed surface to air missiles in the area and russia's also calling on ukraine to release its records of the military tracking from the

day of the tragedy hand questions have also been raised over why allow the airliner to deviate from its course and fly over the battleground these are the crucial issues that russia's deputy defense minister believes key of should clarify for a better understanding of what caused the tragedy i would like to express deep condolences to all people. who are in this currish going to want to use this opportunity to blame anybody just for the like a few questions to my. colleagues from our forces of ukraine while the investigation continues the accusations have been thrown from every direction to every direction and every budget understand that it should be done very carefully otherwise consequences could be very dramatic but still we can see that there are more questions than answers in this tragic story. well let's take

a closer look at some of the questions that russia's defense ministry it wants and says to such as for example why a major one seven was diverted from its usual flight path and then passed directly over a war zone finally according to the airline ukrainian air traffic controllers then requested the plane to drop its altitude the reasons for that very clear now kiev and government forces naturally accusing each other of taking down the plane with a so-called surface to air missile that system in question allegedly the soviet made book and mobile complex that can be quickly moved around and deployed virtually anywhere unlike handheld surface to air missiles the book has the range to shoot down high flying airliners ukrainian military was known to have deployed a number of these systems in the area intelligence expert charles troubridge says claims have yet to be backed by any solid evidence one could say from the outset

with some investigation the air of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think is to put it much of east 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 is said that it intercepted communications it says between people on the ground that suggested that we have those who are firing or how fired or weapons and also ukraine government has in the past said that the rebels have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the ukraine government claims hours yet on cooperated in respect to these intercepted transmissions and also of course the prosecutor general himself the night that rebels have this 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. investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case.

time for a very short break here an aussie international backing with the latest updates from ukraine. so. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here in the southern big story of the same time there's a reason they don't want you to know. now let's break the set.

dramas the. stories others refuse to notice. places change the world right. so picture. from around the globe. to the. south of the afternoon here in moscow thanks for joining us on aussie international at a tense emergency meeting of the un security council russia's envoy to others not to assign blame before the results of an investigation of course we're talking about the malaysia airliner that came down that east ukraine. i was following the 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 sent 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 insists that keeps 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 grave dangers of solving ukraine's political crisis through the use of the wounds to say we have been calling for

a respectful dialogue between the conflicting saw it switches however at each stage kiev has chosen the wrong course and their western backers i'm speaking mainly of the united states you have a push them to escalate a crisis and now when facing the catastrophic repercussions of this course of action you're trying to shift responsibility to russia but bill do you believe 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. down the malaysian airlines plane he insists his government has evidence to back up the

claim the un security council expressed its condolences to the families of the plane crash victims of the ninety people on the malaysian flight to kuala lumpur from amsterdam un officials say eighty more children. and with the plane crash taking all attention since mid thursday kiev's ongoing crackdown in eastern ukraine carries on going on notice for the most part of the army's tightened its siege on the region's second largest city. just about sixty kilometers from where the malaysia jet came down. some images from the streets of shortly after a heavy artillery attack at least twenty locals killed the market left in ruins craters outside a church all the result of the latest offensive with more details on the price of the crackdown has. one of the major developments is that the airport has been taken over by the ukrainian army now this was one of the most highly contested area

near this city and they have entered but not before inflicting heavy damage on its we're talking about shelling from air shelling with missiles and artillery fire in one instance eight people were killed ten years three when a shell has exploded in the middle of a pedestrian cross-walk basically the city has been left without electricity without running water. also has been hit leaving a lot of people without heat for cooking purposes for example there was already talk about humanitarian catastrophe in the city of lugansk but that is happening basically right on the heels of statements made by ukrainian officials before when they were saying that residential areas are not their primary targets what's happening in the seems to be pointing in exactly the opposite direction. where you can be anywhere in the world but always get online with all the very latest new developments straight out of ukraine. twenty four and keep you updated.

twenty minutes past the hour and more. heavy machine gun fire on the israeli border this morning since the ground offensive began on sixty students have been killed hospitals received a steady flow of injured friday. we are. going to look. for a little bit. earlier. in the meantime israel's continuing to pound hamas rocket launchers and cross border tunnels but while targeting hamas palestinian civilians have taken the brunt of israeli attacks

fifteen of them reportedly killed just saturday morning including a family of eight u.s. president barack obama has warned israel against pushing the escalation too far overall more than three hundred ten palestinians have died since israel started shelling last week about a fifth of them my children. are now reporting from gaza for out. thousands of troops and tanks stormed into guards or in the early hours of friday morning as israel began its so-called anti terror campaign this is the. school in central gaza city we understand that over the last few days hundreds of families have come here to seek refuge from the ongoing escalation they're living in very very difficult conditions but that conditions better than being in a stream the dangerous neighborhoods brawny or is among fifty from the to monny family who sought refuge here. but.

the u.n. says twenty two thousand people have been internally displaced and sought refuge in its facilities since this latest bout of violence began last tuesday. consistent you slammed into the homes of palestinians over the last two. yet israel maintains it's only targeting how mass infrastructure mahmoud's home was one of those hit they've attacked your home you remember the out the somber gates well i was. it's less than a kilometer away from the israeli border and near a hospital that was being targeted here in the north of the strip these refugee camps are some of the most densely populated places on earth and when the shooting

starts people here suffer more than most but despite the danger not all the heating israel's warnings to evacuate i understand that you were told to evacuate by israel why have you not evacuated. their. homes and not the only targets damaged in assess collation on friday morning three airstrikes hit an office high up in a commercial building in one of the most developed dario's of the city and. the. enemy of. promise i said i thought i would defeat is it possible that people were firing missiles from your office this morning.

how did. well we're filming in the center of the city for rockets fired just behind us from a well known local military site the israeli prime minister has given orders to the israeli army to escalate its ground operations in the gaza strip palestinians here remember all too well the bloodiness of the winter two thousand and eight now an invasion of the gaza strip this a month of ramadan a time that is meant to be peaceful palestinian muslims simply pray to god to protect them and their families harry fear r.t. . the israeli operation follows an egypt brokered truce which allowed some aid to get inside gaza that only lasted for five hours on thursday when exchange of fire began as soon as it ended earlier my colleague you know neal spoke with ilana stein and the deputy spokes person of the israeli foreign ministry and we asked exactly how a ceasefire could be followed by an all out ground invasion. egyptians initiated

a cease fire and we respected it and we didn't shoot and guess what hamas 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 see all kinds of supplies they need and the hamas still kept firing at us 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 an 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 when they

weren't there that's fine and i just remember saying 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 or the exodus of refugees from ukraine that's coming up next in a special documentary unless it's going on the ground and you're in the u.k. thanks for joining us in our national.

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