to make one barrel. you know here is a box of those for. each you are. international investigators reached the wreckage of the malaysian airliner that crashed in ukraine killing two hundred ninety eight people on board reports from the site of the tragedy. russia's envoy to the u.n. warns against the signing of blame before an investigation is held since the u.s. claims to have evidence a missile was shot at the plane from an area controlled by ukrainian government forces. grief stricken friends and family of the

seventeen plane crash victims says about why they lost loved ones. and just a few dozen kilometers away from the crash ordinary ukrainians continued to. close in on the city of lugansk. investigators are combing their way through the wreckage of the malaysian airliner that crashed in ukraine on thursday killing all two hundred ninety eight on board alongside the debris of the plane why the remains of passengers and their belongings and these white ribbons that we can see here mark the locations where

bodies have been found but many who are on board remain unaccounted for accompanied by representatives of the self-proclaimed yes people's republic a team of international observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe have arrived at the site and they took pictures of the gruesome scene on friday. linguistical team on floats your boat is not our job you're not investigating the cause for it you also do not speculate on it but what you are here for is to see what measures are in place that is the throwing me to the security. measures and what measures have been taken to deal with to see no human and most efficient way. the international observers will continue their examination of the site later in the meantime kiev has accused anti government forces of trying to destroy evidence of reports from the scene of the crash. we are now way past that twenty 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 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 there 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 that 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 anything 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 and the student it was a human body without a leg and was arms twisted and broken it was a man who fell out of the plane and through the roof it's a murder a real murder. 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 or be here there are no words to describe it here's my house and it all happened

right here. i was watching t.v. i heard a roar through explosions i would know and saw a spinning plane without a wing with something falling out of it 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 but the scene of the tragedy. i've lived here with my family my whole life here were the crash happened i've been working in this coal mine for forty years and now i just want to help their soul there are thirty people in our ship and just two of them went to work with the others came here to help you. 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 quite a wait to find out just how their loved ones were taken from them from on costs or of art see donetsk ukraine and

a majority of passengers on the flight. and people across the netherlands have been laying flowers in tribute many of the victims were holiday makers heading to the middle asian beaches all to put a book or reports from the grieving country. as travelers rush 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 are starting to emerge in the town of borden a school rocked by grief graduates of men kemah college robin hamill rick robot young van's 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 a mate seventeen were in fact

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 on holiday to malaysia but you never expect something like this to happen instead of enjoying the first days of their summer holiday pupils and teachers are grieving it's unbelievable seeing something on the news is one thing but when the two bolts your own school it hits you i still don't understand it were shell shocked 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 saw it was gone you have this roller coaster going round of different emotions disbelieves shock anger sadness. and. if you were with amsterdam 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 where you compared to 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. twenty four you can see. meanwhile the tributes have been paid across the world many of offered prayers along with flowers notes of remembrance for those who perished like so you know chefs give reports now from malaysia. we're now here in kuala lumpur where the mh seventeen plane was supposed to land but it didn't and scenes on friday were here 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 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. investigation is only just begun but the u.s. claims that it has firm evidence the plane was shot down by a missile fired from an area controlled by and find his gun and she can has more. president obama said the missile was 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 a. personnel order that the strike. 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 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 being thrown in every direction moscow has suggested that kiev has some explaining to do. russia wants to know why the ukrainian authorities believe that the country's anti government forces shut down the airplane and while other countries opposition doesn't happen i force why 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. were in this currish and to want to use this opportunity to blame anybody just. 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 let's take a closer look at some of the questions russia's defense ministry wants answers to such as why ukraine's traffic controllers allowed only seventeen to deviate from

its usual flight path and then passed directly over a war zone. now let's take a detour look at the area where a seventeen came down so you can see this is a little town where most of the debris has been found the plane came from the northwest it flew over almost the entire conflict zone and that includes two major hotspots they are in. and toss the crash site is almost directly between the regional capitals as you can see here and lugansk kiev and anti government forces have engaged in some of the fiercest fighting over their ports grab of is just kilometers away from the border with russia that's been shelled by the ukrainian army on numerous occasions and earlier this week in the neighboring town of an air strike there destroyed a residential building killing eleven well kiran anti government forces a accused each other of shooting down the plane with

a surface to air missile the system it allegedly used was the servant made book it's a mobile complex that can be quickly moved around the deployed virtually anywhere unlike handheld surface to air missiles the book has the range to shoot down high flying linus' ukrainian military was known to have deployed a number of these systems in the area intelligence expert charles shubert says that gives claims of yet to be backed up by solid evidence. one could say from the outset with some investigation the area of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think that is to put it much of eastern ukraine is in a fluid situation in terms of who controls what any given time the ukraine government has released what it claims are a number of evidence should lead for example it is said that. intercepted communications it says between people on the ground that suggested that we have those who are firing or how far into all weapons. you current government has in the

past said that the rebels have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the 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 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. investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case a lot more updates on ukraine and the rest of the day's news coming up after a short break.

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can back you watching r.t. international now at a tense emergency meeting of the un security council russia's envoy urged others not to assign blame before the results of an investigation report was following proceedings for us 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 and says that 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 kiev. we have repeatedly warned of grave dangers of solving ukraine's political crisis through the use of force we have been calling for respectful dialogue between the conflicting sod's 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 un security council expressed its condolences to the families of the plane crash victims of the children ninety eight people on the malaysian flight to kuala lumpur from amsterdam u.n. officials say eighty more children. are new york. now with the plane crash taking the attention since mid thursday kira's ongoing crackdown in eastern ukraine has gone largely unnoticed the army's tightened the siege of the region's second biggest city lugansk just sixty kilometers from where the jet came down here are images from the streets of lugansk shortly after an artillery attack

at least twenty locals were killed a market left in ruins craters left outside a church all the result of the latest offensive with more details on the price of the crackdown his arteries and. one of the major developments is that the airport of the guns has been taken over by the ukrainian army now this was one of the most highly contested area near the city and they have entered the guns 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 a gas fired also has been hit leaving a lot of people without axes to heat for cooking purposes for example there was already talk about the military and 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 guns seems to be pointing in exactly the opposite direction . wherever you are you can always log on to. the news developments from ukraine twenty four seventh's to keep you up to. be more tank and heavy machine gunfire on the israeli gaza border this morning since the ground offensive began on thursday dozens of palestinians being killed hospitals received a steady flow of injured all day on friday. i. was . a lot of it. for little.

the law. was. meanwhile israel's continuing to pound hamas rocket launches and uncover cross border tunnels while targeting harass palestinian civilians have taken the brunt of israeli attacks at least twenty people have been killed on saturday as the i.d.f. intensified its shelling us president barack obama has warned israel against pushing the escalation too far over almost three hundred twenty palestinians died since israeli shelling began just last week about a fifth of them children are a fear of course now from gaza. thousands of troops and tanks stormed into guards there 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 the stream the dangerous neighborhoods granny or is among fifty from the to monny family who sought refuge here. this year. but. the legs. were damaged. and i mean if you notice that the u.n. says twenty two thousand people have been internally displaced and sought refuge in its facilities since this latest bout of by. we can last tuesday have consistently slammed into the homes of palestinians over the last two weeks yet israel maintains it's only targeting how mass infrastructure mahmoud's home was one of those hit they've attacked your home. while 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 are not the only targets damaged in this escalation on friday morning three air strikes hit an office high up in a commercial building in one of the most developed barriers of the city.

and i mean. from outside i said i thought i would if it is it possible that people are firing missiles from your office this morning you know you. got to. make it easier to say here how did. well we're filming in the center of the city for rockets fired just behind us from a well known local military. 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.

. well news network c.n.n. pulled its correspondent from covering the israeli palestinian conflict after she tweeted about israelis cheering as they watched bombs hit garza a tweet was later deleted another american network n.b.c. also removed its correspondent from the region without any explanation for more details on the visit our website r.t. dot com. back with their latest news headlines for you at the top of the hour abby martin is up next with breaking the sense. this is about making the business survive.

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really knows what's inside the feeling of fish. well going to break in a set i'm happy martin so yesterday the world witnessed a truly horrific tragedy unfold in eastern ukraine malaysian airliner was shot down killing two hundred ninety eight human beings on board one of the passengers were humanitarians on their way to an aids conference in australia unfortunately the media coverage from all sides has been truly truly disappointing within hours the sun immediately declared the missile as putin's and neo cons were given a platform across corporate media to see.