as international experts scour the scene of the malaysian plane disaster in eastern ukraine accusations and counter claims are made but the e.u. says it remains unclear what brought the aircraft down. families and communities mourn the victims of the tragedy with people from at least ten countries among the dead more than half of them dutch citizens. amid uncertainty over whether the plane was hit by a missile r.t. hears from aviation experts about the unusual details surrounding flight m.h. seventeen and why it passed it directly over a raging war zone. also european security monitors say two hundred fifty civilians have been killed in less than two months in just one region of eastern ukraine as

kiev apparently escalates its military operation. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now experts from several countries are joining an international probe into the tragic crash of a malaysian passenger jet and the government of the self-proclaimed people's republic of done yet scans just announced that they will guarantee the safety of the investigators the wreckage site in eastern ukraine is spread out over a several kilometer wide radius white cotton markers have been placed where the victims of bodies have been found all two hundred ninety eight people on board were killed among them eighty children now. it is a believed the plane was shot down by

a missile however the e.u. commission says it has seen no evidence confirming this so far the russian president and the chancellor of germany have agreed on holding an international investigation into the crash a team of monitors from europe's main security watchdog arrived at the scene on friday the self defense forces have widened to the access to the observers since then the emergency workers are also at the scene helping locate the debris and victims international experts working there say they face a difficult task then investigate this team play see if it is not all work show your multi investigation the calls for you also do not speculate on it but put the you're here for is to see what measures are in place for defending me to the security for the measures and what measures have to be taken to do this to see in a human and most efficient way. our correspondent on the cost of spoke to some of the locals who witnessed the crash this one 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 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 add this to that 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 in two explosions i would know and saw 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 were 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 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 there are thirty people in our ship and just two of them went to work the others came here to help. is thought rudd says 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 for among koester

of the art see donetsk ukraine. govern other lands where the ill fated a plane departed from has been the country worst hit by the tragedy the majority of the passengers on board flight m.h. seventeen a total of one hundred ninety two people were duchess citizens artie's a poly boyko visited a school. reeling from the loss of three students. 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 freda to wreak 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 billings 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 it's about your own school it hits you i still don't understand that we're 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 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 this 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 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 the boy. in moscow and washington are insisting that the evidence recovered from the scene of the crash must be made available to international investigators that's what in the russian foreign minister discussed with the u.s. secretary of state over the phone if national has details. on the official website of russia's foreign ministry worried that this conversation between mr lavrov and mr kerry was very on this and very open the two top diplomats agreed that all the evidence from the downed malaysian airplane including flight recorders so-called black boxes should be made available for the international investigation that both parties stressed should be independent and biased and transparent and also that

the international experts should be given access to work freely on the ground also lover of and carry threats that the ukrainian conflict has no military solution and should be resolved peacefully and they pledged to use influence on all the sides been involved in this. long protracted conflict to achieve this goal and speaking of the white house on friday the u.s. president claimed there was firm evidence that the malaysian plane was downed by a surface to air missile fired from territory controlled by forces he also lashed out at russia for supporting them or he's going to again to exert closer look at those allegations. and 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. 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 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 crane and the u.s. supported it at this point we have this vicious back and forth between everyone

involved and not involved now these are some of the strongly written media headlines appearing in the wake of the tragedy directly blaming blood to me to putin and the apparent lack of evidence into the crash hasn't stopped them from pointing the finger daniel schacter editor of global vision incorporated media channel told us earlier that it is still too early to jump to any conclusions. many in the media in america are already blaming president putin personally for this as if he is responsible but without any evidence to back it up and of course the ukrainian president has blamed terrorists whoever they are. trading of accusations between the ukrainian military and the so-called separatists in the east of the ukraine obviously to needs to be some sort of a kind of ceasefire there and a real serious investigation if you want to get at the truth this is

a very politically laced subject that really requires this passionate international investigation. now the ukrainian government has also added it to the growing speculation by publishing what it says is a leaked phone call between local militia fighters who admitted to shooting down a civilian plane and this unverified video circulating online purports to show a book missile launcher being smuggled out of ukraine after thursday's crash although that cannot be verified now despite the accusations being made there are still more questions than answers over the catastrophe and russia's defense minister is demanding information from kiev it has put together a list of questions one of them is why did you crane a rush to blame self defense forces after the tragedy that's the first question of course moscow is asking kim why it deployed book rocket launchers in the area despite the local militia having no planes question number three will ukraine make

tracking it data of its warplanes vailable in the wake of the crash another question is why was the aircraft allowed to fly over the conflict zone in the first place now indeed there are many unexplained details surrounding the tragedy let's take a closer look at some of them first data from the flight aware service suggest that the plane diverge from its original route here's the map of the courses taken by other airline. earlier in the week as you can see here the doomed flight went further north than any of the other airliners flying over ukraine it's not clear why it took that particularly path second ukrainian controllers asked of the crew to fly lower than in the height which was originally requested this is according to a statement issued by malaysian airlines it says the boeing seven hundred seven was supposed to fly at thirty five thousand feet but was instructed to descend to thirty three thousand feet and finally it's also unclear why the boeing aircraft flew over

a zone of heavy fighting the combat between ukrainian forces and local militia has been ongoing in the area for months now since kiev launched what it calls an anti terror operation in the country's east we asked aviation expert chris yates to comment on the brave quest. line said not being prevented from flying through this this conflict. the international civil aviation organization i.k.o. based in montreal. was the last to organization and to declare the as a space to be safe that presumably based on information received from the ukrainian authorities. perhaps flawed intelligence sounds to. the weaponry that insurgents on the border may or may not. and so. a whole bunch of

questions that are cropping up now which we each need and says we need to answer some fairly quickly indeed. coming up on archie international the people of gaza are facing the bloody consequences of israel's dramatic escalation hospitals are overflowing with civilian victims one in five among them is a child after the break we report on the tragic conflict where the death toll has now reached three hundred thirty. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here are not going here in iraq other big story the extra headlines same time there's a reason they don't want international airport that we should be completely out and let's break the set.

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welcome back to watching our t.v. international now the total number of civilians killed in eastern ukraine lugansk region has reached two hundred fifty in just the past seven weeks that data has just been released by monitors from the organization for security and cooperation in europe meanwhile anti-government activists have reportedly just turned on air raid warning in lugansk as they brace for attacks from government planes artie's eating a good is on the russian ukrainian border. two hundred fifty people is the number that was previously given is the total number of civilians dead throughout the entire course of the conflicts in several regions now we're looking at two hundred fifty civilian casualties in one region in just seven weeks which is definitely lower than the number that probably exists in actuality now those numbers probably have been lowered significantly by the ukrainian authorities who previously insisted that they were not targeting civilian homes or residential areas or that

seems to be simply not the case as described by one of the residents of. the city came on to morrow to find one is what we should twice during the day when we had to seek shelter on the ground according to people at the scene most victims have trapped us we were only truly torn apart. braiding forces have been patrolling this and firing joints in residential areas. has been targeted heavily by artillery over the past several days people are saying that they're being now left without the choices are you running water a gas pipeline also has been hit so essentially there has been already talk about a humanitarian catastrophe in the making in the city aside from that also has come under fire on saturday as a matter of fact some of the districts have been hit by ukrainian artillery. by several buildings now while all of this is happening the world however seems to be focused on only one event in southeastern ukraine and that is the aftermath of the

catastrophe of the malaysian flight m.h. seventeen. now the heavy shelling that targeted the neighboring it done yet region on saturday reportedly left to several people dead and that's as people vera say they are at a complete loss about what to do next get to school could you if you don't look at the shark you adjoin show food here the police just don't fire and the people who lived here have died from all houses located nearby have been damaged if you survive story is going to be damaged you hear the windows are gone what are the authorities do we kind of those who are these are the i don't know what to do next or words ruin it. as washington ramps up the pressure on moscow over ukraine's crisis russia has issued a list of u.s. citizens who are barred from entering the country twelve americans are targeted two of them for their alleged involvement in torture at guantanamo bay and ten others for alleged abuse of detainees at abu ghraib prison in iraq and that's just days

after the u.s. imposed a new set of sanctions against russian companies. and we've got more details on be tit for tat measures on our web site as well as background on how the ukrainian crisis sparked a dispute it had to r.t. dot com for all of the uptick. to be in the. two israeli soldiers have been shot dead by gazan militants who breached the border on saturday that brings the israeli death toll up to five years since the start of the current conflict which has claimed the lives of over three hundred forty palestinians it has left hospitals in gaza struggling to cope with the influx of injured civilians. i was was was

was was. was it with. israel's ground offensive is now in its third day targeting cross border smuggling tunnels used by hamas and while the stated goal is to destroy militant capability its palestinian civilians are paying the price at least twenty more people were killed on saturday alone as the i.d.f. unleashed an intense artillery bombardment u.s. president barack obama has warned israel against further loss of innocent lives of the palestinians killed since the air campaign kicked off last week one in five were children very fine very fear filed this report from gaza for r.t. . thousands of troops and tanks stormed into gardner 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 living in very very difficult conditions but that conditions better than being in a stream the dangerous neighborhoods. 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 violence began last tuesday. consistent into the homes of palestinians over the last two weeks yet israel maintains its only targeting hamas infrastructure mahmoud was one of those hit.

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 some of the most densely populated places on earth and when the shooting starts people here suffer more than most 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. i do understand why they homes are not the only targets damaged in this escalation on friday morning three strikes hit an office high up in

a commercial building in one of the most developed dario's of the city and i had. the. enemy of. the mother had. just come outside i said i thought i would if he is it possible that people are firing missiles from your office this morning. but mom can you do a little bit. here how did your mom get. well what if filming in the center of the city. to find just behind. 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. into two thousand and eight now and innovation off the gaza strip this month of ramadan a time that is meant to be peaceful. simply traits of gods to protect them and

their families. the conflict has gone unnoticed in french citizens are outraged over the tragedy. palestinian demonstrators in paris were tear gas after thousands flooded into the streets of the french capital angry at a ban on protests about the middle east put in place by the authorities france is the first country to implement such a ban demonstrators clashed with riot police with some of them climbing on top of a building to set fire to an israeli flag and in london the around one hundred thousand protesters also turned out to voice their anger over the invasion into gaza protesters have also taken to the streets of berlin thousands. of fourth. of the c.n.n. news network has pulled its correspondent from covering the israeli palestinian

conflict after she tweeted that israelis were cheering as they watched bombs land in gaza this comes after another american network n.b.c. also removed its reporter from the same region without explanation however after a media uproar the network decided to send the correspondent back to gaza you can find out more on the story. take a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour gunmen have a checkpoint in the desert areas of western egypt near the libyan egyptian border killing at least twenty guards it's thought that the shooters were smugglers two of them were also killed in the it's the second mass shooting at the border post since mohamed morsy was forced from power in july last year. the polish coach has plowed into the back of another bus in germany before careening into an oncoming van pileup left at least ten dead and sixty nine injured near the eastern city of dresden most of the dead were passengers from poland traveling in the van

is not yet clear what caused the initial crash. next on international breaking the said look at how the world's media has reacted to the malaysian plane catastrophe if you're watching from the u.k. it's over to george galloway force wouldn't stay with us. if there's anything we're afraid of in the modern western world is an al qaeda or aids or something like that it's words just words especially on the internet morning radio shock jock in the cumia from the opie and anthony show has been fired for a massive twitter rant that he made against a woman who believed that the radio host was taking mocking photographs of her and

got aggressive with him who may claim to just be taking pictures of time square now normally what you do outside of work shouldn't matter but with public personalities i can see how people want them to have good behavior all the time but the problem is that guys like him are put on the airwaves to have bad behavior what does the sirius x.m. company expect from people they put on air to be wild and raunchy this is typical corporate boardroom mentality well we want morning gigi's to be really crazy and shocking but not too crazy and shocking hey i don't have a horse in this race i actually think the opie and anthony show is pretty dismal but when i see someone getting fired for wacky shock jock stuff that is in a way kind of part of his job well it just seems very hypocritical to me but that's just my opinion.

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