international experts have scoured the scene of a malaysian plane disaster in eastern ukraine accusations and counter claims are made by 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 or t. hears from aviation experts about the unusual details surrounding flight m.h. seventeen and why it passed 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. top news and commentary live from moscow twenty four hours a day this is our t.v. 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 has just announced that they will guarantee the safety of the investigators the wreckage site in eastern ukraine is spread out over a twenty kilometer radius white cotton markers have been placed where the victims' bodies have been found all two hundred ninety eight people on board were killed among them eighty children now it is believed that the plane was shot down by a missile however the. commission says it's seen in 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 the access into the observer since then emergency workers are also at the scene helping locate the debris and victims international experts working there say they face a difficult task and investigate this team on place here but it's not our job we're not investigating the calls for we also do not speculate on it but what we are here for is to see what measures are in place what is the telling me to the security. measures and what measures have been taken to do if there's been a human and most efficient way. our correspondent tom bowman caught sight of spoke to some of the locals who witnessed the crash 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 and yes 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 had 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 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 and the 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 and two 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 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 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 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 quite a wait so finds out just how their loved ones were taken from them from on costs or of art see dunnit skew crane now while in

a large majority of the plane crash victims were from the netherlands citizens of another nine countries were also on board the doomed flight including people from malaysia australia the and the u.k. tributes are being paid to victims across the world in the malaysian capital where flight m h seventeen was supposed to land there are scenes of confusion and anger as alexey s.s.t. reports. we're now here in kuala lumpur where the mh seventeen plane was supposed to land 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 well most of the relatives of the mh seventeen victims have already flown to ukraine to identify the bodies of their loved ones the team of investigators from malaysia also went to key of the transport minister of the country is flying there tonight he just spoke to us about the investigation about several irregularities the authorities have noted first of all the change of altitude they confirmed that

the plane changed altitude from thirty five thousand feet to thirty three thousand feet he says this is a normal practice for the world but there is no explanation whatsoever why this time the air traffic controllers in ukraine told the plane to go lower and now the regularity is the destiny of the flight recorders because we've been hearing contradictory reports coming from kiev authorities that they either had the flight recorders then they said they did not have them the malaysian authorities confirmed they have no information about the whereabouts of the flight recorder which of course would be instrumental for this investigation and last but not least they've also spoken that seventy five airlines flew for the same route just the day before . the crash but still the malaysian authorities were assured by the on ground traffic control is that the route was deemed safe in fact they said that several other airlines were flying the same route within minutes. before the crash so of course a lot of questions remain and many doubts remain and they be the malaysian authorities

hoping that maybe questions will become clearer once they get access to the crash site and be able to conduct the investigation. there for us now 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 the russian foreign minister discussed with the u.s. secretary of state over the phone we have a notion it has details. on the official website of russia's foreign ministry read 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 love robin kerry traps 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. now speaking at the white house on friday the u.s. president claimed that there was firm evidence that the malaysian plane was downed by a surface to air missile fired from territory controlled by and forces he also lashed out at russia for supporting them going to can takes a closer look at those allegations 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 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 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. now these are some of the strongly written media headlines appearing in the wake of the tragedy directly blaming vladimir putin you can see

here putin's victims and the apparent lack of evidence into the crash hasn't stopped them from pointing the finger daniel schechter editor of global vision incorporated media channel told us 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's 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 politically laced subject that really requires this passionate international investigation. the ukrainian government has also added to the growing speculation

by publishing what it says is a lead to a phone call between local militia fighters who admits to shooting down a civilian plane and this unverified video here circulating online purports to show a book missile launcher being smuggled out of ukraine after thursday's crash. and despite the accusations being made there are still more questions than answers over the catastrophe and russia's defense ministry is demanding information from kiev and it has put together a list of questions for example why did you crane a rush to blame the self defense forces after the tragedy that's the first question also moscow is asking why kiev even deployed a book missile launchers in the area despite the fact that the local militia have no airplanes question number three will ukraine make tracking of its warplanes available in the wake of the crash and then 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 of the tragedy let's take a look at some of them right now first data from the flight aware service suggests that the plane diverge from its original route here is a map of the courses taken by other airlines earlier this week and as you can see here the doomed flight. it actually was flying farther north then other airliners flying over ukraine it's not clear why it took that specific path now second ukrainian controllers asked the crew to fly lower than the height which was originally requested this is according to a statement issued by malaysia airlines and says that the boeing seven seven seven was supposed supposed to fly at thirty five thousand feet but then was instructed to descend to thirty three thousand feet and finally it is also unclear why the boeing aircraft flew over a zone of heavy fighting the conflict combat in between ukrainian forces and

a local militia has been going on in the area for months now since kiev launch what it calls an anti terror operation in the country's east now we asked aviation expert christie aides to comment. qwest. alone 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 to. that weaponry the insurgents on the border may or may not. and so. a whole bunch of

questions that are cropping up now which which need answers we need answers some fairly quickly indeed. coming up on our international the people of gaza are facing the bloody consequences of israel's dramatic escalation hospitals are overflowing with. reportedly a trial after the break we report on the. death toll has now reached over three hundred forty people. to teach me.

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and welcome back this is r t international now the total number of civilians killed in eastern ukraine 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 turned on air raid warnings in lugansk as they brace for attacks from government planes artie's. 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 the span of 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 malta warnings were issued twice during the day and we had to seek shelter on the ground according to people at the scene most victims have shrapnel wounds they will need to really torn apart. the braiding forces have been patrolling this city and foreign troops in residential areas. has been targeted heavily by artillery over the past several days people are saying that they're being now left without electricity or 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.

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 heavier shelling of the targeted the neighboring region on saturday and reportedly left several people dead that's as people there say that they're at a complete loss about what to do next. if you took school curriculum then you don't look at the shark you know adjoin show food or hear the questions put on for your. own house is 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 the words 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 in guantanamo bay and ten others for the alleged abuse of detainees at abu ghraib prison in iraq and that is just days after the u.s. imposed a new set of sanctions against moscow. got more details on the test for task measures on our website as well as background on how the ukraine crisis sparked the dispute you can head to our dot com for all of the updates. to be on the. militants have carried out an attack on israeli soil shooting dead two israeli soldiers and bringing the country's death toll up to five since the start of the current conflict this as the israeli bombardment of the gaza strip and the ensuing ground invasion has now left more than three hundred forty palestinians dead and has left hospitals in the palestinian territory struggling to cope with the influx of injured civilians. was. the.

was . a who was good looking but. israel says it's a ground offensive that is now into its third day is targeting cross border smuggling tunnels used by hamas and while the stated goal is to destroy militant capability it's palestinian civilians who 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 that were reportedly children her fear this report from gaza for r.t.

. thousands of troops and tanks stormed into gaza 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 that 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 i didn't know them and then the minute she had a dozen last sentiment call a plumber but i met the negev. were down there and i've only been there and miss smith and if you notice that the un says twenty two thousand people have been internally displaced and sought refuge in his facilities since this latest bout biden speak out on last tuesday. consistently so. into the homes of palestinians

over the last two weeks yet israel maintains it's only targeting how massive infrastructure mahmoud's home was one that was hit they've attacked your home. 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 attack you wait in a sound that you are told to evacuate by israel why have you not evacuated. out of the.

homes and 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 dario's of the city. almost as i said i thought i would if it is it possible that people are firing missiles from your office this morning. but make it easier to. say here how did. well we're filming in the center of the city four rockets a fire 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. remember all too

well the winter of two thousand and eight now an innovation off the gaza strip. a month of ramadan a time that is meant to be peaceful palestinian most simply traits of gods to protect them and their families. now the conflict has not gone unnoticed in france citizens are outraged over the tragedy. pro palestinian demonstrators in paris were tear gassed after thousands flooded into the streets of the french capital they were angry at a ban on protests about in the middle east specifically put into 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 the building to set fire to an israeli flag and in london around one hundred thousand protesters also turned out to voice their anger over the invasion into gaza protestors have also taken to the streets of berlin in their thousands to show

support for palestine. to take a swing around the globe to look at some other news making headlines this hour gunmen have attacked a checkpoint in the desert area of western egypt near the libyan egyptian border killing at least twenty guards it is thought the shooters were smugglers two of them were also killed in the attack it is the second mass shooting at the border post since mohamed morsy was forced from power in july of last year. they plowed into the back of another bus in germany before careening into an oncoming van pileup left at least. sixty nine injured in the eastern city of dresden most of the dead were passengers from poland traveling in the van it is not yet clear what caused the initial crash. a series of car bomb blasts rocked baghdad killing at least twenty seven people most of the explosion muslim neighborhoods of the

iraqi capital no group has immediately taken responsibility for the attack but islamic militants who seized at large parts of northern iraq last month previously carried out several suicide bombings in the capital. next hour to international a look at the struggle of thousands of civilians who are fleeing ukraine stay with us you're watching r.t. international. two u.s. agents who are working deep inside the german government have been caught which has heightened tensions between the two countries even more the german reaction to this was to expel the cia chief in berlin from his post this is the kind of story that makes people who hate u.s. foreign policy the share button on facebook and get all excited it makes me feel

that merkel or at least some elements of the german government are actually fighting against foreign meddling but i would say that you should take this story with a huge grain of salt yeah they just had one cia asset out of the country and this could be a sign of change but there are still twenty plus u.s. military bases currently operating in germany in fact the bomb holder base is one of the largest ones outside of america territory with thirteen thousand troops permanently stationed there so basically if merkel really wants to reduce foreign meddling in germany she is going to have to somehow get a massive foreign military presence out of a country and since has been there for almost seventy years already i don't think that they're just going to pack up and leave on their own one day but that's just my opinion. speak to language. programs and documentaries in arabic in school here are. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p.

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