rebel leaders in eastern ukraine say they're ready to hand the flight recorders from malaysian airlines flight seventeen to international investigators one of the black boxes has reportedly been found at the scene of the crash which killed everybody on board. asked questions of pile up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the unexplained details including why the aircraft strayed from its usual route and why dispatchers told it to reduce. also this week civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the antigovernment stronghold of lugansk in eastern ukraine as kiev ratchet up the military onslaught

in the wake of the plane crash also on the white. vans that more than forty civilians were killed in israeli airstrikes overnight is the i.d.f. expands its ground offensive now into its. harvin you're watching the weekly here on r.t. . antigovernment forces in eastern ukraine where a malaysian plane crashed earlier this week said they all ready to hand the flight recorders over to international experts one of the devices has reportedly been found at the side of the tragedy which claimed the lives of all two hundred ninety eight people on board global leaders have called for a thorough international probe into the alleged missile strike that downed flight seventeen and there are deep control the sea surrounding both the cleanup effort

and the investigation european monitors arrived on friday but said that local anti government forces were restricting their access to the site with its prime minister has told the russian president he must use his influence on the rebels to provide secure conditions for the probe meanwhile here is accusing militia groups of forcing rescue workers to hand over the bodies and anti-government forces say the bodies are being taken to morgues or one culture of his in the area r.t. . the situation here at the plane crash site is certainly a different from what we encountered in the first and the second day the area is now cordoned off by plainclothes militia for the self-defense forces and control of this area say they've made several appeals to the international community to get it seem of the experts here as soon as possible to do so we want a comprehensive and objective investigation but we don't feel like there's

enthusiasm among the international community in experts several dozen experts who are currently in kiev we're asking them please come here faster we are surprised and frankly angered that we have to keep the area untouched while we've been waiting for them for so long meanwhile kiev has already rushed to accuse the end to government forces of meddling with the crash scene. of pro russian fighters are not allowing investigators to collect and transfer the evidence they're also not letting the. search and rescue groups leave the area the groups are currently working under the threat of armed force for now the only international group to make it to the scene of the crash is their organization for security and cooperation in europe the always see but it seems that right now they can do a little but stand by and watch although there is very little as we've reported there's very little security on the perimeter of the cross site we did notice that

when he arrived today there was a cordon of armed security personnel both sides of the road when the cross says it was basically his followers that people go out to pick a spot the body the photographic video it and then the body is placed on the back and put beside the roadway is a brief from the plane is strewn all over its words a kilometer radius which is likely to slow down the investigation and that large area is right in the middle of the conflict zone all this means that a clear analysis of how this plane came to crash in the field in eastern ukraine is unlikely to come soon if indeed it comes at all and that is a heavy burden for many of the relatives of the victims who plan to come here to the scene of the disaster from on costs or of artsy eastern ukraine. let's take a look now at the sequence of events in the lead up to the catastrophe and malaysian airlines flight seventeen took off from amsterdam fifteen local time

bound for kuala lumpur three hours later four twenty one this is when things started to go wrong it disappeared from radar coverage over ukraine radio contact last as well within an hour the crash site was located and it became clear that nobody had survived by eight o'clock in the evening both kiev and anti government troops were accusing each other of shooting down the plane relatives of the victims were then in formed overnight and the process of identifying the bodies began local residents have been recalling the horror of that day is lucia little thought i heard terrible noise i went out first and then my has been well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out i was in shock i couldn't go further than my yard but it's a soon as we went out of the house we saw a body lying nearby it must have fallen from a very high altitude now you can smell the odor over here there are no words to

describe it finally we were swimming and we heard three distinct shots actually not sure it's more like explosions and then we saw the played falling its wing was falling off and then we saw black smoke and that's all there is of the slaughter yes first i didn't notice anything my son went out and said mom there's a body in the kitchen and there was plaster everywhere i thought it was just a pile of rubbish but then i understood it was a human body without a leg and with arms twisted and broken it's a murder a real murder. on malaysian airlines is release the full list of passengers on board the ill fated flight two thirds of the one hundred ninety three would dutch nationals forty three victims including all the crew members were malaysian were also twenty seven australians travelling as well as citizens of the united kingdom indonesia and germany in total ten nationalities are on the manifest for the netherlands it's

a time of nationwide mourning as peter explains. the devastating news no one expects to hear. malaysian boeing airline has been reportedly downed based on waters and interfax a malaysian airlines flight with about two hundred ninety five people on board has crashed grief spills over as family and friends of those on board m h seventeen make it to the airport in amsterdam at the scene of the crash passports strewn among the carnage each one a painful reminder of a person who died and each of those people leave behind friends and family it's in small communities like this one that have been directly affected that the real human tragedy becomes clear neil tall and her partner course children on the flight outside the flower shop they owned floral tributes pile up those who saw them day on day

a left stunned we couldn't believe what's happened. rumors spread quickly on facebook in the morning to see outside the nose of a flower. then you know it's it happened for real in the shop window a sign for the postman drop the mail off next door we're on holiday there were very lovely people and. you know i did want to just to just enjoy a holiday for two weeks and come back and say to pick up the post and i are great holiday before stepping on the plane shoulder posted this message on facebook it's understood and is told had been uneasy about the flight following the disappearance of a malaysian airlines jet early at this year. family members stand sobbing in front of a book of condolences they told me they just can't bring themselves to speak on camera it's not only those who lost relatives in the tragedy who were grieving the netherlands is in

a state of disbelief following the deaths of nearly two hundred of its citizens in the disaster we were all shocked and they're very much. because especially for me. it's really. strange because my father modern i've been under this same flight many times. from. so many dutch people were on back plane this tragedy has affected our song. with think about it's not realistic people just the public airplane taking it down in this small country of only seventeen million people it seems nearly everyone has been touched in some way by this the worst disaster to affect the country in its recent history peter all of our party netherlands well they remain plenty of unexplained circumstances surrounding the tragedy first the flight deviated from its usual routine it's also

unclear why it passed directly over the zone of a raging on to conflict and finally there are questions over why ukrainian ground control told the crew to reduce just before the jet was downed grieving families are now demanding explanations of what happened to their loved ones alexia cesky brings us this report from malaysia. inside the kuala lumpur international airport right now nothing speaks of the horrible tragedy of thursday it works without disruptions this is different to the situation in march when the other malaysian airlines jet went missing relatives of those on board were literally beseeching the malaysian airlines offices back then they still had hope of seeing their loved ones alive. there's no chance of that for the families connected to thursday's tragedy over ukraine but what unites the two apparently different design asters is the fact there are far more questions than answers starting with the mh seventeen jets flight path. and didn't see by the local

pool and never. will believe. that he gets to play but if that route was safe and many other jets had flown it on the day why had several airlines decided to change their paths malaysian authorities claim the plane was flying on a set route but flight tracker data published online suggests the path could have been changed to three hundred kilometers further north. community. going. carry. some carries. very safe flying. across ukraine but if the flight trajectory is more a matter of speculation right now one alteration it made has been officially confirmed the flight. but.

still we have to be and. indeed altitude changes on request is a common practice but the malaysian authorities have received no clarification as to why it was ordered on that day supposedly minutes before the jet went down most relatives of the passengers of m.h. seventeen have now gone to ukraine to identify the bodies a team of malaysian investigators is following them in the hope of shedding at least some light on this dark story. reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia. britain's prime minister claims that if it's shown that the rebels in east ukraine down the aircraft then this would be a direct result of russia's support for anti-government forces david cameron's comments follow a wave of accusations from western powers against moscow even though no official

investigation is yet being conducted on each account has the story. before investigators made it to the crash site the u.s. announced to the world where the deadly missile shot came from the 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 but the u.s. president stopped short of saying who pulled the trigger we don't know exactly what happened and yet u.s. officials all but accuse the rebels in eastern ukraine and russia by association of having shot down the plane president obama based his suggestions on incidents of ukrainian military jets that the rebels recently shot out of the sky a group of separatists can shoot down. a military transport planes or they claim shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training and that is coming from russia russia says t.v.

is responsible because it launched this military operation in eastern ukraine and the u.s. supported it moscow has also raised a number of questions for kiev to answer including why it hadn't closed the airspace over what was clearly a war zone is that human greatest idea why did creating an air traffic controller send a passenger flights to an area of military clashes an area which was used to carry out strikes against civilian targets and where there were anti-aircraft systems operating all members of the un security council including russia and the united states have called for a credible impartial investigation of the disaster it will take time before any results come through but the blame game is already in full swing down to check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . well after the plane came down care of a script to blame the anti government forces for the trying to do here's what the accusations are based on. the ukraine circulated what it called an intercepted

conversation between the us. position fighters in which they allegedly admit to firing on the plane jet crashed on totally controlled by the opposition claims that's enough to implicate them even though the korean army also has a heavy presence there and finally there's video released by kiev purporting to show a book surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing . claims that the video we shot in. dawn the small town near the russian border let's take a look at it on the map here. locals claim the address of the car sorry the sorry the car shop advertised on the billboard is actually located in. the maske that's a town which they say has been under the control of the ukrainian army since may and is located two hundred fifty kilometers away from the russian border these

claims couldn't yet be verified our crew will be traveling there to get a clearer picture intelligence expert charles shoe bridge points out some other discrepancies in kids accusations one could so 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 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 has said that the rebels have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the prosecutor general himself denied 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 and a good thorough investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case. several mainstream media outlets latched onto the message coming from washington in kiev unleashing a storm of accusations against ukraine's anti government forces and against moscow

the editor of the global media inc media channel daniel schecter believes that the war of words is making it harder to get at the truth. 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 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. so it's called a program an investigation is continuing to one of the worst accidents in the

history of the moscow metro dozens of the three subway cars derailed joining the morning rush hour schools of people were also injured many of them remain in intensive care. i wonder if allegations of propaganda also represent a form of propaganda because what you do is essentially dealing victimizing the force without looking at the context without looking at this. piece and that's not what i think is a real problem i think that the political courage to play which to store to the record to the ukraine crisis and i think. on the left me on the side. i think most of you know i'm i'm basically sourcing the whole of the reporter in florida and i think there's a need for them to come upon the discussion of. this

is the media leave us what we need. are the sea motions to are. they. party is it. seems that no one is as good with began that you deserve answers from. welcome back you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international despite calls for a cease fire growing ever allowed to kiev a stepped up its military crackdown against the centers of anti-government resistance in east ukraine this week the situation in the regional capital of donetsk remains tense with explosions heard on the outskirts while daily air raids and showing have become every day reality for the people in lugansk the army's

mortar fire in broad daylight in the grounds killed at least sixteen on friday and tens of buildings including a church were damaged while the residents were left without power and water meanwhile the organization for security and cooperation in europe puts the total number of lives lost in lugansk into the summer of two hundred fifty is a really good on the russia ukraine border with the latest updates. residents of all god's care of reported hearing air raid sirens again again last night and they're saying that fighting continues on the outskirts of the city now according to self-defense forces ukrainian troops are gaining ground seeking to take control over the road that is connecting the god's goodness just to these that are essentially capitals of the two restive regions. varying brought into off the assaults by the ukrainian army their city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged people are saying they're left without water electricity gas is also something they're finding

a shortage off of course there are instances of people being hit in the middle of the day by artillery and mortar shells at one instance eight people have died similar tenuously when a shell has hit a. wall always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june in lugansk alone previously the numbers given for civilian casualties for these hydration and conflict for both regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than those people have to in the industry they're living here. he says are peaceful life. should look like this here you. know. the fighting continues and at times it can be heard on the border between russia and ukraine with residents complaining about shells flying into their backyards essentially despite the fact that petro poroshenko has assured that civilians are not going to be the. targets by ukrainian military nevertheless they

seem to be bearing the brunt of off the pressure and when exactly and if this conflict is going to end is not yet clear with of course the world's attention being on the aftermath off the disaster of flight m.h. seventeen the fighting that doesn't seem to subside in southeastern ukraine goes on before. finnish customs of seize the shipment of military equipment bound for ukraine officials described it as military goods that belong to certain types of arms local media report the shipment comprise components for missile guidance systems customs officials declined to confirm the shipment was seized at the end of june it'll sink the airport because it was lacking necessary permits for defense material it reportedly originated from vietnam and was heading to ukraine in transit via finland the finnish military are investigating the case. and as washington proceeds with its accusations against moscow claiming it's doing nothing

to deescalate tensions in ukraine fresh sanctions have been imposed this week against major russian companies russia's biggest oil producer rusty eft along with gas problem buying car among those targeted just to give you an idea of the scale of these companies that are the effort is a vital contributor to the state budget generating more than one hundred billion dollars in revenue each year and gazprom bank is the country's third largest bank it finances some of russia's most prominent energy projects these two along with several other firms are now forbidding from borrowing money on u.s. markets for periods longer than ninety days and here's how the russian president reacted to the move. as far as saying sions are concerned they usually have a boomerang effect like i've said before and they will eventually lead russian u.s. relations to a dead end and damaging them severely i'm also positive that these measures harm america's long term strategic interests in the interests of its people. and earlier

we spoke to the editor of business new europe magazine benares explain to us how the new sanctions could affect russia's economy. it seemed to be very targeted at a few companies and specifically this is a significant scaling up because these are financial sanctions until now it's been aimed mainly at individuals and their personal assets trying to find a tricky sort of path between on the one hand punishing russia and on the other hand maintaining the businesses that are here because you have a huge business lobby both in america and particularly in europe who are invested in making most of the profits here and the european partners are putting a lot of pressure on the states you know to to keep it contained to back off so that they don't lose any money it's not effective in so much as it doesn't really do much economic damage but it is effective because psychologically you know all the all the sanctions have been posed who has very little economic damage directly but the psychological effect is enormous i mean the ruble has already tanked today

and the threat that more sanctions will come has created this environment of uncertainty. of washington's zeal is just partly shared in europe with brussels only weighing the decision to freeze funding for future projects with russia and it now looks like the e.u. is caught in an awkward position as dr richard wellings from the institute of economic affairs told us. e.u. russian trade is about ten times the size of u.s. russian trade so clearly there are potentially massive losses from the e.u. imposing too stringent sanctions on russia particularly given the huge dependence on russian energy imports in cocoa countries towards the sort of eastern side of the european union so there's a big difference in emphasis and i think to extent the e.u. still at this stage of gesture politics where it's trying to if you like to please the americans but do as little as possible in reality so i think i think really we are going to see. your much action from the try and get away with as little as

possible without really upsetting the white house. moscow suffered one of its worst ever transport accidents earlier this week during the morning rush hour on tuesday three train cars derailed killing more than twenty people and injuring at least one hundred fifty several survivors are still in intensive care this is what the aftermath looked like. here was. that it. was. to open. took emergency workers three days to remove the wreckage and carry out repairs allowing service is unaffected sections of the line to receive his hour one

eyewitness described the moment of the disaster. then you can see up in your i was thrown into the air there was blood on the floor heads bruised some people had broken ribs and one person's arm was injured all in all the people were hysterical we started to get out we saw a door in the tunnel wall men eventually broke the door and we saw workers constructing a parallel tunnel they helped us to get out. investigators are still debating the different theories as to how a relatively new railway section became the scene of such a deadly accident so far they've identified an incorrectly secured tracks which is the most likely cause of the tragedy to metro workers have been detained over safety breaches and investigators said the circle of suspects could expand. i do stay with us here on r.t. international for more of the week's top stories including israel's shelling of garza which is killed now more than forty palestinians during one night before that

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