the headlines on r.t.e. european monitors full access to the side of a malaysian plane disaster in eastern ukraine but there's no word yet from international experts who've arrived in kiev on or to to inspect the wreckage. questions piled up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the explaining details including why the aircraft strayed from its usual route and why dispatchers told it to reduce altitude. also coming up civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the anti-government stronghold of lugansk in eastern ukraine as kiev its military onslaught in the wake of the plane crash. it's really

invasion of bloodiest day with more than eighty civilians killed as it's taken on this really captive. a warm welcome to the weekly here in r t international wrap up off the top stories from the past seven days on up to the minute developments as well i mean you know neal our top story european monitors from the working at the crash site of a malaysian passenger jet in eastern ukraine say that local militia groups are not letting them access the area earlier and the government forces said the flight recorders had been falling and will be handed over to international experts among cost revis following the cleanup efforts. oh i see members who are observing the situation on the ground to have said that they have access to this search area

where the flights and they haven't seen was downs they covered a wider area we visited a site that we hadn't visited before. we had fairly good perimeter security. and you know there they did seem to provide us with a kind of a ring of security to allow us to to do the monitoring that we have to do i mean while eighty one strong international experts are still in kiev they're yet to get here or they haven't even contacted the local authorities all the self-proclaimed people's republic golf nets care even though they are just seven hundred kilometers away and it's been four days after the crash and now in terms of recovery efforts all the bodies there was quite a bit of controversy about that well and xander bird died the leader of the self-proclaimed people's republic said the bodies had been recovered out of moral responsibility so they were relatives of the victims because they already began to

decompose and always see members have confirmed that those bodies have been delivered to the city of seoul or as some fifteen to twenty kilometers away from the crash site they're now being stored in that three refrigerated train cars that meanwhile alexander birdseye on a sunday also announced that they had discovered some technical elements that resemble the black boxes so flights and seven c. and those elements had not been delivered to the on net scan they're now on their guard right here and day he also added that they will only be given to the international aviation experts once they arrive here in donetsk. now in the past number of hours the russian president phoned the u.k. prime minister to offer his condolences over the british citizens who lost their lives in the crash you also warned against making politicized conclusions before the probe is wrapped up and once again reiterated his belief that the military conflict in ukraine is at the core of the tragedy that's now take

a look back at the sequence of events in the lead up to the catastrophe malaysia airlines flight seventeen took off from on thursday at twelve fifteen local time for kuala lumpur at four twenty one pm in kiev it disappeared from radar coverage over ukraine all radio contact was lost within an hour the crash site was located on what became clear that no one had survived by eight in the morning both kiev an anti government troops had denied involvement in the crash local militia insisted they had no weapons capable of shooting down the earlier and both sides started to trade accusations relatives of the victims were informed overnight on the process of identifying the bodies then began local residents have been recalling the horror of that day. you solution little thought i had terrible noise i went out first and then my husband well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out i first my husband thought it was me i was in shock i couldn't go further than my yard.

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 practically no blood. at first i didn't notice any of them my son went out and said mom there is a body in the kitchen there was a blast to 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 malaysia airlines has released the full list of passengers on board the favored flight two thirds of them one hundred ninety three were dutch nationals forty three victims including all crew members were malaysian were also twenty seven australians travelling as well as citizens of the u.k. indonesia and germany in total ten nationalities are on the manifest for the netherlands

it's a time of nationwide mourning as peter all of our reports. the devastating news no one expects to hear. malaysian boeing airline has been reportedly downed based on loiters 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 were 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 had a great holiday before stepping on the plane shoulder posted this message on facebook it's understood ms 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 i have very much. because especially for me. it's it's really. strange because my father i've been on the this same flight many times. from the it's so shocking so many dutch people were onboard a plane this tragedy has affected our song. we 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 teacher all of our party netherlands hard hitting report there from peter all over there are plenty of explain circumstances surrounding the tragedy as well first the flight

deviated from its usual routes it's also unclear why it passed directly over the zone of a raging armed conflict and then there are questions over why you printing brian control told the crew to reduce altitude just before the jet went on grieving families and are demanding explanations of what happened to their loved ones who actually sent 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 on the 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 school. so those who believe. it's a good thing to plan. but if that group 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 sad route but flight tracker data published online suggests the path could have been changed to three hundred kilometers further north. international civil aviation community. we. carry. some carriers since we know. you're very safe flying. across ukraine but if the flight trajectory is more a matter over speculation right now one alteration it made has been officially

confirmed as the flight. but. still we have. 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. the report from kuala lumpur in malaysia. britain's prime minister sais that if it show and fighters in east ukraine and they are craft they would be a direct result of russia's support for self-defense militias david cameron's comments follow a wave of accusations from western powers against moscow even though no official

investigation has yet been carried out guy in a church account takes up the story before investigators made it to the crash site the u.s. announced to the world where the deadly missile shot came from 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 the rebel. 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't shoot. military transport planes or they claim shoot fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and 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. 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 washington d.c. and after the plane came down kiev was quick to blame the anti government forces for the tragedy here's what the accusations are based on firstly there's

a video released by kid of purporting to show a book surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing also the jet crashed in territory controlled by the opposition kiev claims that's enough to implicate them even though the ukrainian army also has a heavy presence there and finally ukraine circulated what it called an intercepted conversation between the opposition fighters in which they allegedly admit to firing on the plane but speech unsigned analysts nicholai popof ses recording was doctored. well it's a text online. for it's being presented as one and it's. so in reality it's sort of compiled out of several fragments in the time consistent being said the plane was downed by cossacks so why do these monkeys reveal that one fragment and some who are sixteen thirty three and that the second frog in the water which comes right off to his it was recorded at seventeen fifteen. and as far as the video of the

missile system goes kiev claims it was shot in a small toy near the russian border but local state you can see an address on the billboard which is actually located in a different tone which they say has been under the control of the crimean army since may honest look at it two hundred fifty kilometers away from the russian border intelligence expert charles shoe bridge points some other discrepancies in kiev's accusations one could say from the outset with some investigation the air of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think if you put it much of eastern ukraine is in a fluid situation in terms of who controls what any given time the current government has released what it claims are a number of everyone should lead for example it is said to have these weapon systems i should point out that 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 authority independent. investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case. shortly after the plane crash several mainstream media outlets a lot still into the message coming from washington and kiev unleashing a storm of accusation against ukraine's anti government forces and indeed against moscow we asked to leave under the journalist and former security consultant just why the finger of blame is being pointed so quickly. it did if this consider this too good an opportunity to once again play the blame game on russia and on the insurgency in the east of ukraine i meant and it's too good an opportunity to miss the relatives and the victims of a thorough investigation by independent sources. but when you say evidence this is something that is produced by experts on the ground it takes weeks

and months before you continue on to any conclusions to whatever is being said not is just speculation to a political move if so. still to come this hour ows more devastation is brought on gaza r.t. obtains exclusive pictures some viewers may find distressing. for my dear your mother. at the moment of a palestinian being hit by gunfire a reporter on the ground will be providing all the details. this is about making the business survive. corporations don't love corporations don't eat corporations have no feeling.

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vowed to continue operation protective age and i quote for as long as it takes the i.d.f. has been boarded eastern gal's a neighborhood from they are killing at least eighty seven civilians made sunday the bloodiest day in conflicts involving israel since the attack the hezbollah militant group in lebanon seven years ago locals say there are no bodies strewn about the streets of gaza and in the rubble of collapsed buildings they also say the sheer destruction is making it very difficult to retrieve them eighteen israeli soldiers have been killed since the assault began about numbers to or by the palestinian fatalities now approaching four hundred fifty. our correspondent earlier sent us a video from the heart of the conflict and a warning it does contain graphic scenes all kinds of what we do now from we're going to move. forward here. but it apparently shows a ruins of destroyed residential buildings he's forced to be the target of

government gunfire lying on the ground reportedly trying to take cover he receives a direct fatal hit the fear talk to a witness of the accident this is. a group of international solidarity activists and two palestinians who are making a trip into the east. very close to the border with israel this was at a time when there was a hoax on israel's operations in the area there were two palestinians one an activist which shot the video the images that you just saw and there was another young man we believe approximately eighteen or nineteen years old the one depicted in the imagery which shows him who has been fatally wounded and dying in front of these international solidarity activists this young gentleman wished to take these activists to this area in order to help evacuate his family which he believed was caught up and had been pinned down essentially for hours it is extremely dangerous

neighborhoods i'm joined now by a human rights activist and witness. can you tell us exactly what you saw with respect to the death of this young man. with respect to the death all together there were full shots fired the first one missed him but remained it we aimed for him the second one will stay till. which causes him to fall down and on the ground and the third one was i guess for them to make sure that they had got him basically do you have any reason to believe he was caught up in millicent trying to or to say no not at all. he was as far as we are aware he was looking for his family he was frantic he was he was leading the way he was on the phone and he knew that have the interview we would want to do was find that resulted in his death there was supposed to be a ceasefire as well however as we said into the region there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting yes indeed so that some of the

detail of this incident on show you kidding this young gentleman this often. honest really defense for spokesperson told me earlier they're going to great lengths not to hit civilians and the hamas minister of the interior specifically instructed the civilian population in gaza not to leave their homes not to leave the instructions not to follow the instructions of the military provided what you knew these innocent people were in their homes and yet you still decided to strike was not your decision we provided as much warning as we could and at the end we had to attack certain targets that are resulting in the terrorise ation of our entire public and one of the latest attacks the really military the shells with spray are thousands of tiny and potentially lethal metal we've seen that some rules of humanitarian law render their use in the gaza strip illegal as an imprecise weapon is more likely to result in civilian injuries which of course we have seen in

spades why do you ignore international law in this case you can say with full confidence and with full sincerity that any weapon that is being used by the i.d.f. is done so in line with international law and we're seeing hospitals schools media offices essentially sick people children and the ordinary working man and woman being hit in these places you know overwhelmingly why is this they're not being targeted and the reason the reason that they are not leaving and following the instructions that we are giving them is because hamas finds it in its assets to leave them in these areas. the palestinian bloodbath has created ripples worldwide . pro palestinian demonstrators in tahrir square tear gassed afterthoughts and flooded onto the streets and we had a. really protest and by the authorities they clashed with riot police meanwhile in vienna thousands also turned to the streets the voice and their anger all the

rallies there were peaceful also in sydney people gathered to support palestinians with a thousand strong turnout and morocco was well joined worldwide prove the protests france based independent journalist robert harness sees that media coverage of the conflict in the west is only fueling discontent. i see probably it's ironic isn't it has been sensitized by western government stood to government should behave responsibly just as we've heard enough about the city of aden it's a case of ukraine to be so depressed go to. israel apparently person you or i shouldn't get to go to gaza killed people eyes are being very careful maybe don't be so very careful i mean people are now up to this sort of people who are demonstrating in paris that we young people we want to extremists most of there are a few tools to use trouble but most as of late they get their information that they

know what's go at. each world why now there is a c. section of the community which is well it does not mean she stood by the west media just highly biased in favor of israel. came back to ukraine because the spike calls for a ceasefire growing ever larger kiev stepped up its military crackdown against the centers of government resistance in the east of the country this week the situation in the regional capital of the next remains tense but explosions heard on the outskirts while daily earlier raids and shelling have become every day reality for the people in lugansk in the lead. on the city center residential areas i can do. were severely damaged on the armies of mortar fire in broad daylight killed sixteen on friday meanwhile the organization for security and cooperation in europe to the total number of lives lost. since the beginning of the summer of two hundred fifty

here is arena on the ukraine border with the latest updates from the euro area. residents 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 which is to these that are essentially capitals of the two restive regions. varying brought into off the assaults by the ukrainian army this city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged people are saying they are 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 alone the previous things that number is given for civilian casualties for the entire generation of 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 city they're living here. he says over a peaceful life. this should look like this here we. 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. because they're stored at that as civilians are not going to be. targets by ukrainian military nevertheless they seem to be bearing the brunt of off the pressure and when exactly. at 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. finish customs have seized a shipment of military equipment for ukraine officials describe it as quote military goods that belong to certain types of arms local media report the shipment comprised of components for a missile and guidance systems customs officials declined to confirm the find the shipment was seized at the end of june. 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. on this 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 that is rosneft

along with gas problem buying are among those targeted just to give you an idea of the scale all of these companies will probably bank is the country's third largest bank its finances some of russia's most prominent energy projects well rosneft is a vital contributor to the state budget generating over one hundred billion dollars in revenue these two along with several other firms are not forbidden from borrowing money on u.s. markets for periods longer the ninety days. the russian president vladimir putin just made some official comments on the malaysia are always playing trash in eastern ukraine calling for the tragedy not to be politicized he also said that international experts on the scene should be able to carry out their work in complete safety. reasons wrestling with their huge game so we didn't even thought it was actually a threat to them and that to place in the airspace i would like to see what is once again we could.