mission to teach. moscow will do everything it can to start negotiations between the ukrainian government and self-defense activists so says the russian president following the malaysia air ways a plane crash that left nearly three hundred people dead in east ukraine. european monitors say they now have full access to the side where the plane came down but there's no word yet from international experts who have arrived in kiev and are due to inspect the wreckage. as questions pile up over the tragedy we take a look at some of the unexplained details including why the aircraft strayed. usual

route and why dispatchers told it to reduce altitude. also coming up civilian deaths go largely unnoticed in the anti-government stronghold. in eastern ukraine as a kid of its military onslaught in the wake of the plane crash and. israeli invasion of gaza marks its bloodiest day with more than eighty civilians killed as hamas says it has taken an israeli soldier captive in claims refuted by me i.d.f. . broadcasting live it direct from our studios in moscow recapping our week's top stories with our weekly program this is our international now the russian president

vladimir putin has just made some official comments on the malaysia air waves a plane crash 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. as more. well speaking about this ration treasures the russian president vladimir putin said that it is unnecessary to do everything it takes to provide for security for those international experts now working at the scene of the plane crash. it's important that all the people who are accountable for the situation in this region of ukraine are more responsible for their own citizens and people of those countries who suffered as a result of the tragedy we need to do everything we can to provide security for international experts who will be working at the site of the accident. meanwhile the president also added that russia will do everything it takes to turn this

conflict in the eastern ukraine from a military one into the face of peaceful negotiations moreover the president added that no one has the right to use this treasury for cheating some selfish political goals. no one has any right to use this tragedy to any kind of selfish politicized interest such events should unite people not separate and the president wouldn't hasn't blamed any of the pretty soon involved for the crash like some of his counterparts have done exactly that however he added the crash could have been avoided if military action hadn't been resumed meanwhile earlier president putin and german chancellor angela merkel discussed the plane crash of the malaysian plane an ist in ukraine and a telephone conversation now both sides trast the importance of an objective investigation of all circumstances of the incident and merkel also praised russia's

readiness to send a representative to participate in the ongoing investigation and agreed that it must be conducted by the international civil aviation was all parties involved. well you know question of a for us there from central moscow now european monitors from the o a c e working at the crash site of the malaysia air waves passenger jet in eastern ukraine say local militia groups are now letting them have access to the area earlier anti-government forces said the flight recorders had been found and will be handed over to international experts or oman calls it off is following the cleanup efforts always 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 doing while eighty one strong international experts are still in they have there yet to get here or they haven't even contacted the local authorities all the self-proclaimed people's republic. and that's here 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 alexander 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 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. he also added that they will only be given its ear of international aviation experts once they arrive here in donetsk artes are among core sort of now let's take a look back at the sequence of events in the lead up to the catastrophe airlines flight took off from amsterdam on thursday at twelve fifteen pm local time bound for kuala lumpur for twenty one time it disappeared from radar coverage over ukraine and all radio contact was lost within an hour the crash site was located and it became clear that no one had survived by eight in the evening both kiev and anti-government troops had denied involvement in the crash local militia then insisted that they didn't even have weapons capable of shooting down the airliner

and both sides started to trade accusations relatives from the victims were informed overnight in the process of identifying the bodies began local residents have been recalling the horror of that day evolution a little 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 at first my husband thought it was me i was in shock i couldn't go further than my aren't. 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 the legs were broken i saw practically no blood. at first i didn't notice any astin 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 and this too that it was a human body without a leg and was arms twisted and broken. now there are plenty of unexplained circumstances surrounding the tragedy first the flight deviated from its usual route it is also clear why it passed to directly over the zone of a raging armed conflict and there are also questions over why ukrainian ground control told the crew to reduce altitude just before the jet went down grieving families are now demanding explanations of what happened to their loved ones are. our. 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 disasters is the fact there are far more questions than answers starting with the mh seventeen jets flight path. and. by the local school. it never. gets to play through but if that route was safe and many other jets had flown it on the day why had several airlines decided to change their pratt's malaysian authorities claim the plane was flying on the set route but flight tracker data published online suggests the path could have been changed to three hundred kilometers further north. community. we are going. to. carry. some carry.

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 change upon 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.

the russian president has followed the u.k. prime minister to offer his condolences over the british citizens who lost their lives in the crash he also warned against making politicized conclusions before the probe is wrapped up for here's a part of the british prime minister insisted that if it is shown any fighters in east ukraine down the aircraft it would be a direct result of russia's support for them david cameron's comments follow a wave of accusations from western powers against moscow and shit you can reports. 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 to accuse the rebels in eastern ukraine and russia by so see a showing 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 down. military transport planes or they claim shoot down 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 the jim gray is why did he create 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. after the plane came down care of it was quick to blame the anti-government forces of for the tragedy here is what the accusations are based on firstly there is a video released by kiev proportion to show a book surface to air. missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing also the jet crashed on territory controlled by the opposition kiev claims that that is enough to implicate them even though ukraine army and the ukrainian army excuse me has a heavy presence there as well 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 the speech and sound analysis nicholai popof says

that the recording was doctored but it's not really. being presented as one on its record so in reality this sort of was compiled out of several fragments of the time because the consistent being said the plane was downed by cossacks so why do these monkeys reveal that one fragment of this record is sixteen thirty three and that the second frog in the works which comes right off towards 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 town near the russian border but locals stayed right here you can see an address on the billboard which is actually located in a different town entirely 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 and intelligence expert troll shoebridge points out some other

discrepancies in kiev's accusations. one could say from the outset with some investigation the area of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think that h.q. put it much of east 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 surely it's for example it is said that it rebels have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the prosecutor general himself the night the 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. investigation to uncover all of the leads in this case. and shortly after the plane crash other mainstream outlets latched on to the message coming from washington and kiev a new thing a storm of accusations against ukraine's government forces and against moscow as well we asked load of a new state journalist and

a former security consultant why the finger of blame is being pointed so quickly. i think if they did if this consider this stupid enough to choose to once again have played 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 deserve a thorough investigation by independent sources. when you say evidence this is something that is produced by experts on the ground it takes weeks and months before you can change on to any conclusions to whatever is being said not is just speculation for a political move it's. not coming up in the program as more devastation is brought on gaza r.t. attains exclusive pictures some viewers may find them distressing just a bit of warning. coming here you know what.

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with the economic down in the final. and the rest i take a break. welcome back you are watching in the weekly right here on r t international now despite calls for a ceasefire growing ever louder kiev stepped up its military crackdown against the centers of anti-government resistance in east ukraine this week the situation in the regional capital of done yet remains tense with explosions heard on the outskirts while one hundred fifty kilometers away in the guns air raids and shelling have become an everyday reality in the latest artillery attack on the

city's residential areas a kindergarten and a school were severely damaged and army mortar fire there killed at least sixteen on friday meanwhile the organization for security and cooperation in europe says two hundred fifty people have been killed in lugansk in less than two months. the russia ukraine border with the latest updates from the air. residents of logan'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 this 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 when a shell has hit a cross walk 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 how did you ration the conflict for both regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than people have to in the industry they're living here. he says are peaceful life. 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 and despite the fact that petro poroshenko has assured that civilians are not going to be the. targets of the ukrainian military nevertheless

they seem to be bearing the brunt of off the pressure and when exactly if 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 flight m.h. seventeen the fighting that doesn't seem to subside in southeastern ukraine goes on before. on the other news now the israeli prime minister has vowed to continue operation protective edge and i quote for as long as it takes the i.d.f. has bombarded an eastern gaza neighborhood from the air killing at least eighty seven civilians that has made sunday the bloodiest day in the conflicts involving israel since it attacked the hezbollah militant group in lebanon seven years ago locals say there are now 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 those bodies eighteen israeli soldiers have been killed since the assault began but that number is dwarfed by the palestinian fatalities now

approaching four hundred and forty our correspondent has just sent us a video from of the heart of the conflict and a warning it does contain a very graphic scenes. ok so what we're doing now the muslims from we're going to move. forward we're going to. this footage apparently shows a man among the ruins of the destroyed residential buildings is thought to be the target of government gunfire he appears to have been hit by a bullet while laying stretched out on the ground there fear talked to a witness of the accident this is a group of international solidarity activists and two palestinians were 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 that one was

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 of the pictured in the imagery which shows him to be fatally wounded and dying in front of these international solidarity activists this young gentleman wished to take these activist to this area in order to help evacuate his family which she believed was caught up and had been pinned down essentially for hours it is extraordinary dangerous neighborhoods i'm joined now by a human rights activist and witness. rena 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 four shots fired the first one missed him but remained it three were aimed for him the second one was fatal. which caused 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 militant turning 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 my. on the floor and he knew that had we had wanted 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. killing this young gentleman this often. and israeli defense for spokesperson earlier spoke to my colleague you know neal there. and said that they're going to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties 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 which he 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 terror is ation of our entire public and one of the latest attacks really military shells with spray 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 as well. pro palestinian and demonstrators in paris were tear gassed after thousands flooded into the streets angry at a ban on anti israeli protests imposed by the authorities clashed with riot police meanwhile in vienna thousands also turned to the streets to voice their anger of the rallies there were peaceful in sydney australia people gathered to support palestinians with thousands strong turnout and morocco as well joined worldwide programs of protests france based independent journalist robert harness says the media coverage of the conflict in the west is only fueling discontent. by six probably it's ironic is that it has been sensitized by western governments that.

government should behave responsibly good as we've heard enough about that aid it's a case of ukraine. is oppressed go to. israel apparently it's personal rights attempted to go to gaza killed people eyes are being very careful baby don't be so very careful i mean people are now up to the sort of people who were demonstrating in paris they were young people they wanted to extremists most of there are a few tools to do struggle but most as of late they get their information that they know what's going on at. each world why now there is a small section of the community that is well it does not mean she'll just by the west be due just highly biased in favor of israel. but for the break a big behind the scenes at how we bring you the news here on our two international stay with us.

in florida the debate over whether illegal immigrants should be able to get driver's licenses is heating up one group called the living with angels says that they should be allowed behind the wheel to support this view they use a classic argument that comes up a lot in the media they say that not a lot of people for it are legal so if you're not legal you can't ever driver's license what's with that this is like when people say well we should legalize drugs because people use them anyway or we should legalize prostitution because people will do it anyway so essentially i think they mean it's everyone comes here illegally anyways we may as well let them drive so if enough people do something we currently consider illegal does that make it ok maybe sometimes but in the case of illegal immigration rolling out the red carpet for people to come to a nation illegally just empowers more people to come and it certainly spits in the

face of locals and legal immigrants who do obey the rules of bureaucracy so here i would say no to driver's licenses for illegals in florida yeah there might be millions of them in the usa but that doesn't justify society bending over to make their lives comfortable if you want to drive in america be born american or become one the legal way but that's just my opinion. i mean i think the afghans are invincible i mean they're two independent minded they love freedom. they don't want to see foreigners in their country and will fight to guerilla war till the end. today and it's signs of progress a serious peace to. this great square.