the russian president has publicly called for all groups involved in the ukrainian conflict not to obstruct the investigation of the malaysia air waves plane crash and warned against politicizing the tragedy that left nearly three hundred people dead. european monitors say they now have full access to the side where the plane came down but there is no word yet from international experts who 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 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 military onslaught in the wake of the plane crash and. the israeli invasion of gaza marks its bloodiest today with more than eighty civilians killed as hamas says it has taken an israeli soldier captive in claims refuted by the i.d.f. . and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping our week's top stories with our weekly program this is r t international now russian president vladimir putin has made some official comments on the malaysia air waves plane crash in eastern ukraine calling for the tragedy not to be politicized he also said

that in turn national experts on the scene should be able to carry out their work in the complete safety artie's medina has more. well speaking about the situation treasures the russian president vladimir putin said that it is necessary to rethink and to provide for security for those international outrage now we're going to be 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 a 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 elf zero peaceful negotiations moreover the president

to add is that no one has the right to use this treasury for cheating some selfish political goals. such events should unite people not separate them no one has any right to use this tragedy for any kind of so fish politicized interests. president putin hasn't blamed any of the parties 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 in this thing ukraine in a telephone conversation now both sides strasse the importance of an objective investigation of all circumstances of the incident and then agreed that it must be conducted by the international civil aviation was all parties involved.

european monitors from the o s c e working at the crash site of the malaysia air waves passenger jet in eastern ukraine say local militia groups have now given them access to the area earlier anti-government forces said the flight recorders had been found and will be handed over to international experts. is 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 doing while eighty one strong international experts are still in 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're 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 is 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 to the

international aviation experts once they arrive here in donetsk. take a look i'm back at the sequence of events in the lead up to the catastrophe malaysia airlines flight seventeen took off from amsterdam on thursday had twelve and fifteen pm local time bound for kuala lumpur at four twenty. one. time it disappeared from radar coverage and lost all radio contact as well now within an hour the crash site was located and it became clear that no one had survived the incident now by eight in the evening both kiev and anti-government troops had denied any involvement in of the crash local militia insisted that they didn't even have weapons capable of shooting down of the airliner and both sides started to trade accusations this is when the blame game began then relatives of the victims were informed overnight and the process of identifying the bodies began local residents have been recalling the horror of that day lucia little caught i had

terrible noise i went out first and then my has been 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 the legs were broken i saw 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 plastic everywhere i thought it was just a pile of rubbish but then and this two that it was a human body without a leg and was arms twisted and broken. malaysia airlines has released to the full list of passengers on board the ill fated flight two thirds of them one hundred

ninety three in fact were dutch nationals forty three victims including all crew members were malaysian there were also twenty seven australians traveling as well as citizens of the united kingdom indonesia germany and the u.s. in total ten come journeys 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 a horse. 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 the facebook in the morning to see outside then those are the flowers. 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 really. strange because my father i've been on this this same flight many times. from the it's so shocking so many dutch people were on that plane this tragedy has affected us. when you think about it it's not realistic people just the public airplane taking it out 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 a netherlands there are plenty of unexplained circumstances surrounding the tragedy first the flight deviated from its usual route you can see here that it was also unclear why it passed directly over the zone of a raging armed conflict and there are even questions over why ukrainian ground control told the crew to reduce their altitude just before the jet went down grieving families are now demanding explanations of what happened to their loved ones. brings 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 didn't see by the local pool. in. speed so. that you can see the plane. 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. international civil aviation community. we.

carry. some carriers. 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. reporting from kuala lumpur in malaysia.

and britain's prime minister claims that it if it is 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 has yet been conducted can takes up a story. yes the gators 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 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 down. a military transport planes or they claim shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and training and that is coming from russia russia says kiva 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 kiev was quick to blame the anti-government forces for the tragedy here is what the accusations are based on firstly there is a video released by kiev proposing to show a book a surface to air. missile system in eastern ukraine with one of its rockets missing and also the jet crashed on territory controlled by the opposition claims that this is 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 admitted to firing on the plane but the speech and a sound analyst nicholai popof says that it seems that the recording was doctored. it's not really it's a. sniff or it's being presented as one on its record so in reality this sort of

was compiled out of several fragments in the time inconsistent being said the plane was downed by cossacks so why do these monkeys reveal that one fragment is recorded at sixteen thirty three and that the second fragments which comes right afterwards it was recorded at seventeen fifteen. for as far as the video of the missile system goes ke of claims it was shot in a small town near the russian border by local state you can see an address on the billboard which is located in a different 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 intelligence expert charles troubridge points out some other discrepancies in accusations one could say from the outset with some investigation of ground from which it was launched and of course that would give an indication even though it's accepted i think that if you put in 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 surely it's for example it is said that they have these weapon systems i should point out that of course the prosecutor general himself you know i 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. now shortly after the plane crash several mainstream media outlets latched onto the message coming from washington in kiev on length unleashing a storm really of accusations against ukraine's anti-government forces and also against moscow as well we asked loaded venues state journalist and former security consultant why the finger of blame is being pointed so quickly i think if it did if this consider this 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. when you see evidence this is something that is produced by experts on the ground it takes weeks and months before you can change to any conclusions to whatever is being said not is just speculation to a political it's. the other news in ukraine it despite calls for a cease fire. 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 every day 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 the gun skin less than two months. ago as more. 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 but you see 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. wall always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june in lugansk alone previously that number is given for civilian casualties for these how did you ration them conflict for both regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than those people have so many say they're living here. he says are peaceful life. if you look you are going to reach. the city where. 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 of the ukrainian military nevertheless they seem to be bearing the brunt 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 of flight m.h. seventeen the fighting that doesn't seem to subside in southeastern ukraine goes on before. the israeli prime minister has vowed to continue operation protective and i quote for as long as it takes it has been revealed that two of the i.d.f. soldiers killed by hamas in the recent fighting were american citizens this after the israeli defense force bombarded an eastern neighborhood of the air killing at least eighty seven civilians that made sunday and sunday the bloodiest day in 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 them eighteen israeli soldiers have been

killed since the assault began but that number is by the palestinian fatalities now approaching four hundred forty. our correspondent has sent us a video from the heart of the conflict and just a bit of a warning it does contain some very graphic scenes. ok so what we're doing now the muslims from we're going to move. forward we're going. to have this footage apparently shows a man among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings is thought to be the target of government gunfire he appears to be headed by a bullet while lang stretched out on the ground very fear talked to a witness. 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 the.

activists 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 that depicted in imagery which shows he was. 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 the family which she believed was caught up i had been pinned down essentially for hours it's truly 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 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 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 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 leaving. the way he was on the floor and he knew that and how kind of that he had wanted to do was find he's got me resulted in his death there was supposed to be a ceasefire as well however as reset 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. killing this young gentleman this off today. earlier an israeli defense forces spokesperson told my colleague you know neal that 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 terror is ation of our entire public and one of the latest attacks really military shells with spray agents of tiny and potentially lethal metal darts we've seen out there 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 and its assets to leave them in these areas of the palestinian bloodbath has created ripples that worldwide as well. palestinian demonstrators in paris were tear gassed after thousands flooded into the streets angry at a ban on anti israeli protest imposed by view for what days they clashed with riot police meanwhile in vienna thousands also turned to the streets to voice their anger although rallies there were peaceful in sydney australia people gathered to support palestinians with thousands strong turnout and morocco as well joined a worldwide pro gaza protest france abased independent journalist robert harness so the media. coverage of the conflict in the west is only fueling discontent. i seek to publish it's not running is that it has been sensitized by western governments

that. government should behave responsibly good as we've heard enough about that to the aid of the case of ukraine of be so depressed go to. israel apparently it's perseverance attempting to go to gaza and kill people is it being very careful or maybe don't being so very careful i mean people are now taking these sort of people who are demonstrating in paris say with young people they wanted to extremists most of their refuse cools to just trouble but most of the day they get their information to the internet they know what's go at. it each world why there is a small section of the community that is well informed and he's not a challenge by the west media just highly biased in favor of israel. after the break ups on a boycott is joined by the director of the ethical journalism network to discuss the shaky boundaries between journalism and propaganda stay with us.

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