the search for clues into the malaysian plane catastrophe in ukraine stalls a team of international experts is yet to arrive at the crash site despite to european monitors at the scene now denying reports their access is being restricted . as the conflict between ukraine's army and anti-government fighters rages on the russian president says the safety of the experts involved in the crash probe must be guaranteed and warns against using the tragedy for political gain. also in eastern ukraine a local militia fighter triggers public outrage after being photographed apparently stealing a toy of the disaster site with

a new video shows his accusers got it wrong. i found the number of palestinians killed in the guards applying for more than five hundred really expensive and good week triggering condemnation and calls for immediate ceasefire across the globe. you're watching r.t. and. now international experts are still to arrive at the scene of a crash malaysian airline in eastern ukraine that's despite european security bonus just saying that they now have full access to the area after being restrict. did

during previous days and these are the pictures that we're getting from the same local teams all working at the site you can see here a train moving part of the plane wreckage local self-proclaimed officials aversion to international investigators to arrive the soonest possible and continued probe meanwhile search teams are continuing to find bodies of victims many of them have been placed in refrigerated train cars at a nearby station also been many accusations in the media calling for the locals to keep away from touching this site but they said they couldn't just let the bodies decompose in the hate my culture finds out what's been going on. the plane had crashed already a few days ago and the bodies of the victims had been lying out there in the fields for at least three days before recovery efforts by the self-proclaimed donetsk people's republic militia began and they said that they did it purely out of for moral responsibility to the families of the victims of the crash because we find

ourselves in a thirty degree heat so the bodies had already began to decompose plus there's also danger present from the wild animals in the surrounding area as well because the plane did crash in a rural area and while the investigation still cannot begin as international experts latest information suggests that they are from malaysia from the netherlands and from the united states of america which is some seven hundred kilometers away but they still can't get here apparently saying that. they have a restricted access to the area but always see observers who are currently on side are saying that this is simply not true they also added that the international experts who are currently in kiev have been all been in contact with authorities of the self-proclaimed people's republic and saying that they have full. the area

of the crash sites we 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 didn't seem to provide us with that kind of ring of security to allow us to to do the monitoring that we have to do and there are also questions asked where there are black boxes all of the flight m h seven seen have been found to the leader of the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk said that technical elements resembling black boxes had been discovered at the sites and these technical elements had now been taken to the city of donetsk and they are now on their guard and he said here all. somebody sam bring the word this evidence so they will be kept under guard until international experts do get here and say to go elements will only be given to those international experts that is once they arrive from kiev and russia's being coming under growing pressure from the u.s.

and european leaders to use its influence only fighters in eastern ukraine and guarantee unhindered access to the crash site president putin is called for a fully representative investigation team to salt working at the site saying that the local task force isn't enough you also called for the guaranteed safety of the experts involved in the crash auntie's mean a culture of a has more on these comments. the russian president wants to ensure that there is a fourth or an objective investigation and to make sure that happens it's important to ensure of course the safety of all the observers experts and international investigators who are there about to start investigating this thing of the crash was still you've got to it's important that all the people who are accountable for the situation in this region of ukraine are more responsible both 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 at the size of the accident lattimer put in added that the

task force there right now is not enough and more experts should be brought in who would be working under the guidance of the international civil aviation organization and he also stressed that it's essential that this tragedy isn't being taken advantage of. no one has any right to use this tragedy to any kind of selfish politicized interest such events should unite people not separating them. so all in all what russia is looking for is for the investigation to be done in accordance with international standards in an objective manner and with no politics involved as the full scale probe into the tragedy is yet to begin many voices in europe are urging for russia to be punished if it doesn't pressure and to care forces controlling the area u.k. and france are calling for further sanctions on these peter although it's keeping track of the european reaction. european reactions to the downing of the malaysian

airlines flight over eastern ukraine have started to change from initial shock people are now calling for immediate and real action to be taken here in the netherlands where almost two hundred people among those who died came from the foreign minister franz timmons is said that people are angry and fieri is there what they see is a lack of progress being made regarding an investigation he will be announcing later on in a press briefing what he gained from a recent trip to ukraine will be bringing you that of course as soon as we get it right here from the hague in the united kingdom where the foreign secretary philip hammond has said that his country are willing to push ahead with more sanctions against russia even if it was to harm the british economy by restricting the flow of russian cash into the city of london the british prime minister david cameron said he's in agreement with french president francois hollande and german chancellor angela merkel that further sanctions must be discussed the german chancellor though held a phone conversation over the weekend with president vladimir putin and which both parties said that an international investigation is a must and it must get

a underway very soon from the hake peter all of a r.t. of the u.k. prime minister is among the strongest advocates for sanctions against moscow proposing a ban on defense exports to russia we discussed the issue with veteran british labor politician and former mayor of london ken livingstone he believes that brits are not really in support of the idea. you can then blame president putin if he sees a bit of a mess going on there this is an absolute tragedy by pretty is not something planned by putin and that's the line being dished out from washington and the british government and i have to tell you want whilst people in russia may be looking at news papers now t.v. broadcasts and thinking there is great down here there is no mood in britain or i suspect anywhere in europe for escalating sanctions because it would simply tip the european economy back into recession and there's no evidence to suggest that this is anything other than

a tragic error by people that should have known better allegations of russia's involvement in the malaysian plane crash have been picked up by many media outlets these are just some of the headlines that are appearing now and they're making it quite clear who they blame for the tragedy pointing the finger directly at president putin. however there are parts of the story that are being largely ignored ukraine has released what it claims is an intercepted phone call between anti-government forces in which they admit to downing the plane but speech and sound analysts nicholai popof thinks that the recording is a fabrication it's not really explore and. therefore it's being presented as one un edited recording in reality the sort of was compiled out of several fragments the time markers are inconsistent the part where it is being said the plane was downed by cossacks these markers reveal that one fragment was recorded at sixteen thirty three and that the second fragment which comes right afterwards was recorded

at seventeen fifteen. kids also released pictures of a missile launch which he claims was spotted in an area held by anti-government forces but local say the town in the video has been under the control of the ukrainian army for the past two months from a security consultant load of a new says that so far there's no real evidence that's been produced. when you see . this is something that is produced by experts on the ground it takes weeks and months before you can jump to any conclusion whatever is being said is just speculation to a political to each. detail has been largely sidelined is that the pilot was told by the ukrainian traffic ukrainian traffic controllers to reduce our attitude by six hundred meters just before disaster struck the doubts have also been raised over the unusual flight path what is actually suspicious is that the plane has to do you do it from a routine typically two weeks which seems to be you know very very different from

the flight just the day before ukraine also claims the missile that hit the plane was launched from territory controlled by the opposition intelligence expert shall shew bridge says it's hard to establish that for sure 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 that is to put in much of eastern ukraine is in a fluid situation in terms of who controls what any given time and what the media was quick to latch onto was the picture of an alleged bluecher at the crash site now this one is caused a lot of anger let's listen to what the dutch prime minister had to say about it because what i am shocked by the images of totally disrespectful behavior at this tragic site this is downright disgusting now is a photo that's been retreated many times accompanied by lots of angry comments as well the anti-government fighter was described as holding

a child's toy monkey as if it was a trophy although sometimes an image doesn't tell the whole story. now ukraine's army has unleashed heavy artillery fire on the city of done yet with unconfirmed reports saying that five civilians of being killed local militia groups say army tanks are trying to break through their checkpoints residents have been advised to stay indoors. but i know how much the good. the larger the life. what if you. like you know you this is.

just the cell phone video was shot by a leg just north of done yet several families and children have been relaxed in the rush to shelter after explosions went off on the other side of the like you know me denies that it's been shelling done yes but images posted online show a different thing. this. coming going to look more center. and we're going to. you know. one of the three year got out. of them with a little. yet

is ukraine's fifth biggest city and is more densely populated than amsterdam lisbon or dublin it's one of the country's main industrial hubs and is home to want to ukraine's most popular football clubs. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has ordered a halt to all combat operations in areas near the flight seventeen crash site troops are stepping up their offensive against nearby and government strongholds in the lugansk region alone the so-called antiterrorist operation has claimed two hundred fifty civilian lives just since june and that figure was given by the organization for security and cooperation in europe whose members travel to the devastated province where shootings and rocket fire have become a daily reality. show . and

we move slowly but surely we. could have gotten. the chance to start it you just don't see. israel shows no sign of wrapping up its deadly offensive u.s. secretary john kerry is expected to told the middle east. it's a hell of a pinpoint operation it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. but still we see casey was caught in an embarrassing open mike situation seeming to show a bit more anger than he wanted in one t.v. interview after the break we discussed the gaffe with an expert. on the me because. i saw you spread all over. food you have in the whole.

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the israeli offensive in gaza has taken the lives of five. hundred palestinians in the space of two weeks with sunday becoming the bloodiest day so far the start of the operation sword daily death toll of around two dozen but the numbers have since been snowballing with one hundred palestinians killed on sunday alone what began with airstrikes against suspected to mass rocket sites developed into a full blown israeli ground offensive on thursday night israel has also lost eighteen of its soldiers of the at. the top of. the world. with. you. know.

despite rising casualties israel is showing no sign of wrapping up its operation thirty five people have been killed this morning in southern garden many belonging to one family also at least ten militants were killed as they crossed the border through two tunnels despite the casualties prime minister netanyahu is vowing to continue operations as much as the. well our correspondent sent a video from the epicenter of the worst hit areas in garza a warning though it contains some graphic images. ok so what we're doing now from we're going to move. forward we're going. now this is what it shows a man among the ruins of residential buildings he stores are the target of government gunfire and then appears to be hit by

a bullet while lying stretched out on the ground after trying to find cover this is how we fear talk to a witness of that incident. 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 one activist with 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 the imagery which shows him. 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 four shots fired the first one missed him but remained it to be 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 trying to or 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 leading the way he was on the floor and he knew to have time to really have 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. earlier an israeli defense force spokesperson a short. of a bell doing everything possible to protect civilian lives 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 really. 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 be because hamas finds it in its assets to leave them in these areas. now sunday's massacre force the un security council to word an immediate cease fire in garza secretary-general ban ki moon says that israel committed an atrocious action and needs to do more to protect civilians but some and didn't hold back even harsher words to prime minister accused israel of barbarism surpassing that of hitler u.s.

secretary of state john kerry is expected in egypt to support regional efforts to reach a solution my colleague thomas discuss the church with former cia officer dr charles cogan. there's not going to be peace as long as netanyahu is trying minister he doesn't want it and with all the efforts of kerry which were ideological it was netanyahu who broke the talks off after israel refused to release the finer trunks of kind of standing prisoners back in april john kerry the u.s. secretary of state was recently caught off mike talking about the israeli tactics in gaza let's listen in to what he had to say it's a hell of a pinpoint operation it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. first we've got to get over there. i think we have to go to night i think it's crazy to the cigarette can we expect that to turn into some type of a concrete action it's very difficult because these neighbors neighborhoods are

very crowded and they're launching sites within the neighborhoods there are stray actions that go wrong like the killing of the four. teenagers or youths on the beach last wednesday but i think the the i.d.f. does make an effort they send out warnings but it's a very very messy situation and it must stop by and maybe maybe kerry can do something it's way out of hand and is kerry seems quite accurate the head of the pinpoint operation. of the will news for you now in the u.s. the streets of san francisco being built by a protest in solidarity with palestinians accusing israel of genocide antiwar demonstrators burn the country's flag and also blame the american government for providing more than three billion dollars in military aid for israel and washington crowds of people from jewish and arab communities marched together to the white house joining the chorus against the violence. over in the u.k.

hundreds gathered outside the b.b.c. in belfast accusing the corporation of pro israeli bias in its coverage. protesters lit candles and held a minute's silence for the victims of the military campaign. i was on a friends activists there defied the pro palestinian rallies and took to the streets of paris they set fire to cars raided shops and firecrackers police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets resting at least thirteen riot. more news in brief for you now a boat carrying one hundred fifty mind durance from north africa along with nineteen dead bodies arrived in sicily after being picked up by the italian navy the victims are believed to have died of suffocation on the overcrowded vessel. and injured. several similar cases reported in the mediterranean in recent months italy

struggling to cope with the influx of migrant boats this year most of which depart from libya. in southern greece protesters that have blockaded a nato base for a second day running three hundred people gathered in crete to demonstrate against the island's water is being used to destroy syria's syrian chemical weapons protesters fear that the mediterranean island ses will become a graveyard of toxic waste chemical weapons were transported to create earlier this year as part of the program to neutralize syria's fire. stay with us here and i'll tell you the latest headlines at the top of the hour after a short break sophie shevardnadze talks to an afghan prisoner of war turned taliban bodyguard if you watching is over in the u.k. it's a special report for you on the black gold rush in canada. 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 such i think they mean that it's everyone comes here illegally anyways we may as well. 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 wore 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 see no 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. war without end with no pre-determined exit strategy israel's most recent invasion of gaza could last for months the humanitarian catastrophe for the palestinians is incalculable how this enhanced israel security is unclear. welcome to. the sharon nonsense what happens when you find yourself at war at

a very long age because the stuff was that crude when he was captured by the mujahideen in afghanistan ended up spending twelve years in war torn country serving as a personal bodyguard of the most powerful anti taliban leader ahmad shah massoud how did he go from captive to brother in arms what made him go native and why did he come home to russia years later well nic i was just here in the studio to tell us his personal story. twenty five years ago so the troops left afghanistan some soldiers go. stayed behind captured in a foreign land unsure of course friend or foe stuck between two worlds what does it take to change sides in war how can your survive in captivity and can you ever call . welcome to the show.