suppose that. it is the. today's news on the week's top stories on r.t.e. international australian police arrive in dawn yet skin east ukraine to investigate the crash of the malaysian airliner that killed all on board european observers say they have had full unhindered access to the whole site. and planes carrying the coffins of the remains of those who died in the mh seventeen plane crash have been arriving in the netherlands throughout the week as friends and relatives try to come to terms with their loss. reveal satellite and the radar data from the day of the crash posing some tough questions to ukraine while washington keeps up allegations against moscow without presenting any solid evidence. and israel

approves a new twenty four hour ceasefire in gaza lasting until midnight on sunday but hamas says it will not abide by the truce until all soldiers are out of gaza. top headlines of the week here on r.t. international for me rory sushi in the in time use team welcome to the program it has now been just over a week since a malaysian airliner crashed in east ukraine killing all two hundred ninety eight on board the investigation is ongoing a group of australian federal police has now arrived in town yet the center of resistance in eastern ukraine will join investigators already working at the crash site this week also saw the flight data recorders taken to the u.k. where experts are now also searching for clues about what happened to m.h.

seventeen and zero s. c.e. observers who have been working at the site of the tragedy for a week now saying they have been getting full cooperation from the local self-proclaimed. we didn't receive any instruction and as most of you saw we had a security cordon around us most of the time and we did visit the railway station twice our passage for donuts to the affected area was incredibly fast at the biggest sites in the afternoon the dutch forensic experts assessed the body recovery work on that site is good. and we again we had pretty good access. now flights carrying the bodies of the mh one seven victims have been arriving in the netherlands throughout the week military cargo planes with two hundred twenty seven coffins touched down to the eindhoven air base the king queen and prime minister joined friends and relatives at a ceremony on the first day of national mourning to take place in the country since

war time and in amsterdam hundreds of people dressed in white marched through the city in memory of those who died and forensic experts are now identifying and determining the exact number of victims held in the coffins of the first victim a dutch citizen has already been named and some recovered bodies do remain at the crash site for now as ati's peter all heard reports the disaster has few power and recent history. you know the public so. the people of iraq to pay tribute to a family is restored to his politics the very fabric of the community his family is so weird in the whole community would need a whole city so everybody knows someone here has been coming you know for years so you put your restaurant owners profiled in jenny low died in the crash along with these laws mother jones wait for only this son kevin wasn't on the plane now he's left pick up the pieces you can imagine how big

a loss he's lost his parents his grandmother. who works in the restaurant also. hope he can manage to. go on like you spend it outside the asian borders restaurant floral tributes. those who knew the farm concerned more with making the dead wrist the national plan or about investigating the tragedy the meeting is there to which are the bodies. goodbye to their own the proper way ultimately what memorial service is like the one going on behind me show that even in its darkest hour the people of the netherlands are coming together to show that they stand as one peter all of a quality rotterdam. and the first family of the victims has arrived at the crash site an australian couple came to pay tribute to their twenty five year old daughter who was on board the plane. first thing when you heard this he said how

to live he said how do we survive it we promise al it we have promised our daughter we will come here but it actually is soon as possible does the time factor yeah he should have come here the minute it happened the next day and this week the russian defense ministry presented its information on the plane crash publishing satellite images and radar tracking data from the day of the tragedy but ukraine and washington have still not revealed anything of their own and russia's deputy defense minister questioning the basis for the allegations against moscow and the ukrainian opposition we haven't received any answer from you create or from the police to really come into your own poor civil causes for the disaster there's more still there cormorants based on material from social media now the defense ministry says that another aircraft was detected in the same flight path as the malaysian

airliner russia's data suggests the second plane was a ukrainian military fighter jet and moscow wants to know what it was doing that satellite images showed a ukrainian surface to air missile launcher system in the area just days before the crash the complex was apparently then moved to an unknown location on the very same day as the tragedy. now in the meantime the u.s. has been rolling out a barrage of accusations against russia washington claims moscow was supplying heavy weapons to the ukrainian opposition and is even across the border and the media has been pressing the u.s. government to reveal a solid basis for the allegations that washington is simply cited classified intelligence social media and claims made by the ukrainian government or not all journalists are by. i would like to know what you're basing this new evidence that the russians intend to send any heavier equipment home based on some

intelligence information i can't get into sources and methods behind it but i was able to be able to tell you that is there a youtube video or something that you could point us to that i mean you know engines and i'm just wondering if you what what what it is i did but i wasn't going to give you the underlying source for it maybe you could use i don't love when it really was here it's not with us you're right i don't give you more information just saying that i think making it a source don't actually ask you a question you're my keiki to source i'm at it would you prefer i not give you the information theory i think that it would be best for all concerned here any other question you when you make an allegation like that you're able to back it up with something more than just because i say so. the mainstream media has been feeding off of the state department's accusations correspondent guy nature now looking at some of the more recent reports hours after the tragic crash of m h seventeen a toxic mix of politics and speculation filled the airwaves and headlines worldwide

with the western media already determining who to blame this is not a case where terrorists are operating without an address or home base it's called the kremlin is it time to stand up to russia's president once and for all blame is largely on putin and i think we have to hold him accountable international monitors say they now have open access to the war torn area where the plane fell and are now working to reveal what exactly happened to m.h. seventeen but in the court of public opinion the investigation itself may have already been discredited they may be stymied in the investigation because they don't want to have the real proof of the fact that they actually shot this aircraft down there have been reports saying that already some of the black black boxes had been recovered and were in moscow there has been no confirmation that the black boxes were even heading to moscow many unconfirmed reports have sprung up since the crash a tape was widely circulated in the media with conversations between who were said

to be ukrainian rebels as well as between the rebels and allegedly russian intelligence officers discussing a plane crash here has also provided a video of what it said was the launcher used to down m.h. seventeen about to be smuggled into russia these recordings were only very fine by the ukrainian intelligence service hardly an impartial party in the conflict the obama administration has put out its own version of events saying a missile was shot from rebel held territory but presenting no evidence to back it up the media does not treat all sources equally either and in the court of public opinion innocent until proven guilty. does not always apply. to check our t. washington d.c. . well they held a gun to my head that's how you case it isn't an arty contributor graham phillips described his ordeal of the hands of ukraine's security forces their reporter was detained earlier this week before being kicked out and barred for the country for

the next three years a grandma told us what else happened to him while in detention. they were sending messages from my phone that message that you go r.t. saying all these fine i didn't i didn't send that message they were going through my messages asking me about every single message who sent this to you who is this person how do you know this person was put in a room next to an artillery position that they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cell was detained along with another journalist for dean who would be in front of me i saw soldiers you know kick him in the face and then a soldier said if you can confirm my details and he couldn't guarantee that i was going to live i was blindfolded kept in a cell without water or toilet facilities and then we were separated i was interrogated i was interrogated all day i was called a terrorist and i was told that i had a russian passport i was a russian spy they were telling me all day that i had entered ukraine through ukraine and entered it through russia it's all completely completely false they

were accusing me of working for terrorists all these accusations and interrogations and then they took my computer they took my things and i've just go are just recently been released and i was on the train to warsaw coming from the polish border and i just recently discovered that the now all of my accounts have been hacked i want you to recount my e-mail account my you tube account which is obviously money in livelihood someone's deleted. every single account i have facebook contact the time that ukrainian forces have had my computer it was held by the s.b.u. as well they've taken out they've stripped all the passwords are now basically being cyber attacks and i've despite you now to try and get my life back i mean being kicked out of the country of ukraine my car was taken by the ukrainian military my money was taken my bullet proof vest i've been deported from a country i own a flat in told i'm an enemy of the state when all i ever did there was report the news which report the truth and i've been told i've been obviously banned from for

three years kicked out of the border and there have been cyber attack so basically you know my entire life has been has been taken apart i mean thankfully i'm alive and as you can see have effectively or i but i'm a little shell shocked by the whole experience of just trying to kind of get my bearings and get things back together after what was an ordeal. well as graham told us his life was threatened as part of a video that he uploaded to you tube with a recording of a conversation apparently with a ukrainian security officer. because allah took designedly. into this area that you wouldn't in one year what you really you really don't care we'll. bring you know he doesn't need no more tickets but the one thing you did this yesterday. you. would use that when you drive it you get to. go you're going to he thing you did you eat any particular. question.

but i still do need to continue reading a little bit mr mean you. here has admitted to detaining and interrogating graham but have a listen to what the security service had to say before when the reporters whereabouts were still unknown. i know he's been taken hostage there is no information on his were boats or whether there is a bounty on his head the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. according to graham has been deported for quote national security and territorial integrity concerns that reasoning is something geo political analyst patrick hannifin is not too sure about i think they're very nervous in the ukraine because they do not want information to escape the type of information that graham phillips is reporting about the true nature of the conflict what we have is clearly

a civil war by anyone's definition except for the western media and politicians in europe in the united states are still calling it as as the government in kiev is an anti terror operation meanwhile civilians are being targeted that's the very thing that they're graham phillips is trying to relate to the world i think the policy. of transparency is something they're clearly not very good at it's been hiding in cover ups right from the beginning of this crisis right all the way back to february to the might gone so why should we expect anything different right now. do you think ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place john according to the international news safety institute they say that since the start of the year working in eastern ukraine has become more risky than even iraq syria and pakistan seven media workers have died in the region while covering the conflict between government forces and for those people were employees of russian newspapers and

broadcasters. are after a very short break here on r.t. international we're back with more updates from the embattled eastern ukraine. this is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. by the same motion secure. play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politic only our. government system is to help poor people poor women. who changed their life and nobody's trying to make money out of those who want to make money out of them by. the time the whole thing. and we had all forced to.

thank you for sharing some of your sunday with us here at aussie international the kiev has not been able to take control of the two biggest cities in eastern ukraine this week as despite its relentless shelling of urban areas and the latest bombardment took the lives of nineteen people most of the two dozen and damaged buildings were president including a school and a kindergarten and this is the off the mouth of one of the bloodiest scenes where a bus stop full of people came under fire.

now they haven't been as many casualties and don't yet square locals use basements to hide inside of the humanitarian situation is worsening day by day but then you. knew you were in this why do you need. and some buildings on the city's western outskirts have been left in ruins about swear kiev's army has been trying to advance the fighting is local transport to a standstill making it all the harder for refugees to escape the city and these two women had just come out of the basement after shells hit their block. through social media through the crowd outlook understood sure don't want to do nothing for you. right you have to use your did you. hear right let me shoot for you my i don't know what you. want to thank you for day and

then you talk about him leave them. the ukrainian military has killed at least sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets and that could amount to war crimes that's according to human rights watch which documented four missile attacks on the opposition held city of donetsk. if the group warns the grad system is too accurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the call for it to stop using this kind of weapon system if they want to save civilian lives or the use of unguided rockets is also being labeled a violation of other international treaties one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should be called to account for killing civilians neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when you use these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's

a really high risk facility in st anger and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets you were able to buy in looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by these rockets so if it's if the rocket hits the western wall of the building it's coming from the west by doing that we were being we were able to establish where the attacks were coming from in for attacks they were coming from areas under the control of the ukrainian army so in four of these attacks in donetsk which killed sixteen civilians we believe that the ukrainian army was responsible for those attacks we are calling a human rights watch is calling on both the ukrainian government and on separatist forces to immediately stop using grad rockets these kinds of indiscriminate weapons

in populated areas and the ukrainian government should also investigate these cases where there are where there is reason to believe that ukrainian government forces were responsible for for the killing of civilians and both sides are denying the use of. and so would the use of at least the use of grad weapons in populated areas . are evidence is quite clear and the creating government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons and partly derrius and following the lead of the united states the european union expand that ixion sions against russia over the ukrainian crisis brussels added fifteen people and eighteen firms to its black list the measures include visa bans and asset freezes and further restrictions may be on the way but emanuel kide the president of the franco russian chamber of commerce and industry he says e.u. states are far from united on this issue. for the term being there is no economic

potential. when we have to realize that because there is just told. you some of its member on the way there all of which would apply economic potential and there is something which is very easy for the country of the size of the worship of course you get a piece of it so such are. you so you need to talk you clearly need to use a little. thanks for joining us on r.t. international an israeli soldier has been killed by a mortar shell near the gaza border that's after israel extended a humanitarian truce and garza for another twenty four hours it will now end at midnight on sunday local time but hamas says it won't stop firing rockets across the border until all israeli troops are out of gaza the latest details now with artie's paulus. the israeli security cabinet has agreed to a twenty four hour extension of this united nations humanitarian cease fire that

was first implemented early on saturday israeli officials are saying that they will however opposite of the cease fire if there are not any violations and that if in fact they are they reserve the right to act they're also saying that during this twenty four hour extension israeli soldiers who may be inside gaza where they will continue to locate destroy and dismantle tunnels and however we are hearing from a hamas spokesperson that they have rejected this extension of a cease fire and there was an initial twelve hour here in brokered cease fire that was implemented on saturday that was at here too by both sides it was an extended for further four hours and it was during those four hours that the israelis complain that hamas broke the truce there were at least a dozen rockets in that time they were fired at south and central israel and now all of this is happening during a lull in the fighting that has allowed ordinary residents of gaza to use the

opportunity to return to their homes and many did so they went back home to assess the damage to collect whatever belongings they could whether it was food or clothing or valuables it was also an opportunity for united nations aid workers to enter the strip to bring within much needed medical and emergency supplies it was also an opportunity for body recovery and for injured people to be moved to various locations there were also funerals of will hold up the day saturday these of course had to be very quick because many people very fearful as to whether or not there's a lull in fighting would actually last. our correspondent sent us a video taken from the heart of the conflict it does contain some disturbing images . and what we're doing now. we're going to move. on we're. at the pictures apparently showing a man among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings it seems he was hit by i.d.f. fire when he's already on the ground is very fear. with respect to

the death all together they were all shots fired the first one but remained it to be 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 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 that i am going to want to do is find me. in his day there was supposed to be a cease fire as well however as we said. there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting is. israel says it's now considering a continuation of the operation in gaza despite the truce in a flurry of diplomatic efforts and my colleague told scott spoke to paul who spoke

some of the israeli foreign ministry who explained why his country will not. say that all timothy's should be investigated and i agree and i'll tell you what we're going to discover we're going to discover that israel has taken unprecedented steps in in a very difficult circumstance to minimize and to avoid civilian casualties and we're going to discover that hamas evil machine with a killer strategy has. perpetrated war crime off to war crime off the war crime and that's what we're going to discover you say that israel is doing all it can. and to minimize civilian casualties are you doing enough for boys killed in a bitch we're hearing about civilians being killed every single day we said repetitively we said it also quietly through diplomatic channels quiet will be all said with quiet calm will be responded to with call this message was rejected out of hand we've been three cease fire proposals one by the egyptians one by the united nations one by the international committee for the red cross all three we

accepted unconditionally we implemented them all three of which with the glib laws they couldn't care less attitude rejected and violated so i agree with you this is a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas . just a moment talks on a boycott and worlds apart. well good to see you. join us this month in fossil on as we follow the international teams vying for receive glory ultimate triumph. on homes how much we delve into the mysterious cost of a cult classic under spunky pulls away from the hot clearing the road for speak over. the technology. on our cheap we've done the future

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