choose the access to your octaves. today's news on the week's top stories on r.t. international australian police arrive in yet skinny east ukraine to investigate the crash of the malaysian airliner that killed. european and they have had full access to the site. 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. russia revealed on the radar data from the day of that crash posing some tough questions to ukraine while washington keeps up allegations against

a moscow without presenting any solid evidence. and israel approves a new twenty four hour cease fire in gaza lasting until midnight on sunday but hamas says it will not abide by the truce until all i.d.f. soldiers are out of gaza. into the weekly here when r.t. international we're highlighting the top headlines of the week and of today. and it's been just over a week now since a malaysian airliner crashed in east ukraine killing all two hundred ninety eight on board investigation ongoing a group of australian federal police has now arrived in the center of resistance in eastern ukraine they'll 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 actually happened to m.h. seventeen. a group of forty eight dutch police and twenty inspectors are also in east ukraine but are yet to reach the crash site they say miscommunications between kiev and the local self-proclaimed authorities is the reason for the delay all of that while o s c e observers who have been working at the site of the tragedy for over a week now saying they've had no restrictions whatsoever. we didn't receive any obstruction 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 home 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 a pretty good access. flights carrying the body as of the mh seventeen victims have

been arriving in the netherlands all throughout the week military cargo planes with two hundred twenty seven coffins touchdown of eindhoven air base the king queen and prime minister all joining friends and relatives at a ceremony on the first a day of national mourning to take place in the country since war time. that hundreds of people dressed in white marched through the city in memory of those who died and forensic experts are now identifying and terminated the exact number of victims held in the coffins of the first victim a dutch citizen has already been named and some unrecovered bodies do still remain at the crash site and as odd he said peter all of us now reports this disaster has very few powerless in recent history. no forward but publicize. the people of iraq to take treaty to a family is restored to his politics the very fabric of the community his family is still within the whole community would need a whole city so everybody knows someone here has been coming you know for years

show you what you have restaurant owners before. died in the crash along with these laws mother jones we will only this son kevin wasn't on the plane now he's left pick up the pieces you can imagine how big the last cease fire ends his grandmother . works in the restaurant also. hope he can manage to. go. like you spend it outside the asian gorge restaurant floral tributes from iowa those who knew the farm concerned more with making the dead wrist the national climate about investigating the tragedy the meeting new start with the bodies returned so goodbye to them on 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 party. 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. the first thing then we heard this he said how he should survive he said how do we survive it we promise our we have promised our daughter we will come here but it actually is soon as possible does the time factor yeah because he should have come here the minute it happened the next day. 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 question the basis for the allegations against moscow and the ukrainian opposition. we haven't received any answer from you crean or from

the police it clearly come in to on forcible causes for disaster with more still veer cormorants based on what you will from social media. the defense ministry says that another aircraft was detected in the same flight path as the malaysian airline crashes data suggesting the second plane was a ukrainian military fighter jet moscow want to know what it was doing that kiev immediately denied any of its aircraft are in the area at the time and satellite images showed a ukrainian surface to air missile launcher system in the day in the area just days before the crash in fact the complex was and apparently moved to an unknown unknown unknown location i should say on the very same day as the tragedy. meanwhile the u.s. has been rolling out a bare arch of accusations against russia or shinton claims moscow is supplying heavy weapons to the ukrainian opposition and is even firing across the border 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 sources and claims made by the ukrainian government while not all journalists are currently buying. i would like to know what you're basing this new evidence that the russians intend to send in any heavier equipment 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 can point us to that i mean you know engines and i'm just wondering if you what what what it is i just said i wasn't going to give you the underlined source for it maybe you could use like you had a loved one realizing it's not with us you're right i don't give you more information just saying that i think i'm making this or it's not actually asking a question you're my can't give you the source or method would you prefer i not give you the information theory i think that it would be best for all concerned here in the other question here you know 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 auntie's garniture can now looking at some of the more recent reports b.b.c. russian deleted an online report by their correspondent from eastern ukraine it was reported by olga if shaina who went to the site where ukrainian intelligence says rebels fired a missile at the malaysian airlines plane which she took the photo showing a rising plume of smoke which the ukrainian intelligence service provided as evidence of where the missile was launched the reporter identified at least two other potential sources for such a plume in the area including a coal mine nearby she also asked local us what they saw in the sky that day. there were two explosions in the sky with their how the plane broke apart with pieces falling everywhere and there was an awesome military jet flying nia everyone saw it yes everyone saw it flying though it's all over the presenter plane route as we

heard explosions in the sky and then the plane suddenly turned around changed its flight path and headed their way. when the video was taken off the site many internet users were keen to know why the b.b.c. said the report did not live up to the editorial values of b.p. see. some journalists have taken sides to the point that when the ukrainian president said this ukrainian nation now are united we don't have any conflicts inside the queen and he was not picked up on it even as pictures and video pour in of the war raging in the country since. the us media is once again taking aim at our t.v. or what c.n.n. discussed as the impact of russia's media machine for all the talk about propaganda which by definition is you know misinformation i would say russia's when it chris cuomo and artie's piddle of el became a youtube page after

a heated interview maybe you haven't been following it but the u.s. is actually coming out with a lot of its own intelligence are bad connex what happened i made seventeen to the acts of russian militants and perhaps of the involvement of russia in either training equipping or maybe even a sister wife when this is what a horrible operation frantically to atlanta are you talking about what what forensic evidence are you referring to. twitter very or release intelligence information about the trajectory no not twitter i do not think peter this is something to be flip about two hundred ninety eight people lost their lives let's not i think the only state of irene is been there and really really kind of phenomenon very flippant about a narrative is being pushed in the media that clearly spells cold war to. the washing president is the fight on the covers of major magazines and newspapers is personality is the main focus of media attention. this news week article titled

inside the bulletproof bubble of the west's public enemy number one begins by looking into what putin eats for breakfast c.n.n. draws a connection between the russian president at a church and the downing of the malaysian airliner and global outrage grew putin try to appear pious photographed praying at an orthodox church the russian president continuing his drumbeat blaming ukraine and its western backers the us no one should and no one has the right to use this tragedy to achieve their own selfish political goals these events should not divide the united people by fixing its gaze on the russian president the media has excelled at what he does best acting as judge and jury and simplifying a complex situation by focusing on just one person gun issue gun or t. washington d.c. . they held a gun to my head that's how you case it is in an r.t.

contributor graham phillips described his ordeal at the hands of ukraine's security forces the reporter was detained earlier this week before being kicked out and barred from the country for the next three years a gram told us what else happened to him while he was 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 positions they were firing heavily from that was being fired on i was kept in a cellar was detained along with another journalist for dean who was beaten 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 name we were separated i was interrogated i was interrogated all day i was called a terrorist i was told 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 of 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 are behind us i want you to recount my e-mail account my youtube account which is obviously money in line with the chinese deleted two thousand videos from 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 cyberattacks and i'm just fighting 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 a 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 the video that he uploaded to youtube with a recording of a conversation apparently with a ukrainian security officer so yes cazalet designed. into this new idea that you wouldn't in one year what do. you really don't know we'll. bring you. more than just the one thing you did just to give. you good for you that when you die that you seem to think.

do you think that i would he put me to. eating what would you. eat. but i still believe he wanted me to read a little little minute. ok if as i made it to detaining and interrogating graham would have a listen to what the security service had to say before when the reporter's whereabouts were still not. what i know has been taken hostage there is no information owners were boats or where there is a bounty on his heard the ukrainian military don't apprehend journalists. according to kiev graham has been deported for quote national security and territorial integrity reasons that reasoning is something that geo political analyst patrick henderson isn't entirely sure. 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 is 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 just looks like a policy out 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 mike on so why should we expect anything different right now. eastern ukraine has become the world's most dangerous place for john according to a brand new survey from the international news safety institute in fact they say that since the start of the year was that working in eastern ukraine is now more risky

than even working in iraq or syria or pakistan seven media workers have died in the region while covering the conflict between kiev and government forces and four of those people were employees of russian newspapers and broadcast. quite a very short break here on r.t. international we come to you live from moscow we are back in a moment with the latest updates from embattled eastern ukraine. says the media leave us so we leave the. motions to. visit the. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. who are people who are women. and nobody make money out of.

the whole thing. and. hello again an israeli soldier has been killed by a mortar shell near the gaza border. to israel extended a humanitarian truce in gaza for another twenty four hours although hamas is saying that it will not stop firing rockets across the border into all i.d.f.

troops left gaza a middle east correspondent joining us live with the very latest from that area good to see you so much sign of the truce holding all timidly. certainly not much sign of a truce holding in fact the latest news is that there's a twenty four hour unilateral cease fire has now come to an end the israeli army is announcing that it will resume its operation inside gaza ridicules as have most of violating this cease fire that went into effect at midnight on saturday now it comes just hours often israeli soldier was killed by a move to a shell on the israel gaza border it brings the number of israeli military fatalities to forty three it also follows. that were fired from gaza at israel in the early hours of sunday morning two of those rockets were intercepted over the same to the country the waste fell in open fields in the south they have

been silent sounding whites throughout south and central israel now this unilateral cease fire which was announced by as well was rejected by hamas it was supposed to be in effect until midnight sunday it follows a humanitarian ceasefire that both sides observed on saturday that was an opportunity for united nations aid workers and other humanitarian organizations to bring much needed relief into the gaza strip it was an opportunity for body recovery for funerals to be held and also for many gazans to return to their homes to assess the damage and to salvage what little they could clothes food and valuables that they could bring with them to the places of shelter where they had been staying it was also an opportunity for people to withdraw cash to go to the shops open for several hours and to stop on food and other essential items but as i say this ceasefire has now ended and we are witnessing a resumption of hostilities inside the gaza strip both sides knowledge of clearing

that they will continue with this fighting that is now entering its twentieth day and is seen to be casualty count on both sides continue to climb and. live for us in jerusalem. now our correspondent did send us a video taken from the heart of the conflict i should warn you it does contain some images you may find distressing. that's what we're doing now. from we're going to move. on we're going with. these pictures apparently showing a man among the ruins of destroyed residential buildings he's thought to be the target of israeli government fire and the man appears to be hit by a bullet while lying stretched out on the ground and how he talked to one of the eyewitnesses. we had the space of the day and all together they were full shots fired the first one missed him but remained we were aimed for him the second one

was. 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 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 is that me resulted in his day there was supposed to be a cease fire as well however as we said into the region there was bombing nearby there was shelling nearby and snipers shooting this. israel says it is considering a continuation of the operation in gaza despite the truce and a flurry of diplomatic efforts to bring it around my colleague told scott spoke to paul host of the israeli foreign ministry explained why as country will not go. they 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 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. is perpetrating war crime of the war crime of the war crime and that's what we're going to discover you say that israel is doing all it can 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 have 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 with the glib laws they couldn't care less attitude rejected and violated so i agree with you the this

is a real tragedy the responsibility for which lies directly at the doorstep of hamas . let's bring out some live pictures for you here on r.t. international we can take you to gaza city there as you can see the violence in the distance there the plumes of smoke as well ultimately israel saying that it will continue its incursion operations in gaza despite the supposed cease fire that is allegedly supposed to go toward midnight local time there in gaza though the palestinians also saying they won't respect the true size they will continue to fire more rockets as well so ultimately this is showing very little signs of both sides at all on a ring the humanitarian ceasefire period for this sunday live pictures here on r.t. international. thanks for joining us today kiev's army hasn't been able to take control of the two biggest cities in eastern ukraine this week despite its relentless shelling of urban areas in lugansk the latest bombardment took the

lives of nineteen people most of the two dozen damaged buildings were residential and a school in kindergarten were also hit and this is you're seeing right there that is the aftermath of one of the bloodiest scenes that's where a bus stop full of people came under fire they haven't been as many casualties and don't yet because the locals there have basements to hide in the humanitarian situation is worsening day by day. and then you know there is then you need you what will this what do you need your own those. are some buildings on the city's western outskirts have been left in ruins that's where kiev's army has been trying to advance fighting has local transport to a standstill making it harder for refugees to escape the besieged city however ukraine's president says his troops are only defending the territory from foreign terrorists and these two women had just come out of a basement after the shells hit their blog. through a social network understood sure i don't want to have nothing.

to do from. here it's right i really should bring my own what you. want to thank you thank you for again seven years to talk to them. now 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 for misato tax on the opposition held city. the group warns the grad system is not accurate enough to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weapon systems if indeed they want to save civilian lives the use of unguided rockets is also being labeled a violation of international treaties one of the authors of the report says the

ukrainian military should be called to account for killing somebody. neither side really seems to take enough precautions to make sure that civilians are not killed or injured and when he uses these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk receiver against the injured 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 a building it's coming from the west by doing that we were being 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 and the ukrainian government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas

. thanks so much for joining us here on r.t. international i'm wrong research i live in moscow just to say the very latest edition of technology update and. 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 have a 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 that 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 of the legal way but that's just my opinion. strikes. excuse.