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but nick payton walsh took another route to the site.found it littered with debris and the final possessions of last lives. watch this. >> reporter: a horror still unresolved. 12 days since mh-17 was blown out of the sky. it remains here, a monument to cruelty. to how 298 souls, some shipped in parts away on a separatists train have yet to find complete rest. questions left what or who else did they love? did they feel in their last moments? the silence in these fields is that of a tomb-like sorrow and loss, isolated from the war around it but you really have to stand here and see the things people wanted to take with them on holiday and horrifyingly, even know, smell, the stench of decay to understand the urgency for relatives of those who died here must feel to get inspectors to the site and get some kind of closure. in the hour we were there, no separatists inspectors or ukrainian soldiers at this site. just distant smoke that explains why the inspectors' large convoy has not for the fourth day running got here. god save and protect u

nick payton walsh, thank you so much. that's it for "the lead."urn you over now to wolf blitzer live from jerusalem in "the situation room". >>> happening now. "a situation room" special report. day of mourning remains of malaysia flight 17 victims as the u.s. learns about new information about troop move am in the area where the plane was shot down. >>> michael bloomberg tlies into tel aviv in a sho

so that's their perspective, anderson. >> and our nick payton walsh getting information on the separatists and joins us from london. nick? >> a russian citizen himself giving me their perspective. he says right now they have separatists prosecutors, done and he says this is his speculation, they are concerned about the potential for a rocket attack, potentially destroying the investigation site, something he has put out. no evidence from that or other sources at all. he calls this is a provocation, suggesting perhaps they did this themselves. obviously international condemnation of the separatists. he says himself that they do not have any weapons system in their possession that's capable of doing this. most sophisticated they have, a range of 3 kilometers in total. repeating what we have seen on social media before but goes on to say, he's heading there himself, imminently and will be there in minutes to try and work out exactly what did occur here. so a bid by the separatists, because they always do appear a functioning government. we don't know who these prosecutors are, if they have an

>> another one of our courageous cnn war correspondents, nick payton walsh, doing some dangerous worke careful over there. thanks very much. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in a special two-hour edition of "the situation room." for our international viewers, amanpour is next. for the viewers in the united states and north america, "newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> all right, wolf blitzer, thank you so much. great to be with you all on this wednesday. i'm brooke baldwin. let's get to some news here at cnn. cnn just learned the united states has agreed to resupply israel's military with multiple types of ammunition. what types of ammunition, why specifically. let's go to the pentagon to our correspondent, barbara starr, who has this reporting. tell me what exactly this resupplying of the israeli defense forces really means, barbara. >> hi, brooke. u.s. officials are telling me, they have agreed to resupply israel with ammunition at its request. now, clearly, this is part of the u.s. comen

investigators may not have gotten there today, but our own senior correspondent nick payton walsh didre's what he found. >> reporter: this road isn't easy, past eerie separatist checkpoints and where it leads is harder still. beauty nothing can spoil, lies a horror still unresolved. 12 days since mh-17 was blown out of the sky. it remains here, a monument to cruelty. to how 298 souls, some shipped in parts away on a separatist train have yet to find complete rest. questions left, what or who else did they love? what did they feel in their last moments? >> silence in these fields are that of a tomb like sorrow and loss have isolated it from the war around it, but you really have to stand here and see the things that people want to take with them on holiday and horrifyingly, even now, smell the stench of decay to understand the urgency for relatives of those who died who must feel to get inspectors to this site and get some kind of closure. >> in the hour we were there, no separatists, inspectors or ukrainian soldiers at this site, just distant smoke that suspect that why the convoy for

but senior international correspondent, nick payton walsh, took another route into the site, still littered with debris and the last possessions of lost lives. take a look. >> reporter: the road isn't easy, past shelling, eerie separatist check points. but where it leads is harder still. nothing surely could spoil lies a horror still unresolved. 12 days since mh-17 was blown out of the sky, it remains here, a monument to cruelty. to how 298 souls, some shipped in parts, away on a separatist train, have yet to find complete rest. questions left, what or who else did they love? what did they feel in their last moments? the silence in these fields is that of a tomb, isolated from the war around it. you really have to stand here and see the things people wanted to take with them on holiday, and horrifyingly, even now, smell the stench of decay to understand the urgency, relatives of those who died must feel to get inspectors to this site and get some kind of closure. in the hour we were there, no separatists inspectors or ukrainian soldiers at this site. just constant smoke that explains why th

. >> and it looks like we just lost nick payton walsh there.he sanctions that have been announced today. the question is how much of an impact will they have? so far they have failed to stop the fighting and the flow of heavy weapons into ukraine. as the sanctions have ramped up, so has russia's support of the rebels with weapons. including the missile system believed to have struck down mh-17. the new sanctions are aimed at hitting russia's economy where it will hurt the moers. military and finance. here's president obama a couple of hours ago. >> if russia couldn'ts on the current path, the cost on russia will continue to grow. and today is a reminder that the united states means what it says. >> joining me now, general jim jones who served as president obama's national security adviser. general, great to have you with us. so far sanctions on russia have not changed president putin's calculus. in fact, the opposite. he sent more weapons in. sanctions went up. talked to a couple of experts in the financial world today. they say these sanctions

nick payton walsh, thank you so much. that's it for "the lead." i'm brianna keilar and i turn you over now to wolf blitzer live from jerusalem in "the situation room". >>> happening now. "a situation room" special report. day of mourning remains of malaysia flight 17 victims as the u.s. learns about new information about troop move am in the area where the plane was shot down. >>> michael bloomberg tlies into tel aviv in a show of support as the u.s. bans flights into israel's airport. my interview with michael bloomberg coming up. >>> raging war, hamas unleashes new rocket attacks while diplomats work desperately to try to halt the fighting. are they on the verge of a cease-fire? i'm wolf blitzer in jerusalem. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following two major breaking news stories in the world's spotlight right now. the war between israel and hamas now in its 16th day and the growing diplomatic

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we have seen these flares going all night, in which weech heard a number of explosions, nick payton walshreport. investigators are unable to reach flight mh-17. because of the heavy fighting they couldn't get there. it could be the scene of a war crime. there are still human remains there. investigators have called for a cease-fire to allow investigators to do their work safely. that hasn't happened. investigators tried again to reach that crash site. they had to turn back. michael was part of the team that had to turn around today. he joins me tonight. >> for the second day in a row, you and the international team of monitors had to turn around. can you walk us through what happened? >> sure. today we got a fairly early start, it was the biggest contingent ever we attempted to take out there. not only 12 of my colleagues from the special monitoring team. but also 15 experts from the netherlands and australia. the road two thirds of the way was very good no delay, and then as we were nearing the territory the rebels control, we had to stop, held there for about 45 minutes and then we hear

nick payton walsh joins us with the latest nick, what's the situation on the ground?er: chris. somber scenes yet again. 74 more coffins taken away from the tarmac here. c-17 australian plane taking off in just the last half an hour or so but that sight seen by dutch and australian foreign ministers, both here to pay what they thought was going to be full respects to the last flights back with these bodies, but we understand the work is still ongoing and about 30 to 40 coffins will be shipped out of here tomorrow morning, perhaps just in one aircraft, but the words from the dutch and australian foreign ministers, both of great grief but also the australian foreign minister continuing, julie bishop, to tell me that they wanted the osce, the monitors at the scene of the crash site, to negotiate some sort of access with the separatists, and i spoke to the head of the dutch investigation. he told me they just want to get there, don't really care the conditions they get there under provided they can continue their work at the site but also the dutch foreign minister timmerm

nick payton walsh was there and joins us. just to give context. there's been two weeks. there's still a belief that there may be victims' remains on site and it's still unsecured, and what did you see when you got there? >> reporter: really, a very gacilly string. you've been there, chris, yourselfch the ukrainian cease-fire is 24 hours. the osce has a mission, some dutch and australians with them trying to get to it, but they have been on move for at least four hours, a very complex route and delicate situation and violence swirling around that crash site. road to the mh-17 crash site isn't easy. past shelling, eerie separatist checkpoints but where it leaves is heard still. in a beautiful field of sunflowers lies a horror still unresolved. it's been 13 days since mh-17 was blown out of the sky. the remains here a monument to cruelty, to how 292 souls, some shift in parts away on a separatist train, have yet to find complete rest. >> silence in the fields is that of a tomb, sorrow and loss have isolate it had from the war around it but you have to stand here and look at

let's get to nick payton walsh tracking the very latest from ukraine.now about the conditions at the crime scene and these reports of gunfire? >> reporter: well, we know that the -- we know that the special representative of the australian prime minister is trying to get near the crime scene. we don't know an awful lot about the conditions necessarily there right now. we know it's caught in a civil war. that could mean anything for those trying to get closer to it, but we do know where i'm standing here that most likely now the second of two cargo planes have taken off moving 74 coffins back to the netherlands. they hope that that process will again continue tomorrow, friday. that will most likely end the shipping of the remains brought by that refrigerated train from kharkhiv a couple days ago, that it will end that process, but then in the netherlands they have to start the really difficult task of working out precisely how many bodies were on that train and then whether there's anything left at the crash site for them to comb through that can bring s

first, nick walsh payton joins us from donetsk. how close were you able to get?ere i think within 10 to 15 miles of what is that large, sprawling crash site. it's a very similar picture. the town lies between donetsk here, the main city of a million today where a residential apartment block was hit by shelling and the crash site itself. it's really the reason why they keep having to turn back. it was hit for the last three days in a row. we were with them yesterday when they got close and had to turn around. shelling inside, as you saw there. we actually saw that shelling hit the town itself today. it seems to be still under the control of militants, but they're shaky, they're tired, poorly equipped, cut off perhaps in some ways and they don't know whether the ukrainian soldiers are, but they do feel encircled. that's why it's so hard to get to the site, because the front lines constantly change, anderson. >> u.s. officials said ukrainian military fired at short range missiles at rebels within the last 48 hours. have the ukrainian officials responded? >> they sai