and in fact, many waysl/@ strengthens putten's hands with his own people.remember, his favorable rating is all the way up to 83 percent. the russian propaganda convinced the russian people they are in the right and if this administration puts more sanctions on it, it makes putin to be more rightous, governor. >> what could we learn if we got our hands on the equipment. would we know for sure russia was behind the attack or intentional or accidental. >> the smoking gun is the 22 missing rockets. rails are scorched and they were both the shot probably in the airliner. and when a rocket goes off near an airliner and explodes, and blows away the rocket motor, that 14 or 15 foot tube and it falls to the ground near the crash site and that tube has russian finger prints and data plates and serial numbers that tell you which arsenal or which ammunition dump it came from and from the paper work whether or not that missile belonged to the ukrainians and russians. governor, it belonged to the russians. >> you say that because of the complexity of the launcher itself

law makers want putten held accountable. >> the fact it is it not safe. and russia is not providing access. we look at the weapon that was used and the war zone open in europe is opened by the direction of vladimar putin. and this responsibility lays firms on him. >> the issue is where is putin? i would say putin, you have to man up. you should talk to the world and say if this was a mistake which i hope it was. say it. even if it was a mistake it is a horrendous mistake to make. >> reporter: we have learned that the malaysian government reached an agreement with the separatist to have access to the black boxes and to have the bodies removed, the train is now i understand on its way to another area, safe area where they can begin the process of returning them back tho to their families. >> and this is prompting law makers to schedule a vote to the nominee to the aviation board. he is expected to be affirmed as a international civilian aviation that probes major air crashes like the flight 17. we expect that to happen tonight. jon? >>> just a short time ag

but rush an president putten is playing the games. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm. amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. >> a new congressional report suggest that a $6 million program to protect our nation's chemical plant is a complete failure. the republican audit of the chemical security program uncovered inspection delays and miscommunication. oklahoma senator tom coburn is expected to release reform legislation today. the report names more than 4,000 high risk facilities. half of them in ten states. dallas, and texas and new york and north carolina and michigan and new jersey. >> the deadly fighting continues. and that is near the rebel strong hold of donetsk. and ukraine accuses rebels of laying land mines there and taking up firing positions on the road leading to the site. meanwhile, president obama slaps new sanctions on moscow for allegedly arming the rebels and insisting that it is n

>> reporter: you have a push from president obama and president putten for an immediate ceasefire, but here, people forefor the worst. this is a city of million people dead quiet and a lot of people fleeing if they can to relatives to russia. they foremore violence and they are leaving this area, julie. >> steve, thank you very much. let's look closer in the buk missile launcher that intelligence sources believe was used flight on malaysia flight 17. it has a range of 28 miles and each launcher can track multiple targets. and it was designed to fight cruise mussils and smart bombs and unmanned aerial vehicles and now to the u.s. investigation in to the crash. intelligence sources said intercepted phone calls said a russian commander oversaw the missile that led to the deaths. this is from a rebel controlled town. jennifer griffin has the story. what do we know about the russian colonel who is letting the uprising. snishgs igor strawcaust is known and this colonel who is leading the movement over saw the strike. they don't believe he anyhow they were targeting a jet. one of his lieutena

putten must takes care of my son and my daughter. >> as the u.s. dials up the pressure on russia. >> putin, you have to man up. >> are we headed to a new cold war? >>> then, gaza's deadliest day. >> if you look at our response, it's very measured and trying to be pin pointed as we can. >> it's a pinpoint operation. >> secretary of state john kerry's moment before he heads to broker a cease fire. >>> caught on camera, an unarmed father dies after a disagreement with cops. >>> live in the cnn "newsroom." >>> good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin with malaysia airlines flight 17. the international anger grows against the rebels in eastern ukraine who control the crash site and the russian government which by all accounts controls the rebels. >>translator: it is absolutely necessary that a team of experts under supervision of icao, the competent international commission would be conducting work on the the site. we must do everything to ensure their work has full and absolute security, ensure necessary humanitarian

but one economist said that sanctions can also help putten. >> sanctions has actually provided him withvenient excuse. he can blame western action, western sanctions for the slowdown of the russian economy. >> reporter: mary snow, al jazeera. >> if the world concludes that the russian-backed separatists in ukraine brought down that malaysian plane vladimir putin risks harsh new sanctions by the west united to a degree that has not been seen since the cold war. that's the view of the correspondent steve lavine who joins me from washington. thank you for joining us. this is a tough one because the west has got to decide if this ratchets things up if they're going to do something economically or something even beyond that. what is your--what is the likely outcome? >> i think you need to look at this from two sides. one is that the unmovable part, the part that the west cannot control is how putin responds to the situation. what it can control is what it does. the obama administration even before the malaysian airlines crash did impose very, very harsh sanctions. i think it's been under rep

putten must takes care of my son and my daughter. >> as the u.s.ls up the pressure on russia. >> putin, you have to man up. >> are we headed to a new cold war? >>> then, gaza's deadliest day. >> if you look at our response, it's very measured and trying to be pin pointed as we can. >> it's a pinpoint operation. >> secretary of state john kerry's moment before he heads to broker a cease fire. >>> caught on camera, an unarmed father dies after a disagreement with cops. >>> live in the cnn "

. >> let me bring back jim sciutto because we're hearing now from vladimir putten, the russian presidente's saying, what it might mean. give us a sense of -- this is a real international crisis right now. >> it is. it's interesting because vladimir putin blamed ukraine for the crash of this malaysian jetliner. but when you look at his words, he's not actually claiming that ukrainians shot it down but saying that since this plane went down over ukrainian territory that ukraine is responsible for the lack of safety and security there and he goes on to say that's because -- this is a frequent point we've heard from russia, is that it is ukraine provocation that has led to this conflict in eastern ukraine, the fight between the ukrainian military and the pro-russian separatists. that's a different interpretation of events on the ground than what you hear from ukrainians or u.s. officials. they blame and say russian instigated this by arming. pro-russian separatists, inciting them to silence and by sending russians across the border to fight with the separatists and having coordination with i

finally what i was struck by, putten in the western hemisphere. russia going to visit cuba?als with christina concernner, something that 20 years ago was of course, inconceivable. i think he feels so emboldened he can come into our backyard and do this and thumb his nose at us. >> that's one of the interesting parts of this that he now feels confident enough in his own area that he's going out and trying to develop these ties. and of course he took advantage of the opportunity to have a talk with chancellor merkel, and our relations with the germans, as you know, particularly with the chancellor, have not been very good. so putin is now feeling a much stronger position. on the other hand he still has a lot of issues in ukraine. >> sure. >> and he doesn't want to push further in ukraine, in part because he probably doesn't feel he has to. and in part because he doesn't want tougher sanctions. because their own economy, the russian economy, is in poor shape. but he is very pro-active. and we shouldn't forget the fact that they've put military planes into iraq. america pulled o