ukrainian president petro poroshenko accuses russia of taking part in separatist action against the ukrainian army. ukraine says its forces broke through rebel lines surrounding luhansk airport ending a separatist blockade there. let's go to scott heidler in donetske. hi there scott. what more do we know about the ukrainian transport plane that was shot down? >> julie we just returned from luhansk and we were out in the area when this news was coming through about this transport plane being brought down. interesting things: we know the ukrainian army holds the airport just outside luhansk, where the airplane went down, and supply drops, what the central kyiv government says this plane was doing, eight people on board, had supplies, brought down very close to the russian border and something coming out of the government here. they are saying the ukrainian

to be a huge game changer for this conflict, the conflict going on at the moment between the ukrainian army and pro-russian separatists. already the finger of blame is starting to be pointed backwards and forwards. the ukrainian government is hinting that it is the rebels. the rebels themselves say not them. we have here from the self proclaimed donetsk people's republic, they say the plane was shot down by the ukrainian side. we simply do not have such air defense systems according to the rebels. our man pads -- this is a type of missile system -- have a firing range of 3,000 to 4,000 meters. that was from the special representative and security council member. so what they are saying is that it was most likely that the ukrainian army shot the plane down. the ukrainian army, ukrainian government saying it was the rebels. we don't know at the moment whether it was shot down at all, but it was clear the plane was flying over an area in which planes have been tumbling out of the sky in the last few days, and ukraine has been pointing the finger blamed squarely at russia for at least one of th

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. care's army is continuing its crackdown on anti-government forces in the rest of east with urban areas being systematically caught in this deadly fire and we're getting reports from the opposition held city of goal of care where the latest artillery attack on the city center has reportedly killed at least ten civilians some reports though suggest that the death toll could be higher here's what one local resident told us . we will go out of order there was a strike on the city most likely from a grad rocket systems there is a very popular supermarket in the city center when the shelf alone to it there were a lot of customers then another fell in a residential yard in another near the city's maternity home causing all the windows to blow out explosions could be heard all through the day starting from four in the morning they simply raising us to the ground. and in lug

international experts to scrap their plans to visit the site of a malaysian plane crash as the ukrainian army steps up its onslaught against anti government forces. also this week the russia's defense ministry releases such allied and rated data suggesting there was a second plane near the malaysian airliner possibly a ukrainian fighter jet the u.s. is urged to present evidence to back up its accusations against small. you tube video shortly that you could we just to washington maintains russia is aging militia fighters in eastern ukraine and it was involved in the downing of flight m.h. seventeen but refuses to specify the source off the infamy. and a new attempt at a truce between commerce and israel falls apart amid growing international pressure to end the bloodshed. live from moscow this is our teens of the week me with me to bang with say it's good to have your company with us. a young couple and their child have been killed during a ukrainian military operation in goal of the army says it has surrounded the eastern city which came under heavy shelling early on sunday warning to viewers

this week human rights watch lashed out at the ukrainian army for launching on guard a grad rockets into populated areas in the rest of east the group says the opposition controlled city of donetsk came under such missile attacks four times in mid july the group warns the grad rocket systems cannot precise attacks on their use in residential areas come classified as a war crime human rights watch is appeal to both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weaponry as more lives are at risk one of the authors of the report sees the ukrainian military should not get away with killing innocent people . 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 for civilians to be injured and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets and you were able to by looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were hit by th

the ukrainian military has launched a toxin local militia bases near the malaysian plane crash site the fighting is preventing international teams from reaching the scene the army is believed to be storming the ton of torres as you can see right next to the site all of the tragedy another despite ukrainian president petro poroshenko ordering a no combat zone forty kilometers around the area earlier this week now a team of a stream dutch police and experts as well as european security monitors are staying in the regional capital the net's been able to reach the site of the crush your local militia for an international police presence on the scene but so far teams have had to abandon their plans to be escalating violence in the area european security moncrief reported the situation on the ground appeared on safe and are hoping to get across side on monday journalist contraband castor mom used to visit the scene. we had left the inmates there and crashed right. there while we were very very many jets flying around overhead or we could hear explosions in the dirt and. we went forward local television our ukrainian military tanks going down the road and now we're ve

ukrainian military has launched attacks on local militia near the malaysian plane crash site the fighting is preventing international teams from reaching the scene the army is believed to be storming the ton of tory's as you can see right next to this side of the valleys the spikes ukrainian president petro poroshenko ordering a no combat zone forty kilometers around the area earlier this week now a team of a stream dutch police and experts as well as european security monitors are staying in the regional capital to nantes going to able to reach the side of the crush earlier local militia agreed for an international police presence off the scene but so far teams have yet to abandon their plans for the escalating violence in the area european security monitors reported the situation on the ground appeared on safe are hoping to get to the crash site on monday journalist punter one caster managed to visit the scene a little earlier. we had left the inmates there and crashed right. there while we were very very jet flying around overhead or we could hear explosions in the dirt and there's we went forward to the space or are you carrying in military tanks goi

at least fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixty injured when the ukrainian army shelled one of the hubs of resistance please be warned that some of the videos that we're about to show you a quite graphic mortar shells landed in residential areas of the city of lugansk several civilians at this bus stop were among the victims blocks of flats a kindergarten on a school day used as a shelter also hit in the attack is how one eyewitness describes the killing of the . problem with it all. unfold but you know you just heard an awful. look like you would read forever. if you don't perform for you the story you see on the over. the floor you'll see. the way you live the other level if you can hear the words you would get what you wish to look at as those cute girls. or human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with an unguided grad rockets in the don't yet region. the group says the grad system is just too inaccurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using th

also the russian defense ministry says it's been tracking signals from ukrainian army's radars and found that they were in use and didn't range of the plane at the time of the crash. welcome my name to the harvey and you're watching r.t. international. we will start with breaking news coming from malaysia airlines which says that its plane was flying at a lower height than the original route requested rescue teams are now combing through the wreckage of a boeing that went down in ukraine on tuesday they're searching for bodies along with clues to what could have caused the crash this is what the scene looks like all two hundred ninety eight passengers and crew on board were killed in the tragedy we should warn you that there are some graphic images coming up. so far around half of the bodies have been retrieved from the wide field of anti government forces who control that area have denied earlier claims that they had found the flight recorders but insist that when they do they will hand them over to international investigators and we managed to speak to one local woman who lives right n

live from moscow it's now four pm here in the russian capital it's good to have you with us the ukrainian army has reportedly launched strike on a town thirty kilometers from where the malaysian plane crashed. the correspondence the site says two fighter jets could be seen in the sky just before the attack a ceasefire had been declared in the area to aid the investigation into the mh seventeen tragedy is in the region. despite the announcement by ukrainian president the approaching call of a no combat zone forty kilometers around the crash site apparently that's been violated russian navasky agency reports that thirty kilometers from here and. airplanes have been noticed and they indeed conducted an air strike and we can now get here from an eyewitness that. all happened right outside. a military plane had dropped a bomb on a fee route some two hundred meters away from the city and it was just one bomb i didn't know what they wanted to do but the crater is huge it happened very close to the school where the malaysian boeing crashed that two hundred eighty two bodies that were recovered from th

forces international experts to scrap their plans to visit the site of a malaysian plane crash as ukrainian army sets up its us onslaught against anti government forces. also this week russia's defense ministry releases satellite aerated data suggesting there was a second plane near the malaysian airliner possibly a ukrainian military fighter jet while the u.s. is to present evidence to back up its accusations against moscow. a you tube video you should think we do. washington maintains a russia is aiding militia fighters in eastern ukraine and was involved in the downing of flight m.h. seventy but refuses to specify the sources of the information. as a new truce between commerce in israel paul supply and made growing international pressure to end the bloodshed. this is r.t. international well live from moscow are you with me it's good to have you with us. a young couple and their child have been killed during a ukrainian military operation in goal of the army says it has surrounded the eastern city which came under heavy shelling early on sunday a warning to viewers there are disturbing images

now major ukrainian army outposts the crash site is almost directly between the regional capitals of dawn yet scandal gallants so we're talking about this area right here kiev and anti-government forces have engaged in some of the fiercest fighting over their airports and. is about i was just a few kilometers away from the border with russia. that's been shelled by the ukrainian army numerous times this week in the neighboring town of noir an airstrike destroyed or. eventually building killing at least eleven. well so far there's no conclusive evidence when ukraine is claiming that anti-government forces shot down the plane kiev is basing its accusations on several bits of verified information shortly after the jet went down ukraine circulated what it called a leaked phone call which the opposition fighters allegedly admit to shooting down the plane a video released by kiev purports to show a book mobile surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine allegedly with one of its missiles missing and the plane crashed on territory controlled by the opposition claims that's enough to im

the ukrainian army has reportedly been launching attacks on towns and villages in the east which kiev a declared a no combat zone it's an area around forty kilometers wide around the site of the malaysian plane crash one resident told me that they're still being bombed. my friend's holiday home was shelled from rocket launches and that's what they found in their backyard hit their garage two cars down luckily no one was killed but then time village has been raised it's no farther than ten kilometers from here and the president promised us the forty kilometer no comfort zone i took the shell with me to show it to the international observers working on the side now my way here i start to find a chance and shortly after wards the sounds of the forms explode and my mum just called me and said they had been bombed. not. the bodies of the victims age seventeen finally meantime making their way towards creation this train here called the train of death has brought the remains now to the city of heart a call of from there be flown to the netherlands roman cossar of reports. that two hundred e

you can see and that includes two former hotspots we're talking about and kramatorsk now major ukrainian army outposts are located in the crash site itself almost directly between the regional capitals of the and yes and lugansk kiev and anti-government forces have engaged in some of the fiercest fighting over their airports in fact above all right here just kilometers away from the border with russia that's been shelled by the ukrainian army on numerous occasions and earlier this week in the neighboring town of. an air strike destroyed a residential building we're talking about this area on the map as you can see right. now so far there's no conclusive evidence that ukraine is claiming that anti government forces shot down the plane a kiev is basing its accusations on several bits of unverified information shortly after the jet went down ukraine circulated what it called a leaked phone call in which the opposition fighters allegedly admit to firing on the plane a video released by kiev purports to show a book mobile surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine allegedly missing one of it

and the russian defense ministry says it has been tracking signals from the ukrainian army's radars and found that they were in use and in range of the plane at the time of the crash. welcome thanks for joining us this hour my name's neil harvey and you're watching r.t. international. no new information has come to light in the tragedy involving a malaysian airliner that went down in ukraine killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board the carrier says that before the disaster the plane had dropped to a lower than planned altitude and was following a request from ukrainian flight controllers teams are still combing their way through the wreckage searching for bodies and for clues as to the causes of the crash we warn you that there are some graphic images coming up. so far around half of the bodies have been retrieved from the widely scattered debris there up to eight children among the dead monitors from the organization for european security and cooperation have arrived now on the scene and we managed to speak to a local woman living right next to the crash site is lucia littl

just showed us a very good evening she was coming over here in moscow tonight the top story the ukrainian army has reportedly been launching attacks on towns and villages in the east which kiev had declared. its narea around forty kilometers wide around the site of the malaysian plane crash one resident told r.t. it's still being bombed. my friends holiday home was shelled from rocket launchers and that's what they found in their backyard hit their garage two cars were burnt down luckily no one was killed but the entire village has been raised it's no farther than ten kilometers from here and the president promised us a forty kilometer no comfort zone i took the shell with me to show it to the international observers working on the side now my way here i saw to fight a chance and shortly after wards the sounds of bombs explode and my mom just called me and said they had been bombed. but the other development of the day the strain here you see it's being called the train of death but brought the remains of m.h. seventeen effectives to the city of article of from there will be flown to the nethe

welcome to international the ukrainian army has reportedly been launching attacks on towns and villages in the east which kids have declared a no combat zone it's an area around forty kilometers wide around the site of the malaysian plane crash one resident told r.t. they're still being bombed. that my friends holiday home was shelled from rocket launches and that's what they found in their backyard hit their garage two cars. luckily no one was killed but then time village has been raised its no farther than ten kilometers from here and the president promised us a forty kilometer no comfort zone i took the show with me to show it to the international observers working on the site now my way here i saw to find a chance and shockley off towards the sounds of bombs explode and my mom just called me and said they had been bombed. well ramana cos rafa is at the scene of the crash for ati. despite the announcement by ukrainian president got a promotion call the no combat zone forty kilometers around the crash site apparently that's been violated russian navas the agency reports that thirty ki

international teams to screw up their plans to travel to the malaysian plane crash site as the ukrainian army launches an offensive on a nearby town. also this week russia's defense ministry reveals its satellite and radar data suggesting there was a second plane near the malaysian airliner possibly craning military fighter the u.s. is being pressured to present its own evidence to back the accusations against moscow . a you tube video or something that you can point us to washington maintains that russia is a did a local militia in eastern ukraine and was involved in the crash but refuses to specify the source of its information. to a twenty four hour humanitarian cease fire after israel calls off its own truce resuming naval and ground attacks in retaliation to rockets fired from gaza. you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international. here is armies continuing its crackdown on anti-government forces in the restive east with urban areas being caught in its deadly fire and we are getting reports from the opposition held city of goal of the latest artillery attack on the city center has r

at least fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixty injured when the ukrainian army shelled one of the hubs of resistance please be warned the some of the videos were about to show you a quite graphic mortar shells landed in residential areas of the city of lugansk several civilians at this bus stop among the victims blocks of flats a kindergarten and a school being used as a shelter also hit in the attack is how one witness describes the cause. for all that all. involved audio did you just heard an awful. look like you would read further. were you to perform for you the story you see on the other. the floor your brother or the other where you live the other the able if you can hear what you were given what you heard was a little bit of those cues. a human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with unguided grad rockets and they don't yet region. the group say the grad system is just too and accurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weap

so in four of these attacks in the nets which killed sixteen civilians we believe that the ukrainian army was responsible for those attacks we are calling 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 granite weapons or the use of at least the use of grad weapons in populated areas. that our evidence is quite clear and the ukrainian government should investigate and should immediately stop the use of these weapons in populated areas. on saturday more than forty ukrainian soldiers are fled to russia after refusing to fight for their government an official in southern ukraine says that two border guards did the same thing and also asked for russian citizenship the soldiers say they do not want to kill their own people and th

this week human rights watch lashed out at the ukrainian army for launching on guided grab rockets into populated areas in the rest of east the group say the opposition controlled city of donetsk came under such missile attacks four times in mid july the group warns the grad rocket systems cannot cardioid precise attacks on their use in residential areas and between the fight as a war crime human rights watch as appeal to both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weaponry as more lives are at risk one of the authors of the report says the ukrainian military should not get away with killing innocent people . 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 for civilians to be injured and killed and that's what we saw in the pitofsky district that civilians were being killed by these kinds of rockets we were able to by looking at the creators looking at the direction from where the rockets were coming from looking at the. walls that were

we're human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with unguided to grad rockets and they don't yet region. the group says the ground system is just too and accurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling on both sides of the conflict to stop using this kind of weapon if they want to avoid civilian casualties 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 he uses these kinds of weapons in populated areas it's a really high risk procedure libyans to be 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 the building it's coming from the west b

ukrainian army. observers in kiev do not believe the situation will change in the coming weeks, probably in august, but not before that. ukrainian government is pressing on the european union and asking it to impose economic sanctions against russia during the e.u. summit in brussels later this week, so this is going to be an issue in the coming days in kiev. >> still a long raod ahead -- -- a long road ahead for both sides. >> news from another troubled region. the german foreign minister has urged israel and palestinian forces to avoid an escalation of violence in that region. the minister made the comments in jordan while on his visit to the middle east. >> meanwhile, the israeli army has continued its bombing of hamas positions in the gaza strip for a seventh consecutive day. reports indicate the armed wing of hamas used a drone in an attempted attack on israel. however, the drone was shot down by the israeli military. as israel continues its offensive, the death toll in gaza is rising. at least 1

at least fifteen civilians were killed and up to sixty injured when the ukrainian army shelled one of the hubs of resistance please be warned that some of the video coming up we're about to show you now it's quite graphic here mortar shells landed in residential areas in the city of look at several civilians at this bus stop were among the victims blocks of flats a kindergarten and a school being used as a shelter were also hit in the attack here's how one eyewitness described the carnage. for all the. ball very of getting a third of all you. look like that would you favor. would you talk more or you could probably do is there ever. was probably just before your ready for the other where you live the other level and you can hear that what you want to get where you are it was a little bit of those. human rights watch says the ukrainian army may have committed a war crime when it killed sixteen civilians with long guarded and guided rather grad rockets in the donetsk region the group says the grad system is just too an accurate to be used on populated areas human rights watch is calling

the tanks which are there a pretty much and they are with the ukrainian army they are pretty much on the key was control and they are being executing the orders we should be given by the ukrainian defense ministers officials you know and the officers if it means that large portion of responsibility. rests with key thought it is you know if the if the extremists and you know knew enough he is operating in some cases outside gives control is just another. factor which necessitates. their disarming disbanding and bringing to justice the the the members of those of those formations the army of the the those who will those who will fight the civilians who kill civilians so then you know that the next question from the west would be who is responsible to call who would be the authority responsible to disarm the self-defense squads in a strange way well they're still defense forces in the in the ukraine definitely. because all eyes are looking at russia you know right up to the well russia is not a is not will first of all the president. has said more than once that we do not have control ov

grew up over here is just kilometers away from the border with russia has been shelled by the ukrainian army on numerous occasions and earlier this week in the neighboring town of that's right here that's where an airstrike was deployed and it destroyed an entire residential building. also far there's been no conclusive evidence though ukraine is claiming that anti-government forces shot down the plane kiev is basing his accusations on several bits of unverified information shortly after the jet went down ukraine circulated what it called a leaked phone call in which the opposition fighters allegedly admitted to firing on the plane a video released by kiev purports to show a book mobile surface to air missile system in eastern ukraine allegedly missing one of its rockets another plane crashed on territory controlled by the opposition and kiev claims that simply enough to implicate them despite the fact that the ukrainian armed forces also have a very heavy presence that. now other lives have been lost this week in eastern ukraine that were not involved in the plane crash still to come on r.t

news that broke about an hour ago to start with that a russian border checkpoints been hit by ukrainian army mortar rounds probably several shells hit the same checkpoint where russian border guard was injured in a similar incident just two weeks ago local authorities say that this latest attack hasn't caused any casualties but has damaged several key infrastructure facilities one of those shells landed in front of a bus station but thankfully no vehicles there at the time. that was that. we'd just look at it do you see what's happening this is russian territory these are shells hitting russian territory and they're coming in from ukraine. all this you see here was a t.v. crew filming in russia's restore for region near the border with ukraine where those shells came down the journalists is said they saw and heard at least nine explosions as they tried to flee to safety across live to our correspondent in ukraine she is very close that era for not within the next ten minutes she's witnessed similar shelling she's going to share her experiences with us so i hope you can stay with r.t. for tha

issued a statement knowing that one russian national died and two were seriously injured when a ukrainian army shell hit a residential house ukraine has rejected this claim in the same statement the ministry also warned that tensions in the area of the russian ukrainian border have dangerously escalated and may have irreversible consequences for which ukraine will help be held responsible according to ukrainian authorities the country's border guard units have reportedly come under continuous attack with rockets and mortars by armed groups. there are also reports that several ukrainian military aircraft have been shot down over the past weeks most recently on sixteen july as the secretary general has reiterated on countless occasions armed groups need to disarm immediately and stop in gauging and unlawful and violent acts at the same time we continue to urge strongly the ukrainian authorities to act with maximum restraint and to make every effort possible to ensure the protection of civilians caught in the fighting estimations of the total number of civilian casualties vary but according to th

way the ukrainian. army. is still. at them you shoes which have nothing to do pretty much with the human rights situation in ukraine so we have our problems we continue to have problems with their reports but i think. hopefully. we will also be more instrumental. in this situation. would be the parties. to assist i think it's very important political role which was he used to play or maybe you have one of those little directives because tense in belgrade fresh and foreign ministry is sad commissioner for human rights thank you very much for this insight because he has put a report together called white cloak examining all of the human rights abuses that took place in ukraine for the past months we're talking about face human rights violations and what should be done with it that's it for this edition of sophie and co and we'll see you next time. we never saw that coming. we had no idea our children. i would actually just at night pray to god you know me normal. they said you're a homo you're a homo and from that day in

there's been pro russian separatist, rebels and ukrainian army. it seems the ukrainian army moved out or some forces moved out from the airports which they control towards this area. certainly exchanges of artillery fire. at one point sounded like multiple rocket launchers. the separatist rebels have rushed in reinforcements. we have seen bus loads of fighters going on, tanks moving in this area and armored personnel carriers. it seems what the army lanched is a pretty serious operation. what we don't know is what the goal is at this moment. >> sure. is the suggestion that if the fighting is taking off again and getting worse that that could make it difficult for investigators to get near the site of the plane downed a few days ago? >> in some specks, yes. donetsk is a kind of natural base for international teams to come, be and move out to crash sites. hotels are regularly used. foreign journalists and others come into this town and move out from here. having said that, donetsk is a good hour and a half, two hours from the crash site. it depends

just a few dozen kilometers away from the crash ordinary ukrainians continue to die as the army closes in on the city of lugansk. welcome and thanks for joining us this hour my name is neil harvey you're watching r.t. international. investigators are combing through the wreckage of the malaysian airliner that crashed in east ukraine on thursday killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board alongside the debris of the plane lying there in mainz of passengers and their belongings the white ribbons you can see here mark the locations where bodies have been found but many who were on board remain unaccounted for. accompanied by representatives of the self-proclaimed nyet people's republic a team of international observers from the organization for security and cooperation in europe have now arrived at my side they took pictures of the gruesome scene on friday. team. of multi investigating the calls for you also to speculate on it but what you're here for is to see what measures are closely to be made to the security. measures and what measures have been taken to do we've seen a huma

by the government but bartman now they've withdrawn toward the regional capital of dianetics ukrainian army has entered the towns after almost two months of deadly shelling the william doors from the international action center says the horrors of war are far from over for the citizens in east ukraine. it's no great act of heroism to show a civilian community and then raise your flag over it is no great accomplishment for the first time in seventy years artillery and aerial bombardment is falling on the cities of eastern ukraine and villages this is a all out war by the poroshenko government on its own people and it's being funded

bearing the brunt of off the assaults by the ukrainian army their city has been heavily hit its infrastructure damaged people are saying they're left without water electricity gas is also something they're finding a shortage off of course there there are instances of people being hit in the middle of the day by artillery and mortar shells at one instance eight people have died several tenuously one in a cross walk always the observers have said that two hundred fifty people have been killed since the beginning of june in lugansk alone previously the numbers given for civilian casualties for these hydration and conflict for both regions and so now we can assume that that number is probably a lot higher than those people have to see their living here. he says of a peaceful life. should look like you to. know. the fighting continues in a dime's it can be heard on the border between russia and ukraine with residents complaining about shells flying into their backyards essentially and despite the fact that petro poroshenko has assured that civilians are not going to be the. targets of the ukrainian

and as the world reels from the tragic plane crash reports of up to twenty civilians killed by ukrainian army shelling in the city of lugansk largely unnoticed. you're watching from in the world welcome to moscow onto r.t. international i mean o'neill. our top story malaysia airlines say stuff before the disaster the plane had dropped to a lower than planned altitude following a request from ukrainian flight controllers teams are still combing through the wreckage searching for bodies and clues to the causes of thursday's crash we should warn you there are some graphic images coming up. so far around half of the bodies have been retrieved from the widely scattered debris through up to eighty children among the dead the monitors from the organization for european security and cooperation have arrived on the scene we managed to speak to a local woman living right next to the crash site he's lucia a little i heard terrible noise i went out first and then my husband well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out at first my husband thought it was me i was in shock i couldn't go further t

international experts to scrap their plans to visit the site of a malaysian plane crash as the ukrainian army steps up its onslaught against anti government forces. also those league russia's defense ministry released the satellite and a radar data suggesting there was a second plane near the malaysian airline that possibly a ukrainian fighter jet of the u.s. is there to present evidence to back up its accusations against moscow. a you tube video you should think that you simply goes to washington maintains russia is aiding militia fighters in eastern ukraine and was involved in the downing of flight m.h. seventeen but refuses to specify the sources of the information. and a new attempt at a truce between hamas and israel falls apart amid growing international pressure to end the bloodshed and. you're watching archies of the weekly with me tom what they want from moscow this evening thank you for being with us. a young couple and their child have been killed during a ukrainian military operation in goal of the army says it has surrounded the eastern city which came under heavy shelling earlie

those who suffer most from war of those who take least parts of it with the ukrainian army on the offensive will the civilian plight in eastern ukraine get worse. who can stop it. and who should be held accountable. for russian foreign ministry commissioner for human rights is great to have you on our show today now we're going to start from the latest news the killing so the russian journalists it's a horrible tragedy obviously. but there's a full fledged war going on in ukraine is it really possible to find who's to blame and who's responsible for the killings.

no but the ukrainian army could be behind them and here's why it would be inconceivable to me that the insurgents the resistance people in the dawn bass who are the only other people who could do this would actually attack russian territory i think that would be so reckless and irresponsible on their part that i can't imagine they would do if there is fighting going on on the ukrainian border of ukraine to be trying to control of these border posts and i think some of that fighting is spilling over into russia. the point i would make it's virt of course on the second of july the ukraine committed itself to a cease fire an unconditional cease fire and agreed to work and russia in return agreed to allow monitors ukrainian monitors on its side of the border the problem is the ukrainians have not taken up these offices and have not carried out the cease fire even though the germans and french and the ukrainians themselves have here to accept the russian all of this so that is why we have seen this escalation because they have pursued a military reconquest of the border areas rather than se

we believe the ukrainian army gained some ground around the crash site, about up still not clear whools it. >> with regard to this recent upsurge in violence again, it seems to be getting, if anything, considerably worse. >> yes. i mean, not unexpected if you like, because for a long time now, ever since the ukrainian army took another city to the north of donetsk, not far from kharkiv here, when they took that city, everyone thinking that the next target would be donetsk and they have over the last 24, 48 hours gained significant areas around the city. so, for example, a town to the north of donetsk, that is very close to donetsk airport, very close to the main railway station, main road there, so once again, the ukrainian army seems to be tightening the grip of the supply lines what it believes the supply lines are inside donetsk. but the rubbebels control that city. though we have seen gains in last couple of days, taking the city of donetsk will be a much harder process and they'll probably be a much greater human cost for any civilians left in the city when or if that comes. >>

clearly shows books missile systems in the territory controlled by the ukrainian army they have an image from july fourteenth they claim the shows the book and one missile system deployed close to done yet that they had then claim to have another image which is on the day of the malaysian air disaster again they claim that that book and one missile system is then been moved to the close vicinity of where the disaster took place another. very significant claim and this is information that has not appeared previously now this is that air traffic control centers in rostov say that they noted close to the time of the crash an unidentified aircraft in airspace close to the malaysian airliner and eight seventeen hours the plane was approaching russian . traffic control they say that this bore the hallmarks of a military jet and that air traffic control tried to contact this air and identified aircraft without success. and that ukraine of course have denied any presence of any of their jets in that area at that time so there's an awful lot for us to get through as we analyze this information an

stop artillery fire and shelling against its territory but it continues in any case meanwhile ukrainian army is using all the means available and necessary to fight against that restive regions here in eastern ukraine you and i already said that's at least two hundred thousand people have been displaced as the result of that half of them have fled to a nearby russian nearly five hundred people have been killed by the ukrainian military since this punitive operation that so-called and its era separation began against the rest of regions here in eastern ukraine. eastern ukraine homes a blaze cars riddled with bullets this is what the locals here i've been waking up to the day after day for the past several weeks and the human cost of the sustained government assault has been steadily rising but you need us children to join me in a new way to. you know maybe change your book but you know you know you see it with the many hundreds killed since the ukrainian army's operation began half a million have already packed up their belongings and fled across the border to russia but for those who stayed