ukrainian military jets shot down on wednesday may have been fired at from russia, so says a ukrainian un security council statement, a claim denied by moscow. russia's defense minister toused kiev of trying mislead the public and distracting attention away from the malaysian airlines flight 17 disaster. residents in eastern ukraine are caught up in the conflict and many have decided to flee from donetsk. >> the collateral damage of ukraine's civil strife. next to a children's play area in the residential district, this rocket strike left at least one dead. locals know who they hold responsible. to -- it is not just who. ukrainian forces. >> the missile could have hit anywhere. alexander was in the adjacent room when the rocket struck his flat. with his living room in ruins, he knows he's lucky. safe.one is when the shelling stopped i collected all of my stuff and i went out. i was walking on the street and i saw 2 dead bodies on the ground. if i had the opportunity to leave, of course i would go somewhere else and wait until all of this and. -- wait until all of this ends. >> alexander's

there was a press briefing given earlier in new york by the ukrainian ambassador to the un, in which -- you know, he said that russia was providing similar sorts of -- of high-tech weaponry, but couldn't give that sort of smoking gun. couldn't actually provide the real evidence that such -- such things were happening. but as i was saying earlier, i have been down to the border, and it is a porous border, i have seen there is a supply of at least humanitarian material going across the border. i was in a warehouse just a few days ago filled with medicines, filled with packages of pasta, clothes, and clams, and things like that. some of that was going to the refugees who have come across the border to ukraine to russia, and are now in camps or staying are friends and family. but some of it was going across to ukraine through smuggling routes. the woman i spoke to who told me how that happened was that they would take things to the border under their own steam and then they would lease with the fighters on the other side of the border, and it was the fighters that would make sure they we

the time was russia is the closest save haven for many ukrainian refugees the un says a hundred thousand have crossed the border into russia this figure the country's federal migration says could be full times higher but crossing the border could be dangerous fighting for numerous checkpoints as fears and there are reports of civilians being caught in the crossfire or even targeted themselves here a car drives up to a border post that is forced to turn around the heavy fire. the family we spoke to had to change their plans after seeing just how hard it was even to get close to the checkpoint they decided to try their luck at another crossing but asked us not to join them worried it will attract unnecessary attention. would continue the journey alone it used to be recruit and checkpoint but as you can see now it's abandoned there is absolutely nobody here because crawls freely as you can see the ukrainian border guards left the russian side of the checkpoint seventy or northern at the ukrainian russian border people here crossed day and night to consider many of them running from. bolland

the time was russia is the closest safe haven for many ukrainians refugees the un says a hundred thousand have crossed the border into russia a figure the country's federal migration says could be full of times higher costs in the border could be dangerous fighting for numerous checkpoints as fears and there are reports of civilians being cool to in the crossfire a leaving targeted themselves here a car drives up to the border post it is forced to turn around on a heavy fire. the family we spoke to had to change their plans after seeing just how hard it was even to get close to the checkpoint they decided to try their luck at another crossing asked us not to join them worried will attract unnecessary attention. to continue the journey alone it used to be recruiting and checkpoint but as you can see now it's abandoned there is absolutely nobody here because crawls freely as you can see the ukrainian border guards left the russian side of the checkpoint seventy or northern at the ukrainian russian border people here crossed day and night as you can see there are many of them running from. v

that the un says two hundred fifty thousand ukrainians have left their homes in eastern ukraine since the fighting began to say department had dallied the sources of the un's previous reports on ukrainian refugees and many russians from ukraine have family in russia some may be staying with them but neither ukrainian border guards or nor international organizations operating in the area have reported any large outflows of refugees to russia but now we do colleges possibly for the first time that there is a humanitarian crisis inside ukraine i can't confirm those numbers and quite frankly haven't seen that from u.n. reports so i'm happy to fact check that for you and see if we can confirm what we think the numbers are we know there's a humanitarian crisis here at the same department believes ukrainian military posts came under fire from the russian territory the spokesperson did not go into detail of where such information comes from you are envisaged that artillery russian territory. military is going into a not european military outpost but you are convinced you see no indication she

cross the russian ukrainian border. now the un says that at least one thousand one hundred twenty nine people have been killed in the ongoing violence in ukraine since mid august and one of the latest targets for care is artillery the city of goal of the pictures coming from that illustrate perhaps more than anything the real victims of a war like this one the following images i must warn you are extremely graphic. gruesome or. still. to do there's no literal do. the couple and their child are among at least thirteen people who were killed in all of could during sunday's bombardment maternity home in the church were damaged in the attack is of strategic importance for kids army which claims that it has encircled the city here's a local residents account of what's been happening. what 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 shell fell onto it there were a lot of customers there another fell in a residential yard and another near the city's mater

ukrainian colleagues. see. please that the the un security council has taken the responsibility. for the response to the may seventeenth crash. the un security council passed a resolution calling for a transparent illin dependent investigation. our position the one that we voiced there was voiced by president putin in telephone calls with the president and prime ministers of a stretch. of malaysia. that such investigation should be launched as soon as possible. the u.n. . a lot of similar apartments. are trying to. list to engage in. talks. contacts with ukraine instead of. investigation and of course ukraine can do it. if we take into account the situation in the crash sides if we take the shelling that continues by the ukrainian armed forces or by the national guard. we believe that. such a. commission. must be formed . based on the decisions taken by the un security council and of course issues we were backed by support. so we believe that common sense will prevail. and of course we will all be guided by the desire to uncover the truth to conduct an unbiased investigation with

. >> reporter: it was the ukrainian ambassador to the un who placed blame for the attack squarely on russia. >> this tragedy would not have been possible if russia did not support the terrorists and did not provide sophisticated anti aircraft missile system were not supplied to terrorists from russia. >> reporter: russia's ambassador obviously disagrees saying the reports are nothing more than unconfirmed accusations. much political posturing in this ugly international incident highly likely to further draw the u.s. and russia into another tense on-going dispute. iain? >> jeff, thank you. >>> malaysian airlines plane is believed to be the third aircraft down in the area since monday when a cargo plane was blown out of the sky. and tonight, ukraine security service says it has a recording in which separatists claim responsibility for the attack. the two rebels discussed finding civilian bodies and realizing they shot down a passenger aircraft. now the focus turns to the investigation and the plane's black boxes including who has control of them. >> to your knowledge, who has the black

you have word that russia essentially in the words of ukrainian officials giving a un to a child.hat metaphor. russian giving military aid to the rebels. the pro russian insurgents in ukraine. so what about this aspect of this intensifying ukraine-russia spat. >> well, it is incredibly worrying. this long from now it is completely ridiculous that there is not an investigation under way and the site hasn't een secured yet. the other side is that the west and america in particular do ot have options. they do not want to get into a military conflict with russia. >> but over the weekend it seems president putin is doubling down so to speak. in fact increasing support rather than taking it away. >> yes. he is playing a gamble. he thinks he can get away with it. at this time he has been proved right. but i don't think it is a good dea to back him into a corner. they need to talk about getting putin to take control of the rebels. he does not always control the rebels. once they are armed he is not order them as to what they do nd don't do. >> germany could be playing a entral role. mushi

for shifting blame in the ukrainian crisis after moscow faced mounting accusations on an emergency meeting of the un security council over the tragic plane crash that is the spite russia denying any involvement or teach marina port ny it's been following the session in new york for us. it was a tough session russian envoy to the u.n. to tell you did urge council members from prejudging the outcome of an international investigation into the plane crash by using broad statements and insinuations that hold russia accountable because that's precisely what most western countries or the security council did and bester churkin said there are many unanswered questions such as why did the ukrainian aviation dispatcher send a plane or allow a plane to enter an insecure or dangerous territory and besser churkin says the ukrainian government has not been showing military restraint as western countries have insisted he said in contrary caves aggressive attacks and indiscriminate shelling of areas in eastern ukraine has led to more violence and clashes and this is why moscow insists that responsibility for the tr

their lives and for most russia the closest safe haven the un says over one hundred ten thousand people have already crossed the russian ukrainian border what awaits them. when will there be peace in ukraine and will the country ever be whole again. thank you so much for being with us today actually really touched at your courage to share your story with us so let's start from the very beginning when did you decide to leave ukraine. that was a decision my wife and i took together. after the massacre in a death on may second. when people were burned alive in the trade union building we realized it was time to leave after their deaths events the situation kept getting worse and worse for them all. so when we learned that the ukrainian army was moving towards the border and closer to. where fighting is going on at the moment. we decided to take our children away from this nightmare. that was in late may and then and went to live in ukraine in the town after bonaparte designs. it's a coal mining town right yes everyone works in the mines but you still have friends that are working in the mines right are the mines open are there stil

they're afraid to enter the crash site because the ukrainian forces are actively waging military operations in the area despite the demands issued by the un security council and civilians continue to. skin the suburbs of the scans in other parts of eastern ukraine and of course near the crash site and this old contradicts said the decision by france president build up of sankoh to create a forty kilometer no combat zone around the crash of flight m h s seventeen now or in terms of civilian deaths city all fog or left which is a very close to the nats well they claim around thirty one people have died in the last couple of days alone eight of those people were children and people are being evacuated from that city right now and one of those buses that was evacuating their residence was in a town of shots are sick about fifteen seventeen kilometers away from the sites off the crash now another child had died there and that's well for people were wounded and always see the mission and the international team often experts have not been able to get to the crash site for the third day in a row already and once again this all contradicts the dec

we in our allies remain committed to a diplomatic solution as are une cranian government and ukrainian people who have seen their neighbors, friends and family members killed in a needless conflict. the president consistently backed up his words with actions. he proposed comprehensive peace plan and declared unilateral cease-fire, both of which were rejected by armed groups and backers in moscow. offered amnesty to separatists who laid down arms voluntarily and not guilty of capital crimes. he committed to providing safe corridor for russian fighters to return to russia. he established a john creation program for the effected areas, including an offer of broad decentralization and dialogue with eastern regions including promise of early local elections. and granted increased local control over language, holidays and customs. president poroshenko also reached out to the residents of eastern ukraine and pursuing constitutional reform which will give local regions more authority to choose their regional leaders and protect locally spoken languages. he has said will he meet with separatist

ukrainian security service and another news. possibility that international humanitarian and humanitarian law has been violated un condemns the israeli offensive in gaza saying it could amount to war crimes as it emerges one palestinian child's been killed every hour during the two days of the ground operation so far. below in a very good evening schieffer just joined us money kevin i would be watching the international first the first bodies recovered from the crash site of flight m.h. seventeen arrived in the netherlands they were brought on to transport planes from the crane in city of how to call for scott spoke to. the scene of the tragedy but first heard from peter all over as the victims were brought to mind over. well two transport planes arrived here it eindhoven air force base one from the dutch air force one from the australian air force they're operating in unison and what they're calling a air bridge mission where they have to make sure that enough to put them into and investigators get into ukraine and to make sure that all of the bodies of those who died on malaysian airlines flight seventy four here to the netherlands

a today's un security council voted unanimously for all international access to the crash site. that photo included russia and today vladimir putin said it was ukrainian linked mercenaries who shot down flight 17. >> as refrigerated trains carry away the remains of many investigatorstch have finally been allowed on site. they say only after losing crucial time and evidence needed for their primary goal. president obama made clear who he believes has the real leverage. >> the burden is on russia to insist that separatists stop tampering with the evidence and grant investigators immediate, full, and unimpeded access to the crash site. >> malaysia's prime minister announced that his government has been promised the boxes. investigators say any missile parts that would provide key clues, not the flight the the boxes. cnn, a democrat blasted the herbals handling the bodies. >> just pile these bodies on railcars. that is intolerable. i don't know why. it seems to be americans are the only one speaking out about how outrageous this is. >> he has been a frequent critic of the russian government created -- government. he is now persona non grata, banned from v

slowing it down and the president is also pointing at the un going situation in the area very close to the city. as the president says that ukrainian troops attacked self defense near the now it's almost at the same time as government forces were handing over the black boxes from the crash to international experts and investigators working at the scene. well as the invested investigation into the crash gets underway russia's defense ministry has provided evidence that may have had a hand in the tragedy it's made public its own radar data from the area and it shows a second aircraft in close proximity to the malaysian plane air traffic control failed to identify it which according to defense officials suggest it was a military jet. you know if she was so five twenty one pm and thirty five seconds another mark of an aircraft appeared at the point of the boeing crash. steadily monitored by radar station didn't ask and detour in sky during the next four minutes having spotted the jets in air traffic controller failed to identify it as the aircraft most probably didn't ourself identification system which is characteristic of military ai

picture of how the ukrainian crisis is unfolding with the latest images minute by minute updates by logging onto r.t. dot com. the head of the palestinian ministration has appealed now to the un asking for international protection for people in gaza more than fifty palestinians died from yet more israeli bombardment saturday night they only a week into the offensive the total number of dead has risen above one hundred sixty more than half of them are civilians including dozens of children this is what was left after one of the deadliest israeli airstrikes which destroyed the home of a local police chief eighteen members of the same family died there the un security council's call for a ceasefire but as yet israel said no international pressure will stop it from pursuing its offensive despite its claims its only aiming at militant targets though more and more civilians are being caught up in the violence. before. israeli missiles have struck over a thousand sites in gaza this week a mosque a home for people with disabilities even a beach calif they filled with football fans will among those hit harry fear sent this report from gaza for. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we me

slowing it down and the president is also pointing at the un going situation in the area very close to the city. as the president says that ukrainian troops attacked self defense units near the announcer only at the same time as government forces were handing over black boxes from the crash to international experts and invest to be serious working at the scene. that was our to correspondent you know question of. the investigation into the deadly malaysia airlines flight seventeen ramped up today in eastern ukraine the black boxes are now in the hands of dutch representatives after and to kiev rebels handed them over to malaysian officials late last night the remains of two hundred passengers have been loaded onto a train have arrived in a government controlled kharkiv the bodies will next be taken to the netherlands to be identified artie's remand cos i have is on the ground in eastern ukraine where fighting has not yet ceased. as i'm talking right now we just heard the sound of multiple rocket launchers being fired at a distance and does. basically been happening all day which is a clear violation often all combat zone it was anno

slowing it down and the president is also pointing at the un going situation in the area very close to the city of as the president says that ukrainian troops attacked self defense units near the now it's almost at the same time as anti government forces were handing over black boxes so from the crash to international experts and investigators working at the scene. that was our to correspondent. since the crash malaysia flight seventeen communities around the world have offered up their love and support to the family members and communities of the two hundred ninety eight victims hit especially hard for the dutch who lost one hundred ninety three people president obama paid tribute to the memories of the victims of the crash by signing a book of condolences at the embassy of the kingdom of the netherlands here in washington and rotterdam artie's peter all of our takes an in-depth look at a dutch communities outpouring of support for one family who lost three in the tragedy. i don't forward the public so. the people of iraq to pay tribute to a family is restored to these poles it's the very fabric of security this family is so within

un run school for palestinian refugees. three civilians including a fifteen year old have been killed in the eastern ukrainian city of lugansk seven more have been wounded and that is all in just the last day according to the city's council artillery and air strikes of impounding the city infrastructure has been severely damaged and most of the city remains without water or electricity food supplies have also been cut off and locals fear that their cupboards will soon be empty. and in the neighboring don't yet screech in a children's summer camp a speed shell thankfully was empty at the time but within days it's planned to be a camp for refugees from elsewhere across the region. with a civilian death count well above a thousand thrones of locals are fleeing the fighting in eastern ukraine at least a third of the refugees are children international monitors that have witnessed the evacuation say it's far from safe even for cars that are clearly marked. notice that lawless ago is we noticed for example their cars. that were rushing to the driver to go to the windows to get that car so there's definitely this is that. the explo

any case of shelling ukrainian territory from the russian territory actually represents the act of aggression in the sense of un charter. so aggression is aggression. i'm pretty confident that we could avoid further escalation of the situation but if aggression comes, we will fight this aggression with any means we have at our disposal. >> so you've been working with secretary kerry just today and yesterday. you were in brussels last week working with european foreign ministers on the so called off-ramps. these paths or deescalation in your remarks. do you think there's any chance that president putin will take that opportunity to pursue a so called off-ramp as you're saying? it's striking that have been quite a few opportunities that have been made by many in the international community and each time russia hasn't gone down that path. has anything changed that putin might pursue that direction? >> it's my point. i said we don't need sanctions for the sake of sanctions. we need continuous and clear international pressure on russia to change the russian stance on ukraine overall in order to be able to de-escalat