experts conduct work on the site to ensure security. rebel leaders claim to have the plane s cockpit voice and data recorders which may hold critical information about mh 17 s last moments. in audio intercepts released by the ukrainian government, the alleged commander says moscow is interested in the black boxes and urges his subordinate to find them. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of that audio. meanwhile u.s. intellgence points to the mounting evidence of russia s involvement, including evidence that pro-russian rebels secretly moved a heavy arsenal of weapons into place days before the crash. we have a video showing a launcher moving back through a particular area there out into russia with at least one missing missile on it. so we have enormous input about this which points fingers. reporter: this is that video
it altered, those are the things that get thrown out of court that can change the results of a court case. one of the thing that will be so crucial on what kind of an act this was. a terrorist act. what was it? is going to be was, this truly unintentional, they meant to hit a cargo military plane. or did they not even check to see what they were going to hit? that could be a very, very crucial point. is there anything that would show that on the black box or anything? they tried to figure out whether it was civilian? what you would get from a cockpit voice record he, if there had been any discussion, any callout, if they had heard from the ground. anything like that. but i can t see that that is going to be an issue here. i mean, we don t know. the core point is, as lawyers would say, the facts speak for themselves. they shot down a civil aviation aircraft. therefore by definition, the crime is being committed. it is a crime.
the pro-russian rebels. we know that here on the ground it s been different. so in terms of the location of those cockpit voice and data recorders no, we don t know. no one here is talking about them. no one that we spoke to is claimed to have spoken about them or know where they are. the same claim from the ukrainian government a little m ambiguo ambiguously. they believe they are on ukrainian territory. thank you so much, phil black. we appreciate it. i want to go to diana right now in moscow. how is russia responding to this growing pressure and we re seeing statement after statement released about russia and its need to do something about the rebels at the crash site. reporter: right. there have been there is more and more pressure from world leaders on mr. putin, david cameron tuk prime minister tweeted that he and chancellor merkel of germany had a
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