Good evening, thanks for joining us, im when. This hour, the special coverage of two stories in two conflict jones. In the Donetsk Region the next step to who shot a jet out of the sky and why. The International Civil Aviation Organization says it will send a team to help. Despite the territorial dispute, they say ukraine is in charge of the probe. In addition, european observers were allowed at the crash tight. Armed rebels kept them from doing their work. The first correspondent to rasp the site was scott heidler, bringing us an exclusive report if the scene. Reporter as the sun rose it revealed the scope of how difficult the recovery and investigation will be for flight 17. The debris lies in a vast area around the wheat fields. A scircumference of 10km. Translation i heard anexplosion, i looked to see what happenedment the plane fell and broke apart. Pieces fell from the sky. Reporter emergency workers began the task of the marking the stot of bodies and body parts. The markers dot
Thousands forced from their home. The timing is right. Man on the moon my conversation with buzz aldrin who strolled on the moon 45 years ago. We begin with the tragedy of Malaysia Flight 17, and the suggestion from the u. S. That russia was behind the tragedy. Almost 300 were killed, including an American College student. U. S. Intelligence confirms the plane was shut down by a russian made missile. Washington is focussed on the russian backed rebels fighting in the region. The eyes of the world are on Eastern Ukraine. We are going to make sure the truth is out. Scott heidler has the latest from the crash routine. Reporter as the sun rose it revealed the scope of how difficult the recovery and investigation will be for flight mh17. The debris rests in a vast area around the wheat fields, a circumference of 10km. Translation there was an explosion in the sky above the house. I came out to see what happened. The plane fell in many pieces, as it fell, it broke apart. All the pieces fell
Wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jet two days after it was shot down over Eastern Ukraine. Talks with Irans Nuclear programme is being extended we look at the progress and the stumbling blocks. Good to have you with us in the middle east. Its sunday morning, day four of the Israeli Ground offensive in gaza. Israel intensifies air strikes overnight. Some areas were hit with tanks and rocket fire. Lets look at the sky line in gaza city, where it is just after daybreak. Throughout the night we have seen explosions and flares across the horizon. Two Israeli Soldiers were killed during an attack. Four fers were injured and officers were injured and one gunman killed. The Israeli Army Says hamas used underground tunnels. They unveiled a milewide stretch of tunnels, claiming to have found more than 100 rocket launchers in the process. 50,000 gaza residents have been displaced. More than 340 palestinians have been killed, including the son of a senior hamas official. More than 2600 officials
Rebels. Gaza facing some of the most intense shelling as israel increases its ground offensive. A neighborhood in eastern gaza was bombarded with missile fire just overnight. Over 60 sistians including children were killed t appears to be the highest number of casualties in one district since israel began strikes on july 8th. We are joined by Nick Schifrin live on the phone in gaza. Nick, we can still see at a time smoke from the neighborhood behind you right there. What was it like when you went down there . Reporter yeah, you can see that the large plume of smoke, morgan, thats been there for 12 hours at least. And the neighborhood is called zuuzia. We were there ballpark an hour, hour and a half ago. Its eerie. It is a war zone. You can get the sense or even the stench of death and of panic. Most of the streets are completely empty, and the few people who are there are either coming back to their homes to see if they are destroyed, and one man i spoke to was walking up to his house
We begin in Eastern Ukraine request Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 was shot down. Ukrainian government now says they have evidence that russia supplied the Missile System that brought the plane down killing all 298 people aboard. We know for sure that the team was russian. They were russian citizens operating bukm1 and they came from the territory of Russian Federation together with the missile launcher. Prorussian rebels allowed ukrainian emergency workers to recover bodies from the crash site this morning. But European International monitors were again denied access. The Ukrainian Government says the crime scene still isnt secure and that yesterday dozens of bodies were removed from the scene and then transport today the rebelheld city of don everything. They say several items that should have been evidence have already been taken from the site. Al jazerras Scott Heidler is at the scratch eight with more. Reporter when we came from a two hour drive to hear, we saw lighter presence at