This shows the war of words and war of video if you will thats going on with this horrible tragedy. And lisa we know there are limitations in terms of getting to this crash site. I am concerned how involved the International Community will be actually in this investigation. Assuming the investigation can proceed in a manner in which it should, it looks like the International Community will have a great deal of international involvement. Ukraine has welcomed international help. They are setting up a commission from the u. S. , malaysia, the dutch, the french are now offering help. Ikaia is also getting involved. Assuming the arrangements can be made to get investigators in there, this will be, it looks like, a Broad International effort to try to uncover exactly how this plane came down and who was behind it. Lisa stark for us in washington, d. C. Thank you, lisa. Malaysias government is taking criticism for allowing the airliner to flyover Eastern Ukraine. But Officials Say that they w
Recovering the victims, russian separatists accused of tampering with evidence and removing bodies as investigators try to figure out what happened to another malaysian airliner. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for joining us from new york city. We are following overnight development on the two big stories, the Malaysia Airlines disaster and israels Ground Invasion of gaza. First to ukraine, where the investigators are headed back to the scene of the plane shot on thursday killing 298 passengers on board. Officials in kiev accusing russian rebels of destroying evidence and moving bodies. World leaders claim that russia supplied the missile that shot down the craft. One american was on the flight. Over in Israel Ground troops pushed into gaza. They are trying to cripple hamass artillery as they showed off the tunnels and weapons. 300 palestinians have been killed. 900,000 are without water. Others fled to u. N. Shelters. President obama supports israels right to d
Killed and 2,000 injured in the gaza strip. Israel says it my ramp up Ground Invasion as tanks and troops move in to target hamas tunnels. We have two major news story for you in this hour. In a moment well have the latest on israels offensive on gaza. These are live pictures of gaza city which has been under israeli fire for 11 days now, and israeli has also started a ground operation on gaza. Our other top story is the shooting down of malaysian flight mh 17. For more on that, lets go to our london news center. President obama said separatists brought down the plane on thursday. Monitors for the organization for security and cooperation in europe arrived at the crash site earlier, but werent given access to carry out proper inspections. Pressure is growing on prorussian separatists and moscow. President putin has responded by calling for a ceasefire. The flight left at midday local time destines for kwal la lam pure. Scott heidler was one of the First International journalists to rea
The people, i pilots, the children, its awful to see Something Like this happening in our country. After lying uncovered in these fields since the plane fell from the sky, emergency workers put the bodies in bags and lay them on the roadside. These armed separatist fighters came down the hill to our location where we have been broadcasting for the last couple of hours. For the first time in 48 hours since this crash happened, we have been told to get out of the area because investigators are coming in. Soon after we were moved back, the european Monitoring Group arrived. The monitors were let into the area of the crash but more neck on the osce they knew allowed into more areas an early exit. The ins dents site is rather large, we understand it goes beyond what we have seen. It will continues. The oversight. The Dutch Foreign minister arrived in kiev with a group of investigators, is. Collect and thereforansfer t audience. Rescue groups are working under the threat of armed rebels. A s
Heavily armed rebels. Many in the International Community worry theyve removed important piece ooze of evidence. We have the ability to see more of this rather large scene. We have ob served the situation as it has been presented to us. A moral obligation to ensure that the remains of all victims are recovered and treated with respect. The nbc news shot video of one of the rebels driving away from the crash site with a truckload of bodies about. A rebel Spokesman Says the plan is to keep the bodies safe in order to return them to relatives later on. New details into the crash. U. S. Officials confirming russia most likely supplied the missile launcher that may have brought down the jetliner. According to the ukrainian government, these photos show one launcher in eastern ukraine. One of the missiles is missing. All three were driven back into russia. U. S. Officials suspect rebel trainers either fired the missile or at least gave the command to shoot the plane down. New reports tonight