Burnett. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Outfront tonight the breaking news, shot down, malaysia 17. Many late breaking developments. The United States pointing fingers at pro russian rebels. These are the first pictures cnn is getting of the wreckage. Our phil black is at the crash site in Eastern Ukraine. It took 24 hours to get to the site. Its remote and dangerous and controlled by rebel fighters. In short, this is a war zone. Were going to speak to phil in a moment and hes going to show you this horrible scene. First the late nest the shocking and fastmoving story. Tonight the United States has says it knows who is responsible for the death of all 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines boeing 777 shot down on the russian border on route between amsterdam to kuala lumpur. A group of separatists cant shoot down military transport planes or they claim, shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sophisticated training and that is c
Rescue workers and firefighters trying to put out the flames. The boeing 777 was flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. It disappeared from radar over Eastern Ukraine. The jet exploded midair, fell to the ground in pieces. The charred wreckage stretching for kill pleerts. A senior u. S. Official said radar detected a surfacetoair missile right before the plane went down. The u. S. Is analyzing the trajectory of the missile to try to determine where exactly it came from. The selfproclaimed Prime Minister of the donetsk peoples republic visited the craft site late on thursday. There is him there in the middle of that picture. Prorussian separatists denying firing a missile at plane. Russian president Vladimir Putin said the military offensive against rebels in Eastern Ukraine is to blame. But ukraines president said this is a terrorist act. Translator ive just finished a conversation with the Prime Minister of the netherlands, and expressed my condolences. On behalf of ukraine, i invited
Here are the big stories were following in the cnn newsroom. A probably rebel russian leader is responding to allegations that his fighter shot down the plane over Eastern Ukraine. The rebel leader said he believes the flight was shot down but denies his forces did it. You can see right here in the blue shirt. He told reporters the rebels lack the fire power to hit an airplane that high up. But british Prime Minister David Cameron said the European Union needs to reconsider its approach to russia. Cameron says evidence points to the rebels as the ones who fired a russianmade buk missile at flight 17. Earlier Malaysian Airlines issued their latest list of the 298 people from 12 nations who were on board that flight. Weve learned that 80 children are among the victims. As well as some top hiv aids researchers, students and a malaysian actress, her husband and baby. The victims came from around the world and had all kinds of hopes and dreams. The victims of flight 17 taken down instantly,
New day joins us live from Eastern Ukraine. A haul to get there. Not easy to get to that crash site. When you got there, what struck you most . Reporter well, thats hard to answer, christi, because this is such an usual situation. You have the obvious tragedy of this plane being taken out of the skies, and everyone onboard gone and laying in the field around us for the most part, but it has happened because of, probably, and in the middle of, an outright civil war. Theres no question about accounts of people hearing gunfire. Theyve used gunfire here today to move journalists when they dont want them to go beyond a certain point. These are local militias intent on making a definite show of force, of blaming ukraine for the tragedy of taking this plane out of the air. The checkpoints show such indications of heavy fire, i havent seen anything like it in quite some time. Trees completely stripped, some 40, 50 feet up by big artillery shells. Men hiding in these very shallow trenches. They
In the United States and around the world. Im john vause. And im isha sesay. It is 8 00 a. M. In Eastern Ukraine, where International Monitors say they will try again today to visit the site where Malaysia Airlines flight 17 crashed. The team from the organization for security and cooperation in europe, osce, visited the crash site for just over an hour on friday, but they say they were met with hostility from separatists and were not given full access to the site. U. S. Officials say they believe the plane was brought down by a missile, possibly fired by prorussian rebels. Most likely with backing from moscow. Meanwhile, ukraines government has released this video showing a truck carrying a buk Missile System with one of the missiles missing driving towards the russian border. Theyve also released audio recordings which they say are prorussian rebels talking about acquiring the buk missiles from russia. Take a listen. [ speaking in a Foreign Language ] [ speaking in a Foreign Language