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
25 years after two american heroes first walked on the moon. Thanks for being with us. Another day end in gaza, israel says the operation will go on as long as needed. 13 Israeli Soldiers killed, the highest number for the military in this offensive. Residents in one neighbourhood faced heavy bombardments. Over 65 civilians were killed and bombs fell for a second night. Lets go live to nicole johnson. Tell us about the attack on eastern gaza that is now continuing. It was a very fefy overnight attack in the shajaiya neighbourhood. We were in the office all night and could hear the shelling. This is a big residential area and there was shelling all night. Houses shops, cars had been hit, the street, and the loss of life was very high, around 50 people in one night. If you will, we hear the shots behind you, the bombs going off. Can you set the scenes for us, the missiles . Actually, the sound you hear is not bombs going off. We had breaking news in the last couple of minutes from the al
The sole u. S. Citizen on board. 19yearold Lucas Schansman was supposed to meet up with his family in bali for vacation. The dutch american citizen had dual zip. He once lived in bay area. Tonight his family is grieving a young life they say was just lost too soon. You go through all the phases of mourning. At the moment its just mourning. Of course its angry that you see why it didnt need to be happen. It didnt. Also tonight, a candlelight vigil at the international aids conference. A group of passengers on board were flying to that conference in melbourne, australia. Now World Leaders are demanding that prorussian rebels give investigators complete access to the crash site. The First International team of investigators to arrive werent granted full access. The delegation mostly from europe was only allowed to make a partial inspection of the debris field before being ordered to leave. Some blunt words from president obama today. He says russia is responsible. He believes russia suppl
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Much of the news toot about plagues flight 17 crash was broken by president obama. He told us at least one u. S. Citizen was among the 298 who died. He said the plane was shot down by a surfacetoair missile fired by a part of ukraine controlled by prorussian rebels. These rebels are fighting to break away from ukraine, and while the president stopped short of saying the kremlin was blind the flight of the downed flight 17, list to what he said about rebels who boasted about shooting down at least three Ukrainian Military planes. A group of separatists cant shoot down military transport planes or, they claim, shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sphis quaitd training and that is coming from russia. Pelley we have a team of correspondents on this story. First, we go to Mark Phillips at the crash site in Eastern Ukraine where the reality of what has happened can be diffi
Become casualties of war. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Much of the news toot about plagues flight 17 crash was broken by president obama. He told us at least one u. S. Citizen was among the 298 who died. He said the plane was shot down by a surfacetoair missile fired by a part of ukraine controlled by prorussian rebels. These rebels are fighting to break away from ukraine, and while the president stopped short of saying the kremlin was blind the flight of the downed flight 17, list to what he said about rebels who boasted about shooting down at least three Ukrainian Military planes. A group of separatists cant shoot down military transport planes or, they claim, shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and sphis quaitd training and that is coming from russia. Pelley we have a team of correspondents on this story. First, we go to Mark Phillips at the crash site in Eastern Ukraine where the reality of what