welcome back to weekends with alex witt. i m page hopkins. new talks between a growing dispute between north korea and south korea. officials for the two countries met in the demilitarized zone to discuss the situation. north korea demanded south korea end its propaganda broadcastings along the border. a deadline set for the broadcasts to stop has passed. ian williams is near the demilitarized zone in south korea. ian, where does the situation stand right now? hi, page. the deadline came and went without military clashes. instead, the two koreas agreed to talk. top officials from north and south meeting at a village about two miles up the road behind me at the end of a very tense day along this border. as the deadline approached and kim jong-un s ultimatum loomed, the authorities ordered the evacuation of villages along the border to shelters like this deep underground and behind
the ukrainian aviation dispatcher send a passenger flight to an area of military clashes? an area which was being used for carrying out strikes against civilian targets against others? reporter: there are two pieces of evidence, hala, the ukrainians have pointed to which suggest russian involvement in which the u.s. has latched onto. one of these is intercepted audio recordings which suggest pro-russian militants with the help of russian expertise were somehow being trained to use surface-to-air missiles, and secondly the buk system missing one missile going back over the russian border. now, neither of those can we independently verify, but they do point to russian involvement. russia for its part has always denied its arming the rebels, even though we ourselves have seen russian apcs crossing over
bodies from the plane scattered across the countryside. now starting to decompose in the heat. u.s. officials say they believe the plane was brought down by a missile, possibly fired by pro-russia rebels. most likely with backing from russia. at united nations headquarters in new york on friday, the ambassador questioned why civilian planes had still been flying over eastern ukraine. translator: sure first and foremost the question would arise, why did the ukrainian aviation dispatcher send a passenger flight to an area of military clashes, an area used for carrying out strikes against civilians as well as others. well, the blame game is well under way. getting to the bottom of what happened to flight 17 will undoubtedly pose significant challenges. for one thing, the plane went down in the middle of a war zone. yeah. investigators say it s not just a crash site, it s a crime
mr. president, any normal person i m sure first and foremost a question would arise. why did the ukrainian aviation dispatcher send a passenger flight to an area of military clashes, an area which was being used for carrying out strikes against civilian parties amongst other and where there were anti aircraft systems working, in an airspace, it s the responsibility of that state, in line with international standards on the territory where the flight is being carried out, the state must provide aviation information necessary for ensuring the security of aviati aviation. international law plans for the possibility of the timely closure by the state of areas that are dangerous for flights. it would seem that there would