Russianback separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation. They have prevented International Investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage as investigators approached, they fired their weapons into the air. The separatists are removing evidence from the crash site. All of which begs the question, what exactly are they trying to hide . Right now just after 9 00 p. M. At the site where this passenger plane was shot down, and as i come to you right now, we have been watching and so many of the world really has been watching this train carrying wagon after wagon with bodies. It has just been released by the prorussian rebels, disturbingly, this eerie makeshift mobile morgue, if you will, had been held captive by these rebels. Ukraines president talking about this with cnn just a short time ago. We are still missing 16 bodies of the innocent victims of the terrorist attack which happened 96 hours ago in ukrainian sky. But the rest pro from the 298 victims is
Good evening, in for diane. Its great to have you with us on a thursday night. We begin with breaking news on two fronts tonight, israel and that dramatic escalation in gaza. First the devastating images coming in from ukraine, pieces. Broken jet and so many of the innocent lives lost, the passports intact, found in the field. And heres what we know at this hour, Malaysia Flight 17, 298 people on board, flying from amsterdam to kuala lumpur at 33,000 feet when it disappears over ukraine. 30 miles from the russian border. Look at the track of the plane on the flight map. You can see the jet simply vanishing from the air. That plane, a boeing 777, one of the strongest in the world. Tonight u. S. Officials say they believe it was shot down. This evening we have Team Coverage across the globe and we begin with abcs chief Global Affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz. Reporter there in the distance, that burst of flame, the moment that the flight with 150,000 pounds of fuel crashed down. Then
Only deepens. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is in ukraine with the latest on those two jets that were shot down. Tell us more. Reporter carol, Ukrainian Defense officials confirming two jets shot down in Eastern Ukraine. People still trying to work out precisely the location but the separatists confirm the shooting down saying it happened. I should point out in the past few months of the intense warfare in Eastern Ukraine, a lot of helicopters and jets have been taken out of the sky. The key issue is this is happening simply hours after the first bodies of those victims on mh17, the passenger aircraft, have been flown out of governmentcontrolled areas in Eastern Ukraine. To many such shocking timing presuming this was separatists also involved. At a time when the world is simply trying to work out how many bodies are on the train that the militants have allowed to leave their controlled areas and the crash site there to be brought here where officials are slowly moving through those human rema
Devoted husband, an Unlikely Hero in every role. Good evening. David is off. Im dan harris. The world is seething tonight about the treatment of the dead from malaysia air flight 17. Today armed prorussian rebels seized the 196 bodies that emergency workers had recovered from that farm land in Eastern Ukraine where the plane went down on thursday. The rebels are holding the bodies inside these train cars in a nearby rail yard. Recent pictures like this one of Crash Victims laying on the side of the road with strangers free to pick through their personal belongings have outraged the victims families and World Leaders. We have full coverage tonight starting with abcs terry moran whos on the ground. Reporter good evening. Tonight the crash site and the bodies of the victims remain firmly in the control of the rebels here while the u. S. Builds a damming case against them and against Vladimir Putins russia. All day emergency workers carried on their grim work of gathering bodies but theres
The air this thursday night. First, the downing of a passenger jet over ukraine. A Malaysia Airlines 777 wide body from amsterdam to kuala lumpur. U. S. Intelligence has concluded it was shot down by a surfacetoair missile. It came down in pieces without a distress call. The wreckage landed in the middle of a war zone. 298, the revised number of souls on board, all feared dead. It is almost too early to think about the International Ramifications of this. Hours after the crash came the news from gaza. Israeli soldiers, ground troops, infantry, armored mechanized combat engineers, all on the move in a Ground Invasion in the gaza strip. We are going to stay on the air for an hour tonight. If your nbc station does not carry our second half hour, it will stream live on our website. With our team in place, we begin our coverage tonight with the downing of this commercial airliner. The second disaster for this airline and emerging human disaster, of course, for the loved ones of those on boa