Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the Airline Crash in the ukraine. The priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. There has to be a credible International Investigation into what happened. The u. N. Security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. In order to facilitate that investigation. Russia, prorussian separatists
and ukraine must adhere to an immediate ceasefire. Evidence must not be tampered with. Inves
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pro-russian rebels shot down a ukrainian military transport plane killing 49 people. june 24th, rebels shoot a ukrainian helicopter killing nine. monday, july 14, a cargo plane shot out of the sky, then wednesday, a fighter jet shot down. the next day, flight 17 suffered the same fate. red flags ignored? malaysia airlines says no. the flight path taken by 17 was approved by the international aviation administration and by the countries whose space they passed through and international transportation. reporter: ukraine authorized flights above 32,000 feet, an altitude considered safe. nonetheless, some airlines did avoid the area unless the air space is restricted, it s their
accidentally shot down a passenger s plane. they thought they were targeting a ukrainian military transport, an antonov 26, as that call referred to which is the kind of plane they shot down earlier this week in fact on monday. and in fact this time took down by accident it appears a malaysian passenger jet. again, this is based purely on information coming from the ukrainian side. u.s. officials have not corroborated it. but it also gels with other information the ukrainian officials have noted. and that is that one of the pro-russian militant leaders tweeted proudly at the time that this plane was first shot down that his forces had taken down a ukrainian military transport. that tweet was later deleted as it turned out to be a passenger jet. this is the narrative that ukrainian officials are building right now, the idea that pro-russian militants took this jet down by accident. that tweet you re seeing up there on the air is another point the ukrainian officials have drawn my attent
terrible loss. then president obama presented the case that they re building against the pro-russian militants in ukraine. eftd supports that the plane was shot down by an air-to-surface missile. barely 24 hours before the crash senior administration officials warned that kind of weaponry was already used to shoot down ukraine than aircraft. a group of separatists can t shoot down military transport planes or they claim shoot down fighter jets without sophisticated equipment and training and that is coming from russia. the man responsible for that, the president said, is lad here putin. he has the most control over that situation. and so far at least he has not exercised it. in the hours after the crash the russian president was playing defense, blaming ukraine. translator: this tragedy would not have happened if there
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