It is extremely important that an investigation be commenced meal. In the first instance, the special Monitoring Mission should act as a First Responder laying the foundation for efforts by other International Organizations and individual nations including those whose citizens were victims of this tragedy. Yesterday, president obama assured ukraines president poroshenko that u. S. Experts will offer all possible assistance upon his request. President poroshenko has invited the independent and credible International Civil Aviation Organization to join in investigation. International investigators must be granted immediate, full and unfettered access. All of those concerned should agree to support an immediate ceasefire to facilitate access by international investigators. In this regard, we look to the smm also to Reach Agreement with separatists and others in the region to make this possible. All evidence must remain undisturbed and any testifies removed by the russianbacked separatists
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Ukraine to help determine what brought down the malaysian jetliner with 298 people aboard, including an american. The president is calling for an immediate ceasefire in the area and says the evidence so far indicates the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was shot down by a surface to air missile from a part of ukraine controlled by russian backed separatists. He also spoke about the current israelipalestinian conflict. After his remarks, the president also took questions. This is about 20 minutes. Good morning, everybody. Yesterday, malaysian Airlines Flight mh 17 took off from amsterdam. And was shot down over the ukrainerussian border. Nearly 300 innocent lives were taken, men, women, children, infants, who had nothing to do with the crisis in ukraine. Their deaths are an outrage of unspeakable proportions. We know at least one american citizen, quinn lucas schansman, was killed. Yesterday, i spoke with ukraine, malaysia, and the netherlands, and i told them that our thoughts and prayers a
Hamas ty government, minister declared, and i quote, that the whistling bullets, the sound of bombs and missiles exploding and the capture of Israeli Soldiers was music to our ears. By supporting the agreement youre giving hamas the opportunity to weave incitement, violence and terror into the basic fabric, just as it did in gaza. Mr. President , the citizens of israel want to live in peace. We want to see our children without d grow old running for a bomb shelter or utting on an army uniform. I hope someday we will read about attacks on jewish people in history books rather than newspapers. But that day has not yet come. For now we are forced to wage war against a terrorist group ommitted to our destruction. As we speak, night has fallen on israel. Rather than sleeping soundly in their beds, our sons and daughters are out there in the darkness standing guard over rael and the people of scrawl. In the book of psalms king david says [speaking foreign language] too long have i lived amon
We are following breaking news now on the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The Prime Minister of malaysia is expected to speak at a News Conference any minute now, and we are not sure what hell say. Officials say therell be a major announcement. We are listening to the event and will bring you the latest as soon as we get it. Welcome to al jazeera america, im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Its 8am in ukraine, and the start of a fateful day for the people of crimea. In just 24 hours theyll vote on whether to join russia or remain a part of ukraine. Western powers say they wont recognise the outcomeven as International Observers arrive there. Moscow says it will adhere to the outcome of the referendum libby casey explains that an 11th hour appeal to stop the vote failed. A meeting between john kerry and Sergei Lavrov. We have no shared vision of the situation with western countries. Sergei lavrov says sundays vote in crimea is about selfdetermination. Translation we