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GRAPHIC: Malaysian passenger plane shot down over eastern Ukraine; scores dead

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Hrabove - 17 July 2014

1. Burning wreckage of plane with people walking in the background

2. ++GRAPHIC - CONTAINS SHOT OF DEAD BODY++ Wreckage of the plane with dead body lying in the grass

GRAPHIC: Wreckage of the Malaysian plane; bodies scattered across the ground

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Hrabove - 17 July 2014

3. Wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 in field in Hrabove, eastern Ukraine, smoke and flames rising from pieces of plane

4. ++GRAPHIC++ Human bodies strewn amongst charred wreckage of plane as debris smokes

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Hrabove - 17 July 2014

5. STILL: Man in uniform gesturing while standing in debris

GRAPHIC: AP cover wreckage of the plane that was shot down over eastern Ukraine

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Hrabove- 17 July 2014

6. Wide of debris still smoking and on fire

7. debris still smouldering and on fire in places

Flowers and messages left at Schiphol Airport for passengers for downed plane

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Schiphol Airport - 20 July 2014

8. Zoom in to woman laying flowers

Crane lifts sections of plane wreckage as serach of crash site continues

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Hrabove - 21 July 2014

9. A crane lifting pieces of plane wreckage

Train departs carrying bodies of crash victims in refrigerated carriages

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Torez - 21 July 2014

10. A pile of luggage on the station platform

11. The train pulling away from the station

Separatist leader hands over black boxes to Malaysia officials

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Donetsk - 22 July 2014

12. Mid of Malaysian official inspecting first black box and placing it in a bag

13. Close of black boxes, pull out to Sakri and rebel official shaking hands

Scuffles break out in parliament as MPs discuss Malaysian plane crash; minute of silence

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Kiev - 22 July 2014

14. Various of lawmakers pushing each other

OSCE mission inspects another site scattered with debris from plane crash

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Petropavlivka - 23 July 2014

15. Wide of OSCE Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) inspectors

convoy at side of field

Planes carrying 38 MH17 coffins arrive to the Netherlands in a solemn ceremony

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Eindhoven - 26 July 2014

16. Various of military carrying a coffin

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An Associated Press journalist has counted at least 22 bodies at the wreckage site of a passenger plane that was shot down on July 17th 2014 as it flew over the country.

Both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the plane.

The plane appeared to have broken up before impact and the burning wreckage - which included body parts and the belongings of passengers - was scattered over a wide area.

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Dead bodies of passengers were visible amongst the smouldering wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on July 17th after the plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Both the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the aircraft, which was carrying 295 people.

As plumes of black smoke rose up near a rebel-held village of Hrabove, an Associated Press journalist counted at least 22 bodies at the wreckage site 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the Russian border.

The Boeing 777-200ER plane, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, appeared to have broken up before impact and the burning wreckage, which included body parts and the belongings of passengers, was scattered over a wide area.

Men in army fatigues, believed to be pro-Russia separatists, were seen at the crash site.

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A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17th, Ukrainian officials said.

The Boeing 777-200ER plane, travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, appeared to have broken up before impact and the burning wreckage, which included body parts and the belongings of passengers, was scattered over a wide area.

Both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the aircraft.

The village is under the control of pro-Russia separatists and the area has seen severe fighting between the two sides in recent days.

A Russian news report said pro-Russia rebels intend to call a three-day cease-fire to allow for an investigation into the crash and recovery efforts.

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Flowers were laid outside Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands on July 20th to commemorate the victims of the downed flight MH17.

KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) flight attendants and members of the public also left messages in a book of condolences just outside the airport.

Airline employees are starting to wonder how safe it is to fly over crisis zones.

"We always assume that everything is safe but apparently it is not, so that is another reason to be wondering what happened here," said Boris Tester, a purser for KLM.

The Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Saturday he had an "extremely intense" telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which he urged him to use his influence over separatist rebels in Ukraine to ensure they do not hinder efforts to investigate the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The plane crashed on July 17th, killing all 298 passengers and crew, most of them Dutch citizens.

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A crane at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777 on Monday while emergency workers retrieved more bodies in the sprawling fields of eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed, killing all 298 people aboard.

By early July 21st, local emergency workers had piled at least 21 black body bags by the side of the road in Hrabove.

That brought the total found to 272 of the 298 passengers and crew killed in the tragedy, according to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

The bodies were being sent to the refrigerated railcars in the nearby town of Torez, where the other bodies are being kept.

A train engineer told The Associated Press that the cars' refrigeration had been off overnight and it was not immediately clear why. The cooling system was back up and running early July 21st, he said.

The shambolic attempts to investigate by the pro-Russia separatists who control the verdant farmland where pieces of the plane crashed have fanned widespread international outrage, especially from the nations whose citizens were on the doomed plane.

Four days after the jetliner was shot out of the sky, international investigators still had only limited access to the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

The the UN Security Council is expected to vote today on an Australia-proposed resolution demanding international access to the crash site and a cease-fire around the area.

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A refrigerated train bearing the bodies of many of the 298 people killed in the Malaysia Airlines plane disaster pulled away on July 21st from a rebel-held town in eastern Ukraine.

The train left from Torez, 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the crash site.

An Associated Press reporter overheard armed separatists saying it was heading for the rebel-held town of Ilovaysk.

There was no official confirmation of that destination from the rebels.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that the remains of 282 of the crash victims are being moved by train to Kharkiv, where they will be handed over to Dutch authorities.

From there, he said, they will be flown to Amsterdam on a Dutch C130 Hercules military plane and handed over to Dutch authorities.

Razak said the leader of the pro-Russian rebels has agreed to hand over both black boxes from Flight 17 to Malaysian investigators who are in Ukraine.

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A Ukrainian separatist leader handed over black boxes from flight MH17 to Malaysia officials in Donetsk early on July 22nd.

Alexander Borodai, Prime Minister of self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk said they were "being returned to their owners."

A Malaysian investigator said the boxes were in good condition.

Flight MH17 was shot down in the rebel-controlled area of eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people onboard.

Experts have called for a full forensic sweep of the crash site amid suggestions that some of the evidence may have been tampered with.

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Scuffles broke out in the Ukrainian parliament on July 22nd after a lawmaker blamed the Ukrainian authorities for failing to adopt a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine and accused them of running a war against the Ukrainian people.

The accusations were made by lawmaker Mykola Levchenko from the Party of Regions, which was close to Ukraine's former president Viktor Yanukovych.

Lawmaker Ihor Miroshychenko from the Svoboda Party started to push Levchenko, before other lawmakers joined in the fight.

The incident took place as parliament discussed Malaysian airlines flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine the previous week.

The parliamentary session started with a minute of silence to remember the victims.

Oleksandr Turchynov, the Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament, accused Russia of committing "acts of military aggression against Ukraine" by providing weapons to separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine and sending troops to the border.

"Russia is continuing an escalation of armed opposition in these (Donetsk and Luhansk) regions," said Andriy Parubiy, the Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council.

"Right now, around 41-thousand Russian Federation armed forces servicemen are located on the eastern and northern Ukrainian borders and Crimea's borders," he added.

Fighting in eastern Ukraine began in mid-April after Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimean Peninsula a month earlier.

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Monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on July 23rd visited a different site peppered with wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The pro-Russian separatists who are in control of the main crash area are showing little willingness to allow the full-scale investigation that's being demanded by world leaders.

The debris is still unguarded across a wide stretch of farmland.

International observers say there are signs that the debris is being mishandled or even tampered with.

So far, though, there still has not been a full-scale investigation of the site.

Ukrainian aviation officials were allowed to visit briefly on July 18th but got little access.

Forensic officials from the Netherlands were allowed a visit on July 21st.

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Two military cargo planes, one Dutch and the other Australian, also flew 38 more coffins carrying victims to the Netherlands for identification and investigation.

The planes took off on July 26th from Kharkiv, a government-controlled city where the bodies have been brought from the wreckage site in territory held by pro-Russian separatists fighting the Ukrainian government.

They landed later in the afternoon in Eindhoven, where the coffins were transferred to a fleet of hearses in a solemn ceremony.

Officials said the flights took the last of the 227 coffins containing victims that had been brought to Kharkiv by refrigerated train.

Officials say the exact number of people held in the coffins is still to be determined by forensic experts in the Netherlands.

International observers have said there are still remains at the crash site. Access has been limited due to rebel interference and security concerns.

The Boeing 777 went down July 17 as it headed to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam, killing all 298 people on board. Most of them were Dutch citizens.

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Emergency workers, police officers and even off-duty coal miners _ dressed in overalls and covered in soot _ spread out across sunflower fields and tiny Ukrainian villages Friday, searching through the wreckage of the Malaysian plane shot down as it flew miles above the country's battlefield.

The downing killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations. By midday, 181 bodies had been located, according to emergency workers at the sprawling crash site.

Separatist rebels who control the eastern area where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down Thursday said they had recovered most of its black boxes and were considering what to do with them. Their statement had profound implications for the integrity of the plane crash investigation.

U.S. intelligence authorities said a surface-to-air missile downed the plane, but could not say who fired it.

Ukraine has called for an international probe to determine who attacked the plane and insisted it was not its military.

An angry Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday demanded an independent inquiry into the downing and called Russia's response to it "deeply, deeply unsatisfactory."

"The initial response of the Russian ambassador was to blame Ukraine for this and I have to say that is deeply, deeply unsatisfactory," he said. "It's very important that we don't allow Russia to prevent an absolutely comprehensive investigation so that we can find out exactly what happened here."

"This is not an accident, it's a crime," he added.

The crash site was spread out over fields between two villages in eastern Ukraine _ Rozsypne and Hrabove _ and access to it remained difficult and dangerous. The road from Donetsk, the largest city in the region, to the crash site was marked by five rebel checkpoints Friday, with document checks at each.

Fighting apparently still continued nearby. In the distance, the thud of Grad missile launchers being fired could be heard Friday morning.

In the sunflower fields around Rozsypne, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Russian border, lines of men disappeared into the thick and tall growth Friday. One fainted after finding a body. Another body was covered in a coat.

In Hrabove, several miles away, huge numbers of simple sticks, some made from tree branches, were affixed with red or white rags to mark spots where body parts were found.

Ukraine Foreign Ministry representative Andriy Sybiga said 181 bodies had been found, citing local emergency workers at the site. He said the bodies will be taken to Kharkiv, a government-controlled city 270 kilometers (170 miles) to the north, for identification.

Among the debris were watches and smashed mobile phones, charred boarding passes and passports. An "I Love Amsterdam" T-shirt and a guidebook to Bali hinted at holiday plans.

Large chunks of the Boeing 777 that bore the airline's red, white and blue markings lay strewn over one field. The cockpit and one turbine lay a kilometer (a half-mile) apart, and residents said the tail landed another 10 kilometers (six miles) away.

One rebel militiaman in Rozsypne told The Associated Press that the plane's fuselage showed signs of being struck by a projectile.

The area has seen heavy fighting between government troops and pro-Russia separatists, and rebels had bragged about shooting down two Ukrainian military jets in the region just a day earlier.

Ukraine accused the rebels of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines plane. The rebels denied it and accused government forces of the same; President Petro Poroshenko denied it as well.

Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for the downing, saying it was responsible for the unrest in its Russian-speaking eastern regions _ but did not accuse Ukraine of shooting the plane down and not address the key question of whether Russia gave the rebels such a powerful missile. Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of supporting the rebels, a charge that Moscow denies.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk described the downing Friday as an "international crime" whose perpetrators would have to be punished in an international tribunal.

"Yesterday's terrible tragedy will change our lives. The Russians have done it now," he was cited as saying by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.

An assistant to the insurgency's military commander, Igor Girkin, said Friday on condition of anonymity that eight out of the plane's 12 recording devices had been located at the crash site. He did not elaborate. Since airplanes normally have both a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, it was not exactly clear what devices he was referring to.

He said Girkin was still considering whether to give international crash investigators access to the sprawling crash site. Any investigators would need specific permission from the rebel leadership before they could safely film or take photos at the crash site, he said.

Kenneth Quinn of the Flight Safety Foundation said an international coalition of countries should lead the investigation. The Unites States has offered to help.

Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lay repeatedly insisted Friday that the airline's path was an internationally approved route and denied accusations that Malaysia Airlines was trying to save fuel and money by taking a more direct flight path across Ukraine.

"I want to stress that this route is an approved path that is used by many airlines including 15 Asia-Pacific airlines. We have not been informed that the path cannot be used," he said

Malaysia's prime minister said there was no distress call before the plane went down.

Aviation authorities in several countries, including the FAA in the United States, had issued previous warnings not to fly over parts of Ukraine after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March. Within hours of the crash Thursday, several airlines announced they were avoiding parts of Ukrainian airspace.

On Friday, Ukraine's state aviation service closed the airspace over two regions currently gripped by fighting _ Donetsk and Luhansk _ and Russian aviation regulators said Russian airlines have suspended all transit flights over Ukraine.

At a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines updated its nationality count of passengers, saying the plane carried 173 Dutch, 24 Malaysian, 27 Australian, 12 Indonesian, 9 British, 4 German, 4 Belgian, 3 Filipino and one person each from Canada and New Zealand.

Passengers on the plane included a large contingent of world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists headed to an international AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia. News of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community.

In Kuala Lumpur, several relatives of victims were meeting with counselors at the international airport. A distraught Akmar Mohamad Noor, 67, said her older sister was coming to visit the family for the first time in five years.

"She called me just before she boarded the plane and said, `See you soon,"' Akmar said.

In the Netherlands, flags were flying at half-staff across the country as residents mourned the victims.

Anton Gerashenko, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister, said on his Facebook page the plane was flying at about 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) when it was hit by a missile from a Buk launcher, which can fire up to an altitude of 22,000 meters (72,000 feet). He said only that his information was based on "intelligence."

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Hrabove, Ukraine - 18 July, 2014

1. Various debris and personal items on ground, emergency workers and volunteers searching through sunflower fields.

Hundreds of people rallied against Russian President Vladimir Putin in Brisbane on Saturday, while the G20 summit was underway.

Some of those who took to the streets were Ukrainians living in Australia, who demanded the international community impose sanctions on the Russian leader.

Some protesters accused Putin of being responsible for the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane in eastern Ukraine on 17 July, when 298 people died, including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

Several protesters laid on ground covered in national flags of various countries to symbolise MH17 victims.

Tensions between Australia and Russia have been simmering since the plane was shot down over an area controlled by pro-Russia separatists.

In recent days, four Russian warships have entered international waters off the northeast Australian coast to coincide with Putin's visit to Australia.

It prompted the Australian prime minister to angrily accuse Russia of trying to reclaim the "lost glories" of the Soviet Union.

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Brisbane - 15 Nov 2014

1. Various of protesters shouting carrying banners and placards against Russian President Vladimir Putin

2. Wide of anti-Putin protest

3. Protester carrying coffin in memory of victims of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 plane crash in eastern Ukraine on 17 July

4. Protesters laying on ground to symbolise MH17 victims

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Liana Slipetsky, Protester:

"We would like the countries who are here for the G20 to acknowledge the aggression of Mr. Putin and the Russian Federation and to impose sanctions on a country that has bullied Ukraine for many years. Mr. Putin is taking responsibility for the MH17 disaster and the Ukrainian community here in Australia and other communities affected by this murderer that countries acknowledge that and take a stand,"

6. Various of protesters marching

7. Police security

Charred personal belongings lay Tuesday amid wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that was still strewn across fields of Eastern Ukraine more than seven weeks after the jet was shot down.

Chunks of fuselage carrying the Malaysian carrier's logo were lying alongside a pro-Russian rebel roadblock while books, magazines, a child's shoe, and a burned page from a Tagalog language manual lay nearby.

Evidence of the July 17 aviation disaster that killed all 298 people on board the jet remained exposed to the elements as violence between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels continued in the area, according to local residents.

"There was terrible shelling. Bombardment, cannonade - houses were shaking just like that. There is an impression that they wanted to destroy this place," local man, Viktor Sorokin said.

A pro-Russian separatist who was guarding a checkpoint near the area also said that fighting was ongoing, despite a cease-fire declared on Friday.

Meanwhile investigators in the Netherlands - who have not visited the crash site - released a preliminary report that left unanswered key questions about what exactly happened.

Its key conclusion was that the plane had no mechanical or other technical problem in the seconds before it broke up in midair likely after being struck by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft."

The slow pace of the investigation, its cautious preliminary conclusion and the fact that wreckage and human remains are still lying in Ukraine has frustrated and angered families grieving for passengers who died.

"I have no words for it, I am speechless," said Samira Calehr, a Dutch mother who lost two sons, Miguel, 11, and Shaka, 19, in the crash.

Calehr also had a message for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"How would he feel when somebody killed his family, his daughter, his grandchildren, that is all what I can say to Mr. Putin."

She added that she wanted the people responsible for the downing of the plane to be brought to justice.

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Hrabove, Rossypne, Eastern Ukraine

1. Close-up of burnt Malaysian Airlines sign at crash site

2. Charred parts of the plane under heavy rain

3. Viktor Sorokin, Hrabove resident, showing small hole from shell at the crash site UPSOUND (Russian) "This is a Grad rocket"

4. Close-up of the tail of the rocket at the crash site

5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Sorokin, Hrabove resident:

"There was terrible shelling. Bombardment, cannonade - houses were shaking just like that. There is an impression that they wanted to destroy this place."

6. Local man handling debris at crash site

7. Pan of crash site

8. Burned engines

9. Various of burnt landing gear

10. Teddy bear left at the crash site as a memorial for victims

11. Hands handling piece of shell found at the crash site

12. Charred personal belongings

13. Various of pro-Russian separatist moving the pieces of fuselage

14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) "Kipish", pro-Russian separatist guarding checkpoint near Rossypne:

"Here is Donetsk Peoples Republic. There was fierce fighting here. They say that there is a ceasefire but actually there is no ceasefire. Enakievo, Gorlovka are being bombed all the time by 'our' Ukrainian army."

15. Cutaway of Kipish's arm showing badge with emblem of the self proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic

16. Tower of destroyed tank near Hrabove village at the road to the crash site

17. Remains of destroyed tank

18. Mid of car passing by flowers brought to the crash site

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19. Photos of two victims of flight MH17, Shaka and Miguel

20. Samira Calehr, Shaka and Miguel's mother, reading out loud part of the preliminary report on the cause of the MH17 crash

21. Close up of hands on mobile phone

22. SOUNDBITE (English) Samira Calehr, mother of two victims of flight MH17:

"For me it does not matter if it has been shot down, or it is the fault of Malaysian Airlines, I blame Malaysian Airlines and also the other ones who made the plane crash of course, I mean, it cannot bring our children back here."

23. Picture of 19 year-old Shaka

24. SOUNDBITE (English) Samira Calehr, mother of two victims of flight MH17:

"How would he feel when somebody killed his family, his daughter, his grandchildren, that is all what I can say to Mr. Putin."

25. Picture of 11 year-old Miguel

26. SOUNDBITE (English) Samira Calehr, mother of two victims of flight MH17:

"Well of course it's natural you wanted as fast as it can, so actually I am reaching out for help to the United Nations, to the government to everybody please solve this issue as soon as possible because, I have no words for it, I am speechless."

27. Family photo

The Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Sunday that a Dutch team would lead the international coordination effort to identify the victims of downed Malaysian Flight MH 17.

"Tonight a military plane will leave form Eindhoven airport heading to Kharkiv. On board are people and means to set up a coordination centre in Kharkiv," he told journalists.

Grief is turning to anger for the Dutch as pro-Russian rebels hamper efforts to recover the dead and investigate the cause of the disaster.

International monitors say armed rebels have limited their access to the crash site and Ukrainian officials said armed rebels took 192 bodies away from their workers by force Sunday.

Rebel leader Alexander Borodai said the bodies recovered from the crash site in eastern Ukraine would remain in refrigerated train cars at a station in the rebel-held town of Torez, 15 kilometres (9 miles) away, until the arrival of an international aviation delegation.

Rutte told reporters that efforts were being made to bring the train into "Ukraine/Kiev controlled territory."

Asked Sunday night what delay was acceptable in returning bodies to their families, Rutte replied: "Zero. Nothing is acceptable. All this should be done two days ago. But we are working as hard as possible to ensure a quick repatriation."

Rutte added that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Frans Timmermans was travelling to New York to consult with the United Nations and members of the Security Council "to extend the international coalition."

Rutte has been pushing for Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence over the rebels in eastern Ukraine to ensure a full investigation into the tragedy that killed 298 passengers and crew on Thursday.

Travellers flying out of Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport laid flowers and signed a condolence book before boarding their flights.

1. Wide of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte entering the press conference room.

2. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister :

"It is agreed that the Netherlands will lead the international coordination of the identification of the victims. The Dutchman Gert Wibbelink will lead the team. Tonight a military plane will leave form Eindhoven airport heading to Kharkiv. On board are people and means to set up a coordination centre in Kharkiv."

3. Cameramen

4. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister:

"Today there was a lot of news about the train which stands close to the area of the crash. Inside are the dead bodies. All efforts are aimed at getting the train into Ukraine/Kiev controlled territory."

5. Close up of camera.

6. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister:

"In this context Frans Timmermans (Minister of Foreign Affairs) is travelling to New York for consultation with the United Nations and members of the Security Council to extend the international coalition, whose aim is to secure a quick repatriation and to make sure that all the facts are uncovered about the horrible events of MH17."

7. Background of press conference with Dutch coat of arms.

8. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Netherlands Prime Minister:

(Reporter: How much delay is acceptable?)

"Zero, nothing is acceptable. All this should be done two days ago. But we're working as hard as possible to ensure a quick repatriation."

9. Journalist working on laptop

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced on Wednesday that his government was delegating the investigation into the crashed Malaysian Airlines flight to the Dutch.

He was speaking at a government meeting in the capital Kiev.

Yatsenyuk also stated that Ukraine would be contacting Russia "on the issue of the violation by Russia of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Financing" saying he was concerned that Russia was directly involved in financing what he called the "terrorists' in Ukraine.

Any Russian citizens who supported "terrorists and separatists" in Ukraine would also be sanctioned, he added.

Ukraine and western nations are pressing the pro-Russian rebels who control the crash site to allow an unfettered an investigation, something Russian President Vladimir Putin said he would use his influence to achieve.

Though confident that a missile brought down the aircraft, US officials say Russia's role remains unclear.

Yatsenyuk's deputy reiterated the government's position that the plane crash was an act of terrorism and that the remains of the dead had not been treated properly by the pro-Russian rebels controlling the crash site.

Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman, who is also head of the government taskforce dealing with the MH17 crash, spoke after a ceremony at the airport in Kharkiv where dozens of the victims' bodies have been moved to, in order to be transported by military plane to the Netherlands.

"I would like to point out that what happened with the MH17 plane is considered a terrorist act by our government," he said.

"We have been trying to ensure access to the crash site but unfortunately we now have to say that the remnants and the remains at that site were treated in an inadequate manner."

The process of transporting all the bodies of the crash victims to the Netherlands is expected to take at least two more days according to Groysman.

Earlier Wednesday, two military aircraft carrying the first bodies left the embattled plains of eastern Ukraine, while British investigators began work on a pair of "black boxes" to retrieve data on the flight's last minutes.

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Kiev

1. Various of government meeting

2. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"Concerning the investigation into the air crash the government will support an initiative and make a decision about the signing of an agreement between the competent and responsible authorities of Ukraine and the Netherlands today. We are delegating the investigation into this air crash to the Netherlands to provide a completely independent and transparent process."

3. Cameraman

4. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"Ukraine as a state is sending an official note to the Russian Federation on the issue of the violation by Russia of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Financing. Ukraine is concerned that Russia is directly involved in the financing of terrorists in the territory of Ukraine, providing weapons, trained agents and the support of criminals and terrorists who are conducting crimes against humanity on Ukrainian territory. "

5. Officials at government meeting

6. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian Prime Minister:

"Ukraine will impose sanctions against Russian citizens who support terrorists and separatists in Ukraine."

7. Various of officials at end of government meeting

Kharkiv

8. Dutch ambassador Hans Docter (right), Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (middle) and Angus Houston, Former Australian Air Chief Marshal and leader of Australian delegation (left)

9. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister:

"I would like to point out that what happened with the MH17 plane is considered a terrorist act by our government. We have been trying to ensure access to the crash site but unfortunately we now have to say that the remnants and the remains at that site were treated in an inadequate manner."

10. Wide of Docter, Groysman and Houston on tarmac

11. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister:

"We have arranged this situation so that by Friday we will finish the transportation of the remains."

12. Hercules plane on tarmac, believed to be the next plane to take bodies to Amsterdam

13. Flowers in foreground, plane in background

Four days after a Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for international investigators to have full and immediate access to the crash site.

Speaking on the South Lawn of the White House Monday, Obama accused pro-Russian separatists in the area of removing evidence and bodies from the crash site and hindering investigators.

"The Russian-backed separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation. They have repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. As investigators approached, they fired their weapons into the air," he said.

Obama said the separatists' actions raise questions about what they are trying to hide.

The president said the burden is on Russia and President Vladimir Putin to compel the separatists to cooperate with the investigation.

"Given its direct influence over the separatists, Russia and President Putin, in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. That is the least that they can do," Obama said.

He also addressed the crisis in the Middle East, expressing serious concern about the rising number of Gaza casualties and calling for an immediate ceasefire.

"We have serious concerns about the rising number of Palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of Israeli lives," Obama said. "It now has to be our focus and the focus of the international community to bring about a ceasefire that ends the fighting and that can stop the deaths of innocent civilians, both in Gaza and in Israel."

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Washington, DC - 21 July 2014

1. Wide shot of President Obama walking to podium on White House South Lawn

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President

"Unfortunately, the Russian-backed separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation. They have repeatedly 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?"

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Hrabove, Ukraine - 20 July, 2014

3. Shots of plane wreckage in field

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Torez, Ukraine - 20 July 2014

4. Rebel standing with gun in front of train

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Washington, DC - 21 July 2014

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President

"Given its direct influence over the separatists, Russia and President Putin, in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. That is the least that they can do. President Putin says that he supports a full and fair investigation and I appreciate those words but they have to be supported by actions. The burden now is on Russia to insist that the separatists stop tampering with the evidence, grant investigators who are already on the ground, immediate full and unimpeded access to the crash site."

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 21 July 2014

6. People carrying a body away from the rubble following an Israeli airstrike

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Washington, DC - 21 July 2014

7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President

"We have serious concerns about the rising number of Palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of Israeli lives. That is why it now has to be our focus and the focus of the international community to bring about a ceasefire that ends the fighting and that can stop the deaths of innocent civilians, both in Gaza and in Israel."

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 21 July 2014

8. Wide push in on shelling of Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City

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Four days after a Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine, U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for international investigators to have full and immediate access to the crash site.

Speaking on the South Lawn of the White House Monday, Obama accused pro-Russian separatists in the area of removing evidence and bodies from the crash site and hindering investigators.

"The Russian-backed separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation. They have repeatedly prevented international investigators from gaining full access to the wreckage. As investigators approached, they fired their weapons into the air," he said.

Obama said the separatists' actions raise questions about what they are trying to hide.

The president said the burden is on Russia and President Vladimir Putin to compel the separatists to cooperate with the investigation.

"Given its direct influence over the separatists, Russia and President Putin, in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. That is the least that they can do," Obama said.

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Washington, DC - 21 July 2014

1.SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President

"Our immediate focus is on recovering those who were lost, investigating exactly what happened and putting forward the facts. We have to make sure the truth is out and that accountability exists."

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2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President

"Unfortunately, the Russian-backed separatists who control the area continue to block the investigation. They have repeatedly 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?"

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Torez, Ukraine - 20 July 2014

3. Rebel standing with gun in front of train

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Torez, Ukraine - 21 July 2014

4. Rebel walking with gun in front of investigators, walking past train

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Washington, DC - 21 July 2014

5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President

"Given its direct influence over the separatists, Russia and President Putin, in particular, has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. That is the least that they can do. President Putin says that he supports a full and fair investigation and I appreciate those words but they have to be supported by actions. The burden now is on Russia to insist that the separatists stop tampering with the evidence, grant investigators who are already on the ground, immediate full and unimpeded access to the crash site."

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Torez, Ukraine - 21 July 2014

6. Shots of rebels with guns surrounding investigators in front of train

An angry Dutch prime minister says he had an "extremely intense" telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in which he urged him to "show the world that he is serious about his offer to help" in the investigation of the Ukraine air disaster.

Mark Rutte told reporters on Saturday that he told Putin he must use his influence over separatist rebels in Ukraine to ensure they do not hinder efforts to investigate the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

The plane crashed on Thursday, killing all 298 passengers and crew, most of them Dutch citizens.

Rutte says he was "shocked by the images of utterly disrespectful behaviour" of rebels picking through the wreckage and personal belongings of victims at the crash scene.

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1. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte entering news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister:

"It's absolutely necessary and the first priority that the repatriation of the victims takes place as quickly as possible. Anyone who does not fully cooperate leaves a mark of suspicion on himself. I am shocked by the images of utterly disrespectful behaviour at the crash site. Against all rules of a studious investigation, there are people who are fooling around amongst the debris with personal and recognisable items of the victims. This is utterly disgusting."

3. Cutaway of Dutch coat of arms

4. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister:

"I am a little bit late for this press conference because I just had an intense telephone conversation with the Russian President. I have told him that time is running out for him to show the world that he is serious about his offer to help. Now he has to take responsibility towards the rebels and show the Netherlands and the world that he will do what is expected of him; to use his influence."

5. Close up of monitors

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine on Friday to ensure those responsible for shooting down a passenger aircraft are brought to account.

"Russia has a great responsibility in this process. I am calling very clearly, again, for the Russian President (Vladimir Putin) and the Russian government to make their contribution to finding political solutions," she said.

Separatist rebels who control the area where the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down, killing 298 people, said they had recovered most of its black boxes and were considering what to do with them.

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1. Journalists surrounding German Chancellor Angela Merkel at news conference

2. Merkel surrounded by journalists

3. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor:

"There are many, many indications that the plane was shot down. That's why we have to take the incident very seriously. The situation has once more shown that we need a political solution and Russia has a great responsibility in this process. I am calling very clearly, again, for the Russian President (Vladimir Putin) and the Russian government to make their contribution to finding political solutions."

4. Merkel during news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor:

"Now we need an independent investigation to start as soon as possible. For that a ceasefire is necessary. Those responsible, whoever they are, must be brought to account."

6. Merkel during news conference