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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

STORYLINE:

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.

As the Dutch Safety Board prepared to publish its final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, residents of the village near the site of the crash expressed concerns over how long the investigation has taken.

Some people asked why it had taken so long to remove debris from the site, including large pieces of the plane's fuselage.

Aviation experts said at the time that the site was compromised since investigators had no access to it during the first few days after the crash.

First, rebel commanders blocked OSCE observers from reaching the area, then clashes along the route to the site made it unsafe to travel there.

A preliminary report issued last year said the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur likely was hit by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," fuelling widespread speculation that it was downed by a surface-to-air missile, likely a Russian SA-11 system known as a Buk.

Western authorities have pointed blame at Russian-backed separatist rebels who were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the area where wreckage plunged to earth on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.

Russia has denied that and blamed the Ukrainian forces, who also denied downing the plane.

Countries whose citizens were killed, including the Netherlands, Malaysia and Australia, want to set up an international tribunal to prosecute any suspects. Russia vetoed the move earlier this year at the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine's foreign minister said in July that a fresh attempt would likely be made to establish a tribunal once the final report is published.

As the Dutch Safety Board prepared to publish its final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, residents of the village near the site of the crash expressed concerns over how long the investigation has taken.

Some people asked why it had taken so long to remove debris from the site, including large pieces of the plane's fuselage.

Aviation experts said at the time that the site was compromised since investigators had no access to it during the first few days after the crash.

First, rebel commanders blocked OSCE observers from reaching the area, then clashes along the route to the site made it unsafe to travel there.

A preliminary report issued last year said the Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur likely was hit by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," fuelling widespread speculation that it was downed by a surface-to-air missile, likely a Russian SA-11 system known as a Buk.

Western authorities have pointed blame at Russian-backed separatist rebels who were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the area where wreckage plunged to earth on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 people on board.

Russia has denied that and blamed the Ukrainian forces, who also denied downing the plane.

Countries whose citizens were killed, including the Netherlands, Malaysia and Australia, want to set up an international tribunal to prosecute any suspects. Russia vetoed the move earlier this year at the United Nations Security Council.

Ukraine's foreign minister said in July that a fresh attempt would likely be made to establish a tribunal once the final report is published.

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Hrabove, Eastern Ukraine - 11 October 2015

1. Close of photo of male victim of crash hanging on cross placed near the MH17 crash site

2. Truck drives past

3. Close of another photo of male victim of crash

4. Wreath of flowers placed on cross, falling over in the wind

5. Piece of debris from crash site

6. Small pieces of debris on ground near crash site

7. Various of women cutting dry grass near the church in Hrabove village

8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Gordeenkova, Hrabove resident:

"(When another plane crashed) the investigation was much faster. In a week they were already telling everyone the reason, everything was explained. Here they have doing it for one year already, why is there still no conclusion, why they didn't collect everything which remained? There was so many pieces, and they were lying there for so long, people still keep bringing them. However they organised a search and my son, who works at local mine was helping to search - they organised search brigades but.."

9. Cutaway women walking along street

10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Natalia Gordeenkova, Hrabove resident:

"I understand, one can't collect everything at once, but they even didn't take huge pieces for long time, personal stuff too, nobody took anything. That's why there will be no justice. If they needed justice, they would organise. Was it too scary? We live here too. These are their people, their country. It appears that nobody cares. Because they've already decided for themselves who is guilty in first days that "Russia is to blame, and the rebels are all guilty."

11. Local women walk by the church

12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Raisa Andreevna, Hrabove resident:

"Somebody is to blame. There should be someone to blame. Planes don't fall from the sky on their own."

13. Raisa Andreevna walks away

14. Wide of monument at crash site

15. Memorial plaque near crash site reading "In memory of 298 people, innocent victims of civil war"

16. Various of toys left near monument

17. Wide of area near crash site

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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.

The Russian Defence Ministry on Monday showed photos they said proved that Ukrainian surface-to-air systems were operating in the area at the time when the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine.

Russian officials also said they had evidence that a Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-25 fighter jet had flown "between 3 to 5 kilometres (2 to 3 miles)" from the Malaysia Airlines jet.

"(The plane) is armed with air-to-air R-60 rockets, which can hit a target from a distance of up to 12 kilometres (7 miles) and guaranteed within 5 kilometres (3 miles)," said the chief of Russia's General staff, Andrei Kartopolov.

The defence ministry officials insisted that Russia had not given the rebels any surface-to-air missiles and added they have no evidence that any missiles were launched at all.

The Russian officials also asked the United States to share any satellite images of the launch.

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1. Wide of news briefing at Russian Defence Ministry headquarters

2. Mid of Lieutenant-General Andrei Kartopolov, head of the main operations department of the Russian Army General Staff, speaking

3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kartopolov, Head of the main operations department, Russian Army General Staff :

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"The Russian air situation control registered the climb of the aircraft belonging to the Ukrainian air forces, supposedly SU-25, toward the Malaysian Boeing (Malaysia Airlines flight MH17)."

4. Wide of news briefing

5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kartopolov, Head of the main operations department, Russian Army General Staff :

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"The SU-25 (Ukrainian) aircraft was flying three to five kilometres away from the Boeing (Malaysia Airlines flight MH17)."

6. Mid of news briefing

7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Kartopolov, Head of the main operations department, Russian Army General Staff :

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"It (the Ukrainian plane) is armed with air-to-air R-60 rockets, which can hit a target from a distance of up to 12 kilometres (7 miles) and it can definitely hit within 5 kilometres (3 miles)."

8. Wide of news briefing

9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Pakushev, Chief of Air Force, Russia's General Staff:

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"At 17:21:35 pm, at the place where the Boeing (airplane) was falling apart, a new mark showing a new object appeared. This air object was observed steadily by the radio-location posts "Ust-Donetsk" and "Buturinskaya" for four minutes. The air-controller requesting the characteristics of the newly-appeared object could not get data of its parameters because most likely an aircraft of the second type of identification system was not equipped like military crafts usually do."

10. Wide as conference ends

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

A pro-Russia separatist leader said on Monday his forces continue to battle with the Ukrainian army for control over the strategic eastern Ukrainian town of Shakhtarsk.

Igor Strelkov, minister of defence for the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk, also denied any part in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.

"Yesterday and today forces of the militia (separatist fighters) massively withdrew from Donetsk to participate in the counterattack near Shakhtarsk," Strelkov told a news conference.

Panicking residents in Shakhtarsk fled their homes carrying a few possessions in plastic bags and small suitcases as shells exploded in the distance, fighting that also prevented an international police team from reaching the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash.

The fighting there and elsewhere in the area kept Dutch and Australian police from reaching the site for a second day, where they had planned to begin searching for remaining bodies and gathering forensic evidence.

"I do not know how the plane (MH 17) was shot down," Strelkov said in response to a reporter's question.

"I only know that it was shot and that's it. The only thing I can say is that my subordinates didn't shoot it down."

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1. Exterior of rebel-occupied government building

2. Detail of where Ukrainian flag symbol has been removed

3. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Strelkov, Defence Minister of self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk:

"Now the fight between Shakhtarsk and Torez continues. Militia (separatist fighters) attack the enemy (Ukrainian army) trying to push them (fighters) out of the strategically important checkpoint number 20 at the crossing between Torez and Shakhtarsk.

4. Cutaway of map

5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Strelkov, Defence Minister of self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk:

"I will not estimate the outcome (of the battle with Ukrainian government) because not all operations are clear. I can say only this: the enemy is throwing everything they have into battle, all possible resources (have been deployed) to close the circle around the militia forces of Donetsk."

6. Cutaway of helmet rested on map

7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Strelkov,Defence Minister of self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk:

"Yesterday and today forces of the militia (fighters) massively withdrew from Donetsk to participate in the counterattack near Shakhtarsk. After accomplishing the task, they will return to their positions."

8. Cutaway of map

9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igor Strelkov, Defence Minister of self-proclaimed People's Republic of Donetsk:

"I cannot comment on anything, because I do not know how the plane (MH 17) was shot down. I only know that it was shot and that's it. The only thing I can say is that my subordinates didn't shoot it down. Igor Bezler (another separatist military leader) is in Horlivka, the plane was shot in a different place.

(reporter question: What kind of support do you receive from Russia?)

Strelkov: "Mainly moral."

Ukraine blamed on Sunday pro-Russia rebels for stalling the recovery mission of the Malaysia Airlines plane crashed last month in eastern Ukraine.

Andriy Lysenko, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council spokesperson, said that rebels had prohibited the use of an unmanned drone at the crash site, operated by OSCE (The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) monitors in Ukraine.

"The use of the unmanned drone would give an opportunity to quickly inspect the field and overlook the place from a wider plan, as well as find new evidence. It can also find mines and detect the location of the militia," Lysenko said.

"Also, the drone could prove that the artillery fire was launched by terrorists," he added.

The work of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitors and group of the Dutch and Australian experts at the crash site has been postponed for days due to heavy fighting between pro-Russia forces and the Ukrainian Army.

Lysenko said that OSCE team had to stop their work on Saturday because of heavy gunfire about two kilometres (1.2 miles) away from the crash site.

This came after the international team of investigators were allowed on Thursday through a checkpoint at the village of Rozsypne leading to the crash site of Flight MH17 to get a first look at where it was brought down by a missile two weeks ago.

Thursday's drive took the convoy of investigators and Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) officials from the rebel-held city of Donetsk through the town of Debaltseve, which was earlier this week retaken by the government, and later back into rebel territory.

The OSCE mission will be launched in full speed on Monday, with over five teams working on the site, according to Lysenko.

It has been estimated that up to 80 bodies - out of 288 passengers on the downed MH17 flight - are still at the site.

AP TELEVISION

1. Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman at news conference

2. Lysenko speaking

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman:

"The Australian experts were not allowed to use an unmanned drone to inspect the site, as OSCE experts told us in their statement. Later on, the mission representatives were forced to stop their work, as Alexander Hug (Deputy Chief monitor of OSCE Special Mission to Ukraine) said, the work could not go on because of artillery fire which was carried out by the terrorists about two kilometres (1.2 miles) away from the crash site."

4. Journalist asking question

5. Lysenko behind camera screen

6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman:

"The ban of using the unmanned drone, imposed by the terrorists, shows that rebels are not interested in an objective investigation. The use of the unmanned drone would give an opportunity to quickly inspect the field and overlook the place from a wider plan, as well as find new evidence. It can also find mines and detect the location of the militia. Also, the drone could prove that the artillery fire was launched by terrorists."

7. Lysenko speaking next to map

8. Close up of map showing fighting areas

9. News conference

A Russian state-controlled missile-maker on Tuesday said that it's own investigation of last year's crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe.

Results of the Dutch investigation are to be released later on Tuesday.

Yan Novikov, head of the Russian Almaz-Antey concern, speaking at a news conference, did not specify what was in the report and he did not say whether he had been given an advance look.

The Malaysian airliner crashed on 17 July 2014, in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine, and is widely believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

Ukraine and Western countries contend the missile was fired by Russian troops or Russian-backed separatists.

The allegations have focused on the Russian-made Buk missile system, which has several variants.

Novikov said evidence shows that if the plane was hit by a Buk, it was fired from the village of Zaroshenske, which Russia says was under Ukrainian government control at the time.

A Russian state-controlled missile-maker on Tuesday said that it's own investigation of last year's crash of the MH17 airliner over rebel-held eastern Ukraine contradicts conclusions from a Dutch probe.

Results of the Dutch investigation are to be released later on Tuesday.

Yan Novikov, head of the Russian Almaz-Antey concern, speaking at a news conference, did not specify what was in the report and he did not say whether he had been given an advance look.

The Malaysian airliner crashed on 17 July 2014, in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine, and is widely believed to have been shot down by a surface-to-air missile.

Ukraine and Western countries contend the missile was fired by Russian troops or Russian-backed separatists.

The allegations have focused on the Russian-made Buk missile system, which has several variants.

Novikov said evidence shows that if the plane was hit by a Buk, it was fired from the village of Zaroshenske, which Russia says was under Ukrainian government control at the time.

Moscow - 13 October 2015

1. Panel at news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yan Novikov, General Director of Almaz-Antey:

"The results of the experiment completely disprove the conclusions of the Dutch commission about the type of missile and the place of launching. Today we can definitely say and will show in presentation that if the Boeing 777 was shot down with air defence missile system "Buk" it was hit by missile 9M38 from the Zaroshenske settlement. After two experiments, the only unclear issue for us is presence of submunitions of missile 9M38M1 with I-beams among evidences attached to this case."

3. Video presented on screen at news conference depicting preparation for experiment

4. Various of explosions shown in video at news conference

5. Cameramen

6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Mikhail Malyshevsky, Advisor to Chief Engineer of Almaz Antey ++NOT VERBATIM++ ++SOUNDBITE OVERLAID BY GRAPHIC OF PLANE SHOWN DURING PRESENTATION++

"Based on the comprehensive analysis of the plane's damages, we made the conclusions that the most significant damages were in the pilot's cabin, mainly on it's left side, and the fuselage of plane, mainly on the bends. That is very important because we paid special attention to the damage of the fuselage specifically showing the order of the plane's destruction."

7. Various of images of cabin damage shown on screen at news conference

FILE: Hrabove - 18 July 2014

8. Wide of Malaysia Airlines wing in field of wheat

9. Scattered luggage and passenger's belongings

10. Close of passenger's Malaysia Airlines medical record book and passport holder

11. Scattered belongings and luggage including "I HEART Amsterdam" T-shirt

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FILE: Hrabove - 21 July 2014

12. Various of a crane lifting pieces of plane wreckage

13. Emergency workers standing next to wreckage

14. A large piece of wreckage being overturned

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.

AP TELEVISION

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

Germany's Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier expressed dismay on Monday at the refusal of separatists in eastern Ukraine to release the bodies of victims of the MH17 crash.

Speaking to reporters in the German capital, Steinmeier said their behaviour was "far from civilisation."

The bodies of the victims, most from the Netherlands, have become a part of the conflict in Ukraine because they could hold evidence of what brought the plane down on July 17.

Steinmeier called on Russia to distance itself from the separatists who are engaged fighting against the authorities in Kiev.

On the fighting in Gaza, the German diplomat expressed hope an Egyptian brokered ceasefire will succeed.

AP TELEVISION

1. German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and Hungary's Foreign Minister Tibor Navracsics arriving for news conference

2. SOUNDBITE: (German) Frank Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister

"To not allow the transport and dignified funeral of the bodies after such an incident is a behaviour far from civilisation and our own beliefs. I can't imagine that the east Ukrainian people want to be represented by the separatists still."

3. Close of camera

4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Frank Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister:

"With the possibilities we have we will call on the Russian President, to distance himself from the behaviour of the separatists. And we will, with the possibilities we European foreign ministers have, increase the pressure on people politically involved in the situation."

5. Wide of Steinmeier and Navracsics

6. Mid of photographer

7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Frank Walter Steinmeier, German Foreign Minister:

"There is no way around a ceasefire and I hope that the Egyptian initiative doesn't get lost but supported by the other members of the Arab league. I hope that the Egyptian proposal or the expanded Egyptian proposal is finally the foundation for a ceasefire."

8. Mid of Steinmeier and Navracsics

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."

POOL

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

POOL

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."

AP TELEVISION

Gaza City, Gaza Strip - 21 July 2014

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

POOL

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

Malaysians expressed their anger and frustration on Sunday over a perceived lack of cooperation by Russia in the investigation on the Malaysian Airlines flight 17's crash in a rebel-controlled area in eastern Ukraine.

The Ukrainian government and separatist rebels accuse each other of firing a surface-to-air missile at the Boeing 777 with almost 300 people aboard.

Both deny shooting down the plane.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is conducting investigations into the cause of the incident, said separatists denied full access to the plane crash site.

Amid wide calls for an international investigation, doubts arose about whether the evidence was being compromised before inspectors ever reach the scene.

"Of course I am angry. I think there must be something, there must be some action that they have to do to make the government and also for the investigators to access and do it, " said a 27-year-old Nur Zehan Abu Bakar, who works in the education sector.

Others Malaysians tried to remain calm and were waiting for the official investigation to be completed. "I encourage everyone to stay calm to look at what actually happened," said 36-year-old dancer JS Wong.

James Chin, professor at the Monash University in Malaysia, said that "without the co-operation of Russia, it is almost impossible for the Malaysian team or for any international investigation to take place."

He said he believes "the Malaysia government takes the position that we cannot antagonise the Russians now because the Russian holds the key to the investigations."

Malaysia is Russia's main trading partner in Southeast Asia.

The two countries have had healthy relations in the past with trade between both valued at 1,903 (b) billion US dollars in 2007, according to the Russian embassy website.

Russia is one of Malaysia's main military aircraft seller, with the Malaysian air force having 18 Sukhoi fighter jets in its fleet.

AP TELEVISION

20 July 2014

1. Various of Petronas Towers

2. Traffic in the city centre

3. Malaysian national flag with pedestrians walking in background

4. People walking in the city centre

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nur Zehan Abu Bakar, Malaysian citizen:

"Of course I am angry. I think there must be something, there must be some action that they have to do to make the government and also for the investigators to access and do it."

6. People walking on street

7. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Foo, Malaysian citizen:

"I think they (Russia) are a big country. We are a very small country. So how much can we (do), unless all nations in the world join force and stop buying their things, whatever goods. If by only Malaysian, I don't think we can have much effect on it."

8. Various of traffic

9. SOUNDBITE (English) JS Wong, Malaysian citizen:

"For now I will try to calm down myself rather than hear too much noises, but I don't have the evidence form different perspectives. There is no point for me to get emotional at the moment. I encourage everyone to stay calm to look at what actually happened. That only will define who has to take responsibility."

10. James Chin, political scientist at Monash University in Malaysia

11. SOUNDBITE (English) James Chin, political scientist at Monash University in Malaysia:

"The Malaysian government really cannot do much. The Malaysia government takes the position that we cannot antagonise the Russians now because the Russian holds the key to the investigations. For example, we know that the Russians are very close the the rebels who are fighting and controlling the area where the aircraft came down. So, without the co-operation of Russia, it is almost impossible for the Malaysian team or for any international investigation to take place."

19 July 2014

12. Various of Malaysia Airlines planes in the airport

The chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, claimed on Friday that three Russian servicemen crossed the border into Ukraine with a heavy missile launcher and fired at the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew miles above the country's battlefield.

Valentyn Nalyvaichenko told reporters the SBU has been able to identify "a place on the border where a Buk (a heavy missile launcher) crossed into the territory of Ukraine before the attack" from records of conversations between pro-Russia separatists.

He added that those conversations "clearly confirmed" that the crew of a Buk missile system "entered from the territory of Russia and were Russian servicemen."

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the National Security and Defence Council said Ukrainian forces did not carry out any actions aimed at "hitting targets in the air".

Andriy Lysenko added that "an inventory of aircraft systems and missile launchers located on Ukrainian territory concluded that all missiles are in stock. The Ukrainian aviation did not work in the area of the air crash and it generally does not work at such altitude".

The Ukrainian government in Kiev, the separatist pro-Russia rebels they are fighting and the Russia government that Ukraine accuses of supporting the rebels all deny shooting the passenger plane down. Moscow also denies backing the rebels.

The attack on Thursday afternoon killed 298 people from nearly a dozen nations - including holiday-makers, students and a large contingent of scientists heading to an AIDS conference in Australia.

Andriy Sybiga, a Ukraine Foreign Ministry representative said 181 bodies had been found as of Friday afternoon.

AP TELEVISION

1. Wide of Security Service chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko during news conference

2. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Head of Security Service of Ukraine:

"Two things have been ascertained (from records of separatists' conversations). The first one is that we showed a place on the border where a Buk (a heavy missile launcher) crossed into the territory of Ukraine before the attack. And terrorists clearly confirmed that the crew of this Buk entered from the territory of Russia and were Russian servicemen."

3. Journalists

4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, Head of Security Service of Ukraine:

"It is most important for us to get from the Russian side the names of all three crew members - Russian servicemen - who directly managed a Buk anti-aircraft missile system and directly pressed the trigger and launched a missile against a civilian passenger aircraft. We emphasise this is a key detail in the Ukrainian, and now international, investigation."

5. Wide of Nalyvaichenko presenting evidence of what he says is Russian implication in air crash on the screen

6. Mid of journalists

7. Wide of Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman arriving at news conference

8. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Lysenko, National Security and Defence Council spokesman:

"We would like to emphasise that the (Ukrainian) anti-terrorist operation forces did not execute any actions aimed at hitting targets in the air. An inventory of aircraft systems and missile launchers located on Ukrainian territory concluded that all missiles are in stock. The Ukrainian aviation did not work in the area of the air crash and it generally does not work at such altitude."

9. Cutaway of cameramen

10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andriy Sybiga, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry representative:

"As of today, 181 bodies have been detected. Indeed terrorists (separatists) do resist, but in spite of this the rescue services are working at the (crash) site."

11. Various of journalists

Local miners in eastern Ukraine were tasked on Saturday with removing bodies from the site of the Malaysia Airlines flight 17 crash.

The men told The Associated Press they received a call from their chief to go to Hrabove to help with recovery efforts.

It was not immediately clear where the bodies would be taken, but according to a separatist leader one possible location was Mariupol, in southern Ukraine.

Bodies were loaded onto trucks driven by pro-Russia separatists, according to AP reporters on the scene.

International monitors have been moving gingerly among decomposing bodies on Saturday, trying to secure the eight square miles in Ukraine where the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 smashed into the ground on Thursday.

Meanwhile, in Kiev, Ukraine's foreign minister called on the international community to put pressure on Russia and pro-Russia separatists to allow access to the site.

Speaking at a news briefing, he said that Ukrainian and international investigation teams had only been given sporadic access to the site by the pro-Russian fighters that control most of the area.

"What we need now is clear international pressure, also on Russia, because Russia has influence on these terrorists, to provide clear and unhindered access to the place of crash," he said.

Ukrainian officials earlier said that separatists had removed 28 bodies from the crash site and had not allowed any bodies to be removed by Ukrainian Government teams or any international teams.

Klimkin said the Ukrainian authorities were ready to transport the bodies to the town of Kharkiv where a centre had been set up as soon as they were given access.

Klimkin went on to say that negotiations with the pro-Russia rebels were on-going though the trilateral group, consisting of Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE.

Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman spoke at a later briefing and said that the highest priority for the Ukrainian government was to make sure the bodies of the dead are transferred to their respective homelands.

AP TELEVISION

Hrabove

1. Pan left from wreckage to body bags

2. Mid of bodies being carried in field

3. Close of body bags

4. Mid of two men placing bodies in bags

5. Close two men moving a seat

6. Tracking shot of a body being removed

7. Mid of recovery worker calling for a doctor UPSOUND (Russian) "Hurry up! Hurry up doctor!", zoom out

8. Another recovery worker having a fit and doctors arriving

9. Close of body bag being hoisted onto a truck

10. Mid of miners walking down road near crash site

11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yuroy (no last name given), miner:

"Horror. This is all terrible."

(Reporter: What did you do today? How did you help?)

"With the search. Then we helped load bodies."

12. Mid of a silhouette of men moving body, sunset in distance

Kiev

13. Wide of Ukrainian foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin speaking at news conference

14. Cutaway of cameramen

15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian foreign minister:

"What we need now is clear international pressure, also on Russia, because Russia has influence on these terrorists, to provide clear and unhindered access to the place of crash. And to allow the international investigation team to be there, to be on the ground, to be on site, and to be able to carry out effective and transparent investigation."

16. Wide of news conference

17. Cutaway of camera

18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian foreign minister:

"As I have said, critical priority is to recover all bodies. We are ready for that. We set up a special centre in Kharkiv where we have all relevant specialists."

19. Cutaway of photographer

20. Cutaway of cameramen

21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Pavlo Klimkin, Ukrainian foreign minister:

"I'm not carrying out any negotiations with terrorists. We have the trilateral contact group, which is in contact with the terrorists. It is up to the group to have consultations. And they had and they have extremely intense consultations over the last couple of days."

22. Wide of Volodymyr Groysman, vice prime minister of Ukraine and minister for regional development

23. SOUNDBITE: (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, vice prime minister of Ukraine and minister for regional development:

"We are deeply upset together with the relatives of the ones who died and we put in our best efforts in order to transfer the bodies to their homeland, and after applying necessary procedures, to return them to their families for burying. "

24. End of news conference

US President Barack Obama said on Friday that evidence so far indicates that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by a surface-to-air missile from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists.

He noted it wasn't the first time the separatists had shot down planes in the region, adding that a "steady flow of support from Russia" had included heavy weapons and anti-aircraft weapons.

He called for an immediate ceasefire to allow for a full investigation.

"Evidence must not be tampered with. Investigators need to access the crash site and the solemn task of returning those who were lost on board the plane to their loved ones needs to go forward immediately," Obama said.

The attack on Thursday afternoon killed people from nearly a dozen nations, including tourists, students and a large contingent of scientists.

At least 189 of the dead were from the Netherlands.

Obama said one American was on board.

The plane was shot down in eastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, in an area where Moscow's support for pro-Russia separatists has alarmed the US and its European allies.

The incident occurred one day after Obama announced broader economic sanctions against Russia for its threatening moves in Ukraine.

AP TELEVISION

1. US President Barack Obama entering news conference

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

"Evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air missile that was launched from an area that is controlled by Russian backed separatists inside of Ukraine. We also know that this is not the first time a plane has been shot down in eastern Ukraine. Over the last several weeks, Russian backed separatists have shot down a Ukrainian transport plane and a Ukrainian helicopter, and they claimed responsibility for shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet. Moreover, we know that these separatists have received a steady flow of support from Russia. This includes arms and training. It includes heavy weapons and it includes anti-aircraft weapons.

++SECOND OF BLACK SCREEN++

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

"An Asian airliner was destroyed in European skies filled with citizens from many countries. So there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. The UN 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, pro-Russian separatists, and Ukraine must adhere to an immediate ceasefire. Evidence must not be tampered with. Investigators need to access the crash site and the solemn task of returning those who were lost on board the plane to their loved ones needs to go forward immediately."

4. Obama leaving news conference