Malaysia will leave "no stones unturned" in its quest for justice in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the nation's defence minister said on Friday.

Hishammuddin Hussein was addressing journalists at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang after returning from Ukraine.

Flight MH17 went down on July 17 over Ukrainian territory held by pro-Russian rebels, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.

Hishammudin Hussein, who also visited Russia and the Netherlands during the trip, said that Russia had said they will continue working with Malaysian authorities and had given a commitment that "they too want to find the truth".

He stressed Malaysia's own commitment to bringing back the remains of passengers of the plane that were still in the region

Meanwhile on Friday, the chief Dutch prosecutor overseeing the criminal investigation into the downing of the jet said the possibility that Flight 17 was shot down from the ground is the "most likely" scenario.

A separate Dutch air crash investigation concluded this week that the plane was hit from the outside by numerous high-energy objects, but stopped short of calling it a missile strike.

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1. Wide of Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein arriving at news conference, zoom in

2. Mid of photographers

3. Wide of news conference

4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defence Minister:

"I must say that the Russians have indicated to me that they are working closely with us and they will continue to do that. They've given us, given me a commitment that they too want to find the truth."

5. Mid of reporters writing

6. Mid of cameramen

7. Pan from media to Hussein

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hishammuddin Hussein, Malaysian Defence Minister:

"No stones unturned when it comes to finding justice for MH17, to bring back the remains of the remaining passengers that are still there, not only from Malaysia but from the other nations also."

9. Mid of reporters writing

10. Close of cameraman

11. Mid of reporter

12. Hishammuddin Hussein exiting

Russia's Ambassador to Malaysia said on Tuesday that experts had confirmed that the black boxes of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 that crashed in eastern Ukraine "were not tampered with."

Lyudmila Vorobyeva said that Russia was not playing "the blame game," as claimed by some Western countries.

On Monday pro-Moscow separatists released a train packed with bodies of the plane crash victims and handed over the black boxes from the downed Malaysia Airlines plane, four days after it got shot down.

With body parts decaying in sweltering heat and signs that evidence at the crash site was mishandled, anger in Western capitals has mounted at the rebels and their allies in Moscow.

The bodies of the 298 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 as it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

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1. Car driving into Russian Embassy in Malaysia

2. Sign of Russian Embassy

3. Russian Ambassador to Malaysia sitting at press conference

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyudmila Vorobyeva, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"The black boxes have been handed over to Malaysian experts and Malaysian experts have certified that they were not tampered with. That are the words by Malaysian experts."

5. Cutaway of Vorobyeva speaking

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyudmila Vorobyeva, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"The rebels do not possess any defence systems that are capable of shooting a plane at the altitude of ten kilometres.They do not have this kind of systems. Russia has never supplied this kind of system."

7. Cutaway of media

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lyudmila Vorobyeva, Russian Ambassador to Malaysia:

"In Russia, we are not playing these games that are our Western counterparts is engaging very much into - blaming someone and accusing some parties without any evidence. We are not doing that. We are calling for thorough investigation that could produce evidence of who is responsible for this tragedy."

9. Media filming

10. Vorobyeva leaving

11. Various of woman holding banner reading (English): "Justice for MH 17" in front of Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur

13. Security in front of embassy

The Malaysian Transport Minister said on Tuesday that a preliminary report into the MH17 crash confirmed that the aircraft was in an "airworthy condition."

Liow Tiong Lai was speaking at a news conference following the release of a report on the aviation disaster by the Dutch Safety Board.

Liow also said that Malaysia would pursue whoever caused the crash and would bring them to justice.

The preliminary report concluded that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was likely struck by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine.

The report stopped short of saying the Boeing 777 was shot down by a missile, but its findings appear to point to that conclusion.

MH17 suddenly plunged out of the sky on July 17 over territory held by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew on board.

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1. Malaysian Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai arriving at news conference

2. Liow and other officials standing at podium

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"The investigations confirm that the MAS (Malaysia Airlines) crew were qualified to conduct the flight and that the aircraft was in airworthy condition."

4. Pan of Liow at news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"Somebody has to be responsible for this accident, somebody should have press the button to shoot down the plane. We would like to find out who is the person."

6. Two reporters at news conference

7. Liow and other officials at podium

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"So once we can determine the culprits then we will definitely demand justice and we will bring them to the arbitration or to the court. It can be international court or it can be Malaysian court."

9. Liow holding up copy of preliminary report into MH17 crash

10. Wide of Liow speaking at news conference

11. Three reporters on mobile phones

12. Liow leaving the news conference

Nearly four years after the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine, family members of the victims onboard the passenger jet continue to seek justice.

On Friday, the Netherlands and Australia announced they were holding Moscow legally responsible for its role in the missile attack.

The announcement came a day after international prosecutors said they had unequivocal evidence of Russian involvement in the downing of a Malaysian passenger jet.

Don Shahidan Kassim, a relative of Dora Shahila Kassim, the chief stewardess onboard MH17, said he hopes the Malaysian and Australian governments will take action against Russia.

On Thursday, a Dutch-led international team of investigators said they had strong evidence that the Buk missile system that brought down the Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur flight came from a Russia-based military unit, the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade based in the Russian city of Kursk.

It was the most explicit link yet published by the investigators between Moscow and the downing of the flight known as MH17.

Kuala Lumpur - 26 May 2018

1. Don Shahidan Kassim, relative of Dora Shahila Kassim, Chief stewardess on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, looking at photo book

2. Close of Don Shahidan Kassim's hands flicking through photo book

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Shahidan Kassim, relative of Dora Shahila Kassim, Chief stewardess on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:

"All of the next of kin expect justice because being that a passenger plane, how come an army such as the Russians would shoot it down? Whatever reason they have, they should not shoot the plane down. So we want justice, so we want our government and others, I think the Australian government, people want justice, so we are still pursuing it and hope the Malaysian government will still pursue it as a next of kin we are really hoping for justice."

4. Photo of Dora (screen bottom left), tilt up to photos of other crew members of MH17

5. SOUNDBITE (English) Don Shahidan Kassim, relative of Dora Shahila Kassim, Chief stewardess on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:

"It has been four years already, this coming 17 July, four years already. And we are not informed, any (no) government has been able to take action against the Russian government, so we are still hoping but if the Australian government is able to take action against the Russian, we are happy with it because we want justice. I think also that the Australian people want justice but it's been four years and we do not know whether this year or next year or the next coming five years our government or the other governments will be able to prosecute Russia about this issue."

6. Don Shahidan Kassim looking at photo book

7. Close of photo of Dora

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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

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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

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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

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11. The train pulling away from the station

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Donetsk - 22 July 2014

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

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Kiev - 22 July 2014

14. Various of lawmakers pushing each other

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Petropavlivka - 23 July 2014

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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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

***

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.

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus016923

VOICE-OVER:

THE CHARRED REMAINS OF DOWNED MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 17 STILL LIE IN THE FIELDS OF EASTERN UKRAINE.

PRO-RUSSIAN FIGHTERS STILL PICKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DEBRIS.

NEARLY TWO MONTHS AFTER THE FATAL CRASH, A PRELIMINARY FINDING ...

(SOT: Tjibbe Joustra, Chairman of Dutch Safety Board:)

"Flight MH17 broke down in the air because of a lot of damage of the aircraft caused by objects - high energy objects - penetrating the aircraft, from outside. "

THE REPORT BY THE DUTCH SAFETY BOARD STOPPED SHORT OF SAYING THE BOEING 777 WAS SHOT DOWN BY A MISSILE, BUT ITS FINDINGS POINT TO THAT CONCLUSION.

(SOT: Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister)

"For the next of kin this is another sad and difficult moment. Because behind all the facts the board has presented in words and images, is great personal loss. "

MH-17 PLUNGED OUT OF THE SKY JULY 17 OVER PRO-RUSSIAN REBEL-HELD TERRITORY IN UKRAINE, KILLING ALL 298 PASSENGERS AND CREW ON BOARD.

ONGOING CLASHES BETWEEN PRO-RUSSIAN REBELS AND UKRAINIAN FORCES HAMPERING INVESTIGATORS ATTEMPTS TO VISIT THE CRASH SITE.

INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY COULD FIND NO TECHNICAL FAULT WITH THE PLANE.

LEFT UNSAID, WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE ...

(SOT: Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister)

"Somebody has to be responsible for this accident // We would like to find out who ... "

MALAYSIA VOWING TO PURSUE WHOEVER CAUSED THE CRASH AND BRINGING THEM TO JUSTICE.

PRO-RUSSIAN REBELS OFFICIALLY DENY HAVING SHOT DOWN THE PLANE, BUT UNOFFICIALLY ONE SENIOR REBEL ADMITTED THEY WERE BEHIND A MISSILE STRIKE.

LOCALS REPORT SEEING BODIES FALLING FROM THE SKY ...

(SOT: Kipish (only one name given), pro-Russian separatist)

"Bits and pieces were falling into yards and houses. People were falling already dead from such a height. From the sky one woman had fallen in a chair straight through the roof of an old lady's house. "

FOR FAMILY MEMBERS, THE SAD PROCESSION CONTINUES.

THE REMAINS OF TWO MORE MALAYSIAN VICTIMS ARRIVING BACK FOR BURIAL TO KUALA LUMPUR ON TUESDAY.

A FULL REPORT ON THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH IS EXPECTED BY NEXT JULY.

TRACY BROWN /Associated Press

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

1. Wide of crash site and charred debris

2. Close-up of child's toy

3. Wide of pro-Russian separatist, who gives his name as Kipish, near remains of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, viewed through opening in fuselage

4. Various of armed pro-Russian separatist moving pieces of fuselage

5. Close up of holes in fuselage

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The Hague, Netherlands - 9 September 2014

6. Medium of Dutch Safety Board official handing out copies of preliminary report to journalists

7. Close of preliminary report cover

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tjibbe Joustra, Chairman of Dutch Safety Board: (Transcript below)

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

9. Various, debris

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The Hague, Netherlands - 9 September 2014

10. Close-up pan pages of preliminary report

11. Close-up reporters reading report

12. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister: (Transcript below)

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

13. Wide of part of plane

14. Close of charred debris

15. Close of personal belongings of passengers

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Mariupol, Ukraine - 7 September 2014

16. Burned out vehicle by the side of the road

17. Smoke coming from burned vehicle

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The Hague, Netherlands - 9 September 2014

18. Zoom into report

19. Pan, details of report

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Putrajaya, Malaysia - 9 September 2014

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister: (Transcript below)

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

21. Mid of person on of bicycle passing by crash site

22. Wide of person on of bicycle passing by crash site

23. Pan from seats to debris

24. Close-up debris, including shoe

25. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kipish (only one name given), pro-Russian separatist: (Transcript below)

AP TELEVISION

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 9 September 201

26. Relatives of victims crying

27. Casket being unloaded

28. Wide, tarmac

29. Close-up casket

VOICE-OVER:

THE CHARRED REMAINS OF DOWNED MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 17 STILL LIE IN THE FIELDS OF EASTERN UKRAINE.

PRO-RUSSIAN FIGHTERS STILL PICKING THEIR WAY THROUGH THE DEBRIS.

NEARLY TWO MONTHS AFTER THE FATAL CRASH, A PRELIMINARY FINDING ...

(SOT: Tjibbe Joustra, Chairman of Dutch Safety Board:)

"Flight MH17 broke down in the air because of a lot of damage of the aircraft caused by objects - high energy objects - penetrating the aircraft, from outside. "

THE REPORT BY THE DUTCH SAFETY BOARD STOPPED SHORT OF SAYING THE BOEING 777 WAS SHOT DOWN BY A MISSILE, BUT ITS FINDINGS POINT TO THAT CONCLUSION.

(SOT: Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister)

"For the next of kin this is another sad and difficult moment. Because behind all the facts the board has presented in words and images, is great personal loss. "

MH-17 PLUNGED OUT OF THE SKY JULY 17 OVER PRO-RUSSIAN REBEL-HELD TERRITORY IN UKRAINE, KILLING ALL 298 PASSENGERS AND CREW ON BOARD.

ONGOING CLASHES BETWEEN PRO-RUSSIAN REBELS AND UKRAINIAN FORCES HAMPERING INVESTIGATORS ATTEMPTS TO VISIT THE CRASH SITE.

INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY COULD FIND NO TECHNICAL FAULT WITH THE PLANE.

LEFT UNSAID, WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE ...

(SOT: Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister)

"Somebody has to be responsible for this accident // We would like to find out who ... "

MALAYSIA VOWING TO PURSUE WHOEVER CAUSED THE CRASH AND BRINGING THEM TO JUSTICE.

PRO-RUSSIAN REBELS OFFICIALLY DENY HAVING SHOT DOWN THE PLANE, BUT UNOFFICIALLY ONE SENIOR REBEL ADMITTED THEY WERE BEHIND A MISSILE STRIKE.

LOCALS REPORT SEEING BODIES FALLING FROM THE SKY ...

(SOT: Kipish (only one name given), pro-Russian separatist)

"Bits and pieces were falling into yards and houses. People were falling already dead from such a height. From the sky one woman had fallen in a chair straight through the roof of an old lady's house. "

FOR FAMILY MEMBERS, THE SAD PROCESSION CONTINUES.

THE REMAINS OF TWO MORE MALAYSIAN VICTIMS ARRIVING BACK FOR BURIAL TO KUALA LUMPUR ON TUESDAY.

A FULL REPORT ON THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH IS EXPECTED BY NEXT JULY.

TRACY BROWN /Associated Press

AP TELEVISION

Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

1. Wide of crash site and charred debris

2. Close-up of child's toy

3. Wide of pro-Russian separatist, who gives his name as Kipish, near remains of downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, viewed through opening in fuselage

4. Various of armed pro-Russian separatist moving pieces of fuselage

5. Close up of holes in fuselage

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The Hague, Netherlands - 9 September 2014

6. Medium of Dutch Safety Board official handing out copies of preliminary report to journalists

7. Close of preliminary report cover

8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tjibbe Joustra, Chairman of Dutch Safety Board: (Transcript below)

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

9. Various, debris

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The Hague, Netherlands - 9 September 2014

10. Close-up pan pages of preliminary report

11. Close-up reporters reading report

12. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Mark Rutte, Dutch Prime Minister: (Transcript below)

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

13. Wide of part of plane

14. Close of charred debris

15. Close of personal belongings of passengers

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Mariupol, Ukraine - 7 September 2014

16. Burned out vehicle by the side of the road

17. Smoke coming from burned vehicle

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The Hague, Netherlands - 9 September 2014

18. Zoom into report

19. Pan, details of report

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Putrajaya, Malaysia - 9 September 2014

20. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister: (Transcript below)

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Rozsypne, Ukraine - 9 September 2014

21. Mid of person on of bicycle passing by crash site

22. Wide of person on of bicycle passing by crash site

23. Pan from seats to debris

24. Close-up debris, including shoe

25. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Kipish (only one name given), pro-Russian separatist: (Transcript below)

AP TELEVISION

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 9 September 201

26. Relatives of victims crying

27. Casket being unloaded

28. Wide, tarmac

29. Close-up casket

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus014210

{voice-over script}

AFTER DAYS OF HAPHAZARD TREATMENT OF THE BODIES, A TRAIN CARRYING THE REMAINS OF MOST OF THOSE KILLED ON MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 17 ARRIVED IN THE EASTERN UKRAINIAN CITY OF KHARKIV (KHAR-kif) ON TUESDAY, WHERE AUTHORITIES HAVE SET UP A CRASH INVESTIGATION CENTER.

THE BODIES WILL THEN BE SENT TO THE NETHERLANDS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND FORENSIC INVESTIGATION....A JOURNEY WHICH HAS BEEN AGONIZINGLY SLOW FOR VICTIMS' RELATIVES.

OF THE 298 WHO DIED ABOARD THE AMSTERDAM TO KUALA LUMPUR FLIGHT, 193 WERE DUTCH CITIZENS.

FIVE DAYS AFTER THE DISASTER, THE CRASH SITE ITSELF REMAINED UNSECURE, BUT A TEAM OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATORS WAS FINALLY INSPECTING THE WRECKAGE.

EARLY TUESDAY, SEPARATIST REBELS ALSO HANDED OVER BOTH BLACK BOXES FROM THE FLIGHT TO MALAYSIAN INVESTIGATORS, ON THE CONDITION THEY BE DELIVERED TO THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION.

{SOT: (English) Colonel Mohamad Sakri, Malaysian investigator}

"I can see that the black box is intact even though a little bit damaged, but in a good condition."

AS INTERNATIONAL CALLS GREW FOR MOSCOW TO EXERT GREATER CONTROL OVER THE SEPARATISTS, THE DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER SAID THE EUROPEAN UNION IS IMPOSING NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST MORE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS.

IN MOSCOW, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAID RUSSIA WILL DO "EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER" TO FACILITATE AN INVESTIGATION...

BUT HE LASHED OUT AT THE WEST, INSISTING NATO IS ESCALATING CONFLICT IN THE REGION.

{SOT: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, President of Russia}

"No matter what our foreign colleagues are saying, we see what is really going on..."

ACROSS THE GLOBE, REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS CONTINUED...

OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE TO SCHIPOL AIRPORT IN AMSTERDAM, A FLORAL TRIBUTE WAS GROWING BY THE DAY.

AND IN KUALA LUMPUR, HUNDREDS PROTESTED OUTSIDE THE RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN EMBASSIES, DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE TRAGEDY... AND JUSTICE FOR THE 298 WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.

KELLY DASCHLE, ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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Kharkiv, Ukraine - 22 July 2014

1. Shots of refrigerated train carrying bodies of plane crash victims arriving in Kharkiv

2. Wide shot of train pulling into station

3. Mid shot of conductor on train

4. Officials pulling police tape around investigation center

5. Police cars driving towards investigation center

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Hrabove, Ukraine - 22 July 2014

6. Various shots of investigators in field looking at wreckage

7. Mid shot of investigators standing in a group next to field

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Donetsk, Ukraine - 22 July 2014

8. Close of flight MH17 black box

9. Mid of photographers

10. Malaysian officials placing black box in a bag

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel Mohamad Sakri, Malaysian investigator

"I can see that the black box is intact even though a little bit damaged."

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Torez, Ukraine - 21 July 2014

12. Mid of pro-Russia rebels getting out of car

RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA

Moscow - 22 July 2014

13. Russian President Vladimir Putin entering room

14. Wide of Putin sitting down at Russia's Security Council meeting

15. Mid of Security Council members

16. Putin speaking

17. Wide shot of meeting

18. SOUNDBITE (Russian with English translation) Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

"No matter what our foreign colleagues are saying, we see what is really going on."

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 22 July 2014

19. Various flowers outside Schiphol airport

20. Man and woman consoling each other as they look at flowers

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 22 July 2014

21. Various shots of protestors outside the Russian Embassy in Malaysia

{voice-over script}

AFTER DAYS OF HAPHAZARD TREATMENT OF THE BODIES, A TRAIN CARRYING THE REMAINS OF MOST OF THOSE KILLED ON MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 17 ARRIVED IN THE EASTERN UKRAINIAN CITY OF KHARKIV (KHAR-kif) ON TUESDAY, WHERE AUTHORITIES HAVE SET UP A CRASH INVESTIGATION CENTER.

THE BODIES WILL THEN BE SENT TO THE NETHERLANDS FOR IDENTIFICATION AND FORENSIC INVESTIGATION....A JOURNEY WHICH HAS BEEN AGONIZINGLY SLOW FOR VICTIMS' RELATIVES.

OF THE 298 WHO DIED ABOARD THE AMSTERDAM TO KUALA LUMPUR FLIGHT, 193 WERE DUTCH CITIZENS.

FIVE DAYS AFTER THE DISASTER, THE CRASH SITE ITSELF REMAINED UNSECURE, BUT A TEAM OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATORS WAS FINALLY INSPECTING THE WRECKAGE.

EARLY TUESDAY, SEPARATIST REBELS ALSO HANDED OVER BOTH BLACK BOXES FROM THE FLIGHT TO MALAYSIAN INVESTIGATORS, ON THE CONDITION THEY BE DELIVERED TO THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION.

{SOT: (English) Colonel Mohamad Sakri, Malaysian investigator}

"I can see that the black box is intact even though a little bit damaged, but in a good condition."

AS INTERNATIONAL CALLS GREW FOR MOSCOW TO EXERT GREATER CONTROL OVER THE SEPARATISTS, THE DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTER SAID THE EUROPEAN UNION IS IMPOSING NEW SANCTIONS AGAINST MORE RUSSIAN OFFICIALS.

IN MOSCOW, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAID RUSSIA WILL DO "EVERYTHING IN ITS POWER" TO FACILITATE AN INVESTIGATION...

BUT HE LASHED OUT AT THE WEST, INSISTING NATO IS ESCALATING CONFLICT IN THE REGION.

{SOT: (Russian) Vladimir Putin, President of Russia}

"No matter what our foreign colleagues are saying, we see what is really going on..."

ACROSS THE GLOBE, REMEMBRANCE OF THE VICTIMS CONTINUED...

OUTSIDE THE ENTRANCE TO SCHIPOL AIRPORT IN AMSTERDAM, A FLORAL TRIBUTE WAS GROWING BY THE DAY.

AND IN KUALA LUMPUR, HUNDREDS PROTESTED OUTSIDE THE RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN EMBASSIES, DEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE TRAGEDY... AND JUSTICE FOR THE 298 WHO LOST THEIR LIVES.

KELLY DASCHLE, ASSOCIATED PRESS.

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Kharkiv, Ukraine - 22 July 2014

1. Shots of refrigerated train carrying bodies of plane crash victims arriving in Kharkiv

2. Wide shot of train pulling into station

3. Mid shot of conductor on train

4. Officials pulling police tape around investigation center

5. Police cars driving towards investigation center

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Hrabove, Ukraine - 22 July 2014

6. Various shots of investigators in field looking at wreckage

7. Mid shot of investigators standing in a group next to field

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Donetsk, Ukraine - 22 July 2014

8. Close of flight MH17 black box

9. Mid of photographers

10. Malaysian officials placing black box in a bag

11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel Mohamad Sakri, Malaysian investigator

"I can see that the black box is intact even though a little bit damaged."

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Torez, Ukraine - 21 July 2014

12. Mid of pro-Russia rebels getting out of car

RU-RTR - NO ACCESS RUSSIA

Moscow - 22 July 2014

13. Russian President Vladimir Putin entering room

14. Wide of Putin sitting down at Russia's Security Council meeting

15. Mid of Security Council members

16. Putin speaking

17. Wide shot of meeting

18. SOUNDBITE (Russian with English translation) Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

"No matter what our foreign colleagues are saying, we see what is really going on."

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands - 22 July 2014

19. Various flowers outside Schiphol airport

20. Man and woman consoling each other as they look at flowers

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - 22 July 2014

21. Various shots of protestors outside the Russian Embassy in Malaysia

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman on Friday updated reporters on the latest on repatriating the bodies of those killed in the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 incident.

"All four refrigerators with bodies of innocent victims have been unloaded. And information from 6pm (3pm GMT) is that experts already processed 378 packages with remains of innocent victims," he said.

"The team has prepared 227 special coffins to transport bodies to the Netherlands for identification. 180 coffins have been already sent, others will be sent tomorrow morning," he added.

Meanwhile in Kuala Lumpur, hundreds of people, including flight attendants and families of the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines jet, joined a multi-faith prayer service.

Two more planes departed Kharkiv airport on Friday with a further 74 coffins containing bodies and remains from the crash.

All 298 people aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 - most of them Dutch citizens - were killed when the plane went down on 17 July.

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Kiev, Ukraine

1. Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman speaking at news conference

2. Cutaway of journalists

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"All four refrigerators with bodies of innocent victims have been unloaded. And information from 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) is that experts already processed 378 packages containing remains of innocent victims."

4. Groysman speaking at news conference

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"At this time the team has prepared 227 special coffins to transport bodies to the Netherlands for identification. 180 coffins have been already sent, others will be sent tomorrow morning."

6. Cutaway of cameramen

7. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Volodymyr Groysman, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"Today an important issue is to ratify the signed agreement (between Ukraine and the Netherlands about leading cooperation in the investigation). Then the international police mission can be involved and provide a security for experts who will work on the crash site. Today we concentrated on this."

8. Cutaway of journalists typing

9. Cameraman

10. Groysman speaking at news conference

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11. Audience and speaker at multi-faith prayer service held by Malaysia Airlines

12. Speaker on stage at multi-faith service

13. Malaysia Airlines flight attendants crying

14. People crying at multi-faith service

15. Screen reading (English) "In memory of MH17 and remembering MH 370"

16. Various of Taoist priests holding Taoist prayer session

17. Malaysia Airlines flight attendants hugging each other

18. SOUNDBITE (English), Shanti (no last name given), a flight attendant at Malaysia Airlines:

"There is no words can express what I am feeling inside towards the families. It's not easy to.... I just want to say so sorry for the loss of their loved ones and I pray that they have peace."

19. People who attended the service talking

20. SOUNDBITE (English), (no name given) whose nephew was on board of the missing MH370:

"How would you feel if your family was on board? That's the same feeling. But we have to pray harder to try better. We are all praying for Malaysia, Malaysia Airlines and everybody in Malaysia, and for all the countries as well."

21. Various of people crying and hugging after the multi faith prayer service

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A convoy of eight trucks carrying wreckage from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster has arrived at a Dutch military base, as the official investigation into the cause of the plane's destruction continues.

Flight MH17 was shot down on July 17 over territory held by pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 passengers and crew - most of them Dutch.

The Dutch-led international team investigating the disaster initially had difficulty accessing the disaster site due to clashes between rival forces.

The remains of six victims have yet to be found.

Now that the wreckage is at the Gilze-Rijen military base in the south of the Netherlands, investigators will photograph, scan and categorise the wreckage. They plan later to reassemble part of the Boeing 777 in a hangar, a procedure described by Tjibbe Joustra, Chairman of the Dutch safety board, as "laborious".

A final report on the downing of the jet is hoped to be ready by the middle of next year.

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Glize-Rijen, 9 December 2014

1. Close of police escort and trucks carrying the MH17 wreckage

2. Close of cameramen

3. Pan of trucks going into the military base

4. Close of people watching the trucks passing by

5. Wide pan of trucks coming into the base

6. Military guards watching the convoy as it is getting into the bas

7. People watching

8. Zoom out of trucks in the base with military guards in foreground

9. People watching

10. Military guards closing the base's gate

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VOICE-OVER:

MALAYSIA'S TRANSPORT MINISTER SAYS AN INVESTIGATION INTO HOW MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT 370 CAME TO CRASH INTO THE INDIAN OCEAN FAR OFF COURSE --

CANNOT GO FURTHER UNTIL WRECKAGE AND ITS BLACK BOXES ARE FOUND.

SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister:

"They have completed the majority of the investigation part, but most important thing, the investigation cannot continue without the search result."

THE ANNOUNCEMENT COMES AS MALAYSIA IS PREPARING TO UNVEIL THE LATEST OVERHAUL OF ITS BELEAGUERED STATE-OWNED AIRLINE --

WHICH IS REELING FROM TWIN DISASTERS MONTHS APART.

ALONG WITH THE SEARCH FOR FLIGHT 370 IN THE INDIAN OCEAN --

WHICH BEGAN AFTER THE AIRLINER WENT MISSING IN MARCH WITH 239 PEOPLE ON BOARD --

MALAYSIA AIRLINES FLIGHT 17 WAS BLASTED OUT OF THE SKY --

AS IT FLEW OVER AN AREA OF EASTERN UKRAINE CONTROLLED BY PRO-RUSSIAN SEPARATISTS --

KILLING 298 PEOPLE.

SOUNDBITE (English) Mohshin Aziz, Associate Director of research, equity markets at Maybank Investment Bank:

"It couldn't get any worse for Malaysia Airlines, basically at the last legs of survival, cash is running thin and losses that are coming out on a day-to-day basis is basically cutting its survival day-by-day."

ANALYSTS EXPECT THAT AIRLINE WILL HAVE REPLACE TOP MANAGEMENT AND DROP MONEY-LOSING ROUTES TO EUROPE AND CHINA.

SOUNDBITE (English) Mohshin Aziz, Associate Director of research, equity markets at Maybank Investment Bank:

"We're probably talking about easily one third of its entire network being clipped. And by that measure, a simplistic correlation, they probably have to get rid of one third of their workforce as well."

MALAYSIAN NEWS REPORTS SAID THE ANNOUNCEMENT COULD COME FRIDAY.

SIGOUT - Bob McCall/Associated Press

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Indian Ocean, Off Australian Coast - April 1, 2014

1. Crew member looking out window of cockpit of Japanese coast guard jet

2. Crew members in cockpit

3. Radar in cockpit

4. View from window of search plane

5. Crew member looking out of plane windows

AUBC - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA

Canberra, Australia - August 28, 2014

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Liow Tiong Lai, Malaysian Transport Minister (Transcript Below)

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - August 27, 2014

7. Row of Malaysia Airlines parked at terminal

8. Ground crew at airplane nose

9. Malaysia Airlines logo on airplane

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Beijing, China - April 1, 2014

10. Memorial for missing passengers with candles

11. Person sitting during briefing with t-shirt reading (English): "Pray for MH370"

12. Memorial for missing passengers with messages

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Hrabove, Ukraine - July 18, 2014

13. Various debris and personal items on ground, emergency workers

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - August 28, 2014

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohshin Aziz, Associate Director of research, equity markets at Maybank Investment Bank (Transcript Below)

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - August 27, 2014

15. Malaysia Airlines plane being towed along runway

16. Closed sign at check-in counter

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - August 28, 2014

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohshin Aziz, Associate Director of research, equity markets at Maybank Investment Bank (Transcript Below)

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - August 27, 2014

18. Empty check-in counter

19. Passengers near check-in counter

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Two military transport planes carrying 40 coffins bearing victims of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 have landed in the Netherland's southern city of Eindhoven.

Six days after the Boeing 777 was shot down over the battlefields of eastern Ukraine, the first bodies finally arrived Wednesday in the Netherlands, the country that bore the heaviest toll in the crash that killed all 298 passengers and crew.

A Dutch Hercules C-130 that Dutch government spokesman Lodewijk Hekking says is carrying 16 coffins was closely followed by an Australian C-17 Globemaster plane carrying 24 coffins.

The planes were met by Dutch King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and hundreds of relatives.

The Dutch government declared a day of national mourning as the country prepared for the arrival of the first bodies in the afternoon.

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.

POOL - NO ACCESS NETHERLANDS

Eindhoven, Netherlands - 23 July 2014

1. Various of Dutch military plane landing at airport

2. Various of ceremony after Dutch and Australian military planes arrives

3. Wide of dignitaries greeting planes

4. Wide of Dutch King Willem-Alexander (left), Queen Maxima (center) and Prime Minister Mark Rutte (right)

5. Various of coffins being unloaded and hearses arriving to transport coffins

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The remains of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in territory held by the Ukrainian government on Tuesday on their way to the Netherlands.

After a 17-hour journey from the town of Torez in rebel territory, the train carrying the bodies pulled into a station in Kharkiv, a government-controlled city where Ukrainian authorities have set up their crash investigation center.

This, after delays and haphazard treatment of the bodies that put pressure on European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia.

The crash site itself, in farmland held by the pro-Russian separatists whom the West accuses of shooting down the plane, remained unsecured five days after the disaster _ another source of frustration for officials around the world eager to establish the facts of the case.

The train gave a low-pitched blast from its horn as the grey corrugated refrigerator cars slowly rolled through weed-choked tracks onto the grounds of a factory where the bodies were being received.

Government spokesman Oleksander Kharchenko said Ukraine "will do our best" to send the bodies to the Netherlands on Tuesday.

Of the 298 people who died aboard the Amsterdam-to-Kuala Lumpur flight, 193 were Dutch citizens.

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Kharkiv, Ukraine 22 July 2014

1. Wide view of train leaving switch yard

2. Various of train entering Kharkiv rail yard

3. Various of train traveling down tracks

Ukraine's Prime Minister on Tuesday blamed Russia's special forces for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine last year.

Speaking at a cabinet meeting in Kiev, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his government has carried out a separate investigation into the crash which will be released soon.

After a painstaking 15-month investigation, the Dutch Safety Board published on Tuesday its final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board.

The report blamed a Russian-made surface-to-air Buk missile for the plane's downing, but did not explicitly say who had fired it.

However, it identified an area of 320 square kilometres where it said the launch must have taken place.

All the territory within the area it identified was in Russia-backed separatist rebels' hands at the time of the July 2014 crash.

Ukraine's Prime Minister on Tuesday blamed Russia's special forces for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in eastern Ukraine last year.

Speaking at a cabinet meeting in Kiev, Arseniy Yatsenyuk said his government has carried out a separate investigation into the crash which will be released soon.

After a painstaking 15-month investigation, the Dutch Safety Board published on Tuesday its final report into what caused Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to break up high over Eastern Ukraine last year, killing all 298 people on board.

The report blamed a Russian-made surface-to-air Buk missile for the plane's downing, but did not explicitly say who had fired it.

However, it identified an area of 320 square kilometres where it said the launch must have taken place.

All the territory within the area it identified was in Russia-backed separatist rebels' hands at the time of the July 2014 crash.

GOVERNMENT HANDOUT

Kiev - 13 October 2015

1. Ukrainian government cabinet meeting

2. Media

3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"I personally have no doubt that this was a planned operation by Russian special intelligence services on the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. Our investigation group will provide its own investigation shortly."

4. Wide of ministers

5. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine:

"In our opinion, this was done solely from the territories controlled by Russian terrorists, and there is no doubt that drunk separatists couldn't control Buk systems. This means that these systems were operated exclusively by professional Russian military."

6. Wide of Cabinet meeting

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

Newly discovered data picked up by a Russian civilian radar station on the day of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash shows no signs of a missile being fired at the aircraft from territory controlled by opposition forces in eastern Ukraine, the Russian defense ministry said at a media briefing in Moscow on Monday.

Moscow further accused Kiev of concealing information that would have helped determine the full picture of the MH17 crash in Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

The existence of the raw data, which includes radar images of air traffic movements seen in the airspace over eastern Ukraine on the day the Boeing 777 jet was downed, was announced last week by Russia's state-owned Almaz-Antey, the producer of the Buk missile system. An international investigation into the crash believes the system to have been fired from the opposition-controlled village of Snezhnoye in eastern Ukraine.

Lianozovsky Electromechanical Plant, the producer of the Utyos-T civilian radar station, presented the radar data at Monday's briefing. It showed three civilian aircraft in the vicinity, including the MH17. The craft closest to it was flying about 30 kilometers from the Malaysian plane at the time it was shot down.

Viktor Meshcheryakov, the company's chief radar designer, said one of their Utyos-T radars picked up no foreign objects near the Malaysian flight which could have caused its crash.

"Aside from the two civilian aircraft, No. 1775 and 4722, no other foreign objects have been detected in the vicinity of the Malaysian flight. The radar picked up the first civilian aircraft before the crash. And at the time of the crash, the second civilian aircraft was flying 30 kilometers from the Malaysian flight. The radar picked up no other foreign objects at that time," he said.

General Andrey Koban, head of the Russian Air Forces' radar troops, also said that had MH17 been downed with a missile launched from any area in eastern Ukraine, it would have been identified by Russian radar systems.

He said the Ukrainian side has the information on the air situation surrounding the crash both from civilian and military sources, adding that the fact that Kiev has not made the radar data public leads to the conjecture that the missile, if it was a Buk, was launched from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian military.

"As a matter of fact, Ukraine has not published any information on the position or the launch site of the missile. If it was a Buk, it probably would have been launched from territory under the control of the Ukrainian military," said Koban.

Igori Konashenkov, spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry, also accused Kiev of hiding its radar data, adding that it resembles the way Ukraine acted after it shot down a Russian commercial plane in 2001, killing 78.

"As part of the Joint Investigation Team, Ukraine openly refuses to provide the data while trying to manipulate the investigation process with false leads, such as contradictory information on the shrapnel, the wrong missile system, and even the wrong launch site," said Konashenkov.

Konashenkov added that Russia will present the raw radar data to the Netherlands, which is leading the Joint Investigation Team that is due to reveal the first results of its probe on Wednesday.

The tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, claimed 298 lives and escalated the crisis in Ukraine which started in April 2014 after local armed forces took over towns in the country's industrial east.

Moscow, Russia - Sept 26, 2016

1. Various of media briefing of Russian Defense Ministry

2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Viktor Meshcheryakov, chief radar designer, Lianozovsky Electromechanical Plant (partially overlaid with shot 3):

"Aside from the two civilian aircraft, No. 1775 and 4722, no other foreign objects have been detected in the vicinity of the Malaysian flight. The radar picked up the first civilian aircraft before the crash. And at the time of the crash, the second civilian aircraft was flying 30 kilometers from the Malaysian flight. The radar picked up no other foreign objects at that time."

++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++

3. Various of screen shots of radar images concerning air situation at time of MH17 crash

++SHOT OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE++

4. Various of screen showing specifications of other craft detected on radar

5. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Gen. Andrey Koban, head of radar troops, Russian Air Forces:

"As a matter of fact, Ukraine has not published any information on the position or the launch site of the missile. If it was a Buk, it probably would have been launched from territory under the control of the Ukrainian military."

6. Various of screen shots of radar data on MH17, Buk missile system

7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Igori Konashenkov, spokesperson, Russian Defense Ministry:

"As part of the Joint Investigation Team, Ukraine openly refuses to provide the data while trying to manipulate the investigation process with false leads, such as contradictory information on the shrapnel, the wrong missile system, and even the wrong launch site."

8. Various of briefing

China supports an independent, impartial and objective MH17 crash investigation according to No. 2166 Resolution of UN Security Council, said spokesperson of Foreign Ministry of China at a press conference on Wednesday.

"We have noted the Dutch Safety Board(DSB)'s final report on investigation into crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. The crash is a tragedy. China supports an independent, impartial and objective crash investigation according to No. 2166 Resolution of UN Security Council to find out the perpetrator to be punished," said Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of China's Foreign Ministry.

The Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year on its way from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All 298 people on board died.

On Sept. 9 last year the DSB already issued its first preliminary report, stating the crash had an external cause, probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.

China supports an independent, impartial and objective MH17 crash investigation according to No. 2166 Resolution of UN Security Council, said spokesperson of Foreign Ministry of China at a press conference on Wednesday.

"We have noted the Dutch Safety Board(DSB)'s final report on investigation into crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. The crash is a tragedy. China supports an independent, impartial and objective crash investigation according to No. 2166 Resolution of UN Security Council to find out the perpetrator to be punished," said Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of China's Foreign Ministry.

The Boeing 777 Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crashed in eastern Ukraine on July 17 last year on its way from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All 298 people on board died.

On Sept. 9 last year the DSB already issued its first preliminary report, stating the crash had an external cause, probably as the result of structural damage caused by a large number of high-energy objects that penetrated the aircraft from outside.

Beijing, China - Oct 14, 2015

1. Press conference of Foreign Ministry of China in progress

2. Attendees

3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Hua Chunying, spokeswoman of China's Foreign Ministry:

"We have noted the Dutch Safety Board's final report on investigation into crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17. The crash is a tragedy. China supports an independent, impartial and objective crash investigation according to No. 2166 Resolution of UN Security Council to find out the perpetrator to be punished."

4. Various of attendees

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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.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday that he had made it "crystal clear" to Vladimir Putin that the Russian president must use his influence with rebels to ensure unhindered access to the site where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed.

The Dutch have widely condemned the way the bodies of the victims have been treated in Ukraine and the fact they have not yet been returned home four days after Thursday's tragedy.

The downing of the Boeing 777 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday killed 298 passengers and crew, including 193 Dutch citizens.

Lawmakers hurried back from their summer recess for a meeting Monday with Rutte, who told them that getting the bodies home as soon as possible was his government's top priority.

He said a Dutch military transport plane was ready to repatriate the remains, which are now being stored in a refrigerated train

in a rebel-held town.

Rutte also said sanctions could be slapped on "those directly or indirectly responsible" for hindering the probe.

"All political, economic and financial options are on the table," he said.

In Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose country lost 28 citizens in the tragedy, said the bodies of all the victims must be treated with respect and dignity before being repatriated and that a proper investigation was needed for justice to be done.

Four days after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot out of the sky, international investigators still had only limited access to the crash site in eastern Ukraine.

More bodies were found at the sprawling crash site on Monday but there was a worrisome power outage in the refrigerated train holding over 200 of the dead.

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

Abbott called a meeting on Monday with all the Australian-based ambassadors from the countries which lost citizens in the MH 17 tragedy to assure them Australia was trying to get the bodies back and had put a resolution forward at the United Nations Security Council to make sure this happens.

Meanwhile state leaders across the country continued to show their support to the families who have lost loved ones.

Almost half of the Australian victims of the tragedy came from the state of Victoria and their Premier Denis Napthine announced there was a condolence book where people could write messages of support.

The state of Western Australia is haunted by the deaths of three children and their grandfather in the crash.

The state's premier Colin Barnett said the schools which the children attended were trying to help the students cope.

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The Hague, Netherlands

1. Wide of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte arriving at open ministerial cabinet meeting

2. Cutaway journalists listening

3. Rutte and cabinet members

4. Cutaway cameraman

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

"It is clear to the cabinet - based on broader developments in eastern Ukraine - that Russia must use its influence over the separatists to improve the situation at the scene. I have spoken to the Russian president about this in crystal clear terms. If in coming days access to the disaster site remains insufficient, then all political, economic and financial options are on the table against those who are directly or indirectly responsible. This also applies if it is confirmed who is responsible for bringing down MH17."

6. Wide of journalists listening

7. Close of journalist taking notes

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

"Measures will be taken. These steps would be on top of the existing conditions imposed on Russia by the European Council on June 27 about de-escalation in eastern Ukraine, which the European Council concluded on July 16 had not sufficiently been met, approving preparations for financial-economic measures."

9. Cutaway journalist taking notes

10. Wide of meeting

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Canberra, Australia

11. Pan of the various ambassadors from the countries affected by the MH 17 tragedy meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia:

"The only way that justice can be done for the dead and for their families is if the bodies are treated with respect and dignity and are taken to a place where they can be properly handled, where things can be properly investigated, and where ultimately they can be repatriated back home. We want to bring them home but first we have got to get them out. That is what the resolution which will be going to the Security Council at 3 p.m. Monday, New York time (1900 GMT) is all about."

13. Various of Abbott with the ambassadors

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Melbourne, Australia

14. Group of politicians including speaker of the House of Representatives Bronwyn Bishop (in red) and the Premier of the state of Victoria Denis Napthine (second from the right, wearing glasses)

15. Napthine signs the state of Victoria's condolence book for the victims of flight MH 17 tragedy

16. Various of Bishop signing condolence book

17. SOUNDBITE (English) Denis Napthine, Premier of Victoria:

"This simple but very important ceremony of signing condolence books, recognising those people who tragically lost their lives in Malaysia Airlines MH17 and passing on our thoughts and prayers and support to the family, friends and colleagues of those people who tragically lost their lives."

18. Napthine leaves press conference

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Perth, Australia

19. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Barnett, Premier of Western Australia:

"Look very, very sad for the children in the school and a terrible emotional experience for them so again the schools both in the government and non-government sector are - I think - doing an excellent job in just explaining the situation and dealing with those children who are struggling to cope with it."

20. Barnett leaves press conference