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Happened. It seems dubious that the Russian Military, in other words, would want to take down a major passenger plane. Certainly with not the intent of taking it down. Again, we simply dont know who brought this down. Im also here with lieu dtenant colonel rick francona. Just in terms of kants, we have not seen separatists heretofor, they have brought down at least one transport plane, but they were not flying at 33,000 feet. Yeah, this would require, as we were talking about, a more sophisticat...

Restricted zone at the moment. Still so many questions to be answered. And theres going to be a lot of fingerpointing over the next several hours, days and even weeks as this investigation begins to intensify. Lets take a kind of a look back now at all we know. At the top of the hour, thank you very much for joining us, it is 3 00 here on the east coast of the United States. We are following breaking news this hour. Right now it is 10 00 p. M. In ukraine where earlier today the horrifying scene ...

Being on. Lets reset at the top of the hour now. Im anderson cooper. Thank you for joining us. Were following two major breaking stories that the hour. The downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. And im wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. The other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. A lot to get you up to date on in this hour. President obama today laying out...

Passengers would have been conscious for a terrifying 9seconds after impact. that more must be done to avoid airspaces over conflict zones. it concluded that 168 commercial planes flew over the area that day. the report however, did not seek to place became on anyone. that is up to an ongoing criminal investigation. but other evidence has pointed towards russia as the culprit. this was a russian-made buk system. it was fired from a plot of land controlled by russian-backed separatists it and sys...

Some of which are obviously from some of the bodies found, some of them are from ones that couldnt be. and experts have arrived today. the malaysians and also three dutch forensic experts and visited the scene. so, things are fwraj s are gra improving. villages near where the crash sites are, you see peasants are shoveling hay. the cows are happily moving by all the debris, and life is returning to the very, very strange status quo of the conflict in east ukraine that was shattered when the plan...

There at 30,000 feet. in that case youre talking about something like the buk system, which is so powerful and so well targeted it can reach all the way up there and take out almost anything. look at the range of that. it can be tremendously destructive. it has, interestingly enough, limitations for all its strength. a system really needs a government to buy it, support it and make it operate. the troops running it have to have a high degree of train. thirdly, all of that makes tracking possible...

Buk system back across the border to russia and the whole investigation remains murky and the russian will bluster and this is their game since february 28th, the take over of crimia and it doesnt end. >> you say there is real danger of outright war with russia and uran. if that happens ukraine loses. >> yes, ukraine would lose, but the damage that would be caused by that war is extreme. it is really, really extreme. and even if ukraine loses the war, the russian federation would look at a count...

Officials say a buk system was smuggled into ukraine prior to flight 17 being shot down. the official say they believe it was moved back to russia after the attack. they say they have evidence that it was moved back over the russian border in the past day or so. the implication is that russia is trying to tamper with the evidence. the buk missile system is something weve been hearing about over the past couple days. tom foreman is in washington to take a look at what it is. what is the buk? it i...

The ukrainian aviation dispatcher send a passenger flight to an area of military clashes? an area which was being used for carrying out strikes against civilian targets against others? >> reporter: there are two pieces of evidence, hala, the ukrainians have pointed to which suggest russian involvement in which the u.s. has latched onto. one of these is intercepted audio recordings which suggest pro-russian militants with the help of russian expertise were somehow being trained to use surface-to-...

I disagree with professor cohen and agree with bill richardson. i think putin doesnt care really about public opinion. what he is saying is like the 13th chime of a clock. its not only false in and of itself, it calls into question everything from the same source. >> you want to respond? >> but youre not saying you dont think separatists, and when we say separatists, chris cuomo pointed out there have r so many different factions. youre not saying that it wasnt rebels. what are you saying? >> im...