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Observers, the rebels were firing their weapons into the air. as he says, almost hostile, certainly intimidating behavior. and for the world to get an accurate idea of precisely what has happened, caused this, what needs to happen is independent investigators and teams need to get on the ground there and begin examining that wreckage. and then, of course, there is that sensitive issue, dealing with the bodies, which you heard reported, are beginning to deteriorate, to decay, to decompose in the ...

Terms of the plane itself? i mean, were you able to see the full wreckage? were you able to see all the personal effects or was that spread over a wider area that you were able to see given you only had 75 minutes. >> it is spread over about 6 kilometers but we were able to see fairly big pieces of the tail fin, what we thought was the cone end of the boeing 777. and then we counted dozens of bodies and the sad thing there is that were starting to see the beginnings of decomposition. i know ther...

But they are clearly here working under the authority of the pro-russian rebels. theyre sharing tents down down the road, share their meals, the workers drinking tea while the rebels are next to them. sharing stories. they seem to be getting along. theyre talking. when we first arrived here, the first question we were asked by the emergency workers is do the rebels know were here, do we have position to be here to see this, to shoot these pictures. it is very clear that the rebel forces are in c...

No stars, no moon, it is very black here. and you can very easily stumble across something we really dont want to stumble across. as i say, the bodies are there. the emergency workers have told us these fields to a significant degree have been filled with them. they say the road were just standing next to was also to a significant extent covered by them just 24 hours ago. also. that was the scene they found here. we capital show you too much else here easily im afraid in terms of panning around ...

Miles one in the middle of a war zone. today ukrainian emergency workers say they were given no explanation when they were abruptly ordered off the site by rebels, who have control of the area. european monitors also report they do not have the access they need, and the site is not deal sealed off. so far, ukrainian authorities say they have low kalted 281 of the 298 people killed in the crash all which remain on the ground in open air for the second night in a row. the passenger as came from a ...

Around us. we can see them. some of them have been marked with small white flags. others not so. the emergency workers here and its only a small team that are still here tonight say that they believe that they will have found more than 170 so far across an incredibly wide area. some caught up in these large pieces of the aircraft. others simply lying where they will seemingly fell from a great height. almost bearing no injury, they say. some of them. so it is a very moving scene. it is incredibl...

Vladimir putin to deescalate things, considering the role that russia may have played in this incident. as we said right now, the top priority is the crash site and the investigation. this morning emergency workers and police officers are searching through the wreckage scattered across a six-mile area in eastern ukraine. a ukrainian official says 181 bodies have been located so far. earlier today an aide to one pro-russian rebel leader said they had recovered the planes blacks boxes, although an...

Member, a passenger. but as i say, a terrible thing. it is in a terrible state as well. its really quite powerful to think that just yesterday that aircraft was flying above this ground, flying above the ukrainian crisis filled with people who had nothing to do with the events going on down here. but now thash bodies lie in the fields around us. there arent many of them. we can see them in the grass in these fields. some have been collected according to the emergency workers that wooe been talki...

Arrived the ukrainian government emergency workers asked if we had the permission of the pro-russian rebels. >> im shaking my head in horror. there needs to be hundreds of people experienced recovery people that need to be investigators and people who are experienced in handling human remains with dignity, with respect. and ultimately they need to look for the black boxes which we believe are still on ukrainian soil. and instead you have a bunch of rebels that are holding this ground and i cant ...

Now, phil. you had to take more than 24 hours to get where you are right now. the investigator was talking about how difficult it has been for them and they have been threatened by the militia there. you had to fight for this access and you now have been spending quite a bit of time there. how hard was it to actually get there? >> it is tough. theres no doubt. this is a war zone as you say. it is in territory that is clearly under rebel control and there is no doubt here about who is in charge. ...