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Separatist territory? >> yes, its exactly one piece where the separatists have operational control at the moment. >> you dont happen to know if there were any americans on board the plane, do you, sir? >> yeah, i cant give you any sort of official information on that. we have now the preliminary data, but i would be reluctant to give those at the moment. >> i certainly can understand that. ukraine important minister pavlo klimkin. i want to straight to barbara starr. barbara, youve got new infor...

Firefighters have been doing their best throughout and now i think theyre trying to figure out what to do overnight. >> so the victims are still out there, their bodies are still on the ground strapped into their seats, et cetera? >> reporter: some are strapped into their seats. some have been sort of blown to bits to the point where you cant tell whether it was a man or a woman. some are just kind of scattered. people, locals say that the plane exposeded in the air so it was kind of -- it fell ...

23 seconds north and 38 degrees 31 minutes and 33 seconds east. the ukrainian authorities believe that the plane was shot down. at this stage, however, malaysia is unable to verify the cause of this tragedy. but we must and we will find out precisely what happened to this flight. nor stone will be left unturned. if it tran pires that the plane was indeed shot down, we insist that the perpetrators must

Evidence if you like of what took place. the question of course, is who bears the responsibility of that the investigation. and what seems to be already from the ukrainian president, hes already said ukraine will do the investigation. its the state of occurrence. now weve got to make sure that the cease fire or the proposed cease fire by the rebels in that area is brought into the being so that they can get the debris and, of course, most crucially they can get the bodies away from the site. so ...

>> they have the capability to do so. >> so they had the weapon that this weapon has the range to hit a plane at that the altitude, and three, another point that the officials made to me, that its their judgment, again this is an early judgment that the plane looks like it broke apart at altitude which would indicate or support the idea of a missile strike. this is not confirmed by u.s. officials. it is certainly an early assessment from ukrainian officials but for what its worth, ukrainian offi...

Plane. what else do you know? >> well, jake, we just saw that wonderful report from the tom foreman and it would just suggest that perhaps whatever happened it happened so quickly, that there was no time for that distress call. we can be also tell that you both the faa and the united nations organization that coordinates international aviation entities, they put out a warning to airliners saying there was an unsafe situation along the border of ukraine and russia within this air space. but we no...

Ukraine, of course, blaming pro-russian separatists claiming they shot this plane out of the sky. lets bring in senior international correspondent nick paton walsh. what did he tell you? >> they say theyve been to the site. they have now left the site had. they say they have left militants to take control of the area and remove journalists from it saying it was totally open for anyone to walk around. they say there are now consultations, negotiations he said happening between the separatists and...

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Us about this tragedy? >> of course, its an extremely tragic case and i would like to express once more my condolences of anyone who were involved. we intercepted a number of phone calls between the terrorists talking about shutting down the plane now. and another proof on the terrorist activity and as a result of that, the mane has been shut down and as you know, in the recent days, we had extremely development and two ukrainian military planes have been shot down. as we believe also from the r...

This incident in ukraine. although we have no shortage of big stories to talk about worldwide. is there evidence that the united states government finds credible that pro-russian separatists shot down this plane? >> the answer from the united states government perspective is no. theyre saying they dont have conclusive evidence yet from the ukrainian government perspective, ive been speaking to officials there, they say they have evidence. ill give you what they give. one is that they believe tha...