need to be investigation but also to the extent the ukrainian authorities carried out their obligations and did everything necessary to ensure that the military campaign of kiev would prevent disasters from occurring. today, kiev declared a full closure of the airspace in the conducting of the so-called anti terrorism by the region. >> you've been listening to the russian ambassador to the united nations regarding the shooting down of mh-17. at least the part we heard right there, he wasn't talking about who may have shot the plane down or why. what he was talking about was the idea that ukrainian air traffic control should never have let that plane fly over that area because it was a conflict zone. interesting that he chose to focus on that and not the culpability for actually shooting the plane down. i want to bring in republican