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Diplomatic angle of the investigation, but the problem if they go to the united nations, russia has veto power of the security council, don't want to put nato troops on the ground, not a lot of good options. >> no, but for the families of those who lost their lives on this flight, an investigation is essential, they need answers. >> yeah, that's true. good point. close to 300 people lost their lives on malaysia airlines flight 17, each one of them has their own story. >> a scientist who changed lives for the better as a leading researcher at western australia's department of agriculture and ...

Former president bill clinton is one of the keynote speakers at the conference, he says it's awful, sickening what's happened to so many gifted people. >> they were doing so much good. this gathering, we do this on a regular basis, and i try to go to all of them because i'm always so inspired by what other people are doing and what we can learn from them and so since i left office, it's been kind of a regular part of my life thinking about those people being knocked out of the sky, it's pretty tough. >> reporter: one of the victims, prominent dutch scientist joep lang. i met him in 2004 in ban...

♪ we now know if you treat people very early, if you treat people occurring acute infection that the reservoir size is quite limited. i think that's what our hope is if we catch enough people early in the infection. it will not be all that difficult to cure them eventually. >> that was dr. joep los ange s dr. lange was on his way to an international aids conference that started in melbourne, australia. a lot of his colleagues say his death say huge loss to the hiv-aids and global health community. a lot of his friends and colleagues are now talking legacy. >> joining us from waugs is a

Seeing right there. i could see earlier there were pictures of the tail of the aircraft. you could see the actuator for the horizontal stabilizer. these are things in determining what happened to the aircraft. why it went down in the manner that it did. that had-l help us determine how close that missile was fired. and there be tell us who may have launched the missile in the first place. so i think that's a very important part as well. >> david soucie, colonel maginnes, thank you both. meanwhile, there are families and friends watching all of this, and they just want to remember the people ...

Pioneer in his field. >> it's going to be huge impact, both on people who worked closely with him, people in his lab, and on the society as a whole. it's an incredible loss. >> reporter: in geneva, staff at the u.n. and world health organization held a minute of silence for one of their own. glennis thomas, who worked for the who, was also on his way to the conference in australia. friends say the 49 year old had a big heart and infectious smile and laugh. gina missed thomas during a recent trip to chicago. >> you always think you have plenty of time. i told him i was sorry i couldn't make it....