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Separatist territory? >> yes, it's exactly one piece where the separatists have operational control at the moment. >> you don't happen to know if there were any americans on board the plane, do you, sir? >> yeah, i can't 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, you've got new information from the intelligence community about this plane crash. what can you tell us? >> jake, wh...

Firefighters have been doing their best throughout and now i think they're 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 can't 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 down in pieces, are they said. so bits of the plane, bits of the bodies, bits of people's possessi...

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, he's already said ukraine will do the investigation. it's the state of occurrence. now we've 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 there's a lot of oh logistics that need to be put in place, lots of negotiation and what's intere...

>> 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 it's 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 it's worth, ukrainian officials have no doubt that pro-russian separatists brought this plane down and say these are weapons...