the plane crash the two families a pot dislike somebody to come a piece off your heart the brutal war that brought the plane down in a war you need to take civilians first in the ukraine then you know it is a simple thing is this the start of a new cold war we don't want to live in a world where taking place between ukrainian nationalists and russian backed separatists suddenly became very real for a strike against the horror of the loss of two hundred ninety eight innocent lives thirty eid of them from australia has also become the catalyst for what is perhaps the biggest rift between russia and the west since the end of the cold war and now the a struggling government has written itself into the conflict the dutch government will announce the preliminary findings of its investigation into the crash tomorrow but it's already two hundred ninety three passengers and fifteen crew aboard a malaysia airlines the shattered remnants fall into a sea of sunflowers the tragedy turns attention to a bloody civil war that's largely pas despite russian denials western leaders immediately blamed pro russian separatists in ukraine armed and backed by russia evidence indicates that the plane of was shot down by a surface to air missile was launched from an area that is controlled by russian backed separatists inside of ukraine russia's president putin tries to shift the bl steering a resolution through the u n security council that was meant to safeguard the evidence and allow access to the crash sought the message from this unanimous resolution to those at the  was they belong to the families and they are evidence and allow the bodies to be a victory the message to the perpetrators from the united nations security council resolution is you will be found and you will be brought to justice hundred ninety three dutch citizens were killed seventeen is viewed as holland's nine eleven how horrible must have been the final moments of their lives when they knew the plane was going down did they lock hands with their loved ones did they hold their children close to their hearts did they look each other in the eyes one final time in a word this goodbye we will never know the demise of almost two hundred of my compatriots has left a the collective outpouring of grief and anger surprised even the dutch what do you mean by it was undone each well there's been a debate on that we don't have a tradition of national days of mourning it's almost the family has deep connections to a strike and my husband has one brother and three  led to dive on the great barrier reef off cannes when they perished the young couple were on their way to bali for a diving holiday while many relatives preferred agree privately and selena have consciously chosen to share their pain so the world remembers i know everyone else with some thing bad happens in the worlds the whole world is in grief and a week later something else happens and they forget about it it's something new but this is not snow finished and you don't want the world so stop watching will stop listening and help people when they see what's going on why or how we are grieving every military plane that flew from ukraine they are in coffins hoping the remains of their loved ones might be on board or it's given them great comfort though they fear the bodies are still at the crash focus of mourning this is where the painstaking process of identifying victims is taking place how many people are working on the investigation temporary mortuary how and why from the british disaster victim identification team is one of the leaders is there's over two hundred personnel here from countries across the world obviously the countries are concerned in the disaster so obviously australia are well represented here in malaysia with many of the investigators worked together a decade ago after the boxing day tsunami in southeast asia how much more unique circumstances where you know we may never deal with something like that again and how do you feel about what happened on the ground in east ukraine well it's not ideal but you know it's it's a politically volatile area of the world it's it's for straightening obviously but we will still identify these people here in the netherlands but obviously the wider criminal investigation  certainly have an impact on that the reality is the investigations been compromised by lack of access to the crash site and usually blocked by pro russian militia then by military offensive launched by the ukrainian army basic military operational argument which is we now have the opportunity we have the time frame the window of opportunity to drive them from what from our point of view from the ukrainian point of view is a very important line of events because if they go through the crash site which they did they will split the separatist area into allowing them to be wiped out separately russia and ukraine share a two ground here in this strategic territory military is loading up a giant a crocked a c seventeen bound for you cargo vehicles medical equipment and supplies for the multinational team on the ground in the just after we landed hockey they aboard the very last plane repaired treating human remains takes off from you cry tensions in the town side long ago this base was in enemy territory surrounded by rebel fighters now it's the stronghold of the ukrainian army it's a lab a small group of journalists on to the spice for the first time its control but even here opinion is heavily divided there's a lot of sympathy for the rebels and a lot of resentment about the damage the conflict has wrought on the ground separatists became collateral damage is the ukrainian army retold the region and blew the village to smithereens beyond the bullet holes on this guy is the home of alexander and his at a military checkpoint outside of slovyansk soldiers check passports and search cars the checkpoints are ubiquitous during our time in ukraine the atmosphere at checkpoints became increasingly troops apparently fearing that separatist militia were heading from points east hiding among many thousands of refugees a convoy of vehicles bearing refugees types of break during its journey from the war zone we join the exodus as the bone jarring buses roll along the ruined ro hockey was stopped at yet another checkpoint after about five hours on the road the convoy of displaced people arrives on the outskirts of hockey  yulia two days later we join the family as they prepare a twilight barbecue the any battle is getting a meal ready before sundown but it's a different even this close knit family is divided on the conflict is a ukrainian patriot a mother is progress but politics play second fiddle to love and food the policy is not having a policy because that way he keeps everyone confused i think russia is trying to keep its sphere of influence from shrinking and what is left in eastern europe is mainly reestablish a soviet style sphere of influence that he probably wishes to reestablish that influence fear let's say towards the bond rays of the former soviet union and i think we need to start sending very clear messages that this is something of the past the world no longer functions like that how does the west combat that up until now very poorly we haven't been sending coherent messages not us nato e u it's very strange of course when you when we talk about sanctions that we cannot agree in europe on which things should be sanctioned we see that large countries still a very large interest in dealing with russia it's telling that the sanctions imposed in the european union exclude russia's number one exporter the guess that flows through you crying to the west the backdrop to the terrible conflict in crying and the response to the united seventeen disaster is oil and gas the russian economy depends on exports of oil and gas much of europe in turn is heavily dependent on russian gas even you crying without russian gas in the winter it's citizens would freeze the politics of gas and oil has defined the why that nice since of responded to this conflict it's time for the sanctions that western nice ns a willing to impose and behind the way various nice  ins have responded is a whole of a vested economic interest it's absolutely a factor the fact that we're many countries in western europe for instance are dependent on russian gas of course makes them very reluctant to speak very loudly against russia if that dependency was not there of course you're much freer to speak out so this is absolutely a fact and that you teach is a lesson we should never never never be dependent on a party or a partner that is not playing by the same rules that is not respecting human rights etc etc if you would if you do become dependent on such a party you know you have very little room to move a third of hollands crude oil imports come from russia and russian companies have major interests in refineries in holland russia is the european union's third largest trading partner and holland ranks second after germany as the major destination in the e u for russian exports at the port of rotterdam and south holland europe's busiest hub rusher accounts for nearly fifteen percent of total through port the sanctions will cut both ways the sanctions could lead to another deep recession for europe it could hurt us a lot and you're absolutely right those things need to be considered and they are serious issues but  we don't want to live in a world anymore where the international rule of law is not the norm we want to and to live in a world where the international rule of law isn't on we don't want to live in a world where where on a monday evening at hilversum in holland the team behind a popular t v talk show is getting ready for it on tonight's program is a special entirely on m i t seventeen it's the first broadcast to bring together relatives experts and people early on the scene that the families of those who died speak of the civilization in which each human life has become a tragedy the loss of each human life has become a tragedy in a war you need to take civilians first to take priority in the ukraine they do not it is a simple  so during my work i was getting confronted with the fact that you know also people in my surroundings were actually killed in this plane and my cameramen you all to sandton are you was actually he lost a friend on the plane and in that way already and his camera man decided to pick some flowers in memory of the fall and we ended up with a big box or some flowers and other flowers we took from the crash site and we took them to hold to shoot each o of course we're known by the sunflowers wolfing go so that way i think it's an extra strong symbol to have this artwork and also it shouldn't be like a ok of mourning it should be like the kind of life i think  investigation has been will make interesting reading it will be based on available sources such as satellite imagery right out of the tiles and information from the black box recorders the final report might take up to a year to complete next week on four corners an international investigation that takes a close look at how free a stride in casinos are from organized crime until then good not