MH17 crash
Ukraine has accused pro-Russian rebels of trying to destroy evidence of "international crimes" at the crash site of a Malaysia Airlines plane.
Russian lebel is said to have cause the crash since they are preventing international experts from starting their own investigation.
For the second day, an OSCE team have been prevented by militiamen from the site where the plane wreckage is.
The jet was reportedly hit by a missile over a rebel-held area in east Ukraine on Thursday and All 298 people in the plane died.
Both Ukraine and the rebels have accused each other of shooting it down.
The Boeing 777 flight MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. It fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighbouring region of Donetsk.
Latest figures released by Malaysia Airlines show the plane was carrying 192 Dutch nationals (including one with dual US citizenship), 44 Malaysians (including 15 crew), 27 Australians, 12 Indonesians and 10 Britons (including one with dual South African citizenship, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines, and one each from Canada and New Zealand.
Pressure on Russia for a statement, the Ukrainian government complained that "the terrorists" had taken 38 bodies to a morgue in the rebel-held city of Donetsk.
It said the rebels were also trying to transport the plane's wreckage to Russia.
The BBC's Richard Galvin, described this crash as horrific.
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