Here's our latest update on events in Brisbane:
Russian 'Aggression' In Ukraine Takes Center Stage At G20
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov explicitly rejects report that Putin will depart Brisbane before "all the work is finished," but he does appear to leave open the possibility that Putin might skip the official lunch tomorrow, which AFP quoted a delegation member as describing as "an entertainment." Here's the Interfax report, citing Kommersant radio:
"The G20 summit will end tomorrow, and Vladimir Putin will definitely leave it when all the work is finished. The president will leave it then. Reuters has had it all wrong. The theme of sanctions is being broadly discussed [at the summit], but I wouldn't say that someone is pressing. Sanctions have been discussed actively and broadly at all bilateral meetings, but nobody is pressing," Peskov said on Kommersant-FM radio on Saturday.
And from AFP:
Vladimir Putin intends to cut short his attendance at the Group of 20 summit in Brisbane on Sunday, a Russian source said, with the strongman facing intense pressure from the West over Ukraine.
"The programme of the second day (for Putin) is changing, it's being cut short," a source in the Russian delegation told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Putin will attend summit sessions on Sunday but will skip an official lunch and address reporters earlier than planned, the source said, adding: "Lunch is more of an entertainment."
While Czech national leaders have wavered in response to Russian actions in Ukraine, officials in the capital have gone to lengths to demonstrate support for Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
More detail on Putin's brief and obviously awkward meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to AP:
"I guess I'll shake your hand, but I have only one thing to say to you: You need to get out of Ukraine," Harper told Putin, according to the prime minister's spokesman, Jason MacDonald.
BBC presents much of the damning evidence since Russian state television broadcast a fake image that it claimed showed a military jet firing on the ill-fated Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine.
...[S]hortly after the broadcast, many web users concluded that the image broadcast by Channel One was a crude forgery rather than a solid piece of evidence.
Several commentators pointed out that the "Malaysia" logo on the plane from the photograph was in the wrong place. Maksim Kats, a Russian blogger, said the plane in the picture looked like a slightly altered version of the one that tops the search results if you Google "Boeing view from above" in Russian. It also happens to be a publicity photo of a Boeing 767, not a 777, which was shot down over Ukraine in July.
Others noted that the fighter jet looked different from an Su-25 - the type which the Russian media had consistently claimed shot down MH17.
There were also claims that the shape of clouds in the satellite image proved that it actually came from a Google Earth photo of the area taken on 28 August 2012.
Furthermore, those who carried out a reverse image search on Google found that the photograph with the two planes was not so new or exclusive after all: it was first uploaded to a Russian forum on 15 October. Its source was claimed to be "enthusiasts from the Russian wikileaks".