for more details, head to our website at america.sars. until next time, thanks for joining us. waj and i will see you online. >>. good an. thanks for joining us. welcome to al jazeera america. i am morgan radford live in new york. an emotional journey as residents in gaza pack their bags and seek peace elsewhere. one of the world's leading women's rights activists making a very special trip to nigeria. years of preparation, it all comes down to this. the germans boarding the bus, the international bragging rights at stake as argentina faces off against germany 167

people in gaza have died since the israeli offensive began six days ago. thousands of supporters are protesting israel's actions in the gaza strip. meanwhile,itionis has launched more than a thousand airstrikes with at least 800 hamas rockets have been fired at israel. the vatican addressed pilgrims calling for peace. back in june, he held a joint prayer with shimon partners as well as palestinian mac mood abbas. the pope says he does not believe that prayer was any vain. foreign nationals and palestinians are packing their bags. leaflets dropped over gaza urging people to leave as the threat of new israeli airstrikes

looms over the city. israel's military is warning of a short and temporary campaign against northern gaza. ni nick schifrin has more. >> many people here in gaza describe this as a prison because they can't leave because of the israel law that surrounds gaza or because of each script. the med train sea and the naval blockade israel has out there. there were a few people and very few people who were able to leave and they used the opportunity. >> for the few gazans with foreign pass ports, this tunnel was the final mile and a half, the latch stretch ended israel away from airstrikes. >> we are ready to be home, very ready. >> i am so glad. so glad i am going home.

>> the smalls u.n.-sponsored chance to flee gaza. >> you will feel a threat like something will hit you they live in a neighborhood that was bombarded. that was a few blocks where he stayed. >> can you tell me what you heard? she is too traumatized to answer. even with coaching from dad. . >> she is really was very, very scared. >> just this morning before we left, there was an airstrike like down the street from our house. >> the abahar sisters love visiting their extended family but they have seen too much war. >> we think of ourselves kind of as experts. we know the difference between what the navy shelling sounds like, what an f-16 sounds like, what an apache sounds like and

that's not something i ever thought i would know the difference between or ever wanted to know the difference between. >> when your kids ask you what's happening, what do you tell them? >> to be honest, it sounds like a joke to me to tell them. i tell them it's raining. don't be scared. it's raining. but inside of me, i am scared. >> he was also here visiting family. he lived in florida for 17 years. he's as shaken up as his kids? >> to be honest, we live ma community, we barely see anything, but we hear it. hearing it is the most fear you can get. >> this is what they heard last night i am glad i am safe and my kids. >> were you afraid you might not be. >> oh, yes.

>> i am so glad i am leaving to be hon effort. >> they can leave but 1.7 million gazans can't. >> 149 americans or palestinian americans have rest today and in total, five or 600 foreign nationals from about 21 countries will leave by the end of the day clearly sdprapt to escape violence and relieved once they saw the other sigh. >> israel ignoring international appeals for a cease fire. gaza's police chief was among those wounded from last night's airstrikes while ham asas has fired hundreds offis saying it will not be the first to back down. the goal in crossing into northern gaza is to destroy the launch site from which hamas is sending those rockets. >> we are at a school that deals

well palestinian refugees. i will step out of shot. we were inside earlier. they wanted us to move because they moved here overnight once israel started dropping these leaflets on the border areas telling them to leave their homes and people here will tell you that it they are extremely upset. they are -- they live in fear. they don't know whether their homes will be there when they return and, i think the main point i will tell you is this is not the first time this has happened to them, they had to leave their homes in the war in the 2008 and 2009 and they had to leave their homes behind in 2012 and they had to leave their homes behind now. so they are telling you en if a ceasefire comes into effect here, there is a much wider conflict that needs to be solved. the solution needs to be solved. otherwise, you will be seeing scenes like this again and again. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is defending israel's operation in gaza against hamas but he won't say exactly how long this latest offensive will last. >> our goal is to achieve

sustainable quiet and security for our people and we are doing that by degrading hamas and other capabilities. i am not going to say right now how and when that goal will be achieved, whether by glom attic and military means, but that goal has to be achieved. >> noisi fatalities have been reported since the offensive began but six soldiers and 13 civilians have been injured. >> yesterday, we told you about this dramatic video. it's called a knock on the roof. it's basically a small march tore explosion t it serves as annis warning of an upcoming airstrike. it's supposed to be a two minute warning but it ended up being only 57 seconds. john hendren is in gaza showing us the destruction. >> inside this home on the right, a 6:00 a.m. phone call from israeli intelligence carries a terse warning: get ort. a neighbor records what happens

next in this mobile phone video: >> a warning rocket from an israeli rocket strikes the roof, then this: . >> one minute and 10 seconds later, this is all that was left. this is increasingly where a little more than a minute can be the difference between your family's life and death. >> somehow, every members of the nofel family makes it out alive. neighbors acknowledge some of them work for hamas. >> anyone who does this is not normal. there should be retaliation for everything they do. but we hope things calm down. war brings war. >> in some cases, neighbors say there was no warning.

five were killed by an airstrike friday in the egyptian border town of rafa. >> translator: they had no idea. the israelis gave them no warning to evacuate from the building. they didn't send a wynn rocket. >> reporter: the israeli army calls these houses military operationals sites. the neighbors call them friend's homes. few institutions are left untouched. this is what's left of the doris salaam mosque where an airstrike injured 22. >> they hit more than 22 government buildings. we don't know why israel's attacking these buildings. >> late saturday, the kasam brigades warn it will strike tel aviv with a new, more powerful rocket. the israelti rocket says the iron dome ex blurts three midair. the fourth lands harmlessly in a field. the israeli army warns tonight we will send messages to northern gaza residents urging

them to leave their homes for their own safety it will be safe to be near hamas. with who are heavy strikes from air and warships at sea, neither side for the moment seems to be talking about a cease fire. in nigeria, a new advocate for the group of kidnapped school girls in the capitol of abuja. there, the pakistani teen who was shot in the head by the taliban and today, in nigeria, it has been declared malala day in honor of her visit. it's her 17th birthday and she said she wouldn't want to spend it in other way. my 17th birthday, last year when i celebrated it, it was in the u.n., but this year, i thought that it would be good that i go to nigeria where they are suffering and they need someone to raise up their voice and they love education. they love education. and i need to support them. >> again, malala comes from

pakistan where she was shot in the head by the taliban. on monday, malaa is expected to meet with president goodluck jonathan of nigeria and she will talk with some of those girls who escaped from the boka haram attack. ♪ we are just hours away from the final face-off in the world cup and you are looking at live pictures from rio de janeiro's stadium. people from all around the world are expected to watch argentina's messi take on the german team known as the machine. as jessica taft explains, a win means more than a trophy. >> reporter: they are two very different teams that took just as divergent paths to get to the world couple final in brazil. germany completely embarrassed the host country when it blew out brazil 7-1, handing the team its first world cup loss on home soil. meanwhile, argentina arrived on a wing and a prayer, courtesy of a penalty shootout win that gave

them the edge in a 0-0 draw over the netherlands. but it doesn't matter how you get to the final. history only cares about the result. and just one game can determine how a team or a player is remembered for a lifetime. for argentina's messi, the weight of the country is on his back. the 4-time world player of the year has four goals in the tournament but hasn't scored in the last three games. if messi can lead argentina to its first world cup title since 1986, em join the ranks of the all-time greats like pele and maradona as one of the best whoever played the world's most popular game. as for german, it's not one man but an army of them that have used pin-point passing precision to become the highest scorers in world cup history. a win for the machine would erase all of the near misses the team has had in the past decade and mark the first world cup won by a european team in the western hemisphere. who will lift the 2014 world

cup? the best defense or the best offense? it depends upon your philosophy and only one thing is for certain: the entire world will be watching. >> fans from both teams are arriving in the stadium and the atmosphere is electric. al jazeera's resondo is getting the experience firsthand. >> reporter: we are outside the stadium. everyone is wondering is this going to be a giant party or will there be some protests or a little bit of both? i can't tell you that the brazilian it government is hoping it will be a football party but they have over 25,000 police and security personnel on the outside perimeter of the stadium. we saw all sorts of security barriers just to get here where we are now. down by famous copa cabana beach we saw army soldiers on patrol there by the hundreds. this is all part of the bigger plan to make sure security goes right in this last match here of the world cup. now, i can tell you, outside the

stadium, thousands of fans are already starting to poor in here to get a glimpse of this match. we are still hours away. there is expected to be over 100,000 fans from neighboring argentina here we have also seen lots of fans from germany as well, both germany and argentina fans. each, we're told, have about 13,000 tickets, each. the stadium is going to be over 70,000 people expected to pack in to see who will be the champion of this worldcup. next up on al jazeera america, honduran teams coming to the united states out of fear from their homeland. and a controversial method of finding energy is now making its way to washington, d.c.

28 years. that's how long it's been since argentina won a worldcup. as argentine i can't fans show up to the stadium in rio to see

if they would end that streak, we will go to our correspondent over in argentina for us. daniel, the game is just two hours away. so how is it looking over there in buenos aires? >> reporter: intense. behind me, there are thousands of people gathered here in one of the main plazas. there are similar scenes all over argentina, all over this city where the authorities have put up big screens for the fans to come and watch. these people have been gathering for two or three hours, ready for a big party t they are confident that argentina can lift the first world cup since 1986. we have already seen scenes of great celebration here before they even got this far. if they should win this game, i think argentina is going to see a party like they have never seen before. >> all right. daniel schweimler as the arrange en team gets ready to take on germany, the machine.

thanks so much, daniel for being with us this afternoon. earlier today, the first president of georgia was laid to rest. the funeral took place at holy trinity church which is the capitol of tubelsi. georgia's current president attended the ceremony as well as other foreign dignitaries including james barker. he died on monday at 86 years old. nor korea launching a pair of ballistic missiles between north korea and japan, the latest in a series of test firings by north korea. south korea ian officials say about 90 such test firings have been launched by the north since february. secretary of state john kerry is in vienna, austria just ahead of the nuclear talks with iran. the united states along with britain, france, germany, russia and china all want to restrict iran ability to make an atomic bomb. the secretary of state says that there is a long road ahead. we have some very

significant gaps still. so we need to see if we can make some progress, and i really look forward to a very substantive and important set of meetings and dialogues. and we obviously, it is a very important subject. it is vital to make certain that iran is not going to develop a nuclear weapon, that their program is peaceful. >> violence at home is one of the primary reasons why so many central american children are coming to the united states. specifically, it's because they fear gangs. no where is that problem worse than in honduras where our paul beban filed this report. >> reporter: in honduras, guatemala and el salvador, gauges and drug cartels are more powerful than governments. the carnage and chaos they are visiting upon the people in this region is quite simply driving them out. most dangerous place of all according to united nations is honduras. from january to may, the border patrol caught more than 2200

kids from san pedro sula traveling alone. >> that's 15 kids fleeing every day. i asked some of the people there what it's like to live in the city known as the murder capitol of the world. >> translator: the fear of crime and violence here in san pedro sula makes peopled afraid to go to work, afraid to take your kids to school. this is a place where you see ugly things like bodies in pieces, think of waking up to a photo splashed across the front of the newspaper. it affects you. crime and fear lead people to pack their bags and leave. >> we are driving on the outskirts and this is a much more dangerous part of the city than downtown. this is disputed gang territory and right in the middle of it here is a juvenile detention center where kids are serving, doing time for crimes from homicide to rape and extortion.

here we are. we are going go in the front gate. is. >> carlos, what kind of options do kids this age have? is it either the gangs or head north, or can they get jobs? are there other opportunities for these kids? >> the sad reality is the day they age out and step out of the door of the facility, they are going to find the same situation that put them here in the first place. >> carlos, what about kids coming back? so many are being deported from the u.s. what happens to them when they come back to honduras? >> the future of those kids, if they have to come back is worse. most, if not all, have journeyed to try to unite with family over there in the north and to come back, they are going to return to an empty house, and they are going to end up in the streets. this is the autopsy room. >> is the morgue just simply overwhelmed? can you handle the number of bodies you have to take care of here?

>> translator: there are times when during the night, there is so much crime, we have up to 20 cadavers waiting to be processed. during the day, there are four doctors. weeks are worse. when people get paid, there is a lot of crime. it's rare but we have had a few days with 25, 30 cadavers waiting for us. >> this is the cold room, where they store the corpses. there are 80 to 90 in there right now, just stacked up like cord wood, he said, one on top of the other. this room is full to capacity all the time these days. and only once a month are they able to take out and bury the unclaimed bodies, but the smell in here is just unbelievable. it's staggering. we've got to go. we've got to go. >> it is grizzly to think about. no locker are the bodies of children, victims of violence in their hometown. many of them are teenage boys who are often faced with the starkest of choices. join the gangs, be killed by the gangs, or leave. paul beban, al jazeera, new york. >> we will take an in-depth look

at this crisis along the border coming up tonight in our special segment, "the week ahead" tonight at 8:30 eastern 5:30 pacific. thousands are marching in washington this afternoon at an anti--fracking protest. the focus of the march is natural gas exports from a facility in maryland. dominion resources has applied for federal approval to export over 700 million cubic feet of fracked gas each day. protesters say the project would contribute to climate change as well as increased pollution in communities where gas pipelines had being built. stay tuned because coming up on al jazeera, nasa couldn't launch this robert yesterday because mother nature wasn't playing so nicely. well can we will tell you if they had better luck today. and check out this costume of a wild west hero. it sold for thousands of dollars, but stay tuned because we will tell you just how much in a moment.

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i am morgan radford. the death toll climbs in gaza as morrisisi airstrikes hit. despite calls for a ceasefire, the israeli prime minister tells his cabinet that a military offensive may take some time. meanwhile, residents in northern gaza begin to evacuate. germany and argentina facing off in the world cup final. you are looking at live pictures as crowds gather in rio de janeiro right outside of the stadium. the game begins in just an hour and a half. secretary of state john kerry joining other world leaders in vienna to hammer out details with iran over the nuclear program. iran wants to increase uranian enrichment. western powers want to see it reduced. they have one week to strike a deal. >> an american made cargo ship has lifted off on its way to the international space station. it is bringing 3300 pounds worth of supplies, all expected to doc

by wednesday. now, it's run by orbital, one of two u.s. companies hired by nasa to shuttle cargo to that space station. today's liftoff was the second try. severe weather in virginia on friday led scientists to delay that space flight. so luckily, mother nature let the launch happen today. ebony dion is here for that. there is a chance the weather is going to affect today's launch? yes or no? >> the launch has happened. it just got underway. really good news because we did see those clouds clearing out just a bit but clouds are increasing elsewhere. we had the right window of opportunity so that that launch was not scrubbed. so some good news there. a little further north, the weather is a bit more active. that's thanks to a cold front that's moving in and as it pushes into the northeast, we have a lot of moisture to work with. clouds building but then we have the rain. we even had stronger storms moving in off of lake eerie off of buffalo. >> has prompted a rain warning.

boaters not a good idea to take boats out. we are dealing with active weather. things have fizzled out along the tail-end of that front. now, we are going to be watching ohio and western areas of pennsylvania closely because now, we have a severe thunderstorm watch in place until 8:00 p.m. local time this evening. as we have gone through the day, high temperatures have started to climb. now that we have the heating of the day, that will increase the instability and of course, allow for more storms to spark. we have been watching a few isolated storms around ohio, but really, as we go through much of the evening hours, we could see that stretching back into parts of missouri all the way into the northeast and by the time we get into monday, right along ahead of that front, some of that will be pushing into our larger cities including new york city and d.c. it could be quite active for the start of the work week. behind the front, we are going to be in for a big temperature swing, especially here across the great lakes back into the upper midwest, cooler, dryer arair moving in. >> will drop off tuesday as far as the rain is concerned more

severe weather on the way. this will be a slow-moving front. as you can see, some of the same areas dealing with the threat today will still be in line for more strong storms again monday. we will have to watch parts of the southeast for scattered showers and storms. we could use the rain in parts of the west. it looks like the bulk of the moisture will be here stretching through iowa, back into illinois and, of course, across ohio. the ohio valley a really expected to see heavy rainfall within the next 48 to 72 hours. maybe picking up as much as four, maybe upwards to about five inches. no more rain in the northwest where the heat continues. >> no rain and signess is up, up and away. a piece of american history sold on the auction block. this lone ranger costume was snapped up for nearly $200,000. that was by a mega fan out in texas. >> that's $45,000 more than the pre-sale estimate after clayton moore wore that on the abc television series that ran from 1949 to 1957.

yee-haw. thanks for watching al jazeera america life from new york. stay tuned because 101 east is coming up next. right now, we leave you with live images of rio de janeiro as fans are getting ready for today's championship world cup. >> the wonder of the world's forests... is often found in the creatures that live in them. but the most rare and precious of animals are increasingly falling prey to poachers. the u-n now classifies the trafficking of exotic wildlife... as second only in scale to the illegal drug trade... so vast and lucrative is this black market underworld.... that authorities say its driving more species than ever into extinction. while there have been seizures