wind, aljazeera.com/creditthis. we'll see you next time. >> >> hello, and welcome to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. and these are the stories we're following for you. a temporary pause in airstrikes and rockets ends. the fighting between israelis and palestinians resumes. heavy fighting in eastern ukraine. the government accusing russia of shooting down one of its jets. and they have been missing for three full months. the update on the missing nigerian schoolgirls.

again at this hour, there's no deal in israel. five hour humanitarian ceasefire between israel and hamas has ended, and rockets launched from gaza this morning in israel, attacking from air and sea. in one week of fighting, 235 palestinians have died, along with one israeli. nick schifrin is in gaza. >> all day the diplomats have been meeting in cairo, trying to come up with a ceasefire. but in cairo and hamas, the palestinian authority, egypt and united states, it has been ten with us. and for three hours, we have a humanitarian pause, ceasefire for three hours, and it wasn't really broken. you had about three rockets fired from gaza, and a single

israeli response, we had splinter groups taking credit for those, and in response, we have seen israel begin some kind of air campaign, three, four strikes or so, apparently headed to from the israeli army. but there's still momentum. and diplomatic progress from the ceasefire. from israel and hamas and in washington. there's a huge push to try to find a solution where all of them can agree. israel wants a demill tarrization of gaza, and hamas wants egypt open, and completely lifting of israeli. and the violence will continue over the next few hours, but most of the officials say that the progress toward a ceasefire

is definitely positive, and the momentum is with a diplomatic solution to this conflict soon. >> meanwhile, israel is investigating the deaths of the four palestinian boys. the boys, all cousins, were buried today. they were killed by an airstrike as they played on the beach. >> reporter: they have been playing near a shack on the beach. and now the four cousins, are dead. my back is broken, he cries, the agony of a father. the attack happened in broad daylight near our hotel. i took these photos on the beach shack, and you can clearly see four boys running away, and then there was another bang. this shows people carrying away the body from the shack, and the

other where they had run for safety. god should punish israel, mohammed's mother cried. the boys were quickly buried, and we asked the army for reaction, and they issued this statement. based on the preliminary results, the terrorist operatives. it's a tragic outcome, and the res is ongoing. this strike took place in front of two hotels filled with journalists. no one knows what was inside of the shack, but there was no secondary explosion, suggesting that weapons were kept there, we saw children running from a strike and ended upping killed anyway. >> the palestinian-american team in tampa, florida. she's a cousin of the young palestinian teen who was kidnapped and killed.

and his death followed the deaths of three israeli teenagers that same week. >> the facial bruising from the beating are gone, and the 15-year-old looks like the teen that everyone remembers, but given the loss of his 16-year-old cousin, mohammed, his arrest and being beaten unconscious it seems that tarik is a changed young man, and he looks at freedom differently after this horrible vacation. he spoke a lot about his cousin, mohammed, he was kidnapped and murdered. and that murder in retaliation for the three israeli teens. though tarik has been released, three others are kept with charges for the retaliation for the campaign to bring it. ariq home. in the ukraine, the military saying that russia shot down one of its fighter jets.

russia denies that charge, but it marks the third time this week that ukrainian missiles fired. >> the fighter jet, it was viewed as a tank killer. it was low on the ground, low to the ground. it was hit. and the ukrainian soldiers say by two missiles, aircraft on the russian side of the border. this is something that we have not seen in actual air to air. reports from the ukrainian government, air to aramisles. air to air missiles, and they say that it was supplied by or came from russian air space because it was more sophisticated than anything that they have. so accusations that they have been downed by russian equipment. and this is something that has been going on for ten days.

accusations on both sides, so this brings up the tensions. >> and you say that russia is partly to blame for the stepped up tensions of the region, and they're slapping them with sanctions. and vladimir putin said that is going to hurt russian-u.s. relations. >> sanctions from a boomerang effect, and without any doubt, they will push u.s.-russian relations into a dead-end and cause very serious damage. and i'm sure that this also damages strategic with the u.s. government and the u.s. people. >> the taliban claiming responsibility for afghanistan's main international airport. four taliban fighters were killed after they targeted the inside of the airport. jennifer glasse was there. >> reporter: the taliban fighters used rockets in the

early morning assault on kabul's airport. forces raced to the scene, trying to find a way to dislodge the gunmen from a building under construction. >> it started with rocket fire, and then the forces started firing from their positions. >> the attack went on for hours. the airport was closed. and the flights diverted. >> the ladder used by both account afghan airforce and the nato troops and aircraft. this is the third and most sustained attack on the airport this month. and it comes in a delicate time for afghanistan. the election is scheduled to start this week with the aim of naming a new afghan president before the end of august. jennifer glasse, aljazeera,

kabul. >> in the ongoing immigration crisis, the flood of migrant children flooding the u.s.-mexican border. heidi castro joins us from texas. and new initiatives to deal with border crossings. >> hey, del, that's right. the u.s. government is using diplomacy and an advertising campaign with a goal of delivering a message to the migrants there that it's just not worth coming to the u.s. and they will be deported. now a state department representative briefed the senators moments ago. >> through our diplomatic engagement in the region in a fairly short time, i believe that we have an understanding of the problem with the united states, mexico, honduras and el salvador. and we have created a common public messaging campaign to counter the marketing tactics of

the human smugglers, which we believe is beginning to have an impact. and we have established new relations on security with mexico and guatemala, which includes mexico's announcement of a border initiative. and we have repatriated adult children. >> whether that's falling on ears is up for debate. that's mexico behind me, talking to migrants preparing to cross, and they tell me yes, they have heard that deportations are on the rise and it is a deterrent, making them think twice, but because of the long journey that has already taken them all the way from central america, they think it's worth taking the risk. and in fact, smugglers are changing tactics, and they're telling them to run from border patrol rather than surrender, and we have seen that in the last days. less mass surrenders and more

people running away from border patrol. and del, with the heat, with 110° today, that's such a dangerous risk that they're taking, and in fact on tugs, the mission police in texas found the body of a 20-something on-year-old el salvador man who died in the brush here. >> how are the people in the border communities coping in the meantime? >> well, this is more of the same. we rode along with a gentleman a few blocks away yesterday. and he said that he's used to police pursuits in his backyard on a daily and hourly basis, and the thing is they say they're not being bothered by the people who have been crossing. the folks just want to get across and get as far away from the border as possible, but truly, there's a criminal element here. just across, a few feet away,

that's the gulf cartel's territory in mexico, and it's very dangerous, and they have influence all over the region. and so while folks know this is going on right next door, they also know that these very dangerous people in the community, and they try not to ask too many questions. they're not being bothered, but they know that this dangerous element does exist. >> live in mission, texas for us at this hour. thank you very much. gm executives on capitol hill, facing questions about a decade long ignition switch problem. 13 deaths are attributed to the faulty switches, and they recalled millions of vehicles this year, but lawmakers are wondering why it took so long for the vehicles to be flagged. >> incompetence and deceit among engineers with important responsibility. and second, it is very clear that the culture of lawyering up

to minimize liability in individual lawsuits killed innocent customers of general motors. >> some victims a families also at the hearing, talking about the loved ones lost. and gm earlier blamed engineers and low level lawyers for failing to bring attention to the switches. they will bring attention to the workforce, 18,000 jobs, the pretax charges of $1.6 billion. and the tragedy is contributed to microsoft's buying of nokia. and president obama hitting the road today, talking about an initiative to fix the nation's bridges and roads in delaware. it calls for a private-public partnership to fund projects, and because david schuster reports that congress is having a hard time coming up with a

long time infrastructure plan of its own. >> reporter: the proof is in the numbers much every year, accidents are caused by inadequate roads, and americans spend 38,000 hours a year stuck in traffic. this year, the house approved $39 billion to keep it running, and today allow projects to keep going, and people work. but it's only temporary. >> we're looking at another shortfall just next year, being in exactly the same position that we're in today. >> while the democrats and the republicans recognize that the country needs a long-term plan to approve the nation's rails, roads and waterways, they're stuck on how to pay for it. the gas tax provides $34 billion of the $50 billion a year that the government spends on transportation projects. right now it's 18.4 cents a gallon, the same level it has been since 1993, it has not kept

up with rising expenses and more efficient cars that use less gas. house speaker, john boehner, voted for the temporary fix, but most republicans are not going to increase the gas tax in an election year. >> we're not going to get to a long-term highway bill. >> so most have kabuled the money from temporary sources, like a project that cleans leaking underground storage tanks, and changing to pension funds. and another idea that some republicans the is to cut the gas tax and leave paying for the roads up to the state. in the meantime, this short-term solution is the only one with bipartisan support. and in a year, the trust fund could be empty. >> coming up on aljazeera america. the latest on the search to find the missing nigerian schoolgirls.

>> nigeria's president, goodluck jonathan said that he needs more firepower to find the girls in nigeria. he said tha they need money, and surviving the shot by the taliban, and urging them to bring the kidnapped girls home. but jonathan canceled the meeting with relatives after they refused to meet with them. the girls were kidnapped from their school three months ago. roberta sanders is an ambassador to nigeria, and thank you for being with us. the president wants more money for his military. but three months after they disappeared, the girls are still

missing, so is this a legitimate request or a money grab? >> i think that it's a legitimate request. the news on this has been interesting to me, because the cancellation of the meeting was actually done by some of the groups, because they wanted more parents to participate in the meeting. so i think that we need a little bit of clarity on that. i don't think it's a money grab. the military does need financial assistance so that some of the more modern equipment, particularly bomb detection equipment, and firepower, and logistical support, they need all of those things to address the threat out there. >> but we keep hearing over and over that nigeria's military suffers from age or corruption problem. and does that mean that we might be at odds in the future. >> that's always the possibility in any scenario, but if you look at some of the testimony from about three weeks ago.

the state department testified. and i testified as well. and there are about 87 units that have been corrupt. and the process is continuing. we're very very focused on ensuring that resources and money that we provide to the nigerian government does not fall either into the line of corruption or the line of human rights violations. that's something that we have to be vigilant about and we're committed so. and it's i said, it's always a possibility. but everybody is on top of that so as you described it, it does not happen. >> to keep it focused on the girls, are there any positive signs that things are either better or worse than before? >> . >> i think that the security environment remains in a negative scenario, but there are three things that i would point out on the positive side. one, it's still on the front burner, and the activists are

keeping it on the front burner and doing a tremendous job. there have been two arrests recently. one, you've already seen, the extradition from sudan, he was apparently involved in the bombings in downtown abusha three weeks ago, and that i think is a positive sign, and it shows the intelligence leakages are work, and they're trying to find some of the suspects and bring them back to nigeria, and secondly, one of the leaders of the vigilante groups from nigeria as a result of the security vacuum there, instead of protecting villagers, he was actually a scout for boko haram and he has been taken into custody, and i think that those show at least behind the scenes with the intelligence network are working, and it doesn't mean

that we have a long way it go. >> let me interrupt you for a second. i want to put reality in on this. the leader of boko haram, where he was mocking the international efforts to find the missing girls, releasing the video on youtube, and though we talk about progressing made, is there any level of shame that if this had been any place else, the world would be rising up in outrage that so little had been done comparatively. >> i think that's correct in so many ways. i made the comparison before, during the malaysian airline crisis, the resources, i haven't seen the same kind of commitment made in this situation with the young girls, so the outrage should be higher than it is. and the efforts to find the girls should be higher than it is. and i certainly hope that that

continues to be on the forefront of the activists, keeping it on the front burner. but that being said, i do think that the positive things that i did note need to really stay on the front burner too. because it shows that something is being done as opposed to nothing done. >> the question after the crisis broke out, that was, did he think that three months later they would still be talking about it? do you think that the girls are still going to be missing? >> yes, i do. the hope for the families, my heart goes out to the families, but i do think that the scenario that we're facing, the security environment there is so difficult. and we don't know exactly where the girls are, whether they're still in nigeria or if they have been taken into smaller groups across the border. so it's a long haul. and unfortunately, right now with everything that we're

seeing, i think we'll still be having this conversation at least a couple of months out and i don't expect that we'll have a situation where we're able to talk in a positive light about all of the girls being found and coming back in three months ago. it's a long fight, it's a long haul. and i think nigeria is in for a long conflict and they need to be prepared for that. >> that's robin sander, the former ambassador to nigeria from the united states. as lawmakers search for a solution for the growing immigration crisis, we're going to look at a government program that brought 14,000 cuban children into this country 50 years ago.

>> welcome back to aljazeera america. i'm del walters. and these are the headlines at this hour. the five hour ceasefire between israel and hamas is over, there's no deal. and both sides are still attacking each other as diplomats are meeting in cairo,

trying to be negotiate a peace deal. and also on the immigration front, this is not the first time in history with undocumented children. undocumented cuban children were brought to miami. and we caught up with people who made the trip. >> she was a teenager during the cuban revolution. one of the thousands of children sent to the u.s. alone by parents who feared that the cuban government, run by fidel castro, would take them away and brainwash them. >> my parents got very desperate because they started indoctrination in schools. and a lot of children turned against the parents. and it was becoming a real tragedy. >> ultimately, 14,000 cuban children would flee the country on u.s. commercial flights to florida. part of a of program started in 1960 called operation pedro pan.

>> i traveled with my five-year-old sister. she asked my mom, why do i have to leave? i mean, how could you explain to a five-year-old child that she had to leave her mother and father, you know? >> everything, little by little,-. >> though she didn't know him then, her future husband, a latin star in the united states, was boarding a plane as part of pedro pan. and both used music to help adjust to their new lives. >> i remember the first song i ever wrote was for cube, and it said ♪ that's the chorus, my hometown, nobody is doing anything for you.

it's a question, like a cry. >> how much on would you say your music is inspired by your experiences going through operation pedro pan? >> i would say a lot. i believe -- i know that being an artist, you touch people emotionally. including your own. >> torino eventually reunited with his parents when they came to the united states a year later. alvarez waited three years before her parents arrived in the united states. but the two performers had the most comfort in each other. when they came together with their music as adults. aljazeera, miami. >> and we're following breaking news out of ukraine. russia's interfax news agency saying a malaysian passenger plane has crashed on the border.

there are reports of 2990 people onboard. and the plane was said to be from amsterdam. we'll have more as more information is available. for now, thank you for watching aljazeera america. aim del walters in new york, and "inside story" is next. . >> they are the emerging world powers and they're combining their economic hats. the bricks alliance hopes to challenge the western dominated world bank and international monetary fund. it's the inside story. >> hello, i'm a he libby casey. brazil, russia, india and china