>> announcer: this is al jazeera. hello, welcome to the newshour, live from al jazeera's global news headquarters in doha. these are the main stories we'll cover in detail in the next hour - bodies are removed from the malaysia airlines crash screen in ukraine. international observers are denied access. overwhelmed by casualties, and over supply - gaza's hospitals are buckling as the

ground offensive continues. we meet the refugees of iraq's sectarian violence that no one wants to know or help. >> i'll be here with sport. tiger woods misfires at the open championships. rory mcilroy gets the attention, strutting into a lead at liverpool. now, bodies from victims of a malaysian airliner shot down are being removed from the wreckage. it comes as interference from the crash site cannot be tolerated and would be a betrayal of lives lost. >> whoever crosses the line and doesn't comply with my orders will face the consequences. o.s.c.e. observers are

having another go at surveying the site after access was limited on friday. warning shots were fired into the air as the team was asked to leave. they've been trying to set up a corridor. the u.s. says the aircraft was shot down by a missile fired from a rebels area. a transport minister says a team of special of the has arrived in ukraine. >> malaysia is deeply concerned that the crash site has not been properly secure. the integrity of the site has been compromised and vital evidence has not been preserved. interfering with the scene of the crash is undermining the investigation itself. any action that prevent us from learning the truth about what

happened to flight 17 cannot occur. failure to stop the interference will be a betrayal of life that we lost we can speak on the phone to our correspondent scott heidler. i know there has been activity around the screen in the past hour. tell us what has been happening. >> sure, i can give you an up to date report. the o.s.c.e. contingent has arrived at the scene. the fighters with the donetsk people's republic are blocking the access. there's a bus across the street. soldiers are in front and their vehicles at the back. i'm not sure if they are making me go on foot. they are not allow them to go through. some members are out on foot - definitely they are out on foot

speaking with the fighters from the people's republic now. i don't know if they are negotiating. i see a stream of logoed s.u.v.s on the side of the road leading to the crash scene. earlier bodies were being put into a body bag. done by emergency workers. logoed uniformed workers. a regional demonstration, that's the leader of donetsk people's republic. it looks like people are not going through the checkpoint. they put a but in the road with fighters in front of it. i can't tell in they are getting

back in. where it's a sizeable group. a dozen of them, 4 or 5 o.s.c.e. people. they are getting back in. i'll let you know which direction they are going. >> this is important because these monitors are there to clear away for international investigators to come. and start the inquiry about how the staff happened. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. when you look at the investigation, it grew on to witness the investigation before getting body and body parts. they had clip boards. they were looking taking pictures and removing them on stretchers and things. it was in an organise the fashion people were take the the body parts and putting them on

the streets. they were being handled. the question is who was handling them and whose direction. >> that is what the malaysian government is worried about. there's confusion over the black boxes. ukraine is saying it has no information on the black boxes. we don't seem to know where they are. have you seen or heard anything related to the flight recorders? >> no, i've not seen evidence of them taking out debris or sensitive equipment. the only things we have seen moved was this morning, a couple of hours ago - we have been here since the start - was some body parts. i have not seen equipment or wreckage. it's been today and that was dead body parts. we were up there at the crash scene a couple of hours ago. the main one with scorched

earth. we had been there for a day, day and a half. today we were down interesting the report, they were up the hill. that's when bodies were being put into bags, and it forced us here to the check point to where we are right now. >> thank you thech indeed. scott heidler, describing the screen -- scene there at the crash sight. there is diplomatic pressure on russia to provide help and information. let's speak to rory challands in moscow. russia has been condemned by the u.s. and other countries. vladimir putin blames for supplying weapons to the rebels. how is russia responding to all of this pressure? >> well, let's have a look at

russia's position. it's not good. as you say, russia stood accused for some time of supplying the rebels in east ukraine with weaponry and also expertise. whether or not it is actually doing that, russia certainly does have an interest in keeping western influence in ukraine to a minimum, and in keeping the government in kiev off balance. so now something cataclysmic has happened which completely changes the came and will likely make countries that have been giving russia the benefit of the doubt of the those countries now are likely to swing in behind the u.s. and start advocating for tougher sanctions against moscowment moscow has a choice - does it turn its back on the rebels, meaning its geopolitical aims in ukraine fail, or does it

prepare itself for tougher sanctions and a rocky economic path to come. the only way it can, i think, avoid having to make this choice is by convincing the world that it had nothing to do with the downing of nh 17, and it has a -- mh17. >> i know vladimir putin called for a ceasefire, and has been in talks with the ukranian president. these are lines we have heard before the crash. is it more likely to happen now that there is this investigation that needs to be conducted very quickly. >> i think we'll have to wait for the weekend to pass until we know the answer to that. vladimir putin made that call for a ceasefire for all combatants to lay down arms and start talking over 24 hours ag,

and we haven't heard anything more since then. at the moment it's a sticky messy situation on the ground, as scott was saying. a lot of confusion going on at the crash site. pro-russian separatists seem to be nervous about the access given to the o.s.c.e. and to the investigation teams when they come in. it remains unclear whether they are going to be allowed to do the job they have gone there to do. on a diplomatic level here in moscow there'll be a lot of thinking behind closed doors about what steps are taken nst. >> rory, thanks for that. rory challands in moscow. we are getting word that the o.s.c.e. monitors may be allowed in. scott, can you confirm what is happening at the scene now? >> yes, we are hearing - what i was witnessing, that the o.s.c.e. has not been turned

around. they are here. they are speaking with the fighters at the checkpoint i was describing. we hear that it sounds like they are going to let them in. it's under discussion. i'm witnessing this now. they were told that they had to get out of the vehicles the vehicles were definitely not going through. the contingent of o.s.c.e. is walking past my position. a couple of gentlemen and flack vests and shirts and ties. walking up to the main position i mentioned with the bus, and there's a lot of guards around them. we here that they are negotiating. we were told that they were going to be let through on foot. and it appears there's a little negotiation going on. there's a big group of them in front of the bus. we are told that the leader of the o.s.c.e. oncontingent has asked -- contingent has asked to

speak to the commander to continue the negotiations. we had the indications that they were going to be let through on foot. it appears that is ongoing. they are out of their vehicles the oesc, and we are up by the checkpoint with the armed fighters from the donetsk people's republic, and the negotiation is ongoing. >> keep us posted as to what happens. scott heidler at the scene in eastern ukraine there. >> to gaza and israeli forces intensified the ground offensive on the strip. artillery shelling has become more free consequent. the -- frequent. >> the numbers on the ground has given by 300-400. we have this report from gaza.

>> israeli troops are inside gaza another the border, lighting up the sky with flares. their tanks are firing shells. we can hear it everywhere. houses have been hit, people killed in their homes. at an emergency meeting at the united nations security council, the palestinian ambassador called on the world to intervene. >> crimes against humanity, showed systematic human rights investigations are being committed. >> israel says it's protecting itself. >> there's no country in the world, no country in the world tolerating an assault on the citizens. israel should not be expected to either. >> the u.s. took both sides. >> no family, palestinian or israeli should have to live in fear of good evening unsafe in their homes. >> the u.s. president reaffirmed

his support for his rail. >> no nation should accept rockets being fired into its borders or terrorists into its territory. >> the politicians had a lot to say about gaza. palestinians were being injured and killed in their homes. their houses pounded by tank shells and artillery fire. the israeli army released this video, showing tunnels in gaza used by fighters to attack israel. the military warned a ground offensive would be expanded. >> we have gone up a notch, fakifak taking it to ground mobilization. >> hamas and other groups are using rockets. >> we are fully prepared for a long-lasting battle with the occupation forces. the enemy witnessed the tip of the iceberg. >> on friday the dead included a 70-year-old woman, a baby and

children. more families fled from their homes, looking for somewhere safe to go. but there aren't many options in a place where all the borders are closed. >> meanwhile hamas's military wing has been trying to show it's standing up to israel's attacks. the brigades released this video showing fighters using the tunnels beneath gaza that the supporters are trying to use. ordinary palestinians used them to evade blockade and bring food and fuel into the territory. after 11 days of attacks on gaza, 319 have been killed, according to the palestinian health ministry. 73 of those are children. 2,000 others have been injured. the u.n. relief agencies says 50,000 have fled their homes, up

from 20,000 a day earlier. let's speak to al jazeera's stefanie dekker, live for us in gaza, and stephanie, there are so many people forced from their homes, so many people injured, how are hospitals and other services coping with the sheer numbers? >> well, they are completely overstretched. to give you a sense of what it's like for the people. we have come back from one of the border areas where there's heavy shelling and all the roads are empty. some people are running back and basically they were petrified saying there was an israeli tang coming closer to the people. they were running away, saying there was dead people down the road. they couldn't get their bodies back, and then we are speaking to a lady who told us she was petrified. she couldn't move any more.

she was in her dad adds home, we could here the yelling from the tanks. i just moved. i'm at my dad's house, they are shelling it again. we went to the morgue. we saw a young girl with her mother, and i have to say very graphic, the little girl was covered in shrapnel, horrendous. i can't hear you any more, so i will not be able to answer another question. >> all right. thank you for the moment. stefanie dekker updating us in gaza on the latest situation there. it's a very grim picture. let's go to - no, we don't have the next correspondent. we were going to cross to israel and get the latest from israel. we will come back to that when we get it.

all right, let's move on to iran. and diplomats negotiating the future of tehran's nuclear programme agreed to extend talks by four month. sunday was the original deadline for iran. the u.s. said it would allow iran to access 2.8 billion of funds in response to squaling back the programme. patty culhane has more. >> it was clear the six powers and iran were not going to reach a deal. now they have don ahead and extended the negotiations for four months, bring the deadline to november 24th. iran will get access to 2.8 billion of money held in overseas accounts and negotiations will continue. secretary of state john kerry saying there are real gaps that remain. there's a real prospect for a

peaceful solution. in iraq hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. many fled to the kurdish controlled region in the north. many want to return home. >> reporter: it was a show of solidarity to the displaced people of iraq. that's how the united nations high commissioner for refugees described his visit to this camp outside mosul. hundreds of families have been living here since june 10th since the islamic state pushed them out of their village. what they fear the most is never returning home. what they want is to go home. >> reporter: reconciling iraq's community won't be easy. >> others are sunni, they can't

return, they are family members who can't return. up to 1,000 iraqis moved into the kurdish controlled territories. the kurdistan government was hosting up to a million iraqis displaced since the u.s. invasion since 2003. there are 250,000 syrian refugees. this is a huge burden. the kurdistan regional government fell out with the central government in baghdad. it no longer gets its share of the budget. it's not just money. the influx of people raised concerns for kurds, who considered the s self-declared islamic state their enemy. >> you know the troops are controlling the area. we are targeted so we are following a procedure to provide security aid. >> those measures angered many

here. >> we can't go to the hospital and erdill. we are not allowed to move. we are only allowed to stay here. >> those that don't have a kurd to sponsor them are not allowed inside urban centers. many feel discriminated against. it's a political time and the divide created barriers between the people struggling to survive. in argentina, it's the 20th anniversary of a notorious attack - the bombing of the jewish cultural center in buenos aires. daniel schweimler reports the search for answers continues for the victim's families. [ siren ] . >> reporter: 9:53 and the siren sounds, as it does every 18 july, to mark the time the bomb exploded. the large jewish community remembers its dead.

the 85 killed and the more than 300 injured in the attack on the 5-storey cultural center in the heart of the capital. they are still demanding answers. >> 20 years and not one day of rest. we are here because we don't want nor can be allow that after so much time we'll give up our fight. >> reporter: argentina accused the lebanese based hezbollah group of carrying out the attack on the orders of the then iranian government. the investigation was riddled with problems. a former president said a failure to present results was a desgrace. local police men charged with aiding the bombers were acquitted for lack of evidence. this woman lost her sister and heads a group calling for

justice. >> translation: the truth is that it's sad. it's a shame that 20 years after the attack we don't know anything. we don't know who planted the bomb, nor the situation. >> reporter: this the memorial to the attack two years earlier on the embassy in buenos aires killing 29 people. argentina, and its jewish community has not been the same since. >> they check you whenever you enter a building. there are metal detectors. it has changed our life forever. argentina's jewish community has split over what direction it should take. >> the army was reconstructed with stronger security. it remains, as well as a testament to a vibrant community, searching for answers and demanding justice.

it's time for the weather with everton, and that typhoon has been causing havoc in southern china. >> it has. this time yesterday we talked about the super typhoon, it is no longer a super tifon, a final warning was issued a few hours ago we are not concerned with the wind, but it's a significant feature producing huge amounts and that will be the main issue over the next few address. there's many trees and powerlines. of course, there has been flooding. i suspect there'll be further flooding to the north. close to the center of the storm as it made its way through. there's a huge amount of rainfall. kl condition making its way to a

general north westerly direction. this is the far north of china, to vietnam. again 200mm of rain may be seen here, going into monday. is goes a little further west making its way further west towards the far north of the vietnam, south-west of china. >> coming back in behind. you can see is poking through. looking easement. there's a significant feature making its way back to the veil peens. lots of cloud. bear in mind the philippines suffered from the typhoon. these are the conditions we are looking at. the storm staying off sure, i'm pleased to say. it's making its way towards

taiwan. president obama is asking congress for billions to deal with the crisis. tom ackerman has the story of a child. >> reporter: coming to the u.s. was never part of jos lean's plans. she said she didn't have a choice. >> if you come from some place because someone wants to kill you. if you go back, they'll kill you. >> reporter: jocelyn says some men angry with her stepfather, kidnapped, blind folded and dumped her. when they threatened to come back, the 16-year-old made a decision to fully. >> translation: to leave your family and everything, it's not much, but it's all you have. in 2011 her uncle hired a

smuggler to take her through guatemala, to reyint her father. it was a journey by bus, and bissical and finally crossing the rio grand river. once you crossed the river, you run to a place, an abandoned house. >> then immigration catches you and you think all the effort you made, it's not worthwhile. at the time i didn't know i would have the opportunity to stay here. >> jocelyn is among 57,000 minors caught by u.s. law enforcement at or near the border. it's double the number in the previous year. more than half are escaping gangs. under the un convention of the rights of the child, they are

obligated for the action to the children. >> you know, that's significant. >> reporter: under-u.s. law deportation proceedings determine whether they qualify for asylum. they are housed in almost 100 child-only temporary shelters across the country. many overflowing until they can be placed with relatives or foster families. jocelyn's lawyers won her an immigrant visa by convincing the court that her mother abandoned her. she is close to obtaining permanent residency. >> i have a good life. >> an opportunity that for many is worth all the risks of their journey. still to come here on the programme - used as an

experiment - an island where children, mother and baby homes, were tested for drugs. >> in sport the english soccer team looking to prove they can play football as well.

welcome back. a reminder of the top stories, international monitors are negotiating with pro-russian separatists to access the wreckage of a malaysian airliner shot in eastern ukraine. o.s.c.e. observers were given

limited access before being ordered to leave. bodies of victims are being removed from the scene. israeli forces stepped up attacks on gaza. most of the attacks have been concentrated on the northern part of the palestinian territory. troops and tanks entered gaza. the u.s. needed aid for 50,000 displaced people. we go to an israeli up to on the gaza border. from your vantage pointed, nisreen el-shamayleh, you have seen a barrage into northern gaza. what are the israeli army telling you about the success of their ground invasion? >> well, before i get into that, i just want to give you the latest two updates, according to the israeli army and police. a second israeli citizen has been killed in a rocket attack. it hit a bedouin area pop u

lated lated by arabs. four other members of his family were injured in the attack. this area is underpopulated. the people don't have access to bomb shelters, and don't hear rocket sirens, they are more vulnerable than others, the bedouins. separately, the army is telling us that it has foiled another infiltration attempt by palestinian fighters in southern israel. it says that a number of fighters tried to infiltrate through a tunnel into israeli territory, and threw an anti-attack missile at the army. they responded and exchanged fire according to army officials. two were injured in the incident and evacuated to hospital. one of the palestinian fighters was killed, according to the army, which is saying that it is

witnessing and facing success in the operation because it constantly is telling the israeli public about the targets that it hit in israel, and the army confirming that the operation will continue until all the goals are met. especially the goal of destroying tunnels, underground tunnels the top priority. but generally the results they are seeing are online with expectations. what are you hearing about diplomatic activity to end the fighting. we know na ban ki-moon was in the region today. >> i lost it again. >> we have lost the audio line. it's difficult to contact our reporters on the ground because of the activity and the conflict. we'll try to get back later. syrian activists say fighters from the islamic state

captured a gas field and killed 270 workers and soldiers. amateur video is said to show dead bodies dressed in fatigues. the syrian observatory for human rights says it's the deadliest attack between troops and forces. three al jazeera journalists spent 203 days in an egyptian prison. mohamed fadel fahmy and peter greste were gaoled for seven years. he received an additional three because he had a spent bullet in his possession. al jazeera continues to demand the journalists be released. >> now, the growing scandal of ireland's mother and baby homes led to calls for a new inquiry into drug testing on babies. survivors want answers about how many children were used to test vaccines wills under the care of the catholic church.

we spoke to some fivers. >> having a baby. the most joyous experience an adult could hope for. for these, the carers had other intentions. that was marie, separated from her unmarried mother and adopted out of a mother and babies home. not before she was treated as an experiment by a drugs company, which injected her at 9 months with a test for diptheria, whooping cough, tetanus and polio, without knowing what would happen. >> life should be sacred, do you think the catholic church was treating your life as a baby as sacred. >> absolutely not. i see the concern for the preborn, not the post born. >> reporter: there was a home on this road in dublin. the children were tested for

drugs, but the ones that died were sold to doctors, the bodies used for medical research. the vaccine trials is not a revelation. it has come shooting back to the surface as an intrinsic part of the mother and baby's home scandal. the united nations criticised the irish state in the strongest terms for its lack of willingness to take on the catholic church, a church which took babies from their mothers and claimed to care for them. >> this is not only an issue for the catholic church. this home was run by the anglican church of island. the drugs test happened here. >> victor remembers the children lined up for doctors and nurses and maintains the state new all about it. >> let's call it what it is. it is vulnerable children, with no contact, no one taking

responsibility or in loco parentis. and a drug company coming in, having a field day and saking advantage of vulnerable children in an enclosed setting where no one knows what's going on. if it goes wrong, and cares, who knows and who will be held to act. >> reporter: this created a head ache for gsk which bout the company that did the trials. the company says what has come out is unsettling. marie was told she was used for tests. others bear the same scars, but do not know for sure. the government will hold an inquiry for what happened in the homes. it's not clear if drug testing will form a part of it. let's go back to the top story, the shooting down of a plane in eastern ukraine.

theodore is from the institute for middle east analysis, strategy and security consultancy and joins me were dubai. good to have you on the broim. let's talk about buk missiles. they have a range of 18 miles, this is a soviet era weapon. >> yes, it's a soviet air weapon, and goes along with another weapon for anti-air defense, the sa six. both of these are ubiquitous amongst the territories, russia, ukraine. they are part of the air defense system. the weapons are older and ability for people to use the weapons is pretty of engrained if you went through the military. >> pentagon say it's impossible for a weapon like this to be fired without russian help.

it's loaded statements, do you agree with it? >> i agree with part of it. it go be a mix of individuals from the former soviet staktes. it's important to point out that the buk system requires five individuals to operate. it's a sophisticated and not a one-person operation. it's important to have the radar component because it has the ability why to identify friend or foe. clearly it was off in this accident. >> clearly both sides, the ukranian army and pro-russian separatists could have had a weapon like this. >> in fact, ukrainians have two dozens of these systems. what is important is the ukranian have them in fixed positions, stacked with extra

radar systems, as would be natural for a country defending itself from the air. what appears to have happened is that until further evidence is produced that this buick system was in the donetsk people's republic and was fired. that is going to be something that will have to be proven by an international inquiry. >> indeed. >> that will take time to dig through. >> you mentioned earlier that a safety system identifies friend or foe. i was going to ask you how is it that a civilian aircraft can be subpoena for a military tart. >> well, in this prend or foe aspect, there's a particular way to see whether the aircraft is a civilian or not. that is dealt with in terms of the raitar.

within the system the judgment can be made and be able to turp this off. the system was not in place, and we had someone shoot the wep jp off and we had disastrous results. >> interesting stuff. good to get your thoughts there. let's go back to our other top story, the israeli offensive on gaza. joining me now is richard voek, the former u.n. special repertoire and professor emeritus of international law of federal university. welcome to the programme. from an international law point of view. i know you have been critical in the past about the way israel controls gaza, but what do you make of the operation protective edge? >> well, it's a complicated

international law issue. it is true, as israel claims, that they have a right of protecting their territory against hostile acts this come from gaza. on the other hand they engaged of repeated provocative actions, creating a situation in which hamas's response was not disproportionate to what they were doing on the west bank. the time line is important. what is the initial provocation that justifies a defensive force. having said that, if you resolve that issue then comes the issue of whether israel is engaged in disproportionate and ipp discriminate violence in a

defensive society. defenseless society. and there i think the legal issues and the moral issues are cliftal clear -- crystal clear, that there is excess of force, it is used indiscriminately despite the use of israeli weaponry, and violations of international humanitarian law and rule of war of occurring consistently. >> despite the analysis, analysis that others would share, the international response has been torr bid at best. the most that's been said is an urge for both sides to show restraint. >> yes, i feel that's characteristically expression of the geopolitical climate that

this conflict unfortunately is situated reason. israel is unconditionally supported by the united states, and more loosely supported by most of the western countries. therefore, it's given a spin politically in such a way as to distort an objective legal analysis. and this that sps, it is an unfortunate victimisation of the people of gaza. >> there was barely any accountability for human rights abuses during the last gaza war, 2008-2009 on both the israeli side and the palestinian sigh. do you think we'll see any accountability to international law this time around. >> well, i think there may be an effort to establish

accountability, which was true at least in the 2008/2009 israeli assault on gaza. there was the gold stone report which did, i think, authoritatively demonstrate that most of the rileation and certainly most of the -- violation and certainly most of the damage done was through the israeli uses of force. so it also criticised the palestinians... >> i think he went back on some of what he said in the report, didn't he. in the end there was not really any accountability. >> he said, but the commission never did. he was speaking as a private individual. there were four people on the commission, and he was probably the least qualified from an international law five. even if he had - well br his retraction, it was clear that the - again, the geopolitical

climate allowed the inquiry to go forward and recommendations to be made, but it was capable of blocking implementation. >> okay. >> richard, sorry, we'll have to leave it there. interesting stuff. thank you, indeed, for speaking with us. good to have you on the programme. richard live from turkey. coming up in sport. the man that wept from breaking and entering to -- went from breaking and entering to breaking records. that story next. stay with us.

welcome back. sport now. >> thank you. open championship leader rory mcilroy is back on the course as he looks to hold onto his big advantage. players are out for a third round in an effort to combat the wet weather at the royal liverpool course in northern england. friday saw tiger woods misfiring. for ri rsh, it was -- rory mcilroy, it was about birdieing. >> reporter: a faceant can't stop -- pheasant can't stop rory mcilroy's effort. he shot a 6-under par 66 for a son day in a row at the open. three birdies in the last four holes, puts him 12 under overall. >> my second run this year has been terrible. there's no explanation. hopefully i put it to bed today.

and i haven't run into pheasants on the course. i might have had a swan or duck or geese. never a fooesant. >> dustin johnson had the round of the day. the american's 7-under moving him to four shots behind mcilroy in second. sergio garcia enjoys the second goal. he got an eagle. eight years later he did it again. the spaniard is with five other players, 6-under. >> phil mickelson posted his first below par score in a major since winning the open. it was helped by a par-saving shot on the fourth hole. nicholson going around 2-under, and is level par. >> it was a crazy. i played well. there was a couple of loose

shots, the drive on 10, the missed putt on seven cost me another on eight. and i ended giving four or five shots away. i played well. shot two under. there was a mental barrier giving it back. tiger woods avoided the cut in his first major in 11 months. saved by a birdie on the final hole. 2-over. very heavy rain coming down at the course this saturday, and weather delays are predicted as a sequence. organizers brought in a 2-tier start. players are also heading out in groups of three rather than two in an effort to get an all inform round finish on schedule. >> an american pair of dutch john on and ricky fouler are making ipp roads into -- inroads

into rory mcilroy's league. >> nico ros berg has gone fastest if the grand prix. transfers are preparing for hot conditions. >> my brakes are getting too hot. >> push it back and let him go. >> that was ros berg during the second practice session, the german leading his team-mate by four points in the championship standings. india's cricketers are looking to push home a slight advantage in a second test against england. the home side were six wickets down after close to an hour's play on day 3 at lords. england are 255/7. sri lanka have been set a victory target of 370 in the first test of the the tourists declared their second innings on 206 for 6 as they push for the

win. >> manchester united players will have their first chance to impress new manager. united's latest signages are among the squads that were in the united states. the first game against the galaxy op thursday. an english side looking to raise their stakes. tottenham trying out the u.s. version. tottenham are getting ready to play the seattle sounders soccer team, including former player, u.s. captain clint dempsey. >> keep the elbow in. >> chigago bulls introduced their latest signing, a 7-foot tall player. he was one of the most sought-after free agents.

she turned down offers from the san antonio spurs and the miami heat. >> money was not the priority. i turned down bigger offers and prioritised being in a championship calibre team, and, you know, haven't been in a position where i can really hopefully push the team over the top with my game as well. >> american sprinter justin gatland won a world series time. gatland broke his best with a time of 19.68 seconds. tyson gay returned from a year-long drugs band and came fourth. >> and italy looks close to unstoppable -- nib alley looks unstoppable in the alps.

he's looking to extend his league after taking a time out. the asana rider is 3.5 clear. >> ironman triath loan is one of the toughest sports in the world. they took an a swim. and ran a marathon. the elite attempted to qualify for the hawaii man. for a competitor, there's extra special mote vags. jo mcill voi is one of the vitest men in britain. he's now training to qualify for the world ironman championship in preparing for a challenge on the world record. he is a long way from being a typical sportsman. >> there were guns pointing to me saying "get down on the

floor." . >> reporter: in his former life he was an armed robber. >> i have been around organised crime from a young aim, from eight, nine years old. >> here on this street in london, on 7 september 2005, john's luck ran out. >> my hands were up. then a couple of them come over, dragged me to the floor. huffed me and i laid there. i was deflated. i knew. done. i'm done. >> as a criminal well-known to the police and well connected, he was send here, bellmarch, the highest security prison. his plan was to escape and continue a life of crime in europe. three years later a friend died in armed robe. >> it was rubbish. you spend your life in a prison cell or die. >> reporter: that's where it

took off. while in gaol he broke rowing machine records, one after of the other. >> you see something that catches your eye, you think wow, this is something you don't see. after his release by the parole board he has training partners. >> one of the things he shaped after spending time in prison, getting to the form he got to was the mental drive. the biggest motivation is to stop other youngster making the same mistakes. >> all they want is and admiration. this is how i felt. you want the aberration. you can get it through sport. you don't need to be a bad man or shoot people. john's message is simple -- >> i wasted a decade of my life locked in a cage.

i hope my story of my life can inspire them to look and think if he can do it, so can i. more sport on the website, for the latest check out aljazeera.com/sport. there's details on how to get in touch with the team. that's it for me thank you very much, indeed. just to update you on the latest information coming to us from ukraine from the site of that malaysian airline crash. we have these pictures from the scene in grabbo vo. -- grabova. the european mon trs, we think, have not been allowed on to the scene. the buoyedies re -- bodies removed by local airline or security workers, taking the bodies from the plane.

apparently 186 passengers have been identified. a malaysian team was there to try and identify who they are.

>> israel's invasion of gaza continues tonight. >> we have been hearing a lot of tank shelling coming from where we are, here. >> every single one of these buildings shook violently. >> for continuing coverage of the israeli / palestinian conflict, stay with al jazeera america, your global news leader. [ gunfire ] more backlash in the west. palestinians clashing with soldiers as gaza comes under a full-scale invasion. >> nearly 300 innocent lives were taken - men, women, children, infants who had nothing to do with the crisis in ukraine. plus surveying the scope