>> announcer: this is al jazeera. welcome to the al jazeera newshour, live from our global headquarters in doha. these are the main stories we are following this hour... ..nowhere to run. bodies lie in the streets as israel unleashes its military power on a crowded neighbour hood in gaza. others were sent fleeing for their lives in a desperate search for anywhere safe. dozens of palestinians killed -

410 since the offensive began. pro-russian rebels apparently secured the black boxes from the shot down air liner - but where have they been taken? let's start with gaza, where israel unleashed its heaviest bombardment of the area since launching its ground offensive. let's show you the scope over gaza. thick black smoke was rising all day across the territory. earliest rail announced a humanitarian hiatus, a pause to allow the injured to be treated. firing resumed following claims that hamas broke the truce. the numbers killed since the assaults has passed 410 palestinians. dozens have been killed in one

neighbourhood alone. that is the shajaiya neighbourhood. >> reporter: dead bodies lit ared the streets. adults laying over the children. al jazeera has no way to verify the video. binyamin netanyahu said he warned residents of the area to evacuate. he said he has been attacking hamas targets. there's no safe place here for people to run to. >> translation: i shame from shajaiya, it's destruction. the israelis are burning everything, pounding the area, forcing people out. >> reporter: babies are among the injured civilians rushed to hospital. ambulances struggled reach the

injured, to people are forced to drive themselves. >> translation: there are generalest by the red crescent to allow ambulances to the area. it was related by the israeli occupation forces. >> reporter: the bodies are wrapped in white cloth, piled in the morgue. the injured comes as israel pounds the territory from the land, air and sea. the military assault has got more intense over the last few days. >> translation: we accuse the israeli occupation of committing a heinous massacre in shajaiya. dozens of women and children are killed. hundreds wounded. houses have been levelled to the ground. it's not possible to vacate the wounded or the dead. >> reporter: the israelis government says it's targetting

hamas tunnels. as israel's army moves into a densely populated area, a home for a million and a half palestinians trapped, there are few, if any places innocent civilians can hide. all right, let's go lie to al jazeera's stefanie dekker in gaza. you came out a short while ago from one of the hardest hit neighbourhoods in shajaiya. tell us what you saw. >> we saw absolute destruction. homes destroyed. we went on two of the main roads and all the houses lining it were all massive holes in them from artillery fire, which is what we know was an intense night and day until the humanitarian hiatus, as it's called, took place. it was tense. some people were leaving, sfimians that hadn't --

civilians that hadn't managed to leave. one woman was cursing against the palestinian president, against other countries to allow them to go through the hell. another man said he couldn't get out with the children, so he cowered under the stares of his home. a small boy was crying. he said they can't get back to houses because they were shot at. ambulances came in. some dead bodies were removed. civil defense men were there, fire engines, smoke down the road that we didn't reach. difficult to travel up the road because trees have been knocked down, big trees - to show you the force of the assault. we heard the shelling, not as intention as it was. it picked up again. it was an opportunity to see first hand the destruction that this military campaign stepped

up incredible aovernight. the stories -- incredibly overnight. hor epdous stories of -- horrendous stories of fear and death. one woman came in looking for her son, blaming herself, desperate and hard to see what is happening to the people here. >> steph, we have a lot to ask you about. i'll ask you to stay with us as we cross to paul, the deputy spokesperson with the israeli ministry of foreign affairs, joining me from west jerusalem. we have seen harrowing pictures coming out of shajaiya neighbourhood, is israel using disproportionate support against civilians. >> thank you for having me. it's good to have you back on this sad day. this is what we were worried about, what we warned about for address. we have been almost begging the civilian population of shajaiya and a couple of other

neighbourhoods in the area to move out, take refuge in other parts of gaza city and elsewhere in the united nations installations. shajaiya is a place where over 114 missiles have been launched into missiles, over 10 tunnel shafts have been identified in the area. the behaviour of hamas encouraging and in some places forcing their own civilians to stay and not heed warning will go down as a dark point in a dark history. 61,500 people have fled to schools. they can barely cope with it. a lot of palestinians say they have nowhere to go. would you open the siege on gaza and let the people flee to somewhere safe other than that very narrow strip along the mediterranean coast, where people are stuck? >> we have given repeatively, for a number of days now, very specific warnings as to very

specific locations where people should move out of because of the location of the terror infrastructure. >> so you are not answering my question much people people there's nowhere to go. would you open your siege and talk about people not leaving the danger zone. would you let people out of gaza? >> no, i am answering your question much there are many locations within gaza to go to. there's no siege on gaza. there's a naval blockade, legal and legitimate. as far as the sooj on the land is -- siege on the land is concerned there has been zero exportations and with few limitations no limb tagss on im -- limitations on imports. the truth of the matter is there has been horrific scenes, heart wrenching pictures, civilians caught up in the fighting. this is why we didn't want to be

in this conflict in the first place. for weeks prior to... >> are you telling me you are not controlling, there's no seem on gaza. do i under that to be an official statement from the israeli foreign ministry that you are not controlling the goods that can come in and out the gaza and the flow of people in and out of gaza, is that what you are telling me? >> that is not what i said. i said there's zero restrictions on exports and limited restrictions on imports, placed on dual use product used for the production of weaponry. you have seen... >> you are clearly do control the flow of movement. >> yes. >> and goods in and out of the programme. >> we control the flow of goods and people across our international frontier, gaza, as you know, has borders with

egypt. on a regular day, there were people crossing into israel from a regular basis, and palestinians from gaza coming from medical treatment into israel as we speak. the palestinian people are not our enemy. we are fighting against one of the darkest schools of thought in modern history, hamas, which embedded itself inside civilian locations, and as a war crime is dissuading and in some cases preventing their own civilians from heeding the warnings which have been given clear and specific warnings a result of which we have seen them caught up in bitter fiing and are seeing -- fighting and seeing horrific seconds. >> rather than being caught up human rights watch says that you have been targetting apparent civilian structures and killing civilians in violation of the laws of war. the report goes on to say israel should end unlawful attacks that

do not target military objectives and may be intended as collective punishment. do they have the situation wrong. >> the israeli military targets military targets. we go through multiple lawyers of intelligence and legal consultation and advice with a judicial overview to pinpoint them, and includes training of officers on the operational level. let's understand, i don't know if you have been in combat, but it's a terrible place to be, it's an ugly place to be. civilians are caught up in the fighting. as we have seen today precisely what we warned about. >> this human rights watch says it investigated saying civilians are not caught up, they are targeted. can you explain why on 10 july, according to this report, on 11

july, beg your pardon, israelis missiles strike a vehicle in a refugee camp killing two municipal worker, the explosion blew the roof off the building and partly disembowled a 9-year-old girl and wounded her sister 8 years old. explain that to me having said what you told me, israel targets legitimate sites having gone through several levels of intelligence. how did that happen then? >> to repeat what i said. i don't know if you've been in combat, it's a terrible pleas and not a pure scenes. there's no example, unfortunately of civilians not caught up and is the reason we doesn't want to be in the conflict in the first place. >> you are not answering the question, can you explain the attack? if you target legitimate targets, how was a

municipal turker attack and a -- worker attacked and a 9-year-old girl disembowled if you only target municipal sites. >> for two reasons, one of which is that civilians are caught up in the fire in every conflict and hamas is perpetrating multiple war crimes, including putting their own civilians in the line of fire, to the point of wanting civilian casualties so they can wage a propaganda publications war against israel. >> what do you mean civilians are caught up in the line of fire. according to the same report of july 16th, it mentions an israeli air strike on july the 10th, an a family home in the densely crowded refugee camp. seven civilian members of a family were killed, two children

and 20 civilians were wounded. now, apparently the only person who could have been seen as having links to any armed organizations what is a 20-year-old son, a low-ranking member of hamas. is it the israeli modus prondi that it's okay to target a civilian home, kill seven members of a family, two children, wound 20, if you get to a low-ranking member of a palestinian faction? >> in specific example you give, as i thing you well know, we phoned them in advance, send text messages, a nolle prosequi ex-please i -- a nonexplosive sound bomb was given in advance warning. >> even if you phoned with all due report a member of the household. you cannot warn every person in

the entire neighbourhood and you can't expect them all to get out and have somewhere to go. clearly, according to human rights watch, they are saying when you drop a bomb on a civilian home, you do know that there is a very high prebibility -- probability that civilians will be killed and wounded. we are taking unprecedented steps to avoid civilian casualties. not only the buildings which are targeted, or buildings in the surrounding and immediate vicinity are warned in a way that hasn't been done in a military conflict, and coupled with that... >> why are civilian homes being bombed then? >> civilian homes are not being bombed. >> human rights watch is wrong in this report then? >> if human rights watch have credible evidence, they should put it on the table for it to be vetted. the israeli military has a long

well-known record of monitoring and criticising itself, and up in syria we have allowed and agreed the media coming in. and have a look at what is going on, it's difficult. it's a tragic environment and the reason again why we didn't want to be in the conflict in the first place. it has the obligation to defend and protect the republic of israel. two dozen rockets have been launched, over 140 have been from the neighbourhood from the last couple of address. the second leg of the hamas military record. for days we begged the residents to move out. take refuge in other neighbourhoods. i don't think it's an easy

situation. don't get me wrong. we are taking unprecedented steps and grieve the loss of life of civilians on both sides of the conflict. >> we'll have to leave it there. >> let's go back to stefanie dekker. she joins us lie from gaza. >> we had word that a pause was underway with attempts to evacuate some of the wounded. is the firing now resumed? >> it's supposed to have ended an hour ago. we are hearing artillery shelling, not to the extent of what happened before. there's probably not more to shoot. we have come back, and it's an indiscriminate shelling of the neighbourhood. i know the israeli line that they are targetting hamas and their rocket systems and the

underground tunnels, but it seems from what my coling and myself wit -- colleagues and myself witnessed, it's open fire across the board. this is a problem. i'm not a military expert. i don't know if it can be handled in a better way. this is not working. there's a civilian death poll rising. we spoke to officials. we don't know the death toll. we have to update. it's a dark reality. we are terrified. they have nowhere to go. there is a siege. they are not free to leave. it's densely populated. where do they stay. we had 70,000 coming into gaza city. it's a horrible situation for the people, and they know it will not go away soon, and they'll tell you the main issue is they don't feel safe

anywhere, and don't see anyone coming to help them. none of that, they feel they've been completely descarded by the international community. help us to understand the reality. i know you know the situation, but not all the viewers may be familiar with gaza. we know there is a tunnel network said in the past. we have an armed group, they are open about that. my question is having been in the neighbourhood and come out. can you give us an idea about whether this is a precision operation. or does it look like a wide raping of civilian targets here that have been taking the brunt of this? >> yes, that's what i was saying earlier. two of the main streets - we weren't there for long, it was tense. there were drones overhead and an explosion. from what we saw, it was two

rows of residential buildings shot out. two ambulances were burnt out. the indication on that level from what we saw was civilian homs targeted in a relentless shelling campaign, that's not to say there weren't people there, men of fighting age hanging around, leaving, i captel you for sure that the civilians paid a bitter night and day during the campaign. as i told you we were driving to work and met with floods of people on foot. they hadn't been able to leave at night. they had to endure a shelling campaign. they hit homes, cars, everywhere. so from the stories we hear and what we see, it didn't look precise to us. >> thank you so much. stefanie dekker live from gaza. nisreen el-shamayleh is live now from west jerusalem.

what is the israeli military saying about the direction that this operation may take going forward? >> well, they are not saying anything new right now. they have repeatedly said that this operation can be widened and expanded in order to achieve the goals. they have been stated in the past. destroying the infrastructure that hamas uses to launch rockets at israeli territory. destroying the tunnels used to smuggle in weapons and ipp fill trait into israel. the goals we have heard over and over again, in statements from the army more than once a day. there's no indication of how big this operation could become. we know that the government instructed the army to be ready for an expansion. we have seen an expansion

overnight with lots of civilian deaths. but where it goes from here we are not sure. now, the - this humanitarian corridor, the pause in hostilities is still going on for his rail's part. the army said it suspended it for another hour. it should be over in about 10 minutes, even though it says that hamas and other factions fired rockets at israeli territories, this pause is only in the shajaiya neighbourhood, not other parts of gaza, so the army says it will hold fire in shajaiya for another 10 minutes, despite the incoming rockets from gaza. >> thank you so much. now, we should recall that while the smoke burps over the skyline of gaza, later on sunday

diplomacy is supposed to get into gear, qatar hosting a meeting between mahmoud abbas and ban ki-moon. they are supposed to push for the end of the fighting, we are joined from the meeting location in doha. what is the plan? >> yes, we know that the leaders are here. the secretary-general of the united nations, ban ki-moon, is in doha and mahmoud abbas is here. they are having a meeting with the mayor of qatar, an initial mfiby qatar to find a solution or an accuracy fire for the moment. we have seen the failure of the egyptian effort when they proposed a ceasefire. hamas related because it said it was not consulted with. now we have an effort by the qataris. they are catch on their previous initiatives, the role of qatar

known as a peace broker. they think they can make a difference now that the situation has reached a climax and both sides are willing to find a way out, or how israel will react to this or the factors at play. the american and egyptian role, whether egypt will accept if anything is agreed on some of the terms advanced by the palestinian factions. there's a lift of conditions september to the meeting to be conveyed by mahmoud abbas, and via the qataris to the united nations secretary-general. who will tour the region, including kuwait, imam, jerusalem, and cairo and jamala, and ban ki-moon will convey the demand to the israelis and the other side. we don't know if the egyptians

will come on board. until now, the united states has shape support to the egyptian initiative. now we have rival initiatives, the egyptians said they will not change what they agreed on or the terms of their proposal. the qatar yes are putting on the table another fishive, all the effortses after watching what is going on. all efforts are expected or hoped to bring a solution to the conflict. >> thank you so much for that. the main story we are following is the situation in gaza. israel resumed firing in the shajaiya neighbourhood east of gaza, minutes after announcing a pause to allow the injured to be treated. more most of saturday night and sunday morning israelis stepped up its offensive. casualties are rising and 60

have been killed in shajaiya alone. gaza is not the only hot spot in the reemom, iraq -- region, iraqi government forces battling to regain control of towns and cities. in the north the kurdish people are trying to shape their own future. we have this report from erbil on the voibilityy of a -- viability of a possible kurdish state. >> reporter: these could be the last days for iraq to be united. the kurdish region is preparing for a referendum. >> translation: we suffered a lot as kurds, it's our rite for all states. at the kurdish parliament, arrangements and technicalities are being worked out. >> translation: we are going to hold a referendum.

we will decide our future either as an independent nation or part of iraq. >> the kurdish reason remains stable and prosperous after the u.s. occupation of iraq in 2003. that stability brought billion of dollars of investment. the discovery of large oil reserves. it's building a plank to exploit oil. kurds make territorial gains in june when iraqi troops collapse after an assault by fighters from the islamic state and sunni rebels on a number of cities and towns. kurdish forces control the oil city of kirkuk and oil foolds. the kurdish region exports between 100,000 and 150,000

barrels of oil every day and hopes to reach half a million a day by the end of 2014, with perhaps to increase production further and that would sustain the viability of their much-awaited state. >> the head of the natural resources committee for the kiddish department says the -- kurdish department says the region is rich. >> we have 5% of the oil reserves, many resources, and different resources to pay for our needs. the kurdish regional area has problems. it's dependent on the iraqi government in baghdad and lacks the infrastructure to increase oil production. it relies on surrounding count res opposed to the cree agency -- countries opposed to the creation of a kurdish state.

it may lie in the hands of kurdish leaders, the survival depends on regional and international powers. coming up in the newshour, more on the conflict in gaza, including live coughage and analysis.

welcome back, let's recap the main story, the bombardment of gaza. israel resumed bombing after

announcing a pause to allow people to be treated. they said it's because palestinian factions continued firing. the number of casualties is rapidly rising. the palestinian health ministry says 60 people have been killed in shajaiya alone. ross shimabuku is live in west jerusalem. is the army saying this is going according to plan, because the pictures coming out and the reports we are hearing indicates wide-spread civilian suffering. >> we keep getting statements from the army. in these statements they mention the number of targets struck on a specific day, how many tunnels they uncovered. they have uncovered 14 tup else since the beginning of the ground -- tunnels since the beginning of the ground

operation. five soldiers have been killed. 52 soldiers are hospitalized. they are saying that this - the results of this operation so far are in line with expectations this is what the israeli public is handwriting over here. the operation is ongoing. we do get alerts from the army when they are instructed to expand the operation, after they have done so based on directions from the israeli governments, and we know in the statements, a lot of times they say they will continue to widen the operation until the goals are achieved, destroying the tunnels and the infrastructure, which they say is harming civilians of israel. they demand calm to the neighbourhoods, and the ongoing operation could take some time and call on people to be patient. that is what we are getting from the army here.

>> there's talk about a second faz of operation. what would that entail? >> well, at this point no one knows. the army treat the information very secretly. they would not announce that they would widen the operation or what they are doing to expand it. it could go any way at this point. it's unpredictable. it was uppredictable when the ground operation began, even though we had heard statements from government officials saying they are instructing the army to be prepared and ready. it was a surprise when the ground operation began on thursday, two days after israel said it would accept the accuracy fire agreement. it's unpredictable. the army does not disclose what it's doing or how it's expanding its operation. sometimes we get the information

when we hear statements from the israeli prime minister or the defense prime minister in which they give orders to the army to expand and to carry out certain operations in the gaza as part of the ground incursion. it would be difficult to tell what would happen next, at this point in time. especially when there's fresh efforts with the u.n. secretary-general ask in doha, having meetings with mahmoud abbas, the palestinian president, so we know that international players are trying to make this happen, and they are trying to bridge that gap between hamas and egypt, after hamas rejected an offer for the ceasefire. there's a lot of tension. they need to be sorted out. international help is needed for that to happen. >> nisreen el-shamayleh from west jerusalem.

let's shift gears to another developing story. a separatist leader in eastern ukraine says a flight recorder is in rebel control. these pictures were taken on friday, showing rescuers scouring through the debris. the rebels say the flight recorder has been taken to donetsk and will be handed to international investigators. emergency workers were reportedly forced to hand over the remains to 196 victims. they've been transported to don everybody. the remains of more than 100 victims has not been found. >> now, let's go to our correspondent at the crash site. in a normal investigation at this point you have an official vetting team going through the rubble. this situation is slightly different because of the conflict there. tell us what is happening right

now at the crash site. >> well, we have been here at what is the remains of the cockpit of mh17, and the first-class area, and what was a relatively ipp tact scope has been opened up and destroyed by rescue workers saying they believed there was a body inside. what they are doing is gruesome work and they want to get the bodies out. at the same time they are taxering with key evidence. the -- tampering with key evidence and the investigators are not on site. >> what about the black box? the separatist say they have got it. what happens next? >> after days of denying that they had it, the footage has emarijuanaed showing clearly -- emerged showing from 17 and 18 july that there are intact flight box recorders in the

hands of the separatists. they say they were handed to international experts. again, investigators will need to look at the data to see the last moments of the flight and the conversations in the cockpit which can provide potentially crucial information for the people they are investigating. at the moment it's in the hands of the separatists here. what happened to the bodies found. rescue workers have been forced to hand them over to the separatists. >> there's real confusion about how many bodies have been discovered, where they are. at the moment we understand that they are on a train freight which has been refrigerated at a station, waiting to depart after international experts view the corpses and bodies inside, waiting to depart ukranian government-held territory. clearly the investigators from

the netherlands, malaysia and interpol will want to see the corpses as soon as possible to youf the bodies for the -- identify the bodies for the families of the victims. >> thank you for that update. let's return to the scene in gaza which sustained a heavy night of shelling. a correspondent from al jazeera arabic was one of the first to rasp -- reach the area, this is what he found. >> reporter: we were one of the first in the area, the smell of gunpoureder and blood is -- gun powder and blood is everywhere, all the homes are damaged. we are in shajaiya. some residents are trapped inside this building. we found seven bodies. they were pulled out now by the paramedics. the camera cable is not long

enough to go inside to show the pools of blood. they were old women and children, civilians, killed by the shelling. they came to the ground floor and took shelter behind the staircase and bled to death as ambulances were denied access. this is one example, others were charred. these are two ambulances. one was destroyed. the other partly destroyed and brock down. accounts -- brock down. accounts gip by witnesses, lucky enough to escape, sound like horror stories. other buildings were on fire. we were targeted by israeli shelling. joining me from west jerusalem is nathan, a senior analyst at the international crisis group. good to have you with us. looking at the pictures and reports coming out of shajaiya, the scenes look awful.

looks like the suffering is widespread. do you think this lays the foundation for a future peace? unfortunately i do think the mounting with civilian death toll is what is going to change the international community's position from demanding an unconditional ceasefire as israel and egypt proposed. two or more realistic solutions to the conflict, which should be a ceasefire entailing changes in gaza. >> can there be a ceasefire without addressing some of the core issues, an end to the siege and occupation of palestinian land, air space, those sorts of things, is it possible to go back to a calm for calm arrangements without addressing underlying causes. >> i think that this conflict will require a broader ceasefire than past ones, and i do think

the question is ultimately what is going to give you a lasting ceasefire or a more durable one in the past. for that to happen you need a radical change in conditions in gaza, in opening for gazans to exit, an increase in exports in gaza, an increase in eliminat n eliminations of restrictions on construction materials and so forth. wouldn't that have to come with international backing. are we seeing that, are we seeing the pressure and support for the arrangement that you are talking about from the united states or arab countries like egypt. >> currently we are not. we are seeing the international community. it is basically supporting the egyptian and israeli position of calling for an unconditional ceasefire, and for all the other matters to be negotiated afterwards, hamas has a bitter

past experience with this in november 2012. there was a ceasefire and a promise of further negotiations that would be mediated by egypt. they never took place. this time around hamas is intent on getting a robust cease fire arrangements. i think from hamas there'll be a better offer put on the table. that's how the conflict will end. we hope it will not take too many more civilian deaths for the international community to change its position. >> i would like to get your thoughts on something i was reading from israeli sources, saying half the arsenal of palestinian factions have either been used, fired or destroyed. i mean, if the tactic is to drag this conflict out and get to a point from israel's perspective. perhaps israel hopes to get to a

point where the palestinian factions don't have a capabi't y of launching rockets or fighting - is that a realistic plan? it doesn't strike me as a realistic plan. a lot of fighting that is taking place now is not with the rockets launched at israeli population centers, but are on the ground in gaza, and the factions will slow the use of the rockets if they are depleting them. timely the civilian death toll will increase markedly as we have seen today. as it increases there will be increasing international pressure for the conflict to end which will mean that there will be a caes fear arrangements in -- ceasefire arrangement including changes for gaza, and nonan uncontinual as egypt has

proposed. >> you said you don't think there's international support for a deeper arrangement. you are optimistic that that will happen, what do you think will happen to create a different kind of truce that does address some of the core issues? >> well, this is really - this conflict is playing into a familiar pattern. in the past conflighicts, into november 2012, israeli force hamas to agree to an accuracy fire. we'll see if anything changes, and that is not what happens, they wound up getting a document not fully implemented but had a document calling for changes in gaza. what caped was a -- changed was a change in international positions with a reez in the death toll.

hamas understands that. today i believe it's the begenning of the international community saying we are not going to get an end to the conflict by sticking to the egyptian and israeli demand, let's be realistic about how it will end, how it ended in the past, and it will result in a shift in position. the real question is how quickly will the change come about, how much more death needs to take place before the international community starts to shift? >> thank you so much for your thoughts on that. coming up in sport - the seep is over for -- season is over for one superrugby side. find out who next. dsh @jvé

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now, the united states government has a network of 15,000 informants. little is known about how they are used within the u.s. counterterrorism programme. an investigation by al jazeera shed light into the shadowy world of domestic spies. here is a preview from our investigative reporter. >> reporter: this is a rare glimpse of an fbi inform an at work, n couraging -- encouraging a muslim man to send computers overseas. this never before seen video is part of australian uncover performance. it is part of a programme luring

muslim men into plots concocted by the fbi. >> the fbi thought i was the greatest inform apt on the planet word. >> reporter: this man pretpded to be a devout muslim, he admits it targets young men who are vulnerable, but not necessarily danctions. >> hos a fool that got caught in a sting operation. >> reporter: the informant policy rarely has been challenged. al jazeera's investigation raises concerns that since the 9/11 attacks the u.s. government is provoking crimes ta would not occur. >> to what extent did the fbi have a role in enticing, inducing, or luring the individuals into the crime. the initial sense of who is pushing what agenda is a grey area. >> this man was convicted of

providing material support to al qaeda, in his case the only connection to al qaeda was a paid fbi informant, posing as an operative. >> i am representing osama bin laden. >> he spent seven years in prison and is speaking about the case publicly. >> my only issue for the government, look for would you are looking for. make sure they know what you make them to be, don't bend and break your rules to try to catch the bad guy. you are being as crooked as the people you are shessing. >> reporter: he is one of 200 caught by the fbi in counterterrorism stings since 9/11. despite public concerns about civil liberties, the fbi is committed to developing now informants across the nation. >> you can watch the full-length documentary al jazeera investigates informants on sun, july the 20th at 2000 g.m. t.

latin american presidents are famous for self prom ocean. fiddle castro is an example. hugo chavez was known as the face of venezuelan, and after his death he's more recognisable than his suck seesor nicolas maduro. zoo and then there's eva morales. now there's a new man with a plan. costa rica's president. he wants o do away with the presidential cult. al jazeera's david mercer reports from san jose. >> reporter: they are an inescapable part of the latin american landscape. statues and plaques bearing the names of innocent and presidents. prays for the construction of hospitals, bridges and more. some say they are a waste of tax dollars and serve to create personality cults. a leader decided to do something about it.

costa rica's president signed a deck ree banning his name or having presidential portraits hung. it's a radical break from the past. >> reporter: the president won over voters with promises of increased transparency and a cut in unnecessary spending. he says he's a public servant, nothing more. >> it's a long-standing tradition in latin american countries, the great man on top of a white horse moving around and using the capital of people as it was his own. i think this is repeated over and over again throughout latin american, and that's not the way to go in mature democracies. some are not surprised by the ban. >> translation: there's a jock that goes like this, i might be

a genius and everyone recognises it, but the day i call myself a genius, people say no, you are not a genius, you are condescending and vain. this is a reapplication. costa rican spirit. >> reporter: ironically some of the p's artant supporters worry if he doesn't put his name on the projects he and his colleagues will be forgotent. >> translation: i admire the president but disagree with what he is doing and it hurts me. there are plaques from previous presidents and he deserves to have his own much he's a wonderful person. >> reporter: costa reekans prided themselves on doing things differently to the rest of latin america. this is a break from the past and many hope it will be the new tradition. let's catch up with the sports news, we have farah.

>> thank you so much. open championship leader rory mcilroy teed off in his final rounds, with a 6-shot overnight lead. rory mcilroy on saturday carded a round offul, putting him 16-understand par. a closing round of 66 from rory mcilroy would give him the lowest score at any open championship. rory mcilroy has two major wins to his name, this would be the first victory at the open. >> rory mcilroy has had the perfect start. he birdied the first hole, the last player to have a big slang at the stage was tiger woods, more than a decade ago. rory mcilroy's partner for the final round is ricky fowler on 10-under. rory mcilroy's father will have a bonus if his son wins the title. 10 years ago he and friends placed a bet that his son would win the open before he turned 26. aged 25, rory mcilroy could be

about to turn the 700 stake into a $340,000 windfall. >> tiger woods is hugely disappointing open campaign is obvious, finishing up on 6-over par after a final round of 75. it was woods' second turn since returning from back surgeryism i'm only getting stronger and faster which is great. i have to get more game time. i think we did a smart thing not playing too much leading into this event, want to assess how my back was, and what we need to strengthen, how to go about it, how to gain my explosiveness again. all that aim along. >> to formula 1, there has been action at the german grand prix. the bad light continued for mass phillipa massa. ros berg excerted dom innocence.

india's batsmen are looking to build up a match-winning lead. the score of 95 has put india in a good condition on day four. there are 342 for in my opinion, a lead of more than 300. >> south africa has beats ebb sri lanka in the first test of that series. nine wickets in the match. dale steyn helping them to a 153-run wind. the sharks booked a place in the super rugby semifinals after narrowly betting the highlanders. the hosts opened the scoring, pushing out to a 10-0 lead with marr cell carrying the ball over. it took the highlanders 26 minutes before posting a point after the sharks were penalized for being off side.

they wept into the break up by four. the lead changing several times in the second half. the homeside keeping their cool winning 31-27. kim jong un says his country will not boycott the asian games in south korea, and he has great expectations for his athletes. the comments were made while kim watched the national football team. north korea had accused the south of floating to block his athletes from taking part. the asian games begin in september. there's more sport on the website. for the latest check out aljazeera.com/sport and there's details on how to get in touch with the team using twitter and facebook. that's all the sport. well, we'll leave you with some pictures from the situation in gaza where we have seen an

intense israeli bombardment, starting from saturday night into sunday. palestinian medical sources say over 400 have been kill. the sources say just in the last round of this offensive over 50 people have been killed in the shajaiya neighbourhood, one that has come under intense israeli attack. israel says it is tarting the network -- targetting the network of tup else, pictures -- tunnels, pictures coming out showing a heavy toll with bodies left in the streets and more rushed to gaza's nick schifrin hospital. we'll have more updates at the top of the hour. stay with us here on al jazeera.

>> 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.

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