>> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america ... good morning to you. welcome to "al jazeera america." live from new york city, i am morgan radford. these are the stories remember following just for you. despite a two-hour cease-fire, israel offensive moves deeper into gaza. >> hear 6-year-old child in gaza, this is your third war. we have got -- we have to find a way to get past all of this. >> this is the need for medical aid increases greatly at the casualties continue to mount. plus, claims that the black boxes from malaysia flight 17 are now in the hands of russian

rebels. ♪gaza facing some of the most intense shelling as israel increases its ground offensive. a neighborhood in eastern gaza was bombarded with missile fire just overnight. over 60 sistians including children were killed t appears to be the highest number of casualties in one district since israel began strikes on july 8th. we are joined by nick schifrin live on the phone in gaza. nick, we can still see at a time smoke from the neighborhood behind you right there. what was it like when you went down there? >> reporter: yeah, you can see that the large plume of smoke, morgan, that's been there for 12 hours at least. and the neighborhood is called

zuuzia. we were there ballpark an hour, hour and a half ago. it's eerie. it is a war zone. you can get the sense or even the stench of death and of panic. most of the streets are completely empty, and the few people who are there are either coming back to their homes to see if they are destroyed, and one man i spoke to was walking up to his house and looked up and saw that his house was destroyed. another family was fleeing just about an hour ago, even though they had been told to flee for days by the israeli military and, certainly, there was an exodus this morning of probably tens of thousands of people from that neighborhood who fled and yet still some people haven't netted. the only people on the streets while i was there were a couple of ambulances and those handful, i would say, of residents there. and, you know, you talk to residents and they say, look. the israelis did ask us to move. you talk to people here and they call gaza a prison. israel has blocked off the borders to the east and the north. he egypt has blocked off the

southern border. they say they have nor to go. that's only a about a 10 minute drive. a lot have come into gaza city where the u.n. is trying to give them shelter. but we saw a lot of them at the hospital outside the main hospital here in gaza city. we saw about three or 4,000 people. they just simply told me they had nowhere else to go and they figured that was the safest place for them. >> nick, you said the u.n. had been trying to get in. and in terms of calling gaza a prison, has humanitarian aid been able to get in thus far? >> reporter: the area behind me crossing beyond that smoke cloudu cloud, israel controls that. they have let humanitarian aid in from there. the egyptians are saying they may order the rafah border crossing down to the south to my left. and they are talking about letting humanitarian aid in there. but you talk to the hospitals, itself, and that's where you see the shortage.

i spoke with the head of shifa hospital as thousands of people had come in to that courtyard right outside the hospital. he said that he had enough equipment. he had enough supplies for one more day. that's it. there had been hundreds of people coming in for the weeks prior to this or the 10 days prior to this, during the air campaign by israel. in the months ahead of this, the blockade by israel and by egypt had really reduced the hospital supplies to very little. and so he had very little to begin with. and he has very little now because of all of these injured who have come to his hospital. so, he says he needs supplies by tomorrow. otherwise, he won't be able to k0e7 with the people coming in. >> an oppressing situation. i want to go back to something you said, it is eerie and has the stench of death. as we look forward to finding a solution politically, what more do we know about any talks of brokering a more long-term cease-fire? junior. >> reporter: yeah, so there are

efforts from across the region as well as the united states. the intermediatiary seems to be egypt, >> katrina hancock qatar and alt seems are pushing hamas which runs the gaza strip to accept a cease-fire that egypt had proposed. that's dead on arrival for hamas. they feel like they don't benefit from that particular offer at all and they have come up with their own offer which egypt doesn't like and israel doesn't like at all. and so there is a lot of daylight, i would say, between the two sides right now, but still, everybody is still trying. ba ban ki-moon is here, secretary of state john kerry is working on a trip as early as this weekend to head to egypt and perhaps to jerusalem to try to work out a cease-fire. i have to say that plume of smoke behind me and the violence that we have seen today does indicate that it seems that israel is intent on following

through on its goals which is remove the capacity for fighters here to fire rocket did into israel and remove the tunnels that fighters have dug from gaza and israel and hamas. fighters are continuing to fight even from that neighborhood. israel, despite two calls of cease-fire today nick schifrin joining us live. thanks so much for being with us again. the united nations has asked for aid as nick mentioned that is running dangerously low. over 50,000 people in gaza are internally displaced and have teen shelter in 44 u.n. relief schools. before this offensive even began, some 900,000 people of the 1.7 million in gaza already lacked clean water and sanitation services. now, 80% of that population is limited to only four hours of electricity a day. earlier, al jazeera stefanie dekker talked to the director of operations for the u.n. relief agency. he told her about their struggles in dealing with the

thousands of displaced people. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> reporter: what we are seeing is really al carry-on from what we have seen for the last two days, incursions into the boundary areas a lot of damage as we understand thousands of people on the move. we went yesterday. we had over 30,000 additional people moved in to our schools. we have had thousands overnight. and we have more this morning. just this morning, we have opened an additional six schools that i know of already. we had, say, over 60,000 last night. i wouldn't be surprised today we go 70, 80,000, potentially more seeking refuge in our schools. >> do you have the means to cope? are you over stretched? >> our teams are stretched. in some of the areas we are physically going to run out of school buildings that are appropriate because a lot of our schools are in areas that we would no longer consider secure. so we have already have discussions with the icrc and unicef and others to use government schools they would manage. we are running out of

mattresses, hygiene kits. trying to bring stuff in, looking at air lifting things from due by, borrowing from the syria response stocks in jordan. so we are getting there. today's going to be very difficult. tomorrow is going to be very difficult. the food that we need to distribute in the schools this afternoon is an area we currently can't access. we are working with the israeli authorities to get access to those warehouses. it's going to be a very long day. >> can i get your final answer on your assessment of the impact that this war is having on the civilians here? >> the impact has been primarily on the civilians. not only those that have been killed and wounded but those that have been displaced, those who have been moving in fear. it's going to have a huge, long-term psychological impact. if you are a 6-year-old child in gaza, this is your third war. you know, we've got to -- we have to find a way to get past all of this. >> among the casualties in gaza, a medic and a journalist reports say a cameraman from gaza was driving in an ambulance to the

neighborhood of hujia when it was hit by israelifier killing him and the medic who was driving that vehicle. now, many are questioning how and even if israel will expand with their offensive on gaza. in the west jerusalem, with the latest. >> reporter: they have repleaded petely said this operation can be widened and can be expanded in order to achieve its goals. these goals have been stated in the past. destroying the infrom a structure that hamas use to see launch roblths at israeli territory, destroying the tunnels that they use to smuggle in weapons and to try to infiltrate into israel. this, these goals, we have heard over and over again. we hear them in statements from the army more than once a day and there is no education of how big this operation could become, but we know that the government has instructed the army to be ready for a possible expansion. we have already seen expansion

overnight with lots of civilian deaths, but where it goes from here, we are not sure. >> as the death toll mounts, some demonstrators are showing support for the people of gaza. in ramallah, protesters are urging israel to stop the fighting and a palestinian lawmaker said that the entire west bank is now rising up against the aggression happening in gaza. [chanting.]. >> meanwhile, hundreds of activists both for and against the israeli offensive gathered in tel aviv on saturday. they called on both hamas as well as the israeli prime minister to end that violence. >> about 75, 77% of the victims of this war are civilians, regular people. and life is hell. it must be stopped.

>> police officers had to block off crowds who tried to attack those protesters. in total, 13 people were arrested in demonstrations all across the city. it didn't stop there. protests for and against the israeli offensive were held around the world this weekend. for example in sydney australia protesters waving palestinian flags said in our thousands, in our millions, we are all palestinians. the protests came after four palestinian were killed in an airstrike on a beach in gaza just last week. this rally was sidney's second pro-palestinian demonstration in two weeks. right here in the us of a, in scapus people gather to protest the white house's support of israel and the military campaign. act vitas carried signs with honk for peace and long-live palestine. protesters say they plan to demonstrate every single weekend until the violence ends. >> now, to our other top story, the latest on malaysian flight mh-17 shot down over eastern

ukraine. the united nations social security considering a draft resolution to press russia to get the crash site open for an international investigation. the pro-russian separatists in control of that crash side showed monitors today where there are keeping some of the victims' bodies saying they are using refrigerated trains in the ton of tronsentil until an international delegation arrives. they claim they have located the plane's black boxes emergency service workers were seen removing orange-colored devices from the debris field on friday. rebels say they will hand over those devices to an international civil aviation organization. 298 people died in the crash. the majority were from the netherlands and one american and three infants were among the victims. the latest from goboval. >> reporter: we have been here at what is the remains of the cockpit of mh-15 and the first class louping you can see behind me. in the past couple of hours, what was a relatively intact

wreckage scene has been completely opened up and destroyed by rescue workers who say they believe there was a body inside. now, what they are doing clearly is gruesome work and they want to get all of the bodies out because they are decomposing. but at the same time, they are tampering with potentially key evidence. the footage that has emerged shows clearly from the 17th and 18th of july that there are intact flight box recorders in the hands of the separatists. they say they were handed over to international experts. experts will need to look at the data to see the last moments of that flight and the conversations in the cockpit which could provide crucial information to those people investigating t there is real connell fusion about how many bodies have been discovered, where they are at the moment, we understand that they are on a train, freight which is

reforming rated at a station waiting to depart after international experts actually view the corpses, the bodies inside, waiting to the depart towards ukrainian, government-held territory. clearly, the investigators from the nether lands, interpol local want to see those corpses as soon as possible to try to identify the bodies for those families of the victims wait forg any kind of information. >> i think so day 4 since the flight was shot out sky. the outrage grows. world leaders are focusing concerns on russia and the separatists rebels in eastern ukraine. phil it ner joins us live from london. phil, what is the reaction like right now in london? in one word, organ, anger. the since both within the public opinion sphere and within the leadership is real frustration

and anger, directed towards the russian and the specifically vladimir peatin, we have heard dr. strong lang from david cameron and phillip hammerin. an editorial saying that this incident may have the consequence of having the eu completely re-assess its relationship with russia and he urged other eu nations to consider harder sanctions. so a lot of language, in particular out of dolondon, a sense of anger and frustration toward the kremlin not om for support for the separatists but for what they accuse of kremlin of being obstructionists and trying to get an international effort on the ground. >> the dutch are leading the outrage over bodies and how they have been treated. what's the foreign minister saying, one? and, also, 30 australians say on this plane. what's australia saying.

>> the dutch lost the most people. they are furious about that. we have heard strong language from the dutch prime minister and the fortunately minister on the ground in kiev has made some strong language about the way the bodies are being treated. you mentioned australiaians. we have heard strong language from the australian prime minister. just recently, this is what he had to say: >> i summonsed russian prime minister to a meeting, and i made crystal clear my concerns and dissatisfaction with the way this has been handled. russian-controlled territory, russian-backed rebels quite likely, russian-supplied weapon. russia can't wash its hands of this. >> now, morgan, we are hearing that the australians so intent about this that they are taking the lead in putting forward a

draft resolution to the united nations security counsel in conjunction with the brits that would demand that the eastern craukrainian separatists allow t international team on the ground. if, indeed, that resolution is put forward, it will most likely be about a 24-hour period before a vote happens. >> means there could be actually this resolution tabled, put forward by late monday afternoon. morgan? >> we will be watching the next 24 hours very closely. thanks so much, phil it ner joining us live from london. stay tuned because coming up on "al jazeera america," it's a message for peace as the pontiff prays for gaza and the ukraine. americans are bank okay sharing for a little extra cash. is there a downside to this $26 billion sharing economy?

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washington with more on that. what are you hearing in d.c.? and quite frankly, what evidence do they have? >> reporter: morgan, good morning to you. the evidence is that the u.s. embassy in the capitol of ukraine, kiev, has put out a statement saying there is very clear evidence course to them that an sa-11, a surface-to-air missile which the russians tend to refer to as a book and russia calls a gadfly was fired on thursday by pro-russian separatenists eastern ukraine. now, this morning, appearing on all of the major sunday broadcasts, secretary of state john kerry said he thinks it was provided by the russians. >> that we saw the launch from this area of what we deem to be an sa-11 because of the altitude, 350,000350,000,000 feet, and because of the trajectory, we have the trajectory recorded. we know that it occurred at the very moment that this aircraft

disappeared from the radar screen. >> reporter: and, morgan, yesterday, secretary kerry spoke on the telephone in a pre-arranged meeting with his russian counter part, sergei lavrov, according to state, the top of the agenda was concern from secretary kerry about these bodies being removed from the site we reported on here just now and, also, calling for there to be some kind of international investigation to be allowed to get underway swiftly. as you know, at the moment, these bodies are being removed and the crash site is being contaminated. there are no formal air accident investigators on the site. the osce, the organization for security in europe is on the site but they are not being given unfetterred access. they don't have a corridor and they want one according to the state department secretary of it kerry and sergei lavrov asking for the u.n. to take the lead in

that. nothing is going to happen, morgan until there is a cease-fire between the rebels and the ukrainian government. >> john terrett, thanks for being with us this morning, washington, d.c. the plane left and most victims were dutch. a tribute is growing outside of that airport where people are laying flowers and signs at that 34e78 memory site paying tribute to so many lives lost and signing a condolence book. pope francis led thousands in prayer. the pontiff asked to keep every way involved in the middle east and ukraine in their prayers. later on, he said, violence is not overcome with violence. violence is overcome with peace. a positive outlook for the aids crisis in america. the number of hiv diagnoses as fallen in the last decade by over a third. a new study released by the journal of the american medical association shows that decline. in 2002, 24 out of every 100,000

people were newly diagnosed with the autoimmune disease. by 2011, that dropped to 16 in 100,000. this news comes as the aids community is opening its annual conference in melbourne but that event is overshadowed by tragedy. some of those who were set to attend the conference when killed when malaysia flight 17 was shot down over ukraine. courtney keeley has more. >> the 20th annual aids conference opened in mourning, a community stunned by the loss of its colleagues. the world health organization condemned the death of their spokesman glen thomas killed aboard the jet shot over ukraine. >> it is with deep sadness that we have to inform you that w.h.o lost one of our colleagues. >> thomas is one of the several people confirmed killed while on route to the 20th annual aids conference. >> veteran aids researcher yoap longa was aboard the boeing 777.

social media had been sharing reports that possibly as many as 100 members of the aids community could have also been on the flight. the twitters fifteen lit up. one tweet encompassed the enormity of the loss: how do we measure how much a person has done for humanity? people like him changed the courts of epdemmics. president obama paid condolences. >> in this world today, we shouldn't forget in the midst of conflict and killing, there are people like these, people who are focused on what can be built rather than what can be destroyed. >> when the community devastated, author hefather borenor put into words, i feel the researcher or research team that would have discovered the cure for hiv was on that flight. covered knee keeley, al jazeera. >> we will have more on the conference and the future of aids research coming up tonight in our week ahead segment.

>> that's at 8:30 p.m. eastern, 5:30 pacific right here on al jazeera. stay tuned. coming up, washington state has been dealt intensifiers over just the last few days. unfortunately, mother nature is making matters even worse. our meteorologist, ebony dion, will be here to explain. i dion will be here to explain.

good pony. welcome back. i am morgan radford. these are today's top stories. over 60 people in one eastern gaza neighborhood killed from israeli missiles overnight. the attacks come as israel sends more ground troops to gaza almost two weeks after this fighting began. the united nations has asked for aid running low. over 50,000 people living in gaza are internally displaced and have taken shelt ner 44 u.n. relief schools. one million people cannot get access to clean water or even

antation services. all of this is happening while over in ukraine, pro-russian separatists rebels claim they have located flight recorders from the malaysia airlines flight that was brought down by a missile strike. service workers were seen removing orange colored devices from the debris on friday. good sunday to you. i am meteorologist eboni dion. we have been monitoring across the northwest because it's been warm and dry. what little rain we have seen has been associated with truck driver thunderstorms and dry veg table, the lightning has actually sparked a few fires across this area. i want to show you some video we have because conditions are not improving. by mid-week we will see changes but you can see the smoke just kind of billowing out across this area. it has reduced visibility and caused problems with air quality.

the air has been stagnant in this area you need to be extra careful and watch out. it will be difficult to see in those dentally smokey areas. you want to watch out we can eee a few showers as we take you back to the maps. we have a weak frontal boundary but most of the rain will fall across the western portion of the state. we have the fires further inland where it's still hot. form this will area has been above average as far as temperatures are concerned and blow average as far as rainfall. washington, oregon into idaho and now winds are picking up. >> that's blowing the smoking in all different directions. mainly southwesterly flow here that's further east. we are watching out for some areas where we are dealing with an elevated fire risk through your this evening and more into

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