>> in is al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm thomas drayton. in gaza the death toll climbs as the israeli military presses its battle with hamas. outrage in ukraine over the handling of the passengers in malaysia airlines flight mh17. people around the world mourn the loss of friends and family members. >> armstrong is on the moon. >> remembering "apollo 11"

25 years after two american heroes first walked on the moon. thanks for being with us. another day end in gaza, israel says the operation will go on as long as needed. 13 israeli soldiers killed, the highest number for the military in this offensive. residents in one neighbourhood faced heavy bombardments. over 65 civilians were killed and bombs fell for a second night. let's go live to nicole johnson. tell us about the attack on eastern gaza that is now continuing. >> it was a very fefy overnight attack in the shajaiya

neighbourhood. we were in the office all night and could hear the shelling. this is a big residential area and there was shelling all night. houses shops, cars had been hit, the street, and the loss of life was very high, around 50 people in one night. if you will, we hear the shots behind you, the bombs going off. can you set the scenes for us, the missiles?. >> actually, the sound you hear is not bombs going off. we had breaking news in the last couple of minutes from the al-kassam brigade, the military ring of hamas. the spokesperson abu abider say the al-kassam brigade kidnapped an israeli soldier. we haven't had it confirmed.

what we hear in the background is gun fire from people in gaza celebrating the news, because the statement from the al-kassam brigade was only just broadcast. >> israel says hamas is responsible for the deaths. how do israelis feel about hamas and or groups? >> people in gaza is focussed on what israel is doing, not hamas or other groups are doing. what tend to happen is it increases support for hamas. while in peaceful times people get fed up, some people have grievances with the group, how they are running the gaza strip , what happens in these times is it increases support for ham a because people are focussed on what israel is doing.

>> have you seen the soldiers on the ground or is the majority coming from missile attacks. >> we haven't seen them on the ground, but we are told they are there. israeli troops and tanks, inside gaza, in an area controlled by israel, known as the buffer zone. israeli soldiers and tanks moved out of that area and started to move to residential areas. like shajaiya. this is the first time we had israeli troops carrying out attacks with palestinian fighters in an urban area. it had been happening in the north. this is the first time it happened in a residential area, which is why we saw so many

killed. with attacks with the troops, can be expect fighting to intensify? >> we would expect that fighting will intensify tonight. we have heard from the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu. he made it clear that they haven't finished the operation yet, that times are tough. they'll keep going until they have destroyed all of the tunnels that hamas and others used, until they have disarmed hamas. there has been a call that the israelis had over the past few weeks. with this news from the al-kassam brigade, this claim that they had kidnapped an israeli soldier, if that turned out to be true, there would be a tense rehabilitation. >> thank you. israeli prime minister, binyamin netanyahu, made a public address defending israel's fight against hamas saying his country will continue to exert great force.

kim vinnell has more. >> this was a speech to the nation, referring specifically to the deaths of israely soldiers - 13 have been killed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 18. one was kld in friendly -- killed in so-called friendly fire. in referring to casualty yes, binyamin netanyahu said that there is -- casualties, binyamin netanyahu said there's no more just war than what our fellows are fighting for. that's very telling. two important points - one is that binyamin netanyahu said the results so far of the campaign, as the israelis call it, exceeded expectations and also that the operation will be expanded as required. implying that we could expect an intensification. what we heard from binyamin netanyahu, and also from the israeli minister of defense, or

chief of staff, is we have seen an unprecedented acknowledgment of the strength of hamas's capabilities in gaza, the military chief spoke, the israeli soldiers uncovered a metro or subway of tunnels, so again using this as justification to continue the bombardment of gaza. it also reiterated his belief, and the u.s. backed this, that he believes that civilian deaths lay the blame. he said that is because israel agreed to an egyptian-back truce, which hamas dismissed, and, of course, it wasn't consulted, and the accuracy fire deal backed by the egyptians, and it would return to the status quo the united nations asked for aid that is running dangerously

low. 50,000 in gaza are internally displaced, taking shelter in u.n. released schools. 900,000 of 1.7 million in gaza lack clean water and sanitation services. 80% of the population is limited to four hours of electricity a day. >> secretary of state john kerry made pointed comments about israel's operation in gaza. they were caught in a hot mike phone moment. john terrett joins us. what exactly did secretary of state john kerry say and how did it happen. >> well, in many ways whichever way you slice and dies it, is probably a rookie mistake. there's a rule of thumb, if you don't want others to hereway you say, here, what you say, don't say it. others see it as ain dietment --

an indictment of fox news for reporting it. whichever way you look at it, it seems to be a rare glimpse into behind the scenes thinking of part of the middle east peace pros. >> reporter: it was a private chat with an aid off camera, but in a studio with camera fornings john kerry caught on tape, his unguarded comments seemingly critical about the operation in gaza, more critical because it comes from united states. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> right, it's escalating significantly, underscoring the need for ceasefire. >> we've got to get over there. thank you, john. i think, john, we have to go tonight. it's crazy to sit around. >> regardless of whether fox was right to broadcast the moment,

the secretary reported to normal dip low speak. >> it's tough, tough to have in reaction. i reacted in a way anyone does with respect to young children and civilians. war is tough. i said it publicly i say it again. we defend israel's right to do what it is doing to get to the tunnels. israel accepted a unilateral ceasefire, accepted the egyptian plan, which we support, and it's important for hamas to step up and be reasonable and understand that you accept the ceasefire, you save lives. >> president obama and secretary john kerry are under fire for foreign policy. israel, ukraine, iran and syria giving republicans ammunition with which to attack the administration. >> indecision rein. president obama is deliberative.

trying to be thoughtful - it comes off as weakness. >> reporter: president obama spoke to binyamin netanyahu by phone telling him secretary of state john kerry would travel to the region. no public schedule has been released. >> i am sure secretary of state john kerry regrets the comments and because of that his main message on sunday was diluted, that he thinks hamas should step up to the plate and accept the ceasefire on offer, backed by israel and endorsed by the united states. >> another important lesson learnt, if you will. >> john terrett in washington. thank you. pro-russian separatists found black boxes from malaysia airlines flight mh17, and say they will hang on to them until experts confirm they are the recorders. meanwhile bodies at the crash site are in refridge rated train cars.

>> reporter: in this train, some of the victims of flight mh17. european observers can't confirm how many bodies have been found. experts from interpol and the nth will want to -- netherlands and interpol will want to begin the gruesome process as soon as possible. >> there are bodies missing. emergency workers cut through the remains of a first-class cabin. the rescue team has gone, no body was found and you see the damage. decomposing corpses need to be removed. the problem is crucial evidence is being tampered with before investigators have arrived. investigators will want to search the debris for pieces of a missile. separatists deny they brought down the airline are. there's growing evidence it was hit by a surface to air missile

fired from this territory. the flight data and voice recorders will help the investigation. the pictures show one of the black boxes was recovered from the site, intact. there's pressure on the pro russian forces and the self-declared government is talking about cooperation. it says it will hand the boxes over. >> the objects have been delivered to donetsk, remaining under my control. we await experts, the civil aviation organization and are ready to hand over the objects from the plane. this is one of the biggest crime scenes in aviation history. for days it remained unsecured. there are reminders everywhere of the loss of so many lives. these people dayed far from their -- died far from their

homes, the victims of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. coming up, we'll talk about the political impact of the malaysia airlines flight mh17. mourning the victims. special church services are healed in the netherlands of you are watching al jazeera america@

world leaders are getting impatient over the slow recovery of the crash site. phil ittner is in london with more on how they are increasing pressure to get things done. >> european leaders around the country are expressing indignation about what is going on, and the lack of access by expert investigators sitting in kiev, waiting to get out into the east. we heard from the dutch prime minister, saying that the seam from netherlands will go out to the doesn't esque region on monday.

we have heard from other regions, speaking of putting forward an editorial in the "sunday times" newspaper talking about further sanctions. it is now coming from a variety of european leaders. we heard from the british, french and germans saying that the e.u. needs to start to formulate the possibility of further harsher sanctions. this incident in david cameron's words may actually be a moment in time that forces the e.u. to reassess completely its relationship with russia. we heard from inside the united nations, that there is a draft resolution pinned by the australians and the british to be put forward for a vote condemning the incident itself, but calling for finding out who is responsible for this, and for going after them and placing

blame. >> those last two things may be a problem for russia, it's unlikely they'll use a veto that condemned the incident. as we move forward into the coming days, there are two big things that we'll be looking for. possibly a solution in the u.n., and a meeting in brussels to discuss harsher sanctions on russia, all of this puts the pressure on vladimir putin in particular to try to - at least that's what the international community would see, to put pressure on vladimir putin to withdraw support, but to allow investigators to get on the ground and do their job. >>. >> i want to continue the conversation. joining me is lincoln mitchell. he is advisor at columbian university. what do you make of the situation on the ground? >> it's not a great situation - obviously it's a terrible tragedy, and the investigation

is not proceeding the way it should be. investigators don't have access, there's a reason they don't. there's information that needs to be withdrawn. they are probably looking to moscow for instructions "what do we do?" and they're probability not getting responses. >> who should be in charge. >> investigators who don't have access. who shouldn't be is separatists with backing from russia, with an agenda who probably took the plane down. >> how do you dissect the reaction? >> vladimir putin mishandled this. vladimir putin, although he played a disuctive role - this incident, the shooting of a passenger plane. it's not something that he wanted unless he has gone off the rails. >> once it happened he made a

bad situation worse. the tragedy is a bad situation here. he made the situation worse. he began the line, the ukranian military shot the plane out of the sky, killing 300 people, so he could pin it on the separatist so they would look bad. the ukranian military are not bringing in anti-aircraft weapons, because the other side do not have aircraft. immediately the russian went into control, kept putting it out. rather than saying this is a terrible tragedy and we'll get to the bottom of this. the reason it's a make is despite what we here from european capitals, there are european countries that would like not to have strong sanctions on russia or damage their economy. putin had an out, to apologise, to say the right things - he was never going to do it - but to

say it. he didn't do it. >> does vladimir putin care about international pressure. we heard about angela merkel, does it matter? >> he doesn't care about international pressure and opinion. he cares about business, russia's ability to sell and buy things from europe. that's were there needs to be pressure. >> could it strain relations between the international community and russia? >> certainly it strains the united states and russia. but we don't have as much strayed with russia as germany or france. it forces it making the relationship difficult. the worst case scenario, if you are the dutch government. to say it's not our problem. what we saw is vladimir putin's instructive behaviour in eastern ukraine, an effort to destabilize a sovereign neighbouring country is not a conflict limited to the region. people that died come from

malaysia and hold and. it's a widespread problem. >> getting off the track. what do you make of senator mccain's comments that we should arm ukraine. >> if i walked off the street and ran into mccain, he'd call from military strikes - it's a default setting. he made the statements for a while, we talked about that on this station. the fear was russia was about to invade ukraine. what we saw is every time ukraine or the west does something russia respond. if we armed earlier, we may have a full-scale russian invasion, meaning that n.a.t.o. and the u.s. would have to have responded it troops on the ground. >> why do we go from here? >> we try to get to the bottom of what happened. >> do you think we will? >> i think we know what happened, but we have to

demonstrate and prove it. we try to get the people back to resting places. and try to build a meaningful consensus. we need to isolate russia, they have crossed a lot of lines here. >> advisor to the colombian university. good to see you for more on the investigation, we are joined by todd curtis, al jazeera's transportation contributor. >> glad to be on. . >> reuters distributed video on sunday of what appeared to be an inflight recorder found by rescue workers in the field in eastern ukraine. what would it reveal about a possible missile strike? >> there seeped to be from the -- seemed to be from the video i saw, one of two boxes, it's unclear whether it's the flight data recorder. if it tonnes out this was a missile strike the boxes may reveal little.

they are not designed to detect radar signals or military information, they are for civil aircraft. they would not have detected the missile before strikingment. >> with such destruction, would they be intact. >> they are fairly resilient. if the explosion was close, they would likely survive. the data is in solid electronic components. >> from an investigation standpoint, how confident are you about what you know so far? >> the troubling thing is this is clearly not the internationally accepted protocol for an accident investigation. immediately after it was known there was a crash, the relevant authority chris, the ukranian -- crash, the ukranian government should have been involved. that has not happened. valuable time has been lost. >> you are inside an airport terminal, that is what we are hearing. what is the aviation protocol

that follows an international incident like this one. >> this is protocol going back decades. in essence, the currently -- country where a crash occurs is involved, and would invite parties, the country of manufacture, the u.s., country of registration, malaysia, and countries with victims would be allowed to bring representatives into the situation. looking at the situation prior to the accident, why was it restricted, action. >> this is a question i have. euro control actually put out several statements saying certain areas shouldn't be flown over and other areas where the event took place, planes shouldn't fly below 32,000. the aircraft was at 33,000 feet, in a safe zone according to euro

zone. my question is what was their decision process, were they making use of the best available information to tell airlines which places were safe, and which weren't. >> in is such a tragedy, what can family members do to retrieve the bodies of loved ones. >> it's in the hands of whatever authorities are in the area, wherever the crash is. one would hope they have the presence of mined to bring in an international organization to take over that portion of the investigation so the bodies could be repatriated. >> thank you, todd wood, transportation contributor, thank you for joining us. in the netherlands mourners sought comfort in church services. [ ♪ music ] [ singing ] some hundreds gathered and attended church service. 12 residents of one town were

aboard flight mh17. >> names from the passenger list became the face, and stories began to be told how people were, what they did, and it's coming here, here in our country. >> in all, 193 of the 298 people on board the night from dutch. >> australians, too, were mourning the loss on sunday. we should point out that five members of one family were returning from a vacation if netherlands. their children from 15, 12 and 8. on the other side of august, members of the sooegs football league -- sea eagles football team stopped to remember a person that died in the clash. a house collapses following israeli strikes.

edmission do everything they -- medics do everything they can to help them.

welcome back to al jazeera america. let's get you caught up on the top stories we are reporting. israel intensifies its bombardment of gaza. hamas clams to have captured an israeli soldier alive the the heaviest hit area is shajaiya where residents have been killed. israel's military says 13 soldiers have been killed today. stefanie dekker reports. >> reporter: they emerged in the early hours, survivors of a petrieifying and deadly night. the stream of people on food finally finding a way out. >> translation: whatever happens, despite the killing and destruction, we'll be strong. we are not going to die, god willing. >> reporter: it has been the

most intense night since the conflict began, the border neighbourhood besieged, residents trapped in the dark of night. the daylight bricks no relief. >> they are shelling everywherement we om just made it out this morning. we had change and had to leave our homes behind. it is not safe there. >> reporter: this is where they came from. shajaiya on the border with israel. it's not recognisable. israel says it's targetting armed fighters. we see heart break and despair here. >> the tanks were in front of our house. i don't know what is going on. i can't go home, they shoot at us. >> the area has been destroyed. you can see smoke ahead of what was a tense night and day. people have managed to get out from the early morning. this 2-hour humanitarian hiatus

agreed to by both sides allowed the medics and ambulances to come in. a couple of bodies have been taken past us. incredible damage to homes and trees littering the streets. it looks like a war zone. it was continues for the brief time we came here. we heard an explosion and there was small arms fire. >> this killing is more than syria, you see children without heads, what is this. >> gaza's largest hospital is at breaking point. "where are you, my son", she cries. 60 people are trapped in the rubble. "please go pick them up." she

begs. these are the faces of the numbers that increase. the injured, and the dead. there is unbearable grief. the doctors here have not slept in days. >> this is a genocide. it's a massacre. i hope someone is held accountable. israeli impunity has gone so far they think they can do whatever with whoever, and they don't consider palestinians human, according to how they treat them now. >> the number of the injured and the dead keeps rising. nowhere in gaza is safe. tough images to watch. joining p me from granada spain is our next guest. what do you make. 2-hour

ceasefire requested by the red cross. >> well, it's absolutely necessary, not just because the palestinians need to collect and burry the dead, but many people are trapped under the rubble of the many houses destroyed while the owners and the residents were inside. all palestinian ambulances have not been allowed to make it to the firing line. whoever did, they were fired at by the israeli soldiers. palestinians are in need for the ceasefire, in order for them to save as many lives as possible, so that the death toll does not increase as it does right now. >> how would you define israel's military casualty. we are seeing the ground campaign. >> it's a failed strategy. what israel wanted to achieve - they wanted to eradicate hamas. this is the message they have

been spending, with the threes israeli settlers. this is the message we have been hearing from israelis, they want to eradicate hamas and the resistance the islamic jihad and anyone else that exists. objectives have been changing throughout the 13-14 days, now they are saying they want to destroy the tunnels. they have been destroying neighbourhoods. most of it is gone. hundreds of people are dead and wounded. this is not a military strategy, it's a shof of force -- show of coring hoping that civilians will turn against hamas saying the price is too high, stop firing the rockets at israel. this will not happen, we have seen that played out in the past, in november 2012, of war

and so forth and so on. it's the same strategy they tried to destroy the resistance. they can't. they take it out on civilians, and we see the horror we have seen today. we talked about pleas from the international community, ban ki-moon, secretary-general, is en route to the middle east. how much will either side be impacted by his presence. >> ban ki-moon, not as a person, but the institution that he represents, the israelis won't take him serious to begin with or international law serious. palestinians of hoping that the united nations will play an important role in all of this. that they would get involved as a pacemaker, as a force that is speaking truth to power. that's not been the case, it's never been the case in the case of palestine and the palestinians. the result is ban ki-moon spoke

up [ inaudible ] he's trying to more or less avoid a clash with americans, with israel at the expense of saying things the way they are. at this point he is not app effective player. what will make or break the war is the level of resistance put out by the palestinians. this is the main variable. >> hamas rejected a ceasefire, they don't have a good relation or any relationship with the u.s. would they consider a ceasefire from another country - let's say turkey or germany. >> first, hamas didn't reject the ceasefire. there was no ceasefire to speak of. what took place is the egyptian ploy, according to the

newspapers, it was a [ inaudible ] abdul fatah al-sisi and israel in order for them to put hamas in a situation where they have no other option but not to accept an accuracy fire. >> why wouldn't they accept a ceasefire? >> hamas would accept a ceasefire, the resistance would under the proper conditions, and the proper conditions isnding the israeli siege for the israeli army to pull out of the gaza, including the north and for the borders to open and gaza to have access, freedom and be able to end the misery that has extended over the course of sepp years, this has got to -- seven years, this has got to end. the war has been going on. >> we'll have to leave it there as we examine both sides. appreciate your time, managing editor of "middle east time." families across gaza are looking for help any way

possible. the man is yelling in arabic "come on, where are they. there are three alive, let's carry them off quickly." part of a family buried alive. the paramedic red crescent medics had to leave the people was the ceasefire expired. >> united nations set up 44 residents in gaza, relief workers are having difficulty keeping up with the growing humanitarian crisis there. >> our teams are stretched. some of the areas we are getting a run out of school buildings that are appropriate. a lot of schools are in areas we no longer consider secure. we are in conversation with i.s.i. s and uni self and others to use government schools. we run out of mattress, hygiene kits, trying to bring stuff in. looking at borrowing from the unhch, from the syrian response stocks.

we are getting there. today is going to be difficult. tomorrow will be difficult. >> u.n. says there are more than 50,000 displaced palestinians staying in their shelters. we invite you to stay with al jazeera for ipp depth coverage. we'll bring you new developments as they happened. while the world's attention is focussed on the crisis elsewhere, the kurds in northern iraq are heading for a momentous event, they are preparing a vote of statehood. we have this report from erbil. >> reporter: these days could be the last for irack to re -- iraq to remain united. it is preparing for a referendum. >> translation: we have suffered a lot as kurds, it's our rights for all states. >> at the kurdish parliament arrangements and technicalities are being worked out. we are going to hold the referendum in the areas that

have come upped our control. the second stage we'll decides our futures as an independent nation. the kurdish region remained largely stable. the u.s. operation of iraq in 2003. that's the ability that brought billion. the discovery of oil reserves, start of application and building a pipeline. it has revived kurdish aspirations. kurds made gains in june. after collapsing after a light assault. kurdish forces moved into control all the areas it had disputes with the central government in baghdad. they controlled the oil city of kirkuk, including oil fields.

the kurtish region exports between 100,000 and 150,000 barrels, and hopes to reach half a million by the end of 2014 and plans to increase production further. that would stain the voibilityy of much awaited state. >> this man heads the natural resources committee and says the region is ruch. we have 5% of the oil reserves. we have many resources and are confident we have resources to pay for the needs. it remain dependent on the government in bag add for its budget at the moment and lacks infrastructure for increasing oil production. the enclave's economic viability is vouched by those opposed to a

kurdish state. the decision to declare kurdish state may live in the hands of it, but the survival demned on renaling onnal and national powers. >> results in indonesia's precedential election will be announced on tuesday. the candidates both claimed victory. police are preparing for violence after the results are announced. >> there's the participation for chaos, between candidate supporters, sab tij and actions that could disturb the national counting process and announcement. the condition is peaceful. the lozing side is expected to file a change in the court over the results. in my opinion judges would render a decision within 14 days. today marks 40 years since turkish forces invading cypress,

capturing 40%. a united nations green line divided the country leaving a turkish-speaking north and greek-speaking south. paul beban and simon mcgregor-wood have these reports from the south and north. [ siren ] . >> reporter: every year the siren sound. 5:30am. greek cypriots marking the moments turkish forces began their in vase. at the cemetery they mourn those killed in the fighting. white crosses for of 6,000 soldiers who fell, and 1600 other greek cypriots that went missing. the president laid a wreath, and the leaders of other political parties. [ sings ] . >> reporter: later at this church, the service of remembrance was led by cypress's archbishop. >> translation: i feel like the invasion happened today, a huge

country invaded, occupying 40%. no one cared, not the united nations or the european union that claims it's democratic. >> reporter: for the greek cypriots it's a day dominated by loss and mourning and are matched by frustration and anger that the politicians are unable or upwilling to solve the cyprus problem. for the latest on how this is remembered on the north i hand over to my colleague. >> reporter: for turkish cypriots memories of july 1994 are different to those south of line. the soldiers that landed on the beach came not for invasion but salvation. >> turkey sent troops to defend turkish-speaking cypriots targeted and killed by greek nationalist militia. the debt of gratitude was visible from the crowd cheering on the modern day military remmingments.

the turkish ppt told them the result of the invasion was 40 wroors of peace on the island. but he admitted the status quo cannot go on forever, and we will not allow it to go op forever. many turkish cypriots share the frust race and question whether the soldier are needed. there is the common ground between greek and turkish cypriots. negotiations are ongoing. both sides met this week and the leaders are scheduled to meet next week. a sustainable deal can't be parachuted in. it takes willingness to compromise. there's scant evidence of that at the moment. explosive fire growth yesterday and last night in wildfires in washington

statement and oregon and idaho. temperatures have been high. triple digit heat and dry conditions aided by powerful winds. that helps the fires to grow, and now there's cooler air moving in, 65 in seattle, and the cascades and the mountain range. you can see the significant difference. temperatures fall today. we are getting a higher amount of humidity. the smoke from the fires makes big problems out the air quality. it's been unhealthy for several places cross the aceh naggan valley, and all the way down to salt lake city. we are getting moderate air quality from the smoke and matter drifting though. as we look at the forecast for the winds, it's good news for the north-west. the winds are easing. wildfires create their own wind and there's gusty winds 30-40 minneapolis near the file.

the weather system that caused the wind is tracking eastward and most of the stronger gusts will be associated with showers and thunder storms into texas and oklahoma. humidity is good news for the fires. it's going up. the perm 15% -- percentage is 15" more. overseas, we have been watching typhoons here. rama sen brought all the rain fall into china and northern vietnam. now we are watching a new typhoon matmo develop, tracking to the north, north-west. it will bring in intense rain fall all the way up, into taiwan. we'll see a land fall as we get towards late tuesday. it look like winds at this point could be category 3 hurricane strength. >> rebecca stevenson, thank you. hollywood legend james

gardner died. his rolls as a wise-cracking card shark. he was a popular player. he kept everywhere entertained in a career spanning six decades. courtney kealy has more. >> movie reel: the only time you quit when you win is after you one it all. >> reporter: james gardner found fame as a smooth-talking gambler in "the maverick." roles followed with julie andrews and marlin brando. he took on the german. it was his private eye jim rock ford in "the rock ford files" that awarded him an emmy. he was known for laid back charm and manly appeal.

rooem rooel you are aren't going to shoot anybody, we both know it... >> gardner was nominated for an as car as best ask for for "murphy's romance", with sally field. he returned for "maverick", the role going to mel gibson. the screen actors gilled awarded him with a lift achievement aware. >> i don't know if i deserve the ward, please tonight forgive me if i act i do. >> a final role was a dying millionaire in the 2006 drama "the ultimate gift", he was found dead of natural causes in his brept wood home. still ahead - health experts lost on the flight. mourning as the annual aids conference begins, following the loss of key members on flight

mh17.

you welcome back. the number of hif diagnosis in america has fallen by a third. in 200225 out of every 100,000 people were newly diagnosed with the autoimmune disease. by 2011 it dropped to 16 in 100,000. the news comes as the aids community is opening a conference in melbourne. the event is overshadowed by tragedy. some of those set to attend were killed when maryland flight mh17 pass -- malaysia airlines flight mh17 was shot down in a plane. >> reporter: the conference was open in mourning, a community stunned bit loss of their

colleague. the world health organisation talked about the death of glenn thomas, killed aboard a plane jumped out of the sky over ukraine. >> it is with deep sadness that we have to inform them that who lost one of our cole as soon as. >> reporter: glenn thomas was one of several confirmed killed whilst en route to the 20th annual aids conference. veteran joep lange was also aboard. social media shared report that possibly 100 scientists, doctors, researchers and members of the h.i.v. aids community could have been on the flight pt the twittos fear lit up with tributes,en encompassing the loss of top experts saying: . >> president obama also paid condolences. >> in this world today we shouldn't forget that in the midst of conflict and killing there are people like these, people focused on what can be built, rather than what can be

destroyed. >> with the community devastated this author put into words what others are thinking: you'll unlikely victims of a ukraine conflict that rages on more on the conference and the future of aids research in our "the week ahead" segment. it's perhaps humanity's greatest voyage of explore agency. (countdow (countdown) >> all engines on, we have a lift off the "apollo 11" mission coming up next on al jazeera america.

. >> contact light. >> okay, engine stopped. >> the eagle has landed. >> we copy you on the ground. you've got a bunch of guys... [ laughs ] >>. >> armstrong is on the moon, neil armstrong. 38-year-old american. standing on the surface of the moon.

. >> on this july 20th, 1969. >> it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> what a moment, 45 years ago neil armstrong opened the hatch of the "apollo 11" lunar module, descended the ladder and hopped on to the surface of the moon. buzz aldrin followed 20 minutes later, spending 2.5 hours on the moon before returning. they returned with 50 pounds of lunar rocks and soil. 10 more astronauts followed their lead. gene sirman of "apollo 17" was the last man to walk on the moon. we talk to an astronaut about the future of the space programme and space in general. that will do it for this hour. i'm thomas drayton in new york.

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