thank you to all of our guests. until next time, we'll see you online. >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we're following for you. >> russia and i president putinn particular have a responsibility to cooperate with the investigation. >> flight 17 in ukraine. this is secretary of state john kerry heading to egypt trying to broker a deal between the

israelis and the palestinians. trying stifle the flow of immigrants. powm once again putting pressure on russian president vladimir putin. he wants putin to push those pro-russian separatists to allow the investigation of crash mh17 to proceed. , wwe are learning about the rs black boxes that have been found in eastern ukraine. mike viqueria. >> president obama, putting pressure on president putin. those investigators, those impartial international investigators from the u.n, the

osce and other independent investigators, the president says separatists have blocked that access. the president clearly now believes confidence that if that investigation were to go forward in a career and impartial way that russia and the separatists would be implicated. if not the president sees only one possible explanation. >> they have re pettedly cs fires their weapons in the air. these separatists are removing evidence from the crash side. all of this begs the question: what are they trying hide? >> the president is trying to further isolate the issue, get tough with russia in terms of sanctions. as long as vladimir putin continues to supply them with training, materiel. del. >> there was talk coming out of

comolcapitol hill. >> saying there was nothing in there that should give vladimir putin any pause whatsoever, in terms of the president's comments today. yobut i think largely there is a realistic realization among the leaders of both parties that you aren't going to be able to go up militarily, even before the air crash, what the white house wants to do and i think with the backing of many is to get tough in an economic sense. that seems to be the afternoon that obviously the president is -- avenue that obviously the president is pursuing but he has backing at capitol hill also, del. >> mike viqueria, thanks very much. in the meantime, hundreds of bodies still sit in refriblg

rate -- refrigerated rail cars. scott heidler reports. >> the remains of the victims are in these refrigerated rail cars. they're destination is unknown. -- their destination is unknown. they're under the control of the pro-russian separatists. it is north of the fighting and beyond the reach of separatist control. >> translator: we are ready to accept the bodies and hangars are prepared for wreckage. laboratories are ready. >> the teams here are waiting to get on with their job. receiving the bodies and accessing the large area where this plane went down. there is much work ahead and a recent flare up in fighting could make that even more difficult.

the bodies will then make their ways to the netherlands for investigation. , again, underline, russia is to blame. >> translator: it is also absolutely clear that the drunken pro-russian terrorists cannot operate a missile system. these are separatists who have been trained and we have information confirming that the training took place on russian territory. they received financing, training and education from russia. >> reporter: russia's president pushed back saying this is not the time for politics. >> no one should and no one has the right to achieve their political goals. these events should not divide but unite people. >> reporter: back at the crash site, workers remove a large part of the wreckage, something they vowed not to do in this

already compromised crash scene. >> third hospital to be hit in this latest round of fighting, in its second week. earlier, al jazeera talked to the director general of the hospital about the attack. >> when they attacked the hospital by heavy artillery bombardments, three of the ambulance drivers were wounded and at the same time, the destroyed and later on, some one hour later they have attacked once again so the number of victims have reached 50. so 50 are wounded and five are already dead. >> and earl your al jazeera talked with rechth from palestine israel about the bombing and the response of the attack. >> israel not only is not a peace partner but is a rogue state that exists outside the

law. there is no way we can is come to any peace agreement with such a country, unless it abandons its terrorism. >> if hamas is storing rockets in civilian areas and shooting rockets at us, we can certainly according to international law, take out those rockets. what is the alternative? to allow them to shoot at us with impunity? certainly you wouldn't ask israel to sit back quietly as we are being shot at. >> 100 deaths happening in week. nicole johnston is there. >> since the early hours of monday morning the entire eastern flank of the gaza strip has come under heavy attack over israeli tank shelling. this is all the way down to rafa. it also appears that the tent shelling is moving deeper is inside gaza.

originally it was on the inner part of nain neighborhoods prch. plib palestinian groups, with israeli soldiers in those areas. >> and that pretty strong emotions on the street of rah rh ramala overnight. and in france, french youth protesting the invasion of gaza took to the streets in a paris suburb. setting cars on fire. a group of men gathered at a nearby synagogue to hold protesters at bay. in louisville, kentucky, supporters on both sides taking to opposite sides, arguing for

their positions for and against the israeli invasion, praying for peace in that region. coming up on al jazeera america: >> i don't know where they find the strength to go on. >> chicago's mayor, rom emanuel getting emotional about the growing violence in the windy city. and the president about to bestow the highest military honor on a soldier for his bravery on the battle field.

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investigation, our phil itner is live in london, do we know what the next step is? >> well, del, we do actually and we have just heard within the last little bit here that the refrigerated train that holds the remains of those who died, will go to the city of kharkiv, and then flown back to the netherlands for the identification of those bodies. there is still a major effort to get forensic teams out to the crash site to try and piece together what happened. we have heard from the dutch foreign minister speaking in new york about what the priorities are for the dutch. let's take a listen.

>> my first priority today is to make sure that our people are brought home and treated with the dignity they deserve. >> reporter: now that statement is made in the run-up to the u.n. security council vote on a resolution with would also place condemnation on the event and also say that there must be an investigation as to who was behind that. that is something that is still out there and the consequences for this incident are growing in strength. we have heard some very strong language here in london today, a lot of people not only saying we have to get the investigation done but this incident may be a watershed moment and that there has to be consequences, del. >> and phil, aside from words, how are those other world leaders pressing russia for access to the site? >> reporter: they are pushing

with the threat of sanctions. no ifs ands or buts about it. the language we are hearing coming out of london in particular, david cameron, came to the parliament and said, this moment must be taken upon. we have to do something about this, because if we don't respond to what has happened in eastern ukraine, now, the consequences will be worse down the line. and we have heard also from many leaders in britain saying if we do impose those sanctions and the fear has been if those sanctions are imposed it would hurt the economies in european union, there is word now coming from the britts saying that doesn't matter. whatever damage comes to our economy, if we let this happen, if we let the rebel held territory and russia clear support for that separatist movement go unanswered that the consequences will be worse down the line. so the british here saying we

are willing to take a hit to the economy. we need harsher sanctions no matter what. whether or not other european nations fall in line with that, because there are other metrics or concerns that the other european nations have, we'll see. there is going to be a meeting of european foreign ministers tomorrow in brussels.probably unlikely we'll see immediate sanctions but you know the general consensus around the continent right now del is they are very angry at vladimir putin. >> phil ittner live for us in washington. thank you very much. former sergeant being recognized for bravery. ryan pitts is about to be honored for bravery, he was attacked in 2008, managed to fight back hit ago tackers with againades and machine gun fire. nine of his fellow soldiers died

in that attack, 27 were wounded. about a thousand from text could be deployed on the border. the governor expected to make an announcement ahe will gradual send -- that he will gradually send those. that deployment is expected to cost about $12 mill mil a month. -- million a month. >> an emotional mayor of chicago, mayor rahm emanuel fighting back the tears after there were four more fatalities in the windy city. ash-har quraishi has the story from chicago. >> with over 30 people shot over the weekend, gun violence continues to dominate the headlines. although some are becoming numb with the rolly tally of murders, for some the pain is just beginning. a bullet struck her in the head, she was at a sleep jo every with

six other kids when the bullet whizzed through window. the youngest of gun violence this weekend but not the only one. >> it's sad. it's sad it's just devastating. beautiful, always had a smile on her face. >> reporter: bracing for violence to erupt, it's become a preweekend ritual around here. despite an action plan to have more cops on the streets over the summer weekends, the surge has done little to freefnt gun fire -- to prevents the gun fire. mayor rahm emanuel. there i have nothing to say. i don't know where they find the strength ogo on. but put -- to go on. put one foot in front of the other. we're a better city than that. we have better people. >> reporter: last week attorney general eric holder

announced seven more agents would be assigned to the atf's chicago field office to assist chicago police. in an effort to stem the tide fueling the carnage. >> not every one of these people who are using these guns are eligible to buy a gun. many of them have felony convictions. many of them are ineligible. so they have to get their guns from somewhere. and it's somewhere illegal. >> reporter: little solace are for the family of the injured. they have nothing more to do but say good-bye. an $8,000 reward has been put forward for any information on the people responsible for her death but no one in custody. >> the detroit water department says it has put off its plans to shut off the water for those who owe money. they have eight days to prove

they have a real reason for falling behind. bisi onile-ere has more. >> reporter: detroit announced it is shutting off city water suspensions, more time to pay up. detroit's water shutoffs have caused a lot of controversy with opponents arguing it's a human right for city to provide water to its residents. right now water department is dealing with $90 million in unpaid deals. the city started shutting off water to residents this spring and nothing like it has been done before. today's development came an hour after a group of residents filed a lawsuit against the city alleging the city is violating both constitutional and contractual rights when issuing these shutoffs. the water department says it will spend the the next 15 days on a blitz informing all those who are delinquent on their bills of their options. it was just last week when

detroit's bankruptcy judge had harsh words for officials in the water department for these shutoffs and the negative attention that came with them. >> there is good news for the fight against aids and hiv in the united states. the cdc says the rate of infection fell over a third in this 61. as al jazeera's jake ward reports. >> antiretroviral drugs have down graded hiv positive to a once a day pill. >> suddenly it became a chronic manageable illness and that's a whole differently perspective. because now they tell you, when you test positive, that you can live a normal, healthy life expectancy. i know people in their 70s who are survivors. >> but with roughly 50,000 new hiv infections in the united states each year, scientists want to do better. this week's conference in

melbourne seeks to build on the success of these miracle drugs by discussing various ways to make the virus permanently dormant in the body. dr. warner green is pursuing this idea that the drugs could permanently assemble fear with the pathway -- intersphere with the pathway to death. >> we are going to take advantage of the fact that specific enzymes in this pathway to cell death and there are already safe and well tolerated drugs that have been in humans that interfere with this pathway. so we would love to repurpose those types of drugs as a new host directed, rather than virus directed, therapy for hiv-aids. >> but just across the city, dr. jay levy, a 30 year aids researcher, says suppression of

the virus is not enough. the berlin patient, a man called timothy brown who seems to have a genetic mutation that allows him to are avoid the infection. >> timothy brown, in a way you can get more cells that are genetically changed, and we think have a better chance of bringing about what would be a cure, in which the immune system's resistant and that immune system can handle any virus that's left over in the body. >> a few doctors are also concerned about another challenge. they worry that by suppressing hiv in the body existing antiviral medications could be causing the virus to develop a resistance to the drugs we have. science is already struggling to contain the virus that we know about. if that virus begins ochange we'll have to rethink our -- approach and to the 2.1 million

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>> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are your headlines. shooting down of maish airlinesa airlines flight 17. al osca hospital is the third hospital to be hit in the latest offensive of israelis over the border to gaza. prospectors are digging for some more precious than metal. melissa chan reports.

>> dead prematurely. an entir almond osh charred. row -- orchard. uprooting and dying in the sun. >> they are choosing to pull up root bases, because they don't have enough water to go all the way around. >> everything looks good. check the crop. >> reporter: with seasonal crops like strawberries or lettuce, farmers can choose not oplant during the drought but they can't do that with trees. >> when i grew up with trees farming would be great, harvest would come around. once harvest is done we get a lot of rain come through. >> reporter: but now jay must dig super-wells reaching 2,000 feet deep. that's longer than the empire state building. >> this is all we can do right now. this is the only control that we have in our tool box. >> almost every farmer in the area has decided to drill more and drill deeper in order to

reach previously untapped groundwater right below us. until now, farmers have drilled wells of a few hundred feet. but that water has run out and the next option is to go down. past a thick layer of clay, that separates the central valley shell of groundwater from its deeper ancient aquifer. >> everything is growing pretty good. >> farmers are pulling water faster than aquifers can recharge. all this means in some places the ground is actually sinking. mahill admits this is a solution that is producing long term damage. what else can he do. >> i would love for operation to continue. you know, we've built it up from where my dad my grandfather and great grandfather had built it to. and i hope my son and my grand sons build to it an even higher

level than where we're at. >> reporter: critics say the state needs to step in and manage groundwater before it's sucked dry. until then, landscape along the central valley will not only be dotted with being farms but with drill rigs. melissa chan, al jazeera. >> i'm dave warren. cooler air is coming in from the north, you can see where that is, boise, 75, spokane, washington still warm, but there's a line of crowds, not -- clouds, not a lot of rape in it. problem still is the wildfires out there, especially in central washington. here is the valleys here there's an air quality issue, because you have the smoke trapped in the valleys. alert issued for washington, idaho and parts of western montana there.

the fire weather watches and the red flag warnings are in effect, not much rain is in the forecast but that will chain. east of that we have a different scenario setting up notice. heat returning to where it was very cloudy, 90 to close to 100 degrees along this area of the front. high pressure will bring rain to the northwest. that could spark some new fires. watch that situation closely. situation this afternoon, severe storms in north dakota, that will spread east towards parts of minnesota. that's where that heat continues to build. not much happening yet, but that could easily change in the next few hours. >> dave warren, thank you very much. al jazeera has just learned that israeli army announced it has 25 soldiers that have been

killed. "techknow" is next and you can always check us out 24 hours a day, to our website, aljazeera.com. 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nonstop. we'll see you then. then. phil torres >> this is "techknow," a show of invo vasions that can save lives, we'll explore the intersection of hart ware and huge -- hardware and humanity. let's check out the team. marita davison is specialising in ecology. tonight, what are the scientists at monsanta up to. we go into their lab. are they moving away from