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>> well, the cease fire in gaza is holding at least for now. you are looking at live pictures from gaza at this moment and the 12 hour truce just ended but now it is extended for four more mores. john kerry and world leaders are in paris and working on a longer deal and while they talk the residents are returning to homes and looking for survivors and burying their dead. a hundred bodies were found today and the palestinians killed is above a thousand. we have nick joining us live from gaza and how is it looking now that the cease fire ended and are they worried that the bombs will start again? >> the cease fire is extended for four hours and the confidence that we are seeing

the first time in a long time and allowing the people to return to homes and coming out from hiding, whether in u.n. schools turned shelter or private homes, all of the people are pouring into the neighbor hooteds that with no-go areas simply too dangerous to go and they are hoping that the cease fire will be extended. going into the neighborhoods, two or three miles to the east, not far from here, and you sense and see the level of devastation. some of the blocks are completely destroyed. some five, six, seven hundred feed of buildings are flattened. it is looking like apock lip tick and the people are sifting through the rubble of the homes, and looking for the dead. one man was looking for cash, money, jewelry, anything he

could sell to keep living. you see the destruction and smell the destruction and smell of the war and the blood that is staining the streets and seeing how devastated that the communities are. >> you talk about the nature of the scene and this smell of blood, we want to look for solutions, what do you think that sek tir kerry is hoping to achieve? >> that is a good question, he's working and the aides are working on trying to convince hamas to accept a cease fire deal and assure hamas that a deal will include what it wants the opening of the border crossing and lifting of the siege and the frustration is now with the israeli government. it was the iz idz cabinet last night that rejected john kerry's

proposal and one said look we can't even officially propose it and they have rejected it. and so a lot of frusation last night and today from kerry's staff on what happened. the israelis are continuing to continue attack the tunnels going from gaza to israel the fighters are using to sneak into the communities and they are using drugs and trying to kidnap the soldiers and residents and bring them to gaza and they are going to continue after the tunnels and with the permanent cease fire they are reluctant according to the u.s. officials to sign a deal without the assurances of going after the tunnels. >> nick, briefly, going back to something, the frustration with the israeli cabinet, so who do

they have faith in and who is part of the summit in paris and who are they putting their faith in? >> well, it is less about faith, of course, more about diplomacy. this is something that the u.s. officials are used to, middle east diplomacy and intermediaries with hamas and through egypt or done in part in cairo, and the relationship between secretary of state john kerry and netanyahu is a good one according to the officials on both sides and they are continuing to talk regularly. but ultimately this is something that the u.s. has to do with turkey and convince both sides, convince hamas, assure hamas a cease fire is including what they need and assuring israel they are getting the time and the space to get done what they want to do and namely the

tunnels and the israeli officials are saying they need more time and seeing the resince tense to have a cease fire right now. >> we are continuing to watch, thank you, nick. >> and as mentioned the palestinians in gaza using the cease fire to go through the buildings and this is the first chance to recover their dead. >> this means little, it means nothing to those that lost everything. we are in the area to the north and they are actually pulling a body out of the rubbles. that is the sound of absolute grief as they are pulling people out of the houses here.

we are told that before this cease fire took place, israeli war planes hitting this area and hitting it extremely hard. there are areas of complete devastation. they are continuing to look for the bodies. we met a lady on the side of the road and she said this has happened throughout my lifetime and when is this going to stop? >> pro demonstrators protest in a number of the cities across europe today one of the largest being held in london. ten thousand people rallied outside of the israeli embassy. in paris hundreds are prote protesting. more demonstrations are scheduled this afternoon. >> and in libya, violence led the u.s. state department to shutdown its embassy in tripoli.

kerry is saying that the embassy staff is sent overnight to safer areas. >> many of the areas around the embassy and it presents a very real risk to our personnel. >> rafa is joining us live, what do you know about the evacuation overnight? >> the fighting was on the doorstep of the u.s. embassy in tripoli and in light of the september 11, 2012, incident, where the ambassador and others were killed they are looking at trying to make certain that the staff is safe. it took five hours over land to drive the staff and marine guards at the embassy from

libya. most of the staffers will be returning to washington to don't their work and a few of the personnel going to other embassies in the region, in terms of practical impact while the embassy is not officially closed, basically if you are a libyan and wants a visa or engaging with the u.s. government you have nowhere to go for the time being. the safety situation in libya is simply precarious and it is hard to bring it to heal and it is going to what it can do to assist the libyan government but no diplomats there from the u.s. to assist for now. >> all right, thank you so much. >> the u.s. is saying that russia is sending more military

might to the ukraine and thousands of soldiers are firing into ukraine and the european union imposing sanctions on russia and the fighting is forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes. we have more on the story. >> the people are abandoning the city. they fear the war that is reaching the outskirts. some don't want to live under the separatists control. >> they are occupying territory and taking our business and spoil our life and i want to continue my business in different city, i want to leave for a future. >> many people on the move and

fleeing the government. this is a tower on the edge of the city. shells landed in the car park. everyone that lived here is gone. victor is still here. and you have been here for some four years i think? >> yeah. maybe five. he sent the wife and children away weeks ago and trying to decide whether he should go too. >> my feelings are complicated. on one hand i want to leave and the other hand this is my home. >> empty malls and abandoned restaurants. it is a dying city, the majority of the shops and businesses and factories and cinemas are closed. people have left because they fear the worst. some are going to west to government controlled areas and some going to east to russia. >> these people are going to a

russian city and returning when things are better. and over in kiev there is a shelter and one moving for the sake of his daughter anna. >> there is a war there, lots of shelling. my daughter is disabled. she's more relaxed now. >> back at the station, more good-byes. nobody knows when they'll see family or friends again. no one imagined that the crisis would come to this. aljazeera. >> meanwhile, that fighting between the ukrainian army and separatistses is hampering the investigation into the downing of flight mh 17. and there cabbing ewe sagss about the claims about the crash and separatists are planning to

scatter the aircraft wreckage to slow down the investigation. >> stay tuned, coming up, the immigration crisis along the u.s. boarder is raging and could an alliance be the solution that the lawmakers are looking for. mexican criminals and the saint they pray to, find out why the catholic church is getting involved. volved.

>> president obama is looking for a way to stop the flood of the migrant children entering the united states and met with the leaders of the central american countries on friday saying they are ready to help with the root of the problem. president obama is saying all of the leaders recognize they have a shared responsibility for the problem. when it comes to the's role they need more facilities to deal with the kids and more resources to help process their court

cases. now the president praised the outpouring of generosity from americans, families, nonprofits and churches that are taking in the children while they are awaiting a court date. but they are going to be sent home. >> i say that because in addition to being a nation of immigrants we are a nation of laws and if you have a disorderly and invasion of migration that is putting the children at risk and calling to question the illegal immigration process of those who are properly apply and trying to properly enter the country. >> the countries need to work together to get to the root of the problem, namely violence and poverty and improving security, but trying to deal with drug trafficking and the flow of arms

across borders. now, congress has some role in this, a lot of what the president is talking about is comeing with a price tag. the republicans are trying to craft a proposal and going behind closed doors on friday morning. >> we all know that the president caused the issue and failing to lead on the issue and it is appropriate for congress to set in and fix this issue. now, in doing nothing is not a good approach. >> republicans are concerned if they leave next week for a five week august recess without a proposal, president obama will be able to criticize them and shifting the blame to them so they are looking at ideas. now those include adjustments to the 2008 law that deals with child trafficking and including more judges to the board and more national guard troops. even as proposals are fly flying

capitol hill it is a question of whether they are able to pass anything in the next tweweek. >> the president of guatemala is agleeing that all nations need to work together but the u.s. has to share in the blame. >> we are neither consumers or producers of drugs. we are in the path of the drug trafficking and united states, columbia and mexico need to create a program. these criminals move to these criminals. the gangs are dangerous, especially the drug gangs, they create violence in our country and they traffic weapons and fire arms and bring the drugs to the united states and return with fire arms and money. we have our responsibility, but the united states has a responsibility too. we must work together and president obama is clear on this. we have to come up with a

program to combat the situation. >> the majority of the 60,000 child immigrants that crossed in the past few months are coming from central america. >> the movement means the saint of death about and linked to drug cartels that invoke the saint before committing gruesome crimes. we have more. >> death attracted this mass of followers in mexico city, saint death, they are coming to prayer at the alter, a violent neighborhood and asking for protection and favors. the believers are drawn to the saint because she doesn't judge them. all are equal in death's eyes and the authorities and the catholic church linked to followers to the violence raging

across mexico. we went into the market where anything is for sale, even a hired gun. we met a believer in the saint, like many followers, he has her likeness on the skin. do you pray to her before killing someone? >> yes, i pray to her and light a candle. that way i feel protected and feel she's taking care of me. >> the catholic church began a war against it and teaching the old practice of xer schism. >> we have met a priest that the performing the xor or similars. there is increase in the number of people possessed by the

devil. >> he killed dozens of people and cut up the bodies to dispose of them. >> he was possessed by the devil. >> back in mexico city, we met a man, he used to pray to the saint. >> through repeated xor citizen ims he's left her behind. >> when the father finished, i was crying and tired. i hardly ever cried before. >> sometimes it needs to vom vomiting or screaming out in pain. it is a psychological problem. there is the largest monument and they preach here every sunday. >> we don't pray to the devil. we pray to the angel of death.

>> devil or saint, she's becoming a mexican icon and inspiring faith and fear. >> stay tuned coming up on aljazeera america, what has scientists creating this massive sink hole? we tell you all about it in a moment. >> a massive wall of dust and cancelling the flights out westment don't go any where.

>> good afternoon, thank you for joining us. i'm morgan radford from new york city. israel and hamas have agreed to end the cease fire by another four hours. more than 100 bodies found in gaza today and putting the number of palestinians dead above a thousand. the united states is sending that russia is sending military power to ukraine and the european union is setting

sanctions against russia. >> the u.s. embassy in libya is shutting down after the violence is making it unsafe for the staff in tripoli. >> scientists have come up with a new tool to help them predict just where the earth will open up. we have more on the mystery sink holes. >> they are fascinating, and the number of visitors to the corvette museum in kentucky soared. the sink holes devastate also. 37-year-old was swallowed in florida last year and the body was never found. >> i thank the lord for not taking the rest of my family. >> in florida they kree crate the most damage, the heavy rain rushes through the soil.

they have been mapping the stage to see where the sink holes have happened and no data base to show where they are going to open up. >> they are hard to predict and very little signature on the surface. >> researchers are saying that the simulator may lead to answers. at first glance it is looking like a garage e experiment, pv pipes and soil and sensors and a computer. >> it is a cheap budget device but still giving a very good accurate result. >> that's the beauty of it. >> researchers say after two years and hundreds of tests, the sink holes emerging are showing that changes in water levels under ground are the key sign, and they are hoping to develop software to ief real sink homes long before they swallow up property or people.

>> with the model in the future it is a better more confident way of looking at certain areas and saying that well it looks not only is there a sink home in the history of the err and likelihood something is happening right now. >> they hope one day you want wake up to the scenes of the sink hole destruction. aljazeera florida. >> more storms are on the way to arizona and could involve blinding dust clouds. storms yesterday near phoenix kicked up the clouds and dust and grounding flights. the area is dealing with record high temperatures and popup storms all summer. >> morgan, more monsoons are on the way and isolated and storms at best headed to the southwest. right now it is quiet. the isolated storms with strong

winds is leading to the dust storms and we are in line for gusty winds today. another area for the winds here across the midwest and the next storm system is moving through and in advance of the warm and moisture air lifting to the north and fuelling the rainfall. we are watching the storms in southern areas of south dakota and nebraska and iowa and we have a severe thunderstorm watch there until 3:00 local time and thunderstorm warnings and we are watching that. it is not just there, in fact, any where stretching from parts of south dakota to the ohio valley, this is the area of concern today with the rainfall and the winds and the possibility of hail as well as isolated tornados are not ruled out. headed to the end of the weekend the severe threat shifting to the east and moderate risk in pennsylvania and ohio and even

kentucky still watching out for that strong to severe storms. it is a little more elevated than we typically see and moderate risk and watching the skies and dealing with more of the same high winds and the important of hail. now, again, we talked about the warm air that is already in place, it is so warm that dangerously hot conditions are setting up here across parts of missouri, oklahoma and kansas and heat advisories in effect and excessive heat warming for tulsa and high temperatures and factor in the humidity and feeling like 105-110 degrees and a day to stay cooler. even the st. louis area heat advisory in place for you too. stay inside with the ac. as we go to monday we are jumping ahead, once that storm system is through, temperatures are going to cool down and we are actually falling below ample with the temperatures in the 70s

even around chicago, morgan. >> thank you. thank you for watching aljazeera america. stay tuned because 101 east is coming up next. don't go any where. ny where. >> as the world's most elderly nation - japan is dancing with a demographic disaster. people are living longer and birthrates are falling fast. no other country has a greater percentage of old people. the government has responded by raising taxes and the retirement age, it's p