the u.n. security council pleads to a halt to fighting in gaz a, after the collapse of a ceasefire. >> there's little to celebrate on the festival of eid, for the injured and those who have lost relatives. >> welcome to al jazeera, live from doha. coming up on the programme - a second medic treating ebola patients falls ill already border crosses are closed. plus...

>> i'm in pennsylvania, why residents say oil cars like these travelling through residential areas are a threat to public safety. >> the united nations security council has appealed for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire in the gaza strip. the council held an emergency meeting in new york, issuing a statement calling for a truce to allow aid deliveries. israel and hamas are unable to agree on the terms of a ceasefire. more than 1034 are dat. most are civilians. 6,000 have been injured. 43 israeli soldiers died in the conflict. our diplomatic editor james bays is in west jerusalem. what kind of reaction do we see after this u.n. security council meeting? >> well, it was clear that

neither the israelis nor the palestinians were particularly happy. there is subtle changes in the statement. from what we saw early on in the conflict. they are calling for full respect of international humanitarian law, including the application of civilian, and remember, of course, that the security council meeting followed a phone call between prime minister binyamin netanyahu, and president obama. and that, the statement after the phone call, expresses growing concern about the numbers of palestinian deaths. >> that's about the strongest criticism, in israel it is muted. after the security council meeting, both the israeli and palestinian ambassadors spoke to reporters. >> the business of the security council is maintaining

international peace and security. they should have adopted a resolution a long time ago to condemn this aggression, and to call for this aggression to be stopped immediately, to provide the palestinian people with application and lift the siege against our people in the gaza strip. >> we did everything we could to avoid this conflict. hamas refused to stop the attacks. israel agreed to five ceasefire proposals. hamas rejected or broke all of them even the ones that they requested by themselves. every single time the international community called for a ceasefire, we ceased and hamas fired. james, this statement calls in the long term for a comprehensive peace. it's difficult to see how those negotiations will go given the distinct lack of trust between the u.s. and israel.

>> yes, i think that is very interesting, and very telling. the comment that we are seeing. some of them public, from israeli political figures, about their distrust particularly of secretary of state john kerry, and it's all over the israeli press, the hebrew press and the english language. this is a main paper "reckless kerry risks causing an escalation", there's a lack of trust, another problem in the mix, as they try to come up with a ceasefire, there's two different one, the humanitarian, a pause, and the longer termed ceasefire in the security council resolution. that is one hamas and israel want to the have a notion because they want something out of that longer term ceasefire. hamas wants a lifting of the siege of gaza, israel wants the

demilitarization of hamas. they are contentious issues. james bays in western jerusalem there. >> nicole johnson is in gaza at a u.n. school where some of the displeased have been sheltering. >> we are inside a united nation the school, and most of the families came from the shajaiya neighbourhood. it should be a time of celebration, it's the religious holiday the eid. they'd be visited extended family, exchanging gifts, but instead they are living inside a u.n. school, 3,000 people, around 30 per room. they say there's not enough blankets water or food, and they are desperate for a ceasefire. it's not how they imagined

they'd celebrate eid. people will be visiting other families, but it will be to pass on condolences for the more than 1,000 palestinians that have been killed. >> israel says it will continue excavating tunnel networks. a video released monday shows the destination of a tunnel leaving. israeli believe they have destroyed most of the done else leading out of the -- tunnels leading out of gaza. the international agency of the red grass has been attacked in -- red cross has been attacked in gaza. they are saddened by the attack but will continue humanitarian work in the area. >> there's little joy for palestinians.

the resilience of the people of gaza is as up toing. after a month of vasting, foregoing food and water while the bombs destroy their lives, they buy what they can afford. eid is a special time for children. there is little if anything to celebrate here. >> this woman is shopping for her 7-year-old son. >> we can't celebrate eid under the conditions. the children want toys. they don't under the bombs and attacks. >> a walk through the pead attic wards of shifa hospital is a shocking reminder of the brutality of the war. this 70-year-old cannot move because she has shrapnel in her neck. rm the situation here is terrible how can we celebrate

eid. we want to get her transferred to hospital. how? >> she has been here for more than a week. her condition is critical. >> ramadan is traditionally a time when families come together. there's a lot of focus on children. when up speak to the children, you realise that there is little to celebrate at the end of hama tan. in another word we pay 3-year-old akmed. the israeli military destroyed the home so he moved to safety. ahmed was injured when the israelis attacked the school. >> there'll be no eed this year, because my house no longer exists. it was destroyed. we'll try to make a shelter nearby. how can we celebrate eid like this. >> there was the sound of an incoming missile. there were two air strikes on buildings close by.

a traditional ramadan lander made of paper hangs in the pead attic department corridors. this should be a time of joy. we met six-year-old rehabilitation ma injured when her family was destroyed. >> i want to stay in the hospital and look after my baby, therebe no eid for us this year. the eid festival was sombre in ramallah, in the occupied west bank. a memorial was held for the victims of gaza. several members of the palestinian government attended. the prime minister expressed sympathies and said the government is doing everything it can to help. >> i would like to send our deepest sympathy to our brothers or families in gaza who are

suffering due to the israeli aggression. we are doing our utmost to stop this aggression as immediate as possible. the government has been in the war from the beginning, from the first day, and securing food, medical supplies, fuel. this is a must for us. ben white is an author and journalist specialising in the israeli-palestinian conflict and joins us from london. good to have you with us. that statement from the u.n. security council, calling for a ceasefire. the problem seems to be whenever there's a call for a ceasefire, that neither hamas or israel wants to be the one who agrees to a ceasefire from the other side. there's a one-up-manship going on. do you think we'll see a more prolonged ceasefire this time? >> today so far there seems to be a de facto lull.

there's no additional casualties reported this morning. from the israeli side they reported a single rocket fired out of gaza into israel. there seems to be a lull that has been taken upon them by the both sides this morning, so car. no doubt in part related to eid as wall as it's been noted. as significant or more significant compared to the u.n. security council statement was what happened over the weekend and yesterday with regard to israeli-u.s. relations. you had the phone conversation between obama and binyamin netanyahu. at the same time you had anonymous state department officials briefing about the anger within the administration, about the language the israeli officials used to describe john kerry, in relation to a draft proposal that kerry gave to the israelis, that proposal included things like lifting - in terms of a basis for negotiation, it

referred to the lifting of the blockade, the opening of gaza crossings and referred to addressing security terms that israel has with regards to gaza. it was unacceptable and john kerry was described as giving a prize to terrorism. the pressure from the u.s. side increased. you have the u.n. security council statement and as mentioned today there's a lull that has taken shape so far. >> is the problem for binyamin netanyahu though, although these clearly aware that the u.s. wants some kind of resolution, is the problem for binyamin netanyahu, that he has to blands the more hawkish -- balance the more hawkish elements of the government. they want the operation to continue to the bitter end. >> yes, i mean obviously there are members of binyamin netanyahu's government who have been calling for a full occupation, a full military occupation and invasion of the gaza strip. more than has already been seen,

and there are comment from members of the knesset outside of the cabinet who called for an escalation of attacks. and the same sentiment has been echoed by columnists and israeli pundits. binyamin netanyahu has the element of pressure usual for an escalation for activities, calls to finish the gaza front forever. this sort of rhetoric and dearing in mind, of course, even the so-called attacks by israel killed 1,000 palestinians. most put at 76% of fatalities being civilians. over the weekend. people in gaza use the humanitarian ceasefire, to recover the dead bodies of relatives and friends. so despite the fact that the attackers have cost so much in

terms of kill palestinians, destroy buildings and infrastructure. there are those on the israeli side that wish to see an intensification of attacks. >> good to speak to you. ben white speaking live from london there. still to come here on the programme. we'll har from an expert -- hear from an expert on why the deadly ebola virus is hard to detect. and protesters in pennsylvania calling for oil trains to stay away from cities. investigative report... >> you take someones hopes and dreams of childhood, and then out right steal their money >> wishing to start a family >> we lost over $20,000 trying to do surrogacy in mexico >> but left with broken hearts and empty pockets >> how much money do you owe people >> around $350,000

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welcome back. the united nations security council is calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in gaza. they held an emergency meeting in new york, three weeks after the israeli assaults began. the embattled people of gaza have been praying at the end of ramadan and the start of the eid festival. there has been no sound of military fire for more than ten hours. the israeli army will sustain to excavate tup else during any -- tunnels during any short-term truce. a second american treating ebola patients in western liberia have contracted the virus. they worked in the same compound. liberia closed border crossings and restricted public

gatherings. a liberian doctor died of the virus, and nigeria is on high alert after a man died of the disease. it is contagious and can kill victims within days. the without break started in ginny. a man has died in nigeria. the workings says a total of at least 660 people have died. our quest is a doctor in the u.k.s, a virologist. >> for the first two weeks you'll have flu-like symptoms, and these are by the flu, cold and a host of the other viruses. if you look at the population, one person out of 300, which is one person per jumbo jet load will have flu-like symptoms that you can detect. while you try to detect people,

it's a difficult thing. there's few who have ebola and some that have similar symptoms. when one is infected, we are all at risks. this doesn't belong in people, but once it spreads to one person, it spreads to others. we know a person could potentially get on a plane and travel yirp in the world. we need to be careful in dealing with the virus. >> breaking news - a european court ordered russia to pay $50 billion in compensation to former shareholders in a nationalized oil company. yukos oil was tape over by moss -- taken over by moscow. the owners say they were never properly compensated. it is the largest settlement ordered. good news for shareholders, not for russia. >> no. this comes at a sensitive time

for international politics, particularly when it comes to russia's relationship with the west, this will not help at all. we have heard from the russian foreign minister, lavrov who speak before this was official news, but obviously he heard something along this line happened. whatever was decided, russia would fight it through legal means. there's likely it bep an appeal and a long process. what happens next will depend on that. deciding against russia leave the the court with two options. it makes russia pay up front. or we will see a long multi-year process of the court or a subsidiary of the court, trying to go after russian state assets in europe. that will be messy indeed.

>> just to give us background. this has been a long case, almost a decade. yukos was broken up, nationalized and the guy in charge, mikhail kornakovski was arrested at gun point. >> yes, this is a long and dramatic tale that gets to the heart of what russia is about in the modern age. he was an oligarch, one of the small group of men who during the yeltsin years was considered to have a massive influence on the russian political scene. when putin came in he gave them an ultimatum. you can keep your assets but don't mess around in politics. the view is that he was the only one that ignored the warning and kept pushing putin and meddled

in politics. he ended up in gaol. yukos, his company was disbanded and assets taken over by the government. this gets to the nub of modern russia. micale says he has no part in it, after being released. he went to germany. we think he lives in switzerland. he sold his shares in yukos long ago. from his perspective, this is no longer anything to do with him. he said on his facebook gauge - if the guys get paid, fantastic. it's not my business any more. >> thank you for that. rory challands in moscow. libya is appealing for international help after several oil tankers caught fire. nearly 50 people have been killed in fighting. weeks of violence forcing

foreign diplomats to leave the country. erica wood reports. a battle between rival militia groups trying to gain control over the capital's international air part. a plane was destroyed and more than 20 people were killed. weeks of violence in tripoli has closed petrol stations and government offices. on saturday the u.s. evacuated its embassy. diplomatic staff were driven by convoys under heavy military guard, and with f-16 fighter jets flying overhead to neighbouring tunisia. the u.n. and several other missions have left. >> a large group of foreigners have left. most of the embassies left through the airport. >> the u.s. in particular will be nervous about the fighting in libya. and an attack on its consulate in benghazi, in 2012 killed the

ambassador and three others. two years later, and gaza has become a battle ground. in the past fortnight more than 90 have been killed, hundreds injured, many civilians. the military group behind the fighting are powerful and heavily armed, thanks in parts to the paddle three years ago. calls for them to give up guns have fallen on deaf ears. and a weak and struggling government failed to control the groups. muslims the world over celebrate eid, the end of the fasting month of ramadan. in indonesia it comes after a hotly contested presidential election. some muslims gathering for morning prayers expressed hope. >> in the philippines, rain

didn't stop muslims from congregating in a park. 5% of the population, muslimsar the largest minority in the mostly catholic philippines. >> syrians that plead fighting at home - we are joined from a camp in the bekaa valley in lebanon. rula, describe the conditions and the mood at the camp where you are? >> yes, for many of these families it's the third year they spent the holiday as refugees in lebanon. we are in an area in the bekaa valley. in this camp there are about 57 tents, and you can see many of these tents probably house from 7 to 10 people, sometimes more. they are celebrating in a humble manner, whatever is available there to put on the table or to buy for the kid toys or clothes

are limited. many of the kids, they are wearing new clothes. for them it's second hand clothes, new for them. many of the families expressed frustration, that even without hands of hope, that next year would be different or they'll be back in syria by the next day. thank you very much indeed for that. live for us from the becca val yi there. >> well, three al jazeera journalists intent 212 days in an egyptian prison, last month mohamed fadel fahmy and peter greste from given seven years sentences. baher mohamed received seven years and received an extra 3 years because he had a spent bullet that he picked up at a protest. they are accused of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. al jazeera demands that its journalists are freed. venezuela's former military

intelligence chief has been released after four days of detention on the caribbean island. he was arrested over u.s. allegations of drug trafficking. venezuela said the detention violated international law. he wasened to aruba. it was argued that he didn't have immunity, but they freed him. >> it's been a free since the lac-megantic fuel train explosion in canada that killed 47 people. the u.s. department of transportation chose to phase out the tangers. that's not going to be enough. they want the train stopped. we have this report from philadelphia. twice a day trains like this one more than a kilometre long roll into california. it delivers more than 190,000

barrels of crude oil for refine. . few take notice. they jumped the track over the river. because of the explosive cargo. it threatened the water supply. >> anxiety provoking to drive down the express way or taking the train to caes tanker cars that are fragile, full of crude yale. flowing through the center. many in philadelphia share the few. growing numbers protest. it threatened public safety. they feared a bigger accident, like this a year ago in lac-megantic, canada. crude oil flooded the community when a train derailed, the explosions killing 47 people. the tank cars moved to use the flammable liquid are dot 111. they were designed in the 1960s.

more than 20 years ago, more than 75,000 of the cars are in service. >> rail companies say they are committed to public safety. they could have placed voluntary measures. >> what the railways have less control over is the cargo. the u.s. becomes for marijuana independent. the oil transported changed from crude to bakan crude. which is more volatile. the hope is to phase out the tank cars. canada banned the cars from carrying the oil by 2017. the residents say the changes don't come soon enough. >> we are carrying sub standard

cars, old infrastructure, dangerous oil stripes up against where people lived and work. >> she and others fear the e derailment. potentially catastrophic loss of life. >> don't forget you can keep up to date with all the news much >> 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