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calm falls over gaza, but for how long? and will this humanitarian cease-fire lead to talks for an end to the fighting. and in the west bank, palestinians clash with israeli forces. french troops move in to secure the algeri crash site. and this is not a drill.
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heavily armed police stole a plane after a passenger allegedly threatened to blow it up. hello, everyone, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause, reporting from jerusalem. israel and hamas are two hours into a temporary cease-fire, a brief window of calm to allow humanitarian supplies into gaza and get some of the wounded out. during this 12-hour long went die, soldiers will continue searching for tunnels and destroying them. if this truce can hold, there are hopes it may lead to talks on a more permanent cease-fire which would address israeli security kearns as well as
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hamas's demands for a reopening of the border. it seem the israelis and hamas continued fighting right up to the cease-fire. both sides are now holding their fire. >> reporter: right now, it does seem calm across the gaza strip. and you're right. right up to that 8:00 start time here locally, there was fighting still going on. we could still hear it all around us. but thousand it does seem calm, and we're also seeing a lot of people in the streets. more than usual. people getting supplies, running by the bank, getting money, really taking a toll of what happened. we also reached out to some of the relief agencies here in gaza. i talked to the world food program. they're feeding 150,000 people. and they expect that number to increase as more people go to these u.n. run shelters. they also say they're going to try to go out to some of these
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pockets, these areas that were cut off by the fighting, to see if there's people there and what kind of humanitarian assistance they can provide. and we talked to the red cross. they said that they haven't been directly informed about this cease-fire. they're working on that. we're expecting them to go out also into some of these neighborhoods where they haven't been able to reach, and in the past, when there were these temporary lulls. i don't want to really call them truces, because we've seen fighting during them. but when we have these lulls in fighting where humanitarian assistance could go into these neighborhoods. we have seen them bringing back bodies at times. we know the death toll is at 900. we're expecting that to increase throughout the day as they investigate those areas where a lot of the heavy fighting has been to see if they can get some bodies out. now the idef has warned people
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not to go back to their neighborhoods. if this cease-fire does collapse, they'll have a lot of more people back in their neighborhoods. >> should also note that more than 5,000 palestinians have been hurt. so how dire right now is the medical situation in gaza? >> reporter: well, it's growing more acute as the days go on. the doctors here, it's just starting with them. they're ebs haased. they've been working non-stop throughout this operation. they're emotionally drained, physically drained. and sometimes you hear stories of doctors who are working and all of a sudden their loved ones come in. they're the ones really taking a hard hit. they also are lacking specialists. people who can deal with certain specialized procedures, as in brain surgery, plastic surgery.
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they're missing these type of people too, but these doctors are still trying their best to give the people what they need as well as there's a short ablg of medicine that they say is growing worse by the day because they keep using, as you just said, well over 5,000 people have been injured. and supplies are coming in, but just not as much as they need, john. >> and finally, the u.s. secretary of state john kerry described this pause as a down paint, mayb payment maybe towards a longer cease-fire. is this the feeling now that this might be moving in the right direction? >> reporter: well, you know, here in gaza, there's been many talks of cease-fires, and they come and they go. and really, with seeing on the ground, talking to the people, they want a cease-fire. they want the fighting to stop, but they also want their situation to change here. gaza has been described as the
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largest open-air prison. and the people say they want goods and services to move through the borders freely. they want to leave the gaza strip when they feel when they can. and they don't want to feel like they're prisoners here on this piece of land. so while there is a hope for a cease-fire, it doesn't seem like it's personally with hamas, with a lot of the players who are involved in this, that they're just going to be willing to give up the fighting just for the sake of stopping the violence. they want to get something out of this. and i think that's where we're seeing this disconnect between israelis and the palestinians. neither side seems willing to give that much right now. it's, they have this 12-hour cease-fire. but there will be a lot of work to bring these two sides together to get a permanent cease-fire in place, john. >> yeah. it took so much just to get to this point. it's hard to imagine how they will have a cease-fire which would last even a week. ian lee reporting for us live in
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gaza. and while gaza is relatively calm right now, the violence, death and anger has spread to the west bank. palestinian leaders had called for a day of rage. we have a report from the west bank city of ramallah. >> reporter: funerals in gaza, now funerals in the west bank. this one for a 22-year-old who was killed in the protest in the refugee camp. as anger rises in jerusalem, the mounting death toll in gaza. in ramallah, supporters of hamas and other palestinian factions rally in solidarity with the people of gaza. we will not surrender, vows this speaker. we will continue until the resistance is victorious. they paraded through the center of town, watched warily by
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palestinian police. a few years ago, the palestinian authority would never have allowed a demonstration like this. but with the war in gaza continuing -- the demonstrators headed toward an israeli settlement. the police tried and failed to stop them. clashes ensued. israeli troops firing live ammunition, tear gas and live rubber bullets. the protesters, mostly young men, were too young to experience the second in fattah. throwing rocks back. this man didn't want to show his face for fear of israeli retribution. we don't want some tv station to
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sing songs for gau sachlt we want action. this palestinian sees a third faw at th fattah in the making. >> we want to be free from israely oppression and occupation. >> reporter: as the war rages, a new generation is joining in the fight. in the absence of peace or a peace process, this is the alternative. ben wedeman, cnn, ramallah, on the west bank. >> and as you just heard from that pal stin dwran lawmaker in ben's report, there has been talk now for days that the palestinians might just be heading to a third intense period of israeli/palestinian violence, which in the past has lasted for years and left
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thousands dead. >> i'm very worried. it's a pressure cooker situation. palestinians are seeing their own people being slaughtered. casualties, their children, the woman, the school, infrastructure. and people are out in the streets in waves i've not seen since 1987, 1988. and, you know, honestly, i think things are slipping outside our fingers like sand. i don't know if this can be controlled. this is a very, very, very dangerous situation. it's a pressure cooker situation that may explode without control anytime, any hour, and i know -- >> the chief palestinian negotiator. for the israelis, though, a key
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to ending the military offensive is to de-militaryize gaza. israel's intelligence minister says it's the only real solution to this conflict. >> i hope that we can find a diplomatic situation that will enable the de mille tarization of gaza once more for both for the israelis and the gazaens. there would be no rockets launching on israelis and no suffering in gaza. this should be the forces and a prospect of any real solution in gaza. we have to insist on the demilitarization of gaza. we will not accept any proposal that will apiepease terrorism.
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islamic jihad and hamas are fighting mainly begins israel, but there are similar situations. we are speaking islamic zel ots. >> that was an interview with wolf blitzer earlier here on cnn. still to come, russia says it's the victim of an american smear campaign. we'll tell you why. and as the blame game continues as to who brought down malaysian flight 17, we'll speak to people in eastern ukraine who are caught in the crossfire. well, did you know words really can hurt you? what...? jesse don't go! jesse...no! i'm sorry daisy, but i'm a loner.
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and welcome back. u.s. officials suspect that russia is about to transfer weapons into eastern ukraine. these officials say just under a dozen rocket launchers are set to be delivered to pro russia separatists. the state department also believes it has evidence that russia has been firing artillery into ukrainian territory and says moscow must immediately de-escalate the situation. >> russia invaded a foreign country. the ukrainians have the duty and
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responsibility to protect their citizens and territory. russia should step back and stop separatists who are taking down planes and fighter jets and attacking civilians. >> russia denies involvement in the ukrainian crisis and says this is all part of an american smear campaign. it has been nine days since malaysia airlines flight 17 crashed in eastern ukraine killing all 298 people on board. the plane was flying over the conflict zone. government troops and pro russian separatists blame each other for shooting it down. senior correspondent ivan watson spoke to people who live in the area who now have to deal with the fighting almost every day. >> reporter: a question to a separatist fighter in eastern ukraine. what would you like to say to the families of mh17?
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>> translator: guys, we didn't do it. we didn't shoot, he says. and walks away. >> reporter: an emotional denial from a rebel on the front lines of a war that's spilling in to this separatist-controlled city. an hour and a half drive from the crashed plane rockets keep falling on donetsk. this is what's left of what was a bus station and a little market area that was hit either by rockets or artillery, locals tell me, late thursday night. and it's clear that this is a residential area. i'm very surprised to see that this little stall, it's still working right next to where the shells landed. and this man is working here. [ speaking in foreign language ]
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>> reporter: so she's sitting in a damaged little shop selling bread because she says people need it. there's no electricity. there's no water, but people still need to eat. the sound of artillery echoes here day and night. after thursday night's bombardment, it's a miracle moesha is still alive. he was here when the shell landed on his house. these are clearly pieces of, i guess, what was a rocket. some shell-shocked residents blame this nasty little war on the ukrainian government. >> translator: how can you start a war in your own country, how? >> reporter: while others blame pro-russian separatists. >> those that like russia, they impose on me the situation that i must live in russia. this situation is unjust. >> reporter: human rights watch says ukrainian government
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rockets are killing civilians in donetsk. the four attacks that we investigated killed 16 civilians and injured many more. but obviously in this war there are many more killed. and we are calling on both the ukrainian government and insurgent forces to immediately stop the use of unguided rockets in populated areas. >> reporter: this marks the spot where a 22-year-old collapsed last night after she was mortally wounded by shrapnel. the rocket slammed into this apartment building. those who can now runaway. those who can't simply weep. ivan watson, cnn, donetsk in eastern ukraine. the european union has placed sanctions on a number of top russian officials. assets have been frozen by the
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eu. bortna cough is among those because of his actions in ukraine. still to come here, heated reaction around the world. the crisis in gaza leads to scenes like this in many european cities, and that's raising serious concerns about anti-jewish sentiment. could we be seeing a new wave of anti-semitism. that's coming up after a short break.
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and welcome back. i'm john vause live in jerusalem. and since this latest outbreak of violence between israel and hamas, there's been a wave of anti-war protests around the world. most have been peaceful, but some have turned violent, unleashing a wave of anti-semitism, which is, in this report, on the rise around the world. >> reporter: in the suburbs of paris, there are scars of violence directed toward the jewish community here. last week, it became the flash point for anger against israel. synagogues burned and looted. this man is afraid to show his face on camera because of fear
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of reprisal against his family. my little brothers don't go out alone, he tells me. they don't go out alone to buy a baguette. i asked whether he's seen many jews leaving france because of the violence. my aunt returned to israel this summer, he says, and she's made the right decision, because only a few days later, the violence erupted. it makes us think we ought to leave, and i think that's what's going to happen. migration to france from israel are at levels not seen since 1948. there's a good reason. a 40% increase in violence against the jewish community in the first part of the year. >> what we've seen in the past two weeks is something we've never lived through. basically, the demonstrations which were the demonstration for the palestine people that
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ignited the violence against the jews, but on the side of the demonstration, we've seen a new mob, which decided to attack the jews. on the, on the idea that we're defended for the palestinian government against israel. >> reporter: the rising tide of hostility toward jews is being felt not just here in france but right across europe. there are fears that this new anti-semitism is fuel bid growing economic inequality, by rationalist parties and the sense of alienation against europe's muslim population. it's certainly not just france. this week, a friendly football game turned nasty when
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pro-palestinian protesters appear appeared. this sign in a window entrance allowed for dogs but forbidden for jews. hatred has spread to latin america. in chile. for the jews here, a sense of conflict is brought right to their doorstep. cnn, paris. the cross-border violence in gaza comes just three months after the total collapse of u.s.-brokered peace talks between the israelis and palestinians. one reason was the ongoing building of buildings on land. they put that to hillary
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clinton. >> the sherpa of the peace process has resigned. and he says the immediate trigger in his view was the fact that the palestinians looked at the israeli continued settlement activity and said these guys are not serious. we're never going to be able to get a state. look at what they're doing. >> this is my biggest complaint with the israeli government. i am a strong supporter of israel, strong supporter of their right to defend themselves, but the continuing settlements which have been denounced by successive administrations on both sides of the aisle are clearly a terrible signal to send, if at the same time you claim you're looking for a two-state solution. >> and you can watch fareed's full interview with hillary clinton this sunday, 10:00 eastern and noon in london.
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we are following breaking news in the middle east where israel and hamas have agreed to a very brief cease-fire. they continued fighting right up until the deadline. plus, inside an emergency room in gaza where doctors scramble to tend to the flood of wounded.
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plus, there are no networks, and virtually no referrals needed. see why millions of people have already enrolled in the only medicare supplement insurance plans endorsed by aarp. don't wait. call now. welcome back. i'm john vause live in jerusalem. we are following breaking news out of the middle east where israel and gaza are now two and a half hours into a temporary cease-fire. there were huge explosions in gaza just before the truce went into effect. but right now all appears to be
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relatively calm. israel says its soldiers in dgaa will continue searching for and destroying tunnels, and if hamas resumes attacks they will respond. palestinian officials say more than 5,000 people have been wounded, and as we report, doctors and hospitals have been overwhelmed. and a warning. some images in his report are disturbing. >> reporter: dead on arrival. the horror, civilians and medics at braeaking point. >> exhausted. we feel depressed. [ crying ] >> reporter: no time to rest. it's a scramble to rescue
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survivors. surgeons told us not to film this casualty, perhaps he was a military tants fighter. but most on the operating table at south gaza's operating hospital are clearly non-combatant. this woman has a fracture on the leg, they say that was caused by a rocket blast. the surgeons focused, the bling of the patient's eyes. the beep of vital signs. dr. hassan is sick of it. sick, he tells me, of stitching bodies muts lated by shrapnel. stick of war. >> 61 patient, injured patience. so we don't have special. >> reporter: down the hallway,
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surgeons patch up a toddler. they say the rest of his family is dead. bone and brain surgeons do skin grafts. they can't transfer him to a plastic surgeon. medicine and supplies are running low. >> if there are still one more week or more than this, we will reach to, we don't have enough for the injured. >> reporter: the fight for gaza has become a dirty war. no sanctuary for the innocent. >> very danger. no place in gaza strip. not one square meter is safe in gaza strip. >> reporter: this doctor like others is afraid he could be killed at any time. so he carries his i.d. everywhere. >> are' preparing for death as well. >> yes. we are prepared ourself for
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death. >> reporter: men with amputated limbs, and a child with head trauma battling to get up. many medics tell me only faith can keep them on their faith. >> we have to get the power to work, to work, even we work sometimes 20 hours continuance. >> reporter: but even the call of god is drowned out. on the israeli side, the casualties have been much lower. most of the dead are soldiers, 37, all of them killed during ground operations in gaza. hamas has fired more than 2,000 rockette rockets, but they've been mainly infective because of the iron dome. >> just as hamas has increased
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rockets, so, too, israel has substantially improved the success of its iron dome missile defense system which was launched only about three years ago. so much so now they're claiming 90% effectiveness in neutralizing that rocket phase. how does this work? there are three key phases, first of all the detection phase. every team a rocket is lauvged headed toward israel, a series of high-tech cameras start looking at these things, figuring out how big they are, what direction they're headed. almost at the same time, the analysis and targeting phase kicks in. what that means is those same systems working with computers determine where they're going to wiped up, if it's headed to the water or a rural area they let them go. if one is deemed to be a real threat, headed toward buildings and people, then the third phase kicks in, the destruction phase.
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what that means is those tracking systems community kate through computers with batteries to mere missiles. each one is 24 feet long, they are launched toward the threat. they're guided right up to it. and then they blow apart everything in that airspace. this is not cheap. it was originally developed by an israeli company that the united states has kicked in about $235 million to help fund it and operate it. each of these defensive missiles is about $62,000. but israeli officials will tell you technically in this conflict they think it's money well spent for a system they consider absolutely essential. 38 more coffins from malaysia airlines flight 17 are expected to arrive in the netherlands later today.
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the majority of nearly 300 people on board were dutch. the netherlands has taken the lead in this investigation. the process, though, of identifying the victims could take weeks, even months. and the grim task of victim identification is being handled by an international team of forensic experts. sanjay gupta reports on what they'll be relying on, what they'll need to get the job done. >> reporter: after more than two days of lying in fields covered with debris with temperatures in the high 80s, the first shreds of dignity peoplely appeared monday. some 200 body bags to be placed in simple wooden caskets, according to ukrainian officials. how many souls inside? no one can say for sure. 160 plus miles on rail through the plains of eastern ukraine before flying another 1300 miles to the netherlands, where the plane originally departed.
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they were greeted by the king and queen as casualties of war. [ trumpet ] 298 casualties from a war they never fought. 40 simple wooden caskets on wednesday, 74 more on thursday. dutch officials now saying all of the remains will be brought here to hell verson military base. a team of investigators that represent the countries that represent the passengers who were aboard that plane. those investigators now with that awful task of the remains, trying to identify them. they will rely on jewelry, medical records, dental records, and finally, the gold standard, which will be dna analysis. >> translator: there are lots of bodies and body parts coming our way. all bits must be examined, and
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it must be very precise. you must be sure you don't give the wrong body to the wrong family. >> reporter: eight years after the oklahoma city bombing a woman was discovered to have been buried with another victim's leg. just 60% of those who died in the world trade center on 9/11 were ever officially identified. nine years after katrina hit, the city of new orleans still has unidentified remains. it is a science, but not a perfect science. in the direct aftermath of the crash, rebels moved freely throughout the site. >> we don't know where each set of remains actually were recovered from. and that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleaned from the remains themselves. >> reporter: none of this is easy. for the families, or the investigators. we know some of the remains may be charred or fragmented. that degrades the quality of the
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dna. also, if entire families were traveling together, their dna pool may be gone forever, making matches nearly impossible. no, none of this is easy. but all of it necessary. the primary goal isn't investigative, legal, or even medical for that matter. it is to return the remains home to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, the nets eer lands. dutch frustration fcontinue to grow, and many are turning their anger at vladimir putin's daughter. we explain why. >> reporter: as the caskets roll through the streets of the netherlands, the dutch grief is turning to anger. and their latest target is vladimir putin's daughter maria.
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they say her partner is from the netherlands. both figures are shrouded in secrecy. we don't know how they met or if they're even still together. but they have been seen in holland, walking their dogs and shopping at the local supermarket. and now many here hold russia responsible for mh17. the mayor of hill verson told a local radio station that maria putin should be kicked out of the country. he later tweeted an apology, saying at the time he was angry. well, here in this exclusive neighborhood near the hague, neighbors tell me that there is a pent house apartment just over there. he doesn't actually live there, but from time to time, they do see him and maria putin. eye ron eck that the neighborhood is called crim
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vike. crim is dutch for crimea. we ring the doorbell. no one answers. and the neighbors are camera-shy, but they tell us they've seen the couple. journalist sylvan shawn hoeven broke the story in 2013 of maria's presence in holland. >> so this was big news. >> yeah, turned out to be pretty big news. and everybody wanted to talk to me and was like warning me, like, oh, what are you going to do? are you going to go in hiding? aren't you afraid? >> reporter: there's plenty of fury in the netherlands for president putin. but it wasn't always this way. after all, holland was one of the few european countries to send its highest dignitaries to the sochi olympics. here's the country's king having a beer with the russian president. do you think people here are angry at vladimir putin? >> that's for sure, but are they
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also angry with his daughter? she's vladimir's daughter. that doesn't make her guilty. >> reporter: maria's close ties to a country reeling from the loss of mh17, simply a bizarre coincidence in a tragic story. erin mcgloth lynn. cnn. still many questions over the crash of the algeri jet crash. and a canadian man is in serious trouble. we'll tell you what he's accused of doing on board a passenger jet. every day, people fall.
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french troops have now reached the site where an air algerie flight crashed. there were no survivors, but what remains is the mystery of just what happened. al goodman has the latest details. >> reporter: this is the wreckage of air algerie flight 5017. not much left. the passengers and crew from 15 different nations. none survived. this man, a nursing assistant in canada, says he bought tickets for his wife and their two young sons to leave behind and start a new life with him in quebec.
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>> translator: my wife didn't want to come sooner. i said i would change the flight. i said it would be okay. maybe if i canceled, taking something sooner. >> reporter: less than an hour into the journey, the pilot requested a route change due to bad weather. contact was soon lost. severe storms are common in the area. french troops in the region recovered one of the aircraft's data recorders and remains of the passengers. nearly half were french citizens. [ speaking in french ] >> translator: what we already know is that the plane's debris is condition sen traited in a limited area, but it is still too early to draw any conclusions. there are hypotheses including weather conditions, but we aren't putting any of them aside
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because we want to find out what happened. >> reporter: the french ministry offered conclusions but no details. the algerian transportation minister said mali would lead the crash investigation with help from his country and france. int interpol also offered to help. the flight crew, all spanish. the pilots described as experienced. al goodman, cnn, madrid. some terrifying moments on a flight from toronto to panama. it was escorted by u.s. fighter jets after a passenger made an alleged bomb threat. heavily armed police stormed the plane when it returned to toronto. we have those dramatic images right now. austin delaney has the story. [ yelling ] >> reporter: it is dramatic video shot by a passenger in his
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seat as the tactical squad storms the airplane on the tarmac. they want everyone's hands in the air, heads down as they search for one passenger. sunwing flight 772 had taken off on its way to panama city when it turned around over west virginia 45 minutes later and headed back to toronto. but tina was sitting one row in front of the man. >> she basically tore a strip off explaining how sensitive they are in canada. he hates canada. and then he said with great expression with his hands, i just want to bomb canada. >> reporter: the flight was then diverted. and when it landed, police were waiting to board. police were all business. >> they didn't take any guff off anybody. once they started seeing the
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cameras pop up, they made sure they put a stop to that. >> i was very frightened and scared. >> reporter: when the man was arrested, thompson tells us his demeanor completely changed. once he was in handcuffs he was saying sorry, and that he loved canada. >> that was austin delaney reporting. and suspect ali shahi is believed to have mental health issues for years. children are at the heart of one of the biggest political issues right now and something that president obama has just addressed with other world leaders. so what's going on? where does it leave the children?
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where does it leave the
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they're children. they're someone else's children. and for the united states, they're a growing problem. a north american summit convened at the white house on the contentious issue of child migration. president obama and his counterparts from guatemala and el salvador discussed the children flooding the border. they talked about a program and
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funds to help those countries end the human smuggling networks. but mr. obama says many of the children who have already arrived will have to go home. >> i say that not because we lack compassion, but in addition to being a nation of immigrants, we're also a nation of laws. and if you have a disorderly and dangerous process of migration that not only puts the children themselves at risk but also calls to question the legal immigration process of those who are properly trying to enter into our country. >> u.s. immigration officials say they've caught more than 50,000 central american children illegally entering the u.s. since last fall. they expect 40,000 more by the end of the year. 's believed many are fleeing gang viololence and poverty in
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their homelands. israel and hamas are in the heard it hour of the temporary cease-fire. right now all appears to be relatively calm. israel says its soldiers will continue to remain in gaza and continue searching for and destroying tunnels. and if hamas resumes rocket attacks, israel will respond. this cease-fire is to get medical supplies into gaza and evacuate some of the wounded. this does it for our coverage live from jerusalem. george howell and natalie ellen after a short break. ♪ turn around! ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tempted ♪ ♪ by the chocolate all around ♪ turn around brian!
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♪ explosions along the israel/gaza border. minutes before a cease-fire started but will the truce hold? counting the days until their loved one's families come home as pro russian rebels continue to control. and ferocious storms can make for frightening flights. hear from a safety expert after an air al engineers plane crashes. welcome to the viewers around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell.