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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.
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and we are following breaking news out of the middle east where israel and gaza are now three hours into a temporary cease-fire. >> there were some huge explosions just before the truce went effect, but things appear to be relatively quiet at the moment. >> israel said its soldiers in gaza will continue to search and destroy for the hamas tunnels, but if it resumes rocket attacks israel says it will response. >> the cease-fire is meant to allow time for medical supplies to get into gaza and to evacuate some of the wounded. john vaas joins us live from jerusalem with the very latest. john, can you talk to us about the very delicate balance of this cease-fire. >> right now, we're just at three hours. so far so good. the last time they had a humanitarian cease-fire like this, it it barely lasted an hour, both sides blaming the other for that deal. right now in gaza city, the traffic is out on the street,
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fishmen are heading out to sea. medics getting to the area that they could not reach because of fighting. and it's important that the cease-fire hold for the full 12 hours, secretary of state john kerry saying in effect that if they can hold the cease-fire for 12 hours, it will be will be a down jament against a week-long cease-fire while they address the concerns that hamas has about security and about reopening the borders. but this is the middle east, anything could still happen. >> john, this 12-hour cease-fire kernel important but talk to you what it will take, what are the ingredients to have a long lasting peace. certainly, secretary of state john kerry pushing for at least a week of a cease-fire. what will it take? >> this is the problem, both sides want to win and the other
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side to lose. hamas say we got it, 900 dead palestinians, the destroyed homes, look what we got. israel doesn't want to give that to hamas. they don't want to avoid what they call terror. israel doesn't want to be demirel tearized that means taking the rockets away from hamas. so they got two opposing views right now, secretary of state john kerry is trying to have a compromise of those two very strong positions. that's why they want to have the week-long cease to work out the issues. it's very difficult to come to. when we saw the peace talks between the palestinians three months ago, back then, secretary kerry said he can't want peace more than the people who are negotiating for peace. and that's kind of true for both of these sides right now. unless both sides want this fighting to stop, we know this
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isn't going to stop. we know negotiations continue today in saturday in paris. there's some questions whether or not the qatar foreign minister will turn up or ministers from six other countries, no one from israel or palestinian territories will be there. qatar is crucial do this. becky anderson spoke to the foreign minister and he said he may not go because qatar is the only country that has influence over hamas. >> john, looking back, this is what they called a humanitarian pause and israel was concerned about giving too much time for hamas to regroup. but talk to us if you would about how important it is for the medics to get in there to help the wounded in this battle. >> this is one of the biggest problems in gaza as well as continued shells hitting neighborhoods. have been shelling from the coast of gaza. many of these neighborhoods have been hit. many civilians have been hurt.
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beneath that rubble, there are bodies which may or may not be alive. because of the intense nature of the fighting. of course, gaza is such a densely populated area. those medical crews and ambulances have not been able to get to some of those neighborhoods have chb particularly hard hit during his israeli medical operation. so within the past hours we know the medical crews are trying to find out if anybody somebody is still alive. but you have to say -- this is day 19, george. you got to wonder how many people would still be left alive beneath all that rubble. of course, there's hope that people will be. but obviously that fades as time passes. >> peace for the moment. and hopefully, we will keep it quiet there. thank you so much for your report. well, while a brief period of calm has fallen on gaza, anger is spread to get west bank. >> palestinian leaders called for a day of rage on friday to
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protest israel's military occupation of gaza. demonstrations turned violent leaving at least four people dead. ben wedeman reports from the west bank city of ramallah. >> reporter: funerals in gaza, now funerals in the west bank. this one for 21-year-old muhammad who was killed in a protest in the refugee scamp. as protests mount. in ramallah, supporters of hama and other palestinian factions rally with solidarity with the people of gaza. we will not surrender says this speaker, we will continue until the resistance is victorious. they paraded through the center of town watched warily by palestinian authority police. >> a few years ago when hamas were at one another, palestinian
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authorities would never allow a demonstration like this. but with the war in gaza, here -- >> reporter: the demonstrators headed toward the israel settlement of bid el. the police tried to stop them. troops fired israeli ammunition, tear gas and bullets. the protesters, mostly too young to experience the second intefadeh threw rocks. >> we don't want some tv station to sing songs for gaza. we don't want talk, we want action. >> reporter: palestinian
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parliamentarian sees peace. >> we need peace by allowing palestinians back into gaza, in jerusalem, to be finally free from israeli oppression and occupation. >> reporter: as the war in gaza rages, a new generation in the west bank and jerusalem is joining the fight in the absence of peace or a peace process this is the alternative. ben wedeman, cnn, ramallah on the west bank. straight ahead on cnn, the latest on the flight 17 tragedy in eastern ukraine. >> you'll hear from an international observer at the crash scene and why he said he was astonished by speaking with pro-russian rebels there. also, the investigate continues into what caused an airplane crash in mali in africa. stay with us.
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welcome back. we turn now to the crash of malaysia airlines flight 17. international observers say the crash scene has grown intense. >> rebels in control of the area have indicated to the organization for security and cooperation in europe that they would like investigators and wreckage gone as soon as possible. >> we actually were told by the rebels that, yes, they see the fuselage, the debris for another week or so, and then it will be
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time for it to be moved. and what they're expecting is for a group of maybe 25 or 35 international experts to supervise the removal of that debris, so that it's finally removed from their territory. at least that's the sense we got from them today. it was quite an astonishing piece of news. i know there's a lot of diplomatic activity going on on very many different levels but that is what we were told on the ground today. >> meanwhile, we know that 38 more coffins from malaysia airlines flight 17 are expected to arrive in the netherlands later today. this was a similar transfer on friday. the majority of 300 citizens were dutch citizens. the netherlands has taken on the process of identifying victims that could take weeks or months. >> what a scene there at the airport back there at the netherlands as the bodies are returned home. well, it is usually a
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festive time in malaysia but not all celebrating especially in the wake of the tragedy. our will cook spoke exclusively with a member of the family who was a member of the flight crew. >> reporter: monday is the end of ramadan when families are together. but not the families of flight 17. >> i have to miss her without seeing her. >> reporter: her daughter was chief stewardess. this picture was taken one day before her final flight. >> you still wait for your daughter to walk through that door. >> yeah. even come back. >> reporter: 29 years at malaysia airlines. she never worried about coming home until a few weeks ago on a family vacation, she talked
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about mh-370. >> she said, what if it were her. >> it almost seemed to like she knew something was going to happen. >> a hint but none of us got it. >> reporter: her sister knew people on both flights. you're a flight attendant for malaysia airlines. >> yes, i am. >> reporter: the airport is just a few kilometers from this mosque. the remains of her and others will come here for the prayer for the dead, but first, they must be identified. the process could take days at best. months at worst. each day and night without a body delays the muslim tradition of a quick, proper burial. >> and we believe if you don't do that, she will not be in peace here. >> reporter: peace won't come in she is home. on a weekend when malaysian people are supposed to be together.
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the families of flight 17 are torn apart. will ripley, cnn, equ kuala lum. the families of french passengers on board the air algerie flight are being invited to the french ministry on sad. >> 54 french nationals died when the plane went down earlier this week in mali. fred francois hollande has confirmed no survivors. one of the plane's data recorders has been recovered. >> it is not clear what caused the crash, but we do know that this plane was flying through a storm. our miguel marquez spoke with one pilot about the difficulties of flying through severe weather. >> reporter: supplying into any storm can be a bumpy, white-knuckling experience. but flying into bad weather at the equator can be a inside mare own as the intertropical zone.
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you've flown in a lot of storms? >> i've flown in more storms than i'd like to know. >> reporter: and what is it like to fly into a serious understorm? >> well, it could be anything from the wild ride to the most harrowing experience you that don't think you'll get through it. >> reporter: in saharan africa powerful storms are a challenge for any pilot. this aircraft coming in for a landing goes directly into the storm. you hear the engines rev as the plane enters the sandstorm. the sky turns ability. weather is expected as the cause or contributing factor into the ash of air ale jere, the massive storm moving right into the flight path. the 18-year-old aircraft
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departed for the airport at 1:17 a.m. on its way to algeria's capital. to get there it had to cross the ittz, that ban of unpredictable weather around the world's equator where terrible weather can develop. at 1:30 a.m., the flight asked if they could change rooms. the plane made its way east and then north again. last contact, 17 minutes later near gall, mali. 300 people en route to rio de janeiro pilots flew into an enorm mugs storm of the intertropical converchs zone. if you fly underneath that that can be the most intense? >> intense storms coming at you. and hail. >> reporter: the flight was more than 30,000 feet over the
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atlantic. the storm shot up to more than 50,000 feet. the pilots losing all control and slammed into the ocean from 38,000 feet. the crash of 447 found to be pilot error. what caused flight 5017 to crash now under intense investigation. miguel marquez, cnn, new york. a canadian man is due in court later today after allegedly causing a drastic scare aboard an airplane. >> let's go! let's go! >> heads down. >> police stormed this thundering flight when it returned to toronto's airport after only being in flight for about 40 minutes. authorities say a 25-year-old man made a threat against a plane. witnesses tell the affiliate that thhe made remarks about wanting to bomb canada.
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more heavy rain is on the way for an already soaked philippines, meteorologist ivan cabrera following that story. >> we have a system that's going to enhance the monsoon, we have this time of year, the southwest
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of monsoon which brings the china sea the southwesterly wind flow. in fact, the heaviest rainfall occurs during the next few months here. but when we get a tropical storm to the north and east. that monsoon flow gets enhanced, supercharged, and what we get is a whole lot of rainfall. change it's the way will be for the next couple of days. as we get into the peak season, the typhoon season, other than known as hurricane season in the atlantic. otherwise it's been quiet. this is the feature we're watching for development. this one doesn't look as promising as far as an intense tropical cyclone here, but what it will do, because of its position as i just showed you is enhance that monsoon across portions of the philippines. we do have another feet that has the potential to become stronger. that's well to the east.
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plenty of time, that is going to be fold for next week. we'll keep you posted on that. so far, it's been rain and a whole lot of it here. i think we're going to have some problems across portions of china here because our front has really not moved all that much. so what we're do we're raining over the exact same area here and that is going to continue throughout the weekend. shanghai, you're getting hit with plenty of rain in the next couple of days. when we need it, we haven't gotten it. down to a quarter. a quarter below normal, the monsoon here in india. horrific start. look at that, the green line showing where we have been and we should be right along that red line. and we're finally catching a break here with plenty of rainfall that's been ongoing over the last couple of days. back in a half hour. we'll check in on the dust storm in phoenix. there's new video of that which is a lot more exciting to show you. we'll be back in a few minutes. >> if dust can be exciting -- >> yes, we'll make it exciting.
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>> don't go anywhere. it is an amazing shot. thank you, ivan. over to george. well, a scary situation here. the case of the deadly ebola virus. it's been confirmed in africa's most populous nations officials in nigeria said olivia mann who died this week was carrying the disease. the ebola epidemic is now three times bigger than any virus ever reported. and as michael holmes reports it's going to take time before officials can bring it under control. >> reporter: it's the worst ebola outbreak in history and it continues to wreak havoc across west africa. the world health organization says there's now been at least 660 deaths from the disease since march and there's no sign of it slowing down. >> it's probably going to be several months before we're able to get a grip on this epidemic and this outbreak and reduce the number of cases. >> reporter: the number of total
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cases is nearly 1100, most of those in guinea where the outbreak originated. 314 people died there so far. in sierra leone, the death toll, 219. and in liberia, the virus has claimed 127 lives. even health workers are not immune. this week, the brave physician treated more than 100 patients in sierra leone. he is now quarantined. fear has affected communities and some people believing that the epidemic say punishment for past sins while others have expressed fears that the white people were conducting on them. >> people are isolated they're afraid, they're scared. they're thinking that outsiders are bringing ebola to them instead of trying to help them
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bet rid of ebola. i think the key is community leaders and religious leaders and we're working very hard to convince them that they should collaborate with us. >> reporter: doctors without borders in guinea was attacked forcing the group to ban its mission. and the clinic had to be closed after those brandishing knives threatened to kilt worgs. after a man hospitalized died according to news agencies, he had collapsed shortly after arriving from liberia, doctors confirmed he tested positive for ebola. ebola is a fright things disease because it kills up to 90% of the people it affects. there is no vaccine. it transfers from humans from bodily fluids of then infected wild animals. it then is president through contact of blood or other bodily
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fluids. michael holmes, cnn. and we are following breaking news in the middle east where israel and hamas are now in the third hour of the humanitarian cease-fire. >> both sides continue to trade blasts. we'll bring you the details. rioters and anger over the gaza crisis boils over. but is this a sign of growing anti-semitism around the world. we'll look at that coming up. ♪ great rates for great rides. geico motorcycle, see how much you could save.
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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. here are the world headlines this hour. we are well into what is supposed to be a 12-hour
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humanitarian cease-fire today between israel and hamas. this video was shot just before the truce took effect. as you can see, both sides continuing their attacking right up until the last minute. >> the dutch government is sending dozens unarmed military police into the crash site of malaysia airlines flight 17. more than a week after the plane went down, the debris field in eastern ukraine is still not secure. an international monitor says some human remains are still at that crash site. central american leaders have told u.s. president barack obama they are working on a comprehensive plan to address's youth immigration crisis. tens of thousands of child immigrants have been illegally entering the u.s. this year. many all by themselves. three central american president presidents suggested that they are working to find out why so many children are leaving their home countries. well, more now on our top story, the temporary cease-fire between israel and hamas appears
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to be holding so far, just about 3 1/2 hours on. ian lee is in gaza city. and he joins us now on the telephone with the situation there. ian? >> reporter: i'm having a hard time hearing you, really, because of the ambulances that are driving. i was just in the big commune neighborhood of the gaza strip. this is in the northeast corner of gaza, and what we saw there was jut utter devastation in some areas of that neighborhood. not one building was left untouched. a lot of it reduced to rubble and twisted steel. people, though, were returning just to take the toll of the devastation to see what belongings they could salvage. and this is despite a warning from the israeli military, warning people not to go back. and we've seen these sort of cease-fires very shaky, where you do have sporadic violence
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storing them. this could be a reason why. but everyone is out -- seems like out in the streets. the city of gaza -- the gaza city has really come back to life, as people have tried get their possession, tried to food, whatever they can, before this 12-hour cease-fire ends at 8:00 tonight local time. >> ian, if you can hear me, i know it's very noisy there, as you were speaking we're seeing file footage of the attacks that continue just before the cease-fire began. it's really unreal watching these buildings pie s being lev there in the gaza strip. we know also the reason for this time-out, if you will, is to help people who have been injured, help them be evacuated. what do you know about that process going on? >> reporter: again, it's hard to hear you, but i think i heard
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the last part where you started talking about evacuating some of the neighborhoods. i was talking to some of the u.n. officials here, and they were talking about how certain areas, they believe, could have been cut off either by the fighting, that there could be pockets of people living. and that is going to be one of the main pushes for the u.n. today. is to go check on those populations. to see if they can get them out of harm's way and get them to a u.n.-run school which they have now been turned into shelters. there's about 84 shelters that people are taking -- that inhabiting right now. and over 150,000 people that quite -- it's quite the operation. and as well as to it feed all of these people, but right now, it's all about trying to get people who are stranded to safety. and to make sure that what happened -- and potentially see what happened at that one u.n. school that was hit.
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still vague about the exact details. but the u.n. just wants to make sure that something like that never happens again. >> all right. our ian lee out on the streets of gaza city, assessing this break in the fighting as we said. it's been going on for three hours there have been no attacks there so far. well, while diplomats scramble to work out an enduring cease-fire, both sides have clear differences concerning their demands. hamas leaders have said they will not accept a long-term deal until israel end its blockade on gaza. the israeli foreign minister told cnn's wolf blitzer the demille tearization is essential for lasting peace. >> goal should be building a cease-fire and bringing security and confidence to the people of israel and also to the people of
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gaza. in order to achieve these, you have to with gaza, gaza was supposed to be properly demilitarized this was supposed to be assigned years ago. it was captured by hamas and islamic and now gaza to be demilitarized again, otherwise there will be no real solution to the situation. >> again that was the israeli intelligence minister speaking from jerusalem. the conflict between israel and gaza have further fueled an already disturbing rise of anti-semitism in europe. >> ethan suarez reports from france which has seen the worst violence against jews in years. >> reporter: in south of pair race, it bears the scars here to the jewish community here.
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last week it became the flash point against israel. the local synagogue targeted. this french-born shopper refused to show his face on camera for fear of reprisal against his family. i'm very worried. my little brother's not going out alone anymore. he tells me. they don't go out alone to even buy a baguette. we always accompany him. i ask him whether he's seen many jews leaving france because of the violence. my aunt went to israel this summer she's made a right decision because violence erupted. it made us think we all should leave and i think that's what's going to happen. migration to france from israel are at leveling since the founding of israel. and the head of the jewish
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community said there's an increase in violence in the first part of the year. >> what we've seen in the past few weeks is something we'd never live through. basically the demonstrations which were the demonstrations for the palestine people that 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 idea that well defended for the palestinian people against the government of israel. >> reporter: it's a new development with anti-israel protests turning against jews in general. the rising tide against jews has been felt not here in france but right across europe. there are fears that this new norm of anti-semitism as the french government are calling it is being fueled by growing economic inequality. but the growing strength of
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europe's far right nationalist parties and a sense of alien nation among europe's muslim population. it's certainly not france this week, a friendly football game in austria turned nasty when pro-palestinian demonstrators stormed israel players. in belgium, a shocking display. this sign in the window reads in the cafe in turkish, entrance allowed for dogs but forbidden for jews. ma hatred has also spread in latin america. israeli flags burned in chile and jewish families there also attacked with rocks. paris may be more than 2,000 miles away from gaza, but for the jews here a sense of condmrikt has been brought right to their door step. ira soares, cnn, paris. still ahead, a colossal tragedy. >> even as the crisis looms, the
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crisis goes on as. and where does this leave russia's controversial president. you might be surprised to hear how he's being perceived back home.
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and welcome back. the european union has passed more sanctions aimed at russian individuals and groups it says are fuelling the unrest in ukraine. a total of 33 new names have
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been added to the list of as set increases and visa bans. >> the netherlands are found in the debate as nearly 200 of its citizens were found dead in the airline crash. anderson cooper speaks exclusively about the country's stance on sanctions. >> has vladimir putin done enough? many of them want you to take a stand against russia. "a," has vladimir putin done enough to grant access to the site. and what would you want to see in terms of sanctions? what would you support? >> the netherlands is supporting sanctions. we have always in the european union pleaded for sanctions because we feel and we believe that arming the separatists is wrong. it's the wrong policy. it's helping to destabilize the region.
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ukraine is a sovereign country. and the integrity of ukraine is of paramount interest. so that's why we have been pushing for sanctions always. and we have always been instrumental in the european union to come to a common position. as you know, it's not one country in europe. we're 28 member states so it takes sometimes a bit more time to get to an agreement. but once we get, we're very firm in the implementation. >> well, while the west tries to put the pressure on russia, believe it or not, vladimir putin's approval ratings at home are at their highest levels in years. more about that now, here's cnn's diana magnay. >> reporter: the incident victims of someone else's wars. a war which with their deaths grew wider and colder. the finger of blame pointed squarely at this man by western
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policymakers. russia's president putin isolated, denounced for his alleged role in supporting, supplying and training ukraine's rebel militias. in aclamor of outrage, european leaders are preparing further sanctions promising to make russia pay. but mr. putin is the leader of a nuclear power and widely popular at home. he's framed this as a battle between good and evil. and russia protecting its cousins against eastern ukraine against kiev. a narrative is being pushed in the media. a message driven home through state television watched in almost every russian household. a prisoner of his own propaganda, it will be hard for him to lose face. >> on one hand he simply can't afford himself to dump or abandon those who consider themselves to be russian
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sympathizers, pro-russian militias which is fight ukrainian forces. on the other hand, the last thing that president putin wants is for the new cold war to become a reality. >> reporter: mr. putin's public response has been defiant but predictable. a repeat of long-held mantras of later encroachment and western interference. and promises that so-called color revolutions will never work back home. >> translator: technically directly imposed methods on russia would fail. our citizens, people of russia, would never allow this, would never accept it. >> reporter: this week in a moscow courtroom, two leaders of the anti-putin rallies were sentenced to 4 1/2 years in a penal colony. mr. putin signed new laws cracking down on public protests. measures to assert control, perhaps, where he feels it's slipping. >> putin's strategic goal in ukraine was to prevent ukraine
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from falling into the western orbit. now, it seems that his capacity for such a policy, for reaching such a goal, has at best diminished quite dramatically or maybe disappeared altogether. and having lost, having suffered this defeat on his strategic goal, i think putin will have to make up for this by cracking down at home. >> reporter: in a statement three days after the tragedy, mr. putin seemed ill at ease. the rebels he supported, suddenly a liability. but along the board with ukraine, nato said russia is building up its forces. bringing in troops and heavy weaponry to move in if necessary. rather than prompting any kind of a turning point, the disaster of the malaysian airlines flight 17 appears only to have reinforced the battle lines. diana magnay, cnn, moscow.
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former u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has had plenty of experience dealing with the russian president. she described what that's like to cnn's fareed zakaria. listen. >> he's very tough. he's a very arrogant person to deal with, which i think is a combination of this vision of russia and some fundamental insecurity. because when you are dealing with him, he often acts as though he could care less. he's not interested. >> uh-huh. being quite candid there about mr. putin. you can watch more of hillary clinton's interview, tune into fareed zakaria gps that's at 10:00 a.m. in the u.s. and noon for the audience in london. that is on sunday. still ahead, rosetta's stone takes a whole new meaning. the satellite that's gearing up for a one of a kind mission.
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welcome back. authorities in japan are looking to a high-tech tool to help them inspect the fukushima nuclear power plant. and guess what it is. well, it's this. a drone. this drone can fly indoors without using gps. conventional drones need positioning information provided by infrared or other neens fly indoors where gps doesn't work. but this new model has a sensor allowing it to figure out its position and surroundings and avoid obstacles all on its own.
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it was developed by university researchers and japanese electronic makers. switching over to weather, a massive dust storm hit phoenix, arizona,ing on friday, meteorologist ivan cabrera has the details. >> not just the details but new pictures that i think do it justice this time around. my goodness, look at this blow of thunderstorm activity across arizona that will do it in the monsoon season. this was the result. let's take you to phoenix and show you. look at that haboob coming on in, that is what the rest of the word calls this dust storm here. look at these cars going right into the mouth of that dust storm. it's just unbelievable here. yeah, and just -- the visibility just completely -- you know, but lots of delays there at the airport there, and the residents looking at that. but, of course, when you're on the ground, unless it's a big deal, isn't as dramatic as you get it from the aerial view which i wanted to show you
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looking fantastic. is there at one point, 50 miles wide, 3,000 feet up in the sky. it took a while. in fact hours before the national weather service cancelled the dust storm warning. do you think you need one of those? yeah. let's check in on the rest of the united states we have severe weather on the way. moderate risk, in fact, watch out across the midwest. we have this impulse that's going to be dropping in. with showers and thunderstorms. indianapolis and st. louis, we'll watch for that. in europe, the story has been of course the weather that's weren't ongoing for a couple of games, tour de france and in glasgow. who is leading? it's vincenzo nabili. no one is go together catch hims that air slipping and sliding
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across pavement there and rolling through the tour. also natalie's favorite picture, the elephant watching the tour. >> you wouldn't want to bike too close because -- >> elephants never forget? >> all right. more rain on the way. we're going to finish up on sunday with showers and the champs-elysees. >> why don't we finish up with more rain there? >> threat. >> thanks, ivan. now we're going into space. and after nearly three years of hibernation in space the satellite rosetta is gearing up nor a one a kind mission. >> satellites are basically going to put a probe on that satellite to be released in four months from now. >> reporter: since humans first started exploring space, only a handful of space dust has land on bodies. for the first time in history
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it, man craft will land a craft on a comet. it's been a ten-year journey for the european spacecraft rosetta. the european space agency said rosetta is less than 10,000 kilometers away. once there, they hope to find clues to the origin of our own system. rosetta will be the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and then land a probe on its nuclear key lus instead of snapping pictures. >> for the very first time, you're going to learn a lot. and it's going to be the basis for new studies that will go on for a long time. it's like breaking the ground for building a building. >> reporter:thy building is already taking shape. from the images rosetta has sent back the latest ones reveal 67 pieces joined together. the neck or connecting part has a much brighter spot which means it has a different composition or grain size, it could even be ice. and they've learned more from studying changes in the signals coming from rosetta.
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>> nucleus is pulling the spacecraft out of its planned orbit. and that can be seen as a shift in frequency of the transmitter to send a signal from the spacecraft. >> reporter: on its way rosetta passed two asteroids including it this one. scientists can't wait to get their hand on rosetta. when it lands august 6th and lands a problem in november. cnn. >> just another day in the life of a scientist. >> pretty cool. >> all right, that does it for us. thanks for watching i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. our coverage continues after the break with jim clancy. this is cnn. every day, people fall.
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