switched to an all-volunteer army in 2011 and scaled back its force at the same time. the other three still have some form of compulsory military service. thanks for being part of my program this week. i'll see you next week. hello. i'm monica. these are the top stories. is a cease-fire within reach? cnn is on the ground across the region. live coverage is just moments away. a major setback for the mh-17 crash investigation, raging battles between pro-russian rebels and ukrainian forces are keeping investigators from the crash site. hear how the situation could get even more dangerous in the days

ahead. plus, fugitive hunter john walsh opens up to cnn about the most painful moment in his life, the kidnapping and murder of his young son adam. >> it's a very bittersweet day for us, you know, but it's day we sort of reflect on what a wonderful beautiful little boy that 6-year-old boy was. >> john walsh reflects on the impact of losing his son on the 33rd anniversary of his abduction. we begin in the middle east where there is doubt whether or not a new cease-fire can hold. hamas has said it will hold and now diplomats of the united nations are working to create what they call a lihumanitarian pause.

overnight israel resumed military operations in gaza after mortar fire from gaza reportedly killed an israeli soldier. israel said they were also responding to what they call, quote, incessant shelling. now, earlier or wolf blitzer spoke with the u.n. special envoy and heard his appeal. listen. >> an appeal on both sides to where we now show utmost restraint for this human tarrian pulse to become effective, i hope, as soon as possible. >> white house officials tell cnn that secretary of state john kerry is also continuing make calls on how to reach a cease-fire. he is back in the u.s. now. his earlier attempts, of course, to broker a seven-day cease-fire failed. what are we expecting to happen now? we have full coverage of this developments story.

atika schu bert is there and also sara. >> there you could hear the booms and skploigss, what was really the sound of the cease fire failing. rockets arcing overhead and being intercepted by the iron dome missile system and at the same time strikes from israel going into gaza. presumably artillery but possibly other strikes as well. they were specifically trying to target those rocket launchers that we had been seeing launched all day. so this has been the sound that's been continuing. and, in fact, we're now just a few kilometers away from the border near where an iron dome batdry is. that's the anti-missile system that whenever a rocket is in the area it tries to shoot it down and often intercepts it. that's the situation on the border. what it seems to mean is any hope of a cease-fire has completely faded at this point

and residents here are expecting operation protective to edge to go ahead. >> sara, let me ask you. does one side have more to gain or lose than the other if there were to have a cease-fire? >> reporter: well, maybe it depends on who you ask. i mean, look. obviously on both sides the civilians have a lot to gain. i can tell you the numbers now are ratcheting up. the fighting is, you know, has been going quite strongly, especially earlier in the day. about 56 rockets or mortar shells have come over into southern israel. we know three houses have been damaged. one woman has been severely injured in one of those houses. we also know the idf has pounded gaza earlier in the day, hitting 40 targets there and also trying to target what they call terrorists, so members of either

hamas or jihad, also trying to get rid of some of those tunnels. this is an extremely tense time for the civilians, never mind those who were fighting on the other side, people extremely worried. the sirens have been going off again and again. of course, in gaza, total fear on the part of the civilians there because they feel like they have nowhere to hide. >> i understand you just got the idea about the bombing at the u.n. school. what can you tell us about this? >> i just got off the phone with lieutenant colonel peter lerner for the defense forces. i want to read you exactly what he said. here's what he said when he was talking to myself and a journalist on thephone a few mumts ago, as far as the attack, a single errant israeli mortar land in the courtyard in the school. he also added they have footage of what happen and the footage shows the courtyard was empty at the time. it is extremely unlikely, he

said, that anybody was killed by that mortar fire. however, he said, there could have been injuries from the shrapnel from that mortar fire. it was not targeted. the school was not targeted by israel. however, he said, there was some rocket fire coming from near the school, according to the idf. they say they will show event l eventually some pictures of exactly that. i do not think what we're showing on our screen right now is that video. so to be clear, they're going to be showing some video shortly that gives a real look at exactly what happened there according to their video from planes hovering above. ana? >> thanks. atika has been talking about the e o fencive but they another give as many details of what they're expecting to happen. >> the big question is are they

going to expand the operation. we know that they've already had three faphases of the on rarks pretty much where they were lobbying the arcticry, softening the cities and the third phase was when they expanded further into urban areas. the big question is are thank going go deep sbeer gaza city, deep sbeer the urban areas where they would be effectively controlling all of the gaza strip at that point. that's what people are wondering. the only way to stop it is for israel to completely take over the gaza strip and completely dismantle hamas. that would be an extremely long operation and it would result likely in many more lives being lost not only hundreds of civilians that we've seen already die in gaza, but 42 soldiers killed on the israeli

side. so if this operation goes and escalates, we are likely to see a much, much higher death toll. >> all right. atika shubeoubert and sara sidn. thanks to you both. both are speaking out today as benjamin netanyahu says hamas is responsible for breaking the most recent cease-fire and all the other ones, he said. here's what he said to candy crowley on "state of the union" earlier today. >> they continue to fire at us as we speak. israel has accepted five cease-fires since this conflict began. fierchlt we accepted them and we implemented them including two humanitarian cease-fires in the last 24 hours which hamas rae jekted as they rejected all the other cease-fires and they violated them. you say israel resumed its offensive. no, we didn't resume our offensive. we had a cease-fire and they violated it and now they're

violating their own cease fire. and obviously we'll take whatever action is necessary to protect our people. >> so let's get the palestinian perspective here. also appearing on the "state of the union" today was mohammed shah tie ya. >> if the israeli army is going to be stationed where it is they should not stay where they are because it's nearly occupying 50 persons of the total area of the gaza strip. >> we will hear more from both sides in the middle east but first some new developments to tell you about today. the group responsible for kidnapping more than 200 school grills in nigeria has struck again. this time in cameroon. according to reuters, the

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ukraine. this is making it difficult for some investigators to get to the crash site where the plane was shot down. the fighting has killed at least 13 people including two children just today. the bloodshed comes more than a week after flight 17 crashed, killing all 298 people on board. a proper investigation hasn't even started. some bodies are still lying in the debris. and malaysia officials say that investigators have only been allowed into certain areas of the kraush site and a spokesman for ukraine's national security also says the site is still under control of terrorists. senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is in ukraine and he's joining us by phone. they still aren't able to get to the site. do i understand they still can't get there? >> i understand that the dutch have sent armed military there. bodies still need to be

recovered at this point. >> reporter: frankly it would be unwise as we're significantly outmanned here. i'm standing here in a cafe. the question really is about negotiating. the fighting is between the separatists who seem to control that particular site and the ukrainian military who in the clomer tos around far and away have been there for the last couple of days. we're talking about a road between the hotel where i'm staying at and the crash site has prevented the police commission from advancing onto the site on two separate occasions. they're going to attempt access again tomorrow but are both of the sides fighting in this war willing to lay down their wars

and stay down long enough to let the police have access to the site. that's what the relatives of the victims of flight 17 want. they need the wreckage recovered, personal possessions recovered and perhaps human remains recovered. we heard that they sent another train. it's similar to the one that brought body parts back from the crash site. they have to lay another one. but the key question now, i'm actually seeing a militant coming to the door, presumably one of the officials in there to negotiate. we're seeing the civil war really blocking any effective access and resolution to the key issue of what happened to mh-17. anna? >> thanks for the update from eastern ukraine. they're making a direct link to russia. still to come, we will take you

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possible. fill us in on on the con front actuation between russian and ukraine and i guess by extension the western allies? >> the united states is now presenting and pushing photographic evidence that russia is not only helping the separatists in eastern ukraine but actually firing from inside russia into eastern ukraine. these images are u.s. intelligence satellite images that show ground scarring in russia from multiple rocket launch sites and also some of the impact areas that are inside ukraine. there are also additional photos that the u.s. says provides evidence of a direct match in the artillery that is used. now, i want you to listen here as well to ben rhodes. he's a senior adviser to the president. he was on cnn's "stat ofe o "st union" this morning. >> this confirms what we've been saying for several days. we're putting out evidence to

confirm points that not only has russia been providing weapons across the border and heavy weapons but they've been firing artillery barrages across the border. it's not just russian-backed separatists. they're essentially russian-backed proxies. >> rhodes also said russian president vladimir putin has crossed the line. said one thing and done another. he's also said as many have been saying that these sanctions that are already in place have had a very big effect inside russia that $100 billion of capital has left the country and also that they're seeing russia's forecasted growth rate down to zero. at the same time, though, they're saying that these sanctions haven't changed putin's calculus. how they get european leaders on board when they haven't changed putin's calculus? that remains to be seen, anna. >> interesting to follow that one. erin mcpike at the white house. thanks for that report. the real report is turning into

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more than a thousand palestinians have been killed, another 6,000 wounded. 46 israelis have died in the violence, three of them civilians. the israel defense forces says its ground, aerial, and naval operations are now back in action. so the question now is what will it take to get israel and hamas to agree on a cease-fire, or should it, you know, even the rockets going back and forth. let's get the palestinian perspective from mohammad shtayyeh. he says israeli shelling is killing palestinians right now, calling it unjust feeified aggression. let's listen. >> i think you heard them say hamas is not adhering to the cease-fire because they're stilt firing. what's your reaction? >> well, my reaction is that

since this morning while israel is claiming that it is abiding by cease-fire, six palestinians have been killed including a christian nurse and one of the clinics in gaza. by all means we're looking to see an end to the israeli aggression and as i understand the efforts is yielding some fruits. there will be a palestinian delegation performed by president mahmoud abbas. by all means if the military is going to be stationed where it is and continuing with the shelling, whether it's a humanitarian cease fire, whether its is a timed cease-fire, they should not stay there because the israelis are occupying 50% of the gaza strip which is no more than 370 square kilometers

with 1.9 million palestinians living in that very small territory. >> mr. shtayyeh, i just want to go back to something you said. did you say president abbas will be going to cairo? that's my first question. and the second is hamas has said, you know, doesn't like the new government in cairo. what makes you think since they turned down the first egyptian offer and a peace agreement, a truce, what makes you think hamas would go for one now? >> well, the president is forming a delegation, is not leading a delegation, and the delegation will be going to cairo as i said. in the coming few hours we will be receiving the final answer from hamas. they're now meeting in qatar, and we will be receiving their final answer. the most important thing is that for us is this aggression that israel is taking totally

unjustified because we know today that the israeli chief of police has said that nobody has claimed responsibility of the kills that has cause all this aggression. they have this agenda to destroy and totally destroy the palestinians, palestinian reconciliation that has been signed and grade upon by the government. so israel wants to keel gaza totally september from the rest of the palestinian territory because all of this aggression is justified. >> the last point is the sticking point. they're saying they have a secret agenda. he claims israel wants to, quote, keep gaza separate from the rest of the palestinian territories. joining me now is the adviser

george burnbaum. >> thank you for having me. >> how did that start? >> it wasn't used in the past few weeks. this is something hamas has been planning for years and years and years. it brought more tunnels of terror and more aggression. they're the ones not only threatening the lives of israelis but their own people as well. we see videos every day of them beating people back into their homes so when a building that's been targeted, they're being forced back in their homes knowing the missiles are coming. the aggressor is hamas, not israel. >> the numbers don't lie. we have over a thousand people who have died. a lot of them are innocent civilians? most of those are palestinians.

200 of them are children. >> again, if they weren't being beaten back into their homes by hamas waiting for the missiles to larjsd the death toll would be much less. they're on the hands of hamas, not israel. if they didn't care about human life, they would carpet bomb gaza. they're trying to protect palestinian life. the people who are doing this are the hamas terrorists. >> why can't israel be a little more direct or specific with its tar getting of the violence there? >> i think they're being very specific and very targeted. this is war. as we all know, it's a very densely populated area. when you see a video of hamas setting it up knowing that as soon as the mortar is launched, israel will strike back, who are you to blame? it's a very simple answer in my

opinion. >> why didn't the peace deal or seven-day cease fire that secretary of state john kerry was trying so hard to work with these other nations to develop and find some agreement upon, why didn't it work? >> quite frankly, it wasn't really a cease-fire at all. it was drawn up by qatar who has every interest in protecting hamas and no interest in protecting the israeli side. the egyptians are the real key here. in fact, many people said he dug a tunnel under the cease fire position and allowed the qatari position to be the one. had they come forth with more of a compromise that was under the egypt auspices, i think you would have seen a different outcome from the israeli side. they agreed nine, ten, days ago and hamas said no one kept firing rockets. each time hamas keeps firing whether it's for humanitarian purposes or not. >> what is it going to take to

have a cease-fire that lasts longer than 12 hours? >> a true cease-fire means harass does not have the ability to bring tar rohr. that means getting rid of hamas's ability. short of that, we're going to be in the same situation two years from now, three years from now. the same people who are suffering, they're going to be suffering once again. short of getting hamas out of there, we're going to be seeing this problem over and over again. >> you're going to fight until the end of hamas? >> we have to find a solution that somehow gets hamas out of the ability to reign tar rohr on them. listen. >> no matter the cost with these innocent children dying. >> well, the cost will be -- will be paid over and over again unless hamas is out of there. that's the problem. again, hamas is the one putting the children in the line of fire, not the israelis.

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nick is here to explain. >> that's right. last night he won his cage fight against his opponent who was favored. it's remarkable given how distracted he has been with the fight in gaza and israel. he's living a double life. this is his day job here in the united states. as a professional fighter battling it out in a cage as a member of the usc. but he's also close to a fight a world away. and someone with dual citizenship in u.s. and israel, he's a member of the israeli defense forces, idf, and he's about to be reunited with his old unit, called to service. >> i need to go home. my grandma, she's more than 80 years old. she had 15 seconds to run to get to a shelter and i'm here safe?

it's messed up. i should be there helping them. >> so far he's served 3 1/2 years in the israeli army. he has a sister serving as a medic and a brother in special forces. it's recently become a family affair. saturday night in san jose, california, lahat won his latest bout in the ring, but now returning to israel, this could be the biggest fight of them all. >> i just got off the phone with lahat. he's telling me it's been a roller coaster for him. he said he never intended this story to get out to the media. it was a selfless decision he made for the safety of his family and not because he wants to go to war. >> he said his win is for peace, not war but yet he's going back to fight. >> he's very conflicted.

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used to cover bridge lights tuesday to hoist the flags without being seen. on this earth cam video, it's hard to make out but you can see lights flickering around 3:30 in the morning near one flagpole. so far, no dna match. >> at this time it appears it has no particular nexus to terrorism or even politics. this may be somebody's art project or an attempt at making some kind of statement. but at this point it's not clear what that statement is. >> or where the bleached 11 x 20'hand-stitched flags were made from. they're checking internet sales. police are searching for four or five people captured in video during the overnight hours and tracing five nicknames to see if they may belong to people who may be of interest. investigators are also systematically checking about 15,000 license plates of

vehicles using the bridge that night. and why was monday night chosen? officials say a terror plot seems unlikely, but if it was a prank, no one thinks it's funny. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. thank you, susan. he hunts the most despicable criminals who walk the earth. today marks the 33rd anniversary of the worst day of his own light. john walsh's son adam was kidnapped. his shocking murder and his plans to live out his legacy.

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f-year-old son was kidnapped when he was with his mom in a store in hollywood, florida. it is a very, very tough day for us, but it's also the day that president bush signed the adam walsh act, which created the national sex offender registry and allows law enforcement to go worldwide to catch the creeps who prey upon children. it's a very bittersweet day for us but we sort of reflect on what a wonderful little beautiful boy that 6-year-old was. >> i cannot imagine being a parent and going through what you have gone through with your son adam. let's talk a little bit about this transformation in your career since that day, turning such a horrible tragedy in your life into something good, if you could say it that way. i know you were a marketing executive in florida when adam disappeared, but you decided to change careers after that. what was it that made that decision for you? >> well, i didn't have much choice. i was a partner in a very

successful small company. i had three great partners. we were building a $26 million hotel on a pair diesz island. project of our dreams. a beautiful home in hollywood. gorgeous wife and incredible 6-year-old son. i had the american dream but after adam was murdered, it is a place i just can't describe. as my wife has said it many times, it's a color she hopes no one will ever see and it's a color that's impossible to describe. so she was the one who really, i think, channeled us. i couldn't work, couldn't function, you know, you just can't do anything. all you have in common with your wife is this horrible murder of this little boy, but she was the one who said we have to make sure we remember who the real victim was, and that was adam, and to make sure he didn't die in vain. in '81 there was no help.

very little media coverage. the fbi refused at that time to get involved in adam's case. that was not part of their mission in 81. so i think we've tried very hard to make sure what we didn't have available to us is now available to other parents of missing children. >> and you went on to start, to host, to develop "america's most wanted" and brought up all these other disappearances, cold cases through that. do you have any regrets about going through that direction with your career? i imagine it has to be very emotionally difficult to live and breathe these types of situations after what you've been through. >> but it was a great platform. you know, i was on "america's most wanted kwg" for 25 years. we caught 13 people in all walks of life. we recovered 61 missing children, one of them being

elizabeth spark. so it was an incredible platform. but my agenda has always been the legislation, to change laws. you know, i took the last year or so off and just couldn't sit still. i'm thrilled to be back in the saddle, you know, hunting these creeps down. and with cnn, which is great partner, a great international partner. and tonight we're featuring one of the world's most wanted. he's wanted on the interpol red list because he's been seen in many countries, brad bishop, and i've been looking for him for 20 years. but the show and this show gives me the platform where i can try to lobby and make america safe for children and women primarily. >> you're right. "the hunt" is tonight. we look forward to your show. before i let you go, because we want to honor your son's memory today, tell us a little bit about adam. >> he was the most beautiful little boy. we wanted to make sure we would

be good parents. he was 6 years old, gorgeous little boy. so smart, so kind, so sweet. we fortunately have had three children since adam. they wish they had met adam, but i think adam's legacy was a good one. hi was just that old soul. we called him that. that beautiful little boy. tonight i'm hunting for a guy who was alleged to have murdered his own children. i can't even conceive of that but i hope tonight on "the hunt" the world will be a much smaller place for brad bishop. >> our thanks to john walsh for his time. be sure to catch the episode tonight with john starting at 9:00 p.m. only on cnn. is we have much more ahead in the cnn newsroom, and it all starts right now. hello, thanks for spending time with me. i'm