welcome back to cnn's special coverage. i'm max foster. residents of gaza city of reeling after strikes overnight. this was a strike onnal asar radio. western leaders are calling for an immediate end to the violence in libya amongst rival militias. u.s. president barack obama held a teleconference with the leaders of brittain, france, germany and italy on monday. they're collectively calling for a cease-fire. international investigators say they will try today to reach the crash site of malaysian flight mh 17. heavy fighting forced them to turn back. a spokesman for the osce says investigators are sick and tired of the delays. leaders of the european

union are scheduled to meet on tougher economic sanctions for russia. we're joined now live. how will these sanctions compare to the ones that we've had before, ivan? >> reporter: from what has been proposed, it would be aiming at different sectors, hitting the different markets, defense sector, dual use goods, sensitive technologies including the energy sector which is central to the russian economy. the decision to hold this meeting to bring in the 28 european union member state ambassadors to discuss and possibly adopt these additional sanctions from russia emerged from an unusual five-way video conference that took place monday between the heads of state at the u.s., brittain,

germany, france, and italy in which they decided that measures had to be taken because russia had not, in their words, taken steps to curtail the delivery of weapons across the border to the pro russian separatists in eastern ukraine. if europe does, in fact, adopt more strict sanctions, it will likely have an impact on the european economy because europe exports an estimated $100 billion of goods and services to russia and receives some 200 billion -- euros, rather, not dollars, worth of goods and services from russia. so it is likely that different member states would have to take a bit of a hit economically if they're to in some way punish the russians. russia's foreign ministry responded to sanctions announced by japan on monday by calling them unfriendly and shortsighted

so we can only imagine what moscow will say if europe will adopt additional sanctions against moscow. max? >> it's not the form, is it, in russia to accept these sanctions lying down. they will respond, as you say, and it will have an impact on other economies as well. you're expecting any major response from russia in return? >> reporter: i think time will quite literally have to tell. the top russian diplomat on monday, sergei lavrov said he preferred not to get into a tit-for-tat discussion. in the meantime it does not seem that the russians have reduced the access of the separatists to russian territory. for example, the defense minister of the self-declared

donetsk people's military of the ukraine he had announced that he had 20 rebel fighters and doctors and guards to russian territory for treatment. also the prime minister of the separatist region who is a russian citizen who has described himself as a resident of moscow, he was not present in donestk on monday because his administration said he had traveled to moscow for humanitarian discussions. there are accusations from the u.s., ukrainian government accusing the russians not only of stepping up the delivery of heavy weapons, missile systems, for example, to the separatists, but also of firing, firing russian artillery across the border into ukrainian territory. these are accusations that the russians have denied thus far, max. >> ivan, thank you very much,

indeed. now mh-17 investigators in the ukraine and the netherlands certainly have their work cut out from them. only one body has been identified so far. as the head of the forensics team told aaron mclaughlin, it could take months to identify the others. >> we don't just identify people from a photograph or from an item of property that may be on them because there's been countless mistakes, examples of mistakes where that's happened in the past over the years even in small incidents like car crashes. >> now devious and calculated, that's how they've described russia's seizure of the yukos oil company. they've been ordered to pay $50

billion in damages. this dates back to the 2000s. they sold off the company's assets. most of the assets ended up at russia's state-owned oil company. yukos's chairman was sent to a siberian labor camp. the lawsuit has been working its way through the courts for almost a decade. russia is not happy with the ruling. >> translator: the court procedures are not over. appeal is possible. the russian said, those agencies which represent russia in this process will no doubt use all legal possibilities to defend its position. >> now the russian finance ministry child in calling the ruling flawed and politically biased. explosions on the front lines as israel destroys a hamas tunnel. we'll have a look inside the tunnels. gaza is one of the troubled

spots. we'll take a closer look at the conflicts raging right now.

gaza is targeting tunnels by hamas militants to attack the state. israel says some of the tunnels were built with concrete. our wolf blitzer brings us a look inside. >> this is priority number one for the israel defense forces,

finding and destroying dozens of hamas tunnels. underground escape hatches from gaza used to intill trait israel and launch attacks. i went to the front line to see one of those tunnels with an idf colonel. israeli forces have uncovered more than 30 tunnels. >> let's go in. >> this tunnel is just over 2 miles long and 45 feet below ground. it begins in the southern gazan city of khan yunis. >> the tunnel was built for relatively short people. if you stand up, you're going to hit your head. but you see it's pretty secure, this concrete. they spent a lot of effort building this tunnel. hamas boasts about its network

of tunnels showing mass militants entering israel before being targeted by an israeli airstrike, this video was released by the idf. hamas never got to use the tunnel i visited. they've destroyed a big part of it. they believe it took hamas about two years to build this tunnel with concrete and other supplies that he says came from israel. you say this concrete came from israel. how do you know this? >> we found the bags. >> reporter: the bags. so basically the concrete was provided by israel to build schools, hospitals, stores, but they used it to build this tunnel? >> yes. >> reporter: hamas has other tunnels that lead into egyptian territory used to smuggle weapons and supplies but the underground passages into israel have only one purpose. from what you know, that was the purpose of this tunnel?

>> soldiers. they want to take regular people, children, women, men. >> reporter: they wanted to go in and attack and kill israelis and attack them? >> yes. >> reporter: that was one of the rationales that israelis have suggested is the purposes of these tunnels? >> yes. >> reporter: wolf blitzer, cnn, in southern israel along the border with gaza. monday israel says five soldiers was killed in combat when they found militants entering the country viewa a tunnel. they say they should spend their money on building schools not tunnels. >> hamas says different options rather than investing in rockets, missiles and tunnels, it will be investing in the well-being of its citizens. there were years when they're much better off financially and yet they invested all of their money or most of their money in their arsenal. for example, we discovered over

30 massive tunnels from gaza into israel. >> one analyst is calling for diplomats to focus on addressing the roots of the problem as well as stopping the current fighting in order to avoid this happening again. we have the director of the sound fairs public institute. he joins me from beirut. thank you very much indeed for joining us. the problem is when you talk about the root causes, where do you start? >> well, you really have to start in the late 19th century. you don't have to go back to the beginning of the zionist movement but it's 1947, '48 the creation of the state of israel and the refugeehood of the israelis. there were 740,000 palestinians that were thrown out during the '47-'48 conflict. those have become 4.5 million

palestinians. this is the root cause. it has to be resolved. this is what hamas and other palestinians, this is why they keep fighting. they don't want a cease-fire and going back under siege or being jailed. there needs to be a core resolution of the zionist, palestinian, arab conflict. in the same way that they addressed the root causes, recognize the legitimacy of the demands of both sides. recognize the simultanaety of the two sides and address that and achieve it. that has never been addressed in a serious way. it's never been attempted with the seriousness that has happened, say, in northern ireland or south africa or other such intract i believe conflicts. >> how can they seriously be considered at a time when a battle is ongoing? surely you need the cease-fire

first? >> of course. the cease-fire is required to stop the shooting on both sides, but if it only stops the shooting, it takes you back to the position of, you know, a year ago or five years ago which is an israeli siege and control of the palestinians and subjugation of them. the palestinians under the president of palestine of the palestinian authority took 20 years. for 20 years they've been negotiating with the israelis trying to seek a peaceful settlement. hamas has given them the green light. if you do this, hamas will respect it. there's been a consensus in palestine to try to get a peaceful negotiation -- peaceful outcome, but it hasn't happened. that has failed. also the israeli policy of every two years going in and attacking gaza savagely, what they have called mowing the lawn, that has failed. there needs to be a new approach

that stops the fighting right now with the cease fire, relieves the stress on the siege of gaza and allows for a serious diplomatic process to take shape. the americans will not be the mediators who make their house as they have tried it and failed. >> hamas needs to stop building tunnels and stop firing rockets. that would be the american view. they are trying to mediate. >> the americans say the israelis have to stop attacking gaza. both sides have legitimate rights. if the mediator is focusing on the rights of one side over the other, palestinians should not fire rockets. israelis should not lay siege to gaza, control the borders, prevent fishing, attack schools and hospitals and jail thousands of people. this is a war. it's a war. >> thank you very much for joining us from beirut. appreciate your time. as the death toll between israel and hamas rises,

extremism grows and libya's bloody turf war rages. madeleine albright has a clear and simple message. she outlines her thoughts in an interview with u.s. broadcaster cbs. >> these are huge game changers and we are -- a lot of america is trying to figure out where the countries are. most americans knew very little about islam. they certainly didn't know a difference between shia and sunni. there are a lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation but to put it mildly, the world is a zbles in light of madeleine albright's comments, tom foreman takes a look at some of the world's worst trouble spots. if you look at the map, you can see the government is dealing with a number of hot spots. start with israel and gaza. more than 1,000 people have died. mostly civilians, mostly palestinians. that fight continues to rage on. in syria, more than 150,000 have

died. in three years of civil war, chemical weapons have been used by the government. president bashar al assad still firmly in power. over in iraq, the terrorist group isis. it's trying to are carve out an islamic state. over in libya, the worst fighting since 2011. the u.s. embassy has been evacuat evacuated. 97 people dead in two weeks and of course up here in ukraine where the jet liner was shot down in the eastern part of the country the fighting rages on. 1100 or more dead, 100,000 driven from their homes and of course on top of all of this, yeah, iran remains a constant worry and north korea threatened to nuke the white house over its disagreements. so if you want to say the world is a challenge, the world is a mess right now, it absolutely is. a cold case is cracked

ending in a dramatic shootout. coming up, how a cnn program help lead to the discovery of a suspected child molester.

new york city has led to the death of a suspected sex offender after police received a tip during a cnn program profiling the fugitive. the case had gone cold in 2012 but investigators put a call on sunday night during "the hunt"

hosted by john walsh. deborah fair rick has more. >> reporter: the search for charles mosder ends here, a smoke shop in the west village. >> firing at close range. >> reporter: members tracked mosher to new york following a tip that came into cnn's "the hunt" from john walsh. >> my son sat me down and he said, mom, i have something to tell you, and he proceeded to tell me that charlie had touched him inappropriately. >> reporter: he had recently been profiled on the show. one of the officers went inside and identified mozdir. it's the white doorway past the stop sign. when members of the task force entered, that's when the shooting began. >> during the exchange of gunfire the detective and two

marshals were wounded. charles mozdir had been shot dead. >> he had grown a beard and had no intention of being taken quietly. >> 20 rounds of additional a.m. mu nation were found in his pockets. >> reporter: alexis green lives down the block from the smoke shop and took these photos from immediately after the shooting. >> when it first started it was a rather large crowd and there were detectives, ambulance workers. >> reporter: the man being wheeled out, you noticed there were tattoos on his arm. did he look like an officer? >> i didn't get a chance to look. >> reporter: one u.s. marshall shot in the leg, another injured in the arm. the nypd detective assigned to the task force shot in the abdomen. none of the injuries thought to be life threatening. >> mozdir was last seen in l.a. at the time police searched his

home and found a cell phone with images of child porn and bestiality. his abandoned car was found soon after in georgia. the license plate removed and mozdir seemingly disappeared. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. now the los angeles clippers basketball team will likely have a new owner. a u.s. court has owned shelley sterling has a legal right to sell the team. in may two doctors determined that donald sterling was mentally incapacitated. that was a month after he came under fire for making racist remarks. former microsoft executive steve ballmer plans on buying it for $2 billion. for the fourth time in as many weeks, another typhoon is developing in the western pacific ocean. pedram has the details for us. hi, pedram. >> max, very difficult month.

we've had typhoons in recent days. $7 billion in losses. 350 lives or so why lost because of these typhoons in recent weeks. look at this. the current setup, we have a tropical storm sitting east of guam and an immediate chance of it sitting east of luzan. we'll take you towards this region. jim ed is out there in guam sending us this photograph. an hour and a half ago a few beach goers in guam. guam is the unincorporated territory of the united states. population about 160,000 people. this is the storm system right now sitting in place. winds, 85 kilometers per hour. 15 miles per hour. it hasn't reached the typhoon threshold of 120 kph. forecast takes it to that category as it pushes over the island. that is a concern as the storm continues to develop as it approaches the western pacific. we think sometime by later this

weekend southern japan something worth watching here with the storm system. speaking of southern japan, there is another storm in front of that storm system that is the one with the medium chance of forming. this particular one is headed towards okinawa in the next two days. talk about a very busy setup for our friends across japan. if you know what's happening across this portion of the world. images in tokyo, extreme heat in recent days taking place. temperatures up 97, 98, upper 90s. upper 30s in the celsius department. cooled off to 31 degrees in tokyo in recent days. the heat not just confined to japan. how about this, max? whatever it takes to cool off in china. a kid floating on a duck. the temperatures the hottest all season across asia this week. >> what a great idea. thanks for watching cnn's special coverage. i'm max foster. i'm max foster. "early start" is up next.

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breaking news overnight. israel promising a prolonged assault onuoha mas. 70 targets hit overnight as the violence intensifies this morning. the white house tries to ensure the world it stands with israel. we are live in gaza with the latest developments. >> investigators trying, yet again, to reach the crash site of malaysia flight 17. is fighting between pro-russian rebels and ukraine making it too dangerous, again? this, as world leaders are