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no deal. argentina defaults on its debt again. and lucky find. a family finds a stack of sunken loot you off the coast of florida for a second time. ♪ >> hello, and welcome back to our viewers around the world, including right here in the united states. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. thanks for staying with us, as we continue cnn's special coverage. >> and the u.s. and united nations demand be more be done to protect civilians in gaza. >> this plea came during another day of heavy casualties. the shelling of a street market on wednesday left 17 people dead. hundreds of people were shopping when a humanitarian pause in the fighting was cut short. >> and a strike on a u.n. shelter killed 20 people.
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the u.n. blames israel. israel says it did fire in the area, in response to a militant attack. the incident drew strong words from u.n. chief moon. >> this morning, yet another united nations shelter, with thousands of families, suffered a reprehensible attack. all available evidence points to israeli artillery as the course. nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children. >> and gaza health officials say shelling next to that u.n. shelter today has left eight wounded, but no deaths inside the facility. >> and this comes just a day after that very deadly strike on another u.n. shelter. carl penhall has more on that for you. but a warning here, what you're about to see is graphic. >> jibbalia, northern gaza,
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around 5:00 a.m. the u.n. school-turned shelter for 3,000 people, just attacked. a u.n. employee took these cell phone images, breathing heavily, he races classroom to classroom. body count by flashlight. mutilated limbs swadelled in bloody rags. >> we saw the shells when they hit and shrapnel was falling like rain. i was so scared. in a school filled with smoke, we poured water in our eyes just to see. >> one round crashed through the roof into the top floor. >> i just want to give you a point of reference about how big this hole is. the diameter is about the length of an ordinary broomstick. another round opening a hole about the same size as the
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other. witnesses say this is some of the shrapnel that peppered the school. the u.n. says it repeatedly notified of the accord nats of the shelter eight hours before it was hit. cnn asked the israeli military if their forces fired on the school that was supposed to be a safe haven. >> what we found, there were mortars launched from nearby the school, and there was a crossfire, and indeed the idf engaged. we are currently reviewing the outcome in the tragic footage we've seen from this area. we haven't ruled out that it was a hamas mortar that landed within the premises. >> but u.n. investigators tell cnn they have sufficient evidence to conclude israel was to blame. >> we have clear indications that three projectiles hit the school and on presenting and analyzing the pieces of
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shrapnel, we believe that we have all the elements in place to conclude that it was israeli artillery fire. >> israel has batteries of howitsers aimed at gaza. these huge guns are capable of firing 100-pound high explosive shells the entire length of the gaza strip. israel admitted misfiring a mortar into another school shelter less than a week ago. but the israeli military says the explosion could not have caused deaths. a visit showed large quantities of dead, hospital staff told cnn, 16 civilians died in the incident. >> enough is enough. now measures have to be taken. people who go to these places expect that they go there because they will be safe. and here's the confirmation that it appears that there is nowhere where you can be safe. therefore measures have to be taken by the israeli defense
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forces to ensure much better protection. >> the u.n. has condemned hamas for violating the rules of war, accusing its fighters of storing rockets in three other vacant schools. >> whatever was the case with these weapons certainly cannot be used as justification to explain by why school of displaced people have been targeted. >> israeli military says it does not deliberately target civilians. at the school gates, this bloody footnote to the tragedy. donkeys and horses had ferried dirt poor families here, when their homes were turned into a battlefield. but war plotted in behind them. carl penhall, cnn, gaza. >> how to take in some of those images. but now to some shocking video from al manara media agency of that market attack in gaza.
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>> yeah, many people were shopping when this took place, taking advantage of a lull in the violence during a very short ceasefire. officials say 17 people were killed. have to give you a warning here, this video is graphic and is difficult to watch. but we here at cnn think it's important for you to see. >> we're not showing it to make a point about the rightness or wrongness of this war, or of hamas or the israeli military, but it does show the reality of what ordinary people face when war comes to one of the most densely populated places on earth. [ sirens and shouting ]
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and you could hear what sounded like drones overhead. but this is just one aspect of what's taking place right now. >> a u.s. defense official tells cnn washington has agreed to a request to resupply israel with several types of ammunition. >> mortar rounds and ammunition for grenade launchers are among the items israel is requesting. these items would come from a billion-dollar stockpile the u.s. keeps in israel. >> meanwhile, the us state department says israel needs to do more to guard against civilian casualties. listen. >> we know gaza's very densely populated. and we have said repeatedly, that israel has the right to defend itself. but we have also said, they need to take more steps to prevent civilian casualties. we've seen the pictures on your network and elsewhere of these scenes here, and it's tragic. if you just look at the photos. obviously we know more needs to be done. we've communicated that to the
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israelis throughout this conflict. >> and we will of course have much more on the israel-gaza conflict later in this newscast. >> i speak with an analyst who says israeli missteps have fueled the latest conflict. >> we move to the ebola virus now, and it continues to ravage parts of west africa. countries around the world are taking steps to stop the spread of the disease. >> and liberia, for example, authorities have closed all schools. shut down markets along its borders and put all non-essential government staff on leave for a few weeks. >> hong kong has not received reports of ebola, but hospitals in the densely populated city are on high alert right now. >> over in the uk, officials held a high-level meeting on wednesday to discuss how to deal with the virus if it hits the country. >> well, the u.s. peace corps says it's pulling out hundreds of volunteers from the three west african countries where
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ebola has spread. >> this comes after two of the aid workers were found to have been exposed to the virus. pamela brown looks at now how the virus has touched americans so far and what u.s. authorities are doing about it. >> as the deadly ebola virus moves across west africa, concern about it spreading further mounts. two volunteers are in isolation and under observation before they can return to the u.s. the piece corps announced today it's pulling out hundreds of its volunteers from the three west african countries achkted by ebola and returning them to the u.s. cnn has learned the centers for disease control is considering raising the travel warning to the affected countries to the highest level, advising americans against non-essential travel. >> of course there's a possibility of somebody flying in from africa or someplace. >> as two american aid workers stricken are showing signs of improvement, the christian
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organizations they work for are evacuating all non-essential personnel out of that country. the son of one of those infected aid workers spoke on the "today" show. >> she's fighting through it and continuing to express a few symptoms, but he's able to move around on her own. they're getting lots of fluids into her. >> reporter: the disease has claimed the life of a minnesota father of three, patrick sawyer. sawyer flew from liberia to ghana. then on to togo upon there he switched to another plane and became ill as he flew to nige a nigeria. his widow says she spoke to him days before he died. >> he was visiting his sister. she was ill, and he helped care for her, so he contracted it that way. didn't know it was ebola. ebola displays other symptoms like malaria symptoms. so they thought she may have
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malaria. had he known, he would have definitely taken better precautions. >> reporter: liberia has shut down some of its borders and closed all of its schools. health officials in certain west african countries are screening in-bound and out-bound airline passengers and the cdc is working with them to show people how to protect themselves from ebola. the cdc ready with these isolation pods should it need to transport anyone stricken with ebola that needs to be brought back to the u.s. we move to this development out of the u.s. now. u.s. house republicans have cleared the way for house speaker john boehner to sue u.s. president barack obama. over claims that he abuse d his powers at the expense of congress and the constitution. the resolution was approved. >> mr. boehner's legal action is expected to focus on the president's handling of the affordable care act, also known
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as obamacare. this fight comes four months before congressional mid term elections. >> still, no safe passage for investigators trying to reach the wreckage of flight mh17. >> but a cnn crew does manage to make the treacherous journey. a look at what they found. that's next. we'll also bring you the latest on argentina's deepening economic crisis. has the country defaulted again on its debt? plus, an amazing discovery is made by a family of american treasure hunters. we'll tell you what they found and what they have to say about it. there's a little idea there. we needed 30 new hires for our call center.
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welcome back. ukraine is warning now that russian-back woued rebels have placed land mines along the road to the mh17 crash site. >> international investigators say it was too unsafe to try to reach the wreckage wednesday, the fourth day in a row. >> but nick paton walsh and his team did manage to reach the site. here's what they found. >> the road isn't easy. eerie separatist checkpoints, but where it leads is harder still. in beauty surely nothing could spoil lies a horror still unresolved. 12 days since mh17 was blown out of the sky. it remains here, a monument to
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cruelty. to how 298 souls, some shipped in parts away on a separatist train, have yet to find complete rest. questions left. what or who else did they love? what did they feel in their last moments? the silence in these field system that of a tomb, like sorrow and loss have isolated it from the war around it. but you really have to stand here and see the things that people want to take with them on holiday and horrifyingly even now, smell the stench of decay to understand the urgency for relatives of those who died here, must feel to get inspectors to this site and get some kind of closure. in the hour we were there, no separatists, inspectors, or ukrainian soldiers at this site, just distant smoke that explains why the inspectors' large convoy has not, for the fourth day running, got here.
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god save and protect us, the sign asks. not here. still wreaking of jet fuel. where you can see the heat of the inferno they fell from the sky in. strangers have tried to mourn. the scene of this crime has been abandoned, evidence tampered with. what must be shrapnel holes, visible in the cockpit's remains. a wallet, emptied. a cell phone, looted. traces of day dreams that fell from the jet stream into a war who's daily horrors drowned out that which took their lives. who nick paton walsh, cnn, ukraine. >> we do need to add to malaysia's prime minister is scheduled to meet today with his dutch counterpart to discuss the mh17 investigation. kelly morgan is in the hague and she joins us now live.
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so, kelly, what can we expect to come out of this meeting between malaysia's prime minister and the leader of the netherlands? >> yes, hello, rosemary. in three hours, the malaysian prime minister will arrive here in the hague. he will meet the dutch prime minister. they will talk about the aftermath of the crash of mh17. they will then -- it is unclear, we haven't been told exactly the details of what they'll be discussing. but you can rightly assume it will be the limited access that the investigators have been able to get to that site. that is obviously the key issue here, is that investigators have not been able to get the access they need to that site. after that meeting, they will hold a press conference and then mr. najib will sign a book of condolence. it is then understood he will travel to where he will lay a floral tribute, and that's the area, or the facility where the
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recovered remains of the mh17 victims are being processed. identification taking place, that sort of thing. it's very hard to understand or try to -- the circumstances, the very tragic circumstances under which two leaders could meet. and for mr. najib in particular, he's not just here from a country who lost so many nationals, he also lost someone close to him. the second wife of his grandfather was on flight mh17, heading back to malaysia, to celebrate the end of ramadan. so when he lays that floral tribute today, there will be a personal element for him as well. >> and the tragedy of this, as you mentioned, is the problem for the inspectors getting to that crash site. it's been over four days now, hasn't it? what are you hearing about efforts being made to get there soon and safely? which is critical. >> absolutely critical. and the osce, the international
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monitoring group have been in the area for many, many months now, since the start of the conflict. they have been going out every single morning, doing reconnaissance missions to see whether or not there's safe passage for the 50 dutch and australian investigators who need to get to that site, whether or not there's safe access. for a convoy, as you saw in nick's report, maybe the route is very difficult. there's fighting around that area. the ukraine military says it's maintaining the ceasefire, or the zone where they wouldn't be fighting. but even when i was there last week, we could hear jets flying over that area, and the sound of shelling. there's ongoing fighting around that area as the ukrainian military is sort of making a push closer to donetsk. it's made significant gains in regaining territory over recent weeks, and it's continuing with that push. the dutch prime minister spoke, made a phone call yesterday to the ukrainian president
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poroshenko to ask that there be a ceasefire, so that these investigators can get to that crash site. but at this stage, rosemary, it has not happened. and we may still go for several days before that area is safe. and those investigators can get into that crash site, do the investigation they need to do, and of course, critically, bring back any remains that are still there. >> yes, indeed. many thanks to kelly morgan reporting there live from the hague, as we await this meeting between the leaders of malaysia and the netherlands. many thanks. all right, coming up after the break, once again, argentina's leaders are dealing with a massive economic crisis. >> we'll have the latest on what the nation is facing and how it all led to this.
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welcome back. just a short time ago, argentina crossed into default for the third time in 28 years. two days of talks in new york have failed to avert disaster for buenos aires. the economy minister, seen here, said wednesday that two hold-out creditors had rejected an offer he made to settle a payment dispu dispute. these are his thoughts on the current situations. >> translator: what the volter
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funds want, which constitute only 1% of all bondholders, is that they be paid more than 92.4% of the restructured bondholders. i have talked about this many times and repeated it today. before the fund suing us, it can't be done. can't be done. >> now, it was also thought the nation's banks might pay off those entities. but that didn't happen. analysts now fear a currency devaluation, which could make the sky-high inflation rate even worse and lead to public anger. standard & poors declared wednesday that argentina was already in selective default. >> some of you may be asking here, how did argentina get into this mess, really? well, it dates back to debt the country accumulated before the country's last crisis. argentina defaulted back in 2001. bondholders were faced with a dilemma. accept lower payments, around 30 cents on the dollar, or the more
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risky option. hold out for the full amount. 90% of bondholders cut their losses and took the offer. those bond swaps have been paid on time ever since. but the other holders, however, the ones holding out, are demanding the full amount, plus interest, around $1.5 billion. last month, a u.s. judge ruled that if argentina doesn't pay the hold-outs, it can't pay its bond swaps today. so the choice essentially, pay both, or default. but when we come back, we'll ow, have more on the middle east. we will look at how average israelis feel about the military operation in gaza right now. plus, we will go live to ukraine where the government is trying to clean up one town after months of fighting with russian-backed rebels. ♪
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