>> you are watching live from paris. international news. here are the headlines. several mortar rounds have been fired from gaza into israel despite the cease-fire agreed with hamas. no error rates or rocket fire until 3:00 p.m. local time. we will be speaking to our correspondent in jerusalem and the moment. russia threatens to retaliate after the u.s. imposes sanctions on moscow. washington is targeting the banking sector as well as major oil and gas companies. we will have analysis later on. ursncois hollande to west africa. the country experiencing an economic revival post civil war.

♪ our top story this hour, monitoring a temporary cease-fire agreed between hamas and israel. the israeli air force has put air raids on possible stop hamas was supposed to seize rocket fire until 3:00 p.m. look at -- 3:00 p.m. local time. go live to jerusalem. what can you tell us about these latest mortar rounds and where's does this leave the truce? cease-fire.nitarian three mortar rounds landed in the south of israel in open territory, causing no damage or injury. i have spoken to the israeli military spokesperson, they say the humanitarian

cease-fire, from israel's point of view, continues. they take as being a rogue cell, hamas has signed up for the cease-fires and a road militant cell fired those. came across, it would be different. the cease-fire holds. in gaza, running about doing business, going to the bank or market and stocking up on food and getting medical supplies in lull betweenr battles. >> hamas gunmen tried to breach is really defenses and make their way into israel from a tunnel. what more can you tell us about that and is this the kind of thing where likely to see again once the cease-fire ends? twoe have seen four times, thehe sea and two, this is second time to tunnel was used.

it was a serious gunfight this morning on the kibbutz. militants came across, 13 of them, israel says. they came up, there was a firefight. blocking theaeli opening of the house. hamas has been saying this is its answer to israel's threat of a ground invasion. we are not going to wait, say hamas, until you come to us. we are coming to you. even though it was not a successful operation, it is the fourth unsuccessful operation. in hamas' terms it is a success. from military analysts here, if anything is going to prompt a ground offensive from israel, it is these tunnels. it might be a short, sharp action against such tunnels, people burrowing underground into israel. >> you mentioned the possibility

of a ground offensive. something that has been brought up many times. ago, we got the news that israel and hamas have just starting a new truce at 3:00 gmt, very early morning tomorrow morning. that is according to an israeli official. what do you make of this? truces back to back on in your view, china was early to it an assessment, -- i know is early to get an assessment. do you think they are trying to edge towards a longer-term cease-fire? edgeth sides are trying to toward a longer-term cease-fire. a longer-term cease-fire. humanitarian cease-fire is always the beginning. perhaps it will be the beginning of proper truce talks. there are currently israeli and palestinian officials from hamas, fatah, the palestinian authority, and israelis in

cairo talking with mediators. it is not plain what is going to happen between 3:00 p.m. local time when the humanitarian a.m.-fire ends at 6:00 with the bigger truce is meant to come into effect. there is not official confirmation of that from either side. it is a sign, i think, that we're coming towards a possible end. be in thewill details, the terms will hold it up. >> just getting a little bit more detail on that. apparently israeli officials long-term that a inse-fire is set to begin gaza tomorrow morning. that is just what you were mentioning moments ago. we will monitor that. thank you, reporting from jerusalem.

taliban fighters -- taliban fighters in afghanistan launched an attack on kabul international airport. four gunmen opened fire with rocket propelled grenades. i'll assume it's -- all the assailants have been killed, but the next president will have his work cut out for him joan with insurgents. [gunfire] >> gunfire and clouds of smoke at kabul airport. this building under construction next to the terminal was riddled with bullets. inside, a group of taliban fighters. . local time.m thursday, they opened fire with automatic weapons and rocket launchers on the airport. security forces reacted rapidly. on the ground that surrounded the building, overhead, nato and afghan army helicopters circled the area. >> there were no deaths among the police present. thanks be to god, only one person was likely injured. endhe operation came to an

a few hours later. before assailants were killed and the zone secure. just as the recounting of votes in the second round of afghanistan's presidential election was due to begin. two candidates are abdul abdulla and ashraf ghani. the taliban do not recognize the election, which they say is organized by the west. >> the election has left a security vacuum. >> they are using the election to create chaos. >> rocket attacks on most every week near the database. all flats have been diverted to the north and west of the country. eu escalatednd sanctions against russia yesterday for the first time. washington's penalties directly targeted sensitive sectors of the economy, putting russia's ,argest oil producer, ,rosneft

on its blacklist. tobarack obama taking steps halt violence in ukraine. the u.s. president announced new sanctions against moscow. they follow weeks of u.s. threats that either russia help diffuse tension or face consequences. >> we are freezing the assets of several russian defense companies and blocking new financing of some of russia's most important banks and energy companies. thank you very much. >> they are the u.s.'s toughest sanctions against moscow, targeting companies like gazprom bank, the country's third-largest lender with 45,000 businesses and 30 million people as clients. and the state owned bank, veb, which provided backing for this construction project. also affected our two large energy companies, rosneft and novatek. vladimir putin said the move

would cause damage to u.s.-russian relations. washington has urged european union to follow suit. its previous sanctions had been criticized as too weak. largely consisting of travel bans. eu sanctions. ourouglas has joined us, international affairs analyst. important information out of ukraine. has just been shot down by russian military. that is according to kiev. what is the latest, what can you tell us, how dangerous could this be? >> we've been saying this four days. two countries, russia and ukraine, are in a state of war. one country, russia, is denying that there is anything going on. what happened, you have ukrainian officials basically saying that a rocket missile ukrainianet, a

fighter jet, it was struck and shot down. the pilot was able to eject. he is safe according to ukrainian officials. this,ill lend credence to ukraine has been claiming for weeks that russia is essentially behind a series of frequent attacks on its own troops who are battling rebels, battling an insurgency near the russian border. and russia has been fiercely lying it. they say it amounts to a state of war. pro-russia rebels yesterday claimed responsibility for a series of rocket strikes, two rocket strikes on ukrainian jets. we have had videos emerging as well. videos posted to youtube in which you see a rocket missile being launched from a town asntified in many videos less than two miles from the russian border with ukraine. ukrainiand into

territory. it is getting harder for russia to deny that it has any responsibility. in the past, rebels could have weapons. ukrainians also used these missiles. ae trucks in the videos had camouflage, uniquely identified with russian military as opposed to ukrainian trucks. it is getting murky -- is it rebels, russians, ukrainians? ukrainians are seeing the evidence is clear that it is russian rebels or in some cases and in this case notably russian military that is behind these rocket strikes. the missile is normally a truck launched missile, soviet-era made. go back to july 11 when there was an attack in which you had 19 ukrainian servicemen killed. that was on ukrainian territory. 90-100 a grad missle,

wounded in that. interesting to see what the is andl russian reaction what the ukrainian response will be. >> how dangerous might this be in terms of escalation. thank you. world,ppening around the parents in mexico city waiting to be reunited with their children who had been living in what is now known as the house of force. it emerged that children raised in a group home were being abused and being. filthof hunger and emerging, police raided the home tuesday. i had a kidnapping in northern nigeria, injured or -- i met kidnapping in northern nigeria, a german national. no claim of responsibility but the fingers being pointed at boko haram. the group is still holding over 200 schoolgirls captive. killedsian soldiers

yesterday on the border with algeria. the death toll expected to rise. the tunisian army has been patrolling this area and the last of the country that was used as a base by jihadists. french president francois hollande is touring west africa. he is in ivory coast today before heading to niger and cha d. security will be high as france's steps that antiterrorist operations. élan will be talking business with ivory coast, the world's top cocoa producer. >> this is the symbol of ivory revival, 47,000 square meters of concrete and more than two years of construction. the cost of 192 million euros. biggestidge is the in 25 years and designed by puig.

>> starting such a big activity was not easy after the crisis. it is a good thing that this country is going forward. construction, transport, other sectors favored by french firms. did not havenies recovery. this company makes solar power. they are facing more competition. things got much worse with the opening of the markets over the last two years. >> the kind of companies that arrived were really massive and they came from everywhere. these are competitors we did not even know about not so long ago. like japan, canada, and south africa, more and more countries went to invest in ivory coast. this was built by a chinese company. today, we have several

investors, several economic partners who are interested in ivory coast. like all of west africa, it gets very visited and is in a lot of demand. companies, france remains the main investor. thanks to sustainable growth, ivory coast hopes to conquer and remain an economic leader in the west african region. possibly a long-term cease-fire on the horizon between israel and hamas. that is our top story. underwayry truce is despite several mortar rounds being fired from gaza. a new truce is scheduled for tomorrow morning, yet to find out the details of the terms of that agreement. ukraine is reporting that one of its jets was shot down by the russian military.

formation we got moments ago. francois hollande towards west africa. in ivory coast to discuss the countrys as experiences and economic revival post-civil war. time to take a look at what is grabbing headlines in the weekly newsmagazine. let's look. almost forgot you. let's start with what's making headlines, focusing on russia and the ambition of vladimir putin. putin made his territorial ambitions for russia very clear with the annexation of crimea. ambitions more than that. according to this, he wants to impose a model ocivilization on the rest of the world. international talks about payback time for russia, they want to get revenge on history. what is this civilization putin wants to spread?

it is a unique civilization different from our western model, which is obsessed with communication and consumption, according to vladimir putin. he wants a russia that is a defender of traditional values, in opposition to the postmodern spiritual decadence that you find in a lot of the world today. >> spiritual decadence come indeed. another weekly, brazil. by it,w weekly set up a prominent journalist in france, used to be the editor-in-chief of le monde. the conquest of brazil's far west. so many things remain to be discovered in brazil according to le un. one thing that remains to be discovered are indian tribes. three weeks ago, one of these

unknown amazon tribes came into contact with the inhabitants of the little village in western brazil. >> no one knew about it? >> we knew about them but they were out of civilization, as they say. indian0 such isolated tribes that are completely cut off from the world. some of them are breaking out of their isolation and reaching out for help. read, they faced dangers including mining companies, drug trafficking, illegal logging companies. when they run into contact with civilization it is a risk because often, most of the time, they are really not immune to many of the diseases that we carry. >> just a physiologically not prepared. just a couple minutes of contact with our world can decimate a whole tribe. >> back in france, focusing on president francois hollande and the traditional bastille day. >> papers agree there was

nothing revolutionary about the speech, more of the same. did not make any announcements, just defended the decisions he has made. he was optimistic about the future. a lot of papers do not agree with that. this is a satirical weekly. holland is saying "recovery is here" well, where is it, "here," he is pointing to his head. this new glasses that a lot of people have been focusing on. very jacque chirac glasses. >> just glasses. >> don't read into it too much. critics saylande's he is digging the grave of socialism. a lot of nostalgia for socialism of the past. a lot of nostalgia for this founded theder who french socialist party.

superstar" 100 years after his death. the left worships him and so does the right. you have people like sarkozy and quotingle pen: him -- him. >> lighter topics given that it is summertime. >> beach reading. vacation,e of you on targeting older readership this week. why are people so rude, asks le point. >> young people are not concerned with matters. thererding to le point, is a lack of basic manners and respect in society. whether at school, at work, or even in public transport. here, you can see even on the

front page, venus de milo is flipping readers off. one plus for quoted talks about a new barbarism. a negative view on society. le point needs to read this week's l'express. out, the power of meditation. a famous french buddhist monk. he says meditation changed his life. maybe we can learn a lesson. if you are into lighter topics for your vacation, go to a more basic gossip. >> let-up x. -- lighter topics. >> a famous actress you might " sheseen in "james bond, just broke up with her boyfriend of seven years.

still smiling on the cover, guess it is not that bad. interviewso read an of the former french president, an interesting interview about how he sees the world today. >> more news on france 24 starting with sports, right now. ♪ two days after wearing the yellow jersey on vestal day, frenchman tony gala produced another performance to win stage 11 of the tour de france. degenkolb finished second. no change at the top of the general classification. nibali 2:23 ahead of porte. top frenchman is bardet, fourth. fifth.n remains

>> it was in the last 50 meters i could enjoy this victory. it is good for the french, we have one two stages. i look more at what my team is doing. it is already the second victory for us. >> allegri has been appointed italians,ach of the moratto is happy with his new coach. make a decision very quickly, looking for a coach with a profile of the same characteristics of antonio conte, a winner with great powers as a coach. and great focal ideas. eft,ound that after conte l

allegri was the one for us. >> the 47-year-old has been given a two-year contact, won a title three years ago with ac milan. he's looking forward to the next traffic for -- to the next chapter. >> i am happy to be here. i'm aware of the importance of taking over a club like juventus. i will start working with the club and players. the ones who played in the world cup are back. we will prepare for an important and hopefully a winning season. we have got a duty to play great champions league. it is a great attraction, but most of all because juventus must be among the best eight clubs in europe.

the italian had begun work with players. pirri will be central to this plan. big shoes to fill after the last titles. louis enriquez says he wants to ofindle barcelona's style football. the head coach and former birsa favorite who was part of the golden generation in the late 1990's is looking for to the future. after a disappointing season when they fail to lift a single trophy. would like a team capable of delivering. especially a team that was able to win all the time. it was exciting to watch. teams that look for victory in the last minute of every game. the team that will play the same way, home or away. score a lot of goals and defend. >> drawing speculation regarding

one player.f >> henrique quelled rumors of a departure.