>> you're watching live from paris here on "france 24." your headlines -- a significant widening, the israel defense forces have been ordered to prepare for a possiblesque lace -- escalation in the grand offensive in gaza as the death toll continues to mount. the u.n. security council convenience in new york. we don't have time for games. the warning from president barack obama as the u.s. ups the diplomatic pressure on moscow over the downing of a malaysian airlines jet. and another great escape. italy's former leader ville silvio berlusconi has won an appeal against his conviction

for paying for sex with an underaged prostitute. his seven-year sense for the ruby case thrown out by judges in milan. this is live from paris. our top story, at least 35 palestinians, including a baby, four children and a 70-year-old woman have been killed since israel launched its grand incurlings into gaza yesterday. brings to over 270 palestinians and two israels killed over the last few days. the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting on the conflict this friday and israel has said it could broaden its assault on gaza. natia hugh has said to be

prepared for a potential widening of the incursion. let's get all the latest now from our correspondent in jerusalem. the israeli public is being told of military advance this is prilled. -- friday. what can you tell us? >> the israeli public is being told there's an air, sea, and land assault but the land assault, the ground offensive, ask limited. songs infantry hasn't gone in very far. they've gone into an area close to the israeli border and they're clearing out tunnels there. they've released footage of the tunnels. they say there are some 20 where there are rockets stored, rocket launchers and the tunnels are all linked to each other. hamas obviously i would say finds this quite threatening. they've released a statement saying this is a fabrication and

that these pictures aren't real and that israeli is releasing pictures of other tunnels, not these ones near the border. so the israeli force troops are doing their work there. there are some firefighters against militants. rael say they've killed some 20 but most of the pill -- militants have fallen further back into the gaza strip and that's why there is an issue of the possible widening of this ground offensive. >> what can you tell us about the demonstrations that have flared up in israel as a result of this incursion? >> two demonstrations today. one in jerusalem. it is, of course, friday during ram ma dan and it is not untypical to see nonadministrations after the friday prayers and there was an increased police presence and there were injuries.

it was quite a violent demonstration with stun throwing and stun grenades. there was a demonstration of arabs in the city of haffa and right wing protesters and some members of parliament were arrested during those demonstrations. and they've called on parliament terrence from the right and left to stop what they call incitement of the israeli public. >> thank you very much, from jerusalem. now, after 2,000 air strikes by israel on gaza over the last 10 days, the rockets from hamas have continued to fall on israeli cities. hile the west has been slow to condemn israel for its offensive. leaders like president obama and chancellor merkel have stressed israel must be allowed to

distress itself. >> as the israeli attacks from the ground, sea and the air, thursday's five-hour partial truce seems very far. yet some world leaders are trying to mediate one for the sake of those trapped in the fighting. some hoped hamas would accept a cease-fire. >> they asked me what i would do. i said i would contact turkish and qatar authorities because they can influence hamas. >> turkey and qatar are seen as two possible mediators but this time israel could be the one who dismisses the deal, as it sees qatar as a close ally of hamas, while tush -- turkish leaders re among its harshest critics. >> israel's unrestrained acts unfortunately plant the seeds of

hatred in palestine and around the world. >> israel has received reports from the u.s., the u.k. and germany saying it has the right to defend its citizens. >> israeli cities are reachable with rockets, something that was tried. every country that is attacked like this obviously has to defend itself. >> but those countries say israel has to act for proportionately, making sure palestinian civilians aren't injured or killed. >> our correspondent is standing by and joins us by skype. previous efforts have failed but are talks intensifying to try to secure a hamas-israeli cease-fire? >> there's definitely an intensified flurry of activity

but there doesn't seemed to be a lot of progress. it does appear to be stalling on the issue of getting hamas on board and the french foreign minister when he was here expressed support for an egyptian initiative but also didn't sound terribly optimistic that hamas was looking to -- that there were signs that hamas was going to sign off the initiative. that is the major sticking point. >> and more generally, how has the tone changed in egypt for ?his mediating role >> yeah, at this point it's not really front-page news. it's the middle of ramadan and the middle of the campaign and they just raised gas prices by 78% overnight. the egyptians are upset about what's happening in jazz -- gaza but it's not jet developing into

pressure on the administration to do more. that might change in a matter of days but right now it's a honeymoon period and there are a lot of distractions. >> do you think the danger now that while the arab world is distracted in various ways and you've outlined how they're distracted at home, that this conflict now could fester? >> absolutely, absolutely. it could be a moment when the arab world is not looking as closely azerbaijani it would in normal circumstances as gaza but that could change in a day with one sort of fresh bloody attack or a situation like the boys on the beach yesterday. just one of those could capture the public imagination and develop immediately into a real public relations problem for israel. >> thank you for bringing us the latest from cairo.

meanwhile, french police have banned a perot palestinian demonstration planned in paris for saturday. after done in administrators tried to storm two synagogues in the french capital during a similar rally. police said they could not guarantee a safe march due to heightened attention twuled -- fueled by the palestinian- israeli conflict. now, the downing of a malaysian airlines jet over eastern ukraine, killing all 298 people onboard. 189 were dutch nationals. u.s. president barack obama says the eyes of the world are now on eastern ukraine. america says it's not yet ruled out russian help to rebels in the firing of a powerful missile believed too much shot down the plane. russia warned against any attempt to pressure an investigation. international crash site experts

have reached the debris after allowed access. oliver has this report. >> the search is on to find evidence from the wreckage of the downed boeing. a tall task but one that pro-russian rebels say they are capable of doing. >> now we need to secure the debris. we must let the international organizations examine the site the tragedy, evacuate the bodies, search for the black boxes and establish the humanitarian truth over this tragedy. were thursday, journalists resented recordings. appearing to show that separatetists were responsible. >> while in short it's 100% sure

hat it's a civilian plane. >> are there any people? >> it's really bad. debris is in people's yards. >> they said they would not have the capability to fire beyond 5,000 meters. the plane was flying at 10,000. >> unless the russians gave them anti-aircraft batteries. even then it's not a simple tube. it's radar target acquisition and something very visible so i think they would have known. >> the separatists say the ukraine military fired the mitchell that took down the plane but right now there's little proof to indicate who might have been responsible or even if a missile was involved. >> following the downing of the flight the ditch lomatic pressure is growing on russia, o've been criticized for destabilizing ukraine since late

last year. they called for an immediate end to military operations in southeast ukraine. president barack obama warning that the eyes of the world are on the violence in the region. >> evidence indicates that the plan was -- plane was shot down from a surface to air mitchell in therea by separatists ukraine. we know they've received a steady flow of support from russia including arms and training. it includes heavy weapons and it includes anti-aircraft weapons. >> for more on the reaction from washington -- >> this administration is now clearly slowly but surely pointing the finger of blame squarely at moscow and possibly even at vladimir putin. according to the evidence the white house says a surface to air missile was used to bring

down the plane, the mh-17 and that this missile came from russian separateists backed control territory in eastern ukraine and that the weapon was russian made. barack obama saying a short while ago that this could not have happened without russian support, without russian material support and russian training as well. what we know now is that there is confirmation that one u.s. citizen did indeed dayan board the malaysian airlines plane. it's not clear whether that number might increase in the coming days when the crash site becomes a little bit more under control of investigates of which there will be americans on the ground. there are members of the f.b.i. and of the ntsb now on their way to the crash site. that is the national transport safety board. the united states worry that this is a crash site that could

be tampered with and that some evidence might get lost. that is something that the obama administration is very much insisting upon since the crash happened. >> now u.s. and ukrainian officials believed a missile system was responsible for downing the flight. it's a such as to air missile system. dick rushworth explains. >> the spotlight is on russian-built weaponry from the soviet era. the book missile system dates to the 1970's, radar guide it includes four surface to air missiles on a turn table mounted on a tank. each has a range of up to 28 kilometers. rushinga is blaming ukraine for the airline disaster. while not saying directly kiev forces shut down the plane, it said it does have the book mitchell system in place. >> the ukrainian surface to air

missile regiment has 27 book m.-1 launchest in the region. >> kiev has presented evidence showing a russian crew operated within eastern ukraine to launch a missile. >> it is most important for us to get from the russian side the names of all three crew members, russian servicemen who managed to book anti-aircraft system and directly press the trigger and launch a missile against a civilian passenger aircraft. >> did separatist fighters launch from rebel held positions? both said on russian social media that rebels shot down the plane and posts were later removed. the downing of a plane from 10,000 meters, one said is likely to be a case of misidentification. >> most of the aircraft that has been lost to the sprattists have

been obviously military aircraft flying at low levels. although i suppose this was a mistake, it does go outside the most recent line we've seen in this conflict. >> it is likely the sides in the conflict will continue to make claim and counter claim. >> in other news, italy's former prime minister silvio berlusconi has won an appeal against his conviction for paying for sex with an underage prostitute. his seven-year prison sentence has been thrown out by judges in my lab in the so-called ruby case. the case offering an unseemly peek into the 7-year-old's private life. >> the lawyers say the verdict ent beyond their rosiest expectations as the prison term was overturned. scrapping his seven-year sentence and lifelong ban from

office. outside the court, silvio berlusconi's lawyer had this to say -- >> with regards to the bribery charge, there was nothing left to say. there was no case to answer, which means to bribery occurred. as for the second charge of sex with a minor, it could be an acquittal for lack of sfwenlt but we'll have a final answer when the verdict is released. >> outside the home where the former prime minister has been carrying out his community service, there was a crowd of journalists. berlusconi made no comment in front of the cameras, preferring to release this statements -- >> i'm deeply moved. only those who've been close to me over the years know what i've suffered because of this unfair and disgraceful accusation. >> berlusconi had been convicted of paying for sex with an exotic dancer known by ruby, who was

under age at the time of the alleged offense. it was then said he pressured ruby to talk to police when rrested for theft. the famous buenninga-buenninga night. while he might not be acquitted on these two charges, he's still on trial for bribing a senator and is under investigation for paying off witnesses. >> time for all your business news. i'm joined by kate moody in studio. you've been following the air show through the week and one of the things the industry is looking for is improved technology to track airplanes. >> it was a timey focus in light of recent events, the crash on thursday evening in eastern ukraine was a chilling reminder of the mystery of another malaysian airlines flight which disappeared in march.

radar lost all trace of the flight. authorities are still no closer to finding an explanation and the aircraft industry is desperate to avoid a repeat of that situation. we have a core responsibility's report from the air show. >> at the end of this corridor in london lies a network of radar operations, home to 11 satellites. >> this one covers the americas. this one, the middle east. >> that enablings them to track its clients in real time. an assistance recently offered for free. >> we've proposed to take the existing position reports that have been used across the industry globally and we've offered to make those position reports flee free of charge. it's costing us money but we believe it's an appropriate response in view of the situation the industry is in.

>> that refers to the disappearance from all radars of the malaysian arlse flight in march. since then, the aviation industry has been working on a common solution to keeping an -- a closer eye on aircraft. recommendations are expected in september from a working group of the industry's largest players like airbus. much to the annoyance of operators. >> this airplane is the kind of airplane that i own and operate. >> martin robinson's organization represents private aircraft and has far fewer resources than the major airlines. >> the problem for our members, should the recommendation be toward the equipment, would be for the price of that equipment. it would be too high for our members to want to purchase. >> such obligations could push sky-high prices even higher.

>> european indices mostly recovered from thursday's plunge. london closing up. moscow's index took a hit. it has plunged around 5% over the week and sunk further as accusations and blame swirled friday, closing down about 1.2%. wall street is rebounding after seeing its biggest sell offs in months on thursday. the nasdaq up around 1.5%. strong earnings from companies seeming to clip those fears of geopolitical tensions for now. some other business headlines -- microsoft has shut down its fledgling tv production units a month of -- after its first show day the beaued. i--- it had hoped to compete with netflix and amazon but

struggled to get off the ground. a day after announcing it was cut some 15% of its work force, trying to become a more multimodern tech firm that can compete with google. general electric reported a 13% increase in the second quarter. ompeds from developing countries were strong and aviation and gas divisions had performed well. they plan to launch a new credit card business in late july. and the u.s. justice department has charged fedex with conspiracy to shim controlled substances. it repeatedly ignored warnings to of shipping illegal prescription drugs. the company could peay twice what it earned in fines if found guilty.

more business news later on in the evening. for now, back to you. >> thank you very much. now a look at all the day's talking points on the internet. here's web news. >> hello there. welcome to the web news. our pick of the stories making the online headlines. coming up on today's show -- a british group invades a london mosque. americans are helping a grieving father and san francisco's streets turned into a giant design. in this video, we see paul golding, leader of a group confronts an elder at a mosque in southwest london about signs for spratt entrances for women and men. he said you have one week to take these signs down. otherwise, we will.

sunday's headquarter invasions has been posted to facebook, generating lively debates among web users in the u.k. many have taken to twitter to condemn the far right group's actions, denounce their racism and also the absurdty of their demands. they say they seem to have forgotten that separate entrances for men and women are not unique for the muslim religion. bothered t seem too by the avalanche of criticism and posted another video online this week to defend the group's actions. the far right leader says they didn't break any laws and were taking necessary action to put a stop that what we describes as hate preaching in the u.k. his arguments did little to convince the london police, however, and he was arrested on wednesday. but it doesn't look like this is

going to deter the britain-first militants. the far right movement has stated on its website that plans for similar operations are currently under way. six -- 6-week-old child died after developing a tumor on her liver. she spent her entire life in intensive care in a hospital in the u.s. she never knew not being hooked up to tubes. it was asked if the tubes could be removed and the response has been overwhelming. he has received dozens of reworked pictures and some 3,000 messages of support. relatives have been using image

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