>> it's 9:00 p.m. in the french capital. you're watching live from paris on "france 24." i'm tom burgess. welcome to the top stories. bloodshed resumes two hours after it began. u.s.-brokered truce collapses. this after one israeli soldier is captured and two other killed in clashes with hamas. getting down to work, over two weeks since the malaysian airline crashed to the ground over eastern ue croatian. international investigators begin combing that area for evidence. and anyone seeing 50 kilos of cocaine lying around? there are a few red faces in the french police force after 3

million euros worth of confiscated coke vanishes from their paris headquarters. >> good evening. we begin with the latest events on the ground in gaza. it was supposed to have been a 72-hour break in the fighting, barely lasted a couple of hours. israel says hamas breached that truce by capturing an israeli soldier and killing two others. that triggered renewed israeli shelling in which more than 60 palestinians were killed and 200 others injured. while at least 1,509 palestinians, most civilians, have now lost their lives in this offensive which began in in july. 63 soldiers have been killed and 3 civilians by rockets in israel. thomas waterhouse has a wrap of the day's main developments.

>> gauzens survey the discussion after three weeks of conflict. on friday grieving relatives try to retreat the bodies of the dead during the latest pause in fighting but the cease-fire, meant to last at least three days, was broken after fewer than three hours. each side blames the other for breaking the truce. gaza officials say retirely tanks shot the town of rafa friday morning killing dozens of people. israel said its assault was in response to rocket fire. the u.s. and u.n. announced the cease-fire thursday night. its rupture friday makes it the fifth such one to be breached since israeli announced air strikes july 28th, in response to hamas rocket fire and building of tunnels used to launch attacks on israel. the conflict has killed more than 1,400 palestinians, mainly

civilians and more than 60 israelis, nearly all soldiers. the cease-fires are intended to allow gauzens to obtain food, medicine and humanitarian assistance as well as treat the wounded and bury their dead. >> we're following developments on the ground in gaza. he has all of the latest on today's main events and tells us why that truce collapsed. >> it's very difficult to tell who was the first to breach this cease-fire agreement? of course, both parties are not mutually accusing each other to be responsible for the demise of this yet again short-lived lull in the fighting which really never completely stopped. you have to understand that. moments before it was to go into effect at 8:00 a.m. local time, the fighting truly intensified very heavy, and naval shelling of gaza in the north and east and in the south so very many

deaths in the palestinian clavin. rockets, numerous rockets flying out to gaza on to israeli territory. residents did come out in the palestinian enclave. they were fearful and skeptical this would be a lasting deal. but they tried to make the best of again this very short-lived moment of somewhat well appeasement to a certain extent. and now hamas is saying that israel never completely stopped the shelling, especially not in southern gaza, where we saw some of the most intense shelling to date. but the story perhaps it's at the hearts of what happened to this report of the abduction of an roorlly soldier quickly confirmed by the israeli defense forces, denied by both hamas' political and armed wings saying this was a falsified story meant to serve israel propaganda and

justified its breach, its violation of the cease-fire agreement. now according to locals, what seems to be going on is that indeed the soldier was captured. this is perhaps performed before the cease-fire went into effect. and when israeli soldier was captured, it was clear there could be no cease-fire following such a dramatic event. another thing that's unclear is what the terms of this agreement were supposed to be. remember hamas up until now has insisted it wanted israeli troops out of the gaza and certainly not performing operational activities during a cease-fire. where israeli troops allowed to use explosives to detonate tunnels during the cease-fire, that was unclear. in any case what is clear things quickly unraveled and violence again took hold of the palestine enclave and the surrounding areas.

>> gallagher reporting there from gaza city. the white house has called the apparent capture of the israeli soldier a barbaric violation of the cease-fire agreement. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is also calling on hamas to release the soldier immediately. washington is calling on qatar and turkey to use influence with hamas to secure the release of the 23-year-old second lieutenant. hamas has not confirmed or denied it is indeed holding him. while the u.s. president barack obama was asked about that situation and he echoed the calls for soldier's release. he said putting the cease-fire deal back together again is going to be extremely challenging. despite the death of more than 1,500 palestinians, the israeli ambassador to the united states turned head across the globe by suggesting israeli soldiers be given the nobel peace prize. this what they called unimaginable restraint in gaza. while ron determiner made the comments last week, speaking in washington today he once again spoke of what he called the

admirable restraint shown by his country's military. >> i believe just a few days, just a few days. a cease-fire israel should be admired internationally for doing everything to keep palestinian civilians out of harm's way. it doesn't mean we're perfect. it doesn't mean we don't make mistakes but we're taking measures no other country is taking ucks dropping flyers, making phone calls, sending text messages, giving people sometimes 48 hours. >> is it working very well? >> i think it is and i will tell you why. with the amount of civilian deaths going up, you have to look at average amounts? >> in proportion other conflicts, what happened with nato and kosovo. how many civilians were killed there? look at those facts and i think you will be very surprised. if israel was trying to target civilians and not taking these precautions, you would see a much greater number, maybe 10 or 100 times the casualties. >> and that is the israeli ambassador to the united states speaking in washington. we can cross now to a professor

of political sociology. he joins us on the line from jerusalem. thank you very much for speaking to us, professor. any hopes in your view of a cease-fire? i mean, is it still possible denight events that have -- despite events that have taken place the parties can gather in cairo as scheduled this weekend? >> everything is possible in the middle east. however, the way the israeli government presents this with the breaking of the cease-fire, seems -- especially the capture f the israeli officer, seems trending into a new, more harsh offensive. inardly see how negotiations e age of that would be conducive. what is at stake is a humanitarian window or short humanitarian cease-fire allowing for the victims of the country

to be put in the civilian population to get rescued and get food. the situation is catastrophic, as in gaza, as many observers in u.n. agencies have witnessed from gaza. and there is a real need to help the population. >> you mentioned the capture of that soldier today and it seems to have drawn a huge amount of attention right across the globe. we even heard the united states president barack obama speaking about his capture a short while ago. all the while more than 60 palestinians were killed today. many of them were innocent women or children. help us to understand why it is the capture of one 23-year-old israeli soldier generates such an enormous amount of conversation. >> well, this i would say is the big point of the idea. this is not the first time israeli soldier is captured. you remember this was the origin

that was aligned in the 2006 war. in the case with a corporal, et cetera. this means also that the lives of the palestinians i -- are not comparable for a number of decision makers for the israelis. what we witnessed in this moment and what the israeli ambassador at the u.n. in new york said that looks like a joke, when you see that 1,500 palestinians, most slifflen, have been killed against 63 israelis, the proportion doesn't stand. of course, all of them, but proportionally speaking there's no comparison it seems to me. >> you are in israel now, in jerusalem. let's talk a little bit about israeli public opinion. up until now it seemed very much in favor of this offensive. overwhelmingly so.

but are there any audible voices there that you can hear at any rate, expressing concerns about perhaps the longer-term consequences of this kind of operation and what it might mean for the future safety of israel and israeli people? >> i think first of all that this battle is a battle in a eries of battles but i don't think they will ever win the war. meaning the battle in a guerrilla war against a resistance movement is assured from vietnam onwards, regular military cannot win. this is the issue stressed is the strategy of israel. how they think it can sustain the occupation is what they did here. not just in general for the palestinian population but for what is happening in israel. the media have been reporting -- and this is correct -- that the

majority of these population supports the prime minister. but what is behind is that the generals presently and in the right k there's been wing fascist group israelis that were invaded the roads in east jerusalem, shouting to the arabs. and this is not exactly what neither will be the democratic society wants, not that the palestinians have expected to support. to suffer from that. now what is happening is that in israel, the social cost of the occupation is being skyrocketing in terms of domestic effects. recent report by the university and department of social psychology is shown over an eight-year survey that domestic violence inside families, jewish families, israeli in israel, has been

jumping to unprecedented numbers. in public violence and in public places, jewish israeli citizens have been also on the rise. so this, which has been interpreted as a side effect of the population in terms of nonrespect of rights. on the other side of the ball, the palestinians are forcing infridging upon israeli society. meaning that today israel eaches peace the question -- what can we do to the other side, risk an israeli society traveling down and this is something that nobody wants. >> indeed. >> we have to leave it there. thank you so much though. that was very interesting, professor in jerusalem. thank you so much for speaking to "france 24." >> thank you. bye-bye.

>> let's move on to some other world news now. despite ongoing violence in the surrounding area, international investigators have begun working at the crash site of the downed malaysian passenger jet in eastern ukraine. the goals are to gather evidence, track down remains of around 80 of the victims and also to retrieve the personal effects of the 298 people aboard who lost their lives in that boeing ttt crashed to the ground more than two -- boeing 777 crashed to the ground more than two weeks ago. >> two weeks after the malaysian airlines crashed in eastern ukraine, dozens of international experts finally begin exploring the site. the priority -- recovering remains of 80 victims yet found and then collecting all of the personal objects, debris and evidence they can. since the crash evidence has reportedly been tampered with, efforts to renew such attempts, experts will try to secure the zone by designating it a crime scene. flashes between ukrainian soldier and pro-russian forces around the crash site delayed the mission.

the fighting continues and artillery fire can be heard as experts comb the area. hours early, less than 10 kilometers away, 10 ukrainian soldiers were killed in a rebel ambush and others declared missing. translator: there's information the ambush was carried out by the rebels who were trying to from the achtar ukrainian army. they are doing this because it is a strategic point that would allow us to cut them off from donsing. >> the unrest continues, although ukrainian forces and pro-russian rebels agreed to a cease-fire so experts can go ahead to the mission. >> now, let's go it what is a major embarrassment for the paris police force. officers are being grilled in a bid to try and track down 50 kilos of cocaine which vanished from a secure room after being confiscated in a series of raids. apparently only three people had the keys in police headquarters

and amazingly there are no c.c.t. cameras in that part of the building. here's more. >> the cocaine was locked away in a secure storage room of the drug squad, of the headquarters of the national police in paris. today officers noticed it was missing, more than 50 kilos. immediately the investigators from internal affairs stepped in. the place where the drug squad was housed was searched with drug sniffing dogs. cocaine was seized by police on july 4 in paris as part of an investigation into a drug trafficking ring. the cocaine was last seen on july 23rd before it mysteriously disappeared, street value was estimated 2.5 to 3.5 million euros. it's not yet known where the cocaine went and investigators haven't ruled out theft. the paris prosecutor promised

swift action if it turns out any procedures were not properly followed if any laws were not broken. it's not the first scandal to hit the paris police. last april four officers were questioned, suspected of raping a canadian inside police headquarters. >> time for a check in the top business news. we will start with the did you ins out of the united states and job situation. >> that's right. more good news for the u.s. this friday after jobs data was released, the u.s. added 209,000 in july. this figure is less than june but it's still the sixth straight month of job growth above the 200,000 mark. unemployment data was also released, picked up ever so slightly to 6.2%. the increase suggests more people are optimistic about their job prospects. the jobless in the u.s. aren't counted as unemployed unless they're actively seeking work.

let's take a look at how the markets faired this friday. stocks in europe ended the week down in the red. a global sell-off sent the footsie down .8%. ftse down. trading is under way now and u.s. markets are still digesting jobs report. as you can see, right across the board, across all major indices, it's flat at this point. a bit of luxury news now. the hong kong-based peninsula hotel is taking a bet on paris. after an expensive refurbishment, it opened its doors in the french capital and now looking to attract high network clients. >> after four years of refurbishment, the cost 430 million euros, paris has a new luxury hotel. pat nins la comes with rooftop paris, 20-feeter swimming pool and 200 rooms. prices start at just over a

thousand a night for standard room and rise up to 25,000 for penthouse suite. hefty prices for time proving difficult for the luxury industry. >> this is a long-term commitment we're taking to europe. we have been looking to enter into europe for more than 20 years now, which we consider to be a very important market and paris, of course, we all know is a very magical city. we're taking clearly a positive long-term view. >> once the other iconic hotel such as ritz reopen after refurbishments, paris would see its number of five-star beds increase by over 2,000 in a decade. for the manager of the latest decadent offering, this shouldn't be a problem. >> five star luxury segment has been very strong over the last few years in paris. has been progressing every year. and, therefore, i think there's plenty of opportunities for our guests. the idea to make this

destination in paris as attractive as possible and gain and attract even more people. >> the current occupancy rate of such hotels is 80%. a growing proportion of the guests come from asia. france is still the most visited country in the world but tourists spend a lot less in paris than they would in london or new york. >> let's take a look at the other business stories making headlines this hour. the u.s. district judge who ordered argentina to pay holdout investors has called on both sides to talk. the judge rejected the country's request to change the court-appointed mediator who it called incompetent. after argentina missed the statement deadline, the country lashed out at the u.s. for its failure to intervene. shares in ill add tumble 7% in trading this friday. this comes as company put its bid in for t-mobile in the u.s. the company offered $15 billion for 50% stake in the fourth

largest u.s. operator, also the center of french rival greek telecom down. in june they made an offer for them and they are hoping to see greater investments in the telecom space. france's second largest space afforded us 7.8% rise in its net profit. facing a number of potential risks. firstly from russia, where it's upped the stake and rose back to 100% this past april. the bank also set aside further 200 million euros for further litigation cuts. this is among several international lenders accused of violating u.s. sanctions. and finally america's top diplomat prime minister told the country blocking a w.t.o. trade deal sends the wrong message. on thursday, through tough diplomacy and yet insistant priling provisions, the country derailed the w.t.o. agreement.

the land mark agreement was expected to add $1 trillion to the economy and create 21 million jobs w that it's a wrap on this business. back to you. >> thank you so much indeed. time for a check on what's happening online. web news starts right now. >> hello, there. welcome to the web news. with our pick of the stories making the online headlines. coming up on today's show, online initiatives to combat the spread of the ebola virus. the new and alarming online .rend in the u.s. and new zealand with residents dancing to "happy." the dev tating ebola outbreak in west africa has claimed hundreds of victims and the public authorities are doing what they can to stop the spread of this deadly disease. countless social networks are also doing what they can to

assist emergency measures. #ebola tips and facts are being used to share precautionary advice how to limit the risk of infection. basic simple rules like washing hands regularly or not eating meat from wild animals. these constructions are also available on visuals created by unicef and available on the organization's website to download, print out and distribute as wildly as possible. with a smart phone app, the information is also available in several west african languages. and with many sharing this advice online, others are mapping the spread of the virus. web users can contribute to the humanitarian for example with satellite photos to help understand where affected populations are centered, and deploy aid effectively. this document put together by google maps attracts a history of the ebola virus and spread of outbreaks from 1976 downwards.

it increased at alarming rates the past few years. following the nominations which involved necking or drinking alcohol in one go and nominating new online contacts doing the same, a new trend is sweeping the trend in the u.s. the fire challenge. now this is spraying a small amount of imflammable liquid on area of the body and lighting it for a few moments. .t's highly dangerous and users they testify to the fact things can sometimes go wrong. the young man doused his chest with a lot of liquid and then had to fight to extinguish the flames. we got a massive fight and placed another video online showing burns and wounds and urging others to be careful. and if only people would listen

because the fire challenge can result in very serious injuries. the number of u.s. media outlets have been reported that dozens of second or third degree burn cases over the past few weeks. some participants had to have skin baths. a large volume of abusers take social networks to criticize a ridiculous and extremely stupid trend and also reach out to parents to warn their children about the dangers involved in aking on the fire challenge. >> david mitchell set up the app david mitchell twipter handle to experience with a new and original to say the least, way of writing. e unveiled his new short story "the right to sort 140 character" over a seven-day period. it has proved extremely popular with over 15,000 web users

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>> from pacifica this is democracy now! >> this will last for 72 hours, three days. precious time. the ceasefire in gaza has collapsed just hours at began. more than 40 palestinians have died in rafaanansraeli soldier has been captured. we will go to gaza for the latest. then the u.s. faces international criticism for