with 116 people on board crashes in western africa. we'll get the very latest from nbc's tom costello on the third major aviation disaster in just a week. >> it disappeared from radar 50 minutes into the flight. the burkina faso transport minister saying the plane asked to change its route because of a bad sandstorm in the area. cycle of death. today israel hits a ump.n. operated school in gaza killing at least 15, injuring dozens being sheltered there. >> the u.n. says all of the school's coordinates, all of the u.n. facilities here, their gps coordinates have been given to the israelis. they know where these schools are. they should not be targeting or hitting anywhere near them. in tel aviv, the faa drops the ban on u.s. flights. was there political pressure? >> the airport was never under any real danger according to the israelis who complained when the ban was enforced and are very happy it's now been overthrown.

and one hour and 57 minutes. that's how long it took for arizona to execute double murderer joseph wood after administering the lethal unjection. we'll ask wood's lawyer was this cruel and unusual punishment? >> he started gasping. it was -- several people describe it as looking sort of like a fish, you know, out of water and it was sort of a spasm that would go from his mouth down through his chest to his stomach. and we watched this and it went on for more than an hour and a half. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where we are following the third major civil aviation incident in only a week. airport officials tell nbc news an algerian plane carrying 110

passengers and six crew members is believed to have crashed in northern mali. algier flight 107 was on its way from burkina faso to algiers. they reported losing contact with the plane about 50 minutes after takeoff. nbc's tom costello joins me with the latest from our washington newsroom. bring us to up to date. >> 110 passengers on board. 6 crew members as well. now there are some really some differing reports on whether the wreckage has been found or not. some authorities say at least one authority i should say, one authority said the wreckage has been found but the french foreign ministers say there's no wreckage they've found thus far. an algierian official saying it crashed but we don't know how he knows that or where the wreckage may be. left at 1:00 a.m. and disappeared 50 minutes into the flight. the burkina faso transport minister said the plane asked to

change its route because of a bad sandstorm in the area. the airline says almost half the passengers were french citizens. we're told this was an md-83, an older model plane built by donald douglas. they do believe they have shoulder fired missiles but do not believe anyone on the ground has the fire power to reach and bring down a commercial airliner. two french fighter jets based in the region have been dispatched to try and locate the crash scene and niger also has dispatched planes to the area. this particular air algier flight was being operated by a spanish company called swift air. it has a relatively clean safety record with five accidents which have caused a total of eight deaths. the airline, a checkered safety record. but no sign of this plane other than one report seeing wreckage. others not seeing wreckage.

110 passengers and 6 crew members. one other footnote. that is it was widely reported on the internet and apparently even at the actual airport that raul castro's daughter was on board. raul castro, the current dictator if you will, or the man who runs cuba, that his daughter was on board. but our own mary murray, an nbc producer in havana personally saw mariella castro this morning at the hotel national. that would suggest she was not on this al air algerie flight that's gone down some place between mali and also algier. >> we know mariela castro. she's a 51-year-old, very widely known, internationally known lgbt activist and a member of parliament in havana. the daughter of the president. the niece of fidel castro. that is a great relief as well. let me ask you about the faa at midnight lifting this ban on

commercial flights into tel aviv. there's a lot of speculation in the israeli media that there was political pressure. i'm told that kerry, john kerry in cairo did not intervene. what are you hearing about whether the faa was pressured by the state department, the white house or israeli officials to lift the ban? >> the faa says it was not pressured by the state department or by the white house. the white house is saying it did not pressure the faa. that these decisions over safety and passengers safety in no way are going to be, they say, involved in any sort of a political dispute. it is fair to say the israelis were very unhappy with the faa declaring that no fly zone if you will or the prohibition of flying into n out of ben gurian airport. they made that very clear. even yesterday, new york mayor michael bloomberg who disagreed with the faa decision also said he did not think that decision was in any way political. >> thank you tom costello. did israel, though, exert pressure on the faa to lift its

ban on flights into tel aviv? i'm joined by senator bob menendez. senator, what we do know is that i've been told that officials traveling with secretary kerry in cairo did put the israelis in touch with the faa because the faa wanted more information about iron dome and more technical information about the air defense systems. is that appropriate? >> well, if it helps the faa, who on their own determined there should be a ban, and from everything i know on their own, determined to lift it, if it helped them get information about what is necessary to secure the area around the airport, as they were deciding whether that ban was still appropriate or not, i think it was totally appropriate. >> what more do you know about the peace negotiations, the failure to reach a cease-fire? secretary kerry said there had been some progress made but it seems to be stalemated. >> well, it is a difficult

process that secretary kerry is going through. you have a situation with hamas where they say that they will not accept any cease-fire except one that ends what they call a blockade into gaza. and, obviously, you have a set of circumstances where the israelis still feel the potential and actual constant firing of missiles. and so until you can reconcile those two positions, it seems to me that a cease-fire is hard to come by. and at some point, i hope that there can be a cease-fire. i also hope that the world, as i see the u.n. reports talking about hamas having missiles inside of schools and then when those missiles are reported to palestinian authorities, they are moved. but then also, i think the report suggests they are given to hamas. this is the challenge that israel faces in its own yard. >> let me ask you also about, obviously, the other horror

story of this week and last which is ukraine. the europeans meeting again today. is there any indication that vladimir putin will be held to account for what the russian separatists clearly did in eastern ukraine? >> andrea, i'm of the belief that even before this terrible tragedy, we needed to be more assertive about sanctions on russia because ultimately, if we want to stop the type of aggression that we are now unfortunately continuing to see, putin will only stop that aggression if there are real consequences to them. and the european union, i hope, will wake up to this reality as well. now that we have this terrible tragedy and all of the indicators that suggest that the russian separatists had the equipment and the training and, therefore, the wherewithal to have this tragedy happen, and we see russian 15,000 russian

troops five miles from the ukrainian border and other incursions into eastern ukraine, i don't know how much instability putin has to create and how much consequences with these rebels that ultimately created the type of tragedy with the malaysian airline flight has to happen before we wake up to the reality that unless there are real consequences for putin, he will continue to mark in a way that is going to be incredibly destabilizing, not just to ukraine but the entire region. >> thank you so much. the chairman of the foreign relations committee, robert men denez. thank you senator. in northern gaza today, at least 15 people were killed, dozens more wounded when israeli tank shells hit a u.n. school used as a shielter for palestinians used to escape the conflict. this is the third time a school shelter has been hit by israel during the conflict. israel has said that schools are among the places where hamas has been storing and launching

rockets at israel. secretary kerry is still in cairo today trying to negotiate a cease-fire. so far without success. what are the obstacles? i'm joined by ambassador erekat. what about the israeli allegation that hamas is using people as human shields? >> well, israel claimed that few days ago they -- they admitted they found missiles in the compound and that the hamas are using them. even if, assuming if, and i doubt the israeli claims that hamas is firing from a shelter that is a refuge for israeli citizens that are running away from the bombardment of gaza by israel. even if they did that, there is no law that allows israel to target these civilian centers. it's very simple. you cannot target a civilian

population or center, even if people fired at you from there. i very much doubt israeli allegations. >> i want to ask your response to the american position which is that israel has the right to defend itself. it is rocketh that started with hamas. whether or not the blockade has been honored or not honored. the issue is when rocket fire comes against a country, it has to respond and defend itself. that's what the president has been saying. >> it's a twisted presentation of the facts. the palestinians are occupied people. they have the right to defend themselves. and facing such a military power like israel in the region, you know, the most powerful region in the middle east, i think the united nations charter provided that people under occupation have the right to defend themselves. >> israel did withdraw from gaza? >> well, no, not really. they kept gaza technically under occupation. one point 8 million people are living in an open air prison. they cannot move in and out. >> because of the closing and

because egypt closed -- >> everybody is closed -- back door is closed by egypt. >> israel initiated that blockade in 2007 when hamas took over. >> they say that blockade is to stop the rockets from going in. we know these rockets now exist. longer range rockets and the tunnelling is more extensive. their argument is they are trying stop weapons from getting in. >> there were no rockets launched at israel when israel started the blockade in 2007. the accumulation of the suffering of the people, the pressure that was created on the population led to certain actions against israel. listen, israel did that in 2008 and 2009 and again in 2012 and 2014. they'll be doing it in two, three, four years from now. if we continue to give israel the impression that they have impunity and they can do whatever they want to do and they will not be held accountable, they will continue to do that. 750 palestinians, more thn that have been killed. 4500. and nobody here, no u.s.

official, no member of congress is talking about these human beings who lost their lives who have names, ages and they are only innocent civilians being targeted. >> how do we stop this? how do we reach a cease-fire? you, the palestinians from fatah, mahmoud abbas, abu mazen was in cairo supporting the egyptian proposal. so was qatar and other countries. and now pulling back from that. putting new conditions on. why not agree to a cease-fire and then negotiate the lifting of the blockade. >> cease-fire remains our urgent priority. but there also has to be a way to deal with the underlying political causes. the underlying political causes are the blockade of the gaza strip. the fact there is a military occupation over the palestinian people. the fact that israel remains the aggressor in this conflict and the palestinians are entitled at some point to be free, independent, live in dignity and independent. >> understood. but you all agreed to the

cease-fire and then hamas wouldn't agree with it. so there would have been a cease-fire, but it was hamas who wasn't agreeing to that cease-fire. >> events on the ground dictated the course of the negotiations. israel used extremely excessive military power. the death toll rose significantly. people there are feeling the impact of this israeli campaign and it led to reformulating the approach that there has to be cease-fire in parallel with an israeli commitment to lift the blockade. >> thank you very much. really appreciate seeing you ambassador. and a week after mh-17 was shot down, days after investigators finally gave access to the crash site, our own keir simmons came across horrifying evidence of the continuing disregard for proper handling of the remains. >> in amongst this wreckage, a week after the airliner went down, there are still people's

personal possessions over here in what you can see was a fireball, one of a number in this wreckage site. there are suitcases, people's shoes. there are, you can see, identifiable, the seats from the plane. your eyes kind of focus on things trying to figure out what they are and then you get a picture of it. different bits of the plane in strange places. over across the field there, there's more wreckage. that gives you a feeling for how wide the expanse is and the fact that everything is still here. the investigators were there looking today, but what hasn't happened, the wreckage hasn't been moved to a place where it can be analyzed, and people's possessions haven't been gathered up. and i have to say, today we were in another field where we found a piece of human remains marked by a white flag that hadn't been taken away. beside it was a child's seat

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condemned man. >> everybody here from what i heard said it was excruciating. you don't know what excruciating is. what's excruciating is seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, seeing your sister laying there in a pool of blood. that's excruciating. this man deserved it, and i shouldn't really call him a man. he deserved everything he had coming to him. >> joining me from phoenix is one of the attorneys for joseph wood. i think you were there last night, and you were one of the people who was trying to get an emergency stay of execution during this horrendous hour and 57 minutes. what would you say to the family of the victims? >> well, you know, our condolences go to the family of the victims and certainly, you know, their views should be respected. however, in this country, if we have the death penalty, and we carry it out, it has to be carried out in a manner that

comports with the eighth amendment to the constitution. >> there was some statement today from arizona officials that he really wasn't suffering, that he wasn't gasping for air. but from all the eyewitnesses whom i saw last night on "rachel maddow" and on "larwrence o'donnell" and our coverage, he was very much alive for an hour and 57 minutes. he wasn't declared dead until then. >> yes, it took two hours, almost two hours for him to die. and the prison officials are not medical doctors. and mr. wood was not connected to equipment to determine whether or not he was experiencing pain. so, you know, those issues i think are going to be sorted out as time goes on in litigation in

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senate democrats uphill battle to keep the seat held by max baucus just got a little tougher. john walsh, the only iraq war veteran in the u.s. senate is trying to explain revelations by jonathan martin of the "new york times" that major excerpts of his masters thesis were lifted almost word for word from a think thank document. so was it plagiarism or ptsd. senator walsh told the associated press, i don't want to blame my mistake on ptsd but it may have been a factor. my head was not in a place very conducive to a classroom and an academic environment. joining me for our daily fix, chrissils chris cillizza, molly ball and jonathan il chris, first to you. a lot about rand paul that

rachel maddow uncovered. senator walsh explanation it could have been his war experience, not to discount his war experience but lifting a masters thesis for the war college? >> the reality is that, look, if he was suffering from ptsd, and no one is disputing that, that is one thing. deciding to plagiarize at least a quarter of your masters thesis at the war college is another. i think some people would say, look, if it was -- you are struggling that much go to your professors and say i'm having a very difficult time. i nid a break and i'll come back. the problem is at the end of the day, no matter what the context was, he passed off work that wasn't his as his own. in another place, i don't think this is a campaign killer, andrea, but this, as you mentioned in the open, this was already a very hard seat to hold. he needed to run a close to perfect campaign and this,

obviously is not in that blueprint. >> it does raise questions about the democrats' vetting process because this was an appointed seat. he got the seat because max baucus became ambassador to china, molly. rand paul gets a pass. rand paul was lifting whole sections of speeches and no one seems to care beyond those of us in the media. >> i think rand paul does get a pass. it's more of an arguable situation when you are talking about a speech where you are taking ideas from places and maybe if you had written that down there would be a footnote. that was rand paul's argument although he's been trying to cite more aggressively. that's a speech, not something you are submitting under your name for your masters thesis. the case of joe biden that basically killed his campaign in 1988. that was something where in some speeches he had been citing the guy and then in others he hadn't and got caught when he hadn't been. this is not a marginal case at all. there's nothing blurry about the

lines. it's open and shut. if you look at the interactive graphic, you can see whole sections just word for word taken from somewhere else. you can hear in his response that he's not denying it. he's not disputing it. and you can even hear in that an acknowledgment like i don't have much of an explanation for this. >> we've put up that graphic with the yellow sections showing they are just whole sections. >> when we talk about a masts or thesis, this is just a complete violation of all academic principles. >> academic principles, ethics and at the war college, integrity. from everything i've read at the war college, it is drummed into your head from the moment you get there that plagiarism is wrong. it's bad. you don't do it. and it violates the integrity, the code that's there at the war college. the senator not only has a problem with his fellow members of the senate and with the american people in terms of this guy's ethics. now he has people in the

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even if, assuming if and i doubt israeli claims that hamas is firing from a shelter that is a refuge for innocent civilians

who are running away from the barbaric bombardment of gaza by israel. even if they did that, there is no law that allows israel to target these civilian centers. it's very simple. you cannot target a civilian population or center even if people fired at you from there. joining me for more about this ongoing deadly conflict in in middle east, james zogby, founder and president of the arab-american constitute and columnist ari shavit in tel aviv. ari, first to you because you're there in the conflict zone and have heard the charges and countercharges. this is a failure of both sides and leadership by the united states that john kerry did not have a plan "b" as you put it for the failure of what you thought was a naive approach to having a comprehensive solution all at one time. where do we go from here,

though? >> well, let me first of all say that i admired secretary kerry's ideals, determination, moral commitment but i think the concept was unrealistic. and once the peace process failed, america left a vacuum in the middle east and within this vacuum, these terrible events of the last month has happened. i think that the target, the end of this horrible, horrible situation, which is so horrific and, first of all, let me say how much my heart goes out to the victims, to the people, to the children and women who are victims of this terrible tragedy. but we must distinguish between the population of gaza, which i've so -- such deep sympathy and empathy for, and hamas which is an evil organization. and we must call a spade a spade. hamas is a fascist organization, oppressing women, oppressing christians, oppressing gays.

that attacked israel for no good reason, rather than turn gaza into a palestinian single -- attacking israel for a decade. and when israel tried to prevent escalation in recent weeks, it kept on attacking and what is worse, we have to understand that what happens now, in this terrible tragedy of today, is exactly what hamas wants to do. unlike other armies that do some horrible things, hamas has two strategic goals in this campaign. one is to kill innocent israelis, and the other is to have palestinian civilians killed. this is different than any other entity or army. and their goal is really to have their own population killed by israelis. that's their strategy. and sadly, it's working. >> it does seem -- >> i just want to get --

>> i think when we'll have a cease-fire, at last, i think the goal should be double goal. on the one hand, the gaza strip must be demilitarized. in the sense we have to go for the syrian concept. on the other hand, i think we have to be much more generous with the civilian population. the people of gaza must have a life, and they must have a future. the deal is very clear one. no rockets, no military ability, but alive and as much prosperity as possible for the people of gaza who are really now the victims of this terrible tragedy unfolding. >> jim zogby, there's a lot there. what ari is saying is that they have to demilitarize this zone. how do you demilitarize this zone n get at the tunnels, get at the weapons that israel at least claims have been hidden in some population centers? >> there's a paternity issue here. how did this all begin? israel has a narrative that it evacuated the gaza strip and

freed the people and ended the occupation. it's simply not true. even in the best of times before during the early period, gaza was closed. there were no jobs. 80% youth unemployment for at least the 15 years i was measuring it. 15 years of 80% unemployment means that the yong men in hamas who are fighting today never had a job, no prospect of a job, no hope. no family. >> i don't think ari would disagree with that. what about hamas? >> hamas is a creature of this desperation and anger. when the blockade began, the anger grew even more. now i hold no court for hamas. i agree with ari. i oppose their tactics and i am vigorously opposed to their ideology. but they are a creature of the desperation created by the occupation. understand that in the few weeks proceeding this war, 600 of their leaders were arrested, most of them held on

administrative detention with no charge, no trial. hamas was facing an extensial threat. israel provoked hamas. hamas fell into the trap and now israel has fallen into hamas' trap and the innocent people are dying. for one side to pretend it's all white and the other side to pretend it's all evil doesn't hold up. this is where hamas certainly is at fault. in people of gaza are paying the bitter price. israel has to make the first move because it is the occupying power. >> let me ask you both and we don't have a whole lot of time. israelis seem to support what the government is doing. is there a cease-fire option right now? >> it's a difficult one. but let me state the following. i went into the shelter twice today. hamas is targeting central israel. tel aviv and jerusalem. what would have happened? what would have happened if al

qaeda has taken over guantanamo and would have shot missiles first at miami beach, then charleston, then at atlantic city, then in washington and new york? even if there would not have been civilian casualties, if america's sovereignty would have been violated, day after day, for 2 1/2 weeks in such an extreme way, is there any one who has any doubt how peaceful president like president obama would have reacted? >> ari, let me -- >> how america reacted, our america reacted with using drones in afghanistan and yemen and other places. this is a situation -- this is a -- no, i'm sorry. this is a situation where the israeli democracy, it has pulled out of gaza. >> it's not fair. >> what the international community and people like me asked the government to do, and the result is these hostilities and these atrocious attacks of which the palestinian people have become a victim of. sothis has to be dealt with.

at the end of the day, the solution for gaza is to free it from hamas. and the short term, a cease-fire, long term, freeing the people of the palestinian people from hamas rule. >> you can occupy the land, ari, but you don't occupy the time. give me a break here. if the united states were occupying cuba, completely, and missiles wering by fired into america, the answer is negotiate an end to the occupation of cuba. we don't occupy cuba. but israel does occupy the entire west bank and occupies all access and egris from gaza. it's an open air prison camp. what has to happen for a cease-fire to work is hope has to be given to the people. i saw a piece from a rabbi today saying the best weapon against hamas is hope to the palestinian people. if there is -- >> i totally agree. >> coupled with a cease-fire is an opening of the borders, an opening of the port and opening of the ability to official in the sea. an opportunity to rebuild the

economy. hamas will dry up. they only are fueled by -- >> no doubt. i support a two-state -- >> we have to leave it. >> unfortunately we've given it another round. we'll have another one yet unless we end the despair. >> ari, thank you so much. >> at the end of the day, we need a two-state solution. >> i think the two of you agree on a two-state solution and on access to gaza and we'll have to see whether john kerry and others can produce that. >> thank you. coming up, outrage boils over in india over the latest shocking rape case. this time a 6-year-old girl assaulted at school. that's next right here an "andrea mitchell reports." it's time for the "your business" entrepreneur of the week. ron morris and ken jones got a $500 loan from ken's parents and started mercantile home which manufactures clothing and home goods. without a lot of funds, they had to make everything themselves.

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arrested the school's chairman for destroying evidence of sexual molestation and failing to ensure school safety. the girl's roller skating instructor was arrested for allegedly raping the child while she left the classroom to use the bathroom. it's the latest incident in a country that's been facing criticism for years that it hasn't done enough to combat sexual violence. i'm joined by the editor of the asian america. americans are trying to understand the crisis and it's very hard to get your head around it. >> that's right. the details of this one story, the 6-year-old story, are horrifying enough. when you put it into the bigger context of what's been going on in india for the last few years and even before anyone started paying attention it's horrifying. the number of reported rapes in india up 35% between 2012 and 2013. the number of all crimes against women, also up over that same time. another statistic we found 1 in

3 of those assaults are on women under the age of 18. those numbers alone are enough to make anyone sit up and take notice. it's in details of each of these stories coming out over the last few years that really get people angry in india and outside. we started paying attention back really in december of 2012 when there was this horrible attack of the young woman on a public bus. she was brutally gang raped and later died because of her injuries. since then, stories keep coming out. two teen girls gang raped and hanged from a tree in a rural part of the country. allegations against officials of rape and sexual assault. now this 6-year-old girl. what's making people angry is not just the fact that these individual stories are so disturbing but the response from the leadership in india to these stories. there's always been a regressive attitude but that has really come to light in recent years. to the point where now people are sharing on social media sort of a round-up of the most

ridiculous statements from some of these leaders saying things like, rape is sometimes right. sometimes wrong. arguing that maybe the punishment shouldn't be as severe as they are saying boys make mistakes. and it's the culture right now that's really getting a lot of attention, not just the crimes themselves. >> and this has led to economic impacts. women leaving work early. tourism down. india is a thriving economy. and such a literate society. so many well educated people. and the fact that this is kind of a throwback to some sort of ancient tribal mentality is scary. women entrepreneurs have even tried to engineer new devices, clothing that would have buzzers and alarm bells that would strike back. jeans and pants that would strike back against assaults? >> that's right. it's almost funny. you want to laugh if it wasn't so disturbing what we're talking

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