to cairo.t is the plan at least? >> it doesn't matter who is traveling to cairo -- >> oh, i think it does. we need to know who is negotiating. >> it will be a presentation of plo, [ inaudible ] and hamas. all palestinian groups together. >> all right. thank you for that. james bayes in west jerusalem who was listening to that, anything you picked out of that which is new information for us? >> well, i think the one bit of information that i have to add which i told you earlier to what he said, i think what he said provides some confirmation of what we have already heard from the palestinian authority, and it's good to get it from him as a prominent palestinian figure. but he said israel had rejected this latest offer. i don't think it has yet. i think what will be israel's response we'll discover in a few hour's time at the security cabinet meeting which will take place in just under three hours. and really, it's going to be interesting to see how israel responds. israel all along has -- when t

cairo has much stronger track record and now even cairo's credibility is being called into question as you said. >> thank you very much for that update. thank you again. against the backdrop of that situation in gaza, sunday evening saw angry scenes here in the french capital where police and pro-palestinian demonstrators clashed close to the central ba stich. according to some sources, it ended violently. trying to enter two synagogues, bastille. rating president francois hollande spoke out against what happened yesterday. translator: we can't bring the conflict between israel and palestinian home. everyone is free to stage demonstrations. people have that right. but you cannot have outbreaks of violence. you cannot have attacks or attempts to attack places of worship, whether they're synagogues, like what happened yesterday. i say the same thing for mosques, for churches or temples. we live in a secular country. all religions have the right to peaceful places of worship. i would like to say frmly attacks of this sort will not be ell rated. >> the french president francois hollande sp

>> i think he probably heads to cairo, bunk yes moon is u.n. secretary is on his way and the palestinian president mahmoud abbacy think he is in qatar and will also be heading to cairo, i suspect that cairo is going to be the scene of the action. and the purpose is to achieve a

secretary of state john kerry who is in cairo, speaking in cairo now. u.s.is not giving up. because as we've been listening to him, he says despite disagreements between the sides, he is confident that there is a framework for a cease-fire that will ultimately succeed. as far as other developments today, the violence there, the violence that has been going on and on for 18 days in gaza is spreading to the west bank. palestinian west bank leaders calling today, today a rage and a show of support for palestinian this is gaza. meantime, israeli police have boosted their presence in jerusalem. the jerusalem post newspaper reports the officers have been told to expect violence. and now, the f.a.a. is closely monitoring the security situation at tel aviv's airport and may reimpose a ban on u.s. fl

we know that envoys from hamas and fat tar are on their way to cairo. a search for a cease fire. tell us how unified they are politically in terms of looking for an agreement for a cease fire on israel. >> first of all, people are united against the israeli aggression attacks against our people in gaza. national concerns now is how to achieve comprehensive cease fire and to stop israeli aggressions and attacks on gaza. there was an egyptian initiative. last night there was a phone call between our president and president al-sisi. he invited presidential delegation to go and discuss the situation there. the list of the political factions including hamas and jihad islamic is agreement escalation. last night in gaza by israelis. i don't think this gave any chance to any delegation to go to cairo in order to discuss what? first of all comprehensive israeli aggression should stop. otherwise i don't see any chance to go to cairo because there is nothing to discuss. only if we want to go with white flag. >> are you confident though that he will influence hamas

they need to show the political maturity to go with one voice to cairo. that it will be hard to get what they want out of this, especially lifting the siege. >> thank you. >>> we will move to other news now. at least 30 people killed overnig overnight due to fighting in libya. they have announced however, a 24-hour ceasefire to put out a fire. >> reporter: it looks like an impossible job from the ground, trying to put out a massive fire while rebels fight nearby. the oil depot that is pers personing -- is burning out of control. there are fears it would cause a dangerous fireball. the fire was started by stray rockets from rival militias. rebels have been fighting each ore for more than two weeks around triply. there is also fighting in benghazi. rebels have taken control of the city's biggest military camp. libya has already experienced a 20% drop in oil production because of the recent fighting. people are suffering because of the lack of security and lack of oil. >> translator: libya is the world's third largest producer of oil, so how is it possible n

all issues can be raised in cairo.region to twhoes have played an important role. egypt, qatar, turkey where they trial to get to help now which is a pause in what's been terrible violence over the past 24 days. >> earlier today the prime minister of israel, ambassador feltman, said israel will continue destroying the hamas tunnels that go from gaza into israel. he used the phrase cease-fire or no cease-fire. is it your understanding that during the 72-hour period israel will be allowed to destroy the tunnels going from gaza into israel, or will they have to cease all activity? >> it'smy understanding the israel forces will stay where they are and according to what we've heard, we heard the israeli statements about ongoing defensive operations which i interfrom it the same way as you interpret. what we want to see happen, though, wolf, senior if the offensive fighting between the two sides to end. we want to see humanitarian delivers start with the palestinians. we want to see people being able to try to recover the wo

they are very suspicious of cairo. they are going to be slow to accept something from cairo. in israel, the hardliners were opposed to the slow start to the campaign. these are hardliners within the cabinet. there are press conferences this afternoon from party members within the coalition government to criticize the government for signing -- for agreeing to this cease-fire. we can see divisions on both sides. is inve to say the ball the court of hamas. >> thank you. militants have fired more than 900 rockets into the territory. israel has launched airstrikes that have killed more than 185 palestinian's. our correspondent has been out in the gaza strip with the ambulance teams that have been working around the clock. >> ambulance workers drive at frightening speeds when it comes to saving someone's life. every second counts. what happened? >> there was an airstrike. >> take a trip into the unknown. do not know where they will be heading to what they will find. local say that a missile hit an apartment in the building. residents are panicked and furious. missile, the people he

i do know the spotlight is suddenly back on cairo again. they say kerry is backing cairo.ys tells us that there is the dialogue that they keep up the pressure on behalf of our journalists and also the muslim brotherhood supporters who are in prison, tens of thousands of them. maybe the fact that the spotlight is back on cairo again is a good thing, but pushing the president to recognize that he should have stepped in, and even now could bring some sort of amnesty. >> bob simon said if the president of the united states would pick up the phone and call sisi it might make a difference. >> i'm not going to attack the american government, because to be fair, they don't have a dog in the fight here. the only fight they have is press freedom. and they say when they do speak they are speaking on behalf of our journalists and all of the journalists in egypt. >> sue thank you for coming on. >> my pleasure. >>> coming up next, we head to washington, adam is in for joie chen to tell us what is coming up on "america tonight." >> hi, john, coming up on "america tonight" as the world tr

there's talks in cairo aimed at a cease fire. this is light in the darkness, small taste or normal for the people. a cease fire depends on those talks and not events over this five hour break. >> thanks very much kevin from jerusalem. let's have a look at issues faced by u.n. bodies on the ground. we have someone describing the impact of the cease fire on people. >> first day in nine days they've been stuck in a traffic jam which is a nice change i suppose. streets have been desserted, shops closed, banks closed. to have people on the street active is a very positive sign. >> from your perspective, five hours is something. that's poultry stuff isn't it? >> it's a start. it's something to be built on. the coordinator worked on this hard yesterday. it's not a solution, but hopefully it's a step wartoward one. >> what can you do in a window like this to assist? >> i think the bigger impact for this is it's less on us and more on the people particularly those as you said earlier, able to get out, get to shops and restock. there's als

that is why he is in cairo, shuttling back and forth trying to get a cease-fire here because we don'tant israeli citizens to live under the threats that we've seen with rockets not only landing at the airport prompting this notice, but affecting the israeli citizens all across the country. so the secretary is very committed to this. that is why he is on the ground right now. >> how close is he? and the partners he is working with to achieve a cease-fire between the israelis and the ham hamas? >> well, wolf, this is still very complicated. he has been shuttling back and forth, talking with different departments, the qataris, the turks, others, but he is going to be making decisions very soon about whether the parties are actually interested in coming to a cease-fire here. his time on the ground is not infinite. he has other business to tend to, as well. so i think we'll see over the next 24 to 36 hours whether there is a clear path forward here. but really we at the end of the day, all you have to do is look at the scenes coming out of the ground today to know we need a cease-fire as s

and early in 1949, al-banna was standing outside the ymca in cairo and was killed. so these events are a little shadowy, but i presume that the egyptian secret police took revenge on al-banna for the assassination by rubbing him out. then the brotherhood is driven underground, it's an underground organization. and people have to stop meeting and deny they ever had anything to doed with it and so forth. 1952, young officers in egypt made a coup against the regime. the parliamentary regime in egypt was kind of game of big landlords, they had huge haciendas, cotton farms on which the pesants work, extremely inequal society, a few thousand families on the good land. parliament was the big game, who was in parliament was the big landlords. of a few small industrialists and so forth. it was the elite. and much of the country were pesant sharecroppers or people without any power at all. and then this top elite was financially accused of corruption, and so the young officers made a coup. they felt they were betrayed in 1949 by the egyptian government because it had sent the

does cairo make sense as a place to focus on? >> we're caught in a rather difficult pair dox here.nd blockade opens the border of egypt and gaza. egypt's involvement in that remains quite important. on the other hand as you rightly point out, relations between hamas and cairo are not particularly good to put it mildly. it doesn't seem as though that's going to change any time soon. palestinians the in gaza are unfortunately caught in the midst of not one but two war on terror. war on terror egypt is waging at the present time as far as it's concerned and also israelis. in the middle of that, palestinians in gaza are suffering tremendously. 1200 are dead. >> briefly the perspective from egypt itself. i saw the former president morsi supporting the people in gaza, palestinians there. are are there indications of pressure on president al-sisi now? >> here in cairo at least from what i've seen there seems to be a difference of opinion as to what's going on. there will be quite a few who identify the palestinians in gaza as represented by hamas. hamas being part of the quote unquote war

did you say president abass is going to cairo? that's my first question, along with the palestinian delegation and my second is ha mass said, you know, doesn't like the new government in cairo. what makes you think, since their turned down the first egyptian offer at a peace agreement, a truce, what makes you think hamas would go for one now? >> well, the president is form ing delegation, not leaving a delegation. he is going to cairo. in the coming few hours, we will be receiving the final answer from hamas. they are now meeting in ka tar qatar and we will be receiving their final answer. the important thing is this aggression that israel is taking, totally unjustified because we know, today, the israeli chief police said nobody has claimed responsibility of the killing of the three that caused all of this aggression on gaza. israel has a hidden agenda to destroy and to totally destroy what has been signed by the formation of an agreed upon palestinian government. israel wanted to keep gaza separate from the territory because of

what you are seeing is ban ki-moon in cairo. he has been in qatar, the qatari government going over to cairo now hopefully are ren da rend r. what i got from u.n. secretary ban ki-moon is there to find a way forward for all sides, certainly to stop what's going on in terms of the violence, trying to find the long term solution. he also talked about not allowing the status quo to stay the same and saying that gaza was an open wound. a tough diplomatic meeting because a lot of these groups aren't speaking to each other. the americans don't like hamas, hamas don't like the current egyptian government. it's a very difficult one. >> yes, it is a difficult one, especially that the stakes have been hiked with the escalation of violence in the territories. but there is some sort of hope, if you will. there's a silver lining in the black cloud. and that is, that hamas, in its own ceasefire initiative, mentioned it wants the united states to get involved and to have guarantees. qatar says it doesn't have a ceasefire initiative on its own.

ban ki-moon and john kerry have been meeting in cairo, and a news conference with them has been delayed. the holidays next week, marking the end of ramadan. and kerry has been pushing regional leaders to halt. a proposal, and now medical and food aid have entered gaza. thousands of palestinians have better than forced to leave their homes because of the israeli bombardment. meanwhile, at least five palestinians have been killed in the west bank in the protest against the fighting in gaza. two were killed overnight, and 10,000 people marched through west bank. now live from west jerusalem, james, a delay in hearing anything out of cairo from ban ki-moon and john kerry, really underscores the difficulty in reaching any ceasefire proposal. >> we're picking up bits of information from all side, but it's clear that this is still evolving, and there are in many ways a deadline because ban ki-moon and john kerry said they were leaving friday afternoon from cairo to the u.s.. ban ki-moon to the u.n. in new york, and john kerry to the state department in washington. i think they delayed their pl

almost immediately after landing in cairo, kerry met face-to-face with the u.n. secretary-general and pledged $47 million in u.s. aid to help the 80,000 palestinians who are currently seeking shelter in gaza. he will also speak to the egyptian president on tuesday about opening up the border crossing between egypt and gaza to allow medical and humanitarian aid to that palestinian territory but it is not at all certain who can get all sides to hold their fire, it's going to be very difficult. u.s. officials say israel's military has moved hard, fast, has raised the stakes and it is not at all clear whether any country can persuade hamas to stop firing rockets into israel. margaret brennan, cbs news, cairo. >>> this morning, calmer winds are expected to help in the efforts to fight dozens of wildfires burning across the pacific northwest. this is one of the worst as seen from the international space station. the carlton complex fire is one the largest in washington state history. it's burned about 380 square miles destroyed about 150 homes and it's blamed for one d

you have ban ki-moon also in cairo, the u.n.-general in cairo tonight. >> hamas has demands from here to timbuktu. the proposals the egyptians put on the table were not just egyptian proposals. they were supported a moment ago by large parts of the area. i think people of gaza want that cease-fire and hamas has stubbornly refused to accept those proposals. now i think it's important to say the following. america is coming in now to cairo. america is putting its weight behind those egyptian proposals. mediation will not work unless it's clear who the mediator is. and it's clear the ball is in cairo and we've got to support that egyptian effort. >> and is there some point where secretary kerry and prime minister netanyahu may be meeting in the next couple of days? >> the secretary of state of the united states is always a welcome guest in israel. that's a fact. and we've been very appreciative of the support from washington. america has condemned hamas for rejecting the arab league egyptian cease-fire proposal. america has condemn

to form the delegation to go to cairo.hey are ready and prefer to join these efforts as soon as they take place in cairo. we hope this will materialize in the next couple of days. hopefully sooner because we want to see this stop of the bloodshed. enough for aggression and let's sit and talk and try to resolve this issue politically. there's no military solution to this problem. >> mein arekat, thank you for joining us. >>> a cease-fire here that was supposed to take effect in the middle east didn't take effect very long. it was broken by explosions. we're going to get reaction to ways going on. stay with us. >>> to clarify wahat the commander of the military command said to reporters in a briefing that just occurred. he said to his estimate, this is general tersman, he said the israeli military is just a few days away from completing its mission in gaza. as well as the tunnels that israel has discovered since beginning this operation. that's general tami tersamen. we spoke just before that four-hour cease-fire was suppose

hamas does not have much trust or respect for leadership in cairo.does not, christine, because president c.c., the egyptian president has a fight on his hands. hamas is a branch of that. of course no love lost at all between hamas and they believe the united states supports israel rather than taking a neutral position. we have to see what happens in political terms. if you look at what's happening on the battlefield, why would a cease-fire be a good idea now? when israel started, the aims there would have shot down the tunnels militants were using to borrow into israeli territory to launch attacks and shut down hamas missile launchers that they buried under ground. as the days have gone on, israel has not achieve thad gain. they continue to launch raids into israel proper, inflicting casualties on israeli forces there. 20 minutes ago, we saw a barrage of militant rockets. four of them from a single launch site. if you look on the hamas side, hamas is giving a good account of itself. it has taken a heavy toll on the israeli military. right now, we kno

he is saying here now in cairo.concerning this cease fire and what israeli officials said about the agreement concerning a cease fire. he absolutely denied and said there's no agreement reach sod far. that's what the deputy leader of the hamas political bureau said concerning the cease fire. as for the egyptian foreign minister who i met earlier in the day, he said negotiations are involving all departments. when i asked about hamas saying it has not been contested by the egyptian party, he said we contacted everybody, communicate a ed before we came out. other regional parties in this talks specifically turkey and cut tar. if these overshadow any roads by any means and he said absolutely not. they are welcome for any party to participate. he was very clear about the fact that the egyptian cease fire initiative is the only one which has international recognition so far. >> do palestinians feel egypt is the best country to be negotiating? >> in a way but we have tension in egypt. a couple of months ago egyptian court

secretary-general, are about to make a major statement in cairo.om this israeli cabinet minister who joined us right from that inner security cabinet meeting, doesn't look like the israelis are going along with this deal. >> well, wolf, i think you have to separate the idea of this one-week humanitarian truce. if you remember, i think later last week or earlier this week there was, you know, a very temporary lull in the fighting so that both sides could get humanitarian supplies into gaza, so that some of the dead could be cleared out of the rubble. there's a real humanitarian situation going on on the ground right now. i think both sides want a stop to fighting. clearly, israel has other objectives here. the larger issue of demilitarizing hamas, that's not even on the table. secretary of state kerry is trying to get the one-week truce. and sources are telling me they hope that could be the opening to some of the israeli demands and the palestinian tee demands on the easing of the border crossings. but also on the demilitarization that the minister

i know john kerry is in cairo. the last time the cease-fire failed, hamas said, nobody talked to us. are there any hamas representatives in all of this? >> from what we're seeing, possibly, yes, hamas has representatives there in cairo. the issue is, one is political, what level of confidence and trust is there. of course, hamas don't have any trust in the egyptian government in the hands of general -- now president because he is a staunch opponent of the muslim brotherhood. you have the united states involved there this time arnold. there is no love loss between brotherhood and united states. hamas claims united states backs israel and isn't a real mutual ash tart arbitrator. now israel has not got its job done yet. israel came into this, setting a number of limited goals. those were to shut down the rocket launchers and shut down the tunnels. as days go on, israeli military is taking more hits, more taush casualties, and they can't get their job done shutting down the tunnels and hamas rocket fire. hamas is in em

john kerry will be doing in cairo.e that he will put all of his efforts so the egyptians, countries like the arab league tonight, the arab world will put their backing to the egyptian proposal, fully ensuring this proposal. i'm really hopeful we will see some real, real serious possible cease-fire in the next 12 to 24 hours. >> that would be great if the deaths in gaza could stop, the injuries, the rockets coming into israel. a cease-fire would be excellent news. but i want you to listen to what asama hamdan told me within the past hour, listen to this. >> this is a silly idea. it's a joke. it's not politics. it's a joke. >> he says it's a joke, a silly idea. and he also says that hamas has not even formally received the egyptian proposals in a document. why would he say that? >> i'm sure that once he receives the official egyptian offer and proposal, they will. because to say it's a joke before even he reads it, he said he hasn't received it, the egyptians plan to bring hamas leaders within the next few hours to cairo

secretary of state john kerry taking the podium in cairo, egypt, with u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon. israel's security cabinet unanimously rejecting now a u.s. backed proposal for a week-long truce for fighting in gaza. we're keeping a close eye on what the secretary of state is saying and we'll bring you any events to you as they come in. >>> in the meantime, it's a game one in six kids have tried. 86% of parents have never heard of and 1,000 kids die from it every year. we're talking about the choking game and playing it involves strangling yourself to cut off oxygen to the brain all to get high. >> so you're choking. >> you're interested? >> let's call it curious. >> we have the executive producer and director of the new lifetime movie coming out tomorrow night "the choking game." as a parent, that little clip made me so incredibly fearful for things we don't know that our kids are doing. what is the choking game? >> the choking game is where kids between the ages of 9 and 16 are cutting off their own oxygen to their brains to get a high not realizin

secretary of state john kerry arrived in cairo monday night. joined there, as you see, by ban ki-moon. >> the gaza health ministry now reports that more than 573 pal st palestinians have been killed. >> israel says it will not waiver on its stated mission to enter israel or to store weapons. we'll talk more about these tunnels now with martin savidge. martin, we wanted to make a note, to destroy these tunnels is only a temporary solution. palestinians said they used to smuggle in supplies and israel says they used to smuggle in weapons. what needs to be done so more tunnels are not built? >> the specific tunnels that we're talking about now that israel says has been a new weapon of terror against them is not traditionally what you find along the border, say, with gaza and egyp egypt. the israelis would say terrorists are gaining access to israelis and to launch strikes against israelis. so we've heard a lot about the rockets that have been fired out of gaza. the tunnels now are an increasing focus for israeli forces, as far as we have found. >>

all factors will meet in cairo, and they are willing to agree on a 24-hour ceasefire.as says it is open to the idea. it is all part of the effort to try to end the israeli bombardment that has now killed 1, 178 palestinians. gaza is experiencing some of the worst air strikes yet after 22 days of violence. more than one in four people killed are children. the palestinian authorities says it has now filed war crime allegations against israel at the icc. the announcement was made by the palestinian liberation organization. it says a delegation is on its way to cairo to decide on a ceasefire >> translator: after consulting with our brethren in hamas, and islamic jihad, the palestinian authority announced in the name of all of the factions our readiness to stop the fighting and agree on a 24-hour humanitarian truce in gaza. we're positively considering a 72 hour ceasefire as well. >>> as an initial opposition for the palestinians, we welcome the idea of the ceasefire humanitarian basis, but we need the guarantee that the israeli side [ inaudible ] they have every time viola

in this case, or at least all the parties that have a stake in this present in cairo?well, all the parties are being consulted. i don't think initiative is american. of course, the americans always adopt israeli position and try to pull chestnuts out of the fire for it. right now it's the egyptian initiative, several countries involved, even turkey is voltd, qatar is involved, the president is going to kuwait. b ban ki-moon is going to the region tonight. ee quipgs fighters are included, included representative in cairo and islamic, they're all engaged. there is ongoing palestinian discussion and also arab discussion and also an international sort of mul multilateral discussion. the issue is to get straight to the point to save lives. we want to stop this blood shed, we want to save lives, but we want to ensure israels puente and free hand to inflict more pain, death and destruction would be ended, would be curbed. >> what israel says, as you know, and we're hearing it echoed around the world, is fighters in gaza and hamas are taking no care to prevent civilian deaths

-backed cease-fire plan as john kerry continues talks with leaders in cairo. >> israeli demonstrations in germany past off peacefully. >> a reshuffle after the surprise resignation of the ukrainian prime minister. are new elections in the cards? >> hello, and welcome. efforts to secure a cease-fire between israel and hamas have suffered another setback. the israeli security cabinet unanimously rejected a truce deal put together over recent days by u.s. secretary of state john kerry. >> kerry and u.n. secretary ban ki-moon have been in cairo for talks with egyptian foreign minister concerning the deal, and they have just been speaking in the past few minutes. kerry says it is time for both sides to come to their senses and end weeks of deadly conflict. >> the u.s. and u.n. are both trying to broker a cease-fire. secretary of state john kerry and u.n. secretary ban ki-moon have been in egypt, meeting with representatives of the warring parties. correspondent tom dale is also there. give us details of the proposals on the table in cairo. >> the proposal, the one-week period from sunday, t

attempted diplomacy yesterday in cairo. mahmood of us with tony blair with the egyptian foreign minister with hamas and so forth , and the opposite of all of this is now a ground war. thethis suggests to me that brigades were working pretty hard to basically undo any prospect of a political deal because they are the ones who the military escalation. i would say that the more nottical side of hamas does necessarily need that because hamas has been under so much pressure over the last few years as a result of the blockade, as a result of regional developments where it has lost allies or allies like syria and iran have become much more focused on other things, as you know. i would say the political wing of hamas needed a way out of this somehow, and there seemed to be a little bit of hope -- i'm sure, not a lot, but that something was going to be cooked that cairo, and now we see the military situation has already overtaken everything else. we're just hearing that from an israeli military spokesman, who said the aim of the off

you have had doha being a very important location, as well as cairo.re today in the last few hours, we have seen turkish foreign minister fly in with the qatar foreign minister, and they have been meeting with hamas. worth telling you is the fact that we have learned from the state department in washington that john kerry has been in cairo for well over 24 hours. yesterday he made 25 calls on this, and today he has made 13 calls. he has been working the phones. they have really been trying. they had ban ki-moon, and john kerry set a sort of deadline a few hours ago, saying we're going to have a news conference and then we're flying back to the us. but it's pretty clear already from israeli media that israel has rejected the ceasefire deal. >> now let's head to steph decker who is live for us in sgau -- gaza. and the mounting civilian death toll really calls for a trust. meanwhile it has been another day of bombardment in the strip. >> it has, and just in the last hour, just when it started was when the people here break their ramadan fast, eight people

last night, should be arriving in cairo in the next few hours. we fully anticipate from cairo, he's going to make other stops. i suspect he'll be here in jerusalem fairly soon as well. carol? >> so a question for you about john kerry, what can he really do? >> i think what he's going to try to do is convince everyone to support the egyptian cease-fire proposal. the new government in cairo under president el cece is much more inclined to go along with what the israelis want. there is no great love between hamas in gaza and the new egyptian government. but the palestinian authority leadership, president mahmoud abbas and others in the arab league, they accepted that egyptian proposal. the pressure will mount on all sides i suspect in the next day or two to come up with a cease-fire proposal. israeli military planners tell me they want to do as much destruction of hamas, tunnels from gaza into israel, hamas' military capability as possible, because they know there will be enormous pressure for the cease-fire and the withdrawal of israeli forces who

john kerry arriving in cairo on a diplomatic mission. >> how the u.s.ecretary of state is hoping to forge a ceasefire agreement between israel and hamas. for our call center. i'm spending too much time hiring and not enough time in my kitchen. [ female announcer ] need to hire fast? go to ziprecruiter.com and post your job to over 30 of the web's leading job boards with a single click; then simply select the best candidates from one easy to review list. you put up one post and the next day you have all these candidates. makes my job a lot easier. [ female announcer ] over 100,000 businesses have already used zip recruiter and now you can use zip recruiter for free at a special site for tv viewers; go to ziprecruiter.com/offer5. >>> welcome back. we are slowing you live pictures now from gaza. huge plumes of smoke rising into the sky after a huge explosion in gaza city a few hours ago followed by several smaller ones. we don't know the cause of the smoke you're seeing right now or the earlier explosions. but as you have been hearing from the reporters on

. >> all day the diplomats have been meeting in cairo, trying to come up with a ceasefire. but in cairo and hamas, the palestinian authority, egypt and united states, it has been ten with us. and for three hours, we have a humanitarian pause, ceasefire for three hours, and it wasn't really broken. you had about three rockets fired from gaza, and a single israeli response, we had splinter groups taking credit for those, and in response, we have seen israel begin some kind of air campaign, three, four strikes or so, apparently headed to from the israeli army. but there's still momentum. and diplomatic progress from the ceasefire. from israel and hamas and in washington. there's a huge push to try to find a solution where all of them can agree. israel wants a demill tarrization of gaza, and hamas wants egypt open, and completely lifting of israeli. and the violence will continue over the next few hours, but most of the officials say that the progress toward a ceasefire is definitely positive, and the momentum is with a diplomatic solution to this conflict soon. >> meanwhile, i

we're on our way to cairo.fort. from cairo, the president will head to turkey. we'll touch with many hamas leaders, and i hope that all the clarifications being asked by hamas and other factions will be addressed and achievement of the success of this egyptian effort is a must for all of us. is a must for all of us. it's in the interest for all of us. and if we allow things to deteriorate, i think it's going to be a disaster all over. >> i think you're absolutely right. i spoke with a hamas spokesman in the last hour. he said that hamas never even got a formal proposal in writing from egypt. that's why they rejected it as a joke. is he right? >> well, i don't know. i don't really know what happened between egypt and hamas. but all i know is that the president is on his way to egypt in order -- [ rockets firing overhead ] look, no one has the potential to achieve with palestinian reconciliation. it's political geography. now the regionreally boiling. failure is not an option here. okay, we can say whatever we wa

if you look at president obama's famous cairo speech. what is that if not an outreach to the whole muslim world? and he says, there's this impediment to my relationship with you, oh, muslims, the state of israel. and -- and the state of israel and, oh, there's this other impediment, which is the foreign policy of george w. bush. okay, so it's not the british and the french, but it's the imperialistic impulse that's in the dna of the west and i'm showing you i'm going to pull back and therefore we can get along with each other. the middle east blew apart and went in directions that nobody that nobody expected. and as in the 1950s, nobody's really focused on it. if i said to president obama and his advisers in 2011, you really ought to focus more on the relations that on the israeli/palestinian question would have been laughed out of the room. of course, now that conflict in syria has killed 150,000 people which is 30,000 more people than have died in the arab/israeli conflict from the beginning to the end, a century of conflict. but those

ahead of yon kerry left cairo is ban ki-moon.ming to tel aviv in the next few minutes, we expect him to see prime minister netanyahu trying to put the israeli side of this in place. john kerry said the israelis are prepared for a cease-fire agreement. >> that's not quite as simple as it sounds. there are some in the israeli political elite and military command who perhaps feel now having been on the ground in gaza seen the complexity of some of the tunnel structures. >> that's what we are hearing they are seeing some of these tunnels are much more sophisticated than they thought. there are some who would like to press on with the military operation for a few more days. >> at the moment, thanks very much indeed for joining us from west jer ice let me our guest the editor at large, is what do you make of the latest it diplomatic round? does this push toward some sort of peace between the palestinians and the israelis action being brokered by egypt and the u.s.? >> you know what? the problems with all of that is while the palestinia

egypt, -- could row -- cairo, egypt. craig boswell has the latest. >> reporter: iers's military continued to pound hamas targets in the gaza strip despite plans for a cease-fire. two dozen members of a single family were killed in a rocket attack. this relative said, doesn't this show that israel is ruthless? president obama spoke about the crisis at the white house. >> it now has to be our focus and the focus of the international community to bring about a cease-fire that ends the fighting and that can stop the deaths of innocent civilians. >> reporter: for both sides, sunday was the deadliest day of fighting since it began on july 8. 13 israeli soldiers were killed, including two americans who were members of israel's elite brigade. 22-year-old nissam sean carmeli of texas and 24 yeax max steinberg of -- 24-year-old max steinberg of southern

>> rose: welcome to the program, we begin this evening with the "new york times" cairo bureau chief david kirkpatrick. >> the new egyptian government established with the military takeover last year has shut down all of the unsympathetic media. media which was listening to or sympathetic to the muslim brotherhood so, now when you flip through the television dial you see private networks that are pro cc, state-owned networks pro cc and only one network broadcasting in arabic that is critical of the cc government and that is al jazeera. and the pro military or pro cc egyptians often speak of al jazeera like it is basically itself a terrorist organization with satellites. >> we conclude this evening with steve inskeep in a conversation about national public radio. >> in radio you get an opportunity to hear what people say, what they think. you get a sense to follow their reasoning and you get a chance to tell a story. the other thing you get to do that i really love, charlie s that you can make it if you do it correctly, a visual medium by which i mean a little sound, a little sound from the

>> as martin indyk said on your show, the secretary will head probably tonight to cairo, an egyptian led diplomacy from the united states trying to draw in abbas, the pal sinnian authority leader into a cease-fire process is the game. we have seen an interesting process of evolving war goals and at the very start of this operation they talked about an extended period of quiet. they just wanted the missiles to stop. then they began talking about closing off the tunnels, which are being used to attack israeli forces and that is more aggressive cry for ground forces and now talk about disarmament and that is an ambitious goal and if you true try to get that by military force you in a nightmare, like invading lebanon, i don't think the israeli wants to do that, i had my eyes on a process going forward, secretary kerry will start with the egyptians that will try to create a political foundation for the palestinian authority to begin to get a new government in place in gaza that

both moon and secretary of state john kerry are due in cairo to back efforts in negotiating a truce.ittle while ago we got the latest from gaza. >> the military offensive is continuing to the east of gaza city. to the northeast this is the aid neighborhood hit very hard by the heavy shelling over the past couple of days. we've continued to see smoke rising and israeli aircraft in that area. also now the sound of artillery fire moving further south and lots of smoke rising up on the horizon there. we've had israeli air strikes in other parts of the gaza strip. i've seen them in the north. we had one close to our building close to the coast. we've seen them in the south of the gaza strip where 20 were killed this morning including a couple of families when their houses were destroyed by israeli air strikes. >> it's reported people have been told to evacuate. is that possible? are people able to flee? we see such huge casualties. >> that's right. the gaza strip is an extremely dense populated place. with these taking place in different locations it's hard to know where is a safe place f

chief ban ki moon and john kerry met in cairo to push for peace. martin fletcher joins us live from tel aviv, israel. you are there on the ground. are you seeing anything that indicates a hope for a cease-fire today? >> not much, no, dara. there was talk about a humanitarian cease-fire, allowing the fighting for about five hours. israel said no. every indication is that israel wants to keep going until they've achieved its objectives. the focus of the diplomatic activity now is here in jerusalem and in cairo. the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon is in israel talking to israeli leaders. secretary of state john kerry is in cairo talking to the egyptian president, and palestinian leaders are also being brought in to talk on behalf of hamas. trying to work out an agreement that could be acceptable to both hamas and israel. that, of course, is after egypt did make the proposal about a week ago which hamas rejected and israel did accept. now the fighting is continuing, and an israeli ground offensive is moving slowly but deeper into gaza, continuing it

you have secretary kerry in cairo. this deal he's trying to broker is the same deal rejected by hamas before and the deal that israel said it's willing, at least it was willing to accept. >> that's right, tamron. by the way, that's why israeli military officials are saying things like the ceasefire will not take hold. we have to continue fighting to intensify it. the deal that is being negotiated often by egypt, as you say, is tlar similar to the one hamas rejected. the conditions haven't changed. israel said it doesn't see a ceasefire because hamas will not accept that deal. it's not looking good. at least there is some movement. so kerry in cairo, they are talking to leaders trying to get some form of ceasefire going. what they're talking about in the short term is what they're calling a humanitarian ceasefire. they're hoping to negotiate a 48-hour lull in the fighting and build from that. it doesn't look like much success at the moment. fighting is intensifying, and the elephant in the room is that hamas captured is

the last time cairo brokered a she's fire in 2012. rockets and missiles may have stopped for a while. but life didn't get any better on for the people in gaza. the u.n. secretary general said this time more than a ceasefire it required. >> gaza is an open wound and band-aid won't help. there must be a plan after the aftermath that allows gas to breathe and hear. recovery and reconstruction is more needed than ever. >> reporter: although u.s. officials aren't saying what ideas are being considered as part of a modified ceasefire proposal, they say time is of the essence and some are hoping for an end to the bloodshed by the end of the month. joanna, blu al jazerra. >>> in other world news, militia airline officials have received the flight data records from flight mh17 that was shot down over eastern ukraine last thursday, the boxers were handed over bicep test fighters who controlled the area when the plane went down. a malaysian investigator said the recorders were in good condition. all 298 people aboard the plane were killed on the

he left, went back to cairo, waiting in cairo, ban ki-moon, the secretary-general has gone on to rick to deal with another pressing situation. the work continues, but i don't think right now there's a sign of immediate process. >> james bay, thank you for that, our diplomatic editor >>> gaza has a small christian community, several churches are offering people shelter from the bombing as charles stratford reports. >> reporter: a place of worship, and now a place of refuge for victims of israel's military campaign. there's no guarantee of safety here. this woman is 22. she has three children and was six months pregnant when the bombing started. her home was destroyed after she left it to come to the church. that's when she started to bleed. the bombs were falling close to the church. i began to bleed. when i got to the hospital i collapsed. the doctors said my child died and they had to remove it from me. >> she seeks comfort from her friends. she is heart broken about losing her baby. >> we trodden on the dead botties as we ran -- bodies as we ran. the israeli army killed our sons and

he's in cairo. the point here is there has to be some kind of a cease-fire.o accept. because in the past, prime minister netanyahu has accepted times of cease-fire and it's hamas that's not accepted it. i think the point has to be made, if rockets are being shot at israel, that israel does have a right to defend itself. but the bottom line is the question of proportionality and then trying to figure out what the solution is and we know, frankly, you do, wolf, we talked about this over the years, there has to be a way that palestinian is recognized, that there's a two-state solution, that the various points that have been put on the table over the years are met. we do care, most of us, about the security of israel. but it cannot have that security if there's not a two-state solution. and i think secretary kerry has done an amazing job in pushing, but ultimately, it has to be the political will of the parties to bring this to the table. but now there has to be a cease-fire. >> are you suggesting, madam secretary, that the israelis are overreacting to the provoc