is in cairo, u.n. envoy robert serry is in jerusalem, but will go to cairo shortly, as will tony blair, the negotiator on behalf of the quartet. the negotiations, we think, will be between the palestinians and the egyptians and the israelis and the egyptians, with international players involved in talking as well. so a series of different bilateral meetings, rather than everyone getting around the same table. then, we think, some time on there's be mediations between the israelis, and the palestinians. but they won't ever come together. these are going to be proximity talks. you heard the demands of both sides. this will be difficult. it could take considerable time possibly, i think, beyond the end of the 72 hour ceasefire. one. things that they may well be negotiating first with both sides is getting an extension. so they have space to run. >> they have to watch and wait patiently. it seems where you are, the israeli prime minister is on the receiving end of more than a little criticism from the loca

we are live in cairo this morning.he possibility the israelis, do you think they are going to delay sending somebody there to cairo? >> reporter: that's not the indication at this point, deborah. they have made it clear, if this cease-fire holds, they will be sending a delegation. at this point, they haven't made that move, yet. in the coming hours and coming days, all eyes are going to be on cairo to see if this egyptian brokered cease-fire holds and you get the sense this is a real opportunity this time, for these two sides to get to cairo and negotiate. as with any negotiations, if they do happen, both sides are going to need to compromise and maybe, most importantly, they will need to ease the emotions and ease the anger and maybe that's going to be the toughest thing to do during this cease-fire. but, the palestinian delegation, we can tell you, they are already here. this is a delegation that arrived over the weekend and crafted the cease-fire proposal that was passed on to the egyptians. the egyptians conveyed i

negotiations aimed at extending that cease-fire are set to resume in cairo today. an unnamed israeli official says israel is on board. but palestinian leaders say such talk is premature. >>> the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention has issued a level 1 alert. that's the highest possible because of the growing ebola outbreak. the world health organization now says there are 932 confirmed probable and suspected deaths from ebola in west africa. almost one-third of those are in liberia which is now declared a state of emergency. >>> a court in cambodia has handed down guilty verdicts for two former senior khmer rouge leaders now in their 80s. chea and samphan are to serve life in prison for crimes against humanity. at least 1.7 million people were killed during the khmer rouge regime between 1975 and 1979. >>> all right. we do want to turn to the continuing crisis in iraq which has largely been overshadowed by the violence in gaza. police say five car bombings in baghdad killed at least 16 people wednesday. and just south and west of the capital, four days

they agreed to come to cairo.hey agreed to stop fighting, to have israel at least meet one of their demands and indications are their minimum demand was a sea port. remember, one of the core demands is the lifting of the blockade. during these 72 hours, they told the israelis, at least give us a sea port. israel obviously rejected. they continue to say they want their security concerns addressed. as long as this happens, poppy, as long as the conflict continues, there's growing pressure on the international community to step in and get the two sides to come to an agreement. at this point, egypt failed to do that. >> there's no saying if the international community can be successful at that. how many times have we tried to do that and we are back here. thanks for the update from cairo, appreciate it. >>> this is happening as we speak. the hawaiian islands taking an absolute beating from hurricane iselle. heavy rain falling since yesterday afternoon triggering flooding. 70-mile-an-hour winds. iselle is a category on

it's not going to cairo.eports coming from ramallah suggesting that the egyptians are actually calling off the talks for now because of the ongoing violence. the israeli delegation, we understand, because in a few hours here, it will be shabat, which is the jewish holy time, they will not actually be leaving until saturday evening is the plan to cairo. not clear whether the tedelegatn will go according to the israeli media. it is suggested they have told the u.n. this truce is over. i have to say, though, it is very significant that no one is actually publically announcing anything. there is no public announcement coming from the israeli prime minister or foreign ministry. there is no public announcement coming from the united nations. they say they are aware of the apparent breaches of the ceasefire. they are watching the situation very closely. they are varied worried about the situation but they are not pronouncing on whether this ceasefire is continuing or whether its ended. it has in my view collapsed bu

and this was supposed to be discussed in cairo. i would hope that we would go back to that model of finding an agreement to end this, also taking into concern the legitimate worried from the israeli side and the hamas side. >> yesterday i spoke with the u.n. special envoy for the middle east. he blamed hamas for the break-up of that 72-hour u.n.-supported cease-fire. do you agree with robert serry, that it was hamas responsible for violating that earlier approved humanitarian cease-fire? >> our statement on friday was based on information we received from the field. we have also received conflicting information. not the least that the israeli soldier was not captured but, in fact, was killed. so we will of course continue to review what exactly happened. what we saw that morning was a breach of the cease-fire, very damaging to what we had planned to do the next few days. >> jan elaisson, the united nations deputy secretary-general. we'll stay in close touch with you, thank you very much. >>> up next, i'll speak live with the israel

res za sayah is on the phone from cairo. what are you hearing in egypt about this new proposed cease-fire? >> jake, we've seen what's happened to previous cease-fires in the fighting and wanton extremely careful in what we report here because we're getting slight lit different statements from two sources. a senior egyptian government official tells cnn that there are strong indications that all parties concerned, that's the palestinians and the israelis have accepted a cease-fire, a 72-hour cease-fire starting 8:00 a.m. tuesday morning. that's tomorrow. and an egyptian invitation to send delegations to see egypt to start talking. we also spoke to the palestinian ambassador to egypt who was part of the talks and he takes it a step further. he says the cease-fire agreement is a done deal, that both sides have agreed to a 72-hour cease-fire beginning tomorrow. again, the ambassador saying it's a done deal. the egyptian source saying there's strong indications it's going to happen. we're working to confirm that this is a done de

still people are paying attention to what's going on in cairo. they hope leaders will be able to come up with some kind of agreement that will reach a piece that will see an end to this conflict but many are uncertain that they will see a lasting peace here in gaza. they say that the fighting can start at any time, whether it's been days, months or even years. and have very little faith that war will not come back here. three brothers, three very different progress notice progr. suffered mostl mostly cuts and bruises, omar, the second oldest will need surgery, but with the right treatment he should survive. mohamed suffered burn and shrapnel injuries. his condition is so bad doctors don't think he'll live long enough to see his second birthday. her cousin was also in the house when it was hit. >> the israelis are criminals. where is the humanity? these are just children. they didn't do anything, they didn't resist. they were just sleeping. >> reporter: mohamed calls out for his mother but she isn't there to console him. she and four other members

matt through chance is there and reza sayah is in cairo. we'll be live to all of them later in the newscast. >>> u.s. president barack obama says he has authorized targeted airstrikes in iraq. mr. obama says the airstrikes will be launched only if necessary to protect american personnel and to help iraqis. there are no indications that any airstrikes have been carried out. mr. obama's announcement came after they announced they were performing an air drop. the air drop is to help groups stop facing possible starvation. >>> it was last week when they stormed the town of sinjah. now thousands of people are trapped without food, water or shelter in the intense iraqi summer heat. here's what president obama had to say about that. >> when we face a situation like we do on that mountain with innocent people physician facing the prospect of violence on a horrific scale, when we have a mandate to help, in this case requests from the iraqi government, and when we have the unique capabilities to help avert a massacre, i believe the united states of a

so we continue with the potential of talks in cairo. a representative group, as we heard from our correspondent in west jerusalem, a pal tin general groups going to cairo. a very difficult few hours ahead because not everybody wants to talk to hamas and hamas doesn't wants to talk to everybody that's there. who will you talk to? >> first of all one poll any on religion and one policy on. [ inaudible ] and we will go as one delegation turned a palestinian delegation and we will sit together in order to have a common region and after that we will does it with the egyptian side and also in order to achieve an understanding or how can i say this it, a verbal agreement for policy and egyptians and hopefully the egyptians will move the israeli side and discuss with them the demands of the palestinian people. we insist that all of israel should stop all of the military operation and they should move out of gaza. and also to limit the siege in gaza for the materials, for export and import and also to release the prisoners who were detained agai

these talks continuing in cairo. just bring us up to speed for the situation currently on the ground particularly in southern israel. >> well those communities around the gaza border which were peppered by rockets and morters over the last month are now during a period of calm, people start to return. they will be weary. several have been injured there. after the last ceasefire when they thought it was safe to return rockets and morters resumed. there's a great deal of uncertainty. the overriding concern is allow an extended long period of calm in southern communities. the israeli delegation has gone through talks in cairo. it's debatable whether the long term issues can be resolved. there's political decent in israel. right wing members think israel should have continued the job in gaza as they put it. defeated hamas or tried to defeat it even though such a campaign would have cost more lives both on the palestinian side and israeli side. some concern here in israel that this ceasefire won't last. if not beyond the

whether they send a formal delegation to cairo now remains up in the air. certainly they don't want to do anything to undermine what they see a very collaborative improving relationship with egypt. they also point out that egypt apparently does not have great love for hamas in gaza now. they see the new egyptian government of hamas right now as basically an offshoot, a cousin of the muslim brotherhood, which they're add mentally rejecting, accusing the muslim brotherhood of being a terrorist organization. we are told, by the way, fred, that the prime minister is about a minute or minute and a half away from the address. so he will be speaking in hebrew. we have simultaneous transition ready to go. we will hear what he has to say. this could be a significant moment in what is now week four of this war between israel and gaza. fred? >> and of course, we're looking at the live pictures of that podium where the prime minister netanyahu will speak and it will be interesting to note or notice whether he has any comment, any further comment about israel's position

israel left indirect talks in cairo after a 3-day truce expired on friday. prime minister binyamin netanyahu said israel will not go back to the negotiating table as long as rocket attacks continue. >> at no stage did we declare israel's military offensive was over. the operation will continue until the objective, the restoration of quiet is achieved. i said at the beginning and throughout the operation, that it will take time, and stamina is required. >> let's look at the human toll since israel began the military result in gaza. 64 israeli soldiers, including a thai national were killed. 1 shes 916 palestinians were killed in health strikes. the united nations said 73% of those are civilians. 449 of those killed were children. add to that almost 10,000 palestinians who have been injured, and more than 220,000 people have taken shelter in u.n. buildings. >> oxfam's spokesperson joins us from gaza city via skype. thank you for joining us. i know that oxfam has been warning that gaza is on the brink of a major health crisis. what is the situation where you ar

there is an israeli delegation in cairo.derstand a palestinian delegation was also expected to go there. there is intense international pressure on both sides to try to bring an end to the this conflict certainly even a short term lull if you'd like in this. you know, the fighting is continuing. >> we've lost bethany there. i'm pleased with me is the bbc arabic service. we're talking about cairo, the importance of keeping talks going. maybe they're going to for a little bit. in a sense they should be able to go on almost regardless of the situation on the ground in gaza, shouldn't they? >> possibly that would be the hope of everybody that they would go on. there are unconfirmed reports coming many in that a spoke people from hamas are saying the talks now, their delegation isn't going to cairo because of what's going on. these are unconfirmed reports. the talks in cairo took a very long time to be brought together. they were hoping to be the prelude of further talks to possibly put forward a longer standing ceasefire. we und

>. >> >>> israeli bombings continue in gaza with talks in cairo on the verge of collapse. >>> hello there. i'm laura kyle. you're watching al jazeera live from doha. also ahead - more u.s. air strikes in iraq. president obama warns the fight against t against the islamic state may be a long one >>> turks go to the polls to choose a president. >>> the golf industry booming in china despite a ban on building new courses. . >> israel is bombing gaza. the palestinians are threatening to leave talks unless the israeli group continues. since israel began a military assault on gaza more than a month ago, 64 israeli soldiers, and three civilians, including a thai national have been killed. the health ministry says air strikes and artillery attacks killed 9,111 palestinians. the united nations says 73% are civilians. add to that 10,000 palestinians have been injured, and more than 220,000 who are living in u.n. shelters. andrew simmonds is in gaza city and sent us this report. >> persistent attacks by israelis on the gaza strip. nine dead on saturday. another man died in the early hours of sunday

i want to go to cairo. cnn's ressa sayah is on the scene for us. i take it the palestinian delegation has been there for a couple days. the israeli delegation is there. what's the latest as far as these follow-on talks? this is day two. we're hoping it lasts into day three and it extends even further, this cease-fire. what do you know? >> yes, wolf, it's been extremely challenging to report on the facts when it comes to these talks and report how they've been progressing. obviously one of the reasons is because they're not direct talks. these are separate talks taking place in different places in cairo. the palestinians on one side. the israelis on another location. things are complicated. there are growing indications even though these two sides agreed on a cease-fire, that they agreed to stop fighting, they seem to be on a different page when it comes to how to move forward. we've spoken to palestinian delegate who's part of the negotiating team here in cairo. and he tells us that he's not quite convinced that the israeli delegation here in cairo

things are not looking good in cairo.he latest we are hearing is the palestinians are ready to pull out because the israelis will not join the talks. the israelis point out they will not come because rockets are fired from the gaza strip. >> simedz your reporting -- andrew simmonds reporting live from gaza city. thank you very much. >> let's get israel's position, and speak to nisreen el-shamayleh. live in west jerusalem. nisreen el-shamayleh, the prime minister making israel's position pretty clear - he's not returning to the talks until the rockets stop coming from gaza. it's not looking very optimistic in cairo, is it. >> not at all. the prime minister at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting reaffirmed that israel will not return to cairo. as long as it's under rocket fire, he said at no statement did he declare that the offensive as over. throughout the operation he said it would take time to achieve objectives, which he describes as returning calm and quiet to israel. it will require time and stamina. on the other

reza sayah in cairo for us.uch more of our special coverage of the crisis in the middle east coming up. i'll speak with the negotiator and with dori gold. he is an advisor to netanyahu. lots more of the breaking news right after this. ♪ i voted for culture... ...with a 'k.' how are you? i voted for plausible deniability. i didn't kill her, david. and i voted for decisive military action. ♪ america, you cast your votes. now, go to xfinity on demand and select the people's hotlist to see this summer's top 100 shows and movies. i voted! >>> happening now in the situation room special report. breaking news. israel's prime minister says hamas has been hurt severely. it

so brooke, this does seem to be the answer from those negotiations in cairo. at best we were hoping that maybe this 72-hour-long cease-fire may be extended for another period of time while those talks continue to try to find some kind of permanent solution to ending the fighting day in gaza. but now with just over two hours before this current cease-fire was meant to come to an end, it has ended early. confirmation from the idf. at least one rocket, possibly more now landing in southern israel, brooke. so clearly, those negotiations in cairo have now gone the way of all the other negotiations between the israelis and palestinians. and, of course, now we will have to wait and see what the israeli response will be. it has been widely reported here in israel that israeli military forces have been moved closer to the border with gaza in the run up to the end of the cease-fire. more reservists have been told they could be called up. so seriously, this is now obviously going to escalate into another phase of this military operation right now. >> just when people kee

it was pulling out its ground forces from gaza, and the israeli delegation is expected to travel to cairo for talks with palestinian factions. these are some of the live pictures out of gaza city. the truce appears to be holding, despite a burst of military activity from both sides in the minute leading up to the deadline. traffic back on the street, but gazans will be wary of the truce, seeing so many others broken during the course of this conflict. >>> and what exactly are the palestinian factions, including hamas's demands. they want a full israeli withdrawal from gaza, an end to the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territory. the release of hamas prisoners, and international assistance in the reconstruction of gaza. for its part, israel it demanding that gaza be demilitarized, requiring hamas to give up an arsenal of weapons, and wants a way to prevent hamas from rearming in the future. the israeli government spokesman said the truth could have been agreed to weeks ago. >> hamas has to explain why they didn't accept the same proposal three weeks ago. so many have been killed, so

the capital cairo.re are sharply rising house prices there that's forced 2 million people out of their homes over the decades to live in cemetery across the region. the government created a new ministry for urban development to look at the problem but yet to draw up plans to address the problem that's been there 50 years. >> life and death meet in this huge cemetery in south eastern cairo. dead bodies buried under the ground and families struggling to survive above ground. she came here 50 years ago. she lives with her unemployed son and two grandchildren on government benefit of $60 a month. my only wish before i die is have a decent house, she tells me. i don't want my grandchildren to grow up here. they feel ashamed of it. >> she doesn't pay rent. the owners of the tomb allow her to stay as long as she keeps an eye on the place. there are no gravestones here, but dozens of bodies are buried here. two million tomb dwellers. that's a what officials say. the people in places like this smell death in eve

talks between the parties could begin tomorrow in cairo. we have correspondents tonight in gaza city, as well as jerusalem and washington city. elise labott, what is the latest on the details of telephone deal? >> anderson, egyptian officials tell me israel and hamas have both agreed to come to cairo. obviously, on the palestinian side, it will also be led by palestinian authority officials. and the next 48 hours, for longer discussions on some of the underlying issues surrounding the conflict. now the hope is that once these parties are talking, this will create some momentum, some trust to keep the negotiations going and extend the ceasefire. anderson, really the result of intense diplomacy by secretary of state kerry, who i'm told put an intense amount of pressure on the israeli prime minister netanyahu to accept this ceasefire. egypt obviously involved. but also the foreign minister of qatar who officials tell me played a key role in convincing hamas to sign on. >> what has been the reaction of the white house? >> the white house is obv

representatives of hamas and the israeli delegation also in cairo.let's try to get the latest information from there with the bbc's sally nabil. as they try to get information, is there information coming from the meetings or is it secretive? >> reporter: it is very secretive. we have been trying to contact members of the palestinian delegation here in cairo a while ago. they said we can't make any statements so far. we are still talking. there are a couple of points to complicate the talks. they are held between the israelis and palestinians via the egyptian mediators. egypt is having a tough part to do. the sides are quite a distance from each other. it will take effort to reach a compromise. rielz wants hamas to lay weapons down. it's been totally rejected by the palestinian movement saying they cannot lay down because they considered themselves a resistance movement. hamas and the palestinian factions meeting here in cairo demand for the release of some of the palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails. in addition to listings that locate on the

. >> >>> israeli bombings condition in gaza, with talks in cairo -- continue in gaza, with talks in cairo on the verge of collapse. hi, i'm laura kyle, you are watching al jazeera live from doha. >>> president obama warns the fight against the islamic state may be a long one. >>> turks going to the polls in the first direct presidential election. the golf industry booming in china, despite a ban on building new courses. . >> israeli bombings be given in gaza as they threaten to leave the talks in cairo unless the israelis return. they ended the talks after a 3-day truce expired on friday. since israel began the military assault more than a month ago 64 israeli soldiers and three civilians, including a thai national have been killed. air strikes and artillery attacks killed 1,911 palestinians. the united nations says 73% of those killed are civilians. add to that 10,000 palestinians who have been injured, and more than 220,000 who are living in u.n. shelters. charles stratford reports from gaza city on the threat that remains from upexploded ammunition. >> the israeli military hit the grip

we are talked the israeli delegation will only stay in cairo for today.n it will return to jerusalem to consult with high-level government officials on the substance of what has been discussed. >> kimberly we will look at events in cairo today. thank you from jerusalem. ukraine government says forces surrounded do surrounded donsk and pro-russians surrender and residents waking up to the sounds of shelling, some took refuge in the basement of a building and 100 persons fled from a high-security facility after it was hit by the shelling and emma hayward has more from slovonsk. >> from the separatists the main tellicom center was on fire and apparently hit by a shell. one of many buildings coming under fire from ukrainian forces. >> translator: the ukrainian telecom building is on fire is what it is because the shell ex employed and set it on fire and firing mortars. >> reporter: almost half of the city's one million strong population has now left, unable to cope with this, many people are still trying to get out and others are seeking shelter, even the mat

so it's possible that the israelis will agree to engage once again in indirect talks in cairo. however it's likely that they will probably want to make the maximum opportunity of the days or hours before such talks might begin in order to try to inflict as much damage on the hamas military infrastructure in the meantime. >> thanks for that, jackie. jackie roland is in west jerusalem for us. right, let's now go to--i would like to bring you breaking news from iceland. we're hearing that air traffic has been banned over an iceland volcano. iceland has raised it's alert and indicates that the volcano could soon erupt. earlier this week authorities have evacuated that region as a precaution. we'll be getting more details as they come in. to libya now where media are reporting an unidentified jet in tripoli ar. libyan coast guard have rescued 16 migrants off the coast of tripoli. 16 bodies have been recovered. boats are believed to be carrying up to 200 people. >> we found 16 individuals alive. the rest are lost. we're investigating the others. there were 20 bodies found dead in the

a palestinian delegation has arrived in cairo for talks.eally get going unless the israelis are there as well? >> no. i think the israelis are waiting for an egyptian proposal from the palestinians. number one. number two, i don't think they want to get drawn into the kind of tick tock we've witnessed in the last 72 hours. there's another reality that needs to be pointled out and that is, you know, after 27 days, 1700 palestinians dead, gaza humanitarian disaster, 67 israeli soldiers dead and three civilian, the end game that is to say a stable state is no closer more easily able to i've and extremely difficult to achieve because at root cause the realities are hamas basically survived its political and military leadership intact, its repository of high trajectory weapons more or less intact. i down if the israelis destroyed all of the tunnels. gaza is a humanitarian and economic disaster. we're no closer, frankly to getting at the root of the problem. i suspect that's the real terrifying truth and tragedy. we're likely to see an outcome th

here in cairo. we're still waiting for the israeli delegation to arrive here in cairo. they have yet to get here, but it's no cause for alarm according to the parties involved because israel has made it clear that they have signed on to the cease-fire and they will come once they are convinced that this cease-fire is going to hold. once that happens, ideally, they come here, they start negotiating with the palestinians like all negotiations, it's going to take both sides compromising and maybe most importantly it's going to take both sides easing some of the anger and the sheer animosity and that's naturally tough to do when you've had such a difficult four weeks when so many people have lost so much. the palestinian delegation is already here. this is the delegation that arrived over the week and crafted the cease-fire proposal with the egyptian government. the egyptian government in turn conveyed it to the israelis last night eventually the israelis said yes. again, we're waiting for the israelis to get here. cautious optimism because we've seen this scenario before.

negotiators have been holding peace talks in cairo.re have been heavy clashes between the iraqi army and islamic state fighters from tikrit. the progress has been slowed by land mines as well as snipers. tens of thousands of yemen ese have joined a protesticlingpro e protesticle -- protesters calling for the government to resign. >>> this report shows how in attacks have taken place on humanitarian workers . . . once again, last year saw the highest number of aid workers come under attack of the 460 victims, 155 were killed, 171 wounded, and 134 were kidnapped. three-quarters of all attacks took place in five countries . . . stephanie is the director of non-violence peace force, and joining us live in south sudan to talk to us about this new report, and these numbers are really quite outstanding when you look at 2013 it set a new record with 251 incidence. what do you put that down to? >> well, i think there are a number of things that are happening. we have seen an escalation of crises around the world, not just natural disasters, but

as for talks in egypt israeli delegation left cairo before the end of that cease fire.one back to jerusalem. ntf is live in georgia virginia for us, clear up for us these stories coming out of cairo because earlier we were saying the israeli delegation left cairo even before the cease fire was broken. so what is happening? are the israelis back in cairo now and what has been reached? what deal has been done? >> reporter: well, we have not heard whether or not the israeli delegation has returned back from jerusalem to cairo. very short flight so it's not difficult for them to get there. however, what we can say is although we have seen more air strikes, although we have seen more artill very shelling and more deaths and injuries the situation here in the gaza strip is relatively calm and speaking with analysts and discussing what is going on here. of course the israeli said that they will meet calm with calm and has not been the case with lots of rockets being fired towards israel by the faction fighting here. again what is going on behind the scenes. one person i was sp

reza sayah joining us live from cairo. excruciating situation as the talks try to proceed and they try to find some sort of way to extend this cease-fire. many thanks to you. reza. >>> a number of other stories we're keeping our eyes on including the united nations health agency, plus, cnn has an exinclusive interview. he died. stay with us. >>> welcome back, everyone. just minutes from now the world health organization is expected to announce its next steps in battling the ebola outbreak in west africa. they say the number of confirmed or suspected deaths from ebola has now surpassed 900. the u.s. centers for disease control has moved to its highest state of alert. officials are treating two suspected cases of ebola. if confirmed it would be the fifth west african nation. meanwhile, a spanish priest who contracted lee bowl la he talked about the first ebola patient. >>> back in sierra leone, the sheik is regarded as a national hero. they waged a valiant battle treating ebola patients there. they were trying to contain the

if you are doha it's one thing, but if you are in cairo or iman it's something else altogether. is the world ready for this new united front that you just heard the doctor talking about? >> i think the palestinians, this is the greatest achievements of this war and as i have said as well, the unity, the palestinian unity is one main target of this war if not even the main target. in my understanding i believe that netanyahu's war against gaza is to break the unity, to break the national unity government ask to go back to the status quo. the status quo which is approved by israel before the war has three pillars, one is the palestinian governing, the second is the stability and security in the west bank. and these two -- these pillars should be maintained. if the palestinians come together it means that we have to do our best to keep them less united. this just justification and excuse for netanyahu to evade peace takes and a solution whatsoever. and to expose hamas and say that hamas is the main responsible for the continuation of the conflict. and i do believe that as well that

hopefully this means that something will get going in cairo.nd stand down there in gaza. >> he's received a lot of criticism too within israel for not doing what they perceive he should have been doing. but he's toughed it out and we've got to this point where the united states, the united nations have been able to put this on the table. >> right, and they're sitting down in cairo, hopefully they said, as soon as the truce began, these talks began. so we'll hopefully have something to report from there. leading up to this, nothing easy. still going strong the day before the truce started. officials in gaza report 1,452 people now killed. and more than 8,300 wounded. israel reports 64 deaths with five more soldiers killed thursday. maybe that's another reason why they're ready for this truce to begin. u.n. officials are continuing to express outrage at strikes on u.n. schools, housing displaced people from gaza. the u.n.'s human rights commissioner says war crimes may have been committed this that gazans in those shelters say they have been livi

let's go to cairo and bring in reza. good morning to you. when you hear trying forthe two-state solution, how long have they tried? on the ground, what is the sense you are getting? we are hearing different things from the israelis? they are willing to extend this. it's unclear. >> reporter: yeah, it looks like these particular negotiations within the cease-fire are hitting an impasse. i think everyone knew they were going to be difficult talks. both sides coming here with demands not backing down. essentially, what we have had in a nutshell is israeli delegation is pushing to extend the cease-fire past 8:00 a.m. friday. however, at least some members of the palestinian delegation are not on board, notely, hamas, who has been doing the fighting. they are saying they don't want to extend the cease-fire. they came here for a permanent solution and that's where things seem to be stuck. what could pose a problem for the palestinians is that some delegates seem to be okay with a cease-fire that could cause divisions. here is

reza sayeh is live in cairo. without anyone from israel or gaza there, what exactly do they hope to achieve? >> john f you're a pessimist you might say without the israelis here, this not a scenario with which you can have a true, significant face-to-face negotiations. if you're an optimist, you might say this presents an opportunity for indirect talks, indirect negotiations, and there are growing signs that perhaps that is a possibility, where you have the palestinians in cairo communicating with egyptian government official, communicating their demands, their conditions for a possible cease-fire and egyptian government officials conveying that message to the israelis. we cannot confirm that that is indeed a scenario that we can expect. however, we can confirm that the palestinians have sent two important delegations to cairo, the first delegations arrived last night to cairo, representing the fatah movement, and also including representatives of palestinian intelligence agencies. they came via jordan, and then

it is on its way to cairo, and the palestinian president declared the delegation will go to cairo regardlessany considerations -- >> does do you have an understanding that they will be received by anyone, sir? i mean, who will they sit down with at this point? >> well -- they -- they -- they are going to first present the palestinian position as a united position to defeat netenyahu's main goal out of breaking this truce. netenyahu wants to really declare a cue deta, and he wanted to declare to netenyahu that we are going united. and now to shave whatever can saved from this mayhem. nothing will stop them first except a united position. we really now need the international community to provide immediate shelter and protection to our people. this is a disaster zone by the meaning of disaster, and the people of gaza not only are being slain but those who are trying to find shelter are being shelled. what is happening as we speak is absolute mad house. it doesn't belong to our era, and what is happening everywhere, people in the streets of gaza are looking for bread, water, for anywhere to live

reza sayah is live from cairo.here's an issue of these fragile 72-hour cease-fires and the bigger issue of rebuilding and trying to move forward here with a long lasting peace. it's a tough order. >> reporter: yeah, christine. another big issue is the history of this conflict. if you look at the history of this conflict, it shows the two sizes, the israelis and palestinians repeatedly failed to do what they are about to try to do, again. that is to resolve this ongoing conflict. even so, they are going to give it another shot. the palestinian delegation is already here in cairo. they have been here for a week. they never left after the cease-fires last week fell apart. there are some members of the israeli media reporting the israeli delegation arrived here in cairo. we are working to independently confirm that. last night, the israeli's said they will only show up today if the cease-fire holds and it looks like that's the case. the cease-fire was put forth by the egyptian government last night. it went into effect

we haven't heard much from the palestinians in cairo. we do know that the cease-fire is over. we do know that the two siesds did not reach a agreement on conditions and demands. they didn't reach an agreement on extending the cease-fire. what's troubling at this point is that there are no signs that these two sides are talking at this point. most importantly right now, we're waiting to see if this palestinian delegation stays here in cairo, if there's

we understand that the israeli officials are also in cairo, or have just arrived in cairo and will be there to obviously participate in these discussions. certainly in the context of what we've seen so far in these efforts at these ceasefires of which there have been three and they haven't lasted very long, there was a case in point. we had tank attacks in rafah, there were two children who were killed only acouple of hours ago, we -- a couple of hours ago, on the refugee camp in gaza or close to gaza city and there was also according to the israeli military at least 30 rockets fired into israel. today i've been looking at the food crisis here, what the united nations considers at least to be a developing situation here. and we've traveled south to took at where a lot of the fruit and vegetables, the produce is grown in gaza and the difficulty farmers have had to harvest their crops this time under the israeli air strikes and also transporting them back to gaza and this is our report. >> he and his younger brother try to gather as much of their chili pepper crop as they can. they got

he's in jerusalem, also joining us, reza sayah from cairo, egypt. jake, i want to start with you and the teal. tell us more. >> reporter: the state department sent the small team to the cairo negotiations. they are led by acting special envoy frank lowenstein, a long time aid to secretary of state john kerry. the group will be a strictly supportive advisory and monitoring capacity. they are not there to mediate or get involved directly in the talks. lowenstein and his team are scheduled to arrive in cairo this evening. we know what some of the sticking points could be in the cease-fire talks. israel wants the demilitarization of gaza. the palestinians want what they call the siege of gaza lifted. those are the short term issues not even touching the things that made long-term peace seemingly impossible, the settlements, final status of jerusalem, israel security needs among others. >> is it unusual john kerry himself is not part of that t m team? >> i don't think so. the group is serving in an advisory and monitoring capacity. they're not leading an

talks between israel and hamas holds on, motivated by egypt in cairo.t was said that israel was not interested in peace. the world health organization warns the ebola outbreak will get worse. 961 dead so far, and more cases have been confirmed in nigeria where a national emergency has been declared. those are the headlines read stay with us. more "france 24" in just a moment. ♪ welcome back. it is time for media watch, and that means james is in the studio. great to see you. how to lose friends on facebook, and one way, it seems, right now, is to share what you actually think about the israel-palestinian conflict. >> that is right. this weekend talking about this very topic and how people are falling out over their various positions on this particular issue, an issue that gets people's emotions running high. so this first article that i'm going to show you in the los angeles times by a woman talking about her situation at home. she is married to an israeli guy, and her father herself is israeli, and she posted this does is stick on facebook about the nu

everyone is focused on what is happening in cairo or what is not happening in cairo. we understand that right now, the egyptianed me yad ed med me meeting. there is a lot of talk out there right now the egyptians have put together some kind of compromise plan, that they are putting it to the palestinians right now. they've also presented it to the israelis. we're not too sure if that is the case but certainly the egyptians are talking to the palestinians. we know that the israelis have said time and time agone there can be no negotiations in cairo and they are refusing to return to cairo to continue those cease-fire talks until all of the militant rocket fire from gaza is stopped. and that has not been the case. we are hearing from the palestinians as well. a lot of frustration it seems coming from them. they say the israelis are stalling. they aren't taking their demands seriously. they aren't hearing anything back from the israelis in terms of their key demands. and that's lifting the economic blockade of gaza. and they are also tacking on to that now, they want a s

we did believe his democracy speech in cairo.t was very unfortunate that the united states administration, the eu also betrayed their own ideas supporting democracy. it is not going help us with better relations. we are losing. egyptians are being killed by american aid. americans are paying money -- that should be the old days policy, not the new days policy. today's a day of democracy, day of freedom. this cannot be accepted. i believe once americans know what their government is doing, they will not accept it. it is very unfortunate this is happening now. when sharif was mentioning earlier the people who shared as he came out of the square during the massacre, do you in retrospect think maybe the brotherhood, when it was in power, may have committed some errors that allowed other sectors of the population to turn, to back the generals? >> the freedom and justice party as a political party. all political parties make mistakes. who doesn't? president obama's part in makes mistakes. but does this allowed to go and kidnap presiden

greene was killed when an afghan soldier opened fire in cairo.e were wounded in the incident. >>> the ebola outbreak is spreading and quickly. nigeria reported five new cases and two deaths. >>> republican establishment has survived another challenge from the tea party. cnn is projecting kansas senator pat roberts has beaten milton wolf, a distant cousin of president obama in the state's gop primary. >>> the president will join leaders from across africa at a sumit to build partnerships with u.s. businesses. tuesday the president announced $33 billion in commitments from private companies. >> we update the five things to know, visit newdaycnn.com for the latest. kate? >> thanks, michaela. >>> let's turn to some terrifying weather caught on video near las vegas, a flash flood strong enough to wash away cars. take a look at this. leading to very dramatic rescue. the severe weather damaged homes and roads out west, even triggering a landslide in one area. meteorologist indra petersons is here taking a look at more. we're talking about the desert. wh

does that make the negotiations going on in cairo more difficult? >> i don't think there is much new there. they put together a video monotaj and have wrapped it up nicely for the international press, but the messaging is essentially the same as it has been the past 28 days. hamas is to blame. they use human shields. i'm not sure it will have an impact one way or the other on the political talks happening in cairo. >> you look, i mean, at the video that you talked about, there is a france 24 video, rockets are being fired a few feet away from houses from a un facility. how does hamas justify that? i mean, do they even acre knowledno, ma'am -- acre knowledge they do that? >> i don't think they acknowledge they do that. i don't know how they respond to those specific allegations but i can tell you from my standpoint, i think it's a very disturbing development. any time you see this sort of thing, but i would also kind of caution that we keep this in perspective. this is not the reason why there are 70 to 80% of the casualties are civilians. it's not b

today we have come from cairo. talks. tough and hard. we are negotiating with a difficulty - not only a difficult side, but an enemy. first in procrastination and stealing away from the truth. what we wish to say today, briefly, is we, as one people, our message is we are united. we are unified in blood, in dead bodies. we are one front, one side, one voice. our fighters and our politicians - we are all in - engaged in one battle. defending our people in the battle for liberation and freedom. this war, the war of necessity - it is the beginning of liberation. our people fought with their bare hands. women, elderly and children were victimized by the enemies, murderous arsenal. our people stood fast. and our noble resistance fighters were prepared and stood upformly to the enemy. our people are united, supporting the beloved resistance fighters. we are united in our demands, and today the palestinian negotiation delegation headed to cairo, carrying four core issues. they were honest, not only on the unity, but the resolve, the full demand

are you still sending a delegation to cairo? want to correct, it is not the palestinian authority. it is the palestinian national consensus government of president mahmoud abbas of the state of palestine. >> do you still believe that all of the factions are still on the same page within the palestinian -- >> yes. >> -- side? >> yes. and we are ready to dispatch, if we did not already dispatch our unified delegation to be in cairo to negotiate the details of an extended cease-fire and also to begin a political process to address the root causes of this conflict, because we do want to put an end to this tragedy in the gaza strip, and we want to put an end to the tragedy of the palestinian people by ending occupation and allowing for the independence of the state of palestine, where we can have two states living side by side in peace and security. >> what can the palestinian authority do? what can the palestinian side do to get this soldier free so the peace talks can continue? >> well, there are thousands of palestinian prisoners