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additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you! from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> good evening. thanks for joining us. the conflict between israel and hamas continues to escalate. last night israeli commandos conducted a raid in northern gaza and today during a cabinet meeting prime minister benjamin netanyahu appealed for support for what he said could prove to be an extended military operation. translator: we don't know when this operation will be over. it may take a long time and we need your support and also your discipline. >> for the latest we are joined once again tonight via skype from jerusalem by josef federman. your story today was about the people fleeing gaza. >> reporter: yes. overnight warning leaflets were dropped out from the sky telling people in the northern gaza strip to clear out. israel is planning heavy bombardment. we've seen a few airstrikes already. in the meantime somewhere between 15 and 20,000 residents o

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. >> larson: good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm john larson. hari sreenivasan will join us later from aspen, colorado. we begin tonight in israel, where authorities today arrested six men they believe are responsible for the revenge murder of a palestinian teenager. the 16-year-old was beaten and burned alive-- an incident apparently sparked by the kidnapping and murder of three israeli teenagers. the arrests were one of several important developments in israel today. for more we are joined once again tonight via skype from jerusalem by josef federman of the associated press. >> joe, thanks again for joining us. what do we know about the arrests today? >> well, israeli authorities have just announced they arrested several us is expect, but haven't given the official number, but officials are saying there are six people in custody, the arres

additional support is provided by, and by, the corporation for public broadcasting and by continue bias to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tissue studios at lincoln center in new york. >> good evening, thanks for joining us. the latest round of middle eastern violence triggered by the kidnapping and murder of those three jewish teenagers escalated again today. tonight israel said its iron dome system intercepted three rockets fired over tel aviv and three others near jerusalem. earlier today israeli bombs destroyed a mosque on the gaza strip. israel said weapons were being stored there. at least 135 palestinians have died during the recent fighting. for the latest we are joined once again tonight from jerusalem via skype by josef federman. >>> what israel says is the area was used to store rockets and other weapons. this has been a challenge, i think for israel from day one. it says that a lot of the weapons it's tacking are hit not guilty civilian areas like mosques, schools, res terrible areas, and it says it is taking precautions to avoid damage to these b

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. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. ukraine today accused russia and pro-russian separatists of destroying evidence that could offer clues about the downing of that malaysia airlines plane carrying 298 people. the plane went down thursday in an area of eastern ukraine where the separatists have been battling ukrainian government forces. for more about all of this, we are joined now via skype from ukraine by paul sonne. he is the moscow correspondent for the "wall street journal." earlier today, he visited the disaster scene and posted these pictures on twitter. is the site secure and who is in control of it? >> the rebels are in control of the site. it is in a territory about an hour and a half east of -- northeast of the city of dnesk in possession of the separatists and they are sort of on site, they are -- stan

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. who who thanks for joining us this afternoon, three weeks of war now reportedly claimed the lives of more than 1,000 palestinians and at least 42 israelis, israels and mamas today observed a 12-hour cease-fire but shortly after the cease-fire end adha mass spokesman said they rejected israel's offer to extend it and the israeli military said three rockets had been fired from gaza into israel. all of this has john kerry met in paris with foreign ministers from western europe, turkey and qatar to tr trito broker a more permanent peace. >> all of us want to obtain as quickly as possible a durable, negotiated cease-fire that responds to both israel's needs in terms of security and to palestinian needs in terms of the socioeconomic development and access to the territory of gaza. >> kerry also met privately today with the turkish foreign minister wh

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additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincolnenter in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. >> sreenivasan: good evening, thanks for joining us. international efforts to create a lasting ceasefire between israel and hamas appear to have at least temporarily broken down. there was more israeli shelling of gaza and new hamas rocket fire into israel today. yesterday, hamas rejected an israeli offer to extend a 12- hour ceasefire. and almost immediately, hamas fired more rockets into israel. today, on the eve of eid, the muslim feast marking the end of fasting during ramadan, hamas reversed course and offered a ceasefire. >> in response to the assessment of the united nations and taking into consideration the condition of our people in gaza, especially in light of the coming eid holiday, there were discussions between the factions and they have reached an agreement to accept the offer of a 24-hour humanitarian calm. >> sreenivasan: but isra

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: thousands of people in the northeast assessed damage and waited for the lights to come back on today, after severe storms rolled through last night. five people were confirmed dead. the worst was in upstate new york, where a rarely seen tornado tore throughout the town of smithfield. winds of at least 100 miles an hour destroyed four homes, including one that was blown off its foundation and carried 150 yards. governor andrew cuomo visited today. >> we don't get tornados in new york. i've seen tornado damage in other parts of the country. i haven't seen it in new york. we haven't seen a house just gone literally like a bomb exploded within the house. neighboring homes with 2x4's shot into the side of the home. >> ifill: the storm system struck from virginia to vermont. 200,000 customers were still without power today. >> woodruff: the mayor of new orleans during the hurricane katrina period, ray nagin, is

additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, this is pbs newshour weekend. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. a pro-russian separatist leader said today that critical evidence has been recovered from the malaysia airlines boeing 777 that evidently was shot down thursday near the ukrainian- russian border. 298 people died. >> i can tell you that as of today, we have found some technical details of this plane, which we suppose can be those the so-called "black boxes." >> sreenivasan: secretary of state john kerry said today the united states has what he called an "enormous amount of evidence" that pro-russian separatists shot down the plane with a russian-made surface-to-air missile. >> we have intercepted voices that have been documented by our people through intelligence as being separatists who are talking to each other about the shoot down. and we now, we have a video now of a transporter removing

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: in eastern afghanistan, at least 89 people died in a suicide car bombing today. scores more were wounded. the powerful blast rocked a crowded market in paktika province, near the pakistani border. more than 20 shops and dozens of nearby vehicles were destroyed. no one claimed responsibility. the taliban put out a statement denying any involvement. >> ifill: the parliament in iraq has finally taken the first step toward forming a unity government, in the face of a sunni insurgency. lawmakers today chose a sunni moderate, salim al-jubouri, to be the new speaker. it's unclear whether sunnis, shiites and kurds can reach a larger deal on naming a new president and prime minister. >> woodruff: secretary of state john kerry returned to washington for consultations today, claiming "tangible progress" on curtailing iran's nuclear program. but, he also acknowledged iran and six world powers remain far apart

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. the dow jones industrial average passed a new milestone. closing above 17000 for the first time. it gained 92 points in a shortened trading day ahead of july 4 to finish at 17,068. the nasdaq rose 28 points to close near 44.86. and the the nasdaq rose 28 points to close near 4,486; and the s&p 500 added more than 10 points, to 1,985. hurricane "arthur" powered up today as it headed toward the outer banks of north carolina. by late this afternoon, the storm had sustained winds of 90 miles an hour and was less than 200 miles from cape hatteras. its approach prompted evacuations and canceled fourth of july plans for some. others stayed put, amid indications the storm would brush past hatteras without making a direct hit. either way, governor pat mccrory urged people to leave, and he promised emergency crews would be ready. >> we're already taking action in preparation to have a very quick recovery and ensuring we can g

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. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: there were small signs of progress today in the wake of the malaysian airlines disaster over eastern ukraine. after an international outcry, rebels finally allowed remains of many of the 298 victims to leave the crash site. their plane was shot out of the sky last week. neil connery, of independent television news, reports on the day's drama over the fate of the bodies. >> reporter: nothing prayers you for the scene inside this train. the gut-wrenching smell hits you first, and then the sight of the body bags. more than 200 victims from flight mh17. dutch forensic experts joined the small team of international observers granted ac, but it's the pro-russian militia who are in control of what happens here. the observers plead for the militia commander to allow the train to move so the victims' final journey home can begin. th>> we need to move the train. >> reporter: the refrigerated carriages containing th

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the first of the victims from the malaysian airliner shot down over ukraine arrived back in the netherlands today. life in the grieving nation largely came to a halt, as the day's somber events played out. jonathan rugman of independent television news has our report. >> reporter: at eindhoven military airport this afternoon. two aircraft, one dutch and one australian, ferried the first of mh-17's passengers and crew back to the country which lost the most. 193 of the 298 were dutch. 32 australian, and 10 from the u.k. 40 hearses for 40 coffins. and before they were taken away for forensic investigation, the dutch gave the bodies a heroes welcome, with the sounding of the last post. the country's new king willem alexander, and queen maxima, led a day of national mourning. the ceremony here, meticulous in bright sunshine, and performed in front of about 1,000 relatives of the dead. and what was most str

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: an air algerie flight disappeared in northern africa today with 110 passengers and six crew on board. the plane was flying from burkina faso to algiers, but it fell off radar over mali after the pilots reported heavy rain and asked to change course. later, the president of mali said wreckage had been spotted in the country's northern desert. nearly half of the passengers were french citizens. the rest came from a dozen other nations. >> woodruff: european monitors found more human remains in eastern ukraine today, where malaysian airlines flight 17 was shot down last week, killing 298 people. at the same time, two more planeloads of 74 coffins arrived in the netherlands. rohit kachroo of independent television news reports from the town where the bodies are being identified. >> reporter: for the victims brought here from the sunflower fields of ukraine, the people of hilverson do whatever seems approp

. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: israel widened the scope of its military barrage against hamas in gaza, as it promised it would. hamas has said it won't stop firing rockets into israel until it gets an international guarantee the border blockade will end. today, heavy strikes came on the ground and from the air as the palestinian death toll reached 1,120. on the israeli side, 53 soldiers and three civilians have been killed. flames and smoke billowed out of gaza's only power plant this morning. the plant's director said the damage would have a severe impact on the 1.7 million palestinians living in the narrow coastal territory. >> ( translated ): i would like to say to the world that this was a humanitarian plant that served the people, therefore its existence helped people, life, hospitals and the normal, simple life of the people of gaza. >> ifill: the power plant was just one in a string of targets israel hit in the 22nd day of f