jeffrey feltman secretary general for a separate us you should read here is even more tragic a new grand. luke judd to explain. it but it isn't. all for me to do so i've got the. victim do the logan dealing with. airline sit do in a manner that isaac effect ok so the meeting in new york continues of the emergency session of the u.n. security council and we heard of course from the undersecretary there saying that the sec in general will be meeting with president petro poroshenko of ukraine tomorrow. the. next u.s. intelligence officials claim that the plane was downed by a surface to air missile but have not specifically blamed either side vice president joe biden said that a team of specialists will be sent to assist ukrainian authorities with the investigation going to change account is in washington following the american reaction. u.s. officials believe it was a surface to air missile that shot down the malaysian plane over ukraine the u.s. is not pointing the blame thing or just yet president obama spoke with the ukrainian leader shameka we can be sure that the blame game in the com

jeffrey feltman is joining us right now. at the united nations for veteran affairs. an american veteran diplomat. tell us what's going on right now. do you have everyone on board including hamas, all factions of hamas, as well as the israelis? >> wolf, we've received assurances. in fact, the secretary of jerusalem has received assurances from all parties that everybody is on board for the 72-hour unconditional cease-fire that we hope will lead to something more durable. but, yes, we believe that everyone is on board. >> and the israeli government has told you this because the silence so far is deafening. we've been trying for the last half hour, 45 minutes to get a statement from israeli officials and so far we got nothing, ambassador. why aren't they confirming that they're on board? >> i can't answer for the israelis, wolf. what i can say is we have received assurances from all parties. i'm sure the americans would say the same thing because of the fact that we went forward with this joint statement. secretary-general is p

now, we understand from jeffrey feltman who is the under secretary for political affairs at the unitedions that ban ki-moon will be meeting with the israelis and palestinians he will be expressing solidarity with both of them. he will be going to the west bank and jerusalem but probably won't be going to the gaza strip for security reasons now, according to feltman, there is a proposal by the palestinian president, mahmoud abbas in order to reach a ceasefire and he's saying that he's willing to sends palestinian authority forces to man the philadelphia corridor which is the route between gaza and israel in order to guarantee the opening of the border crossing between gaza and egypt. that's the key palestinian demand because hamas has said it will not agree to a ceasefire unless there is an easing of the siege and the restrictions imposed by egypt. but feltman says that it remains to be unknown whether hamas what agree to having palestinian authority forces based on its border with egypt. >>> next on al jazerra america, a refugee crisis spurring from the violence in iraq. >>> president

jeffrey feltman under secretary for political affairs for his briefing earlier. for my delgration this is timely given the tragic incidents calving malaysian flight mh-17. malaysia is touched by the support from across the world at this difficult time, we wish to also express our profound sorrow and convay our deepest sympathy and condole answers to the families and friends of those on board mh-17. mr. president, malaysia is shocked and distraught by the downing of the malaysian flights mh-17. the scheduled fly which departed amsterdam yesterday afternoon at am sister dam local time was expected to arrive this morning t unfortunately, driver's license crashed in the danish region of eastern ukraine. 298 people perished in this incident. those who perished were from the netherlands, 189, malaysia, 44, australia, 27, indonesia: 12. united kingdom: 9. german: 4. bell judgment. 4. philippines: 3. canada: 1. new zealand: 1. and 4 passengers whose nationalities have yet to be verified. at a time route which the regularly cross ukrainyang airspace was one of the most po