john terrett joining us live in washington, d.c. , always a pressure. >>> at least six people killed on flight mh17 or their way to an hiv aids conference happening in australia. scientists and activists from the international aids society paid tribute in melbourne today. among passengers was a well-known researcher and spokesman for the world health organization glen thomas. who is based in jamaica. >> we discussed this, of course, among ourselves, our friends, our colleagues, and what we agreed and i think we had a real consensus, everyone agreed, that the colleagues that we have lost were people who committed their lives and their work to hiv aids and they would want this conference to go forward. and that they would want us to have them in our hearts during the conference. >> officials say they don't yet know just how many of those victims were going to that conference. meanwhile, ukrainians right here in the states are remembering the hundreds of lives lost in malaysia airlines tragedy. they held a candle light individual ill la

we'll join john terrett in washington for more on the airlines disaster. first we begin the coverage where israel is pressing ahead with its ground defensive. nick schifrin joins us with the latest. >> good morning to you. thank you for joining us. you spent the morning with emergency workers. what was that light. set the scene for us a bit. >> yes, there's a huge amount of tension and a huge amount of violence. that is north gaza. many of the rockets have been fired from gaza into israel. that's where the barrage is happening, by the air and tank, and troops entering the area. my morning with ambulance workers dealt with a lot of victims and casualties. we witnessed the fight between the ambulance workers and local police. the feel of a seem is increasing more than 50,000 people from that community behind me are here in gaza city. they are filling u.n. schools. one room is 200 square feet with 29 people lying in it. the u.n. does things with the humanitarian crisis. we are talking about food and a medical shortage. the violence is increasing inside the ga

john terrett joins us live from the heart of the nation's capitol with that part of the story. , tell us what happened, one, is kerry appearing to take sides in this off-the-cuff comment? >> well, morgan, good afternoon. this is an extraordinary situation to have cropped up on national television. to put this in context for you, when a guest like secretary kerry is appear okay a national television program from a remote studio, there is a lead-in time when they are sitting in their seat but before the presenter begins to ask them questions. >> time is usually recorded by the broadcaster. >> happens all over the country. what happened today was fox news on their sunday morning broadcast, "fox news sunday" decided to record and broadcas , unguarded remarks by secretary kerry in which he appeared to be highly critical of israel's operation in gaza. take a look. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> escalating significantly, under scores the need for cease-fire. >> we have got to get over there. >> thank you, john. i think, john, we ought to

john terrett joins us from washington with more on that. what are you hearing in d.c.?nd quite frankly, what evidence do they have? >> reporter: morgan, good morning to you. the evidence is that the u.s. embassy in the capitol of ukraine, kiev, has put out a statement saying there is very clear evidence course to them that an sa-11, a surface-to-air missile which the russians tend to refer to as a book and russia calls a gadfly was fired on thursday by pro-russian separatenists eastern ukraine. now, this morning, appearing on all of the major sunday broadcasts, secretary of state john kerry said he thinks it was provided by the russians. >> that we saw the launch from this area of what we deem to be an sa-11 because of the altitude, 350,000350,000,000 feet, and because of the trajectory, we have the trajectory recorded. we know that it occurred at the very moment that this aircraft disappeared from the radar screen. >> reporter: and, morgan, yesterday, secretary kerry spoke on the telephone in a pre-arranged meeting with his russian counter part, sergei lavrov, accordin

john terrett joins us. what exactly did secretary of state john kerry say and how did it happen. >> well, in many ways whichever way you slice and dies it, is probably a rookie mistake. there's a rule of thumb, if you don't want others to hereway you say, here, what you say, don't say it. others see it as ain dietment -- an indictment of fox news for reporting it. whichever way you look at it, it seems to be a rare glimpse into behind the scenes thinking of part of the middle east peace pros. >> reporter: it was a private chat with an aid off camera, but in a studio with camera fornings john kerry caught on tape, his unguarded comments seemingly critical about the operation in gaza, more critical because it comes from united states. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> right, it's escalating significantly, underscoring the need for ceasefire. >> we've got to get over there. thank you, john. i think, john, we have to go tonight. it's crazy to sit around. >> regardless of whether fox was right to broadca

john terrett is live in washington. what is going on? how are house members planning to resolve this immigration funding issue? >> well, it all seems to have changed in the last couple of hours, after the chaotic scenes on the floor. we'd be told there would be no vote on the issue of emergency legislation to address the border crisis. things changed. 3 o'clock this afternoon there was word of a behind closed doors meeting. the republican caucus said they'd stay until they voted. then we heard members were brought back from the airport, including a group due to tour the border. they were brought back in their bus. there'll be an england closed door meeting of the caucus and a vote tomorrow. at the moment the rules committee is meeting to set the stage for tomorrow. this is embarrassing for the republican party. what we are talking about is a puny bill, it's $659 million, compared to 2.7 billion on the table in the senate. not that the house will vote on that. and $3.7 billion, as requested. >> the speaker of the house pushed the blame fo

john terrett wants his time ba back. >> i cede it willingly. >> "real money with ali velshi" coming up, ali, good to see you. >>> israel vows to pay for the death of three teenagers. and the first named tropical storm of the season going up the eastern seaboard. can we go back to chicago. look at this crowd. we're in extra time, i understand. belgium is up 2-1, i don't know how much time is left in extra time but we're getting close here. we'll give you an update on the score. but look at all the people staying through the bitter end. this is al jazeera. >> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said his country will not rest until it if a finds who abducted and killed three teenagers. the teens bodies were found near where they went missing last month. net had netanyahu has blamed hamas for their deaths. i spoke with the founding director of the institute of international affairs in notre dame, and i asked if the situation in the west bank between israel and had hamas will escalate. >> i think cooler heads will prevail on both sides. it's not clear on the hamas side that hamas cent

john terrett is here with more. this is alarming? >> it's the scourge of our modern era if you think of some, target, two data breaches. there was j.c.nie, jet blue and the naz dabbling and many others as well. now,dac and many others as well. no now,. the finger of suspension is being pointed at the chinese. could well have hacked into a very important federal computer network to getting the kind of data they were looking for. >> alarms range in march at the office of personnel management. haggers breached a database containing the private files of tennessee of thousands of u.s. government workers. it looks like the work of chinese hackers media reports quoting an off the record government source saying there is no evidence so far anything was stolen. cyber security experts say hackers usually target government or corporate workers over many weeks until finally, an xwooep accidently clicks on a link they ought not to. >> that's it. the bad guys are in. >> chances are, they got far and when you go after those that are requesting high

. >> john terrett joins us from washington d.c. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> u.s. officials are saying that russia supplied the rebels with anti-aircraft systems and that the very systems were moved back into russia after the shoot down. do they have offed of this. >> you have to remember that the buk missile systems are enormous, you can't fire them from your shoulder. it needs a truck and a specialist team to get the buk up into the skies. so there's the visual signature. people see it, they report back, they now something was launched on a grand scale. beyond that is the heat seeking signature. u.s. intelligence is focussed on the region. it wasn't difficult to trace the heat-seeking signature on the radar and to intercept calls that seem to indicate an involvement, so they can say with some certainty that the mice ail wnt up with -- missile went up with pro-russian separatists. >> you are saying the visual signature, and given everything that you mentioned, how is washington responding to that. secretary kerry had a call yesterday. in the course of the telephon

and john terrett was there. >> john, the longer this conflict has gone on, cities around the world haven protests in favor of the palestinian cause. now worried that their message is not being heard, israeli supporters have begun hitting back. starting with this protest right outside the world body in east manhattan, which new york police estimate is 10,000 strong. >> the united nations unfortunately sometimes does not do the right thing, and they say things that -- that make no sense condemning israel for taking military action to protect innocent civilians -- >> it's really unfortunate how the media has been misrepresenting the situation. suffering is not something that anyone should have to endure. i view the palestinian people as hosta hostages held by hamas. >> the media in general has been very unkind to israel. we have to make sure that a large core of people support israel. >> we have seen so many people delegitimize the jewish people. especially at the time of the holocaust. now they seek to delegitimize the jewish state. there is freedom of speech and we respect that, but when

john terrett reports from washington. >> reporter: it was a private chat with an aide off camera, but in a studio with live microphones, john kerry was caught op tape, his ungoreded moments critical about a subject as israel's operation in gaza, critical because they come from the u.s. secretary of state. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> right, it's escalating significantry and underscores the need for ceasefire. >> we've got to get over there. >> yes. >> thank you, john. >> i think, john, we ought to go together. i think it's crazy to be sitting around. >> reporter: regardless of whether fox was rite to broadcast the hot-mike moment, the secretary reverted to dip low speak when asked to justify the remarks. >> it's tough. i reacted in a way anybody does with respect to, you know, young children and civilians. war is tough. i said that publicly. i'll say it again. we defend israel's rite to do what it is doing. israel is accepting a uni lateral ceasefire. it accepted the egyptian plan which we support and it is important for hamas to now

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john terrett in washington. plenty of chaos - will congress get this done before leaving for the break? >> the april at the moment is we -- answer at the moment is we can't say with certainty, we can say there's a lot of washington d.c. political theatre going on. the whole place regarding this issue is in a state of flux, as we have seen so many times in the past. boy can these people bring things down to the 59th minute of the 11th hour. earlier today the house said no vote on the emergency legislation. at 3 o'clock there was a behind the scenes closed door meeting involving the republican caucus. sara ike son said we'll stay until we vote. yes brought back people from the airport. and now there'll ba meeting at 9 o'clock -- be a meeting at 9 o'clock tomorrow and a vote on the issue. whichever way you slice and dice it, it's embarrassing for the republican party. the bill doesn't amount to a hill of beans. it's 659 million worth of aid. that compares to 2.7 billion on the table in the senate. and 3.7 billion r

john terrett reports. >> reporter: it was a private chat with an aide off camera but in a studio with live microphones he was caught on tape. unguarded comment critical about israel's operation in gaza made critical because they come from the u.s. secretary of state. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation, a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> right. it's escalating. it underscores the need for a ceasefire. >> we've got to get or there. >> yes. >> thank you, john. >> i think we should go tonight. it's crazy to be sitting around. >> regardless of whether fox was right to broadcast the hot-mike moment, the secretary reported to normal dip low speak when asked to justify remarks. >> it's tough to have this kind of rehabilitation, and i reacted -- reaction, and i reacted the way anyone does with respect to young economic and civilians. war is tough. i said that publicly and i say it again. we defend israel's right to do what it is doing to get at the tunnels, israel accepted a unilateral ceasefire, it accepted the egyptian plan, which we also support, and it is important for hamas to now ste

john terrett talked to one. >> shock and sprays. >> meet fivesal, a rub can working at the homeland security with george w. bush and records show was spy on. >> some in law enforcement or intelligence may have seen them as not being combat ability. >> "the intercept" published by greenwald, said among the articles was a fivesal recap, allowing warrants to be obtained to spy an americans if suspected of terror-related activity. fivesal was not the only high-profile muslim spied on. so was asim, an attorney relating american muslims in terrorism-related cases from capitol hill. an iranian-american professor at a university and head of center for middle eastern studies. an activist regstering muslim americans to vote, and the executive director of the council for american-islamic organization, the largest muslim civil rights foundation in the country. >> the fact they are targetting muss lum-american activists and lawyers suggests that they are considering political views on who to focus energy on. faisal says he and the four others have led outwardly exemplary lives and hopes to see changes. >

the calls to the obama administration, john terrett, what do you know about this briefing. >> reporter: the pressure is to send munition as aid to the ukraine. it's not just republicans calling for that but the democrats as well. they say its time has come to send more than emergency rations to kiev. in the meeting afterwards we heard from two leading democra democrats, here's how bill nelson put it regarding the idea of munitions. >> i think it's going to take the support of the united states not just with things like mres and canteens, not just things like education and training. i think it's going to go over the course of the next six months that we need to supply them with the weapons that they can protect themselves. >> reporter: we have not heard much from the administration today. the president has been traveling. we have just seen the president come back on marine one. but they are striving for a diplomatic solution for what is happening in eastern ukraine. >> so that point yesterday before the president left on his trip he was asked about providing arms new weapons for the ukr

al jazeera's john terrett joins us since then tension rose. >> good evening.fter the news broke the israelis launched a massive search operation, hundreds were arrested and six killed. tensions rose higher once those three young israelis were found to be dead. it was june 30th when the bodies of three teenagers turned up in hebron, not far from where we were missing. protests took place. on 2 july palestinian teenager mohammed abukhdair was kidnapped and found murdered. an autopsy report found that he had been burnt alive. a day later several suspects were arrested. israel says some confessed. then at the start of this week, in exchange for fire from the air, palestinians rockets struck israel on monday and israel launched its own air strikes, the military released this video of that air offensive in gaza. the attacks continued. israel's cabinet authorised calling up 40,000 reserve troops, raising the possibility of action on the ground. israel's self-defence minister suggested this would be a long-term drawn-out affair. >> thank you for being with us. >> what

john terrett in washington.n, thank you. >> for more on this, i want to bring in john gulia, a former member of the national transportation safety board. good to see you. here we are, day 3 of the investigation, how does one even coordinate an international endeavor like this? >> this is first time we have had to do international accidents the procedure and process is very well defined in this case, the train is clearly off of the tracks. >> certainly not the first time. is there a different protocol, if you will, when you are dealing with a terrorism investigation? >> well, it's a crime scene so normally even with a crime scene where the fbi or their counterparts in entinterpol or whatever the police authorities are in the country where the accident occurred, the expertise rests within the aviation community and in those cases, it's the aviation accident investigators who work under the umbrella of the police organization to discover pertinent facts and to maintain the chain of custody for the police so they ca