. >>> with me now is an expert on middle east policies at qatar university. have you on the program. qatar and turkey both being brought in by the u.s. to speak. neither of which are popular choices with israel. >> you know, as you know, diplomacy started two weeks ago, since this crisis started. unfortunately, the only, you know,. [ inaudible ] so-called egyptian, now qatar and turkey are saying one simple message, which basically that they have the demands of hamas and other resistent movements and they say these are the demands. and they want a long-term solution for the situation in gaza. that long-term solution includes, you know, egyptians to be on board, including israelis to be on board, including the u.s. to be on board, including france to be on board. so basically they want a long-term solution, which basically again is what the the egyptian initiative wanted from the beginning. where they want a short-term solution where they can have a ceasefire and then negotiate everything. >> but in this case, john kerry's plan appears to have driven a wedge be

from qatar university, here in the studio with us. >>> turning to another big story we have been covering, the downing of the malaysia airlines in ukraine. world leaders demand russia put pressure on rebels to give unfettered access to the wreckage of the malaysian airliner shot on thursday. concerns have been raised from where the bodies moved have been held. there are accusations of wreckage being destroyed. international monitors trying to establish a safe corridor were denied proper access for a second day. they are working in an intimidating environment under the eye of separatists. 298 on board were killed, shot in a separatist held area east of ukraine, 50km from the russian border. the wreckage is strewn across 15 scare kilometres of farm land. al jazeera's nisreen el-shamayleh is at the scene. joins us now live. set the scope for us. tell us where you are, and whether the investigators have managed to get access to the site? >> well, as you mentioned, a huge area of this countryside is strewn and lit ared with pieces of the wreckage. i can show you what is the cockpit of mh17. wh

let me turn to my guest in the studio from qatar university, to talk more about the diplomatic efforts under way. we have a lot of actors involved. you have the qataris, the turkish prime minister, hamas's leader is here, and the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas. is this - you know, the sign that maybe something is likely to come out of this, something positive given that all the players are in doha today. they won't allow me - israelis are not speaking about ceasefire, what we are gathering this morning is that the people of hamas mentioned that they have not insisted to discuss it. it's basically none of the players anticipate diplomacy. the efforts we are speaking about, there is one important fact, that this military operation should stop. every player is believing, but there is no - there is an effort done by qataris brokered. in cooperation with turkey. the ideas of this initiative by palestinians, hamas and other, you know resistant movements. they sent this kind of demand. these are... >> the conditions to a ceasefire. >> yes, conditions to a ceasefire. there's no

let's speak to our guest in the studio, an expert at middle east politics at qatar university.d to have you back with us. we have seen growing demonstrations in the west bank, and ramallah, because of what is happening in gaza. what is your assessment of how the palestinian leadership have been acting in all of this. >> at the end of the day, mahmoud abbas and his government has moved two months ago to have a unity government. this government should be accepted by international community. of course, the united states and israeli were not happy with this. they put pressure on mahmoud abbas to choose between peace, or hamas. the move towards hamas, as the second particular player within palestinian society was to bring west bank again. so basically trying to end the siege on gaza, and try to help people in gaza. the first test to this unity government was this operation against us. it's clear that the international community, israel and the united states in particular are not interested to work with the government. >> so far they are working with mahmoud abbas as a presidential a

>> a professor of middle eastern studies at the university of qatar and senior research fellow at the university of cambridge joins us live. while the sudanese government may not have a perfect record when it comes to human rights, does it have a point where it says what is happening to the arab position on this. does it seem the arabs are more split to this conflict in gaza than any previous one? >> yes. everybody asks about the position of arab league. i think maybe the use or the term leaders is not accurately used, because there is no leadership at the moment in the arab world. what you have, i think as has been discussed elsewhere reflecting that anger is a bunch of businessman, traders which may be agents or messengers, agents in kind of delivering the actions that are required by foreign powers or messages moving messages between one party to another party. you can't see any leadership whatsoever in the arab world. leaders could be blamed of not doing any action when it comes to the palestinian cause, the iraqi cause or any other arab cause. now we have reached a new low point

. >> an expert on middle east politics at the university of qatar.d to have you with us this morning, one thing i wan i wanto pick up. athe actions of hamas are making people question what the palestinian authorities are doing and what their reel vance is. relevance has been. what have they done so far? >> keeping the momentum of having hamas in gaza and punched apa inwest bank and keeping the palestinian authority divided. now, what's happening in gaza which was not expected that people in in the cities in the last 24 hours or three days they were actually administrating and they request the reaction of palestinian authority. having said that account we have to remember that the abbas actually did call for a demonstration by palestinians in the west bank and he was calling them actually to show sympathy with their own brothers and sisters in gaza. which was a little bit unique because basically we used to have palestinian authority in rah mall a using the tough hand against those demonstrating against israelis. it seems there are two major changes,

he's a senior fellow at the center for trans-atlantic relations at john hopkins university, and said qatar would have to play a role in the ceasefire talks. >> qatar is playing a role. egypt, opposed to the muslim brotherhood, with a tie to hamas, under president abdul fatah al-sisi, so egypt has been marginalized. the two big flares, three big players are john kerry of the united states, ban ki-moon of the united nations, and the qatari leadership. one thing that the israelis are looking at and why they reversed their fogs on friday, no ceasefire is i don't think they can let the u.s. secretary of state come to the region and go home with a failure. i think the israelis are understanding that a lot of american opinion is turning heavily against them, and i think they want to get this over with before finding any more of these brutal picture showing off on american television. mr binyamin netanyahu has to understand that israel has no one except the united states. if they poke the u.s. secretary of state in the eye with a sharp stick, as they did a couple of times before, they did it to th

first off, i'm joined by an assistant professor at georgetown university school of foreign service in qatare is the question. leading into this segment before the break, i said can the two sides co-exist. and it strikes me that that may be a disingenuous question or the wrong question to ask, because can you co-exist with someone whose mission is your destruction, meaning hamas wants to destroy israel? >> well, i think the context is very important here. and if we really take a very close look at the chronology of events that have led to this latest israeli offensive against gaza, we would find that actually hamas has not chosen the option of a military or violent confrontation with israel. that in fact if we go back to this past spring when we heard all of the reports of a unity government at a time when hamas' political standing was quite weak in the gaza strip, that in fact they actually came to an agreement with the fatah leadership in order to actually ease the situation tremendously and to be able to try to transition towards something of a unity position among all of the different pa

qatar. so far it looks like neither side will agree to another cease fire. >>> 6:50. happening today a former san francisco state university appear before a judge. mark landis video taped a dozen and current students. landis hosted students at his home but one day a student found a surveillance come are in a bathroom disguised as a tissue box. the investigation started last november. landis taught accounting at sf state for the last eight years until resigning earlier this month. >>> our time is 6:56. it's the end of an era at candle stick park. last night the san jose earthquakes battled the spanish league soccer champion alatico madrid for the final sporting event at the stadium. however many bay area sports fans had more than just soccer on their minds. they wanted to say goodbye to the long-time home of the giants and 49ers. >> it was cold, it was loud, it was like the playoff games. >> the police and the citizens and we're all going to miss this place. >> you going to mississippi the place or overtime? >> we are going to miss everything about it. >> you are invited to tour the stadium for free. >>> it is 6:57. coming

qatar are squeezed by this. >> this was a step background. they were gaping momentum, there has been disinvestment campaigns that met in the u.s. or entered into by churches and universities, yet this happened and the kidnappings and murders were applauded by supporters of the national unity government. that's a setback. i don't think the folks in hamas understand the horrible impact that that sort of behaviour has on israeli partners or the partners they'd like to have in a peace process, and it certainly doesn't do them favors abroad. this was a very big setback. president mahmoud abbas realises that. yet a lot of americans don't realise there are good connections between the binyamin netanyahu government and the palestinian authority. i want to play something that former israeli consule to new york said, when he talked about the breakthrough in terms of solving the case and figuring out what happened. >> i don't think israel could identify the bodies or identify the two. >> had it not been for intelligence level cooperation. >> that cooperation - how does israel and the palestinian authority build on that. pt united states is playing a key roll. we have advisors helpin