. >> well, reva, in israel, these periodic offensives are preferred to as mowing the lawn w the idea that they can strike hamas, they can degrade the weapons capabilities and essentially buy peace and security for a few more years. but there's reason to bereave, because hamas is more internationally isolated now, they no longer have the allies in egypt and syria they previously had, that actually this particular offensive could be more effective and have a longer lasting impact on hamas' capabilities this time around. >> yeah, but, you know, hamas actually faces a big political crisis at home because when you have more than 1,000 air strikes on the gaza strip, obviously that has a very deep impact on the civilians in gaza who are feeling the brunt of that attack. so hamas suffers for that politically. indeed, you've already seen other militant factions like palestinian islamic jihad increase in their popularity as hamas has been under all this political pressure to break out of that isolation. that's why it signed a deal with fattah recently. meanwhile, other resistance groups like t

about a military jet that was reportedly in the area when the plane went down artie's marina closer revahas more. there was a second aircraft which was the type of gaining high at the same time as the boeing seven seventy was flying over there and watch it what's interesting is that it reached its distance between the this aircraft and boeing seven seven was at one point between three to five kilometers now what's the question that springs up here is why it deployed military jets so close to passenger planes because we're not only talking about the malaysian boeing there were other planes flying over that area as well and why not reveal it because since considering everything that's happened this is crucial information and now i believe we can hear about some more details regarding the second aircraft and what russia's defense ministry believes there was. five twenty one pm and thirty five seconds another mark of an aircraft appeared at the point of the crash. monitored by radar station. and sky during the next four minutes being spotted that jets an air traffic controller failed to iden

we talked to reva as lanerly year. >> reporter: they have no nationalist ambitions and not looking to build a state. term islamic state is a misnomer. is is is not a political group, it's a jihaddist organization, it does not the syria, it does not the iraq, it wants the world. and we have to remember that's a completely different state of affairs than dealing with organizations like his bowl or hamas, that have nationalist ambitions and not global ambitions. isis is a stateless organization, it's a jihaddist group that wants control over the entire globe, and that type of organization cannot be negotiated with. we need to destroy isist militants, and we need a robust strategy to do that. >> you're talking good destroying isis, and it seems that the only military force in the world with that capability would be perhaps the united states, and the united states has no interest in redeploying to that region right now. who is going to carry that burden? >> that's true. deployment is not an option, but airstrikes nevertheless are, and we're in the position where we have the intelligence ap

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i did not fire at reva. >>reporter: so testimony is over.o you think has the upper hand in the end? >> i still think the state. their witnesses were more credible than the defense witnesses. as you said before, it is always going to come down to oscar's testimony. he changed his version. he got agitated with the prosecutor. he broke down numerous times. so, no, not a good witness at all. >> reporter: here's what's next, his defense lawyer and the prosecutor will prepare closing arguments. then it's verdict watch. the judge and two assessors will deliberate. who decides? it needs to be a 2/3 vote so the assessors can overrule the judge. pistorius is charged with premeditated murder. possible sentence, life in prison. but the judge can also find him guilty of two lesser charges. murder, which means he didn't plan ahead of time. possible sentence, 15 years in prison. or culpable homicide. pistorius was acting in self-defense but was negligent. possible sentence, also 15 years in prison. he is facing several firearms charges which could set him