we were ready for a product from the security council two days ago. when the council did not rise up to the occasion we were grateful to the arab group, the palestine committee in the united nations in which they expressed an extreme outrage and they put a draft resolution on the table. that contributed supreme court council to adopt the statement read to you by the security council. we hoped for this statement to be adapted last night. we worked very hard with our friends, especially the arab representative in the security council, and ambassador of jordan and his team. we worked all night long. we were hoping to have this position declared last night, but the reality of the security council led to officially adopting it at 12:00 today. we will observe very closely whether israel will abide b. we hope they do. if they don't we have a lot in our arsenal, and we will not allow the security council to rest for a minute. it is its job to maintain international peace and security, and it is its job to stop this aggression against our people. and i want to

but you know, you know the mechanism in the security council. the president has to consult with the members. we're pressuring from our side for the council to move quickly and to convene the meeting as soon as possible, and to act accordingly. we were given signals from the president of the security council that he will move according to these things, and he is consulting with others, and we are ready to meet as we said an hour ago. we are ready to meet now. we are ready to meet at any time that the security council is ready to meet. >> from the biggest question, you are very much--you want a meeting with the security council. from yesterday, you know, you could have made the request yesterday, you know, to jordan, and it's representative could have taken the initiative. what do you want from the security council? from the experience you had from the decision taken in the past, which the security council came to? >> we made the request to the presence of the security council. the president of the security council did confirm that he will get a me

the ceasefire call was announced by the president of the security council. >> the security council calls for full respect of international humanitarian law, including the application much civilian -- application -- protection of civilian population, and taking steps to ensure the safety and well being of civilians and their application. the security council expresses strong for for the call for an immediate and unconditional humanitarian ceasefire, allowing for delivering of urgently needed assistance. and urged all parties to accept and implement with a ceasefire into the eid period. >> the palestinian ambassador to the united nations said the security council should have adopted a resolution. >> what we have seen after 20 days from the security council is the presidential statement that is not a resolution, which the business of the security council is maintaining international peace and security. and they should have adopted a resolution long time ago to condemn the aggression and call for this aggression to be stopped immediately, to provide the palestinian people with protection and

security council meeting? >> well, it was clear that neither the israelis nor the palestinians were particularly happy. there is subtle changes in the statement. from what we saw early on in the conflict. they are calling for full respect of international humanitarian law, including the application of civilian, and remember, of course, that the security council meeting followed a phone call between prime minister binyamin netanyahu, and president obama. and that, the statement after the phone call, expresses growing concern about the numbers of palestinian deaths. >> that's about the strongest criticism, in israel it is muted. after the security council meeting, both the israeli and palestinian ambassadors spoke to reporters. >> the business of the security council is maintaining international peace and security. they should have adopted a resolution a long time ago to condemn this aggression, and to call for this aggression to be stopped immediately, to provide the palestinian people with application and lift

here is the e-mail we have gotten from the security council, it says the president of the security council wishes to inform members of the council it will have a public meeting in connection with the agenda item, the situation in the middle east including the palestinian question will be convened tonight, midnight. what's going on here? >> well, there has been no resolution. the secretary kerry has not been able to get these two to the table. the ejipg gyptians have not beee to get them to the table. the u.n. feels they have to do something. these two sides are so far apart. they're talking past each other. what the israelis demand, the palestinians can't give. what the palestinians demand, the israelis can't give. maybe the u.n. can do something, but i'm skeptical. >> i was going to ask bob. bob, what can the u.n. really do? can they do anything except for a strongly worded note? i'm not trying to be facetious here. >> you know, don, that's about the most we're going to get out of this. you know, hamas is determined. it went into this war intending to fight it to the end. and it is not do

that's one thing that is increasingly of concern for all members of the security council. how to proceed and act on that is not something we are seeing unity in terms of council members. that is perhaps why they held this meeting behind closed doors, and why no concrete action or formal statement was made by the council. there'll be another opportunity, however, on tuesday, when the council meets again. and palestinian ambassador said that he would continue calling on the council to make a stand, to take action to stop what he described as israel's aggression in gaza, so the debate will continue. >> still ahead. i'm wondering what kind of world we are living in right now. >> air travellers are stunned as tributes are paid to the passengers are shot down in eastern ukraine. ah, got it. these wifi hotspots we get with our xfinity internet service are all over the place. hey you can stop looking. i found one. see? what do you think a wifi hotspot smells like? i'm thinking roast beef. want to get lunch? get the fastest wifi hotspots and more coverage on the go than any other pr

from the crash where the jet liner came down. >>> and we begin this hour at the u.n., where the security councils trying to mend the unraveling crisis in gaza. >> the council called a midnigh

security council meeting. >> good afternoon, ladies and this meeting of the security council is calledo order. the provisional agenda for this very --is dated from the united nations addressed to the 2013--ty council -- f- the agenda is adopted. wish to warmly welcome the ministers presenting today's meeting. is anarticipation indication of the importance of the subject matter under discussion. accordance with rule 37 of the council's provisional procedure, i advise representatives of belgium, canada, germany, indonesia, theand, malaysia, netherlands, new zealand, the philippines, ukraine, and vietnam to participate in this meeting. it is so decided. the security council will now begin its deliberation of item two of the agenda. members before the security council have before them document -- resolution the draft submitted by argentina, australia, belgium, canada, france, germany, indonesia, ireland, jordan, estonia, luxembourg, malaysia, nigeria, theds, philippines, the republic of korea, ukraine, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, the united states of america, and

security council's provisions 1860. all must be respected both in terms of normalization, the crossing of border crossings and further interpalestinian reconciliation. at the same time we would like to underscore that the very fierce situation today should take us back to the concept that there is no prospects for e current state and we are convinced that it should be back in a committed, collective way. even intensive attempts to gain lateral results have not worked. the time is now to step up the work of the quartet. need to prompt it to work with the league of our states. coming up of solutions must be collaborated jointly with the arabs, first and foremost, with egyptians, to ensure that they e part and parcel of the process of collaborating initiatives. thank you, sir. >> i thank you for your statement. i now give the floor to the representative of luxembourg. >> mr. president, i should also like to thank the undersecretary general for political affairs, jeffrey feldman, for his breaching. the recent developments i

or even yesterday; it turns out that only this morning, coincidentally the very morning the security councilto discuss the investigation, did president putin finally issue a public call to ensure the security of international experts. however -- this is critically important -- president putin still did not direct his call to the separatists who have threatened the experts, and over whom he has enormous influence. presidenthé#- poroshenko has consistently done everything within his power since the crash to allow capable investigators full and unfettered access to the crime scene. he has been willing to involve uko, the netherlands and other international players, haling their independence. russia sent a message to the illegal armed groups it supports. we have your backs. this is what e the message russia has sent by never publicly calling them to lay down weapons and by massing thousands of troops at the ukrainian border. today we have taken a step toward combating impunity. the resolution passed provides clear directions to safeguard and uncover the facts, however inconvenient the facts may

the security council decided to weigh in on the matter. and put some pressure on israel and hamas to bring a pause in the fighting, and relieve to the civilians. we just got a copy from the statement that we expect the security council to issue in less than an hour's time. it expresses support for the efforts of the general and regional players to bring the ceasefire, and calls on parties to engage in efforts to achieve durable and respected ceasefire, based on efforts led by egypt in the region, recognising a gathering that took place on saturday. it stresses the need for provision of humanitarian assistance to the palestinian civilian population in the gaza strip. this is a statement. it represents a ratcheting up of pressure from the security council. they have met on gaza in emergency meetings a week ago. also late on sunday they held a meeting. at that time they made a comment that weren't really a formal statement on the part of the security council. this is the first time that the u.n. security council is weighing in as an internati

security council will meet to discuss the situation. most observers tell you they don't expect access from that meeting, other than, perhaps, a carefully worded statement. >>> air strikes in the iraqi city of mosul killed seven people. eight others were injured. rebels fighting with the group, calling itself islamic state, improvement known as i.s.i.l.ful there's no consensus on how to manage it now. >> reporter: the iraqi government lost mosul. the new rulers don't agree who should control the province. many sunni groups took part in the offensive pushing the iraqi army out. among them the self declared islamic state. weeks later they share the toppling of the nouri al-maliki regime. beyond that they don't have the same vision for the future. the group known as islamic state of iraq and levant started a campaign to get rid of dissent to its rule. >> translation: masked fighters are looking for and arresting former barthist and officers of saddam's army and tribal leaders, exposing their own views on people, telling tribes to lay down t

this was the reaction of the israeli and palestinian ambassadors. >> the business of the security councils maintaining international security, and they should have adopted resolution a long time ago to condemn this aggression, and to call for this aggression to be stopped immediately to provide the palestinian people with protection, and to lift the siege against our people in the gaza strip. >> we did everything we could to avoid this conflict, but hamas refused to stop the attacks. israel agreed to five cease-fire proposals. hamas rejected or broke all of them, even the ones that they requested by themselves. every single time the international community calls for a cease-fire we cease and hamas fires. >> so neither of the protagonists are particularly impressed with the second comment coming out of the security council, james, but what about the optimism expressed by the secretary general, which is more recent, of course. i'm wondering how far apart do you think the two sides are? it certainly didn't sound like they're in the least bit inclined to put down their weapons judging from th

united nations security council admired the kieffer authorities for their. measured approach now we can see what this measured approach is stay used heavy artillery. rocket launch systems that fire indiscriminately tanks and so on and so forth nice to see unity of military operation is now going on on a large scale. the civilians are killed by the dozen infrastructure is being destroyed. including hospitals and so on in the west according to the u.n. reports there were four point five million people living in eastern ukraine yet and we thought as have not made any effort to evacuate civilians from the area people have to flee from the war zone. on their own risking their lives every minute can we have attacks pointing. that people who seek. so refuge in russia being shot fired on by ukrainian military that's the number of refugees. fleeing to russia easy increasing every day. these reports are supported by the detail of the un commissioner for human rights. a regularly. artillery bombardments of russian territory. both in border crossings and her residential

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security council meeting. >> the business of the security council is maintaining international peace and security. and they should have adopted a resolution long time ago to condemn this aggression and to call for this aggression to be stopped immediately, to provide the palestinian people with protection, and to lift the siege against our people in the gaza strip. >>> and this from the israeli ambassador to the u.n. >> we did everything we could to avoid this conflict. but hamas refused to stop the attacks. israel agreed to five ceasefire proposals. hamas rejected or broken all of them, even the ones that they requested by themselves. every single time the international community called for a ceasefire, we seized and hamas fired. >>> let's go to our diplomatic editor james bays. neither side particularly happy with this. it wasn't a security council resolution, rather a presidential statement. >> no, the arab countries, particularly the palestinians had been asking since the start of this crisis, now three weeks ago, for a u.n. resolution to be passed, because a u.n. resolution becom

security council has appeal for immediate and uncondushl cease fire on the gaza strip and the councilemergency meeting in new york early monday and issued a statement calling for a truce to allow aid deliveries but israel and hamas are unable to agree on terms of a cease fire and offensive on gaza left 1034 palestinians dead and most are civilians and at least 6,000 injured and 33 israeli soldiers have died in the conflict. we have a call in gaza first but let's go to james in west jerusalem and james tell us more about the u.n. security council meeting which was in the early hours of monday morning and not everyone happy with the outcome. >> i don't think either side, israeli or palestinians are happy with the outcome and this is going further than the previous council statement and there is criticism of israel i suspect and meant as criticism but have not named israel because it calls for respect for humanitarian law including the population and taking steps to ensure the safety and well-being of civilians and i'm not sure israel would have liked that in the statement and the palest

international community with its cynical pretext, including destroying the credibility of the security council itself, which continues to stand aside ss israel flagrantly violate its resolutions without consequences. thanact speaks much larger disdainful words and immoral lectures made repeatedly before this council why the israeli representative, all while his government and enemy kill innocent children, women, and men. nowpalestinian death total stands at more than 274. i have to add the four more children to make it 278 people killed. and more than 2065 people injured. the overwhelming majority of those killed and injured are civilians, including 66 children. mr.as we heard from feldman, 48 women and 17 elderly persons. more than 47,000 people have been displaced, the majority palestine refugees. these disturbing facts are collaborated by reports from you and agencies on the ground. the images of the palestinian children killed by the israeli occupying forces sierra our hearts and the conscience of the world. i am compelled to share the names of some of the families, elderly, and disabled p

he really played a theatrical role today in the un security council.he played a 15 minute siren and asked security council members to imagine what it is like to have 15 seconds to run for cover when you know an attack is coming. theanted the members of security council to imagine the terror that the a palestinian -- and the palestinian ambassador had a response. he said, when an israeli plane is flying over and getting ready to bomb, there is absolutely no warning at all, and certain death. strong words today at the human security counsel. >> think you for that update. fateful --u for that for that update. days in ukraine, government forces have gained the upper hand in the three month conflict. a military spokesperson kiev say today -- said today that the army called a nasty surprise in of donetsk.ronghold >> bracing for the assault, pro-russian rebels set up a new checkpoint outside and ask, just kilometers away from government held positions. >> we build check point away from the city 20's pay the active -- the attack of the enemy -- away from the c

security council, the president much more cautious. this is a president who was burned by drawing a red line on syria and not following through. so he was tip toeing around vladimir putin's responsibility, whether there was direct responsibility, even though u.s. intelligence as well as ambassador samantha power suggesting a lot more russian culpability here, and the president specifically took a potential u.s. military action off the table in tomorrows of dealing with the crisis and seemed to put the onus on european allies who should step up. >> this should snap everybody's heads to attention, and make sure that we don't have time for propaganda, don't have time for games. we need to know exactly what happened. >> he was talking about making sure the investigation is as international as possible, to make sure evidence notice tamper ode with, but there have been reports they black box or boxes from the jetliner have already made their way to russia. so a big question mark whether the evidence has already been tamper with. >> if think

ok dan do you want to react to a security council yes because because the u.n. security council adopted the palmer commission report back in september twentieth levon which clearly states that the israeli naval blockade on gaza is legal and so . norman can argue from today until tomorrow that does not the case but the naval blockade of gaza by israel is legal and has been. recognized as such by the united nations ok norman do you want to react to that. you know really a completely different issue i'm not going to get into the fact i'm i'm not going to get into the factual details now but for those who are interested in a small window. and she said this for some two counts number one as he did correctly say the palmer commission only dealt with the naval blockade it did not deal with the land blockade number two the un security council never approved the palmer commission report that a report was commissioned by banking moon it had nothing to do with the other branches of the united nations but let's get to the bigger issue then says two things dan says first of

the security council will now begin its cosa duration of time two of the agenda and i'll give the floor to mr jeffrey feltman so you have the full. mr president distinguished members of the council as we face a rapidly deteriorating crisis in ukraine that bears consequences far beyond the country's borders we deeply regret that the glimpse of hope that followed the announcement president poroshenko peace plan including the euro erroll cease fire and peace talks with the armed groups as quickly dissipated in my briefing to you today i will focus on developments in eastern ukraine. as well as on the international efforts toward a peaceful resolution first the situation in eastern ukraine well the un has at this point no independent verification of the circumstances regarding the tragic crash yesterday of a malaysian airlines passenger plane the secretary general is alarmed at what seemed to be credible numerous reports that suggest that a sophisticated surface to air missile was used the secretary general strongly condemns this apparent deliberate downing of a civilian aircraft this horri

ban ki-moon about 40 minutes ago was addressed the security council by video link. he made it from tel-aviv to r a romala. it is my hope and belief that these talks will lead to results and an end to the fighting in the very near future. a prediction from ban ki-moon that a ceasefire could be in place in the very near future. that's the most optimistic comment we have heard from any international figure in more than two weeks. so i think what he said, in his prepared speech that he delivered from the un base in romala, i think significant. >> yes, but as far as we know, hamas has not been involved in any of these negotiations because it has demands it wants met before it talks about a ceasefire. >> yeah, it wants an end to the siege, for example. that is one of those underlying causes that under the kerry ban ki-moon plan they would have the ceasefire first and then negotiations. there are other players involved here. we know the turks are involved and that qatar is involved. and we know they don't have good relations with egypt, in some ways ban ki-moon and john ke

the mess that occurred until the security council for the first first of all let me let me say this it's an extremely emotional. tragic situation so let's not make good even worse by resorting to expressions like this. i challenge you to give me why one example of a grave robbers on the site and i think some of that has been happening and i think this is not a professional speaking for journalists or even politicians to resort to this kind of language. especially in a situation where it's grave and tragic enough now why didn't they do that why didn't they do this some of them may be very good questions other things fell on their head on their heads and usually when such things happen under normal circumstances people know how to deal with it they have their procedures they have crews of people teams of people who are trained to do that that was not the situation then they did not have those experienced people they had people which were completely taken aback by the circumstances of all that and if there were some irregularities or transgressions then of course that was their fault they c

the relevant security council resolution. >> the council issued a similar statement in march after north korea conducted other ballistic missile launches. >>> to the latest in business now. housing prices are coming down in more chinese cities. prices fell at nearly 80% of major cities in june. that fueled concern that the decline could pose downside risks to the country's economy. china's national bureau of statistics says new home prices rose only in 8 of the 70 cities surveyed. that's down from 15 in may. in contrast, 55 cities reported declines compared with 35 in the previous month. that was the biggest number since comparable data became available in 2011. cities showing falling prices out-numbered those with increases for two straight months. prices in the southern city of gang guangzhou spli0.6%, shangh 0.7%. the chinese government came up last year with a series of steps to curb excessive home price gains. officials say the recent developments will help achieve healthy economic growth over the long term. market sources point out that a prolonged price downtrend could hurt local

including russia, to their word. >> in new york, the united nations security council stood for a moment of silence to honor those who have died. russia and other world powers are backing calls for an independent probe into what happened. monitors from europe's security body, osce, visited the crash site, but the team said pro-russian separatists refused to grant them full access to the site. >> let's go straight to washington where leaders have been indicating russia's possible role needs to be under greater scrutiny right now. our correspondent richard walker joins us from the u.s. capitol. obama stopped short of directly blaming russia, but what else did he have to say? >> that's right, and i think it is important to stress that in his comments, obama was quite cautious. he said it was important not to get ahead of the facts and warned that there would be some scope for misinformation in the days and weeks ahead. we have one clip from his comments that indicates the way white house thinking is at least going at this point. >> evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by a surfac

two days ago the president of the security council called for a swift halting of military clashes on the bases of a return to a november-2012 agreement. it is our conviction that a swift and viable cease-fire would ensure the security of israel and all its citizens, the security of the people of the gaza strip, sending -- improving humanitarian situation there and possibly lifting the blockade on palestinian territory. it is seen that the appeal of the president of palestinian, mahmoud abbas, and the secretary general requires attention. that is palestinian -- we need to consider the proposals that the league of arab has, the role that they should play. frankly, we were surprised that we didn't even hear reference to these proposals in today's statement by the representative of jordan. there is real estate a need to move forward on resolving the issue of lasting palestinian-israel. it should be based on two-state solution, existing side by side. the security council resolution with -- the peace process from the middle east quartet includes the league of arab states. the task of intrap

members of security council emphasize the need to improve the humanitarian situation, including through humanitarian passes. the members of the city council express serious concern about the growing number of casualties. the members of the security council called for an immediate cessation of hostilities based on a return to the november 2012 ceasefire agreement. the members of the security council called the efforts of egypt to broker a ceasefire as well as those of the secretary general. i thank you. >> once again, we look live at the united nations, the president of the security council just commented on the situation in gaza. as well as secretary kerry's trip to egypt, right here on al jazeera america. >>> the federal government has a u.s. counterterrorism program, a new investigation by al jazeera into this network of informants has shed light on the shadowy word of domestic spies. trevor erickson has more. >> encouraging an ohio man to smug computers to militant groups overseas. >> ask them if they need any laptops because that's how the brothers are communicating you know e-mail.

we generally view the security council as responsible in these areas of peace and security.has had the establishment of international courts for yugoslavia, rwanda. it is called -- it called for the creation of the sierra leone court. the security council is the place. the cambodian context, in the context of an agreement with a sovereign country, cambodia, the u.n. general assembly passed a resolution asking the secretary general to do that kind of negotiation. those are two precedents. in the end, cambodia has critics in terms of whether it is sufficiently independent because of the negotiation that occurred . but legal, recognized structures that the united states contributes to and is involved with the management of were created through those mechanisms . every one of the things that i talked about today that has come up in the last 20 years were unthought of, unheard of before we established the ict why and -- the icty and ictr. think about how to do this. what is unthinkable as you could have 162,000 people dead and not have accountability. >> absolutely. >> thank you.

security council.bout a half hour, we'll hear from president obama on the situation in ukraine. that will come as u.s. intelligence suggests it was pro russian separatists who took down the plane. we have no information that americans were on that flight. >> we got the news from the ntsb we know they are sending at least one investigator. that will be senior accident investigator bill english. he was in charge of investigating flight 214. it's unclear what his specific duty will be at this point. you can bet it will include what ntsb is experts in. examining wreckage and identifying airplane parts. we know the administration is dictating a lot of what he will and will not able to do. also an indication of the ongoing security concern. the faa has expanded u.s. flight restrictions to include the entire area of eastern ukraine. we also know that ukraine has closed a large number of routes in that airspace, but the question still remains, swhot down this plane? we don't have those answers as yet but there

you are the security council. the security council of the russia delegation three times proposed resolutions that would allow for halting of violence t responded to our proposal with blatant cynicism. it seems that whatever the government arbitrarily does, but it seems that the -- that the victims of the geo political ambitions of the region are with the people of ukraine with their tentative operation, stopped as soon as possible. the negotiations are possible, but the right choice must be made. thank you. . >> mr. president, the members of the security council thank you for convening this meeting. i thi i thank you for your briefing. i would like to start addressing my government's condolences to all of the nations whose siptsz were killed on the terrible crash of malaysian airlines. we grief with the grieved families and friends and those acted by the accident. today, it all ukraine is mourning. ukrainians are approaching the am /* bell gyms, philippines in order to lay down flowers and express their sorrow. th

. >> abe spoke after meeting with members of the national security council. he said north korean leaders will give a special committee the power to launch an effective investigation into the nation. his government will lift sanctions that include restrictions on travel port calls by ships and tight regulations on money transfers. officials from japan and north korea met in may in stockholm to form the framework of an agreement. >>> north korean leaders have been weighed down by international sanctions for years as punishment for their nuclear missile tests but the impositionings by japan were much tougher. >> reporter: the u.n. security council adopted a be resolution immediately after north korea conducted a nuclear test in 2006. it called on member states to freeze goods that could lead to weapons of mass destruction. japan imposed individual sanctions. they banned all imports and exports from the north. north koreans are no longer allowed to enter japan except for people carrying special permits. north korean residents living in japan can still travel betw

dysfunctionality of the united states security council. finger blankets pointed at the russians for obstructionism. the bending international laws for things like the annexation of crimea. >> i have to go to lunch. think every much. -- thank you very much. >> also at the united nations in new york city today, u.s. secretary general ban ki-moon. he updated reporters about his middle east trip. he calls for israel and hamas to agree to a cease-fire. >> ladies and on, the secretary-general. gentlemen, the secretary-general. >> good morning. i'm about to brief the security council on the vital role of the regional delegation on the peacekeeping operations. before i do, i just wanted to update the current situation in the middle east. let me begin by reinforcing last night's call of the security council. calling for an immediate unconditional humanitarian cease-fire. as you know, i issued a statement yesterday calling for a 24 hour extension of the humanitarian cease-fire. i did this morning, early this morning. for an immediate, unconditional

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security council. purely because russia itself is one of five members that has the power of veto over any resolution. now we are still waiting at this moment. eric, we can perhaps take a live look at the u.n. security council chamber. we're still waiting for t ukrainian ambassador to speak. ukraine, remember, has said that it at this meeting will present what it calls evidence of russian involvement. we are also waiting as you mentioned at the top, the russian ambassador. so there are a lot of strong and fascinating words to come yet from that u.n. security council chamber this morning, eric. jon: very. >> very serious morning over there. jonathan, thank you very much. jenna: the downed passenger plane is only big headline. we're moving to the other major story in the middle east. israeli forces moving deeper into gaza and a ground operation raising questions how this crisis will end. david lee miller live from the border with more. david lee? >> reporter: jenna, let me start with the breaking news. mo

security council unanimously called for an immediate cease-fire on the gaza strip. in 20 days of fighting between israel and hamas, more than a thousand palestinians have been killed. 45 israelis have died. susan mcginnis is in washington. good morning, susan. >> good morning, lauren. today in gaza is quite different from what it is supposed to be. a time of joy with celebrations coinciding with the end of the holy month in ramadan. both israel and hamas are accusing one another of violating cease-fires and there's no telling if the u.n. who's called for a truce for both sides will do any greater good. the united nations security council called for israel and hamas to put down their weapons during a during an emergency midnight meeting. >> the security council expresses strong support for immediate and unconditional interim cease-fire. >> overnight there was relative calm. the lull came after fighting sunday and a brief truce. on cbs ice "face the nation" israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu -- >> israel is not obliged and will not let a terrorist organization

security council thank you for the. no new information has come to light in the tragedy involving a malaysian airlines plane that went on in ukraine killing all two hundred ninety eight people on board the earth carrier sees that before the disaster the plane had dropped to a lower than planned altitude following a request from ukrainian flight controllers teams are still combing through the wreckage searching for bodies on clues as to the causes of thursday's crash we should warn you that there are some graphic images coming out. so far and half of the bodies have been retrieved from the widely scattered debris there up to eighty children among the dead monitors from the organization for european security and cooperation have arrived on the scene we managed to speak to a local woman living right next to the crash site he's lucia a little i heard terrible noise i went out first and then my husband well the woman fell to the ground right after i ran out and first my husband thought it was me. i was in shock i couldn't go

security council unanimously voted for the australian proposed resolution that demands internationalaccess to the crash site as well as a cease fire around the area at this point ukraine and you have separatists are accusing each other of firing a surface to air missile at the airplane as it flew from amsterdam to kuala lumpur some thirty three thousand feet above a war zone in eastern ukraine all those on board flight two hundred eighty three passengers and fifteen crew were killed the very latest on this investigation let's go to our tease kosar of. the bodies of the victims of flight m h seven c know that war in the city offshore is about ten to take a lot of hours away from that crash have indeed been taken away from there now i reported lee they're on their way to the city off to call for which is beyond the area controlled by this self proclaimed defense forces say here in the east of ukraine afterwords the bodies will be sent over further to the netherlands and now this is all according to the dutch officials as well as the experts who have arrived here at the scene finally fi

in eastern ukraine is a stark reminder of there are moral -- of the moral response ability of security council members to put aside their division on this and hold the perpetrators of this criminal act to account of uphold its mandate international peace and security. i thank you. i resume my function as president of the council. i now give the floor to the representative of ukraine. you have the floor, sir. president, the sting which members of the security council, thank you for convening this meeting. jeffrey feldman for his briefing. i would like to start addressing mystart with addressing government's deep sorrow and condolences to all of the citizens and nations of those who were killed aboard the airliner. our thoughts are with the greek families and friends and those affected -- with the grieving families and friends and those affected by the incident. ordered to lay down flowers and express their sorrow. ukrainian people have already addressed international organizations to major poll, and others to undertake a full investigation of the accident. impartial an investigation will bring

security council. >> no, the u.n. security council met the talk of draft resolution put forward by jordan, which they are looking at. no real action from the security council in their emergency late night session. were there does seem to be some action is in the region where there's diplomatic heavy weights. you have ban ki-moon, he's been in doha and qatar, and meeting the qatari government, thought to have leverage with hamas. he'll go to egypt, cairo, speaking to the egyptian government which tried to put toot the previous -- together the previous ceasefire attempt. and secretary of state john kerry will go to egypt. the head of the u.n., and the u.s.'s top diplomat will be in the egyptian capital as they try and get efforts to bring in a ceasefire, redoubling the efforts. of course, despite the fact we have the heavyweights there, things are tougher. the death toll, now the size of the death toll, and the number of people dying on sunday, over 100 palestinians and 13 israelis means there'll be people on both sides

security council called for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire. >> jon: boom! unconditional.such resolutions are in any way enforcable or meaningful, but still, when a resolution is issued... >> the united nations security council took action with a statement, not a resolution. >> jon: even a resolution was too much? guys, i don't know, a resolution seems pretty stern, pretty stern, guys. even a statement, i don't know. i don't... what's the death toll, 1,000 and growing? what about we just jump in with an... [laughter] hey, guys, you know, if that gets pushback, we can take it down a. no we're only a collection of the world's superpowers. turns out the security council is about as strict with the mideast as museums are with their admission price. anybody else, anybody else want to take a crack at this? >> during his weekly address, pope francis said, "i ask you with all my heart, stop, please." >> jon: your holiness, i could not agree more, but i have to say, sheriff, not sure this particular fight is your jurisdiction, you know what i'm saying? i don't know if they're going

the un security council has been holding a emergency session on gaza. for daily humanitarian pauses, until a long-time ceasefire could be achieved. >>> the longer the conflict continues the more desperate the conditions become. electricity has almost been cut off completely, and that means water is not being pumped and that has lead to severe short e shortages. >> reporter: this refugee camp was hit by an israeli air strike. beside the mosque is a drinking water station that tens of thousands of people used to depend on. the air strike destroyed i generator. this man takes us to his family nearby. 35 of them share this tiny space. >> translator: we came from the bombing and we found no room in the un schools. we have no water and no electricity. >> reporter: there are thousands of houses in small rooms like this, where families have come together to try to seek shelter, and as you can see, the conditions are appalling, there is no electricity and no water. people here have long suffered from water shortages. with many of the water stations destroyed. pe

security council for a cease fire.re the latest pictures of an air strike inside gaza a short while ago, according to medical sources shelling has killed another palestinian child in east jabalia and two others killed with houses hit. immediate cease fire and held an emergency meeting in new york and issued a statement calling for a truce to allow aid to be delivered. israel and hamas cannot agree on terms of a cease fire and people in gaza city are praying after the end of ramadan and the start of the eat festival and we will be speaking to an editor in jerusalem but we will go to nicole and it had been fairly quiet until a short time ago and now it sounds like it's resuming. >> reporter: the reports are there are three separate air strikes in gaza, one in the camp area, another one and a third one and we have not pinpointed where that hit but the air strikes appear to have hit empty land areas and have not hit houses. this is quite common. israel regularly sort of hits area of empty land partly as a warning or to cre

that is why australia has brought this resolution to the security council. today the security council has responded. >> to my dying day i will not understand that it took so much time for the rescue workers to be allowed to do their difficult jobs and that human remains should be used in a political game. if someone around the table talks about a political game, this is the political game that's been played with human remains and it is despicable. >> there you saw it, anger at union security council. we'll get to a emergency meeting of foreign ministers in belgium as anger concerns over mh17 sflu the families mourn the loss of their loved ones. world leaders demand answers from russia. in the end, it's the loss of loved once, family, friends. >>> who will be indonesias next president as world's most populous muslim nation and it's about to get a new leader. ng abt all this walking i've been doing is that it's given me time to reflect on some of life's biggest questions. like, if you could save hundreds on car insurance by making one simple call, why wouldn't

security council had an emergency session this evening.pdate you on the story coming up tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. here on cnn. the families of flight 17 face a heavy emotional toll, not to mention the difficulties of dealing with foreign governments. joining me is mary schiavo. now an attorney for victims of transportation accidents. mark dunebroth, former head of the department of justice civil aviation unit. i will have you both with us. are families hoping to get the bodies home for a proper burial. i think its depends on what the united nations security council does and putin does. i think the united nations security council has to be forceful. it violates and, i think it violates treaties and they could take away some of the freedoms of the air which hit it is countries and the airline businesses. they do have some things they can do even though iko is basically a civil body and offshoot of the u.n. >> mark, just really the lack of respect for these people who died on this plane. world leaders expressed disgust over what they call

today, the security council has responded. our resolution demands that armed groups in control of the crash sites provide safe access immediately to allow for the recovery of the bodies and that these groups stop any actions that compromise the integrity of the crash site. this is imperative. there must be a cease-fire in the immediate area around the site. the victims must be treated with dignity, brought back to their homes, and laid to rest. all parties are required to fully cooperate with these efforts. russia must use its influence over the separatists to ensure this. russia must also use its influence to bring the conflict in ukraine to an end. our resolution also demands a full, thorough, and independent in a national investigation into this act. we must have answers. we must have justice. we owe it to the victims and their families to determine what happened and who was responsible. the resolution acknowledges the investigation is already underway. it commands that safe, secure, full, and unrestricted access to the cra

in the end these were the words read out by the president of the security council. >> the security council members called for deescalation of the situation, restoration of calm and reinstitution of the 2012 ceasefire. the security council members further called for respect for international humanitarian law, including the protection of civilians. the security council members also expressed the support for the resumption of direct negotiations between the israelis and palestinians, with an aim of achieving a comprehensive peace based on the 2-state solution. >> reporter: arab ambassadors wanted something tougher and came up with a draft resolution calling for an immediate durable and fully respected ceasefire. it's important the word immediate is lacking in the statement, and the palestinian ambassador to the u.n. said the statement had taken too long. >> we worked all night long. we hoped to have this position declared last night. but the reality in the security council led to officially adopting it at 12 o'clock today. we will obvious closely whether israel will abide by the calm. we hope

we all look to the security council for strong condemnation. that strong condemnation will come from the security council, but the key here is that the parties to the conflict, the government of israel, hamas, and the other groups operating on the ground they all have responsibility with respect to international humanitarian law and [ inaudible ] violation of un facilities. it's extremely important. the united nations has the ability to operate independently to look after the safety and security of civilians, they should be able to get that. >> all right. thank you so much. >>> a tanker carrying a million barrels of oil is in legal limbo off of the coast of the u.s. state of texas. on monday a judge ruled the tanker should be seized. but a day later she said it was too far offshore and could only be seized if it entered u.s. waters. the u.s. state department has referred the case then back to the central government of iraq and the semiautonomous kurdish region to resolve. >> our policy remains the same. there is obviously a legal case here. and