Again at this hour, theres no deal in israel. Five hour humanitarian ceasefire between israel and hamas has ended, and rockets launched from gaza this morning in israel, attacking from air and sea. In one week of fighting, 235 palestinians have died, along with one israeli. Nick schifrin is in gaza. All day the diplomats have been meeting in cairo, trying to come up with a ceasefire. But in cairo and hamas, the palestinian authority, egypt and United States, it has been ten with us. And for three hours, we have a humanitarian pause, ceasefire for three hours, and it wasnt really broken. You had about three rockets fired from gaza, and a single israeli response, we had splinter groups taking credit for those, and in response, we have seen israel begin some kind of air campaign, three, four strikes or so, apparently headed to from the israeli army. But theres still momentum. And diplomatic progress from the ceasefire. From israel and hamas and in washington. Theres a huge push to try to
Okay. We dont know what those are, but hopefully when we get the first pictures of the crash, we will bring them to you here on al jazeera. Just a bit more on what we know. The plane was last seen on radar some 80 kilometers west of the ukrainian city of donetsk. Ukrainian interior Ministry Official is saying that this plane was brought down by a ground to air missile. Lets cross over to Rory Challands now. Rory it was the Interfax News Agency that first reported this plane crash. What more do we know at this stage . Well, interfax wouldnt tell us the name of the source that had given them off of the information. So a lot of things are still very murky about this crash, but we do know this is going to be a huge game changer for this conflict, the conflict going on at the moment between the Ukrainian Army and prorussian separatists. Already the finger of blame is starting to be pointed backwards and forwards. The Ukrainian Government is hinting that it is the rebels. The rebels themselv
The nasdaq is down by 40 points. Just about 1 . The s p 500 right now is also trading in negative territory, down by about threequarters of 1 . Sitting at 1,967. Vix has been moving sharply. Biggest oneday gain for the vix. It is now up 21 , even higher now. It had retreated as the market talked about this potentially being an accident. But now weve gotten more reports, the vix approaching that 13 level right there. Many developments coming out of the ukraine today surround being the malaysia airplane crash. Nbc news correspondent Pete Williams has been track being the story all afternoon for us. Pete, are there any new clues . There was talk earlier in the day this may have been an accident because there hadnt been much activity over that airspace. But what do we know right now . The number one theory emphasize the word theory of the u. S. At this point is that it was in fact shut down, but there is no hard evidence to confirm that. Statements by the ukrainians, the coincidence of whe
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Shootout, highspeed chase and a standoff. One of the hostages was killed in the hail of gunfire. Two of the robbers were killed, another wounded. 14 patrol cars being riddled with bullets. They were trying to kill our Police Officers. Rockets have been fired from gaza right in the middle of a fivehour humanitarian ceasefire. This after an israeli shelling killed four boys playing on a beach. Meanwhile israel claims it stopped 13 hamas fighters. They apparently had tunnelled to israel. Six western states are battling wildfires with hundreds of homes in danger. One fire in washington doubled in size. Microsoft says its prepared to layoff as many as 18,000 workers. This will be the largest layoff in microsofts history. A russian jet shot down a ukrainian warplane over ukraine using airtoair missiles. President obama announced new sanctions on russia. The russian leadership will see once again that its actions in ukraine have consequences. Passengers stranded on a casino boat crippled off