oro or catastrophe, in april there was an on going conflict but no such bans exited for flights on this part of eastern ukraine. certainly not at a altitude. before the flight began an image and message. a picture of the plane at the gate purportly taken by a passenger about to board. he posted online with a reference to the still missing flight 370. translated it reads, in case it disappears, this is what it looks like. as always, we have experts on every angel tonight. jim sh jim schutto, safety analysts david, author of why planes crash. jim, let s start with you on the security angle. u.s. intelligence saying this was a missile strike. how is it they know that? two pieces of evidence, one u.s. assets in the region
are a whole lot more. this whole middle east region basically is a flame right now. our foreign affairs reporter, can we anticipate the secretary of state john kerry heading towards where i am, the middle east, to get involved in stopping the fighting between israel and hamas? the secretary has been preparing a trip talking with the ministers in egypt and qatar, in particular, both of whom have the relationship with a mass. they want to give israel the assurances that if there is a cease fire that as the prime minister has said it will be lasting. it won t give hamas a time out to rearm and attack israel. this is what secretary kerry is going to be doing right now. it this isn t about dealing with israel. israel says it s e ready to stand down. thanks very much. let s take a quick break. we have much more of the breaking news right after this.
comprehensive agreement within days from now. the white house says there are gaps with that agreement and there s the disagreement between the white house and germany over spying allegations and we may hear the president talk about that, as well. keep in mind, he s been meeting with house democrats all afternoon about the border crisis with respect to those kids coming across the border. a lot on his plate and we ll see what he talks about. jim schutto, two of the biggest banks, gazprom bank, that s the largest gas company in russia with the largest gas reserves in the world, they came just to give you a measure of that, the current prime minister of rush a dmet ri medvedev used to be chairman of the board of gazprom and these companies all blocked from the u.s. financial system. that has major economic costs for these companies. the one weakness here is that europe is not onboard for these sanctions. that s something that the white house wanted. so the president will make
houses in a stand off in both the iraqi and syrian battle fields and many people will tell you the way iraq and syria end up going is going to be the way the region goes. this is a region redefining itself to a degree and many fear the worst is yet to come. jim, there is more u.s. assets headed to the region. you know, for someone skeptical about this, it could be argued that this looks like mission creep. it seems like every day there is more and more numbers being added. it does. this additional ship, the uss baton, 1,000 marines on board and seven other ships there, two functions one in position for a possible evacuation of the hundreds of u.s. embassy staff that are in baghdad at this point and elsewhere in the country, two, support of those advisors on the ground, if they, you know, force protection again like those armed drones, it does give capability but i have to tell you, having traveled with secretary kerry this week in iraq, my strong impression is
out as they were evacuating various facilities to include incidents that were reported to have taken place. human rights watch putting out a report saying now it has analyzed satellite imagery and can confirm the two mass graves that we saw in saddam hussein s town were executed by isis. that s contributing to the growing tensions and anderson, unraveling of this country. arwa, stay safe, jim, thanks. susan hendrix with the 360 bullet bulletin. a report submitted to president obama says the va health system is plagued by ineffective leadership and kboet a corrosive culture. the findings come from the acting va secretary and white house official assessing the va crisis. officials in mississippi say attorney and tea party leader mark mayfield is dead after an apparent suicide. he was arrested in may and