Scale assault. If israel invades gaza, it would be the third major assault on the coastal territory in six years. We will get the latest from gaza. And we go to tampa, florida to speak with the aunt of the palestinian teenager who was beaten by Israeli Forces in East Jerusalem. Brutally attacked from the sites. And iame and attacked me went unconscious and woke up in the hospital. His teenage cousin was burned alive last week in East Jerusalem. We will speak with electronic intifada and an israeli peace activist whose father was an israeli general. Then, the koch cartel. The reach, reactionary agenda, and the record. That is the title of lisa graves latest piece at the progressive magazine. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Violence in israel in the occupied territories is escalating as israel bombs dozens of targets in the gaza strip and threatens a new fullscale assault. Gazabased journalist reports fo
This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. This is our western edition. Much of the news today about the Malaysia Flight 17 crash was broken by president obama. He told us at least one u. S. Citizen was among the 298 who died. He said the plane was shot down by a surfacetoair missile fired from a part of ukraine controlled by prorussian rebels. These rebels are fighting to break away from ukraine. And while the president stopped short of saying the kremlin was blind the downing of flight 17, listen to what he said about the rebels who have boasted about shooting down at least three Ukrainian Military planes. A group of separatists cant shoot down military transport planes or, they claim, shoot down fighter jets without trphisticated equipment and sophisticated training, and that is coming from russia. Pelley we have a team of correspondents on this story. Irst, we go to Mark Phillips at the crash site in eastern ukraine, where the reality of what has happened
Bike, opened fire, shooting a young man who was walking by on the street. Local media have shown a picture of an israeli soldier laying on the ground with what appeared to be with a stomach wound. It is believed that is the victim otseds shooting. If that was in fact was the only person shot is unclear. Also from East Jerusalem this morning, that is where a driver of this backhoe, this tractor which basically attacked a passenger bus. The bus was largely empty according to israeli authorities. The bus driver was injured, was taken to the hospital. A civilian passerby pedestrian was apparently killed by this backhoe and the driver as you mentioned of the tractor was shot to death by Israeli Police. His body was laying next to the backhoe while Israeli Police investigated. They have now taken away that body and they are starting to clear the entire area. As i said, as you mentioned, this ceasefire, the sevenhour ceasefire that israel began is ending. Were going to give you a report from
That someone in the cockpit deliberately steered that plane off course. Its important to point out this assessment was prepared months ago. It does not come to any firm conclusions about what eventually happened to that plane. Heres cnns u. S. Justice correspondent evan perez. This assessment is based on satellite and other Available Evidence and analysts looked at multiple course changes the aircraft made after it deviated from the scheduled course from kuala lumpur to beijing. Analysts determined it is most likely someone in the cockpit deliberately moved the aircraft crossing indonesian and to the indian ocean. That was done for internal government purposes and not meant to be public. A malaysian government report from march said there is no proof of wrongdoing in the plane route. They are looking at a piece of the plane debris that could possibly be from mh 370. This is where it was found. Crews dragged it across and it landed over there against that stone wall. Cleaning much of th
Times to turkey in order, according to them, to join isis. Now, the first visit was in october, 2012, he turned back because of illness. In july of 2014 last year he also went there and, again, he was planning according to the fbi to join isis but then turned back because he felt he was being followed by turkish intelligence. According to the fbi, he espoused violent jihad to people in the community there who alerted the fbi and he said he pledged allegiance to the head of Isis Abu Bakr al baghdadi. We have a list of a few things he bought ahead of his trips to turkey on ebay. He bought body armor, night vision goggles, camouflage clothing and shahad da flag the black flag very common with jihadi followers, as you know. Right now hes now facing 50 years in prison. 50. 50 if he is found guilty of this. The fbi says we often hear criticism that these cases seem to be people who are not all together there, that perhaps this is entrapment but this guy seemed according everything in this do