thanks very much. as usual we ll stay in very close to you, the chief palestinian negotiator. we re going to continue to monitor israel lease ground operation now under way in gaza. you heard the spokesman saying that thousands of israeli ground forces are on the ground in gaza. also we re watching the breaking new story the apparent downing of a malaysian airliner. ma what does this mean for the conflict in ukraine, the relationship of russia with europe. much more on these two breaking news stories coming up. [ male announcer ] if you can t stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you ve been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer.
think it s very serious for the relationship, the practically nonexistent relationship between russia and the united states right now. complete lack of any type of trust now that you have this incident. bob baer used to work at the cia. you have a good appreciation of what s going on. i assume the investigators, whoever they may be, they ll be able to quickly determine the surface-to-air missile or missiles that were involved. they ll be able to determine where they came from, right? oh, absolutely, wolf. i think they ll be able to look at satellite photography and see that these missiles came from russia and where they were. they re identifiable by overhead. they ll know whether it was fired, fairly quickly, from eastern ukraine or russia. the question is, you know, where does the conflict go from here? i don t see putin giving up the
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diminishes any type of trust and also makes it look as if these things are happening for a reason. right now you have a situation that could be simply a result of the chaos, unfortunately, right in that area. a lot of heavy fighting. the lack of clarity about what kind of weapons russia is providing to the rebels, what the rebels are capable of. the rebels who are doing things on their own. that s another possibility that if they have those weapons, they could be doing it on their own. this is out of control. and i absolutely agree that this could get much worse. jill dougherty, thanks very much. bob baer, thanks very much to you as well. a huge, huge crisis unfolding in ukraine right now. also the breaking news we ve been following from here in the middle east. israel has now deployed, has moved thousands of its ground forces into gaza. stay with us. stay with cnn for complete breaking news coverage.
eastern ukraine or standing down. i mean, this is the nearer broad for him, he created this conflict. he s going to deny he had anything to do with shooting down that malay airliner. this could worsen it very quickly. and jill, as you know and you ve spent a lot of time in russia, you were our correspondent there for many years. the u.s./russian relationship right now is awful. and i suspect it s about to get a whole lot worse, right? i would absolutely agree, wolf. you know one of the real problems is that there is a lot of kind of let s call it serendipity in what is going on right now. unpredictable things that come and blindside events. each side now, the united states and russia certainly very much is saying, no, it s actually on purpose. this is being done with a purpose, and that is very dangerous because, of course, it