florida everglades flight -- malaysia airlines flight 17 has been found. and 25 years since neil armstrong walked on the moon. we begin in gaza with these developments. the security council is set to hold a meeting. israel confirmed that 13 soldiers have been killed in an overnight operation. the military wing of hamas claimed it captured a soldier. the israeli army are looking into the claims. 60 palestinians were killed in one neighbourhood. 469 have been killed in 13 days of israeli attacks. the wounded have been streaming into hospitals. there are severe shortages. nick schifrin joins us live in gaza city. the past 24 hours has been violent. where do we stand at this hour? >> yes, good evening. the strikes that we first saw last night into shajia to my left - 24 hours later the violence has been high, for his rail and the palestinians more than 60 dead, a few hundred wounded. so many that nobody knows quite the actual number, and for anyone who saw the images today in that neighbourhood and in the hospital, they are seared in everyone's mind. >> this is war. war spares no one. not the medic at gaza's main hospital. his colleague died when an israeli shell struck his ambulance. the cameraman died in the strike. for a moment they morn them together. today care givers need to be given care. >> one hour before he died his daughter called him and asked when will you be back? war doesn't spare the four-year-old who lost her uncle and home. she and thousands fled to the hospital courtyard, because they thought it was only place safe. howard has 14 relatives treated for wounds. >> when we die, god shows us how. we have seen hell while we are alive. it doesn't spare the mother who lost her husband. her arm is poorsed with shrapnel. -- pierced with shrapnel. she tries to tell her son not to be scared. for her it's overwhelming. 10 foot away, with the help of the hospital's administrator, a mother tells her son, thank god you are alive. and on the next bed mohammed holds up his younger brother. shrapnel entered his 2-year-old thigh. they moved from house to house. each one was bombed. >> translation: they beknan bombing near -- began bombing near my uncle's, so we ran away. we ran to the neighbours, they were bombed there to. >> this was air strikes in shajia. they took what they could carry and got out as fast as they could from horror. all night and morning the israeli military bombarded shajia. it struck homes, cars. more civilians died here in one night than the previous youse three says of conflict. what you can't see is palestinian fighters using the area as a base. that fighting killed 13 israeli soldiers. during a brief ceasefire she drove into shajia. only a few residents remain. this is in the middle of the neighbourhood. this is a u.n. school. it's been gutted. you can see how empty the neighbourhood is, and hear the sound of drones. across the street from the school you see this, a house that's been destroyed. >> on the way out we met a family. israel told everyone to leave. some are heeding the call. >> can you tell me what you saw. >> we heard shelling and artillery and the sound is terrible. we saw shelling and death. we saw the dead, with our own eyes. these days death comes often in gaza. it doesn't discriminate. >> reporter: that was the scene at shifa hospital before the conflict began, the hospital was oning out of supplies -- was running out of supplies because of the siege by israel. in the last 10 daze they received prosecutor days they received more than 200,000 wounded. if they don't get money and supplies by tomorrow, they will not be able to help all the people they expect to stream in, and as you hear, the striking conditions. >> it's a fascinating look at the region. what more do we know about reports of cap future israeli -- captured israeli soldier. >> this was announced by hamas. the military group announced this on palestinian tv. they didn't say the name of the soldier, but released the number, his military id number. israel is refusing to deny or comment on it at all. what we have heard is a large escalation in the last few hours from israel into gaza, in that same neighbourhood that we have been looking at all day. israel takes this seriously. the last time anyone kidnapped an israeli soldier, he was held for five years, and more than 1,000 palestinians were exchanged for him. this is a great fear. that was outgoing fire of a rocket from gaza into israel. that capturing is a great fear by the israeli military, and one of the big fear that is they had in this operation. clearly in the last few hours they've been responding to that capture. >> it was an active night, another active day and i take it we expect another steady night of rocket fire in the area. >> yes, absolutely. it hasn't let up. except for that brief moment that you saw as we drove into that neighbourhood during the accuracy fire or humanitarian ceasefire called by the red cross, i think you can still here every five or six seconds, it's tank or artillery shelling dropping 200-300 bombs. it's the same neighbourhood that was hammered last night and this morning. it is continuing to be hammered. israel says a lot of fighters are based in the neighbourhood firing rockets and using tunnels to get from gaza into israel. it is a main concern, especially after the capturing. we have seen fighters leaving gaza, coming into israel with rope ties, tranquilliser drugs. after that capturing was announced on hamas television, television here, this place wept celebrating. outside the hospital, in that neighbourhood we saw people fire into the air, people using fireworks, real positive atmosphere after a day of unbelievable mourning and unbelievable levels of death. >> nick schifrin in gaza city where the violence continues. be safe. prime minister binyamin netanyahu is defending his campaign in gaza. kim vinnell reports from jerusalem. >> this is very much a speech to the nation, if you like, referring specifically to the deaths of israeli soldiers, 13 have been killed as you mentioned in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to 18, one of which was killed in friendly fire, so-called friendly fire. referring to casualties, binyamin netanyahu said that there is no more just war than the one our sons fought for. it's telling indeed, in terms of where this is going to go next. the rest of the speech, there are a few important points to make. one is that binyamin netanyahu said that the results so far of the campaign have exceeded expectations. and also that the operation will be expanded as required. so implying that we could expect an intensification. one point to make is that what he heard from binyamin netanyahu, and the israeli minister of defense or chief of staff is we have seen an unprecedented acknowledgment of the strength of hamas's capabilities in gaza. the military chief spoke today that the israeli soldiers uncovered a metro or subway of tunnels so again using this as justification to continue the bombardment of gaza. once again it was kim vinnell in al jazeera. binyamin netanyahu was on sunday morning talk shows and made his belief clear that the blame for civilian deaths lies scarily with hamas. >> we are sad for every civilian casualty. they are not intended. this is the difference between us. the hamas deliberately targets civilians, and deliberately hide behind civilians. all civilians casualties are unintended by us but intended by hamas. they pile up as many civilian dad as they can, somebody said - dead as they can. somebody said - it's gruesome - they use telegenicly dead palestinians for their cause. secretary of state john kerry is set to travel to egypt to seek a ceasefire in gaza. he was caught in a candid moment in what he thought was a private conversation. john terrett reports from washington. >> reporter: it was a private chat with an aide off camera, but in a studio with live microphones, john kerry was caught op tape, his ungoreded moments critical about a subject as israel's operation in gaza, critical because they come from the u.s. secretary of state. >> it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. it's a hell of a pinpoint operation. >> right, it's escalating significantry and underscores the need for ceasefire. >> we've got to get over there. >> yes. >> thank you, john. >> i think, john, we ought to go together. i think it's crazy to be sitting around. >> reporter: regardless of whether fox was rite to broadcast the hot-mike moment, the secretary reverted to dip low speak when asked to justify the remarks. >> it's tough. i reacted in a way anybody does with respect to, you know, young children and civilians. war is tough. i said that publicly. i'll say it again. we defend israel's rite to do what it is doing. israel is accepting a uni lateral ceasefire. it accepted the egyptian plan which we support and it is important for hamas to now sep up and be reasonable and understand that you accept the caes fear, you save lives. president obama and secretary of state john kerry are under fire for israel and iran and syria, giving republicans ammunition to attack. >> indecision remains, president obama is trying to be deliberative. he is trying to be thoughtful. it comes off as weakness. president obama spoke to binyamin netanyahu on sunday, telling him that secretary of state john kerry will travel to the region soon. u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon referred to gaza as an open wound, calling for the immediate end to israeli shelling. >> this atrocious access, israel must exercise restraint and do far more to protect the citizens. i repeat my demand. that they must report international humanitarian law. the violence must stop now. >> we'll keep you posted on action from the u.n. security council. >> protests in the streets of the west bank as protesters marched in support of gaza. police looked on. protesters carried palestinian flags, chanted and demanded an end to the conflict. >> turning to ukraine, pro-russian separatists control the area saying they have the black boxes from the plane. we have this report from eastern ukraine. >> in this train, some of the victims of flight mm-hmm 17. experts from interpol and the netherlands want to begin the gruesome identification process as soon as possible. emergency workers cut through the remains of the first class cabin. the rescue team has gone. no body was found. you can see the damage left behind. decomposing corpses node to be re -- need to be removed. crucial evidence has been tampered with before seghtors arrive. those investigators will want to search the debris for pieces of a missile. separatists deny they brought down the malaysian airliner, but there is growing international evidence that it was hit by a surface to air missile fired from this territory. the flight data and voice recorders will help the investigation. pictures show that one of the black boxes was recovered from the site intact. there is huge international pressure on these pro-russian forces and the self-declared government is beginning to talk about cooperation. it says it will hand the black boxes over. >> those objects have been delivered to donetsk and remain under my control. we await experts, in this case the international civil aviation organization and are ready to hand over the technical objects from the plane. >> this is one of the biggest crime scenes in aviation history. for days it's remained unsecured. there are reminders everywhere of the loss of so many lives. these people dayed far from their -- died far from their homes. the victims of a conflict that has nothing to do with them. >> we should point out the netherlands lost more citizens in a crash than any other county. 193 dutch people were killed. all over the community people were in mourning. >> the flowers continue to arrive. the authorities set aside an area outside the departure hall where the passengers began their final journey. every day it grows larger, as do the numbers, waiting to put their name in the book of condolence. >> most cueing to pay their reports are neither friends nor family. there are travellers that feel sad eped and -- sad eped and shocked and need to come here. >> what is happening is shame. it's crazy, i'm really wondering what world we are living in now. >> i'm flying, so i went a little earlier so i can lie tributes like this. >> i want them to do something, lay flowers down, thing about the people that passed away. >> others chose to pay respects in private. this chapel lies in the heart of the medical center where two of the victims worked on groundbreaking h.i.v. research. they were on their way to a conference in melbourne, which opened if their absence, with tributes to the many delegates that died on flight mm-hmm 17. >> we grieve alongside those throughout the world that lost family and friends in this senseless tragedy. >> reporter: a long-time friend and colleague said the chaos of the scope is adding to the pain relatives feel. >> it is senseless, it is not helping anybody, in my view, and it is basically a reason to be extremely angry. and to be extremely sad as well that apparently innocent people, yes, are at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> reporter: at harlem in the north of the netherlands, they held a memorial service for the victims. in his prayer, the priest asked for guidance. an appeal echoed across the netherlands in the days and weeks to come. still ahead - pushing for state of their own. the next step for kurds that want to breakaway from the rest of iraq. an international aids conference is under way. how far doctors come in treating the disease. what scientists can learn from each other. we'll take an indepth look in the sunday segment "the week ahead". welcome back. in northern iraq the last local christians are fleeing. a deadline passed for them to convert it is lame, pay a tax -- islam, pay a tax or be killed. many of the christian communities have been in place for 2,000 years. islamic state claimed responsibility for four bombings in baghdad on saturday. the attacks killed 27 people. meantime the kurds in northern iraq heading for a momentous event. they are preparing a vote of statehood. we have this report from erbil in the kurdish region. >> reporter: these days could be the last for iraq to remain united. the kurdish region is preparing for a referendum on self-determination. >> translation: we have suffered a lot as kurds. it's already. at the kurdish parliament, arrangements and technicalities are being worked out. >> translation: we'll hold a referendum in areas that have come under our control. and then the second stage - we will decide our future either as an independent nation or part of federal iraq. >> reporter: the kurdish region enjoyed autonomy since 2003. stability brought billions investment, the discovery of large oil reserve, start of oil production and building a pipeline it export oil has revived kurdish aspirations of kurdish independence. they make territorial yans in june -- gains in june when iraqi army collapsed. kurdish forces moved in to control all the areas it had disputes with the central government in baghdad. they controlled the oil city of kirkuk, including the oil fields. >> the kurdish region exports between 100,000 and 150,000 barrels of oil every day and hopes to reach half a million barrels a day by the end of 2014. with plans to increase production further. that, kurdish officials say, would sustain the viability of their much awaited state. >> this man heads the natural resources committee in the kurdish parliament and the region is rich. >> we have 5% of the world's oil reserves, we have many resources. we are confident we have different resources to pay for our need. >> reporter: the kurdish government is dependentent on the federal government in baghdad for its budgeted, lacking infrastructure for increasing oil production capacity. the enclaves economic viability relies on surrounding countries that are opposed to the creation of a kurdish state. the decision to declare kurdish state may lie in the hands of kurdish leaders. the state's survival depends on regional and international powers the vote recount in afghanistan was voted when a batch of spoiled ballots were found. they suspended it saturday evening. a candidate challenged a group that lacked full names and signatures. both sides reached agreement and the recount continued. it's part of a deal struck by secretary of state john kerry after presidential candidates ashraf ghani and abdullah abdullah accused each other of electoral fraud. matt with the truman security projects says the results seem to favour ashraf ghani. >> what will likely happen is ashraf ghani will be declared the winner. each if you allocate a majority of the fraudulent votes, ghani appears to be the victor. abdullah abdullah seems to be willing to accept the prize of a much stronger role within the afghan government. the x factor is how does hamid karzai play this. abdullah abdullah lost to hamid karzai in the previous presidential election. there's a lot of bad blood between the two. there's no secret that george has been hamid karzai -- that ashraf ghani has been hamid karzai's preferred victor. if abdullah abdullah decides this will scuttle a unity government, we are back to square one. >> the audit continues. coming up next "the week ahead" - fighting aids around the world. scientists come together for one of the largest conferences of its kind. where it stands and what they hope to accomplish. fbi informants - an al jazeera investigation on how the fbi recruits and uses spies. r welcome back to aljazeera.com. here are the top stories we are following. it's been the deadliest day in gaza since the israeli offensive began. 60 palestinians have been killed in the past 24 hours. the israeli army says 13 soldiers were killed. the u.n. security council are set to hold an emergency meeting in an hour. the armed wing says it has captured an israeli soldier. in eastern ukraine pro-russian separatists have the black boxes from malaysia airlines flight mh17. the investigation has been compromised. nearly 300 people died when the plane was hit by a surface to air missile over separatistedly territory. in northern iraq the last local christians are fleeing their homes. a deadline passed for them to pay a tax, cop vert or be killed. the islamic state claimed responsibility for four bombings in baghdad on saturday that killed 27 people. it's sunday night, time for the regular look at the week ahead. an aids catholic church started in australia, focussing on ways people around the world are trying to prevent and treat the virus. there are 35 million living with h.i.v. aids. the number is said to be down from a decade ago, as the disease posts challenges. we begin with this report. anti-retro viral drugs downgraded being h.i.v. positive from what was a death sentence to a once a day pill. >> suddenly it was a chronic manageable illness, and there's a whole different perspective. now they tell you when he tests positive that he can live a normal life expect si. i know people in their '70s that were survivors. scientists want to do better. this week's conference in melbourne seeks to build on the successful wildly described mire abbingal drugs, discussing ways to use them to make the infection permanently dormant. dr warner green, head of the gladstone institute in san francisco, and an earlier pioneer is pursuing the idea, that the drugs would interfere with the pathway to death that most ipp effected cells -- infected cells follow. >> we'll take advantage of the fact that there's specific enzymes, and there are safe and well tolerated drugs that have been in humans that interfere with this pathway. we would love to we purpose those drugs as a new host directed, rather than virus directed therapy for h.i.v. aids. across the city dr jay leafy, professor of medicine, and a 30 year veterans aid researcher says suppressing the infection is not enough. he's trying to replicate effects in the berlin patient. a man named tim that brown, who seems to have a genetic mutation that let's him resist the infection. the genetic approach mimics what we talk about, but in a way in way you can get more cells that are genetically changed, and we think have a better chang to bring about a -- change to bring about a cure which the immune system can handle. >> maybe we have a normal geep and make the cell resistant, and then the patient came along. yes, he can do in in the person. a few duration are concerned about another challenge. they worry about spresing h.i.v., that it could cause the virus to develop resistance to the drugs we have. >> we are throwing the drugs to everybody. we are going to end up with multiresistant viruss. >> reporter: science is struggling to contain the virus we know about. if it begins to change we'll have to rethink our approach to a cure and managing 2.1 million people on the planet newly infected each year. as we mentioned a number of people on the way to the conference were killed when mh17 was shot down, including several important aids reachers. organizers held a moment of silence for them during the conference opening sermon yi. the united nations released a report saying h.i.v. aids could be eradicated by 2030, and 19 million of 35 million that have the disease are not aware they are infected. part of the reason for a drop in the u.s. is the use of new preventive drugs. medications can de taken by healthy individuals. it was approved by the f.d.a. as a drug, and approved in 2012. for more i want to bring in dr henry chang, join us on set in new york, and a doctor in washington dc. president of doctors of the world u.s.a. and a global health professor at george washington university. thank you for being with us. dr chang, i understand you personally knew two of the victims. >> yes, i did. it's hard to comprehend the senseless act and the lawsuits beyond any one of us can bear. what is important is the work for h.i.v. aids community must move on. this is by far the most resilient community. nothing can shoot down the determine nation of the community in finding and ending aids. there's no better way in honouring those colleagues that we have lost to this tragedy. >> these were passionate individuals with a great deal of knowledge, do you see this as a step back in the fight for a cure. >> it's always a step back when people who are prem incident this their field are lost, as was the case with this ept. on the other hand, i agree with dr chang, that the rest of the h.i.v. aids community will persevere and continue with its fight to overcome the disease. it's been one of the major plagues of our time. this is not the first time that heroes in the battle against aids have been lost, jonathan mann, the first director of the world health organisation global effort on age lost his life. and his wife in a plane crash in canada. >> dr wallman, now the 20th international aids conference is under way. what findings and information can we expect out of this conference? . i think there are a number of things, some have been touched on. the safe for a cure continues, and progress is being made on a regular basis. this is something that was not even conceivable a few short years ago. progress on the scientific front has been remarkable in helping to reduce the impact of this very serious pandemic. i think that not only will a search for drugs eliminate the virus from the body be discussed, but there are many other interventions that have proven to be effective from a public health stand point. one that is prevent and treat. simple answer to overcoming the disease - it's not simple at all. it's trying to find ways to implement these findings in those populations that are suffering the most from the scourge. >> thank you. you targeted the fight in 1984, it has not been an easy road. how far have we come? >> i think - certainly it hasn't been an easy road. we have come a long way. we are now seeing 16 million people around the world, we are refusing life saving streams. it is particular more important. namely prisoners, men who have sex with men. as well as try to figure out how can we expand treatment by reducing the price by the med indications and making sure there's enough operational capacity on the ground. to skill out the various interventions. >> the medicines are costly. >> the medications have been a major barrier for people in low and middle income countries to access. the good news is that thanks to advocacy work. and also the private sector and varies institutional player, we have now been able to reduce the press of treatment to as low as less than $100 per person per year. the price has played a major factor in our ability to expand the treatment around the world. there are many other factors that we need to address. making sure that there is people in systematic ways to get more people into the programme. >> what treatments are available? >> i remember reporting on this back in the '90s, and individuals were taking dozens of pills. what treatments are available now? >> there are a large varty of duration used, front line, second line. as dr chang said, they are available but not to everyone. the medication resident has been complicated to take. there are side effects from them. i think that there needs to be increased emphasis on the mode alt yes. we haven't touch on an aids vaccine that is allusive. it would be a huge break through in putting an end to the pandemic. one thing that happens, that represents considerable progress is our ability to break down the pandemic into smaller pieces we can look at what is happening, region by region, country by country, community by community, so see what the characteristics of the epidemic are in those communities, and what the major forms of transmission up. so that in some places we are able to talk to people about changing specific before. others were able to talk to intravenous drug users, we can promote harm reduction policies resulting in safer practices and lower the risk of transition of hiv. i think that this is really quite important. you began by putting an emphasis on the curative aspects of scientific progress. from a scientific perspective we have made progress in looking at the preventive aspects of the problem, although much more needs to be done. >> i want to look at numbers here. we mentioned the united nations estimates that 35 million people are living with the h.i.v. virus. last year there were 2.1 million new infections, a 38% decline from 10 years ago. the vast majority are in sub-saharan africa accounting for 70% of the worldwide total. dr chang, what nations are in need of the world's attention at this point. >> you mentioned sub-saharan africa, the reality is we see one in four adolescent girls and women infected with h.i.v. that's a population that was alluded to that we need to focus. beyond sub-saharan africa we are seeing a rise in death rates in eastern europe and parts of the moovt. there are various -- middle east. there are various factors, certainly a number of countries are not adopting the latest medical intervention. we need to screen people, but provide, particularly in countries like russia, where you have many people who inject drugs, driving the epidemic. they need to have access to proven intervention. the information, what's troubling 19 million of 35 million people infected are unaware they have the virus, are we missing something. >> stigma and discrimination in some countries have laws that criminalize h.i.v.-related blf, and we need to address those. we need to overcome those barriers in order to realistically look at the ending of aids. >> united nations, i mentioned this, recently released a report saying h.i.v. aids can be eradicated by the year 2030, is this a realistic goal? >> i want to say i don't think they quite say it could be eradicated. they think they said it could be brought under control. >> under control. >> there's a difference there. as dr chang said, though, this is becoming increasingly a disease that affects the marginalized and most vulnerable members. poverty is a risk factor associated with h.i.v. , all the sub-saharan countries, the 15 count res that represent 75% of infections are those that are the poorest and most - and least resourced. so it's - it remains a considerable problem, and i thing in the u.n.'s estimates, they say that, yes, we have the scientific know how, we have the public health interventions that work. this is a problem that can be brought under control. but only if investment is accelerated, and if we not take our eyes off the ball. we have made progress over the course of the last decade. to sustain the progress will require a remarkable effort. >> under control. will we see an end to h.i.v. >> i'm an optimist, i think, with tremendous acceleration of treatment in - around the world, and we certainly have made a significant progress. we don't have a vaccine at the moment. we don't have a cure, but i do thing that we are able to continue to make scientific progress, and better understand how to eliminate the virus from an individual's body. >> we hear reports and rumours. a baby has been cured, an individual has been cured. is there truth to those reports. >> i think you are referring to a report for baby in mississippi. this is someone who was treated immediately after birth with a triple combination therapy. recently they were able to found virus present in this particular person. i think, again, we learnt that the virus can be found in different so-called reservoirs in the body, and various research - they are on their way to see how we can eliminate the viral reservoir to talk about, eradicate the virus from the body. your final thoughts in "the week ahead"? >> my thoughts are that the week ahead is going to bring reports of amazing progress that's been made. that progress needs to be sustained. it's up to the part of all of us, through our representatives, our politicians, our representatives and governments to decide exactly what it is that we want we live in a world of competing priorities, we have a disease that was a true scourge, that needed to be addressed urgently, and has been, although so much more needs to be done. we are starting to see aids brought back to the field if you will, because we have other issues that are quite important in the health arena, public health and global health. unless we decide to expand the envelope of funding to address all of these issues that are matters of life and death for the most vulnerable and marginalised in our society, we are going to see progress stalling. we have to see the work that's gone on so far. a lot of credit is due to the presidents emergency plans for aid relief, p, pfar, a lot of credit to the global found for aids tuberculosis and malaria, and others that have put investment into addressing the problem, world health organisation , and have done so successfully, where progress can be seen and measured. the job is a long way from being done, there are other health problems out there that need similar investment and need to be addressed in an aggressive manner as aids. >> time thoughts? >> just to echo what dr wallman mentioned. it's important to sustain the effort. since of discovery of hiv. we have come a long way. more than ever we need to keep going, otherwise all the gains that have been made over the last 3-5 years would have been lost, resource skill is important. at the same time we need to recognise that people living with h.i.v. need to be at the center of the global response. should be talking about this. thank you both, we appreciate the work the two of you are doing. thanks for being with us. before taking a wrap-up. let's look at the other events in "the week ahead" - monday - kennedy space center to rename its operation and checkout building after neil armstrong, the first man to kauk on the moon tuesday - election results in indonesia to be released. thursday - human development report to be published. still ahead - spying on american soil. the al jazeera investigation revealing details of the federal bureau of investigation's network of informants. and looking back on the anniversary of an iconic moment when mann first walked on the moon. pass the federal government has a network of more than 15,000 informants nationwide, little is known about how they are used with respect the u.s. counterterrorism programme. an investigation by al jazeera into this network of informants shed light on this shadowy world of domestic spies. we have more. >> reporter: this is a rare glimpse of an fbi inform an at work, encouraging an ohio man to smuggle groups to a militant group overseas. this never before seen video is part of an al jazeera investigation into undercover informants. they are central to a counterterrorism programme that lures muslim men into plots concocted by the fbi. the fbi thought i was the greatest informant on the planet arth. >> former informant craig pretended to be a devout muslim to gather information. he acknowledged that siting operations target young men who are vulnerable, but not dangerous. >> it's an unfortunate fool caught up in a siting operation? >> the informant policy rarely has been challenged. al jazeera's investigation raising concerns that sense the 9/11 attacks the u.s. government is approach okaying crimes that would otherwise not oconsider. >> to what extent did the federal bureau of investigation have a role in enticing, inducing, luring the individuals into the crime. the sense of who is pushing what agenda is still a grey area. this man was accountanted of providing -- convicted of providing material support to al qaeda. in this ways the con connection was a paid al qaeda informants paid as an operative. >> i represent osama bin laden. >> he pent seven years in prison and is speaking about the case publicly. >> my only issue with the government is look for who you are looking for, make sure they are what you are trying to make them to be don't break your rules to catch the bad guy. you are really being as crooked as the people you chase. >> he is one of nearly 200 caught by the fbi in counterterrorism stings since 9/11. despite public concerns, the fbi is committed to developing new informants in muslim communities across the nation. what a moment. 45 years ago about half a billion people around the world watched transfixed as neil armstrong opened the hatch of the "apollo 11" and descended on the ladder and hopped on the surface of the moon. >> it's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. the lunar immediatual pilot buzz aldrin followed 20 minutes later, spending 2.5 hours on the moon before returning to the ship. they returned to earth with 50 pounds of lunar rocks and soil. over the course of the next 10 years 20 followed their leads. after the end of the programme, n.a.s.a. made another giant leap. on may 14th, 1973, the u.s. launched its first space station skylab. therapy three missions in 1973 and 1974. april 12th saw the beginning of fasa's space shuttle prim with the lift off of the columbia. it lasted 30 years, the mission to build the international space station. despite the loss of two space station,le challenge are in 1986, in 2003. december 6th was 1998. the first two modules, one american, one russian was joint toot in orbit. the outpost is the largest object in case. covering the area of the football field. on october 10th, it was a milestone in aviation. virgin galactic, a private commercial company successfully completed a manned suborbital space flight. this is one goal. december 2014 will be the first test flight for orian. n.a.s.a.'s first spacecraft will take astronauts into space. the first man mission was expected in 2021. >> next - a record breaking wildfire burning in washington state. rebecca stevenson tells us about the weather challenges facing firefires. it's the largest wildfire washington state has seen. it's burning out of control destroying 100 homs and displacing hundred of people. it looks like fire fighters might be getting a break. cooler temperatures are expected in the region, on wednesday the area can see rain. the fire has burnt 400 square miles. rebecca stevenson joins us. we are talking about the rain. most don't like the rain, but this is encouraging news. the only problem is we are really not going to get much rain. we are going to get to rain that is coming, it will be in thunder storms, it will bring lightening strikes bringing in wild fears. this is exactly why we have several of the fears in washington, oregon and idaho. last weekend we had a lot of dry lightening role through and begin the fears. as we look at what is happening on the satellite and raddy and notice showers and thunder storms, that's impacting parts of southern oregon. we have several wildfires, a total of 30 large fire incidents across the united states. the bulk are in oregon and in washington. washington state's largest fear is getting next-door the historical criteria. the last time we had a fire, it is approaching one in 1902. it was a mass ifire. it compears the square mileage. 372 square miles, and then you look at the city of los angeles, it doesn't look far away. from the seize of the city. just to give you a perspent tv of how huge this fire is in north central washington, zero per crept containment. there's no power. cell phone powers have been burnt. good news is that temperatures have been dropping. we have all the smoke up to the north-east portion of washington state. and the shower activity looks like it will head in lightly to oregon. >> that's all the time we have, thank you for joining us. om-thomas drayton in new york. al jazeera america presents is 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