live in ukraine where there is growing concern about the security and protection of evidence at the crash site of flight mh 17. at least 13 people are killed in india after their school bus was hit by a train in the southern state. and the first day of competition at the commonwealth games in glaskow. aviation officials are saying they have lost contact with an air passenger flight and lost contact 50 minutes after it took off. the algerian news agency says the plane is flying to algiers and 110 people are on the plane. one of the planes were being operated by air alger. they are saying that the aircraft took off at 1:17 local time. it was supposed to land in algiers at 5:10 in the morning local time but did not reach its destination. there is a flight number for that plane although i should say we cannot completely confirm this but the flight number we have from the a.p. is ah 5017 enrowd to e enroute to algiers. it is day 16 of israel's offensive against militants in gaza. this is the after math of another israeli air strike today. the u.n. says it is struggling to cope with the increasingly desperate situation. more than 700 palestinians have been killed in the conflict. the chief is saying not is being done enough to protect the civilians who are bearing the brunt of the offensive. >> the top of everybody's agenda is the issue of how to protect civilians being caught up in the middle of this violence. the majority of those killed in gaza are women, children, men who have nothing to do with the fighting. that's the major concern that we have. but children, so many children have been killed as a result of the violence in the last few days. it is a terrible, terrible situation. >> israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu has accused hamas of hiding rockets within gaza and criticized the council for failing to investigate alleged israeli war crimes. >> this use of human shields is cynical, grotesque. what is equally grotesque is that israel was condemned in the human rights council. it is a travesty of just skps fairness and common sense and travesty of truth. and i think that it will not prevent us from continuing to act to defend our people, to protect them against rocket attacks and to dismantle the vast terror tunnels network that we have seen that is geared to penetrate our territory. we will continue with that activity in order to defend our people. >> reporter: israel's military offensive continues into the 17th day. we are getting reports of intense activity around the area in the southern gaza strip. this is where israel says the tunnels are used to launch cross border attacks and several palestinians have been killed in the fighting. here in gaza in the east we can hear intense shelling continuing with bombardment of the neighborhoods. israel says this is an area which hamas has used as a focus of its terrorist infrastructure. overnight we heard a number of palestinian rockets being fired into israeli territory. now humanitarian organizations are raising growing concern about the situation here. the u.n.manitarian chief talking about how many more people are displaced staying with family and friends. valerie amos saying water is running out and difficult to get food supplies through to the people. the only small amount of hope people are finding is the fact that the hamas leader has said he would be prepared to accept a temporary humanitarian truce but sticking to the terms that any cease fire with israel must involve tight border restrictions imposed on gaza by israel and egypt. yooun general says he is outraged and alarmed to hear rockets are placed in a school in gaza. the rockets have disappeared. let me just show you a shot we are getting in from gaza, the skyline, smoke rising in the distance. we can speak to christopher gunnis who is a u.n. spokesman. what do we know about what was in the school? >> as soon as the second cache of weapons were discovered we immediately informed parties involved. we evacuated the premises. at the same time we began intensive consultation to find an actor to survey the weapons. on the ground, meanwhile, there were 1,500 displaced civilians in schools outside the space. didn't enter until the following day because people displaced and forced open and it was at that point that we discovered that the weapons that were placed there the day before had been removed. immediately involved the office of secretary general who initiated review with taking a concerted effort. the secretary general directed department of security and safety and the u.n. served to do so immediately and implement an effective security plan. furthermore he is directing hamas -- we have been open and transparent. and action is underway to make sure this does not happen again. >> i have more questions but we have to leave it there. maybe we can try to contact you again later in the day. thanks for now. for more on the situation in gaza you can go to our website for the latest from o correspondents. the malaysia airlines shot down over ukraine. there are concerns over security. the bbc team found it abandoned with no guards, no investigators. let's go live now to my colleague. tim wilcox is there. it is far from certain what is happening still at the crash site. >> reporter: you are absolutely right. in fact, international concern growing about the security of the crash site and the evidence which is there. the bbc team went there a few hours ago. there was no protection of the evidence or wreckage at all. tony abbott, the australian prime minister has dispatched a 50-strong team of police officers to ukraine hoping that the u.n. will form some sort of group to seal that site because it is absolutely imperative that investigators get there and go through the wreckage. fighting is continuing in the area, as well, and at the same time the bodies here in karkiev are being prepared to being flown to the netherlands. a similar ceremony will take place when the flight lands in the netherlands but without the dutch king and queen. the situation on the ground is confusing. speaking to the prime minister of the people's republic saying that his men were told not to retrieve bodies and were obstructed by international monitors and said they wanted to get the bodies out of the wreckage as soon as possible and had strong words about president obama accusing the rebels of hampering the investigation. >> reporter: the self-stated prime minister of the donetske people's republic. and also there are words of the buk missile. rebel commander of the brigrade made up of russian nationals largely and apparently with a lot of russian equipment. he has been speaking to the reuters news agency and he said he understood another rebel militia did have a surface to air missile and he believes they had then concealed it after the attack last week. >> translator: i knew the buk came. i do know about this buk. i have heard about it. >> reporter: despite saying that to the reuters news agency on camera he denied saying that. he explained he was talking theoretically. you can see in the war zone how things are still extremely confused on the ground. what is certain here is that the bodies which came up from the crash site on the train a couple of days ago are still being prepared here at the airport, put into wooden coffins and flown to the netherlands. let's go and speak to anna holligan now. how many bodies are expected to arrive where you are today? >> reporter: well, it's a week ago almost to the minute since the flight took off here in the netherlands. holiday on way to bali. if you look here tributes are being laid. all over the country we have seen this, pockets of sympathy. we are expecting 70 coffins to be arriving within the next few hours. again, there will be the ceremonial homecoming. the dutch king and queen will not be present but we are expecting relatives to be here once again. >> reporter: in terms of the forensic analysis of the remains, are different nationalities involved even though this is a dutch-led investigation? >> reporter: yes. all of the bodies when they arrive here will be driven one hour to a town here in the netherlands. it is a place that lost three entire families and a son from one other family. we have just seen one of the r hares entering here. they will be taken to the military facility where forensic investigations will begin. nobody can be sure how long it will take. dutch prime minister has said it could be days, weeks or months. while they are here today watching they are not sure who is inside the coffins. >> thank you very much. we will keep you up to date with all of the latest developments here in eastern ukraine and around the region. for now, back to you. >> thanks very much indeed. much more to come. we will update you on the missing air aljeri plane. competition hops up at the glasgow games. what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the 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french official is saying there is doubt that mali could have that type of weaponry to be of a threat of a plane. now, a woman spared a death sentence for converting from islam to christianity has arrived in italy accompanied by her husband and children as well as italy's vice minister of foreign affairs. her death sentence for denouncing islam was lifted in june. after she was retained again for falsifying documents and trying to travel to the u.s. with her husband and children. there she is getting off a flight with her family in italy. at least 60 people have died in iraq after suicide bombers and gun men attacked a bus transferring syrian convicts. as the convoy travelled through a remote area road side bombs went off. the battle left many dead. we are still getting details in of that attack to try to clarify what happened there. you have been looking at flights. >> flight safety and who is responsible for the safety of flights because the industry says the malaysia airlines was an 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have lost contact with an air algerie passenger flight and say it lost contact 15 minutes after it took off from ouagadougou and it is understood that 16 passenger 1 on board. the flight was ah 5017 we understand and air algerie says it launched an emergency plan, details are still coming in. spain's swift air says it was its plane and they have had no contact with it. it was expected to land, of course, sometime ago. it was quite a few hours after losing contact with the plane that the officials made it public. but it seems to have lost track of the plane after taking off early thursday. we will bring you more on that as soon as we can. it's day 16 of israel's offensive against militants in gaza. the u.n. says it is struggling to cope with the increasingly desperate situation. more than 700 palestinians and 34 israelis have been killed in the conflict. lisa huntly reports. >> reporter: they are waking up again to see what is left. picking through the rubble is the way of life here now. the number of palestinians killed in gaza now exceeds 700. as the fighting continues the u.n. humanitarian chief says she is concerned. >> we have people sheltering in u.n. schools. we have had schools that are now unable to be used for education. people are running out of food. water is also a serious concern. and, of course, with about 44% of gaza not able to be used by palestinians that are fleeing their homes the situation is even more dire. >> reporter: efforts to broker a cease fire have intensified. the british foreign secretary has criticized the u.n. vote for investigation into alleged war crimes in gaza is now in jerusalem. >> we welcomed the proposal by egypt and are grateful for your immediate agreement to it. we are disappointed that hamas has apparently once again rejected cease fire proposals. >> israel was condemned in the human rights council. it is a travesty of justice. it is a travesty of fairness. it is a travesty of common sense and of truth. and i think that it will not prevent us from continuing to act to defend our people. >> reporter: the leader of hamas said he is ready to accept a humanitarian truce and no permanent cease fire unless israel ends blockade. >> translator: we are keen on a humanitarian truce as we were last thursday a week ago when we agreed to a truce for several hours in order to evacuate and assist in relief efforts. >> reporter: israel launched the military offensive. more than 700 palestinians have been killed and more than 30 israelis have died. there are warnings about the worsening living conditions in gaza. our middle east correspondent went to visit with a family to see how they are coping with the current living. >> how are you? >> thank for having me over. how is everybody during this difficult time? >> as any family in gaza we are suffering with everything around us. there is no safe place in gaza. some nearby places were shelled and the children were very afraid. we had a previous sad experience losing our home. that memory keeps coming up. as a family we try to survive another war that we hope ends very soon. so this is where we keep our extra supply of water. tap water is not drinkable. if they cut electricity we can't have the normal flow of water. >> do you have extra supplies of food? >> that, as well. the freezer is full of bread, poultry and meat. you need to manage everything, think of food, safety of children, safety of yourself, everything. >> reporter: so how are your daughters coping? >> they are using social media most of the time just to know what is going on and communicate with their friends. >> usually i am on facebook and twitter. i watch tv sometimes but i don't enjoy that because it's full with like these people killed and i just don't like seeing them. so i talk with people like around me. and they are like living the same thing. i feel like there is someone sharing the same situation with me so i don't get panicked or scared. >> it looks like the little ones have moved in with mom and dad. >> yes. it actually gets scary at nighttime so the kids naturally come and join us in the bedroom. actually, we don't sleep most of the night. we need the kids as much as they need us. >> one family there in gaza speaking to you. tomorrow in the program we have a similar report from inside israel. forensic experts in the netherlands will begin the formal process of identifying bodies recovered from the malaysia airlines plane shot down in ukraine. investigators are still struggling to get full access of the crash site of mh 17. 35 kilometers away pro-russian separatists shot down two jets. >> reporter: we are in a village about 30 kilometers away from the plane crash site. we came here because we were told overnight that the village has been shelled by the ukrainian forces. that's what the rebels say. no one was at home when it happened. he was out. he says it is for our own security that they are not letting us to go to the next house. and the funeral has already taken place. we have shown you everything there is to show. we now come to the hospital where those men told us the injured woman is. let's see if we can find her here. it turns out that she is here. i now have spoken with two doctors who confirm she was brought in with shrapnel wounds. i have seen her myself but she is in no condition to talk. we are waiting for her husband. i just got off the phone with a spokesman for the ukrainian antiterrorist cooperation and he says they did not shell the village. in the meantime on top of the mess are bodies of passengers of mh 17 that are still missing in ukraine. many probably didn't know that much about the conflict here. >> that report from eastern ukraine. a woman who was spared a death sentence for converting from islam to christianity and barred for leaving has made it to italy. a train has crashed into a school bus at a rail crossing in india killing the driver and 12 children. the bus was on its way to school when the crash happened. another 60 children all under the age of 14 have been injured and taken to the hospital. it is ruled poland violated human rights by allowing cia to detain, interrogate and torture. the palestinian now being held in guantanamo bay will each get $135,000 in compensation. at least 60 people have died in iraq after suicide bombers and gun men attacked a bus transferring convicts from a prison in baghdad. as the convoy travelled through a remote area road side bombs went off and militants opened fire. thet battle left 52 prisoners and soldiers dead. within the last hour we are joined -- >> there were dozens of high value prisoners accused of terrorism charges held at the detention facility 20 kilometers north of baghdad. this base was attacked by mortars. so it was feared it was an attempt for a jail break. so they decided to transfer these prisoners in the convoy to baghdad. once the convoy was on its way apparently it was ambushed. first road side bombs went off and a gunfight ensued. what has happened is that 52 of the prisoners were killed and eight guards were killed and there were big questions asked about why is it such a high number of prisoners were killed, who killed them exactly. because today is almost a year since last year two big jail breaks happened in exactly the same area. and hundreds of insurgents were freed. so if it is a repeat of what is happening then it will be a group like the islamic states insurgents, the sunni led trying to free the militants and we still don't know exactly what has happened in the gunfight. >> on events in iraq today. stay with us, more to come. we go to another zone of the world which has seen terrible fighting. we will be speaking to thousands of women in afghanistan who have been widowed by the fight against the taliban. we can save big with priceline express deals. you know what man, these guys aint no dragons. they're cool. these deals are legit. yeah, we're cool. she's cool. we're cool. priceline express 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aviation officials have lost contact with an air algerie passenger flight and say it lost contact 50 minutes after it took off from ouapadoru. it was ah 5017. air algerie says it launched an emergency plan but is still getting details of that. we also don't know the flight path of this air algerie plane. it is passing over mali where there is some unrest but no indication that that could have affected what is happening. everyone is very aware of airplane safety from the ground and of any risks from conflicts on the ground. but we are still waiting to hear whether people have established any kind of link with this plane. we are trying to contact our correspondent in the region. we will go to mali as soon as we can. the governor of the american state of arizona has ordered a full review of the execution process. woods was given a lethal cocktail of drugs, the latest in the number of botched executions in the united states. >> reporter: these executions are supposed to take just a matter of minutes. this one took two hours and the eyewitnesss who saw this particular death take place say that joseph wood, the inmate thrks convicted double murderer was gasping and snoring throughout. there does seem to be some dispute as to whether this was a botched execution. there has been comment from the department of corrections in arizona who say that their medical team was present throughout and that the patient remained deeply sedated until death was pronounced. a statement for the spokesperson from the attorney general's office in arizona saying there was no gasping of air, that it was peaceful. whatever the truth there is a back story to this and that is the legal team for joseph wood argued this execution should not go ahead because not enough information is known about the two lethal drugs which were to be used in this case. they had only been used once before in ohio in january and that time it took 26 minutes for the patient to die. in that case different drugs but another arguably botched execution in oklahoma in april this year fuelling the argument of those who oppose the death penalty. now, we are going to have to wait for an inquiry into this particular case, an inquiry which has been ordered by the governor of arizona. >> washington. foreign troops are leaving afghanistan marking an end to 13 years of war, tens of thousands of afghan soldiers have lost their lives leaving many women and children behind. the early estimates are 2 million war widows. >> reporter: she earns a dollar a day doing laundry and baking bread. her husband was a translator for the american army but he was shot dead by the taliban seven years ago. traditionally afghan widows only married relatives. without a husband she struggles to support her children. over 300 miles away in northern afghanistan her husband was killed by a mine. he was a soldier in the afghan army and died in 2010. she still hasn't told her children. women do not often get the chance to tell their stories. widows are seen as a bad omen here and they are subject to gossip and rumors. her family doesn't approve of her speaking openly about her life so she won't show her face on camera. even though she is now 26 she is not allowed outside the house without her mother. international troops are leaving afghanistan but the war is still part of the daily life here. they hope that as foreign troops leave the world will remember the sacrifice made by their husband as tens of thousands of other afghan soldiers in the ongoing fight against the taliban. bbc news. now, a teenaged american pilot who was trying to set a world record for around the world flight has died in a crash in the pacific ocean. the plane went down shortly after leaving. rescuers are searching for his father. >> reporter: a father and son who had a dream. harris had hopes to set a new world record for around the world flight in 30 days and raise $1 million to build schools in pakistan, but that dream has turned to tragedy when their plane came down on the last leg of the journey off the coast of american samoa. rescuers have recovered harris's body but are still searching for this father. in this press conference his sister spoke of her brother's popularity. >> he was loved by everyone, involved in school activities. he had a lot of supporters for his trip and a lot of people following him, teachers, people he would meet on the street, he won them over. they did prepare for the risk. they went to survival training. they took a course on how to survive an ocean landing or an ocean crash. but you can plan all you want but sometimes things don't go the way you plan. >> reporter: the pair had been flying together since harris was 8. in this picture father suleman is seen hugging his wife just before takeoff, a last hug shared. the family had been planning a welcome home party on saturday but that excitement has now turned to sadness and grief. good news for you this hour, competition is beginning on day one of the games in glasgow. they were opened by queen elizabeth in a spectacular audience watched by an audience globally of 1 billion people. >> reporter: more than 4,000 athletes, a billion or so viewers around the world and one giant kilt. it can only be glasgow. it can only be the commonwealth games. these opening ceremonies are always a peculiar mix of local color and history. there was the lochness monster and a bit of golf. rod stewart made an appearance as did the queen. the most important people were the athletes from all around the world they came sharing the nature of the family of nations. each country accompanied by a little scotty dog. these games don't have a torch but a baton, the queen's baton that arrived in glasgow after getting difficulty to get it open the queen read the message inside. the commonwealth games, scotland games, have begun. a reminder of breaking news. aviation officials lost contact with an air algerie passenger flight that left burkina faso's capitol 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