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and major corporations. what can we do for you? >> and now, "bbc world news." >> this is "bbc world news america." shelter comesns under fire in gaza, with at least 13 people killed. unclear who is to blame. in an exclusive interview, the leader of hamas says what it would take for him to accept a truce with israel. >> we want a cease-fire as soon as possible. that is possible with the lifting of the siege of gaza. this is the demand of the gazan people. astronauts ago, u.s. were hailed as heroes for becoming the first to walk on the moon. tonight we explain why the celebrity was short-lived. welcome to our viewers on public television in america, and also around the globe. the un's secretary-general says he is appalled by an attack on a u.n. shelter in gaza in which at least 13 people have been killed and hundreds wounded. hamas has blamed israel, and israel says it is investigating who is responsible. the shelter was a u.n. school being used by those who fled their homes because of the fighting. >> angry, distraught, and beyond consolation. these women and their children had fled the fighting near their homes in northern gaza and taking shelter in a u.n. school. then it too was caught up in the bloody violence. hit us in our homes and at the school, this woman cries. israel says it is investigating, and that hamas rockets could be to blame. the dead and wounded were brought here. >> 100 injured and many people are killed. children, young children and women. >> and then, while we were filming, an israeli tank shell explodes just outside the hospital gates. once again, panic. the frontline of the conflict reaches even here. nearby, the school is now deserted as they run away. people left belongings behind. there are bloodstains everywhere here, and pieces of shrapnel. this was supposed to be a place of safety, but nowhere in gaza is safe nowadays. the school took a direct hit. this is how the same school that, when the bbc -- looks when the bbc visited a few days ago. it was full of families. now it has been the fourth u.n. building to be fired upon in four days. >> that was a designated emergency shelter. we have transferred it on 12 occasions. last time was this morning. it was well known. it is outrageous. >> survivors of the school explosion find themselves displaced yet again. we found many here in a corridor at the beit hanoun hospital. they are just a small fraction of the tens of thousands left homeless by the ongoing conflict. bbc news, gaza. >> the israeli government spokesman says they do not target civilians, and the israeli military is investigating the strike on the school. >> it is not clear at this stage. there were u.n. reports that said hamas was shooting rockets that were landing in the beit cannotarea, so we exclude the possibility it was hamas rocket fire. fireorces were receiving from the area, from the immediate vicinity of the hospital, and it is possible that our forces returned fire to that and it could have been our fire as well. we have to investigate exactly what happened. took controlamas in 2007, and they refused to recognize israel's right to exist. what will it take for the signs to reach a cease-fire now? that is one of the topics stephen thacker addressed when he spoke exclusively with the leader of hamas, renisha mcbride . >> doha, the secure location for hamas' top political leader. in a heavily guarded villa, i met khaled meshaal. he is the chief strategist, and as the death toll in gaza rose, he responded to the accusation that hamas is using civilians as human shields. how can any idea of resistance justified putting rockets in a school building? >> frankly speaking, this is a lie. let israel show where the rocket launchers are in gaza. >> this is not something that has come from israel. this is the u.n. relief and works agency. >> this is not true. gaza belonghers in to the resistance. they are underground, and israel is not able to reach them. this is why it pretends they are in civilian areas. >> hamas calls the 1000 rockets it has fired into israel in the fortnight resistance. israel sees them as a weapon of terror to be eradicated by force. it is a battle of wills. the message from hamas today, no cease-fire without concessions from israel. >> we want a cease-fire as soon as possible. that is parallel with the lifting of the siege on gaza. that is the demand of the gazan people. i call on the u.n., the u.k., the u.s. to go to the gazan people and ask them what they want. i can guarantee that will be the answer of the gazan people. leaders cannot afford to come out of the conflict with nothing to show for the suffering of so many in gaza. after seven years of hamas rule, the economy is in ruins. the movement has no money, and few international allies. hamas is in a very weak position right now. >> hamas will not surrender. hamas is going through a difficult time, but hamas does not fight because it has allies. it fights because it has a just cause. >> in this conflict, hamas has looked weaker than in years. so for the leadership, the confrontation represents a gamble. it can only pay off if the palestinian people see some tangible gains when the fighting stops. bbc news, doha. >> you can watch the full version of that interview with the hamas leader renisha mcbride friday on --khaled meshaal friday on "bbc world news." an algerian plane is believed to have crashed in northern mali. wreckage was spotted in the sahara, but it is unclear if it belongs to the missing aircraft. the plane had been flying from burkina faso to the algerian capital, and they were severe storms when it lost contact. two more military aircraft with the remains of those on board malaysian airlines flight mh17 landed in the narrow lens. it is emerged that the crash site has yet to be secured a week after the plane was shot down. -- scene was diverted deserted, with no sign of investigators. our special correspondent reports. >> only the sounds of the morning. when we arrived, there were no guards, no workers. he wreckage still spread for miles. the smell of human remains. these, left behind by emergency workers, civilian volunteers, and the militia. place open to any who pass by. for all the outrage expressed by the international community, it has seemed powerless to ensure that the site is properly protected or that do respect his shown to the remains of the dead. with the war escalating, it becomes ever more difficult to ensure that there is a credible investigation. to senda has offered police to protect investigators who are waiting in government-held territory. at midmorning, a site so familiar in war zones. those who cross any frontline for the sake of humanity. the international red cross arrived with a clear mission. is to ensureere the dignity of the dead, the dignified management of the dead , and the rights of the families. but fighting is still going on nearby. just 35 kilometers away, rebels use missiles to bring down ukrainian air force jets yesterday. ,ut the rebels are defiant still denying responsibility for the attack of the malaysian airlines plane. >> why should we feel ashamed? we did not shoot the plane down. donetsk, capital, people continue to leave. looking for help from rebel officials to escape the fighting. heard a whistling noise, and then someone said get down, get down, she told me. the blast lifted us off the ground. pressed to windows of buses taking refugees to russia is the story of the war. bbc news, donetsk. 's prime, ukraine minister announced his resignation, along with the cabinet, adding to uncertainty in the country. for more on the situation, i spoke a brief time ago with bill richardson, who formerly served as u.s. ambassador to the united nations. thank you for joining us. a week after the plane was brought down in ukraine, the crash site is unsecured, and the delivering russia is even more powerful rocket launchers to the separatists. how should the west respond? >> the west should proceed with sanctions by the european union. the u.s. has put forth their sanctions. the european union is contemplating sanctions on russian banks and an arms embargo and some embargoes on technology sales. the only way the russians understand is if you get tough with them, and europe has not gotten tough with them because of the dependence on natural gas that russia provides, and other commercial reasons. it looks like the european union is moving in the right direction , is talking about these additional sanctions. now they should do it. >> you were formally america's ambassador to the united nations. samantha power, who holds that job now, has said that if russia is not part of the solution it will continue to be part of the problem. do you see u.s.-russia relations approaching cold war levels of hostility? >> well, the u.s.-russian relationship is not in good shape. i don't think it will get any better. it is in a deep freeze right now. i agree with ambassador power that the relationship is important, but we are not going to get much done at the u.n. the u.n. has five permanent members. russia is one of them. russia can veto a peacekeeping force to secure the crash site or a reference to the international criminal court. but on civil court, an international court outside the u.n., russia may be vulnerable. by the dutch, the australians. the most sensible proposal is by the australian prime minister, who once -- wants to have a multinational force of malaysians, australians, and dutch. i think that makes a lot of sense, to secure the site. >> turning to the middle east, the un's secretary-general says the attack on the u.n. school shows killing must stop. you are a very experienced negotiator. do you see any signs a cease-fire may be in the works? >> i see some positive signs. israel has reduced the number of bombings. hamas's statements are getting a little more conciliatory. they cannot expect the blockade to end, but maybe something in between. i think secretary kerry, the secretary-general, cutter -- qatar, egypt, can play a very constructive role. and turkeyr, egypt, would get along better, because they are potential mediators, but right now the restriction among them. that is why secretary kerry, who knows the region well and is invested in israeli-palestinian peace, could maybe bring everybody together and there can be a cease-fire. but you cannot expect israel to agree to a cease-fire, which they have already three times, unless hamas reduces its intensively trying to go after israeli cities. >> governor bill richardson, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> in other news around the world, the iraq he parliament -- iraqi parliament has elected a kurdish politician as the new prime minister. last week, a sunni candidate was chosen as speaker. a sudanese woman sentenced to death on charges of renouncing islam has arrived in rome with her family. after her arrival, meriam yahia met pope francis, who said her perseverance was a testament to christian faith. she says she was brought up a christian, but authorities in sudan considered her a muslim because that was the faith of her absent father. a taiwanese airline has said bad weather caused the crash of a domestic flight on wednesday. claims by the authorities -- they claim it was safe to fly. 40 people died when it crashed on an island off of the western coast of taiwan. a liberian man in his 40's is being tested for the deadly ebola virus in nigeria's commercial capital of lagos. healthput pressure on systems. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, could it be months before afghanistan has a new president? every ballot from the election is being recounted right now, and the processes -- process is going very slowly. in arizona, the lethal injection of a double murderer dragged on to two hours and brought up more concerns about how the death penalty is being administered. >> joseph wood was a double murderer and on death row for almost 25 years. his execution should have taken minutes, but it took almost two hours for him to die. he was brought to the execution chamber and a smile that his family before being injected with drugs to sedate and kill him. witnesses say he gasped and snorted hundreds of times before he died. >> it started off looking like it was going alright, but then obviously something did not go right. it took two hours. he was unconscious, but he was clearly struggling for breath. >> he was convicted for murdering his estranged girlfriend and her father at a garage in tucson, arizona in 1989. their families have reacted angrily to concerns about his execution. >> everybody from what i have heard has said that it was excruciating. you don't know what excruciating as. -- is. excruciating is seeing your dad lying there in a pool of blood, your sister lying there in a pool of blood. that was excruciating. this man deserved it. >> this is the third apparently botched execution in america this year. in each case, it is the drugs in sometimes untested combinations that have caused problems. the governor of arizona says she is concerned about how long the execution took, but she added that one thing is certain -- w ood died in a lawful manner, and by i witness and medical accounts, he did not suffer. there are 3000 american prisoners on death row, and public support for the death penalty is strong. but uneasy about -- chinese -- unease about execution methods is growing. >> there are increasing fears in afghanistan about the slow pace of the presidential recount. more than 8 million ballots need to be transported and re-examined by election officials. after last months disputed runoff. both candidates agreed to it last week, but now the process looks in danger of unraveling. >> in the eastern province, these colorful trucks ball to with what at the moment -- bulge with what at the moment is the most precious cargo in afghanistan, ballot boxes. they are bound for a major audit deal to, part of a restore credibility to a flawed election tainted with allegations of ballot theft. every ballot is transported under armed guard. >> we have to make sure that any movement of the boxes, we have a member of the independent election commission for afghanistan and an observer from each of the presidential candidates. those people have to be with all the boxes whenever they move. >> with taliban threats to sabotage the process, a final check for explosives before they are loaded. forces helping out. a major logistical operation. these ballot boxes have come in from one of the most dangerous parts of afghanistan. that is why security is so tight. amid accusations of foreign meddling, this time around a system from foreign forces is a key part of the deal meant to salvage what was meant to be a landmark election. they are going the extra mile to get elections right, transporting balance -- ballots by air for checking in kabul. the taliban still a threat. >> charges of fraud and other irregularities have cast a pall over what should have been a triumphant moment for the afghan people. >> under a deal brokered by the u.s. secretary of state, every vote must be checked before a winner is announced. both have pledged to form a government of national unity. so here, in a giant aircraft hangar, the audit is carried out, monitored by international observers. stalled by disputes, it could take weeks to conclude. and an agreement of how a future government could look already appears to cause divisions in both presidential camps. >> a national unity government has different meaning to different people. that is in itself a very big issue to be dealt with. the two candidates themselves had to come to an agreement on what they mean. tothis herculean effort protect afghan votes is both practical and deeply symbolic. the international community, which has spent hundreds of million dollars on these elections, cannot risk failure here. crucialraught but process of recounting those ballots in afghanistan's presidential election. 45 years ago this week, millions watched as the astronauts of apollo 11 became the first to walk on the moon. despite the unforgettable phrase, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," we soon lost interest in space expiration. a new book explains why. >> the apollo 11 landing was a huge, monumental event when it happened. the world literally stopped that night. millions upon millions of people watched it. there was a lot of excitement and celebration. what's remarkable is how quickly that fanfare they did afterwards. , onee small step for man giant leap for mankind. >> i am the author of "the apollo moon landing and american culture." falle time we get to the of 1969, 1970, there is a significant lack of interest in not just future moon exploration, but the apollo 11 moon landing itself. part of it is the plan from the beginning was very much a cold war endeavor. president kennedy makes the bold promise, and it's very much to defeat the soviets. the cold war had eased significantly by 1969, so that's not a factor anymore. a lot of domestic problems, the war in vietnam, and a lot of people thought that is great we made it to the moon, but now it is time to focus on more pressing issues. coming out of the counterculture, there's less faith that the best way to understand the world and universe is going to the moon and collecting rock samples and studying them. the images people had about a space prior to apollo were images of science fiction. the actual moon landings are very different from that. you have these men in these thick spacesuits kind of stumbling around. they can only survive a short amount of time before they have to go back to the capsule, and it made people start to understand we are probably not going very far in space, that the earth really is all we have. at the same time, people started to have much more interest in protecting earth. the earth looks very fragile from the perspective of the moon, and that contributes to the rise of the environmental movement in the early 1970's, and adds to this cultural change that this space expiration, moon expiration is neat, exciting, but not really all that important compared to other things. >> on this program, we are always interested in stories about space. i think we are keeping the flame alive. that brings the broadcast to a close, but you can find much more on our website, and to reach me and most of the bbc team, just go to twitter. thanks for watching, and please tune in tomorrow. ♪ >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits to charity and pursuing the common good for over 30 years, kovler foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet, los angeles. 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