being on. let s reset at the top of the hour now. i m anderson cooper. thank you for joining us. we re following two major breaking stories that the hour. the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17 that killed 298 people in ukraine. and i m wolf blitzer reporting from jerusalem. the other major story, the breaking story we were following, the crisis in gaza, where israel launched a major ground offensive and it continues. a lot to get you up to date on in this hour. president obama today laying out the priorities and the aftermath of the airline crash in the ukraine. the priorities, learning the truth first, he say then acting. there has to be a credible international investigation into what happened. the u.n. security council has endorsed this investigation and we will hold all its members, including russia, to their word. in order to facilitate that investigation. russia, pro-russian separatists
and ukraine must adhere to an immediate cease-fire. evidence must not be tamper
restricted zone at the moment. still so many questions to be answered. and there s going to be a lot of finger-pointing over the next several hours, days and even weeks as this investigation begins to intensify. let s take a kind of a look back now at all we know. at the top of the hour, thank you very much for joining us, it is 3:00 here on the east coast of the united states. we are following breaking news this hour. right now it is 10:00 p.m. in ukraine where earlier today the horrifying scene was captured on camera, the moment a passenger jet falls from the sky, exploding on impact. the tragedy without a doubt. but was it an accident? right now it appears very likely this plane may have been intentionally shot down over eastern ukraine. we don t know for sure. there s a lot we don t know. here s what we know right now. this was malaysian airlines flight a boeing 777 traveling from amsterdam to kuala lumpur in malaysian. on board, 295 people, 280 of them passengers.
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this conflict. more than 825 palestinians have been killed, 36 israeli deaths. 33 of them soldiers. let me bring back into this conversation wolf blitzer, who has been covering this tirelessly from jerusalem for us today. fareed zakaria, gps, rejoins me as well. first a voice to hear from. a lease labbott, our global affairs correspondent. a least, since we know it s not happening, what now? well, brooke, you have to separate the idea of a permanent longer cease-fire from the seven-day truce that secretary kerry is trying to get. you note that he said he wants to do this in the eve, the end of the holy month of ramadan. just have a humanitarian pause in the fighting. from cairo, he ll be going to paris, where he ll be meeting with foreign ministers of qatar and turkey. they are two players with a lot of influence with hamas. they re still hoping to get this seven-day humanitarian truce, a halt in the fighting and then the second phase that we ve been talking about, which is
about the downed malaysia plane. question number one, where are the flight s black boxes? this video distributed today by routers appears to show one of the flight recorders being carried from a field by pro-russian rebels. there s no way though to confirm what exactly that man is holding, but a rebel leader has pledged to turn over any technical devices found by his troops to international investigators. question number two, how long will it take to piece together exactly what happened to flight 17? the crash site remains largely a disorganized and unsecured area. malaysian investigators arrived in ukraine s capital but they are still waiting for permission to enter the doan net - doan netsing region. this is not the first plane to be shot down on putin s watch. in the words of australia s leader, tony abbott, russia can t wash its hands of this. and will this demand for action actually come to fruition in the downing of flight 17 is being called by some a game c