singing. in tel aviv tonight, friends and campaigners coming together. there is hope here and there is caution. the first israeli hostages should be coming home tomorrow. 13 families should be reunited. but it s bittersweet. many hostages will remain in gaza. only 50 are due to be released during the ceasefire. sisters dafna and ella are not on the list for tomorrow, according to their mother, maayan. she tweeted tonight, it s incredibly difficult. i long for their return but i am relieved for the other families . gil dikman says all the families will share the joy when hostages come home. his cousin carmel is being held. she s 39 and loves to travel. her sister in law, yarden, is also trapped in gaza. even if our hostages won t be released in the next few days, the fact that there will be hostages released, pictures of children and mothers coming back, that s very, very strong and i think people are going to feel as if it s their own children. in gaza, one more day of dea
noted that ukrainian troops and russian-backed separatists were already exchanging gunfire. abc s senior foreign correspondent ian pannell witnessing this on the front line there, the border, already a flash point. reporter: tonight, our team went into the battle at the heart of this crisis. you hear that sound? that s the sound of small arms fire. and we re hearing it every few minutes now. the soldiers are trying to move us forward, but the front lines are really active, every few minutes, another gunshot there. the lines have barely moved in eight years, but suddenly, as many as 100,000 russian troops are believed to be assembled across the border. and here, russian-backed rebels and ukrainians exchange fire daily. through the trenches, they heard the sound of gunfire coming from the rebel positions and said they re going to open fire. the area s become too dangerous to stay here. the kremlin denies it wants to invade. and no one knows what vladimir
on this frozen landscape in eastern ukraine. with russian-backed rebels on one side and ukrainian troops on the other. this is the front line. the skarps from this conflict are everywhere across eastern ukraine. although there s supposed to be a peace agreement here, artillery shells are being swapped by both sides and every few minutes, we hear the sound of small arms fire. today, as many as 100,000 russian combat troops are thought to be massed on the border near here. the u.s. fearing they could be preparing for full-scale military assault into ukraine. the white house has been saying for days that russia is planning to invade.pthe kremlin denies te troop buildup is very, very real. so, we re being told that when the president speaks to vladimir putin tomorrow, his message is going to be tough, not finger wagging, but it s going to be crystal clear. don t go there. david? all right, ian pannell and our team from inside ukraine tonight. thank you.
but al-jazeera is reporting they helped mohammed, pictures on the left, escape house arrest. and while muammar qaddafi loses his grip over libya fighting between the loyalists and rebels continues. reporter: we are here and there are pockets of resistance around the city tonight and the sound of small arms fire and, also, rpg s echoing and residents are saying that contrary to the jubilation 24 hours ago there is a sense of civil war about the city in the neighborhoods where fighting is going on. we understand the corridor to the west of tripoli to the tunisian border is controlled by muammar qaddafi s forces, and that is, really, the last remnants of the we forces
alabama. the corpses were all identified as young dolphins that died shortly after birth. one expert told abc news there could be a connection between these deaths and the gulf oil spill, which happened right around the time of conception. the u.s. is urging the international community to join forces against violent pirates who are prowling the waters off of east africa. that plea, of course, comes after four americans were shot to death by pirates who hijacked their yacht. jim sciutto reports on how their high seas hostage drama came to this tragic end. reporter: the u.s. had been negotiating face to face with two of the pirates on board the the destroyer uss sterett when without warning pirates on board the captured yacht fired a rocket-propelled grenade to the uss sterett, shadowing them 600 yards away. they missed, but hearing the sound of small arms fire on board the yacht, they