Tonight an america tonight special report, two breaking news stories this hour. Israel invades gaza, underway, at this hour. Israel launches a devastating ground assault on gaza. Going down deep, to flood the tunnels where they say hamas threats are hiding. It is the heaviest show against hamas in years. A jet with fearly 300 people onboard blown out of the sky. Al jazeera is the fist network at the scene. Downed at the border of ukraine and russia, but who did it . And why . Good evening and thank you for joining us. Two of the most tenuous conflict zones erupted in Game Changing development, and breaking news continues to emerge even after this hour, from the scene, of a malaysian passenger jet crack. And in the middle east where israel has haunch add major air strike. To sneak into israel, the army gave mer mission to call up 18,000 more reservist, bringing the total number of troops to nearly 60,000. At least 230 have been killed more than 1800 injured. In the west bank, clashes ha
World demands to know who shot down the jet, separatists promise to let International Investigators access the crash site. There does seem to be some growing awareness that it probably had to be russian insurgenth insurrents. The finger of blame is being pointed at russia and moscow. Accusations they deny. As we said, we have two major news stories for you at this hour, and they are moves fast. Coming up well have the latest on the crash of Malaysian Airlines in eastern ukraine. But we start in gaza, where israel has launched a ground offensive. Israels Prime Minister says he is prepared to wind the operation that began overnight. The army sent tanks and soldiers into northern gaza. At least 268 palestinians have been killed since the violence began ten days ago. At least 24 died overnight and this morning. Here is our report. Downtown gaza city. [ explosion ] reporter the building is used by media companies, one owned by hamas. Israel might have declared a ground war, but so far the s
Im clive live at the airport in amsterdam where flight mh 17 took off yesterday bound for kuala lumpur. As the world know, it didnt make it. What were the circumstances surrounding the crash in ill have the latest. This is the second plane lost this year for Malaysian Airlines. The whole Aviation Industry faces questions about the safety of routes over war zones. Jamie is here with business and going to focus on what the future holds for Malaysian Airlines. Two disasters in one year. The airline will be lucky if it can last 12 months. Its losing 1. 5 million. Theyll have to decide what to do with its national carriers. A warm welcome to gmt. Its noon here in london. Its were going to go straight to clive in the airport in amsterdam. Reporter yes, hello to you. Welcome to the airport in a nation in mourning. Twothirds of those that died on board the flight were from this country. They were dutch nationals. 173 people in all. In the past 30 minutes its been confirm had the one of those o
Whether theis not plane was shot down. It is by whom. Is right. That is the question that many ask this morning. Ets ring in john dawson who is to blame . That is the question. Officials blame separatists and you have a phone call that was intercepted by an official and rebels deny it. We do not have the defense systems. They claim to have the system and it is a surface to air missile. Was what they claimed on june 29. Russia denies all responsibility and here is the interesting comments again. It is the Ukraine Ambassador to the united nations. Thate first reaction was they shot down a military airplane. They got to the ground and made a second call to inform that this is. The second biggest after facebook. In the world. Very big and the ukraine and europe. There has been a rebel commander who took credit for shooting down the plane. He removed the post. That is on the contactor. Post a very interesting and that is a development. Who is he . He is the commander. A rebel commander. A p
Downed at the border of ukraine and russia, but who did it . And why . Good evening and thank you for joining us. Two of the most tenuous conflict zones erupted in Game Changing development, and breaking news continues to emerge even after this hour, from the scene, of a malaysian passenger jet crack. And in the middle east where israel has haunch add major air strike. To sneak into israel, the army gave mer mission to call up 18,000 more reservist, bringing the total number of troops to nearly 60,000. At least 230 have been killed more than 1800 injured. In the west bank, clashes have erupted. At least 14 people were injured. In the ground in gaza city, and joins us now, nick. Good evening joey what we are seeing is a large escalation, just in the last few minutes, about a mile or two behind me right there, huge booms. And what we believe are missiles coming in from the sea, which is about half a mile that way, and we can hear them over our heads and land in that area. So we have that