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Ali Baba Looking to Buy SnapChat; Investigators Finally Reach MH17 Crash Site; New Video Shows Israeli Attack on Gaza Market; Vast Majority of Israeli Jews Support Gaza Offensive; UN Condemns Attack on Shelter, Blames Israel

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now the international outcry grows over the attack on a UN school turned shelter in Gaza. And still Israel says it will continue its

offensive until all militant tunnels have been destroyed.

Now investigators finally reached a wreckage of flight MH17 after fighting near the site delayed their mission for days.

And we'll look at who could be eyeing up the popular messaging app SnapChat.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dispelled any doubt over Israel's resolve in Gaza. He says that the military will destroy all Hamas

tunnels with or without a ceasefire. He also made clear that the Israel defense forces will continue operating at, quote, "full power" across Gaza.

Now this comes as Gaza health officials say that shelling next to a UN shelter today has left eight wounded, but no deaths inside the facility.

And on Wednesday, what was meant to be a short humanitarian pause in fighting deteriorated into a day of heavy casualties all across Gaza.

Now Palestinian medical authorities say a strike on a UN shelter claimed the lives of 20 people and shelling at a street market killed 17

more.

Now we have disturbing video from the Gaza-based Al Menara (ph) media agency showing the aftermath of the first market attack and then a second

strike on the very same market. And a warning, this is difficult to watch.

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LU STOUT: Video of an attack as it unfolded in real-time.

Now the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he told his cabinet today that this is just the first phase of the demilitarization of Gaza.

This comes as 16,000 more reservists are being called up to serve. And as Sara Sidner now reports, these moves to launch a stronger offensive seem to

be what most Israelis want to see.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: From the Tel Aviv seashore to the Israeli-Gaza border and beyond, the show of support from

Israeli Jews for Netanyahu's war effort is clear, we're with you.

Hebrew signs say it with words, the people prove it with deeds.

Volunteers cook free meals. The sound of war booms behind them in easy striking distance from Gaza.

(on camera): This is who they're doing it for, the soldiers on the battlefield, the message, we are with you.

(voice-over): Two opinion polls done to measure support for Israel's Operation Protective Edge revealed that up to 95 percent of Israeli Jews

are against a cease-fire and what they really want is Hamas dealt with once and for all.

REZY MERY, JAFFA RESIDENT: Hamas is a terrorism and terrorism they hurt every corner in the world. We just have to put them -- take them out

from Gaza.

SIDNER: Rezy Mery says he is happy living side by side with Palestinians in Jaffa, but Hamas is a different thing.

Netanyahu's plan to destroy the tunnel network in Gaza got a pat on the back in Tel Aviv.

SHULY SEVY, SUNPARTS MILITARY OPERATION: We have to continue because we have a lot of work to do there otherwise they will find a way to come

inside, you know, all of the tunnels and I don't know the name, and we have to destroy everything.

SIDNER: For this young lady it's deeply personal, she is to be married soon, but her fiance is a soldier on the front lines. He's in Gaza

somewhere and we're afraid, we're afraid, she says. We shouldn't stop fighting. We shouldn't compromise.

We sat down with a former head of Mossad, Israel's top intelligence agency about what it would take to fulfill the sentiment of those polled.

DANNY YATOM, FORMER MOSSAD HEAD: It calls for conquering the entire Gaza.

SIDNER: Does it mean reoccupation?

YATOM: Which means reoccupation, no doubt.

SIDNER: Danny Yatom says the price of that will be high, perhaps higher than the public realizes, costing lives and money.

YATOM: It means that we will have to stay in Gaza with relatively loudly (ph) deployed forces for two, three, four years.

SIDNER: The former spy chief initially did not support Netanyahu's decision to put Israeli boots on the ground in Gaza, but he admits

something to us spy chief rarely do.

YATOM: Now I understand I was wrong because only with this ground operation we could discover those tunnels.

SIDNER: Political analyst Marcus Chef says the support for Netanyahu and his defense and army chiefs is remarkable.

MARCUS CHEF, POLITICAL ANALYST: I can't remember a military operation which has had so much support from the Israeli people.

SIDNER: But the polls did not include Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, sometimes referred to as Israeli Arabs. Those we spoke with

wanted to stop the offensive.

But even Israeli peace rallies demanding an end to the war have been met with protesters in support of pounding Gaza until Hamas is crushed.

Sara Sidner, CNN, on the Israel-Gaza border.

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LU STOUT: Let's get the perspective form Gaza now. Karl Penhaul is there. He joins us now live. And Karl, I still can't get over the video of

that horrific attack on a market in Gaza. You know, and again that follows the shelling of a UN school, there's the shelling of a UN shelter, the

other sites. What has been the fallout from all these deadly strikes?

KARL PENHAUL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, as you say Kristie, it just becomes impossible to keep track of the body count, it

seems to be mounting so quickly. In the last 24 hours, more than 120 people dead.

But my suggestion is maybe we shouldn't keep track of the numbers, we should look a little more at he people. And that dramatic video that came

out of the attack on the Shejaiah (ph) market, you know, the story there to me was the guy who was shooting that video. At one point he fell wounded.

We see the camera drop. And his camera -- his colleague stepped into the breach and put up that camera and carried on rolling. He felt that that

was just so important to continue to tell this story despite personal injury as well.

And of course, the UN school, well again, you know, these kind of attacks on shelters that should have been safe havens for people whose own

homes have already become battlefields, we took a look a little more detail about exactly what happened there.

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PENHAUL: Jebaliyah (ph), Northern Gaza, around 5:00 a.m. The UN school-turned-shelter for 3,000 people just attacked.

A UN employee took these cell phone images. Breathing heavily, he races classroom to classroom. Body count by flashlight, mutilated limbs

swaddled in bloody rags.

"We saw the shells when they hit and shrapnel was falling like rain. I was so scared and the school filled with smoke. We poured water in our

eyes just to see," she says.

One round crashed through the roof into the top floor.

(on camera): I just want to give you a point of reference about how big this hole is. The diameter is about the length of an ordinary

broomstick.

(voice-over): Another round ripped through the latrines in a classroom, opening a hole about the same size as the other.

Witnesses say this is some of the shrapnel that peppered the school. The UN says it repeatedly notified Israel and Hamaa (ph) of the coordinates

of the shelter, most recently just eight hours before it was hit.

CNN asked the Israeli military if their forces fired on the school that was supposed to be a safe haven.

LT. COL. PETER LERNER, ISRAELI MILITARY SPOKESMAN: What we found that there were mortars launched from nearby the school and there was a

crossfire and indeed the IDF engaged those mortar firing. We are currently reviewing the outcome and the tragic footage that we've seen from this

area. We haven't ruled out that it was a Hamas mortar that actually landed within the premises.

PENHAUL: But UN investigators tell CNN they have sufficient evidence to conclude Israel was to blame.

PIERRE KRAHENBUHL, UNRWA COMMISSIONER-GENERAL: Based on the initial elements is that we have actually indications in the first assessment that

we have that three projectiles hit the school and on presenting and analyzing the pieces of shrapnel we believe that we have all the elements

in place to conclude that it was Israeli artillery fire.

PENHAUL: Israel has batteries of Howitzers aimed at Gaza. These huge guns are capable of firing 43 kilo, or 100 pound high explosive shells the

entire length of the Gaza Strip.

Israel admitted misfiring a mortar into another UN school shelter in Beit Hanoun less than a week ago, but the Israeli military says the

explosion could not have caused deaths.

A CNN visit showed multiple shrapnel marks and large quantities of blood. Hospital staff told CNN 16 civilians died in the incident.

KRAHENBUHL: Enough is enough. Now measures have to be taken, people who go to these places expect that they go there because they will be safe

and here is the confirmation that it appears that there is nowhere where you can be safe and therefore measures have to now be taken by the Israel

Defense Forces to ensure much better protection.

PENHAUL: The UN has also condemned Hamas for violating the rules of war, accusing its fighters of storing rockets in three other vacant

schools.

KRAHENBUHL: Whatever was the case with these weapons certainly cannot be used as a justification by anyone to explain why another school in which

people were sheltered -- displaced people sheltered -- had been targeted.

PENHAUL: Israeli military says it does not deliberately target civilians. At the school gates, this bloody footnote to the tragedy:

donkeys and horses had ferried dirt-poor families here when their homes turned into a battlefield. But war plodded in behind them.

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PENHAUL: Now even though it's difficult to see how things could get much worse than they already are, there is a growing sense of foreboding in

the Gaza Strip that things will get worse.

On the one hand, we have a dire power situation because there's no electricity, that's difficult to pump water into homes. And the United

Nations relief agency chief told me yesterday that if tens of thousands of people continue to flee their homes because of the fighting, then the

United Nations will simply be at breaking point, will not be able to cope with all those people and will simply have to call on the Israeli military

to fulfill its responsibilities and protect and feed and house Palestinians fleeing their own homes -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: It's fast becoming a humanitarian disaster there. Karl Penhaul, we thank you for your stirring and humanizing reporting there out

of Gaza.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, experts finally reach the Malaysia Airlines crash site in Ukraine exactly

two weeks after MH17 was shot out of the sky.

Dozens of people are dead and nearly 200 trapped after a massive mudslide in western India. We'll be live in New Delhi.

And the deadly virus that is turning doctors into patients. We'll get the latest on West Africa's Ebola outbreak from CNN's chief medical

correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now investigators in the Netherlands and Australia have finally reached the crash site to flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. They're

examining the wreckage right now.

Now this breakthrough, it comes after Ukraine announced a one-day ceasefire to allow safe passage of the international team.

Now CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is in Donetsk. He joins me now live with the very latest. And Nick, again the international team of investigators,

they have finally reached the site. What are they seeing there?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's not all of them, by any stretch, Kristie. This is four Dutch and Australian

experts together with the OSCE monitoring mission, about eight of them have made that complicated way to the crash site. It took them six hours,

apparently. It should have taken them three. When they got there, we hear a moment of silence apparently was observed and they would, of course,

smelled -- as we did yesterday -- the stench of decay from the human remains still there.

Let's hear what their spokesman traveling in the team said he saw on arrival.

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MICHAEL BOCIURKIW, SPOKESMAN, OSCE SOCIAL MONITORING MISSION TO UKRAINE: It isn't easy to describe. I mean, it's 30, 32 Celsius here

right now, very hot day. This is probably -- we've been here multiple times, as you know, and yet it hasnOt gotten any easier.

There are still human remains in front of me. We can tell by the smell. And you know there's so many areas that haven't been properly gone

over, scoured. In fact, right now I'm looking about half a kilometer west and there's a chicken farm there that is not operating any longer, but we

know from long distance observation that there is a fair amount of debris there and possibly human remains.

It's important to note out, too, that you know too is that these experts, although they won't be doing it today, they can start tomorrow.

They are authorized, the experts from the Netherlands, to actually collect the human remains to care for them, give the remains the dignity that they

deserve and start that long process of transferring it back to the Netherlands for identification.

The other thing I'm looking at, and it's hard to believe it's been two weeks, but there's still a lot of personal belongings out here. Everything

from, you know, a Bali travel book to I can see an open suitcase. I can see empty seats, cargo pallets, clothing, that all needs obviously the be

collected and transported back to the Netherlands.

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WALSH: Now you heard him say there tomorrow some of the experts could begin the job of collecting the bodies, that does suggest a much larger

mission trying to reach the site.

The Ukrainian parliament has just authorized that there could be as many as 700 armed personnel accompanying this inspection mission. There

will be Dutch and Australian most likely armed police or other such personnel potentially military as well. And as we saw yesterday they face

a complex task there, given how the violence is still swirling around that sort of eerily silent area.

LU STOUT: And Nick_

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WALSH: The road isn't easy -- past shelling and eerie separatist checkpoints. But where it leads is harder still.

(inaudible) nothing surely could spoil lies a horror still unresolved.

It's been 13 days since MH17 was blown out of the sky. It remains here a monument to cruelty.

To how 298 souls, some shipped in parts away on a separatist train, have yet to find complete rest. Questions left: what, or who else did they

love? What did they feel in their last moments?

The silence in these fields is that of a tomb, like sorrow and loss, have isolated it from the war around it. But you really have to stand here

and see the things that people wanted to take with them on holiday and horrifyingly even now smell the stench of decay to understand the urgency

that the relatives of those who died here must feel to get inspectors to this site and get some kind of closure.

In the hour we were there, no separatist inspectors or Ukrainian soldiers at this site, just distant smoke that explains why the inspectors'

large convoy has had such trouble getting here.

God save and protect us, this sign asks. Not here, still reeking of jet fuel, where you can see the heat of the inferno they fell from the sky

in. Strangers have tried to mourn. The scene of this crime has been abandoned, evidence tampered with. What must be shrapnel holes visible in

the cockpit's remains. A wallet emptied, a cell phone looted. Traces of day dreams that fell from the Jetstream into a war whose daily horrors

drowned out that which took their lives, whose blind hatred has yet to find space for the minor dignities they deserve.

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WALSH: Now if this access is sustained, and that's a big question, we are potentially into a new more active phase of the operation at the crash

site of more inspectors, armed personnel backing them up, securing the area. Can they stay there overnight? Do they travel back and forth each

day? Difficult questions to answer.

This mission, small as it was, took six hours to go through the front lines twice -- rebel side, Ukrainian side, back into the rebel side, to

make the day's journey. As we know ourselves, it's not easy. There's a lot of crystallization of their access. Both sides in this civil war, I

think, wanting to make that an issue to make the other side look bad. We've been hearing that consistently.

The question is if they try again and go tomorrow in larger numbers will they have as much luck or will, as we have seen ourselves on a number

of days, be turned back by the violence over the ongoing Ukrainian offensive in that area -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Nick, you called the crash site a monument to cruelty. And now a small team of international investigators is finally there to examine

it. Nick Paton Walsh joining us live from Donetsk, we thank you for your reporting.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come, dozens dead and many more trapped in India as the monsoon season sets off a deadly landslide.

More on the relentless rain after this.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

At least 30 people have been killed and more than 100 are trapped under rocks and mud in western India where heavy monsoon rains have caused

landslides in a village near Mumbai.

Now eight survivors have been pulled out with injuries. But the death toll may continue to rise.

Now, large portions of the village have been engulfed by this landslide. And officials say at least 30 homes have been affected.

And while rescue efforts are underway, the rain does not seem to be letting up there.

Now let's bring in CNN's Sumnima Udas who joins us live from New Delhi. And Sumnima, as many as 170 people are feared trapped under all

that mud, what is the latest on efforts to save them?

SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, this is a massive rescue operation, an entire village has virtually been flattened,

been buried by this landslide, just about six-and-a-half hours drive outside of Mumbai.

Right now we understand there are about 500 rescue workers on the site. They are sifting through the rocks, the mud, they're using some

heavy duty equipment. They've been there for the past 40 hours or so since that landslide happened. It happened, remember, around -- a little after

midnight, which is perhaps why the death toll is so high.

And also we understand there's a lot of people from nearby villages who showed up to help with this rescue operation. And they're using their

bare hands.

Right now, some eight survivors have been pulled out, including a mother and a baby. They've also managed to pull out about 30 dead bodies.

But of course hundreds -- at least about 170 people, officials fear, may still be trapped underneath that mud and in these -- those rocks. And of

course, these rescue workers are working under very difficult circumstances, difficult conditions. It's been raining non-stop. The

communication lines down. There's no cell phone lines that are working, no land lines. And there's no power.

It's extremely difficult conditions. And given that we're now about 40 hours since that landslide, officials say the death toll could

unfortunately go up quite significantly.

LU STOUT: Yeah, so many people trapped. Here's hoping that more survivors could possibly be pulled from the Earth.

Sumnima Udas covering the story for us live from New Delhi, thank you.

Now you're watching News Stream. And still to come a state of emergency in Sierre Leone as Ebola claims more victims. Now up next, we'll

find out if enough is being done to stop the spread of the deadly virus.

And as Israel ramps up its offensive against Hamas militants, we take a look at the history of Hamas and what it hopes to achieve.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, you're watching News Stream and these are your world headlines.

Now in a cabinet meeting in Tel Aviv today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that this is just the first phase of the

demilitarization of Gaza. He added that the country will complete its goal of destroying Hamas's network of tunnels with or without a ceasefire. Now

this comes as Israel calls up 16,000 more reservists.

Now after days of trying, international investigators have finally gained access to the site of the Malaysia Airlines crash in eastern

Ukraine. They were escorted there by monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Now a spokesman tells CNN there are

four senior international experts on the scene. Now they are inspecting wreckage and are authorized to collect any remains of victims that are

still there.

Sierre Leone has declared a state of emergency over the Ebola outbreak that has claimed hundreds of lives in the country and across the region.

And as the virus turns doctors into patients, hundreds of U.S. Peace Corps workers as well as nonessential volunteers with two aid groups are being

withdrawn from the region as a precautionary measure.

But the airline authority IATA and the World Health Organization are not recommending travel bans to the region. Now CNN's chief medical

correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us now live. And Sanjay, we've got to ask you this question. You heard it just then. IATA and the WHO, they say

that there is no need for a travel ban. Do you agree with that call?

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, from a pragmatic consideration, yes. And it's worth reminding people how this Ebola virus

moves around, how it transmits itself. Typically, someone who is going to transmit the virus is very sick. They're usually in bed or in a hospital,

something like that, they're not up walking around. And as a result, the people who get infected from that person are usually family members of

health care workers, not likely to be people visiting from other countries or tourists or something like that.

So, for the average person visiting those countries, if they're not coming around sick people or in hospitals they should be OK.

But I do think there's a psychological part of this as well, besides the pragmatic. Psychologically I think when you hear about consideration

of travel bans, it does remind people that there is something, you know, still big going on there in West Africa, the largest Ebola outbreak in

history. And it just serves a reminder to both people outside and inside the region.

LU STOUT: So you agree that there is no need for a travel ban at this point. The CDC is considering whether to issue a stronger alert for people

traveling to these affected countries in West Africa as well as discouraging all nonessential workers to travel there. How would that help

the situation?

GUPTA: Well, you now, and it's almost part of the same thinking. I'm not sure that it necessarily helps the situation in terms of overall

numbers and containing the outbreak, because the people who would be coming in, in that regard are really not the people who are going to be most at

risk. Even if you hear about the numbers now, you're hearing about health care workers, you're hearing about a lot of family members or friends who

come in contact with the sick people.

So, people coming in from other regions probably aren't going to be as at risk about all this.

So -- but, you know, look, Kristie, there is a psychological component. Again, there is a certain element of fear here. And you want

to make sure that people are educated about this, but overly stoking the fear, because that can be very disruptive I think not only to -- things

like travel bans, but also to the region itself.

LU STOUT: Now in the midst of this outbreak, Liberia is really stepping up measure, preventative measures. It's closing schools, having

nonessential government staffers to stay at home. What impact do you think will that have?

GUPTA: Well, they're trying to within the region now, within Liberia closing off the borders, they're trying to make sure that people who maybe

carrying the Ebola virus may be sick at all do not leave and people who may be carrying it are not coming in. It's trying to basically stem some of

the spread of this.

It's -- because of the nature of how it spreads, again, it may not have as large of impact as people think, because people who are sick and

who are going to be infectious are usually not up walking around crossing borders.

But I think part of that is that there is a little bit of a psychological fear component now that they're trying to exercise some sort

of control over, and closing the border is one of them.

When I was in Guinea a couple of months ago, they had done the same thing with Senegal to the north. That didn't really seem to have an

impact, but that was something that they did at the time.

LU STOUT: And Sanjay, again this is the worst Ebola outbreak on record. The bottom line here, I mean what needs to be done to curb this

epidemic? And how will we know when it's all over?

GUPTA: Well, I think that they -- there's certainly a need for more resources, simple things like even the protective suits to allow the health

care professionals to take care of the patients. They've run out of those protective suits in some places, I understand. They need more money,

obviously, for some of the infrastructure to help isolate the patients who are sick.

But I'll tell you the real problem from a doctor's standpoint, you don't want to treat the symptoms, you want to treat the root cause. And

the root cause is they are still spread in many of these remote villages in Africa, because people don't fully understand that when their loved one is

dying of Ebola that they can't come in contact with the bodily fluids. It's oftentimes the wife of the house taking care of the husband who became

sick and she gets sick and then she transmits it to her children when they are caring for her, so you get entire families wiped out. But before they

get infected, they transmit it to other friends and relatives and that's how this thing spreads.

It's not so much in the urban centers, it's not so much at the airports, it's in those areas. So you have to really -- the information

campaign in that area is so important. And right now there is a mis -- if not distrust of medical professionals. They're not hearing that message.

They're certainly not abiding by it.

LU STOUT: Yeah, well here's hoping that message gets to people in suspect cases on the ground there and all along. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, we

thank you for your steady and measured guidance as we cover this story.

Again, the worst outbreak in history of Ebola. Thank you and take care.

Now for now the outbreak is confined to West Africa, but there are concerns it could spread.

According to the World Health Organization there have been now at least 672 deaths and more than 1,200 confirmed and suspected cases.

Now most are in Guinea where the outbreak has killed some 319 people. In Sierre Leone, the death toll 224, and in Liberia the virus has claimed

129 lives.

Now let's return now to our top story this hour, the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Now Israel has faced mounting criticism over the number of

Palestinian civilians who have been killed. Now CNN's Wolf Blitzer sat down with Simon Peres, a long time Israeli statesman who just left his

presidential post a week ago.

Now here is part of what he had to say about the violence.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: When you see the pictures of what's happening in Gaza right now, the enormous number of civilians, children,

elderly, women who have been killed over the past -- this is now week four of this war. The criticism of Israel is that it's reacted

disproportionately. You say_

SHIMON PERES, FRM. PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL: Well, I don't know in that case what is a proportion. Imagine that you sit a child on (inaudible) and

somebody is shooting at your child and yourself. What is a proportion, not to shoot back?

I mean, they put before us an impossible question, but we cannot escape it. We wish we wouldn't have to do it. We have nothing against

their people. We don't like to see anybody being killed, it's not our purpose. But if they put it in their homes with their children and there

they plant the rockets and the different weapons they collected, what can we do?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now this week, it marked the most intense bombardment so far during the three-week long conflict. And let's not forget that this is

the third major Israel-Hamas who borne less than six years. Now the cycle, it just keeps repeating itself with no peace agreement in site.

But who exactly is Hamas? And what is their end game this time around? Paula Hancocks has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Propaganda video, recruiting tool, call it what you will but Hamas wants Israel and the world

to see its military might.

Created in 1987, its name means Islamic Resistance Movement, formed specifically to fight the Israeli occupation. But within the lawless

territory of Gaza, it became so much more.

AARON DAVID MILLER, WOODROW WILSON CENTER: Hamas began to expand its social and economic reach to include social welfare programs, subsidies and

a variety of other educational and cultural programs for Palestinians in Gaza, so it played and still to this day has a political dimension and

administrative and social dimension and of course a military one.

HANCOCKS: April 1994 Hamas carried out its first suicide bombing in Israel, a car bomb attack in the northern city of Afoula (ph) kills eight.

It is just the beginning. Hundreds more Israeli citizens will be killed by Hamas, mostly in suicide bombings, a deadly pattern that leads the U.S. and

others to label Hamas a terrorist group.

A moment of legitimacy for Hamas, 2006, winning democratic Palestinian elections in a landslide victory. It is one of the first Islamist groups

in the world to win political office.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a new beginning for Palestinian.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's the decision of the people.

HANCOCKS: But the west refused to deal with a terrorist organization.

Experts estimate Hamas has a fighting force of some 10,000, short and medium range rockets handmade within Gaza, longer range projectiles

smuggled into the territory the U.S. says from Iran.

Millions of dollars of annual financial aid from Iran have largely dried up since the uprising in Syria. Qatar, now financially supports the

group, according to Israel.

But little filters through to the civilians of Gaza. Throughout this, Israel tightened its hold on the territory, controlling what goes in,

restricting who comes out.

It is this blockade Hamas wants completely lifted, a wish shared by 4 million Palestinians and human rights groups, a wish Israel says it cannot

grant as long as the group on the other side of the border refuses to recognize its right to exist.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now, a Chinese company is being linked with one of the tech world's hottest start-ups. Will Ali Baba be snapping up a stake in

something new? Stick around for the story.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now media reports suggest that the Chinese ecommerce giant Ali Baba is among a group of investors eyeing a stake in SnapChat. Insiders say that

could value the photosharing app at up to $10 billion.

Now it's unclear whether the reported talks could lead to a deal, but Ali Baba is known to be seeking out U.S. tech investments as it gets ready

to go public on Wall Street later this year.

Now SnapChat's popularity has grown rapidly since its release just three years ago. Around 700 million so-called Snaps are exchanged each and

every day.

Now it's a twist on traditional photo sharing, images with messages attached are swapped between users, but they only stay on your screen for a

few seconds. After that, they're automatically deleted.

Now that model is clearly catching on. Just days ago, Instagram launched a photosharing app called Bolt that mimics SnapChat's vanishing

function. Now Istangram is known as Facebook, which launched its own SnapChat competitor a few days ago called SlingShot. It also reportedly

tried and failed to buy SnapChat for $3 billion last year.

Now Apple has also come out with a messaging service equipped with a self-destruct function just like SnapChat.

Now time now for your global weather forecast and also an update on storms in Australia. Samantha Moore has got that and more. She joins us

now -- Sam.

SAMANTHA MOORE, CNN WEATHER CORREPSONDENT: Kristie, a nasty winter storm is battering the south coast of Australia while summer like

temperatures almost to the far north and the northland. But here on the south side, some incredibly gusty winds, gale force winds, with a severe

weather warning that's in place here as this frontal system moves through into the next 24 hours or so.

Very deep area of low pressure will be swinging this cold front through the next 24 hours. So that's going to continue to buffet the coast

with gusts like this.

We've had 139 kilometer per hour gusts here at Mount Hotham, and at Point Wilson 104 kilometers per hour. And we're going to continue to see

these strong to gale force winds as we head towards the weekend.

Once that frontal system moves through and the low moves off to the east we should see high pressure build on in and things will start to come

down here, but it definitely feels like winter with this wet and windy weather.

You can see how the winds are going to be picking up and they're going to continue to gust throughout the next 48 hours or so.

And then we should start to see those winds ease a bit, but the folks here at Melbourne having to dodge the showers, a beautiful shot coming from

downtown Melbourne with the skyline in the background, almost looks like it's totally made of glass, even the ground surface. It's so shiny and

beautiful there.

So you can see these cold temperatures here across the south.

Meanwhile, here in the north, look at that 32 in Darwin, 28 in Cairns, and in Sydney feels like spring. All the folks are out there enjoying the

sunshine and the balmy temperatures to be sure.

Let's take you into the tropics and the western Pacific. These are really become quite active in the past couple of weeks.

We do have a tropical storm Halong and we have a high area of interest here, a depression that could likely develop into a tropical storm during

the next few hours. We keep checking to see if that's happened yet. It hasn't. Been upgraded as of yet. It'll certainly be a rainmaker for the

coast of China and Korea.

In the meantime, we do have Tropical Storm Halong here with max sustained winds at 85, gusts to 100, moving to the west-northwest at around

15 kilometers per hour. And you can see quite a bit of convection here. And it brought some very heavy rain to Guam and in through also in the

Mariana Islands we had some gusty winds up to 93 kilometers per hour.

But that rainfall in Guam at Anderson Air Force Base, 300 millimeters of rain. So this has the potential to be a real rainmaker once it makes

its way very, very slowly to the north.

But we do know that this disturbance that will likely become a tropical storm today will be a real rainmaker for eastern China, the Korean

peninsula and then into Japan.

This one is going to take its good, sweet time heading across the Pacific, because it's moving at such a slow pace. So we're thinking mid to

late week we'll have to watch for Halong to affect this region as it's going to be taking awhile to get there.

So you can se in the next 24 hour it'll continue to strengthen as it moves across this warm vast stretch of water in the Pacific. And then will

likely have a typhoon on our hands as it continues to strengthen.

The big rainmaker, bringing that rain to the coast of China, though, and South Korea and Japan within the next 48 hours.

Sometimes these disturbances can cause quite a bit of rainfall even if they're not upgraded to a tropical storm, Kristie. So we'll certainly

track its progress as we head into the next 48 hours.

LU STOUT: That's right. It's still very much indeed a storm to watch. Samantha Moore there, thank you.

MORE: You bet.

LU STOUT: Now coming up right here on News Stream, what do Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarrantino, JJ Abrams and Judd Apatow have in

common? Well, yes, they're all famous directors, but theyOve also come together to save an old school business related to the movies.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now it's one thing to stay young at heart, but a little girl in the U.S. wants her baby brother to stay exactly as he is forever. And she's

kicking up quite a fuss about it. Here's Jeanne Moos with the story.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Move over Peter Pan, 5-year-old Sadie Miller wants her baby brother Carson in Neverland.

GIRL: I don't want him to grow up.

LYNDSEY MILLER, SADIE'S MOM: Do you want him to stay little forever.

GIRL: Yes. He's so cute.

MOOS: The Phoenix, Arizona toddler's meltdown is melting millions of hearts on YouTube.

MILLER: She has been in love with him since the day he came home from the hospital.

MOOS: What can a guy do, but smile and spit up at his inconsolable big sis?

GIRL: Oh, you're so cute. I love your cute little smiles.

MILLER: I was making this video because I wanted her to see in 10 years how funny this is.

MOOS: Now we've seen plenty of kiddie meltdowns from 4-year-old Jack beside himself because Apple switched to the iOS 7 operating system.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, you're just going to have to get used to ti.

BOY: No. I don't want it.

MOOS: To Abigail, sick to death of the 2012 election campaign.

GIRL: I'm tired of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The election will be over soon, OK?

GIRL: OK.

MOOS: But there was something deeper, something existential about Sadie's rant.

GIRL: I don't want die when I'm a 100.

MILLER: You don't want to die when you're 100?

MOOS: Where did that come from?

Well, it turns out about a month ago Sadie started bringing up the possibility of her own death.

MILLER: And I said, well you have so many years. You won't die until you're like 100. And that caused her to be even more upset.

MOOS: Her fears of aging and dying had commentators commiserating. "This is basically what we are all doing on the inside for every moment of

our short, pathetic lives."

Wrote another, "I could watch this child's existential breakdown and musings on the permanency of death all day."

There's a two-word phrase for that, drama queen.

MILLER: Oh, yes. Oh that word has been used at this house a lot.

MOOS: Speaking of drama, does little Sadie remind you of anyone, say a certain Sally?

GIRL: You say things and you don't mean them. And you can't just do that.

MOOS: That would be Sally Draper, daughter of Don Draper. But forget Mad Men, we're talking about a mad sister.

GIRL: Oh my gosh. I want him to stay little.

(SINGING)

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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LU STOUT: And did you notice that little drama queen was also wearing a princess outfit: adorable.

Now Hollywood is stepping in to keep Kodak's motion picture business alive. Now Kodak makes film for films, actual, physical rolls of film like

this one that movies are all printed on. But as digital filmmaking and projection increase, a lack of demand meant Kodak was set to close a

factory that made film like this.

But now film studios, including CNN's parent company Time Warner, they're finalizing deals to buy a set amount of Kodak film whether they use

it or not.

Now of course a major agreement like this, it needs some muscle behind it. Powerhouse directors Christopher Nolan, Judd Apatow, Quentin

Tarrantino, they're among the Hollywood A-listers that have lobbied for the deal as did JJ Abrams who was shooting the new Star Wars movie on film

right now.

And that is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.

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