that cease fire the u.s. has been trying to broker between israel and hamas, it just suffered a setback. i'm brianna keilar. this is "the lead." the world lead, on the same day that palestinians have declared a day of rage after more than 800 of them have been killed, the israelis reject the initial language for a u.s. cease fire proposal. but america's top diplomat isn't ready to give up yet. also in world news, the pentagon says russia is poised to give more firepower to the ukrainian rebels accused of shooting down flight 17 with a russian missile. how much longer can vladimir putin get away with claiming his country isn't involved in this war? and why is she the most hated woman in the netherlands? here's a hint. the dutch think her father had a

hand in killing nearly 200 of their fellow citizens. hi there i'm brianna keilar. in for jaek tapper. we begin with developments in two major stories in our world lead. ukraine, new u.s. intelligence shows russia is getting ready to move moral powerful weapons across the border to pro-russian rebels to and the want to break away from ukraine. in the middle east, hopes of a cease-fire between israel and the palestinians are not coming together like the u.s. wants. secretary of state john kerry has been working to broker a deal to stop the fighting for a week to allow in humanitarian aid, but the israeli security cabinet has unanimously rejected the initial language of it. according to sources, the framework would go include a one-week humanitarian cease fire. that would allow medical supplies to be brought flow gaza. talks would continue for a moral permanent deal between israel and hamas. kerry says reports that israel voted to outright reject the

seven-day cease fire are false. he claims there was never a formal proposal submitted for them to reject and adds benjamin netanyahu is opening to a much shorter cease fire as a show of good faith. wolf blitzer has been covering this from jerusalem. wolf, we saw some high hopes here for a cease-fire. what's gone wrong? >> yeah, i was pretty optimistic there would be a cease-fire. i thought the secretary of state john kerry working together with the egyptians, working with qatar, working with turkey, ban ki-moon, i thought they would get some sort of cease fire at least for a week or so as phase one during which they could start working on some of the long-term issues but the israelis were not happy with what they heard from the secretary of state. even before the israeli security cabinet was meeting and they unanimously decided not to accept the language as put forward, it was clear to me from

other israeli officials including a spokesman they weren't happy with this deal. >> we want to come out of this with a sustained period of quiet. we don't want a time-out for hamas to recharge its batteries. >> there should be no prize for terrorism for launching rockets on israeli civilians. >> israelis clearly saw this deal as something that would benefit hamas. it would stop the israeli military operations, if you will. israelis want to do as much damage to those underground tunnels going from gaza into israel, destroy as many of the rockets and missiles as they could. they weren't about ready to stop right now. that's in part why the israeli cabinet decided that the deal as put forward right now, a deal we don't know the for sure even if hamas was going to accept it, the israelis don't like it. so this operation clearly is going to continue at least for the time being. >> wolf, do you think there

already any conditions where israel would accept a seven-day cease fire or thereabouts? >> yeah, i this i there would be. i think one of the ingredients that the israelis would want is they wouldn't necessarily have to pull out troops from gaza. they will col keep those troops in place for seven days. another condition they put forward is during these seven days, even though military operations won't take place, hamas won't launch rockets and missiles into israel. israel won't launch air or naval strikes or shells into hamas targets in gaza. is the israelis wanted to continue their effort to blow up, if you will, those underground tunnels. that's one of the ingredients the israelis wanted. hamas wasn't about to accept either up with of those ingredients. they wanted a complete israeli withdrawal right away and lifting of what they call the siege of gaza and wanted to show benefits for what has happened over the past two and a half weeks or so and the israelis were not about to give them nel benefits. right now if secretary kerry

thinks he can come up with a cease-fire, he's got an enormous amount of work to do. >> he sure does. wolf blitzer in jerusalem. thank you. turning now to that other major international story we will mentioned that claim by the pentagon that russia is about to step up its involvement in a big way in the war tearing apart neighboring ukraine. i want to bringing in pentagon correspondent barbara starr. how soon could the russians start moving more weapons over the border into eastern ukraine? >> brianna, as it was explained to reporters this morning, it could happen at any time. in fact, they do believe it is imminent that intelligence is showing them that russia plans to send heavy weapons, more heavy weapons into ukraine including something that is known as 220 millimeter multiple launch rocket systems. something similar to this. these are weapons, ground weapons that will up the potential for additional ground fire, ground attacks if they send these across the border,

they can attack at a range of 20 miles. this could significantly increase the hostilities in the region. the russians have been sendin heavy weapons across the border for days now. as for this latest shipment, the u.s. may not know exactly when it happens because they will have to send a satellite overhead to keep monitoring the situation, keep seeing where things are moving. but what they do know at this point, they say russian weapons, russian troops are close enough to the border to move at any time. brianna? >> is this a new type of weapon we're seeing there in the area, barbara? is this something that for instance, might be come pacerable to what we saw taking down flight 17? >> well, it is a heaviyer weapon, if you will, than what has been seen in the realm of ground fire weapons. there have been thanks, artillery, some multiple launch rocket systems as we say, a broad variety of ground weapons. worth remembering quite

different than what took down flight 17. these are ground weapons we're talking about -- surface-to-surface they call them. flight 17 taken down by a surface-to-air missile. one of the most interesting things right now may be where are those other surface-to-air missiles? are they seen? does anybody know where they are? right now, the pentagon says it hasn't seen any more movement of those. but that's one of the things they're also watching for. >> barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you. for more let's go to marie harf the deputy spokeswoman for the state department. there's a lot of things happening right now. i want you the to help me sort this out. we've heard from secretary kerry that prime minister netanyahu has agreed to a 12-hour halt in the fighting as a down payment towards presumably something larger but then we're also hearing from a reporter with haaretz that israel's minister of defense is telling soldiers to be prepared for the

possibility that israeli defense forces will be ordered to expand the gaza ground operation very soon. explain this to us. these seem like contradictory moves here. >> well, thanks for having me on today. i know there's a lot of news coming out of secretary kerry's conversations he's been having. i think right now what we're trying to determine is how to get as quickly as possible to a cease-fire. the secretary today talked about a humanitarian cease fire of seven days that would start in 48 hours. what he's going to be doing over the next 48 hours is talking with the qataris, with the turks, with other partners in europe to see if we can push the parties to except this humanitarian cease fire. so as wolf said, we can get food and medicine to the people on the ground. we can have a pause. and then hopefully, negotiate a longer term cease fire that can end the kind of fighting we've seen recently. >> how do you bridge the gap? how does the secretary bridge the gap when you have hamas

demanding that israel take its troops out of gaza, be israel is nowhere near agreeing to that. what are the hopes really for finding a keys fire to the tune of a week? >> we know this is very complicated. we don't understand estimate that. why you see the secretary having dozens and dos of phone calls and also direct conversations that he'll have over the next few days is because there are a lot of different parties here who can be push the israelis and also hamas to get to a place where they can accept a cease-fire. they're talking through all the details what that might look like and they are very complicated. but that's why we're working for example with the qataris and the turk who have leverage with hamas and can help push them. we will work with the israelis to see if we canet terms they agree to because all you have to do is look on the ground today at some of the pictures your viewers are seeing to know we need to end this. at least for humanitarian reasons for a little while till we can get a broader agreement in place. >> the perspective of israel is

that you give a cease-fire to hamas and it just restocks its the weapons, reinforces its tunnels and bunkers. they say that's what happened in 2008 and 2012. how can it be insured that this would be different? >> well, look, clearly we need to deal with the esche of hamas rockets in the medium and long-term i would say. but what we need to do right now the to stop the immediate hostilities we see, to stop hamas rockets from flying into israel like we've seen, to stop the civilians who are put in harm's way by this conflict is to get a cease-fire. once we get that in place, we can talk about how we can improve this going forward and make this a little more of a longer term situation. but we can't do that till we just literally on the ground get the two parties to agree to stop what's going back and forth over the border right now the. >> mike it will oren, former israeli ambassador, wrote a

column today that said basically that hamas needs to be crushed. that was the headline. he said although you're seeing the shuttle dicy, he said the best thing that ban ki-moon, secretary kerry is actually to do nothing. what's your reaction to that in. >> i think anyone who knows secretary kerry knows that doing nothing is never an option for him because we believe this is important to be engaged on. look, we have stood by israel throughout this administration helping them develop and fund the iron dome system that is actually shooting hamas rockets out of the sky today. we have stood by them as they've fought against hamas. the reality is, those rockets are coming into israel today. we need to work with our partners to see if we can get a cease-fire. >> but marie, how do you stop in the case of a cease-fire, how do you stop hamas from just recharging? >> it's a longer term problem. that's why i think you've seen the secretary committed to working not only to get a cease-fire now, to get a longer

tem cease fire and work towards a more comprehensive peace agreement in the region. that's why doing nothing is not an option. but what we need to see is immediate cessation of hostilities so we can have the civilians on both sides not in harm's way anymore. then we can figure out what the next step is and how to get there. >> marie, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks, brianna. >> marie harf. come 7th, forget a cease-fire. my next guest says give war a chance. the former israeli ambassador i was just talking about arguing that the battle in gaza should continue till israel hats crushed hamas. what about the innocent civilians caught in the cossfire? plus investigators in need of police protection more than a week after flight 17 was brought down. new details who might finally be taking charge of the crash site ahead. that's keeping you from the healthcare you deserve..

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with no significant cease fire agreement, the u.s., egypt, qatar and other countries will now return to negotiations to find a solution. but the former israeli ambassador to the u.s. says the world should not be trying to stop the violence in gaza. instead it should do nothing. michael or ren writes in the "washington post" that the ". israel must be permitted to crush hamas in the gaza strip and that while hamas will resist and more civilians will suffer, by ending the cycle once and for all, thousands of innocent lives will be saved. we're joined from tel aviv. michael or ren is with us, also a cnn mideast analyst. thanks for being with us. this is a question i asked of the deputy spokeswoman at the state department. the israelis have rejected this latest cease fire proposal. they have agreed, it appears, to this 12-hour pause as sort of a down payment we're told. that's what secretary kerry has said. what do you think of this brief

cease fire? do you agree with it? >> well, if it's for humanitarian purposes for people to get food to the civilian population -- that would be fine. but it would be not in israel's interests, it is not in america's interests. i don't think it's in the interests of the rationale world to let hamas off the hook this time. repeatedly we've been engaged in israel in combat with the hezbollah and lebanon. pre time it starts with the terrorists sending thousands of rockets at israeli staenz towns. israel responds. before they can win against the terrorists some body comes along and imposes a cease-fire that basically lets the terrorists win, it allows them to replenish their missile stocks, bring in bigger missiles and choose the next time when they can fire at israel. we've got to break that cycle once and for all and defeat

hamas which is no different than al qaeda and isis which hates the west and hates everything america stands for. >> make sense of this for us. we're hearing from a haaretz reporter that the minister of defense is telling israeli soldiers to be prepared for an expansion of the operation in gaza. it seems like that along with even this 12-hour cease fire or pause, it seems like these are contradictory. doesn't it? >> well, not really. if the 12-hour pause -- again, i can't confirm that, the pause is designed to let the civilian population gather food, some have to go to a bank and get money. to do that, that's fine. 12 hours will not let hamas regroup and rearm. that's what you don't want. and it won't -- israel has to finish this job to maintain the pressure on hamas so that hamas will receive a definitive defeat. that will be read by other terrorist groups around the middle east. it will be interpreted i think

correctly by iran. and they'll draw i think the right conclusions, not to take on israel again and not to take on the west i think is essential for not just israel's security but america's security. >> you say in your column, michael, it's noble what secretary kerry and ban ki-moon and others are doing. but you say they should do nothing. we just heard from the state department that's not an option. it was almost in a way sort of laughed off that that would be something that the u.s. would go along with. knowing that, what kind of conditions for a cease-fire do you think israel might be able to agree to? >> i think that if people really care about peace in the middle east and they really care about the palestinians because i had i both palestinian civilians and israeli civilians are victims of hamas, then they'll let the israeli forces do the job and they're prepared to do the job. brianna, i've come interest funerals this week and come from

sitting with the bereaved families of fallen soldier. we're paying a heavy price here but the israeli coat is willing and ready to pay that price. i was ambassador from the united states during a very sad period where americans were war weary after long conflicts in iraq and afghanistan. we've been in conflict without letup for 66 years. we don't have the luxury of being weary. we don't have the luxury of bringing our troops home because they are home. they're fighting on their own soil. a cease-fire, hamas gives up its weapons. hamas disarps. it is demillerrized. there can be aid for the people of the gaza strip. border crossings can be open. perhaps israel can ease up its blockade. moderate palestinians can be strengthened and even deployed at many 0 of the border crossings but hamas has to know it wasn't won. if has mass is crushed, then terrorists throughout the entire middle east will be crushed into

michael, can you understand the international community is watching these pictures that are horrible. children, palestinian children bleeding on television. these are moving images. there is no way that you cannot feel sympathy for these children who obviously you know are just innocent victims. essentially in if your column, it seems like you're asking for a smaller price of life to be paid now instead of a larger price later. but can you really imagine the international community going along with accepting that in the short term? >> those pictures are deeply painful to me, too. to everybody here. and nothing is worse than civilian suffering. hamas has brought on that suffering. hamas has dug deep beneath that civilian population. it's using that population as a human shield. today it wasn't widely reported in the american press but

hundreds of palestinian civilians have surrendered to israel forces saying that hamas has threatened them. if they try to leave combat areas israel warned them to leave, they'll be shot by hamas. we're dealing with an organization that us children 0 dig these terror tunnels. it is not a rational modern organization. it's murderous, genocidal, seeks to kill not only all israelis but all jews worldwide. if we do not crush it now, hamas also restore its arms. there will be bigger rockets, longer long range rockets. the next round will take an even higher price in civilian life by letting israel crush hamas now, we will save lives in long run. >> all right. really appreciate your perspective, former israeli ambassador to the u.s., michael or ren. coming up eight days in and still pieces of a plane, personal belongings, even bodies are lyingen on the ground in ukraine. why hasn't anybody other than

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welcome back to "the lead." i'm brianna keilar. isn't anyone going to finally step in and secure the site of the malaysia airlines crash? it's been more than a week since flight 17 was shot out of the sky with 298 people on board. plane crashed in a highly volatile area in eastern ukraine controlled by pro-russian rebels, the very ones that an may have fired the missile that blew it out of the sky. the rebels say they didn't do it. workers want more access to the crash scene to look for more remains but say they're getting blocked. the rebels have had free rein over the site since the crash. ukraine accused the rebels of tampering with the crash evidence and there's been no one there to stop them. what about all these countries trying to get involved? let's bring in cnn's justice correspondent pamela brown.

at least we may know, pam, who is leading the investigation here. >> right. that's right. beat know that the dutch are leading the investigation, brianna. the u.s. is assisting, as well. i just spoke with an official who tells me as of now, the fbi has sent more agents to ukraine in addition to the two agents who were entthere last week. from what we're learning, things are moving along with evidence collection and collaboration even though the dutch and other nations investigators still have not made it to the crash site. much of the wreckage of malaysia airlines flight 17 still sits where it fell, mostly unguarded and surrounded by pro-russian rebels with passengers from 12 countries on board, the investigation has drawn teams from around the world to piece together what brought the plane down. >> did the miss cause the fatal damage that brought it down? most people assume that, but accident investigators need to prove that. >> ukraine asked account netherlands to lead the crash investigation. the plane took off from

amsterdam and nearly 200 dutch were on board. >> countries are doing the best to be very accurate. >> their team still hasn't made it to the crash site and hoping to make it there with dutch police protection. meanwhile, the british are analyzing the black boxes said to be in good condition with no signs of tampering even though they were hand over by pro-russian rebels suspected of shooting down the flight. the australians who lost 37 citizens on the flight have also sent investigators to key effective. >> we are determined to find who was span for this act and who is responsible for creating the circumstances that gave rise to it. >> the u.s. national transportation safety board sent one person to london and another to ukraine but not to the crash site. both investigators are coming home, but the ntsb says support will continue. boeing which built the triple and rolls-royce which manufactured the engines are also part of the investigation. russia says it too is joining

the effort despite being accused by ukraine of having a hand in shooting down the plane they're going to get a seat at the table and watched closely by the world community. >> when the soviet union shot down korean airlines flight 00 in 1983, the ussr was part of the international investigation. investigators only tried to determine what brought a plane down. a parallel criminal investigation is also taking place. the fbi sent at least two agents to ukraine to assist with that. >> i have confidence that we'll know what happened to get the names of those who might be involved assuming that's what happened. a little bit harder. >> so here we are eight days after the plane crash and the prime suspects are still in control of the crime scene. as shocking as it may sound, the rebels are giving indications is running thin when it comes to letting investigators do their

job. >> it's unbelievable. ann brown, thank you so much. by now, 19 coffins carrying remains from the crash of flight 17 are either in the netherlands or on wear way there. for many of the victims in those coffins they're finally back in their homeland because so many board the plane were dutch citizens. as dr. sanjay gupta reports, it could still be a very long time before those remains are released to the families. >> after more than two days of lying in fields covered with debris with temperatures in the high 80s, the first shreds of dignity finally appeared monday. some 200 body bags to be placed in simple wooden caskets according to ukrainian officials. how many souls inside? no one can say for sure. 160 miles on rail through the plains of eastern ukraine before

flying another 1300 miles to the ether lands where the plane originally departed. they were greeted by the king and queen as casualties of war. ♪ >> 2g 9 casualties from a war they never fought. 40 simple wooden caskets on wednesday, 74 more on thursday. dutch officials now saying all of the remains will be brought here to halvorsen military base over the next fuse days. a team of 75 investigators represent corrupts, they represent the passengers board that plane. those investigators now with that awful tack of going through remains trying to identify them. they rely on basic things, clothing, jewelry, anything unique about the person but also dental records, medical records. and finally, the gold standard, which will bed na analysis. >> translator: there are a lot of the bodies and body parts

coming our way. all bits must be examined and it must be very precise. you must make sure you don't give the wrong body to the wrong family. >> eight years after the oklahoma city bombing, a woman was discover odd to have been buried with another victim's leg. just 60% of those who died in the world trade center on 9/11 were ever officially identified. nine years after katrina hit, the city of new orleans still has 318 unidentified remains. it is a science. but not i an perfect science. in the direct aftermath of the crash, emergency workers, volunteers, even rebels move freely about the site. >> we don't know where each set of remains actually were recovered from. and that will hamper some of the information that might otherwise be gleaned from the remains themselves. >> none of this is easy. for the families, or the investigators. we know some of the remains may be charred or fragmented.

that degrades the quality of the dna. also if entire families were traveling together, their dna pool may be gone forever. making matches nearly impossible. no, none of this is easy. but all of it necessary. the primary goal isn't investigative, legal, or even medical for that matter. it is to return the remains home to the people who love them. >> this is a tremendously important humanitarian effort. >> now, it is worth pointing out that because of some of that contamination we talked about in the fields, it could be harder to analyze that dna and make sure that it's a positive and consistent identification. also, this whole process could take weeks if not months. remember after that plane crash in tripoli in 2010, is took one month to identify the 104 bodies. >> sanjay, thank you so much for that report. coming up, flash points of conflict erupting all at once

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it helps stop denture movement and prevents gum irritation. fixodent. and forget it. welcome back to the lead. i'm brianna keilar. the politics lead. the white house is facing foreign policy chaos on multiple fronts from failed attempts at a cease-fire in gaza to the explosion of a passenger jet over the ukrainian war zone to the rise of isis in iraq to a crush of central american migrants at the u.s. border. there is a laundry list of human agony abroad for the administration to grapple with right now all with massive implications back home and none, easy answers. so what was president obama doing out in california yesterday fund-raising in the middle of all of thisle? i want to bring in peter a banger, white house correspondent for the "new york times." also the co-author of kremlin rising, vladimir putin's russia and the end of revolution. i want to talk about this great

story you wrote this week in the times. in it you talked how president obama is facing what you called geopolitical whiplash. explain that to us. >> you kind of summed it up nicely. everywhere he looks these days, the world seems to be kind of you know, flaming up in some fashion or another. imagine some mornings he wakes up and says you know what could possibly happen today that hasn't already happened. what's interesting is it seems disparate what's happening in ukraine is different than what's happening in iraq. but a lot of these seem to have interlocking features to them that make it even more complicated. for instance, he's trying to you know pressure vladimir putin in russia to stop intervening in ukraine at the same time he's working with russia to pressure iran to give up its nuclear program. they extended the deadline this last weekend. it's a vet you know, tough time i think for the president to try to keep -- to play whack a mole

with all these different crises at once. >> that was what i thought was so fascinating. certain players are not on the u.s. -- they may be on the u.s.'s side in one instance and not on another. i want to ask you, you heard me mention president obama out in california. he was in san francisco yesterday trying to raise funds. does that create at optics problem for the president? >> well, it does. for the simple reason that we've been discussing it a lot this week. and he would rather that not be the kind of thing that the media focuses on. it does create a question of whether he's paying full attention to these sorts of problems. of course, when you're president, you know, the presidency moves with you. you have all the communications apparatus, the aides and the ability to react to events on the road as you do at the white house. certainly he was making phone calls to world leaders while traveling. and the white house will argue it didn't make any difference that he was in fact paying a lot of attention to these problems as he traveled but it does you

know create an optics problem and one that the opposition is more than happy to jump on just as the democrats were when george w. bush was president and he did some of the same things during moments of crisis. >> sure. and he would argue obviously that if democrats don't hold onto the senate, things will be even tougher for him. hillary clinton. >> that's a crisis of another sort, right? >> exactly. and it was interesting to hear hillary clinton. she just sat down with cnn's fareed zakaria. when she was asked about the reset with russia during her time as secretary of state, here's what she she said. >> i was among the most skeptical of putin during the time that i was there in part because i thought he had never given up on his vision of bringing mother russia back to the forefront. i certainly made my views known in meetings as well as in memos to the president. >> this is fascinating, peter. she's positions herself as one voice and perhaps not the

prevailing one on the view of russia when she was in the administration. but how much distance can she really claim from what's going on right now? >> well, she won't be able to completely disown her service obviously in the obama administration. she did carry out the reset policy and she's going to have to explain and defend it which she's certainly capable of doing. but there is some truth to this. you know, even at the time we were told that she was more skeptical of the notion that they could forge a constructive relationship with russian than some other people were. she was the secretary of state charged with making it happen. she wants to be the one out on the campaign trail having to explain it. >> peter baker, thank you so much. appreciate you being with us. also, you can catch more of fareed's interview with hillary clinton on sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. coming up next, a plane disintegrated. every passenger gone. wreckage found from that other major plane crash this week. but why has france sent military

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>> welcome back to "the lead." i'm brianna keilar. here's after here's rolled through amsterdam streets yesterday as the dutch continue to look for someone to pin their grief on. vladimir putin is the obvious target. some of that animus is shifting to his daughter marieya. she didn't have a public upbringing and details about russia's modern day grand duchess remain few and far between woon. the private school, the wealthy dutch boyfriend paint and i complete picture. oh erin mclaughlin went to the town just 20 miles from where the dooms mh17 took off and where she lives to look for the woman who now finds herself the most hated woman in the netherlands. >> as the coffins roll through the streets of the netherlands, the dutch grief is turning to anger. and their latest target is vladimir putin's daughter marieya. people here say her partner is from the netherlands.

34-year-old yurit fassen. both are shrouded in secrecy. we don't know the how they met or if they're still together but they have been seen in holland walking hair dogs and shopping at the local supermark. now, many here hold russia responsible for mh-17. the mayor of halvorsen, a town which lost 13 of its citizens, told a local radio station thatmy raya putin should be kicked out of the country. he later tweeted an apology saying at the time, he was angry. here in this exclusive neighborhood near the hague, neighbors tell me yurit fossen owns a penthouse apartment in that building just over there. they say that he doesn't actually live there, but that from time to time, they do see him and marieya putin. ironic that the neighborhood is called krim strike, and krim is dutch for crimea.

we ring the doorbell. no one answers and the neighbors are camera shy. but they tell us they've seen the couple. journalist sylvan shown hoeven broke the story in 2013. of marieya's presence in holland. >> so this was big news. >> yeah, turned out to be pretty big news. and everybody wanted to talk to me and was like warning me like oh, what are you going to do? are you going to go in hiding or -- aren't au afraid of the fsb? >> there's plenty of fury in the netherlands for president putin but it wasn't always this way. after all, holland was one of the few european countries to send its highest dignitaries to the sochi winter olympics. here's the country's king having a beer with the russian president. do you think people here are angry at vladimir putin? >> that's for sure, but the question is are they also angry with his daughter.

she's his daughter doesn't make her guilty. >> marieya's close ties to a country reeling from the loss of mh17 simply a bizarre coincidence in a tragic story. erin mclaughlin, cnn, amsterdam. >> that's it for "the lead." i'm brianna keilar. jake tapper is back on monday. i turn you over now to wolf blitzer live from jerusalem in "the situation room." happening now a special report. breaking news, a pause in fighting. israel's prime minister has reportedly promised a 12-hour halt in the assault on gaza starting just hours from now but but israel's cabinet for now at rejected a long-term cease fire. day of range. deadly protests erupt in the west bank as outrange at the israeli operation is boiling over. our reporters were there for one of the largest palestinian demotr