Video Shows Israeli Sniper Shooting Palestinian
CHURCH: A very warm welcome back to CNN Newsroom, I'm Rosemary Church. I want to update you now on the main stories we had been following this hour. Russian lawmakers says Russia will respond immediately if its military is hit by a U.S. airstrike in Syria. He says a Russian air base and naval base along with Russian service personnel deployed in Syria are on the Russians firm protection. A source familiar with the matter says Donald Trump and his aides have discuss firing Special Counsel, Robert Mueller for months. Speculation is heating up once again after the FBI raided the home and office of the president's personal attorney Michael Cohen. A judge in Myanmar is refusing to dismiss the case against two Reuters journalist who were arrested while investigating the killings of 10 Rohingya men last year. The journalist were accused of having secret government papers. Meanwhile Myanmar has reportedly sentence seven of its soldiers to 10 years of hard labor for those killings. A disturbing video from Israel shows a sniper from the Israel defense forces shooting a Palestinian standing near the border fence with Gaza. The video that last more than a minute led the Monday evening news in Israel and was prominent in newspapers. Now it has reignited a debate about the Israeli army's principles and the actions of its soldiers. We do need to warn you, this video is graphic and disturbing. CNN's Ian Lee reports.</s>IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: An Israeli sniper zeros in on a Palestinian man near the Gaza border. He appears unarmed, when he stops, you take him down. The commander orders in the video. Gunshot cracks and a man falls. Son of a bitch, one soldier yells with a legendary film. I haven't seen this kind of thing for a long time. Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman praise the soldier, while criticizing Duvon (ph), who recorded it through his scope. AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN, ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER</s>LEE: The video and the soldier's celebration has provoked outrage.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They committed not only did above them, there is one more criminal, his name is Avigdor Lieberman. He is inciting those soldiers to kill.</s>LEE: Israel's military says the video was filmed in December and that it doesn't show the full picture of what happen. He says the shooting was justified, but will conduct a full inquiry adding the cheering does not suit the degree of restraint expected of IDF soldiers. This video comes on the heels of others from the recent violence on the Gaza Israel border. Here in Israeli, sniper shoots a protester in the back as he runs away from the border. And this woman waiving a flag near the border, rocks after getting shot. Both appear unarmed and their conditions are unknown. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have gathered near the border fence onto two successive Fridays, saying they want to cross over to lance lost Israel 70 years ago. Israel says the demonstrations are led by Hamas and present a security threat. In total, Israeli soldiers have killed 32 Palestinians since the protest started two weeks ago, there was really soldiers have been killed or injured. International and Israeli rights groups have accused Israel of using excessive force.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The army is shooting people outside of a normal rules of engagement. And that is why my organization called soldiers to refuse those orders which are criminal orders and manifested illegal.</s>LEE: Even before the latest round of protest began, Israel's military posted this video on social media. It shows what appears to be an unarmed Gazan near the fence, shot in the leg. It warn, Hamas is sending you to demonstrations and endangering your lives.</s>JONATHAN CONRICUS, IDF SPOKESMAN: We use very specific and a sharpshooter's or snipers at specific persons who are trying to sabotage the fence. We aim for lower part of the body, for the feet and to make sure that those people are not able to -- those rioters are not able to climb or sabotage our defense and pose a significant threat to our facilities.</s>LEE: With Palestinians bowing to cross, an Israel's military not backing down. A video like this shows peace is far away. Ian Lee, CNN, Jerusalem.</s>CHURCH: We will take a short break now, but it was hours of tough questioning on Capitol Hill, how Facebook CEO responded when pressed on social media regulation. Plus, we are learning about another company suspended from Facebook over possible misuse of data. We are back in just a moment.