i m martha maccallum. we have two big breaking story at 3:00 p.m. eastern time this afternoon. israeli forces pressing in to the heart of gaza city now. this is the moment that many have been knowing would come in all of this. it is now underway. we assume that hamas terrorists are digging in in many of the tunnels that we have seen uncovered by the idf. this is really being called an unprecedented city-street-to-street battle. civilians, many of whom have been trapped by hamas essentially, can t get out in a lot of these situations. there s hostages, more than 200 of them some where in this space, including americans that we understand are held somewhere in the city. this is an extraordinarily tense situation with a lot of lives at stake. so our coverage will continue as we get new images from the fight in throughout the course of this hour. also, iran continues to attack us at our bases in the region. our u.s. service members. what is our response? john kirby will join us f
Well hear from the people behind that decision at 9. 15. Really keen to hear from you this morning. Also on the programme. It isnt the care that people deserve. How two relatives have described their experience of the nhs. Roses son was treated on this makeshift bed. And grahams dad who has alzheimers was left for 36 hours waiting for a bed. The nurses were fantastic, brilliant. But i would say the main adjective i would use is worrying. You cant be treated with dignity and privacy in a corridor. Thats the absolute reality. To suggest this is temporary is not true. Well bring you their full story before 10. And, when one of the chief architects of brexit met president Elect Donald Trump. I thought the uk was so smart in getting out and you were there and you guys wrote it on the front page. Yes. Trump said that brexit was going to happen. Yes. Right. And it happened. Yes. That was when it was going to lose easily, everybody thought i was crazy, 0bama said wed go to the back of the line
a moment on world business today. in south korea, landslides and flooding sparked by heavy rain has killed at least 44 people. rescue workers are searching for survivors in and around the capital. hundreds of people have lost their homes and thousands don t have power. we re getting the first videos of the moment of the bomb blast in oslo during friday s terror attacks. the norwegian prime minister s announced an independent commission to examine the killings there and on utoya island. as of now, the death toll stands at 76. those are the headlines from cnn, the world news leader. i m zain vergee. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. just five days to go and no movement on the u.s. debt deal. investors are getting anxious. that s the mood on the markets but how is it looking from the corner office in the some ceos shed light on that issue. another day passes and stil