tonight with the context, ron christie former adviser to george w bush and ayesha hazarika journalist and former labour adviser. welcome to the programme. it s the first day of the new us congress and it s already one full of drama. the new us congress and it s after the swearing in of the new members, the new house of representatives is stuck at the very first hurdle, choosing a new speaker of the house. we ve already had rounds of votes. the latest kevin mccarthy received. short of the 218 majority. this is the scene live in the house now another round of voting is under way. nothing can go ahead until a new speaker is elected, so this could go on for hours or perhaps even days until someone is chosen. we ll go live to our correspondent will grant on capitol hill for us in a moment. but first, let s rewind back to the days and weeks before the midterm elections. all the polls pointed to a resounding republican victory in the house, a red wave that would have meant today w
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what do we want? cease fire! away from the cenotaph, thousands of people joined a pro palestinian rally in the capital amid a huge police presence. these pictures show the scale of the demonstration, the largest to take place since the israel gaza war broke out last month. during the day, there were violent clashes between the police and counter protesters, including far right supporters. more than 100 were arrested. they came intent on confrontation, intent on violence and intent on causing trouble. we ve made a number of arrests, within the counter protest, including for possession of a knife, possession of a baton, possession of class a drugs and assault on an emergency worker. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, blamed suella braverman, saying the scenes were a direct result of the home secretary s words. she had faced criticism earlier this week for accusing the met police of bias. last night, the prime minister condemned what he described as violent, wholly unacceptable sc
hospital, al shifa, where conditions have become desperate while fighting continues outside. a spokesman said the infants would be moved to a safer hospital on sunday. and overnight, the world health organisation has warned that it has lost communication with the hospital in gaza city. a surgeon there previously told the bbc the hospital had run out of water, food and electricity and that the intensive care unit had been struck. meanwhile, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has reiterated that the war in gaza will continue until hamas is destroyed and all the hostages it s holding are free. the bbc s lucy williamson reports from southern israel, and a warning some of these images may be distressing. gaza s main hospital is now the eye of this military storm. staff here say they ve been under constant fire for the past 2a hours. the dead trapped here, along with the living. we would like to bury their bodies. we tried yesterday to make a big grave in shifa hospita