just hours from now a high-stakes hoe doun in a florida courtroom. i m john berman with brianna keilar and this is a new chapter in the battle over sensitive documents recovered from mar-a-lago. the immediate issue whether a special master will be appointed to oversee the documents that were seized from donald trump s beach house by the fbi. donald trump wants a special master. the government insists there is no need for one. a judge will hear arguments at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. in the blockbuster filing from the department of justice tuesday night the doj argued that the appointment of a special master would impede the government s ongoing criminal investigation and if the special master were tasked with reviewing classified documents, would impede the intelligence community from conducting its ongoing review of the national security risk that improper storage of these highly sensitive materials may have caused. trump s lawyers made several arguments in a court filing las
Its calling on the uns top court to reject south africas appeal. Meanwhile, south africas lawyers accused israel of behaving with legal impunity something israel denies. Israel is escalating its attacks on palestinians in gaza and in so doing he is wilfully breaching the binding orders of this court. Israel similarly breaches the binding resolutions of the United Nations security council. We had posts nations security council. We had posts that israels army is the most had posts that israels army is the most moral army in history and we the most moral army in history and we have heard denials that there and we have heard denials that there is and we have heard denials that there is famine in gaza. Four months. There is famine in gaza. Four months, people, particularly in the west. Months, people, particularly in the west, have appeared unwilling to accept that the accusations are true. Our correspondent, anna holligan, sent us this update from the hague. South africa s lawyers were un
Welcome to bbc new, three hours a fast moving news, interviews, and reaction. We start in gaza, where the first shipment of humanitarian aid to be sent into the territory via a floating pier has been brought ashore in the last few hours. The uk, which has helped the us to build and operate the pier, says this shipment is expected to provide enough provisions to feed 11,000 people for a month. The structure opens up a new route to get food, shelter and other supplies to around 2. 2 million palestinians inside gaza, but thereve been warnings that the pier is only temporary, and appeals for israel to do more to secure routes to get aid into gaza via land. Israels bombardment of gaza has continued, this the scene at Nuseirat Camp In Central Gaza after a strike earlier today. Meanwhile at the uns top court the International Court ofjustice in the hague lawyers acting for israel have been responding to south africas call for an end to Israeli Military action in rafah and across gaza. Well be
To capture the city of kharkiv, in the north east of the country. But, in kharkiv region, police are going door to door in the town of vovchansk to evacuate the remaining residents, as Russian Shelling intensifies. These images are from vovchansk. Russia launched a Surprise Offensive there last week, with one analysis suggesting Russian Forces have advanced by about 10 kilometres, creating a new front in the war on ukraine. A sixteen and a half hour Air Raid Alert has now been lifted in kharkiv itself. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse is in kyiv with the latest. This war has now firmly moved from Trench Warfare in this North Eastern part of the front line. I dont think the words of Vladimir Putin, where he said at a Press Conference in china, that there were no plans, for now, to try and capture the city of kharkiv. I dont think that will bring a collective sigh of relief for the thousands of people still living in the city. I think there are two things at play. Firstly, i do
And prince harry and meghan are in nigeria as part of the dukes promotion of the invictus games. You are watching bbc news. More on those solar storms with an expert explaining how that happens, the link between the sun and those storms, in the next 15 minutes or so. Lets talk about ukraine for now. More now on Russian Forces launching a surprise new Ground Offensive in ukraine crossing the border into the northeastern Kharkiv Region. For months fighting has been focussed in the east where russia occupies large areas. Fridays attack may be an attempt to open a new front and intensify pressure on kharkiv, which is the countrys second largest city. Small groups of Russian Troops with armoured vehicles pushed through the front line military sources say they advanced a kilometre, before being pushed back amid reports of sustained russian shelling. Earlier i spoke to maria avdeeva, a security analyst from ukraine. I asked her to explain, what is happening in kharkiv city and in the region t