Israel. How dangerous is this moment . Good evening. Welcome to newsnight. Tonight, are we now on the cusp of a full blown regional war in the Middle East . Iran has launched a Missile Attack on israel this evening which is now over. Earliertoday, israeli troops invaded lebanon. Also, in whats being described as a terrorist attack, at least six people have been killed in Tel Aviv by two gunmen. Just before we came on air i spoke to Shadow Security Minster and conservative Leadership Candidate Tom tugendhat. Well, this is an incredibly dangerous moment. This is a moment when the vicious iranian regime is targeting notjust jews, muslims and christians in israel, but is putting ballistic missiles overjordan, over iraq, and threatening many, many people on the route. This is a moment when we need the british government to be absolutely firm and clear, standing with our allies in the region, injordan, in israel and standing alongside democracies. We need to be defending ourfriends and stand
Borders our international recognised borders. This is necessary. These violations have exceeded, there have been more than 35,000 violations since 2006. Mr president, has israel not had enough of the endless war since 1948? when will it be time for israel to give an opportunity for peace? will israel not embrace the path of peace? when will this happen instead of using the language of fire and steel, lebanon and arab countries have clearly without any ambiguity categorically embrace these through the arab peace initiative which was the fruit of the beirut arab summit in 2002. The option of a two state solution, for the demand of arab states for the implementation of united states resolutions which unfortunately have become remained dead. It is now incumbent upon israel, the government and the pete ball, if they want peace to embrace and choose peace, to want peace instead of war and to go beyond their obsession and security related anxiety, break the cycle of violence in the region,
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Europe say theyve been subjected to abuse by croatian authorities. And more fighting in armenia and azerbaijan disputed region theyre accusing each other of shelling residential areas. Has summoned the u. S. Ambassador after president dollars from suggested that egypt might blow up its grand running souls down the 4500000000. 00 project is aimed at putting millions of ethiopians out of poverty but its been a source of contention with egypt and sudan for years the home of vaal has more. I want to just congratulate all the words of pride off to brokering an agreement between sudan and israel to normalize ties but president Donald Trumps next to mark suggested a new conflict in the media east africa region its a very dangerous situation because you. It is not going to be able to live that way and theyll end up blowing up to them and i said they said loud and clear their block that them and they have to do something because they couldve stopped addition or started long before starting as i
Theyve been subjected to abuse by police in croatia. Everyone coronavirus pandemic news for you 1st in colombia is set to surpass a 1000000 infections becoming the 8th country in the world to do so other nations in latin america are also seeing a surge in infections among them brazil mexico peru youre requires closed its borders to prevent the spread of the virus as well in the United States theres been another record daily jump nearly 84000. 00 infections on friday and this is an art installation in washington all these little white flags highlighting the growing tall one flag for every american who has died in europe the polish president on there is the latest world leader to confirm they have contracted the virus and really across europe leaders are struggling to figure out how to bring down the soaring in. Affection numbers in germany more than 10000 have died while infections have jumped to a new high of 15000 a day. So our focus is europe and south america and weve got 2 reporter