Would create space for more humanitarian assistance to relieve the suffering of many people and to build something more enduring and we have been working with egypt, with israel to put a strong proposal on the table and hamas responded to that and negotiators continue to work in the gaps are narrowing and we are continuing to push for an agreement in doha. There is still difficult work to get there but i continue to believe it is possible. Heres the take of our correspondent in jerusalem mark lowen diplomacy very much in motioned talking about how they believe an agreement is possible to end this war and even if it will be difficult in his words and talk about progress in his words and talk about progress in talking with regional actors about and what could run gaza and reconstructing gaza after the guns fall silent and sending a delegation back to delhi on friday led by the head of the Israeli Intelligence agency will be holding talks the cia and mediators from qatar in egypt suggesti
The u. S. Media is covering israels assault on gaza. We will be joined by the acclaimed broadcaster mehdi hassan who left msnbc earlier this year after his shows were canceled. Then to tiktok. The u. S. House has passed a bill that could lead to the banning a bill that could lead to the banning of the social media app tiktok. It was potentially ban tiktok is a huge mistake because it does not do with the real issue which is social Media Companies of all types are actually targeting as for our data, exploiting our attention, threatening our democracy. Instead of that, this act is just targeting foreign actors and playing a nationalism and xenophobia. Amy we will speak to ucla professor Ramesh Srinivasan. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In gaza, at least five people were killed on wednesday when israel bombed an unrwa Aid Distribution Center in rafah, one of the u. N. Agencys last remaining aid sites in
Defence editor was on this flight and she talks about how the gps Satellite Signal was interfered with four 30 minutes, Satellite Signal was interfered with four30 minutes, mobile Satellite Signal was interfered with four 30 minutes, Mobile Phones could not connect to the internet. In this raf plane had to use alternative methods to determine its position. The key thing from the government, there was no threat to the safety of there was no threat to the safety of the plane and Downing Street say this sort of stuff does happen when you fly by kaliningrad. The difference is there were journalists on the plane so you can imagine this stuff happens all the time because what the russians want to do as they want to show, look what we can do, what we have done today as we have said, we can see what you do, but the uk is clearly playing it down. Thank you very much and lets look at the front pages, the guardian, the tories are urged to give back further £5 million. And at the bottom, children
With the Chinese Government. Tiktok has told lawmakers that it has taken steps to ensure the data of american users isnt compromised by employees in china. Nevertheless, the legislation should head to the senate next. Its fate there is uncertain. Following the house vote, tiktok urged its 150 million users in the us to lobby against the bill by calling on them to contact their members of congress. Tiktok influencers also protested against the bill outside the white house. Heres what they told our correspodnent. I am aware that im giving my data, right. Im aware. Im ok with it. Let me make that decision, you dont need to make that for me. You know, thats where i stand. To be quite honest, everything on the internet is a Security Risk and so, this may be have a Parent Company that is foreign, but we have just as many Security Risks with Domestic Companies as well, and so i would love to see our lawmakers spend this much time and energy to pass more Data Protection overall, for all americ
It would be catastrophic all around. Amy israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vowing to move ahead with plans to attack rafah where over 1. 4 million palestinians are seeking refuge. We will go to rafah to speak with Mohammed Abu Lebda, a poet and translator who used to translate poets like Edgar Allan Poe but now translates for the International Medical corps. Then we remember u. S. Peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed 21 years ago when she was crushed to death by an Israeli Military bulldozer in rafah as she tried to prevent the demolition of the home of a palestinian pharmacist. The bulldozer proceeded toward rachel. She took a position indicating she was not going to move. She was in an orange jacket. When they kept coming, she rose on the mound and the out mrs. Testified her head rose above the top of the blade of the bulldozer so she could clearly be seen by the bulldozer continued and proceeded over her. Amy we will speak with Rachel Corries parents who devoted t