Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
That i think so many of us dont understand, but people are living through this right now. You end of, we both have children. We think about the a motions that are foreign, and the hope that you have when you have a newborn to raise your child together with a person that you love. But to have that news come in that way, after what has happened, it is unimaginable. And that they were able to share that really just, it underscores that real cruel reality of what were in right now, abby. Yeah, absolutely. That brutality, but theres also so much hope. And i just want to end on that note before you get started. There is a lot of hope still out there. So well and with that. Abby, thank you so much. And speaking of what could be tomorrow, it is actually already tomorrow. In israel. But the summit is actually not bringing more answers on the fifth day of a brutal war. And i dont know about you, but every time i see the death toll rise, my mind, it immediately goes to the hostages. I wonder, whe
after the country s highest court ruled that the government s policy was unlawful. the court found there was a real risk that asylum seekers who were sent to rwanda could be wrongly assessed, and returned to their country of origin, where they could face persecution. rishi sunak says new emergency legislation will enable parliament to confirm rwanda is safe and that he remained committed to stopping thousands of migrants crossing the channel in small boats every year. here s our political editor chris mason: the geography of power parliament in the background this morning. the supreme court in focus. refugees cannot be returned to their countries of origin if their life and freedom would be threatened. it s known as the principal of non refoulment, and at precisely ten o clock this morning it proved crucial. the legal test which has to be applied in this case is whether there are substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers sent to rwanda would be at real risk of
accusations of war crimes have been made against both sides. so what laws do apply here? our analysis editor ros atkins explains. it s clearly a humanitarian catastrophe and obviously, there can be. the parties must always not deliberately attacked civilians. they must ensure that civilian casualties are not excessive. you can t launch indiscriminate attacks which while targeting a military objective might be equally liable because of the nature of the weapon you use. also, killing civilians in the is a treaty under national law. which means when launching a military attack on a military objective, an attacking force must not launch an attack because this would cause excessive civilian casualties. what that basically means is that you have to weigh up the military importance of the target against how many civilians you think might be likely to be injured or killed and if that strike were to go ahead you then need to make a decision whether there is justification for the strik
Barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostages captors to what was going on. During the firefight that then followed, u. S. Forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. It is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u. S. Forces were transporting them away. U. S. Intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. He has since been identified as South African teacher pierre korkie. A char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. To discuss this and many of the other top stories for the week, joined by our panel, bring in democratic strategist basil smythe, jr. , political consultant and former adviser to mitt romney, cater packer gauge and msnbc correspondent, casey packer hunt. Obviously on this hostage story, we are learning the details, obviousiously a heartbreaking story, another report i know in the New York Times this mo