Welcome to all of you watching here in the United States, canada and all Around The World. Im kim brunhuber. I want to get to our Breaking News this hour. Israel is retaliating swiftly and with force against hamas at this hour targeting sites in gaza and engaging the militants on multiple fronts as the Prime Minister said a short time ago, we are at war. Now this after an hours long barrageover rockets took the country by surprise and set off sirens as far as away as jerusalem. Its worth noting this is the 50th Anniversary of the war in 1973. Most alarming for israelis are confirmed reports of militants infiltrating the territory. The scale, the coordination of these attacks, what were seeing now, just extraordinary. Whats the latest there . Reporter the latest is the Prime Minister declaring this is a state of war. Hes saying in an address to the people of israel and just in the last half hour, citizens of israel, we are at war. Not an operation, not in rounds, at war. The Military Ch
Lets go back to that defection from the Conservative Party to the labour party by a conservative mp. Dr dan poulter, who works part time in the nhs, has been welcomed by his new leader, sir keir starmer, who said the former minister would help his party get the Health Service back on its feet. Well, mr poulter has been speaking about why hes done this on the Laura Kuennsberg programme. Lets listen to the interview. Well, id been thinking about it for a little while and it was alongside my work as an mp. I work still work as an nhs doctor and have done. The Health Service that i saw under huge strain is very different to the Health Service of maybe a decade ago, and the struggles and the challenges that patients have been experiencing in accessing timely good care were something that really resonated with me and stayed with me, and ifound it increasingly difficult to look my nhs colleagues in the eye, my patients in the eye, and my constituents in the eye with good conscience. And i fee
Lets get more on our top story, the palestinian president says only the us can prevent an Israeli Attack on rafah, where more than a million have fled. Efforts are under way to negotiate a truce between israel and hamas. The us Secretary Of State is heading to riyadh, where he will meet arab leaders to discuss the situation. Lets speak to Gina Abercrombie winstanley, president of The Middle East Policy Council and former us ambassador. Thank you very much for coming on the programme. Antony blinken on his way. What you think he is hoping to achieve . Hes got a tough road ahead, he has got to convince the players he is meeting in riyadh are several things. Players he is meeting in riyadh are severalthings. Number players he is meeting in riyadh are several things. Number one, players he is meeting in riyadh are severalthings. Number one, he has got to convince the saudis there is a deal ahead, that the us Security Guarantees are going to make it worthwhile for them to continue forward.
thank you very much for your time. thank you for having me. of course. cnn this morning continues right now. it s okay. it s a fraud. it s election interference. it s keeping me here instead of iowa and new hampshire. i should be in iowa and new hampshire, south carolina. i should be sitting in a i shouldn t be sitting in a courthouse. and i don t have to sit here. i could just do whatever i want to do, but i want to make sure that you get the true story. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us on this friday, the 2024 campaign trail is running straight through the courthouse, or courthouses. former president trump set to take the stand in his new york civil fraud trial monday. he chose to be in the courtroom yesterday rather than the campaign trail and in the federal election subversion case against him trump s legal team is working to delay the trial set to begin in march in the heat of the presidential election season. legal problems for the curren
live. we start in the uk, where borisjohnson has apologised for the pain, loss and suffering during the covid pandemic, saying he takes personal responsibility for mistakes that were made. mrjohnson, who was prime minister throughout that period, has been giving evidence to the covid inquiry. during questioning, he said government ministers did the best they could in very difficult circumstances, but admitted they could have done better. so many people suffered, so many people lost their lives. inevitably, in the course of trying to handle a very, very difficult pandemic in which we had to balance appalling harms on either side of the decision, we may have made mistakes. i don t want to try to anticipate the discussion which i m sure we will get into about the timings of lockdowns. .. will get into about the timings of lockdowns. inevitably, we got some things wrong. i think we were doing our best at the time, given what we knew, given the information i had available to me