Mcconnell harshly criticised biden as bending under the heat of domestic political pressure from his partys anti israel base. Republican senator Lindsay Graham has called the decision to halt arms absurd. This is all about President Biden and trying to take over the war from israel. Ive got one message for israel. Ive got one message for israel. Dont let them do it. Many democratic lawmakers have come out in support of biden s decision to halt certain munitions to israel. Heres what democratic senator and biden ally chris coons told the bbc. Of course, israel has the right but the obligation to go after hamas and Finish Thejob and the obligation to go after hamas and finish the job and restore a sense of security to the israeli people after the horrific attack of october seven. But since there are a million refugees in gaza who have moved to the north, to the centre and the south and are trapped up against the hard border with egypt and egypt is not allowing any of them in, before goi
Continue preparations for a possible Ground Assault into gaza. Also on the programme. Interrupted by a protester, but The Labour Leader sir keir starmer stays on course as he urges his party to seek a decade of National Renewal at the next election. And coming home, again euro 2028 will be jointly hosted by the uk and ireland. And coming up on bbc news england are back on track at the cricket world cup. Reece topley among the wickets, as the defending champions celebrate a comfortable victory over bangladesh. Good evening from jerusalem, where new details are just emerging as weve come on air of the ferocity of the attack by hamas gunmen on Southern Israel last saturday. The Israeli Defence forces have today been recovering the bodies of civilians, including babies, from a rural community, just a mile from the border with gaza. Whole families are reported to have been killed. Israeli soldiers on the ground have described what theyve seen as a massacre. Tonight well hear from our corres
From a music as a journalist. More details emerge from a Music Festival as a journalist. More details emerge from a Music Festival attacked as a journalist. More details emerge from a Music Festival attacked by. From a Music Festival attacked by hamas, where 260 people died. Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks, fired on a group of civilians. This is the scene fired on a group of civilians. This is the scene in fired on a group of civilians. This is the scene in gaza. Fired on a group of civilians. This is the scene in gaza. We will bring you the latest from the both sides of the border. Hello and welcome to bbc news. The war between israel and gaza based hamas is intensifying, as it enters its fourth day. It seems both sides are preparing for a long and deadly struggle. This footage was released by israels military, showing their attacks on the gaza strip, where they claim to have hit 200 targets. Israel has cut off water, food and supplies from gaz
The United States and ukraines other allies are, quote, Directly At War with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv s peace plan as, not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and its long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments, written ones and legally binding ones, and then they just dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this first hand. My colleague Samantha Simmons spoke earlier to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said there was a lot missing from mr lavrov s address. You cannot mention the ukrain
hello, i m tadhg enright. welcome to abc news. a temporary truce between israel and hamas in gaza, that s lasted seven days, is due to expire about now. the truce was set to expire at 07:00 local time that is five o clock here in london and it is unclear if it will be extended again. also in the latest developments, israel says a rocket fired from gaza has been intercepted, about an hour before a truce with hamas was due to expire. there was no immediate comment from hamas or claim of responsibility for the launch. on thursday, the seventh day of the ceasefire, the israeli prime minister s office said six more israeli hostages held in gaza were now back in israel. two others were released by hamas earlier the same day. also on thursday, israel said it released thirty more palestinians from israeli jails. the us secretary of state antony blinken who s on a visit to the region and had been working to extend the truce warned that israel must take effective steps to ensur