now her people are here for her. i m in westminster where people have less than one full day left to pay their respects to the queen. i ll be speaking to the tens of thousands of people who already have. in other news, millions of people in south western japan have been forced to leave their homes as a region braces itself for the biggest typhoon in decades. ukraine says more than 59 bodies have now been recovered from a mass burial site in the recently liberated city. welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around welcome, if you are watching in the uk oraround the welcome, if you are watching in the uk or around the world. king charles iii will host a reception for hundreds of world leaders at buckingham palace later today ahead of queen elizabeth s funeral on monday. tens of thousands are still queueing to file past the late queen s coffin on the final full day of lying in state. officials are deciding whether to temporarily suspend queueing and they have asked members o
tonight. there s new cnn polling of likely voting in two key senate races in wisconsin and pennsylvania. wisconsin showing no clear leader in the showdown between incumbent republican ron johnson and democrat mandela barnes. pennsylvania with document lieutenant governor fetterman narrowly ahead of mehmet oz. we learned late today that former president obama will be campaigning there along with president biden on the final weekend before election day. a party official familiar with the planning telling cnn they ve got appearances scheduled for pittsburgh and philadelphia with the possibility of adding more. early voting is under way there and in 38 other states. so far turnout has been heavy on pace with the record 2018 midterms with nearly 7.3 million ballots already cast. with it, we ve already seen multiple reports of voter intimidation, including two armed men dressed in tactical gear sported at a ballot drop box in mesa, arizona, friday night. attorney general merrick ga
And streets completely torn apart. The desperate population pushed to the brink as basic services fail. And later, the search for the missing, President Biden set to speak today to the families of americans taken hostage by hamas as he denounces the terror attack. This is not even human behavior, it is pure barbarism. And were going to do everything in our power to get them home if we can find them. On what is happening on the ground, joining us now, ellison barber, along the israelgaza border. What are you seeing . Reporter hey, lester, hey, jose, you can probably hear a little bit where we are. There are helicopters that have been circling overhead, gaza just back in the direction behind us. You see we have seen throughout the last hour or so, a number of smoke plumes popping up and you can hear the Bombardment Taking place inside gaza. It is like a lull of thunder, but just one after another after another. We have been here for the last couple of hours and have just watched some of
Operations in the gaza strip, saying israel is prepared to stand alone and fight with its fingernails if necessary. Mr netanyahus comments come after President Joe Biden confirmed the us had paused a delivery of bombs which could be used in an assault on rafah. But the idf claims they had enough weaponry to finish the rafah mission. There have been mixed reactions to mr biden s decision from lawmakers in the us. Earlier i spoke to our state Department Correspondent tom bateman. You have spoken to members of congress all day, what sort of support or criticism is there for the decision to hold the shipment of the bombs to israel . One of the first things that struck me coming into the building today was the sense in which this is a very significant moment, the levels of energy and the response to this, the way people are feeling about this on both sides is extremely strong. That is because this is the first time in a generation we have had this level of public pressure applied by the whi
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