Its affecting some flights at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and business, schools, and other forms of transport have also been hit. The stoppage is a day after the Israeli Army said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages who were taken during the attacks of 7th october. Alastair burt is a former conservative mp who served as Minister Of State for the middle east. He gave me his reaction to developments. The scale of protests is certainly unprecedented. There has been thousands of people demonstrating regularly against prime Minister Netanyahu firstly for internal political reasons, then post October The 7th lately in terms of his handling of the crisis, but the scale of the protest and the sense that the prime Ministers Strategy after October The 7th of seeking total victory of the elimination of hamas and the recovery of the hostages has proved to be a failure because it was impossible. He was advised that you couldnt do both and that advice has been borne out by experience and
Books. That is all for me on this wednesday night. Alex wagner starts right now. Reporting from the front lines. Everyone even if you dont have a child in school should be reading about whats happening down there. Do you remember the times conspiracy of 2020 . No . I want to make bigger windows into smaller window. As far as theyre concerned if you hadar no window it would be lovely thing. This is the craziest plan anybody has ever seen. Make your t to windows smaller. That was donald trump during the second president ial debate in 2020 attacking joe bidens Climate Change agenda. Now, biden never proposed making americas windows smaller. That was one of those fever dreams from the mind of donald trump. 3 1 2 years into the biden administration, surprise, everybodys windows are exactly the same size. Heres what biden actually said about his climate plan in that same debate. Were going to invest in, for example, 500,000 excuse me 50,000 Charging Stations on our highways so we can own the
Have been hit the hardest. This is the first earthquake of such magnitude to hit the area in more than 100 years. Lets go right to nbc news Foreign Correspondent matt bradley. What do we know about the efforts that are underway . Yes so far we are seeing local authorities and the military trying to bring people out of the wreckage. As you, said the death toll is now at 8000. It was only a couple hours ago the death toll is at 800. A couple hours before it was at 600. As you know from the earthquake that happened in turkey back in february, they have a way of climbing very high after Rescue Workers are able to get in and extracting dead bodies. Thats when we start to see these numbers going up and up. As you mentioned this is a 6. 8 magnitude earthquake according to the geological survey. That is the strongest earthquake to strike this country and 123 years. As you mentioned, this was in the high atlas mountains. About 50 miles away from the historic city america. There was some damage
gaza. the us has worked with mediators to negotiate an end to the war in which 36,000 gazans have now been killed according to the hamas run health ministry. it began after an attack on israel by hamas and other armed groups on october the 7th which killed 1200 people. for more on the details, our middle east correspondent sent this for report. correspondent sent this for re ort. , . ., report. president biden called it a comprehensive report. president biden called it a comprehensive proposal l report. president biden called l it a comprehensive proposal put forward by israel and presented to hamas. the key points are familiar, because they were included in earlier efforts to reach a deal in gaza. it includes a first phase which would include a six week temporary ceasefire in gaza which would see the release of some of the hostages being held in gaza, in exchange for palestinians held in israeli jails. this would pave the way for a second phase, and this is the key point
gaza. the us has worked with mediators to negotiate an end to the war in which 36,000 gazans have now been killed according to the hamas run health ministry. it began after an attack on israel by hamas and other armed groups on october the 7th which killed 1200 people. for more on the details, our middle east correspondent sent this for report. correspondent sent this for re ort. , . ., report. president biden called it a comprehensive report. president biden called it a comprehensive proposal l report. president biden called l it a comprehensive proposal put forward by israel and presented to hamas. the key points are familiar, because they were included in earlier efforts to reach a deal in gaza. it includes a first phase which would include a six week temporary ceasefire in gaza which would see the release of some of the hostages being held in gaza, in exchange for palestinians held in israeli jails.