backing up those that we have seen going in over the last 72 hours or so. and what the israeli forces appear to be doing is trying to surround gaza city. they ve gone down the western edge of gaza city. that would be along the coast. they re moving in from the north. we ve also seen reports that they are coming in from the south and east. so it would seem to indicate to us that they intend to surround gaza city and if you like, trap the hamas fighters who are still there both above ground and in those tunnels that we have talked about so much in the meantime, the idf also very happy yesterday to have freed one of their own, an idf soldier who was taken hostage. she has now been reunited with her family, that another small victory bringing the number of hostages still held by hamas down to, we believe, 238 at this point. prime minister netanyahu spoke to the nation once again today and he said he will not support at this point any talk of a cease fire. he says it would be lik
biden s chances for re-election are nose diving and his campaign is getting very nervous. cnn describes the uneasiness can that many democrats feel about a president whose age is twice his approval rating. and this from axios describing how private polls show the same hurdle as public ones, brutally low popularity on the pop partopicsthat matter most to vo. biden getting crushed on handling of crime and inflation. not death by one issue but half a dozen at once. it gets worse, is he even imagining to alienating his strongest voting block, his unwavering support for israel, which has been america s policy for many decades eastern during their bloody counteroffensive turning off a big chunk of both younger voters and also at odds with many african-american voters a recent quinnipiac poll found that 51% of voters under 35 say they disprove of the united states sending weapons and military support to israel. that s a much higher figure than the 28% of americans who oppose such
Penalties for corruption. And the town of tadcaster in North Yorkshire will be reunified today when its only road bridge reopens, more than a year after it was destroyed by severe flooding. Good morning. Its friday 3rd february. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. First to paris where there has been an attack at the Louvre Museum in the heart of the city. Its been described the french Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve as being of a terrorist nature. Police say a man carrying two machetes and two backpacks shouted allahu akbar and tried to enter the underground Shopping Area outside the museum. A soldier opened fire and the man was seriously wounded. The backpacks did not contain any explosives. A huge Security Operation is underway, and the louvre has been evacuated. Its the latest Security Alert in a city which has become well used to them. The Louvre Museum houses some of frances most famous works of art, and is one of pariss most iconic landmarks a place which is a must
The tone was sadness on all sides. By friday it had become steely. Should we be preparing for a long and bloody war between the two sides before the deal is reached . and bloody war between the two sides before the deal is reached . I think we should be preparing for a professional and hard edged negotiation which at the end of it will result in a Strong Partnership between both sides. It is absolutely the case that while donald tusk expressed his sadness that britain was leaving, he is also clear that he wants at the end of this process, all european negotiations want at the end of this process, a Free Trade Deal between britain and europe and the preservation of Security Cooperation and other links which are in all our interests. I suspect that when historians come to look back on britains membership of the European Union, they will see those a0 odd years as an anomaly in britains history, and they will conclude that people like Hugh Gaitskell and shall Charles De Gaulle were right,