hey, everybody. good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for my friend chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now defense secretary lloyd austin doubling down on u.s. support for israel, insisting the united states will not dictate a timeline or terms for how it goes after hamas. this message, despite the growing fears at the white house and austin s own concerns that israel s bombing campaign will ultimately backfire, creating more terrorists than it kills. what happens now? what are the chances senate negotiators can break a decades-old impasse on immigration in just a couple weeks? the unbelievable amount of political pressure on lawmakers as they try to navigate what one senator calls, quote, the most complicated area of the law in the entire country. some horrific holiday weather making things miserable for millions of americans right now. the storm that soaked the carolinas now slamming new york, boston, even bangor, maine. torrential rai
hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. we start with the latest on the israel gaza war. britain and germany are calling for an urgent sustainable ceasefire in gaza. both countries say too many civilians have been killed in israel s war against hamas and the sooner a truce comes, the better. france, meanwhile, has called for an immediate and durable ceasefire. it s being seen as a signifcant change in tone. the military campaign continues in gaza. these pictures were filmed in the north of the territory, where local reports say at least one person died in an air strike on a building. israel s prime minister benhamin netanyahu says his intention is to ensure that hamas can no longer function, and he s also working on bringing home the hostages held in gaza. and these pictures, filmed on sunday morning from israel, looking into gaza, show large plumes of smoke burning, with many damaged buildings in sight. israel s military says two more of its soldiers have been killed in fighting. let
with g7 leaders in an effort to drum up support and weapons for an expected counter offensive against russia. mr zelensky will address the leaders of the major western democracies during meetings on sunday. while the war in ukraine continues to dominate those summit talks the war itself is raging on. bakhmut has been the focus of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war but the leader of russia s private wagner group has said the city has now been taken. russia has been trying to take bakhmut since last year in a grinding war of attrition. and in the last few minutes, the russian news agency interfax says president putin has congratulated troops for capturing the city. earlier, ukraine says its units are still fighting in the city. this comes on the heels of the us agreement to allow ukrainian pilots to train in american made f 16 jets to help with its fight against russia a move moscow and china have criticised. here now, our political editor chris mason, who s in h
he answered the questions you all asked and i think that s an opportunity for the american people to hear directly from him. a week ago today he sat down and had a one-on-1, 1-on-one interview with one of your one of your colleagues here, not here, but clearly in one of the networks here, and talked was asked about title 42. so the american people have heard from the president when we when we, again, when we were in new york and again right when, after the meeting you heard directly from the president after the meeting he had with the big four, if you will. and he gave remarks and then took questions. so the american people have heard directly from him, especially when he laid out how that conversation went with the big four. you described the discussions this week between white house officials and congressional staff as productive. what from those talks do you believe is pointing to the signs of progress? i m not going to get into details of private conversations.
On a new defence agreement. The aukus pact aims to counter chinas perceived threat in the indo pacific. Its expected to agree the supply of Nuclear Powered submarines to australia. Youre watching bbc news. Now its time for fault line the un and the quake in syria. Screaming the earthquake strikes. Un aid arrives in turkey immediately, but takes several days to reach North West Syria. Bbc news arabic investigates. Un teams are supposed to deploy within 48 hours of a request. In North West Syria, that didnt happen. What matters in terms of responding to an earthquake is time and what the sort of, the immediacy of the response. And the un just stood there, like, completely paralysed. In this film, we ask, what took the United Nations so long . To deliver humanitarian aid across an international border, we need either the consent of the government or in the case that we have in syria, a Binding Security Council resolution. On monday, the 6th Of February 00. 47am, an earthquake of magnitude