tonight on the reidout we have tens of thousands of pages of documents where we need to sit down and ask specific questions without filibustering, without interruption, without going five minutes back and forth with jamie raskins and dan goldman and little moscow wits jumping up and down. hunter biden agrees to testify before the house oversight committee on the utter lack of evidence that his father did anything wrong. but chairman james comer refuses to take yes for an answer. also tonight, more hostages are freed by hamas, including an american. as negotiators work to extend the pause in fighting. with just hours to go before the extended cease fire is set to end. plus, rejecting the binary us versus them narrative in the israel-hamas war, i ll speak to a prominent rabbi and a labor leader who happened to be married about the importance of a peaceful shared future for israelis and palestinians. but we begin tonight with two very stark warnings about the figh
hello, i m vishala sri pathma. we start with the latest diplomatic efforts from the israel gaza conflict. the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has met the palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas, in the occupied west bank city of ramallah for talks on the gaza conflict. mr abbas told mr blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire and an allowing of humanitarian aid to the gaza strip in gaza, hamas say at least 45 people have been killed in an israeli air strike on a refugee camp. the israeli military says it s investigating. the air strikes began after gunmen from hamas the group designated as a terrorist organisation by the uk government killed at least moo israelis and kidnapped more than 200 others on october 7th. the hamas run health ministry says, since then, more than 9,700 palestinians have been killed. in the past hour there have been reports that communication and internet services have been cut off. further north three children and their grandmothe
welcome to bbc news. i am in jerusalem. 0urtop welcome to bbc news. i am in jerusalem. our top story this hour is the intense diplomatic shuffling of the top us diplomat. the us secretary of state, antony blinken has met the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas in the occupied west bank city of ramallah for talks on the gaza conflict. mr abbas told mr blinken there must be an immediate ceasefire and an allowing of humanitarian aid to the gaza strip. according to us spokesperson matthew miller, the secretary reaffirmed the united states commitment to the delivery of life saving humanitarian assistance and resumption of essential services in gaza and made clear that palestinians must not be forcibly displaced. secretary blinken and president abbas discussed efforts to restore calm and stability in the west bank, including the need to stop extremist violence against palestinians and hold those accountable responsible. secretary blinken reiterated that the united states
abortion pill. and tonight, the retired l.a. sheriff s deputy missing in greece amid soaring temperatures. the all-out search, and news coming in, a second american is now missing, too. first tonight, new storms now pummeling florida. authorities warning of life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flooding. dangerous driving, high water rescues. residents who say they have never seen this before. and now, the extreme heat moving into the east, right up the coast. washington, philadelphia, new york city. meantime, that heat helping to fuel a massive wildfire, destroying homes, shutting down a highway. from the air, the images coming in at this hour from arizona. tonight, new reaction here after the supreme court s unanimous decision today, leaving access to the abortion pill mifepristone unchanged in this country. many many states, women still able to get it through the mail. but what the justices signaled today, leaving the door open to future challenges involvin
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