stall a strike against hezbollah forces days after the hamas terror attack. good evening i am jon talk to chuck this is the fox report. jon: two leaders held a phone call today in which netanyahu said he was grateful for america preventing the united nations call for a cease-fire. there are no signs of peace in gaza has a prime minister once again promised the fighting will not end all of the hostages are home. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg belk as the latest in israel as the war rages on. there is tough weather up here in tel aviv. it is a very tough battle down south. slamming hamas targets on the length of the gaza strip. the israeli defense minister with troops in the north today which he says is now under his country s control pray that is that is after weeks of fighting. also it says they re taking up hamas compounds and tunnels in the southern gazan city thought to be headquarters for the group. combat comes at a price though, five israeli soldiers killed
saying that 2.3 million palestinians have been fighting for their lives and facing death. meanwhile, israel s ambassador to the un criticised the resolution and said that the un should have focused on the humanitarian crisis of the hostages. for more on the day s events, our correspondentjohn sudworth sent this update. after the long drawn out diplomacy, the drafting and redrafting, finally, the moment of truth. the wide show of support from most security council members was no surprise. the resolution the uae has put in blue this morning responds to the calls for a sustainable cessation of hostilities and a massive scale up of humanitarian aid. often in diplomacy, the challenge is meeting the moment in the world we live in, not in the world we want. all eyes were on the us and russia. in the end, they both abstained. but it wasn t a veto, and so the resolution passed. guns fire. on the ground, its immediate practical implications may be limited. the us did much to tone do
politicsnation. tonight s lead, a christmas blizzard. right now, americans are preparing to celebrate christmas in the midst of a blizzard of legal developments surrounding donald trump. in just the last five days, the supreme has blocked special counsel jack smith s request to expedite a ruling on whether trump has legal immunity over his january 6th conduct. earlier, new recordings published by the detroit news reportedly showed trump pressing republican electors in michigan not to certify joe biden s victory in the state. three years ago. the state supreme court justices in colorado have been reporting death threats all week since they ruled that trump could not run for office in the state. all that plus what to expect when the senate comes back to washington next month. in new york governor kathy hochul joins me shortly as the empire state officially takes up the question of reparations for its black residents. i had a firsthand view this week as head of the national acti
the palestinian ambassador to the un, called it a step in the right direction but reiterated calls for an immediate ceasefire saying that 2.3 million palestinians have been fighting for their lives and facing death. meanwhile, israel s ambassador to the un criticised the resolution and said that the un should have focused on the humanitarian crisis of the hostages. russia s ambassador to the un criticised the us for not doing more to restrain israeli operations in gaza. this comes amid complaints that the resolution is watered down. us ambassador to the un linda thomas greenfield said the us abstained because the council did not condemn hamas october seventh attack on israel. here s what she said after the vote. it took many days and many, many long nights of negotiating to get this right. but, today, this council provided a glimmer of hope amongst a sea of unimaginable suffering. today, this council called for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered and expan
supreme court says, not so fast, to special counsel jack smith, giving the former president s go-slow legal strategy a big boost. the former president says he knows nothing about hitler, while repeating and defending his hitler-like language. plus a survivor of the october 7th massacre and her remarkable journey. good evening. anderson is off tonight. and we begin with the supreme court s decision not to decide, at least just yet, the central question that could invalidate many of the charges against the former president. namely, does donald trump enjoy immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president? the judge in his january 6th trial ruled he did not. special counsel jack smith asked the supreme court to bypass the d.c. circuit and take it now. and today the court said no. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us with more. kate lynne, we have a decision, not a clear understanding of an explanation of why the justices decided this. walk us through what we know, how man