Let me bring you two new lines coming in in the last few moments. Reuters news agency reporting that alerts are being sounded in more towns in northern israel. Warnings of incoming aircraft, i say aircraft, the thought is we are talking about drones. That is happening in the north, alerts in more towns in northern israel with warnings of incoming aircraft. We are keeping an eye on that, we have been talking to our correspondent on the borders with lebanon so well get the latest on that line. And diplomatically the Afp News Agency reports that china has urged, quote, an immediate ceasefire in a call with palestinian officials. That is coming from the Foreign Ministry in the last few seconds. If there are more details we will obviously return to those. Time for a look at the Business News now with ben thompson. Thank you, matthew. We will look through some of those top Business Stories right now. Economies around the world are assessing the potential fall out of the conflict between isra
More than 1,000 palestinians, including many children, have been killed. My guest is former israeli Prime Minister ehud barak. Unimaginable horror has been unleashed. Where will it end . Ehud barak, in tel aviv, welcome to hardtalk. You have fought in many of israels wars. Youve led the country as Prime Minister. Have you ever experienced a mood in the country as you see it and feel it right now . This is the most severe blow that israel suffered since its establishment some 75 years ago. And the death toll of a devastating 1,200 within the first 2a, 30 hours, its something that never happened in our history. And in this case, its not a war. These are notjust soldiers. There are many citizens, many civilians, women, young babies, elderly people, even some holocaust survivors. And we still have 150, so to speak, in their hands. So its very tough. Great, huge failure of our Early Warning system, of our operational system. But we, the israelis, we are a defiant kind of species. We know ho
Kidnapped, dead or just missing in this moment. You even have another connection to this. You were telling my producers about a family who is staying in your home now because they evacuated their kibbutz, and i guess i should say part of a family because their parents have been kidnapped, as well . Yes. So as soon as we realized there was going to be an ongoing event. I have a 5yearold at home, and i felt the urge to flee from home to save her because this was very clear that it was not going to end any time soon. There were dozens or hundreds of armed militants with trucks and motorcycles roaming through israel and nobody knows where they are. So once we did, we immediately tried to make use of our home which was just standing empty and my sisterinlaw a day later called me up and said that there is a family, there are three girls from Kibbutz Behri which is one of the kibbutz that were most affected to the extent that right now people are saying that there is no more Kibbutz Behri, an
There are americans who remain unaccounted for. I do expect, unfortunately, that the list of americans confirmed dead will rise today. Miller went on to say that the u. S. Is reaching out to any country it can with ties to hamas to get them to release those hostages. We have reported, kate, that one of those countries is qatar. There are also discussions, we are told, with the israelis, with the eej gyptians with the humanitarian corridor so theyre able to get out of the gaza strip if israel decides to go in. Weve heard from israeli officials that they plan to exact a harsh response to hamas for these attacks. Alex, we will bring those remarks from the Secretary Of State if and when he does come to the cameras to speak and our alex is there. Thank you very much, alex. Top of the hour. Im john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. We just learned israel has a government in the war cabinet, this is Benjamin Netanyahu who made the announcement moments ago all of this as hundreds of th
Condemns what he calls barbaric hamas attacks. This is the Sea Life In Gaza as israel continues to send soldiers close to the border. This is the scene live in gaza. We will speak to paul adams in a moment or two, but first i want to bring you one of the latest lines. We hear British Airways has diverted a flight from london to tel aviv due to the situation in israel. That hasjust come from the spokesmen in the last few minutes, a British Airways jet heading to tel aviv has been diverted. We will look for more details on that boat you see the activity in recent minutes in terms of rockets being fired, in terms of israeli action too, so that you just coming in. More on that in a moment but lets pause and head to the Sports Centre to round up the headlines with ben croucher. India are on course for a big win at the mens cricket world cup, chasing 273 to beat afghanistan in their second group game. Afghanistan were 63 3 when captain Hashmatullah Shahidi and Azmatullah 0marzai put on 121 f