Well be live with Anna Foster in Beirut And Nick beake whos in northern israel. Mps will get a vote on assisted dying in england and wales. Campaigners in favour welcome the move others remain cautious. Hello. Welcome to todays verified live. We start with the crisis in the Middle East irans supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has defended his Countrys Missile Attack on israel earlier this week as a minimum punishment in a rare Public Speech as he led Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time in five years. He told a huge crowd of supporters that iran and its allies must prepare for action as He Led Commemorations for the Hezbollah Leader, hassan nasrallah, who was killed by israel last week. Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into israel on Tuesday Night in retaliation for his assassination, and israel has promised to hit back. Overnight, there were more huge explosions in beirut, close to the main airport. Us officials say israel was targeting the potential successor to nasral
with israeli officials saying there s no timetable for slowing the pounding of gaza, a cabinet member comes to washington where pressure is growing and it soon. also, does he think it s festivals? the former president airs his grievances, makes a list and tells the people on it what to do and where to do it plus alexei navalny fear death, he resurfaces bringing a christmas message of courage, hope, and yes, good cheer from one of the coldest corners. good evening, everyone. we begin with u.s. officials trying to steer israel toward a less intensive, less destructive phase of its campaign in gaza and israeli officials signaling they are in no hurry. one of the officials is in washington tonight, we will have the latest on those meetings which wrapped up about six minutes ago. first, though, the fighting itself, which included more than 100 airstrikes today on hamas targets in gaza according to the idf, and 241 killed on the ground according to unverified claims by the hamas -c
he believes in what they were fighting for. he it just was something that hit to his heart and, you know, he knew they needed help. and it was just something he had felt that he could help in because he had the experience and the training and the knowledge to go and help them. more on that coming up, including the questions it raises like what contracting company hired him to come here to ukraine and who might have been paying that company. as for the fighting itself, russian forces continue to pound the south and east of the country but without a great deal of forward progress, outside one city, appear to be moving forward, slovyansk, new inches tonight of a recently blown up railway bridge possibly taken down by ukrainian units fighting a tactical withdrawal, something we ve seen before.
bi . , to a political process. the big. big to a political process. the big, big issue to a political process. the big, big issue is to a political process. the big, big issue is this - to a political process. the big, big issue is this major humanitarian crisis in the country, something like 80% of people in need of aid and as we were hearing, the figures, 400,000 people, the un estimates have been killed since this fighting began. there is a little bit of hope in this, isn t there, as we were seeing, more aid may be able to get in even if it is a short pause, at least more aid will be able to get in? absolutely. 0ut will be able to get in? absolutely. out of the 380 or 400,000 people who have died, it is important to note that most of them have died from disease or malnutrition, not from the fighting itself, so the humanitarian issues critical, the coalition has agreed to allow fuel shipments to come straight into the port of 0 dea doubt which is potentially important and it wi
when candidates, say buttigieg and warren have taken different approaches in terms of fighting within the democratic party themselves, but also donald trump. essentially it was a story i wrote over the weekend for the times and it s about the nature of fighting itself, political fighting it self. it s a style piece in a way that joe biden, pete buttigieg, you know, mainly in the democratic field are sort of seen as a last combat within the field. they re using language that s more unified and they talking before about bringing the country together as to others who are getting bigger crowds who have had momentum at various stages of the race who have taken on a more emotional, more satisfying to their base view. and it s sort of broken down as a kind of divide in the party about what kind of style to take. and there s the question of is