stor y out of washington. now back to regular programming already in progress. dosee the unrwa, which, by the way, claims to providepale assistance to palestinian refugees. now, according to the documentsn while 12 employees took part in the october 7th hamas terror attacks, including seven who stormed into israeli territory or allegedly responsibleg seve r truly despicable acts and intelligence shared with thedespicab united states, estimates that about 1200 abployees of this agency have links to hamas or the palestinian islamic. orin light of these allegation, the u.s. and many other countries, they have cut funding. s spar so to the agency, which haske sparked outrage from the radical left. even congressman cosio cortez calli is calling for funding to beng restored immediately. shocker. as did bernie sanders, who said, quote, we cannot allow millions to suffero said because of the alleged actions of 12 people. echoing remarks from the white actions house. take a look.
it s goodnight. after multiple racist incidents involving uk police officers newsnight learns that the initiative set up to tackle racism in policing in england and wales is now facing allegations of racism itself. some ethnic minority staff who used to work for the unit tell this programme they believed they were seen as troublemakers or difficult . i was treated differently my white colleagues by a lack of support when the workload increased. i increasingly felt my voice and at times might lived and professional experience were being ignored. we ll ask the chair of the body tasked with oversight of the programme where this leaves the police race action plan. also tonight south africa grants diplomatic immunity to world leaders attending a conference in august. president putin himself has outstanding arrest warrants for war crimes, so will he now turn up injoburg? the message is that south africa would have been showing is that it prefers its relationship with mr puti
presidential elections where the economy and immigration are key voter concerns. huge political rallies have been held to drum up support. ukraine s most senior security official tells the bbc the country is ready to launch its long expected counter offensive against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov describes the planned assault as an historic opportunity . a man arrested after a car crashed into the gates of downing street earlier this week, has been released while under investigation. he was detained on thursday on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. now on bbc news, amol rajan interviews: watergate to trump. in every trade, there are certain names that are held up as the gold standard. when i started out in newspapers in fact, for most of the past 50 years there have been two names that stood apart and stood above any others in journalism. bob woodward and carl bernstein were the reporters at the heart of the watergate scandal, and
hello, welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, made a statement at a joint press conference with his israeli counterpart in tel aviv. he met that is really prime minister, lloyd austin said the us commitment to israel was unquestionable. he also met his counterpart in the past hour the pair held a news conference in which amongst other matters he confirmed they discussed the past or future for gaza. israelis and palestinians both deserve a horizon of hope. so the united states continues to believe, as we have under administrations of both parties, that it is in the interest of both israelis and palestinians to move forward toward two states, living side by side in mutual security. here s the israeli defence minister, yoav gallant, who also made a statement following talks with his us counterpart. in northern gaza, our troops have eliminated thousands of terrorist, destroyed mil
sank to an all time low against the dollar. the british tv presenter phillip schofield resigns from itv after acknowledging he had an affair with a younger male colleague. now on bbc news, it s time for amol rajan interviews. in every trade, there are certain names that are held up as the gold standard. when i started out in newspapers in fact, for most of the past 50 years there have been two names that stood apart and stood above any others injournalism. bob woodward and carl bernstein were the reporters at the heart of the watergate scandal and the subsequent fall of president nixon. therefore. ..i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. their investigation into the break in at democratic offices has become the stuff of legend. it saw them immortalised by hollywood and set the standard forjournalism for decades to come. at one point, i suddenly wondered how high up this thing goes and her paranoia finally got to me. i thought what we had was so hot that