alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
alicia kearns, welcome to hardtalk. now, you are chair of the uk parliament s foreign affairs select committee. you have to take an overview of what is happening across foreign policy. would you agree that right now the bandwidth of foreign policy thinking is very much taken up by israel, by the war in gaza? absolutely. and this is one of the challenges that democracies have. we need to make sure that we can t say, well, we only have bandwidth to focus on one conflict, because unfortunately we don t have the liberty to say we have only one to focus on. but secondly, we re not doing enough to stop conflict popping up in other places. so until we are doing that, we don t get to say, well, we can only focus on israel and gaza for the next month, or, we can only focus on ukraine. we have to find a way to do both, and that means more multilateral working, more leaning on one another, more dividing and conquering in terms of our assets and what we re focusing on. and yet such
in two explosions in south eastern iran, near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. state television says the blasts occurred in quick succession in the city of kerman, during a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the killing of qasem soleimani. he was iran s most powerful military commander and was killed in 2020 by a us air strike in iraq. local officials say two bags containing explosives were detonated by remote control at the entrance to the burial site. bbc persian s parham gobadi gave me further details of the blast. as you mentioned, this is one of the deadliest attacks in iran in the past a0 years. it has been unprecedented, the number of the death toll is rising every every few minutes, so far. they say that some of those who were injured are in critical conditions and we know at least one medic was among the casualties who was killed, two others, at least, are in critical conditions. they say that after the first explosion took place, the second, when
Tonight on the reidout i think that there will be certainly time for that Policy Discussion to take place. But thats not the place that were in at this moment. I think with respect to any discussion of legislation, its premature. Theres an ongoing investigation. This is not the time to go back to the same tired saw over gun control. This is not the time to be talking about legislation. Were in the middle of that crisis right now. As the search continues for the lewiston, maine, killer, republicans continue to make excuses, including a familiar phrase used over the years after mass murders. Now is not the time to fix the problem. And there are many other shocking but not surprising things that new Speaker Mike Johnson has been saying since he took the gavel. And hes clearly not a big fan of the separation of church and state. Plus, three weeks after the hamas terror attack, israel launches an intense new round of air strikes in gauze oz. Theres tremendous anger, fear, and sadness among
Un aid workers warn they will have to end their operations tonight, if they dont get more fuel. And the situation on israels northern border with lebanon remains tense. Hello, im lyse doucet. Welcome bbc news, live from jerusalem as we report on the top headlines israel gaza crisis. This is a 19 pin group. Today, the emphasis from United Nations agencies and from countries around the world for a humanitarian pause in the Fighting Israel Hamas seven desperately needed aid can be let into gaza. Israel has allowed food, water and medicine into the territory, but isnt allowing fuel supplies , over fears theyll end up in the hands of hamas. Hamas is designated as a Terror Organisation by many western countries including the united kingdom. The United Nations is repeating it was michaels not only humanitarian pause also for desperately needed fuel tanker. All the while, the images coming from the while, the images coming from the gaza strip where israel says it to target hamas infrastructure