Ways to make a look at casualties. How do they adjust it, whether its being used effectively or yeah, i understand. Its a good point. Just to clarify, general glenn is not there to direct the israelly military or tell them what to do. Hes there as an expert on urban combat. The considerations are how do you account for the civilian population in mitigating the casualties. At the end of the day, this is about saving lives and eliminating a terrorist threat. Thank you. Thank you. I want to pick up on the air Defense Systems being shipped to the region. Yesterday the Wall Street Journal reported that the u. S. Had asked israel to hold off on the Ground Offensive until the air defenses could get to the region. Is there any truth to that report . Yeah,s seen those reports. What i will tell you, id refer you to the israelis to talk about their operations, their time lines. Our focus is on ensuring that the Israeli Defense forces have what they need to defend the israeli people. As i mentione
Good morning to our viewer in the United States and Around The World. Im kasie hunt. It is wednesday, october 25th. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington where we begin another day without a speaker of the house. About seven hours from now the house is scheduled to vote again to try to fix that. So who might the next speaker of the house be . Well, you would be forgiven to not recognizing this man, that is 51yearold mike johnson of louisiana whose relative complete lack of public profile might be exactly why he could become the last man standing. He was picked late last night after a tumultuous day on capitol hill. Republicans spent most of the day voting to pick tom emmer as their nominee. And he is not exactly a house house name either, but he served in house leadership before. And that seems to be exactly the problem. Emmer was selected as next pick for speaker yesterday around lunchtime, but he was out before dinner. And that was mostly because donald trump knew too much about him. After e
Have already shut down after running out of fuel and those still operating have been forced to stop all but emergency services. 0vernight, eight trucks carrying food, water and medicine crossed the Rafah Border From Egypt Into Gaza but israel has banned fuel from entering the territory, saying hamas would use it for military purposes. These are the empty fuel pumps in southern gaza. An adviser to israels Prime Minister has told the bbc there are hundreds of thousands of litres of fuel in the hands of hamas. The bbc has not been able to verify this. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments. There are growing International Calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to Reach Gaza Which continues to come under intense bombardment. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory says more than 6,500 people have now been killed there 2,704 of them children. Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed in the hamas attacks
Justifying the events of october the 7th. It is a measure of the profound sense of shock and horror and disgust and anger that still reverberate up and down this country that when they heard him making those remarks, they hurt someone who they believed still did not understand exactly what had happened on October Seven, that somehow he was marshalling the history of the conflict to not just was marshalling the history of the conflict to notjust explain but to justify the behaviour of the hamas gunmen who attacked so many innocent civilians on that day. He clearly wants us to know that is not the case, that he doesntjustify any of this, but he remains convinced that it is pointless to try and consider any of this without taking a wider view, because simply things are inexplicable and cannot be addressed. I think that is the point he is making. Of course it has had real world impact and consequences, because Martin Griffiths, having his visa denied, and israel clear why they did that. Ho
Standing by for a vote on House Speaker after all the chaos. New developments over just the last few hours indicate that this vote really, finally, genuinely might be the one. We have brandnew reporting just in. And the new u. S. Warning for israel to avoid a fullscale Ground Invasion in gaza, to avoid mistakes as the past u. S. Battles and there are new air strikes in gaza this morning. Donald trumps former Chief Of Staff mark meadows granted immunity and new details on what he reportedly said. Im john berman with kate bolduan, sara sidner is in israel. This is cnn news central. A speaker of the house, it might be imminent. This could be happening for real this time, maybe. Possibly. We are standing by for a full House Floor Vote on the Louisiana Republican mike johnson after the Republican House conference said he was their man overnight. Now, if youre following this at home, this last three weeks, they booted Kevin Mccarthy from the speakers chair. They then picked steve scalise, bu