government s asylum policy. and pop starjustin bieber cancels a number of shows after being diagnosed with an illness that s partially paralysed his face. as you can see, this eye is not blinking. i can t smile on this side of my face. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. we begin in ukraine, where officials say their forces urgently need more supplies of ammunition. according to one regional governor, the fighting has become a war of artillery and the russian army is much more powerful. the us and nato are in the process of sending heavy armaments, but say they need to be supplied at a pace that ukraine s forces can absorb safely. the battle for control of the key town of severodonetsk is shaping the war with reports of street to street fighting. neither side has scored a knock out blow and much of the city has been reduced to rubble. nick beake reports from kyiv. the russian onslaught in the donbas region is relentless, bombarding ukrainian
Step against hamas at this hour. The idf confirms one of its Tank Brigades has taken control of the gaza side of the rafah border crossing. It connects the war torn territory to egypt. This is new video showing the tanks moving in. Officials say the operation was very precise and very limited. They also say it was only in specific areas of eastern rafah. The crossing is one of the main Supply Routes for humanitarian aid into gaza. And we are told all movement there has stopped at least for now. 20 hamas militants were reportedly killed during todays sees. Three Terror Shafts were also apparently found in that area. This is one of the first significant Military Actions israel has taken in part of the enclave, where more than a million palestinians are taking refuge. Before today, the idf mainly hit targets with airstrikes in rafah. Israel claims the gaza side of the crossing was being used for terror activity. The idf says hamas fired mortars toward israels border from the area of the c
Force another Prominent School to cancel its main graduation ceremony. We will take you there. House Speaker Mike Johnson meets with the republican lawmakers seeking to kick him out of his job. We have the behind the scenes of that meeting and who will former President Trump pick to be his running mate . A look at the contenders tonight. But, first, breaking tonight, israel has begun striking targets in the gaza strip city of rafah. Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that a ceasefire proposal agreed to by hamas is far from his countrys essential demands. However, israel will send negotiators to continue talks to try find a solution. But, in the meantime, they are not letting up. Correspondent jeff paul is in tel aviv with the very latest tonight. Good evening, jeff. Jeff yeah, good evening, bret. We are learning the israeli war cabinet has than newly decided to continue its operations in rafah saying that it wants to keep pressure on hamas to eventually release all of the
Stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stakes are higher this time around, candidates fundraising boost out of this debate to get their campaigns to keep going. And also to qualify for the next debate. They all have to get momentum out of this. Previous years, republican president ial primaries, by this time in the calendar highprofile candidates had already started dropping out. So, if past is prologue, its
Im Rachel Maddow here in msnbc with my beloved colleagues, chris hayes, joy Reid Stephanie ruhle. Great to all be together in this difficult time we will be joined by California Governor Gavin Newsom in a little bit. He was there at the debate, god bless and we will get his take on what went down tonight the debate is just now wrapping up after two hours of talking stuff. Seven republicans swear it off tonight at the Ronald Reagan library in california. And of course, you know, just one a basic political level, two questions coming out of tonights debate, the obvious one, anything that happened in the second debate, will it have impacts on their standing in race. We had one debate already that first debate last month appear to have no major effect on the polls at all. There was only one candidate who got a significant polling bump, and that was the guy who did not attend. Donald trump got the largest bump of all the candidates out of the first debate. Again, he was not there. The stake