Thinking about you were thinking about your cousin ofer, the best to you and your family a new hour of cnn, new central starts right now. Happening now the funeral for and israel rarely american hostage killed by hamas as thousands ofrotestertake to the streets of tel aviv demanding an immediate ceasefire and hostage deal. In the us a critical meeting is about to begin with hodges negotiators and the white house situation room and president biden will be in that critical meeting and then he heads out with a new purpose surrogate number one for kamala harris his presidential campaign, plus a busy night of sports, not seen by millions. Can disney and directv? settle their disputes before thursday night s big nfl season opener. I m sara sidner with john berman, kate bolduan is out this is cnn news central breaking news for you right now if israel right now, funeral for israeli american hostage hersh goldbergpolin is beginning in jerusalem over the weekend. His body was recovered with five
This sunday, presidential plans. We will move forward. Vice president kamala harris begins to outline and clarify her positions on key issues ahead of the twomonth sprint to election day. My values have not changed. Are there enough details in the harris agenda to win over undecided voters? i ll talk to democratic congressman ro khanna of california. Plus, trump s promises. Donald trump appears to try and moderate his position on women s health as the election nears promising the government will pay for fertility treatments. The government is going to pay for it or we ll mandate your insurance company to pay for it. I ll talk to republican senator tom cotton of arkansas. And devastating discovery. The bodies of six hostages, including israeli american hersh goldberg, are recovered in gaza just days after his parent addressed the democratic convention. Hersh, if you canning hear us, we love you. Stay strong. Survive. How will this impact negotiations for i ceasefire. Ing. Joining me for
On on this new hour, what happens to the remaining hostages in gaza? hear from the father of one of them whose son has been held sap active since october 7th. Plus when it comes to donald trump s legal troubles, his game of delay is working. Let s do it. Let s do it. Today hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of tel aviv. Demonstrators are threatening to shut down the country unless netanyahu finally agrees to a deal with hamas to release the hostages and israel s largest labor union is calling for a general strike tomorrow. Many inside israel have reached a boiling point with netanyahu after the israeli military recovered the dead bodies of six hostages from gaza. They were identified as carmel g guy, alexander lobanoff, master sergeant ori denina and hirsch goldberg polin, one of the american hostages found. The crowd erupted in chance of bringing them home. It s described spending nearly 11 months in an excruciating state of limbo where every day they hoped to no
Lets look at the wider situation. With me is Mohamed Taha from bbc arabic. Thank you forjoining us on The Programme. The Breaking News in the last few minutes. We knew that the israelis had discovered some bodies in rafah. Now we know that one of them is an American Citizen. What more do we know about whats happening there at the moment . 50 whats happening there at the moment . ~ whats happening there at the moment . ~. ,. , moment . So we knew about recovering moment . So we knew about recovering the moment . So we knew about recovering the Bodies Moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of moment . So we knew about recovering the bodies of the | recovering the bodies of the hostages a few hours ago. And the announcement from the White House came just a few minutes ago that one of these bodies is american. The American Citizen is hersh Goldberg Polin, and his parents were really vocal about him. They had interviews in the us and in israel, and i gets you did an interview with
Armies. People use the Word Proxy a lot. They are iranian armies. If iran stops funding them, they disappear. So when the biden administration tells israel that it should not go Into Rafah, or that it should hold up or should pause or deescalate on rafah, that in hindsight, was exactly the wrong policy decision. Israel went Into Rafah. They were incredibly effective. There were very few civilian casualties, and they decapitated a lot of the hamas militant racist, bigoted capability. And they were they were extremely effective. Similarly, when iran went after some of hamas, im sorry, when israel went after some of hamas leaders in tehran, you know, the administration stood back and said, we had nothing to do about it. That sent iran a very, very strong message. And most importantly, last week, everyone was sitting on the edge of their seat wondering what would happen with hezbollah getting ready to attack israel and send in 6000 8000 rockets. Okay, so what did israel do . They did not l