Still waiting for people who are still being held hostage In Gaza and new research on a revolutionary treatment aims to discover why immunotherapy fails to work for most cancer patients. Hello. Welcome to bbc news. Israel has been stepping up its offensives against hamas in Gaza And Hezbollah in lebanon the eve of the first anniversary of the hamas attacks on israel that killed about 1,200 israelis and started the widening war. Lets bring you the latest developments from the Middle East this hour. The lebanese capital, beirut, experienced one of its most intense waves of israeli strikes yet, with large explosions reported across the southern part of the city last night. The strikes continued into the morning. Fresh Evacuation Orders have been issued for residents of several areas in Southern Lebanon as israel pushes forward with its campaign against hezbollah. In northern israel, Rocket Barrages from lebanon are continuing to trigger sirens and interception systems. 0vernight, the Isra
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Joining us tonight. See you at 00. Tonight, the white house transcript released. The president saying to a foreign leader, id like you to do us a favor. President trumps phone call with the president of ukraine. In that call, urging him to open an investigation connected to his political opponent, joe biden. Noting in the conversation the u. S. Had done a lot for ukraine. And tonight, the timing. The president and the ukrainian leader were set to meet today, even before the headlines broke. And so they did. What they said. And President Trump before the cameras just moments ago, furious Speaker Pelosi has taken this very rare step. Jon karl and Mary Bruce Standing by. Also breaking tonight, the whistleblowers report that started it all. The person within the Intelligence Community who was so concerned. That report has now arrived in congress. What it reveals and what weve learned. Also tonight, 24 hours after President Trump spoke of irans, quote, blood lust, tonight, the president of
main issueses being discussed heavily are russia and china. indeed. let s first talk about president zelenskyy s visit and how that all weaves together. the president zelenskyy arrived in japan. he s been meeting with many heads of state. the next meeting to really expect would be with president biden. sometime in the next few hours, is what we believe. it s that meeting that will trigger an aa announcement by the government of additional aid to ukraine. $375 million, very much focused on military funding. there s been a lot of discussion about how much support the united states would get specifically toward air power. at times we heard president biden be a bit lukewarm about providing f-16 fighter jets. the latest military package, i m told, is very focused on munition, on different interception systems, the not so much aircraft. it does seem that the white house is okay with that to be a
ongoing for five years, that has subjected the yes menmy people to the daily bombardment and bloodshed of an aggressor. president trump here at the u.n. called iran the world s number one state sponsor of terrorism. he pointed to iran s recent attack on saudi arabia oil facilities. was iran behind those attacks? translator: for the united states government, it has been embarrassing to have so many radars and so many systems purchased with iraqi, kuwaiti, saudi arabian money, set up these systems all over the region, all kinds of patriot defensive and interception systems and they haven t been able to intercept the incoming projectiles, the missiles, to shoot down those missiles. so, it is an unfounded allegation. but mr. president, you know that even france, britain, germany, who still supported the nuclear deal, they were on your side when it came to the nuclear