Sensitive site expiration is done. To be thanks very much, we appreciate it. Kristen oleary is the former director of Hostage Recovery for the United States. Hes a Senior Vice President of Global Affairs for the group. Coming up, donald trump continues to take a page out of the authoritarian playbook as his legal troubles grow. Ill speak with the woman who wrote the book on authoritarian leaders. Ruth joins me. Then, with israel and Hezbollah Trading Fire over lebanons threatens to spill over into the region. Well go to lebanon for the latest on the ground. Plus, lbj and by the former vice Prime Minister of israel, another hour of velshi begins right now. Good morning to you, it is sunday the 22nd. With wars regime between ukraine and russia, israel and hamas, and threatening to spill into other continents, Global Leadership is critical. Were facing our own crisis of democracy in her own home, one that is easy to overlook when the news of the worlds war. Legal peril facing the twice im
20 vehicles carrying medicine and food passed through on saturday the first since israel tightened its blockade of the territory. The Rafah Crossing is on the egyptian border and is the only route not bordering israel, which means its currently the only potential way to deliver humanitarian aid into gaza. Well have the latest on the aid trying to get into gaza in the next hour. In other developments in the conflict today, irans Foreign Minister has accused israel of committing genocide in gaza, and has warned the situation in the middle east risks spiralling out of control. Israel has been continuing to carry out aerial bombing of gaza. These pictures are from the past hour. Its nowjust over two weeks since the hamas attacks inside israel, in which 1,400 people were killed. The Palestinian Health Ministry Says about 4,700 gazans, mainly civilians, have been killed in the israeli air strikes. Israels military has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for their own safety, as it
Thick fog and heavy rain have hampered efforts, but in the early hours of this morning, this, a drone sent by turkey identified a source of heat. Footage shows an aerial view of a landscape at night and a Dark Blotch On what appears to be a hillside. When rescuers eventually reach the wreckage on foot, they found the helicopter which had been carrying irans president and the Foreign Minister was completely burned with no signs of life. And soon after, confirmation that both irans president Ebrahim Raisi and the Foreign Minister have been killed in the crash. The servant of the iranian people, president raisi, the president of the republic of iran was serving the people of the public of iran. President raisi, seen here on the left, had been visiting a dam project. This is footage of him earlier in the day travelling in a convoy of three helicopters. He became the president in 2021 and was responsible for tightening Morality Laws and oversaw a ruthless repression and were seen as a poten
Ayman, conservative chaos. The Republican Party is in champions over the speakers race and rightwing media has only fanned the flames of dissent. Then, silence. Donald trump has been fined by a judge for violating the terms of his gag order. Jail time could be the next step. Plus, a veteran state Department Official just resigned over the Biden Administrations policy on the israelhamas war. He is going to join me live to explain his decision. I am ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. We begin this hour with several crucial updates on the israelhamas war. Israeli militaries aerial bombardment continues to pummel the gaza strip with more than 4000 People Killed since the war began. This according to palestinian authorities. The humanitarian crises is warming by the hour, with a small aid convoy of food, water, and medical supplies and during the strip just hours ago. Today marks two weeks since hamas militants attacked israel, killing 1400 people and taking 210 hostage. Since then, israel
They are trying their best to provide Essential Services to gazans trapped inside gaza, with very little food, water, medicine and fuel. So this is an important update to bring you. 17 more trucks apparently are carrying aid into gaza through that all important Rafah Crossing which you can see here. This is controlled by egypt and is often used to bring goods in and is often used to bring goods in and out of gaza. I will keep these live pictures and bringing our guest sarah davies, a Public Relations officer at the International Committee of the red cross. Thanks so much forjoining us on bbc news. As we watch these live pictures of the Rafah Crossing, i want to ask you to give the viewers an insight into how bad things are within gaza. Thank you so much for having me. As everyone has really seen over the last more than two weeks now, the humanitarian situation for people in that gaza is dire and only increasing. Their needs are increasing. Their needs are increasing. People have had. T