their hamas captors. the office of the prime minister says there are 129 hostages still being held by hamas in gaza. 21 hostages have died. a source tells cnn that the head of israel s intelligence agency is expected to meet with qatar s prime minister to discuss getting hostages released. today families of the remaining hostages held a rally in tel aviv demanding their safe return. cnn s alex marquardt was there. alex, prime minister benjamin netanyahu just spoke about the hostages. what did he say? and fred, that rally took place here on what has become known as hostages square right next to where the defense min cit ministry is based. we just heard from prime minister netanyahu who said all of israel is in mourning for the deaths of these hostages. he spoke specifically about the three who were killed yesterday by israeli soldiers saying we were so close to embracing them, but unfortunately we cannot turn back time. he went on to make the argument that it is military pre
and south american nationals trying to reach the united states. dozens of people were also injured in the incident. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the face of it, russia s war on ukraine has galvanised a strong and united european response sanctions on moscow, weapons supplies to kyiv and a readiness to host millions of ukrainians fleeing the war. but scratch the surface and there are significant variations. romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania 7 as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia aga
why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania? as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia against ukraine, in the front line of the efforts of the international community to counter the effects of this war. and the effort of romania was very strong in support of ukraine on very many dimensions, and this is very much appreciated by ukraine. this is very much appreciated by our partners. i had the pleasure these days to talk with my counterpart, james cleverly, we have signed today a very important document, a joint declaration on updating our strategic partnership between romania and the united kingdom. yeste
as the continuity candidate, but, in the end, onlyjust beat his nearest rival kate forbes by four percentage points. now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. on the face of it, russia s war on ukraine has galvanised a strong and united european response sanctions on moscow, weapons supplies to kyiv and a readiness to host millions of ukrainians fleeing the war. but scratch the surface and there are significant variations. romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania 7 as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of
romania is notably reticent about the scale of its aid to ukraine. why? my guest is romania s foreign minister, bogdan aurescu. is his country ambivalent about confronting russia? foreign minister bogdan aurescu, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. how destabilising has russia s war on ukraine been to your country, romania? as you know, romania is the nato and eu member state with the longest border with ukraine, and we have been, since the very day one of the war of aggression of russia against ukraine, in the front line of the efforts of the international community to counter the effects of this war. and the effort of romania was very strong in support of ukraine on very many dimensions, and this is very much appreciated by ukraine. this is very much appreciated by our partners. i had the pleasure these days to talk with my counterpart, james cleverly, we have signed today a very important document, a joint declaration on updating our