Thanks for joining us. Im dana bash in washington. And im sara sidner in tel aviv with cnns breaking News Coverage of israel at war. A complete catastrophe, that is how one official is describing conditions in gaza today. The situation there is becoming more dire by the minute as Tens Of Thousands of innocent civilians are fleeing their homes in response to the barrage of attacks from israel from the sky. Gaza is running out of food and clean Drinking Water after being cut off by israel. Today israel claims to have turned the water back on in Southern Gaza, but palestinians say they come in the confirm the supply due to lack of electricity at the water stations. Israel is now working on setting up a humanitarian safe zone in Southern Gaza so when evacuees get there, they will have access to food, water and any other assistance that they might need. Antony blinken says that the Rafah Crossing in the south of gaza will be open later today. Weve seen a surge of people trying to get out of
Also tonight counting the cost of growing Global Instabilty on the economy. The Chancellorjeremy Hunt warns of higher petrol and Energy Prices because of war in ukraine and israel. Was carriejohnson in charge during covid . The inquiry into the pandemic hears a senior Civil Servant was worried about her influence. And blasting off in search of gold nasas Six Year Mission to an asteroid Called Psyche that may be made of more than just rock. And coming up on bbc news, owen farrell returns to start at fly half for englands world cup quarterfinal against fiji. That means no place for george ford, who did so much to help them get there. Good evening from jerusalem, as the clock ticks down on israels order that more than a Million People living in Northern Gaza should leave their homes and move to the south within 2a hours. The Israeli Defence forces have been massing on the border, ahead of an expected Ground Offensive into gaza in response to last weekends attacks by members of hamas, a gr
The Scottish First minister speaks to the bbc about fears for his Mother In Law and family in gaza. Nobody has said that israel doesnt have the right to protect itself. But collective punishment cannot be justified. Yes, they are going too far. Sport now and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. We will start with football and a busy friday of action in europe. France can their plate at the European Championship if they maintain their 100 record and beat the netherlands in amsterdam later on. That is the pick of the dyes. Belgium, portugaland on. That is the pick of the dyes. Belgium, portugal and the Republic Of Ireland are all in action. England will face australia in a friendly later. It is the first time in seven years the g teams have met and england have won their last six of the last seven encounters. Gareth southgate has warned against any complacency. Southgate has warned against any complacency complacency. Firstly, it is one of the ureat complacency. Firstly, it is one
i don t know. let me just say, we i don t want to lose the point. we have you are saying that you guys are responsible entirely for getting aid into gaza, which you admit is not enough. let me 150 trucks in the last three weeks. let me make clear. pledged $100 million for it, not nothing, but not 14.3 billion. what i meant by the comments, not the united states providing all of the food, water, medical assistance on those trucks. hold on. you just said that united states of america you said let me explain. united states of america there is no shortage of countries in the region and international humanitarian networks and organizations who want to provide humanitarian assistance in they have stepped up and the united states have as well. they have. but what the united states was able to do is secure agreement with the israel and the government of egypt. that has been the breakthrough we have been able to achieve. not the only question of the
Children, we re going to find your children and kill them in schools. we re seeing a vicious attack. it will be more personal for the soldiers and officers fighting against the taliban to take the fight even further. that begs the question, what do you see as the logical retaliation then here, richard? i don t think this is over by a stretch of the imagination. step back. this is happening because of offensive in north waziristan. the taliban and government have been in negotiations. those negotiations broke down in june and then the pakistani military launched a military ground offensive against the taliban. that was stationed out of peshawar and the troops went out and were attacking north