Republicans are failing a country at a critical moment. Theyre disastrous handling of the speakership just let them back to the Drawing Board yet again. Plus, flipped. Two key trump allies have pleaded guilty in that Georgia Election case. Now theyre both cooperating with prosecutors. Im ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. Tonight, new developments in the israelhamas war. This morning, 20 longawaited humanitarian aid trucks finally entered the gaza strip. Israel agreed to allow and the convoys carrying food, water, and medicine after intense pressure from the United States and other countries. It is a narrow lifeline for trapped inside gaza. People the Israeli Military for twor straight. Weeks the Gaza Health Ministry says, the Convoy Contast 3 of what civilians need on a daily basis, and noting t fuel needed to run hospitals was not even included in todays deliveries. Just last night not hamas released an American Mother and her daughter, held hostage, which signaled that the militant
Summit injordan with arab leaders has been cancelled. We can bring you live pictures of gaza, where it is just after seven in the morning with more on tuesdays Hospital Explosion, heres our international editorjeremy bowen. Loud blast. The missile hit the hospital not long after dark. Man shouts. You can hear the impact. The explosion destroyed al ahli hospital. It was already damaged from a smaller attack at the weekend. The building was flattened. Very soon video was posted from gaza of bodies laid out near the ruins of the hospital. So many dead and the size of the explosion, together looked to be having a profound impact on what was already the most dangerous crisis in the middle east in a generation. The wounded were taken across gaza city to Shifa Hospital. The israeli armys First Response said hospitals were highly sensitive and not targets of its military and urged caution about what it called the unverified claims of a terrorist organization. That statement will not be believe
Live from jerusalem, from this region gripped by violence and death with fears the situation could well escalate. The us President Joe Biden has arrived in israel. This was always a diplomatically risky visit a us president arriving in the middle of a fast paced war but his role here and what he can hope to achieve today has been hugely complicated by the devastating deaths last night of hundreds of civilians in gaza in an explosion in an overcrowded hospital. President biden has already begun the meeting with the israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two had these comments before they went and for talks behind closed doors. I want to thank you all today and for the unequivocal support you have given israel through these trying times. As a port that reflects the overwhelming will of the american people. I have seen your support every day in the depth and breadth of cooperation that we have had since the beginning of this war. A level of cooperation that is truly unprecedented i
Crossing which takes, which would allow people to transfer from gaza into egypt, might be reopened in a ceasefire early in the day but that did not happen. There is talk about how that could be facilitated. Israels military have updated that the number of people it believes are being held as hostages in gaza up from 155 now to 199. They were kidnapped when hamas infiltrated israeljust kidnapped when hamas infiltrated israel just over kidnapped when hamas infiltrated israeljust over a week ago killing more than a thousand people. All of the developments coming up on bbc news. Whole neighbourhoods have been reduced. Thousands have fled after israel told many people to flee the north but many have said they cannot or will not leave. This man is one of them. The water system has been cut off now for days. Translation we will not leave even if they destroy our homes over our heads, where are we going to go with a family of five . Where are we going to go with a family of five . Children sti
Agreed a truce in Southern Gaza. These are the latest pictures from the Rafah Crossing, showing the crowds there. We understand that Un Fuel Trucks did make it across the border this morning. In the past couple of hours, americas top diplomat, Antony Blinken, is back in israel, from egypt, where he was trying to persuade officials to reopen the border point. Egypts Foreign Minister is reported as saying israel had not yet taken a stance that would allow the crossing to open. Over the weekend, mr blinken held talks in six arab states, with a view to alleviating gazas humanitarian crisis and to prevent the war from escalating. Our correspondent nick beake has the latest. In gaza, families who have been forced from their homes are heading south to the border with egypt. But this, the Rafah Crossing, has remained closed to them, trapping palestinians as well as foreign nationals. They say theyve lost everything in israels response to hamas s killing of civilians just over a week ago. This