We watch and wait to see how the war evolves now in its third day. Dont go anywhere. Cnn this morning starts right now. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news this morning, sirens going off in jerusalem and tel aviv warning of incoming rockets. [ sirens ] this comes as the Israeli Military says it has regained control of all towns near gaza. You can see people taking cover on the side of the road there. And this all comes some 48 hours after hamas militants launched an unprecedented Surprise Attack by land, sea and air overnight. Israeli air strikes pummelled hundreds of targets across gaza. The death toll this morning rising on both sides with more than 700 people confirmed dead in israel and nearly 500 palestinians killed. Video shows the horror on the ground at a Music Festival where 260 people have been found dead. This youre watching right now is a drone video of burned out cars at the site. A dash camera captured a gunman taking man hostage. Right now hamas claims it
Happening now, israel formally declares war on hamas and the Palestinian Terrorist groups strikes back. Breaking news. Hamas has just fired a new barrage of rockets at israel tonight. And were learning that there has been a direct strike on the city of ash. We welcome our viewers here in the United States and Around The World. And im wolf blitzer and this is a Special Edition of the situation room. Israel at war. Announcer this is cnn Breaking News. And were following all of the Breaking News, our correspondents are positioned in israel and indeed Around The World to bring you all of the latet developments in this escalating crisis right now. Raising enorm ow fears of a major war in the middle east. Lets begin with Nic Robertson, youre not far away from the border with gaza. What more do we know about the new round of attacks that is underway right now . Reporter weve been able to see a couple of things from this location, wolf. Were seeing rockets taking off that are not intercepted q
glastonbury looks dry this year. here in kew gardens, lots of sunshine. i will have the weather for you later. it s wednesday the 26th june. with just over a week to go until polling day, the prime minister rishi sunak and labour s sir keir starmer are preparing to go head to head in their final leaders debate of the election later. it comes as members of both main parties continue to face difficult questions about betting allegations. our political correspondent iain watson reports. the second and final head to head clash between rishi sunak and the man who wants hisjob keir starmer takes place tonight on the bbc. and it s worth a bet that one of the topics might just involve gambling. the conservative campaign has been buffeted by allegations that two candidates, two party officials, and now a member of the welsh senedd had bet on a date of the general election, and were facing inquiries from the gambling watchdog. it s an independent process with the gambling commissio
Government, has got to look to what is happening in libya, a huge ungoverned space and apparently a source of some awful extremism. But was manchester a consequence of our Foreign Policy . Manchester was a consequence of one person going into a music event and killing a very large number of people, there can be no defence whatsoever of that. So nothing to do with Foreign Policy . I do not in any way change that view. That is just a vile, horrible event and those people have got to be brought to book. Obviously, the one who did it is dead but there appears to be a whole connection of them. I made the point that if we are to have a secure future, weve got to look at ungoverned spaces around the world and the consequences of our wars of intervention. This is notjust me, as i said, this is mi5, its Foreign Affairs select committee, its a number of other people. But im struggling to find the role of Foreign Policy you see Islamic State was founded well before the invasion of iraq. Its murde
Well hear from the people behind that decision at 9. 15. Really keen to hear from you this morning. Also on the programme. It isnt the care that people deserve. How two relatives have described their experience of the nhs. Roses son was treated on this makeshift bed. And grahams dad who has alzheimers was left for 36 hours waiting for a bed. The nurses were fantastic, brilliant. But i would say the main adjective i would use is worrying. You cant be treated with dignity and privacy in a corridor. Thats the absolute reality. To suggest this is temporary is not true. Well bring you their full story before 10. And, when one of the chief architects of brexit met president Elect Donald Trump. I thought the uk was so smart in getting out and you were there and you guys wrote it on the front page. Yes. Trump said that brexit was going to happen. Yes. Right. And it happened. Yes. That was when it was going to lose easily, everybody thought i was crazy, 0bama said wed go to the back of the line