For our audience worldwide, this is bloomberg surveillance. Alongside tom keene and Lisa Abramowicz, im jonathan ferro. The s p is positive by 0. 2 . It felt like we were on the brink of a full Ground Invasion all we can. Tom im using the Live Services of all the different news sites and it just migrates forward, waiting. Waiting for what . You could see the politicians. I think the most interesting, jacking near to keep their options open. Jonathan we intended to follow this war through the weekend. Rockets fired at tel aviv and some in israel as well. Back channel talks between the United States and iran. Lisa there is a feeling of a frantic diplomatic relation, the idea of iran, who does not have any formal relation with the u. S. Having back channel talks, also having back channel talks in some capacity with israel. Nobody wants this to percolate out of control. And yet the pressure keeps building and no one can come to any resolution at a time where there are hostages, strikes and
Watching hello and welcome to have joining us here in the United States around the world am streaming else on cnn max, im rosemarie church, just ahead. Donald trumps Hush Money Drug continues today with several key witnesses yet to testify negotiations would between hamas and israel have stalled. We will speak to a relative of an israeli hostage about what this might mean for their loved one and mexican and idea and to fight three dead bodies found in a well while investigators search for emotive live from atlanta this is cnn newsroom with rosemarie thanks for joining us. Israel has issued a statement urging people in Eastern Raffa to evacuate, amid fears of an imminent idf Ground Invasion of the Southern Gaza city. The statement says, those people we should evacuate immediately to the expanded humanitarian area at the checkpoints, that area is in almawasi, as you can see on this map, there are well over 1 million palestinians taking refuge in rafah from the fighting. That is five time
But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent anna foster is injerusalem. Welcome to you, and weve been talking for more than a week about the latest round of talks and it seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yes. Seems there is increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. On hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage on hamas to reach a deal. Yes, we are at the same stage where an. Are at the same stage where an israeli deal has been put on the table and was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State as extraordinarily generous and it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal there have been some movements in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. From israels Point Of View its priority is trying to e
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Palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. I asked her about increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yeah. Were at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. It was described at the start of the week by the us Secretary Of State, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. And it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. Now, from israels point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. One of hamas s key priorities is to try and get some sort of agreement towards a permanent ceasefire rather than a temporary one. So while it seems that the two sides are moving closer together, there is still a disconnect, i think, on that point. And i think also on the number of hostages to be released. Now, originally we were