Jonathan capeheart. Hey, jenn, thank you very much and thank you for joining us. We start with a story that is very much still developing and unselfed to our first guest. This is nayir takov and live in kibbutz and his sons are 16 and 12 years old, and orr, the big brother is 16 and yagil, the younger son, hes 12. Saturday morning at 8 45 a. M. Local time and he and his sisterinlaw were in a cheryl inside the house and will try to ride out the bombings that started and his two sons, the 12yearold and 16yearold were not with them. They were in a different house in the kibbutz and the plan everybody would stay put until the bombings stopped and they would find each other and get back together and stay safe. Then, about a half hour later, it was another communication, it was his girlfriend, and she texted out an audio message, and it was terrifying. She said there were two terrorists inside the house, they had guns, they were shooting, and she said yayir was trying to hold back the door f
With a story that is very much still developing, very much still unresolved, and very personal to our first guest. This is yair yaakov and myrav. They live on a kibbutz in Southern Israel. A kibbutz call and yairs sons are 16 and 12 years old. Orr is the big brother. He is 16. Yagil is the younger son. He is 12. And on saturday morning, at 8 45 a. M. Local time, this is just a couple of hours after the hamas Terrorist Attacks started in Southern Israel, yair got on the phone with his sister in law from the kibbutz. And he told his sister in law that he and his girlfriend were in a shelter inside their house. They were gonna try to write out these bombings that had just started. He said his two sons, his 12yearold and his 16 year old, they were now with them. They were with their mother at a different house on the kibbutz. And yair said that the plan was everybody was Gonna Stay Put until the bombings stopped. And then, they would find each other and get back together and stay safe. The
Military aircraft closer to israel amid concerns of a larger regional conflict breaking out. Was iran involved in hamas planning and new attacks from the north . Americans among the dead. The state Department Says at least nine americans have been killed. More than 1200 people, soldiers, civilians and children are death on both sides. Those numbers are expected to climb even higher. Im Andrea Mitchell with our continuing coverage of the war in israel. A constant barrage of israeli air strikes lighting up the sky. 300,000 israeli troops have been called up after this weekend marked the most extensive invasion of israeli territory in decades. These tanks are at the border area between israel and gaza. Any Ground Invasion will be complicated of the desperate hostage situation. A heartbreaking dilemma of one israeli mother who was brave enough to come on and talk to me about it at this hour. I could hear people speaking in arabic outside their door, and they broke in. The last thing i hear
Hamas. The us secretary of state, Antony Blinken, was in saudi arabia today, to discuss gaza and the post war plans. We will get the thoughts of two us diplomats who served in the region. Good evening. Scotlands beleaguered First Minister, humza yousaf, is stepping down from the job after it became clear to him this morning he had run out of road. On wednesday, mr yousaf walked away from a Coalition Agreement with the scottish greens, having only recently ditched their agreed targets on climate change. Soon after, the greens had their revenge, agreeing to side in an Unlikely Alliance with the scottish conservatives and their vote of no confidence. Scottish labour had gone further promising a vote of no confidence in the entire scottish government. And so in an extraordinary twist of fate, it meant the First Minister would have needed the vote of his nemesis and one Time Leadership rival, ash regan, who defected to the alaba Party Last Year a politician he once described as no great los
Its a policy hes made central to his premiership, and now rishi sunak says the latest version of his Rwanda Policy Will Pass Parliament tonight in his words, no ifs, no buts, these flights are going to rwanda. He promised they would leave by the summer. The safety of rwanda bill, which is designed to deter people crossing the channel in small boats, is currently going back and forth between the commons and the lords, in a parliamentary procedure known as ping pong. Theres been months of deadlock and, tonight, the lords sent the bill back to mps once again. Where it is now being debated. Official figures show the backlog of people waiting to be removed from the uk rose from more than 1,700 injuly tojust under 52,000 a week ago. Lets go to westminster and get the latest from our political editor, chris mason. Chris. Hello, it is one of those nights here where i feel a little like an umpire. 0ne nights here where i feel a little like an umpire. One minute, i am looking down there at the H