at least 157 people. houses are destroyed and people are digging through rubble to rescue others. and russell brand faces a fresh allegation of sexual assault. the claim is made in a civil lawsuit filed in new york and dates back to 2010. hello. i am anna foster, this is bbc news, live from jerusalem. israel s military has again urged civilians in gaza s north to leave the area. it reopened one of the strip s main highways. allowing people to drive south. strip s main highways. the road was scheduled to be open for three hours and that window was due to close just moments ago. the rafah crossing to egypt is also closed at least temporarily. no one has used the crossing so far today. we are hearing that gaza border authorities will not permit foreign passport holders to cross into egypt until the injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafah. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped gaza through the crossing in the past few days. our bbc arabic corresp
environment, and the united states, it s a flash point. given that conversation about the fighter jets that poland wanted to debate sending to the ukraine or not. it did so, the u.s. said we re blind sided by this, and the pentagon last night said we don t think we can do it. this won t work. give us your sense of what should happen with these jets? we should get airplanes and anti-tank and anti-air missiles and drone equipment to ukraine through every form possible that includes backfilling supplies from poland, romania, slovakia, any other country willing to supply those migs to ukraine. it s regrettable that there was this public miscommunication between poland and united states. this kind of stuff should be handd diplomatically, and i
listening to speeches. pentagon did a great job. what are your observations? reporter: well, bill, i think listening to general keane i have to agree with him that there is no person who works in the building behind me or who is part of our, the u.s. military who believes that the war against terrorism is over. you heard general milley speak about the radical ideologies, the hateful ideologies that led to the 9/11 attacks. he included in that speech the taliban, and that was not in the original remarks x. so i think it s very important, very important to remember that this building is still at war even if they don t have troops in afghanistan. last night when i walked out of the pentagon last night, i spoke to the senior enlisted adviser to chairman milley, master sergeant lopez, and i didn t
the border. everybody knows we need border security. we need a wall. i think it s a very bad subject for the democrats. we need a wall. we ve apprehended more people than we have in many years, it s costing us a lot of money with the military. we have tremendous border control and border security there. eric: jeff paul is live in los angeles with more. hi, jeff. reporter: shanahan and dunford are working to understand where the gaps in protection are and what dhs specifically needs. they ve just wrapped up a fly-over of the existing border fence in new mexico, across from texas. the area is two of the sites requested for prioritization for construction by the department of homeland security in a letter extent the pentagon last night. earlier today, the officials visited a national guard mission where they were briefed on border control capabilities including patrol vehicles, atvs, horses and weapons. it was this location where shanahan and dunford fired off
we have lieutenant colonel rick francona here, former military liaison officer and also assigned to military operations in northern iraq. sorry to be talking about you instead of to you. good to have lieutenant colonel francona as well. boots on the grounds, advisers, call them what you want, americans are back on the ground and at risk in iraq. what s the basis for this situation? they need to get in there and get the iraqis back on their feet. talked to the pentagon last night and they are telling me what they want to do is get about 30 to 40 people in there immediately and have them assess the situation, see what we need to be doing in there, assess how strong isis is and how strong the iraqis are and then decide from there how many more people need to come in. also could be helpful if we go to air strikes, right, because you have to know where to call them in, what all the different contingencies are, and you want to trust husain? they will be assessing what kind of targeti