in the u.s. and around the world, it is friday, july 1st. i m brianna keilar with john berman. we are now learning that cassidy hutchinson told the house january 6 committee that she was contacted by someone in trump world attempt to go influence her testimony, that is what three sources told cnn. hutchinson was one of the two witnesses who received threatening messages shown at tuesday s hearings. members of the committee suggested the two examples that they presented were only a fraction of the evidence they have related to possible witness intimidation. we have learned that forming white house deputy chief of staff tony ornato met with the january 6th committee twice earlier this year. ornato has come under scrutiny after hutchinson testified that he told her about trump lashing out in anger and lunging at a member of his secret service detail demanding to be taken to the capitol on january 6. now a secret service official who spoke on condition of anonymity told cnn orn
live from southern israel, this is bbc news. the un warns civil order may be breaking down in gaza as thousands of residents break into warehouses for food and other basic items. people are getting frustrated, they are getting hungry. as the three week long siege continues. israel is continuing with its military operation, moving more tanks and infantry into gaza. i m lukwesa burak in london. our other main story: matthew perry, one of the stars of the hit tv show friends, is found dead at his home in los angeles. welcome back to southern israel. you are live with bbc news. i am anna foster, looking out on gaza where we have been seeing and hearing the continuing sights and sounds of the intensified military operation on gaza. you can hear the sound of mortars and artillery fire, as israel has described this as the second stage of this more than three week old war now. we have also heard from the united nations agency for palestinian refugees, unrwa, who say they are worried
no chemotherapy throughout the pandemic. i don t have much of a choice. and john lewis has warned of further store closures after it made a record annual loss of more than £500 million. good afternoon. prince william has insisted the royal family is not racist, in his first comments since the duke and duchess of sussex told us television that a member of the family had questioned what colour their child s skin would be. william also revealed he hasn t spoken to his brother since harry and meghan gave the interview to oprah winfrey, but said he would do. the duke and duchess of cambridge were visiting a school in east london when they were asked by a reporter about the controversy. have you spoken to your brother since the interview? no, i haven t spoken to him yet, but i will do. and can you just let me know, is the royalfamily a racist family, sir? no, we are very much not a racist family. our royal correpsondent, sarah campbell, joins me now. they are the first comments th
that occurred between the two of those people, so not what ornato actually saw, but what he told or did not tell cassidy hutchinson, that can vary over time. it s possible that they remember that conversation differently. at the end of the day it doesn t matter much because we seem to be going further and further down this rabbit hole of how believable is cassidy hutchinson and in recollecting not an event that she saw, but a conversation she heard about it from someone else later. the important thing here is what actually happened, and we know that this the tale of this interaction in the limo is really just one of several pieces of evidence that indicate that the president was willing to and wanted deeply to lead the crowd to the capitol, a crowd that he knew was armed on january 6th, and that s what we should be focusing on. in and of itself that episode doesn t necessarily carry legal