Right back here. Next week. Hello everyone, and welcome to the amanpour hour. Heres where were headed this week supported by china on by north korea and iran as putin tightens his antiamerican alliance, a former native, you says the west should make sure ukraine doesnt just hang on, with Winds Ukraine should receive and are not justice advice, but actually to win the war, then caught between russia and the west. The president of georgia says putin used to pull her country back into the kremlins Orbit Population here is very well aware of this old russian soviet again, the tweets also this hour bethlehem Bourne Shell Bethlehem born chef friday catan on celebrating palestinian food, but struggling to cook while his people have starved in gaza at a certain moment, commodity has to prevail on were being denied our existence from my archive and earlier war that transformed a small group of Israeli Settlers into a Mass Movement that reshaped this holy land and finally, the super sophisticate
Meanwhile, the United Nations says more than 800,000 people have now fled rafah, in southern gaza. Many have been forced to head northwards, to areas which the United Nations says have little clean Drinking Water or sanitation, as the Israeli Offensive continues. 0ur Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams sent this report. Street battles injabalia. Israeli forces have been fighting here for days. Gunfire hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. This is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. The israelis were here months ago and moved on. These, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. Israel has been attacking from the air too. Scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. Buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. Gunfire more Street Battles this time, in the south. The israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. But 800,000 palestinians have already fled the area, to
Safe passage or protection and were fleeing to areas with little water or sanitation. More than a million palestinians had taken refuge there after it was designated a safe zone early on in the conflict. The us has warned israel not to launch an all out offensive there for fear of huge civilian casualties, but israel insists its necessary to route out hamas. This Development Comes as israels military says its recovered the body of another hostage inside gaza. The body is of ron binyamin who the military says was killed in the October The 7th attack on israel by hamas. His body has now been returned to israel to be buried. This is the fourth body found in 2a hours. This is the scene live in tel aviv, where the relatieves where the relatives of the hostages are among those protesting against Benjamin Netanyahus government and demanding new elections. They are asking for more Government Action to release their loved ones. And in a further Development Israeli war cabinet minister, benny ga
About a quarter of the amount of air defences it needs to fight off russian attacks. He said ukraine needed up to 130 of the western f 16 fighter jets. Dozens are due to arrive sometime this Yearfrom European donor countries and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. Mr zelensky also said the military was still short of manpower and russia could increase its attacks in ukraines north east following its recent gains near the city of kharkiv. Translation we need to staff the reserve. There are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. We need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse outlined how desperate this need is for air defences. Well, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list, thats been the case for the last year or so, because of two things russia has continued to launch Missile Attacks on cities across ukraine, but russia has become more do
Sometime this Yearfrom European donor countries and ukrainian pilots are currently being trained. Mr zelensky also said the military was still short of manpower and russia could increase its attacks in ukraines north east following its recent gains near the city of kharkiv. Translation we need to staff the reserve. There are a serious number of brigrades which a large number of them are empty. We need to do this so the guys can have a normal rotation, then their morale will be improved. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse outlined how desperate this need is for air defences. Well, he always plonks air defences at the top of his wish list, thats been the case for the last year or so, because of two things russia has continued to launch Missile Attacks on cities across ukraine, but russia has become more dominant in the air, right across the front line. So that means that when you have exhausted, thinly stretched ukrainian troops trying to defend cities, you have russian fighter j