Hello and welcome to unspun world. Why is israels government deliberately flouting the wishes of its leading ally, the United States . Perhaps it goes to show what netanyahu is willing to do for his own political survival. This is definitely kind of bringing israel towards a more isolationist stance. Whats the extent of chinas infiltration of western countries . Whether its in the uk or in other countries weve seen them in the us, weve seen them in australia, theres a Canadian Parliamentary inquiry theres something going on there. And why is a law on foreign agents in georgia causing mass demonstrations . They see it as a pivot in the countrys Foreign Policy. It is quite black and white. You know, its either eu or russia. Top american leaders often have problems with israel, which depends heavily on american support. Gunfire. But doesnt necessarily do what the us wants. Usually, though, american officials keep quiet about it. Not so the us deputy secretary of state, kurt campbell. He s
Cabinet has threatened to withdraw his centrist party from the coalition unless Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out a post war plan for the gaza strip. In response, Benjamin Netanyahu said implementing his demands would amount to defeat for israel. First, lets hear those comments from benny gantz. Translation something has gone wrong. Essential decisions were not taken. Acts of leadership required to ensure victory were not carried out. A small minority has taken over the Command Bridge of the israeli ship and is leading it towards a wall of rocks. While Israeli Soldiers are displaying incredible bravery on the front, some of those who sent them to battle are acting with cowardice and a lack of responsibility. Security will remain in our hands only. We will not allow any outside power, friendly or hostile, to impose a Palestinian State on us. Earlier i spoke to our Correspondent Danjohnson who is in jerusalem. He provided context to the fallout between president netanyahu and be
charity medecins sans frontieres says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has lost contact with its medics working there. israel s defense forces have been closing in on northern gaza. these purple areas show the approximate align has come in that operations at al shafi hospital have stopped because of a lack of fuel. meanwhile, in an interview with the bbc, the french president emmanuel macron has called for israel to stop killing babies and women in gaza. france, like the uk, has proscribed hamas as a terrorist organisation. our correspondent nick beake is injerusalem with the latest. this was israel s aerial attack on gaza overnight. an unrelenting barrage, like most nights over the past five weeks. israeli forces have now surrounded gaza city s major hospitals, where they say hamas have built headquarters underground. but thousands of patients and those just trying to seek shelter are stranded on what is now a front line of the fighting. the red cross says hospitals
situation with no fuel in the ventilators have stopped working in the main building. we feel it every few seconds hear from the al shifa hospital. the people who try this morning with a ventilator from the hospital had been shot in the streets and some of them have been killed and some injured. no one can arrive to the hospital. we cannot get outside of the building because thatis get outside of the building because that is shooting everywhere. we don t have electricity, we don t have water or even food and we are afraid that is in the middle of the night we lost electricity to the main i see you and the prenatal i see you and one of the team was hurt in the neck and was paralysed. we don t want to have any breaks due to dead bodies outside the main generator which is not working because we don t have fuel to run this generator. this is the situation now. at gaza s largest hospital, al shifa , the international charity msf says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has los
Heres to you norfolk. A white wine from the broads, beats global competition, to be crowned one of the worlds best. And the legend of king arthur gets the guy richie big screen treatment. Our own knight at the round table mark kermode will be giving it his verdict in the film review at 5 45pm. Its five oclock. Our main story Julian Assange the founder of wikileaks and urged on the belt that prosecutors in sweden have dropped their investigation into Rape Allegations against him. He said in a tweet i do not forgive or forget. He has always denied the charges. The development emerged this morning as the swedish prosecutor announced they would discontinue the investigation into an alleged sex offence committed in 2010. Julian assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy since august 2012. The met police say they would still be obliged arrest him on a lesser charge if he tried to leave. He has now gone back inside the embassy and has not said what he will do next. Victory is howJuli