Good day to our viewer in the United States and around the world. Im kasie hunt. It is wednesday, october 18. 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, noon in tel aviv where we just heard from President Biden who is in a bilateral meeting right now with israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The president commenting for the first time on camera about the explosion at a hospital in gaza city that officials there say killed hundreds of people. Deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in gaza yesterday. Based on what ive seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there is a lot of people out there who are not sure. Said to be unparalleled and indescribable. A spokesperson says most of the victims are children and women. Hours ago israel released this edited 30 second drone video that Spokesman Says proves that Israeli Military did not cause the explosion. He says craters and other damage are not consistent with an israeli airstrike. They also int
Is a violation of International Law. More details emerge of the hamas attack on a Music Festival where 260 people died. Imagine yourself using a rocket that is meant to fire on houses or tanks fired on a group of 20 civilians. And this is gaza right now. We know the israeli air strikes are continuing over night. The air force saying 200 targets were hit. We will bring you the latest news from both sides of the border. Hello, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. Un agencies have warned that israel s siege of gaza is illegal under International Law and adding another layer of suffering to people there. The Un Human Rights chief also called on hamas to release the hostages they ve seized which include 50 soldiers. The israel gaza war is now in its fourth day. This drone video shows the scale of destuction wreaked across the gaza strip. Israel s army claims to have hit a further 200 hamas targets in overnight bombing. Israel has ordered a total
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that israel is in the state of War Readiness after what is being called the worst attack in the country in 50 years. Overnight, the Palestinian Group hamas which controls gaza launched an all out assault by land, air, and see. Israel responded with airstrikes on at least 21 targets we not know of in gaza. The Israeli Military says hamas infiltrated the southern Israeli Border by both land and sea while gaza based fighters fired more than 2200 rockets into israel. Israeli Officials Say at least 40 israelis have been killed and hundreds more have been injured. Additionally, the Militant Group Palestinian Islamic jihad claims to have captured Israeli Soldiers. Were waiting for confirmation on that, and we will get that from raf sanchez, who is on the ground just north of the Gaza Border In Israel right now. According to media reports, hamas fired a second barrage of attacks towards israel in just the last hour. Al jazeera is reporting that at
Griff those pictures are unbelievable, but whats worse, another round are possible across the Southern Plains today with over 50 Million People possibly in the path under threat for severe weather. Fox weathers Brandy Campbell is live in minedden, iowa a, with the latest. Pleasure hey, brandy. Reporter hey, griff. This has been an especially dangerous start of the weekend for folks here in the u. S. Were just outside of Minedden Iowa where within of the several tornadoes that spun up actually passed through. At this point we are just arriving. As you can see, were at a checkpoint. Their not allowing 9 11 that is not a resident anyone that is not a resident inside this neighborhood. Its a Small Community of around 600 people, and were told a lot of it has been damaged. The Sheriffs Department stating theres about 5060 homes that have been destroyed. So at this point what a we can show you is video of these tornadoes as they passed through this area on friday afternoon. It actually came
for a couple of years there was bad communication, so good communication with chinese officials, and to make sure that the us government understands that having us business in china, active in china, competing in china, is good for the companies and is good for the companies and is good for the united states. the treasury secretary is also wanting to push back on china about overproduction whilst also advocating for favourable conditions for us businesses in china. do you think she s going to be able to achieve that? ho. to be able to achieve that? no, in a word- to be able to achieve that? no, in a word. not to be able to achieve that? no, in a word. not today, to be able to achieve that? iifr, in a word. not today, but i think we need to keep that message coming. you know, if you drop a talking point the chinese will feel, 0k, well, it is sold. so market access will continue to be a strong message, as well as national security. she s going to talking about national se