Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course
being held by hamas, a group deemed a terrorist group or organisation by many western governments. lucy manning reports. iris haim held out hope her son yotam would return, that he would be a hostage who came home. last month, yotam, a heavy metal drummer, was metres from safety. he d escaped his hamas captors with two other hostages. they d left signs saying sos and help, three hostages and waved a white flag. but israeli troops mistakenly thought it was a hamas trap and killed them. iris is clear who she blames. hamas is in charge of all of this terrible day, 7th of october, and all the murdered people and all the soldiers that are killed now, it s just the hamas fault. and in an act of forgiveness, days after yotam s death, iris released a message telling the israeli soldiers involved she didn t blame them. why was that important for you? what did you want to say to them? these soldiers, they also have families and mothers. and i was worried for them also. she sobs. this
light. look for the light. good message on a final night of james corden s show. that was hope, guys, for the future? yeah. a little bit of unity. all right. so let s start there. but there is this in the end. donald trump could not stop mike pence from testifying. his own former vice president appearing before the federal grand jury investigating january 6th. also, cnn live on the ground in ukraine after russian missiles killed at least 16 people across the country, including small children. this is the largest scale assault we have seen in more than a month. and the host of tomorrow night s white house correspondents dinner will join us live this hour, this morning, starts now. lots of developments this morning. this hour, three u.s. soldiers are dead and another injured after two apache helicopters collided in alaska. the army says they were flying back to base ever a training flight. abortion bans, fail to pass south carolina and nepz statehouses. the failur
if there is anyone that could balance all of the tough and competing issues in a high stakes meeting in a region, it is president joe biden. and with that question and about that balance, especially given the murder of khashoggi and president biden has said i made it clear how i feel about that. but yet this visit is validating that there is a balance between strategic economic realities and moral issues. and at same time, it comes back to our dependence on foreign oil, does it not. there are other ways that we should be solving this problem, would you not agree? mika, i want to see us make a transition to a lower carbon cleaner economy to breaking our dependence on fossil energy more than anybody i know. as much as many of my colleagues in my caucus in the senate. and to your point, this highlights that right now at a time when prices at the pump are high for the american people, they ve come down. here in delaware 50 cents over the last month. but they are still too hig
Before you have to be a solution. Because shes not. This is. From berlin tonight europes heat wave is getting hotter france records its highest ever temperature and climate experts warn that this is just a taste of things to come up well bring you the latest from a sizzling Southern France also coming up tonight chinese president xi jinping prepares to meet his u. S. Counterpart for make or break trade talks at the g. 20 summit in japan trump is threatening more tariffs on chinese goods if the 2 countries fail to reach a deal and a rescue ship laden with african migrants defies italys orders to leave its waters countrys Interior Minister calls the captain and who faces arrest and expulsion she tells him i have no time for you. Im bored gov is good to have you with us it has never been this hot before in france today parts of france experienced their highest temperatures on record the mercury reaching in one place a whopping 45. 9 degrees celsius an early summer heat wave has been scorc