Earlier, its interesting, the timing, its been about three weeks now since that first attack by hamas. What you make of the timing and we should not say that this is the awaited Ground Incursion but this is maybe the most significant Military Action we have seen. What do you make of the large gap there, three weeks . First gap there, three weeks . First of all i gap there, three weeks . First of all i think gap there, three weeks . First of all i think the gap there, three weeks . First of all i think the israelis gap there, three weeks . I; st of all i think the israelis did not have a plan for what they wanted to do. They knew what the objective was, to destroy hamas, they didnt necessarily know what they wanted to do, and i think the conversations with the us when President Biden visited, about a week or so ago was very important in terms of the us really saying to the israelis we know your objective but we also know there is a lot of anger, a lot of rage, you really want to go in g
Yes, so this is William Wragg, the conservative mp, who says he met this person on the gay dating app grindr, and he handed over a number of mps phone numbers. He spoke to the times afterwards saying that he was very sorry, that he was mortified by it, but that he was scared because this person had compromising things on him. So there has been support, as you heard in helens report for William Wragg from senior mps within the Conservative Party who fear that he may have been a victim of this. There are questions, though, over hisjudgment in handing over those phone numbers, for a parliamentarian to do that when these numbers are clearly sensitive information, has been questioned by some mps, including within the Conservative Party, but William Wragg told the times that he was mortified and frankly he felt scared because this person that he had met initially on the dating app grindr had Compromising Material on him. Well, to that point, when it comes to Compromising Material, what does
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welcome to the programme. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the war in gaza has entered a second phase, warning it will be long and difficult. speaking at a joint news conference with his defence minister, yoav gallant, and emergency war cabinet member benny gantz, mr netanyahu described the conflict as israel s second war of independence. he declared israel would win the war and make every effort to bring the hostages home. in his first comments since the war began on seven october, hamas s leader in the gaza strip has offered to release all hostages being held in gaza in return for the release of all hamas prisoners in israeli jails. in a statement, yahya sinwar says: we are ready for an immediate exchange deal that includes the release of all prisoners. of all prisoners in the prisons of the zionist enemy in exchange for the release of all prisoners with the resistance. it comes 2a hours after israel stepped up its bombardment of gaza. israel said the