three hours of breaking stories, and checking out we start in israel where a palestinan man has injured seven people after driving his car into them in tel aviv and attacking them with a knife. he was later shot and killed. the palestinian militant group, hamas, has welcomed the attack. it suggested the man was responding to an israeli army raid in thejenin refugee camp in the west bank, which has left at least ten people dead. palestinian officials say about 3000 people fled their homes in the camp after israeli troops moved in on monday. israel said its forces had conducted an extensive counter terrorism effort . palestinian leaders have condemned the assault as a new war crime . 0ur middle east correspondant anna foster is at the israeli west bank barrier and has sent this update. there sent this update. is still activity and where seen there is still activity and where seen videos from inside thejenin cam that show is really shows use rating houses where they believed
and i get there early in the morning. i go to a biden witch hunt, and then i come here in the afternoon, and i stop and we make speeches and we get you votes and all that stuff, but nobody s ever had to do this before. that was donald trump in new hampshire last night as he travels back and forth between courtrooms and the campaign trail. we ll have the latest on the race for the republican nomination now just days away for the first primary of the contest. also ahead, an update from capitol hill on the push to pass another short-term funding solution to avoid a government shutdown. and we ll go through the new developments out of the middle east including the escalating attacks from the houthi rebels in the red sea. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 17th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with politics, and former president donald trump is now focusing on the next big contest in the republican pr
more than a hundred un member states agree on a treaty to protect the world s oceans. the ship has reached the shore. cheering and applause a huge fire has ripped through one of the rohingya refugee camps in cox s bazar in south east bangladesh. the charity action aid said their initial assessment was that more than 2000 shelters had been gutted, leaving around 12,000 people homeless. hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees, who escaped violence in neighbouring myanmar, have been living in crammed camps near the border in bangladesh. earlier i spoke to our south asia correspondent anbarasan ethirajan who started off my telling me where the fire took place and gave me an update on what we know so far. it is a very sprawling camp where tens of thousands of people live in cramped conditions. and these huts are made up of bamboo and sometimes by polythene sheets or even tin roofs and they are packed. there are tens of thousands of people living there. in the evenings, someho
engaging in military exercises. which north korean some publicly stated, repeatedly that they find provocative and they see as kind of a rehearsal for an invasion of north korea. just hours before, we saw this latest missile strike, we had a statement from north korea. condemning united states redeployment of an aircraft carrier. that specifically the u.s. has ronald reagan near the korean peninsula. and the north korean s call this, their statements are typically have the sort of awkward phrasing. they called it a considerably huge negative splash and regional security. and they said that they were defending themselves with missile tests, which they have been doing since the beginning of the year. and, again increasing frequency. they told us a righteous reaction to these intimidating military drills. so you know, this really has seen this year a big increase in the pace and in the tone of these missile tests. and again, in the tit-for-tat sort of answers by the united state