cross border fire into in the west bank yesterday, cross borderfire into lebanon in the past few days and growing fears that yemen could be being pulled into this conflict as our international editorjeremy bowen reports. more palestinians left their homes moving along salah al din street, the road to southern gaza, after israel said they would not be attacked if they left the battle zone to the north. pauses in israeli combat operations were welcomed by the americans. all this raises the ghosts of 1948 for palestinians, when more than 700,000 of them fled or were expelled byjewish troops as israel won its independence. israel never allowed them home. two of the gaza hostages were in new videos. hanna katsir blamed benjamin netanyahu, israel s prime minister, for their plight. so did yagil yaakov, who s 13. hostage videos are usually made under duress, so the bbc is not broadcasting them. and across the west bank, the other side of the occupied territories, more palestinians
australian surfer laura enever paddled into this huge wave, which was over 13 metres high, beating the previous women s record by just a foot. you re all caught up now. see you later. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the us is still the world s most powerful nation, but its ability to shape geopolitics, to suit its own interests, is under severe strain. president biden portrays america s backing for ukraine s war against russian aggression and israel s war on hamas as a twin defence of a values based international order. but much of the world isn t buying it. inside america, too, there is significant pushback. my guest is fiona hill, former us national security council expert on russia. how dangerous is this new world disorder? fiona hill, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much, stephen. as we speak to each other, the world s headlines are being made by the conflict in
wheelchair. a second hostage is a teenage boy. both hostages sharply criticise israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu but it s not clear if they are reading from a script. the israeli army because the video psychological terrorism. at this point, what more do we know about the video and the hostages that were featured in this video? this video? this is a video released this video? this is a video released not this video? this is a video released not by this video? this is a video released not by hamas i this video? this is a video | released not by hamas but this video? this is a video - released not by hamas but by one of the other palestinian factions in gaza, palestinian islamichhad, a smaller group, thought to be holding a number of hostages itself. there were two in the video. a woman in her 70s who was abducted from a kibbutz near 0z on october the 7th, and a 13 year old boy. in the video, so to speak and both issue quite harsh criticism of benjamin netanyahu
right wing protesters which she said was rightly stern with what she called pro palestinian mobs , who she said were largely ignored . it s unusual for a home secretary to criticise the police in public and number ten said it did not clear the article, and that suggested changes were not followed. her remarks precede a planned pro palestinian march for a ceasefire in gaza, which is due to take place in london on saturday, armistice day. let s go to westminster and to our political editor, chris mason. forjust a moment put politics to one side and imagine this scenario in your own life. you ignore the boss, you undermine the boss, you humiliate the boss. i hazard a guess it would undermine your own job security. and then, as far as the home secretary is concerned, is what she actually had to say. those in charge here at the home office command one of the great offices of state home secretary. the latest tenant here, suella braverman, approaches thejob with a bluntnes
here are tonight s headlines. more than a dozen letters sent to election offices nationwide tonight where federal investigators think mail is coming from. right now, investigators are in a race to find out whoever is behind it. norah: for our daily positive air strikes in gaza. why israel agreed and what it means for the hostages still held by hamas and the civilians trying to escape the fighting. a massive air strike hit this house, which consists of three floors and full of civilian. norah: ambush in florida. two deputies in critical condition tonight after a driver rams into them, allegedly targeting the officers. the actor s strike is over. how fran drescher became the hero of hollywood, ending the historic strike. and when your favorite shows could come back. when do you think we re going to the cameras rolling again? today! norah: big news here in the nation s capital. west virginia senator joe manchin says he will not run for another term. what it cou