You are watching bbc news with sarah campbell. You are watching bbc news with sarah campbell. In the last few hours, the Israeli Military has said that more than a million palestinians must leave the Northern Gaza Strip within the next 2a hours ahead of an expected ground operation. In response, the un spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences. The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation. That statement has sparked an angry reaction from israel. The countrys ambassador to the United Nations said israel is trying to minimise harm to gazans. He went on to say that for many years the un has turned a blind eye to the arming of hamas and the use of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure in the gaza strip as a hiding place for weapons and murd
Maccallum and this is the story. Alive look at a capitol hill, about to hold a News Conference after police cleared an anti israel encampment at George Washington university. It will take you there live as it gets underway in moments. The binder Administration Confirms a slow walking a shipment of my shipment of bombs to israel over concerns it could be used during a Ground Operation and rafah. s defense secretary lloyd austin said that has not been a final determination on what to do with the weapons but critics say the move does not drive with this. President biden my commitment to the safety of the jewish people, the security of israel and the threat to exist the jewish state is arent clad even when we disagree. Trace Brooke Goldstein are here, but refers to the Senior National correspondent rick jensen he is live up for us today at the white house, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Officials Say they have paused that shipment of bombs over concerns of an offensive campaign and rafah,
Beginning, speaking just moments ago just the beginning of his countrys response and quickly escalating a war between israel and hamas began saturday at 6 30 a. M. With the Terror Offensive that left hundreds of civilians slaughtered dead. In the last hour we learned volunteers in israel checked more than 100 bodies from that massacre. Hamas claims to have taken more than 100 hostages and Islamic Jihad says theyve taken 30 and hamas warns they will start killing them if israel strikes gaza without warning. I want to go back on the ground with cnns Nic Robertson who is, i believe, stilld sderot. Nic, talk about what you are seeing there this evening. Yeah. Weve heard the fighter jets in the sky. We havent heard any major, massive explosions coming from gaza for a little while. There havent been any incoming Artillery Shells fired by rather, there has not been any incoming rocket fire from hamas into this area in the past hour or so, so in that way its been quiet, but one thing that were
About workers, Government Workers being put on furlough or having their pay delayed. Instead this deal pushes the can down the road for a couple of weeks they have passed a Stopgap Resolution that funds the government through to november 17th. At which point, the clock resets and we start again. What it does, as you say, is fund the government, what it doesnt do, is provide aid to ukraine, and it doesnt address the keyissue ukraine, and it doesnt address the key issue for republican, which is addressing concerns they have about the border, and so i think that is the border, and so i think that is the debate, that is where it shifts to next but complicating all of this, ben, is the fact that now, you have the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy, whose position, Leadership Role is under threat because one of the hard liners in the republican party, his own party, has threatened to try and have him removed from position. So, the talks, next time round, could be even more fractious than w
Predicting the inability of House Republicans to simply do their jobs, the Biden Administration is now threatening Government Agencies to review their shut down plants. Make no mistake, the Government Shutdown is going to result in real consequences for millions of americans, and it will hurt our economy. Heres a snapshot of the last Government Shutdown. This occurred between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 on trumps watch. A stretched on for 34 days, 300,000 Government Workers were furloughed and. It costs our economy 11 billion dollars. Its not Monopoly Money, folks. Its not Monopoly Money to republicans who think that we have too much debt in the country, 11 Trillion Dollars for no particular reason, seems foolhardy. I should not be complicated. Funding the government is a basic power given to congress in the constitution. Its one of the few things that the United States constitution actually says that congress has to do it, its not optional. They have what you commonly he