will: benjamin netanyahu rejecting the biden administration s call for a humanitarian pause and gaza as they push deeper into the gaza strip as the leader of hezbollah threatens further escalation with israel and warns the us involvement in the conflict will not scare us. i am griffin jenkins. alicia: i am alicia acuna. there s a much calling for cease-fire and end to us aid to israel. we have coverage with steve harrigan on israel/lebanon border, trey yingst in southern is reliant mike emanuel in washington. we start with you for the latest on the pro-palestinian march. reporter: good afternoon. the crowd to build steadily, people coming from all over, some pro-palestinian, others antiwar, the bottom line is they are calling on president biden to defund support to israel and calling for end to military action in the middle east region. you can see freedom plaza is inside of the capit0l building. the streets have been closed off. all kinds of signage and us aid to israel, l
good morning. and welcome to our first show. where every saturday, i ll sit down with some really smart people to discuss the biggest stories and what we hope will be a different way. today, we re asking, with mounting pressure on president biden, to call for a cease-fire in gaza, how much say does he really have in what israel does? plus, legal challenges now, to keep donald trump off the ballot. should judges or voters decide his future? and later, a hot topic for parents and kids. should schools ban students? from using cell phones? our panel here is all ready to go. sit back, and grab your coffee, and let s talk about it. first, our saturday starter. president biden walking a diploma diplomatic tight rope as israel continues the offensive in gaza am response to the horrific attack by hamas last month. secretary of state blinken is back in the area this week. getting more humanitarian aid in gaza and more hostages out. here at home there are growing calls for israel to
head. the kidnapping and rape of a 13-year-old girl in new york city stunning the nation. we could see the suspect arrested by the help of good samaritans in court this hour. we re waiting news on that as we say hello. a brand-new hour begins now. i m bill hemmer with my friend and colleague today. martha: great to be with you. i m martha maccallum. we re learning more about this suspect who was accused of assaulting a teenager in a terrifying attack in a park in queens, new york in broad daylight. the 25-year-old migrant from ecuador entered the united states illegally in 2021, crossing at eagle pass, texas, how many live shots and reports have we seen from there? he was one of the individuals who came across there in 2021. it s nearly 2000 miles from this quiet park in queens, new york. but we know that all of these folks are being sent all over the country. every state is now essentially a border state dealing with this problem. there is also the illegal immigrant arrest
welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in italy, where president biden and ukraine s leader volodymyr zelensky have signed a ten year security agreement following the g7 s approval of a plan to use profits from seized russia assets to fund kyiv s war effort. joe biden said it would include intelligence sharing, troop training, adhering to nato standards and investment in ukraine s industrial base to make more weapons. mr zelensky described it as a bridge towards nato membership. the g7 deal sees a loan of $50 billion sent to ukraine. the group leaders agreed it showed moscow that ukraine s allies weren t backing down and president putin couldn t simply sit the war out. back in 2022, two days after russia s invasion, members of the g7 european union worked together to freeze $280 billion in russian central bank funds outside of russia. i m very pleased to share that this week, this week, the g7 signed a plan to finalise, unlock,
Say shows the countrys economic strength. It might seem like an extraordinary celebration to mark the opening of a street, but its about so much more than that. And we will introduce you to the hard line republican lawmakers, who are threatening the president s agenda. But are their voters loyal to the Freedom Caucus or are they loyal to donald trump . Hello, i am katty kay in washington. Christian fraser is in london. The largest Non Nuclear Bomb ever used has been dropped by the us air force on a remote area of afghanistan that was being used by so called Islamic State. The weapon is know in short hand as the mother of all bombs, and it is so destructive it has never been used by the us military before. The area they targeted was the Achin District of Nangarhar Province in the east of afghanistan. It is one of the most remote regions of the world, and, of late, we know isis fighters have moved in, across the pakistan border. At the weekend a us soldier on Special Operations was kille