smith. john: i m john roberts. the story with martha starts rights now. martha: good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. right now breaking on the story, israel s prime minister saying the fight in gaza is the second war of end. he calls it an existential battle. any calls for a cease fire, he says, would be a surrender as idf expands their ground operation and rescues an israeli soldier who was kidnapped october 7th. a huge development this afternoon. they have vowed to carry out more raids and put pressure on hamas to release the 229 or maybe north of that number remaining hostages that are believed to be in gaza including ten, is the estimate, we think is the right number of americans now being held hostage by hamas. the biden administration has teed up big meetings that could be central to what happens next. senior members of biden s cabinet will sit down with top saudi officials over the next few days. saudi arabia could be very pivotal in the future of the middle eas
it comes after warehouses containing flour and other basic supplies were ransacked by thousands of people. the international red cross is warning that no adequate humanitarian response is now possible in gaza, which it describes as a catastrophic failing . israel had said egypt and the us would be expanding humanitarian aid into gaza today. but egypt has blamed delays on israel s inspection regime. it comes as the israel defense forces continue their ground offensive in gaza, entering what they say is the second stage of the war. the idf say they ve targeted a50 military targets belonging to hamas, designated a terrorist organisation by many western governments, after moo israelis were killed in hamas raids on southern israel, on october 7th and more than 220 taken hostage. phone and internet communications are gradually returning to gaza, after being cut off by israel as it began its ground operation. there s a warning from iran of the conflict widening: its president, ebra
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need. a long-range weapon, in order to take on russia, it has taken too long for those weapons to arrive in ukraine, too much fear of escalation rather than being clear that the war aim is for russia to be defeated. that s what we need to see from the biden administration, we need to see clarity so the american public are convinced this is important and doable. and i think it is doable and lots of people say this is an issue for europe and we ve rapidly become an issue for the united states if vladimir putin wins. paul: because of the threat to nato and vladimir putin s armies would move up to more of the border of nato but do you think vladimir putin would threaten nato? yes. i believe he would stop in
about the world of democracies and the world of autocracies. is this what we re up against, which is a sobering thought, because the three largest nuclear powers in the world, and you have to, russian china, allied and in a sense their missiles pointed at the united states? well, what i see as usaid administrator traveling to developing countries is china making, continuing to make a whole series of investments, often causing those countries to incur a awful lot of debt. but really, carrying a lot about its standing in the global south. and this gets to jake s point about the awkwardness of throwing its lot in with a naked aggressor committing war crimes as a matter of state policy. i mean, when you set out to de-electrify a country in the dead of winter, that is enshrining the intentional destruction of civilian infrastructure as a war aim. that s very unusual. and to do so publicly and flamboyantly, that is, that creates great awkwardness for the people s republic of china. and wit