This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The hour, the chaos on capitol hill. The Republican House dysfunction continues as the fight for a new speaker of the house continues to sputter after republican representative jim jordan failed to get enough votes. The house has recessed, at least for the time being. Leading right now, another tragic turn in the war in israel and gaza. Hundreds of people have been killed by an explosion at a hospital in gaza, according to the Palestinian Health ministry, these images youre seeing show fires raging with an Ambulance Feed away inside the hospital we see images of devastation with this blurred image of a dead body in a hallway. Its the Al Ahli Baptist hospital in the center of gaza city which reportedly was Housing Hundreds of those already injured by airstrikes. Perhaps many more seeking shelter from the strikes. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the west bank declared three days of mourning for the victims.
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get out. yeah. i think it was a little awkward, to say the least. you have the president who said, you know, these are our democratic values, we value these relationships, these are the ethics we abide by, we are democracies, we are better than autocracies, we are unified, we work together towards a common goal. then you have afghanistan and then you have this argument with the french, an ally. so you can imagine the french sitting out there in particular, but others as well saying, wait a minute, where was all this discussion with us before you decided to withdraw? you know, we were participants, we need to know what your intentions were. why not? why not do that? and aren t you a little hypocritical here? i m sure they re relieved he s not donald trump, honestly, because donald trump wanted to say fwgood-bye to nato.
general assembly president biden pledged to, quote, advocate for the rights of women and girls in afghanistan. how is that advocacy going on the ground there, nic? reporter: deaf ears you might want to say because today the taliban announced an additional 17 members for the government. they were pleased from their point of view to say the 17 new members, none of them are members of the taliban. people here think it s window dress. there was not a single woman among them, and president biden was very clear in his speech at the unga that they need to respect women s rights, their economic rights, their political rights, their social rights and the personal rights. that didn t come across today in the new position announcements. nic robertson, thanks so much, my friend. canada s prime minister justin trudeau survived a snap election he called himself but not quite what he wanted. stay with us.
no. which probably, generally speaking, is focused on what biden wants to focus, the withdrawal from afghanistan, not how the withdrawal happened. yeah. i think he is playing to a domestic audience always and you project strength and you talk about your values. the thing that biden always comes back to, and we hear this so much, is his insistence that democracies have to prove that they can deliver, because autocracies are out there and they re delivering. democracies have to do more. look what he s got on his plate here in washington right now. he s got to deliver on infrastructure and all his economic programs. they re all happenging in the balance right now. it s all part of one piece, which is i ve got to deliver for you, project strength and i ve got to win. when he talks about democracy versus autocracy, he s not just talking about china and russia