Ami ayalon, in northern israel, welcome to hardtalk. Ami ayalon, in northern israel, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for invitin welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Great welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Great to welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for inviting me. Great to have for inviting me. Great to have you on. You have a long, distinguished career at the top of the Israeli Security forces. Obviously that and sometime ago. You have been watching israels Military Assault in gaza from afar. Has it unfolded in the way you expected . Yes, it has unfolded in the way i expected but not in the way that i thought it should be. There is a huge tension between the way that i see this war and the way that i see this war and the way that the government define it, and the problem is, and i have set it from the very beginning, that this war is a war without any political goal. And what happens to this type of war, that the wa
Amin salam in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thank you, stephen. Always a pleasure. Well, its great to have you back on the show and if i may, i want to start with some words you said just one week after october 7 that is, after the hamas Attack On Southern Israel and at the very beginning of israels massive military response. You said at that point, we do not want to be here in lebanon a Bargaining Chip in a larger geopolitical game. Isnt that precisely what your country has become . Stephen, youve known me for always my honesty and transparency and we reached a point in lebanon where everything is very clear and theres nothing to hide. And saying the truth and sharing the truth, admitting what is at fault, is the best strategy to follow. So, yes, i was very clear in what i said at that point of time, particularly because lebanon is a small state in this region, has been paying a very, very high price for conflicts around lebanon and in the region for at least the past 75 yea
our correspondent danny savage reports. killed in the line of duty, pc sharon beshenivsky shot dead responding to reports of a robbery. she was murdered on her daughter s fourth birthday. this was the scene in november 2005. an attack alarm had been activated at a travel agents in bradford. pc sharon beshenivsky s patrol car pulled up opposite. she and her colleague, pc teresa milburn, crossed the road to investigate. as sharon was approaching the door, the guys inside burst out and shot her down her vest. john brambani runs a nearby furniture shop. 18 years on, he s still shaken up by what he saw. when something like that happens on your doorstep, itjust makes you wonder how safe you are. you see it on television and things in america and other places, but in your own back yard, it s a bit frightening. this memorial now stands on the spot where pc sharon beshenivsky died. although only three men were involved in the actual raid here, there were seven members of the gang alto
will start with that phone call between joe will start with that phone call betweenjoe biden and prime minister benjamin netanyahu after last 90 minutes and also they hung up to each other. and we ll have some sense of what they talked about and something called a readout here which gives some details that conversation and the tone of the us towards israel has raised a few eyebrows. he made clear this isjoe biden, the readout goes, israel needs to announce and implement a series of measurable steps to announce civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers. we haven t heard from president biden yet but we have heard from the secretary of state, antony blinken. heard from the secretary of state, antony blinken. despite important ste -s antony blinken. despite important steps israel antony blinken. despite important steps israel is antony blinken. despite important steps israel is allow antony blinken. despite important steps israel is allow assistan
the us presidentjoe biden has told the prime minister of israel benjamin netanyahu that the killings of the seven aid workers in gaza were not actionable and that israel should work to get a humanitarian cease fire immediately. the two spoke for half an hour in the first call since the deadly attack on monday. we has occurred in the last few moments from the secretary of state who has been speaking in brussels and touched on what the president had to say in that phone call with mr netanyahu. the president call with mr netanyahu. tue: president emphasised call with mr netanyahu. tte: president emphasised of the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall unitarian situation are unsuitable. he made clear the need for israel to announce a series of specific concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers. he made clear that us policy with respect to gaza will be determined by our assessment of israel s immediate