An israeli bombardment in the Eastern Parts Of Rafah has already displaced Tens Of Thousands of palestinians. Mr blinken has been talking to cbs news as we look at rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but potentially at an incredibly high cost to civilians. But one that is not durable, one that is not sustainable, and they will be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency because a lot of armed hamas will be left, no matter what they do in rafah. Or if they leave and get out of gaza, as we believe they need to do, then youre going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that is likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by hamas again. So, weve been working for many weeks on developing credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding. We havent seen that come from israel. Weve been working with arab countries and others on that plan. We need to see that, too. Pick we have the same objective as israel. We want to make sure that hamas cannot govern gaza again. We want to make sure its demilitarised. That israel gets its leaders. Thats what we are determined to do. We have a different way and, we think, a more effective, durable way of getting that done and we will remain in conversation with israel about exactly that. I spoke to our middle east bureau chief, jo floto, and asked how much criticism israels strategy in gaza is attracting domestically. Well, i think in the run up to today, it certainly come to today, its certainly come out to the surface. Weve had senior military officials, albeit anonymously, briefing the israeli media about their dissatisfaction or their concern, rather, that there isnt a proper political strategy for how to end this war. And that, in other words, in order to defeat hamas, you have to replace hamas. And thats something we havent seen set out in detail by the israeli Prime Minister. But youre right, today, just a couple of minutes ago, weve had sirens sounding across the whole of israel as the country marks its memorial day remembering those whove died in all of israels wars, but in particular those whove died since october the seventh. And that is a price that israelis are continuing to pay because the Military Offensive carries on. More soldiers are dying. And, of course, there is concern about the fate of hostages who remain in gaza. Now we think of more than 35 of those 130 odd people have been killed. How many of the remainder survive is a different question. But the anxiety of the families of those hostages is huge, palpable and is often angry as they protest on israels streets. But today the mood is somber. Its reflective. But there is also concern about how long this war, which has lasted 220 days so far, how long its going to carry on for. And on that, i mean, the israeli army appears to be having to go back into areas which it had originally said it had cleared, for instance, in northern gaza. How difficult is that to for the israeli public to see and on that, i mean, the israeli army appears and on that, i mean, the israeli army appears to be having to go back into areas which it had originally said it had cleared, for instance, in northern gaza. How difficult is that for the israeli public to see that happening again, to see those areas being fought over again . I think this goes back into the divisions over what the strategy should be. So youre right, the idf are injabalia. Theyre in a what used to be a stronghold of hamas, one that they thought they had cleared of hamas gunmen months ago. But theyre back in because in their view, hamas has regrouped in that area. And similarly, we saw in zeitoun, which is south of gaza city, the idf having to go in for the third time now. If you listen to the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, he wants to maintain israels ability to keep going into gaza, to suppress any regrouping of hamas at any point, even after a ceasefire. And that is something that obviously hamas doesnt want. But there are increasing numbers within the Military Establishment here. Who think thats not a strategy for victory. Its a strategy for continuing this war forever. Now to georgia , where overnight protests have continued into the morning in a last ditch effort to prevent the passing of a controversial law. The bill requires organisations receiving more than 20 of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence or face fines. Western countries and georgias opposition have denounced it as authoritarian and russian inspired , but the countrys Prime Minister vowed on sunday to push ahead with the law. Our South Caucasus correspondent Rayhan Demytrie says despite the efforts of protesters, the law is unlikely to be voted down. Well, it looks increasingly unlikely given that it tookjust 67 seconds for the Legal Affairs committee that held the third and final reading of this controversial law this morning to pass the third reading. You can see behind me, some protesters still remain in the street and theyre blocking this main thoroughfare here in tbilisi, here outside parliament. Theyre sitting on the ground and holding their ground. Theyre waiting for more students to join the protest. I was just talking to one of the students from the medical university, and she says that they have about 6,000 students at the university. Theyre all boycotting their studies and theyre planning to join the protest. And we know that the similar picture is happening at other several other universities here in tbilisi. So the students want to come to reinforce whats been happening overnight. And theyre still hoping that the government might hear their voices and withdraw this controversial bill. And tell us what the impact would be if the bill did go through. Well, what these people are worried about the most is, of course, that it would restrict the democratic freedoms in the country. Theyre worried that by introducing this law, although the government says, look, its just about, you know, transparency orfinancing, just submit your annual report and tell us where the money is coming from and what are you spending it on. But this bill also comes with the title that these organisations and independent media, they would have to label themselves as an organisation, acting in the interests of a foreign power. And protesters are worried that it would ultimately kind of silence these organisations. But more than that, theyre worried that by adopting this law that the government is kind of making a u turn on georgias foreign policy. And we know that more than 80 of georgians want and see their countrys future as part of the eu. And as they dubbed this law the russian law, theyre worried that its adoption would mean that theyre somehow going back to russia. And theres been some opposition, hasnt there, from or at least some criticism of this from the us in particular. Thats right. Theres been a lot of criticism, a lot of calls towards the georgian government to halt this law, to have more discussions, not to adopt the law. And a number of european leaders and european institutions have been saying that, look, if you adopt this law, it would not help you with your current process of accession to the european union, because georgia is a candidate country and to join the e. U. , it received this status late last year, hard won status. And thats why people are so worried that they have this Once In A Lifetime opportunity for their country to become a member of the eu. But this law, theyre worried, would stop it from becoming an eu member. Lets speak to Alex ScrivenerExecutive Director of the democratic security institute, a pro democracy think tank based in tbilisi. Your at the demonstrations overnight, do you hope it might still prevent the government passing this law . ,. , still prevent the government Passing Thislaw . , this law . Historically protest in geora ia this law . Historically protest in georgia do this law . Historically protest in georgia do work. This law . Historically protest in georgia do work. This this law . Historically protest in georgia do work. This law this law . Historically protest in georgia do work. This law was | georgia do work. This law was attempted to pass, something very is attempted to pass, something very is at last year and Mass Street Protests forced the government to u turn but this time unfortunately government much more intent on putting its all through and that has caused even larger protests. We are at a stage now where there is a stand off with a t 90 of georgians support eu membership around supporting are out supporting these protests. The government lost in 2020 this government lost in 2020 this government won in 2020 on the mandate of supporting eu membership and now we have one that is insistent in passing this and eu officials have been clear in saying it is incompatible with eu membership. It is incompatible with eu membershi. , ~. , membership. Last week we had the resident membership. Last week we had the president of membership. Last week we had the president of the membership. Last week we had the president of the european membership. Last week we had the i president of the European Commission also have underlain saying georgia was on the road to europe so do you think it would just jeopardise was on the road to europe so do you think it would justjeopardise that path to europe if it does go ahead ursula von der leyen. Ahead ursula von der leyen. 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Thank you very much for your thoughts on while it is on the books. Thank you | very much for your thoughts on the subject. The metropolitan police say theyve charged three men under the National Security act with allegedly assisting the Hong Kong Intelligence Service and foreign interference. Scotland yard said a number of arrests had been made and searches carried out across england. The three men will appear before magistrates later today. Officers say this operation is not connected to a recently reported Counter Terrorism policing investigation linked to russia. Russias Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu, is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russias security council. Hes a long standing ally of Vladimir Putin and has served as Defence Minister since 2012, Playing A Key role in russias invasion of ukraine. His replacement will be Andrei Belousov an economist and the deputy Prime Minister. Russia editor Steve Rosenberg explained that at the kremlin, reshuffles are unusual. Whoever the russian government ministers are, whoever� s sitting around that cabinet table, there is one man and one man alone in russia who calls the shots, and that is Vladimir Putin. Hes the man with all the power. Having said that, a Government Reshuffle in russia is interesting, particularly when key ministers like the Defence Minister is being changed. They dont happen too often. The foreign minister, hes been in his post for 20 years. Mr shoigu, he has been Defence Minister for 12 years. He was appointed by Vladimir Putin in 2012, i think. The two men were said to be pretty close for a long time. They even went on holiday a few times to siberia together. Last week, we were on red square watching the Victory Day Parade and Defence Minister shoigu was there inspecting the Russian Troops. But there had been rumours for some time that he could be moved, he could lose hisjob, and it seems thats whats happening. He still has a job to go to. Hes being moved to the Russian Security council as the head of the security council. But i think thats a demotion compared to being Defence Minister. Whos coming in, whos replacing him . President zelensky says theres fierce fighting along a large part of the kharkiv border in Eastern Ukraine as russia attempts to regain territory it lost nearly two years ago. Thousands of civilians have been evacuated from the area where russia claims to have captured nine villages since they launched their Surprise Offensive on the region three days ago. Strikes were also seen on the russian side of the border in belgorod yesterday, with Russian Military saying a Ukrainian Air strike destroyed a section of a ten storey apartment block. I asked our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse about the events. It certainly is causing Ukrainian Forces some concern. We saw the first meaningful Border Crossing by Russian Troops since the initial full scale at the end of week, and they arent just hanging around, they are taking the territory and claiming they have taken nine villages now and claiming to be inside a town called vovchansk which has come under heavy bombing over the past couple days. That is something ukraine disputes, saying there is still heavy fighting going on. But there are also growing fears that when you have thisjoint incursion, as they try to move in on this new North Eastern axis of the front line, they are approaching ukraines second city, kharkiv. Now, while itsnot thought these troops are capable now, while its not thought these troops are capable of taking that city, if they could get within 30km, that would put them an artillery range, and air defences can do nothing about artillery shells. And there People Living there, as weve seen in the east, cities can then come under such heavy damage and in a worst Case Scenario for ukraine, you have russian soldiers moving in, pinning a flag and calling it liberation. So these are worrying times for the kharkiv region. Its clear that russia was looking to capitalise on the delayed american ammunition and weaponry, and all ukraine can do at the moment, as it acknowledges, is to try to do everything it can to hold the line, by dragging already overstretched personnel to the area to try to hold on. What is the impact of a key departure in the Russian Military . I think few expect things to change in the battlefield as a direct consequence of the Defence Minister being replaced. Things have changed in a very unwelcome way for kyiv and the enf of last week. One official said, if they are changing their Defence Minister, it signals how things are going, but that was a slightly rose tinted interpretation. One economist put it as bad news, because mr belousov is an economist, as you heard steve say there, someone central to russias war footing, central to its economy moving towards manufacturing armoured vehicles, tanks, as part of a country continuing to mobilise Hundreds Of Thousands of men. Russia making its size count, and this apppointment suggests thats a strategy that will continue for some time. So you have those nerves further afield, but what is happening on the ground changes little for ukraine. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. New evidence has been uncovered that the British Government was warned by its own Embassy Staff in the United States about the risk of hiv from contaminated blood in the early 1980s. Its now thought more than 1200 nhs patients with the Blood Disorder haemophilia were infected with the virus, many after being given a treatment made from american blood plasma. Our Health Reporter jim reed has this report. From the 19705 to the early � 90s, Tens Of Thousands of patients were infected with hiv and hepatitis c. Something that should have saved their life. Killed them.