Hello everyone, im john, velocity are watching cnn newsroom and we begin on the border with gusts that where the clock is ticking down tunis really Ground Offensive. Negotiations continue to try and free more than 200 hostages being held by hamas, and other militant groups and as the. Sources say these negotiations a priest to reach with the minds of herschel, israel says that is a nonstarter. At the same, time israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu seems to reassure troops who are on standby for more than two weeks the Ground Offensive is still on track with just one goal to smash hamas retaliation for the militant group of the attack were seven and 1400 civilians in israel dead. Even before any ground incursion unrelenting is really a strike that had a devastating impact on gaza and more than 2 million palestinians who live there and now facing a dire humanitarian crisis. On tuesday, on the eighth of an expected 20 hr expressed over from egypt. As the civilian battle and got a times higher, the even think new general Antonio Guterres called for any media humanitarian ceasefire being angry backlash to israeli diplomats. Guterres said the opening acts did not justify the punishment of the Palestinian People, and it delivered to classified as not match of the enormous need. Relief is finally getting into gaza. But it is a drop of aid in an ocean of need. In addition, how are you and supplies in gaza will run out in a matter of days. That would be another disaster. Without fuel, aid cannot be delivered, hospitals will not have power, and Drinking Water cannot be purified or even pumped. Joining us this Elliott Gotkine live from london with more on this. Elliott, people it seems like they are reaching some tight of crunch line if you, like if operations in a variety of places, just stop. That is, right john. Six hospitals have already closed. The United Nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees, they are saying they will have to see operations as of this evening if they do not get fuel into the gaza strip. Israels argument is simply, if they do allow fuel into the gaza strip, it will simply be pinched, it will be, stolen taken by hamas militants, and used for their war machine. Israel does not want to do that. So we are at a bit of an impasse right now but pressure is clearly building on israel to allow fuel into the gaza strip, in addition to the other humanitarian supplies that have already begun to trickle in. But as the u. S. Secretary general saying, more aid is needed and there are reports of palestinians in the gaza strip having to drink salty and dirty water, needing to further concerns of illness and disease spreading in the gaza strip as well. And all the while, we have now also got calls from new york Secretary General for this response from israels Foreign Minister shame on him after not just a call for the ceasefire, but for saying that the hamas attacks of October The 7th did not have been in a vacuum, that they have been after 56 years of in his words, suffocating occupation by the israelis. That could it not go down well in israel which still is saying that this Ground Offensive is going to take place. Pressure is building, not just in a humanitarian supplies to the gaza strip, but also on israel before its really even gotten going. We knew that the response im israel was going to be bigger than we have seen in the past after those savage attacks of hamas on October The 7th, and the gloves were off this time. We also knew predictably that as that air campaign began, that so many casualties were going to rise for even if israel is just targeting hamas militants and their infrastructure and the like. So this is the problem, you have the Israeli Defense minister saying yesterday, the war is just starting. Pressure is building on israel, it has not even achieved any of its main objectives. It hasnt got 200, 20 just hamas is still holding, that it objected on October The 7th. He hasnt asserted hamass infrastructure, it has destroyed some of, it it has not taken out rockets are still being fired from the gaza strip toward israel. So israel will be very reluctant to engage in any kind of ceasefire right, now and it hasnt even achieved any of its main objectives, the main one is, has to destroy hamas, prevented from ever being able to carry out an attack on that scale again. To prevent it from governing the gaza strip, and of course to get those hostages home. It is hard to see israel heeding these calls for a ceasefire before it is achieved any of those objectives, john. Elliott gotkine live for us. These really mastered to the u. N. Has not let up until all hostages are released. In recent days, hamas that free for, women to, american into israeli. We are learning more details from hostage about her ordeal in gaza, where she says mass gunman took her underground to a vast network of tunnels, she says was like a spider web. Cnns Matthew Chance has our report, and a, warning his report contains graphic content. This is the extraordinary moment that an 85yearold israeli grandmother was released by hamas. In video recorded by the you can see her shaking the hand of a masked gunman, she longed for piece she says as she is lead away. Back in israel, is speaking about her hostage ordeal. I went through how they went on a rampage in our kibbutz. They kidnapped me, lay me over motorcycle on the side and through the fields. They stormed our houses and beat people. Some of them like me kidnapped. They did not distinguish between old and young. The hamas Attack On A Kibbutz Of in southern israel earlier this month after a quarter of its residents killed or kidnapped, including many children according to israeli officials. Described as she was forcibly driven away you who helped the scribe the way her mom and several other israeli hostages were held underground in gaza. There are Huge Networks of tunnels underneath. It looks like a spider web. Now october 7th attacks many of them recorded by hamas gunmen themselves, as they rampaged through israeli communities. They took an unprecedented toll. Leaving at least 1400 israelis dead, and more than 200 like kidnapped and taken to gaza. The lack of knowledge in the army harm death very much. We were warned three weeks ahead of it. They showed us, mass is reaching the, road they sent fire to burn our, fields in the army somehow did not take it seriously. A catastrophic lapse in security, that left so many israelis exposed. Matthew chance, cnn, tel aviv. And joining us now is christopher, Senior Vice President with the advisers both governments, and the about global security. Theres also the u. S. Governments former director of Hostage Rescue and recovery. Christopher, thank you for being with us. Good to be here. So Hostage Negotiations between hamas and israel are taking place via qatar and egypt and cnn reports as part of the negotiations, must once more fuel allowed into the enclave according to the person familiar with the groups demands. The israeli officials have made the puck quickly that is not negotiable. Senior aide to the israeli Prime Minister explaining why. The government decision as fuel does not go on because it will lead to supplement by hamas, and be used by them to power rockets fired into israel to kill our people. So right now are the odds pretty slim about any kind of breakthrough . Here and is the so yes, they were doomed either way. They have to continue negotiations, hamas is being very calculated about everything they are doing the release of the hostages to the point has been calculated and many believe releasing Americans First to show some discord and build a little friction between the United States and israel. Not releasing two elderly israeli citizens, also creating some doubt within israel for the hostage families, as things to be delayed, so this other opportunities, but the negotiations have to continue, but for israel it is an opportunity to get some small victories, but also gather information intelligence about where the other hostages, are also identifying all of them. Not all hostages are potential hostages are fully identified. So negotiations are an opportunity to gather information as well. There are you touched on it these hostages are from a number of different countries, and still need to be identified, and not all of them are being held by hamas like in she had and a number as well, scattered across gaza. So how much more complicated us all of this make the negotiations . It makes them quite a bit more complicated. First off, palestinian jihad is more islamist and radical then hamas is, other hamas probably changed the calculus a little bit with october 7th and their activities, but Palestinian Islamic jihad is an extension was born out of egyptian islamic, which if you peel that back a, bit some alqaeda came from and they are, you know, very islamist and traditionally hamas has been a little more nationalistic and you know, with islamist leanings other that has been said in recent weeks. But trying to negotiate with hamas, does not have control of all the hostages, makes it a much more challenging negotiation to try to get all of the hostages out at some point. And right now more than 300,000 troops amassed at the border with gaza, the idf says they are ready for ground fence if. That level of readiness comes with a time limit. So how much more time to these negotiations have from a Military Point of view, and once that defensive began, what are the chances of rescuing the hostages, any kind of operation to get them out of gaza . Going into gaza is going to be extremely difficult and complex, having spent time in places like and gaza is much denser because they had limited geography in gaza, they built buildings up whereas if you look across the middle east, most middle cities have, you know, buildings that are on average two or three stories of open rooftops, and harder months you know, gaza is much more complex making any kind of Hostage Rescue very difficult. It is a three 60degree threat picture, and also has been widely reported potentially hundreds of miles of reinforced tunnels, which is likely where all the hostages are being held. Christopher, thank you for being, with us we appreciate your time and insights as well. Good to be here. The little humanitarian assistance allowed into russias being allowed News Headlight Images appeared to show the egyptians are stealing the crossing point with amounts labs in between aid convoys. Constant is really airstrikes have left behind a level of destruction like never before. Meaning some eight grams of humanitarian catastrophe are going later. Cnns Salma Abdelaziz has more on the Civilians Calling and warning this story contains graphic images. Moments after an overnight strike in gaza, stunned survivors stumble out. People nearby rush to help. There is no ambulance, we have to get people out, a man shouts. Men dig with bare hands. It is dark, dusty. The screams are jarring. Look at the children, look at the children, he says. It is sheer chaos and carnage. This is the aftermath of just one of the hundreds of bombings the day that battered the gaza strip, the scene captured by a journalist. Israel, says it is targeting hamas, and aims to wipe out the group, but palestinians and aid agencies say it is civilians that are dying by the hundreds. Drone footage shows entire neighborhoods already leveled by the near constant bombardment, nothing is spared. Schools, mosques, shelters, medical, centers all struck according to the United Nations. Gaza is all too familiar with war, but has never seen it on this scale. And for survivors, there is little life left here. This baby is now an orphan, but he is far too young to understand that. What did this little boy do, an Airstrike Hit his house what he was sleeping, his uncle says. His whole family was killed. He is the only survivor. Stop this. Stop this suffering. There are calls for israel to pause eyelids, but the idf is only ramping up its attacks, and preparing for it was this expected to be a full on Ground Invasion of the enclave. But gazans say they can endure no more. Says nearly 50 members of his extended family were killed after they followed israels evacuation instructions. We were hosting our family from the north, 50 to 70 people because it was supposed to be safe, he says. But at dawn, our home was bombed. We do not know what to do. We have lost our minds. Gaza is praying for relief. But the cries of anguish here are so far unheard. The bloodshed wont stop. Some abdelaziz, cnn, london. When we come back here on cnn come on down. U. S. Republicans them in other potential has, bigger but will he to fall victim of infighting. Three weeks after Kevin Mccarthy with us today as u. S. House, speaker representative Mike Johnston is now the curse of candidates after winning their nomination in the now face the vote on the house floor wednesday. That is where it gets, dicey just a small number of republican nonmakers able to dereal the election. Cnns manu raju asked the latest not reporting in from capitol hill. House republicans say they are ready to and weeks of bickering, internal feuding, and the first ever listing of a Sitting Speaker Last Left The Chamber Paralyzed for the last three weeks. They say they are ready to put that to him and in the aftermath of congressman Mike Johnston republican who is nominated as speaker designated, somebody who needs the votes of the full house to hundred 17 votes in order to be elected on wednesday at noon. He plans to take it to the floor than. This coming after three other nominees saw their bids collapse, including one congressman just earlier in the afternoon a couple hours after he, won his partys nomination faced fierce backlash on the right and then decided it was time for him to go out because he had no mike johnson then won the nomination himself, a fourth time nominee has come forward in the aftermath of Kevin Mccarthys ousting. There was some concern in the room. There were roughly 44 members who voted for other candidates, someone who is not my child sent or any of the other declared candidate ultimately though he came to us said when it came to the final vote to decide whether or not he would back him on the floor. It were 22 members missing from that, out and also three members who voted president. Mike johnson on the floor on wednesday could only afford to lose four republican votes, he has work to, go but still thes confidence in the ranks that after all of this infighting even though the members who finally opposed pushing up Kevin Mccarthy even they say it is time to put this to an end and that might show them to speakership. Remarkably is messy sometimes, but it is our system. This gone, france and at his House Republican majority is united. But even if mike johnson wins this vote on wednesday, there are such huge issues confronting the next speaker, and not just put the pieces back, together but start to put together a strategy that essentially in shambles. A legislative strategy and agenda it has been completely derailed by this infighting. Some of the key issues on the table . How to deal with israel, had to deal with a two, ukraine the white house and Senate Republican leaders wanted to tie that issue together. How will they deal with it in the house when there has been resistance to the idea of contracting ukraine into israel aid. Also avoiding a Government Shutdown by mid november, something that could cost a huge fight within the ranks as well so so many questions or congressman johnson. If he does win the speakership, major issues away tim, and could run into the same problems Kevin Mccarthy did, and and it his speakership that is also a huge question for his future as the house tries to move past this ugly period. Money raju, cnn, capitol hill. This is just an extraordinary spectacle we are watching. There are big reasons for this. Obviously it is a reflection in some ways of the fissures within the party that have been widened in the trump era. The trump wing is clearly the dominant wing of the party you saw how decisively and quickly the intervention do they ever candidacy. There is also a breakdown in the fundamental Party Discipline that we are watching. You know there have been a lot of commentators and academics, myself, included who have failed over the past three or four decades, our congress has become more like a Parliamentary Institution that is common abroad in australia or the uk where there is elevated levels of Party Discipline. Here we are watching each side, each wing in the party repeatedly veto the plural or majority choice of the caucus overall, because they dont like it. That could go on forever, unless at some 0. 1 wing well, as you say, jumped up mostly because of opposition from donald trump and his supporters, among them Marjorie Taylor greene from georgia. Here she is. He did not object to Joe Bidens Electoral Co