a warm welcome to this hour s coverage of israel at war. i m richard quest live from abu dhabi and you re most welcome if you re watching in the united states or indeed from wherever you re a watching around the world. it is 10:00 on sunday morning in gaza. and idf helicopters have already been seen flying along the israeli coastline in ashkelon earlier today. the city is only 20 kilometers from gaza, where the idf says hamas is holding 230 hostages. now, in gaza, we are waiting to see the latest images of damage from overnight, and of course, receive the reports on possible casualties. overnight, the reports of near total communications blackout, internet, telephone, mobile phones and the like, is believed to be, that has now eased up, but it was an extremely dangerous and busy night. israel says it s been targeting hamas tunnels and underground spaces. and again, warning people to go south. this is the israeli prime minister. our heroic fighters have one supreme goal, to
Practice yesterday. But tonight his colleagues, both republicans and democrats will go ahead with their annual game. Its a rare show of political unity. Less unified, President Trump hits back at reports he is under investigation for Obstruction Ofjustice. He calls it the biggest witch hunt in history. And the australian Prime Minister pokes fun at Donald Trumps winning ways. Well let you judge the impersonation. I am Christian Fraser in london, katty kay is in washington. We still dont know how many people died in the Grenfell Tower blaze police say it will be more than the current death toll, which stands at 17. And such is the destruction inside the building it could take firefighters weeks to recover the remains. Today sniffer dogs, much lighter than people, and specially trained to locate bodies, have been sent into the building to help with the search. 37 people remain in hospital, 17 are in critical care. Our Home Affairs Editor mark easton has this report. Slowly, inch by pains
and if you think about the fact that relations between saudi arabia and qatar were in the deep freeze between 2017 and 2021, because of a trade and travel blockade with the saudis accusing qatar of terrorism, something that qatar denied it is remarkable to see the sense of camaraderie between people today and the qataris just saying they re here to support their neighbours, they re here to support all of the arab teams, tunisia and morocco as well, and they re absolutely thrilled that the underdogs performed such an incredible feat today. so the saudis have been given a holiday tomorrow, a national holiday for saudi arabia tomorrow, and the partying, we think, will continue well into the night. when they won, though, i have to say, we have our saudi colleagues who are next to us in the studio next door, so i went across and grabbed a few of them and brought them over here to ask them what their reaction was to their team s victory.
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the owners of manchester united have said they are considering selling the club. it comes after years of protest from fans against the glazer family s ownership of the club. earlier, manchester united confirmed that cristiano ronaldo is to leave the club with immediate effect by mutual agreement. he had made a number of damaging allegations about his recent treatment in a television interview. a tweet from the club said. tancredi palmeri is an italian sports journalist he s in qatar, covering the world cup. i spoke to him earlier about what was happening with cristiano ronaldo. you don t give such an interview if you don t