The deaths are caused by a crush of lorries running people over. Our Special Correspondent working with bbc verify has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened and i should warn you, this contains distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. As casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation situation was unimaginably crazy. I if aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convoy left here under an israeli tank escort and began to move towards the crowds waiting for food. The army supplied Drone Footage but there is no way of telling the sequence of the images because there is no timestamp. At 4 16, the israelis say, crowds began to surge around the tracks. In this sequence, bodies can be seen lying on the ground. So others can be seen cr
This past hour that washington will air drop humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. And thats where we are going to start. Theres growing International Pressure for a full investigation into what went wrong yesterday. As the aid convoy arrived in Northern Gaza. The israeli army has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire at one point but says most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or lorries running people over. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. And as casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convo
It in action. to see them mobilized there. as joe mentioned, china facing possible economic repercussions of its own, appears to be shifting its stance on the war. in conversations with the leaders of france and germany yesterday, china s president described the invasion by his ally as a war for the first time, calling the situation deeply worrying. said beijing is ready to work with the international community to prevent it from, quote, spinning out of control. yesterday, the u.s. warned if china defies u.s. restrictions on russia, beijing itself could be cut off from american equipment and software. willie? you were talking about that testimony from cia director bill burns. here s what he said yesterday about the effects he believes the russian invasion is having on china. i think president xi and the chinese leadership are a little unsettled by what they re seeing in ukraine. they did not anticipate the
Blame biden for high gas prices. that won t change. that s like the sun coming up in the morning, it is biden s fault. right. but the other interesting thing happening here is a fog with venezuela. keep in mind, venezuela has the most petroleum in reserve of any country in the world, way more than we do. they re number one. we re 11 in terms of what we have in reserve. if we can wrench venezuela out of russia s grasp at this point and get them to release more petroleum, maybe biden can have an impact. you do tell they re working on that back channel. venezuela released prisoners yesterday, meaning there is a fog going on. anne, you wrote one of the most important books for all of us to understand what was happening in america. to the trump right, explaining it d happened in europe first. it seems so many of those dividing lines have been swept away over the past two, three,
Aid convoy yesterday that was headed toward mariupol, hindering the delivery of much-needed food, water, and medicine. according to ukraine s foreign minister, around 300,000 civilians are trapped in the city. he also said a child died from dehydration on monday pause the water supply was cut off. the country s deputy prime minister is warning the situation in mariupol is, quote, catastrophic. willie. meanwhile, u.s. officials say russia now is trying to surround kyiv from all sides. the military convoy remains stalled outside the city, but russian forces now are working on advancing from the northeastern city of sumy. one humanitarian corridor yesterday allowed about 5,000 civilians to escape from that besieged city. thousands are fleeing from other towns in and around the capital. people struggling to make the difficult journey out of the