year because of worries over ethics and diversity. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. we re covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. first. israel has launched air strikes against militant targets in the gaza strip, after a barrage of rockets fired from the territory towards jerusalem. the hamas run palestinian health ministry in gaza said twenty people had died in the strikes. injerusalem, the rocket fire caused israel s parliament to be evacuated as sirens sounded. earlier in the day, there were further clashes between israeli police and palestinians outside the al aqsa mosque in jerusalem. more than 200 people were injured, as crowds threw stones and officers fired stun grenades in response. 0ur middle east correspondent yolande knell reports. 0ur blood is a cheap price forjerusalem, shouts this bereaved gaza grandmother. while this woman, who lost four children, can only weep. the casualties, mounting, af
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we should be prepared to be back here doing this same thing when that happens. because especially considering some of the things that mccarthy clearly gave away. i mean in the past they ve been able to do it with democratic help, and mccarthy in theory could do that. but it seems like they ve tried to hold his feet to fire here and say, no, what kevin mccarthy can decide to do is not put it on the floor. without getting into the specifics of all the ugly fights that are going to come, i think the point that you just made and others have made is that this is at large a vision of what we re going to see, possibly, going forward for the next two years in a very chaotic congress. and it has huge consequences. huge consequences for nation, but as we just settle on this moment, we are watching the history being made, because i believe on this 15th ballot kevin mccarthy will finally secure enough votes, whether it s through people voting present or switching votes to him to ac
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by a senior administration official that the us is currently on high alert and is actively preparing for what they expect to be a significant attack by iran that could come within the next week or so. this iranian attack would of course be in response to that israeli airstrike that we saw in damascus that ended up killing multiple top iranian commanders and us and israeli officials. i am pulled have been in close contact hot preparing for what they see as an inevitable attack from iran. these two governments have been in close consultation preparing for a number of different ways in which this forthcoming attack could unfold. and they do believe that both of us and israeli assets are at risk of being targeted. but i am told that adds as of issues that the two leaders discussed, including just the neith carrying aid to get into gaza. and we actually saw some immediate effects, some results coming out of that phone call, including the opening of a crossing, the opening of a por