if forces entered rafah s population centres or launched a major ground operation. hugo bachega has more. the remarks by the israeli national security adviser appeared to reject the idea that we could be near the end of the war in gaza. he said fighting might continue for at least the rest of the year although he didn t give details about how intense the conflict might be. now all eyes are on rafah, near the border with egypt. the israeli authorities say it is vital to enter the city because they believe four hamas battalions are still operating there. but israel is under a lot of international pressure to limit its operations in the city to minimise civilian casualties, and officials are describing what s happening there as a limited operation . still, scores of palestinians have been killed in recent days, and the un says more than one million people have fled rafah because they are concerned that the israeli military may launch a full scale operation. virtually everyo
the icelandic capital, reykjavik the fifth in six months. hi there, thanks for being with us. we start in new york where the 12jurors in donald trump s hush money trial have begun their deliberations. in the first ever criminal trial of a us president, mr trump is facing 3a counts of falsifying business records. prosecutors accuse the former president of an elaborate scheme that violated campaign finance laws. they say he and his campaign team tried to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to adult fim star stormy daniels, in order to supress her claims of an affair with mr trump in 2006. mr trump speaking outside the court. so it seems that there - are a lot of witnesses, a lot of people that they could ve called, that they didn t call. they didn t call them obviously because they would ve - very bad witnesses for them. but take a look at the list i and because of the gag order, i won t go down into individual names. i but you have a lot of big players that would ve
publisher of the tabloid the national enquirer. he testified early on in the trial about a catch and kill scheme to buy and bury stories that might harm mr trump s political campaign. before deliberations began, juan merchan, thejudge presiding over the trial, told jurors they should set aside whatever bias they might have about mr trump, and only consider the evidence presented in court. during the six week trial, the jurors heard from 22 witnesses, including miss daniels who described in detail the 2006 sexual encounter she says she had with the former president and from michael cohen, donald trump s former attorney and fixer, who paid ms daniels $130,000 to allegedly buy her silence shortly before the 2016 presidential election. the defence argued the case was built on lies told by mr cohen a point mr trump echoed while speaking earlier. mother teresa could not be these mother teresa could not be these charges. mother teresa could not be these charges. these -
Senator john mccain. It will head for a funeral home tomorrow and the senator will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol, just the 31st person to do that. Joining me now, president ial historian, Douglas Brinkley and retired general mark herling, doug, this is a week long week for senator john mccain the likes we havent seen. You dont see this for anyone other than a u. S. President , perhaps Robert Kennedy, the one exception to that. Maybe not sense Robert Kennedy have we seen this outpouring of emotion for u. S. Senator. I think thats exactly right. The fact Senator Mccain will be lying in state in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol building one of only 31 others to have had that honor. We do it for president s or Supreme Court justices. The country has fallen in love
with john mccain this week. We always loved him and admired him. The more were learning about his lifelong career in politics and Military Service the more were kind of nostalgic and longing for the virtues that he had. They