The history of the United States. The office of Speaker Of The House is declared vacant. Conversations with the former president leave me confident. The institution fell today. The speaker makes a promise to either side of the aisle, they ought to keep it. An election expected next week. We lose all the time to get t Appropriations Bills passed. The white house is trying to project an image of calm contrast with chaos on capitol hill. The house is paralyzed and they cant conduct any business until they elect a new speaker. Good morning, everyone. Happy to be joining you from the nations capitol. A beautiful day. But the house is paralyzed. This morning the house is paralyzed after this republican revolt and we are seeing no speaker for the first time in american history. Its important to step back. The house is often paralyzed about lots of things. Thats the beauty of the institution. Its a little bit messy. Its representative of the entire country. We have never seen this in the histo
much to get through this hour. as israel intensifies its military operations in the south of the gaza strip, hamas officials say more than 700 palestinians have been killed in the past 2a hours. that number comes from the hamas media office. hamas is considered a terrorist organisation by the uk and us governments. i want to show you these live pictures first of all in car newness, in southern gaza. car this is live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis, an area that has been under frequent assault. further south in the strip, near rafah, at least seven palestinians were killed in an israeli attack in the early hours of sunday. we re also keeping an eye on what s happening further north. this is live looking at the israel gaza border. all this as israel has come under renewed pressure from top figures in the biden administration. the defence secretary, lloyd austin, has said israel driving could be driving the civilian population into the arms of the enemy, and that