Borders our international recognised borders. This is necessary. These violations have exceeded, there have been more than 35,000 violations since 2006. Mr president, has israel not had enough of the endless war since 1948? when will it be time for israel to give an opportunity for peace? will israel not embrace the path of peace? when will this happen instead of using the language of fire and steel, lebanon and arab countries have clearly without any ambiguity categorically embrace these through the arab peace initiative which was the fruit of the beirut arab summit in 2002. The option of a two state solution, for the demand of arab states for the implementation of united states resolutions which unfortunately have become remained dead. It is now incumbent upon israel, the government and the pete ball, if they want peace to embrace and choose peace, to want peace instead of war and to go beyond their obsession and security related anxiety, break the cycle of violence in the region,
Blair institute for global change working with over a0 countries, the former prime minister is still searching for answers to the great challenges of our time. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious of the fact, first of all, i d never been a minister, let alone a prime minister, and secondly, there is an awesome sense of responsibility. So you realise you re going to be taking decisions, you know you re on the start of a journey, you know the journey is going to be really difficult, you know there s going to be a whole lot of events and circumstances you can t predict. And you re acutely conscious of the fact that there is
Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van
Now i ll see you tomorrow evening. I m kaitlan collins. This is the source hurricane helene is about to slam into florida and i expected to make landfall and just a couple of hours from now, it s now an extremely dangerous category four storm and winds are now up to 140 miles per hour. If it stays this strong, it ll be the strongest storm to ever make landfall in florida s big bend region. That s the area that we re keeping a close eye on. This hour, more than half 1 million people there have already lost power. And forecasters are predicting tonight that the storm surge in some areas could be unsurvivable reaching as high as 20 feet surges and high winds were already the reason for the closures of several major bridges in the tampa area that we saw tonight? officials, there are telling residents to shelter in place, that it is going to get worse and don t go outside. Emergency managers and one florida county are being so blunt with their warnings for those who are in low lying areas a
Cnn breaking news good evening. I m abby phillip in new york. Our special coverage continues tonight of hurricane helene, a monster category four storm that is now moments away from making landfall in florida. At this moment, it was too late now for folks along the coast too evacuate. Officials warned that the winds and the storm surge will be be catastrophic in some areas, the word that they are using is unsurvivable helene could be the strongest storm on record for the big bend region. And we are already starting to see a major surge in these cities. So we have our anchors and our correspondents. They re fanned out as the storm is now hitting and we have chad myers as well with the latest forecast in the cnn weather center. Let s go first to john berman. He s out in tallahassee in the socalled dead on a hit zone, john, what s happening where you are right now? yeah the winds have really started to pick up abby over the last half an hour. The rain really coming down here, you can see