hostage negotiations. there has been a great deal in the press over the weekend. he asks whether i am optimistic. the answer is that i am neither optimistic nor pessimistic but i can tell them that the british government is doing everything it can to ensure that those negotiations are successful. i am sure the minister negotiations are successful. i am sure the minister agrees - negotiations are successful. i n sure the minister agrees that it is profoundly in the british interest that there should be a properly functioning system of international rules and laws and that the international court ofjustice is central to that system. so what concrete steps as the government taking to enforce its ruling with regard to this can affect conflict, enforcing the ruling and in relation to the assault on rafah, is at the minister s view that the assault and the impact it will have on the civilians, and as he points out, 600,000 children, that that would be in role with the lining
our diplomatic correspondent paul adams gave me the latest on what was known. we don t know exactly which side of the border took place, joe biden says. on thejordanians side, thejordanians don t seem to acknowledge that. but these are facilities that are right there on the border. and so perhaps in some ways that is less important, though clearlyjordan has no interest at all in getting sucked into this whole regional cauldron that we ve seen for the last three orfour months. the attack is the first time that american troops in one of those bases scattered across the middle east, of which they have many have been killed in a drone attack like this. they did lose a couple of us navy seals in the red sea a couple they did lose a couple of us navy seals in the red sea a couple of weeks ago when they were intercepting a boat with weapons bound for yemen. but after dozens, i think as many as 150 attacks on us bases across the region since october in iraq and syria primarily this i
he said that america s heart is heavy today as the country grieves the loss of these three us service personnel. he described them as the very best of our nation. and in that statement, the white house said that iran backed militant groups operating in iraq and syria were responsible for this attack. we understand that dozens were injured, some of them seriously and those seriously injured, some were evacuated from jordan. now, there was a similar incident last month when us backed groups strike a base in iraqi with a drone. three us service personnel injured, one of them critically in that attack. us then carried out air strikes these iran backed groups in retaliation for that attack. now, joe biden today in his statementvowed that these acts wouldn t go unpunished, that the us would respond in a time and in a manner, he said, of our choosing. i think this is a very concerning moment, a dangerous moment. as you said, these are the first american troops killed in the middle e
developing story. what mahaffey had from the white house on this? we got a statement from from the white house on this? we got a statement from president from the white house on this? we got a statement from president biden, - a statement from president biden, and as she said, she is saying that three us service members were killed and many wounded during a drone attack on us forces in north east jordan, nearthe attack on us forces in north east jordan, near the border with syria. he blamed the attack, as you just said, on radical iran backed groups. if i canjust read a bit more from that statement from biden. he says, today, america s heart is heavy. he says his wife and i willjoin the families of the fallen and americans across the country and grieving the loss of these wadis in this despicable and unjust attack. joe biden has found that there will be consequences to this. he says, have no doubt, we will hold all those responsible to at a time and in a manner of our cho