Lets start with Us Senate Majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has called for new elections in israel, saying the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is a major obstacle to peace and risked making israel a pariah. Senator schumer said it was a Grave Mistake for israel to reject a Two State Solution. The fourth major obstacle to peace is israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has all too frequently bowed to the demands of extremists like ministers smotrich and ben gvir and the settlers in the west bank. I have known Prime Minister netanyahu for a very long time. While we have vehemently disagreed on many occasions, i will always respect his extraordinary bravery for israel on the battlefield as a younger man. I believe in his heart he has his highest priority is the security of israel. However, i also believe Prime Minister netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take precedence over the best interests of israel. Prime minister netanyahus party has responded
Been watching these pictures for the last few minutes. This is a protest, a number of people gathering their from the main square in tel aviv to the defence ministry. Holding up the signs of women hostages held in gaza. They are calling for their Immediate Release. We can hear the chanting there, and the posters in the pictures are just behind the cameras position there. Is itjust turns around again, you can see that Protest Calling for the immediate return of the hostages. We will get more on the humanitarian situation in gaza. Cancer patients say theyre being denied exit for Life Saving Treatment through the rafah crossing to egypt, despite their names appearing on authorised Evacuation Lists. In parallel, fees charged by an Egyptian Company arranging evacuations from gaza have rocketed during the war, the bbc s Lara Elgebaly has the story, which was also produced by haya al badarneh. Hopefully i will find my name there and be able to travel. God willing. Translation im on my way to
they would instantly be at risk from taliban reprisals. there has been a u turn by the foreign office and they will now be allowed to get visas to come to the uk. we understand that evacuation effort for those 125 guards is under way. they work for a massive international security company based international security company based in canada, is a question about whether that company could have been doing more to look after its employees, presumably it has other employees, presumably it has other employees within afghanistan who could potentially be at risk because of the work they are done, but it shows how messy those processes, this evacuation logistically, but also administratively in working out who qualifies, who is at risk, who should be saved from potential taliban reprisals. should be saved from potential taliban reprisals. dan, thank you, danjohnson taliban reprisals. dan, thank you, dan johnson in taliban reprisals. dan, thank you, dan johnson in delhi. nadene ghouri is
who is under the most immediate threat from taliban, get those names together, collate them into a list and get those names over to the relevant government democratic governments to get on the evacuation lists. we knew who those most vulnerable afghans were going to be, so i was it left to a group of volunteers to do that? that s utterly beyond me. just to give you an example of some of the cases that have passed me this week i m talking about female high court judges, female afghan army cadets, members of the afghan national sports team, women, boys and girls. some high profile cases we should have known more about, and lots of afghan journalists. have known more about, and lots of afghanjournalists. a have known more about, and lots of afghan journalists. a lot of them are in hiding at the moment and getting calls from the taliban, saying we know where you are, we are coming for you soon. there s a lot of fear, people are beginning to give up on the evacuation efforts. we are heari
let s stay with our main story nadene ghouri is an author and journalist who has written extensively about afghanistan. she is part of an international coalition consisting of soldiers, aid workers, diplomats and journalists who ve served or worked in afghanistan, trying to help afghans escape from the country. we ve all come together in the last few weeks as we ve been scrambling to get intelligence from the ground, to find out who s the most at risk, who s under the most immediate threat from taliban, get those names together, collate them into lists, and get those names over to the relevant governments to go on the evacuation lists. but it staggers me that those lists weren t drawn up in advance, because we knew who those most vulnerable afghans were going to be, so why was it left to a group of volunteers to do that? it s utterly beyond me. just to give you an example of some of the cases that have passed me this week i m talking about female high courtjudges, female afghan arm