Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course
thank you so much for being with us on this busy day of news. the beat with ari melber starts right now. thank you so much. welcome to the beat. we are tracking this breaking news as republicans suffer the first open speaker revolt in a century. kevin mccarthy started the new congress a humiliating failure. he lost the vote for speaker today. lost 19 republicans on the first ballot. it s the first time any politician in any party lost a hope floor vote for speaker since 1923. it s rare because of course this is a job where the votes are typically lined up. person who is becoming speaker is above all else supposed to get, count, and keep votes. in the orderly process of this first day of the new house, here s what it sounded like on the floor. the honorable hakeem jeff his of the state of new york has received 212. the honorable kevin mccarthy of the state of california has received 202. no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surnam
its missile attacks on the sports city of odessa. the w.h.o. now emergency. we will look at what that means for you. home, we are following the global heat wave impacting millions of people around the world right now. plus hopes that steve bannon s criminal conviction for defying the january 6th committee could force other reluctant witnesses to get in line. all of this as the former president lashes out at the committee and at a rally. dueling appearances from trump that is former vice president. we want to begin with the state department confirming today to americans have died fighting in the donbas region of ukraine. no further information has been released about their identities or their nature of their deaths. news coming as russia attacked a critical port in odessa, which transports millions of tons of grain through the black sea, just hours after signing a deal with the ukraine and russia give us more information about what you know with the loss of these two ameri