Hello and welcome to our viewers. Im Michael Holmes with cnns breaking News Coverage of israel at war. It has been a day now since israel issued an ultimatum to evacuate Northern Gaza immediately, warning that increased Israeli Military activity against hamas would be imminent. Tens of thousands of palestinians were scene leaving their homes in gaza city throughout friday, carrying what they could, but many are deciding not to evacuate or simply dont have the means to do so. Most say they have no safe place to go and on top of that, hamas told them to stay in their homes. With so many people suddenly streaming into southern gaza, the only place to actually leave the strip is the rafa Border Crossing into egypt and that isnt open. Egypt says theyve not closed their side, but the status is unclear due to israeli air strikes on the gaza side. The Israeli Military says it carried out a limited raid in gaza primarily to seek out intelligence on the estimated 150 hostages. An unknown number
In spain, prosecutors say they have launched a sexual assault investigation into the spanish football federation president luis rubiales. in the meantime, the national football federation is holding an urgent meeting in response to the controversy. luis rubiales caused outrage when he kissed the footballer, jenni hermoso, on the lips, after the national team won the women s world cup. hermoso says she did not consent to the kiss. no voy a dimitir. applause on friday, and after suggestions that he would quit from his position, mr rubiales said he was not leaving. on saturday, the governing body fifa suspended mr rubiales and later that evening, 11 members of the spanish women s coaching team quit in protest. the spanish labour minister yolanda
That s luis rubiales saying there on friday i will not resign. and after suggestions that he would quit from his position, mr rubiales said he was not leaving. on saturday, the governing body fifa suspended mr rubiales and later that evening, 11 members of the spanish women s coaching team quit in protest. live now to begona villarrubia, a sports journalist for mundo deportivo. thank you very much forjoining us. what was your reaction to rubiales statement on friday? were you expecting it? hello. well, my reaction and the reaction of all journalists hello. well, my reaction and the reaction of alljournalists is that it is embarrassing, there s no excuse for these things. but also, we are proud of these players, and we are proud of these players, and we are proud of these players, and we are happy that it happened because if they win the world championship, they have this ability to be on the front page, they are on
Just started of local federation heads from around the country who are discussing this crisis in the absence of mr rubiales because he has been suspended by fifa. they are going to try and work out a way forward from this crisis. we don t know the decision they will fit but it is a feeling the people in this room behind me may well decide to distance themselves from mr rubiales and not support him the way they have been supporting or had been supporting him throughout last week. this could be a pretty key meeting when it comes to handling this crisis. there is also that criminal aspect to this whole situation as well with the prosecutor opening that preliminary investigation. thank you for that uptake. we re joined now by sports journalist gemma soler. we are hearing about this meeting, the extraordinary and urgent meeting
To discuss the suspension of luis rubiales. what are you expecting? it rubiales. what are you expecting? ht is difficult to say, because on one hand it is true that after that awful speech which ruby al said on friday evening people who were in that room making that standing ovation, a few hours later, all of them tried to put distance with luis rubiales and condemning his words and his way of acting. but at the same time, the spanish fa has a very complicated structure as a futpro representative explained earlier on and that structure is ruled by luis rubiales himself during five years, the person who has stepped in after him being disqualified by fifa, the vice president of this complete trust, he appointed him and he wanted him to be in his position in