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The hamas controlled Health Ministry says more than 7,000 people have now been killed there almost 3000 of them children. These pictures are from a street thats right in front in the heart of the gaza strip. The israelis have said just in the last 24 israelis have said just in the last 2a hours they have hit 250 different hamas sites but this just the central part of gaza city and you can see just the scale of the destruction and of course i was reading out the latest Health Ministry figures there from the hamas run ministry, saying more than 7000 people have been killed and in terms of the breakdown, they are saying nearly 3000 of those are children. And of course the israelis disputing those figures, pointing out that they are coming from hamas. But that is certainly what Health Officials in gaza are saying. So tho ....
Hello, im samantha simmonds. Welcome to the daily global, where well bring you the top stories from around the world. We start with the war between israel and hamas which is centre stage at an Emergency Session of the United NationsGeneral Assembly in new york. The aim to agree on a resolution to secure a pause in the fighting to get meaningful aid into gaza. The palestinian ambassador, riyad mansour, called on members of the un to in his words choosejustice, not vengeance and vote to stop the killing in gaza. The israeli un ambassador, gilad erdan, spoke of what he called barbaric Hamas Terrorists launching an invasion on israel. He said the Special Un Session had nothing to do with peace. Hamas is ....
And prince harry and meghan are in nigeria as part of the dukes promotion of the invictus games. You are watching bbc news. More on those solar storms with an expert explaining how that happens, the link between the sun and those storms, in the next 15 minutes or so. Lets talk about ukraine for now. More now on Russian Forces launching a surprise new Ground Offensive in ukraine crossing the border into the northeastern Kharkiv Region. For months fighting has been focussed in the east where russia occupies large areas. Fridays attack may be an attempt to open a new front and intensify pressure on kharkiv, which is the countrys second largest city. Small groups of Russian Troops with armoured vehicles pushed through the front line military sources say they advanced ....
soaring. plus, employers asking job applicants for their facebook passwords, shocking, but likely legal. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news this hour in sanford, florida. just moments ago the chief of police announced he s temporarily stepping aside, a move over the handling of the trayvon martin shooting death. martin is the unarmed black teenager killed by a volunteer who has not been charged. update our viewers on the very latest. reporter: wolf, the city manager in sanford has long said he will not fire the police chief bill lee. he would wait until federal investigators looked into this case and looked into his department to determine whether to fire the police chief, but we are hearing the police chief will step down temporarily and scott cotter will step in as interim chief. we ll hear more about what the police chief had to say as he decided t ....
frankfurt was spared thankfully but so many other places were not. at least ten people have died in this still menacing storm system. one in tennessee, three in missouri, six in harrisburg alone, survivors there and across the area describing what they saw and what they felt. it s very devastating, we are lucky compared to people out that way. very lucky. overwhelmed. just overwhelmed with emotions. i had no idea it was this bad. the lights went out. he came out of the bedroom and all of a sudden it was a freight train, the whole house was shaking, i said, oh, my god, it s a tornado and dalton grabbed me and pulled me in the pantry. the windows were blowing out and the pantry had no windows. harrisburg is under a curfew. the tornado that struck there measuring near the top of the scale, 170 miles an hour winds, upwards of 100 people hurt, up to 300 homes known destroyed right now. a shopping center, you see there, simply obliterated. the storm that did it meas ....