A. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. All eyes On Washington as President Biden delivers a state of the Union Address before congress. The president expected to highlight his efforts to strengthen the economy for the middle class and protect democracy and freedom. The address comes at a critical moment in the race for the white house as biden makes his case to voters that he is up for serving another four years. His Chief Of Staff telling politico, quote, there is no one better at handling highstakes than President Biden. The speech coming one day after bidens predecessor solidified his position as the nominee. Trump already shifting his focus to the general election, challenging biden to a debate any time, any where, any place. Joining us now from washington, ally rafah and yuli circuit. What should we expect from the president s address tonight . Yeah, jose. Good morning. The white house says President Biden is putting finishing touches on this speech that could end up being one of the
The heat has been asking to Work Together to ensure the released of the hostages. He describes that hamas is a Terrorist Organisation with the goal of destroying israel. He said that israels priority and frances priority and other allies is to win against hamas. You are not alone, he says. He said that is why france stands by israel as it stood with an International Coalition against Islamic State group, to stand by israel. So here saying it is notjust israels security that is threatened by what is going on but the security of many neighbouring countries in the middle east. He said we are democracies that respect the rules of war. He said respect Civilian Populations that allow aid in, to return electricity, he is talking here, of course, about the gaza strip. The hospitals need electricity. He said that france is ready, with concrete solutions, to help the population. And he will be speaking with a neighbouring countries to find a solution. We know that he is on a two day visit to the
Israel has sealed its borders with gaza imposing a total siege on the strip 12 days ago. The Rafah Crossing between egypt and gaza is the only way right now to allow vital supplies in. One big question is whether foreign Passport Holders and dual nationals at least 600 of whom are american according to the Us State Department will be allowed out. For more on this, i spoke to our reporter at the Rafah Crossing, rushdi abualouf. The palestinian employees who are supposed to coordinate, they were informed, to move to Rafah Crossing as quickly as possible to start, facilitate and run the process of taking the goods from the egyptian trucks into the palestinian trucks, and then they will start transferring them. I saw cars around, red cross cars around. Also some truck was carrying quite heavy machine to fix the road. We understand from the local source inside the crossing that the system, the computers and the systems are not working. And they need to be able to put a generator first and t
Is in israel for his two day visit to the middle east. He has just sat down with his israeli counterpart, benjamin netanyahu, who welcomed him to the country. Earlier, mr sunak met israeli president isaac herzog and expressed personal condolences over the loss of life. He told the president that the uk stands in solidarity with israel and backed its right to defend itself. Mr sunak said they agreed on the importance of getting aid to ordinary palestinians in gaza and stressed the need to avoid Futher Escalation across the region. Iam glad i am glad we have had the chance to talk. Palestinians are victims of what hamas has done, and it is important that we continue to provide humanitarian access. I welcomed the announcement yesterday. We in the uk have announced further aid that we are prepared to bring into the region, and we are keen to see that that gets to those who need it to enable, as you say, when people have been asked to leave, to protect civilian life, which is the right thin