a warm welcome to this hour s coverage of israel at war. i m richard quest live from abu dhabi and you re most welcome if you re watching in the united states or indeed from wherever you re a watching around the world. it is 10:00 on sunday morning in gaza. and idf helicopters have already been seen flying along the israeli coastline in ashkelon earlier today. the city is only 20 kilometers from gaza, where the idf says hamas is holding 230 hostages. now, in gaza, we are waiting to see the latest images of damage from overnight, and of course, receive the reports on possible casualties. overnight, the reports of near total communications blackout, internet, telephone, mobile phones and the like, is believed to be, that has now eased up, but it was an extremely dangerous and busy night. israel says it s been targeting hamas tunnels and underground spaces. and again, warning people to go south. this is the israeli prime minister. our heroic fighters have one supreme goal, to
tomorrow 6:00 a.m. eastern time. thanks for answering the call. we need that to close our show. if you run from the tv, run to the radio. our first guest steven a. smith this morning. see how it goes. so long from new york. here now america s newsroom. stay within yourself. dana: on the outside looking in, america on the sidelines as russia and china wrap up a three-day sum et setting their sights on a new world order. good morning, john. john: i m john roberts. this is america s newsroom. the summit putting biden s foreign policy to the test. lawmakers get a chance to ask antony blinken about it in less than an hour scheduled to appear before two senate committees today. dana: the alliance is seen as a threat to the global order.
giuliani? that leaves rudy giuliani on the losing end in a defamation suit. it pretty transparent, joy, what rudy is trying to do. he s trying to persuade people i may have been negligent, i may have been grossly negligent or reckless but it wasn t malicious. i didn t intentionally lie. he s holding up his own recklessness as a shield against a jury some day concluding no, you intentionally lied. so here is the good news, legally speaking, it s a very short walk from recklessness to maice to intentionally lying and nobody has to believe rudy giuliani saying i was only negligent or only reckless. he appears to have been intentionally lying so he has trouble ahead in the defamation suit. would it surprise you, tim o brien if i know your answer but i ll let you talk about that. it feels like he s on the outside looking in, that he
it comes to nuclear weapons in the middle east. this is not a good deal. when i heard from secretary of state rex tillerson, he does want to address the flaws and have a secondary agreement but it sounds like he doesn t want to scrap. to begin with, the united case has followed through with their end of the bargain. we are to put money into the deal. we don t have enough effort to stop it and now it s all in the iranians to actually follow through and honor what was put in place. if they do that at the end of 10 years, they have the ability to develop nuclear weapons in the research continues on. for those of us on the outside looking in, and they ve given everything. there s nothing we can withhold right now under the agreement. the president is simply saying let s get an teeth into this thing. that s actually make it something that is beneficial and 10 years from now we look back and say this is one that could continue on when we actually stop the development of nuclear weapons i