Says more than 800,000 people have now fled rafah in southern gaza. Many have been forced to head northwards to areas which the un says have little clean Drinking Water or sanitation as the Israeli Offensive continues. 0ur Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams sent this report. Street battles injabalia. Israeli forces have been fighting here for days. Gunfire. Hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. This is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. The israelis were here months ago and moved on. These, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. Israel has been attacking from the air too. Scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. Buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. Gunfire. More street battles, this time in the south. The israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. But 800,000 palestinians have already fled the area, to the coast or to other devastated cities. W
And at the beginning of the first episode, we are not told this is based on true events we are told this is a true story, and that statement has drawn a lot of attention. According to netflix, this has become a huge worldwide hit with 60 million views globally in one month. Here is some of the series. Every day now, martha would be outside. This Ticking Timebomb on my life. I would leave first thing in the morning and she would be there. I love you, nipple. Think of me at work today. Then i would come back, sometimes as late as 11 00 or 12 00 at night, and she would still be there. How was your shift, reindeer, did you think of me . Netflix has declined to comment, but benjamin king, who is netflixs senior director of Public Policy uk and ireland, did appear before the british parliaments Culture Media and Sport Select Committee last week, and here he is answering questions from the mp john nicholson. Baby reindeer is an extraordinary story and it is obviously a true story of the horri
Just kind of quit on me. Sometimes, when youre the only woman in the room, its easy to feel out of place, but you have a right to be there. To understand her incredible journey, youve got to go back in time. Whats the first memory where you felt fighting would be a part of your life . Oh, god. Erm, it was actually the first day that i did judo. My mom went to go visit all of her old team mates that she used to train with in the 80s in los angeles and, erm, i was a swimmer then and it was at mojica judo in baldwin park. Ijumped on the mat and, erm, blinky was my first coach, i remember i got off the mat and he was like, its a lot more fun than swimming, isnt it . And i was like, yeah i want to win the olympics in this now. And i wasjust, you know, i always assumed that when i was a swimmer, i was going to win the olympics in swimming, and then when i found judo and i loved it, iwas, like, ok, im going to win the olympics in this now. That was just the kind of expectation that was put i
Top american leaders often have problems with israel, which depends heavily on american support. Gunfire. But doesnt necessarily do what the us wants. Usually, though, american officials keep quiet about it. Not so the us deputy secretary of state, kurt campbell. He said publicly the other day israels leaders mostly talk about the idea of a sweeping victory on the battlefield, but the Biden Administration didnt believe such a thing was possible. Neither do many other observers. So why is israel pursuing the idea, and why is Benjamin Netanyahu so willing to ignore what the us wants . I put these questions to shaina oppenheimer, a journalist with bbc monitoring injerusalem. First and foremost, he has some very far right Coalition Partners who have been very hawkish and very clear with him that they want to see the government do certain things, for example, for it to press ahead with a full scale invasion of rafah. And they would also like to see what they would describe as a total Victor
Than 800,000 people have now fled rafah, in southern gaza. Many have been forced to head northwards to areas which the un says have little clean Drinking Water or sanitation as the Israeli Offensive continues. 0ur diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, sent this report. Street battles injabalia. Israeli forces have been fighting here for days. Gunfire. Hamas, they say, is back, and needs to be dealt with. This is dangerous urban warfare, at close quarters. The israelis were here months ago and moved on. These, some warn, early signs of an insurgency that could last for months. Israel has been attacking from the air too. Scenes today reminiscent of the war s terrifying early stages. Buildings flattened, bodies trapped under the rubble. Gunfire. More street battles, this time in the south. The israeli army still advancing on rafah, the only city yet to experience a full scale assault. But 800,000 palestinians have already fled the area, to the coast or to other devastated cities. With isr