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in uniform. reporter: after a distinguished 35-year career, powell retired from the army in 1993. ten years later, the united states would become involved in another gulf war and powell again played a key role. my colleagues, every statement i make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. these are not assertions. what we re giving you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. reporter: then secretary of state powell made a case in front of the u.n. security council arguing that iraq posed a grave threat to the world because they said they had weapons of mass destruction. the following month, the u.s. invasion began. the war lasted more than eight years, no weapons of mass destruction ever turned up. i regret it now because the information was wrong. reporter: after four years as president george w. bush s secretary of state, powell returned to private life. he spent his civilian years empowering youth, promise alliance and the colin powell s ....
at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to an end. so it made me ....
because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to ....
was bombed overnight. we were upstairs, she says, then we were hit, and i started running. she tries to comfort her sister, but she has no idea that her mother and brother were killed in the strike. her father abdullah sits next to the body bags. he s still in shock. this is my son, he says. this morning, he asked me for biscuits. i went to buy them, and when i came back, i found him and my wife dead. munitions explode the ground offensive continues to deepen in the southern city of khan younis. ..where hundreds of thousands have fled from the fighting in northern gaza. israel says it s trying to protect civilians during its operation against hamas fighters. but it said it regretted what it called extensive collateral damage in a strike last weekend. the hamas run health ministry says at least 86 people were killed in the strike on the maghazi refugee camp in central gaza. israel says it used the wrong type of munition. people shout here injerusalem, thousands ....
well, i think these were very much crisis talks, weren t they? i mean, they are organised pretty hastily between christmas and new year, that s unusual in and of itself. we don t know the specifics of exactly what elements of this crisis they spoke about because we were not allowed to speak to the delegations afterwards. there was no media conference, no press conference. we don t know that there was any major policy decisions reached because they have not announced any. we find it unlikely that there would have been. but, clearly, there is value in sitting down face to face between the two sides when there is all this going on at the us border with mexico, some 10,000 people a day being detained and, of course, a caravan of somewhere between 6,000 and 10,000 migrants from central america and other nations making its way through mexican territory at this moment. so, clearly, there was benefit, i think, seen by both sides of discussing this face to face. lawmakers in the ....