Of litres of fuel in the hands of hamas. The bbc has not been able to verify this. Hamas is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments. There are growing International Calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting, to allow aid to Reach Gaza Which continues to come under intense bombardment. The Health Ministry in the hamas controlled territory says more than 6,500 people have now been killed there 2,704 of them children. Israel says more than 1,400 people were killed in the hamas attacks on the 7th of october. Another focus of the past 2a hours has been israels furious reaction to comments made by the un Secretary General at the Security Council. Antonio guterres said the hamas attacks in southern israel had not happened in a vacuum. He also said there was no justification for the hamas attacks. Israel is now withholding visas from United Nations officials in response to the remarks. Mr guterres has spoken again in the past hour. Shocked by the misrep
Justifying the events of october the 7th. It is a measure of the profound sense of shock and horror and disgust and anger that still reverberate up and down this country that when they heard him making those remarks, they hurt someone who they believed still did not understand exactly what had happened on October Seven, that somehow he was marshalling the history of the conflict to not just was marshalling the history of the conflict to notjust explain but to justify the behaviour of the hamas gunmen who attacked so many innocent civilians on that day. He clearly wants us to know that is not the case, that he doesntjustify any of this, but he remains convinced that it is pointless to try and consider any of this without taking a wider view, because simply things are inexplicable and cannot be addressed. I think that is the point he is making. Of course it has had real world impact and consequences, because Martin Griffiths, having his visa denied, and israel clear why they did that. Ho
with a new fox news survey finding that just 35 if % of voters approve of the job he s doing on border security. we re back with dan henninger, mary o grady and jillian melchior. mary, the president said earlier this year that the surging high grant numbers at the border were seasonal and they would retreat along with the calendar, and they haven t. why not? well, you can draw a straight line from the rhetoric that the democrats used during the trump administration on immigration to this problem. there s plenty of interviews with people in, you know, the crossing point between colombia and panama, other people coming through mexico who say now that biden s in office, the border is gonna be open. and it s and so that s one reason they re coming.
threat, they are a clear and present danger and we are walking a fine line. they are trying to demonstrate that they have the capabilities to establish this kind of credibility but in doing that, they are ratcheting up tensions and i think this is the elevated state we haven t been in before, the crossing point was the intercontinental ballistic missile test last month. melissa: when people talk about this, they say if the kim regime launched a missile, they have to understand it would be mutually assured destruction, that he has to know that the response would be so big he wouldn t survive it. is he that rational? do you think he is thinking like that or does he think he has some sort of shelter he will be able to survive? i think among the community of north korea watchers, the majority of the analysts believe kim jong-un is not suicidal. we are looking closely at north korea s game plan, they actually have one.
ground and folks who are still trying to get out of the mess. thank you, kyra. live from studio 7, i m suzanne malveaux and up to speed for august 30th, tuesday. here we go, again, the rivers in new jersey are bursting the banks overwhelmed by all of the rain that hurricane irene dumped on the state. the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris christie says that nine new jersey rivers have surged to record flood levels, but thankfully, they are receding now. he says only one, the passaic has not crested. the number of people killed now by irene and the aftermath rose to 38 today across 11 states. i want to get the latest on the emergency rescues in paterson, new jersey, where we are taking a look, a dramatic look of pictures throughout the morning and on the phone is sergeant alex popoff of the paterson police department, and we unde