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message that last about two minutes. i want to show that to you now. i wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you personally for all the wonderful messages of support and for your understanding whilst i ve been recovering from surgery it has been an incredibly tough couple of months for our entire family but i ve had a fantastic medical team who ve taken great care of me for which i m so grateful. in january, i underwent major domino surgery in london. and at the time, it was thought that my condition was non-cancerous the surgery was successful. however, tests after the operation on cancer had been present my medical team therefore advice that i should undergo a course of preventive chemotherapy and i m now in the early stages about treatment this of course came as a huge shock. and william and i have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of all young family as you can imagine, this has taken time. it has taken me time t ....
live in east jerusalem. the united nations and the us have expressed concern about israel s plans for a military operation in rafah. the city, at the south western edge of gaza, has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands of palestinians taking refuge from the fighting elsewhere in the strip. the israeli military had previously urged civilians to go there but now, prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has approved plans for an assault on hamas militants believed to be based there. the un issued this warning. i think the consequences of a ground operation in rafah under the current circumstances would be catastrophic for the people of gaza, for the palestinians. it would be catastrophic for the humanitarian situation. it would be catastrophic or around. the us is one of israel s most important supporters but it seems that the israeli government has not shared details of the planned assault on rafah with officials in washington. here s us national security counc ....
hopes and dreams of children are following these stories and many more all coming in and right here to cnn news central major news this afternoon. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is ending his history making tenure in the senate. announcing today that he is stepping down from his leadership position we spoke briefly on the floor about the discussion father time remains undefeated. no longer the young man sitting in the back hoping colleagues would remember my name. it s tom. the next generation of leadership and just a short time ago, president biden reacted to this decision. let s listen and with that, a high-stakes race for his successor begins. let s take you now live to capitol hill with cnn s lauren fox. lauren, what are you hearing from mcconnell s colleagues about this? yeah, a lot of republican colleagues keeping their powder dry right now, they want to hear from whoever may want to fill mcconnell s shoes. of course, all eyes are on those three ....
newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s paddy in the studio. and it s laura in the studio. and henry is having a week off, so we are graced with the journalist of the moment. hello. who are you? nick watt, how is that? nick watt, the political editor of newsnight, he has been making some news if you are viewing this week. since we last spoke yesterday we have just broke the news that lee anderson the tory mp has been booted out of the party for making what a lot of people believe were racist and unpleasant islamophobic comments, and there has been a statement from anderson himself and also overnight a statement from the prime minister too condemning extremism and anti semitism but not condemning islamophobia. remind ourselves what lee anderson actually said before we get into the furore around it. i don t actually believe that the islamists have got control of the country but what i do believe is they have got control of khan and they have got control of london, an ....
more now on our top story and the argument engulfing the conservatives after its former deputy chairman, lee anderson, was suspended from the parliamentary party. he d refused to apologise for saying the mayor of london, sadiq khan, was controlled by islamists. the deputy prime minister, oliver dowden, declined to call those comments islamophobic, but said he shared concerns they could be taken that way. he s been speaking to laura kuenssberg on her sunday morning programme. well, that s why the prime minister took action. he gave lee anderson the opportunity to apologise, he didn t take that opportunity. words matter. he didn t choose his words correctly and, having failed to apologise, the prime minister took action and removed the whip. i think that was the appropriate course of action to take. do you agree, though, that the remarks were islamophobic, anti muslim? i don t believe that lee anderson said those remarks she was concerned they would be interpreted, and ....