Us, the floor below. Just tell me, does it matter to you when you are writing what is going on in the world outside Yourfront Door . Does it affect your writing . Well, it depends on what you mean. If theres a fire engine screeching in front of my door, it will interrupt my concentration and i might go out and see whats going on. But if theres a distant war going on in another place and i know about it, im not going to read about it while im doing my work for the day, but i certainly will inform myself about it later. You talk of distant wars, im thinking of wars much closer to home. You write a lot about your take on american politics. Youve talked about your feelings through the course of four years of donald trump. Youve talked about a country at war with itself, so the war isnt so very far away. Yes. The war that were engaged in here, fortunately, has not become, yet, a fighting war with guns to a large degree. But we are divided in ways that i have never seen before, and ive been
The un has warned that more than 70 of the population faces catastrophic levels of hunger. Israels opening of the Erez Crossing follows sustained international pressure. The move has long been called for by aid agencies. The us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken met the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu injerusalem and urged him to ensure that more humanitarian aid gets in to gaza. Mr blinken also called on hamas to accept the terms of a Ceasefire Deal that would see a pause in fighting and the release of israeli hostages. Our special correspondent fergal keane reports from the Erez Crossing. A gate towards the war. Where israels army today showcased how it planned to boost aid reaching gaza. This is the Erez Crossing in the north of the gaza strip, with gaza devastated on the other side. The plan is to get 500 trucks a day into gaza from here. The un wants many more to avert what it calls a man made famine. The optics, designed to convey an israel listening to america and other
Former President Trump beating President Biden by ten points. Even the Washington Post is calling its own poll an outlier. Senior National Correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with how the panic is now playing out. Kevin good evening. Reporter dont think you predicted that would happen on a monday. Good to be with you my friend. Every single time trace a gop candidate has a good showing in a poll democrats love to remind folks in washington dont forget republicans led the polls heading into the 2022 midterm elections and that was anything but a red wave so its against that backdrop saying dont make more out of an outlier of a poll than you ought. Talking about their own Washington Post poll. But by any measure lets be honest these numbers dont lie and frankly dont look so good if you are the democrats or President Biden. Ask who youd vote for if election were held today, look at that 5142 pummeling. But wait theres more, you like that . Chances are youll like the other polling, do y
Update from the police in the last 30 minutes, number of People Killed, thatis 30 minutes, number of People Killed, that is six People Killed, after a man stabbed multiple people in that Shopping Centre this afternoon at about 3 30pm. As well as the six people that are being killed, there are multiple people in hospital with different conditions. This is australia, we can see sydney there and this is a very busy, very popular Shopping Centre, Westfield Bondi Shopping Centre, everybody in sydney will know it and it was very busy at the time this happened. We can see pictures from this afternoon, this was four or five hours ago, these people being evacuated from the Shopping Centre. So many families there, as you can imagine, hundreds of people on different floors, different levels, we have been hearing different eyewitnesses talking us through what exactly they saw. 0ne father carrying his two kids under his arms said people around him had been split up from Family Members as everyone t
Multiple stabbings took place. A man entered the Shopping Centre with a knife, five people were killed, several others are in hospital right now with serious critical conditions. You can see from these live pictures, Armed Police Presence still there. The area is still in lockdown. We dont know the motive for this attack but police saying, as things stand, they believed that he acted alone and they dont believe there is a continuing threat. As we just look at the various different, three different lives feeds we have on the scene right now. I will take you back a couple of hours to this afternoon when there was still daylight and we have these pictures of people basically being evacuated from the Shopping Centre. You can imagine a hugely busy Shopping Centre, hundreds of people inside, and as soon as the alarm was raised, police managed to get hundreds of people out of that Shopping Centre. Now, nearby when this happened, about 3 20 p m local time in sydney, when that happened a Police