Husam zomlot, welcome to hardtalk. Husam, i want to start with something personal. You yourfamily is from the south of gaza. When you heard of the murderous attack that hamas had launched on israel on october 7, did you immediately realise that this was going to put your family and so many others in gaza in extraordinary danger . Yes, absolutely. Not only my family, but all people in gaza and my entire nation, because i knew israel will instrumentalise this in the most horrible way possible. And this is exactly what happened, trying to link hamas to the Palestinian People, and then link hamas to isis, then linking the Palestinian People to isis, in preparation for this horror we are witnessing right this moment. Surely, the message israel was making and was bound to make was between hamas and unbelievable levels of barbarity and violence . And what they had to do was commit to destroy hamas. We have to listen to what the israeli officials and politicians and fanatics have been saying f
Husam zomlot, welcome to hardtalk. I want to start with something personal. Your family is from the south of gaza. When you heard of the murderous attack that hamas had launched on Israel On October 7th, did you immediately realise that this was going to put your family, and so many others in gaza in extraordinary danger . Yes, absolutely. Not only my family, but all people in gaza and my entire nation, because i knew israel will instrumentalise this in the most horrible way possible. And this is exactly what happened, trying to link hamas to the Palestinian People, and then link hamas to isis, then linking the Palestinian People to isis, in preparation for this horror we are witnessing right this moment. Surely the message israel was making and was bound to make was between hamas and unbelievable levels of barbarity and violence . And what they had to do was commit to destroy hamas. We have to listen to what the israeli officials, and politicians, and fanatics have been saying for yea
The president was pretty tight lipped when pressed about the document by reporters today. The fbi pleaded with the white house not to release the memo. In a rare move, the agency went public on wednesday, saying it has grave concerns about the documents accuracy. The memo was commissioned by this man, devin nunes, the chair of the house intelligence committee. Today, the minority leader in the house, the democrat nancy pelosi, called on mr nunes to resign. The democrats fear it will be used to smear swipe robert mueller, the man running the inquiry into alleged russian collusion with trumps election campaign. Heres democrat adam schiff. This is not about the facts, this is about a narrative that the chairman wants to put out, a misleading narrative, to undermine the fbi, undermine the department and ultimately undermine bob mueller. Of course, the danger in all this, besides the obvious one of politicising the intelligence process, is that it sends a message to the white house that he
Breaking news coming in from the states. Reports of a Shooting Incident inside a hospital inside the bronx in new york. Unarmed man, said to be dressed as a doctor, opened fire at the bronx lebanon on hospital, according to reports. This hit is a 972 bed hospital, at least three people are believed to have been shot, although there are reports of multiple shootings and some reports describe this as an ongoing situation. Messages on social media speaking of doctors and nurses having barricaded themselves inside the building and also some reports of a fire in the building. None of this is 100 confirmed. New york forrest has been briefed on the situation and police are going through from each floor to each floor in search of the gunmen. We will keep you updated on this developing story. The leader of kensington and Chelsea Council, the borough where the Grenfell Tower fire happened, has resigned. Nicholas paget brown said he had to accept responsibility for his role in response to the fir
Arms in fallujah state of emergency in fiji slammed by the biggest storm in the southern hemisphere. And sport barcelona cannot win. 52 games without a loss for the la liga world, its a club record. And a round up of sport in the race for the white house, voters have been going to the polls in South Carolina and nevada. Hillary clinton won a tight contest against Bernie Sanders in nevada. She got 52 of the votes, and the first state with a racially diverse electorate to vote. This is a live scene out of los angeles, where we are accepting Hillary Clinton to address his support. Meanwhile, in South Carolina, billionaire Businessman Donald Trump is expected to win the republican contest. The big question is how big the margin will be. Wholl Gain Momentum on the vote. We are in both states with the voting. Well speak to alan fishing in columbia first, to Michael Shure, in los angeles. And, so, clinton has won, michael. Was it by a big enough margin, was it convincing. Well it wasnt really