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legendary singer and campaigner harry belafonte died at the age of 96. the un secretary—general sent their condolences to his families and friends. welcome back to our programme. weve been learning details of that british evacuation effort with the flights leaving cyprus and that centre being opened in the airfield to the north of the capital. weve heard from the prime ministers also is —— office that many more flights evacuating british nationals from the conflict torn country i...

and right now we are striking from the air every single day when we do not know where my cousin is, where we do not know where over 200 hostages are and we dont know if any of our bombs have killed them. here in london, pro—palestinian demonstrators, turn out in force. these are recent pictures. protests are also planned in other capital cities. fresh aid enters gaza and the un tells the bbc theyve managed to re—establish some contact with their teams on the ground. welcome to bbc ...

said that it was expanding its ground operations there. 0ur middle east correpondent tom bateman, who is in jerusalem, has more. well, there has been intensive aerial bombardment by the israelis over a prolonged period of time, the heaviest that weve seen at night—time during the course of this conflict. and we heard from daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, in a live televised address to israelis, that he said that they were widening their ground operations. he talked abou...

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Themselves, now that much of that has been cleared, they still havent been able to reach much of the island. let me go over some of the numbers. the cell phone towers, only about 11% of them have been restored. when it comes to power, only about 5% of the power here has been restored. so, you know, terrific job? i would say the puerto ricans and their community have certainly proven to do so in certain parts of the island in which the first responders have not been able to get to. >> whats been ...

>> very emotional for government owe fish. the mayor of the capital and the people here, ana. i cannot stress this enough. when we talk to people on the streets, they have a series of questions. one, do you have power, where do they have power. this entire island doesnt have power. two, do you have water. and then three, do you have a signal. can you reach your family? so many people on this island have yet to reach their families to just find out if theyre okay. >> wow. leyla santiago thank you...

Call anybody an enemy, lets just say our chief rivals -- >> adversaries -- >> really good word, david sanger, why you write for "the new york times" -- >> exactly. >> it would be iran and syriap. >> yeah. >> and ends there. i mean it would be iran and it would be syria. and so its interesting that we go into kosovo, we go into bosnia, we triple the number of troops in afghanistan, we go into iraq, when under false pretenses and then here we have syria using chemical weapons killing over 100,000 ...