hello from london. i m califhristiane amanpour. welcome to the amanpour hour. up first this week, california s first partner talks gender equality in davos and how surviving trauma shaped her mission. we won t achieve gender parody unless we address this culture where women and girls are victims of both physical and sexual abuse in their lifetime. also ahead, would the rest of the world makes of donald trump s landslide in iowa. they look ed a at this with sense of dread, put not surprise. then a shocking eyewitness account from a volunteer doctor just back from gaza and israel s reaction. looking around the emergency department, my overwhelming passion was why are they saving children here. from archive, 33 years ago this week, u.s.-led forces launched the first gulf war. my report from saddam hussein, a warning about gaza today. welcome to the program, everyone i m christiane amanpour in london. 131 years, that s how long it will take to close the gender gap
chief spokesman for israel s prime minister. amid all the accusations of war crimes and a charge of genocide, is israel s response to the trauma of october 7 serving its own best interests? mark regev injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it s a pleasure to have you on the programme. as i said, we are more than 100 days into this war. you are inside the israeli government. is there any discussion inside your government as to whether the current strategy you re pursuing in gaza is working? so, the overall strategy, the goal remains what it was at the beginning, to destroy hamas s military machine, to have our hostages released, returned home, and to end this terror enclave, to end hamas s rule in the gaza strip. now, the way to achieve that is obviously flexible and depending on battlefield conditions and other conditions, as well. so the tactics in achieving that goal can be fluid, but the goal remains the same destroy hamas s military machine,
tonight, the uk appears to be on the brink of taking military action with the us against houthi rebels who ve been attacking ships in the red sea. could parliament be recalled to discuss any uk military response? tonight we ll guide you step by step through this latest international crisis with our defence editor mark urban and our political editor nick watt. also tonight. breathtaking testimony from a fraud investigator employed by the post office to examine shortfalls at branches across the country his evidence helped wrongly convict multiple subpostmasters he investigated this ex branch manager who was suspended by the post office after shortfalls and fraud accusations. you have been told there was a growing body of cases and that in itself was not sufficient for you the question the reliability of the horizon system. because i am not technically minded. i would expect that to come from people above. shazia saddiq was with us last night and is back tonight. she was at th
thank you very much. we start with the shipping crisis in the red sea. yemen s houthi militant group has claimed responsibility for yet another attack on a container vessel, this one belonging to the french shipping line cma cgm. it happened late on tuesday despite the presence of the us navy in the area and it s the latest in a series of attacks which are prompting major shipping lines to take alternative, longer routes. the international chamber of shipping says that one in five commercial vessels are now ships are now avoiding the red sea, which accounts for 12% of global trade. it s led to a near doubling in the cost of container shipping. the attackers say they ll continue to target vessels until palestinians in gaza are allowed sufficient food and medicine. ami daniel is the chief executive of the martime intelligence and analytics firm windward, among other things, they help companies reduce risks at sea. thank you for being with us today. one in five ships choosing
this is bbc news, the headlines: more than 100 people in iran die in two explosions near the grave of a top revolutionary guards commander. the united nations peacekeeping mission in lebanon says it is deeply concerned about rising tensions following the killing of a senior hamas figure. aftershocks and heavy rain complicate rescue efforts injapan. at least 64 people now confirmed dead. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s tanya arnold. the sport of darts has never seen anything like it 16 year old luke littler, on his debut, is preparing for the world championsip final. he ll take on another luke, luke humphries, who himself became world number one after his victory in the semi finals. well, matt graveling is at alexandra palace for us, we ll talk about luke humphries in a moment, matt, but luke littler, in the space of three weeks, has taken the sport by storm. relative unknown to a fan fan favourite, that is for sure. the tension feels like i