hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by some western governments, says more than 1a,000 of those killed are women and children. and it says there have been over 52,000 people injured in the conflict so far. our special correspondent fergal keane reports on the toll that this deadly conflict is taking on families there. a warning you may find this report distressing. the world is debating calls for a ceasefire and a big new reckoning of the dead is declared. but, for the people of gaza, the suffering is felt. not counted. dead children being touched a final time by their wounded father. a mother comes to mourn a lost daughter. translation: imagine that i yesterday i was brushing her hair, making her a sandwich for dinner and putting her to sleep then you wake up in the morning and there is no fatima any more. from the beginning, they have known there is no escape. not from gaza orfrom grief. 0rtrauma. the wounded now number in their tens of thousands. in al aq
the release includes infamous former defence contractor leonard glenn francis known as fat leonard. he s at the center of one of the us navy s largest corruption cases. in exchange the us has freed alex saab, an aide and top ally to venezuela s president nicolas maduro, accused of laundering money on behalf of the maduro government, which he denies. mr maduro is also releasing 20 venezuelan political prisoners. it s all part of the biden administration s efforts to improve relations with venezuela, and push mr maduro to hold fair elections next year. earlier, i spoke with our reporter mimi swaby about the deal. president byers was emphasising that this was all about encouraging venezuela to hold free and fair elections. how much leveraged you think the biden administration has in that regard? this is yet another sign of significant flowing between relations between the us and venezuela after months of really high level negotiations. this comes as biden is grappling with a
"I never thought that the religious freedom guaranteed in the Bill of Rights would be under threat by a tiny, vocal minority, but yet it is." Clarence Colburn, Thornton