welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington with cnn s breaking news coverage of israel at war. one week after the hamas terror attack that triggered this horrible conflict, the israeli prime minister netanyahu just posted video of his visit with troops positioned near the gaza border telling them and i m quoting him now, the next stage is coming. there s growing anticipation of a potential ground war as israeli forces keep pounding targets inside gaza from the air. this comes amid new setbacks for efforts to try to evacuate civilians including americans. egyptian authorities reportedly are not allowing u.s. and other foreign nationals to enter the country from gaza. the united states has expressed hope the crossing might be open to americans today. tens of thousands of gazans have fled their home after israel urged more than a million civilians in the northern part of gaza to move south. a new window given by israelis for
and london, this is bbc world news it s newsday. glad you could join us it is eight o clock in singapore, in o clock in singapore, midnight in london and nine in the morning in a seoul led the us secretary of state will be meeting the acting president. the pair will discuss other thing is how to deal among other thing is how to deal with the growing - from north with the growing threat from north korea and how to get china to do more. mr tillerson has already had meetings with the japanese prime minister. shinzo abe welcomed the visit and its timing. translation: ina visit and its timing. translation: in a situation where north korea u nfortu nately in a situation where north korea unfortunately continue staking threatening actions and the security in the asia pacific region in issue in the asia pacific region in terms of fires, i find that the visit by . tillerson comes at a visit by mr tillerson comes at a timely manner. the us secretary of state made clear existing us po
the number of people killed in wednesday s attack at westminster has risen to five, including the attacker. within the past few hours, police have confirmed that a 75 year old man injured on westminster bridge has died. his identity has not yet been released. detectives have confirmed the attacker was a 52 year old british man, khalid masood. he had changed his name. he grew up as adrian elms. overnight and on thursday, police made eight arrests, five men and three women, in london and in the midlands city of birmingham. tributes have been paid to those who lost their lives. the three identified victims are aysha frade, us national kurt cochran, and police constable keith palmer. nearly 30 people are still in hospital, six of them critically ill. with the latest on the investigation, here is our special correspondent lucy manning. with a car and a knife, he brought terror to parliament. he is khalid masood, a british born attacker known to the police, with a 20 year criminal