hello and a welcome to our viewers all around the world. i m bee bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. overnight strikes are report the as israel s prime minister warns the next stage of the war, the ground offensive, is coming. those comments amid concern over the hot hostages and the humanitarian crisis. one hospital says 22 were killed an dozens injured in the latest strikes which are in response to the deadly terror attacks by hamas on october 7. u.n. secretary-general antonio guterres has brought backlash saying that the appalling acts of hamas don t just fight collective punishment of the palestinian people. inside gazas situation grows more dire by the day. tuesday only eight of the 20 aid trucks scheduled to enter gooz m gaza made it through. one of the biggest concerns, a lack of fuel. the world health organization says six hospitals in gaza have already been forced to close. and salma abdelaziz has more on the deepening humanitarian crisis in gaza and a warni
case her tearful apology in the courtroom, while in new york, the showdown in court as mr. trump faced his fixer turned foe michael cohen. whiplash in the house. republicans picking a third house speaker in three weeks. then hours later, he drops out. so what now? tracking the first major winter storm of the season and the father of two from miami left his family behind to answer israel s call to serve announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome, everyone. as the picture of gaza under siege grows dimmer and more urgent, a newly freed israeli hostage is speaking publicly about her ordeal in the embattled territory, including her capture along with her husband that she describes as a hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience the 85-year-old offering a glimpse of her life in captivity. the assurances of her captors that they wouldn t hurt us, and the tunnels that resembled a spider web. and tonight, we have
good day to our viewers around the world. it is tuesday, october 24, 5:00 a.m. in washington and noon in israel where two hostages newly released from hamas captivity have had a emotional reunion. the daughter of one hostage says her mother s safe return is a great sign for all the other hamas captives. this is not a political issue, is this a humane issue. we ve lost so many.sis a ray ofe is so much darkness. i can t wait to see my mom and other members of the community also hugging their loved ones. we re expecting to hear from one of those women any minute now and we ll bring some of that to you when we get it. president biden said that all the hostages have to be free before the u.s. will consider a ceasefire in gaza. and the point he was trying to make is that the u.s. is standing behind israel as they lay the ground work for iz nvasn of gaza. israel says that they bombed more than 400 terror targets. this is the humanitarian crisis deepens. one hospital completely w
mark, you can t possibly think we re going to pull this off. that call was crazy. he looked at me and started shaking his head, no, cass. he knows it s over. he knows he lost. but we re going to keep trying. there are good options out there still. we re going to keep trying. cassidy hutchinson talking about mark meadows and tonight, there is blockbuster new reporting that meadows has been granted immunity to testify under oath about trump s efforts to overturn the election. also tonight, a tearful jenna ellis apologizes for her role in the georgia election interference rico crimes. agreeing to tell prosecutors and a jury all that she knows about the trump gang s illegal activities. plus, a third republican speaker designate down the drain today and a search for the fourth which is not a joke anymore. it s a disgrace. we begin tonight with breaking news. a potentially explosive development in jack smith s federal case against donald trump and his attempt to overturn th
support for territories throughout the region, addressed it through sanctions, military force posture, do what we have to do to protect ourselves our troops. nobody is turning away from that threat or their historic and sustained support for these territory groups. john, just a follow-up to what peter asked, two questions, i assume when the president said aid is not getting fast enough to gaza that he s not critiquing our efforts to get it there. and without hanging a hook on who is responsible, is he saying that more can be done from our end? is there more that can be done to get the aid to them? i think he was referring to actors in the region. and then the second question, for many years you are going to meet with the australian government and they have supported the release of julian assange. we have not done so saying there were national security reasons. for the reasons that he has been charged are basically the same efforts that many reporters use, so is there