This past hour that washington will air drop humanitarian aid into the gaza strip. And thats where we are going to start. Theres growing International Pressure for a full investigation into what went wrong yesterday. As the aid convoy arrived in Northern Gaza. The israeli army has acknowledged that its soldiers opened fire at one point but says most of the deaths were caused by a crush, or lorries running people over. Our special correspondent fergal keane, working with bbc verify, has spent the day piecing together more details of what happened. His report contains some distressing images. Shots cracked through the night. People start to move. Then run to get away. In this section of the crowd there is panic. And as casualties streamed into local hospitals, the testimony of witnesses. Translation the situation was unimaginably crazy. If aid is going to come to us in this way, we dont want it. We dont want to live on the blood of our children. The israelis say that at 4 40am, the convo
Card. The weather stays on the i chillier side of things. Tomorrow the will be drier and brighter. Its saturday the 2nd of march. Our main story. The Prime Minister has urged the nation to stand together against extremists who want to undermine britains multi faith democracy. Labour said rishi sunak was right to call for unity but the lib dems claimed the conservatives had sowed the seeds of division for years. Our Political Correspondent, leila nathoo, has the latest. The Prime Minister arriving back at Downing Street last night, ahead of an unusual address to the country from outside number ten, to warn that extremists were spreading poison. There are forces here at home trying to tear us apart. Since october the 7th, there have been those trying to take advantage of the very human angst that we all feel about the terrible suffering that war brings to the innocent, women and children. To advance a divisive, hateful ideological agenda. His speech was prompted by the election of the co
perhaps they have and they are holding that information to themselves because, of course, before an investigation is over they like to keep as much information close to the vest before they get all the answers. jon: there is word at least one police officer from sante fe was injured, the sante fe school district, we believe a sante fe school district officer was injured with shotgun pellets, they spread after the blast leaves the muzzle and a number of people will be grazed and receive relatively minor injuries. unfortunately if you re close to that shotgun, depending on the load that s being used, the injuries can be catastrophic. but it appears this one police officer just was grazed by a shotgun pellet and certainly ought to be able to enjoy a full recovery. julie: we are joined by the former nypd commander on the phone. i want to praise the police department for getting this suspect in custody alive.
hotel, said, it s chaos down here two bombs just went off at the finish line within five seconds of each other. there must be casual advertise. now i m seeing fire trucks and ambulances. all of this is the earliest reporting. it was really loud explosion, quoting, glass and smoke everywhere. we just want. he said he found what appeared to be a shotgun pellet in his coat pocket seconds later. a shotgun pellet, which other would suggest to us we can t know this but if you re fining shotgun pellets, somebody has potentially rigged a device with shot gun pellets around it. so when the explosion happens, those pellets and whatever else they found were put in there to create terror. it appears from the facts before our eyes, the wilts statements,
the vice president shot a man in a hunting incident on saturday. shay any s shotgun pellet remains lodged in the man s heart. three days later does the vice president owe a word of explanation to the american people? let s play hardball. welcome back to hardball. that was one of the most bizarre cold opens. today the washington post brought us back to that wild incident where the vice president shot a man in the face he was hunting with. we interviewing cheney s victim hairy whittington. you know, because i thought it wows be interesting. it s sort of like the motivation for all newspaper articles. maybe somebody wants to read about this. where are they now? where are they now. it wasn t as they used to say in western he didn t just wing the guy. no. he shot him quite substantially