Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Joining me is frank lowenstein, who served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president barack ob
Demolish to, used to be known as east timor. Because the pope, Pope Francis, is arriving there. It is part of a very big tour, and this is a mostly catholic nation, formerly a portuguese colony, in southeast asia. It is a three Day Visit which will include an open Air Celebration of mass, and The Vatican says that it could include half the population, which is around 1. 3 Million, so, they are expecting very big crowds there. The pope, who is 87, isjust leaving his car, it seems, we canjust 87, isjust leaving his car, it seems, we can just see on the other side of the windows, i think. At the start of this trip in Timor Leste. Part of a Big Tour Organised by The Vatican. He has just come to Timor Leste from papua new guinea, and you can see there the pope. Applause and cheering. Being escorted there by his aides. He is 87, and he has been on this big tour, attendance of Tens Of Thousands of people expected to gather there to meet him. Applause and cheering. You can hear some of the cro
Sri lanka winning just after one Oclock And England powerless bowling to Patthum Nissanka or ct treated the second hundred of his Test Match career. Were england weary in this Test Match . Or complacent . They would deny that. There will always be ups and downs with the style of Test Match cricket. Its a sobering defeat for them as they try and develop ruthless streak which was desperately missing. In terms of the global interest in Test Match cricket into places like Sri Lanka maybe this victory in the broader scheme of things just cricket needs. The pressure continues to mount on France Head Coach Didier deschamps who says he will stick to his principles ahead of mondays Nations League Clash against belgium in lyon. France were beaten 3 1 At Home by italy in their opener on friday, despite taking the lead in the first 20 seconds. Of course fridays result was negative of course fridays result was negative and of course fridays result was negative and i of course fridays result was neg
Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We want to begin tonight with that firestorm on capitol hill. The former special counsel robert hur testifying about his investigation into president bidens handling of classified documents. The special counsel was defiant, standing by his conclusion that no charges were warranted. You may recall, though, it was his final report that angered the white house. The report included personal assessments about the president s age and memory, mentioning his son, beaus, death. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle used the hearing to score political points ahead of the 2024 president ial election. Republicans blasted hur for not charging biden with a crime, while democrats aimed to point out the differences between the current president and donald trump, who is facing charges for mishandling classified documents, saying trump obstructed all investigations. The white house views the matter as over and says the case is closed. Cbss ed okeefe is
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the amanpour, our heres where were headed this week the roe v. Wade Ripple Effect overseas with reproductive rights under attack in america, a world first as france makes abortion a constitutional right, we have a solidarity with our american sisters, and we want to tell them that france is with her israeli hostage held by hamas for 51 days with a three children describes her hellish time in captivity. Shes a gun sactually. Its a kind of Emotional Abuse that they didnt let us cry. Also this hour creeping famine and starvation in gaza with children are now dying for lack of food and water death is better than this then. To ukraines front lines where theyre being forced to ration ammo. I think this year is gonna be the worst year in the war and for my archive via attempt to convert communism to capitalism in the early 990s. And how this failure in russia paved the way for putin welcome to the program, everyone. Im Christiane Amanpour in london. We begin th