17,000 litres were able to cross this evening. the israeli war cabinet says it will allow 60,000 litres a day. 0xfam says that is crumbs in place of what is required. also tonight, the white house condemns elon musk for promoting anti—semitic and racist hate. and what a week in the us congress. politics descending into the gutter. with us to discuss it all tonight, donald trump's former chief of staff mick mulvaney, who is with me here in the studio, and in glasgow, brian taylor, political commentator and columnist for the scottish herald. good evening. throughout israel's offensive in gaza, the united nations agency that supports the palestinians, unrwa, has been trying desperately to alleviate the impact for 1.5 million displaced palestinians. but for the first time today, as they had warned on this programme last night, the aid stopped. the lack of fuel has crippled communications and transport within the strip, which makes the distribution of relief impossible. this morning, the israeli war cabinet approved access for two fuel trucks a day, which is intended, an israeli official told reuters, for the pumping of water and sewage. but that is nowhere near enough to resume an aid operation. the world food programme said today the people they are trying to help are now on the brink of starvation. in the last hour, we spoke to lex takkenberg. he is the former director of operations at unrwa, now a senior adviser at the arab renaissance for democracy and development. he had this warning about the situation over the coming days and weeks. there is a dramatic risk that the pressure will build up to such an extent that people will simply break through the border with egypt, and we may see a mass forced displacement into egypt in the coming days or weeks. and with the change in weather, temperatures dropping, heavy rainfall, the situation will become truly, truly catastrophic. in a post on x, the us secretary of state, antony blinken, said yesterday he had phoned the israeli minister benny gantz, who sits on the war cabinet, to urge him accelerate the transfer of humanitarian aid. but right now it would appear the white house has only limited leverage, and that is causing joe biden a political headache within his own camp. his friend and perhaps closest ally, the delaware senator chris coons, has been speaking to stephen sackur on hardtalk and agreed that this was a pivotal moment. israel needs to provide more opportunities for humanitarian relief to get into gaza. they have provided notice before carrying out attacks. they have provided pathways for civilians to escape the north of gaza, but their campaign has, and i will agree with secretary blinken, caused too many civilian casualties. so we are in a very... so i asked you a very straightforward yes/no question. i'd like a yes/no answer. has israel violated international human interior law? i don't think it's for me to make a judgment whether they have or haven't violated international law. it would have significant consequences for an american leader to reach that conclusion, but there is a critical moment here in the court of world opinion where i have cautioned israeli leaders directly that they're losing support globally and they need to be focused in this campaign and find ways to make sure that the way they conduct it going forward comports with international law and the expectations of the civilised world. senator koontz there says he delivered personally in the message about humanitarian law and the answer that came back once we have answer that came back once we have an urgent mission to take out hamas so there is clearly resistance from the war cabinet even to a humanitarian pause. how do you think thatis humanitarian pause. how do you think that is going down in the white house? , . , house? they are struggling with it, of course they _ house? they are struggling with it, of course they are. _ house? they are struggling with it, of course they are. joe _ house? they are struggling with it, of course they are. joe biden's - 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exasperation in benjamin netanyahu when he says of course there have been civilian casualties, more than the minimal attempt that they promise but he blames that upon hamas. you heard there is a reference to global opinion and it is true that this war, like any other in the modern age, is being fought with words as well as weapons and fought with images like the ones we are just seeing as will as infantry on the ground. and israel may be advancing but not as substantially as they expected and not perhaps as cleanly as they expected or as a anticipated but they are for not perhaps winning that war of words and images at the same time. making it a point, that war of words and images at the same time. making ita point, i think it's really interesting to note again that you hear the elimination of hamas is stated as the war of the incursion, and i understand that most of understand why they say that. they feel that their territory was embedded in their territory was embedded in their people were killed and people were taken hostages and they are defending their people and territory and what understands that the thick of that war aim of elimination. how do you define that? is it eliminating every fighter, every weapon in every base? if it's not that, when do we know that the war aim has been met? is that going we met in two or three weeks? aha, aim has been met? is that going we met in two or three weeks?- met in two or three weeks? a quick oint on met in two or three weeks? a quick point on the — met in two or three weeks? a quick point on the fuel. _ met in two or three weeks? a quick point on the fuel. we _ met in two or three weeks? a quick point on the fuel. we are _ met in two or three weeks? a quick point on the fuel. we are a - 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sam altman was fired as ceo of the company 0penai, the company behind leading ai product chatgpt. the company co—founder will leave the board, which says it has lost confidence in his ability to lead. in a statement, open ai said, "altman's departure follows a deliberative review process by the board which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities." he will be replaced as interim ceo by chief technology officer mira murati while the search for a new ceo begins. and in the last few minutes, microsoft, which owns a 49% share in open ai, has said it remains committed to the company and its staff. elon musk is feeling the heat from advertisers over at x, the site formerly known as twitter, after he endorsed a tweet that jewish communities push the same hatred that they want people to stop using against them. "you have said the actual truth," said musk. interesting that when you try to open that account from which that tweet came, x hides it with a health warning. the computing giant ibm has since suspended their advertising on the platform after its ads were placed next to similarly anti—semitic posts, some that mentioned adolf hitler. x said it does not intentionally place brands "next to this kind of content", but other ad—buyers, we are told, are considering their position. in the last few hours, we have seen more companies pull their ads, including apple and the movie producers lionsgate, who released their new hunger games film earlier today. so some context of this. the original post was perceived by the white house and the us media as a reference to this long time trope that somehowjews have this secret plan to introduce minorities to we can the white majority. the white house said they condemned this hate in the service terms have a responsibility to bring people together. they are saying this is the sort of stroke that was behind the attack on the synagogue in pittsburgh, and here we have elon musk promoting it. ellen pittsburgh, and here we have elon musk promoting it.— pittsburgh, and here we have elon musk promoting it. elon musk is very raidl musk promoting it. elon musk is very rapidly running _ musk promoting it. elon musk is very rapidly running at _ musk promoting it. elon musk is very rapidly running at a _ musk promoting it. elon musk is very rapidly running at a