With its fingernails if necessary. Mr netanyahus comments come after President Joe Biden confirmed the us had paused a delivery of bombs which could be used in an assault on rafah. But the idf claims they had enough weaponry to finish the rafah mission. There have been mixed reactions to mr biden� s decision from lawmakers in the us. Earlier i spoke to our state department correspondent, tom bateman. You have spoken to members of congress all day, what sort of support or criticism is there for the decision to hold the shipment of the bombs to israel . One of the first things that struck me coming into the building today was the sense in which this is a very significant moment, the levels of energy and the response to this, the way people are feeling about this on both sides is extremely strong. That is because this is the first time in a generation we have had this level of public pressure applied by the white house onto the israelis, trying to change their tactics, and specifically using a hold on us Weapon Shipments to the israelis to do that. It is why, for example, hearing from republicans who have bitterly come up with a bitter rebuke over the announcement last night of President Biden over this, and democrats who have said they believe this is the right policy, and in some cases have asked the question do they think it should have happened earlier . I was outside the Relations Committee earlier and we caught up with some of the senators during the meeting. They do not need to fight with their fingernails, this is more political rhetoric from the Prime Minister. They will and should fight with modern Weapons Systems that they have developed, and in many casesjointly with us and are provided in many cases buy us but they should do it in a way that minimises civilian casualties. The president is absolutely wrong, he has been wishy washy and contradicting himself in terms of his commitment to israel and subsequently his saying that we will not send weapons. He lobbied for the passage of the bill, it passed, now he says never mind. He says it is to influence the behaviour of israelis not to carry Ground Offensives into rafah. To me, he has mismanaged this whole thing, it is wrong, they have a right to defend themselves and do what they need to do to protect their sovereignty, and i support the people of israel in that. Benjamin netanyahus spokesperson told us on this programme last night the withholding of the shipment would not deter them from a Mission Into Rafah nor impact their war effort. Is there a hope or expectation there it might make some difference to the plans . The first point to say is that the administration is well aware that the israelis have an abundance of munitions because of the scope and scale of the american supply already, that they probably have what they would want to carry out that Operation Into Rafah itself, anyway. This pause, for example, that they have announced last week on a batch of 2000 pound bombs, these destructive weapons, israel already have those and used those in gaza, and the review the Administration Says it is carrying out, there is an awareness this will not make an Immediate Impact on the battlefield, it will not tie their hands in a sense. In that way this is much more about the political effects of this. As to the the statement by benjamin netanyahu, he said they will go it alone and fight with our fingernails if we have to do. For more on the Prime Ministers comments, i spoke to former ambassador to iraq and turkey, and current chair of The Middle East program at the wilson center. James jeffrey. The israeli Prime Minister saying they dont need the us weapons for their war effort. Has the Biden Administration just annoyed one of this countrys allies without actually doing anything that will deter mr netanyahus actions . Thank you for having me. No, the israelis are annoyed but this is more serious. We are two close allies are facing notjust iran but a regional set of proxies which hamas is only one and we need to stay aligned. The sides have differences, joe biden is focused understandably on civilian casualties, and netanyahu believes and most experts agree with him that they have to do something about the remaining hamas battalions, they have to cut off the Rafah Crossing which is what they have done and they have to close the routes out of egypt to have any victory. There is a possibility that despite the rhetoric the sides can find a way for the israelis to do this in a kinder way, which so far they have done and what the administration almost approvingly called � limited operations. I dont know if that is possible but what i do know is netanyahu will go forward with some operations, and if that is a problem forjoe biden, he owns this war and he needs to explain to israelis and americans but most of all to the gazans how does this end, who will come in and take care of these people if hamas still has 10,000 troops . The comments from netanyahu in the last hour or so, saying that israel has to defeat hamas, it has to go into rafah, but he hopes the disagreements between himself and joe biden can be overcome. They have closed the Border Crossing at rafah. Sounds like an incursion into rafah is imminent . It is imminent although it could also be stopped. Netanyahu and the israeli people do not want a major blow up with the us. 0n the other hand, ifjoe biden is going to tell them how it will end, they will end, at the way their military advisers think has to happen, which is hamas, it needs to be defeated militarily. If you talk Aboutjoe Biden telling israel how this war has to end, netanyahu has been leaving his own war effort for all these months. How much is he listening tojoe biden at this point . 0n the big issue up until now, basically the us and israel have been in agreement that hamas has to be, to quotejoe biden, no longer in control of gaza. The agreement of the methodology of doing that. It has been a challenge but once again it may be casualties. Nobody likes civilian casualties. Biden pointed out that our bombs are killing innocent civilians on the ground, they killed thousands of innocent civilians, they are not as Essential Conflicts for us. This is for israel. We have to take a step backwards and see what can be done. There is a middle way here, of more cautious israeli steps by the Biden Administration will have to go along with that rather than continue to oppose it. If the only solution is israel do the raids we did against 0sama bin laden, the israelis you have rather and will not go along. We spoke a few days ago with hope that a deal could be done in cairo at those talks. Now the hamas delegation has left, the us delegation has left, the israeli delegation. Have we taken steps backwards . There is still confusion, as much as we have tried to suss out what has been going on. The us was strongly supportive of the israeli position, hamas came back with a different issue, a different set of points. Including a permanent ceasefire and israeli withdrawal and changes in the number of hostages it would release, dead people rather than live people and less israeli control over the 900 palestinians they would release. The administration then said these are minor changes and we could come to some sort of meeting of the mines. The israelis were shocked, they said this is a major difference. Were not sure what happens but clear point is that hamas changed the basic offer that was on the table from the us, egypt, qatar and israel will not go along with it. The world watches at this point. We will have to leave it there for the moment. Thank you forjoining us. Meanwhile israel qualified for the Eurovision Song Contest final following protests over its participation. Thousands of people joined pro palestinian demonstrations in the swedish city of malmo as the eurovision semi final took place. They were marching in protest against israels involvement in the global competition whose singer eden golan was booed. A smaller pro israeli demonstration also took place in the city. Problems continue to mount for us Aerospace Company boeing after another string of International Safety incidents. On thursday morning, a boeing 737 300 Passenger Aircraft crashed during take off in senegal. 11 people were injured when the plane ran off a runway and caught fire. Separately, two investigations involving Boeing Planes are underway in turkey. When also on thursday, nearly 200 passengers were evacuated from a boeing 737 800 after one of its tires burst on landing. It comes just a day after a Fedex Airlines boeing 767 cargo plane landed at Istanbul Airport without its front landing gear. This, as a Boeing Whistleblower former quality inspector Santiago Perades tells the bbc he found up to 200 defects on plane parts being readied for shipping to boeing. For the latest on the investigations into boeing, my colleague Sumi Somaskanda spoke to the us transportation secretary, pete buttigieg. Thank you forjoining us in our studio today. Lets start with our own bbc reporter, we spoke to a Whistle Blower who worked for spirit in kansas, a subsidiary of boeing. He said he often found up to 200 defects on parts being ready for shipping to boeing, and spirit says it strongly denies these allegations important for us to say that. He told us he was finding a lot of missing fasteners, bent parts, sometimes even missing parts. Are you confident that boeing is meeting its commitment to safety that your Department Sets . The faa is investigating right now because when you hear about concerns like that, they have to be taken seriously. The context for this is we have already been in the process of putting boeing under a microscope ever since the january incident with alaska airlines. They need to demonstrate they are meeting the quality standards and safety standard that faa has therefore forward and that is part of why we take these ordinary set of restricting the ability to increase production until they demonstrate they can do that safely. The Safety Record is an extraordinary thing and you cannot ever take it for granted. Maintaining that requires a level of scrutiny and that is what is going on with boeing right now. If they do not merely safety standards, what happens . There are planes are in the skies in the meantime. If the plane is not safe, it cannot fly. That is why they grounded 737 until it was established that each one had been inspected following the incident. That will always be true. The faa holds these aircraft to a standard of a billion to one or better of something going catastrophically wrong, that is why we have extraordinary Safety Record we do. Right now it is clear that extraordinary measures are called for in order to safeguard and defend the record. We saw today there was a boeing 737 that crashed during takeoff and injured 11 people. Officials say 190 passengers and crew were safely evacuated from a boeing 737, it had a tiger bursary landing. A tire burst in landing. It is a safe mode of transportation, the record has been strong but you understand why people feel wary at best when they look at getting on a boeing . Not just safe, the safest by far that we know. The most natural human thing in the world is when you step into a metal tube that will fly hundreds of miles an hour through the sky, you will have concerns that absolutely everything has been checked to make sure that is a safe experience. That is not something we can never treat as a destination, it has to be continually renewed and refreshed, and any time a problem emerges or a threat of a problem, whether in the design, the process, their maintenance or the operation of a flight, we will look at that very closely. You trust boeing to rectify this . We dontjust trust, there is auditing, a 90 day clock and we are roughly 60 days in, the administrator has put boeing on this thing they to demonstrate a plan to tackle all these quality issues. They have a responsibility to meet our standards but we do not take it on faith. We hope and expect they will and we hold them accountable to do so. In a statement to the bbc a Spirit Aerosystems spokesperson said spirit strongly disagrees with the allegations made by mr paredes. We are vigorously defending against his claims. Boeing itself declined to comment, although sources within the company say it is working hard to help spirit address quality issues. Around the world and across the uk. This is bbc news. Lets look at another story making news. A man who was badly injured during the attack inside his familys Hainault Home in east london last week has been describing the moment he woke up to find a man with a sword in their bedroom. Henry de Los Rios Polania spoke to the bbcjust hours after leaving hospital, where hed had surgery on his right hand. I feel so helpless. Seeing my hand cut and looking around, how to protect myself. All i see is pillows and teddy bears. There was nothing that i could use to stop him from attacking us. 14 year old Daniel Anjorin was killed in the attack on his way to school outside. Several others were also hurt. 36 year old Marcus Arduini monzo is accused of the schoolboy� s murder, and faces other charges including two counts of attempted murder, two counts of causing grievous bodily harm, aggravated burglary and possession of a bladed article. Youre live with bbc news. The former adult film star, Stormy Daniels, clashed with Donald Trumps lawyers as they cross examine her in his ongoing � hush money� trial in new york. Prosecutors have charged the former president with falsifying Business Records, over a payment to ms daniels in 2016 before the november election. Ms daniels� testimony prompted mr trump� s lawyers to lodge a second Mistrial RequestWhichjustice Merchan denied. Donald trump maintains his innocence and denies the alleged affair, calling the case a witch hunt. Earlier i spoke with former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori, Who Specialized In Financial Fraud and white collar crime. We were also joined by our North America correspondent nada tawfik. It was another busy day in court, Stormy Daniels in the box for a second day, but her evidence was different to what we heard on tuesday. Can you fill us in . That is right, this was the most intense Cross Examination we have had yet in this trial. While tuesday was filled with very vivid details of the alleged Sexual Encounter the donald trump tonight, today was really an effort by his lawyers to essentially discredit Stormy Daniels. What we saw was them going through and meticulously asking her about several interviews she had done, going through her social media history. Stormy daniels, the first time she was on the stand, she spoke at length, spoke quickly, she was very composed this time. In fact, responded to attempts to discredit her with humour, indignation. At one point when they asked her about her career, essentially making up fake sexual stories in porn films, she hit back, saying that the sex in those films was very real as was her encounter with donald trump. If she had made it up she would have written a better story. When they claimed she had tried to profit off of his indictment, showing, for example, a candle called the saint stormy candle, she said look defiantly if i have tried to profit off of it, so has donald trump. Stormy daniels certainly not being intimidated on the stand, she had a casual body language, but the real question was whetherjurors think her answers ring true. On that, it is extraordinary when we think this is the former president and possible future president of this country, and we hear so many salacious details, but what will the most impactful from the evidence be . It seems like she had an aggressive Cross Examination but sometimes it is possible for some of us observers to lose the forest from the trees because the key fact that the jury needs to take away from this testimony is that she had a sexual relationship with donald trump. The Cross Examination seems to have focused on some inconsistencies in her story over time and he suggested she was motivated by money. I don� t think anyone doubts this encounter occurred, of good faith and honesty. The jury will take that away and the prosecutors will see if they need to, maybe she was not the perfect witness but we did not pick her, donald trump picked her. They were his own actions. His team have tried to say a lot of her evidence is irrelevant, and they asked for a Second Mistrial Application today . Their central argument is this is a case about books and records, not about alleged Sexual Encounters, and they complained once again it to the judge that some of the evidence that came out in her original testimo