Benjamin netanyahu has said he hopes to overcome his differences Withjoe Biden but vowed to press ahead with a Military Assault on rafah. Mr netanyahu was speaking to us media after President Biden confirmed that the us had withheld a delivery of munitions and could halt more shipments if Israeli Forces attack hamas in rafah, a densely populated city in the gaza strip. Mr netanyahu said israel had to defeat hamas in rafah. Paul adams sent this report from jerusalem. Haitham is trapped. After three operations for a bullet wound that punctured his lung, he needs treatment abroad. All set to leave until israel captured and closed the rafah crossing. Forced to wait in a tent. I feel helpless, he says. The world is powerless to open the border. The hospitals here can no longer help me. Just when rafah� s need is greatest, its main hospital lies silent and abandoned, hastily evacuated in the face of israels sudden advance, now dangerously close to the front line. Israel insists its operation is limited. But new images of tanks massing on the border earlier this week have raised fears that rafah� s Densely Populated Centre could soon be attacked in defiance of washington. Translation if we have to stand alone, we will stand alone. I have already said that, if necessary, we will fight with our nails. Last night, a rare warning from President Biden an all out assault will have consequences. They go into rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. For one former israeli Prime Minister, this is a significant moment the current government squandering the goodwill of its most steadfast ally. I ask myself, what did we do that the person that was perhaps more supportive of the state of israel than any president in the history of the relations between the two countries, reached the conclusion that he has to do it . So this is a major turning point. The most dangerous government for the state of israel on these days is not any foreign country. Its the government of israel. With ceasefire talks apparently deadlocked, rafah is being pounded. Air strikes and artillery leaving trails of destruction in a city which still fears an invasion. Paul adams, bbc news, jerusalem. With me is said shehata from bbc arabic. Great to have you in the studio. Lets start with the comments from mr netanyahu. Can he afford to go it alone . I think he can because he has, according to some israeli sources, they have enough weapons to go through to rafah and it shows again with the netanyahus determination to go there, he believes to demolish hamas energy what he called earlier in the wall a full victory over hamas and making them no longer trip to israel again, he will go to rafah because the four battalions of hamas are there in rafah and israel accused hamas over using rafah close to the crossing to launch a Mortar Attack against Israeli Soldiers near Kerem Shalom Crossing which killed four Israeli Soldiers and injured son. Rafah for him as a victory or not, it is the end for him as Prime Minister or achieving success and returning the hostages. This is my opinion but on the other hand some former military is a really officials said it is impossible to defeat hamas forma israeli. Analysis from different think tanks in america and the arab world and even King Abdullah and others say to defeat hamas is impossible, there are other ways, evenjohn kirby, the spokesperson of the Un Security Council in the white house that there are other ways to defeat hamas us. Everyone with israel to defeat hamas but not through rafah because rafah will be a catastrophic disaster because there are more than i Million People there, most of them displaced coming from the north, central, since 7 october, so it would be disastrous to go there. The other looming disastrous to go there. The other looming disaster is the military situation. Where are we with that . Military situation. Where are we with that . The problem is the un complained we with that . The problem is the un complained about we with that . The problem is the un complained about the lack of aid going through the kerem shalom and rafah. Since israel seized the rougher clustering from the gaza site, there is no movement of aid trucks rafah crossing. And after they opened the Kerem Shalom Crossing, the israeli troops, there are still complaints about many trucks on the side but kerem shalom but on the other side with opacity and there are no workers from organisations because of the fighting and bombardment because there is fear for safety because there are many people who have died over the war, more than 3a,000 people, some aid workers killed, especially the world central Kitchen Organisation a few weeks ago. There is some fear about that but all of that leads to more problems for the people of rafah because there is no medicine orfood and even the hospitals according to wha, has only three days left for fuel for this hospital to operate. Healthwise, foodways, maddison wild, there is a problem and with a rafah of bombardment it would complicate the situation. Said shehata, thank you. Problems continue to mount for us Aerospace Company boeing after a number 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 under way in turkey. When also on thursday, nearly 200 passengers were evacuated from a boeing 737 800 after one of its tyres 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. The us transport secretary Pete Buttigieg has been speaking to the bbc about the latest on the investigations into boeing. 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 Standards that faa has set forward and that is part of why we take these set of restrictions on 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 meet the 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 737s until it was established 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 the extraordinary Safety Record we do. Right now it is clear that extraordinary measures are called for in order to safeguard and defend the record. The porn star Stormy Daniels, at the centre of Donald Trumps hush money criminal trial, has ended her testimony in court in new york. Under fierce cross examination, she was accused of trying to profit from the case. The former president is charged with hiding a payment to her to cover up an alleged affair before the 2016 election. Hes pleaded not guilty to sa counts of falsifying business records. Sarah smith has the latest from new york. Stormy daniels� lawyer posted this picture of his client, looking very happy to have finished with a hostile cross examination. In the courtroom, she was repeatedly accused of being a liar, of having made up the story of having sex with donald trump in 2006. Referring to her career in adult films, mr trumps attorney said to ms daniels she replied . Referring to her alleged sexual encounter with mr trump, and then saying donald trump denies ever having sex with Stormy Daniels and claims the case against him is bogus. This is a frankenstein case. They took a dead misdemeanour, they attached it to a dead alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life. So many of us are just amazed to watch us actually walk into court, because its not a recognisable crime. Thejudge and jury kept straight faces as ms daniels described being called a human toilet online and replying that she was the best person to flush that orange turd down. Because she tweeted a link to her online store selling team stormy merchandise the day mr trump was indicted, ms daniels was accused of trying to make money from this case. Not unlike mrtrump, she said. He sends out frequent e mails to supporters, trying to raise money to defend himself. Stormy daniels� testimony over a day and a half was explicit and explosive, talking about Donald Trump In Black Silk Pyjamas and describing having sex with him. But it may not have much impact on this criminal case. Legal it does not really matter what the donald trump and Stormy Daniels had sex. His defence team have been arguing for a mistrial saying all the explicit detail has nothing to do with the case at hand. They were denied that. Donald trump does not deny paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet and what is actually charged with his falsifying Business Expenses because he marked those Hush Money Payments as legal expenses, so it does not really have anything to do with the sex. Sarah smith, bbc news, new york. Lets get some of the days other news. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has fired the head of the Department Responsible for his personal protection. It comes after two of its officers were detained this week over an alleged assassination plot. The announcement did not state a reason for serhiy rud dismissal or name a replacement. A general strike against Austerity Measures in argentina has brought most of the country to a halt. Schools, banks and shops in the capital, buenos aires, were shut and train and Metro Services suspended. Unions said the strike was a wake up call to the argentinian president javier milei, urging him to review some of the cuts to subsidies and social programmes. Election officials in chad have announced a victory for the Military Leader general mahamat deby in mondays president ial election, with 61 of the vote, based on provisional results. General deby� s main challenger, Prime Minister succes masra, has also claimed victory. Around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. Israel has reached saturdays Eurovision Song Contest final in sweden, amid protests over israels war against hamas in gaza. Eden golan was received with claps, cheers and some booing when she performed her song hurricane, in malmo. Earlier, thousands of people protested in the city against israels involvement. The israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu wished her success, saying she had already won against an ugly wave of antisemitism. David sillito reports from malmo. Welcome to the second semi final. Welcome to the second semifinal. Welcome to the second semifinal. �. ,. , semifinal. All the attention was on the semifinal. All the attention was on the one semifinal. All the attention was on the one competitor semifinal. All the attention i was on the one competitor added goal and from israel. Outside there had been protests from those angered about israels actions in gaza but nothing would stop her in her progress to the final. This was for her and the israeli delegation symbolic moment for the country. Out of the events of 7 october. All of this has had a wider impact on the contest. Both in terms of the extra security and the competitors. For the uk, its added a whole new level of pressure. However, when we met he was putting all that out of his mind. The focus was the show and reflecting on his previous performance earlier this week. I . His previous performance earlier this week. There is a lace earlier this week. There is a place where earlier this week. There is a place where we earlier this week. There is a place where we break earlier this week. There is a place where we break the place where we break the line. What did it feel likes oh, my goodness, its a lot of nerves, excitement, the atmosphere is like a Military Operation. Atmosphere is like a Military Operation operation. Im trying to understand operation. Im trying to understand the operation. Im trying to| understand the staging. Operation. Im trying to understand the staging. Your dances are upside down, arent they . Yes, some of them are. How are they doing it . How are they doing it . 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