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Of international pressure, seizing the Border Crossing with egypt. The un Secretary General, antonio guterres, has warned that a full scale assault on rafah would cause a humanitarian nightmare. Qatar has called for International Intervention to prevent the city from being invaded. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. We know that for weeks now the us has been warning israel against a full scale offensive of rafah. This really because of the high numbers of displaced people who are living in that city, crammed up next to the border with egypt. And the us had been talki...

Stepped up its bombing of the south of the territory. Negotiators from israel and hamas are at the discussions, along with egyptian and qatari mediators. On monday, israel rejected a three phase proposal that had been accepted by hamas. The israeli bombardment of Southern Gaza continued overnight following israels seizure of the vital rafah crossing with egypt. Palestinian medical staff say Seven Members of a family were killed in one air strike. Israel says its reopened one of the main Crossing Points for aid. Kerem shalom was closed last week following a hamas rocket attack. Humanitarian wor...

Joan donoghue, welcome to hardtalk. Happy to be here. You sat on the International Court ofjustice for pretty much 14 years. The last three years as president of the court. One of your last cases was the case brought by south africa against israel on the basis of genocide in gaza. Were you aware of the scale of International Scrutiny on that particular case . Yes, absolutely. It was very clear. And in particular, or, for example, outside of the peace palace, where the court sits, there were two groups of demonstrators, or interested people, and one of them had a Big Jumbotron Set Up Outside so...

Would then have to go to the president to decide to avert a shutdown before midnight tonight. Within the last hour, we heard from the Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. I have very good news for the country democrats and republicans have come to an agreement and the government will remain open. We will have avoided a shutdown. Bipartisanship, which has been the trademark of the senate, has prevailed and the American People can breathe a sigh of relief. But this is a bridge cr and Leader Mcconnell and i have agreed to continue fighting for more economic and security aid for ukraine. We suppo...

It has been a day full of twists and turns of the American People can breathe a sigh of relief. They will be no government shutdown. Democrats have said from the start that the only solution for avoiding a shutdown is bipartisanship and we are glad Speaker Mccarthy has finally heeded our message. In the end, more democrats supported this bill in the houston republicans. Proving bipartisanship was the best answer all along. I want to thank my colleagues here in the senate, especially our appropriate as. Madam president Susan Collins and leader mcconnell. Our Bipartisanship Work in the senate se...