welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. ambassador, i want to begin with some words said recently by the uk foreign minister, david cameron. he said this: the lights are flashing red right across the global dashboard. it is hard to think of a time when there s been so much danger, insecurity, instability in the world. would you agree with him on that? i would. and where do you see the instability at its most dangerous? the most pressing thing today is, of course, the middle east. you cannot deny it. it s obvious. it is a conflict that is fraught with the regional conflagration, potential global conflagration. you see what s happening what has been happening in recent days. you have seen what s been happening in the red sea with the us aggression on yemen, with the recent us was plus uk aggression on iraq and syria, the situation on the northern border of israel with lebanon. so, the middle east may explode, unfortunately. i m looking at some of your recent quotes. yo
Agreed to a ceasefire proposal, put forward by egypt and qatar. The news sparked celebration in gaza, but it may be premature. The israelis are saying tonight the deal is not acceptable because they had agreed with The Americans as far back as february a deal that has now been softened. What we know about this proposal is that it sets out a three stage process each lasting 42 days. The first would lead to the release of 33 hostages, in return for Palestinian Prisoners, and a partial israeli withdrawal. The second would lead to the release of all other living hostages, there are thought to be 128 still alive. And the third phase would see a return of the bodies. The Israeli Defence minister said this morning that the decision to expand the assault on rafah had been taken because hamas had rejected their ceasefire terms. So this has come as a surprise to the government injerusalem. Lets cross straight to our security correspondent Frank Gardner whos injerusalem. Frank, bring us up to spe
the truth behind them. the temporary ceasefire in the israel gaza war is over. it ended about 7am local time. since then, the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than a hundred people have been killed in fighting. each side blames the other for the end of the ceasefire. the israel defense forces said hamas violated the operational pause, and fired toward israeli territory . it also blamed hamas for failing to release all the female and child hostages. israel has resumed its bombardment of the strip. the idf which released this video says it s hit more than 200 targets today. hamas which the uk, the us and many other governments consider a terrorist group blamed israel for breaking the agreement by preventing fuel from reaching north gaza. the recommencement of israeli air strikes hasn t been restricted to gaza s north. there have also been attacks in khan younis, in the south of the strip, as our middle east correspondent hugo bachega reports. war has returned