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This is cnn breaking news. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The dysfunction among republicans in the u. S. House of representatives has now taken on global significance because of the crisis in the middle east. So we are in this hour going to focus a bit on House Republicans meeting a tt this hour. They are hoping to get one step closer to decide who will become their next speaker. No legislation can be passed including any legislation that might address the growing crisis on the ground in israel. So we are following that story, but we are going to begin today in the middle east, where at least a thousand people have been killed in the hamas attacks on israel, most of them civilians. President biden confirming today that 14 of them were americans. The white house says 20 additional americans are still missing, and that number might not necessarily reflect the number of american hostages. Its just 20 americans who are not ac ....
welcome to the programme. israel s prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the war in gaza has entered a second phase, warning it will be long and difficult. speaking at a joint news conference with his defence minister, yoav gallant, and emergency war cabinet member benny gantz, mr netanyahu described the conflict as israel s second war of independence. he declared israel would win the war and make every effort to bring the hostages home. in his first comments since the war began on seven october, hamas s leader in the gaza strip has offered to release all hostages being held in gaza in return for the release of all hamas prisoners in israeli jails. in a statement, yahya sinwar says: we are ready for an immediate exchange deal that includes the release of all prisoners. of all prisoners in the prisons of the zionist enemy in exchange for the release of all prisoners with the resistance. it comes 2a hours after israel stepped up its bombardment of gaza. israel sa ....
Im phillipa thomas, here at the bbcs headquarters in london. In this Special Edition of the programme, were looking at some of the best reports of this year from our network of correspondents from around the world. Coming up stand off in the skies above the south china sea. Rupert Wingfield Hayes flies over one of the most contested areas in the world, incurring the wrath of the chinese. 0ur captain is saying that were a Civilian Aircraft, not a military aircraft, it didnt make any difference whatsoever, theyjust repeated the threat to leave the area over and over again. Tiny victims of yemens forgotten war. Nawal al maghafi finds starving children in desperate need of aid. He just had fever and diarrhoea and because they didnt have his medicine he passed away. Weve just arrived in what is called the prong zone. Und ....
Im phillipa thomas, here at the bbcs headquarters in london. In this Special Edition of the programme, were looking at some of the best reports of this year from our network of correspondents from around the world. Coming up stand off in the skies above the south china sea. Rupert Wingfield Hayes flies over one of the most contested areas in the world, incurring the wrath of the chinese. 0ur captain is saying that were a Civilian Aircraft, not a military aircraft, it didnt make any difference whatsoever, theyjust repeated the threat to leave the area over and over again. Tiny victims of yemens forgotten war. Nawal al maghafi finds starving children in desperate need of aid. He just had fever and diarrhoea and because they didnt have his medicine he passed away. Weve just arrived in what is called the prong zone. Und ....