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baier, breaking tonight the conflict in the middle east escalates across the region. israeli forces are expanding the war zone, threatening more targeted attacks amid international pressure for a ceasefire. u.s. officials are asking prime minister benjamin netanyahu to deescalate in gaza, as the administration says, it's ramping up pressure on iranian backed groups. we have fox team coverage tonight chad pergram looks at the u.s. response to a drone attack that left three service members injured in northern iraq but we begin with trey yingst live from tel aviv. good evening trey. >> ...

form after a backlash against editing them for modern audiences. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president biden has ruled out sending f—16fighterjets to ukraine, saying the planes are not needed for now. it comes despite increased pressure from ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky for urgent air support to help protect its skies from russian attacks. president zelensky has marked the first anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine by hailing his nation's year of invincibility. james waterhouse, reports from kyiv on how the first anniversary was m...

>> provide the process whereby guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now. we are not, as i said, in the inauguration, going to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals. >> but he quickly ran into opposition from both parties and a lot of logistical issues with congress literally passing a bill preventing him from transferring any detainees to the united states and blocking the funding to close the gulag that came to be known as gitmo. by the end of obama's administration, 197 prisoners had left guantanamo, but the prison remained open. when trump took over...

Tuesday marked 20 years since the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba opened. Since Jan. 11, 2002, it’s been one of the most enduring symbols of the United States' war on terror. But it's also a symbol of government waste and mismanagement, and a legacy of torture. Amna Nawaz looks back at the facility's two decades, and what's to come, with Carol Rosenberg of The New York Time.

Here are four questions to which the committee should demand answers at the hearing.