Philippe lazzarini, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. You run the unwra relief agency. You have 13,000 staff inside gaza. You currently are not able to visit gaza. What is it like when you hear that, as yesterday, wednesday, six members of your staff have been killed in an israeli bomb attack? this is always absolutely devastating. Yesterday i was boarding the plane coming from cairo to london, when i heard the news. And this happened in a school which was also sheltering at that time 12,000 people. And they are in this school because they still believe that the united nations flag can protect them. Yesterday, six staff working in the shelter, providing assistance, organising, in fact, the lives of these families, have been killed. Now 220 staff since the beginning of the war. The worst, stephen, is to know that maybe tomorrow we will even have more staff being killed. And the question is, when will this end? not only staff is being targeted, but we have also the united nations
Really sunny on the channel coast, East Anglia and into lincolnshire. Most of the North Sea Coast as well. The wind will change direction, by saturday they will come in from the south west. Through sunday, the milder air will have established itself across the uk, so temperatures once start to nudge up to about 20 or so. Some of us will pay for it, in the South Westerly is we often get Weather Fronts so there will be a few showers on sunday, not everywhere, and certainly some sunny spells. 18 in belfast once again, 17 in aberdeen. To the east of the pennines, not far off 20 celsius. High pressure expected to build across the uk on monday, which means Light Winds, prolonged spells of sunshine, which are expected to last for the days ahead. Monday, tuesday, wednesday across the bulk of the uk, bright and fairly warm. Goodbye. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. When israel fires missiles on gaza, it describes them as precision strikes aimed at hamas targets. What results is often cat
Crimes in the january 6th attack on the capitol on his first day in office. Going to work with the this sunday, trumps promise. Donald trump vows to free those charged and convicted of crimes in the january 6th attack on the capitol on his first day in office. Going to work with the people to treat those unbelievable patriots as mike fence says he wont be backing him in 2024. I will not be endorsing donald trump this year. I will talk to bill cassidy of Louisiana One of the serve republicans who voted to convict donald trump. Plus, growing frustration. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer calls for new leadership in israel warning Prime Minister netanyahu is an obstacle to peace. Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of israel after october 7th. This is unprecedented. You should not feel fellow democrats this way at all. Is israels relationship with the u. S. In danger . Ill talk to democratic senator ben carden of maryland the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee a
Health workers and civilians are not a target, and must be protected at all times. We urge israel to cease fire. The idf said it had carried out a Precision Strike in the area of the hospital that targeted militants from the islamichhad group. Meanwhile, the us military has carried out its first air drop of food aid, amid a growing humanitarian crisis in the territory following months of war. Us Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with israeli war cabinet member benny gantz on monday as washington seeks to reach a dealfor more aid and a temporary ceasefire. A us official said today the framework for a deal that would establish a six week ceasefire in gaza is in place with israels agreement and depends on hamas agreeing to release hostages. And a un team has found that many palestinans who were injured as lorries were delivering aid on thursday, were wounded by gunshots. Our Diplomatic Correspondent paul adams has the latest. How were so many people injured . Were they shot or crush
payment rights on the social media platform. to discuss all this i ll be joined by the political analyst and democratic party strategist mary anne marsh and philip rycroft the former permanent secretary at the uk s department for exiting the eu. the bosses of five major tech firms have been testifying at a senate hearing about what they re doing to protect children from online sexual exploitation. the five have faced some fiery questions, with meta boss mark zuckerberg being asked what the hell were you thinking? over an instagram prompt directing users to possible child abuse material. mark zuckerberg and the boss of tiktok voluntarily agreed to testify, but leaders of snap, x formerly twitter and discord initially refused and were sent subpoenas, forcing them to appear. all have hundreds of millions of young users. senators are particularly worried about a rise in reports of explicit images of children being shared, including those created with artificial intelligen