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far and as extreme that kind of rhetoric, blaming him for the pandemic and every, all the millions of deaths and people who are ill throughout the course of it. of course, the question is, how much of that is actually true? a lot of it is republicans running with very little and trying to cast anthony fauci blaming him for everything that essentially went wrong. you're right. he is essentially been the boogie man all along. these hearings are essentially what they are, is the address right against a member of congress, a chance to rail about whatever subject they want a real about. not really give the witness a chance to respond. they're calling him mr. not calling a doctor, not giving fauci any opportunity to respond. we'll see how much more he does as the democrats come. there'll be an opportunity for the democrats to robot. what marjorie taylor greene has to say i'm going to just away. >> yes. and we're going to we're going to come to that as soon as that happens every is that happening now, ben okay
these viruses were not making people sick until they created them. for they weaponized viruses to attach to ourselves and make us sick. it's a bioweapon." they are attacking you and our medical community for actually creating covid that has caused the deaths of millions. we know that these extreme comments are targeting public health officials across the country. i also want to show you this other comment. the same member. this being unfunded wuhan lab created the virus." this is so crazy and irresponsible. the same member of this committee and accusing him of a global conspiracy to create covid on purpose just to make people get vaccines. that you had done this, sir. the same member routinely promotes misinformation about vaccines and actually has encouraged the routine prevention of tax filings and eliminate diseases like the measles.
invalid both conceptually, and practically. >> thank you, dr. fauci. answered a few of my other questions. for many of us that live in multigenerational communities, thousands -- hundreds of thousands and millions of more lives would have been impacted by this so-called approach and given the fact that the virus rabbit evolution that we have seen since 2020, herd immunity approaches would be absolutely ineffective against a 19. if you would answer one more question, considering the mortality is rates, how many deaths when we have seen bri briefly? >> if we had let it rip, they're very likely would have been another million people would have died i would imagine. >> thank you, dr. fauci. it's not the -- rather it was about protecting and saving millions of american lives. the covid-19 pandemic wasn't some academic exercise. it was real time about saving lives in real time. theories like.
instead listen to podcast goose, conspiracy theorists, and unhinged facebook memes? >> listening to people who you just described is going to do nothing but harm people, because they will deprive themselves of life-saving interventions, which is happened. you know, some have done stu studies. peter haute is has done an analysis of this and people whoo get vaccinated for any of a variety of reasons probably are responsible for an additional 2-300000 deaths in this country. >> thank you for your entire team for saving lives in this country. i yelled back >> mr. chairman, could you have her removed? >> i asked the capitol police to escort. >> she can be removed. you can be removed.
congress has actually cut funding for the low income home energy assistance program known as liheap. they've cut it by about a third. so this year there's only 4.1 billion to distribute to help people who are behind on their bills down from 6.1 billion in the last fiscal year, which means fewer people are going to get help, especially with their cooling bills because most liheap money actually goes to help people with their heating bills experts say that the us lacks a comprehensive policy to address. some are cooling costs and it's becoming a much more serious situation as summers get hotter. we're having more heat waves that are hotter temperatures lasting longer. they're more frequent and this has some pretty serious ramifications including death, heat related deaths are actually on the rise you've had just over 2,300 people last year who succumbed to heat.
protocols we all lived through, whether or not these were justified. listen. >> i'm going to go through a list of covid mitigation measures you supported over the course of the pandemic and i will ask you to give me a "yes" or "no" as to whether you believe these measures were justified. business closures? >> 5,000 people were dying a day, yes. >> church closures? >> same thing. >> school closures? >> ? >> again. >> stay-at-home orders? >> these were important when we were trying to stop the tsunami of deaths that were occurring early on. how long you kept them going is debatable. >> sandra: how long "you" kept them going is debatable, but we know those recommendations went beyond the time when there was that many deaths happening per day. what was your reaction when you heard that? >> yeah, and it was like, okay, it was my idea to begin with but then he became other people's idea to bend the curve and flatten the curve.
telegraphed for so long by the israeli government we're seeing the israeli military using a lot of special forces in rafah sending them in for targeted raids and then pulling back to the perimeters where they've encircled certain parts of that city. so this is not the kind of all-out ground offensive that we saw. these really military carry out in northern gaza or in khan younis. but that doesn't mean that it's not having enormous humanitarian in implications. i mentioned the roughly 1 million people who have been displaced from that city combine that with the fact that much less aid is getting into gaza these days than was say, a month ago. and you are witnessing enormous humanitarian consequences in addition to all that, of course, the israeli military continuing to conduct airstrikes throughout the gaza strip in northern, central and southern gaza, which is obviously resulting in casualties, including civilian deaths, briana all right jeremy diamond live four is from jerusalem. >> thank you so much, jeremy, for that report. jessica and let's discuss this further with david sanger.
the israeli army has announced the deaths of four hostages abducted by hamas on october the seventh. one was named as israeli british hostage nadav popplewell. the news was also confirmed by a kibbutz community. we've just had statement from foreign secretary lord cameron. he said: "greatly saddened to hear about the death of nadav popplewell who had been held in captivity by hamas since 7 october. my thoughts are with his loved ones at this terrible time for them. with a new deal on the table, we reiterate our demand for hamas to send all hostages home." since russia's full—scale invasion of ukraine, the crackdown on dissent inside russia has been intensifying. a string of repressive laws has been adopted to silence criticism of the war and of the kremlin. but, as our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from the city of ivanovo some russians are still finding ways to express their concern at the direction their country's taken. there are some faces you expect to see now in any russian town, but there are faces, too, that may surprise you. in ivanovo, this is the george orwell library, an oasis of free thought in an increasingly
talking about on the campaign trail. patrick english there. the israeli army has confirmed the deaths of four hostages abducted by hamas on october 7th. one of them was named as israeli—british man nadav popplewell. hamas had said last month he had died of wounds. 120 hostages remain unaccounted for. work has begun today on the rob burrow centre for motor neurone disease — as tributes continue to pour in for the former rugby league star, who died yesterday aged ai. gfx fans have been laying flowers and cards at headingley stadium, where he played for leeds rhinos before his diagnosis with motor neurone disease five years ago. john maguire has this report. two, one... cheering and applause it's the moment that rob burrow was determined would go ahead today without delay. a spade went into the ground for the first time to create
back in their arms. and today they got the worst possible news that they could get from the israeli military being informed that the israeli military now believes that these four hostages were killed during their captivity in gaza. and now jessica, questions are arising about exactly how they may have been killed and part of it has to do with the wording from the israeli military's top spokesman. he explained that the israeli military was now able to assess their intelligence, that they were killed a few months ago, and he said that they were killed while they were together, quote, in the area of khan younis during our operation, there against hamas. and we should note that one of these four hostages hamas actually said last month, that he had been injured in an israeli airstrike and had subsequently died of his wounds and daniel hagari, the israeli military spokesman, acknowledging that there will be difficult questions about exactly the circumstances of their deaths. i want to read the four names so these men, hein perry, 79-years-old,