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i m begging the world to bring my baby back home. hello. welcome to verified live. might make it through the military isjust been giving might make it through the military is just been giving some of the latest briefings and some very interesting lines coming out. officials saying large numbers of strikes have been called off to avoid civilian casualties and they ve also said that the campaign to eliminate hamas could take months or years and the officials are also saying that every gaza target has been approved by the highest level. interesting because we saw those strikes through the course of the day and overnight one of the major strikes overnight where the idf said they were targeting hamas and this is an area in the south and israel has been urging people to go from the north in these pictures from the area, some of the aftermath and the focus, the attention turns to the way that israel has been responding. those lines repeated from the israeli officials in the ca ....
so, raf, what is the latest in richard engel s conversation with the senior hamas member of leadership? reporter: well, katy, this official is telling our colleague richard engel that hamas is prepared to release not just the foreign hostages, you can hear a boom behind me, katy, it sounds like possibly an air interceptor. the senior hamas official telling richard engel hamas has prepared not only to release the foreign hostages but this official says also prepared to release women, children and other civilians. now, richard pressed this hamas official, if that s the case, why don t you release them now? this official said, oh, well, that s impossible while this bombing goes on. richard pressed him again saying, surely if there is a will, there is a way. if hamas is serious about showing the world that it is not a terrorist organization, that it is prepared to release these noncombatants, you could find a way to make it happen. this official not answering that questio ....
districts and don t want to be seen as being overly supportive of jim jordan. that said, they might vote differently on the second or third ballot. i think the first ballot is kind of posturing. a sense of where everyone is. and now as you have reported, jim jordan knows who is left out there, who opposes him. and we ll see if he s there to pull them over. i don t think the party wants a repeat of either what happened two weeks ago or what happened, you know, when mccarthy was first elected. all those ballots. right now i think there is a sense, it s more important to have a speaker at this time than maybe your first choice as speaker. john: well, better some speaker than the one you want, interesting way to put it. right. john: if i was curious to note that the number of people who voted no for jim jordan was about the same as voted no for mccarthy back in january. he eventually won them over after extraordinary amount of horse trading, including a measure that ....
and settled intention to end their life. two doctors must approve, and the individual must be over 18, and have lived on the isle for at least five years. our medical editor fergus walsh has been to meet people on both sides of the debate. the isle of man has a population ofjust 85,000, the same as grimsby. but for over a thousand years it has set its own laws and is about to vote on one of the most contentious issues facing society. these two campaigners want to see assisted dying introduced on the island. simon was kept alive way too long, in way too much pain. he had no dignity whatsoever, no quality of life. sue biggerstaff is haunted by the memory of her husband s agonising death from motor neurone disease. the doctor, everybody was wonderful. but the fact is, simon had intravenous morphine in both legs and both arms, and patches. and still he was in pain. she says simon s final months were torture paralysed from the neck down, his muscles wasting with open wound ....
israel and egypt agreeing to a cease fire in southern gaza. this allows anyone wanting to leave the war ravaged territory to do so now is happening as the rafah crossing connecting egypt and gaza reopens this all happening just moments ago. the crossing is the last remaining exit for palestinians wanting to leave gaza for the crossing. the crossings reopening will also allow much needed humanitarian aid into the territory through the rafah crossing was shut down while israel conducted airstrikes in the region earlier this week. its military was responding to the brutal and deadly attack by hamas militants in israel just over a week ago. the closing of the border has stranded thousands of people trying to escape before israel s potential major ground operation in gaza. that number includes 5 to 600 palestine americans as the reopening coming just hours after secretary of state antony blinken met with egypt s president with regard to rafah. i had a very good conversation ....