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of the 217 votes he will need. there is so much bad blood, and tension in the republican caucus this could go on for a while. and until it is resolved then congress is partly paralysed. to say this is an implosion of the republican party is almost an understatement. they should be serving as a useful foil of the white house. checking the white house where they need to, instead they are rudderless. they are leaving the house unable to pass legislation such as humanitarian aide, releasing budgetary amounts to support conflict overseas. jim jordan is the frontrunner for speaker, he is seen as a very far right trump aligned, not very substantive member of congress so to think he is the best they can put up at a time whenjoe biden himself is fairly vulnerable but compared to the republicans he looks like a superstar. the republicans he looks like a su erstar. , the republicans he looks like a summer- the republicans he looks like a suerstar. , ., , ., ., superstar. there is a blo ....
this is bbc news. the headlines. an air strike on the rafah crossing from gaza. thousands of people are there trying to enter egypt. israel now believes nearly 200 hostages are being held in gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu promises to bring them home. the us secretary of state antony blinken holds more talks with israeli officials and reiterates america s support. mind that developing straightly brought you just a short time ago, we have an update on some of those hostages that were taken in an attack and setting israel last weekend. in a speech to parliament, uk prime minister rishi sunak today confirmed that six british citizens have been killed he set a further ten are still missing. the bbc can now confirm the names of two young british sisters who are among the missing. they are a 16 year old girl and her sister, their mother, leanne, who was born in britain, born in the uk was murdered by hamas and the attacks last week. now come the family has not rele ....
southern england, through the channel islands as we reach the second half the day. the wind starts to pick up. and that rain continues to pick up. and that rain continues to move north ward as we head into thursday, turning milder, milder by day and by night, as we push towards the end of the week, with low pressure it stays windy heavy rainfall round, in the north and east, where we could see some flooding issues across parts of eastern scot. stay attuned to the forecast. that is thanks stav. it s time to cross to the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. the battle for control over manchester united we ll have more on what a stake forjim ratcliffe s ineos would mean for the club, and it s future. scotland celebrate qualification is sealed for next year s euros without a ball being kicked. and what a weekend at the rugby world cup as england now face a date with champions south africa, followi ....
left on foot or in a vehicle. but many are determined to stay. our correspondent reports from just a kilometre over the boundary with gaza. it s been over one week since hamas launched its unprecedented attack on israel. some of the perpetrators are still just hundreds of metres away. israel s wave of air strikes has been the deadliest on gaza. and now they are prepared for a ground attack. it is hard even to imagine what we re witnessing in gaza. this is the north where a ground invasion is expected to begin. thousands left their homes in this area and gaza city to the south. a large number of the population still refused to leave. more than 2700 people in gaza have been killed. and whole neighbourhoods reduced to rubble. thousands have fled after telling civilians to leave to the north. but many say they can t or won t leave. this man is one of them trying to squeeze the last drops from the cities water system that has been cut off for days. translation: we will not ....
to releases the hostages. 199 are being held, including two british teenagers whose mother was killed nine days ago. on the panel tonight, the former british ambassador to the us, lord kim darroch, who once served as the uk s national security adviser, and from washington, formerfederal prosecutorjoe moreno. good evening. the sirens sounded tonight in tel aviv while the us secretary of state was meeting at a military base with prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his war cabinet. in spite of ten days of bombardment in gaza, hamas is still able to fire rockets into israel, which tonight sent mr blinken and the prime minister scurrying into a shelter. nonetheless, the punishment for hamas is unreleting. more so for the innocent palestinians who are trapped in gaza. the united nations says israel s siege is causing a deepening humanitarian crisis, which could come to a head in the next 2a hours as the hospitals run out of fuel to power the generators. the destruction in s ....