let s go the white house on the breaking news. lucas tomlinson, i understand you have new reporting the share. lucas: that s right, senior official confirms that the u.s. government is weighing options on how to shoot down this chinese spy balloon when it crosses the atlantic, safely off the coast of the united states. now earlier in syracuse president biden was asked to do on the balloon and he said all options are on the table and this is what he said exactly. the chinese balloon we will take care of it. lucas: this morning former defense secretary chuck served under barack obama said this balloon should be brought down gently to exploit it. we don t know what the pentagon is going to do and what the president will ultimately decide and once it gets out over open waters i d be surprised if we would allow this balloon just to float back to china. lucas: both countries spawn each other, of course, just over a month ago the pentagon says fighter jet came to american sp
Hello and welcome to verified life. The United Nations has warned that catastrophic shortages of essential goods in gaza could result in many more deaths. The head of its agency for Palestinian Refugees described the amount of aid allowed in so far as crumbs. Philippe lazzarini says basic services are crumbling, with streets starting to overflow with sewage. A World Health Organization official says patients are being operated on without anaesthetic, with bodies lying everywhere in hospitals. The Un Human Rights Office says it has warned israel that cutting off food, fuel and electricity constitutes collective punishment. Israels military says it carried out another ground raid in gaza overnight to target hamas fighters. These pictures, supplied by the idf, are said to show a Hamas Tunnel Being struck by a guided missile. Launch sites for anti tank missiles and command and control centres were also reportedly hit; the army said it killed a senior hamas commander. As tension continues
there was a risk of the total collapse of the humanitarian system that he anticipated a complete breakdown of public order. and he laid out in stark terms the desperate situation in gaza, that there was no protective protection of civilians, there. that they were running out of food, at risk of starvation, that the health system was collapsing, most of the population displaced and more than 17,000 palestinians have been killed. so here we saw the majority of the council supporting that call by the secretary general, but despite that, the united states again cutting an extremely lonely figure in the council, raised its hand to block this draft resolution to veto it. live now to steven simon, former united states national security council senior director for the middle east and north africaa vote for a ceasefire would have what is your reaction? i what is your reaction? i am not surprised what is your reaction? i am not surprised by what is your reaction? i am not surpr
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most prized nuclear and icb installations in montana and who knows what else, if they knew about it, biden was briefed about it and they made a political decision, political decision not to down it then. has that been a mistake? i don t know how that would be a political decision. i think we have leverage against china right now because they have created the international incident. they are on their back heels. for shooting it down that s a complicated military calculation. it s about whether or not threat militarily to us, civilian aircraft, enhanced intelligence gathering and to have people like the former president s son jr. say shoot it down over montana, it s irresponsible. we have to trust the experts who in the military to make this decision for us and to give advice on how the make the decision and, you know that is what is happening right now. griff: fair point. hundreds of miles could endanger lots of americans and as we