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heart of -- health officials say the number of casualties is unfathomable. in ukraine, the mysterious death of a commander downplays calls for reelection. we will get an update on the latest from kyiv. a glimpse into the unknown. images from the euclid space telescope helping us understand the greatest mysteries in the universe. ♪ welcome to world news america. it has been a month since the brutal hamas attack's of october 7 -- attacks of october 7. many of those who lost their lives were young people killed at a music festival near the border. israel hit back immediately with massive airstrikes that have reduced much of gaza to rubble. the hamas-controlled health authorities say more than

10,000 palestinians have died, almost half of them children. the u.n. has called the territory a graveyard for children. israel's bombing raids have intensified. thousands of people have been reported killed by overnight is really airstrikes -- israeli airstrikes. the israeli air force is have not commented on the -- air forces have not commented on the strikes. >> they released video. they know they cannot win a pitched battle so they are using hit and run tactics. that will intensify as israel's tanks and troops move deeper into gaza city. after an israeli strike in southern gaza, they were digging for survivors. the town is in the area israel has told palestinians to go to stay safe but nowhere is safe. israel says this is self defense. palestinians call it genocide.

committed had 27 members of his family inside the house when it was hit. >> they show their might and power against civilians. kids inside. >> it is that mighty vengeance promised by israel's prime minister when hamas attacked a month ago. in tel aviv come at the empty table set for the hostages in gaza, friends and families are mounting a 24 hour vigil. the national trauma israel suffered a month ago is not lessening. they are reassessing everything, not just relations with the palestinians but also with arab countries they thought they were getting closer to and who are now condemning everything they are doing in gaza. there is the issue of the safety of jews. in places around the world where the palestinians get a lot of support. even though israel is more secure than a month ago, many more people are out and about.

a real sense of threat remains. israel insists that force, not negotiations, will bring the hostages back. shani's family hope she was a hostage until she was confirmed dead a week ago. friends filled her family home with portraits. she was at the music festival that was attacked. >> we got this horrible video that was shown all over. a friend sent it to us and said i recognize her. she is on the pickup truck. >> this is where she was face down. >> yes. she was in a weird position. she looks unconscious, blood on her head, and people were -- the pickup was driving inside the gaza strip and people were shouting, celebrating, spitting on her. it was terrible. we were just in shock. >> do you think israel is doing

the right thing? >> i don't know what in the end it will be because there are many civilians, innocent civilians also there and they should not suffer, but there needs to be something radical with the terrorism to be done because if not, we will be back in this in the next few years. they will get the weapons again and they will train again. >> israel's pounding of gaza has not stopped. neither has its rage diminished. jeremy bowen, bbc news southern israel. >> three quarters of gazans, over one million people have moved to the south after being warned by the israeli military to move from their homes in the north. our reporter has been following some of the civilians who left everything behind. >> gaza's southern edge, a so-called safer area. not safe today from the scores of bombs dropped every day.

there is someone alive in there, a man shouts. the air smells of smoke, of dust, and blood. one rescuer carries -- to the nearest hospital. severely injured, she is separated from her family. outside, a woman looking for her child. "our neighbor's house was bombed and my daughter was in it. even our house was destroyed. there is nothing left," she says. how cameraman showed her this video. she identified her seven-year-old girl. she has had to be moved. this hospital not equipped to treat her. hundreds of thousands fled the

north after warnings from israel. many families walking for miles, crowding into the south. a school provides fragile shelter. just three liters of water for each person, for all needs, per day, the u.n. says. israel denies there is a humanitarian crisis. it is hard enough to live here under the constant sound and threat of bombardment. sabrina is a new mother. there has been no bread for her to eat for five days. she cannot breast-feed her son. >> i gave birth during the war in circumstances only god knows about. what has this one week old child done to be starved of milk? how is he to be blamed for being brought in this situation? he is

falling sick because he is not being adequately fed. we don't even have water to drink and we sleep on the floor. >> there is no way out for most people in gaza. and there is nowhere left to run. bbc news, jerusalem. >> aid has not reached gaza since the crisis began and the u.n. says it has no information on the needs and condition of 300,000 to 400,000 civilians thought to be there. the palestinian red crescent says an average of 33 trucks make it through the crossing every day, one third of the number of aid trucks the u.n. says the region needs to address the humanitarian crisis. in total, 506 to nine trucks have entered gaza since october 21. all of this comes as diplomatic efforts to slow and stop the fighting continue but as we mentioned, israeli forces say they are in the heart of gaza city.

axios is reporting president biden has told benjamin netanyahu that a three-day fighting pause could help secure the release of some hostages, citing two officials. for the latest, i spoke to our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, in jerusalem. we have seen these unconfirmed reports that joe biden has asked the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, for a three day pause in writing in order to get some hostages released. what more do we know about this? paul: no confirmation of those reports here in israel tonight, but i think it's worth remembering that joe biden and indeed his officials including the secretary of state, antony blinken, have spoken about the importance of getting american hostages out as one of their top priorities, so clearly, a major part of american diplomacy over the past weeks has very much you had that in mind. so far, the israeli position has

been at the best way to put pressure on hamas -- that the best way to put pressure on hamas is the application of military pressure, brute force. now if this report is true, that suggests that washington does not necessarily share that view that that is the best way to secure freedom for the hostages, and indeed, there are people here, relatives of the hostages, who have voiced the fear all along that as israeli troops go into gaza and into some of these built up areas, actually, it is placing their loved ones in greater danger, not less. >> speaking of that military pressure, the prime minister and his defense minister have been speaking about the state of israel's operation, about encircling gaza city. what more have a set about the state of fighting right now? -- what more have they said about the state of fighting right now? paul: we are seeing video evidence of israeli tanks and

other armored vehicles moving right down along the coast, by the edge of the center of gaza city. and so, we can say with absolute certainty that gaza is surrounded, completely cut off from the south, and that what we think the israelis are doing is launching operations into -- closer to the center of the city, going after targets that they regard as key hamas locations. they regard the whole city of gaza as a major hamas stronghold so i think we are going to see these kinds of operations probably for some time to calm, possibly even weeks because it is worth remembering we are talking about gaza and a couple of associated or neighboring refugee camps and some other outlying areas. it could take quite a long time for the israelis to pacify that whole area. what they will have taken some part from today is the side of hundreds, possibly even thousands of civilians obeying

their demand and moving along the road come off and on foot or sometimes in donkey carts, moving south away from gaza city. >> israeli prime minister netanyahu said earlier that israel's military was encircling gaza city and operating inside it as it presses on with an offensive against hamas. when asked about a potential cease-fire, he said that would only benefit hamas but he would support a cease-fire under certain conditions. >> gaza city is encircled. we are operating inside it. we are increasing pressure on hamas every hour, every day. we have killed thousands of terrorists above ground and below ground. if hezbollah chooses to join the war, it will be making a big mistake. no cease-fire without the release of our hostages. >> earlier, i spoke to the former prime minister of the

palestinian authority on the latest in gaza and how the region can be stabilized once war ends. i want to start with the latest, what we have seen. thousands of people have been reported killed by overnight israeli airstrikes in southern gaza. the gaza health ministry which is run by hamas says at least 10,300 people have died since the war began. israel maintains it is defending itself. it has been a month since hamas's attack on israel. what do you think we are seeing? >> i wonder where the limits are to israel's right to defend itself. i don't think there is anything under the pretext of defending oneself, we are talking about the state, if they are allowed to commit what on the face of things has basically carried out on all kinds of news media cannot but be a form or other of war crimes. we are looking at definitely endangerment of civilians. we are looking at civilians

actually being put in harm's way knowingly. that is a crime under international law. it is obvious. so there are no such things as absolute right when what is at stake here is a massive loss of life. i know that is what they have been saying and unfortunately, that is a lot of what has been parroted by world leaders who support israel in the immediate aftermath to say this. >> we have heard benjamin netanyahu delivering an address today and perhaps signaling what the limit would be. he said there will be no cease-fire until all the hostages are released. what is your response to that? >> that says it all. first of all, i have not really seen his remarks. i have not read the text of his remarks or anything like that. if you recall when this whole thing started, israel set as an objective going after hamas in a

big-time way to eradicate it, eliminate it, and then the leveling of gaza, etc., etc.. now, he is saying something about we are not stopping until all hostages are released. there is an easier way, far less costly way of accomplishing that objective and it really does not have to come at the expense of continued bloodshed and continued crimes committed against our people. remember, we are talking about at least 4000 children. we have more than 2000 people. alive, some of them, without possibility of rescuing them, given the difficult conditions, lack of equipment, what have you. if netanyahu was interested in getting the hostages released and that is the benchmark for this war to stop, there is a much easier way of doing this. >> i want to get to some of your points that you made about what gaza could look like after this

conflict ends. you wrote an article titled "peace plan for gaza: calling for the retooling of the palestinian authority." it oversees parts of the west bank and the plo. for a number of reasons, those two organizations don't have any standing really among palestinians right now. how do you realistically see these organizations being revived? >> before getting into any detail on the question, let me just response to what you said about what gaza might look like after this. on the basis of what has been going on, if israel is going to continue to be allowed to prosecute this campaign in the way it says it intends to do and has been doing, i don't know if there's going to be much of gaza first thing is first, this war must come to an end and immediately. nothing good can come out of this. and so, in parallel, obviously, something has to go into what needs to happen, but i can tell

you this is something that is overdue from our point of view, as palestinians. as you know, gaza has been politically separated from the west bank in the context or under the umbrella of the ruling entity. i wrote about this. both the plo, which is the mother of all of us, basically, the mother that came into being in the context -- both of them suffered badly in terms of their political standing, political viability, the degree to which they are acceptable, including in the west bank itself. >> you right in the article, "the fist step must be the expansion of the plo to include all major factions and political forces including hamas and palestinian islamic jihad." how do you expect israel to accept any governing entity in gaza including hamas? >> they never consulted us on the government.

we have no vote in that. look at the kind of government they are governed by right now. the principal is the following. who represents us is a palestinian choice, and that is something we have -- failing in our duty to reconstitute the plo, to make it more representative than it is right now. that is really our prerogative as a people. and we do not really engage in telling israel whom to choose. that may not be acceptable. that may sound like too much, but the fact of the matter is the following, everybody knows that hamas won the last national elections that were held in 2006 in the palestinian occupied territories. they won an outright geordie and continue to enjoy significant support. they are aligned ideologically speaking with many in the palestinian public.

they have broad support. somebody should tell me how -- can continue to be excluded or to exclude itself from the representation umbrella. >> i want to thank you so much for sharing that perspective with us today on bbc news. >> thank you for having me on. appreciate it. >> we heard from the senior advisor to israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, who defended israel's offensive. he talked about what his country's intentions are. >> the only thing we are interested in is making sure we don't have another october 7 massacre and protect our people. for the time being, there will have to be some sort of israeli security presence. it doesn't necessarily have to be a permanent presence on the ground. it could be fluid. forces go in and out when they need to do so. the goal is when this is over them and once again, we have a demilitarized post hamas guys out. there should be an international effort, hopefully with arab

countries involved, too, to rebuild gaza, to reestablish society there. we want to see gaza succeed. we want to see a gaza that lives in peace with israel. >> in the u.s., california police are calling the death of a jewish man a homicide. paul kessler, who was 69, fell to the ground during an altercation in southern california on sunday. he died in the hospital the next day. police in ventura county have given this update. >> has law enforcement officers, our primary duty is to protect and serve the community. we take this response ability very seriously and we are committed to investigating this matter to the fullest and finding out what exactly occurred, working tirelessly together all the facts and evidence related to this incident and we will do everything in our power using every resource we have at our disposal to make sense of this incident. if criminal wrongdoing is discovered, to bring the person or persons responsible to

justice. >> now to the war in ukraine. as it pushes on, let's take a look at some of the recent developments. a top aide to the commander-in-chief of the ukraine military was killed in an explosion. it is thought that the inclusion resulted from a grenade that he was gifted as a birthday present. an investigation is underway into that. there is also an investigation into a missile strike on an awards ceremony that killed 19 soldiers. president zelenskyy says now is not the right time for ukraine's elections. the common follows speculation that he will seek another -- a second term next spring. james waterhouse has more on those stories from tears. james: it has not been a great day for ukraine's military. there are two investigations taking place. the first around a medal ceremony where we are told 19 soldiers were killed after a russian missile strike. it looks like the ceremony was

picked up by a russian drone and subsequently hit. secondly, a senior officer who is in aid to the head of ukraine's armed forces has also been killed after receiving a box of grenades as a present from another commander. investigators say it was accompanied with a bottle of whiskey and that he was killed after his son was playing with it where he pulled it off him, the pin came out, apparently, and he was killed in the blast. his son was seriously injured. these are two quite shocking and bizarre stories as well that have been coming out from this conflict. as for president zelenskyy, here in kyiv, he has said the time is not right this year for there to be an election, and i think there is relative support behind this idea across the ukrainian parliament but there is still a tension because he has been

quick to correct, shall we say, comments from the head of his armed forces suggesting that this war is in a state of stalemate. he has said that the fighting is intense on a daily basis. he has of course tried to keep the focus on russia's continued invasion, and it is clear that he wants his forces to continue fighting, but that will depend on whether western support will continue. should it not, it may well fall outside of president zelenskyy's control. >> in the u.s., the fallout from the supreme court's landmark second amendment decision handed down last year continues as the court heard arguments in a case that pits the right to bear arms against a federal law that prohibits alleged domestic abusers from owning firearms. u.s. versus -- comes 17 months after the supreme court decided in a separate case that the government can only limit gun rights by pointing to historically comparable

precedents. the so-called history and tradition legal test has called confusion -- caused confusion in lower courts. u.s. versus -- give the nation's top court its first opportunity to clarify how lower courts should apply the new test and could have wide reaching implications beyond domestic abuse cases. it comes also as the u.s. is grappling with a string of mass shootings including a recent attack in maine which killed 18 people. outside the court, about 250 people rallied for gun safety and domestic violence prevention. a ruling is expected by the end of june next year. voters in the u.s. are voting in contests that could offer a glimpse of the mood ahead of the 2024 election. in kentucky, governor andy beshear is facing off against republican attorney general daniel cameron. in ohio, voters will weigh in on an amendment to enshrine abortion rights into the constitution and in virginia,

control over the state legislature is up for grabs. if republicans win that control, the virginia governor may move ahead on a proposed 15 week abortion ban. just before we leave you, some incredible pictures to show you from the euclid space telescope which is building a 3d map of the cosmos. among the first image is to be released, the colorful clouds of the horsehead nebula and the spiraling arms of another galaxy. another image shows a cluster of hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity. euclid blasted off in july on the world's first-ever mission aiming to investigate the enduring cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and these images are just the beginning. it is expected to take six years to complete the survey. thank you for watching world narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james.

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wow, you get to watch all your favorite stuff. it's to die for. now you won't miss a thing. this is the way. the xfinity 10g network. amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff: and i'm geoff bennett. on the "newshour" tonight, fighting intensifies around gaza city as civilians still there continue to bear the brunt of