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immediate truce. >> this is tough but we got there. >> a humanitarian cease-fire is the only way to begin the desperate needs of people in gaza and and the ongoing nightmare. >> police and prague release bodycam footage from thursday's deadly mass shooting. the man who spent 48 years in prison for a murder he did not commit fights for compensation. ♪ >> welcome to world news america, i am carl nasman. the u.n. security council has approved a resolution aimed at getting more aid into gaza. 13 countries voted for the resolution but the passage was only sealed when the u.s. and

russia chose not to exercise their veto power and instead abstained. the resolution uses milder language than previous versions. it calls for the safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale to gaza but does not demand an immediate end to the fighting. instead the resolution calls for the creation of conditions for a sustainable secession of hostilities. here is what the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said after. >> it took many days and many, many long nights of negotiating to get this right. but today, this counsel provided a glimmer of hope amongst a sea of unimaginable suffering. today this counsel called for urgent steps to immediately allow safe, unhindered and expanded humanitarian access and

to create the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities. carl: the united nations has warned gaza is on the brink of famine with nearly all of the territory's 2.2 million people dealing with acute food shortages. the call was repeated for a humanitarian truce after the vote. >> after the last weeks and days , there has been no significant change in the way the war has been unfolding in gaza. there is no effective protection of civilians. intensive israeli bombardment and ground operations continue. more than 20,000 palestinians have reportedly been killed, the vast majority women and children. meanwhile, hamas and other palestinian factions continue to fire rockets from gaza into israel. carl: israel's u.s. ambassador

reacted, i think the u.s. president and the u.s. ambassador for standing on israel's side. monitoring and inspecting aid entering gaza. a security council as a body has not yet condemned the october 7 massacre. the u.n.'s focused only on the aid into gaza is unnecessary and disconnected from reality. the u.n. should have focused on the humanitarian crisis of the hostages held in gaza. for more on the negotiations that led to this deal, i spoke to the ecuadorian ambassador to the united nations who currently serves as president of the security council. thank you very much for joining us here on bbc news. after these days of intense negotiations, how satisfied are you now of the results of this resolution? >> thank you for the interview.

i am very satisfied from what we have achieved as a presidency and most of all from what we can deliver to the people. carl: can you give us any insight? i know you were involved in some of these negotiations. how difficult was it to get all sides to agree to some sort of language that could finally come to a vote and pass? >> i think there are things that took some time. diplomacy sometimes works in a mysterious way. i am not sure i can say it was very hard to find a language but what i am sure is everyone in the council makes a part of trying to do their best to come up with a resolution that we have now seen in the resolution we just approved. carl: you said you are satisfied.

not everyone, though, is satisfied with the ultimate outcome. there has been criticism from some arab nations that the language is too vague to be meaningful. do you agree? what do you think about that criticism? >> i think that perfect is enemy of good. every second and every minute counts because every life matters, i am satisfied with knowing that what we approved will help people in need. it will somehow make a step forward from the prior resolution. from that standpoint, everything that is going forward in this past of -- in this path of walking toward a solution, it is satisfying. carl: in the end, this text does not condemn hamas for its attacks on october 7. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. said she was appalled that the council was unable to condemn

it. what do you make of those concerns? many people are asking why is it that there was no condemnation of the actions of hamas? >> the ecuadorian delegation, we have condemned, every opportunity we have had, the crimes of hamas, the acts of terror from hamas. we have said it in every forum. this was a humanitarian resolution, not particularly a political one. you have to see it from that standpoint. sometimes you will not get whatever you want since you are looking at a humanitarian effort and not a political resolution. carl: let's speak about the humanitarian situation in gaza. we know the u.n. has said there is a real risk of famine. is this resolution enough to begin to address the crisis that

is unfolding in the territory? >> i visited the passage last week. the situation is even worse than words can speak. i think this resolution with regards to the secretary-general, the letter he sent to us two weeks ago, the border collapse, humanitarian catastrophe. this would help the humanitarian situation. i think the u.n. has been very meticulously reviewing the text in order for the resolution to be operational. i think we have reached a milestone. i do think this will be the beginning of something bigger.

especially in the humanitarian matter, this is something big. carl: the u.n. secretary general has said the biggest obstacle to getting a to those who need it in gaza has been israel's bombardment of the territory. this does not call for a cease-fire. will that still be a hindrance to getting eight into the territory -- getting aid into the territory? >> as i said before, every step matters. russia came up with an amendment, trying to move forward in the text, going in that sense. we as ecuador supported that amendment. as the united states said, we are trying to do something that would be effective on the ground, not just words. suspension of hostilities, a

cease-fire is something every nation, at least from what i hear, wants, but it is not something that will come for the security council to say. we have to build a resolution. this is a step forward in that direction. carl: let's get more in studio with our diplomatic correspondent. this took days to get this resolution done, it finally passed. walk us through what is in the resolution and what is not. >> the point of the resolution is to get a surge of aid into gaza. it calls on all parties to allow safe and unhindered deliveries of aid. all routes should be available, things like that. the key thing is the teeth of the resolution was dropped, the call for an urgent suspension of hostilities so the aid could be

delivered safely. that was dropped in negotiations with the u.s. because the u.s. does not support a cease-fire, like israel, they for that would only support hamas. the u.n. aid mechanism that would have reduced israel's control of the inspections, that was supposed to speed things up but has been dropped. it has very little practical, tough measures. some arab countries, some arab countries that sponsored it took their names off the sponsorship, but others said it is the right first step. it is important for the global community to speak in one voice about the dire humanitarian situation in gaza. carl: it was interesting to see there were two nations and abstained from this vote, russia and the u.s., which pushed so hard to water down the language. what do you make of the u.s. abstaining, even working so hard to change what was in the

resolution> >> the ambassador said they abstained because the resolution did not condemn the october 7 atrocities. they did not want to block the resolution. they have done that before on this issue. you have this long, torturous week of negotiations, trying to be to language they would at least not veto, so they abstained. the russians said after that long week of negotiations, it is to water down so they abstained for that reason. they did not veto. the key thing is there were no vetoes. that might be a strong as it gets. carl: where do we go from here? what does this signal? could this mean more international action when it comes to this conflict? >> it signals more international effort. in some ways it might signal more how difficult it is to translate into international action. the bottom line is the u.s. and

israel will not accept a cease-fire that leaves hamas in place. they say if it still has military capabilities, you will just have a repeat of what you saw on october 7 at some other time so it has to be defeated or reduced in strength. the americans are pushing israel to change the dynamic of the work. they want israelis to adapt different conflicts, like -- different tactics, that would help the delivery of aid. that would help fewer people to be killed. maybe with a strong global consensus, the desperate need to get aid in, perhaps those things could come together in a good way but that is quite a lot of ifs. carl: on a personal note, that is your last day with our team in washington before you head off to your new role in nairobi, it has been a pleasure working with you and best of luck as an africa correspondent. >> thank you.

i am looking forward to it. carl: thank you very much. in gaza itself, the hamas-run health authority says more than 20,000 people have been killed by israeli forces. another israeli hostage being held by hamas was reported to have died in captivity. our middle east correspondent reports now from jerusalem. >> the target for israel in gaza is hamas. palestinians, it is survival. the rafah crossing exploded in desperation, each truck a lifeline. the border town of rafah has swelled to four times its normal size as people flee the fighting elsewhere. empty stomachs filled with hope. empty bowls looking for food. almost half the households here are facing very severe hunger.

today the french foreign minister joined british and german calls for a cease-fire, saying it must be immediate. israeli prime minister is so far standing firm. >> we are guided -- we will fight until the end and will achieve our objectives, 11 getting hamas and ensuring gaza will not be a place for terror against the state of israel. >> this, the army says, is a hamas video showing how the tunnels were built. a major construction project using industrial tools. the man on the right of this video it says is the project

manager of gaza's tunnel network. the brother of the hamas leader blamed by israel for the october 7 attacks. pressure for a cease-fire is growing in israel, too, as funerals or held for three hostages mistakenly shot dead by israeli forces this week. today the army released photos of the -- where the hostages were held. signs written for help on the walls with leftover food. in gaza, the continued conflict is pushing hospitals to the breaking point. the injured brought in by ambulance, truck, donkey cart. pictures like this rarely make it to israeli tv screens. lucy williamson, bbc news, jerusalem. carl: that report from earlier this week. police in the czech republic

said the gunman who killed 14 people at a university in prague thursday wounded another 25 killed himself after seeing police were encircling him from all directions. all those who died have been identified. the first to be publicly named was the head of the university's music department. police released body camera footage from receiving the first emergency call and officer stepping into the building was four minutes. our correspondent reports now from prague. >> hunting for a killer. this is the moment when armed police burst into a prague university to stop the gunman who was stalking the corridors and shooting students. an officer's body camera footage was released. images of the horrifying attack.

in a classroom, they shout for stretchers to treat students with terrible injuries. others had barricaded themselves into lecture halls, hiding until they could be evacuated by police. >> they searched everyone. everyone had their hands up. we were taken outside the building. as i was going down the stairs, i so -- saw a lot of blood. >> the whole attack was over in minutes. the gunman isolated on the roof. he had killed his father before telling a friend he planned to kill himself, and then heading to the city center, heavily armed. today, the interior minister defended the police response. >> i don't want to speak about the number, but he had more than

one and was really ready to kill much more people. >> it could have been worse? >> much worse. >> this city is now dotted with shrines. the men who caused such suffering had no criminal record. his guns were bought some time ago, legally. no one saw this coming. there is a real sense of sadness here today as people remember those who were killed in this attack. there is also a sense of shock that it has happened here in prague. people said they felt safe until now. that sense of safety has been shattered. >> for this to happen here is heartbreaking and unbelievable. sorry. >> among those tee shot were two teachers -- among those he shot were two teachers. police think he killed before.

they found a gun at his house used to shoot a man and a baby last week. perhaps this pain could have been avoided. carl: an oklahoma man who served the longest wrongfulimprisonmens now free and said it was a lesson in resilience and tenacity. he was jailed in 1974 and was only freed last year when a court ordered he should have a new trial. prosecutors say there is not enough evidence to warrant one and he has been formally declared innocent. >> justice was done today. i am happy. what has been done cannot be undone. i am about accountability. carl: we spoke to a local reporter in oklahoma about what she uncovered while investigating his case. >> we are all familiar with dna exoneration over the years.

we know that mistakes happen. the difficult thing about his case is there was no dna. there was no physical evidence introduced at trial. the entire case rested on the eyewitness testimony of an 18-year-old girl who had been shot in the back of the head. in 1975, that was good enough to get a death penalty conviction. what we know today is eyewitness testimony is flawed and trauma is a factor. what she could see at the time was a factor. he would never be convicted under what we know today to be in trial. carl: mr. simmons is now 70 years old. he is battling stage iv cancer. his lawyer told us what is next. >> get financial compensation, $175,000 from the state. then, we are planning to file a federal lawsuit on his behalf

against the jurisdictions and locked him up in the first place. two that, we hope to get enough money for him to live comfortably in the last years of his life. we have to set some kind of example around this country about locking people up wrongfully and picking on black people, particularly. it is better than it was 23 years ago but it has a long way to go. carl: u.s. president joe biden has widened his pardon for americans with federal criminal convictions for marijuana offenses. the white house granted clemency to those -- using cannabis on federal land and the district of columbia. thousands of people are expected to be eligible for pardons. president biden said his actions would help make the promise of

equal justice a reality. he went on to say criminal records for marijuana use and possession have posted needless barriers to employment, housing and educational opportunities. to many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana. it is time that we right those wrongs. black americans are almost four times more likely than white americans to be arrested and convicted for marijuana possession despite similar usage rates. distribution or medical or recreational use of cannabis and president biden have called on state legislators to take similar steps to a race marijuana convictions within their borders. let's take a look at some important news making headlines around the world. the u.s. supreme court has declined, for now, to decide whether former president donald trump immunity from prosecution for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020 election.

special counsel jack smith asked the u.s.'s top court to fast-track a decision. the decision paves the way for a lower court to rule first on whether trump could be prosecuted. china's air pollution in 2023 worsened for the first time in a decade, according to a study released on friday. an institute found the national average of air pollution increased compared to 2013 levels. that is the year when beijing declared a war on pollution and introduced measures that sought air quality improvement. the swiss government said it will implement a tax rate of 15% for multinational corporations starting next year. it is meant to overcome and loss of tax revenue to other countries. switzerland will still have one of the lowest corporate tax levels in the world. american actor was allegedly assaulted at his home on wednesday by a woman with a deadly weapon. the suspect --

one last story before we go. a mysterious pair of rare gold sneakers donated to a homeless shelter in portland, oregon has been sold for more than $50,000 at auction. the shoes were found at the bottom of a donation band earlier this year. the head of the shelter said she assumed the shoes were fake but she took them to authenticators and said they were one of the original pairs nike made in 2019. they were never released to the public. one of the few to get them, spike lee. i am carl nasman. narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narrator: financial services firm, raymond james. man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation.

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♪ amna: good evening. i'm amna nawaz. geoff bennett is away. on "the newshour" tonight -- a grim milestone in gaza with the death toll surpassing 20,000 less than three months into the war. a recording surfaces of former president trump pressuring michigan election officials to not certify the 2020 vote. what it means for his 2024