♪ ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... george: actually, you don't need vision to do most things in life. it's exciting to be part of a team driving the technology forward. i think that's the most rewarding thing. people who know, know bdo.

narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. announcer: and now, "bbc news". >> i'm in washingtons bbc world news america. president biden says he knows they will retaliate for the deaths of soldiers in jordan. in northern ireland, the government could return to power sharing after almost two years. in hong kong, a sweeping security law that has some worried. ♪ welcome to world news america.

u.s. president joe biden says the u.s. has decided how they will respond to an attack on american base in jordan that killed three soldiers and injured dozens, but he has not revealed details. biden added in his remarks that he does not believe the u.s. needs a wider war in the middle east. an around back to militia group claims responsibility. it marks the first time that u.s. soldiers were killed by enemy fire in the region. two of the soldiers were posthumously promoted. 24-year-old kennedy sanders was among the soldiers killed along with william rivers and rihanna moffat. -- rihbreonna moffeett. >> i never thought that she would be the one to see this type of action.

kennedy, very athletic, outgoing, people call her goofy. i want people to remember kennedy and smile the way that she always smiled. >> more of the story with mike turner, chairman of the house intelligence committee, a republican congressman from ohio. chairman turner, great to have you back on bbc news. i want to start with what president biden said today, that he has decided what the response will be. what do you think they can expect to see? rep. turner: we are all mourning the loss of our three servicemembers, and all roads lead back to iran. if you look at what occurred october 7 in israel, hezbollah, hamas, the houthies, attacks occurring in the red sea, i think everyone understand that these emanate, iran has became even more aggressive everyday. these attacks need to be

responsive. president biden has made it clear that these attacks will have a response, and there will be a price. these acts of instability that occurred in the middle east are all part of iran's efforts to support terrorist groups and organizations and attack our allies and certainly western interests. >> chairman, i want to talk about what that response would like. national security council spokesman john kirby said not just a single action but " potentially multiple actions" over eight period of time. does this mean your country could be engaging in what could be a drawnout conflict? rep. turner: providing weapons, training, funding for these groups throughout the middle east, they are the source of the instability. i was briefed today by the director of national intelligence, director of the

cia, and nato, and he indicated he understands that this is an attack upon the west, and certainly it has affected commerce, it is affecting our allies, people's lives in the united states, and certainly the experience in israel. this needs to be responded to in a way where they understand we are not going to just continue to play defensive. there have been 10 -- over 160 attacks on american troops during this period of time. this is the first that has resulted in casualty. we are not going to allow it to happen again without iran understanding this is a conflict that is going to come on their doorstep. >> i want to ask you what your view is of what the response should be. we spoke to one of your colleagues yesterday, congressman seth moulton mentioned, carrying out specific attacks, we also spoke to don bacon who said things like iranian oil terminals where we can shut down the export of their energy or maybe target

from the coastline. what do you think of those approaches as possible responses? do you think they would be a deterrent enough? rep. turner: i think all of these are on the table with the administration, looking at solidifying, but i think what is really important, that you stated earlier, the administration saying this is not going to be a one-off. it is not as if iran will have one response, and the united states will be, perhaps over a period of time, or they are going to see that their activities are going to come at a cost, and they would know the united states is going to be continually engaged, as iran has become the destabilizing factor in the region. >> if it is not going to be a one-off, chairman, are you concerned about the prospect of the u.s. indeed getting pulled into a wider regional conflict? rep. turner: i think it is already a wider regional conflict. understanding that iran is not going to get free shots and that, you know, although the

administration has been slow, 160 attacks are on american troops, to respond to them, that this resulting in death to american service members to change the dynamics some of the submitted be responding. >> do you think the administration should then strike entities of the iranian government? rep. turner: i think one target that needs to be held at risk here is the weapons production machine in iran. as you know, we are seeing a rainy weapons on the battlefield in europe, in ukraine, where russia is deploying them. you see that saudi arabia has been attacked, you see, you know, the houthis holding targets and hitting targets in the red sea that is affecting commerce. you have all of these areas where iran has not just been funding and training, they have been supplying weapons, and certainly the weapons industry needs to be held at risk. >> we have seen these attacks on houthi weapons facilities.

that is not seems to deter the houthis in carrying out further strikes. are you confident that was excessively bizarre any future attacks by any runback malicious? -- iran-backed militias? rep. turner: the houthis, for example, they have some weapons productions capabilities in addition to receiving arms by iran. it is an attempt to take out those capabilities, especially their exporting of the weapons they are making in iran need to be held risk. >> i do want to ask you as well about another question. there's a movement on a possible deal for a cease-fire in gaza we understand that the secondary state will be visiting the region once again. what role do you think the u.s. can play in pushing to get a stop in fighting to have hostages released and also get aid into civilians in gaza, where it is direly needed? rep. turner: director burns, director of the cia, was in

front of my team today. he's conducting those negotiations, and he gave us an optimistic view that these negotiations could result in both meaningful cease-fire and the return of hostages, also hopefully continuing the lessening of hamas' ability to operate, both as a terrorist organization and within gaza, and get that, as you just said, that humanitarian aid, the palestinians in gaza. >> they have said they will not give uncertain demands. talking about the possibility that this does seem close. rep. turner: i don't want to make productions here, but i can tell you i have great confidence in director burns negotiating skills, and he has been diligently working to bring them together and at the same time resulting in the release of the hostages.

that is certainly high on his priority. sumi: chairman turner, always great to have you. thank you so much. while violence continues in the region, undercover israeli forces disguised themselves as medical staff at a hospital in the occupied west bank. one of them in jenin was disguised as a patient receiving treatment. the men were hiding they are and claimed one was about to carry out an attack. tensions have been on the rise since the october 7 attack. >> a building with a mission to heal the sick, with a mission to kill. israeli forces in headscarves and medical coats, filmed on security camera at the heart of jenin's hospital. guns in one hand, handbag, baby

caught in the other coming here to assassinate a patient in his two companions, fighters with armed palestinian groups. >> at dawn today, and military operation was carried out inside the hospital. three people work murder, including a patient who was injured a month ago and has been treated. all the occupants were killed. >> they killed one in his bed while he slept, his brother mohammed shot in the chair. a third man, mohammed to lonnie, was a key hamas figure. he says he was armed with his gun and hiding in the hospital and the group had been planning an imminent terrorist attack. israel has also targeted hospitals in its war with hamas in gaza, arguing that hamas

makes civilians targets by hiding there. and today, more detail from israel's government on its accusation that the u.n.'s palestinian refugee agency is a front for hamas, and that some of its staff took part in the seventh of october attack. >> sixth unrwa employees infiltrated israel in the attack. they are directly indicated in holding hostages once they were in gaza. >> israel says the agency, its shelters, schools, and food aid should be defunded. aid workers say gaza's humanitarian crisis is already slipping out of control. miriam has seven children, and living without a proper tent or food on a beach at the southern tip of gaza. a roadside card for suites now beachside housing for babies. adults and infants alike

dependent on others for food and shelter, dependent on others to stop the war. bbc news, jerusalem. sumi: now the airline manufacturer boeing is expected to report fourth-quarter earnings on wednesday after a scandal from a 737 max aircraft line this month. late on monday night, boeing withdrew its request from the u.s. aviation regulator for exemption from key safety rules surrounding the smallest model of the mac family, the mac seven. boeing reported an issue with the mac seven's anti-ice system last year. it would be delayed on starting passenger service until boeing can correct the flaw. the journal reports the max nine plane, at the heart of the explosion earlier this year, may have left the factory without critical bolts.

some max 9 planes returned to action. chris van cleave from bbc news has this report. chris: we are on board and airport, outside the seattle maintenance facility awaiting an inspection of the door panels. now at the center of an ntsb investigation. it is about a 12-hour process to inspect these peer you have to remove two rows of seats plus all the cabin interior to get to the door panel. they are checking that the bolts that hold is in place and that 20 pages of measurements that have to happen before that plug can be deemed safe in airplane put back into service. >> i would personally put my kids there myself. kris: jason lai oversees the team working around-the-clock.

jason: you are checking the artwork, making sure they are in place, but we have found loose balls, and we need to document those. kris: how common has that been during your inspection? jason: more than we would like. there have been quite a few aircraft where we found loose balls. but there have been no aircraft with bolts missing. kris: they are still working to determine if those bolts were in place when the door blew out of the alaska flight. alaska is bring up to 10 planes a day as inspections are completed. >> protest game is a good way to look at it. we had to make sure we had a safe and compliant path forward to operate these airplanes, but we did take it slow and safety, but we had to have the safety element done first. chkris: the goal is to complete the inspection work this week. sumi: after nearly two years

without a government in northern ireland, there's been a significant political breakthrough that could take away -- pave the way to a return to power-sharing in the northern ireland assembly. the devolved government was created in 1998 after the signing of the good friday agreement. it helped end more than 30 years of armed conflict known as "the trouble." nationalists favorite unity with the republic of ireland while unionists want northern ireland to remain part of u.k. the latest breakthrough comes after the biggest unionist party, the dup, that a british government deal over concerns of trading rules that came into force after brexit. the government has been suspended for nearly two years after dup walked out in protest over what it said were trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of u.k. the details of the deal have not yet been published, but it won't change the basic settlement between the u.k. in the eu.

leader jeffrey donaldson says it vindicated his strategy of boycotting the assembly. mr. donaldson: those who said there would be no legal change, who were protecting all kinds of outcomes, that things would fall short, well, i simply have asked people to wait and see the outcome. wait and see the evidence and judge for yourself what this deal does, what it delivers, the change that it secures. and i believe we are now beginning to see, on day one, that delivery coming through. there will be more to come. everyone in northern ireland will be able to see clearly what is proposed, what change will come, what will come for all of us in northern ireland. laforge publication so that finally people will be able to see -- i look forward to the publication, so that finally people will be able to see the

extent of the dup and that change for northern ireland. sumi: mary lou mcdonald, chair of the nationalist party, saying it will be a moment of great significance when her colleague, michelle o'neill, becomes the first national first minister. ms. mcdonald: we are positive but realistic. there's a financial package on the table. there should be no doubt, it's not enough in the medium-term to fund this, just so as we are clear, there is still a big financial problem in terms of running public services here, and i don't want to rain on anybody's parade, today of all days, but there has to be a realism here. there is a financial problem, and we have said consistently that the best way for us to confront tory austerity and the funding of the north is to do it

-- the underfunding of the north is to do it from a position of collective strength. sumi: u.s. state department spokespersons of the bdc we recognize the importance that that has been taken to the full restoration of the northern ireland assembly. pakistan former prime minister imran khan as well as former foreign minister shah mehmood qureshi were sentenced. mr. kong was accused of leaking -- mr. khan was accused of leaking classified information. he was ousted from power when losing a confidence vote in april 2022. he remains in jail and other charges. mr. khan's supporters are steadfast as general elections are just days away. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies has more. carolyn: imran khan is already

behind bars. he was not seen in public since he was jailed nearly six months ago. this is the closest we have been able to get to imran khan, the outside of the jail. all of his court appearances happen inside the prison's four walls, and he will not be appearing in public anytime soon. it is about this rally come in march 2022, mr. khan appeared on stage, waiting a piece of paper that he said showed a foreign conspiracy against him. he did not say the name of the foreign power but was heavily critical of the united states. prosecutors argued this was leaking state secrets and damaging diplomatic relations. the lapeople should not turn to

violence, but we will use all legal ways to fight this. caroline: pakistan is about to go to the polls. imran khan was already disqualified, but there are candidates standing, supported by his party. the question now, will today's verdict break their morale or boost it? carolyn davis, bbc news. sumi: hong kong started a national security law after years of delay for the legislation could expand hong kong's ability to prosecute residents for things like collaborating with foreigners and organizations.

some provisions threaten criminal prosecutions for acts committed anywhere in the world. the proposal, known as article 23, has long been a flashpoint in hong kong. the government first tried to enact it in 2003, but was shelled after roughly 500,000 people protested the law, fearing it would limit civil liberties. both the security and finance ministers reside in the aftermath, but in 2023, the government passed a sweeping national security law thaticwoud ban hong kong internal security as well. that is what he is saying this morning, and he made reference to threats from british

intelligence agencies as well as the united states cia for that recent comment that they will start up activities against china and hong kong in terms of surveillance. so the threat from foreign government to china's national security is very real. sumi: let's take a quick look at some other headlines now. an ethiopian official says almost 400 people have died from starvation in the northern region of tigray in the past six months. that contradicted an earlier government statement there was no confirmation of deaths caused by drought. villagers in tigray have been hit hard by war and drought.

they have had standouts with china lately. all three have claims on the water. donald trump dismissing an attempt to disqualify him over the role -- his role in the january 2021 attack on the capital. columbia national police seized 130 poisonous dart frogs on monday. according to officials, frogs were being transported inside film canisters by a brazilian citizen. the first environment minister said the crime for having poisonous dart frogs could running the millions of dollars. the international monetary funds of the global economy is on course for a stronger than expected recovery this year and next. in its latest world economic outlook update, the imf for next growth of 3.1% -- predict

growth of 3.1%. many economies proved to be resilient despite the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, geopolitical tensions, and rising costs. however, it warns interest rates may remain high if commodity prices increase. as a result of geopolitical shocks, such as attacks on ships in the red sea. just before we go, iconic performer and broadway legend chita rivera has died. her publicist says she died after a brief illness. known as a triple threat performer, she originated many roles, including anita in the "wellsite story," velma kerry -- in "the westside story," and continued into her 80's and learning 10 tony award nominations, winning two and a lifetime achievement award. rivera paved the way for other latin american artists on

broadway. she was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 2009 by president obama. chita rivera was 91 years old. thank you for watching world news america. do stay with us. ♪ narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... man: bdo. accountants and advisors. narrator: funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation. and by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: "usa today" calls it, "arguably the best bargain in streaming." that's because the free pbs app lets you watch the best of pbs anytime, anywhere.

>> good evening. i'm geoff bennett. on the newshour. the u.s. pushes for a pause in fighting between israel and hamas. we hear from a spokesperson for the qatari foreign ministry at the center of the negotiations. the israel-hamas war becomes a local issue. protesters demand their city council passed resolutions that could pressure the biden to act. >> can't donate with joe biden, they can't get two minutes in front of the conference. they cannot come to their local city council. that is whyhe