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i'm thriving by helping others everyday. 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". hello, i'm lucy grey. you're watching the context on bbc news. as you know, we now have a response from hamas to the proposal that was put on the table. going forward, we are looking at it intensely. translation: we are on our way to a complete victory. the victory is at our reach. it's not about years or decades, it's about months. i said that the final

victory is our goal. this was the decision i brought to the government at the beginning of the war, and we will not say we will not be satisfied with less. the us secretary of state is wrapping up a tour of the mentalist, but the israeli prime minister has again doubled down, saying that the terms proposed by hamas are delusional, and that israel will not be satisfied with anything other than total victory. also tonight, two bombs killed at least 28 people. the islamic state have claimed responsibility. and taylor

swift threatens to sue a student who attracts her private jet. -- track question so you some live pictures from tel aviv where antony blinken is about to speak. this is the end of this turn of the middle east. he's been pushing for a ceasefire agreement between israel and hamas, a meeting with regional leaders. on wednesday, he met with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the president. he also met with the president. he also met with the palestinian leader, mahmoud abbas. there was a ceasefire proposal backed by israel and the us. mediated by qatar and egypt. you will be speaking after benjamin netanyahu rejected hamas's proposed ceasefire terms, seeing that total victory in gaza is

tonight, i'm here to tell you one thing. we are won away to a complete victory. it is n about years or decades, it is about months. hamas has responded, holding its own press conference. a senior official was reported as saying the remarks showed he intends to pursue the conflict in the region. the official is quoted as saying, hamas is prepared to do with all options, and that a delegation will visit cairo to pursue ceasefire talks. an egyptian official sources told the bbc that the new round of negotiations is expected to start tomorrow. sponsored by egypt and qatar. our chief international correspondent is with me. a lot has been going to do more. talk is superb you are you really want to be a fly on the ball. lawyers antony blinken so delayed? it is coming up to two hours that she

was supposed to speak. the response of israel is quite ferocious. it was expected that they would have a serious concerns about the proposal, the counteroffer from hamas. but the rebuke from the benjamin netanyahu was absolutely categorical, that seem to leave no room for moving forward. at only our eller, the qatari prime minister, who played a key role in the mediation, described the counteroffer by hamas, but was very detailed, as positive, antony blinken had said there were still a lot of work to be done, but it was the best path forward. so, is she involved in still talking to the israelis, trying to salvage something out of this? what israel, doesn't like some see this as hamas's effort to end the gaza war on its own terms, which of course

is utterly unacceptable. as netanyahu reiterated again tonight, he said that the only way to end this war is a true israel absolute victory over hamas. internet, he even added that it was within touching distance. months. but what about the crux of this? which is the change of the remaining hostages held in gaza for an unspecified number of palestinian prisoners. the hostage families tonight but absolutely distraught, saying they are going to launch new protest urge prime minister netanyahu, not the israeli military to put their loved ones as the main priority, not the war in hamas. that is -- we needed humanitarian ceasefire. can something still be salvaged from this? i suppose it is if they can work through the phases. absolutely. it seems...

there are three phases of a 135 days, more than four months. the first phase would be a sustained humanitarian pause about 45 days. during this phase, the most vulnerable hostages would be reduced. the women, children, elderly, the sick. there would also be an effort to bring more aid into gaza. the proposal even talks about reconstruction of hospitals. that one is less controversial. that almost too similar to what happened in november. right now, maybe blinken is trying to get israel to agree to think about that one without thinking about the subsequent months... yes. if you look at the bigger picture, israel... israel as scott mcclay is a focus on its major military objective, pushing forward through more parts of gaza, looking for men leaders. prime minister netanyahu talked

about the marble only end he kills but as united states seems to see this proposal, there's hostage and prisoner swap, with the humanitarian pause, as a path forward to use such pause to move towards a ceasefire. and to work on other issues, very ambitious issues. to move towards it revitalised palestinian authority. even the palestinian state. the normalisation of relations between israel and saudi arabia, was the united states knows that israel wants. it is a huge, bold package. it may be beyond the political parameters of what is possible now. but the united states is trying to bring something quite dramatic out of this dramatic moment. you sort of have to admire antony blinken's positivity, when he goes, this is his fifth visit, and he speaks in all this positive terms and then benjamin netanyahu comes out

and publicly refuses to agree with them. and yet he keeps going, he keeps talking about how this is possible. we have had benjamin netanyahu rolling out a two state solution. and when you see the normalisation of relations, it doesn't seem to be too bothered about that now. he talked again tonight about what he... he has something much more micro-in his mind, something much more administrative. some think that there is an entity what israel maintains absolute security conol, basically local administrative officials who run the gaza strip, almost like a municipality. and they can't have any connections to hamas. you made it clear again that the united states cosmic united nations, as you'll see it as a part of the problem, not the solution. that is very controversial, even though many major donors have suspended their funding because of these concerns that there have been people people working for unwra, a

very small number out of the tens of thousands. there has always been a difficult relationship between the prime minister of israel and the americans. we hear from sources that prime minister netanyahu doesn't talk differently in private, a different tone, and sometimes even much more willing to consider certain proposals, but in public, mindful of his right-wing allies, q keepers government afloat, he is constantly emphasising this hard-line position. -- to keep has a government afloat. and opinion polls show that was released back in, that they do want a way to end this once and for all. you talk about antony blinken and his efforts - it is not that they are just choosing to do it, they have to do it. it is an airship which is not just a foreign policy issue, it is a domestic issue in the united states. -- it is an

issue. i want to bring in stephen king, a senior fellow for middle eastern and african studies at the council on foreign relations. let's pick up on that point, if you would. thank you for joining us first of all. this is so important for joe biden to be seen to have some sort of win here, isn't it? it is. this is an election year in the united states, and the president needs to demonstrate that he is in command and that he is not overwhelmed by crises in the middle east. but of course, pushing for a ceasefire also sort of does open him up to criticism from his opponents, who have sought to make israel and israel's security wedge issue in american foreign policy. so he has to be careful. from president donald trump, the presumptive

republican nominee, does not come out to suggest and argue that president biden are somehow compromising israeli security by pushing ceasefire but large numbers within the republican party believe would be premature. we were just talking a talking a moment ago about perhaps what it would take for mentioning to be netanyahu to agree to something, and could perhaps working through the stages of what hamas have proposed. could there be a pause in the negotiations about the hostages and the release of prisoners? cou that be dealt with first before moving on to the other aspects that hamas were talking about? i think it's important to point out that there are aspects of the hamas proposal in which signatories do not object to. and there is a meeting on a sticking point for the israelis, the large number of

palestinians in schools have been convicted of or accused of violence, would be released in this deal. the israelis have been a bond on the sort of thing before. the widely regarded as surely arch enemy number one for directing the october the 7th attack's was released in one of these large prisoner exchanges in the past. in addition, coalition partners, specifically the public security manager, says a coalition won't last if large numbers of palestinian prisoners are exchanged. in theory, one could imagine in negotiating this out in stages, but if the issue is hostages in israeli prisons, that is a major sticking point for the service. and thus is continuous, but hearing also

benjamin netanyahu talking today about rafah. and there are so many people there. things are so bad in gaza at the moment, but it seems it could even get worse. this is really raising alarm bells at a time where they have been ringing repeatedly ever since this war started it after the october the 7th atrocity spite hamas. even antonio guterres has warned about the disaster if the israelis to patient to rafah, proponent one 1 million dispersed people. -- to push and to rafah. and say that they are absolutely stunned by what they see, that there is not an inch of available because there are so many displaced people, and they are all crowded right up against the egyptian border, and i think that is the nightmare scenario. do these people go? we have heard people

saying no piracy. to emphasise a point that benjamin netanyahu said, ye said their course to achieving their goal, but it has been to move through the north to the south of khan younis, are now destroy most of the brigades, but there are a few left, the rafah brigade, given a very optimistic assessment and out of the military progress, even earlier in the week, their assessments from military official saying, actually, there still was quite a lot to do. even though they have got this rebuke from israel, others are proceeding as if there is something in the mix. you heard that mamie had a bus is heading to door her to saudi arabia, -- that mahmoud abbas is going to saudi arabia. i don't know what you think of that, stephen. i think it is never say never. you were talking about the secretary of

state antony blinken's continued efforts despite his failures. as i pointed out, there were aspects of this agreement that the israelis will agree to. and despite the prime minister's public words about the proposed ceasefire, clearly the diplomatic activity would suggest that behind closed doors as communicated to his american counterparts and others at the israelis are talking to that there may be room for additional negotiation. and that is the job of the diplomats here, to make something from nothing. and there may be something here from which they can build on, even though, the prime minister has been most categorical publicly. do stay with us, because we're still waiting for antony blinken to give us a press conference, as you see, there is a lectin there in tel aviv waiting for him. we will get your reaction to that as and when we get it, but for

now, thank you very much. now, thank you very much. and you're going to stay with us as well. we will go straight to tel aviv

when antony blinken takes the stage there, on the sets in the middle east. some breaking news, the us senate has voted in a sweeping look legislation that would bring in tougher border restrictions and grant new aid to ukraine and israel. the border issue is especially sensitive to many americans at the moment due to the fountain or crisis, which is gripping the united states. the synthetic opioid is 50 times stronger than heroin and is responsible for tens

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simply part of daily and nightly life in tijuana, part of the fabric of a city descending fast into the grip of full-blown drug epidemic. yet it is a crisis whose very existence has been denied by the country's president. we are just going to interrupt that because antony blinken is taking to the podium. good evening. this is my fifth visit to the region, and a seventh visit to israel since october the 7th. i am back first and foremost to consult directly with our partners on the joint efforts to bring all of the remaining hostages home. i have met with families of the hostages, multiple times, during prior visits, as well as in washington, and i expect to ee them again tomorrow. the sheer agony, not knowing the

fate of your loved one, it's almost unimaginable. and i know that that pain is almost unbearable. so, we have been intensely focused from day one on getting the hostages- all the hostages- back with their families, where they belong. and we will keep that focus until we get them back. we had an opportunity to do more to discuss with the israeli government of the response is that the ham since last night to the proposal that the united states, qatar and egypt put together to bring the remaining hostages home. and to extend the humanitarian pause. what i can tell you about these discussions is that, apart there are some clear nonstarters and hamas's response, we do think it creates space for agreement to be reached. and we will balk at

that relentlessly until we get there. -- we will work at that. we had extensive discussions with the prime minister and national security leaders on the status of the military campaign to defeat hamas, and on the progress towards achieving the fundamental objecve of ensuring that october the 7th never happens again. at the same time, we are continuing to worklosely with israel and both in northern israel and in southern lebanon and live in peace and security. we also discussed the imperative of maximizing civilian protection and humanitarian aid to address the ongoing suffering of the palestinian civilians in gaza. nearly 2 million people have been displaced from their homes, hundreds of thousand nsync extreme hunger. most have lost someone that they love.

day after day, more people are killed. on all of my previous visits here and pretty much every day in between, we have pressed isel in concrete ways to strengthen civilian protection to get more assistance to those who need it, and over the past four months, israel hasn't -- has taken important steps, starting with the flowing of aid, opening the north and south corridors in gaza so people could move outf harm's way through these corridors with a four hour pause every day and three hours notice. starting the flow of assistance from jordan, establishing d confliction -- de-confliction mechanisms. today, more assistance is moving into gaza than at any time since october 7.

as the largest owner of humanitarian aid to the palestinians, the u.s. has helped provide much of that assistance, including enough to provide bread for 1.4 million people for the next five months. a u.n. team begin its mission to assess conditions for the civilians who are still there as well as what needs to be done to allow displaced palestinians to return back home to the north. and yet, as i said to the prime minister and two other israeli officials today -- to other israeli officials today, the daily told the military operations takes on innocent civilians remains too high. in our discussions today i highlighted key steps israel should take to ensure more aid reaches more people in gaza. israel should open assistance to

flow to northern gaza where hundreds of thousands of people are struggling to survive under dire conditions. they should expect the flow of humanitarian assistance from jordan. it should strengthen de- confliction and improve coordination with the humanitarian providers. and israel must ensure that the delivery of lifesaving assistance to gaza is not blocked for any reason by anyone. we urge israel to do more to help civilians, knowing full well that it faces an enemy that would never hold itself to those standards, an enemy that cynically embeds itself among men, women, and children and fires rockets from hospitals from schools, from mosques, from residential buildings. an enemy was leaders surround themselves with hostages. an enemy that has declared publicly its goal to kill as many innocent civilians as it can simply because they are jews

and to wipe israel off the map. that is why we have made clear that israel is ful justified in confronting hamas and other terrorist organizations. that is why the united states has done more than any other country to support israel's right to ensure that october 7 never happens again. israelis were dehumanized in the most horrific way on october 7. the hostages have been dehumanized every day since. but that cannot be a license to dehumanize others. the overwhelming majority of people in gaza had nothing to do with the attacks of october 7 and the families and got survival attacks -- in gaza whose survival depends on aid are just like our families. they are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters who want to earn a decent living, send their ds to school, have a normal

life. that is who they are. that is what they want. and we cannot, we must not lose sight of that. we cannot, wmust not lose sight of our common humanity. >> you are watching bbc news as we say 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.

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