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hello and welcome to world news america, i am caitríona perry. as international pressure on israel to account for the actions in gaza increases, members of the israeli parliament have backed a resolution by the prime minister rejecting any unilateral recognition of palestinian state. 99 of the 100 20 members voted to support the declaration passed earlier this week by the cabinet. it follows efforts by leaders around the world to examine fresh ways to reach a two state solution to the decades long conflict. >> people of israel and the elected representatives are united today as never before, voting overwhelmingly to oppose any attempt to impose a palestinian state on israel. such attempts will only endanger israel and prevent the genuine

peace we all seek. peace can only be achieved after we achieve total victory over hamas and through direct negotiations between the parties , direct negotiations without preconditions. caitríona: paul adams has the latest in jerusalem. reporter: after weeks of pessimism about the prospects of a deal to release the remaining 130 israeli hostages in exchange for a cease-fire and release of palestinians held in israeli jails, there is just a tiny bit of optimism in the air this evening following remarks by a member of netanyahu's war cabinet, who said, there are attempts these days to promote a new outline and initial signs that indicate an intention to move forward. that is a little cryptic and does not sound to me as if anything is imminent, but it is a faint hint of optimism. you recall benjamin netanyahu

has described hamas demands for a deal as delusional and we do not know if those demands have changed but there is a process going on with talks in cairo involving egyptian and hamas officials. matthew miller has said in the last few hours, we do think there is space to reach an agreement and ideally before ramadan or maybe even earlier than that. hard to read if these are real signs of optimism but certainly not quite the bleak pessimism of recent weeks. in the meantime, we had israel's apartment -- parliament endorsing the view of netanyahu and his cabinet that israel rejects what it calls international dictates of

recognition of a palestinian state. israel is conscious that countries like britain and america are talking about possible unilateral recognition of palestinian statehood and his parliament has said no to that. caitríona: last week is really special forces rescued two of the hostages kidnapped by hamas october 7. hamas is designated a terrorist organization or the hostages were being held in gaza's southernmost city. the rescue was a huge relief for the families for the 60-year-old and a 70-year-old. the israeli military rated rafa to kill the men reportedly killed more than 70 palestinians and dozens more were wounded. our special correspondent heard the stories of civilians caught up in a night of fear. a warning, this contains

distressing details. reporter: they were rescued from here. the two israeli hostages kidnapped by hamas on the massacre of october 7 are now home. this is the story of the price paid by the civilians of rafa on the night of february 12. the rescue began around 1:45 a.m.. by the time the hostages were safe, more than 70 people were reported killed, a high number of civilians. in this house, a doctor lay across her children to protect them. she has asked to remain anonymous. voice messages to colleagues after convey the horror. >> in our home i found pieces of human flesh.

we found an arm that belong to a human that we do not know who it is. when i saw the pieces of the flesh on the floor, i cried. reporter: some of the wounded were brought to an international field clinic. dr. lee from pakistan has worked here for the past two months. >> it was very close to the hospital. windows and doors were rattling. it was supremely scary. a lot of women and children were coming to seek refuge in the hospital. reporter: is not the -- it is in the individual stores of the families that the impact of the rate is most painfully expressed. this woman is the mother of six and pregnant with a seventh child. she woke up during the explosion.

reporter: she remembers happy days with him, 32 years old when he was killed. reporter: here, some of their children in the hospital the night their father died. 12-year-old sumaya, treated for minor physical wounds, but traumatized.

and the 13-year-old who lost her i -- eye in the raid. reporter: israel occludes his hamas of using civilians as human shields. in a statement to the bbf -- bbc, idf said it is committed to mitigating civilian harm. military lawyers advised that strikes comply with international law. they take into account expected military advantage and likely collateral harm to civilians. the war goes on.

civilians like these keep being killed. in the voice message of the doctor, a sense of despair felt here. >> this message will change nothing. the one who dies is the one who was lucky. the one who lives to suffer again and again and again has been cursed and abandoned by all people. reporter: but the memory of their father will endure for all of their lives. caitríona: at least 60 russian troops were killed after a training area in the moscow region was hit by two ukrainian missiles. troops had been gathered for the arrival of a senior commander. this is the two week -- this week marks the two-year anniversary of russia's full-scale invasion of ukraine.

neither country has released the total death tolls but there were heavy losses on both sides. our correspondent sent this update from kyiv. reporter: reports from the scene in occupied eastern ukraine underlie that there was an attack on a training center and the video show a large number of dead bodies in an open field where soldiers were said to be waiting for the arrival of a senior commander. russia has acknowledged that the incident but says the numbers of as many 60 dead were grossly exaggerated. but russia and media is reporting that it took place just before vladimir putin had a meeting with his defense minister and there was no mention of the attack but they emphasized russia's military

recent success in that same area in finally capturing at great cost of russian lives and weaponry, a town that is described as russia's biggest military success on that front line in almost a year since they took another city. russia is emphasizing that an on the ground all the reports are that it is a very tough battle field for ukrainian forces. russians are said to be advancing from east five directions and president zelenskyy visited the front line recently and came back admitting the situation is extremely difficult and said that russians are taking advantage of the delays in the military assistance, $61 billion military package being held up in the u.s. congress. it underlines that the two-year mark of the full-scale russian invasion not only is the battlefield getting tougher with

soldiers saying they have to conserve bullets and weapons, they are running out of ammunition, it is also a political battle to ensure that they desperately needed arms and ammunition and financial support keeps coming from washington and europe. president zelenskyy is sounding the alarm, saying his forces want to continue the fight. for ukrainians two years on, they still regard this as a next essential fight. yes, they are tired, there are a losses, but they still say this is a battle they have to win, but that they cannot win it without the support of their allies. caitríona: to discuss all of this i am joined by bill taylor, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine. if we look at the debt of navalny we see that e.u. and u.k. are looking at new sanctions for russia. >> they are looking apparently

at sanctioning some of the people in the prison system that were responsible for his death. i do not think we really know all the details of that death. the united states is also considering new sanctions. again on people, but also more broadly it is possible there are ways to crack on existing sanctions, to reduce the leakage involved in some of the economics. so the u.s. and europe and britain are doing this. caitríona: what does the u.s. need to look at to have an impact on these sanctions? >> one of the big things that we could do that has a great impact is take the $300 billion in russian central bank reserves that has been frozen since the big invasion and western banks, take that frozen money and put it into an account, sees it, --

seize it, put it into an international account that ukraine could use to rebuild or by weapons. they need the funds and the russians are responsible for all of this destruction. caitríona: there has been some discussion about sanctions on companies in third-party countries such as china. >> my sense is the chinese have tried to be careful, knowing that they could be sanctions if they help the russians get around sanctions on the russians or if they provide weapons to the russians. and as far as we know, so far the chinese have not done that, they have avoided providing weapons, because they do not want to be sanctioned in the third-party sanctions. caitríona: many would say the best way to push back against the russian president is to support ukraine and supported on the front line. we saw president zelenskyy

describing how fractious and fragile things are on the front lines and the big thing is the u.s. funding and stagnation on capitol hill. do you expect to see movement? >> i do. we saw movement in the senate. very impressive, 70-20 nine, you do not get big votes like that often, it was bipartisan, 22 republicans joined most of the democrats in the senate for that vote. that was big. if there is a vote in the house, there will be a similar result. it is a big if but there are a lot of ways to do it and there are people who are convinced that the importance of this 61 billion dollars, moche of which is spent in the united states to replenish weapons and stockpiles, it is important for ukraine to be able to prevail in the battle. caitríona: you have represented

u.s. interests abroad. what does this political stagnation say to u.s. allies abroad? >> it makes them question whether or not the u.s. can be counted on to do what it has done for generations. we have been proud to lead the coalition. the u.s. government has been instrumental in assembling not just the nato alliance but a broader coalition in east asia, south korea, japan, australia, that has been kept under u.s. leadership and if we do not provide the weapons to continue that coalition and allow ukraine to continue their fight, our allies will ask if we can be counted on. caitríona: what will happen to the ukrainian effort? >> they cannot win without that assistance. they will fight.

they will continue to fight, no doubt about it. europeans are giving a very good job of supporting them. they are more solid on assistance than we are right now so we need to step up and provide that assistance because without the deep stockpiles the u.s. has, it is very difficult for ukraine to win. caitríona: we will leave it there for the moment, bill taylor, thank you so much for joining us on bbc news. antony blinken is in brazil for the g20 foreign minister summit and met the president of brazil three days after he compared the military campaign in gaza by israel to the jewish holocaust. he was frank in this conversation, telling him he disagreed with his likening of israel to the nazis. and russia's foreign minister is

they less than one week after the death of alexi navalny, a death that the u.s. as the kremlin is responsible for. and sanctions on six russian prison officials that he says oversaw navalny brutal treatment . our correspondent is at the conference and joins us from rio. navalny was front and center in many ways today. what are world leaders saying about his death? reporter: my understanding is that in the room at the conference where lavrov was, many nations use the opportunity to directly name navalny and call out russia's actions, including the u.k., canada, france, germany as well.

the uk foreign secretary said he also used this opportunity to ask all the nations present if there was anything more important to them then sovereignty and the ability to not be invaded by another country. he said this was a message he hoped would particularly resonate to those in the room who are allies of russia. >> what i said in the meeting was clear and plain, there is no more serious issue for the world , the world is gathered here, one country invading another and it is completely illegal and unacceptable and the whole world should support ukraine and callout that the legality -- callout the illegal nature of what peyton and his cronies have done. -- putin and his cronies have done. reporter: there has certainly

been some confusion about the u.k. position because lord cameron himself said a few days ago that the fighting in gaza must stop now. u.k. prime minister has said an immediate cease-fire is not in anyone's interest and the u.k. abstained on the u.n. resolution, calling for an immediate cease-fire so i asked lord cameron earlier what the u.k. position was and his response was what the u.k. wants to see is an immediate positive fighting, which they would hope would then pave the way for a longer-term permanent cease-fire but his argument was that certain conditions would have to be met first in order to achieve that, including things like hamas removing itself from gaza entirely and hostages being released from gaza so it seems like at the moment the u.k. is sticking to the line that a cease-fire is something they want long-term but there are certain conditions that must be

met first and certainly there is growing pressure as more nations began to call for immediate cease-fire in the last couple of days. caitríona: thank you for that. lawyers for the u.s. government have told the high court in london the wikileaks founder julian assange was not acting as a journalist when he published thousands of u.s. diplomatic cables and field reports. the u.s. is presenting the court on the final day of the hearing and it will be his last chance to avoid being sent to the u.s. to face trial for espionage. they argued he published classified material indiscriminately, deliberately choosing not to redact names from the documents. his lawyers say he is being targeted for his political views and that both the biden on trump pursued his extradition. he remains in prison and did not attend the hearing because of

ill health. members of his family have been advocating on his behalf. earlier i spoke to his father. >> it is now 15 years and she has been tortured. they public -- the u.n. published his report in 2019. he has been suffering from psychological torture after 7.5 years. now it is moving towards 15 years in one form of incarceration or another. i would think whatever the united states position, they would say enough is enough, this has to stop.

it doesn't help the united states assert its first amendment or help the freedom of the press in the western world. what happens is in russia and china they give this example of his treatment every time a criticism of the treatment of their publishing occurs, they say what about julian assange? caitríona: u.k. trident missiles fails the second test to launch. it misfired during a test last month sending the missile crashing into the ocean after the coast of florida. authorities declared a yellow alert after a mexican volcano

spewed a column of gas tuesday. it has been erupting two or three times a day for almost a week and is one of the country's most active and dangerous volcanoes. the former president of honduras pled not guilty in the new york courtroom for drug charges. if convicted, he could serve life in prison. king charles met with rishi sunak face to face at buckingham palace wednesday for the first time since the king's cancer diagnosis. he started outpatient treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer two weeks ago and has postponed his public engagements for the time being but will continue his state duties. as always, you can find more about the days news at bbc news.com/news and you can check

us out on your favorite social media platforms. i'm caitríona perry. thank you for watching world news america. do take care. goodbye now. ♪ 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.

william: good evening. i'm william brangham. amna nawaz and geoff bennett are away. on "the newshour" tonight. the supreme court considers the biden administration's plan to reduce pollution drifting between states. then, a key informant in the investigation of hunter biden is accused of lying and having ties to russia. and, the future of the united nation's humanitarian aid agency in palestine hangs in the balance after allegations some employees helped with hamas' october 7th attack. >>