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because of for the first time since the war began. mostly foreign passport holders but some injured palestinians as well. another large airstrike in northern gaza day after dozens were killed. the vice president calls on countries to address the full range of risks posed by artificial intelligence. ♪ hello and welcome. for the first time since the war between israel and hamas began, foreign nationals have been allowed to leave gaza. they left through the rafa border crossing. including 76 wounded people. the crossing had been opened intermittently over the last couple of weeks. but only to let humanitarian aid

in. there has been no comment from the israeli military. it said 15 soldiers have been killed in gaza over the last two days. our international editor has our first report. it contains material you may find upsetting. >> at last, some signs of hope at the crossing between gaza and egypt. some foreign citizens have been allowed to leave for the first time since israel imposed its siege. convoys of trucks are moving into gaza. not nearly as many as the u.n. says is necessary. ambulances went in. >> we face many problems in gaza. the least of which is the shortage of water and electricity. the bigger problem is the

bombardment. we were afraid. many families were martyred. >> the u.n. says gaza civilians were being starved, traumatized, and bombed to death. 120 people were killed by a big israeli airstrike. they were looking for signs of life. on the others of the border, israelis are still in shock over the seventh of october attacks. this is a kibbutz directly facing gaza. for the first time, she was back to grab a few things. stopping anything like this happening again is powering israel's determination to see this fight through to the end. she showed me the place where her son-in-law saved her three granddaughters, all under the age of 10.

>> that is where he shot the terrorists. >> as it was under attack, radio messages were intercepted. the security for israel has not been fixed. there was a lot of complacency about the risks that hamas posed to israel. after the war, there will be an inquiry. even now, the prime minister is under a lot of pressure.

about his responsibility for the security lapses that led to hamas breaching the border. as more israeli soldiers die, that pressure will increase. this was the funeral of a 20-year-old who was killed in combat in gaza. israelis are behind their troops. they want to know how much went wrong. >> our correspondent was at stake crossing with egypt and told us more about the situation there. >> i saw a family with bags. they were waiting and waiting. 345 people left. 200 were not able to make it. they published the list again. they said they will resume the opening of the crossing

tomorrow. and allow those 200 people. they might issue another short list for people. today was the first day. it was chaotic in the morning but manageable. we have not seen any kind of fighting. suddenly they realize it is open for people who are on the list. that list was sent by the egyptians. everyone should find his name. people in the crossing will check the passports and make sure the name matches the list. i was spending all day talking to people. some of them were happy because they are crossing. but they are sad at the same time because they left families behind. and they do not know what is going to happen to them. overall it is significant that the crossing was open today.

not only for the citizens who are dual nationals but for hundreds of patients who are waiting in this hospital to be treated outside. the hospital is overwhelmed by the number of people with serious injuries. people with very severe injuries. they are waiting for them to be treated in egypt. >> i am joined by our correspondent in jerusalem. thank you for joining us. we saw jordan recalling its ambassador from israel and telling the israeli set their ambassador was not welcome to return to jordan. are we seeing the start of further breakdown in regional relations? >> i think you are. you have to remember that jordan is one of the few countries in the arab world that has a peace treaty with israel.

the fact that you have anger and this breakdown in relations is significant. in jordan, we have seen mass protests taking place. as the death toll continues to rise, more than 8000 continuing -- according to officials in gaza. the pressure is being felt by the jordanian government. they seem to have taken action today. you can imagine the reaction of some of the other countries in the world. >> israeli at this minister -- defense minister said they had

dropped bombs on gaza city. where does the campaign go from here? >> it is very difficult to the get the sense of the fighting in gaza. we are hearing large bursts of machine gun fire. there was a briefing from the israeli military saying they were at the gates of gaza city. they had broken through the perimeter forest in northern gaza. but that part of the gaza strip is relatively open. you are talking about small towns and villages. it is one thing to be making a breakthrough thereby pushing on further into gaza city, which is incredibly built up, has been up until this war very densely populated. that is a far more complex operation.

at the same time, the aerial bombardment has continued. last night we had more than 300 targets hit by is really military. i think we will see that continued tonight. at the same time as the ground operation pushes forward. >> thank you for that. we are also joined in studio by our state department correspondent. as we saw a little earlier in the program, the first group of american citizens and other foreign nationals have left. what can you tell us about those american citizens and weather any more can be expected? >> it seems that it was only a handful of americans. employees of international organizations. that was second on the list after injured palestinians. the state department has told us it will not give us daily numbers on americans leaving gaza for operational security reasons. we know 400 americans have

registered. they should have gotten emails from the state department specific instructions on where to go and went to go. this will take a number of days. this has been an intense focus of american diplomacy for weeks now. very complicated because it involved three-way negotiations. president biden has just now sent out a statement in which he talked about personally calling the leaders of israel and egypt to make sure this would happen. he thanked qatar. it is still a very fluid situation but the state department says it is a breakthrough. >> we saw the secretary of state making another trip to israel tomorrow. what is to be expected? >> it is a follow-up to the region. he spent about a week there shortly after the attacks. he will be visiting israel, jordan.

he will press the israelis on their military objectives and how they plan to achieve them. always with an eye on what kind of arrangement can be made for gaza after all of this is over. he will be pressing them to make sure they carry out their offensive in line with the rules of law. the americans have not made an assessment on whether the israelis are actually doing that even though others have said they are not. the u.n. secretary general says they have violated law. the americans become much more forthright in talking about the need to protect civilians and get humanitarian aid into gaza. they have worked more intensively to try to do that. secretary blinken and the defense secretary have started to talk about protection of civilians as a strategic imperative, not just a moral responsibility. they are doing this because they know how people are angry in the arab world over what they are seeing.

they are afraid that the war as it continues will make other parties in the region feel that they need to join. >> thank you very much for that. russia has ramped up the frequency and intensity of its attacks on ukraine. the country saying it has experienced the most attacks since the start of the year. they said russian troops fired on 118 settlements in 10 different regions. in a span of 24 hours. the news comes days after volodymyr zelenskyy posted a bipartisan delegation of u.s. congressional leaders to discuss the latest developments on the front lines. one of the leaders was an illinois congressman who is also cochair of the congressional you can rain -- ukraine caucus. i spoke with him about the trip. thank you for joining us. you just returned from a trip with -- to ukraine.

what has struck you as having changed in between visits? >> if you had told me from day one of the war that it would be a year and a half in and we will be in this situation, i would have been happy. we thought this war would be over in a number of days. now it is a year and a half. we are at a pivotal point given the counteroffensive moving forward. i thought it was important the show our continued support. this was a diplomatic trip to assure our ukrainian friends that we are still working. >> ukraine said today that russia has bombed towns and villages in the last few hours. more than any other target hit this year. what was the president's main ask of you when you are there? >> i think it is that we

continue to support more of the same. continue to push the russians back. mostly they want to make sure we are going to be there. there were obviously things that were concerning ally at this point in time. the inability of congress to govern. the fact that we are funding 45 days at a time. we had three weeks where we accomplished nothing at all. bitter attacks that are taking place inside congress. we are showing the world that we are not governing particularly well. obviously the war between israel and hamas blows the news stories and ukraine off the front page. that has its implications. >> we have seen speaker johnson split out the israel funding

from the rest of the funding that president biden has asked for. do you think he will be able to rally colleagues to keep the focus and attention on ukraine? >> that was a major part of this trip. to come back and educate our colleagues on what is happening and why it matters. why we should be optimistic. remember why we are in this conflict. the same reason we fought the second world war. the same reason we formed the u.n. and native. we cannot let a sovereign democratic country be wiped off the face of the earth. it is in our interest to help ukraine. speaker johnson has talked about splitting this up. there will probably be a senate version that combines most of the measures the administration has pushed for that will include funding for ukraine, israel, concerns over taiwan, our southern border. i believe that will pass.

>> given the rising death toll in gaza, the humanitarian situation there, the allegations by many humanitarian agencies that israel is breaching humanitarian law, should the u.s. look again at its unwavering support for israel? >> we have the conflict will be short-lived. what is important to us as we maintain humanitarian aid. we recognize that israel has a right to defend itself. we cannot forget headlines about the massacre that took place. this is much less about the palestinians. it is about hamas and their connection with iran and the

threat that poses to the rest of the world. >> nearly 9000 palestinians have been killed at this point. >> i recognize that hamas is using its citizens. it completes a massacre in israel and then hides behind the citizens. the extraordinary challenge for israel right now is to protect itself. to retaliate. and do so in a way when the enemy is embedded in a civilian population. that is what hamas does. >> thank you for joining us. pakistan has started to arrest afghans as the country begins a crackdown on foreign nationals it says are in the country illegally. they have escaped the taliban takeover.

the government of pakistan says it is following its own rules. humans rights groups like amnesty international have criticized the policy. donald trump, jr., the eldest son of donald trump, is testifying at trial accusing the family business of committing fraud. the lawsuit alleges that the trump organization inflated the value of its assets by billions of dollars to secure better loan terms. he is the first of trumps adult children to take the witness stand. his other children are also expected to testify. former president trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is expected to testify monday of next week.

we go to new york where the trial is taking place. what can you tell us about what happened today? >> court has just concluded for the day. we had late in the afternoon the beginning of that testimony from donald junior. he is certainly one of the most outspoken politically of donald trump's children. but the tone today in court was light, at least for now. at one point the judge asked him to slow down while asking questions. he said he may have moved to florida but he kept the new york case. prosecutors say that when donald trump became president, don jr. became a trustee who was responsible for signing off on statements about financial conditions that were given to banks and other financial institutions. on the stand today he said while he signed off on those documents, he relied on his

accountant and other staff to make sure that the information provided in the statements was in fact accurate. so far he has not taken any responsibility in this incident. the attorney general will go on to question the other siblings in this case. today the testimony concluded. but it will continue tomorrow. >> is there any indication as to what other family members might say? >> remember that he ivanka trump was dismissed from the case by a court of appeals because they found that she was not involved in the business during the time in question. she has been called to testify in this case.

today her attorneys put notice that they will be appealing that. she has mainly tried to stay away from any of her father's feelings, whether it has to do with the business or politics. when it comes to eric trump, we do expect them to testify here. he is someone who has been put in charge of the day-to-day operations of the company. in a deposition, he told prosecutors he is the guy wars concrete and looks after buildings but does not get into the appraising of values and assets. we expect to have a similar argument from him when he takes the stand. what will be interesting to see is how he reacts to evidence put to him by others who have estimated that say he directly changed the valuations of a property in westchester, adding tens of millions of dollars to it. >> thank you very much for that.

the vice president has challenged governments around the world to come up with a common set of understandings on artificial intelligence. at a speech on a global gathering of the issue in england, she said countries need to address the full spectrum of the risk posed by the new technology. she said a new u.s. institution could act as a model for others to test the safety of ai. she said now is the time to take action and make sure that artificial intelligence is safe for the future. >> it has the potential to do profound good. it also has the potential to cause profound harm. from cyber attacks beyond what we have ever seen before to formulated bio weapons that could endanger the lives of millions of people. these threats are often referred to as the existential threats of

ai. they could endanger the very existence of humanity. these threats without question are profound. they demand global action. >> as she called for urgent action, britain published what it says is a landmark declaration aimed at boosting global cooperation. it is agreed on by 28 countries, including the u.s. and china. it was presented on the opening day of the safety summit taking place in the u.k. the british government says the declaration will act as a starting point for a global conversation on the issue. the prime minister said that monitoring the risks posed by artificial intelligence was too important to be left to big tech firms.

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♪ geoff: good evening. i'm geoff bennett. amna: and i'm amna nawaz. on the "newshour" tonight. for the first time in the war, civilians trapped in gaza --including some americans -- are allowed to cross into egypt. geoff: pakistan's government