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and israel-gaza cease-fire talks crisis on the ground deepens. ♪ caitriona: hello and welcome to world news america. a historic moment for the united kingdom as a new prime minister takes office. sir keir starmer moved into downing street following the landslide election victory. after a meeting with king charles, sir keir began the process of appointing a government. the labour party's secured 412 parliamentary seats in thursday's general election, dealing a catastrophic blow to the conservative party which won only. 121 other parties, the liberal democrats and reform u.k., made significant gains. former prime minister rishi sunak left downing street

earlier, closing the door on 14 years of conservative rule. reaction to the change of leadership is pouring in from around the world. president biden called sir keir to congratulate him on becoming prime minister. they will meet in washington next week during the nato summit. antony blinken called to congratulate the u.k. new foreign secretary. they discussed shared commitment the recent a cease-fire in gaza and supporting ukraine against russia. ukraine's president zelenskyy congratulated sir keir as well and said ukraine and you united kingdom will be united allies. he thanked rishi sunak for his support. the kremlin said it is not optimistic that ties with britain would improve under the new leadership. here's what the russian foreign minister told our correspondent, steve rosenberg. >> unlike the british government, we do not meddle

with other domestic matters. >> do you think anything will change in the u.k.-russian relations? >> diplomacy is not a matter of guessing. >> what is it? >> you know the saying about the pudding? you understand it is a pudding when you eat it. caitriona: let's talk to our correspondent joining us from bbc broadcasting in london. there has been a call between biden and starmer. what do we know about the relationship between the two men? >> the words a little less cryptic than you heard from the kremlin spokesman. a lot of warm words, platitudes and talk about strengthening the special relationship, the transatlantic ties with the u.k. and america. specific references to ukraine and the starm government

continues to support ukraine and what's been happening the last 2.5 years. also, the northern island peace agreement which is something that is close to the president heart and something in the past for joe biden that has been a problem with his relationship with british government. lots of what you would expect. the detail will be crucial in the coming days. we have already heard the new chancellor here, the first female chancellor, the first finance minister, rachel reeves, drawing her inspiration from bidenomics. talking about trickle-down economics does not work. she wants to build out from the middle in the same way joe biden talks about. there will be some issues whether they will have to work through because there's an economic nationalism inherent in bidenomics which is something that is not always work in favor of clo allies. caitriona: the election has happened there. there's obviously election in this country later in the year.

the labour party and the new foreign secretary have been quite critical of donald trump in the past. how could that dynamic perhaps shift if donald trump is the new president of the u.s.? gary: we are in this curious position where we are four months away from the presidential election, the new government does not know the outcome of that election. it does not know who it will be dealing with. the differences between what they have now and what they might have a november, come january are huge. they will be trying to build relationships on both sides of the aisle in congress. they been doing that in terms of david leming with the trump administration officials inside his campaign. he's walked back some of those comments about donald trump he made in the past. he's described himself as a firm atlantaicst. he says he visited the states more than he's visited france, for example.

also a descendant of enslaved people. he has a lot of contacts and relationships with people in the united states. they are planning for both eventualities because whatever happens, the reality free british prime minister in the 21st century is he has to work or she has to work with whoever is in the white house of whatever political persuasion. caitriona: thank you for that. speaking about the u.s. presidential election, president biden is on the campaign trail and has a rally in the battleground state of wisconsin and said he's not too old for a second term. the president added he would not allow his debate performance against donald trump wipe out all the work of his term as president. addressing his cheering supporters, joe biden vowed to stay in the race. >> i'm the nominee of this party because millions of democrats voted for me all across america. you voted for me to be your nominate, no one else.

you, the voters did that. despite that some folks don't seem to care who you voted for, guess what, they are trying to push me out of the race. let me say this as clear as i can. i'm staying in the race. caitriona: our reporter was at that rally and we can speak to him now. mike, joe biden under the microscope for his age and energy. how was he at today's rally? mike: you can hear the president gave a very forceful and energetic speech. caitriona: we seem to be having some problems connecting with our reporter in wisconsin. we will try to get back to him later if we can, but let's move on for now. efforts to secure a cease-fire deal and a hostage release in gaza continues to gain momentum after weeks of stalled in

negotiations. the head of israel's spy agency returned to doha on friday after an initial meeting with mediators. negotiations will resume next week. our middle east correspondent has the latest now from jerusalem. >> we have heard little from what came out of those talks for now, but we have heard from the israeli prime minister's office saying that an israeli delegation would be sent for discussions in the coming weeks. we also heard from the prime minister's office that gaps still remain. before the israeli delegation left, israeli officials were saying there should low expectations. i think where expectations have risen is when a response from hamas was given to israel to look at and there were reports from various sources that that response might contain a significant breakthrough. a significant breakthrough

essentially being agreement by hamas to drop its key demand that there must be a permanent cease-fire to start any process, which is not in the biden deal that was set out which would allow the process to begin and then move towards a permanent cease-fire. if that is the case, that would be a major shift and it would put the ball in israel's court. caitriona: the palestinian health ministry says israeli forces killed seven people on friday after readaiding a refugee camp. the israelis say it was defined militants involved in an attack last week where in israeli captain was killed. hamas says five of his members were among the dead. there was a gun battle in the refugee camp after surrounding a building. militants have barricaded themselves into it. while an airstrike struck several armed terrorists, they said, in the area. in gaza, civilians are facing terrible conditions after nearly

nine months of war. the united nations reports 1.9 million people or nine out of every 10 people have been internally displaced in gaza at least once since october. the staggering numbers come after the most recent israeli evacuation order. on monday, the military ordered 150,000 palestinians to evacuate from the southern gaza city. i have been speaking about the humanitarian crisis with sam rose at unrah. sam, thank you for joining us again on bbc news. what is the situation like there now? sam: it is 9:30 at night now so it is obviously dark but around us, the sound of drones continues. if tonight is like any other night, there will be bombardments to the north and south. people are still milling around outside but it is the end of yet another difficult grinding day

for the people of gaza. caitriona: people are outside, although there are drones and possibly an attack. do they have anywhere to go? sam: the people, many of them fled here when the rafah operation started in early may. we've had new evacuation orders a few days ago issued in the city to the south. people fled from there. we estimate about 70,000 people have fled but for many of them, there is nowhere to go. the safe places in gaza are already occupied and the people fleeing know that these places are not safe. many have been targeted or died or killed on the way to these places. some other things have happened to them as well. there's not really anywhere for people to go. the fear is the cease-fire talks ongoing right now collapsed yet

again, it will be yet another cycle and round of displacement for people in the middle area of gaza. caitriona: is there much comprehension or understanding of where those talks are at and what is happening in the wider international scene? sam: the people on the ground here, there is a daily struggle to survive. people are thinking of their immediate needs. where am i going to get my next meal? where am i going go to get water to drink, to wash my clothing, to go to the toilet? what am i going to do to meet the needs of the children? the cease-fire talks are a world away from the civilian population of gaza, which of course, have major consequences on their prospects and their future. caitriona: on that issue of food, so many people are on the verge of famine, haven't had enough to eat for months now. what do you have as a

humanitarian agency to give to people at this point? sam: we have very little -- there is very little we have been able to bring in through the rafah crossing since the beginning of may. so, the displacements that happened from khan younis, we were able to distribute some flour. we had some of those supplies in stock, but otherwise, very difficult. we have hundreds and hundreds of containers stuck in egypt and trapped at the border. as long as the access constraints persist at that border, it will be very difficult for us to get food in. there are some commercial supplies on the market. there is some fresh fruit and vegetable, but very difficult, regular people to afford the prices. they have risen considerably since the start of the conflict and people are not working so they have no means to secure them. whilst commercial supplies are

coming in, which is a good thing, they don't help meet the needs of the vulnerable. it is a similar situation in the north. we have been able to get food in to northern gaza. some supplies are now coming in. with the displacement from eastern gaza city a few days ago, we were able tprovide food, some water. unrwa in cooperation with other humanitarian partners. but supplies are running extremely low. it is a struggle every day to bring things in, to bring supplies in. but also to bring the fuel in and to navigate our safe passage across checkpoints and through what is increasingly squeezed space in gaza. new evacuation orders issued just a few days ago cover a quarter of the entire land area of the gaza strip. the safe space in which we are operating as a humanitarian community is becoming

increasingly squeezed. it is the central area of the gaza strip. caitriona: you mentioned fuel. we heard from doctors during the week who were saying they were a few hours away from running out of fuel to power incubators and oxygen supplies and so on. has there been any improvement in the amount of fuel you have been able to get in? sam: not really over the past few days. every time we go and collect fuel, we have to go through a combat zone, an active combat zone in southern gaza. it is a very convoluted, dangerous process for the staff involved. we never quite know how much fuel we will bring in on any given day. we typically bring in far less than we need. it is a ve complicated, delicate, difficult process. assigning allocations of fuel for the different service providers. it is lifesaving, hospitals for the generators, incubators, medical equipment.

it is also water wells, desalination plants to provide safe water for the population, as well as the fleet we need ourselves to move around and the power that the telecommunications companies need as well. there are hopes that some of the electricity supplies will be restored to one of the desalination plants. that will improve things and take the pressure off, but every time during the last nine months when we think we've made progress, somethinelse happens and it's another step back. until there's a cease-fire, until there is sustained regular predictable flow of supplies and fuel coming in, the stories that you heard from the hospital director, one of many across the gaza strip, will continue and there will be life losing consequences if our inability to keep those services running. caitriona: let's go back to our reporter at the biden rally in

wisconsin. we lost the line earlier but you were telling us how the president was at that rally today. mike: yeah, it seems like there are two different versions of joe biden and today we got the rally joe biden. he was energetic, pumped up. he was in front of a crowd of a couple hundred supporters just down the road from where i am now. in contrast with the debate last week which he admitted he did a very poor job. he also outlined his record and things he's done in office, and said i am not too old to do these things. he turned his fire on donald trump like he has throughout the campaign. calling the former president a threat to democracy. caitriona: what was the reaction from the supporters who had come to see joe biden today? what do they make of all this controversy? mike: well, i spoke to quite a few supporters. they were the true blue diehard fans of the democratic party.

it was interesting. a lot of them said joe should stay the course and he should not step down, but i spoke to some other people who had a very interesting reaction. they said they vote for the party and the ideas and didn't necessarily care who was at the top of the ticket. they were clearly leaving some room for the possibility that joe biden might drop out at some stage. of course, it is getting, the time is getting on. the democrats have their convention next month. if there's a move internally, inside the party to move joe biden from the top slot, it will happen -- have to happen pretty soon. caitriona: according to reporting from "the washington post," that move might come quickly with some senators might be moving against him. mike: yeah. and, of course, we have not seen these reports ourselves but we have seen numerous reports in the past few days. democratic party officials, but

also democratic party donors seem to be pulling back a little bit from biden now, perhaps withdrawing their support or money and that could cause problems down the line. does seem to be coming to a head for the democratic party. the president, you wouldn't get that impression on stage today. he was very adamant that he's going to stay in the race. caitriona: mike, thank you for that. the hungarian prime minister viktor orban met with vladimir putin in moscow on friday. aisit that has been criticized by other european leaders. orban is the european union's only head of national government to maintain ties with russia nce a full-scale invasion of ukraine. speaking alongside president putin, orban said hungary seen its six-month presidency as a peace mission for the ukraine and set his step was for restoring dialogue. the eu foreign policy chief says orban has no mandate to

restore the bloc. our bbc russia editor has more on the visit, reporting from moscow. steve: this was quite extorted. -- extraordinary. just a few days after his country assumed the rotating presidency of the eu, victor orban flew to moscow for surprise talks with president boudin about the war in ukraine, sparking consternation in the european union. the president of the european commission basically called this appeasement and the eu's foreign policy chief said mr. orban had no mandate from the european council to come to moscow. victor or bond did not seem to care. he said this was the second part of a peace mission. he had been in kyiv early in the week with president zelenskyy. >> we need to take many steps to move towards ending the war. the first important step we have taken today, restoring dialogue.

>> we are grateful to the prime minister for coming to moscow. we see this as an attempt to restore dialogue and move it on. steve: once the putin-orban talks were over, we got some reaction from the hungarian foreign minister. appeasement, you are accused of. >> once again, we are a sovereign country. without dialogue, without discussion, without channels of communication to be kept open, there will be no solution. the last 2.5 years have made this clear. steve: moscow often looks for opportunities to drive wedges between his opponents provision in the west. this unity. and the russians will be well aware of the optics here. the leader of a european country flying to moscow, holding talks with president putin at a time when much of the west has been trying to isolate russia because of the war in ukraine. steve rosenberg, bbc news. caitriona: for some analysis on

this visit and what it means, i have been speaking to the director of the center for eurasian, russian and east european studies at georgetown university. from your perspective, what do you think victor orban is doing in russia? >> i think he wanted to show that hungary has taken over the presidency of the european council for six months. he has his own ideas. he's always been disruptive in the european union, in nato. he wanted to show to make his mark. i don't think he really believes he's going to be able to make peace between ukraine and russia. after his talks with putin, he said ukraine and russia were very far apart in the way they see things and the possibility of ending the war. he did not need to go to moscow or kyiv to understand that. i think it is just showing that he's a force to be reckoned with. caitriona: european leaders have been pointed out that although

hungary is holding the presidency of the eu at the moment, victor orban is not speaking for them. how problematic is it for the eu to have him there doing this? anla: i think it is problematic because it is disruptive. there are some other eu members like slovakia, i would say to some extent even austria, who want a more forward-looking policy towards vladimir putin. maybe not as excited as voting as much money as the eu has voted to support ukraine. it makes things more difficult. it causes more dissension within the eu. poland has also sharply criticized what orban has just done, unlike the previous government that had a rather good relationship with hungary. it's not going to change eu policy, but it just is much more disruptive for them. caitriona: what will president putin take from the whole thing?

angela: i think he will take from it that he's doing quite well at trying to divide the alliance on these issues. that eu and nato ally is willing to meet with putin, who has been indicted as a war criminal, and to talk about peace with ukraine and to have a press conference where putin accused ukraine of not being interested in peace, laid out briefly his own peace plan which involved ukraine accepting all the loss of territory which the russians have demanded they do. so, he can come away from this satisfied that he does not have a united west against m. caitriona: orban has said he's on a peace mission, although he has said ukraine and russia are very far apart. do you think he thinks he can make peace? angela: i doubt that. i am sure he understands he cannot make peace there. he wants to show that he's a

legitimate eu leader. he wants to get some brownie points, you might say, from some countries. i doubt he believes he can really make peace between russia and ukraine, just as i doubt all of the other countries like china, who have presented their own peace plans, understand they cannot either. caitriona: you can find out all about the date's news on our website, bbc news.com/ -- announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james. announcer: 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,

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