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more israeli strikes hit beirut hours after the u.s. secretary of state says there's a sense of urgency to find diplomatic solutions to the conflict. one of the most prolific online child abusers on record is sentenced to life in prison. the was presidential hopefuls take their campaigns to texas with a focus on border control and abortion rights. welcome to world news america. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken says there's a sense of real urgency to find a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in lebanon. during talks about the situation, the top diplomat urged israel to spare civilian lives there but stopped short of calling for an immediate cease-fire. on friday he met with lebanon's prime minister, foreign ministers of jordan and the

united arab emirates in london. he discussed a post conflict plan to rebuild when the war ends. he just finished a regional tour visiting israel, saudi arabia and qatar. it is his 11th trip to the region since the latest fighting between israel and hamas began just over a year ago. despite efforts to secure peace in the region being unsuccessful so far, mr. blinken says it is crucial for diplomatic efforts in lebanon and gaza to continue. >> we have had good and important conversations this week, including this morning on ending the war in gaza and charting a path for what comes next. those conversations will continue but i think this is a moment of importance and urgency that we are working to seize. carl: the state department correspondent is in london and has more on the purpose of those talks today. >> what the americans have been

trying to do here in london and in the region over the last few days i have been traveling with mr. blinken is to work and what they call the day after plan. a post conflict plan for gaza. how to secure it, rebuild it and how it would be governed. that might seem a bit odd seeing as they have not made any progress for weeks now on actually had to end the war. i think they believe they are getting some traction on that from the israelis. they want a buy in from arab countries who might provide security forces or support and money to rebuild gaza. they want to get that done and then present it as a fait accompli, saying this is the plan for the future of gaza without hamas and the israelis. quite a change in the way this has been dealt with by the

americans and a lot of uncertainty too because we don't know whether or not the mediated talks between israel and hamas are going to fully get back online. the negotiators will be back in doha probably at the week and. whether or not they can get full engagement from hamas is unclear. at the moment several days of talks, a bit of progress it seems but still no signs of a further breakthrough. carl: lebanon's state media is reporting at least two israeli strikes have hit beirut's southern suburbs. pictures show a blast and then smoke rising after israel issued an evacuation call for the area. earlier today lebanon accused israel of targeting journalists after three lebanese journalists were killed in an israeli airstrike. footage shows collapsed buildings and cars marked press covered in dust and rubble. the israeli army says the strike is now under review and has previously maintained they do not target journalists. israeli military says five of

its soldiers were killed in clashes with hezbollah fighters in southern lebanon on thursday night. 24 others have been hindered. -- injured. the human rights chief says the world has a duty to act in gaza to stop what he said was the bombing, siege and risk of starvation facing the entire he said more than a year after the war began, what he called gaza's darkest moment w taking place. israel has insisted it acts in accordance with international law. thousands of people have been killed in the latest israeli airstrikes in the southern city . at least 30 people there were killed. israeli military said it was checking the words but earlier said troops and aircraft had killed the number of palestinian fighters in southern gaza. in the north israel is stepping up its offensive to stop hamas fighters from regrouping. the world health organization has lost touch with the hospital in northern gaza with two other

hospitals in the region also struggling to cope. here are middle east course when it sebastian usher. sebastian: the situation and the three hospitals that are still just about functioning is gettin worse. almost by the hour from what we are hearing. the head of the wto says the situation in this hospital is deeply disturbing. awa toting was able to get -- a who team got into the hospital and was able to get some of the patients and some caregivers out. an israeli humanitarian organization says it helped in the operation and says it brought medical supplies in. we have been hearing for days now supplies are running very, very short. dangerously short. the who team painted a desperate picture of what life is now like in the hospital, saying emergency wards are absolutely overflowing with more than 200 patients needing attention and

every spare space in every corridor there are displays palestinians who are trying to find shelter. it is a situation that is reflected in two other hospitals in the area. this as israel is now in the third week of a major offensive it launched back in north gaza to try to prevent hamas fighters from regrouping there. we heard from hamas officials, from medical officials saying hundreds have been killed. we know that tens of thousands have once again been forced back on the move. there's no sn at the moment this operation is coming to an end. carl: one of the world's most prolific online abusers who drove one of his victims to take her own life has been jailed for life in northern ireland. alexander mccarty admitted 185 charges involving 70 children, although belfast crown court was told a number of victims -- the number is much higher. he posed as a young girl online

in order to befriend girls on messaging services like snapchat before going to blackmail him. the judge said mccartney had used social media on an industrial scale to inflict catastrophic damage. the report from chris page contained distressing details. chris: simmer and thomas lived thousands of miles away from the abus who caused her death. >> why? why was the biggest question. this is the sunday we took her home before her passing. she had bright red lipstick on, getting into that stage of her life. she almost was. chris: alexander mccarty was blackmailing simran. he initially pretended to be a teenage girl to trick her into sending him a solicit pictures of herself. he went through the same sickening routine with three and a half thousand victims, telling them he would post the photos

publicly unless they carried on acts of abuse for his sexual gratification. [phone ringing] three minutes after mccartney's last message to cimarron, emergency services receive this call. >> what happened? >> she felt. she shot herself. you need to get pressure on that and control the bleeding and secure the firearm. chris: 18 months later, cimmaron's father took his own life without knowing it had let to his daughter's suicide. police and prosecutors on both sides of the event took worked to bring the manslaughter charge. mccartney targeted victims across the world over five years. he ordered some girls to film themselves abusing other children. >> you had little girls, sort of an average age of 10 to 12 years old many times being threatened in the most depraved way. when he got that first

photograph from them, he actually had a preprepared threat saved in his phone which he would cutnd-paste into the chat. his offending was around-the-clock. it was difficult to know when he actually did anything else. chris: a number of victims were in new zealand. one father said his family had been devastate >> it all happened for my daughter within minutes. as soon as that first photo was sent. a sequence of events was in motion that could never be undone. he doggedly honed his craft over significant period of time. as soon as he had that power she was playing by his rules. chris: mccartney is now facing justice with a life prison sentence. of mccartney's crimes with the case on par with murder. he told the court he could not imagine a more dangerous sex offender. the detective leading the inquiry said there had never

been an investigation like this. >> the defendant was on an industrial scale. mccartney's actions have caused the death of a child. he may as well have pulled the trigger himself. chris: mccartney must serve at least 20 years before he can apply for early release. the online killer is one of the most prolific child abusers ever to be convicted. chris page, bbc news, belfast. carl: if you have ever been affected by any of these issues raised during the report, there more support and information available around the world at befrienders.org. we are less than 11 days from election day here in the u.s. we are already seeing a surge in early voting. more than 32 million americans have now cast their ballots according to a tally by the university of florida's election lab. 15 million people had voted in person going out to local polling stations.

some 17 million mailed in their ballots with democrats currently outpacing republicans. both candidates are taking a quick rake from the battleground states today. they are campaigning in the state of texas. the lone star state is usually reliably republican, but many of its major cities like dallas, houston and austin have consistently voted for democrats. in austin, the state's capital, former president donald trump recorded an interview with the most listen to podcast on the planet. we are talking about the joe rogan experience. it has seen a big growth in male audience listeners. more than 30 million people take listen to the podcast across various platforms. the host is joe rogan, a comedian and actor. he called the former president a threat to democracy just a couple of years ago, but since the pair have warmed to the idea of sitting down and recording an episode together. this afternoon mr. trump also spoke at a campaign event in austin criticizing the biden-harris administration's

border policies. >> over the past four years the state has become come out -- kamala's staging ground for migrant gains and an alien criminals in every state in america. every state is a border state. it's true. paving a trail of bloodshed, suffering and death all across our lan it is only getting worse. carl: we mentioned u.s. vice president harris is in texas and further southeast in houston. that is where beyonce is inspected to join her rally later this evening. the harris-walls campaign has -- walz campaign has been making an effort to get celebrity's out to boost their support, including barack obama. there is bruce springsteen as well. mrs. harris is reaching out to african-american men with her latest interview with sports commentator shannon sharpe set to air on monday. earlier today, she spoke about abortion which is a crucial issue in texas which has some of the strictest restrictions in the country.

>> this is among the most critical issues the american people will address when they vote for who will be the next president of the united states. we will be talking with the american people about the power the american people have to make a decision about the future for our country and do we all agree there are certain decisions the government should not be making for individuals and their families. carl: joe has become the first u.s. president to publicly up -- joe biden has become the first u.s. president to public apologize to the native americans. indigenous children were abducted from their homes, separated from their families to live in boarding schools that were widely run by churches. that lasted all the way through the 1970's. there are tens of thousands of children who were given english names, punished for speaking native linkages and forced to perform manual labor. many were abused. hundreds died and many more never returned home. the federal government funded

more than 500 of these boarding schools across the country. speaking of the tribally controlled crossing committee to school at set of phoenix, the president described it as a horrific chapter in american history. >> lost iterations, lost trust. horribly, horribly wrong it is a sin on our soul. the federal government has never formally apologized for what happened. until today. i formally apologized as president of united states america for what we did. carl: the latest native american -- the largest native american tribe in the u.s. is the cherokee nion. joining me now is its principal chief, chuck koskinen. great to have you here on bbc news. you've heard some of the president said today. what is your reaction to the apology?

chuck: my reaction is is a very powerful day, not only for indian country but tribes in the united states but also a powerful date for the added states. this puts us on a path of reconciliation and healing you would only get on if the leader of the nation says that was wrong. there were atrocities. the country apologizes for it. on that basis i think it's a very powerful thing. carl: we heard mr. biden saying this is a sin on our soul, their horrific chapter. how would you describe the impacts of these boarding schools on cherokee nation and across the entire native american commuty? chuck: it did great injury. that injury stays with us today and i think that is the most considering this is not some promote injury from the 19th century and early 20th century. this is doing active harm to tribal nations today. think about it.

what the federalovernment did was remove in different ways through pressure, coercion and otherwise much of a generation of native children to boarding schools in which the language was not only figuratively beaten out of tribal nations but literally beaten out of these children in which they were victims of sexual assault or even worse. many lost their lives and were discarded in an inhumane way in some cases. the most precious resource for any society, that includes tribal nations, is the generation coming up. they carry with them the hopes of perpetuating lifeways and language and culture. that is a major reason why tribal cultures, including the cherokee language, has been on the ropes for many generations because of that harm. people should understand that was a policy of the united states. they put resources behind that

effectuating that policy which is known as kill the indian, save the man. that has done continual and ongoing harm. our hope -- i don't speak for every tribal leader but many i have spoken to say our hope is this is the latest chapter in progress on this issue but it can't be the last chapter because there's an injury that needs a remedy. carl: what would you like to see written in that next chapter? chuck: we need to continue with some of the hopeful policies president biden and vice president harris have a mentor their time in office. it is not a partisan issue but they formulated policies that are helpful, making sure there's a quicker and more efficient access to federal resources so we can meet many of the needs we have on tribal lands, which are really occasioned by generations of robbing us of our hope for the future, the children. we need to have more funding for something so important which is

revitalizing native languages. think about these children that went into boarding schools as young language speakers and came out understanding their own native tongue to be a foreign language and it would be something that would be punished for. that still injures us today. the united states ought to be putting resources into restoration just as a put restoration -- resources into destruction. that is what we need to see next and the country has an opportunity to build on the apology today and really effectuate the kind of change we ought to have in the united states will carl: cherokee nation chief chuck koskinen, we thank you for your time. chuck: thank you. carl: united nations says more than 10,000 people were internally displaced in haiti in just the past week due to increasing gang violence in and around the capital port-au-prince. i can you let multinational force was deployed earlier this year to help stabilize the country but agency say the

situation is still out of control. as of october, but total of 700,000 people are now displaced in the region. half our children. 75% of the ring outside the nation's capital, causing severe strain on host communities. more than 5.4 million people face high levels of acute food insecurity according to the u.n. world food program. it comes as haiti faces a crisis at his order with its neighbor the dominican republic. early this month haiti's foreign minister to mount stte amassed the board -- denounced a mass deportation policy for haitians living in the dominican republic. the nations share the island of hispaniola. let's bring in the u.n.'s world food program regional director. she returned from a humanitarian mission. tell us what you saw. describe the scenes in haiti. >> good afternoon and thank you for having us. we have been for the last year and a half working on the crisis

in haiti. it is becoming difficult. we had some moments of calm and now you're seeing fighting in the streets of port-au-prince. we are seeing displacement. this basement has gone from 95,000 people to 700,000 people. we have the population of haiti with food insecurity. what can i say? the situation is grave and we need to do more in the international community to support the society there. carl: given the displacement and the growing hunger crisis, what do aid efforts look like? is enough food gting to the people that need it? lola: out of the 700,000 displaced, around 135,000 are in port-au-prince. we are reaching most of them. we have seen once we have -- the ones we have not reached her in a bad situation. we have around 6000 people that

are in severe hunger. we really need to go support them. it's truly important we don't only provide hot meals but also we support go back to a normal life. this is what we tried to do. hot meals to ensuring they can have an option to go somewhere like the market and survive. carl: we heard about the deportations taking place from the dominican republic. there are plans to report 10,000 haitians per week. that would be theargest deportation in history in the region. what effect is that having right now on haitians in the country of haiti itself? lola: when i was there -- i just came back. 27,000 people had been deported in the last 20 days.

the numbers are very large. the absorption capacity is difficult. they are providing [indiscernible] they are trying to support them together. the numbers are too large. the capacity is very difficult. we saw many young people to do we don't know what. in this sense we need to do much more. that imports -- many other countries are deporting into the country. we need to monitor the situation closely and work in a calm and organized way to support the population. carl: this has been a slow moving crisis. we have seen this taking place for many months.

what would you like to see the u.s., the white house and international community do to try to get haiti back on the right track? lola: we at the u.n. think it is vital to have support from the international community to do things that are important. the humanitarian situation in port-au-prince. we are doing the best we can. we don't have enough funding. that's an issue. also, we need to make sure the other part of haiti where people are producing and having a life, they can also access the markets. it's really important that we give enough resources to save lives and build the capacities in the communities. carl: lola castro, regional director with the u.n. food program, thank you for those insights. lola: thank you.

carl: before we go let's look at the moment a monkey trapped and tortured by global animal abuse ring was released back to the wild. you can see the moment here. minnie was rescued and taken from the forest after her mother was killed and her owner toured her and filled it for customers. she was eventually released, rescued, rehabilitated at the century in jakarta. minnie and her adopted family redeemed ready to return back to the wild. you can find more on her website, bbc.com/news. you can look at what we are working on your favorite social media site as well. i'm carl aspin of and think you are watching announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james.

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