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the u.s. says it will continue providing arms to israel despite aid organizations saying israel has failed to improve humanitarian conditions in gaza. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says russia has suffered catastrophic losses. u.s. president elect names top cabinet officials including ambassador to israel. hello and welcome to world news america. the u.s. deadline for israel to improve humanitarian aid access in gaza has expired without repercussions from the united states. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations said that while israel has taken some important steps towards addressing america's demands, their actions

will continue to be monitored. the u.s. secretary of state gave israel something of an ultimatum of 30 days to ensure more humanitarian aid reached gaza or risk losing the supply of american weapons. as the deadline expired, the israeli army announced new aid crossings but -- said israel has not done enough. the deadline comes as israel's president is in washington for talks with president joe biden. >> it is 30 days, the deadline has passed since the u.s. issued that essentially ultimatum to israel, to deliver more aid into gaza. the key to that was stepping up the aid trucks into gaza. they wanted to see more trucks

going into gaza and we know that is nowhere near being met now. at the moment, aid agencies, u.s. agencies are saying there have been about 40 aid trucks and the situation in gaza is critical with a risk of starvation to tens of thousands of palestinians in gaza, which is still under siege. belatedly, israel has responded and today they announced more than 100 aid trucks had gone into gaza and opened up a new crossing into gaza in addition to the four they already have. it is certainly nowhere near where the u.s. said they wanted to be. that said, i think the u.s. will hold onto that as a sign of progress. if there was any threat of the u.s. withholding military aid, which is essential to israel, i

don't think that is going to happen. you have to remember that the u.s. has issued warnings to israel in the. earlier in the -- in the past. earlier in the year, they said do not launch an offensive into rafa. israel went ahead and did it. the warnings from the u.s. have not always been heated at the u.s. will be looking and they say the situation is slightly better than it was 30 days ago. >> let's take a closer look at the numbers on the amount of aid getting into gaza. the united nations says it is at its lowest level in a year. prior to the october 7 hamas attacks, there was an average of 500 trucks coming into gaza each day. in october of this year, the u.n. says only 37 aid trucks were entering daily. that number has increased since then and israel says they have allowed more than one million tons of supplies into gaza.

after the deadline, the u.s. state department said it had no policy changes to announce but would continue to assess circumstances on the ground. a spokesman gave a press briefing in the last few hours and this is what he said. >> we at this time have not made an assessment that the israelis are in violation of u.s. law. i would not view it as giving them a pass because one, no one is up here, saying that the situation in gaza or the humanitarian circumstances are rosie. it is a very dire circumstance and what we need to see is these steps acted on, we need to see them implemented. >> let's talk more about this now, i am joined by the bbc state department correspondent. talk us through the u.s thinking on this because it is saying israel has met the parameters but that is not what we are hearing from humanitarian agencies. >> what the americans have set

is that israel is taking steps to improve the situation and therefore the key line is they do not assess that israel is breaking american laws around the distribution of aid and whether it is blocking aid, arbitrarily denying the access of aid into gaza. the key point here is that they have said affectively they think the israelis are going in the right direction. they do expect more to happen, but they have responded to the letter. the problem with that and i and others have put this to the spokesman is that the letter is actually much more clear. it makes a series of demands and says if the israelis don't reach these benchmarks, like 350 trucks a day, that a failure to show commitment to that could result in the americans supplying policy and legal changes, potentially withdrawing weapons supplies to the israelis.

what they made clear today is that is not going to happen, they will continue the weapon supply uninterrupted because they assess that israel hasn't broken u.s. law. >> but it's not at the 350 trucks per day the u.s. says. >> we have seen a real fudging around, of the strength of language in the letter to what they are doing now. effectively the administration has shifted here because the letter set out what appeared to be a clear set of demands and said if you don't do them, this will be the result. what they are saying is they haven't reached those benchmarks or the metrics we want, but we think they are on the right path. they are effectively suggesting they think the israelis are acting in good faith and that therefore they will get there. what was repeatedly put them -- put to them was if you think that, why did you create that deadline?

they wrote a similar letter in april when they thought they got a bit of row sponsor from the israelis to improve the situation. the letter leaked from the israeli side. there's a lot of displeasure within the system in israel and the idf. not surprising that there are people who want to damage them on this issue. that is how it came out. the americans have had to respond to it, but it hasn't had the same kind of process around it as some previous measures the americans have taken this year and that is why, particularly after the election, we know this administration's political capital to leverage israel is very limited and draining away. >> and what does this mean for the military aid that the u.s. is supplying to israel because there had been some hopes in some corners that this was a place the u.s. could put pressure on. >> will absolutely continue.

$3.8 billion a year, a big supplemental. that goes on and what you will see with a change of administration to the trump era is going to be very clearly labeled pro-israel policies and you can expect that military assistance to continue. >> thank you for that. all of this comes against the backdrop of israel's continuing operations in lebanon as wel targeting hezbollah. the lebanese health ministry says five people were killed in an israeli strike near beirut. israel has conducted nearly a dozen airstrikes. in northern israel, two people were killed by rocket fire. ukraine's military says russia suffered a second straight day of record losses in the war. ukraine claims russia suffered 1950 casualties, defined as death or injury.

ukraine said russia the previous day had suffered a record 1770 casualties. memorials had been -- have been laid for a ukrainian mother and her children that were killed in a russian missile strike on an apartment complex in central ukraine. elsewhere, ukrainian drone footage captured the moment a dam was blown up. the regional governor blamed russia while pro-russian telegram channels planed -- channels blamed ukraine. rth korean leader kim jong-un ratified a defense treaty that requires north korea to come to russia's defense in wartime and vice versa. nato secretary-general condemned the deal and said the growing military cooperation between russia and its allies poses a threat to global security. >> russia working together with north korea, iran and china is not only threatening europe, it

threatens peace and security in europe, but also in the indo pacific and rth america. so we must stand together. >> while donald trump's reelection has generated uncertainty regarding the role of the u.s. in nato, the nato chief and the french president met in paris and without directly mentioning donald trump, president macron spoke of europe becoming more independent in its defense strategy. >> this is what the u.s. administration rightly expects of europeans in the alliance. for too long, europe has avoided bearing the burden of its own security, believing it could in a way receive the dividends of peace without any time limit. >> let's speak about all of this now to the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, affiliate of the center for international security and cooperation at stanford university. thank you for being with us.

we see the two highest days of casualties for russia. is that something you think will impact president putin's calculations in terms of strategy and accounting? >> the kremlin is clearly becoming nervous about the sheer number of russian casualties. the british ministry of defense estimated in october more than 600,000 russian soldiers were killed or wounded. you can see this in their efforts to reach out to north korea and bring north korean troops into the fray. the question at this point, most of the russian casualties may be coming from non-ethnic russian minorities, people in the far east and such. i think if the casualties come to a point where mr. pruden has -- mr. putin has to mobilize ethnic russians from places like moscow and st. petersburg, that

could have an impact. >> you mentioned reinforcements from north korea. there is reporting that could be up to 50,000 more soldiers as russia plans to reclaim its territory. what do you think that will look like? what do you expect to see? >> what we see now is reports that the russians have mobilized about 50,000 troops to try and retake the region. 10,000 are believed to be north korean. i think kirst is becoming an increasing embarrassment for the kremlin because this is a significant chunk of territory that ukraine has occupied for more than thre months. i think the russians will be devoting more attention to try and push the ukrainians out, although the ukrainians have had time to dig in and prepare defensive positions. it could be a very expensive battle for the russians. >> we hear french president macron mentioning europe becoming more self-sufficient in its defense needs and we have

seen a lot of discussion about that in brussels in recent months, is that a reaction to donald trump's reemergence or is it a bigger eu direction change? discussion which should be taking place in europe because for the united states, the major strategic challeng is the rise of china and that will command more american attention regardless of who is president. i do think the election results probably give added urgency to europe, because mr. trump has said things in the past that suggest he is not committed to nato in the same way that virtually every other american president since harry truman has been. >> you were a career diplomat in the u.s. foreign service. how greatly does u.s. foreign policy shift when there is a change in administration? >> i would say that foreign policy tends to shift to the left when you have a democrat

and to the right when you have a republican, but mr. trump is not a typical republican. he said some things which could mean very radical changes in american policy. i hope i am wrong on this, but i expect that mr. trump will end american assistance to ukraine in 2025. i think that is a mistake from the point of view of american policy but if you look at what he has been saying the last two years, it is hard to see another course. i also worry that the kind of ideas coming around people close to him for ending this war where they suggest russia would be allowed to occupy a significant part of ukrainian territory and ukraine would have to accept neutrality. there is nothing in those ideas that would make that offer attractive to kyiv. i do worry that this could be an effort to push policy in a much further direction beyond what has been the normal u.s. policy

with regards to europe for the past 50 to 70 years. >> if you think he may end support to ukraine entirely, do you think before that, that he might be minded to lift those restrictions on the long range weapons that the ukrainian president, zelenskyy, has been begging the u.s. to do, begging president biden to do? >> it is my hope that president biden will lift those restrictions. vladimir putin is undoubtedly delighted that on january 20 eighth, it'll be donald trump in the white house. i don't think mr. putin is going to do anything to upset the apple card. we should be telling the ukrainians to use american weapons to strike military targets inside of russia. >> former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> the former u.s. national

guard airmen who leaked classified documents about the war in ukraine has been sentenced to 22 -- he will spend 15 years in prison. in april last year he published a top-secret u.s. military files detailing troop movements and timelines for weapons deliveries to ukraine. prosecutors described as one of the most prolific and rare government leaking operations in u.s. history. president-elect donald trump is continuing to shape his white house cabinet and personnel, making new announcements on tuesday. he has just tapped steven witkoff, a real estate investor and donor to his campaign as his envoy the middle east. earlier he officially named florida congressman michael waltz to be his national security advisor. he also named mike huckabee to be the new u.s. ambassador to israel. they join a growing list of allies that donald trump has chosen for key positions.

our u.s. partner, cbs news reports donald trump has made selections for two other cabinet roles. cbs expects the floor to senator marco rubio, who took a hard-line approach towards china and iran will be tapped for secretary of state and that loyalist kristi noem may fill the role of secretary for homeland security. the president-elect's legal troubles continue. a new york judge froze a decision in his hush money case until later this month. the judge will decide whether to dismiss the case in light of the supreme court decision granting broad immunity to presidents. other cases against the president-elect are also being stalled or slowed in the wake of his election. at least 35 people have been killed in a car rampage incident in southern china according to police. 43 others were also injured when a man drove his car into people exercising outside a sportscenter.

the 62-year-old man has been connection -- has been arrested in connection to what me china's deadliest act of random public violence in decades. our china correspondence sent this report that locals appear to have been organized to try and keep journalists away. >> people in china are in shock following events which unfolded in front of this stadium. the complex is now closed off. normally you can go in and exercise. there are running tracks and the like. you have groups of community dancing and this type of thing. a man in his 60's drove in and ran down people. according to the police, dozens of people have now died and dozens more have been injured. xi jinping has called on officials all over the country to try and settle community disputes to event this type of

thing happening in the first place. what is he going to say after all? it is an inexplicable event. according to police, the official reason they are giving is that this man was upset about his dispute with his wife after division of his property following his divorce and for some reason this led him to drive into this complex and kill people. he also harmed himself, it seems with a knife and according to reports, he is now in a coma. all of this has been very disturbing. partly, you can see why it might inflame tensions and why there might be local party officials trying to organize those who would stop us from reporting on this. it is the type of thing that has happened in china before unfortunately. copycat mass attacks.

someone has some sort of grievance and they end up taking it out on complete strangers and then we have this type of thing of the government trying to stop it from happening. >> the archbishop of canterbury justin welby has resigned after days of criticism over his handling of a long-running abuse scandal carried out by a barrister and friend associated with the church. john smith subjected around 130 boys and young men to physical, sexual and psychological attacks over decades. the archbishop was made aware of the abuse in 2015 but failed to stop it before smith died in 2018. justin welby said he felt a profound sense of shame that more was not done by the church of england and was resigning in sorrow with all victims and survivors. >> five turbulent days after a damming report, justin welby has contacted the king and resigned.

that report criticized the church of england and the archbishop of canterbury for their handling of the case of one of the most prolific abusers associated with the church. justin welby initially apologized but said he would not step down. today, he changed his mind. in a statement, the archbishop says the review has exposed the long maintained conspiracy of silence about the heinous abuses of john smith. when i was informed in 2015 and told the police had been notified, i believed wrongly there was an up -- that an appropriate resolution would follow. it is clear i must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and re-traumatizing period between 2013 and 2024. the archbishop of york said it was the right thing to do, but it had been a difficult time. >> today is a day of sadness.

i'm sad for him, for our church. desperately sent for the people who have been hurt and abused because of the church's failings and by people who were acting in the name of christ. it is a shameful thing. i believe his exercise of responsibility in this is a sn for all of us, to accept our own responsibilities. >> in this case, it was excepting response ability for failings in dealing with this man who abused at least 120 boys. the first cases of abuse in christian summer camps were in the mid-1970's. by the early 1980' church officials were informed but there was an active cover-up. in 1984, he carried on his abuse in zimbabwe and later, south africa. we know the archbishop of canterbury was definitely told i 2013, but the abuse continued

and was exposed by channel for in 2017. smyth died in 2018 ever facing justice. keir starmer was asked abouthe case. >> what i know of the allegations, they are truly horrific in relation to this particular case. both in the scale and content. my thoughts, as they are with all of these issues are with the victims, who have obviously been failed very badly. >> hours later when the archbishop resigned, the prime minister said he was -- he respected the decision. there is no timeline yet as to win the archbishop will vacate the palace or how long it will take to replace him. for now the church is dealing with the news that the man who led it for nearly 12 years is on the way out. >> the archbishop of canterbury

is the symbolic head of the worldwide anglican community which has autonomous member churches across the world including the u.s. episcopal church. some other important news from around the world. several areas of spain are racing for torrential rain after flash flooding caused devastation in the eastern regions. more than 220 people were killed by last month's flooding. the u.s. has barred airlines from operating in haiti for 30 days after gunfire struck a plane landing there ononday. jetblue reported one of its planes was found to be struck by gunfire. our partner cbs news reporting and american was also hit. that's it for the moment. thank you for watching world news america. take care. announcer: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... financial services firm, raymond james.

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